Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

In the huge Baltimore shipyard, ships under construction cover the entire bay, except for a few cargo ships, military ships occupy almost all the slipways, in fact, it is not only here "In the Chesapeake Bay, which is known as the second largest industrial area in the United States and the world's first shipbuilding area, the slipways of dozens of shipbuilding companies of all sizes are covered with all kinds of warships, from small torpedo boats to large battleships, as long as you want to find almost any kind of ship here."

Far away on Cape Sparos, smoke billows from the blast furnace chimneys of the famous Liheng Steel Company, and dozens of trains arrive every day from cities laden with much-needed steel, cannons and supporting facilities.

This is how someone described the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The mines of the Great Lakes, the factories of the Chesapeake Bay and the money of New York.

Since the end of the Civil War in 1866, in just a few decades, it has been able to leap from a wild place in the eyes of Europeans to the world's largest economic and industrial power, these three pillars are indispensable, and now after Wall Street has been completely paralyzed by war and gold reserves, mines and factories have become the hope of the US government led by Melkin.

However, not everyone is left to chance.

Tens of thousands of people had gathered in Baltimore Harbor early in the morning, and bags and bags had been thrown off the high gangways because they were overloaded, and the polite gentlemanly demeanor had turned into a desperate unreasonableness, and women and children had to be crowded into the cabin with the men, like the "piglets" they had captured from the Far East half a century earlier.

"Especially after the Chinese navy entered the Caribbean, the various shipping companies were now unable to recruit shipwrights, and had to search for adventurers from all over the world at great expense."

The high costs, the capitalists, naturally did not want to bear the burden themselves, and it became a good idea to pass them on to the Americans who wanted to leave the Americans, because the high prices, the unbearable congestion, and the dangerous sea routes threatened the ships at every moment, but even so the number of people who left the United States from here every day was still innumerable.

Who would have thought that the United States, which was the first choice of immigrants in the world before the war, has now become a place where everyone is in danger.

Standing on the empty military dock next to him and watching this scene, the Commander-in-Chief of the US Navy, Charles Bagel, had a bitter mouth at the corner of his mouth, and the continuous failures and pressures of the past two years "made the young vice admiral a lot older, and the hair raised by the sea breeze was mixed with a little snow white."

The majestic cruiser Kanbōs slowly approached the dock "This is the fifth Atlanta-class light cruiser of the United States, in order to counter the Huachangjiang-class and Honolulu-class light cruisers, the United States painstakingly developed and finally came up with a powerful cruiser "It not only has 5 triple 152-mm naval guns" It also installed a large number of anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns and set up a first-class air defense control tower" The displacement also exceeded 10,000 tons for the first time, reaching 11,200 tons, but the speed is still a weakness, and the height can only reach 28 knots.

In the past, such a battleship full of barrels would have attracted the cheers of the American people on the dock, but now few people are willing to rest on it, and everyone is concerned about when the next ship will arrive.

William Benson, who had just finished attending a joint naval conference in Britain on a cruiser, was taken aback by the crowd at the port, although he also knew that some people were trying to leave the United States, but he did not expect that in less than half a month, the number of people had more than doubled. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

What's wrong with the United States?!

"Charles, what's going on? Who would dare to do that? Why not seize the ship! William Benson's face turned blue all of a sudden, and this scene obviously touched his nerves, so he was very dissatisfied with the reproach of his old friend and partner for many years.

"These are ships registered in neutral countries such as the Netherlands or Norway, and I can't go and arrest them." Charles Bagel said the reason: "It turns out that the ships of the American shipping companies have been requisitioned by the state, and many Americans have tried to leave, including the famous White Star Suburbs Steamship Company, and the "big business" has rented neutral ships to transport them.

"Why is this happening? Did Jericho fail? ”

"Not yet, though." Charles took out a small note and handed it to William Benson: "Three days ago, a [Chinese] convoy of 41 ocean-going transport ships, under the protection of an aircraft carrier and four Guam-class battleships, arrived in Galveston Bay, and according to the news from the surrendered soldiers who were coerced into helping to transfer supplies, they brought at least 150,000 tons of ammunition and fuel" and the second batch of 60 large cargo ships arrived in Panama City last night, and it is expected to pass through the canal in three more days" The intelligence said that it was loaded with more than 200,000 tons of ammunition, Fuel and at least 600 trucks.

