0p0 Third Reich Episode 347
Third Reich Episode 347
This character of Pavlov was obviously appreciated by Supreme Commander Stalin. For a long time, Stalin had higher expectations of him than Zhukov.
After returning from the "gilding" of the Spanish Civil War, Pavlov was commended by the Supreme Command, and was logically appointed as the director of the Soviet tank and armored forces.
Soon, he was promoted to general together with Zhukov, who also showed his talents in the battle of Nuomenkan.
But after this exercise, the gap between Zhukov and Pavlov has inadvertently emerged.
Obviously, Pavlov is better at being a man, but Zhukov is better at fighting!
Afterwards, Stalin promoted Zhukov to be the commander of the Kiev Special Military District, and put Pavlov, who he trusted, as the commander of the Belarus Special Military District.
Text Chapter 532 Traps
In the German-occupied area in northern France, the German army frequently mobilized troops here, requisitioned a large number of civilian ships, and launched transport ships one by one in the shipyard, showing an unabashed appearance of preparing for landing operations.
Of course, all this was seen by Churchill's eyeliners.
Over Calais, a British Air Force twin-engine multi-seat reconnaissance plane routinely performed reconnaissance missions over Calais.
"Oh, baby, guess what these Germans are doing? Look at these troop carriers, they are all gathered on the pier, as if they are about to depart tomorrow." The flight captain on the British reconnaissance plane said to himself said.
"Shut your crow's mouth! Baby, I don't want to fight the Germans, and I don't want them to land on our land." His deputy cursed, which was an answer to the captain's soliloquy.
"It's not up to you and me to decide. It all depends on when the German army decides to attack. If they attack, do you think our beaten Royal Navy or our Royal Air Force can stop them?"
The captain continued: "Also, your task now is to detect the enemy's situation, not to chat with me. Pay attention to your right. German fighter jets especially like to attack from the right wing. I don't want to be the lunch of German fighter jets."
"Understood, Captain. But I don't understand why the command sent us to Calais for investigation. Isn't this the French port we planned to use in the generator plan?" The deputy asked a question that puzzled him for a long time.
"Nonsense, if we can use it, can't the Germans use it? Because we didn't use it at the beginning, and the facilities in Calais were not destroyed like Dunkirk. The German army would use it if they had any brains. And the detection of Calais is very important. The superior’s instructions, we just carry out the order, so there’s so much nonsense!” The captain replied, in fact, he didn’t know what the Germans were thinking, but he refused to admit it out of face, so he made up a reason casually and perfunctorily He answered his deputy's question.
In fact, the Royal Air Force scouted Calais simply because MI[-] had intercepted an important German telegram three days earlier.
The German army used the Enigma cipher machine to encrypt this telegram, but the British army completed the cracking just a few months ago, and in order to hide the news, it deliberately accepted the German bombing.
Now, it's their turn to take advantage of the huge price and hide their hole cards.
The content of this document is probably the various matters of Germany's pre-war preparations for landing on the British mainland, and one of the three ports where barges and troop carriers gather is Calais, and Calais is relatively It is the closest and even undertakes 80.00% of the barge gathering tasks.
The British United Front Work Department immediately made a decision to launch an air strike on Calais. The goal of the Royal Air Force's air strike was to blow up most of the barges and troop carriers gathered by the German army in the port of Calais, completely destroying the capital of the German army's invasion of the British mainland.
Without troop carriers, the German army would not be able to cross the English Channel even with a million troops.
Of course, before launching an air strike, it is essential to send a reconnaissance plane to conduct reconnaissance, and this is why the British reconnaissance plane arrived today-to investigate the gathering of Garrett's barges.
In the end, the British got the information they wanted as they wished.
According to the news returned by the reconnaissance plane, a large number of civilian merchant ships and military transport boats and barges did gather in the port of Calais. Although the British reconnaissance plane was harassed by two German bf2 fighter jets during this period, the plane was finally safe. He returned to the British mainland and brought back important information.
Churchill immediately decided to launch an air strike on the port of Calais, and the time was set three days later, which is the early morning of today.
In the early morning of the third day, the sky over the English Channel was covered with dark clouds, the sky was very gloomy, and the sound of rumbling engines resounded through the sky. 50 British double-engine multi-seat bombers and 30 Spitfire fighters took off from the Dover military airport at the southern end of the British army and headed towards the Head south towards the port of Calais.
"Call Captain Fox, please answer if you receive it!" Lieutenant Daniel, the leading wingman pilot of the British army, called the lead pilot and flight echelon commander Fox on the radio.
"Got it, please tell me." Captain Fox replied.
"We have reached the designated area over Calais, should we start bombing?" Lieutenant Daniel asked.
"Start!" Following the order, the British fire-breathing twin-engine bombers, in a team of five, began to bomb the ships in the port.
