Chapter 717: German-Soviet War (56)

When it comes to brain-opening weapons, the island countries in World War II are naturally indispensable.

They once developed the "Sakura" suicide plane code-named "Yokosuka MXY-7". It is small in size, poorly equipped, carries a 1,200-kilogram warhead, and can only seat one person. Unlike the "Kamikaze Special Forces", this simple aircraft cannot fight in the air at all, and is directly used to crash into American warships and perish together.

There is also a "suicide diving suit". This set of equipment carries 15 kilograms of explosives and a torpedo, allowing divers to walk underwater with 9 kilograms of lead blocks. Once they approach enemy warships, they will detonate and perish together.

After surrendering, they also planned to infect women in their country with bacteria, become virus carriers themselves, and then complete the infection through sexual contact with senior American officers.

In addition, there are "Kaiten torpedoes", giant submarines carrying aircraft, O-I super-heavy tanks, Ku-go death rays, and other brain-opening weapons that emerge in an endless stream. Among them, the most talked about by military fans should be the "balloon bomb".

This is the first "intercontinental weapon" in human history. The concept was not proposed by weapons experts, but by the island country meteorologist Hidetoshi Arakawa. As early as 1942, Hidetoshi Arakawa discovered a special meteorological phenomenon. Every winter, at an altitude of about 10,000 meters above the island country, there will be a strong atmospheric circulation flying through the Pacific Ocean to the mainland of the United States. This airflow is very strong, with wind speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour, and it only takes 3 days to fly nearly 10,000 kilometers. Hidetoshi Arakawa believes that this meteorological phenomenon can be used for military purposes. By throwing explosives such as balloons into this airflow, it can easily bomb the mainland of the United States. The balloon flies to the United States along the airflow, and explodes in the forest area of ​​the Pacific Northwest after about 5,000 miles, causing large-scale forest fires, which will divert the scarce war resources of the United States at that time.

At the beginning, the senior military officials of the island country scoffed at this idea and thought it was ridiculous; but at the end of the war, the US military's B-29 bombed the island country's mainland almost every day, and one city after another was burned to ashes by terrible incendiary bombs. The senior officials of the island country, eager to retaliate, finally adopted Hidetoshi Arakawa's idea and began to prepare balloon bombs.

These balloons were made of mulberry paper, glued together with starch, filled with hydrogen, with a diameter of more than 10 meters, carrying a 15-kilogram anti-personnel bomb and two incendiary bombs weighing a total of 17 kilograms.

It sounds like a joke, but the first batch of nearly 10,000 balloons were really released in late 1944. Most of these balloons fell into the Pacific Ocean, and less than 1,000 balloons flew to the American continent. They did not explode immediately, but flew everywhere. Some balloons even flew to Kansas and Texas in the central United States, and some balloons went to Mexico and Canada.

The United States began to detect the appearance of balloons in December, including those shot down and the wreckage of the crash. A total of only 300 balloons were found, and the other 600 fell into the wild where no one had been and disappeared.

Despite this, the US government attached great importance to this balloon bomb. While strengthening air patrols, it ordered the press not to report similar news. As a result, all American media hardly mentioned balloon bombs.

This move actually played the biggest role, because the island nation had basically lost its spy channels in the United States (after the Pearl Harbor attack, the US government arrested 15,000 suspected Japanese Americans, and then put 100,000 unreliable Japanese Americans into internment camps. The remaining Japanese were basically under close surveillance), and could only learn about the whereabouts of the nearly 10,000 balloons they released through the American media. After waiting for several months without any American news reports, they finally stopped this whimsical plan in disappointment.

Yannick did seriously consider this plan. After all, sending a balloon to send a bomb over is much cheaper than the fuel consumption and maintenance costs of a bomber.

However, after discussing with several experts, he finally gave up this unreliable plan. The main reason was that it was really uncontrollable. Although bombers have no accuracy in dropping bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters, they can at least drop bombs into the city, but as for balloon bombs, who knows where they will take the bombs.

If there is GPS navigation, its flight trajectory can be monitored, but when GPS navigation is developed, this kind of balloon bomb will not pose a threat to the United States.

This plan was abandoned.

Yannick was shaking his head in self-mockery when the phone on his desk rang.

"Your Highness, our army has completed the three-sided encirclement of Smolensk."

If they work harder, they can completely encircle Smolensk, but Yannick has other plans.

Smolensk is the gateway to Moscow. Stalin is determined to defend Smolensk, and reinforcements are coming in a steady stream. According to intelligence from the Soviet Union, the number of Soviet troops in Smolensk has exceeded 400,000.

"Very good, beware of the Soviet counterattack."

The more Soviet reinforcements come, the better, and then they can be wiped out in one fell swoop.

That night, the Soviet artillery rarely showed its power, and dense shells rained down on the positions that the Germans had just occupied during the day. This abnormal behavior naturally attracted the attention of the German commanders. "It seems that the Soviets are preparing to launch a night offensive? Send out the airship troops! Let these stupid Soviets see what night combat is like."

More than an hour later, the Soviet artillery bombardment stopped.

"Comrades, for the motherland, charge! Ura!"

"Ura! Ura..."

Accompanied by the deafening sound of Ura, the Soviet soldiers rushed towards the German positions like a tide.

When they were still seven or eight hundred meters away from the German positions, a group of strong lights suddenly burst out in the sky, and the airships hovering over the German positions used the high-power searchlights they carried to illuminate the ground as bright as day.

The Soviet offensive could not help but stagnate when illuminated by this sudden strong light. The German positions suddenly burst into dense gunfire, and bullets shot over like hail.

In the original Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviet army might be able to break through most of the German positions equipped with 98k bolt-action rifles, but now the German equipment is no longer the same as before. Countless automatic weapons fired crazily, and the violent torrent of bullets instantly formed an airtight metal net to cover these poor Soviet soldiers. And behind them were mortars, howitzers, and rocket launchers of various calibers for support, and the shells fell on the Soviet soldiers like raindrops.

The Soviet tanks that charged with the infantry were also destroyed one by one by the Jagdpanzer destroyers that were on high alert.

In the command post behind the German position, the German officers couldn't help shaking their heads as they watched the Soviet soldiers falling down like wheat being harvested. "What era is this? They are still using this kind of human wave tactics. The tactical awareness of the Soviet high-level officials is still stuck in the last world war."