"Boom!"

When the 4.81-ton grenade exploded in the area of Fort Dover, Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was hiding in an underground bunker, suddenly felt the ground shake, as if the end of the world was coming. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the shells were still a little far away from the underground headquarters, everyone in the headquarters was shaken by the huge vibration, and the electric lights suddenly dimmed, and then they shook and flickered. Several of the usually personable-looking young staff officers in the underground bunker couldn't even suppress their exclamations.

The power of the Dora cannon and the Gustav cannon is truly unprecedentedly powerful!

"This must be Dora and Gustav cannons firing!"

On the Norwegian Sea, Vice Admiral Paulus was already on the bridge by this time, standing side by side with the captain of the Baltic, an old admiral in his sixties with a gray beard.

The old colonel's surname was Attenburg, and there was a "von" in his name. Judging by his age, he knew that he was an old navy who had participated in World War I. He was the captain of a destroyer group in World War I, fought the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, and fought the Russians in the Baltic Sea. After retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel after the end of the last war, I thought that I would never have the opportunity to wear a battle uniform again in my life.

But who knew that it was the era when the German Navy turned over, but the talent reserve of the originally small German Navy was seriously insufficient, and even the captain couldn't make up so much for a while. So I can only bring back the old navy and retrain them to get back to their old jobs.

Colonel Attenburg learned to fly an airplane during the interwar and is now assigned to the Marine Corps as the captain of an amphibious assault ship.

Hearing Paulus's words, the old colonel Attenburg also raised his binoculars and looked at the scene of shaking mountains dozens of kilometers away, and was also a little surprised.

"This fire is really fierce!" The old colonel said, "It seems that it is really possible for us to pass through the strait unharmed." ”

The old man didn't believe that he could pass through safely at first, compared to how many years the British had been operating in Dover for an unknown number of years, how could it be so easy to let the Germans pass? But now, too, he was somewhat convinced that the British Empire was soon to be doomed - because they couldn't even hold on to their own doorstep.

"There will be no problem." Paulus rubbed his palms and said, "The British will have a hard time tonight, and their radar will be jammed by us, and they will not even find out that we have passed through the Channel." No, not that it cannot be discovered, but that we will find out that we have already crossed the strait. ”

Already...... Or rather, it was the detachment of torpedo boats in Lansdorf that was passing through the strait, dragging foil balloons on the radar screens of the British to create the illusion of the passage of the Grand Fleet. On the one hand, it was to lure the British into exposing their firepower, and on the other hand, it was also to create the illusion that the fleet had already passed.

And such an action of "balloon shells" certainly did not come without a price, although the British shells did not hit a single torpedo boat, but the huge waves created by these shells knocked over several of them. Among them was Landsdorf's "flagship", a rear admiral who had once again lost his ship and was now swimming, desperately swimming to the beachhead on the French side on the southern shore of the English Channel.

"Sir, the radar seems to be broken!"

"Broken?" William, who was in command of a battle in a bunker command that shook a few times from time to time and dropped a little dust by the way. Rear Admiral Tennant then heard another piece of bad news.

"How many are broken?" Rear Admiral Tennant asked.

Of course, there was not one, but 20 of the 284 fire control radars at the Dover Coastal Battery, and each "real battery" had a 284 radar. Theoretically, as long as there was one 284 radar that worked, it would be possible to guide the 20 batteries in Dover for firing.

"It's all broken!"

The staff officer's answer took Rear Admiral Tennant by surprise, how could it all be broken? Although the Germans were under heavy fire, several armored turrets had already been blown up by a bomb of incredible power, and one or two super-cannons of unknown caliber were firing. But there are still quite a few batteries that are safe and sound, how can the radar be broken?

It turned out that Rear Admiral Tennant and his men did not know that there was such a thing as aluminum foil jamming the radar. Although British radar experts have known about this method for a long time and have also conducted experiments, the RAF also stocks large quantities of aluminum foil for jamming. But neither Britain nor Germany had used foil jamming shells on the front line before today, nor had this "secret weapon" been made public.

This is because this kind of "aluminum foil jamming bomb" is only valuable in large-scale air raids, but both Britain and Germany have so far been relatively restrained in the issue of indiscriminate bombing, and the bombing behind enemy lines has been limited to the level of harassing bombing. That is, several or a dozen high-speed high-altitude bombers are dispatched at a time, and they can break through with speed and altitude. Moreover, the radars of both sides are not particularly reliable these days, and the breakthroughs of several high-altitude and high-speed aircraft may not necessarily be discovered by the other side's radars.

