Gao Fei has some understanding of Chiang Kai-shek's intention to wait for victory. It is nothing more than Chiang Kai-shek's preparation to eliminate dissidents on a large scale. Cooperating with the United States to implement island-hopping operations and strengthening military preparations in the Far East, if domestic frictions in China will cause the allies to question the Chinese government, it will be extremely worthwhile. %&*";

Regarding Gao Fei's concerns, Chiang Kai-shek is also a little worried. After all, China's overall economy and military are basically supported by the United States. He Yingqin and even Chen Cheng supported Gao Fei's idea of ​​fighting against the same room easily. Landing in Japan and burning the flames of war to Japanese homes is undoubtedly what Chinese soldiers want to do most. Now there are more than 29 sorties of b[-]d every day Super Sky Fortress heavy-duty four-engine bombers bombed the Japanese mainland, and cities such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Nagasaki, Kokura, and Yokohama were basically blown into ruins.

Relatively speaking, strategic bombing is not only about attacking military targets, that is, the army, military bases, military installations, etc., but also thoroughly destroys the production facilities, transportation agencies, and even general residential areas behind the Japanese army. The purpose of the attack was to completely destroy the ability of the Japanese state to carry on the war, and to make the Japanese government and people lose the will to continue the war. The effect of this kind of bombing is very obvious. There were problems in the supply of weapons and ammunition, big cities were destroyed one after another, factories were turned into ruins, and mature industrial workers were buried in flames. It can be said that Japan's war potential was fundamentally disintegrated. %&*";

Dropping a large number of bombs on the enemy's densely populated cities, causing destruction and terror to ordinary people, in order to seek a strategy to end the war. It can be said that the real strategic bombing in the world began in the Chinese battlefield. Chongqing carried out a three-year strategic bombing campaign, which was later stopped by the Sino-US joint air force. However, according to incomplete statistics, the Japanese Air Force bombed Chongqing more than [-] times in the past three years, dispatched nearly [-] combat aircraft, and dropped more than [-] bombs , resulting in the death of more than [-] civilians in Chongqing, almost razing most of Chongqing to the ground, and the Japanese army used incendiary bombs for the first time during the Chongqing bombing.

Carpet bombing refers to the use of a large number of various types of aerial bombs to kill and destroy personnel and equipment in the area like laying carpets on the floor. When the target of carpet bombing is a population or industrial gathering area, it is intended to achieve a blow to the morale and morale of the opponent. The strategic goal of war potential, obviously the Japanese failed to succeed.Anti-Japanese Blood Sacrifice Mountains and Rivers 921

However, Gao Fei does not appreciate Duhet's theory, because before the emergence of precision-guided long-range weapons, Duhet's theory can only stay in textbooks. Duhet himself is an Italian military theorist and once served as the director of the National Defense Aviation Department. .

As early as the First World War, Duhet advocated the establishment of a dedicated bomber force. Duhet published the book "Supremacy of the Air", which put forward a systematic theory on the construction and operation of the air force.

He believes that the independent air force dominated by bombers will play a decisive role in future wars. The air force can destroy the enemy's industrial production capacity and people's morale through precise bombing of the enemy's military bases, political and economic centers, and can even destroy the enemy's industrial production capacity and people's morale on the ground. Wars are won or lost before troops go into battle.

Douhet claimed that the emergence of the air force made the previous combat method of fighting each other on the battlefield completely obsolete, so that casualties and material losses in wars were minimized.Although Du Het's military rank is only a major general, his theories have gained quite a market in the post-war Western military circles.

Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Italy have all emerged a group of believers in the theory of victory of the air force. They began to advocate the importance of the air force and promoted the construction of air forces in various countries. Gao Fei has repeatedly reminded the United States that the bombing of Germany is absolutely It is not possible to refer to the Japanese model, because the strength of the German air defense is not comparable to that of Japan. It is a pity that Gao Fei's harsh advice has really fallen on deaf ears.

In the eyes of the Americans, before the U.S. aided China, an army general in a country whose air force had to be called an "air force" was so bold as to point fingers at the U.S. Air Force?It's so ridiculous that Gao Fei has become a joke among the U.S. Air Force.

But soon, the Americans couldn't laugh anymore. Just half a month ago, the Americans learned their first painful lesson. Seven b110f air fortress bombers broke into Bulai in formation without fighter escort. Over May, the well-equipped and well-trained German fighter group immediately let the Americans know how ridiculous their blind confidence in the sky fortress is.

After the short air battle ended, as many as 17 b62f sky fortresses were shot down and injured, accounting for more than half of the total number of aircraft participating in the battle. This brilliant result stunned the Americans?

However, the speed at which the Americans learned lessons was very slow. After five days, the U.S. military sent a total of 560 b17f sky fortresses and b29d super sky fortresses to bomb Schweinfurt’s German ordnance manufacturing factory. This time the Americans learned the lesson. Send a large number of fighter jets to escort.

However, the resistance of the Germans this time shocked the Americans even more. The German army concentrated a total of more than 109 me110 fighter jets and more than 160 me270 fighter jets to conduct interception operations in batches, altitudes, and regions.Such a large-scale attack caused the U.S. bomber fleet to suffer unimaginable losses. More than [-] bombers were shot down, and [-] nine escort fighters were shot down or forced to land. The losses of the Americans are very amazing. The Schweinfurt massacre made The U.S. Eighth Air Force had to temporarily suspend its strategic precision bombing of Germany.

Under the heavy blow of the Luftwaffe, Spaatz, the commander of the Eighth Air Force, also gradually realized that the theory of precision bombing is actually unfeasible. Only by becoming an important target of strategic bombing can the strategic and tactical goals of effective bombing be achieved.

The Americans tried to bomb Germany and lost troops. This also caused a lot of differences between the United Kingdom and the United States. It is extremely unwise to disperse combat power. At the same time, it stopped sending new bomber units to Europe, and instead strengthened the Tenth Air Force stationed in China and the Sino-US joint air force.

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