Chapter 270 Raid

120 Mosquito bombers of Type VI (with increased wing strength, in addition to carrying 500 kg bombs in the fuselage bomb bay, they also carry 2*250 kg bombs under the wings, with a total bomb load of 1,000 kg.) were scattered in various secret airports, preparing to raid the six ports of Sheerness, Magath, Dover, New Haven, Folkestone and Ramsgate.

The bright lights illuminated the entire airport like daylight, and the ground crew carefully mounted the 500 kg special bombs in the transport and loading vehicles on the bomb bays and wings on both sides. The bodies of these special bombs were painted with big Xs in blood-red paint, which looked as if they were bloody and chilling.

"Check carefully! This is our army's latest secret weapon! We must ensure that every bomb will explode, and no duds are allowed!" A middle-aged technician shouted while checking the detonator on the bomb.

"Yes!" All the young apprentices answered solemnly. There were also many crisp female voices in the middle.

If Japan's weakness is the territory, and the Republic of China's weakness is technology, then Germany's weakness is undoubtedly the population.

With a population of only more than 80 million, Germany is seriously lacking in human resources in all aspects. In Yannick's plan, the Wehrmacht, which will eventually expand to 7 million, is a huge pit; and military and civilian factories in various industries are also competing for more workers; medical staff in hospitals, teachers and staff in schools, farmers on farms, breeders in fisheries... There are countless loopholes in all 360 industries that need to be filled, even if Germany's population doubles, it will not be too much.

Yannick also has no way to solve the population problem in a short time. After all, this is not a Red Alert game, where you can buy a soldier with strong or even abnormal combat power for 100 yuan.

He has been encouraging German women to have more children, and it has indeed been effective (now is not the time when feminism is rampant in the future, and no one will shout "resolutely not be a reproductive machine". Yannick does not oppose feminism, but it is ridiculous and ironic to use the reproductive function of the uterus as a bargaining chip to pursue equality, improve the status of women, refuse straight men, refuse dick cancer, and not be a reproductive machine. If you think this method will work, I suggest you watch "The Last Egg" by Zheng Yuanjie or the American TV series "The Handmaid's Tale"). Now the minimum number of German families has two children, and three or four is also a common phenomenon. Every year, more and more people give birth to more than five children and receive the "Heroic Mother" medal. After all, since you have given birth to three or four children, why not give birth to one or two more in exchange for the glorious title and the considerable subsidy.

The number of babies born last year alone has exceeded 4 million. In addition, under Yannick's attention, Germany has established a very complete childcare system, which has greatly reduced the pressure on parents and will not affect their work efficiency.

Although this is a remarkable achievement, it will take more than a decade for these children to grow up. By then, no matter what the outcome, the war should have ended long ago. It will not help the current labor shortage problem, but instead make the ubiquitous childcare system occupy a lot of manpower and material resources.

In this case, those extremely dangerous jobs were thrown to the prisoners in the concentration camps. Anyway, they did not need to be paid, and they did not care about life and death. It would be a waste if they were not used. The heavy and tiring jobs were thrown to the prisoners in the POW camps. In other fields, the shortage of young and middle-aged people had to be supplemented by the elderly and children. If there were not enough elderly and children, women had to go to the battlefield.

Now posters supporting women to go out to work are posted everywhere in Germany. In the first year of the implementation of the women's work plan, 200,000 jobs were provided to women, and the number is constantly increasing.

The vast number of women who have been separated from the role of full-time housewives are immersed in the joy of liberation, and the capitalists who employ them are also delighted that they only need to pay two-thirds of the wages of male workers.

The Guards were the first to recruit female soldiers to establish combat units, and the popularity of women joining the army exceeded everyone's imagination. On the first day, the number of applicants exceeded 50,000, and in just four days, the number reached 300,000. These are all reservists who have participated in military training regularly since junior high school and shoot more than 100 rounds a year. Even if these female soldiers do not go to the battlefield, they can save a lot of male soldiers by maintaining the security of the occupied areas.

The Wehrmacht has also recruited female soldiers one after another, serving as grassroots communications and secretarial work, as well as nurses and anti-aircraft gunners.

In the original World War II, the most passionate and active soldiers were German women, with more women than British and American women. In addition, Germany has also legislated that women must serve in the military; therefore, they can be seen in all branches of the army, navy and air force.

Each aviation unit also has corresponding female ground crews, and the actual results have proved that female soldiers seem to be more careful than men when maintaining bombs and other weapons and equipment. And there are very few female soldiers who smoke, which greatly increases safety and efficiency.

Under the command of the dispatch desk, the formation of Mosquito bombers loaded with bombs took off one by one, formed a formation, and flew towards the predetermined target.

"Enemy planes!"

When the first rays of dawn illuminated the port of Sheerness, the shrill air defense alarm rang above the port. Unfortunately, the ground air defense forces, without radar warning, could not react quickly enough, and even failed to intercept the bomber formation at a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour. The bomber formation easily broke through the air defense firepower network and rushed into the port.

"Oh, there are so many ships!" A bombardier on a bomber looked at the densely packed large and small ships parked below, at least 200 of them.

"Hold on, hold on!" The bombardier concentrated on locking a densely packed area in the center of the crosshairs and suddenly pulled down the bomb wrench. As the 500 kg bomb hanging in the bomb bay detached, the flight speed increased sharply, and then he aimed at another place and dropped both 250 kg bombs under the wing. After dropping these heavy loads, the bomber's flight speed quickly increased to 600 km/h.

Twenty bombers dropped a total of 20 500 kg bombs and 40 250 kg bombs.

In a series of crisp explosions, these large bombs broke apart, and several small bombs with parachutes flew out of them. The small bombs were like cylindrical beer barrels, with a long iron rod extending from the bottom, tied under the parachute and floating down, evenly distributed over the entire port.

Then, in the sound of a series of explosions that was much smaller than the usual bomb explosions, the densely packed ships below were shrouded by clouds of white mist-like gas.

Although they heard the alarm, the people on the ship had no time to run to the shore and hide in the air-raid shelter. They could only hide in the cabin and pray that the German bombs would not fall on their ship. But they found that the sound of the explosion was very small, without the deafening roar and the feeling of shaking the earth.

Could it be that the Germans dropped small bombs?

Someone looked out through the glass window and found that the window seemed to be white as if there was fog, and there seemed to be a pungent smell of chemical agents in the air.

"What's going on?"