It's weird, weird. Although Goering did have some shortcomings in virtue as the commander of the Air Force, he couldn't make a knowing mistake. Obviously knowing that the British could predict the action route of the German Air Force by virtue of the new radar, why was Goering still so stubborn? Hey... Lin Wei didn't know how many times he sighed like this. Maybe it was because his thirst for knowledge was too strong, or maybe he felt the benefit of knowing the development of history and being able to judge in advance. In short, Lin Wei was very uncomfortable with this sudden blind reaction. ,
In any case, Lin Wei wanted to know what was hidden behind the current strange situation: "Robert C. Crawford, what is the loss ratio between the Imperial Air Force and the Royal Air Force in the British air battle now?" Lin Wei seemed to be dead. Same, he asked feebly. People who don't know must think that the leader of the SS is suffering from some incurable disease. But for Robert C. Crawford, who is used to leaders being weird from time to time, this is the true side of the leader.
"The Battle of Britain has entered a state of full-scale war ten days ago!" Robert C. Crawford obviously knew that his leader was involved in almost everything, so he found himself, a man with a very good memory, as his adjutant. When he came out, the competent adjutant had learned a lot of lessons and said in detail, "Within ten days, the Imperial Air Force dispatched more than 7,560 fighter and bomber sorties, attacking important military centers such as Portsmouth and London. Facilities and civilian facilities were bombed on a huge scale, and the Royal Air Force naturally launched a full-scale interception. Excluding false reports from both sides, the battle damage ratio between the Royal Air Force and the Imperial Air Force is now about 1:15. , the British Air Force has now lost about 350 aircraft, and the Imperial Air Force has lost about 500 aircraft!"
Robert C. Crawford made Lin Wei feel heavy. Germany's current monthly production of aircraft is about 600, and the loss of aircraft is second. The key is that the loss of pilots is very huge. The location of the air battle is over the UK. Or directly on the English Channel. There were only two consequences for a downed German pilot, capture and death. There is almost no chance of returning to Germany. An experienced pilot plays a much greater role than an aircraft that can be operated on an assembly line. How could such a huge loss not make Lin Wei heartbroken
"Didn't Göring react? These pilots were all trained by him!" This time Lin Wei seemed to have no bones, lying on the chair, looking like he had more air coming out and less air coming in.
"Not yet! It is said that Marshal Göring is still preparing to launch a huge battle. The Air Force has more than 5,000 combat aircraft out of 7,000. In addition to the three air fleets that have participated in the war earlier, Marshal Göring has also Two of them have been formed, and it seems that they will use their absolute strength to overwhelm the British air defense line! At the current position, the two newly formed air forces have not yet fought against the British Air Force!" Robert C. Crawford said.
"There is no reason for this?" Lin Wei asked doubtfully, "We have handed over accurate information to the Air Force, and didn't you say that Goering has already read it? Why did he do this? I understand Goering, although his He is not talented enough to be the commander of the Air Force, and he is even better as Prime Minister than the Commander of the Air Force, but he still can't do something that is obviously going to lead to death. There is an old saying in the East that when something goes wrong, it becomes a monster! Göring There must be other plans! But I don't know what he wants to do?" Lin Wei finally stopped acting like a living dead and knocked on the table thinking.
"Is this also the confusing part of humble positions?" Robert C. Crawford said openly. He knew that what his leader hated most was telling lies in front of him. This may be a common problem among all leaders. On the one hand, he hopes that his subordinates will tell the truth, but on the other hand, he hates that his subordinates do not give him face when he tells the truth. However, Lin Wei currently does not have the latter option, which is what makes Robert C. Crawford feel lucky.
"If possible, I really want to go back and question Goering on what he is doing?" After spending countless brain cells, Lin Wei gave up his desire to be an excellent psychologist and returned to reality honestly.
Seeing Lin Wei's bitter face, Robert C. Crawford advised, "Leader, with the current strength of the Imperial Air Force, we can defeat the Royal Air Force even in a head-on confrontation. No matter how you look at it, we will win." , just like the current Battle of Gibraltar, even though the British defenders resisted tenaciously, wouldn’t it be possible to change the outcome?”
"Robert C. Crawford, you don't understand!" With a snap, a huge cigar appeared again in Lin Wei's right hand. Lin Wei was furious and looked like a drug addict. After taking two puffs, Lin Wei probably felt better and explained, "Sorry, I seem to be addicted to cigarettes during this period!"
"It doesn't matter!" Robert C. Crawford waved his hand and said, "Leader, please enlighten me, why do you say I don't understand?"
