The prototype of the 574 Strategic Air Force

An important town west of the Yenisei River, the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Russian Far Eastern Theater, Krasnoyarsk. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Jeff, when will our logistics arrive?"

Lieutenant General Barnov, who had a big belly and a round waist, rushed out of the command headquarters with a face full of anger, pointed at his logistics officer and asked loudly, because there was no more canned beef!

This is a serious incident!

No one knows why the beef shipments from the United States were suddenly cut off, of course, St. Petersburg is very clear, because the Atlantic sea is under serious threat, and the sea transport fleet has fallen to an unbearable level, but Lieutenant General Barnov does not know this, he only thinks that this is the Caucasian Army, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, General Chekov, because as soon as he led the 11th Army, that guy retreated to a hundred kilometers behind, And the task of facing hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops was entrusted to himself and the 13th Army.

He has had enough of that bastard pointing fingers, and now he is still deducting food, and seeing that winter is coming, if he still can't get enough food and supplies, then there is no need to fight, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command will freeze to death!

Colonel Jeff, the logistics officer who was called, slapped his forehead, and he found that as long as it was time to eat, he was always an injured officer, so he replied, "Go and send a telegram immediately", and hid in the telegraph room for refuge first.

However, it is still necessary to urge, from Tomsk to the front line, two defensive lines were arranged, plus the strong fortress of Tomsk, three million soldiers of six armies were gathered east of Western Siberia, even if the food and supplies of the whole of Western Siberia were a little tight, not to mention that there were still nearly 10 million people on this great plain, so it was necessary to rely on forty trains from Yekaterinburg every day to meet the supply needs, but even then, So far, there are still many troops who have not received cotton clothes for the winter and have enough food to stockpile.

This is a big problem, in the last war, hundreds of thousands of Russian elites were not so much defeated, but rather exhausted by the remnants of that winter, especially in the days when they were trapped in Lake Belga, more than 100,000 Cossack cavalry's beloved horses were killed to satisfy hunger, so the words of the lieutenant general still have to be heard.

After sending three more telegrams urging logistics to be delivered early, Jeff sent a telegram to an infantry division stationed upstream, because that area was not the main attack point of the Chinese army, so they had to hunt and cut down trees as much as possible to stock up on wintering supplies for the troops.

After arranging this, he turned and went to lead his horse again, ready to go and see for himself what was going on at the small coal mine thirty kilometers away, which was the guarantee of the wintering of one million soldiers of the two major armies of the front, where as many as 5,000 conscripted men were working to provide enough coal for the troops.

This is the life of every logistics officer on the Eastern Front, who has a headache, is busy and needs to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

Jeff sighed, led the horse and led a few cavalrymen out of the farm, no one likes war, but Russia can't lose Western Siberia, otherwise even Central Asia and the Caucasus can't be saved, fortunately, the Chinese army is not ready to attack the vast West Siberia, there have been a lot of battles in the past month, but they are not too intense, giving them these quartermaster logistics officers a chance to breathe.

Perhaps as long as it survives the winter, then the Chinese army itself will not have the ability to attack in the harsh winter, and the troops will have a chance to rest and recuperate.

It's just that.

Jeff raised his head, the dense barracks and tents around him made him anxious, so far the two armies on the front line have only obtained one-third of the material reserves, and the remaining two-thirds need to be completed within a month, is this possible?

It's impossible, Jeff smiled bitterly, the inefficient St. Petersburg doesn't know how to use the railroad to a large extent, but this is not a problem he can solve, let's go and see the situation of coal mine production first. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

As soon as Jeff stepped on his horse, the horse suddenly began to neigh in restless agitation, and before he could figure out the situation, he heard a shout from beside him: "Oh, my God! ”

Following everyone's gaze, Jeff also froze suddenly, only to see a moving dark cloud suddenly appear in the western sky, which was flying towards this place at a rapid pace.

Everyone knows that the Chinese army in the east has planes, and everyone knows that bombs are dropped from time to time, but no one has ever thought that there will be so many at one time! And it will come around from the west, and what is surprising is that the reminder of those planes in front is obviously much larger, such a large size, how did they fly?!

The shadows they cast even obscured the sun!

An unprecedented sense of fear rose in Jeff's heart, and he immediately turned his horse's head and rushed to the farmstead where the command was located, hoping to inform everyone to leave.

In the sky, looking at the Russian soldiers running around like ants below, Emperor Li was already hot with excitement, and turned his head to ask Guan Ning beside him: "Is it time to descend?" ”

Guan Ning was nervous from the beginning of boarding, checking the fuel gauge for a while, and checking the hydraulics for a while, for fear that there would be any problems, so after hearing Li Mo's words, he came back to his senses and arrived at his destination.

