Chapter 477: Night Bombardment
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Although the Japanese firefighters showed an admirable sense of responsibility and courage during the air raids, they could not stop the spread of the fire by their flesh and blood alone, and when the Japanese government relied on the ancient fire prevention method - the barrier to control the fire, the economic losses and casualties caused by the fire were enough to be shocking
Even Hu Weidong did not expect that a mere 6-ton incendiary bomb would burn down tens of thousands of houses, and even because the air raid was in the daytime, the casualties of Japanese civilians were relatively small, but with the addition of military police and firefighters, the total number of casualties still exceeded 1,000, and more than half of them died or have been disabled for life.
Achieved such a big result, but the 6 bombers that attacked all returned safely without any losses, this is definitely a brilliant victory, but the traditional Chinese culture (China at that time was not like now, the traditional culture of Liliang is still very large, even Hu Weidong is a feudal official, you have to pay attention to your actions. But the heroes who completed this important task can only be human with their tails between their legs, and they dare not boast wantonly. After all, this was actually a long-range air raid targeting Japanese civilians, and even Hu Weidong did not dare to openly say that "it burned well, burned well, and burned so badly that the devil croaked." This can only be positioned as revenge for the Japanese army's anti-humane acts such as the Nanjing Massacre and human biochemical experiments, which has somewhat calmed down the fierce criticism in the cultural circles, but even so. There are still people who roll their eyes and say, "If a dog bites a person, should people bite a dog too?" ”
Fortunately, the reduction of opposition to this level was no longer enough to prevent Hu Weidong from continuing to adopt similar methods to carry out air strikes on the Japanese mainland, but the United States and Britain used the international public opinion they manipulated to play double standards and put more pressure on Hu Weidong.
It can be said that if the industrial capacity of the United States before and after World War II is fully released, it will even exceed the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, France, and Japan combined, even if the Soviet Union becomes far more powerful than the same period in history. However, the total industrial output of the United States is still equal to that of the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain combined. At the same time, the U.S. controls more than 80% of all oil production (Note 1) (the proportion of refined oil, especially high-octane fuel, is higher). And more than half of the steel production (also counting the backyard of Latin America), and still shijie (from the founding of the United States until now, I have to say that the country is indeed blessed, as long as the government is not too jerky. It was supposed to be Shijie No. 1. It is the only country that can meet its supply through domestic extraction of any resource if it wants to, and where most of these sectors have surplus production for export. I thought that I might have to make an enemy of such a country. Who can not be afraid?
But even so. Hu Weidong also still believes that China does not need to succumb to US pressure and make peace with Japan on unfavorable terms, because the United States will hold a presidential election next year, although Roosevelt's prestige is high. However, because it is the third presidential election that violates tradition, the difficulty is actually not small, especially in this time and space, Germany has not yet attacked Poland, and the European war has not yet broken out, so that the biggest factor contributing to Roosevelt's victory in history The threat of war no longer exists, so even though the current U.S. economy has a recovery momentum in advance due to a large number of orders from China, it is not easy for Roosevelt to be re-elected for a second time. Under such circumstances, as long as Roosevelt's brain did not enter the water, it was impossible to unconditionally transfuse blood to Japan and give the opponent of the election campaign a target to attack, and this was China's opportunity, but the premise was that China must force Japan to make concessions before the 1940 US election
At first, because the pilots were generally unfamiliar with the path, Hu Weidong chose to let them bomb at high altitude during the day, but after they had completed several missions, they began to change to night attacks, using the cover of night to carry out low-altitude bombing of key targets such as industrial areas and even the Japanese Imperial Palace, and the accuracy of hitting was greatly increased, while the Japanese army was completely unable to carry out effective counterattacks because the radar could not detect the H-1. The anti-aircraft guns could not be aimed at all, and even the planes were only killed when they took off to intercept them (because the fuel reserves were found to be more than enough after the first air raid, the H-1 carried enough aerial artillery shells in subsequent air raid missions in case of emergency). Because the on-board radar equipped on the H-1 can detect the devil's all-metal plane, this is completely like a blind man with a bright eye!
There is really no way to even invite those mothballed old planes out again, through the lights on the plane to determine the target, but the performance of these old planes is too poor, and the close-quarters combat is basically one-on-one, the result is completely killed by the H-1, the Japanese plane was shot down more than 30, but not even a H-1 can be beaten down, although the old plane is not valuable, but the pilot is different! The Japanese base camp, which did not want their pilots to die in vain, had to stop such operations and respond to the enemy's unguarded night air raids with passive methods of deep humiliation, such as emergency evacuation, although the effect of these methods was actually more obvious
In order to prevent Japan from reducing the psychological deterrence and harassment effect of the Chinese Air Force's night bombing by reversing day and night, Hu Weidong would from time to time send bombers to carry out a daytime high-altitude bombing of a large city on the Japanese mainland
Note 1: The United States' own crude oil production will account for seventy percent of the whole shijie, the second largest oil producing area in Latin America at that time is still the backyard of the United States, if it were not for this time and space Indonesia and Europe (Li Siguang and other Chinese geologists helped Germany discover many small and medium-sized oil fields, and used double donkey head pumping units and water injection pressurization jishu to speed up oil recovery and improve oil yield, so Germany's annual crude oil production has exceeded 10 million tons by 1941, while the Soviet Union is mainly due to the innovation of the management system, Coupled with the popularization of the double donkey head pumping unit, its original oil production has increased by more than 150%, while the United States has a high management level and small improvement potential, and the proportion of high-production oil injection wells in the territory is high, so the impact of the double donkey head pumping unit and water injection booster Jishu is not as obvious as that of Germany and the Soviet Union. The United States will control almost ninety percent of the world's oil production (to be continued...... as it has historically been)