However, these train guns, which can be called steel giants, are nothing compared to Gustav.The Krupp company, which already had a tradition of making guns, trial-produced the K[-] and K[-] train guns at the beginning of the war and achieved great success. After accumulating certain experience, they began to trial-produce train guns with larger calibers, which led to the Birth of Stafford.

Gustav is 43 meters long, 11.6 meters wide, 7.1 meters high, and weighs 4.8 tons. The cannon has a caliber of [-] mm and a range of [-] kilometers when using high-explosive bombs.This kind of artillery uses [-] tons of armor-piercing projectiles and [-] tons of high-explosive projectiles, and the propellant cartridge alone weighs [-] tons, which can be called an extremely terrifying existence.In order to serve the use of this super cannon, [-] people are required to operate at the same time. If the infantry, anti-aircraft artillery and air force covering the cannon are added, the number will be as high as [-].

Under the strong request of Marshal Bock, the largest thick pipe in the Teutonic Kingdom was moved to the city of Buningrad by using the railway line in the eastern part of the Western Continent.But it is not so easy to use this cannon to bombard Buningrad.Because there is no artillery steering mechanism that can bear the weight of Gustav's [-]-ton barrel, this makes it impossible to adjust the angle.In order to solve this problem, Krupp engineers had to work with the Teutonic Army engineers to spend two weeks building a ten-kilometer butterfly-shaped railway line for Gustav.

With such a railway line, Gustav's flexible bombardment is possible, but the debugging of the artillery still needs to be delayed for a while.Gustav has three specially constructed giant transport vehicles, in addition to a super-giant loading mechanism, which will take at least three weeks to install all in place.

The work had already begun while the railway was being built, and just a week after the completion of the railway, the Teutonic army began their frantic bombardment.

Hoisting several tons of artillery shells into the barrel, and adding [-] tons of propellant powder, this kind of work is a difficult task even with the help of Hualanguo's special large-scale construction machinery, not to mention the conditions The country has no such equipment at all.Therefore, the actual rate of fire of the Gustav cannon is only one shot every three hours. Such a rate of fire can be called against the sky, but for such a strategic weapon, it is also within the tolerance range.

Under the personal supervision of Marshal Bock, a high-explosive warhead weighing 45 tons was stuffed into the barrel of the gun. With the panting sound of the hydraulic device, the barrel was lifted up and pointed at a [-]-degree angle. Sky.With an order from the artillery major general, Gustav made a deafening cannon sound, and the whole cannon was driven by the recoil force, and it retreated more than ten meters before stopping. In the city of Ningrad.

Sterling was sitting in a chair drinking coffee, but he didn't expect that as soon as he picked up the coffee cup, there was a deafening explosion.A huge shock wave blew open the window and sprayed into the room, causing Sterling to stagger, and the coffee cup fell to the ground with a clang, and the spilled hot coffee poured all over Sterling.

However, Sterling didn't care to look at the coffee stains on his body and his red-hot right hand. He rushed to the window and looked out at the urban area.It was a suffocating scene. A large part of the buildings that were originally neatly arranged was missing. The blazing flames were tens of meters high, and the broken walls at the edge showed how terrible the situation had been there.

Soon the situation report was sent to Sterling. He almost thought that the survey staff had written an extra zero.The huge crater with a diameter of nearly 100 meters made Sterling gasp. Such a powerful weapon cannot be resisted by manpower. If the shell hits his head, he will not even have a chance to escape.

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After reconnaissance by aircraft, the Teutonic Army also obtained similar information.The actual effect of Gustav was so exciting that Marshal Bock ordered the cannon to fire continuously without stopping.From this day on, Gustav began to tease the thick nerves of the Honglian people at a rate of three hours.

It may be a relief to be killed directly, but the mental torture of being on the verge of being killed for a long time is the most unbearable.Sterling felt like he was going crazy. He didn't know when he would be killed. It was just a momentary pain, but it would torture his nerves for a long time.Later, Sterling even began to envy those who were killed, at least they no longer need to worry.

Looking at more and more bomb craters in the city, many people's spirits began to collapse. Some people often ran out to surrender at night, or launched a suicidal countercharge towards the Teutonic Army's positions to obtain spiritual relief.Although Gustav did not achieve any substantive results, on the spiritual level it has completely defeated the Red Alliance Army.

The last straw that broke the camel's back came on the day of the decisive battle between the Hualan Navy and the White Eagle Navy.Gustav fired it for the last time at noon, because the barrel life of this [-]mm caliber cannon is only [-] rounds. After firing this round, it needs to rest for three days for easy replacement New barrel.

