Chapter 227 Namo Gatling Bodhisattva (Third update, please subscribe)
Gatling!
Namo Gatling Bodhisattva!
This is a big gift prepared by Li Yian for Little Japan. He has always put a lot of effort into giving gifts to Little Japan.
You can never have too many good gifts.
What is this response?
It’s the so-called “kamikaze attack” in Little Japan. Why did the United States finally accept Japan’s relatively “conditional” surrender in another world?
To put it bluntly, the madness of little Japan makes it difficult for the United States to accept the losses caused by attacking Japan - even after two atomic bombs, Japan is still unwilling to surrender, at least unwilling to surrender unconditionally.
What made Americans believe that the Japanese would fight to the death was the so-called "Kamikaze Attack" - during the Battle of Okinawa, thousands of planes launched suicide attacks one after another. So shocking.
When have humans ever seen such a beastly fighting style?
In the suicide attack on Okinawa, the morale of the U.S. Navy was severely damaged-the casualties even exceeded the Pearl Harbor incident!
As an ambitious young man who has been committed to the Allied forces landing on the Japanese mainland and turning the Japanese mainland into a scorched earth, Li Yian will naturally not allow this to happen.
What can stop those suicide attack planes?
The most common anti-aircraft weapons of later navies gave him inspiration.
It is definitely not a missile, but the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Namo Gatling Bodhisattva!
Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, with six pure high-explosive bombs, one breath of six thousand six hundred times, saves the world with great compassion.
This guy can be used to intercept anti-ship missiles. Wouldn't it be a piece of cake to use it to deal with suicide aircraft driven by the Japanese?
So, he immediately instructed Carl Metal Company to develop a Gatling-type machine gun!
In fact, it is not about development at all, but redevelopment - as early as World War I, Germany developed the Fokker-Leimberger Gatling aviation machine gun, which fired a 7.92mm Mauser rifle. ammunition, with a rate of fire of up to 7,000 rounds per minute!
Although it was an old item from the First World War, thanks to the rigidity and seriousness of the Germans, the search team easily found the drawings from the First World War in the factory archives, and even hired German engineers , drawing on drawings from the First World War, designed a 20mm caliber, 6-barreled Gatling-type high-speed machine gun. After completing preliminary tests in Germany, the drawings were flown to the United States overnight and were produced by Carl Metal Company.
Just like this, a weapon of multinational cooperation was newly released. Although there may be a certain gap in performance from the Vulcan cannon more than ten years later, it is definitely epoch-making in this era.
As soon as it appeared, it really blinded the eyes of the US Navy. Although this type of Gatling gun did not have a fire control radar, it could easily kill a suicide attack aircraft with its ultra-high rate of fire. Break into pieces.
Faced with its abnormally powerful firepower, the U.S. Navy, which was having a headache from Japan's "Kamikaze Special Attack", acted as if it had found a treasure, without conducting further tests, and just dropped it. Placed an order - 5,000 doors!
The contractors are not only Carl Metal Company, but also many other manufacturing companies. All companies are required to complete the orders in the shortest possible time. After all, the front line now urgently needs this kind of weapon to stop the Japanese. suicide plane.
The first batch of "Vulcan" guns produced were even transported directly from the United States to Okinawa by C54 transport aircraft, and installed on high-value warships, such as aircraft carriers.
It has to be said that when faced with a crisis, American imperialism can also change its bureaucratic style. After all, the landing on the Japanese mainland is imminent.
In this way, the United States and even the entire world are making final preparations for the upcoming "Operation Olympics".
In the newly recaptured Lianyungang, a large number of troops equipped with American equipment are boarding landing ships continuously. They will go to Okinawa, where they will receive training and launch attacks on the Japanese mainland together with the US military. The final attack.
It has been eight years since they walked from China to Japan, and now, they have finally reached the final moment.
Next stop, Tokyo!
Just when millions of soldiers are excited and excited about the upcoming eight-year agreement, Li Yi'an, who is far away in Borneo, is also paying attention to Japan. There is no way, he doesn't care about people in Japan these days. They are from Tang Dynasty!
