Chapter 808 July Fire 3

Chesapique Bay, Baltimore.

In the huge Baltimore Shipyard, ships under construction cover the whole bay. Except for a few cargo ships, military ships occupy almost all the platforms. In fact, not only here, but also in the Chesapik Bay, which is known as the second largest industrial zone in the United States and the world's first shipbuilding area, there are dozens of sizes. The platforms of shipbuilding companies are covered with all kinds of warships, from the smallest torpedo boats to the largest battleships, as long as you want, you can find almost any kind of ship here.

Far away on the Cape Sparos, the famous Liheng Steel Company's blast furnace chimneys are full of smoke. Every day, dozens of trains of heavily needed steel, cannons and supporting facilities arrive here from various cities.

Some people have described the United States in the early 20th century.

Mines in the Great Lakes, factories in Chesapik Bay and money in New York.

From the end of the Civil War in 1866, in just a few decades, it has been able to leap from the wild land in the eyes of Europeans to the world's largest economic and industrial power. These three pillars are indispensable. Now that Wall Street has been completely paralyzed by war and gold reserves, the mine and factory have become Melkin. The last hope of the American political axe.

However, not everyone is lucky.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Baltimore Harbor early in the morning, and large and small bags have been thrown down from the high portboard because of overload. The polite gentlemanly demeanor has turned into unreasonableness to despair. Women and children must crowd in the cabin with men, as if they were captured from the Far East half a century ago. "Piglet" came.

The busy Atlantic shipping before the war has fallen to the freezing point, especially after the Xinhua Navy entered the Caribbean Sea. Now all transportation companies can no longer recruit shippers and can only find adventurers from all over the world at a high price.

High cost capitalists are naturally unwilling to bear it themselves. It is the best way to pass on the way to leave the Americans. High prices, unbearable congestion and dangerous sea routes threaten ships all the time, but even so, there are still countless people who leave the United States from here every day.

Who would have thought that the United States, which was the world's first choice for immigrants before the war, had become a place in danger for everyone at this moment.

Standing on the empty military dock next to him, looking at this scene, the corners of Charles Bajor, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy, were bitter, and the continuous failure and pressure in the past two years made the 55-year-old Vice Admiral much older, and the hair of the sea breeze was mixed with a little snow white.

The majestic cruiser Campos slowly leaned on the dock. This is the fifth of the latest Atlanta-class light cruiser in the United States. In order to fight against the Xinhua Yangtze River-class and Honolulu-class light cruisers, the United States has finally developed a powerful cruiser. It not only has five triple 152mm guns. A large number of anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns have also been installed, and a reading air defense command tower has been set up. The displacement has also exceeded 10,000 tons for the first time, reaching 11,200 tons, but the speed is still weak, and the maximum can only reach 28 knots.

In the past, such a warship full of gun barrel would definitely attract the cheers of the American people on the dock, but now few people are willing to keep their eyes on it. Everyone is more concerned about when the next ship will arrive.

On a cruiser, William Benson, who had just attended the joint naval conference in the United Kingdom, was shocked by the flow of people in the port. Although he also knew that some people were trying to leave the United States, he did not expect that the number of people had doubled several times after less than half a month.

What's wrong with the United States?!

"Charles, what's going on? Who dares to do this? Why don't you seize the ship!" William Benson's face suddenly turned blue, and this scene obviously touched his nerves, so he was very dissatisfied with his old friends and partners for many years.

"These are all ships registered in neutral countries such as the Netherlands or Norway. I can't detain them." Charles Bajor said the reason. It turned out that the ships of American shipping companies were expropriated by the state. When many Americans tried to leave, including the famous White Star Cruise Company, they were greedy for this "big business" and rented ships from neutral countries to transport them. Because of the ridiculously high ticket prices, it can be described as Jindoujin.

"Why is it like this? Did Jelico fail?

"Not yet, but." Charles took out a small note and handed it to William Benson: "Three days ago, a Chinese fleet of 41 ocean-going ships arrived in Galveston Bay under the protection of an aircraft carrier and four Guam-class battleships. According to the news from our surrendered soldiers who were coerced to help transfer supplies, they brought at least 150,000 tons of ammunition and fuel, and the second batch of 60 large cargo ships arrived in Panama City last night. It is expected to pass through the canal in up to three days. The intelligence says that it is loaded with more than 200,000 tons of ammunition, fuel and at least 600 trucks.