"Oh, this matter, there is no comparison between the Battle of Gibraltar and the landing in the UK!" Lin Wei explained, "The Imperial Air Force pilots have already been reserved when the head of state came to power, so their personal qualities are definitely better. than the pilots of the Royal Air Force, but although the British Air Force is at a disadvantage in terms of pilots, it does have a complete radar network and can know our attack route in advance. Now the elite pilots of the Empire have suffered greater losses than the Royal Air Force. If After a large number of experienced pilots died, we will no longer be able to defeat the Royal Air Force! Therefore, the air battle in Britain must solve the problem once and for all. If those British pilots are allowed to grow up, it will be even more difficult for us to fight! The first one to land in Britain is the Air Force , if the Air Force cannot create a good environment for the Navy and Army, the landing will be nothing more than a joke!"
After hearing this, Robert C. Crawford nodded and said, "That's true. After all, the Bismarck-class battleship has not been repaired yet and we cannot land. However, the same can be said for using the French and Italian navies. Even the air force cannot solve the problem." If we lose the British Air Force, we can force a landing, but what can the small Royal Air Force do?"
Lin Wei looked at his adjutant who had always been very pleasing to him speechlessly, and suddenly felt that he was disgusting no matter how he looked at him at this time. Robert C. Crawford, like almost everyone else of this era, believed that the air force alone could not defeat the navy. How could he not think that the victory in the Battle off the coast of Belgium was because of the air force.
Although battleships and aircraft carriers can be equally divided in this era in the northern Atlantic, it does not mean that this will be the case in the future. The effectiveness of aircraft will become greater and greater in the future, and battleships will be eliminated sooner or later. If Germany was preparing to land with thousands or more British planes hovering overhead, Lin Wei could not imagine the consequences.
Sigh... The old concepts are affecting the soldiers of this era all the time. I wonder if the people of the world can wake up on the day of Pearl Harbor? Putting aside the chaotic emotions in his mind, Lin Wei asked, "Tomorrow will be the day of the general attack. I wonder what the British are doing now. Are they ready to surrender?" Lin Wei joked.
"The British seem to be mobilizing the local Gibraltarians!" Robert C. Crawford wondered, "I wonder if it will have any consequences on our plan to capture Gibraltar?"
"Haha..., what are you afraid of?" Lin Wei seemed to have heard something funny and laughed, "Can you turn civilians into well-trained warriors in two days? Those Gibraltarians can't even rob Take it easy, right? No matter how many of these people there are, they are just cannon fodder. We can help General Franco solve the unstable factors in Gibraltar in the future. General Franco will thank us!" Lin Wei said with a wink.
Compared with Lin Wei's optimism, Robert C. Crawford is a bit heavy. He does not want to deal with these civilians. Sometimes life is forced by helplessness. The Gibraltarians chose the United Kingdom as their homeland. Between the United Kingdom and Germany, In this war, they must stand up for their position. If they choose to surrender, the British will immediately begin preparations to eradicate these unstable factors. However, if they are enemies of the Germans, they must take up arms and face the so-called invincible Germany. Army, this is not a tragedy for these Gibraltarians living here.
"Okay, it's not that we want to be butchers!" Lin Wei patted Robert C. Crawford on the shoulder and comforted, "We are not wrong, and neither are the British. The mistake is just that, our position is On the contrary, these locals are just victims of our two countries, and they are not allowed to make a choice!"
Lin Wei's explanation made Robert C. Crawford feel better. Seeing that his adjutant was not in a high mood, Lin Wei took advantage of a moment of laziness and shouted, "I'm so depressed in the headquarters. We How about going out and seeing the soldiers?"
Hmm... After leaving the headquarters, Lin Wei discovered that a bright weather would indeed bring a relaxed and happy mood to people. In the past few days, Lin Wei had fully returned to the feeling of being an otaku in the dormitory in his previous life. The door is not open. The ladies of ancient times were nothing more than this, right? Lin Wei left nothing behind except dozens of half-cut cigars inside the headquarters. This is not as good as those girls who can embroider.
The temporary headquarters was originally a semi-underground building. Staying inside for a long time made Lin Wei feel that the outside world was so beautiful. Compared with the cold and cold headquarters, these soldiers could fully enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Mediterranean Sea and smell the beautiful scenery. Suddenly, the faint salty smell of sea water drifted over with the majestic wind. Lin Wei's nose sneezed twice, which was no wonder. Whether in this life or in his previous life, Lin Wei is a standard landlubber. The reason is that when he was a child, he almost drowned when he went to take a bath in a river, which left a shadow in his heart. So except for the bathroom, Lin Wei almost never got wet in any river.