No one expected that the last shell hit the largest ammunition depot in the city of Buningrad by accident.It is said that because Buningrad is close to the border and is a large city with considerable strategic and spiritual significance in the Red Federation, the combat preparations here are quite thorough.

In order to prevent it from being bombarded by the enemy, Buningrad built a solid ammunition depot underground.The ammunition depot is [-] meters deep underground, with a ten-meter-thick reinforced concrete roof, and its structure is extremely strong.And this last shell used a [-]-ton armor-piercing shell, but it unexpectedly hit the ammunition depot.

After the super-heavy armor-piercing projectile penetrated the [-]-meter stratum, it passed through the [-]-meter-thick concrete roof, and miraculously drilled into the ammunition depot, detonating the ammunition inside.Because of the martyrdom in the ammunition depot, a huge explosion occurred here, and the shells unintentionally wiped out [-]% of the ammunition reserves in the city.

The disaster didn't stop there. The huge explosion caused a rising mushroom cloud, and all the people within a kilometer around were turned into fly ash. Even the reinforced concrete fortifications and buildings were melted by the hot heat and turned into a glassy body. Ordinary matter, but within a radius of three kilometers, there were also no living creatures, and they were all shocked to death by the huge shock wave.

Among the people killed in the shock, Sterling and his members of the Supreme Military Council were also among them, and the Red Coalition Army lost its command organization in an instant.Without the leadership of the central government, the resistance of the Honglian people also lost its meaning, and the surviving city defense commander Zhukov had to order surrender across the board.

The complete demise of the Red Federation State announced the disintegration of the world's first utopian country, and also announced that both the Hualan State and the Teutonic State had resolved their subsequent threats, and the future became very unfavorable to the White Eagle State.However, during this period of time, the White Eagle Kingdom did not waste time. The increasing intensity of strategic bombing caused great damage to the industrial system of the Teutonic Kingdom. Can't keep up with the consumption speed of the front line.

After destroying the Red Federation, Hissler was able to draw enough air power to defend against air strikes in the direction of the Saar Empire. At the same time, the Krupp 88mm anti-aircraft gun, which proved to be quite powerful in the war, was mass-produced and deployed to the coastline and the each major city.With the help of the Teutonic state's new radar, strategic bombing began to become more and more dangerous, and the losses of the White Eagle State and the Saar Empire were also increasing, even to the point where the gains outweighed the losses.

Facing the unfavorable situation on both fronts, the White Eagle Kingdom began to send secret envoys to start negotiations with the Teutonic Kingdom, hoping that the two sides would stop fighting and make peace, so that the White Eagle Kingdom could concentrate on dealing with the threat in the direction of the Eastern Ocean.In order to show its sincerity, the White Eagle State stopped its strategic bombing of the Teutonic State from February 1942, 2.The White Eagle State suspended its strategic bombing on the grounds that the country will soon allocate new models for replacement, and that the troops need to prepare for the handover of weapons.

Once the bombing of the White Eagle Kingdom stopped, the strategic bombing of the Saar Empire was also forced to stop.Although the Mosquito bombers and Lancaster bombers of the Saar Empire are quite good, they are hard to match in numbers after all. When the White Eagle Kingdom suspends bombing, if they continue to persist, they will probably lose their money soon.The air battle that had been raging over the Ocean of Storms and the Western Continent came to an abrupt end. The suddenness even made the pilots and the people on both sides very uncomfortable.

Hualan Nation quickly noticed this strange situation, and the General Staff quickly estimated that the Teutonic Nation might reach an agreement with the White Eagle Nation.Because the two countries are now facing actual threats, the Teutonic state is afraid that due to the continuous strategic bombing of the other side, it will lose a lot of domestic industrial base and thus lose the capital to fight for hegemony.However, the White Eagle Kingdom hopes to deal with the Hualan Kingdom with all its might, in order to defend its interests on the west coast and the Eastern Ocean.

The two countries have the same will, even if they were life and death enemies, the possibility of reaching a negotiation is very high.It is impossible for Hualan Kingdom to affect the negotiations between the two countries, because such negotiations cannot be easily broken when both countries have urgent needs.At this time, the Hualan Kingdom had only one way to go. It had to gain a sufficient strategic advantage before the White Eagle Kingdom and the Teutonic Kingdom reached a settlement and transferred the troops from the Western Continent back to the mainland.

