Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1249 Public Opinion War

Feng Ru explained: "Actually, I was also very curious. For this reason, I went to look at the photos of the interpretation, and I found that it was indeed true. Although the bombs dropped by large bombers at high altitudes are not very accurate, but Since most of the incendiary bombs had a very good effect. Especially the new bombs we used in the second wave of air strikes were really powerful, and the attacks in the Aberdeen area were almost all inflammable targets such as the oil industry, so , We have achieved great results.” Speaking of this, he suddenly raised his head and said in a low voice: “By the way, your napalm bomb is really powerful, why didn’t you equip it for us in the first place? .”

"Hehe, Duke Feng, everything is the emperor's decision." explained.

"So what about our losses?" Feng Ru nodded and asked the officer again.

The officer said again: "Marshals, my lords, our losses have been preliminarily counted. After preliminary calculations, we have a total of 46 combat aircraft that did not return in this attack, and 32 of them were troops attacking the southern part of England. , including 16 tactical bombers, 12 fighter jets, 2 reconnaissance planes, 1 lead plane and 1 attack plane”

"Wait!" Before the other party finished speaking, Zhou Zhirou, the commander of the naval aviation, interrupted the other party: "What I want to know now is whether our attack on Aberdeen has caused a lot of damage? What is the specific loss?"

It can be seen that everyone is very concerned about this matter, after all, for them.At present, the most important thing besides the attack effect of Aberdeen is whether his "politician" tactics can succeed, and what directly reflects this is how much the dragon army in the Aberdeen area has lost.If the loss is large, it proves that the power of this weapon is very limited.If the loss is not large, it proves that this weapon has played a role.What remains is how to perfect this weapon, and to find the weakness of this weapon, so as to prevent the opponent from using the same tactical response.

The officer froze for a moment, then said: "How should I put it? Our loss is not too great. The troops responsible for attacking Aberdeen lost only 4 heavy bombers, and 6 more were damaged. All the damaged aircraft flew to Norway, the rest of the planes returned safely. We also lost 4 fighters, but mostly due to mechanical failures. In addition, the first wave of decoy troops lost 60 planes. Most of these planes were in Edinburgh It was shot down during the lure operation in the Aberdeen area. In short, our loss this time is not too great." Speaking of this, he paused slightly and continued: "And among the damaged aircraft in the Aberdeen area, there are hundreds of 25% were shot down by the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower. In addition, 15% were shot down by the opponent's air force. In addition, 50% were caused by malfunction losses or other losses. In short, the losses were minimal. In the London area On the contrary, 30% of the planes in the air raid on London were shot down by fighter jets, 20% were destroyed by the anti-aircraft fire of the opponent, and the remaining [-]% ​​were lost due to mechanical failure and other reasons. In general, if there is no 'politician', our losses will be relatively heavy, especially the number of planes shot down by the opponent's fighter jets is relatively large. In the area where 'politician' is used, our losses are relatively small. At least the number of planes shot down by enemy planes Fewer, so we consider the strike a success."

"Has the enemy's losses in Aberdeen been counted?" Zhou Zhirou continued to ask.

"The death toll is around 10."

"What? 10 people?" Everyone present couldn't help being surprised.

"10 people? Did you make a mistake, did you hear 1 people as 10 people?" Zhou Zhirou asked in surprise.

But he was also taken aback. He also found it incredible that so many people had died.He knew very well how many people there were in Edinburgh.The city is world famous for its oil industry and shipbuilding.In addition to these, what remains of Aberdeen are various universities and quaint buildings.According to the intelligence analysis of Aberdeen by the Imperial Security Bureau, as of May 1926, the population of Aberdeen was only 5, and one attack killed more than half of them.Based on the calculation that injuries and missing persons are generally 246513 times the number of deaths, the number of casualties in Aberdeen should be about 8 to 80 million. This figure is really too fake.