"God! How could this happen, Jellico? What about Joseph King? Why don't you take an interception action!"

"William, you heard about me." Charles motioned William Benson to calm down and continued: "Jellico sent me a telegram before they arrived, saying that he would not take the initiative to intercept, because compared with the size of the transport fleet, the Chinese escort force is too great. They obviously want to use the transport fleet as bait to seek an opportunity to fight immediately. "

"Then, damn it!"

William Benson wanted to say, "Then let's fight", but Charles's eyes reminded him of the current passive situation in Britain. After the old fox Tirpitz came out, the activities of the German navy began to be frequent again. During his meeting in London, two German war patrols suddenly rushed out of Kiel Harbor, if not The British navy responded in time and sent three war patrols to intercept, and perhaps the United States will face two more enemies in the Caribbean.

So when he came back, the British Prime Minister and the Secretary of the Navy had made it clear that they did not want to fight so early, hoping to delay the service of the last two Hood-class ships. Otherwise, once Germany took this opportunity to break through with all its strength, the British navy would fall into the embarrassment of being able to use no soldiers.

The two looked at each other with a wry smile. Who would have thought that the British navy, which used to be powerful and claimed to have the sum of the last three tonnage, would fall to the point where it could not afford to fight two naval battles at the same time. It can be seen how embarrassed the agreement is now.

"No!"

William Benson looked at the crowd that was still squeezing on the cargo ship and wondered, "But it has just arrived at a transport fleet. Why did it cause this situation?"

"The day after the arrival of the fleet supplies, that is, from yesterday, they have gathered about 110 large bombers, 120 medium bombers and 300 light bombers, taking off from Angarsk and Houston respectively, to Kansas City and the state. Other cities were bombed. According to the news from Kansas City this morning, they dropped more than 2,500 unquenchable flame bombs on the city in three rounds of bombing, and the number of known deaths has reached more than 10,000!"

"Bangdang."

William Benson, who had just opened the door, suddenly fell into the seat, and his face turned white as if he had been coated with a layer of white wax.

"Now, the bombing is still going on!"

.. The sunset glow spreads on the streets and alleys of Nashville, the largest city in Tennessee. The children are running carefree. Women talk about men and men talk about war. Everyone has their own topics. It makes this small city on the Camberland River and inhabited by 25,000 people look peaceful but surging with the burden of war. Worried.

Half a century ago, in 1861, the American Civil War broke out, and Tennessee broke away from the United States with many southern states. It was not until the end of the war in 1866 that it rejoined the United States with the Southern Federation and became the 16th state of the United States.

Since the end of the Civil War, Tennessee has entered the fast lane and is known as the cotton warehouse in the United States. Since the beginning of planting in 1820, it has rapidly prospered with good light and fertile land, with the annual cotton production reaching more than one-third of the United States.

In addition to cotton, it is also the fourth largest animal husbandry state in the United States. With the rise of the steel industry in the United States in the early 20th century, some steel mills and current factories have also appeared here. Even in later generations, the reputation of Elvis, Martin Luther King and the first atomic bomb development area has made it a household name. Xiao's area.

As the capital, Nashville condensed the essence of the whole state, and large and small cotton processing factories and warehouses filled the city, but no one expected that the pre-war cotton capital was about to face a terrible disaster.

" Captain, you see, the data says that there are a large number of black people in Tennessee. Didn't it say that we should try not to kill black people? So if we go to blow up the Nashville now, won't we blow up the black people together?

"Idiot!"

Before He Lianyu answered the bomber's question, the navigator patted his head exaggeratedly and said angrily, "Do you think black people can live in the city? They are all in the countryside, working as hard labor in plantations or processing factories. Even if we throw tens of thousands of bombs, we can't kill a few niggers.

"Why can't black people live in the city? After the American Civil War, didn't it say that black people were liberated?