Only by gaining a sufficient strategic advantage and even breaking into the mainland of the White Eagle Country, can the Hualan Country rely on its own strong national power to slowly consume the White Eagle Country.In wars between great powers, apart from some advanced weapons that can be used in the early stage to create some tactical advantages, the real decisive battle must be exhausted, using more powerful national power to slowly exhaust the opponent.This is the real confrontation between big countries, especially countries with vast territories and large populations like White Eagle Country and Hualan Country.

Soon Zhao Shouhong issued an order, requiring all troops to actively mobilize and prepare to launch a counterattack against the White Eagle Kingdom, especially the Eastern Ocean Fleet, which was the top priority.Zhang Aiping got busy. As the commander of the Eastern Ocean Fleet, he and his staff analyzed all kinds of intelligence day and night, formulated relevant combat plans, and were ready to fight back at any time.

New plans were quickly drawn up and put into practice after review by the Admiralty. On February 1942, [-], the day before Valentine's Day in the Western Continent, and also the day before New Year's Eve, the most important festival in Hualan Kingdom, the main fleet of the Eastern Ocean broke anchor and sailed towards unknown seas.

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In fact, this battle plan had already been planned. It was one of the many war plans before the war in Hualan Kingdom. The purpose was to destroy the main force of the White Eagle Kingdom’s Eastern Ocean Fleet in a short raid and win the initiative for the Hualan Kingdom’s navy in the early stages of the war. right.This raid plan was proposed by Zhao Shouhong and revised by the General Staff Headquarters. It was a very feasible plan, but this preemptive plan had not been implemented yet, and the White Eagle Kingdom was caught off guard.

Now the original plan has been changed, the strategic and tactical motives have been changed, and the number of troops participating in the war has been increased or decreased, and it has been reactivated.As early as February [-]th, the main force of the Eastern Ocean Fleet led by Zhang Aiping had left several coastal ports under various pretexts, and secretly gathered in Port Moresby, New Guinea. After receiving supplies from Southern Cross Island, , They left there at night and headed north.

After several days of sailing, Hualan Kingdom has reached the depths of the Eastern Ocean, very close to their destination.It's already 04:30 in the morning, and the sky is still pitch black with no ray of dawn to be seen. Zhang Aiping on the Beihua aircraft carrier stood in front of the map table, looked at the watch on his wrist and said, "It's almost time, let's start. "

Fleet Chief of Staff Wu Ruilin nodded. He strode to the microphone and said to the microphone: "Now, I order that the Eagle Plan will start, and the first wave of carrier-based aircraft will take off."

Following Wu Ruilin's order, the neatly arranged planes on each aircraft carrier began to slide onto the deck runway one after another, flying into the dark sky one after another.After passing through the formation, the first wave of 170 planes took advantage of the low altitude over the sea and flew towards the distance, which was the destination of their trip to Hawaii.

At this time, Hawaii is pitch black, and it is the most peaceful moment of the day. Almost everyone has fallen asleep. Only a few people in black suits are crouching in the grass, looking at the faint lights hundreds of meters away. airport.They landed secretly on Oahu Island, the largest island in the Hawaiian Islands, in a miniature submarine three hours ago. At this time, the place where he was lying in ambush was close to the outer edge of the largest airport of the White Eagle Kingdom on the island.

This airport is the main airport for the White Eagle Kingdom to station its troops here. It has more than [-] aircraft of various types, and it is the absolute main force in the fight for air supremacy.If you want to use planes to attack Hawaii, the elimination of this base has become a top priority.It was dark at this time, and it was the best time for a sneak attack, but it was also difficult for the Hualan Navy carrier-based aircraft to see the target clearly. The task of this team was to indicate the most important target area for them when their own bombers arrived.

This squad belonging to the Death Squad of the Intelligence Bureau has undergone strict special training and is no stranger to such latent tasks. Even if they have been lurking for three days and three nights, they can easily handle them.Several people have been lurking for several hours, and at the same time, they have assembled their mortars while taking advantage of the gap between the patrols of the other party's mobile sentries.

"Is there any problem with shooting Zhuyuan?" the captain asked the gunner.

The gunner shook his head: "No problem at all, we can guarantee that we can hit the target."

"Remember, you only have three shots, and then we have to retreat." The captain said worriedly.

"Look." The gunner said with a grin.At this time, the humming of the plane's motor suddenly came faintly in the sky, as if the friendly army they were waiting for had already appeared.

"Fire the gun immediately to indicate the target." The captain looked at his watch and gave the order.The gunner straightened up and began to adjust his mortar.

"Who is it?" The floating whistle, which shouldn't have appeared at this time, actually came over, just in time to spot the gunner who was standing up straight.

