"A permanent stronghold? In the Labrador area? President Truman looked at William. Leahie, with a solemn expression, "It's less than 2,000 kilometers from New York, isn't it?" ”

William. Leahy nodded. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

2000 km is already within the combat radius of the Me264, and even some long-range versions of the German night fighter He219 can provide full escort for the Me264 taking off from the Labrador region.

"But we don't have to worry too much," said William. "Because the way from Labrador to New York has to fly over the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, and the American states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, almost all the way over the land under our control." Therefore, we have ample time for early warning and multiple interception opportunities. ”

Do you really have to worry about it? Truman said that it was the Germans with the atomic bomb who landed on the North American continent!

The President of the United States frowned tightly and said, "Is there a way we can stop them from landing?" ”

"This ......" William. Leahy glanced at Wallace.

Truman added: "We must stop them, and we must not allow the Germans to land on the North American continent...... Absolutely not! ”

"Mr. President, the Army and Navy will do everything in their power to defend every inch of North America," Wallace said. ”

William. Leahy was stunned and looked at Wallace in surprise. The Pentagon has long had a consensus on the issue of the German landing on the coast of Labrador, and they all believe that it is difficult to defend and cannot be prevented at all, because the coastline is too long, there are too many harbors suitable for landing, and it is difficult for the Allies to replenish the garrisons along the coast of Labrador after losing sea supremacy. Therefore, the defense could only be abandoned, and the German troops landing in the Labrador area were paralyzed by submarine and mine-laying blockades and continuous air raids.

"William, don't we have a plan to defend the coast of Labrador?" Wallace asked William. Leahy.

"Yes, there is such a plan." William. Leahy smiled wryly, "The Joint Chiefs of Staff plan to use airborne troops and air power to defend the coast of Labrador. ”

"With airborne troops?" Truman asked, "How do you use it?" ”

"Where the Germans landed, we landed nearby." William. "The 18th Airborne Corps is currently stationed in Maine and is the general reserve for the Northeast Theater of the United States and the Eastern Theater of Canada, ready to support distant and inaccessible fronts," Leahy said. ”

The Northeast of the United States is very convenient for transportation, but the eastern part of Canada is different, there are few transportation facilities, most of the area has neither railways nor roads, once the sea route is blocked, air transportation is the only reliable method.

And in the case of the Labrador area, it is certainly more reliable to counterattack with airborne troops after the Germans have landed than to deploy defenses everywhere.

"What about air power?" Truman asked, "How are you going to use it?" ”

"Fighter planes were dispatched to bomb after the start of the German landing operation, and the bombing operation would continue around the clock as long as the weather conditions permitted." William. "F7Fs will be dispatched during the day, batbombs will be dropped on medium and heavy bombers at night, and planes and submarines will be mined to cut off the enemy's rear," Raisi said. ”

"Good!" Truman listened to William. Leahie's explanation, the dark clouds on his face have been swept away, "That's it! "Suddenly he saw William. Leahy's face was still clouded, "Admiral, what are you worried about?" ”

William. Leahy was, of course, worried that his forces would be scattered and depleted. The Germans' actions were always unexpected, so much so that the top brass of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doubted whether the direction of the German main attack had been correct.

William, who was pierced by Truman. Leahy smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Nothing, the army and navy will definitely fight with all their might to defend North America from the enemy." ”

"Excellent! That's it. Truman nodded, "Admiral, I hope that the army can bring a great victory to the American people in the near future!" ”

……

In the early hours of April 18, 1945, off the coast of Labrador, Hare Bay Island.

The creaking sound accompanied by the roar of the machine pierced the calm and uninhabited bay, and in the direction from which the sound came, a "fat" giant ship with a standard displacement of no more than 10,000 tons was crashing through the frozen sea.

The giant ship that crashed through the ice was called the "Siberian", and it was the most advanced 10,000-ton icebreaker launched in the Soviet Union in the 30s. Now the naval flag of St. Andrei of the Russian Empire is hoisted.

The deck of the "Siberian" was full of soldiers in white smocks and thick winter field uniforms, including Hersmann's second son, Reinhardt. He stood at the bow of the icebreaker, one large leather gloved hand firmly gripping the railing, and the other holding a telescope looking nervously around. Behind him, the battle-hardened Russian GIs also looked nervous.

It's off the coast of North America! Reinhardt was eager to make the first landings on the Bremen, but now that North America was less than 6,000 meters away, he was too nervous to do so.

