.The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters  Volume 5: Battle of Britain  Chapter 49: At any cost

Cliff Castle, Eagle Nest Main Conference Room. Like? Is our army’s losses a lot?"

Yodel opened the document and read: "Our army lost three pilots, and the others were rescued."

Xu Yang and many generals were stunned at this time. They looked at each other and were speechless for a long time.

Yodel said expressionlessly: "The British lost more than us. Our army shot down a total of 23 aircraft from the Royal Air Force, most of which were hurricanes and fires developed by the Royal Air Force at present."

Xu Yang looked up and asked, "How is the morale of the front-line troops at present?"

Yodel's legs were together, and the sound of long boots colliding with each other, "My head, our Air Force boys wished they could fight the British immediately!"

"I know, I know..." Xu Yang breathed a long sigh. No one would dislike a unit with a strong sense of war. "Our allies, now their troops have entered northwest France, the north?"

"My head of state, in addition to the Italian army, the other allies' troops have entered the designated theater. Franco of Spain also called and said that he could provide more troops and bases for the troops of the Axis powers. The Operations Department is stationing an aviation unit in the southeast of the United States." Yodel said of the Air Force and the Army, and the Navy's mobilization requires a lot of time to prepare.

Keitel angrily scolded: "Damn Italians! Their movements are always so slow, and there is no need for cowardly Italians. We and other allies' armies can defeat the British!"

The generals present didn't like the Italians very much. The Italian army was notoriously incompetent. Italian men could not do without women for a moment. Every time their officers went on a war, they would inevitably bring some strange women and place these women in the barracks and sing every night. The German generals hated the army that led women to fight.

Xu Yang ignored the generals who scolded the Italians. He looked at Manstein, who was sitting aside and pondering. "Fritz, what are you thinking?"

Manstein was so fascinated that he came to his senses after Xu Yang greeted him twice, "My Head, what did you say?"

Manstein is a person who likes strange things very much. He always talks very little when attending social or military meetings. His friends call him the thinking Manstein, and it is difficult to understand whether this is praise. Manstein's social interaction has always been very dull. He can push whenever he can do it when he can. Compared with the lively social interaction, he is more willing to lock himself in a house to see pictures.

"My head, I am thinking about a passage from General Hugospeller and General Alexanderal. The two will have said this sentence. As soon as our planes took off, the British seemed to know where those planes were going. I have been to our radar stations in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and have also studied the role of radar in detail. The radar station can only detect targets in advance, but cannot detect the course. I have a question, since the radar station cannot detect the course of the planes, how do they detect our military purpose?"

Xu Yang smiled with satisfaction. If Manstein was sitting next to Xu Yang, Xu Yang would definitely hug Manstein and exclaimed: Brother, you are so talented!

"Dear Marshals and colleagues, our head of state said before the war that the British had a very mysterious intelligence agency. In fact, in the past June, under the picket of Minister Heidrich's Security, we also caught many spies hiding in our country, but we have never been able to understand more deeply about the means of the British intelligence. During that period, we also severely punished a group of traitors led by Canaris and pulled out the pests lurking in the state department!"

"I don't know whether the head of state, the marshals and colleagues still remember one thing: when we were officially arresting Canaris, we found a stack of drawings from Canaris' home, and after conquering the Netherlands, we accidentally captured several transmitters that I used!"

Xu Yang added: "There are still several Enniger cipher machines."

Obviously, several marshals present, including Xu Yang, knew that Manstein wanted to say that Keitel looked at Manstein with praise and said, "I exchanged views on this matter with the head of state. Today, I summoned all marshals and generals to come here to discuss the matter on the war against Britain. I will talk about this matter later."

Manstein was worried. He was a very excellent strategist and understood the importance of intelligence. There were precedents in history. Many times, because the warring sides obtained a certain intelligence, they used that intelligence well, thus changing the end of the entire war.

"We have made a relevant decision on this, General Manstein!" Xu Yang signaled Manstein and listen to the report of the Air Force Department first.