"Yes, Your Majesty, I ......."

"Haha, I'm just here to feel the effect of the bombing, you command, leave me alone."

Guan Ning was afraid that Li Mo would not do what he said before after he arrived in the sky, but fortunately, Emperor Li knew that he was a layman, so he came out this time just to experience what bombing is, you must know that in the future life, unless you are a military bomber pilot or face a bomber, even if the text describes it ten thousand times, you will not be able to experience this taste.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no threat of enemy planes in this area, and if it weren't for the lack of anti-aircraft weapons in the Russian team, he could only sigh at the opportunity in his life, as an ordinary person, it is difficult to understand being an emperor, and he is a pseudo-military fan emperor who has crossed over, and he can't experience the pain of facing weapons.

The important thing is that he is not on a whim this time, he needs to know the actual effect of Kunpeng to provide a reference for whether to establish a strategic air force.

According to the previous idea, the Kunpeng, which has a combat radius of only 600 kilometers, cannot support the important task of the strategic air force, so the bomber with the Kunpeng and the bomber with the ability to fly from Honolulu to San Francisco in one breath is the prototype of the strategic air force, but it also encountered problems such as insufficient engine horsepower and too heavy itself, so he was faced with a choice.

This is not something that can be decided by patting the brain, even if you are a later generation and know the role of the strategic air force, you can't mess around, Kunpeng is definitely inappropriate, so in today's country with limited manufacturing capacity, limited resources, and war consumption has begun to intensify, the funds invested in the air force cannot be unlimited, so whether to build a large number of Kunpeng, or build a little and wait for the four rounds to be perfected, will be a major decision, which will have a great impact on the future situation.

"Attention to the Golden Eagle Brigade, three or three formations, reduce the altitude to 600 meters to drop bombs, pay attention to crosswinds and the interval between bomb drops."

As soon as Master Guan Ning finished giving the order, he felt that the nose of the plane began to descend, and immediately looked at Emperor Li, only to see that he was happily pushing the operating lever, as if he wanted to play bomber diving.

"Your Majesty, no!" Guan Ning hurriedly stopped him, quickly flattened the nose of the plane with the operating lever in his co-pilot position, and said with a bluffed face: "Your Majesty, you must drop the bomb at an altitude of 1100 meters, otherwise we will go back!" ”

Looking at Guan Ning's extremely serious face, Li Mo could only smile bitterly, because he also knew that once he entered a low altitude of thousands of meters, some small arms could still threaten the bomber, so as long as he was on the plane, it was impossible to fall below this altitude.

There was no way to play ultra-low-altitude bombing, Emperor Li simply handed over the plane to Guan Ning, and he lay down in the window to look at the back Xia Shihui's gang of little scrambles to lower the nose of the plane, but fortunately, the two wingmen accompanying him on the left and right did not make him lose his face too much, and continued to maintain the same altitude as the long plane.

"The bomb magazine is open."

"Thirty seconds to prepare for the bomb."

As Guan Ning opened the belly hatch, the Kunpeng began to jolt, and the cabin was also full of wind, which was the effect of the air turbulence after the bomb compartment was opened, as long as the bomb was dropped and the hatch was closed.

In front of the aiming window of the bomb in the nose, the bombardier stared intently at the angle meter, and when the target was just pressed into the angle meter, he suddenly flipped the bomb drop switch.

Eight 125-kilogram high-explosive incendiary bombs doped with white phosphorus and other ignitions quickly broke away from the pylons, and the three Kunpeng led by the sky from the ground were like a string of steel eggs, and Guan Ning, who felt that the fuselage was light, confirmed that all the bombs left the magazine, and immediately closed the hatch, and the bomber resumed its smooth flight.

Guan Ning, who quickly pulled up the plane with a sigh of relief, saw Li Mo holding the window, smiled slightly, and slightly deflected the fuselage, so that Emperor Li could see more clearly.

From the first burst of firelight, Li Mo's eyes almost popped out, only to see that the target ground seemed to suddenly bloom with rosy flowers of death, and the fire and gunpowder smoke instantly enveloped the small town of Krasnoyarsk, where the Russian army headquarters was located.

If 24 125 kg bombs are not too deadly, then the follow-up bomber formation completely destroyed the place, and they cut in from the ground and air in groups of three or three, so the bomb delivery accuracy is more accurate, and when the next Kunpeng finished dropping the bomb, the earth seemed to tremble.

