It's just that because the Western industrial countries are now either enemies with Japan, or although they are allies, but their transportation is blocked, and among the two neutral countries with purchasing power, the Soviet Union is a potential enemy, not to mention, it is still an oil exporter, so the only export object of Indonesia and East Malaysia oil is only China, there is no doubt that the Japanese government has to be slaughtered again, because China can still import crude oil from the Soviet Union, while Japan has no other export objects, which is the pricing power, isn't it obvious? Of course, in order to avoid provoking Japan into an emergency, we must not go too far, and the consequences of the United States extorting the islands of Japan with huge debts are a lesson from the past; although China is not afraid of a war with Japan, it is in urgent need of recuperation at home, and it is better to avoid a senseless war as much as possible

Of course, it is still too early to talk about this, but even now, a considerable part of the benefits gained by Japan's sweep of the Nanyang Islands have been divided by China, and what the Chinese Red Party cares more about is that the allies and the Axis countries have given China a great opportunity to accelerate its rise, anyway, in the view of Hu Weidong and others, the comprehensive national strength of the United States far exceeds the sum of the Axis powers, and there should be no suspense about the final victory, so there is no need to worry about Japan becoming strong in the war and posing a major threat to China again. But as one shocking news after another came, even Hu Weidong, who was well aware of the terrible potential of the United States for war, was not as certain about the outcome of World War II as he had at first

First, in late February 1941, Germany again launched a large-scale air raid on the British island, and instead of the previous concentrated bombing of industrial areas (for a time concentrated on the bombing of large cities, but abandoned due to excessive losses). Since then, it has been mainly bombing the industrial areas of Britain. No, during this air raid, the Germans chose the British reservoir dam as the focus of the bombing. At this time, there were about 2,600 reservoirs in the British mainland, of which more than 80% of the reservoirs were used for barrage and storage, and most of these reservoirs were concentrated in the British Isles, although because Britain had long completed industrialization, these dams were basically made of solid reinforced concrete, and because of the great thickness of the vertical xiangshang, it was difficult for even large bombs to cause substantial damage to them, especially those larger dams, and because the top of the dam was relatively narrow. It's also hard to hit. Therefore the most haode way is to attack the front of the dam directly.

As a matter of common sense, the use of aviation torpedoes is undoubtedly the best option, and even if the conventional size cannot be blown up, a large one can be specially made to be projected by a heavy bomber. But the British, though did not expect that the Germans would really be so mad. However, certain precautions have also been taken in advance. More than one interception net has been deployed upstream of the larger dams. In order to prevent the Germans from creating man-made floods by attacking British dams in complete disregard of humanitarianism.

So that if the torpedo goes down the river and rushes to the dam. It will collide with the interceptor net and detonate prematurely or be trapped in the net; If you go upstream, it is even less likely to threaten the main body of the dam, and the impact of the water discharged from the reservoir is so great that even if you can't wash the torpedo away, it will detonate it early.

As for those small dams, due to the limited depth of reservoir storage, the aviation torpedo was directly sunk to the bottom and detonated, and it was even more ineffective, after all, the torpedo weapon is designed to be used in the sea, and no matter how shallow the warring waters in the sea are, the water depth is far from being comparable to those small reservoirs on land, after all, Britain is only a small island country, and even the most famous Thames River is nothing on the mainland, so you can imagine how small the British river should be

Therefore, the Germans could only use aerial bombs to threaten those dams on the British mainland, but aerial bombs are not artillery shells, it is easy to fall from above, but it is difficult to let them fly level, so the Germans let the twin-engine H-1 carry a special 5-ton "jump bomb". This kind of bomb is released upstream of the dam, and before it is dropped, it is given a rotation speed of 500 rpm on the bomb rack, and after the bomb is dropped, it will jump forward many times on the water surface like a child playing with stones to "hit the water", and can jump over the interception net on the water surface, and when it touches the dam, the bomb uses its own rotation to go deep into the dam waterline and blow up a large hole in the waterline. Once the arched dam is blown up at the support point, the strong water pressure will cause the dam to burst or even collapse immediately. It may sound complicated, but thanks to the superb jishu of the German bomber pilots, it was not difficult to hit more than 30%.

Even if the H-1 is a twin type, the maneuverability is at least much stronger than the average horizontal bomber, but after hanging a large bomb weighing 5 tons, it is still inevitably a lot clumsy, if the British army dispatches fighters to intercept, the loss will definitely be unavoidable, but under the continuous attack of the Luftwaffe, the British Royal Air Force, which was in the top three in the past, has long been weakened and is simply unable to compete with the escort fighter formation sent by the Luftwaffe, so the heavy responsibility of dam air defense can only fall on the British ground air defense forces

However, due to the high bombing position of the German bombers, the sturdiness of the H-1 has long been remembered by the British, and only large-caliber anti-aircraft guns with long range and great power can have a more haode effect, but even with the proximity fuse and artillery sight radar, if the anti-aircraft guns want to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with the aircraft group, they must have enough number as the basis, and forty or fifty guns are very reluctant, often hundreds of guns are required to basically ensure that the dam is worry-free.

But in this way, a big problem arises, the Luftwaffe bombers can choose any target to attack in the more than 2,000 dams on the British Island, and the British can't come up with 20,000 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns anyway, not to mention those core industrial areas, shipyards and other important areas are also indispensable for the protection of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, so in fact, there are fewer air defense units that can be mobilized to defend the dams

As you can imagine, under the brutal attack of the German bombers with complete humanitarian disregard, thousands of dams in Britain burst in less than ten days, and a considerable part of them burst, coupled with the fact that February was the month with the highest river levels in Britain, the result was naturally a flood unprecedented in British history, and a large area of the British island became a water country, and because of the water flowing downward, the lower plains suffered the most damage. The plains are either food-producing areas or urban industrial areas, which are the best areas of the British mainland.

What's worse is that the UK has almost never encountered decent floods due to its mild maritime climate, and the experience of flood control is far from being compared with China's, making the damage caused by floods even more staggering (to be continued......