Manstein looked at his head of state and found the confidence in Xu Yang's eyes. He was a little conscious. Perhaps after the meeting, the head of state would summon some people to the open-air leisure place in the cliff castle to talk. The head of state liked the conversation where most of the Alps were seen.

Since Kesseling was on the front line, the Air Force General Chief of Staff Hans Schponek was authorized to participate in the meeting on behalf of the Air Force Department. He was a lieutenant general who seemed somewhat restrained at the meeting where several marshals and generals gathered. "My head, dear marshals and generals, please allow me to make an explanation of the Air Force Department on this matter."

Hans Schponek's forehead was covered with sweat due to his nervousness. He stood up and said, "In the past half month, we have had 36 air firefights with the Royal Air Force in the English Channel, western North Sea, and the Norwegian Sea (no typo, the meaning of receiving fire and exchanging fire is different).

The biggest one was the one that was initiated by the British at 9:21 am on the 18th at 7:13 pm. During this period, we had made detailed approvals based on the request of the head of state, and found that as long as we were in the air force of northern France, northeastern France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norwegian, as long as the air force of the British were lifted 1,015 minutes in advance, and we predicted that our air force had already taken off depending on the distance."

Everyone nodded. They had read this report just now.

"We have come up with a conclusion that, in addition to what we have seen, the British should have set up radar stations in northeast Scotland, north Wells, including the Orkney Island that we had not noticed before. After several tests, we have come to some conclusions that the coverage distance of the British ring station may include our newly occupied northern France, northeastern, the Netherlands, Belgium, Wilhelmshaven in our country, as well as Cologne, Frankfurt Rhine, Rhineland, and western, central and eastern parts of the North Sea."

Xu Yang nodded solemnly, "My general, do you want to tell me that your Air Force Department has found a way to improve the current bad situation?"

"Yes, wise head!" Hans Schponek walked to the huge military map on the wall west of the conference room and picked up a baton. "The Air Force's idea was to mobilize several main forces in the northwest, and at the right time, through the airspace where the British were weak in defense, bombarding the industrial areas in southwest England in order to mislead the British and make them think that we had deployed the main forces in the northwest direction..."

Keitel didn't know much about air combat, but he at least understood that the mobility of the air force and the mobility of the army are two completely different concepts. The air force has so-called combat radius, and there is a great distance factor to lure the enemy into mobilizing. If it does not exceed the combat radius of the aircraft, there will be no so-called deceptive behavior at all. As long as the enemy notices it, their air force can make adjustments in a very short time. He communicated with other marshals and quickly expressed his doubts.

Hans Schponek agreed with the marshals' suspicion, saying: "Yes, due to the mobility of the Air Force, we cannot deceive for a long time. The plan planned by the Air Force is to fight the British time difference. After leading the main force of the Royal Air Force to the northwest, we will dispatch a large-scale air force to threaten southern, southeast and northeastern Britain, so that the Royal Air Force will not be able to match the head and tail.

"Our plan is to let the Royal Air Force go back and forth after a long period of deception, consume the morale of the Royal Air Force, make them suspicious and unable to grasp the military intentions of our army. According to our estimates, the Royal Air Force used to fight will not exceed the fighter jets they obviously do not have enough troops to defend in both directions. For the poorer Scotland, we have reason to believe that the British are more willing to protect their industrial city, England, but it does not mean that the British will not ignore Scotland..."

Xu Yang raised his hand and said, "General Schponneck, there is no need to introduce too many details. What we need to listen to is the key point."

Xu Yang's words were unanimously agreed by the Field Marshal. They were not familiar with the Air Force's terms. Under the bombing of a series of Air Force military terms, the only thing they could do was to have their eyes straight and their mouths humming.

Hans Schponek wiped the sweat from his forehead nervously and said directly: "The Head of State, Marshal Kesseling, means that he wants to authorize Admiral Rear of the 2nd Air Force and Admiral Speer of the 3rd Air Force, give them enough power to destroy the British radar station at all costs!"
Chapter completed!