The troops of the 109th Regiment were scattered across three airfields, and Volkovysk, where Lin Jun arrived, was the largest -- because it was not far from the border, the group only circled the eastern airspace after rising to a high altitude and returned to the airfield for more than half an hour to land. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Lin Jun did not perform a violent maneuver, which can be regarded as a few rolls, which has scared his two ace wingman pilots enough: the marshal comrade of this meeting is no longer the captain of the group when he was in Madrid, Kobetz even knew that the captain of the group was basically accompanied by doctors on a business trip some time ago, and this time he was forced to agree to let him fly into the air.

After spending one more day in Volkovysk than planned, Lin Jun stayed at the airport for one night and took a flight to Tobinka Airport, the closest to the Brest Fortress, early the next morning.

Lin Jun finally met the "famous" "Godfather of Soviet Air Warfare", "the second ace of the Allies", and the future Air Marshal Pokryshkin. I have to admit that Sergei is still very discerning, and can see the similarities between Pokryshkin and Kobets - they are both materials of senior commanders, unlike himself who is basically a charging character.

Without staying too long at the airport, Comrade Marshal made an exception and shook hands with Pokryshkin and his gang of pilots, and after a few greetings, he got into the convoy that had come to meet him at the Brest Fortress. Now is an extraordinary time, the commander of the fortress, Colonel Zarilov, who accepted Lin Jun's order to "hold the fortress", did not come in person, and the convoy came with a regimental political commissar (this is different from our "political commissar", the political work system of the Soviet Red Army is self-contained, compared to them in the Red Army has a more independent system. Fumin.

This Fuming was officially appointed as the political commissar of the fortress political command last year, and this was a decision made by Lin Jun after reading the list of Brest officers - Fuming, a capable and determined communist fighter, the supreme commander of the defenders of the central fortress of the Brest fortress in history, commanded the troops to hold out until they ran out of ammunition and food, was seriously wounded and captured, and was shot on the spot by the Germans because of the betrayal of a traitor.

Lin Jun needs the commanders of the fortress are those who can fight until the last moment, and the will must be extremely strong, and Fuming, like Zarilov, meets Lin Jun's requirements very well: he needs the fortress to be able to hold out under the German offensive for two to three months - whether the Soviet side attacks first or the German army attacks first, the Brest Fortress will definitely be attacked by the Germans, because it is of great significance to the German army.

The occupation of strategically important fortresses, the former scenario can hold back a large number of Soviet troops and relieve the pressure on German troops in other areas; The latter would have prevented their own troops from being dragged down and eliminated the threat from the flanks - in any case, the Germans would have wanted to pull out the thorn in the side of the fortress.

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Hitler, under threat from Greece on the flank, devised a "Marita" plan to occupy the entire Balkans. After successfully tying Bulgaria to the chariot of the Third Reich, Hitler's next target was Greece.

But Hitler obviously did not expect that the Yugoslavs, who were relatively tough on the side, were not very obedient.

"Dare to disobey the will of the Third Reich?!" The tenacity of Yugoslavia only provoked Hitler to draw them into his camp. On 4 and 5 March, Hitler secretly summoned Prince Paul, regent of Yugoslavia, to Berghof and offered him the usual threats, followed by an offer to give him Salonika.

On 25 March, Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Svitkovic and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Sinkar-Maković arrived in Vienna, having snuck out of Belgrade the night before to escape hostile demonstrations or even kidnappings. After arriving in Vienna, they signed the Triple Pact on behalf of Yugoslavia in front of Hitler and Ribbentrop.

"Very well, this will help the Third Reich in its attack on Greece!" Hitler was extremely satisfied with the attitude of Dragisha-Svetkovich and Aleksandr Sinkar-Makovich. Before leaving Vienna, the two Yugoslav leaders also received two letters from Ribbentrop, in which they affirmed Germany's "determination to respect "the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia forever" and assured that the Axis powers would not demand transit rights in Yugoslavia "in this war" for their troops.

Unfortunately, even Hitler himself probably would not have imagined that these two of his promises were later violated by himself, and the speed with which Schetter himself was seen was unprecedented.

The Balkan situation changed rapidly: Shortly after the two Yugoslav ministers returned to Belgrade, their government and the regent were overthrown on the night of 26 March by a popular uprising led by a number of high-ranking air force officers and supported by the majority of the army: the young crown prince Peter slid down with a rain pipe, escaped the surveillance of the regents, and was proclaimed king by the coup side.

