There are at least five or more dams to choose from across the Ruhr dam system, and the British, after careful consideration, chose the Monnet Dam and the Eder Valley Dam. After the target was chosen, how to safely deliver the bomber to the target area and launch an attack became two very important issues. In fact, as early as in the previous air war, the British had tried the method of infiltration from low or high altitudes, but unfortunately this method was not successful, the Germans' radio identification signals and air traffic control were still very successful, with various types of radar, it was impossible for a large group of aircraft to break through without being detected.

Therefore, the troops bombing the dam must be few and fine, and there is only one chance, if the other side is prepared, I am afraid that the next bombing will be killed! The information about the target dams was clear, even the Germans were doing the defense work around the dams, and the Germans, of course, knew the importance and military value of these dams, they deployed special early warning radars and fire control radars around the dams, and arranged a sufficiently dense fire.

Mine nets, which were historically set up to protect against torpedo attacks, still exist. Historically, the British have used a ricocheting attack to destroy the dam with a ricocheting attack, and the principle is so simple that anyone who has ever been involved in the water knows that when a flat stone touches the water at a very small angle, it jumps. And the bombs that the British used to blow up the dam in the Ruhr area used this principle. The bomb was made into a barrel, and then special equipment gave it a speed of up to several hundred revolutions, and the bomber flew to the target at a low altitude. Then the bomb was dropped, and the bomb could "jump" over the mine protection nets laid by the Germans. When it hits the bottom of the dam. He would sink into the sea and detonate under the action of the water pressure fuse. Finally destroy the target completely from the bottom of the dam! This plan has proven to be viable!

What's the saddest thing in the world? Even if you know the other party's arrangement, and you also know a way to kill the other party, but in the end, you find that this method is not feasible because of time problems! The Germans' defense methods are the same as in history, and the British have successfully thought of historical solutions, but sadly, the British in this plane do not have enough time to prepare for this! They did not have time to analyze and deduce the entire plan again and again, nor did they have time for the crew to experiment thousands of times to ensure the accuracy of the attack.

They only have a dozen days or even a few days to prepare! You must know that the British have been preparing for more than a year to blow up the dam in the Ruhr area! The pilots even made more than 2,000 mock bomb drops! And now, in just a few days, they have to figure out everything from how to dodge the air defense of the Germans to launch an offensive. And then to a series of questions about how to retreat! Time is tight, and the task is heavy!

And just when the British were helpless, the Huaxia Air Force finally pulled out the big killer they had been preparing for a long time from the warehouse. All you have to do is provide the navigators and take care of getting us to the bombing target safely, and we'll take care of the rest! "At a regular exchange meeting of the Allied Air Force, when the British told Shen Daoming, commander of the Chinese Air Force in the British Air Force, about their troubles, the Chinese Air Force took over the task." I really admire the above, they actually prepared these big guys before the war, and the Air Force may have been thinking about the German dam for a long time! At a later meeting, Shen Daoming once said this to Qin Yue in private.

As a traverser, Xu Jie is naturally very aware of the classic example of the British Air Force's attack on the dam in the Ruhr area in World War 2. He had also considered copying the tactics of the British in history before. But then he thought about what if the Germans placed balloons over the dam, deployed specialized fighter units, or strengthened local anti-aircraft fire. After all, if Lancaster flies low, it is a large target, and there is only one chance. If you don't succeed once, you won't have much hope in the future. So in order to ensure the success of the attack, Xu Jie thought about it and it would be better to make a Huaxia version of the guidance goblet! It doesn't matter what happens to you on the ground. Bombs were dropped directly from a height of several thousand meters, and a bomb of about 6 tons was fired. As long as it hits, it will collapse!

When the British came to the warehouse in Huaxia, they saw that it was more than 6 meters long. After being called the huge bomb of the earthquake by Huaxia, the whole person is Spartan! "With just one bomb, I can destroy a neighborhood!" The seismic bomb was 6.9 meters long, 1 meter in diameter, 6.2 tons in weight and 3 tons in charge of a cyclone with an internal charge. If you add the relevant guidance devices and additional wings, the total weight of the bomb is about 6.9 tons! Such a huge bomb can only be used by a specially modified Huaxia new Yunlong four-engine heavy bomber. These specially modified heavy bombers had their entire bay doors removed to accommodate such a huge bomb, while pylons were strengthened and guidance control systems were added.

Because the volume of this bomb is too large, and the requirements for machining are also very high, there are not many of them, and in the entire Huaxia Air Force stationed in the United Kingdom, there are only 40 such bombs! And correspondingly, there are only 16 bombers that can use such bombs, which is just the size of a squadron! However, such a scale was enough for the British, and they immediately dispatched navigators and related auxiliary personnel to cooperate with the Huaxia Air Force to carry out this combat mission. However, the attack weapons are available, but how to safely enter the German airspace is still a serious problem, after all, the number of aircraft is limited, if these 16 planes are finished, the Huaxia and the British will really not be able to take the dam! And it was at this time that an accident solved the problem!

A German night bomber actually landed on the British airfield because of a navigation error, and when the German pilot hurriedly got off the plane, he was greeted not by his cheering comrades but by the British GIs' Lee Enfield rifles! The 4 poor German crew members were pushed to the ground before they could even destroy the equipment inside the plane, and then the British Air Force decisively took over the hapless bomber and found the equipment inside the bomber for radio response. This kind of equipment is actually a multi-band radio first device. Radio waves of different frequencies are emitted depending on the password of each day. And after getting the sample, the British decisively copied a similar device. Although there are not many of them, they are enough to equip on attack aircraft! While the Germans hadn't found out yet. Before the replacement of radio transponder equipment, the safety problem of some Allied bombers entering the German mainland was largely solved!

