Chapter 999

Why did the German choose to bomb during the day? One of the simplest reasons is that daytime bombing is very effective. Being able to identify one's target with the naked eye and fly over the target with a denser formation was the best guarantee of hit accuracy for the 1939 bombing.

More than 150 planes flew in dense formation over the two largest and most important airports deployed by the allies in Iceland. The most direct result was that these two main airports were in ruins. Another 110 planes were responsible for attacking the Icelandic port, which also brought it back to the stone age.

The remaining 100 plus planes bombed major Icelandic cities, dropping incendiary bombs and aerial bombs on all of them, leaving almost all of Iceland's inhabited areas in flames. More than half of the infrastructure has been scrapped, and the 100000 British people who have fled have been hit by unprecedented blows.

There is an old saying in Europe: when the weak stimulates the strong, it is nothing more than sarcastic remarks. Once the strong retaliates against the weak, it will bring the weak to an end. The Germans obviously had the means to bring Iceland to an end, and now they are beginning to retaliate, so the disaster facing Iceland is beginning to spread.

In order to increase the range, the weight of bombs carried by German butcher bombers was reduced a lot. Each of these planes only carried more than 3 tons of bombs, but the total number of bombs dropped by more than 300 planes exceeded 1000 tons. These bombs allowed the Germans to store and transport them for several days, but only lost less than half an hour.

This is the power of science and technology. For the first time, mankind has such a terrible ability in war. They can use their wisdom to drop thousands of tons of bombs 2000 kilometers away, and destroy everything there to the dark middle ages, even worse.

Looking at those far away German bombers, all the British soldiers and American officials in Iceland felt a sudden sense of relief. They are glad that they are still alive. They are glad that the enemy's devastating bombing attack has finally ended.

There was a series of explosions everywhere, and the fire devoured the house, beating like a monster, destroying everything it could encounter. The oil depot deployed by the Allied forces here has become a fire site, and almost all of the hundreds of B-17 bombers parked in the airport have been destroyed.

No detailed investigation, as long as the eyes are not blind, you can see all the destruction. Just ask the soldiers who are running in a panic, and you will know that the whole Iceland is over, completely over.

Three radar stations were destroyed, and all the radar equipment deployed in the reinforced concrete structure was destroyed by aerial bombs. These radar stations were too close to other infrastructure, and they were completely affected by bombs left casually.

The city was also destroyed by the sudden German bombing. Reykjavik, which was full of British refugees, was attacked by more than 40 German bombers. Hundreds of tons of bombs were dropped into the city, where there were no air defense facilities. Thousands of people were killed in the first time.

The most tragic is the military base and airport facilities built by the British, which were attacked by nearly half of the German bombers, leaving nearly 500 tons of all kinds of bombs. The whole airport was filled with smoke. The German plane had been flying away for a long time, and the explosion was still continuous.

Tens of thousands of tons of American fuel oil was ignited and exploded, detonating several ammunition storage points stacked on the surface. Like firecrackers, these weapons explode, then ignite more fragile buildings and destroy everything nearby.

It's impossible to continue to use the level runways with potholes. Even if you want to repair them, it will take a lot of effort. The reinforced concrete command centers and towers that were not easy to build were almost destroyed by this bombing. Some buildings still have half of them or are covered with cracks. Who dares to continue to use such places?

For at least two months, the Icelandic base is unlikely to continue to be used. The most optimistic estimate is that it will have to wait for more than a dozen fleet supplies to arrive before it can be restored to its original level. This time, the British can be regarded as broken bones, their painstaking management of the outpost base, so easily destroyed by the German.

Compared with the Allied bombing of Norway, the German bombing of Iceland can be described as "You raise my soil, I tear down your two bones". The only thing to be congratulated by the United States is that they did blow up part of Norway's production equipment, while Germany can only get angry with an Icelandic base that has no production capacity.

"The loss assessment will come out later, but as far as the current situation is concerned, we have lost almost all of it." Sue? "I don't know about the port, but the air force base is almost useless," he told several British ministers

"The loss on the port side is very large and we need time to repair it." Although general Dudley pound, the commander of the Navy, is based in Iceland, he is only a bare commander here. His main fleet of the Royal Navy is now deployed in Canada, so he is afraid to operate in the waters east of Iceland.

"Your Majesty, fortunately, the backup airport in the northwest and several temporary ports there have not been attacked by the enemy. As long as the United States and Canada continue to provide assistance, it is still possible to maintain it." Sue? General doding said happily to King George VI, who was still a little uneasy. The bombing more than an hour ago was even more despairing than the terrible London bombing, because after all, this time the German planes were bigger and more powerful than when they bombed Britain.

At that time, the German air force mainly used do-217, a relatively small medium-sized aircraft, to patronize British airspace. Only a few of the time they used butcher bombers. As a result, after more than a year of accumulation, the German air force was able to deliver more than 300 butcher bombers to such a remote place as Iceland. This had to make King George, who was sitting in Iceland, worried. It seemed that his neck was once again put under the butcher's knife of the German. The loss of fighter planes is not great, but the loss of pilots is really desperate. Some of the pilots who escaped from Britain were lost in the fight in North Africa, and some of them were deployed in Canada. A small number of them went to India to help fight against the Japanese army there. Although there are still more than 100 people in Iceland, in this air defense operation, the number of pilots who escaped from the United Kingdom is very small, 21 people were lost, four of them valuable jet pilots. More than 30 of the remaining 80 pilots only flew the old fighter planes like hurricane. Instead of forbidding them to fly new planes, the U.S. P-40 production was insufficient, and most of them were sent to the Pacific battlefield to compete with the Japanese Navy. The main reason for not deploying so many fighters in Iceland is that it has hardly been attacked in any form by the German army. A few months ago, dozens of fighter planes were deployed to fight in the Pacific theater in line with the idea of being more frugal. Even if the production capacity is strong, like the United States, it also feels the pressure of production at this time. After all, most of the allied equipment now comes from the United States“ We need to strengthen the fighter force here! Take some from Canada! " King George was obviously still worried about the bombing just now. Although he had a good shelter as an underground hiding place, the destroyed city made him feel insecure“ There are not many fighter planes in the spare airport. If the US military wants to continue bombing Norway... I think our fighter force can only increase by about 30 at most. " Sue? Doding reluctantly replied to his king's request: "with all due respect, even if these aircraft are all the latest P-40 Rolls Royce improvements, the threat to German bombers is not great." George VI, the king of England, fixed his eyes on the face of Dorian, and finally lowered his anger from the edge of the outbreak. He looked at his air force commander and said, "Well! My general! You have to think of a way to avoid being bombed by the Germans again? " Suddenly the ground trembled slightly, and everyone looked out of the window in horror. At the end of the mountains in the distance, a wisp of smoke went straight up into the sky. The island of Iceland is full of all kinds of volcanoes, which erupt once or twice from time to time even when it is safe. The nearest volcano on the edge of eruption is only 125 kilometers away from Reykjavik, Iceland's largest city... "Why don't they... Drop some bombs into those volcanoes..." wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, a government official in a suit asked with some fear“ Who knows. " Sue? Looking at his majesty, who had not yet looked back, doding said, "I will order several troops stationed in Canada to assemble in Iceland, and send out as many better planes as possible to ambush and kill those damned German planes here." He had to change his strategy, because who knows that after several large-scale bombing, the bomb dropped by the German plane will really detonate an active volcano - that's more thorough than dozens of bombing. It's estimated that everything in Iceland will come to nothing. Just when the British were picking up the pieces in Iceland, the German bombers had already passed the German submarines that they had navigated in the middle. Because there were no enemy planes to catch up with them, hundreds of fw-190d fighters that had been waiting here had already returned ahead of time. The German commander of the pilot finally relaxed and radioed an inspiring message: "we're home!"------------ Unknowingly, this novel of Dragon Spirit knight has 1000 chapters and more than 3 million words, which has been written from Poland to Paris, from London to Moscow. I hope that the protagonist of this novel can go further. I hope that you who support the third empire can accompany the army of the Empire and go further!