The car drove along Nevsky Prospect, lined with beautiful European-style buildings, to the heavily guarded Hermitage Square – Mother Olga, who now rules Russia, was not a benevolent Madonna, but in fact a female version of Stalin, who had no idea that there was such a thing as democracy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHer government is an absolute autocracy in Russia, popular protests are strictly forbidden, and the Dynasty Socialist Party is the only legal political party in Russia!

"Hey! Olga! ”

As the car drove into the Winter Palace, the guards of the Royal Guard saluted and chanted slogans.

"Felix," Hersman asked, half-jokingly, looking out the window of the car at the Russian soldier in a khaki coat and carrying a Mosin-Nagant rifle, "Shall I raise my hand and shout a slogan when I see Olga later?" ”

"You?" Prince Yusupov smiled and said, "The Empress wants you to kiss her on the cheek, as in the past...... This is your prerogative. ”

Olga's pretty face must have been kissed by a man in private, but Hersman was the only one who kissed her face in public.

"That's a real honor." Hersman said, "It seems that Olga still regards me as her closest ally...... At least on the surface.

The car was parked outside the foyer of the Winter Palace, and Empress Olga, who had been in military attire for a long time, had already walked out of the foyer in the cold in a shoulder-baring white court dress, accompanied by several ministers and female officials.

Hersman got out of the car, strode over to her, and kissed the Empress on the cheek in full view of everyone as usual, and then the Empress kissed Hersman as well.

"Dear Olga, you're so glamorous today." Hersman said to the empress in a flattering tone.

"Really?" The Empress chuckled a few times, then took Hersman's arm and walked into the foyer, "But it's really cold to wear like this...... Although I didn't wear much clothes in the winter when I was younger, I can't do it anymore, I've been in warm Western Europe for so long that I'm hardly used to the Russian cold. ”

As soon as he entered the foyer, the hot air rushed to Hersman, who was wearing a military coat, and a fine layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.

"It's so hot in here." As he spoke, Hersman unbuttoned his coat one by one, and then took off his coat and handed it to Adjutant Brandt.

"This kind of temperature is a luxury in Russia under my rule." Olga smiled as if self-deprecatingly, "The vast majority of people have only access to minimal heating, and I can vouch for the fact that things were better in Russia before the February rebellion than they are now." ”

The February Rebellion was the February Revolution, and now that Tsarist Russia has been restored, Nicholas II and other members of the royal family who died in the revolution have become Orthodox saints, and the revolution that overthrew them has become a rebellion of all evils. However, Empress Olga issued a decree pardoning all the thugs (revolutionaries) who participated in the February Rebellion.

"The situation will get better, as long as we defeat the United States and get the reparations, Russia's economy will recover."

"Attacking the United States soon?" Olga asked with interest.

"I'm almost ready," replied Hersman, "and I'm here to inform you about it." ”

The Russian Expeditionary Force is one of the main forces of the European Community Expeditionary Force, almost equal in number to the German Expeditionary Force. And now the number of Russian troops who have arrived in Belém, Brazil and Guyana is even higher, ranking first among the expeditionary forces of all countries, reaching more than 500,000.

Although so many Russian troops are under the command of the European Community Coalition Atlantic Front Command, and their military salaries are also borne by the European Community (mainly paid by Germany and France), but if you really want to send them to the battlefield, you still have to say hello to Olga.

"Ludwig, don't worry, they will obey orders!"

Hersman and Olga then walked up the stairs of the entrance hall of the Winter Palace to the throne hall on the second floor. It is a large and imposing room with white as the main color, and at the end of the hall is the red Tsar's throne. In front of the throne is a long oak conference table and two rows of chairs.

At one end of the oak conference table was a red velvet tablecloth with a map unfolded. Hersman glanced at it and saw that it was a map of the situation in the Caribbean. There are many lines and arrows drawn densely on it, and a large number of troop numbers are also indicated.

"Ludwig, does this picture match the reality?" The Empress of Russia asked, standing in front of the map.

Hersman leaned down and pretended to look at it carefully, then nodded and said: "The coalition part is about the same, and the number of air forces is even more, we will deploy 6,000 shore-based aircraft and seaplanes there, plus carrier-based aircraft and carrier-based seaplanes, the total number can reach 8,000." ”

Now that the victory or defeat between the US and European surface fleets has been divided, whether it is a decisive battleship battle or an aircraft carrier battle, the superiority is on the side of Germany -- Germany's airborne missiles can also attack aircraft carriers, and the performance of carrier-based aircraft and the level of carrier-based aircraft pilots are also on the German side. Therefore, it seems that the fate of both sides will be decided by a contest of shore-based aircraft, and once the German shore-based aircraft deployed in Guyana and northern Brazil defeat the American shore-based aircraft on the island of Trinidad, the landing operation will begin.

