Chapter 1653: 1654 Ironforge again
Chapter 1653 1654 Ironforge again
"We have arrived at Ironforge! We have not encountered enemy interception!" In the cockpit of the God of War bomber, the Tang pilot reported his status along the way with a relaxed expression.
They were indeed not attacked by the enemy, because the coalition fighter jets that took off to intercept these bombers had already been eliminated by the escorting Yinglong.
After losing 10 104s, the opponent no longer dared to take off planes to die, so this air strike mission became a unilateral action by the Tang Army.
"The bomb bay is open! Get ready to drop the bomb!" On the aircraft that was slightly turbulent with the airflow, the pilots performing bombing missions pressed the buttons one by one and opened the belly door of the aircraft.
At the command, all the bombers opened the doors of the bomb bays, revealing the 500 kilogram aerial bombs hanging inside.
Through the sight, the bombardier accurately pressed his sight line on the neat factory roof on the ground. He counted down calmly and pressed the bomb release button: "Three, two, one! Release the bomb!"
“Drop the bomb!” On another bomber following closely behind this bomber, the pilot also pressed the button to throw the bomb he was carrying out of the cabin. Following closely, the third and fourth Ares also dropped bombs.
Aerial bombs one after another detached themselves from the bomb racks in the cabin, and then fell along a parabolic trajectory. Then, a series of beautiful flame flowers bloomed on the ground.
The ground continued to tremble in the explosion, and huge shock waves spread out one after another, pushing the surrounding dust far away in an instant.
Like the ripples caused by raindrops hitting standing water, these shock waves tear apart everything around them, shattering less solid things around the center of the explosion.
A huge chimney collapsed in the explosion, eventually turning into a pile of rubble. A factory building around the chimney was not spared. One corner began to collapse and the roof also tilted.
The front of the train parked at the end of the factory tracks was directly hit by the bomb. Its wheels flew far away and hit the wall of a factory building.
There was thick smoke and boiling dust everywhere. The air defense sirens were still echoing, and the anti-aircraft guns fired into the sky like groans.
"Mission accomplished! It is estimated that the industrial area here has no production capacity." Looking down at the smoke-filled ground under his feet, a Ares bomber pilot said with certainty.
There is indeed nothing wrong with what he said. Dozens of bombers have been bombing the Ironforge industrial area for several days. Under such a density of attacks, it is actually difficult for the other side to resume production.
The steel plant, which used to be very busy, is now completely paralyzed. Many of its machinery and equipment have been directly destroyed by bombs, and at least one-third of the factory buildings are completely unusable.
Before the explosion completely stopped, the dwarf factory director stepped on the broken glass and walked towards a relatively intact production workshop. This place was very lucky to have survived the bombing just now, but unfortunately the glass on the building had been shattered.
“The rails were blown off, and it will take at least two days to repair them. It is unlikely that the raw materials will be delivered on time, and there is no way for us to continue production.” The director of the production department who accompanied the factory director suggested with some pain.
An aerial bomb hit the expensive locomotive where it had been ordered to wait for shipment of equipment. The dwarves finally made up their minds to transport some equipment to a safer hinterland, because they had been bombed several times by the Tang army in the past few days.
It is simply impossible to expect the industrial area to withstand the bombing and recover on its own. Ironforge's industrial production capacity has been declining, which is an irreversible fact.
So if you want to retain the last bit of industrial production capacity, you must **** away the remaining industrial equipment in Ironforge and send it to a place where it will not be bombed to rebuild the factory.
It is a pity that the train has been scrapped. Many equipment in the carriages affected by the bomb have been damaged, and the remaining ones need to be cleaned before they can be used again.
“Let the maintenance workers find a way to repair the rails first and restore the transportation capacity to speed up the subsequent reconstruction work.” The factory director walked gradually on the road full of rubble until he reached the gate of the surviving factory building.
He reached out and opened the unlocked iron door and saw the mechanical equipment that had stopped running inside. Many of the equipment are actually very new, and some were even imported from Tang State a few months ago.
"These equipment will be dismantled and transported tonight..." The factory director looked at these darlings in front of him with reluctance written on his face.
At its peak, this factory had more than 11,000 workers. Now these workers are basically unemployed.
The Ice Empire has also begun full mobilization, and only those workers who can serve the war are exempt from military service. It turned out that the workers in the factory had their own documents exempting them from military service, and they were therefore very satisfied with their jobs in the steel factory.
But now, with the bombing of steel plants, these workers' death-free gold medals are becoming increasingly difficult to use: people from the military recruitment department will come directly to the door and take unemployed steel workers to boot camps.
The other party doesn’t care whether you have documents or not, they just arrest people. By the time the families of the arrested workers found out about the factory, the people involved were already learning to walk in a recruit training camp.
Under normal circumstances, there is almost no room for maneuver in this kind of thing, and the director of the factory cannot ask the army to get the captured workers back: unless you are willing to run through many departments for such a thing.
As time goes by, it becomes more and more difficult to find troops to recruit people, because the other side knows very well that the factory no longer needs so many workers to maintain production.
"You no longer make steel, what's the problem with handing over hundreds of workers?" Every time he is asked this question, the director of the factory who wants his own workers can't answer it at all.
"The train tickets for the engineers and technicians have been bought. I will leave in a few days. There are still some finishing touches here. You stay here..." The factory director walked into the factory and stroked the dusty surface with his hands. said the machine.
“I’m afraid they will capture me soon and send me to the front line.” The director of the production department said with a wry smile. It seemed that he didn’t want to stay here.
People with a little bit of ability are trying to escape to the south. There are always thousands of reasons for them to leave: some people go to set up new factories, some people go to perform tasks. In short, these people all have a bright future.