My Third Empire

One Thousand and Seventy Strategic Bombing

? The German strategic bomber currently only has the Butcher model, which uses a four-engine design. Its appearance refers to some American B-17 designs, but it is more streamlined and slightly larger overall. ????????? So when these butcher strategic bombers are overwhelming, it is difficult for people to feel the development of German strategic bombers.

However, the German aviation industry did not stagnate in the design of strategic bombers. On the contrary, they made countless modifications and innovations to their own designs. The soldiers outside may not be very clear, but only inside the Luftwaffe, there are already four major modifications from Butcher A to Butcher D.

The Butcher A is the most original German Butcher bomber. After improving the design of the belly cannon turret, the most original German self-designed model was born. The mass production of this aircraft has been stopped because of intermittent production. After almost one frame, it was completely replaced by the more advanced Butcher B strategic bomber.

The most produced by the Luftwaffe is the Butcher B long-range strategic bomber. This aircraft replaces the original expensive metal materials with many new materials, and improves the assembly line, which is more reliable and cheaper. However, it is not the best strategic bomber that the Germans think, so after producing this aircraft, the German army began to equip the new bomber force with the more advanced Butcher netbsp; Strictly speaking, the biggest improvement of the Butcher C-type bomber is Using the British technology engine with Rolls-Royce design pedigree, this new engine that combines the British engine and German engine technology allows the butcher c to have a faster voyage and a longer range. Of course, there are other improvements in the C-type, such as a more reasonable layout of self-defense weapons and a more sophisticated production process.

However, after producing the Butcher C-type bomber, the Germans once again improved their strategic bomber, this time in terms of the bomb sight and the structural materials of the aircraft. The Butcher D-type bomber has a lighter body so it is faster, and the new bomb targeting equipment makes high-altitude bombing more accurate, so the output of the Butcher D-type bomber has exceeded the shelf, and it has a tendency to exceed the output of the Butcher B-type .

If you count the first original butcher bombers, the total number of butcher strategic bombers owned by the German strategic bomber force is more than one frame. Due to strict quality control and the efforts of the Luftwaffe ground crew technicians, these aircraft have maintained an amazing attendance rate.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the German Air Force strategic bomber unit has not performed many missions due to lack of fuel in the past year-most of these aircraft are new, so it is easier to maintain, and the attendance rate is also higher. Just higher. This time the German army concentrated all the butcher bombers they could dispatch on the Eastern Front, just to completely turn the city of Ulyanovsk into ruins.

"Drop the bomb!" With one order after another, the German bombers that had lowered their altitude began to drop the hanging aerial bombs from the open bomb bay. These heavy bombs were responsible for destroying as many Soviet heavy buildings as possible. , Destroy those strong houses.

The second batch of bombers that followed carried incendiary bombs,

These bombs set collapsed houses on fire, burning the wooden structures inside and everything else that could be burned. This arrangement is to enhance the effect of the bombing and completely destroy this important Soviet transportation hub.

From the first bomb dropped on the streets of Ulyanovsk, all the Soviet officers here knew that Ulyanovsk was finished. Since a year ago, the air defense weapons here were recruited to the front lines in other directions, and it was only recently that there was a poor air defense force here.

Numerous anti-aircraft artillery were transferred to produce anti-tank guns and self-propelled artillery. In the words of Zhukov and Stalin, air defense should be based on the frontal defense that can hold back the enemy. Otherwise, if the front line is lost, then What is the use of multiple anti-aircraft guns? As a result, the production capacity of air defense weapons was largely occupied, and the cities far behind basically did not have many effective air defense methods.

The ground trembled with the explosion of the German bombs, the glass windows rattled because of the shaking, and there were cries and cries for help everywhere. Buildings collapsed one by one over time, and the raised dust began to cover the The sky blocks out the sun.

There was almost no interception by fighter jets, and there was almost no interference from anti-aircraft guns. The German bombers seemed to be acting, throwing the ammunition they carried to the most valuable targets. Compared with the map, they quickly found the most valuable targets. The area where the railway lines converged was clearly visible in the sights of these butcher bombers.

"Crack!" Gently pressing the bomb release button under your finger, one after another huge bombs broke free from the restraints of the plane due to gravity. Fly to your goal.