And the European coalition forces, which have both sea and air superiority, may have won the victory of the landing operation.

"Imperial Marshal, most of your 8,000 planes can't reach Trinidad, right?"

The question was asked by a middle-aged Slav in the uniform of the Royal Russian Air Force, tall and burly, with thick blond hair.

The Empress pointed at him and said, "He is my Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Victor. Air Force General Maltsev. ”

Hersman had heard of this man and knew that he was a colonel in the former Soviet Red Air Force, an air force expert.

"That's right." Hersman smiled, "The planes deployed in Belém can't reach Trinidad. ”

Belém is also more than 1,900 kilometers away from Trinidad in a straight line, except for the Me264 and Ju288 combat radius that can cover Belém to Trinidad, and the He219 and Me410 can also go from Belém to Trinidad after being modified and adopting shuttle flight tactics. Maltsev, a Soviet air force rebel, probably could not have imagined that Germany did not have 6,000 aircraft deployed in Guyana and the Belém region in northern Brazil. In fact, there are not even 3,000 of them, and most of the "planes" that have been put on display at the newly built airfields around the port of Belém are wooden models that were used to fool the Americans with their F-13 ultra-long-range reconnaissance aircraft.

"The planes there will be thrown into the air battle on Trinidad by shuttle flights." Hersman explained.

"Do you have enough fuel and ammunition in Guyana?" Victor. Once again, Maltsev objected.

Shuttle flight is a tactic in which fighters do not return to the base where they take off after completing the operation, but land at the base closer to the battlefield, refuel and then return to the starting base. However, the implementation of this tactic requires a high level of physical strength for pilots and fuel reserves at front-line transit airfields.

The lack of a deep-water port in Guyana and the frequent bombing of American aircraft made it difficult to transport and store supplies. Otherwise, Germany would not have to occupy Belém, Brazil, and would it be better to attack the Caribbean directly from Guyana?

"The fuel we have in reserve in Guyana can support short-term, high-intensity operations." Hersman patiently explained, "This time is enough for us to paralyze the US Army and Naval Aviation on the island of Trinidad." ”

Victor. Maltsev frowned, obviously not believing Hersmann's words, "Marshal of the Reich, this is not easy...... In fact, in the battle with the Soviet Red Air Force, you did not manage to paralyze it in a short time. What's more, the US air power is huge and can be replenished at any time. ”

"But Trinidad is also far from the continental United States," Hirschman laughed, "and we're now fully capable of locking it down." As long as Trinidad is blocked, it will be difficult for the United States to send planes, ammunition and fuel there. ”

"Blockade? With what? ”

"Mainly with mines!" Hersman said, "With our latest mines. ”

"Mines? What kind of mines? Another senior military staff member of Empress Olga, Chief of Staff of the Russian Royal Navy, the elderly "old white man" Admiral Starker, asked.

Hersman replied, "This is a new type of sinking mine, which relies on special methods to detonate, and is our secret weapon." It has not been used before, so it is impossible for Americans to get physical objects. So in the short term, it's impossible for them to find a way to crack it. ”

Sinking mines are different from anchor mines, they are sunk under water, so ordinary minesweeping methods are simply ineffective. To deal with sunken mines, we have to start with their detonation methods, for example, to deal with magnetic mines, use battery iron to simulate the magnetism of the ship or simply demagnetize the ship.

What Hesman is going to use to blockade Trinidad is a new type of mine with a hydro-pressure and voice-activated fuse, nicknamed the "Oyster Mine", which uses the water pressure field and sound generated by the ship passing nearby to detonate - two fuses must be activated at the same time to detonate, so it is safe, accurate, and extremely resistant to sweeping. Even if the Americans picked up a full-fledged "Oypedo", it would not be possible to create a specialized minesweeper in the short term.

Moreover, under Hersmann's orders, the German Navy has been hiding this kind of mine, which was put into production in January 1944, to avoid being acquired by the US military too early (it is common for air-dropped mines to be thrown in the wrong place, and it is inevitable that they will be picked up by the enemy), so the Americans have no way to deal with it in the short term.