The simplest reason why the Germans chose to bomb during the day was that the results of the daytime bombing were very good. Being able to identify one's own target with the naked eye and fly over it in a denser formation was the best guarantee of accuracy for the bombing of 1939.

More than 150 planes flew in dense formations over two of the largest and most important Allied airfields in Iceland, leaving them in ruins. Another 110 planes attacked Icelandic ports, also returning the area to the Stone Age.

The remaining 100 or so planes bombed the main cities of Iceland, dropping incendiary bombs and aerial bombs on them, and almost all inhabited places in Iceland were set on fire. More than half of the infrastructure has been scrapped, and the 100,000 British people who have fled have been hit like never before.

There is an old saying in Europe: when the weak provoke the strong, it is nothing more than a cool talk, and once the strong start to take revenge on the weak, the weak will be completely finished. The Germans clearly had the means to finish Iceland out, and now that they were retaliating, the catastrophe facing Iceland began to spread.

In order to increase the range, the weight of the bombs carried by the German butcher bombers was reduced a lot, and each of these planes only carried more than 3 tons of bombs, but the total number of bombs that more than 300 planes could drop was also more than 1,000 tons. The bombs kept the Germans stockpiled and transported for several days, only to lose the bombers for less than half an hour.

This is the power of technology, and for the first time in war, humanity has such a terrible ability. They can use their wits to drop thousands of tons of bombs 2,000 kilometers away, destroying everything there into the dark medieval era or even worse.

Looking at the German bombers in the distance, all the British soldiers and American officers in Iceland felt a sudden sense of relief hit their bodies. They were glad that they were still alive, and they were glad that the enemy's devastating bombing attack had finally come to an end.

Everywhere there was a cascade of explosions, and the fire engulfed the house, beating like a monster, destroying everything it could come across. The oil depot deployed by the Allies here was completely on fire, and almost all of the hundreds of B-17 bombers parked in the airfield were blown up.

There is no need to investigate in detail, as long as the eyes are not blind, you can see everything that is destroyed. Just ask the soldiers who are running in a panic and you will know that the whole of Iceland is finished, completely finished.

Three radar stations were destroyed, and all the radar equipment deployed in the reinforced concrete structure was blown up by aerial bombs, which were too close to other infrastructure facilities to be completely affected by the bombs that were dropped casually.

The city was also devastated by the sudden German bombing, and Reykjavík, which was crowded with British refugees, was attacked by more than 40 German bombers, and hundreds of tons of bombs were dropped on the city, killing thousands of people in the first place, where there was no air defense facilities.

The most tragic were the military bases and airfields built by the British at great expense, which were attacked by nearly half of the German bombers, dropping nearly 500 tons of bombs of various kinds. The entire airfield was filled with gunsmoke, and the German planes had been flying away for a long time, and the explosions were still incessant.

Tens of thousands of tons of fuel oil by the US military were ignited and exploded, detonating several ammunition storage points stacked on the surface. Like firecrackers, the munitions exploded, setting fire to more fragile buildings and destroying everything nearby.

The leveled runway is so potholed that it is impossible to continue to use it, and even if it is to repair it, it will take a lot of effort, and the reinforced concrete command center and tower that have been built with great difficulty have almost all been destroyed by this bombing - some buildings are still half left, or full of cracks, who would dare to continue to use such a place?

It is unlikely that the Icelandic base will continue to be used for at least two months, and the most optimistic estimates are that it will be a dozen times before the fleet can be restored to its original level. This time the British were a broken bone, and the outpost they had painstakingly managed was easily destroyed by the Germans.

Compared with the Allied bombing of Norway, Germany's bombing of Iceland can really be described as "you raise my own soil, I will tear down your two bones", the only thing worthy of the American side is that they did blow up part of Norway's production equipment, and Germany can only lose its temper with an Icelandic base that has no production capacity.

"The damage assessment will not come out until later, but as it stands, we have almost lost everything. Hugh Dowding reported to several British ministers what had just happened: "I don't know much about the port, but the air base here is almost scrapped. ”

"The damage on the port side is very big and we need time to fix it. "The commander of the navy, Admiral Dudley Pound, was based in Iceland, but here he was only a complete bare-bones commander - his Royal Navy's main fleet was now deployed in Canada, and he did not dare to operate in the waters east of Iceland.

