"Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, I authorize the Imperial Air Force to begin strategic bombing of Buru from the very start of the war. Seize every moment and every opportunity. We must bomb Buru's major cities, industrial bases, key transport hubs, and railway lines into ruins! Strip Buru of its ability to manufacture weapons and equipment and develop industry! Make them incapable of contending with us in this war any longer. That way, we can utterly destroy Buru before next winter arrives at the latest!" Oscar said.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Field Marshal Albert Kesselring replied excitedly. Though he knew that, given the Imperial Air Force's current strength—especially that of the Strategic Air Force—it would still be extremely difficult to meet Oscar's demands, he could sense from this order how much importance and support Oscar placed on the Strategic Air Force. He firmly believed that as the German Air Force's strategic power continued to grow, they would soon possess sufficient strength to fulfill Oscar's requirements.
Once Oscar's order was issued, the German Air Force's strategic forces immediately sprang into motion. Long-range fighters and heavy bombers were transferred one after another to airfields in Belarus and Ukraine. The coming strikes against Buru's important cities would primarily take off from these airfields. As the German military pushed deeper into Buru, the Strategic Air Force's airfields could likewise advance farther into Buru's interior. That would allow them to drop bombs on more distant targets. After all, to guard against German bombing, Buru had long been systematically relocating many important factories to the vicinity of the Ural Mountains and even the West Siberian Plain.
What the Bolshevik Russian government did not know was that the locations of those factories had long since been exposed and listed as targets by the German Air Force. In the coming