The new regime of the coup leader, General Dusen-Simovich, immediately expressed its willingness to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany, but Hitler understood that the Yugoslav government would not accept the puppet status that the Third Reich wanted Yugoslavia to assume.

During the frenzied celebrations in Belgrade, where a crowd spat on the car of the German minister, the Serbs showed who they sympathized with.

Hitler's coup d'état in Belgrade was furious, and it was probably one of the angriest moments of his life, comparable to the effect of Lin Jun's cross-border reconnaissance: it was an insult to him personally! What to do if you are insulted? The mighty German army, which had already occupied most of Europe, could certainly save face for Hitler by washing away Hitler's humiliation with Yugoslav blood and corpses.

On 27 March, the military leaders of the Third Reich were summoned to the Chancellery in Berlin, and the meeting was held in such a hurry that Brauchitsch, Ribbentrop, and Halder were all late. Hitler shouted and shouted for revenge on the Yugoslavs: "The Belgrade coup jeopardized the "Marita" plan, and even more seriously, the "Barbarossa" plan! We can't wait for the new Yugoslav government to have possible allegiance, we have to use war! Destroy Yugoslavia militarily so that it ceases to be a country! Don't make diplomatic inquiries, don't come up with ultimatums! No, you don't! ”

"Crush Yugoslavia with merciless harsh action!"

Hitler ordered Goering to immediately send bombers to take off from the Hungarian airbase and carry out wave bombing - to destroy Belgrade! At the same time, Directive No. 25 was issued for the immediate invasion of Yugoslavia, ordering Keitel and Yodel to draw up military plans overnight. Ribbentrop was instructed to inform Hungary, Romania, and Italy that Yugoslavia would be divided among them, and that all three would receive a piece of land, with the exception of a small Croatian puppet state.

There was also a price to be paid for venting anger, especially at a time when preparations were being made for an unprecedented battle plan - Hitler was going to attack the Soviet Union with the fullest planning and preparation, and Lin Jun's cross-border reconnaissance made him lose face, and Hitler had never been so eager to destroy the Soviet Union as he was now, so that the elimination of the flank threat became even more urgent.

What the cost was Hitler was clear: "Gentlemen, the start of the 'Barbarossa Plan' had to be postponed for a period of up to four weeks. ”

The Nazi commander-in-chief, in order to vent his personal anger at a tiny Balkan state that dared not take him seriously, had to postpone the attack on the Soviet Union, a decision that could have led to the greatest disaster of Hitler's life.

After receiving information from Moscow that "the German army may invade Yugoslavia and Greece at the end of this month or early next month," Lin Jun, who was conducting the final drill of the air raid unit in Odessa, really wanted to look up to the sky and laugh.

The Yugoslav coup d'état, everything is developing according to the schedule, otherwise Lin Junlai really can't estimate when the Germans will attack the Balkans - that will be the signal flare for Lin Jun to launch a surprise attack.

The Suro border had already been turned upside down, Alexander's border guards were doing a good job, and the border guards on both sides had skirmishes from time to time, and the atmosphere was tense, but it seemed that both sides were used to such skirmishes. Soviet high-altitude reconnaissance planes had also visited Romania several times, but the pilots did a good job - like their counterparts in the north, they had penetrated Romania up to 100 kilometers deep and did not penetrate deep into the oil fields.

As if good fortune was in favor of Lin Jun all day, the Germans in Romania believed that Soviet aerial reconnaissance was an attempt to find out the deployment of troops in the shallow depths of their own border, as happened in the north. In order not to expose its own strength and to let the Soviet Union know that its air and ground forces had entered Romania on a large scale, and also to cooperate with Hitler's plan to attack the Balkans -- the German ground forces no longer increased their troops in the eastern border area, but temporarily deployed the troops that had fallen to the eastern front outside the Soviet air force's reconnaissance line, and the air force units that had already been stationed at the Romanian airfields in the area near the border were also withdrawn and assembled in southern Romania.

The long border between Romania and the Soviet Union was left without a single German plane in a few days, leaving only a small number of Romanian air force units - the Romanian sky was open to Lin Jun!

Lin Jun only received relevant information from the Romanian Communist Party two weeks after the new deployment of the Luftwaffe, and the time was just right, and it was estimated that the Germans were not far from the final moment of attacking the Balkans, and the huge attack aircraft group composed of more than 800 aircraft had also been trained and deployed, and was waiting for the sortie order issued by Odessa. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )