Chapter 32 The target is the island of Pantelleria

But soon Chen Yanlong called back to Kessellin and asked him if he had done the change he had ordered Enigma to do. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As well as this air counterattack, a feint will be prepared to disrupt the attention of Britain and the United States.

And Kessellin's reply was also very simply sure that everything had been done according to orders.

Enigma's change was changed by Chen Yanlong according to the solution he had taught in the book (Imperial Overlord) that he had read in later generations.

It is to encrypt the Enigma cipher machine.

That is, on the basis of the Enigma cipher machine, a rotor is added, which makes the work of deciphering this cipher machine 26 times more complicated at once!

At the same time, it is necessary to add a new mapping system as soon as possible, which was developed by the Germans themselves in the later stage of the war, which will make this cipher machine really become a "cipher machine that cannot be deciphered".

But in fact, what Chen Yanlong wants most is to make the computer as soon as possible; Germany was the first country in the world to use computer systems to militarize.

But this is a later story, and the most important thing for him now is to survive first, and to repel the attack of the Soviet army and the British and American allies first.

"Whew! It's so depressing! How can I have so many things to deal with! I can't even take a good rest! Wouldn't it be better if I could travel back in time to 1942, or even earlier, 1940, like Hoffman in that book? ”

"In that case, I'll have more time to deploy and change this doomed war! In that case, I would not have to work hard for my own survival and the suffering of the German people in the future, as I do now! ”

After receiving Kesselring's affirmative reply, Chen Yanlong, who hung up the phone again, suddenly sighed in a low mood.

But soon he picked himself up and allowed himself to continue to study the situation of the Soviet army and the air force of the British and American allies.

According to his later memories, he was well aware of the fact that the Soviet air force had lost 14,700 aircraft in 1942.

But before the summer of 1943, the Soviet army had absolutely no less than 10,000 aircraft.

Moreover, most of them are equipped with new fighters such as La-5, Yak-9, and Il-2, as well as a large number of air force equipment.

Moreover, the radio equipment of the Soviet army at this moment has gradually become popularized, and the Soviet army has also imitated the German Air Force in terms of tactics and establishment to carry out a comprehensive reform, especially the combat experience of the pilots of the Soviet army, which has significantly improved its combat effectiveness and rich flight experience.

At this moment, the Soviet army has about 3,000 aircraft, twice as many as the German air force; Presumably, three air armies and their subordinate units were fully deployed in Kursk.

The Anglo-American Allied Air Force deployed in Sicily had at least 4,000 combat aircraft, if not more.

"It's so helpless! The key to victory or defeat depends on who obtains air supremacy! ”

Thinking of the huge gap in the number and strength of the air forces of the enemy and us, Chen Yanlong's calm heart instantly became irritable.

In particular, I think of the fierce bombing of the German army's transportation system by the Anglo-American allies, which completely paralyzed the German army's transportation system, and made it impossible for the German army's weapons, oil and ammunition to be transported to the front line for combat; as well as to the factories of the German military-industrial complex, and oil fields, airfields, energy plants; gas processing plants, power generation plants, steelmaking plants, ammunition factories; Large-scale bombing of aircraft factories and major cities plunged the whole of Germany into a catastrophe of economic and military destruction. Chen Yanlong couldn't help but shiver and became nervous.

"It looks like I'm going to order Speer and the Air Force Armament Director Erhard? Milch, the production genius, will immediately speed up the production and development of the Me262 jet fighter and the training of the pilots who fly these jets! ”

In the end, Chen Yanlong looked more determined and made a decision.

Because he remembers that at the end of World War II, George Lee, chief of intelligence of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, came from the U.S. Army. Brigadier General C. McDonald; In a report submitted to the U.S. military summit, it was reported that "if the number of jet fighters in the German army could exceed 700 by 1944, it would be entirely possible to upset the current balance of air power in Europe." ”

As soon as he thought of it, Chen Yanlong couldn't wait to call now, regardless of whether it was late at night; To the wartime Minister of Armaments Speer, and the Director of Air Force Armaments Erhard? Milch; ordered them to mass-produce the Me262 jet fighter as soon as possible; And tomorrow we will send someone to Vinnitsa to receive the latest prototype of the Me262 jet fighter, as well as the design drawings.

In this regard, Speer and Erhard, who have not yet woken up? Milch was confused and puzzled for a moment; I even thought that I was still dreaming, looking confused and confused.

"This ...... Isn't the Führer very strongly opposed to us researching and producing the Me262 jet fighter? Isn't he going to mass-produce those anti-aircraft guns? But why did he suddenly call from Ukraine in the middle of the night to wake us up and mass produce these jets? What exactly does he want to do? And you want us to send someone to Ukraine to get the model machine, and the design drawings? Well! The ME262 jet fighter is made by someone who understands besides us? This is really strange, strange and strange! ”

Then, both of them couldn't help but have such a puzzled thought and muttered.

"Hey! Forget it, let me personally go to Ukraine tomorrow to see what bad ideas the Führer has come up with on a whim! ”

In the end, both of them sighed helplessly in unison.

Of course, Chen Yanlong didn't know what the two of them thought.

And when Chen Yanlong was talking to them, Kessel was also deploying his Second Air Corps.

When the dawn has just come and the edge of the skyline has just revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, 300 Messerschmitt BF109s; 200 hundred FW190 single-engine light fighters, and 200 Messerschmitt BF110s, and 100 Messerschmitt ME210/410 twin-engine heavy fighters; In a menacing manner, it took off from a relatively secluded airfield in Italy.

And their target is Pantelleria, an Italian volcanic island located in the Mediterranean Sea; It has an important strategic location between Sicily and Tunisia in North Africa.

Mussolini's government established a military base here, and the main town of Pantelleria is the only port on the island.