Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

 After discussing matters related to merging, reorganizing and establishing new military regions, Tiger in the Forest stood up and walked to the front of the military map. He stared at the enemy's homeland and said:

“LYL, take out the top-secret documents in my briefcase and let the political commissar see the big action planned by our headquarters.”

After receiving the order from his division commander, Chief of Staff Liu placed the briefcase he carried on the table, and then took out a tightly wrapped kraft paper file bag.

 Such a large battle immediately made Political Commissar Luo realize the importance of the matter.

 In fact, he had made some guesses in his mind before. After all, trivial matters such as mergers, reorganizations and the establishment of new military regions really did not require two top commanders.

 In the days of rapid expansion of the border areas, warriors like the tigers in the forest should lead elite troops to the front lines such as Jehol.

 Coming to the eastern coast, if it is just to deal with the two divisions and four independent mixed brigades of the Japanese Twelfth Army, it will be more or less overqualified.

With doubts in his heart, Political Commissar Luo took the brown paper bag from his chief of staff. He quickly opened the package and began to read it word by word.

 You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.

 Just taking a glance at the action summary, its shocking content added another layer to his iconic double chin.

“Oh my God, the border area and the headquarters are really a blockbuster without even making a fuss! I really didn’t expect that the Army’s morale wizard and deputy commander-in-chief would actually make such a bold plan.”

“Bringing the flames of war to the enemy’s homeland is what our soldiers should do.”

 “Now! It’s our turn!”

 As for keeping secrets, it’s really not the Army’s morale wizard and deputy commander-in-chief who are too cautious. After all, even in the border areas and the Eighth Route Army headquarters, there were no more than twenty people who knew about the long-range strategic bombing plan.

 Being a big move, you have to be careful in everything.

The reaction of his old comrade made the tiger in the forest nod with satisfaction. Then he moved his vision to the Jiaodong area and said:

“Due to Director Huang’s strong suggestion, the headquarters has tentatively scheduled the operation on April 17 this year. The final arrangement depends on the training situation of the comrades of the 1st and 3rd Divisions.”

“What we need to do is very simple, that is to completely complete the merger and reorganization of the military regions within one month, and capture the entire Jiaodong area before March 17.”

“At that time, the army will be based on the four cities of Qing, Wei, Yan and Wei and become a secondary military region. In this area, we will build a large number of permanent airports and a certain number of coastal defenses.”

 The land of Qilu is very different from inland provinces such as Jin and Sui.

In the battle between Shanxi and Suiyuan, Benzi's navy and navy were beyond their reach, and even if they wanted to reinforce the army, Wulu was powerless.

 But the situation in Shandong was different. At this point in time in early 1942, the surface fleet of the Japanese Navy had not yet been severely damaged, so naturally the Eighth Route Army would not be able to recover it easily.

 Once the 3rd Air Force Division successfully completes its strategic bombing mission, it will really affect the whole body, and the entire northern and southern battlefields will be in chaos.

In order to protect the homeland, the enemy will inevitably send the North China Front Army, the Eleventh Army and the Navy's Red Deer to encircle the enemy. Even the Kwantung Army may come to intervene.

At that time, the troops will not only face positional warfare, siege warfare and field encounters, but may also be forced to participate in landing warfare and sea and air battles.

 This is why the border areas and headquarters sent tigers from the forest to the eastern coast. Only a commander of his level can shoulder such an important responsibility.

"It seems that those rumors about the navy some time ago are not groundless. If our plan goes well, then control of the entire bay will fall into our hands."

"Okay, I know the next action plan in mind."

"After Lao Chang comes back, I will ask him to go straight to Tianfu Mountain to pick up Xiao Xu for the meeting. We are very pressed for time and have to work out the first version of the plan as soon as possible."

After speaking, Political Commissar Luo took advantage of his division commander and chief of staff to think about it, and opened the action plan sent by the headquarters to continue to review it.

"Eh! Why are there still torpedoes? Do you two know anything about this thing? Also, the weight column of the aerial bombs used in the bombing mission was wrongly marked. Are there really big ones of five tons?"

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 When it comes to torpedoes and Goblet aerial bombs, we have to talk about the essential differences between the air raid missions carried out by Doolittle and the strategic bombing operations planned by Huang He.

 For the former, its main value is focused on publicity and mobilization.

 A Chou's bombing was, to put it bluntly, Master Luo's plan to retaliate against the Japanese army's unnatural act of attacking Pearl Harbor.

