"Your Excellency, the situation here in Guyana is very simple, that is, there is no way to fight, no one to build roads. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It was Nicholas who was spitting bitterness on the feared Marshal Kesselring. Feng. General Falkenhorst. He commanded the invasion of Guyana (Dutch Guiana) and the subsequent occupation of French and British Guiana.

After the occupation of British and French Guiana, he was promoted to General of the Army and commander of the European coalition forces in Guyana (the three Guyanas were merged to form the Republic of Guyana).

However, he did not have many troops under his command, and before the arrival of Field Marshal Kesselring, the only European troops in Guyana were the German 8th and 9th Mountain Divisions and the 950th Gurkha Infantry Regiment (recruited from prisoners of war), the Spanish Blue Division, the Italian 1st "Taurenfis" Mountain Division, the SS Portuguese Regiment (Portugal was still neutral, but sent volunteers), the French Foreign Legion 5th Infantry Regiment (Indochina), and a bunch of miscellaneous troops.

The total strength was only 50,000 men, of which 2 German mountain divisions and 1 Italian mountain division had less than 8,000 men (both had only 2 regiments), the 950th Regiment, the Portuguese Regiment and the 5th Infantry Regiment of the French Foreign Legion each had 3,000 men, and the Spanish Blue Division had about 20,000 men, which was the main force of the European coalition forces in Guyana.

And the lack of troops is not the most helpless thing for General Falkenhorst, what makes him most helpless is that he seems to have nothing to do in South America - there is no way to attack Venezuela, as if there is no need to defend against the Americans from Venezuela.

"It is impossible to attack, our ground forces and the Americans have the same problems, there is no way to attack, they can only stare dryly from a distance of several hundred kilometers! And we don't have enough labor to build roads for the army. ”

General Falkenhorst summoned Kesselring into the newly prepared General Headquarters of the South American Front (located in the fortress of New Amsterdam near Balamalibo, the capital of the Republic of Guyana), and pointed to a large military map: "Because there is hardly any road from Georgetown (formerly the capital of British Guiana) to the city of Gaiana in Venezuela." More than 500 kilometers, all forests and plateaus, even if we take the city of Gaiana, it will not be of much use. There are 900 kilometers between Lake Maracaibo, the oil-producing region of Venezuela, most of which is in the savannah, and near Lake Maracaibo is blocked by the dangerous Mérida Mountains, which are difficult to pass.

And...... The Americans cared so much about the gains and losses in the Lake Maracaibo area, and stationed heavy troops in various passes in the Mérida Mountains. So it is simply impossible for us to take Lake Maracaibo by land. ”

"We can't go...... So will the Americans call? Marshal Kesselring asked, looking at the map.

"Normally, no." General Falkenhorst shrugged, "Is there anything in Guyana that attracts Americans?" Although there are many non-ferrous metals such as gold, bauxite, diamonds, manganese, molybdenum, copper, tantalum, etc., there are also abundant forest resources. But the United States does not lack these things, they are very rich in resources, Canada, Central America, and other countries in South America will not cut off trade with the United States. ”

Marshal Kesselring nodded, he also knew the style of a group of great men in South America, and ...... The Americans have in their hands the oil that all the countries of South America need!

At present, about 350 million tons of oil are dug up in the world every year, of which 260 million tons are controlled by the United States, while Germany only controls more than 40 million tons. Until Britain surrendered, the more than 40 million tonnes could meet the needs of German-controlled Europe, but now the addition of Britain has made oil supplies strained again.

According to the plans of the German General Armaments Directorate and the Ministry of Economy, the shortage of oil supplies caused by the surrender of the British mainland would not be significantly alleviated until at least 1944 - because the new oil fields invested by the European Community countries in Iraq (including Kuwait), Persia and Saudi Arabia would not be ready for production until the second half of '43. And the synthetic gasoline plant, which was opened using the coal resources of Lviv, will not be put into operation until the beginning of 44.

By '44, Germany-controlled oil production (including synthetic fuel) would be able to increase to around 50 million tons. But this is only to meet the needs of the economies of the European Community countries and to sustain the war, and there is still no share of South America.

In this case, the South American countries were going to hug Germany's thighs, and Hitler and Hersmann did not dare to ask for them. This is also the reason why countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal and Turkey are now able to remain neutral.

