Chapter 42: Cold-blooded Englishman? Actually, he's just a politician!
.The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters Volume 5: Battle of Britain Chapter 42: The Cold-blooded British? In fact, he is just a politician!
"The commander's Golden Eye sent information at the same time. Longitude 32 degrees west - 31 degrees on the Tropic of Cancer were found in large-scale British transport fleets. Their route direction was St. George's Strait. The information was confirmed by the Portuguese army in the Jassors Islands."
This is not the Naval Intelligence Branch located in Wilhelmshaven, nor is it the Gestapo Overseas Intelligence Department of the Berlin, which is located in the heart of the Third Reich. This is Rennes, France. Because the war in the previous stage only took place between towns and the war did not affect it, it is still a beautiful place full of field atmosphere. It is in such a suitable place for vacation. The ancient villa full of French romance was accepted by the German Air Force. It is definitely not used as a nursing home for wounded soldiers.
Since the Golden Eye system was successfully launched, Rennes has become the center of many information transfer points for the frontline air force. It is responsible for receiving information from various information transfer points, summarizing, and then issuing orders to the air force units of each responsible district. The troops receiving the order will be mobilized to conduct tasks such as interception, raids, expulsion, bombing, etc.
The air force under the command of the Golden Eye system is very large. They are the 2nd Air Force troop stationed in northeastern France and the Netherlands, Belgium, Hugospeller 3rd Air Force stationed in northern France and northwest France, and the 5th Air Force stationed in Norway.
The so-called information transit points are their function to receive information detected by their subordinates in the British Gulf, Norwegian waters, and local waters in the North Sea.
General Hugosipelle was responsible for the German-occupied area of northern and northwestern France. It was a golden eye system composed of 36 radar stations and 7 information transfer points deployed in the interior of northern and northwestern France. Hugosipelle was originally the commander of the 3rd Air Force of the French Battle Group A Army Group. Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted from the rank of lieutenant general to the rank of air force general and was transferred to Rennes in western France to participate in the Battle of Britain.
Today's Golden Eye system has become a crucial key. It will open the door to the Battle of Britain, and the battle between the land-based air force against sea-surface ships will be dispatched by them. As the commander of the Golden Eye system in northern and northwest France, Hugo Speer was thinking about what to eat at noon. As for why this happened, it may be that Britain has been very quiet recently and has not moved for more than ten days, which also made Hugo Speer and the officers who wanted to do something were idle and became moldy.
"Well, I got it... wait!"
Hugospelle was actually a very strong middle-aged man. In 1936, he served as the commander of the Vulture Corps and participated in the Spanish Civil War in the form of a volunteer army. At that time, Hugospelle had just returned to the air force and served in the air force. He was full of hope to command the newly resurrected German Air Force to make achievements. During the Spanish Civil War, he strongly demanded that Germany must send air force forces to compete with the then British, French and Soviet Air Forces.
Hugospeller firmly believed that if an air force had no practical experience, it could only be an air transport team. The so-called air transport team was a private air mail company at that time. After the heroes of the Air Force in World War I retired, they became civilians in simple planes to provide emergency services to companies from various countries.
“Report again!”
The young intelligence officer looked at his boss with some concern. He was not worried about whether his boss was healthy, but about whether this boss, who was always lost, would miss a good fighter one day because of his loss of consciousness. The young men who had just graduated from military academy always had some strange ideas after being assigned to the combat unit.
Young men will feel regretful because they cannot go to the front line to fight bloody battles. If they get along with a boss who has no future, it will be a kind of misfortune. Incompetence and no future, it will become absolutely tragic to keep up with such a boss. At least this young intelligence officer thought.
Hugospeller looked at the intelligence officer with a sad face and reported, thinking that this rookie who had never been to the battlefield must have had a bad stomach. After listening to the report, he magically put aside his distractions and waved his fists, "Thank God, thank the head of state, we finally have work to do! Call the staff to conduct an emergency meeting immediately!"
The young intelligence officer was also thanking God. Out of the worship of the Germanic nation for the spiritual leader, he also quietly thanked the head of state. Why did the secretly class non-commissioned officer have no power to keep the sacred title of head of state like a senior officer? According to this young intelligence officer alumnus, the bragging lieutenant who had just been promoted to a second lieutenant. This is a question of grade.
The meeting was held very quickly, and with the efforts of a group of staff, a telegram was sent out by the experienced commander-in-chief General Hugo Speer. The German 225 Deporter Aircraft Squadron and 387 land-based water torpedo squadrons, stationed in Quimper, northwestern France, will gather over the Bay of Biscay and then find the best time to pounce on the British Transportation Team.
That is, today, the Battle of Britain recognized by the Third German Empire began. The Third German Empire had been preparing for the Battle of Britain for nearly two years.
