778 ways of fighting for Spain

The spring breeze is warm and comes in through the window. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

After surviving a winter, the tender green in the distance was particularly cute, but the telegraph operator Xiao Wu felt hot all over his body, and even his vest was a little wet.

It's too much pressure!

No matter who it is, being stared at by a large group of people, including the emperor and the prime minister, standing behind their buttocks, no matter how thick their nerves are, it is impossible not to react at all.

Finally, the radio responded.

As if hearing the sounds of heaven, Xiao Wu immediately forgot the burning gaze behind him, picked up the pen and recorded it carefully, and a moment later a translated telegram was handed over to Chen Ping, he didn't look at it, turned around and handed it to Li Mo, who had been waiting for a long time.

"Your Majesty, how's it going? The result? "It's about the first actual combat of the Air Force Thor Bomber Brigade, so Commander Xue Muhua was the first to sit still, if it wasn't for Li Mo who read the telegram, it is estimated that he would have grabbed all his thoughts. Seeing his restless appearance, he was aroused to cut down 4 light cruisers to build bombers, and said jealously: "Mu Hua, you can rest, 66 planes, less than 200 tons of ammunition, it is not as good as our navy to gnaw in half an hour, according to me, we should still build more light cruiser ......." ”

"Okay, you can give me a way to make the shells fly a thousand kilometers."

"Hehe, this old dragon can't help it."

Emperor Li glared at the noisy in-laws at the side, handed the telegram to Chen Ping, and said with a smile: "Nian Nian." ”

Seeing Long Guozhang deflated, everyone was happy. After receiving the telegram, Chen Ping read it and said: "The North American Theater reported that on April 25, the 2nd Air Force Division dispatched 66 Thor bombers from the Wild Yak Squadron to carry out the first long-range bombing of Dallas City, 970 kilometers away, and in the next three days, a total of 216 sorties were made, with a total of 2,592 bombs, totaling 648 tons, including 1,500 incendiary bombs.

According to preliminary investigations, all oil processing plants and grain and cotton warehouses in the North City Industrial Zone of Dallas have been destroyed, and the Dallas-Houston, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma railroads have been disrupted.

During the three-day operation, a total of seven aircraft were withdrawn due to mechanical problems, and the rest were all intact. ”

"Good! Blow up a city without a single plane! And it's thousands of miles away! Thousands of miles, haha......! Chen Ping had just finished reading, and Li Enfu was the first to laugh happily.

Everyone also slapped excitedly, even Long Guozhang, who was full of jealousy, had to admire the ability of the Air Force, with the Thor bomber, the Air Force was equivalent to having the ability to cover a thousand kilometers of combat circles, and it became the second real long-range iron fist of the Navy Houhua!

"Strategic bombing....... 【 I want to: super fast update 】" Chen Ping looked at Li Mo and muttered these four words softly, and at this moment he finally understood the meaning of this word.

Dallas is just a medium-sized city in the southwest of the United States, not even as large as Houston, which is also in Texas, and has only 66 Thors, but it is this kind of military operation, which can only be regarded as a medium-scale combat test, that brings a very satisfying, even gratifying, answer.

Ten years ago, if someone said that he could launch a devastating blow to an enemy a thousand kilometers away in a few hours, everyone would think he was crazy, but now this scene has completely become a reality!

It's strategic!

1,000 kilometers, even if the speed of road maneuvering of a highly mobile armored division is doubled, it will take a day and a night. Calculated at full speed of 35 knots of the Navy's Weiqing-class destroyers, it will take a little more than 15 hours.

This time it's only 66, and if it's 200 or even 500! That means that it would take more than a dozen hours for someone else to attack, but only four hours for themselves. It means that if the enemy attacks from a thousand kilometers away, he can attack their bases, cities and industrial areas in a destructive bombardment within a few hours of their departure!

And that's just counting the bombing missions.

The transport planes modeled after Thor have also entered the intense test flight stage, and once they are equipped with formed troops, they can drop one or even several airborne divisions behind them in a short period of time before the enemy can react, and carry out a strategic outflanking! And with the increase in engine horsepower in the future, some heavy equipment can even be quickly deployed to the rear of the enemy by transport aircraft.

This is only the first goal, according to the emperor's future air force plan, in 20 years the air force will strive to at least double the bombing radius.

That would be a truly strategic air force!

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, Chief of Staff." Xue Muhua took a deep breath, calmed down his excitement, and said seriously: "The Thor bombers are different from the Storm and Kunpeng, and the combat missions are also different, so I think that continuing to follow the method of scattered deployment of various divisions will not have a great effect, so it is better to simply gather together and organize into a special bombing division, so that they can play their role to a large extent." ”

"Mu Hua's proposal is very good, Dallas is only a small city, the scale of bombing is not large, if it is to deal with big cities like New York and Paris in the future, it will need at least four or five hundred planes, if it is dispersed to various air force divisions, it will be troublesome to mobilize, and after centralization, it can achieve unified logistics, maintenance, and unified use." Duan Qirui nodded in agreement.