"It's liberation, that's right." Looking at the watch that was about to arrive, He Lianyu quickly explained, "But at that time, the words of the political axe above were of little use in the ears of the ordinary people below. In the United States, it is difficult to see black people in half of the cities, even Mexicans, because if black people break into cities or white residential areas, they will be beaten to death or burned to death.

"Is there such a thing? Isn't it said that the United States is a very bright country?

"It was used to lie to a child like you at that time." The navigator grinned and said, "I tell you, the United States is the most racist place now. It bullied us Chinese before. Later, after several battles after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was a little better."

"Oh."

When the bomber was about to ask for advice again, He Lianyu interrupted the chat and hurriedly pushed: "Go and get ready, you will be there in five minutes."

After hearing that it was still five minutes, the bomber immediately drilled along the cabin to the lower level. First, he quickly unplugged the safety bolt on the incendiary bomb, and then immediately drilled into the observation window in front of the head, lying in the cabin and aimed the bombsight at the ground.

Looking down from the sky, the winding Cumberland River was like a bright rope, and the number of houses along the river began to increase gradually. When a dense chimney appeared, the bomber knew that the destination had arrived.

The magazine slowly opened, and the bomber began to become bumpy after the disturbed air poured into the cabin, which made the world in the scope tremble slightly.

12 250 kg white phosphorus incendiary bombs are carried on this rebound tank hanger. The reason why heavy bombs are not used is that according to the results of a few days of bombing, although the killing effect of 125 and 250 bombs is small, they can accelerate the flames because they are more dense when using incendiment bombs. Transmission speed.

The buildings of inland cities in the United States basically rely on bricks and wood, of which wood still accounts for the majority, so it is more important to make the flame area wider than to kill.

In the camera, the residents of Nashville were obviously scared of the fleet that suddenly appeared in the sky. They only saw many people starting to run to their homes along the streets and alleys. Unfortunately, they did not know the power of the incendiary bombs. If they knew that they should run to an empty place at this moment.

The lens slowly skimmed over the city, and finally the bomber chose to start from the area of the warehouse and factory on the riverside. As his fingers gently pulled, 12 250 kg white phosphorus incendiary bombs drilled out of the magazine in sequence.

While closing the hatch, Helianyu turned his head and saw that a white fog had risen in the targeted place. When the second wave of three side-by-one Thor dropped bombs, the white fog had turned into the most terrible flame.

66 Thors carried a total of 792 incendiary bombs. Based on an average of 400 square meters of fire after each explosion, the uniformly carpet-dropped bombers destroyed a range of more than 310,000 square meters, which is equivalent to the large area of 44 football fields.

And this is just the killing area of the bomb!

Because it is a incendiary bomb, the bomber's drop time is much larger than that of a high-explosive bomb. It seems unreasonable. In fact, because the white phosphorus flame is basically not extinguished after burning completely, it will continue to expand the range because people and animals run after the fire, or the wind blows.

According to the calculation, if the brick target is bombed, the final killing area of the incendiary bomb is 1.8 of its own killing, which means that it is equivalent to the size of 80 football fields.

Unfortunately, Nashville is such a city that is too easy to overdo. More than 70% of the city is made of wood, and there are a large number of cotton mills and cotton warehouses. Therefore, when the last Thor hovered and evacuated, the whole city was already shrouded in fire.

On July 7, the day after the bombing in Kansas, in unprepared Tennessee, 1,000 kilometers north of Houston, the two cities of Memphis and Nashville were also bombed unprecedentedly, crossing the war zone against the deep cities for five days. During the bombing, the Xinhua Air Force Second Bomber Regiment, which had only arrived in Houston for ten days, dropped a total of 9,300 pieces, nearly 2,100 tons of napalm bombs and incendiary bombs, to the two cities.

According to post facto statistics, a total of 18,000 people were killed and more than 40,000 injured in Kansas in this wave of bombings. Tennessee's casualties reached more than 70,000, and the three inland cities, together with Kansas City, were basically completely wiped out

PS: Thank you for the many rewards of the "big or big" brothers and other book friends. One more hour is 2012. It is said to be a very dangerous year, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of time travel!

Hehe, the hippo's mouth is stupid, so just one sentence!

"It's the New Year. I wish everyone, like Emperor Li, dig gold mines every day!!"

(to be continued)