Ron saw the remaining ki-44 "Zhongkui" interceptors turning around and flying towards the landing. He knew that this round of competition was over. In this round of competition, the Japanese failed to shoot down

Even with a B-29 bomber, the Americans failed to hit the target they wanted to attack. But in general, Japan was the loser in this round of competition. First of all, no matter how

Hey, although the bombs dropped by the Americans failed to hit the main target, they could always hit something if they were hit accidentally. Secondly, during this bombing, the B-29 fleet also damaged two Ki-44 "Zhong Kui"

"type interceptor aircraft. But in terms of exchange ratio, Japan still suffered greater losses. However, this air strike was still extremely unsatisfactory, because the efficiency of such bombing was too low.

"How can we solve this problem?" Ron thought as he sat in the relatively comfortable cabin of the B-29 bomber.

Ron remembered that LeMay later took over General Hansel's position and became the commander of the 21st Bomb Wing. He also faced this problem at that time. At that time, LeMay changed the traditional daytime bombing of the US bomber force to

Instead of night bombing, Japan did not have decent night fighters at all. It posed little threat to American bombers. Moreover, Li Mei also changed the target of attacks from industrial to mainly attacking living targets, and replaced the high-explosive bombs dropped with

Incendiary bombs were used because there were many wooden houses in Japan, which were easier to burn and more likely to cause greater casualties.

"Should we tell General Hansel this idea?" Ron thought, "If you make such a suggestion to him, wouldn't it be equivalent to taking the credit out of LeMay's hands and giving it to General Hansel?"

"Really? It seems unfair to General Li Mei." Li Mei is also Ron's friend. Although Li Mei couldn't know that he was taking credit from him, Ron still felt a little embarrassed.

However, Ron immediately considered that, first of all, using this strategy can defeat the Japanese devils faster, and in addition, it can also reduce the time that the Chinese people suffer under the iron heel of Japan. At the same time, it can also reduce the casualties of American soldiers. Consider

At this point, perhaps we should discuss this plan with General Hansel.

…

"Ron, you went out with the bombers, do you have any ideas?" General Hansel asked.

"Ah, General, I found that the attack efficiency of bombing like this is indeed too low." Ron said, "Our bombing height is too high, so as long as the air flow is slightly disturbed, our bombs will not know where to fall.

Already."

"Yes. But if we lower the altitude, we will be hit by the enemy. Unless there are escort fighters, we can't lower the altitude. Maybe we need to wait longer for the Navy to get a suitable escort.

Only when the fighter jets advance to the island of the airport can we launch high-precision bombing at a lower altitude." General Hansel said.

"Actually, um, actually I have some ideas." Ron said.

"What method?" General Hansel asked. In the Army Aviation, Ron was already known for his resourcefulness. In the past, he was recognized as the Army Aviation's number one fighter tactics expert. However, in the Army Aviation, the fighter's

Its status has always been inferior to that of bombers. Therefore, the reputation of the number one fighter tactic expert is not a big deal. This is because before Ron, Chennault, who is also proficient in fighter jets, has never been very popular.

We can see a little bit. Of course, Chennault's bad character is one of the reasons why he was suppressed. But, does Li Mei's character have a good character? And considering the background, Li Mei's father is not called Li Gang. Why is Li Mei

Why was May so popular? There was certainly a factor in this that Le May was lucky enough to catch up with the war, but it was undeniable that bomber experts were more popular in the U.S. Army Air Forces, which built its army around bombers.

So, now, after the U.S. military regained Paris, Li Mei quickly changed his rank of brigadier general to major general during the large-scale official promotion. As for Ron, it is said that he has to wait a little longer. However, Li Mei is

Ron's praise has greatly improved Ron's status in everyone's hearts. Li Mei publicly said that Ron is not only the best fighter tactics expert in the entire Army Air Forces, but also the best fighter tactician in the Army Air Forces.

One of the best bomber experts in the world, even his most proud "box formation" was developed with Ron. After that, Ron designed the "early clearing" tactic of fighter jets to cooperate with bombers, which made it even more popular.

The officers of the bomber department unanimously praised it. So now when Ron said "I have some ideas", General Hansel immediately became energetic.

"Oh, that's right." Ron said, "As far as I know, the Japanese don't have many decent night fighters. Maybe a night attack would be a good idea."

