Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Although high-level officials in the United States have decided to split up and evacuate factories in various industrial areas to the surrounding countryside. But this is no small project. Many places, such as Pittsburgh, have not yet had time to implement it.

Compared with New York, Chicago and other places, most of Pittsburgh's factories are built directly in the city. As mentioned earlier, Pittsburgh is known as the "Steel City". Around the steel industry, Pittsburgh has also developed aluminum smelting, glass, military industry, machinery, aviation equipment, electrical and other industries. The steel industry has brought prosperity to Pittsburgh, but it has also brought serious environmental problems. The entire city was submerged in the smoke from the steel mills, and street lights were turned on even during the day, making it a "city of black smoke."

Air pollution, turbid rivers, and the ecological environment have been greatly damaged. Even the mayor has described his city as "the dirtiest cinder heap in America."

Until after World War II, the local government carried out large-scale urban transformation focusing on smoke control, sewage treatment and old urban renewal. Since the 1960s, aging steel mills have lost competition and have closed down; the remaining mills have also been relocated to the suburbs. Pittsburgh has also transformed from a heavy industry dominated by steel to a diversified economic structure.

In this way, the German bomber formations no longer had to disperse to find industrial areas. The sky-blocking bomber groups directly dropped thousands of tons of napalm bombs and thermite bombs into the urban area, billowing thick smoke. permeated the whole city.

At this moment, senior military officials in Washington are discussing whether to continue producing "pigeon-guided bombs."

A general from the army spoke. "I think this bomb should be abandoned as soon as possible." Obviously, all the secrets of the "Pigeon Guided Bomb" have been known to the Germans, and this bomb has become a useless thing. Continuing to invest funds is just a pure waste. With that kind of funds, it is better to build a few more tanks.

However, General Leahy refused to give up easily. "But now this bomb is the only bomb that can pose a threat to German warships." And this is also true. So far, they have no way to fight against the German fleet at sea. "Pigeon guided bombs" are their only hope.

Marshall sighed. "I'm afraid the Germans have already come up with countermeasures. Even if we put them into actual combat, they won't have much effect."

After everyone debated for a long time, Commander Leahy finally decided to suspend the plan.

At this time, news came that Pittsburgh had been blown into a sea of ​​​​fire, and everyone could do nothing except sighing. It can be said that the United States at this time is worse and more useless than Germany in the original time and space. Even at the end of the war, the Luftwaffe was still able to cause certain losses to Allied strategic bombers. But today, the United States can only watch the German bombers coming and going freely, as if they were visiting their own back garden. The only difference is that besides Crazy people, normal people don't drop bombs in their back gardens.

What's even more frightening is that the number of these high-altitude bombers of the German army is gradually increasing. From the initial 30, it is now approaching 300. If the Germans continue to increase production, who knows whether they will dispatch a thousand or two thousand at a time? It’s chilling to think about.

Their worries are not without reason. Yannick in Berlin is also preparing for a massive bombing.

"How many ME-264D bombers are there currently?"

Marshal Kesselring said respectfully. "Your Highness, there are currently 300 aircraft deployed on the St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands, 250 of which can be deployed at any time; there are 200 aircraft deployed on the eastern front, of which 170 can be deployed at any time."

Yannick thought for a while and ordered. "Move all ME-264Ds on the eastern front to St. Pierre and Miquelon." Speer looked aside. "What is the monthly output of ME-264D bombers?"

"About 60 to 70 aircraft."

“Can production be increased?”

"No problem at all, Your Highness. Our remaining production capacity is still sufficient. It is not a burden to increase the monthly production of ME-264D to 150 aircraft."

"Very good." Yannick nodded. "Then increase production and get 1,000 of them as soon as possible. Thousands of planes bombing, it's spectacular just thinking about it."

The first thousand-plane bombing in World War II in the original time and space was carried out by Britain against Germany. On the night of May 30, 1942, 1,047 bombers of various types rushed from 53 airports in the United Kingdom to Cologne, Germany (Cologne was an industrial town and an important railway hub at the time, and had been continuously delivering industrial products to the German army. and chemicals).

In order to confuse the Germans and disperse their air defense capabilities, British Air Force General Arthur Harris also ordered a small group of aircraft to take the lead in front of the large group of aircraft, pretending to bomb the airport and other military facilities on the outskirts of Cologne.

As a result, the German Air Defense Command in Cologne was fooled by Harris. After receiving the air raid warning from the suburbs, most of the fighter planes were immediately mobilized to intercept. By the time the large British aircraft fleet was discovered by radar, the German fighter planes that took off had already been entangled by the British planes feinting to attack and were unable to return to support.

As the British army dropped incendiary bombs one after another, the entire city burst into flames. These soaring flames made it easy for the British bomber formation to find the bombing area. These bombers bombed continuously for about an hour. According to statistics, more than 200 tons of bombs fell over Cologne every minute during the bombing.

Most of the British troops threw incendiary bombs. The blazing fire in Cologne could be clearly seen 160 kilometers away, and more than half of the blocks in the city center were completely burned. Cologne has a permanent population of approximately 700,000, but at least 150,000 citizens fled Cologne after the bombing.

The most important thing is that the British army only lost 43 aircraft in this bombing, with a loss rate of 4%, which was much lower than the usual battle loss rate. From then on, Germany's misfortune began. Essen, Bremen, and other cities were all destroyed. Once it was bombed by thousands of planes.

Once 1,000 ME-264D bombers are gathered, five or six thousand tons of bombs can be dropped at a time on targets close to the target, while four to five thousand tons can be dropped on targets farther away.

Marshal Kesselring had an excited smile on his face. "How long can the Americans hold on? We will be the first air force to defeat a country by relying on strategic bombing."

Seeing his excited expression, Yannick muttered in his mind that it couldn't be that easy. In the original time and space, Li Mei commanded the B-29 bomber force to carry out incendiary bombings on Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and other large cities that lasted for three months. 96 cities of all sizes in the island country were bombed and paralyzed, but they did not surrender. Instead, they clamored for 100 million pieces of jade.

As for the United States, whose land area is more than 20 times that of the island country, the devil knows how many cities must be destroyed to make them surrender. He remembered that there were more than 300 big cities in the United States alone. Even if one was bombed every day, it would take a year!