69novels Chapter 775
Chapter 775
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: 0.090s Scan: 0.036sThe second batch of planes to bomb North America has taken off. However, before this batch of planes set off, a fierce debate broke out within the German army.
The focus of the debate is: Should we continue to bomb Gotham City, the most important city in the Eagle Sauce, and completely wipe Gotham City off the map?
Or turn the gun around and attack the Great Lakes region, which is more important to the Eagle Sauce?
Gotham City is closer to Hans, so it may be easier to bomb here, and Hans’s spy inside the Eagle Sauce also sent back intelligence, saying that the Eagle Sauce has strengthened the protection of the Great Lakes region in advance and dispatched a large number of air forces and air defense forces into the Great Lakes region.
This move proves that they have obviously guessed the intentions of the German army, so they deployed heavy troops in the industrial area of the Great Lakes to prevent the German army from bombing and destroying here.
In this case, it is actually a bit dangerous for the German army to bomb the Great Lakes region directly.
After all, the farthest cities in the Great Lakes region, Chicago and Detroit, are hundreds of kilometers away from the sea, which means that the German army’s combat radius will be extended by hundreds of kilometers.
B-The combat radius of the 29th strategic bomber is about 2,900 kilometers. Although they can refuel and resupply in Greenland, Greenland itself is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the North American continent.
This distance can only reach coastal cities like Gotham City, and can also get close to the edge of those cities on the north side of the Great Lakes, but it is unlikely to go deep into the hinterland of the Great Lakes because the German army’s range is not enough!
“If we want to bomb the Great Lakes, our bombers need a longer range, and we must also reduce the bomb load and mount auxiliary fuel tanks under the wings. In this way, the range can be slightly longer. Of course, if the engine technology can be improved and the engine can be made more fuel-efficient, it is not impossible to bomb the Great Lakes!”
Although Air Force Commander Goering was a fighter pilot, in order to be familiar with the performance of various aircraft under his command, he once personally flew the B-29 strategic bomber and conducted some extreme tests on this bomber, including the maximum range, maximum combat radius, maximum flight speed and maximum bomb load of the B-29.
When these performances leave the factory, the test pilots of the aircraft manufacturer will also do it, but these test pilots only do tests within the performance requirements according to the design requirements of the aircraft, and will not do these extreme tests that may cause damage to the aircraft.
Originally, Goering did not plan to do this kind of test. After all, in order to complete his extreme test, the German Air Force scrapped several B29s. This strategic bomber is very expensive and the production is not high. Usually, losing one is enough to make people feel distressed. He lost several at once during the extreme test. The person in charge of the bomber of the German Air Force was almost crying!
However, such tests are obviously valuable. At least now, when they need to launch attacks on targets beyond the combat radius in actual combat, they use the data from Goering’s test.
“How much ammunition should be reduced and how much additional bombing should be added to the Great Lakes region?”
Mainz’s original plan was to wait until the TU-95 Bear strategic bomber and the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber were in service before bombing the Eagle, but the Eagle declared war on Hans in advance, disrupting his plan and forcing him to make the decision to bomb North America in advance.
The advance of the plan gave the German army a weapon at hand, and they could only tap the potential of the existing B-29.
“If we reduce the 12 tons of ammunition to 6 tons, add two auxiliary fuel tanks, and add six tons of fuel, we should be able to reach the Great Lakes region!”
Göring thought for a moment and replied.
His answer made everyone present think. The airport in Greenland is not large and has limited carrying capacity. It can only dispatch 100 planes at a time. However, if they set off in batches, it is not impossible to dispatch 300 planes in one day.
However, if the bomb load of the B-29 is reduced to six tons, the bombing effect will be greatly reduced.
The industrial area in the Great Lakes region is very large. 300 bombers carrying 1,800 tons of bombs may not be able to completely destroy this industrial area. At most, they can destroy some core industrial areas in several key cities.
But If they only bombed cities in the eastern coastal areas like Gotham City, there would be no need to reduce the ammunition they carry. Three hundred bombers can carry 3,600 tons of ammunition, and it is estimated that at least two urban areas of Gotham City can be destroyed!
In this case, Gotham City would be completely destroyed!
On one side is the Great Lakes Industrial Zone, which is far away and has a lower chance of success. On the other side is Gotham City, which is easier to complete the mission. Which one to attack? This choice is really difficult!
However, Mainz finally chose the Great Lakes!
The main function of Gotham City is the financial center of Wall Street, and the German army had bombed it before. Manhattan was destroyed, and the financial center of the Eagle Sauce was destroyed. Therefore, their goal of attacking Gotham City has actually been achieved. Continuing to bomb Gotham City can certainly further undermine the morale of the Eagle Sauce’s people.
However, the actual loss to the Eagle Sauce’s strength is not very large. If you want to make the Eagle Sauce pay a substantial price and weaken their real strength, then attacking the Great Lakes region is a necessary choice!
Therefore, even if the bomb load is reduced by half, Mainz still ordered the German army to bomb the industrial area of the Great Lakes!
After these German planes take off, they will first fly to Greenland according to a fixed route, but after arriving After they have captured Greenland, they will no longer use the route that the first batch of bombers used to bomb Gotham City. They will fly through the airspace of the Maple Leaf Country’s colonies without setting, and then head straight to the Great Lakes region to bomb here.
In this way, their route can be shortened by hundreds of kilometers, which is very helpful for expanding their strike range. After all, the area of the Great Lakes region is very large. In this area, the distance between Detroit City and Chicago City is 400 kilometers, and the distance between other important cities is also very large. Therefore, in order to cover these areas as much as possible, the German army needs to do everything possible to increase the range. On April
18, 1944, Litt once led 16 B-25 bombers to take off from the Hornet aircraft carrier to bomb the capital of East Lake.
B-25 The range of this bomber is less than 2,000 kilometers, so in order to increase the range as much as possible, the Eagles removed all unnecessary equipment on the plane, including some weapons and equipment, and carried a large amount of fuel in the cabin. During the flight, the soldiers refueled the plane manually, and only then did they barely complete the bombing.
Although Doolittle’s East Shock bombing operation did not achieve much success, it had great political significance.
The German bombing of Eagle’s homeland this time actually has the same meaning.
The bombing of Gotham City was to destroy Eagle’s financial center and prove that the Germans had the ability to attack Eagle, while the attack on the Great Lakes region was to destroy Eagle’s industrial center and prove that the Germans had the ability to threaten Eagle’s hinterland, causing panic among the Eagles!