Chapter 574 The prototype of the Strategic Air Force

An important town west of the Yenisei River, the headquarters of the 11th Army in the Russian Far East Theater, Krasnoyarsk.

"Jeff, when will our logistics arrive?"

Lieutenant General Barnov, with a big belly and a round waist, rushed out of the headquarters with an angry face and pointed to his logistics officer to ask loudly, because the canned beef was gone!

This is a serious incident!

No one knows why the beef shipped from the United States was suddenly interrupted recently. Of course, St. Petersburg is very clear, because the Atlantic shipping is under serious threat, and the maritime transport fleet has fallen to an unbearable level, but Lieutenant General Barnov does not know this. He only thinks that this is the Gaojia. General Chekov, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front, did a ghost. Because as soon as he led the 11th Army arrived, the guy retreated 100 kilometers behind, and entrusted the task of facing hundreds of thousands of Xinhua Army to himself and the 13th Army.

He is fed up with the pointing asshole. Now he still comes to deduct food and salary. Winter is coming. If he still can't get enough food and supplies, then there will be no need to fight, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command will freeze to death!

Colonel Jeff, the logistics officer who was called, patted his forehead. He found that as long as it was time for dinner, he was always the most injured officer, so he replied, "Go to send a message immediately" and hide in the telegraph room to take refuge first.

However, it still needs to be urged. From Tomsk to the front line, two defense lines have been arranged, and the strong Tomsk fortress has gathered three million soldiers of six armies east of Western Siberia. Even if the supply of food and supplies to the whole Western Siberia is still a little tight, not to mention that there are still With a population of nearly 10 million, we have to rely on 40 trains from Yekaterinaburg every day to meet the supply needs, but even so far, there are still many troops who have not received wintering cotton-padded clothes and enough food.

This is a big problem. In the last war, hundreds of thousands of Russian elites were not so much defeated as exhausted by that winter, especially when they were finally trapped in Lake Berga. The most beloved horses of more than 100,000 Cossack cavalry were killed to satisfy their hunger, so the lieutenant general's words still need to be listened to.

After Jeff sent three telegrams again urging the logistics to be delivered early, he sent a telegram to an infantry division stationed upstream. Because that area was not the main attack point of the Xinhua Army, they were under little pressure and had to hunt and cut down trees as much as possible to reserve wintering supplies for the army.

After arranging these, he turned around and went to lead the horse to see in person what was going on in the small coal mine 30 kilometers away. It was the guarantee for one million soldiers of the two armies on the front line to winter, where up to 5,000 conscripted civilians were working to provide enough coal for the army.

This is the life of every logistics officer on the east line. He is a headache, busy and needs to dismantle the east wall to repair the west wall.

Jeff sighed and led the horse out of the farm with several cavalry. No one liked the war, but Russia could not lose Western Siberia, otherwise even Central Asia and the Caucasus could not be saved. Fortunately, the Xinhua army was not ready to attack the vast West Siberia. Large and small battles had been fought in the past month. Many, but not too intense, gave them these quartermasters a chance to breathe.

Maybe as long as they survive the winter, the Xinhua Army itself does not have the ability to attack in the severe winter, and the troops will have a chance to rest.

It's just.

Jeff raised his head, and the dense barracks and tents around him worried him. Up to now, the two armies on the front line have only got one-third of the material reserves, and the remaining two-thirds need to be completed in a month. Is it possible?

It's impossible. Jeff smiled bitterly. The inefficient St. Petersburg doesn't know how to make maximum use of the railway at all, but this is not a problem he can solve. Let's take a look at the situation of coal mine production first.

As soon as Jeff stepped on the horse, the war horse suddenly hissed uneasily. Before he could figure out the situation, he heard someone around him shouting, "Oh, my God!"

Following everyone's eyes, Jeff was also stunned. He only saw a moving dark cloud suddenly appearing in the western sky, which was flying here quickly.

Everyone knows that the New Chinese Army has planes in the east. Everyone knows that bombs are dropped from time to time, but no one has ever thought that so many will come at a time! And it will come around from the west. What's more surprising is that the reminders of the planes in the front are obviously much bigger. How do they fly with such a big size?!

The shadows they cast even covered the sun!

An unprecedented sense of fear rose from Jeff's heart, and he immediately turned his head and rushed to the farm where the headquarters was located, hoping to inform everyone to leave.

In the sky, looking at the Russian soldiers running like ants below, Emperor Li was excited and turned his head and asked Guan Ning beside him, "Is it time to go down?"

