Comrade, your ingredients are too complicated.

After discussing matters related to merging, reorganizing and establishing new military regions, the 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 operation 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 when the border areas were expanding at a rapid pace, warriors like the Tigers in the Forest should lead elite troops to front lines such as Jehol.

Coming to the eastern coast, if it was just to deal with the two divisions and four independent mixed brigades of the Japanese Twelfth Army, it would 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.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

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!"

Regarding confidentiality, 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.

It's a big move, so 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 set the time for the operation on April 17 this year. The final arrangement depends on the training situation of the comrades of the First and Third Divisions."

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

"At that time, the army will become a second-level military region based on the four cities of Qing, Wei, Yan, and Wei. 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 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 them. Even the Kwantung Army may come to intervene.

At that time, the troops will not only have to face positional warfare, siege warfare and field encounters, but they 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."

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

After finishing 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.

"Hey! 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 is wrong. Is it really a big five-ton bomb?"

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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 propaganda and mobilization.

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

Its main purpose is to inspire the people, 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 recruitment.

After all, you can't expect just sixteen B-25s to cause much damage to our 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. At the beginning of 1942, when we sent troops to the Qilu area, the enemy would most likely send the navy to support us.

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

Therefore, the targets of the Yellow River strategic bombing have been Benzi's military factories, military ports, and military academies from the 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.

Even though we are here, we have to leave some proof.

In response to 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, of course, was 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 weighs 5443 kilograms, has a total length of 6.4 meters with 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.

Maybe using a goblet to blow up a fast-moving battleship is a bit useless. 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 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 goes for 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 yield and is very difficult to release. Except in certain circumstances, sincerity is a thankless weapon.

And torpedoes!

That is a noble underwater villain.

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

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

The average time of losing 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 Dai Ying.

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

but!

Unexpectedly, the Awakening Yonghu system made another adjustment in the selection of torpedoes, and 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 not only takes into account power and reliability, but also has an incredible speed of 43 knots and an effective range of 5 kilometers.

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

However, the range of two kilometers requires HNA pilots to go deep into the air defense fire network before they can launch at close range. As a result, the elites flying torpedo bombers became expendable.

The range of the 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 extremely 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)