With the careful cooperation of the two air forces, the battle plan, codenamed Operation Punishment, was finally released, and the attack call was a quote from Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's concubine in history: "After me, even if it floods!" This call sign successfully illustrates the essence of this operation! After the fight, it will be a flood!

The British provided the Huaxia Air Force with a full squadron of Mosquito night fighters to provide cover and guidance tasks, and the first air raid formation sent 12 Yunlong heavy bombers, each target in batches of four. Each four-plane squad was accompanied by two Mosquito planes for flares and searchlights, and four night planes for cover. As the German bombing of Britain entered its fourth week, the punitive operation finally began. Under the cover of dark night, more than 30 bombers followed a group of returning German bombers towards the German mainland.

"We should be the first British pilots to enter German soil, right?" The British, who were in charge of the guidance, were constantly scanning the ground with terrain radar, shining bright or dark dots of light on the radar screen, and this spot of light, which seemed meaningless to others, was a map in the eyes of the specially trained guides, telling the British, where they were now! Soon, the Germans' ground guidance facilities began to verify the identity of the other side, but after a few simple radio responses, no other signals were issued, after all, there were now too many bombers in the air that needed guidance. The ground facilities are almost at full capacity, and since there are no requirements for the planes in the air, there is naturally no need to hold on to the ground.

Soon, after crossing the first few air defense nets. The Chinese bomber formation entered the edge of the Ruhr area, and at this time, the mutation was abrupt! The Germans apparently noticed the group of aircraft flying at high altitudes, and they seemed to be deviating from the predetermined course. In order to avoid accidents, airplanes are prohibited from flying over the Ruhr industrial area and some cities. And some targets in the air clearly violated this provision. "You've entered the wrong airspace, quickly exited. Return to base according to the predetermined airspace, repeat, you have entered the wrong airspace, exit immediately! The German ground tower called directly in plain language, and in the face of the sudden change, the Allied pilots were a little caught off guard. The Germans have apparently been keeping an eye on them, and if they are not handled properly, the German night fighters will probably soon come to see what is going on!

"It's almost time to get there, let's get ready for electronic warfare! Let's rush over! At this point, it was clear that there could be no indecision, and after a brief hesitation, the bombers of the three squads immediately began to reduce their altitude, followed by the acceleration brought by the altitude drop to increase the flight speed. At the same time, the electronic warfare equipment on all the planes was activated, and the complicated radio interference waves were released, followed by pieces of jamming ropes and metal chaff strips completely erased the figures of the group from the radar, and the punishment operation entered the final sprint stage!

"Damn, it's the British! What are they going to do! "The Germans did not expect that Britain would actually send bombers to trouble Germany at this time, didn't the bigwigs of the Air Force say that the British were too busy to take care of themselves? What is even more incomprehensible to the Germans is how these British planes crossed the outer radar warning network! Is Salzburg, which is really a German, to watch! However, this is obviously not the time to pursue responsibility, when the alarm sounds, several HE110 night bombers that have been on standby take to the air to intercept, and the radar operators are also solving the jamming problem by frequency modulation.

However, by this time, the Germans were already a little late, and the group of planes responsible for attacking the Monnet Dam had already entered the sky above the target, and the attack was already in the final form when the British Mosquito planes in front flew over the target area and dropped flares! Flares dropped from an altitude of 4000 meters with the help of parachutes can provide a group of attack aircraft with light for ten minutes! After the initial discomfort, the operator pressed his eyes to the scope and then put the huge dam over the cross in the center of the scope!

"Autopilot takes over the plane and enters the attack course!" The captain said loudly, and then the plane began to fly in a straight line, and when the conditions for dropping the bomb were met, the bombardier decisively pulled down the handle, and a huge bomb fell from the air, dragging a long wire and a flare tracer tube behind him! The red light that foreshadowed the destruction began to quickly approach the target, and at this time, the heavy anti-aircraft artillery deployed next to the dam began to roar, and the huge pillar of light from the searchlight swept across the sky, and a mosquito bomber was unfortunately locked by the pillar of light, and in just a few minutes, hundreds of various shells dragged the fire into the sky, breaking the target to pieces!

"Die! Germans! You're running out of time! When the bomb finally landed in the middle of Monet's Dam, a British navigator roared excitedly, and the depression and frustration of many days were gone in this moment! The sturdy semi-armor-piercing warhead smashed into the middle of the dam with huge potential energy, directly making a crater several meters deep inside the dam! Then the time-delay fuse ignited the cyclone inside the bomb! A ball of fire dozens of times more dazzling than the sun appeared on the dam! The bright light even blinds the operator for a short time!

Then, an earth-shattering tremor came from below, and a roaring sound like a landslide filled the entire battlefield! A huge column of smoke rose into the sky with a loud bang. "This pillar of smoke is more than 200 meters high, and then the upper end begins to spread, forming a huge mushroom cloud!" A British pilot who participated in the bombing described the scene afterwards!

And this explosion in the eyes of the Germans is definitely not just a word spectacular, but also a symbol of destruction! The earthquake-like tremors spread rapidly around the explosion, and some nearby buildings were even knocked down by the aftermath of the explosion, and a shock wave carrying a large amount of dust and debris quickly swept through the entire dam. Even the anti-aircraft artillery position next to it was affected! However, the disaster was not over, and then another bomb hit the target, tearing a gap of several tens of meters directly in the dam, and the falling debris also destroyed the entire generator compartment under the dam! The mission to attack the Monnet Dam is successfully accomplished!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, the reward of the constellation that soars in the universe~~~, as well as the monthly ticket and the reminder ticket of the book friend's fast wind, although the author wants to eat the reminder ticket, but unfortunately the speed of the code word is limited-! I'm sorry! (To be continued......)