Guan Ning was nervous from the beginning of boarding. He checked the oil meter for a while and the hydraulic pressure for fear that there was something wrong, so he came to his senses after hearing Li Mo's words and arrived at the destination.

"Yes, my emperor, I."

"Haha, I'm just here to feel the effect of the bombing. You command it. Leave me alone."

Guan Ning was afraid that Li Mo would not do what he had agreed before. Fortunately, Emperor Li knew that he was a layman, so this time he just came out to experience what bombing was. You know that unless you are a military bomber pilot or facing a bomber in later life, even if you describe it ten thousand times, you can't do it. Experience this taste.

If it hadn't been for the threat of enemy aircraft in this area, and if it hadn't for the lack of anti-aircraft weapons in the Russian [***] team, he would have been able to sigh in his life. As an ordinary person, it is difficult to experience being an emperor, and he is a cross-traveling pseudo-military fan emperor who can't experience the pain in the face of new weapons.

The most important thing is that he is not painstaking this time**. He needs to know the actual effect of Kunpeng to provide reference for whether to establish a strategic air force.

According to the previous idea, Kunpeng, with a combat radius of only 600 kilometers, can't support the heavy responsibility of the strategic air force, so the four shots with Kunpeng, the bombers with the ability to fly from Honolulu to San Francisco in one breath, are the prototype of the strategic air force, but it also encounters the lack of engine horsepower, and it is too There are many problems, so he is faced with a choice.

This is not something that can be decided by patting your brain. Even if you are a later generation and know the role of the strategic air force, you can't mess around. Kunpeng is definitely not suitable. Therefore, today, when the country's manufacturing capacity is limited, resources are limited, and the war consumption begins to intensify, the investment in the air force cannot be unlimited, so it is It will be a major decision to build a large number of Kunpeng or a little to wait for the four-time improvement, which will have a great impact on the future situation.

"Pay attention to the Golden Eagle Brigade, three or three groups, the height is reduced to 600 meters to drop the bomb, pay attention to the gap between the side wind and the bomb."

As soon as Master Guan Ning gave the order, he felt that the nose of the plane began to fall. He immediately looked at Emperor Li and saw that he was happily pushing the pole. It seemed that he wanted to dive with a bomber.

"Your Majesty, no!" Guan Ning quickly stopped him and quickly flattened the nose with the rod in his co-pilot's position. Then he said with a face, "Your Majesty, you must drop a bomb at a height of 1100 meters, or we will go back!"

Looking at Guan Ning's extremely serious face, Li Mo could only smile bitterly, because he also knew that once he entered a low altitude of 1,000 meters, some small weapons could still threaten bombers, so as long as he was on the plane, it was impossible to be below this altitude.

There was no way to play ultra-low-altitude bombing. Emperor Li simply handed over the plane to Guan Ning. He lay down at the window and looked at the back. Xia Shihui's group of children scrambled to lower their noses. Fortunately, the two wingmen accompanying him left and right did not lose his face too much and continued to maintain the same height as the long plane.

"Open the bomb bay."

"Thirty seconds of bomb drop preparation."

As Guan Ning opened the abdominal door, Kunpeng began to bump, and the air in the cabin was also loud. This was the effect of the air disturbance after the magazine was opened, as long as the bomb was dropped and the hatch was closed.

In front of the bomb on the nose aiming at the window, the bomber stared intently at the angler. When the target had just pressed into the angle instrument, he suddenly pulled the bomb switch.

Eight 125 kilograms of high-explosive incendiary bombs doped with white phosphorus and other ignitions quickly got out of the hanger. From the ground, the three Kunpeng led by the sky were like a string of steel eggs. Guan Ning, who felt that the fuselage was light, confirmed that all the bombs left the magazine and immediately closed the hatch, and the bomber resumed to fly smoothly. OK.

Guan Ning, who was relieved and quickly pulled up the plane, saw Li Mo holding the window and slightly deflected the fuselage, so that Emperor Li could see more clearly.

From the first fire, Li Mo's eyes almost stared out. He only saw that the rose flowers of death seemed to suddenly bloom on the target land. The fire and smoke instantly covered the small town of Krasnoyarsk, where the Russian headquarters was located.

If 24 125 kg bombs are not too deadly, then the follow-up bomber formation completely destroyed here. In groups of three and three, they cut in from the ground and space, so the accuracy of the bomb is more accurate. When the last Kunpeng dropped the bomb, the earth seemed to tremble.

