"We have arrived over 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 wiped out by the escorting Ying Long.
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 bomb bay doors, revealing the 500 kilogram aerial bomb 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 a bomb!" The pilot of another bomber following closely behind this bomber also pressed the button and threw the bomb it carried out of the cabin. Following closely, the third and fourth Ares also threw bombs.
One after another, aerial bombs 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.
Just 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 and eventually turned 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 sound of air defense sirens was still echoing, and 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 had always been very busy in the past, has now been 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. It was very lucky to have been saved from the bombing just now, but unfortunately all the glass on the building was damaged.
It has been shattered.
"The rails were blown apart. 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 locomotive of an expensive train that 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.
Therefore, if you want to retain the last bit of industrial production capacity, you must snatch away the remaining industrial equipment in Ironforge and send it to a place where it will not be bombed to rebuild the factory.
Unfortunately, that train has been scrapped. Many equipment in the carriages affected by the bomb have been damaged, and the rest needs to be cleaned before it can continue to be used.
"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 rubble-filled road 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 were actually very new, and some of the equipment was even imported from Tang State a few months ago.
"These equipments 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, the factory had more than 11,000 workers, but now most of these workers are unemployed.
The Ice Empire has also begun full mobilization. Only those workers who can serve in the war are exempt from military service. It turns out that the workers in the factory have their own military service exemption certificates, and they are therefore very satisfied with their work 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 recruit training camps.
The other party doesn't care whether you have documents or not, they just arrest people. By the time the families of these arrested workers found the factory, the parties 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 factory director 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 cannot 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 building and stroked the dust all over it with his hands.
the machine said.
"I'm afraid they will arrest 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.
