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While the news of the heavy damage to the Strasbourg and the forced stranding of the Strasbourg temporarily eased the pressure on the Chiefs of Staff, they were surprised by the speed with which the ground forces retreated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As soon as the U.S. planes left the field, the Germans launched a sharp attack, and the more unscrupulous close-range support fire after the Strasbourg ran aground made the Canadians feel uncomfortable and suffocated, and they involuntarily retreated. So there was a peculiar scene on Newfoundland: in the face of the overwhelming offensive of the Germans in dense firepower and the integration of air and ground, the Canadians with a whole division were pressed and beaten by the Germans who were far fewer than them, and the total number of casualties in just one day exceeded 3,000 (including the losses of air raids, artillery bombardments, and German ground forces), while the total German casualties were less than 300.

There is no harm without comparison, and in the face of the enemy's overwhelming air firepower superiority, the German troops on Sal Island fought to the death with perfect fortifications, inflicting heavy casualties on the American army, and after the 5th Army Division was disabled, the new 3rd Army Division was also struggling.

What made the Joint Staff Committee even more troublesome was that after a day of tossing and turning, it did not find the exact location of the German aircraft carrier formation -- the reconnaissance planes sent to it either lost its way or found that it was not the aircraft carrier formation at all, or it was simply not heard from, and I wonder if it was shot down by the Germans. It was only 2 days before Cunningham's aircraft carrier formation arrived in the designated sea area, and if the Germans could not be found, the fleet might have to fight, Arnold fired on the phone, asking his subordinates to find the German aircraft carrier formation tomorrow at all costs.

At this time, the German aircraft carrier group, under the command of Ozawa, after the long-awaited nightfall, turned to a relatively fast speed and headed southwest, and this night they were going to destroy the US military base on Prince Edward Island. AR-352 had already discovered the disposition and distribution of troops on the base, and also sensed that American reinforcements were arriving, which made Machar and others even more anxious.

A few hours before the attack began, good news came from Newfoundland: the sappers had not only used the old facilities at the American airfield to sort out a usable airfield, but also found an underground aviation gasoline depot nearby, which contained at least 10,000 tons of high-grade fuel, enough for the Germans.

"Well done! It seems that the joint attack aircraft and the Ju-188s will be able to land directly from the Azores to Newfoundland early tomorrow morning, and even the Bf-219 and Ju-98 will be able to fly after carrying the auxiliary fuel tanks. Cranke slapped his high-five, "In this way, we can directly go to the land-based troops, and we don't have to occupy valuable carrier-based aircraft pilots, if the British and American fleets really dare to come, we have a greater certainty of annihilating them." ”

Ozawa's heart moved: "Can you use heavy transport planes to replenish some Marine Corps troops?" Unarmed soldiers are sufficient, there are a large number of captured weapons, ammunition and even tanks on the island, and there are also a large number of equipment and supplies on the ships stranded in the harbor, and there is no problem in airlifting 3-4 battalions and arming them. ”

Machar asked suspiciously: "It is probably possible to transport troops by air, and it is not difficult to transfer troops, but how to retreat in the future?" ”

"As long as we defeat the British and American fleets, we will undoubtedly be very safe, and when the time comes, it is not up to us to decide whether to fight or withdraw?" Ozawa smiled faintly, "Britain and the United States and we only have this fleet, and whoever has the upper hand will have the upper hand in the entire battle." But one thing should not be overlooked, as long as we occupy Newfoundland for one day, the Anglo-Canadian route will not be resumed, Churchill has been blocked for 2 months, can he be blocked for another 4 months? ”

Machar nodded in satisfaction: "Let me report to the Führer and request reinforcements." ”

It was not only Machar's aircraft carrier group that launched an attack at night, but Hoffman's long-planned black technology troops also attacked strongly, targeting the US forces around Cape Verde, and the killer weapon they relied on was the Hs-293 anti-ship missile, which had not appeared for a long time.

After the Mediterranean Campaign became famous, the Hs-293 seemed to disappear and was never used on a large scale in actual combat. Because in the internal campaign review of the German army, it was found that due to the use of the existing Hs-293, it was very difficult to achieve major results, and it was a big problem to maintain absolute air supremacy on the spot.

However, this does not mean that this new weapon is completely ineffective, and Hoffman believes that there is absolutely room for further improvement, and during his inspection of the Penemünde base, he proposed two improvement ideas: a small improvement plan and a major improvement plan. The so-called small improvement plan refers to changing the usage scenario and moving the usage scenario of Hs-293 to the evening; The major improvement plan is to change the guidance method, changing the HS-293 from the existing manual precision guidance to automatic precision guidance. Through the improvement of the two schemes, it is endowed with different tactical means of attack.

The former is easy to achieve, and inspired by the night combat use of the Tiger tank "Owl" system, scientists are determined to equip heavy bombers with such sharp weapons. There are a total of four 2,000 horsepower engines supporting the heavy bomber, which can provide a longer and more powerful infrared searchlight means, this searchlight is installed in the belly position, and can achieve a searchlight distance of more than 6,000 meters by projecting from top to bottom.

The latter is much more difficult, because the hallmark of its success is the need to equip the Hs-293 with an infrared seeker - scientists have found that radio signals are easy to interfere with, and infrared radiation is not so easy to conceal, especially on the sea surface, the stronger the maneuverability and the faster the warship, the easier it is to radiate powerful infrared rays, which is very beneficial to guidance.

And the infrared guide head Germany has a ready-made technical reserve, Germany initially explored the proximity fuse when testing a variety of guidance heads, including infrared, but the infrared guidance head into a small 88mm shell or 128mm shell is obviously too difficult, so it has not been able to do anything, but this infrared guide head on the huge Hs-293 has no problem at all, the German army has tested many times, the use of the dark night effect is extraordinary, even better than the effect during the day.

After almost a year of painstaking development, the new generation Hs-293 was put into service, and in order to distinguish it from its predecessor, the model was changed to Hs-393.

Eight Me-264 heavy bombers tore through the dark night and pounced in the direction of Cape Verde, they did not have any escort fighters, the only thing that could cover them was the thick night, they had transferred to the Canary Islands a few days ago, and they could have hit the American fleet a long time ago according to the voyage, but the Germans, who knew the weakness of horizontal bombing, did not want to waste the precious opportunity to attack, but formed a unique night owl team...... (To be continued.) )