Everyone in later generations knows about carpet bombing, but only very few people can see it, and few people know how this term appeared, Li Mo now finally understands, because of the effect of acceleration, the explosion point after the bomb falls will continue to extend forward, and the subsequent bombers will always move the bomb point on the previous formation target a little further, so the bomb will continue to extend forward, just like laying a layer of "mushrooms" on the ground!

Although not as powerful as a 250-kilogram bomb, 30 Kunpeng dropped a total of 240 bombs, totaling 30 tons of high-explosive bombs containing white phosphorus.

According to the tests, a 380-mm naval gun can use 750 kg high-explosive shells to make at least 3000 square meters without a living person, thirty Kunpeng is equivalent to dropping 40 shells, even if half of them are repeated explosion points, they can destroy everything within 6 square kilometers, and the important thing is that they carry high-explosive incendiary bombs!

In terms of unit firepower projection, thirty Kunpeng is not comparable to the firepower of one Guam-class naval gun in one hour, but the range of naval guns is limited after all, so this bombing also made Li Mo give up the idea of continuing to wait for four long-range bombers, and was determined to accelerate the use of Kunpeng as an opportunity.

Perhaps no one thought that His Majesty the Emperor's personal boarding would have a great impact on the development of the Air Force, and after he returned to Beijing to tell Chen Ping about the bombing effects he had seen and felt with his own eyes, the General Staff issued an order for 600 improved aircraft to the three major aircraft factories in the first batch. And also placed a large number of orders for standard parts to as many as 300 factories in China.

According to later statistics, during the entire war, China built a total of 3,500 Kunpeng medium bombers of seven models and batches, plus transport, special and civilian types, a total of 5,873 Kunpeng were manufactured, and 2,000 of them were converted into short-haul transport aircraft after the war and sold to the ascendant airlines, promoting the development of the empire's aviation industry.

As the explosion ended, the fire began to spread, and when the Kunpeng returned from the bombardment, the small nimble falcon began to wreak havoc.

More than a third of the 2,000 Falcon were converted into front-line tactical bombers after the Mustang and Air Force Storm tactical bombers rolled off the production line.

Biplanes are inferior to all-metal monoplanes in maneuverability, speed and survivability, but the problem is that the 3 million Russian troops in Western Siberia don't even have a few anti-aircraft machine guns, so they can only watch them roar and rage again and again.

After the main target was abused by the bomber squadron that appeared for the first time, the last two waves of 60 falcons that could not find the target poured their anger on the surrounding barracks, and when they roared and dropped bombs at an altitude of less than 300 meters, the hearts of the Russian 11th Army were dug out and then trampled to pieces.

Jeff rode his horse to the left and right, he no longer had any ability to think, when Lieutenant General Barnov, who was holding a rice bowl, was devoured by a bomb at close range, he could only numbly drive the horse forward.

Beside him, the wooden barracks were shattered by the falling bombs, and then they were engulfed by the flames of hell, and along the way, he only saw countless soldiers running and screaming with flames, and even those soldiers who tried to help their comrades put out the fire were swept in.

Bombs fell, houses were torn apart, and then fires spread.

The war suddenly became extremely simple, the dry weather in September helped the flames, and the wind carried the choking smoke to spread rapidly, this apocalyptic scene has frightened all the Russian soldiers.

According to later prisoners of war, the bombing resulted in nearly 10,000 casualties, most of which were burned to death by the rapidly spreading population, so much so that the Russian army did not even dare to concentrate on it later.

But I am afraid that the Admiral Chekov, who received the news and ordered all the troops to be dispersed, did not know what a terrible price he had paid for this order, and when winter began to make all roads impassable, it was a disaster to ensure the supplies needed for so many scattered camps, and for his order, a total of nearly 800,000 soldiers disappeared under the raging storm.

When a falcon that had finished dropping a bomb saw the Russian colonel, who was riding a horse out of the bombing range, the millimeter machine gun in the bow swept towards him.

Jeff was thrown into the Yenisei River by a neighing horse before he died, and when he woke up, he found that he was surrounded by Chinese soldiers with black and yellow oil paint on their faces.

Jeff may not know how much impact his capture will have, but it is precisely because of the confession of this important logistics officer that strengthened the determination of the Northwest Theater Command to intervene in Tomsk and block the way home of 3 million Russian troops.

On September 10, two infantry divisions stationed at Lake Balkhash and a reserve division that had just arrived were ordered to immediately abandon all heavy equipment and head north at full speed!

The Battle of West Siberia, known as the Battle of Tomsk, began with the first major bombing in history.

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