Chapter 521: Public Revenge for Personal Gain

Churchill certainly knew what it was.

In fact, when Churchill saw the telegram from the Soviet Union about the inquiry, he jumped up from his chair immediately.

"The Germans finally used the 'aircraft missile' on the Soviets!" Churchill said. (Note: The British called V1 'aircraft missile')

"Do you want to pass the information to the Soviets?" the staff officer asked.

"No!" Churchill lit the cigar in his mouth, thought for a while and replied: "Be reserved, understand?"

"Prime Minister..." The staff officer was a little confused.

"We also need the Soviets to provide us with information!" Churchill said: "If we send all the information to them... they will not provide us with follow-up information!"

The staff officer suddenly realized what he had said and nodded: "Yes, I know what to do!"

The staff officer did know what to do. He sent a telegram to the Soviet Union, revealing only a little information: "We have also been bombed by this new German equipment several times and suffered losses. We know very little about this equipment. We speculate that it may be an unmanned aerial vehicle. We hope to keep in touch and share information about this equipment in the future!"

This means that if the Soviet side reveals a little data about the bombing, the British side will also reveal a little.

On the other hand, Churchill immediately sent a telegram to Roosevelt in a high-profile manner: "I am right. The Germans used "aircraft missiles" on the Eastern Front, and do you know what happened? They used "aircraft missiles" to accurately bomb a location only one kilometer away from the German defense line. Therefore, I have every reason to believe that the accuracy of this equipment is within one kilometer!"

After receiving this telegram, Roosevelt fell into contemplation, or it can be said to be shocked.

He really couldn't imagine how Germany, under the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, could come up with equipment that shocked everyone... For example, this "aircraft missile" has an accuracy of one kilometer after hundreds of kilometers, which is simply incredible.

Thinking about Roosevelt, he felt a little horrified. If the Germans mass-produced this equipment, what else could confront the Germans in the future? Land battle? Landing battle?

Roosevelt fell into pessimism unconsciously.

This information was of course passed to Stalin. He held his pipe in silence for a while, and only said a few words: "Continue to attack Holm!"

Stalin didn't really take this matter to heart. In his eyes, decisive victory in the war was more about quantity. If it was just a few new equipment that was not on a large scale... it was just a showpiece.

Stalin's idea could be said to be reasonable or unreasonable.

It makes sense because an important indicator for evaluating equipment is production... If the performance is good but the cost is high and only a few or a dozen can be produced a year, then it will not work either.

In modern times, the typical example is Japan's Type 10 tank. The performance on paper is indeed good (the reason why it is called "paper" performance is that this tank has frequent failures during training, and many of its performance is obviously exaggerated), but the cost is high and only a dozen can be produced a year... If this thing is really put into the battlefield, I am afraid it will drag itself down before defeating the enemy.

It doesn't make sense because some equipment is strategic and does not need to be scaled up. For example, an atomic bomb, just one or two can play a decisive role.

Of course, these are all the ups and downs within the leaders of various countries, and Holm doesn't feel much.

If there is any feeling, the Soviets have become more cautious, and they are a little timid when attacking. No matter how the officers shout and scold behind them, it is useless. Many people still look up at the sky from time to time, worrying that a "plane missile" will fall from the sky and blow them up.

Qin Chuan and Conrad liked to keep the Soviets on edge. When the Soviets were worried about another "aircraft missile", they did nothing. After a few days, when the Soviets gradually calmed down and almost forgot about it, suddenly "aircraft missiles" fell from the sky again, and this time there were three missiles.

Except for one missile that malfunctioned and fell on the way, the other two missiles hit the west bank of Holm very accurately.

One missile hit a row of houses, and the whole row of houses collapsed... But this may be because this row of houses had been bombed before, otherwise it would not have such a great power.

Another missile hit the cemetery, smashing, turning over or tilting all the tombstones in the cemetery, and leaving a large pit several meters deep.

As for the faulty V1, it was confirmed to have exploded shortly after landing... For reasons of confidentiality, the Germans installed several explosive fuses on the V1 to ensure that it would explode under any circumstances. It turned out that these fuses were also successful, because almost all the V1s launched exploded normally.

That appearance scared the Soviet soldiers... The soldiers were most worried about encountering such a thing, encountering a powerful enemy equipment on the battlefield and they were unable to counter it.

This would make the soldiers feel that they were fighting a battle with no hope of victory, and they would even think about whether the entire country would collapse under such equipment.

So negativity, laziness, fear, and all kinds of negative emotions emerged like mushrooms after rain.

The German Central Army Group Command also received relevant news.

Kruger immediately called Conrad: "Colonel, I heard that you are using a new type of equipment in Holm?"

"Yes!" Conrad replied.

"I want to know... can this new equipment be used in other directions?" Kruger said: "You know, our Northern Army Group is not completely out of trouble yet!"

"Your Excellency Marshal!" Conrad replied: "I can't say too much because it's confidential. Please forgive me!"

Then Conrad hung up the phone.

Qin Chuan looked at Conrad with confusion.

"What's wrong?" Conrad asked.

"Why didn't you agree to Marshal Kruger's request?" Qin Chuan asked.

"No reason!" Conrad replied: "I just want him to understand how stupid he was to leave you and your troops in Holm!"

"Okay!" Qin Chuan rolled his eyes: "That's why!"

"Yes, just for this!" Conrad said: "Everyone knows that offending me will not end well, even the marshal is no exception!"

After a pause, Conrad added: "Now, if this guy is not too stupid, he should know what to do!"