"Your Majesty, it is fortunate that the alternate airfield in the north-west and the few temporary ports there have not been attacked by the enemy, and it is possible to sustain them as long as the United States and Canada continue to provide assistance. General Hugh Dowding said happily to King George VI, who was still a little uneasy. The bombing of more than an hour earlier was more desperate than the terrible bombing of London, because after all, the German planes were much larger this time than when they bombed Britain.

At that time, the Luftwaffe still used relatively small medium aircraft such as the DO-217, and only a few times it used butcher bombers. As a result, after more than a year of accumulation, the Luftwaffe was able to deliver more than 300 butcher bombers to a distant place like Iceland in one go. This had to make the heart of King George in Iceland tremble, and his neck seemed to have been sent to the German butcher's knife once again.

The loss of fighters was not large, but the loss of pilots was really desperate, some of the pilots who escaped from the British mainland were lost in the fighting in North Africa, and some were deployed in Canada, and a small number went to India to help in the combat operations against the Japanese - although there were still more than 100 people on the Iceland side, in this air defense operation, 21 people were lost, four of whom were valuable jet fighter pilots.

More than 30 of the remaining 80 pilots flew only the old fighter jets such as the Hurricane, not because they were not allowed to fly new aircraft, but because the American P-40 production was insufficient, and most of them were sent to the Pacific theater to compete with the Japanese Navy.

The main reason why there were not as many fighters deployed in Iceland was that it was hardly attacked by the Germans in any way. In line with the idea of being more frugal, we should be more frugal, and a few months ago we dispatched dozens of fighter planes to fight in the Pacific Theater. Even the United States, which has a strong production capacity, is feeling the pressure of production at this time, after all, most of the equipment of the Allied forces is now produced from the United States.

"Strengthen the fighter force here! Draw some from the Canadian side!" King George was clearly still apprehensive about the bombing, and although he had a nice bomb shelter to hide, he didn't feel safe in front of him after all.

"There aren't many fighter jets that can accommodate the backup airfield, if the U.S. military wants to continue bombing Norway...... I think we will only be able to add about 30 more to our fighter force. Hugh Dowding reluctantly replied to his king's request: "IMHO, even if these planes are all the latest P-40 Rolls-Royce modifications, they are not much of a threat to German bombers." ”

King George VI of England fixed his eyes on Dowding's face, and finally suppressed his anger from the brink of an outburst, and he looked at his air commander, and opened his mouth to squeeze a sentence out of his teeth: "So, my general, you must find a way to prevent this place from being bombed by the Germans again, right?"

Suddenly, the ground trembled slightly, and everyone looked out the window in horror, and at the end of the mountains in the distance, a wisp of green smoke rose into the sky. The island of Iceland is full of volcanoes of all kinds, and even when it is safe, they erupt once or twice. The nearest volcano on the brink of eruption is only 125 kilometers from Reykjavík, Iceland's largest city......

"They...... Why don't you drop some bombs into those volcanoes......" Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, a government official in a suit asked with some trepidation.

"Who knows. Hugh Dowding looked at His Majesty, who had not yet withdrawn his gaze, and said, "I will order a few troops stationed in Canada to assemble in Iceland, and draw as many better planes as possible, and set up an ambush here to take out those damned German planes." ”

He had to change his strategy, because who knew if the bombs dropped by German planes would actually detonate an active volcano after a few massive bombings - it would be more complete than dozens of bombings, and it was estimated that everything in Iceland would be wiped out by then.

While the British were cleaning up the mess in Iceland, the German bombers had already flown over the German submarines that were navigating them on the way, and because there were no enemy planes chasing them, the hundreds of FW-190D fighters that were originally waiting here had already returned home ahead of schedule. The leading German commander finally relaxed and radioed an uplifting message: "We are home!"

Unconsciously, this novel by the Dragon Spirit Knight has 1,000 chapters and more than 3 million words, from Poland to Paris, from London to Moscow, I hope that the protagonist of this novel can go further, and I hope that you, who support the Third Reich, can accompany the army of the empire and go further!