Seeing his leader coming out of the headquarters, some soldiers who were maintaining their weapons greeted him politely, and Lin Wei also politely returned the greeting. The unhealthy trends after the National Socialist Party came to power have not yet appeared within the SS. It still maintains the simple and enterprising spirit of when it was first established. After the National Socialist Party became the only political party in Germany, this did not happen much anymore. The funny thing is, who is the most arrogant in the National Socialist Party and who loves to put on airs and pretentiousness, they are all members of Congress. Sometimes Lin Wei feels really angry and funny towards those members of Congress who obviously have no real power. It’s just a group of people raising their mobile phones. Why are you so crazy
There was Goering in the Air Force, Goebbels in the Propaganda Department, Hess in party affairs, and Ribbentrop in diplomacy. Unfortunately, these big bosses of the National Socialist Party were all Hitler and Hitler. Like Le, they are all arbitrary figures. In their eyes, these congressmen are simply dispensable. In terms of military affairs, the Wehrmacht has an officer corps and the SS has a military corps. As long as the army speaks, these respected congressmen can only carry it out. If possible, Germany could function smoothly without a parliament.
These disappointing things disappeared from Lin Wei's mind in a flash. Now Lin Wei just wanted to stay with his soldiers for a while, and wanted to know what the soldiers thought of this war. Although Lin Wei Wei knew how they would answer without asking.
At first, Lin Wei sat among a group of armored soldiers and chatted with them about daily life, but the topic gradually shifted to this war.
"Do you think it's right for us to fight the British?" What worries Lin Wei is that there has always been a large degree of pro-British sentiment among the German people, even among the generals of the officer corps, but fortunately this sentiment does not affect most How well the generals carried out the war. Lin Wei was very afraid that there were such people in his army.
Lin Wei didn't know when this pro-British sentiment began. However, there were indeed many weird places in the world in the 1930s and 1940s. The Nazi flag saved tens of thousands of Chinese during the Nanjing Massacre, and the Japanese and Spanish ambassadors in Europe saved many Jews. The first American soldier killed in action was killed by the Soviet Union in Finland, and the first German soldier killed in action was killed by the Japanese in China. The Soviet Union has been providing assistance to Germany, its mortal enemy. When Ribbentrop went to the Soviet Union to sign a non-aggression pact, he actually felt it from the Soviets. They were a political party with the same ideals as the National Socialist Party, and even felt that Comradeship. There was a large portion of pro-German sentiment in France before the war, and some even wanted France to lose the war. The party that almost had an impact on the two-party politics in the United States, and at times had millions of supporters, turned out to be the "National Socialist Party" in the United States. After seeing the pro-British sentiment among the people in Germany, Lin Wei simply felt that this era is really Incredible chaos.
But what makes Lin Wei happy is that these soldiers did not let Lin Wei hear such pro-British remarks. It is no wonder that these soldiers can be said to be the most hardcore fascists in Germany, Hit? They listened to whatever Le said. Hit? The most talked about thing is war, so for these soldiers, the only thing they hope for is war.
"Tomorrow we will launch a general attack on the Fortress of Gibraltar. Soldiers, this fortress that the British Empire has operated for hundreds of years is about to be conquered by Germany. After that, we will land on the British mainland. The war will end by Christmas at the most. ! Our opponent, the British, who have always regarded Germany as their enemy, will disappear from the world!" Lin Wei encouraged, "We must pay back the unfairness imposed on Germany by the British! Germany, Germany Above all else!”
"Germany, Germany above all else!..." People repeated over and over again, the voice getting louder and louder. This shouting expanded from a group of armored soldiers here to all directions. All soldiers of the Prince Eugen Division, no matter what their position, Whatever work he was doing, he stopped and shouted together. This shout reached the ears of the French soldiers stationed on Mount Gibraltar and the German soldiers who were seizing the time in the town to prepare for tomorrow's attack.
"Lord? What is this sound?" The adjutant, who did not understand German, had no idea what the Germans were shouting, but this did not delay the adjutant from finding a way to satisfy his curiosity.
Lord Gott seemed to be caught in his memories. Yes, Lord Gott had indeed heard this kind of shouting. Twenty-six years ago, a group of Germans who were shouting the same slogans strode towards the battlefield with their heads held high. In the sky, in the sea, on the land, they gave up everything for this sentence, just to win the war. Lord Gott did not expect to hear this voice again after twenty-six years. This time, Lord Gott finally heard the horror of this cry.
After twenty years of war, almost all the major warring countries took the initiative to engage in this war, which they believed to be victorious. But twenty years later, the only countries that supported the war were the Germans. France, which was as bellicose as Germany at the time, has now become Germany's ally. The disintegration of Tsarist Russia is no less dangerous than that of Germany. The Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart and Britain was now under siege. Maybe after some time, the Germans will land in the UK with the same slogan? Lord Gott thought sadly.
"Lord!?" The adjutant didn't know why the Lord in front of him was acting like this, so he kindly moved a chair for the Lord to sit down.
Lord Gott wiped away the tears that were about to fall and said, "Don't you want to know what they shouted? I tell you, they shouted, Germany, Germany above all else!~"
"Oh?" The young adjutant had not participated in the last battlefield, but he could hear the power contained in this cry.