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    Facts have proved that Dr. Atom's judgment on the condition of the wounded was quite accurate. The wounded man lying on the bed next to Hitler was carried out early the next morning with a white cloth covering his face.  In the following days, Hitler witnessed several prisoners of war being carried out in this way.  A week later, Hitler was finally carried out, but the place he was sent to was different from those others.  Those people were sent to a certain place to be dehydrated and decarbonized, leaving only some things containing a lot of calcium, which were then packed into a small box that was easy to transport, labeled, and loaded onto the train, one carriage after another.  Send it back to Germany.  Although Hitler was finally put on the train back to Germany, at least the carriage he was in was not so crowded. The conditions of the frontline hospital were limited. Although Hitler's illness had not yet recovered, or even begun to recover, but since  His condition has stabilized a lot, so he should naturally be sent back to the rear for treatment.  The conditions of the large hospitals in the rear were much better, which was better for Hitler, and it also freed up the already tight bed space for field hospitals.  As a patriot, Hitler was very worried about the future war situation, especially worried that Germany would be defeated by the British and French in the gas war because there was no rubber.  This worry became even more worrying after he arrived at the rear hospital, because in the rear hospital, more soldiers were injured due to poison gas.  And he learned from doctors that the sequelae of this poisonous gas may remain with him for the rest of his life.  Just as Hitler feared, the French and British did have the idea of ??using poison gas bombs to resolve the war. However, something happened that changed everything.  ¡­ ¡­ On the evening of October 15, 1914, several behemoths were pulled out of some huge warehouses in Frankfurt and pulled to a large open space.  These spindle-shaped big guys are the famous Zeppelin airships.  As in history, the Germans were the first to build large rigid airships and use them in the shipping industry.  Compared with the aircraft of the time, this kind of airship had advantages in almost every aspect except speed.  This 163-meter-long behemoth could easily soar high above the flying height of any known aircraft at the time, and its load capacity far exceeded that of aircraft of that era.  More importantly, it seems to be much safer than an airplane. If an airplane is flying in the air and the engine suddenly fails, only one end will fall off and die. Even if the pilot turns a little faster when turning, it may cause the accident.  Let the plane fall from the sky.  The airship is an aircraft that is lighter than air, so even if it loses power, it will not fall down. Even if the pilot makes a mistake, the airship will not fall down. In fact, there is no normal way to make this thing.  It fell headlong.  Therefore, the Germans have always had high hopes for this kind of thing.  Especially when the British navy has obvious advantages, the Germans have almost no way to threaten the British mainland.  Therefore, airships that can fly over London and directly spread death and terror in London naturally receive special attention from the Germans.  "Captain Linnerz, this mission is very important." An officer was taking advantage of the time when the Zeppelin was inflating to give the final instructions to the pilots who were carrying out this epoch-making mission.  "This bombing will usher in a new era. We must make the British realize the power of the empire, thereby forcing them to accept the peace led by the empire. And this action of yours is an action to destroy the will of the British, and it will surely last forever.  Qing Shi" In this operation, in addition to bombs, the Germans also prepared air-dropped leaflets.  After all, even the Germans understood that Britain could not be destroyed by air strikes alone and the bombs that airships could carry.  However, they believed that such a bombing could bring huge chaos to Britain.  In order to avoid bombing, British people would flee from cities, which would greatly affect production in British factories.  Moreover, the British people would be war-weary because of the bombings.  Yes, that¡¯s what the Germans thought at the time. After they saw that Britain began to shrink across the board after the Boer War, they felt that a country like Britain, which spans the seven seas and has ruled the world for a century, would be defeated by a few bombs.  Retreat at home.  At this time, the inflating work was completed. The German pilots boarded the airship. The tight cables were loosened. The airship slowly floated up and flew higher and higher The Zeppelin airship is the fastest.  It is only about 90 kilometers, and this speed will be affected by the wind, so it is already late at night when the airship crosses the English Channel.  However, finding targets is not difficult for airships, because there were no air raids in that era, and naturally there were no blackouts or anything like that, so finding targets at night was even easier than during the day.  , because even though they are far away, the Germans can??See the lights of British cities.  Around two o'clock in the morning, four German Zeppelin airships arrived in the sky over London. At this time, London was still not sleeping. The factories near London were busy around the clock for the war.  No one noticed several airships flying above their heads.  "Sir, we have reached target area No. 1." Navigator Sean shouted.  "Very good, prepare to slow down." Captain Linnerz gave the order.  So the leading airship began to use lights to signal the other airships to slow down.  Unlike airplanes, airships that rely on air buoyancy to fly can completely hover in the air.  When dropping bombs, the smaller the speed relative to the ground, the easier it is to improve the accuracy of bomb dropping.  The four airships shut down their engines and relied on inertia to glide forward.  "Prepare to drop the bomb!" Captain Linnerz ordered.  So the magazine below the airship was opened, and a string of bombs fell from the magazine, blending into the night. After a while, you could see flames exploding on the ground one after another in the distance.  flowers.  "Very good." Captain Linnerz said, "The British should wake up. Now we can drop propaganda bombs. Are the propaganda bombs ready?" "Sir, they are ready!" Ammunition Officer Rohm replied  explain.  "Very well, drop the bomb." Captain Linnerz ordered.  Captain Linnerz¡¯s flight created two firsts in human history.  One was the first time that humans used air strikes in a war, and the other was the first time propaganda bombs were dropped in air strikes.  The so-called propaganda bombs are actually just a large number of leaflets.  This special ammunition was used many times in subsequent wars.  For example, in the original World War II, the Air Force of the Republic of China used this kind of thing to "bomb" Japan. Later, the troops of the American barbecue maniac Li Mei also dropped a large number of propaganda bombs in Japan.  The German bombing caused a certain panic.  Although the Germans were actually unable to completely destroy Britain from the air as they boasted in their propaganda leaflets.  But the seemingly unstoppable bombs falling from the sky still made the British panic.  In terms of the level of panic, it even exceeded the level of the Battle of Britain decades later in another time and space.  Of course, this is not because the British of that era were braver than the British of this era, but because the British of that era were already familiar with the combat method of air raids and were psychologically prepared for air attacks.  The British in this era had never thought that there would be such a thing as an air raid.  We have no idea how powerful the air strikes can be, and whether they are as completely unstoppable as the Germans boasted.  And ignorance is most likely to breed terror.  So the next day, the British media was in an uproar. Almost all the media were questioning whether the British government had any measures to protect the British people. On the one hand, the British government claimed that the German attacks on British civilians were a crazy war crime, and  It stated that it would definitely retaliate. On the one hand, it worked hard to appease the people and promised to strengthen the local air defense so that the Germans would never come back.  In fact, the bombs dropped by the Germans did not kill many people in this air raid. Only about twenty British people died in this air raid, and only about a hundred people were injured.  And the bombs were left in the slums, so naturally they couldn't blow up any high-value targets.  But because the Germans threatened in their leaflets that if Britain continued to use chemical weapons wantonly on the battlefield, Germany would use chemical weapons to launch air strikes against Britain.  Therefore, although the British government claims that it is not afraid, on the battlefield, they have indeed stopped using mustard gas on a large scale against the German army for the time being. Moreover, in order to defend against possible air attacks, the British had to build large air-raid shelters in cities, and in  The city should stockpile more chemical defense equipment and corresponding drugs.  In order to deal with airships, the British also prepared searchlights for the city and urgently developed anti-aircraft weapons.  All of this means that the British will devote more power to homeland defense, thereby greatly weakening the power that the British can devote to the battlefield.  In this sense, the Germans only used a small force in this air strike, but they held back a lot of British manpower and material resources.  Generally speaking, the effect of the propaganda bombs dropped by the Germans this time was somewhere between that of the later Republic of China Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces. The propaganda bombs they dropped were far from achieving the same effect as that of the later U.S. Army Air Forces. In which Japan?  Dropping propaganda bombs warning of air raids in a city will have the effect of making half of the people in that city run to the countryside to take refuge, but it is still better than the so-called warnings dropped by the Republic of China Air Force that were treated like toilet paper by the Japanese to warn the Japanese government not to make mistakes.  Things that are slippery and farther down the road work much better.  The reason is also simple, because compared to the United States, he dropped too few bombs, and the power of propaganda bombsThe vast majority of the damage came from previously dropped bombs.  However, compared with the propaganda bombs of the Republic of China Air Force, which did not contain a single bomb, they were still much stronger. Because there were no bombs, the propaganda bombs that expected to convince people with virtue were nothing more than toilet paper.
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