Chapter 981

Last time, when the United States attacked Romania, in order to better coordinate and dispatch large-scale flight formation, it adopted the daytime bombing mode. Although it is in good visual condition during the day and can be escorted by fighters, its disadvantages are also very obvious. Enemy fighters can take off and intercept easily, with good vision and easy command.

Therefore, the United States summed up the root cause of the failure of the Romanian air strike. The most important point is that the German fighter forces are too strong to launch an attack under the advantage of the other side, which is easy to suffer heavy losses and unable to complete the attack plan.

After summing up the experience and lessons of the failure, the U.S. Army Air Force began to focus on training night bombing, trying to use this method to avoid the strong German fighter forces in the daytime and complete their bombing mission. This time, the United States felt that the training was mature and decided to use the method of night bombing to reduce losses and achieve the purpose of bombing.

Of course, another reason why the United States and Britain resolutely decided to adopt the night bombing mode is because of the assistance of the underground rebel organizations in Norway. The rebel groups promised that on the night of the operation, they would light torches to point out the targets for the Allied bombing.

With so many conveniences, the U.S. bombers naturally chose the safer tactics of bombing at night. At least in their cognition, the fighters that take off at night are legendary weapons. They firmly believe that even if the Germans have such night fighters, they will not have too much equipment. As for places like Norway, they will deploy even less.

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Defense forces intelligence headquarters, Berlin, Germany.

After paying homage to the visiting akado at attention, gascol reported to the head of state that the Allied forces may have strengthened the relevant intelligence of Icelandic Bombers: "my head of state, I think we should send reconnaissance planes to carry out strategic investigation on Iceland... Confirm the military scale of the Allied forces there, and prepare emergency measures as soon as possible."

Akado received a phone call from Reinhart dozens of minutes ago, and also reported to him in an eager tone about the deployment of the allies in Iceland. That's why he came to the intelligence headquarters of the national defense forces so free to listen to Gaskell.

After all, all this is just intelligence speculation, and no one dares to mobilize the German air force forces because of these unwarranted speculation. So we all think that the target of the air raid should be Norway, but we don't know how to deal with it for a while. Mobilize the air force to use fuel to make a transition. If the Americans notice something and do not continue to act, who will be responsible for this massive waste?

In view of such a situation, we all chose to give the decision-making power to the head of state. After all, the great head of state has not made any mistakes in decision-making - God's gift is not a false name, but a myth that every German truly believes.

"Muster all the air force that can be mustered and go to the Norwegian airport to stand by! Strengthen the security around all factories, and let klester be on full alert to arrest any suspicious personnel. " As akado walked to the intelligence analysis Hall of gascoir, he gave the order to mobilize the troops: "the air defense forces stationed in Germany can also be transferred!"

"But! My head of state... In that case, there will be loopholes in the defense system over the Mainland... "An air defense officer behind Gaskell whispered.

"I know what you are worried about, and I know that it will put Berlin in danger... But if the enemy really bombed Berlin, we would be just shocked. If the enemy bombed Norway, what can I do to make up for the loss of steel production capacity?"

We all know that Germany lacks resources. At present, the three armed forces and the people's livelihood departments are still fighting fiercely for Norwegian iron ore. Each department broke the head, in order to so little iron and steel production capacity distribution, want to take his wife for iron. At this time, even a 10% reduction in iron ore production will directly affect the German strategic deployment.

The lack of steel will eventually be directly transferred to all combat forces. They will lose dozens of tanks, dozens of planes, one aircraft carrier and hundreds of thousands of bullets... This is the precursor of losing the war, and this is the beginning of all disasters, isn't it?

So akado would rather risk Berlin running naked than let Norway arm himself to the teeth. Now there are not many US strategic bombing outposts. As long as we look at Norway, it seems that all German resource points will be safe. It's a price that akado feels he can afford and it's worth investing in.

"Did the analysis come out? If the Americans attack, will they attack by day or by night? " As akado walked forward, he asked gascol, who was closely behind him: "you have the top intelligence analysis experts in Germany. Do you have to come to a conclusion that can be reached?"