"If you don't talk anymore, I'll shoot." Wandering sentry pulled the bolt while walking, the captain made a decisive decision, raised the submachine gun in his hand and shot it.Blood sprayed from the whole body of the swimming whistle on the opposite side, and immediately fell to the ground and died.The sound of gunfire alarmed everyone in the airport, and the captain immediately ordered: "Hurry up and fire, let's cover." The four teammates other than the gunner stood up one after another, pointed their submachine guns at the running sentries Shooting, while the gunner quickly adjusted the mortar and quickly put a shell into the muzzle.

With a loud bang, a mortar with a white phosphorous warhead exploded near the tower in the distance, and the ignited flames immediately illuminated the surrounding space of tens of meters.Without stopping, the gunner immediately turned the mortar port a little bit, and loaded another shell.With a bang, this time the shell landed next to the hangar, and the burning flame completely illuminated the bombing target.

The nearby White Eagle Army patrol rushed over upon hearing the news, bullets whizzed overhead, and almost everyone became nervous.The four commandos pulled the trigger desperately, hoping to stop the opponent's impact, while the gunner increased his speed, adjusted slightly, and fired the third shell.

The shell hit the pilot's dormitory building, not only ignited a fire indicating the target, but also shattered the glass of multiple windows, scratching several people.

"The three shells have been fired." The gunner reported loudly, and the captain immediately waved his hand and said, "Retreat immediately." Several well-trained commandos, after suppressing the opponent with rapid-fire fire, threw a few more smoke bombs , quickly fled towards the distance.The patrol team of the White Eagle Kingdom still wanted to pursue them, but after experiencing a few grenades, they changed their original intention. What's more, bombs began to fall from the sky at this time, and they had to think about their own lives first.

With the illumination of three incendiary bombs, the bomber accurately found its target, and bombs weighing one ton fell one after another.Whether it is the smooth runway of the White Eagle Country, the weak hangar roof, or the pilot's three-story building, none of them can withstand the bombardment of heavy bombs.

Under the targeted and focused bombing by the Hualan Air Force, more than 300 military aircraft of the White Eagle Kingdom were reimbursed, and Hawaii's air supremacy has become indisputably in the possession of the Hualan Army.After being bombed, the entire port area fell into chaos, and it was only at this time that the dull anti-aircraft artillery units began to shell sporadically into the air.

After such an ups and downs, the sky was already pale. With the rapid increase in visibility, Hualan Kingdom's bombing was even more powerful, and the accuracy became higher and higher.The airport and army garrison in Hawaii were quickly attacked. Under the cover of heavy bombs, the White Eagle Army ran away with their heads in their arms, unable to think of resisting at all.

In this attack, the Navy's fighter force also drew on the experience of the Air Force, and mounted two rocket pods under the wings of each Sea J-[-] fighter.

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Use these 90mm rockets to launch raids on anti-aircraft artillery positions all over the island of Hawaii.The firing range of the rockets is far greater than those Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of [-] mm, and the cover-type strikes make it impossible for anyone to survive once the anti-aircraft artillery positions are attacked.

The first wave of bombing has just ended, and the second wave of bombing has arrived.Different from the unknown situation of the first wave of attack, the proportion of dive bombers and torpedo planes in this wave of fleets has increased significantly, and the White Eagle Army has been baptized by a new round of bombs.

Before the surprise attack on Hawaii, the Navy Department of the White Eagle Kingdom believed that the Hualan Kingdom's biggest attack target should be Guam.In order to regain the disadvantage, Nimitz concentrated all the fleets in Guam, and relied on the base there, stationed more than [-] fighter jets and dive bombers, as a favorable pillar against Hualan's navy.

At the same time, the entire Guam was built in a fortress style, with coastal defense forts or infantry positions everywhere, and strong reinforced concrete fortifications can be seen everywhere, almost turning Guam into a large fortress.However, the Navy Department of the White Eagle Kingdom never expected that the opponent would skip Guam, which is the easiest to attack, and attack Hawaii, which is heavily defended. This made Nimitz's decisive battle strategy come to naught.

Because the White Eagle Navy transferred all the main warships to Guam, which made Pearl Harbor in Hawaii sing an empty city plan, so the Hualan Navy carrier-based aircraft unit that bombed Hawaii did not even bomb the docks and ships in the port.In addition to not bombing those White Eagle country merchant ships, important targets such as shipyards, machinery processing plants and oil depots on land were not bombed at all.

The only unlucky thing on the entire island is the White Eagle Army. In the early bombing of the airport, the White Eagle Air Force was completely disarmed, and most of the pilots were lost. Among the 12 troops stationed on the island, the army was also killed by the bombing. It has been ten to seven or eight.

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