Named "Hare Bay Island", this theoretically uninhabited island is the entrance to Hare Bay, and Hare Bay is a very good natural deep-water bay that allows ships of more than 40,000 tons like the Bremen to enter and exit. Although there is no large wharf in the bay, there is a fishing port.

Although the area of Hare Bay Island is not large, only a few square kilometers, the terrain is very flat. About half of the land is flat wasteland, and with a little tidying up, it can take off and land aircraft such as the Fokker Zero and Il-2, which do not require high airport requirements.

The other half of the island is covered with woods, which can be used to hide small troops, and artillery can also be deployed there.

The seaplanes had already done some reconnaissance, but they had not found any enemy troops on the island - if they were there, they would have been hiding in the woods.

In addition, Hare Bay Island is not far from the land of Hare Bay, and the nearest place is only 2000 meters. If the artillery is placed on the land of the bay, it can also be used to cover the island of Hare Bay and the surrounding seas......

And the armed icebreaker "Siberian", although it is not small, its firepower is not strong, and other parts except the bottom of the ship are not strong enough to withstand the shelling at all. If a few large-caliber guns had been ambushed on land near Hare Bay, today's landing would have turned into a disaster.

However, what Reinhardt and others feared did not happen, knowing that the Siberian was less than 2,000 meters close to Hare Bay Island, and the Americans did not hit the shells. The icebreaker Siberian stopped moving in this position.

The MT-13 mortar mounted on the bridge of the Siberian began to fire, and 160mm mortar shells fell on the ice one after another, causing a violent explosion that completely shattered the ice that had already melted and was only a thin layer of ice.

More than a dozen small sampans made of steel hulls were lowered to the surface of the sea, and hundreds of Russian soldiers slowly climbed to the small sampan along the ladder of the Alexander. Feng. Heinsberg Hersmann also boarded the sampan with them.

The motor was activated, and the small sampan broke through the sea with a lot of broken ice, and rushed through the fog of the early morning sea to the tidal flat not far away. Before the sampan could be stopped, the officers and men above rumbled from the sampan into knee-deep water with Mkb42 automatic carbines.

"Ulla! Ulla! ”

Someone took the lead in shouting, and then the slogan "Ula" sounded across the beach, and everyone picked up their automatic carbines and began to charge.

At the same time, at a distance of 15,000 meters from Hare Bay Island, 4 missile cruisers and 4 heavy cruisers had formed an artillery strike formation, aiming all their 203mm main guns at Hare Bay Island and nearby land.

In the sky, dozens of Fokker Zero D-type fighter-bombers, with bombs and rockets hanging from their wings and belly, were whizzing and circling, ready to attack the outcropping American GIs at any time.

Reinhardt was also charging, his first time on the battlefield, his heart beating like a drum. It's time to fire, right? This is the North American continent, so it won't be without a single soldier, right?

If you did fire, you wouldn't have been killed on a beachhead in North America, would you? It would be unfortunate to do so.

However, the gunfire and artillery that he waited for never rang out, and the hundreds of White Russian officers and soldiers who landed rushed into the woods of the island like a whirlwind. Everywhere you look, there are nothing but tall trees, scared rabbits and other wild animals.

This small island called Hare Bay Island is really only "guarded" by hares!

A few minutes later, the island of the landing fleet's flagship, the Bremen, sounded with the excited voice of the staff officer.

"Sir, the Siberian has sent a telegram: the landing on the island of Hare Bay has been a success! There were no enemies stationed on the island, and our soldiers landed on the soil of North America without firing a single shot! ”

Odoror. Admiral Bourchadi nodded, "Did the radar detect the enemy aircraft?" ”

"No, the radar did not detect enemy aircraft." The staff officer replied, "The Bv138 AWACS aircraft also did not detect enemy aircraft and the enemy's fleet." ”

Admiral Bourchardi in turn to the commander-in-chief of the landing force, Ernst Anderson. Rear Admiral Shelf Allen (belonging to the Marine Corps) said: "Ernst, Hare Bay Island is ours, and then the whole Hare Bay will be the whole of Hare Bay. I think...... The Americans shouldn't be watching us take the whole of Hare Bay, right? ”

"Admiral," Major General Allen Xue glanced up at the cloudy sky, "now it's up to God, if there is a stormy weather tonight, we will be able to land in Hare Bay." However, it will not be easy to really gain a foothold, there is no port here, it can only be transported by beachhead barge, and it will take at least two weeks for the landing force of the two brigades to fully land. ”