"God! How could this be? What about Joseph a gold? Why not take action to intercept! ”

"William, you heard about me." Charles signaled William Benson to calm down for a moment and continued: "Jericho has sent me a telegram before they arrived, saying that they will not take the initiative to intercept it, because compared with the size of the transport fleet, the escort force of the [Chinese] people is too large, and they obviously want to use the transport fleet as a well bait to seek an opportunity to fight a decisive battle immediately. ”

Then ...... "Damn!"

William Benson wanted to say, "Then let's fight a decisive battle", but Charles's eyes reminded him of the current passive situation in Britain: "After the old fox Tirpitz came out", the activities of the German Navy began to be frequent again, and when he was meeting in London, there was also an incident where two German battle cruisers suddenly rushed out of the port of Kiel, "If it weren't for the timely response of the British Navy and the dispatch of three battle cruisers to intercept it, perhaps the United States would have faced two more enemies in the Caribbean."

So when he returned, the British Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Navy had made it clear that they did not want such an early decisive battle, and hoped to delay the commissioning of the last two Hood-class ships, otherwise once Germany took this opportunity to break through with all its might, the British Navy would fall into the embarrassment of having no troops available.

The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, who would have thought that the British Navy, which was once powerful and claimed to have the last three tonnages combined, would be reduced to the point where it could not afford to fight two naval battles that began at the same time, which shows how embarrassed the Entente has been now.

"That's not right!"

William Benson looked at the crowd still crowded onto the cargo ship and wondered, "But when a convoy arrives, why is this happening?" ”

"The day after the arrival of the flotilla, which began yesterday, they concentrated about 110 large bombers, 120 medium bombers, and 300 light bombers from Angarsk and Houston to bomb Kansas City and other cities in the state. According to the news from Kansas City this morning, in three rounds of bombardment, they dropped more than 2,500 of those inextinguishable fire bombs on the city, and the known death toll has reached more than 10,000! ","Bang Dang"

William Benson, who had just opened the car door, slumped into his seat, his face pale as if he had been coated with a layer of white wax.

"Now ......, the bombing continues!"

The sunset spreads across the streets of Nashville, Tennessee's big city, children run carefree, women talk about men, men talk about war, everyone has their own topic, making this "small city of 250,000 people" on the banks of the Cumberland River seem both peaceful and full of worries about war.

Half a century ago, in 1961, the American Civil War broke out, and Tennessee seceded from the United States along with many Southern states, until the end of the war in 1866, when it rejoined the United States with the Confederate and became the 16th state of the United States.

Since the end of the Civil War, Tennessee has stepped into the lane, and has been known as the American cotton huā storehouse, "since it began to be cultivated in 1820, relying on good sunlight and fertile land", it has rapidly prospered, and the annual cotton huā production has reached more than one-third of the United States.

In addition to the cotton huā, it is also the fourth-largest livestock breeding state in the United States"As the steel industry flourished in the United States in the early 20th century, there were a number of steel mills and current factories here, and even in later generations, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the area where the first atomic bomb was developed made it a household name.

As the capital city, Nashville condenses the best of the entire state, with cotton mills and warehouses dotting the city, but no one could have imagined that the pre-war cotton capital was about to face a terrible disaster.

"Captain, you see, the information says that there are a large number of blacks in Tennessee, doesn't it say try not to kill blacks? So if we go and blow up that Nashville now, won't we blow up the blacks together? ”

"Stupid!"