"Li Mei, classmate Li Mei, how many things have you left for me..."
The reason why Li Yian sighed like this was because he was lying on the desk. , is immersed in looking for valuable targets - targets that have not been burned by the barbecue master.
I have to say that Li Mei is definitely a good student who loves to learn and is actively making progress. He burned 65 of the 67 cities in Japan. The other two cities, Kyoto and Nara, survived. To put it bluntly, Well, it was because the Allies were too kind-hearted and thought there were too many ancient monuments, so they included them in the protection scope.
Although we still have two cities left for ourselves, we are also kind-hearted people, so we should look for other goals. . But the other 65 cities were almost burned by the barbecue master. It can be said that Japan is now full of familiar people.
However, the US military's bombing has stopped now - Truman ordered the implementation of the second phase of the "Hunger Campaign". As early as the first half of the year, the US military began to implement the "Hunger Campaign" - using B29 bomber airdrops , using 15,000 mines to block communication lines in the waters surrounding Japan. After being blocked by mines, Japan's total imports of materials dropped by 90%, and the supply of strategic materials such as oil, coal, and grain was basically cut off. The people were starved of food and the industry was paralyzed.
The successful implementation of the "Battle of Hunger" almost completely cut off Japan's vital maritime transportation. This is why Li Yi'an never worried that Japan, which was suffering from hunger, would snatch food from China, because in Historically, tens of millions of tons of grain were crowded and backlogged in ports in Northeast China, North China and Southeast Asia. However, the biggest problem was that the food was not shipped back. Even if the ship was found, it would either be sunk by a submarine or blown up by a mine. Shen. As a result, Little Japan is still a hungry person!
In this world, mine blockade is only the first stage of the plan, and the most deadly is the second stage-spreading farmland on the Japanese archipelago with diluted "Agent Orange". The plan is to be implemented from September. September is the grain filling period of Japanese rice. Spraying defoliants can effectively reduce rice production and may even lead to a complete harvest.
According to U.S. estimates, after the use of 500,000 tons of "Agent Orange" for spraying operations, Japan's rice production is expected to decrease by more than 50%.
And what does this mean?
Japan’s grain output in 1942 was 10.2 million tons. At that time, it needed to import 1.8 million tons per year to ensure domestic demand. Affected by the war, its grain output in 1944 was only 8 million tons. If it were reduced by half, it would be 4 million tons...
According to US calculations, the per capita ration of Japanese people will be less than 500 grams by then. , more than 80% of the people will be hungry. If Japan does not surrender, more than 10 to 20 million people will soon die from famine!
Twenty million people starve to death, which is really scary for Japan, a country with a native population of 70 million.
However, for Li Yian, this is a great thing that cannot be found even with a lantern.
Adhering to the principle of never stopping doing good deeds, Li Yi'an set his sights on Japan again - now Li Mei only focused on spraying operations and had no time to barbecue. This made Li Yi'an, who had no acquaintances in Japan, a little bit unable to sit still.
Of course, the reason why I can't sit still is that the bomber units trained in the United States have completed all training. About to fly back to Borneo.
"My bomber is coming..."
Bomber!
There are 100 B24 long-range bombers, and 24 Lancaster bombers should be added!
124 bombers are enough to carry hundreds of tons of incendiary bombs!
Throwing these bombs in Japan will definitely make you have a lot of acquaintances there.
Just thinking about it makes people feel very exciting!
For Li Yi'an who has no acquaintances in Japan, isn't this the time to go find acquaintances!
So naturally we set our sights on Japan. The only question is...where to bomb?
It’s hard to choose a place!
The only fault is that Li Mei, the barbecue master, did his job so well that she didn’t leave much choice for him at all.
"Where is it burning..."
Staring at the aerial photos taken by the Allied forces and looking at the Japanese cities that were burned to a red ground, Li Yian felt a little melancholy.
What is the most painful thing for people?
There is no use for it!
Now he deeply understands this feeling, maybe because God pity him, in the end, he found a suitable target among thousands of aerial photos!
(End of this chapter)