"Norwegian saboteurs have been active a little bit recently... We suspect they have made contact with British spies. So there is reason to believe that this time the US bomber operation was assisted by Norwegian saboteurs. " Gascol made a summary report on intelligence.

"In the air raid operations in Romania, the Americans suffered a great loss in the daytime bombing, so the air defense headquarters concluded that the possibility of the American bombing at night this time is more than 75%, and the possibility of the daytime bombing is not more than 25%, or even less." Gascol added to the air defense officer at the back.

Akado nodded, walked to the edge of the huge sand table in the middle of the intelligence hall, and carefully looked at the vast sea area between Iceland and Norway. It is useless for the aircraft carrier fleet to go out, because most of the German carrier based aircraft are air-cooled fw-190, so the high-altitude combat capability is not ideal. It's too late to temporarily change into liquid cooled fighters, and now all we can hope for is the land-based fighter units that have been transferred to the past“ Order the night fighter forces of Denmark and Germany to assemble in the direction of Norway After only a few seconds of thinking, akado gave the order that the night fighter troops should move to Norway at the same time: "how about the reserve fuel over there? Is that enough? "“ The reserve fuel can cope with it. The main reason is that these fighters carry the local reserve fuel after the transition, but if they want to return, the reserve in Norway will be a little tight. " The general of the strategic resources department is quite familiar with his family background. After all, he has to struggle with such a pile of figures every day“ "Frugal." After saying such a word, akado issued a more surprising order: "let the butcher bombers stationed in the east line transfer to the British occupied area. Defense is not the way after all, since they use Iceland to trouble us, then we will blow Iceland down completely! "“ My head of state... Strategic reserves of crude oil were already tight two months ago. Is it too wasteful to use strategic bombers at this time? " The people who can discuss such a major battle plan in this hall are all senior military officers who know a lot of inside information. As we all know, there is a shortage of oil on the front line. Now the head of state has ordered the use of strategic bombers like oil tigers, which shocked us all. Akado, holding his hands on the edge of the huge sand table and staring at Norway, said: "blindly defending consumes more fuel and has to bear greater risks. We are not only short of fuel oil, but also the iron ore produced in Norway... It is a cost-effective business to use part of fuel oil to protect the safety of iron ore production... "Who says that Germany is really short of everything? On the one hand, there is a shortage of oil resources, on the other hand, there is a shortage of iron ore resources. In order to keep these resources, the German generals had to take a limited number of troops to design an almost perfect "battle to protect the resource producing areas". Listen to akado say so, everyone can't help but shut up. We are used to the steady production of steel in Norway, but we forget the disastrous impact on the whole empire once the production is cut. No oil is terrible, but no steel is equally terrible“ So! If there is no doubt. Go ahead and carry it out! " Akado coldly ordered: "Norway's iron ore production must not be affected!"“ Head of state akado? Long live Rudolph All raised their right hands and answered at attention“ Woo... Woo... "The shrill emergency assembly alarm sounded in the base of German local air defense forces. The pilots, dressed in leather jackets and with the help of ground service personnel, rushed to their planes with all kinds of fragmentary equipment. Beside the ta-152 fighters that had been refueled, the staff with the auxiliary fuel tank yelled out all kinds of commands“ Did the Americans invade? " One of the pilots joked to a serious ground airport commander“ yes! Sergeant! Check all the instruments on your plane. You have to fly a long distance to resist the Yankee plane. Stop them from doing anything, okay? " The officer replied solemnly, in a tone of no jest. The pilot was stunned, and then quickly got into the cockpit of his plane, while checking whether the instruments in front of him were working normally, he whispered: "my God, it's not a drill... No.54, ready! You can take off! " In the sky, more than a dozen ju-88 night fighters stationed in the south of Kiel military port roared over the anti-aircraft gun positions near the port. The 88mm cannons pointing high to the sky stood like trees, watching the gods of death in the night sky with majestic momentum, flying towards the distant horizon.