According to the British, the official date of the Battle of Britain was on the 9th of the month. At the time when the German Air Force launched all the artillery, the German Air Force airborne in the Netherlands and Belgium. The escort air force pursued a British hurricane fighter and entered the airspace of the English Channel, the Battle of Britain began.
However, in the Executive Order Record Book of the Third German Empire, that was not the date when the Battle of Britain officially began. The reason was very simple, because the Third German Empire did not recognize it at all, and the scale of the battle was really pitiful. Only two fighters entered the Mid 109e Emir and a hurricane fighter over the estuary of the Thames in the empty English Channel. The result of the battle was that the Hurricane failed to escape back to England and was shot down by Emir near the Ziram X-Sea route.
Due to current scientific and technological limitations, the function of Hugospeller's information point center cannot effectively serve as the command of the entire battle. Because of this, the responsibility for combat command falls on the radar stations distributed near the coastline.
These radar stations each have eight combat staff members, most of them are from the German Air Force, two from the German Navy, and only one officer is from the Army. Moreover, the identities of the army officers at each radar station will change slightly due to the different regions.
For example, if the radar station near the Third Reich in Germany is located in the country, the army officers inside will be SS officers from the SS system, and the radar stations in the German-occupied area in western France. The army officers inside are officers from the National Defense Forces system, and they will also send army officers with different ranks depending on the security level of the area. Of course, as the ranks change, the number of troops under their command will also change. Although they have different identities, they are responsible for the same task, which is to command a small-scale army unit to ensure the safety of the radar station.
As mentioned earlier, Hugospeller is a very powerful soldier. After he entered the state, his spiritual sense would always detect the British transport fleet abnormally. He subconsciously felt that the British Command must have made some combat plans. The English Channel, which had been calm for more than ten days, was about to break the status quo and enter the lively scene of war.
"What do the British want to do? What they need most now is time!"
Churchill has issued Order No. 218 during the war, transferring the British Navy fleet stationed in the Reykjalaik Harbour in Iceland to the Jadeland Islands (located at the North Sea Exit). Its purpose is to use the navy with a numerical advantage to block the North Sea and threaten the safety of the German submarine forces' routes. It is expected that the German submarine forces can thus reduce the attacks on the British maritime transport fleet and allow the British mainland to have enough raw materials to cope with the upcoming war.
However, Churchill's emergency measures did not achieve the desired effect, because the current German submarine force's supply base is not limited to Germany. With Portugal and Spain joining the war, the German submarine force has obtained more supply bases in western Europe. The fall of France has given the German submarine force a well-equipped harbor in the Central Sea.
At the same time, Churchill also issued Act No. 219 to regulate various aircraft production companies in the UK, allowing only various aircraft production companies to produce hurricanes and Spitfire fighters. After the produced fighters are assembled from the assembly line, they will be immediately equipped with a new combat force called the Fighter Special Air Force. These fighters will be used to defend against the airspace of western Scotland and southwestern Scotland.
Churchill himself often walked among the air force troops in order to deal with the upcoming war. His most concerned not only were the bomber troops that were useless at the moment. Instead, the fighter troops known as the lifeblood of Britain. In order to build the fighter troops, he often stumbled on the door of Casvaldordine's house in the middle of the night.
Churchill and Dowding were actually not familiar with each other. During World War I, they belonged to two different systems. During World War I, Churchill was a member of the British Navy of the Queen's darling. At that time, Dowding was a trial child of a rose newly bred by the Queen. The rose was the national flower of the UK. The emerging air force was called the rose newly bred by the Queen, which also shows the importance of the British to the Air Force.
Dowding's identity in Queen Rose is not important. He is a famous layman in the eyes of his colleagues in the British Air Force. In fact, he also thinks he is an air force layman, and his major in artillery. As for why Dowding was transferred to the Air Force as an officer majoring in artillery, no one can tell clearly. The British Army has never been valued. In other words, Dowding was inexplicably transferred to the emerging air force system, which is also a good luck.
Now, such a lucky person, Dowding was worried about how to retire successfully. He was originally scheduled to retire in the month, but due to the tense international situation at that time, the Third German Empire had a war against Poland that was postponed to August 1940.
Originally, Doting thought he could retire smoothly, but Poland was conquered by the Third German Empire within half a month. Yes, it was conquered rather than conquered, which means that Poland had disappeared from the long river of history as a country. Later, France, with allies' help, was also captured by the steel torrent of the Third German Empire within four weeks and became a puppet country.
The Third Republic of France, once known as the world's largest army power, failed to withstand it for a month, which caused panic in the whole of Britain, which is only one English Channel away from the European continent. It is precisely because of this that Dowtin's retirement date was once again postponed, and this postponement will be indefinitely. In other words, unless the UK falls or is conquered, or Britain eventually wins, Dowtin's old bone will have to stay on his post until he dies suddenly due to excessive busyness one day.