It is strange to say that the British Air Force was not stopped by a German plane. Although the voyage was short, the weather was gloomy, and the visibility in the sky was low, but now that such a large British fighter plane has reached the sky over Calais, it still has not appeared A German aircraft, and the air defense facilities on the ground did not fire.
The atmosphere... seems to be off.
But I can't control that much, the task is in hand, the British bombers quickly completed two rounds of bombing, and most of the barges, troop carriers and civilian ships parked in the port were hit by the shells of the British bombers, and a raging fire was ignited. The burning got bigger, and then the hulls of those large "troop transport ships" began to tilt, and slowly sank into the vast sea water in the port of Calais.
As the Germans did not interfere and resist, the British bombers carried out several rounds of bombing, sinking most of the ships in their sight in one go.
In the end, it wasn't until they were about to head back that a sharp-eyed pilot spotted the problem.
"Call Captain Fox, call Captain Fox!" said the pilot.
"Got it, what's the problem? Please tell me." Captain Fox replied.
"Captain, please take a closer look at the burning ship in the sea, I think it's weird." The pilot continued to say on the radio: "No matter how I look at it, I feel that it is a pile of burning wood, not like it is made of steel. ships are burning."
"Be more specific." Captain Fox seemed to have noticed something strange, and motioned him to continue.
"Generally, ships made of steel burn because of the fuel oil on board. After these ships sink, the fuel oil floating on the sea water due to fuel leakage will continue to burn, but these ships burn on the water surface. The burning stopped immediately after entering the water, which is inconsistent with what we see now." The pilot continued to analyze: "They are more like a pile of burning wooden boats, and there is no burning floating diesel on the water surface."
"You mean we attacked a bunch of wooden ships?" Captain Fox was a little shocked.
"I think so! Captain, we were tricked by the Germans!" The pilot just finished speaking, but suddenly saw a little light flashing on the left wing of his fighter...
Chapter 533 One Person's War
This is a mistake.
A wrong time, a wrong division of troops, a wrong military operation.
"I'm sorry." Dowding, the commander of the British Air Force, couldn't meet Churchill's expectant eyes
He really didn't want to express his judgment, but the reality didn't allow him to say some nice but meaningless comforting words.
He glanced at the back of the desk in embarrassment, and Churchill, who was waiting for the result with his fingers crossed, said with great difficulty: "Our bombing formation was calculated by the German army and surrounded by German fighter jets that were several times our own. And the fighter formation is outnumbered. In the end, it was difficult to retreat, but only half of the fighters were withdrawn..."
Douding paused, took another deep breath, and then said with all his strength, "Prime Minister, in the short term, the Royal Air Force is no longer able to launch any air strikes against Germany."
In fact, this is already the most euphemistic way of saying it.Not to mention launching an air strike against Germany, the current Royal Air Force, even wanting to guard the airspace of the British Isles is already a luxury.
The air raid on Calais was carried out by the entire British senior management in a very short period of time, and then immediately ordered it to be implemented.The gap is extremely short, and it is really difficult to leak the secrets.And they relied on their successful deciphering of the German cipher machine to launch this operation.
In order to hide the deciphering of his German code, Churchill even reluctantly accepted a large-scale bombing by the German army, smashing his teeth and swallowing a lot of losses.
Everything is for today.
Churchill, or the current high-level officials of the British Empire, can actually see clearly that the German army seems to be rich and powerful, and it seems to be invincible.However, no matter how powerful their army is, it is impossible to cross the English Channel and land on their feet and crawlers.As long as you risk your losses and sink the German transport ships concentrated in the port, so that they can transport troops without ships, your UK will be relatively safe within a certain period of time.
By that time, even the Royal Navy had been decimated, and the Royal Air Force had been severely damaged in the final bombing operation.However, it is impossible for the German army without sufficient troop carriers to land on the land of the British Isles.
The port of Calais, the large port closest to the British mainland, and the port where the German telegram clearly pointed out that the concentration of troop carriers in the main place is an opportunity for the British to fight for.
Churchill knew very well that what Britain lacks most now is time. As long as they can squeeze out the concentrated power of the Royal Air Force this time in exchange for the time difference for the Germans to cross the river without boats, they will be able to obtain more supplies from the United States. Even those militias armed by Churchill can change their guns, and their strength has greatly increased.
Yes, in the two disastrous attacks on Narvik in Norway and Dunkirk in France, the British mainland has a small force and there are not many trained soldiers.However, under Churchill's crazy move of all the people, the combat department of the British Empire estimated that it would receive more than 150 million cannon fodder.
These civilians who use old stock weapons and lack military training will be seriously lacking in heavy weapon support at that time, and they will be crushed and beaten by the regular German army.However, they can still play a limited role.As long as the German army has insufficient transport ships, the British army can fight to lose a lot of cannon fodder, plus its own coastal artillery force, shrinking the local fleet for defense offshore, shrinking the local Royal Air Force, a small number of regular army troops, minefields on the beach, barbed wire on the coast , with the assistance of machine gun positions, the small number of German landing troops were driven into the sea.