Secondly, although he also knew that the air strike was very violent and the effect of napalm bombs was absolutely top-notch, but the number of attacks by his own planes was not too many.There are 788 aircraft including naval aviation, bombers, fighter jets, escort aircraft, guide aircraft, and large radar early warning aircraft equipped with radar.Only 192 of the Naval Air Force and 214 of the Imperial Air Force actually took on the bombing mission, a total of 406 heavy strategic bombers.

However, in the British air raid on Hamburg on July 7, 23 aircraft were dispatched in a short period of time, including 791 Lancaster, 347 Halifax, and 246 Steering. .These are four-engine heavy bombers.In addition, there were 125 Mosquito twin-engine bombers.Next, in the air attack on Dresden on the night of August 73, the British army dispatched 8 five Lancaster and Mosquito bombers, as well as 13 Halifax and 805 Halifax aircraft from the 468 Bomber Group. Lancaster and 426 Mosquito bombers.

The two thousand-plane bombings only destroyed 45 percent of the large German cities of Hamburg and Dresden.The German death rate did not exceed 6.About 2.6 to 3 people died in the Hamburg air raid.The number of people killed in the Dresden air strike was about 2.54. Even if the atomic bomb was used, the casualty rate could not have reached such a high level.If it is said that the incendiary bomb is really more powerful than the atomic bomb, he would not believe it if he was killed.Based on the above two reasons, he did not believe, and it was impossible to believe, that the Dragon Army could kill half of the population of a city with such a great ability.

The officer said slowly: "Everyone, what I want to say is that this is the latest data from our air force intelligence department. Of course, I don't know how accurate it is. However, I also think this number is slightly off. , but the British are even more exaggerated. Their Prime Minister Churchill said in today's report to the nation that the number of deaths is 20. After careful consideration of this number, we believe that the final number is 10. Reliable, so we reported this number.

Most of the people present shook their heads involuntarily. After all, they were surprised by Churchill's approach, because according to the original situation, when one side was attacked by air, they would try their best to conceal the real number of deaths.If you can report as little as you can, you should report as little as possible. It is best that no one dies, but now the other party has no scruples to report several times the original number of deaths. This cannot but surprise everyone.

I can only guess what's tricky about it.The disaster caused by the air strikes can make the British civilians feel extremely fearful, but at the same time it is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Different political needs have become the best soil for lies.In fact, the British emphasized their position more than once. Churchill kept emphasizing that Britain was a victim of this war and put itself in a weak position.In this way, he can use this to stimulate the British people to continue fighting, while at the same time gaining assistance from other neutral countries, especially the sympathy of countries that are still in a swinging position.At the same time, in order to strengthen the people's will to resist, increase the power of the prime minister, enable everyone to participate in the battle, and unceremoniously bind innocent people with themselves, Britain must do so.In short, it seems that the British have handled it very well, at least so far, he has not thought of a way to deal with it.So he shook his head slightly: "It seems that the British want to win sympathy."

"The biggest problem before us now is how to eliminate the adverse effects of this strategic bombing, especially not to let Churchill and others use the losses of this air strike to hype us up and put us at a disadvantage." Feng As said.

"This is not a simple problem." He said: "From the current situation, it is not that there is no better way. Take the British exaggerating the number of deaths to win sympathy, we have two ways First, it is to come out to clarify the truth and ask them to provide a list of specific dead and missing persons, so as to overthrow the entire mistake of the British through a little mistake of the other party. This will give people the illusion that the present Britain is a Liar. With this premise, nothing the British say will work. Or, we can do the opposite. Didn’t the British say that the air strike killed 20 people in Aberdeen? Then we will kill them Expand it to four times, say that we killed 50 to 100 million people. Of course, no one will believe our number. In order to verify that what we said is wrong, I believe some boring people will look up related At that time, once the truth comes out, the rest will be much easier. In addition, there is another point of war against the Soviet Union. We must let the Soviets know the strength of our air force and let the Soviets know our new We must let the Soviets know that we are the most powerful country in the world, and as far as the current situation is concerned, as long as the Soviet Union can be forced not to express its position, no other country in the world dares to express its position indiscriminately. In this way, We will be able to gain some time to prepare slowly, and also watch out for retaliatory bombing by the British, which is very important."

(End of this chapter)