Its main purpose is to inspire people's hearts, improve the morale of one's own troops, prove to all domestic forces the determination to fight back, and by the way pave the way for future conscription.

  After all, you can’t expect just sixteen B-25s to cause much damage to the homeland.

Huang He's long-range strategic bombing was very different. From the beginning, it was an action planned to break an arm of the Navy's Red Deer and weaken the enemy's war potential. In early 1942, when we sent troops to the Qilu area, the enemy would most likely send navy to support us.

Since the Eighth Route Army currently does not have a navy, it cannot fight in the bay. Then we can only nip the danger in the cradle and take the initiative to hurt the Navy Red Deer.

 Hence, the targets of the Yellow River strategic bombing were Benzi’s military factories, military ports, and military academies from the very beginning.

As for opening a barbecue stall in Tokyo to let comrades have more acquaintances in the enemy's core area, that is just a matter of course.

Since we are here, we must leave some proof.

In view of the above arrangement, Huanghe specially used the military factory in the Awakening Yonghu system to prepare two big treasures for the air force.

The first item is naturally the pride of the Royal Air Force. In the original timeline, three Goblet bombs sank the battleship Tirpitz and broke the backbone of the three German navies.

This thing has a dead weight of 5443 kilograms, a total length of 6.4 meters with a tail fin, a maximum diameter of 0.965 meters, and is filled with 2359 kilograms of aluminum powder mixed explosives.

 In the future, Huanghe can also unlock the radio guidance function through the system and upgrade it to a giant guided bomb.

 Perhaps using a goblet is a bit useless when blasting a high-speed moving battleship. But for the Zhudao fleet parked in the military port, they are absolutely a powerful weapon, and they explode without making a sound.

 The second item is the Mark 17 aviation torpedo.

During World War II, torpedoes undoubtedly caused the greatest damage to ships among all conventional weapons.

 The shelling of surface ships generally hits structures on the water, not to mention that the charge coefficient of naval guns is much smaller than that of torpedoes.

The same applies to aerial bombs, which basically bomb the superstructure and deck.

Of course, heavy armor-piercing aerial bombs are an exception. It can penetrate directly through the armored core of a battleship or the like and explode beneath its bottom.

It's just that this thing has a small weight and is very difficult to release. Except in certain circumstances, sincerity is a thankless weapon.

 And torpedoes!

That is a noble underwater man.

 The attack launched from below the waterline, coupled with the extremely large warhead charge, makes any surface unit tremble when seeing a torpedo.

 According to later statistics, 100% of the ships of the U.S. Navy required repairs after encountering aerial torpedoes and submarine-launched torpedoes during World War II.

 The average time to lose combat effectiveness is 122 days and 87 days respectively, which is much longer than that of being attacked by other means.

 Huanghe originally thought that the torpedo provided by the Awakening Yonghu system would be the 450mm Mark12.

After all, during World War II, it followed the King of Broken Legs, the Swordfish, and killed the Bismarck, the Veneto battleship, and the Pola heavy cruiser. It was another star weapon of the British.

 Compared with the A Chou kinetic energy yam Mark13 and the short-legged Type 91 torpedo, this thing is excellent in terms of reliability, power and range.

but!

I never expected that the Awakening Brave Tiger system has made another effort in the selection of torpedoes. It actually gave the modified version of Mark17.

This kind of torpedo comes from the magical world of a certain white-haired man. It is the weapon of choice for torpedo bombers on the Bold-class aircraft carrier. It was first put into service in 1947.

Let’s not discuss whether it is scientific or not. Just talk about whether it is a British product.

As a modified version of the torpedo, the Mark 17 takes into account both power and reliability, and has an incredible speed of 43 knots and an effective range of 5 kilometers.

The Type 91 is fast enough. With its speed of 41 knots, the Japanese warships often cannot escape even when they see it.

With a range of only two kilometers, HNA pilots must penetrate deep into the anti-aircraft fire network to launch at close range. As a result, the elites flying torpedo bombers became expendable.

The range of Mark13 is far enough. The later models of this thing can swim up to 5760 meters.

However, the mere turtle speed of 33.5 knots can often allow the captains of this book to perform a torpedo rhythm, and the hit rate is simply terrifyingly low.

The 457mm Mark 17 can be said to be a masterpiece that combines the advantages of the above two torpedoes. With it, Huang He seemed to have seen the tragic ending of the fleet stationed on the island. (End of chapter)