Behind this German bomber, there are the second and third planes. These bombers are also throwing their own bombs at the target. Flowers from the explosion began to pour out on the ground, one after another, as if they were in a row. It's like painting on a huge canvas.

"Keep the altitude! Keep your speed steady! Try to increase the accuracy of the bombing, gentlemen! We are the farthest German troops to reach the Soviet Union. We can cheer and celebrate when we return!" The commander squeezed the radio in his hand, Some joyfully opened their mouths to remind. His answer was that more German planes dropped more bombs, which were as dense as raindrops, covering the entire Ulyanovsk.

In the factory area, the shock wave from the explosion shattered the glass on both sides of the tall factory building, and the welded steel ceiling broke due to the impact and vibration, and began to collapse along the wall, burying the machinery inside and the workers who had no time to escape. stand up.

In the lush factory area, many workers ran along the tree-lined road to a safe place. Smoke from explosions rose from time to time around them, and the flying shrapnel took away countless lives. Iron sheets and steel balls flying everywhere were inlaid on the trunk of the big tree, like flying knives inserted into the gaps between the bricks and stones. Some of them were still stained with blood, which looked eerie.

It is a pity that the German planes overhead have not gone far at all, and most of the planes have not yet flown over the city. Everything shows that the suffering has just begun, and the nightmare is just the beginning of a big drama. Everyone ran desperately and hid in the surrounding air-raid shelters. Ulyanovsk actually has very good air defense facilities, but the sudden arrival of the German planes in the sky caused such chaos.

Only a dozen Soviet fighter jets arrived late at this time. They had almost no combat effectiveness in front of the German bombers that had already formed a bombing formation and slowly flew over the urban area of ​​Ulyanovsk. Wandering around the perimeter of the self-defense firepower circle, but did not dare to rush into the formation of enemy planes to interfere with bombing.

The second batch of German bombers began to dump their incendiary bombs, and the fire immediately spread in the streets and alleys of the city. The thick smoke that was originally ignited by the explosion turned into a red fire at this moment, swallowing everywhere and burning objects. Broken wardrobes, clothes curtains and even desk sheets in the collapsed houses, there are too many things in the city that can be burned, so the incendiary bombs dropped by the German planes ignited too many things.

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"Comrade Stalin! I just got the news that the Germans have concentrated their bombers and raided Ulyanovsk." Vatutin walked into Stalin's office and reported at attention: "There are heavy losses there. , the German bombing is still going on.”

"Roads and railways were severely damaged. Some train carriages were not camouflaged and some factories were destroyed." Vatutin no longer knew how to describe the catastrophic consequences of the bombing. In the end, he After a pause, he said to Stalin in a slightly tired tone: "We have suffered heavy losses, and the German air strikes have made our situation even more difficult."

"Don't worry so much, Comrade Vatutin." Stalin didn't seem to hear what his subordinates were saying to him at all. He pointed to the map spread out on the table and told Vatutin about his plan: "I have ordered Chuikov mobilized tens of thousands of troops to support them, and they will soon be able to reach Moscow. Zhukov's troops can counterattack in the south and retake Bryansk, then the siege of Moscow will be eased..."

Vatutin no longer wanted to listen to this now slightly crazy Comrade Stalin explain the strategic deployments that would not work at all. He knew that even if Zhukov's group could retake Bryansk, they would not be able to defend it under the attack of the German army.

He already knew about the transfer of troops from Cuikov's Far East Theater, and this transfer also gave Japan a more comprehensive strategic initiative in the Far East. It is a pity that most of the transferred troops were detained by the increasingly unreliable politicians in Siberia. Only tens of thousands of troops marched westward, but it is estimated that they will be stranded in Ulyanovsk for a long time .

Two days ago, Vatutin had already reminded Stalin, but for some unknown reason the other party chose to forget his reminder. Stalin insisted that his reinforcements would arrive in Moscow immediately, and that the Zhukov group could return to Moscow to help him out of the crisis.

Vatutin lowered his head, moved his steps and slowly exited Stalin's office. He quietly threw the report from the attack on Ulyanovsk into the trash can at the door without looking at it again.

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