Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

As soon as you step outside the city limits in the UK, you can easily find yourself in pastoral scenery. In most towns or rural areas, the buildings are no more than three stories high, and most of them are brick and wood structures, which can be described as antique and beautiful. Moreover, these towns generally have a long history. Because they have not been invaded by foreign enemies for a long time, and there have been no earthquakes or natural disasters, a building can often trace back hundreds of years of history. The central areas of some towns still maintain the layout and facilities of centuries ago. Aging, the streets are narrow and there are almost no gaps between houses.

With such an environmental layout, just one incendiary bomb can spread the fire to several blocks in a few minutes.

And now it is winter, the cold wind is howling, and after the fire is ignited, the fire takes advantage of the wind, and the fire becomes more powerful, and thick smoke rises into the sky.

"Oh, the fire is so fierce!"

The fighter pilots high in the sky couldn't help but be speechless when they looked at the thick smoke rising from the ground. It feels like if I flew lower, I would be blackened by the smoke.

"Why haven't we seen British fighter jets yet?" the fighter formation commander asked the headquarters. "Eagle's Nest, Eagle's Nest, have you spotted any British fighter planes?"

command replied. "It was not detected by radar and the British Air Force was not dispatched."

After hearing the news, the other pilots exploded instantly. "Is it possible that these guys have become cowards and don't dare to challenge?!"

"No way, that's too bad. Watching your own country being bombed?! It's better to simply surrender."

"We should go straight to London to see if they still act like a turtle." They are now more than 80 kilometers away from London. At their flying speed, they can fly to London in less than ten minutes.

"Forget it, London is still under bombardment. Do you think they dare to bomb the V3 base?" The last time the British Air Force's day bombing and night bombing of the V3 artillery base were severely damaged, they never dared to bomb it again. The idea of ​​V3 base.

While the German pilots were mocking the cowardice of the British pilots, the villages and towns on the ground were engulfed in ruthless flames and suffered total destruction. Plymouth, Torquay, Weymouth, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Eastbourne, Hastings, Folkestone, Dover, Ramsgate, Margate... almost all the southern coastal towns suffered.

"God bless, I hope there's no one down there." On a Mosquito bomber, the co-pilot crossed himself on his chest after returning to his seat after dropping the bomb.

The driver pouted. "A bombing warning was issued yesterday, and all of them have already fled. Who else is left?"

But he guessed wrong. The town below was not empty, and there were still many people who had not left. Some people were lucky, some had nowhere to go, and some were reluctant to leave their homes. Anyway, those who stayed for various reasons hid in air-raid shelters according to the instructions in the air-raid brochure.

Little did they know that the air-raid shelters, which could defend against shrapnel and gravel, were unable to withstand the invasion of flames. The violent combustion drained the oxygen from the surface. People hiding in air-raid shelters passed out due to severe lack of oxygen or extreme heat.

"It's really strange. There is no anti-aircraft firepower here." Logically speaking, they issued a bombing warning yesterday, and the British should have deployed intensive anti-aircraft firepower. But so far, they haven't encountered even one anti-aircraft shell. It's so easy and incredible. .

What he didn't know was that the UK's current air defense firepower was extremely short, and these ordinary rural towns naturally had little air defense power. At most, it's just a matter of placing a few air-proof balloons.

In the original time and space, in order to prevent German aircraft from invading the British Isles, especially to prevent the activities of German mine-laying aircraft, the British army deployed 1,450 air defense balloons along the coast and in major cities. There are also many air defense balloons deployed for the defense of the aircraft industry and other targets.

These air defense balloons are filled with hydrogen and are large and light. They usually rise to the height of enemy aircraft and can effectively interfere with the invasion of German aircraft. In order to make the anti-aircraft balloon easy to maneuver and shorten the deployment time, the ball is retracted several meters above the ground when moving, and then tied to a truck for transfer.

As for anti-aircraft artillery, when France surrendered, the British army had only 1,204 heavy anti-aircraft guns and 581 light anti-aircraft guns.

This is far from meeting the needs. There are too many places that require anti-aircraft artillery defense. Various factories, airports, and ports all need to be defended. According to organizational requirements, the British army should have 2,232 heavy anti-aircraft guns and 1,860 light anti-aircraft guns. However, the actual anti-aircraft guns it possesses are less than half of the requirements, which is a drop in the bucket.

The production volume of British anti-aircraft guns is very low, with only 40 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns produced per month. As the German army's attacks on sea transportation lines became more frequent, the production of anti-aircraft guns lacking raw materials was also decreasing. For this reason, the defense of London and other cities had to be temporarily sacrificed, and more anti-aircraft guns were used to protect aircraft factories, airports and other important places.

For example, Plymouth is a British naval base and port city. It is located in the center of Plymouth Bay in southwest England, between the Plym River and the Taima River, facing the English Channel. A naval dockyard was built here as early as 1690. At the same time, Devonport in the south was an important port for the British Navy.

Its geographical strategic location enabled Plymouth to develop into an important military port. It was later the home port for 60% of the British Navy's surface ships and the headquarters of the British Navy. During the famous Normandy landings in World War II (1944), the Allied forces assembled and set off for one of the major ports in Normandy, Devonport.

But such an important port has only been allocated 80 heavy anti-aircraft guns; compared to the total number of anti-aircraft guns, these 80 are considered a lot, but Germany will deploy at least 100 heavy anti-aircraft guns in the same port.

Moreover, where these heavy anti-aircraft guns were deployed, the German army dispatched HE117 bombers, which dropped bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters. Although the accuracy was not very good, the anti-aircraft guns on the ground could not do anything to them. Most of these heavy anti-aircraft guns are 7-inch (94 mm caliber) heavy anti-aircraft guns with a maximum range of about 9,000 meters. They are completely helpless against a group of HE117 bombers flying at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.

Therefore, this bombing trip was quite successful.

Yannick couldn't help but raise his eyebrows after hearing Kesselin's report. "The British are so calm?" He originally planned to take this opportunity to eliminate the main force of British fighter jets as much as possible. I didn't expect that Churchill could be so calm, watching his country being ravaged without doing anything.

Kesselring suggested. "Your Highness, how about we attack London directly? Maybe we can draw them out for a decisive battle."

Yannick shook his head. "No, I have prepared another big gift for London."