"But we still have to do something...... "Marshal Kesselring crossed his arms, "because this is a critical moment in the Pacific theater!" The Americans have abandoned the strategy of being number one in Europe, and they are moving the warships that are constantly being produced to the Pacific Ocean. If we had done nothing, it would have been difficult for the Japanese to hold out until 1945. Nicholas, is there anything we can do now? ”

"We may be able to attack the Trinidad and Tobago region...... General Falkenhorst thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Trinidad and Tobago is the key to capturing Venezuela, and the key to the fight for Trinidad and Tobago is air superiority."

But the Americans deployed many aircraft there, maybe 1000 of them! Among them are a large number of P51, P47 and P38, so we have no air superiority in the Caribbean theater of operations. ”

The fighters used by the Luftwaffe/Naval Air Force to prop up the façade are still the FW-190 series fighters, the Fokker Zero D-type fighters, and the HE219 training fighters. These three main models are not weak, and they are not too much of a problem against the American P51, P47 and P38. But there is no overwhelming advantage, and the two sides are only half a catty.

And on the battlefield near the Caribbean, air superiority was essentially on the side of the United States, due to the overwhelming numerical superiority of American aircraft. German planes rarely penetrated deep into the skies over Trinidad and Tobago, but the American P51s and P47s often covered the B-17s to drop bombs on Paramalipo.

The main airport and supply port of the German army in Guyana were placed near Cayenne, the capital of the former French Guiana, far from Trinidad and Tobago, as a result of American air raids.

After listening to the briefing by General Falkenhorst, Marshal Kesselring finally smiled and nodded, and said, "I know what to do, I think we can scare Roosevelt into thinking that we are going to attack Trinidad and Tobago soon." ”

"Marshal, is there anything you can do?" Falkenhorst asked.

"I have the ME262 and there is a large airport on Cayenne where the ME262 can take off," Kesselring said with a smile. ”

If there is any trump card in the hands of the Luftwaffe that can crush its opponents now, it is undoubtedly jets!

According to the intelligence provided by the British, the Americans now knew that there was such a thing as a jet engine, but in the race to develop a jet aircraft, the Americans lagged far behind Germany and Britain.

The Germans flew the world's first jet, the He-178, in 1939, and the British flew the E.28/39 in May 1941. And the Americans did not complete the first test flight of their own jet aircraft, the XP-59A, until October 2, 1942.

The prototype No. 1 of the ME262 jet fighter, which could be used in actual combat, successfully flew in 1941, and in November 1942, the first mass-produced ME262A-1A was produced.

At the same time, the EK262 experimental flight team, led by Captain Novotny Jr.'s comrade-in-arms, was officially formed.

By March 1943, the Luftwaffe had 40 ME-262A-1As for experimental flights, and six of them had experienced pilots ready to fly ME-262 jet fighters.

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"Transferring 4 ME262s to Cayenne?"

Hersmann soon received a telegram from Kesselring from the fortress of New Amsterdam, and by this time he had returned to the post of chief of the general staff.

"Franz, what do you think?" He asked Marshal Halder, the 1st Quartermaster General, who had just returned from England, "Is it time for ME262 to be exposed?" ”

"It's always going to be exposed!" Halder thought for a moment and said, "And we also got another design for a jet engine from the British...... It is also said to be very good, and it is very valuable for reference, and I think there will be better models soon. ”

Historically, the British have not achieved anything below Germany in the field of jet engines, and their course of development is not exactly the same as that of Germany. Germany mainly followed the route of "axial-flow" jet engines, while Britain took the route of "centrifugal" jet engines. Both have their own advantages (due to the absence of rare metals, jet engines in Germany now perform better than they did historically) and can be borrowed from each other.

Therefore, after obtaining the relevant technology from the UK, Germany (theoretically a German-French-British joint research and development) will definitely be able to come up with a better jet engine in the near future, and with a better engine, the performance of the ME262 will also be greatly improved. Therefore, they are not afraid to expose this secret weapon, and the progress of the Americans in this regard is too backward for it to catch up.

"Well, let the Air Force send 4 ME262s and 4 pilots and corresponding crews to Cayenne in Fokker transport aircraft." "Get them into action as soon as possible, I want to ...... That should attract enough eyeballs! (To be continued.) )