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An airwave from Brest (the French port of Brest is home to the European Community Atlantic Front Command and the European Community Combined Fleet Command) shattered the silence of the communications center of the Joint Command on "Georgetown Island".

A communications officer on duty picked up the telephone in the telegraph room and dialed directly into the office of the commander of the joint command in Georgetown.

A few minutes later, the commander of the Georgetown Joint Command, Joseph Brown, was having dinner. Admiral Kamhuber's air force immediately put down his knife and fork and rushed to the joint operations command center hidden in a dense forest.

Due to the special terrain of the Atlantic theater, coordinated operations among the navy, land, and air forces are the norm. Therefore, in the course of more than two years of joint operations in the Atlantic, the forces of the European Community have also explored a set of command systems that are completely different from those of operations on the European continent.

Under the Atlantic Front Command, there is currently no such a very "army-oriented" establishment as an army group. However, command organs at the level of army group commands still exist, that is, the four major army group commands, namely, the European Community Joint Fleet, the European Community Joint Transport Command, the European Community Joint Aviation Command, and the European Community Joint Submarine Command.

However, unlike in continental Europe, the headquarters of each army group divided their districts and command of troops according to geographical criteria. The four major army group commands, namely the European Community Joint Fleet, the European Community Joint Transport Command, the European Community Joint Aviation Command, and the European Community Joint Submarine Command, do not have very clear jurisdictions. They are somewhat similar to the combination of the "arms command" and the army group, and the form is a bit complicated.

In addition to the headquarters of the four major army groups, there are also many army group headquarters under the Atlantic Front Command.

Some of them are under the jurisdiction of the three major army group commands, such as several command fleets (among them, the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th fleets belong only to the combined fleet of the European Community, but not to the Atlantic Front, and the 1st to 5th fleets belong to both commands); all submarine combat commands; The 1st, 2nd, 3rd German Air Force, the 1st Air Force of the German Naval Aviation, the French Air Force Expeditionary Force, the Royal Russian Air Force Expeditionary Force, etc.

There are also army groups with headquarters directly under the Atlantic Front, such as the German Expeditionary Force, the Russian Expeditionary Force, the French Expeditionary Force, and the European Community Joint Expeditionary Force, which are arriving at the port of Belém one after another, which are army groups of four armies, of which the European Community Joint Expeditionary Force is composed of troops sent by European Community countries other than Germany, France, and Russia (referring to troops sent by the state, not volunteers who participate in the war in their own name).

In addition, there are also some "joint commands" that bring together the navy, land, and air forces, such as the Azores Joint Command, the Iceland-Greenland Joint Command, and the Cape Verde Joint Command, and the Georgetown Island Joint Command is also one of them.

The operational command center, which is located in the middle of the South American rainforest, is already full of maps, several large sand tables, and telephone lines are everywhere. There were also quite a few staff officers wearing the uniforms of the Air Force, Navy, Army, Naval Air Corps, and Marine Corps, marking the maps and making a buzzing noise.

When Admiral Kamhubel walked in, everyone stopped what they were doing and saluted him. The general of the Aviation Corps (in fact, he was also an army officer) gently raised his hand and returned the salute, then took off his military hat and threw it on the table.

"How's the situation at the front?"

Naval Aviation Colonel Dietrich. Peltz was Kamhuber's chief of staff, and he immediately took over the question from his superiors, took a baton and introduced to the sand table: "The Americans' Grand Fleet has just been dispatched, and it is more than 300 nautical miles away from us, and the anti-submarine route is 500 nautical miles at most, and it is estimated that it will arrive off the coast of Georgetown in 30-35 hours."

In addition, the Americans have deployed an astonishing number of shore-based bombers on the island of Trinidad. It is estimated that a large-scale air raid on Georgetown will begin this evening.

And according to the order that has just been received from the command of the Atlantic Front, the task of our command on Georgetown Island will be to lure the enemy and delay. U.S. forces will land near Georgetown (not Georgetown Island) and engage us in the interior. ”

Kamhubel frowned and did not speak, just looked over and over again at the few models on the sand table that symbolized the military power of the European Community.

Although the Georgetown Island Joint Command is an arm-level command directly under the Atlantic Front Command, the forces under the command of this command are very limited. There were only four brigades of the German Army (the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Brigade "Queen Kira", the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Jungle Brigades of the Wehrmacht Army), an anti-aircraft artillery brigade of the Luftwaffe Air Defense, a combined artillery command of Army Artillery and coastal artillery, a joint air command of the Air Force and Naval Aviation units, an air base, a naval inshore defense command, an engineering command and a joint logistics command.