Before Helian Yu could answer the bombardier's question, the navigator slapped his head exaggeratedly and said with an angry look: "Do you think black people can live in the city?" They are all in the country, working as coolies on plantations or processing plants, "Even if we throw tens of thousands of bombs, we can't kill a few." ”

"Why can't blacks live in the city? After the American Civil War, didn't it say that blacks were liberated? ”

"It's liberating, that's right." Looking at the watch was about to arrive, Helian Yusu explained: "But at that time, the words of the government above were of little use to the ears of ordinary people below. In the United States, blacks are rarely seen in half of the cities, and even Mexicans are rare, because if blacks break into cities or white neighborhoods, they are beaten or burned alive. ”

"Is there such a thing? Isn't it said that the United States is a very "democratic" country? ”

"The Lord of the People is a fart, and he used to deceive a little "child" like you at that time. The navigator grinned and said: "Let me tell you, the United States is a place where racial discrimination is severe now, and we Chinese were bullied before, but after the emperor founded the country, several battles were fought, and it was slightly better." ”

"Oh——。"

When the bombardier was about to ask for advice again, Helian Yujing interrupted the chat and hurriedly pushed: "Go and prepare" You can arrive in five minutes. ”

Hearing that there were still five minutes left, the bombardier immediately drilled down the engine room to the lower level, first quickly unplugged the safety bolt on the incendiary bomb, and then immediately drilled to the observation window in front of the nose, and lay down in the engine room to aim the bomb sight at the ground.

Looking down from the sky, the Cumberland River twists and turns like a bright rope, and the houses along the river begin to multiply, and when a dense chimney appears, the bombardier knows that he has reached his destination.

The bomber began to jolt after the bomb compartment slowly opened, and the turbulent air poured into the engine room, which made the world in the scope tremble slightly.

This time, the bomb bay pylons carried 12 250-kilogram white phosphorus incendiary bombs, and the reason why heavy bombs were not used "is because, according to the results of several days of bombing", "the bombs of the 125 and 250 levels have a small lethal effect, but when using incendiary bombs, they can accelerate the spread of flames because of the encryption set."

The buildings of inland cities in the United States basically rely on bricks and wood, of which wood still accounts for the majority, so it is more important to make the fire pan area more important than to kill.

In the footage, Nashville residents were obviously frightened by the sudden appearance of the group of planes in the sky, only to see many people start running along the streets and alleys towards their homes, but unfortunately they did not know the power of the incendiary bombs.

The camera slowly skimmed over the city, "The final bombardier chose to start from the area of the warehouse and factory located on the riverside, and with the gentle flick of his finger, 12 250-kilogram white phosphorus incendiary bombs were drilled out of the magazine in sequence.

While closing the hatch, Helian Yu turned his head to look, only to see that a cloud of white mist had risen from the place where he was targeted, and when the second and three side-by-side Thor dropped bombs, the white mist had turned into terrifying flames. The 66 Raytheons carried a total of 792 incendiary bombs, and based on an average of 400 square meters after each exploded, "the bomber group with a uniform speed carpet bomb destroyed an area of more than 310,000 square meters, equivalent to an area the size of 44 football fields."

And that's just the area of the bomb!

Because it is an incendiary bomb, the bomber is far larger than the high-explosive bomb in the bombing time, which seems unreasonable, but in fact, because the white phosphorus flame will not be extinguished after the complete burning, so it will continue to expand the range because people and animals run after the fire, or the wind blows.

According to calculations, if the bombed target is a brick or wood target, the final killing area of the incendiary bomb is 18 of its own damage, which is equivalent to the size of 80 football fields.

Unfortunately, Nashville is such a city that is too easy to overdrive, with more than seventy percent of the city made of wood deconstructed, and a large number of cotton mills and cotton warehouses, so when the latter Thor hovers and leaves, the whole city is already enveloped in flames. On July 7, the day after the bombing of Kansas, the unprepared cities of Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee, 1,000 kilometers north of Houston, were also bombed on an unprecedented scale, and during the five-day bombing of cities deep across the war zone, the 2nd Bomber Regiment of the Chinese Air Force, which arrived in Houston for 10 days, dropped a total of 9,300 "nearly 2,100 tons of napalm and incendiary bombs" on the two cities.

According to later statistics, a total of 180,000 people were killed and more than 40,000 injured in the bombing of Kansas. The number of dead and wounded in Tennessee is more than 70,000, and the three inland cities, including Kansas City, have been largely wiped out.

PS Thanks to the "big or big" brothers and other book friends for their many rewards, more than an hour is 2012, it is said to be a very dangerous year, it is estimated that there will be a lot of crossing!

Oh, "the hippopotamus is stupid"!

"It's been a year, I wish everyone to be like Emperor Li and dig gold mines every day!!"

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