The number of Japanese night fighters is not large enough. Compared with Germany's production of tens of thousands of night fighters, the Japanese have only produced or modified less than a thousand night fighters in total. Moreover, due to technical problems, these night fighters

Most of them are not equipped with airborne radar. Although some aircraft are equipped with airborne radar, they are only equipped with sea search radar. Japanese night fighters that are actually equipped with air search radar are more powerful than the giant panda and the Siberian tiger.

All rare.

"Yes, the Japanese don't seem to have many night fighters. Our aircraft that perform some night missions have basically never seen the enemy's night fighters. But the accuracy of night bombing is also a problem." General Hansel said.

"We can change the target." Ron said, "For the Japanese to produce weapons and equipment, several elements are necessary: ​​factories, energy, materials, workers, and transportation. If any of these things is missing, production will occur.

A difficult and even unsustainable situation.”

Ron paused for a moment. He saw General Hansel showing a thoughtful expression, and then continued: "For example, we can target transportation. As far as I know, between the four islands of Japan,

Transportation in the Seto Inland Sea is very dependent on shipping. The water in the Seto Inland Sea is relatively shallow, especially

It is not suitable for minelaying. If we use B-29 to perform minelaying missions at night, maybe it won’t take long before we can make the outside of every Japanese port full of mines, so that not even a small fishing boat can go out to sea in the Seto Inland Sea. In this way

It will inevitably bring great chaos to Japanese industrial production."

General Hansel didn't speak. He just stood up, walked to the big map, and observed it carefully.

"Well, Ron, this idea is very creative. But in order to form a complete plan, more details are needed. For example, the hydrological conditions of the port and so on. The Navy must have this information," said General Hansel.

, "This is really a good idea. Japan is short of resources. As long as a large number of mines are mined at their ports, it can greatly reduce the efficiency of the ports and naturally solve the problem from the root. I think this solution is very feasible. It's really worthy of the question.

He is a resourceful wizard!"

"Besides that, I have another idea." Ron continued to peddle the dark ideas brought from another world, "Our bombing effect on Japanese factories was not good. This is of course because the bombing altitude was too high.

The accuracy is too poor. But on the other hand, the Japanese's unique industrial layout will also become a troublesome problem. An expert on Japan once told me that the Japanese industry is fundamentally different from ours. Theirs is like ours.

Just like we went to bomb today

There are not many large factories in China. In fact, their industry is in the form of semi-industrial and semi-manual workshops. Those factories are often only responsible for the final integration, and most of the various components are completed in manual workshops scattered in the city.

If we only attack factories, the blow to them will be limited. We must eliminate these handicraft workshops scattered in urban residential areas together with the workers who provide labor for Japan's military industry. That is truly efficient.

practice."

"You mean, let us target residential areas like the British did? The British did this in Europe, but the effect still seems to be inferior to our daytime precision bombing." General Hansel was somewhat disapproving, "I think it is still

It might be better to concentrate our efforts on offensive mine laying."

"General, that's because German cities are different from Japanese cities." Ron continued, "German cities are all made of stone or reinforced concrete buildings, and they can only be blown up bit by bit with high-explosive bombs.

.And most of the houses in Japanese cities are made of wooden structures, which are easy to burn. We only need to find one

In the middle of the night, hundreds or even thousands of B-29s were dispatched at once, loaded with incendiary bombs, and flew to Tokyo. Then they first used incendiary bombs to draw a large circle around Tokyo to ensure that little Japan surrounded inside had nowhere to escape.

, and then you can throw incendiary bombs into the circle. I estimate that doing this will definitely be more exciting than Dresden."

"This requires a lot of aircraft, and we don't have that many aircraft now," General Hansel said.

"Then increase the amount of ammunition loaded on each aircraft and remove everything that can be removed from the aircraft - unnecessary seats, luxury items, and machine guns, all removed. Free up weight.

Hang an incendiary bomb!"

"This is too risky! If you encounter an enemy night fighter, the B-29 without self-defense firepower, loaded with incendiary bombs and not flying fast will become an easy prey. Ron, actually we don't have to be so anxious.

We can wait a moment until we have more planes, and then we can implement this plan. Let us first complete the offensive mine-laying plan."

Ron stared at General Hansel, and General Hansel also stared at Ron, shaking his head firmly: "Ron, your plan is very good and very creative, but I have to say, it is really

It’s too dangerous. I’d rather wait a little longer. Young people, don’t worry, we have already won the war. The closer we get to the last moment, the more cautious we need to be…”

Ron lowered his eyelids as a sign of concession. After all, he was the commander of the 21st Bomb Wing. Ron originally thought he could take the title of "Devil General" away from LeMay and replace it with General Hansel.
Chapter completed!