Taken together, there are less than 40,000 troops, less than 100 tanks/assault guns, less than 200 artillery pieces of more than 100 mm, more than 100 combat aircraft of various types, and more than 30 ships of various types.

If this amount of troops had been placed on the coastline near Georgetown, it would certainly not have been able to withstand the bombardment of the American battleships. Therefore, it is certain that the so-called "Georgetown Island Fortress" will shrink, but it cannot be blindly contracted, otherwise the Americans will have a firm foothold, and they must be both offensive and defensive.

At this time, he saw the head of the Navy's Joint Command on Georgetown Island, Kurt. Colonel Johansen hurried in, and then said, "Cot, the Americans' Grand Fleet in Port of Spain has moved!" How many S-boats can you dispatch now? ”

"All 16 S-boats can be dispatched!" Kurt. Johansen replied.

The 5th Torpedo Boat Detachment, of which Colonel Johansen was commander, consisted of only 16 S-boats, all of which were state-of-the-art S100 torpedo boats. Because I was warned in advance that "a decisive battle is coming", I was well prepared.

"In addition, 'Carl. The supply ship Peters' is currently out to sea and hiding in the Atlantic Ocean near Cayenne. This way, my 16 torpedo boats would not have to return to Georgetown to refuel, refuel, food, and fresh water after completing the attack. ”

"Carl. The USS Peters is a specialized torpedo boat supply ship with a standard displacement of 2,900 tons and a speed of 21 knots, and it also has radar and a certain amount of self-defense and anti-aircraft firepower, allowing it to perform tasks at sea alone.

This type of ship is certainly not found in the navies of other countries in the world, because except for the German Navy during the interwar period, no one would consider turning torpedo boats into a weapon that can penetrate deep into the far seas - in those years, the German Navy was going crazy to break diplomatic relations, and all weapons were designed around breaking diplomatic relations, and torpedo boats were no exception.

However, in the Caribbean-Atlantic tug-of-war battle, the German "torpedo boats" were still very sharp. With the help of eight "Qingdao"-class torpedo ship supply ships (that is, Qingdao, China, in order to commemorate the glory of the Second Reich Navy, the German Navy named the No. 1 ship of its torpedo boat supply ship Qingdao), 48 S100 boats of the three torpedo boat detachments deployed in Guyana could not only attack the invading US destroyers off the coast of Guyana, but also penetrate deep into the Windward and North Wind Islands north of Trinidad to carry out diplomatic break-breaking operations, and achieved quite satisfactory results.

"Very well," said Admiral Kamhuber, whose head hung as if in his thoughts, and after a moment he raised his head and said to Colonel Johansen and his chief of staff, Colonel Peltz, "that we will give the Americans a little bitterness on the beaches and offshore waters of Georgetown, and not only all the torpedo boats, but also the submarines and planes!" ”

Colonel Peltz immediately asked: "Admiral, do you want to request reinforcements from the Joint Submarine Command and the Joint Aviation Command?" ”

The Georgetown Island Joint Command has no submarines available, and the number of aircraft under its jurisdiction is limited.

"There is no need to request reinforcements from the Joint Aviation Command," said Admiral Kamhuber, shaking his head, "with our own Ju188E-2 torpedo bombers." ”

The Ju188E-2 is the successor to the Ju88 and, to some extent, the lite version of the Ju288. The most E-2 of these was a torpedo bomber, which was used to replace the Roman SM.79 and Germany's own He115.

"Yes...... Night torpedo bombardment? "Colonel Peltz immediately guessed the intentions of his superiors, himself a specialist in shore-based bombers / torpedo aircraft. Master a variety of bombing and lightning tactics, including the night torpedo bombing technique, which was used by the shore-based bombing units of the German Naval Air Corps as one of the killer features!

Of course, the night torpedo bombing technology of the German naval aviation was not carried out by cat-eye skill, but by sophisticated radio altimeter and surface search radar combined with the golden comb tactic.

"Yes!" Kamhuber nodded, "You can only do it at night, otherwise Ju188 will be a live target." After the Ju188 is finished, throw in torpedo boats to attack the opponent's anti-submarine alert circle, and as long as it can force the enemy's destroyers to accelerate their movement, our Type 21 submarines will be able to break into it. The attack was timed on the first day of the landing in the United States...... In order to evade our air raids, the Americans will definitely choose to land at night, and their ships will all be our targets at that time. ”