69novels Chapter 641
Chapter 641
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: 0.052s Scan: 0.021sThe continuous bombing made the foggy city and the whole British Empire panic. People were forced to hide in the dark underground air-raid shelters. As long as they heard any sound from above their heads, they would be frightened and tremble all over.
Many people who had been to the ground and seen the tragic situation on the ground during the bombing intervals changed their color when talking about the German air force. Whenever they recalled the purgatory-like tragic situation they saw on the ground, their faces turned pale and they trembled all over. A fear from the depths of their souls made them never dare to return to the ground again!
As the main targets of the German bombing, the offices and residences of the British government and the royal family, including Westminster Palace, Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, were bombarded by the German army with heavy bombs and even ground-penetrating bombs in the bombing that lasted for several days!
Although the members of the government cabinet were transferred in time, many people still died in the bombing.
The royal family members were not spared. Buckingham Palace had completely become a ruin. A bomb shelter under the palace was hit by a 2.3-ton ground-penetrating bomb. This ground-penetrating bomb was thrown from a height of 500 meters. The huge kinetic energy made it easily drill through the 6-meter-thick soil above the air-raid shelter and drilled into the air-raid shelter before exploding!
In a confined space like an air-raid shelter, the lethality of a heavy bomb weighing more than two tons is no less than that of a nuclear bomb. The high temperature and shock wave generated by the explosion directly melted dozens of people hiding in the air-raid shelter. The entire air-raid shelter collapsed. When the rescue team risked their lives to reach the scene, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them!
The air-raid shelter had been blown up to the point where it was completely unrecognizable. The few remaining walls were covered with a layer of dark red unidentified objects. When the soldiers approached, they were horrified to find that the bodies stuck to the walls were actually human bodies!
It turned out that when the bomb exploded inside, the high temperature generated by the explosion produced a temperature of more than 5000 degrees in the air-raid shelter, which was enough to vaporize people. The violent shock wave blew away the vaporized bodies and slammed them all against the wall, thus forming such a terrible scene!
Almost none of the rescue soldiers who saw this scene could hold back, and they all lay aside and vomited.
In addition to vomiting, this terrible scene also left a deep impression in their hearts, making them more afraid of the German bombing!
When the air raid came, King George V was not in Buckingham Palace and luckily escaped the disaster, but dozens of important members of the royal family, including his son, King George VI in history, were killed in the air raid. The entire royal family suffered heavy losses, and Buckingham Palace was in mourning and crying!
The capital was subjected to fierce bombardment by a powerful enemy. The military and civilians in the city suffered heavy losses. The morale of the British Army had already hit rock bottom. Now their royal family suffered such a devastating blow. The morale of the military in the country was even lower. Countless people began to doubt: With their strength, can they withstand the attack of such a powerful enemy?
“Your Excellency, Prime Minister, we can’t go on like this, if we continue like this we will be defeated sooner or later!”
In an underground air-raid shelter in the Fog City, the cabinet and the military were holding an urgent meeting.
The sudden bombing of the German army caught them off guard. Because of insufficient preparation in advance, they could not come up with any strong countermeasures when facing the enemy bombing. They could only hide underground like turtles and let the enemy bomb!
In fact, as early as last year when the Battle of Iron Tower City broke out, the British had already witnessed the power of the German Air Force.
Whether it was the Battle of Dunkirk, which caused them heavy losses, or the Battle of Iron Tower City that broke out afterwards, the German Air Force performed well in the battle and was impressive!
However, the British reaction was still half a beat slow. Perhaps they still despised the Air Force in their hearts and looked down on this kind of air force that could only play an auxiliary and harassing role in World War I. The army did not take them seriously at all, so they were completely unprepared for the enemy’s large-scale air strikes!
It’s no wonder that, as the victor of World War I, the British Empire, like its ally Gaul, did not make drastic reforms to its military physique because it won the First World War. A large number of veterans who had made great contributions in World War I held important positions in the army, hindering the promotion of middle-aged and young generals. The veterans are experienced, so it is not a big problem to let them serve as the main generals.
However, the experience of veterans is precisely the most troublesome thing!
With the rapid upgrading of weapons and tactical thinking, the experience insisted by these veterans will soon be replaced by new tactics and new equipment, but because large-scale wars have not broken out, they are simply They don’t realize that they have fallen behind others, and they are still complacent about their past glorious achievements, and are obsessed with their own experiences!
The older people get, the more conservative they become, and the younger they are, the more enterprising and motivated they are!
As young people, if they want to climb up, they must show real military merits, and if they want to gain military merits, they must first train the army well, so they spend almost all their energy on figuring out how to transform and improve the combat effectiveness of the army!
So, some people delve into some weapons and equipment, trying to rely on some new equipment to win, while some people focus on improving and reforming existing tactics, innovating tactical thinking, and exploring new ways of playing, so as to improve combat effectiveness!
However, the old people will not do this!
As vested interests, they Having already possessed military merits and status that young people envy, there is no need to spend so much energy and time on this!
After all, if they mess up, they may lose all the status and power they have now.
In addition, the veterans have past successful experience, so they will definitely continue to maintain their tactical thinking, will not take too many risks, and just keep their status and interests!
This difference, in the original history, led to a huge gap in the tactical thinking between the German army and the Allied forces. The Allied forces were at a loss under the attack of the new tactics of the German blitzkrieg, and in a blink of an eye, they lost almost all their strongholds in Western Europe, and even Gaul, known as the first power in Europe, surrendered!
And it was not these old and old powers that defeated Hans, but the newly born bear in the east.
But even the bear, in the early days of the war, their veterans who were famous in the War of Independence and the Civil War were defeated by the German army. Budyonny, Pavlov and others failed one after another, and millions of troops were handed over by them. The German army won one jaw-dropping victory after another!
Until finally Starling couldn’t stand it anymore, and promoted a large number of Mesozoic generals, the Russian bear finally stopped its decline!