"Do you really want to do this? London was not very valuable militarily, the British had long since moved a lot of factories and people elsewhere, and some of the remaining airports had long been taken care of by us, and I think it would be a waste to spend a lot of precious resources on the city and on infrastructure that had nothing to do with the military. London is so big that it will take at least 800 or more bombers to keep bombing for weeks if we were to hit it hard! The British, in order to defend their capital, have built the entire London borough into a full-fledged anti-aircraft fortress, and we don't need to ram into it! In the face of the Kaiser's envoy, the Red Baron still questioned the Kaiser's order and wanted the former to bring back his opinion, which was the third time he had rejected the Kaiser's order.

If it were to happen again, I am afraid that Baron Red, as the commander of the Air Force, would also be able to withstand the wrath of His Majesty the Emperor, he is a soldier and has an instinctive resistance to the act of pouring excessive firepower into the non-military realm, not to mention that this kind of behavior will lead to the loss of the Air Force, and even some irreparable situations will appear! After all, the old dog also has a few teeth, who knows what other big killer weapons the British are hiding? Not to mention anything else, the British still have thousands of tons of poison gas bombs, and if this thing is thrown down, no one will feel good!

"War is never a purely military thing, we need to mentally destroy the will of the British to resist! We must show the British how powerful the Empire is! If we want to destroy something, we can do it, and London, the capital of the British Empire, and the heart of the world for hundreds of years! It was a political offensive, and when the British saw their capital in flames, their will to resist was naturally destroyed! We'll save you a lot of trouble. The envoy paused, thinking that he was facing the number one man in the Imperial Air Force. Therefore, the necessary face must be given. "I will bring your opinion to the Kaiser, and you can even arrange for the relevant personnel to present their interests to His Majesty. But I would like to tell you something in my personal capacity, the Kaiser is not very satisfied with the recent actions of the Air Force, and if this time it is dismissed, then you have only the right to choose to accept it. ”

Ultimately. The Kaiser's order was to prepare the air force for a massive air raid on London, and the ruler, who was half of the British royal blood, had no so-called blood tendencies, and even he was very disgusted with Britain and even his own mother. And now, the stubborn resistance of the British has put the Luftwaffe into a bitter battle, which made Wilhelm, who had just started to fight smoothly, very angry, the grumpy Kaiser no longer wanted to let the war drag on like this, the so-called emergency illness and rushed to the hospital, at this time the Kaiser decided to use all means to make the other party submit, and even he considered using poison gas bombs on British cities!

This suggestion of the Kaiser startled the Red Baron. If these hundreds of tons or thousands of tons of mustard gas were thrown down, the consequences would be too serious, the Germans did not use poison gas, and the German army in World War 1 used chlorine gas on a large scale in order to break through the opponent's defensive line. Of course, soon Britain and France also recovered their ground with chlorine, and in the summary after the war, the German General Staff decided that it was of little military significance to use such a thing when both sides had large quantities of Chinese weapons. Perhaps the biggest effect of this is to add a large number to the casualty statements of both sides at the same time, right?

But throwing chemical weapons at cities, especially mustard gas, is a crime against humanity! Mustard gas is even more terrible than chlorine gas in World War 1. Diaspora routes are more numerous, more deadly, and difficult to treat. Mustard gas is the atomic bomb at the beginning of World War II, everyone has this thing, but no one dares to use it easily! To paraphrase a later generation, this kind of big killer is the biggest role in the warehouse. If you really use it, it's not good for both parties. As an industrial power, the British also hoarded a large number of chemical weapons, and the Red Baron didn't want to release this thing! Frightened and frightened, the Red Baron eventually gave up the idea of using chemical weapons at the cost of accepting the Kaiser's order to bomb London.

So, when the Battle of Britain entered its third week. The Luftwaffe had finally begun to bomb British cities on a massive scale, and when the first large group of planes visited London, it meant that the entire British War entered a second phase! The engagement between the two sides was no longer limited to military objectives, the Germans expanded the scope of their strikes, making the war even more brutal! This bombing is not as small as in history, hundreds of planes used to drop hundreds of tons of bombs and it was over, Germany in this plane is not comparable to the mustache of the Third Reich, both in terms of quantity and quality! According to Xu Jie's estimates, the technical level and strength of the Luftwaffe at this time were comparable to the aviation strength of the Allies in the whole of Europe in 1944 at the end of World War II! On the first day of the bombing of London, 3,000 Luftwaffe planes dropped more than 6,000 tons of bombs on the city of London! At this rate, four days later, London will have more bomb yields than the Japanese in history!

The sudden strategic bombing caught the British a little off guard, a huge fleet of thousands of various aircraft tore apart the protection of the British Royal Air Force, and the 300 fighters of various types responsible for the defense of London fought hard in the situation of being at a disadvantage, but in the end they did not stop the German bombs from falling except for letting the Germans drop more than 100 planes! The British were stunned when thousands of bombs of various tonnages fell from the sky! They didn't expect the Germans to do it so blatantly, even during the Italian War and the French Campaign, the Germans never destroyed a country's capital on a large scale!

The Germans saw Britain as the last nail in their hegemony, and they vented their anger on this centuries-old city! For a time, half of London was covered in gunsmoke and flames, and although the curtain of thousands of artillery pieces of various calibers deployed in the surrounding areas of London stained half of the sky red, the Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses, still blew several blocks of the British into a blank field, and countless bombs fell evenly on the ground like seeds spilled from a seeder, whether it was factories, houses or other infrastructure below, everything was wiped out!

