Chapter 374: 374 Bomb London Again
The Butcher Bomber is one of the most advanced long-range strategic bombers in the world. The world's first ultra-long-range strategic bomber unit, which Accardo spent a lot of money to build, left an indelible terrifying impression on the British after its debut.
And now, there were only 44 butcher bomber planes that scared everyone in London into a cold sweat, and now there are as many as 102 aircraft excluding maintenance, which can be regarded as truly overwhelming. The bombers are now scattered across four airfields and are struggling to reload their ammunition.
The bright lights made the entire airport feel like daylight, and the ground crew shouted slogans to hang 250 kilograms of bombs into the bomb bays of the planes. These bombs are painted with a special symbol, a thick red line drawn around the entire bomb body, it looks as if it is bloody, which makes people shudder.
"Be careful! Don't go wrong! This is our army's secret weapon! You must make sure that every bomb explodes, and no duds are allowed!" a skilled worker ordered loudly as he checked the screws on the bomb.
All the ground soldiers replied solemnly, "Yes!" and then checked and loaded more carefully.
This is a German napalm, which has been kept strictly secret as a new weapon, and the bright red on the body of the bomb represents the flame, which is the distinguishing color of this new type of ammunition. All such bombs must be kept and guarded by special troops, and must be registered and recorded until they are loaded onto aircraft, and no bomb is allowed to slip through.
It was this new bomb that destroyed Manchester's factories and equipment, and it was this new bomb that took the lives of thousands of skilled workers in Britain in one breath, and made Britain's fighter jet production plan collapse by half of its production capacity in an instant.
Because of the bombing of Manchester, the British can now have only 60 Hurricane fighters, which is less than the number of strategic bombers that Germany can take off. Even more tragic was the fact that the British Navy had just suffered a crushing defeat, which made the German Navy even more brazen in attacking British coastal cities, especially Edinburgh.
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Close to the famous Firth of Forth, it is one of the four major cities in Scotland. It is Scotland's centre for justice, banking, insurance and investment, as well as a centre for academia and medicine. The main industries are food, machinery, electrical appliances, printing, shipbuilding and chemicals. In particular, mechanical engineering and shipbuilding were bombed by German naval aviation, which made the British lose more confidence.
Shipyards and docks in Edinburgh were bombed, and nearby chemical plant equipment was also destroyed, directly polluting the waters. The British Navy hastened the destruction of Edinburgh without a fight, and the German Navy's bomber forces spent three days attacking the dockyard and bombing a British aircraft carrier under construction into ruins in one fell swoop.
In order to withstand the frenzied attacks of the Germans, the British government mobilized a full 200 P-36 fighters and 30 Hurricane fighters in an attempt to defend the Edinburgh facility. Fierce air battles took place near the coastline, with the British Air Force shooting down 17 German fighters and 73 of its own.
Obviously, merely counting on naval air strikes in the British hinterland is not the outcome that Accardo wants to see, nor is it the ultimate mission of the aircraft carrier aircraft force. Therefore, the Luftwaffe, at the behest of Accardo, prepared this plan for a large-scale air attack on Britain.
"Second trip to London?" a pilot took the plan that had just been opened, read the two pages carefully, and raised his head to ask Colonel Nils, the commander-in-chief of the bomber front beside him.
Colonel Nils, who had already led the troops to bomb Britain twice, cracked his mouth and smiled: "This time we are not actually going to bomb London, but to destroy these targets. ”
As he spoke, he pointed to the area around London: "Our spies have discovered that the British are developing equipment here similar to our radar system, which, if successfully put into combat, will threaten the survival of our bombers." So we're going to go to these areas and blow up their research bases and factories. ”
"Also. Nils pointed to another place and continued: "Here and here, the British are still producing aircraft, slowly accumulating the number of Hurricane fighters. As soon as the number of such fighters begins to increase, it will also be an unnecessary trouble for us. ”
"We're going to drop bombs here, and here, and here. Nils pointed to some of the marked locations and carefully arranged the tasks of each crew: "Then we will take off at dawn, form an air formation, and then go around to the Dunkirk region of France and fly to London." If, after the bombing has confirmed the destruction of the target, there is still ammunition left behind, we will go into the sky over London and drop the bomb!"
