novelhk Chapter 548
Chapter 548
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“Yes, why? I remember we had a lot of bombers. We had long-range bombers during World War I. Why couldn’t we bomb Hans?”
The army was puzzled. During World War I, they had deployed a large number of bombers to carry out bombings on the inland of Hans. From 1916 to the end of the war in 1918, the British Air Force dispatched hundreds of sorties and bombed a large number of cities in the Rhine region, including Franconia, which was bombed many times by them!
Since they were able to carry out aerial bombing missions ten years ago, why couldn’t they do it ten years later?
The army expressed that they couldn’t understand it. They subconsciously thought that the air force was shirking responsibility. They were timid and afraid of death and dared not fight!
The army’s speculation was not unreasonable. The British Air Force was really scared by the German army!
When the Battle of Gaul broke out , the two sides had fought extremely fierce air battles over the Benelux countries.
The number of fighter planes deployed by the German army at that time was actually far less than that of the Allied forces, and there were many ace pilots on the Allied side during the First World War, and their flying time was much longer than that of Hans’ young pilots!
So at the beginning of the war, the Allied forces were confident, thinking that this would be a very simple task, and they could easily defeat their enemies with their experience and numerical advantages!
However, when the air battle really started, the Allied forces, including the British, were completely dumbfounded!
Although the number of German aircraft was not as many as theirs, the German aircraft were far more advanced than theirs!
When they were still using World War I When the Germans were using old biplane fighters of the same period, the German fighters had already evolved to the stage of single-wing fighters!
Compared with biplane fighters, single-wing fighters are faster, more maneuverable, and more maneuverable!
What is even more disturbing is that the power of the engines used on the German aircraft far exceeded their imagination. The German fighters clearly used heavier steel shells, but they flew faster than them.
Their wooden structures had no ability to fight against the German steel structures. A string of German bullets swept over, and they were instantly disintegrated in mid-air. Their bullets luckily hit the German fighter planes, but they only hit the outside of the German fighter planes. There were only some bullet holes left on the shell!
Unless they were very lucky and hit the vital parts of the German fighter plane directly, such as the cockpit, fuel tank and engine, it would be difficult for them to shoot down the German fighter plane directly!
The air battles in Benelux and other places did not last long. Despite the three-fold advantage in manpower, the Allies did not even last a week. They were forced to withdraw from the battle because of the loss of soldiers and generals, a large number of fighters and pilots!
Since then, the British army rarely actively sought to fight with Hans’s air force. Before they were equipped with the most advanced fighters comparable to Hans’s BF-109, fighting with the Germans was a suicide act!
“The reason is that our air force does not have fighter jets that can fly over Iron Tower City to perform escort missions!”
The air force commander did not hide this point, but directly pointed out the huge disadvantage of the air force in equipment.
“Our fighter planes are far behind the enemy in every aspect. With such a gap, our fighter planes have almost no chance of winning against the enemy. Forcing our planes to win would only give the enemy military merits!”
This sentence is not wrong. The air battle over Benelux has suddenly produced a large number of ace pilots in the German Air Force!
Except for the dozens of unlucky pilots who were shot down and killed, the remaining German pilots who participated in the battle almost all got military merits. Everyone has shot down enemy fighter planes. Some pilots with outstanding strength and good luck have even achieved the glorious record of more than 10 fighter planes!
According to the standards of this era and later generations, if more than five enemy planes are shot down, they can be called ace pilots!
If this standard is followed, the German army now has at least more than 100 ace pilots, among which the one with the highest record is a young man named Erich Hartmann, who has achieved 23 enemy planes shot down. , and damaged 12 enemy planes. He was the most successful pilot in the German Air Force and was also the pilot who shot down the most enemy planes in the world! What was surprising was that Hartmann was only 17 years old this year, very young!
After hearing the words of the Air Force Commander, everyone was silent.
They had seen the German Air Force, and that kind of plane was indeed very different from the planes they were equipped with.
These rough guys in the army originally thought that as long as it was a plane, it could fly into the sky and shoot and fight, that was enough. They didn’t expect that there were so many tricks in the plane, and there were single-wing and double-wing. However, when I think about the enemy’s planes being protected by iron sheets, while our own planes are still made of wood, it’s like the enemy has tanks on the ground, but they don’t. The gap in equipment is really big!
“We must give priority to developing a strong air force. Otherwise, once the enemy has resolved issues in Europe, I am afraid the next step will be to bomb our homeland!”
Prime Minister Lloyd George said with a serious face. He thought of the past when the German army used airships to bomb the foggy city during World War I.
Although the bombing in those years did not cause them huge losses, the fact that the German army could directly attack the homeland of the British Empire still had a huge impact and shock on the psychology of the British people!
During World War I, the air forces of both sides were not very mature, and the performance of the aircraft they were equipped with was relatively backward. Whether it was fighters or bombers, the tonnage was relatively small and the bomb load was very poor.
Even the heavy bombers that the Russians made during World War I had a bomb load of only 800 kilograms.
At this time, the performance of the bombers deployed by the German army in the battle had far exceeded those old antiques during World War I, and also exceeded the psychological expectations of the British Empire and the Gauls!
In the Battle of Dunkirk, the German B-29 bombers carried out a fierce bombing on the Allied reinforcements. The huge size of this aircraft and the terrifying bomb load were unprecedented for the Allies. Smell, unprecedented!
They flew over their heads in groups, lining up, and then the Allied forces saw a large number of dense bombs falling on their heads!
These bombs are not the small bombs of only a few kilograms or more than ten kilograms during World War I!
Most of these bombs are 250-kilogram medium-sized bombs, and there are 500-kilogram or even 1,000-kilogram heavy bombs!
Especially the 1,000-kilogram bomb. As long as one of these bombs falls in the crowd, everyone within a radius of 70 to 80 meters will be swept away. After the explosion, a huge crater will appear on the ground, and there will be bloody corpses everywhere!
That scene, the generals of the British army still dare not recall it, because it is too miserable!
So when they heard the words of the Prime Minister and thought of the terrible German planes coming to bomb their homeland, the senior officials and generals present couldn’t help but shudder! When they thought of the devastated and ruined city of Fog City, they were terrified!