If the citizens of London were historically more worried about the bombing of the Germans than the cold weather and fog, then the British smelled a kind of destruction from the overwhelming bombers and the ruins in this plane! True, the Germans systematically destroyed the foundations of the British state. Both human and material! It even hit the will of the British to resist from a spiritual level!

Many British people were hesitant and frightened, and for the first time they realized that the destruction was so close to Britain! Before the outbreak of the British air war, more than 90 percent of the British believed that the Royal Air Force and the Allies could hold off the German attack, and two weeks after the outbreak of the air war, when even a British farmer in the secluded countryside could find a crashed plane or wreckage in his potato field or in the mountains and forests not far away. 2 percent of the British were shaken, and the cruelty of the war was shown to the British public for the first time! Although the British government is blocking the news, people can still know through their own channels that a certain city has been bombed, a factory has been blown into ruins, and the third aunt of a relative's neighbor has been hit by a bomb, and the whole family has died.

If the war was so tragic that it was just a shadow of the wind at this time, then wait until tens of thousands of tons of bombs fell on the British capital! When the fire and smoke in the city were clearly visible to people dozens of kilometers away, many British people were really afraid, and this panic spread to all sides along the telephone and telegram!

For the RAF, though. After the Germans launched a large-scale air raid on the city, the battle damage situation of the Royal Air Force has improved greatly, if at the beginning the British still need to continue to collect intelligence and analyze the Luftwaffe's attack targets and routes, then a week after the start of the bombing of London, the British closed their eyes and knew where the Germans were going to bomb! The relieved British Air Force increased the protection of important cities such as London, and a large number of fighter jets and ground air defense units were deployed around London, and this method of setting up a trap for the other side to drill was more costly, tactically speaking. The British won victory after victory, but alas. The Germans consumed it, but the British couldn't afford it! Or if they continue to fight like this, the nerves of the British are about to collapse.

You must know that although Germany has been subjected to such tragic urban carpeting operations as the bombing of Hamburg and the bombing of Dresden, there were almost no such long-lasting large-scale bombardments of a city before the middle of the war. And the Germans bombed London for 1 week! After throwing away hundreds of planes around London, it's still going strong! Dayou continues to bomb. Bomb until the British surrender! As a result, the British Air Force, which was forced into a corner, had to do everything possible to stop the Germans' bombing campaign on the city, either for the sake of the inside or for the sake of face, and at least let the Germans know that the old dog still had a few teeth!

"Since the Luftwaffe bombed London, there has been a sense of instability in both the government and the people. Our defense must not only be militarily manifested, but also politically and spiritually to hold off the German offensive, and it is almost impossible for us to completely block the German bombardment of the city. So we had to think of some other way to boost morale, for example, by dropping bombs on the Germans! "At a meeting, Churchill gave orders to the heads of the Air Force with some anxiety!" We're going to make those Germanic butchers pay! They've expanded their target to civilian targets, and we can break those rules too! Sow the flames of revenge on the Germans! ”

Saying a sentence above, a broken leg below, the Prime Minister said a word to let the Air Force carry out a retaliatory operation against Germany, then the Air Force must come up with a plan, the British Air Force has strategic bombers, the number is quite a lot, and the state is very good, and there is no problem with navigation and other auxiliary equipment. However, how to implement it and hit those targets is worth considering, and the prime minister's plan is definitely not to symbolically throw a few bombs on the German mainland, but to hurt Germany! Under the influence of this guiding ideology, some radical generals in the British Air Force also planned to retaliate by throwing poison gas bombs in large German cities. But soon, this plan was vetoed, and today the British dare to throw chemical weapons at the Germans, and tomorrow Germany will throw more chemical weapons over, which is clearly cost-effective for the British who are on the weaker side!

But if you simply use ordinary bombs to bomb, the effect is very limited, and the remaining more than 800 bombers of the British are enough to go back and forth? Maybe the first bombing will have some effect, but then the German night fighters will be able to intercept the British bombers under the guidance of radar, and in the case of almost equal technology, the losses are certain, 800 bombers really can't last long, and when the number of available planes is reduced to a certain level, the so-called strategic bombing is just like that! It's more about taking a stand and having no practical value! It was a problem to hurt the Germans as far as the British Air Force allowed!

A bunch of British officers began to use maps and intelligence to analyze which bombing would be appropriate, and the officers' proposals such as attacking transportation hubs, important landmarks, Berlin, or a whole bunch of other things were ultimately rejected, either because they didn't hurt their opponents or because they were too risky. For example, in the attack on Berlin, although the Germans were much less guarded from the point of view of intelligence, the British also doubted the feasibility of crossing half of Germany into the skies over Berlin! Finally, one of the officers pointed to the Ruhr area and said: "What if we bomb the dam in the Ruhr area?" ”

"That's a great suggestion! Very valuable! Lieutenant General John Slesser, Chief of the Air Force General Staff, immediately nodded in support after hearing this. The dam in the Ruhr area is of great value, not only providing water for the 460 square kilometre Ruhr industrial area, but also as an important power station in its own right, as well as ensuring the depth of water for navigation in the upper reaches of the Ruhr River. If these dams across the river could be destroyed, it would not only be a heavy blow to German industry, but also a minimized negative impact, after all, morally speaking, because the Germans first carried out massive bombing of civilian targets and infrastructure, the British retaliated appropriately!

Well, now the plan is finalized, and now the question is, how can we destroy these dams one by one? Is the existing armament of the British capable? The British began the analysis of possibilities! (To be continued......)