Chapter 1723: A Huge Fleet
The storm was on the ice sheet, blowing for a long time, and the people hiding in the igloo listened to the whirring wind outside, and their hearts were up and down.
"What shouldn't go, what shouldn't go." Professor Weiss didn't know how many times he had talked about it, and it was not worth it to risk the lives of two of his own in order to find a traitor's hunter.
Every soldier of the empire is precious, and in the past few days, they have lived together, and they have formed a closer relationship, just like their own relatives, the storm came so quickly, how happened to them?
After the storm stopped, Professor Weiss stood on top of the igloo and looked into the distance, but saw nothing, and it was impossible for the remaining few of them to be sent out to find it.
In this way, time passed little by little, one day, two days, three days, and in the afternoon of the third day, a group of people appeared faintly on the horizon in the distance.
"Prepare for battle!" The soldier who stayed here said, he held his rifle and looked into the distance, although he was alone, but there was a trap nearby, he was still armed with an automatic weapon, and it was absolutely no problem to kill a dozen people by himself.
When the other party got closer, he saw clearly that it was a few people from his own side, and in the sled, loaded with supplies.
Aort was at the front, and when the storm stopped, they went to the nearby sled patrol supply depot and stocked up with all sorts of supplies, biscuits,
Bacon meat, canned lime and lemon, herring for the dogs, and precious fuel kerosene were all brought in.
With this batch of supplies, they can stay longer, and moreover, this round has also gotten more meteorological information, and in the near future, there will be no more terrible storms formed!
"Our observational data also confirms this." Having just released a high-altitude sounding balloon, Professor Weiss said: "The atmosphere has stabilized throughout northern Greenland and will last for at least 10 days. ”
This is a great opportunity!
There are six groups of meteorological teams sent by Germany, except for the ice sheet, even the northernmost part of Greenland, there are meteorological teams stationed, and in the past few days, they have all got the same results, in the near future, there will be no major storms!
"It seems that our meteorological detachment is doing a good job." After receiving the news, Ciric was very satisfied: "As long as there is no bad weather in the near future, our plan can be started." ”
The landing force is quite dependent on meteorological conditions, and if the weather conditions are bad, their landing ships will not be able to dock, and even carrier-based aircraft will not be able to take off, and when the time comes, it will cause great danger and even cause heavy losses to their own fleet.
Carrier-based aircraft cannot take off, but land-based fighters can take off forcibly.
The battle plan has been formulated, and after several years of running-in, the empire's war machine is already extremely powerful, and on the whole, this landing operation is an expanded plan for the landing in Iceland, a miniature version of the landing in the United States, and the navy has long been known how many times it has been formulated.
However, in the end, Ciric also got an additional plan of action.
"Decapitation?" Ciric read the name of the plan, the whole plan, developed by the Griffin Special Forces, with Skorzny's name signed on it.
The griffin special forces were established at the suggestion of Ciric, and Skorzny was also a member of the cadres personally proposed by Ciric, and at the same time, Skorzny did not disappoint Ciric, and every operation was completed very well.
However, a special operation is different from a national war, in which there are not many opportunities for special operations.
Skorzny is an idle man, the most recent operation, is to rescue Humpty Dumpty Khrushchev, other than that, he has not done anything enjoyable, since he is going to land in Greenland, simply, he is also looking for some combat operations.
For example, parachute directly into the capital of Greenland, quietly touch in, and kill all the Greenland governors and senior officials of the American army above, so that the troops below will be a mess.
Anyway, the Governor and the others were staunch Americans, and after the surrender of Denmark, they did not hesitate to defect to the Americans, and even allowed the Americans to use their bases.
It can be said that such an action is risky, after all, if you are not familiar with the locals, and without the response of the locals, you may even fall into an ambush circle.
However, the griffin special forces have indeed not been dispatched for a long time, and the army cannot be afraid of risks, and only on the battlefield of blood and fire can they show their value.
After carefully reading this report twice, Ciric finally signed his name on this battle plan, and with his signature, the military operation to land on Greenland officially began!
One warship after another, sailing out of various ports in Europe, assembled and grouped in the Atlantic, and soon formed a huge fleet of more than 200 ships.
If you look at it from the sky, this fleet is beautiful with power.
In the middle of the fleet, there are six aircraft carriers with straight decks, two teams of three in the front and rear, and the propellers in the tail stir the current, and the waves are tumbling.
On the deck side, carrier-based aircraft are ready to take off at any time.
In front of the aircraft carrier formation, there are two giant battleships, Bismarck and Hindenburg, two huge battleships, the largest monsters in the entire formation, with high 460 mm barrels, showing their power all the time.
The navy of any country, seeing the size of this formation, will drool greedily, just these warships in the central area are enough for their eyes, not to mention the German-class pocket battleships next to it, as well as a large number of escort destroyers and frigates.
Behind them, there are all amphibious landing ships.
The huge fleet spread out on the water, several nautical miles in front and behind, and the black pressure could not be seen.
(When I think of this scene in my head, I don't know why, I get inexplicably excited.) )
In front of the German fleet, a dozen nautical miles, was the French fleet, with the Strasbourg as the core, forming a vanguard fleet of more than a dozen warships.
On the battleship Hindenburg, Raeder was in high spirits.
Generally speaking, when the fleet goes out, it is a vice admiral or admiral, and few naval commanders lead the team themselves, but this time, Raeder decided to personally lead the team, this magnificent military operation, Raeder wanted to personally command.
The waves in the Atlantic Ocean have always been very large, but the 70,000-ton battleship has been sailing steadily, and the coffee on the table has not shaken at all.
"The Americans will definitely notice us." Next to Raeder, Vice Admiral Gunther-Lütjens said: "Even if we have done enough secrecy procedures, we will not be able to hide it from the Americans. ”
"yes, we didn't intend to hide it in the first place." "We just want to attract the American air force to come and send them to their deaths, and if the Americans can't hold their breath and release their fleet too soon, they're dead," Raeder said. ”