Therefore, both Britain and Germany regard this low-tech but very effective anti-radar weapon as a highly secret killer weapon, and they do not know that the other side has the same equipment for a long time.

"What? All radars in the Strait of Dover area are damaged!? How is this possible? When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill heard the news, his eyes immediately darkened.

Needless to say, these radars must have been broken by the Germans! And their landing fleet is near the Strait of Dover! Is it really going to land in Dover? Dover isn't that far from London!

"Prime Minister, the technical department believes that the Germans used aluminum foil jamming bombs." Viscount Potter, Chief of Staff of the Royal Air Force, saw that Churchill actually showed a look of fear, and hurriedly comforted him, "Actually, we also have the same weapon." ”

Churchill didn't seem to hear him, but asked in a hesitant tone, "Could it be Dover?" Will London be raided by the Airborne Forces? ”

Will it? God knows!

No one can answer these two questions.

"Prime Minister, there are enough defenders in Dover." The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Viscount Brooke, replied. "And London is also very well defended, and it will not be captured by tens of thousands of airborne troops."

London had a large number of defenders, numbering more than 100,000 regular combat troops alone, and were deployed in the British Army's elite Guards Panzer Division. Such a defense, of course, could not be captured by a surprise attack from the sky.

Churchill, however, was still uneasy, and he was silent for a moment, and then said to the Cabinet: "His Majesty cannot be allowed to remain in London any longer, and I propose that His Majesty be asked to go immediately to Fort William, in the Scottish Highlands." ”

Located in the rugged Scottish Highlands, next to Loch Lynn with access to Lorne Bay, and backed by the snow-capped Ben Nevis Mountains, Fort William is a great place to fight the war.

According to the plan, once the Germans landed on British soil, the king and most of the members of the cabinet were to move to Fort William to lead the resistance. And London was handed over to Princess Elizabeth Regent and Deputy Prime Minister Attlee.

However, now Qiu Fatzi was not sure whether the Germans were really going to land, so he made a compromise and let the king go first, and he and the cabinet stayed for a few more days to see the situation.

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"Boom!"

A huge fireball suddenly rose over the sea in the southern part of the Strait of Dover, and in the midst of the firelight, a freighter loaded with four or five thousand tons of ammunition broke in two and was sinking rapidly.

"Submarines! There are British submarines nearby! ”

Someone shouted immediately from inside the bridge of the amphibious assault ship Norwegian Sea. Lieutenant General Paulus and Colonel Attenburg looked at each other, and both of them looked a little ugly. Dodging Dover's cannons, but not dodging the submarine lurking in the water...... No, the cannon can't dodge it now, because the ship that caught fire is a target for a cannonball in the pitch black sea.

"Colonel, the USS Frederick I ordered us to take an anti-submarine route!" At this time, the communications officer on the Norwegian Sea shouted.

The missile cruiser USS Frederick I was the commander of the 5th Fleet. Admiral Karls's flagship, all the ships that are now passing through the Strait of Dover are under his command.

"Hurry, hurry, Z-shaped anti-submarine route!" Colonel Attenburg hurriedly gave the order to the first mate of the ship.

As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball rose on the sea, this time a T-type landing ship converted into a fire support ship was hit by a torpedo, and instead of sinking immediately, a fire ignited on the sea, and instead of flashing a burst of explosions like fireworks—it was a rocket or high-explosive ordnance on the ship!

"Hell, we have a British submarine nearby!" Colonel Attenburg gasped as he looked out the porthole of the bridge at the hapless firework ship, not too far from the Baltic.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

At this time, the escorting destroyers and lightning destroyers (in fact, light destroyers) had already reacted and began to fire flares and drop depth charges.

At present, there are two main types of anti-submarine weapons of the German Navy, one is depth charges, and the other is hedgehog depth bombs. Both of these weapons were invented by the British to deal with German submarines, but now they have become a sharp weapon used by the German Navy against British submarines -- because sea supremacy in the Atlantic has changed hands, it is no longer the main task of the European Combined Fleet, led by the German Navy, to break the engagement.

Admiral Dönitz, commander of the German Navy's submarine forces, was transferred to the commander of the newly established European Joint Escort Command after the "Battle of the Sea of Fog," and many German sea wolves who had made great achievements in breaking the engagement were now following Dönitz to become destroyer captains. (To be continued.) )