"During the day, isn't it taking off now?" a pilot frowned and asked: "During the day, the enemy's fighter jets will take off and intercept in a more timely manner, what if they are intercepted?"
"No, this time, we have a new partner. Colonel Nils patted a new pilot on the shoulder and smiled and announced the reason why he was in such a good mood today: "The engineering corps has rushed to repair five field airfields in the Dunkirk area of France, and this time there are 50 FW-190D fighters to escort us -- if the British don't come, it's better to say, once they come, our fighters will let them know what it means to come and go!"
Hearing this, the bomber navigator and the pilots immediately relaxed a little, laughed and nodded: "If the FW-190D fighter can follow us, then we can rest assured! This time, let them see what it means to be overwhelming! Hahaha!"
Can you not be excited, both bombings were carried out without fighter escort, and both bombings were completed by surprise. Relying on the frequent and irregular change of bombing sites, as well as relying on the lack of British fighters, the bombing feat was barely accomplished.
But this time it is different, this time it is to go openly and destroy the opponent with the most brutal means. The British Air Force did not dare to respond to the battle, and the British industrial facilities were razed to the ground, and those who came to stop them were all killed this time, leaving no mercy.
"Mission clear?" Nils asked, standing at the front of the group, staring at his men.
"Understood!" everyone replied.
"For the Führer!" cried Nilsli.
"Long live Führer Accardo, Rudolph!" everyone raised their arms and shouted a German salute.
"All personnel, when the problem of defecation and defecation is solved, board the plane and start the engine and start taking off in formation!" After explaining the word, Nils looked at his watch, looked at the sky again, and found that the sky was already white, so he waved his hand and gave the order loudly: "Disband." ”
As the order was given to prepare for takeoff, many of the female gunners began to run to the makeshift toilets prepared for them not far from the runway, where they could solve their problems - simple tent-like huts with a wooden barrel in them, which would be removed by the ground crew before the plane took off.
"Buzz, buzz!" Ten minutes later, Nils sat on the plane, and all he could hear was the roar of the engines and the confirmation of the various crew members.
"No. 4 is ready! Apply for takeoff!" "No. 5 is ready, ready to take off!" "No. 7 is ready, ready to take off!" "This is No. 11, ready!"
The plane moved forward slowly, increasing its speed little by little, and also aligning itself little by little on the long runway. Then, the tremendous force of the engine pulled the plane forward quickly, and it was not until the end of the runway that the huge landing gear of the plane left the ground, and it leaned slightly downwards because it had lost its load-bearing effect.
Then, as the plane took off, the landing gear began to slowly retract into the plane, and the shooters waiting in the cabin tapped their heads with the vibration of the plane, and they all had their own small seats to hold their bodies in place when the plane took off.
Soon, all 27 planes under the command of Colonel Nils rose into the sky and formed their own flight formation at an altitude of 6,000 meters, and soon they found that another bomber formation was on their left flank, and two huge bomber formations converged together, and there was a feeling of dense crowding.
Soon another huge formation of butcher bombers came together, there were as many as 50 of them, and the two huge aircraft formations converged together, and finally really formed this bomber group.
102 bombers flew at an altitude of 6,000 meters, looking like locusts crossing the border from a distance, and on the German air defense positions passing by, several German soldiers standing next to 88 mm anti-aircraft guns looked up, and at this moment their hearts were extremely proud, knowing that when they saw this scene in another world, their mood was different.
Over Dunkirk, the German fighter units that had just taken off were also densely packed, and these FW-190D fighters loaded with auxiliary fuel tanks had climbed to an altitude of about 8,000 meters, and they saw the bomber formation they were going to escort, and they were also speechless by the terrifying momentum of the butcher bomber group.
"God bless me! We are overwhelming enough to destroy a qiē. A German pilot later wrote in his diary: "The British are finished!"