"Well said, it's time for change."

When everyone discussed the tactics and methods of use after the appearance of Thor, Li Mo was also very happy, although the bombardment division was not his final dream, it already had some rudiments of strategic bombing forces in later generations.

"In addition to forming the first bombing division, I think the number of bombers is still too small, Dallas is not large, and when Texas is taken, the further north the city will be, so we must prepare more."

"Mr. Li, you can rest assured ......." It was rare to be happy, Tang Shaoyi also waved his hand generously, and said with a smile: "Tang Xiao has promised that next month at the latest, the output will be increased from the current 30 to 50 per month, and it can reach 60 by the end of the year." ”

"Great, so that by the end of the year we can have at least 2 bombing divisions!"

"Stop dreaming, maybe the war will end by the end of the year." Chen Ping smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, it's news from Duan Fei, Spain may ...... I can't hold it anymore. ”

"Oh?"

After handing over the telegram quietly handed to him by the intelligence officer to Li Mo, Chen Ping continued: "Yesterday afternoon, there were strike demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona one after another, and today the demonstrations have spread to Valencia and other places, and the workers are now demanding that Alfonso XIII immediately withdraw his troops and withdraw from the war, and also demand that he immediately reorganize his interior, punish him, increase employment, and even pay pensions to the dead and wounded. ”

The news, like a thunderclap, made the excitement brought by the Thor bomber gradually dissipate. "So, Alfonso XIII can't stand to withdraw his army?" Long Guozhang smacked his lips and habitually picked up his cigar again.

"It's not that simple." Li Enfu took the lead and shook his head: "Even if Alfonso XIII wants to withdraw from the war, I'm afraid he won't withdraw the army so simply, but if he doesn't withdraw the army, he can't say that the war will end, it's a dilemma!" ”

"Why is that?"

Tang Shaoyi squinted his eyes and replied for Li Enfu: "It's not simple, you think, Spain still has more than a million troops in France, and these soldiers are all bloody, and they are originally dissatisfied with Alfonso XIII's participation in the war, so they go to the battlefield in a daze."

Now the dead and wounded, after withdrawing from the war, the loans and aid provided by Britain and the United States will definitely be terminated, so that even if they return home, they will not be able to get enough pensions and remuneration, and they will definitely feel resentment, so that the withdrawal will not be more than a million remnants of the defeated army, but more than a million time bombs! ”

These words also let everyone understand what Li Enfu meant when he said that it was not easy, the two of them deserved to be prime ministers, so they grasped the key to it, in fact, it is already difficult for any Entente country to ride a tiger.

Even if countries like Spain and Italy want to withdraw from the war, they will have to face the national political turmoil caused by the withdrawal of millions of troops, and the withdrawal will definitely have to pay reparations, cede colonies, and so on, which will further increase the burden on the country and will inevitably lead to drastic changes!

The Russian civil war is raging, and hundreds of people are dying every day, which has already made the capitalists in Europe start to worry that the revolution will spread to the whole of Europe, so instead of withdrawing troops before the situation is stabilized, it is better to grit your teeth and stand up, at least a few million young adults are at the front line than at home.

In fact, in addition to France, there is no way to withdraw at all, Britain and the United States also have such a problem when they forcibly withdraw at this time, not to mention that the United States has also been invaded and occupied a large area of land.

"So what are we going to do? You can't just look at Spain and fall into the arms of Germany, right? Duan Qirui broke the silence and said the crux of the problem.

"That's not going to work!"

Long Guozhang bit his cigar: "Spain's position is important, if it falls to Germany, even if it can't occupy all of France in the future, as long as there is Spain and Italy, there will be no problem in entering and exiting the Mediterranean Sea in the future!" Add to this the Ottoman and German relations, and even if we occupy Malta, we will be surrounded by Germany. ”

"Hehe, why did the national chapter say that, we and Germany are still allies."

"Ass! It's true that it's an alliance now, but not necessarily after the war, let alone what is an army? To put it bluntly, it is a captive wolf dog, if you don't give it a target to grind his teeth from time to time, then it won't be a fat pig! ”

"You old ruffian!"

Everyone has nothing to say about this kind of veteran ruffian who calls himself a wolf dog, but he has to admit that what he said is very right, Li Mo feels very reasonable, which is why in later generations in the danger of the Cold War, local wars continue to break out, in addition to containing the enemy, why not grind the teeth and scratch the claws for the army.

"There is only one way to fight for Spain and prevent them from falling completely to Germany." Tang Shaoyi took a hard puff of his cigarette, and suddenly stared at Long Guozhang: "The navy wants to drive the battleship to the Spanish coast at speed!" ”

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