In Churchill's opinion, Dowding, who controlled all the strength of the British Air Force, was a very loyal and good man. Why was a good man rather than a soldier? This is a bit difficult to explain. Dowding did not perform well in his tenure. During the French Battle, the air force he led suffered heavy losses in the battle with the German Air Force, and finally had to withdraw from France to the British mainland.
Although Dodin had no brilliant record, in Churchill's mind, Dodin was still the best candidate to lead the British Air Force to resist the invasion of the Third Reich of the German Empire. The reason was that Dodin had led the British Air Force for a long time. Dodin fully understood the existing combat effectiveness of the British Air Force, and Dodin was one of the main organizers of the British Air Force. The very beautiful V-shaped formation was made by the work of Dowding and his colleagues. Dodin himself was also fully involved in the construction of the fan station. No one knew the importance of those radar chains and fan stations better than Dowding.
The fan station is a kind of off-aircraft command center used by the British Fighter Air Force to command the British Air Force. Its main function is to command four aviation groups under the British Fighter Air Command. These four aviation groups have 55 squadrons and 1,200 aircraft. Among them, 700 fighter jets of various types and 500 medium (heavy) bombers.
What is strange is that the British fighter air force group also has more than 2,000 anti-aircraft guns of different caliber. These anti-aircraft guns are mainly distributed on the front lines of Portland, Weymouth, Dover, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. They are used to protect military ports and airports rather than defend cities. Perhaps Churchill believes that the German Air Force will be very gentlemanly and will not bomb civilians? Or does Churchill use various cities that gather civilians as bait, hoping that the German Air Force will find that the cities that live in civilians do not have air defense power and bombard them indiscriminately, which will arouse the British's common hatred? [Special note]
At present, Churchill is also praying for the help of the United States on the other side of the Atlantic. To be more precise, he hopes that the United States can join the war immediately. But Churchill is destined to lose, so he certainly knows that the United States cannot join the war when the Allies are at a disadvantage. Just as many people begged in prayer, Churchill is also praying that the Americans must be pregnant, because now, the Axis powers led by the Third Reich of Germany have obviously had a great advantage after annexing most of France's territory. It is not impossible for cunning Americans to join the Axis powers to declare war on the Allies. Those Americans who only pursue interests can do anything!
Churchill could understand what the US Congress was planning with his toes, it was nothing more than just like during World War I. He played the role of an international arms dealer in the early stages of the war. You should know that after the United States experienced World War I, it is still the world's largest creditor country, and all participating countries in the war. For example, although France won the war, it was also affected by the war. The northern, northeast, and southeast of France were the main battlefields of World War I. France's domestic economy suffered heavy blows and became a creditor country.
Moreover, the head of the Third German Empire seemed to fully understand the United States' thoughts. The head of state, who was crazyly worshipped by the German nation, did not hesitate to temporarily sell some interests to buy large amounts of oil and rubber from the United States at high prices, causing those greedy members of the U.S. Congress to fall into the ocean of interests and make a decision on which side to stand: According to historical roots and long-standing traditions, the United States should stand on the side of the allies, but given the current strength comparison of the exhibitors and the cost-effectiveness comparison of the United States.
What's even more terrifying is that the unique head of the Axis power had enough adventurous spirit. He actually sold the German main combat weapons to the United States and sold the drawings of the Stukamesser Schmid 109r Emil ii tank to the American civilian delegation who was conducting military visits in Berlin.
God knows whether the group of U.S. lawmakers who only look at immediate interests will make any choices that will cause the allies to collapse due to the pressure of various weapons manufacturers. As long as the players are aware of the relationship between sponsors and sponsors between the US Congress and domestic weapons manufacturers in the United States. A certain American politician lost the campaign funds sponsored by the US arms manufacturer. That is the time for the politician to withdraw from the American political stage.
Whether it is for Churchill, the military leader of the Allied Powers, or for the unique head of the Axis powers, the game of Battle of Britain is not easy to play because there are too many bystanders...
Special note: In fact, Churchill did not deploy air defense weapons in various cities except London, the capital of Britain in the early stage of the Battle of Britain. Even London only deployed symbolic air defense weapons. The main purpose was to attract the bombing of the Luftwaffe. The purpose was to use the bombing of the Luftwaffe to publicize German brutality and pray for sympathy from all countries that did not participate in the war. The bombing of Berlin attracted the revenge of the Luftwaffe to Britain. Civilians in British cities without air defense weapons were heavy casualties. Britain, which bombed civilians first ignored their actions and launched all media to promote the bombing of the Luftwaffe to be shameless, brutal, and shameful... In short, it was just for the purpose of the British Air Force to bomb German civilians, and the retaliatory bombing of British civilians by the Luftwaffe was a crime.
Chapter completed!