Everyone in later generations knows carpet bombing, but few people can see it, and few people know how this term appeared. Li Mo now finally understands that because of the effect of acceleration, the explosion point after the bomb falls will continue to extend forward, and subsequent bombers will always put the bomb point on the previous formation target. Move forward a little more, so the bomb will continue to extend forward, just like laying a stall full of "mushrooms" on the ground!

Although it is not as powerful as 250 kg bombs, 30 Kunpeng dropped a total of 240 bombs, a total of 30 tons of high-explosive bombs containing white phosphorus.

According to the test, a 750 kg high-explosive bomb used by a 380mm naval gun can make at least 3,000 square meters without living people. Thirty Kunpeng are equivalent to dropping 40 shells. Even if half of them are repeated bombing points, they can destroy everything within 6 square kilometers. More importantly, they carry It's a high-explosive incendiary bomb!

In terms of unit fire projection, 30 Kunpeng are not as strong as the firepower of a Guam-class gun in an hour, but the range of the gun is limited after all, so this bombing also made Li Mo give up the idea of continuing to wait for four long-range bombers, determined to accelerate the use of Kunpeng. An opportunity.

Perhaps no one expected that His Majesty's personal boarding this time would have a great impact on the development of the air force. After he returned to Yanjing and told Chen Pingping the bombing effect he saw and felt with his own eyes, the first batch of orders for 600 improved aircraft manufacturers were placed by the three major aircraft manufacturers. For this reason, even large The deputy reduced the original purchase quantity of air force storm attack aircraft. At the same time, it also began to use political axe resources to join in five private aircraft manufacturing factories with certain manufacturing capabilities, and also placed a large number of standard parts orders from as many as 300 factories in China.

According to later statistics, Xinhua produced a total of 3,500 Kunpeng medium bombers of seven models and batches during the war. In addition, transport, special and civilian models, Kunpeng produced a total of 5,873, and after the war, 2,000 of them were converted into short-haul transport aircraft and sold to Fang. The emerging airline has promoted the development of the aviation industry in the empire.

As the explosion ended, the fire began to permeate. When Kunpeng, which ended the bombing, returned one after another, the smaller and more flexible falcons began to rage.

After the Mustang fighters and air force-type storm tactical bombers came off the production line, more than one-third of the 2,000 Falcons were converted into front-line tactical bombers.

The biplanes are not as good as all-metal monoplanes in terms of maneuverability, speed and survival, but the problem is that the 3 million Russian troops in Western Siberia don't even have many anti-aircraft guns, so they can only watch them roar again and again.

After the main target was abused by the bomber squadron that appeared for the first time, the last two waves of 60 falcons that could not find the target were vented on the surrounding barracks. When they roared and dropped bombs at a height of less than 300 meters, the hearts of the Russian 11th Army were dug out and then crushed fiercely.

Jeff rode a war horse left and right. He no longer had any ability to think. When Barnov with a job bowl was swallowed up by a bomb at close range, he could only numbly drive the horse forward.

Around

, wooden barracks were smashed by falling bombs, and then swallowed up by the magic fire of hell. Along the way, he only saw countless soldiers running with flames, and even the soldiers who tried to help their comrades-in-arms fight the fire were finally involved.

The bomb fell, the house was torn apart, and then the fire spread.

The war suddenly became extremely simple. The dry weather in September helped the flames, and the wind spread quickly with choking smoke. This doomsday-like scene has stunned all Russian soldiers.

According to later prisoners of war, the bombing totaled nearly 10,000 casualties, most of whom were burned to death by the rapidly spreading people, so that the Russian army did not even dare to concentrate.

But I'm afraid that the General Chekov, who got the news and ordered all the troop camps to be scattered, did not know what a heavy price his order had paid in the end. When winter came, all roads began to be impassable, it was a disaster to protect the supplies of so many scattered camps. For his After this order, a total of nearly 800,000 soldiers disappeared under the raging storm.

When a falcon that dropped a bomb saw the Russian colonel riding a horse that was about to leave the bombing range, two 7.62 mm machine guns in the nose swept over him.

Jeff was thrown into the Yenisei River by a fierce hissing war horse before he died. When he woke up, he found that he was full of Xinhua soldiers with black and yellow oil paint on his face.

Jeff may not know how much influence he will have when he is captured. It is precisely because of the confession of his important logistics officer that he has strengthened the determination of the Northwest Theater Command to cross Tomsk and stop the 3 million Russian troops on the way home.

On September 10, two infantry divisions stationed in Lake Balkhash and a newly arrived reserve division were asked to immediately give up all heavy equipment and go north at full speed!

The Western Siberian War, which was later known as the battle for Tomsk, began with the first major bombing in history.

(to be continued)