For those so-called neutral countries in Europe, Lin Jun's evaluation has always been that he feels ****** super disgusting! - "Neutral country, that is, in front of the **, but also to establish a chaste archway!" More shameful, indecent, and shameless than a hypocrite! ”

Sweden, as well as Switzerland, the center of Europe, are both sanctimonious on the surface, and everyone knows the dirty deeds behind the scenes! Sweden, for example, not to mention trade in strategic goods with Germany during the war, agreed on July 8, 1940 for Germany to send military supplies to Norway through Sweden, and for German troops to pass through the territory. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Like an opportunist, in April 1943, when the Germans began to decline on the Eastern Front, the Swedish National Assembly proposed that rail transport from Germany to Norway be stopped, but the government was still in the thick of the wall: Swedish politicians were not yet sure where the war would go. It was only after Germany's crushing defeat at the Battle of Kursk that Sweden decided not to transport supplies and soldiers for Germany - during the war, Sweden had transported 2.14 million German soldiers and 100,000 wagons!

Sweden had too many strategic materials needed by the Third Reich, and Lin Jun originally wanted to bomb Sweden's bearing factories, but Stalin did not agree for the time being, and even other members of the High Command expressed temporary opposition -- the politicians did not want Sweden to be dragged into the war until the Soviet Union had an overwhelming advantage in the war.

Lin Jun could only compromise and not drop the bomb on the Swedes right now - but Stalin also had a compromise with the sometimes youthful deputy: when the time was right, Andrei could do whatever he wanted to deal with the "neutral countries"!

Stalin wanted more than anyone else to see the light of the sickle-hammer banner shine on the whole land of Europe!

A few days ago, at the request of Britain and the United States, the High Command instructed Porenin to make a prediction of the bombing of the Schweinfurt Bearing Factory, Germany's largest bearing ball production base in Bavaria, Germany. Whether it is day bombing or night bombing, the number of bomber losses is unbearable!

Bearings and balls were used in almost all machinery, and Porenin and his men knew how important the Schweinfurt bearing factory was to the enemy, so they studied it for so long and analysed all kinds of information: the results were still dismal - it was more difficult to attack from an English airfield!

The round-trip range is at least 2800 kilometers, most long-range medium bombers cannot attack with full ammunition, and at least 2500 kilometers of the flight will be closely intercepted by the Luftwaffe, such a sortie loss rate will be amazing!

The bomber units of the Red Army Air Force were brave, but they could not jump into the fire pit by themselves like this!

Porenin was confident that he would be able to persuade the Supreme Commander to dismiss the suicidal plan, but it was better to give the deputy commander a briefing - Comrade Andrei was a good pilot and understood the danger better than anyone else.

In fact, at the meeting earlier today, Lin Jun dispelled that idea among the committee members: If the British bombed Schweinfurt, it would be much less difficult than attacking from the Soviet Union, and they could understand it at a glance when they opened the map of Europe.

"In a week, without affecting the support of the operations of the various armies, how many long-range bombers from the strategic bomber units of the base camp can be transferred to the airfields of Lithuania and Estonia and ready for sorties?"

Lin Jun asked Porenin.

"Up to 80 Pi-8 heavy bombers and 150 IL-4 long-range bombers, plus the minimum logistical support required." Porenin replied in the affirmative: this was part of the long-range bomber force that he had originally intended to use to strike at German targets in depth - the other part of the bomber force was in the south, and if they were to be used, it would have been too late to mobilize aircraft over long distances, but the airfields on the Baltic coast "could not swallow" so many planes, and the ground crews and equipment had not had time to transport them: rail transport had long been saturated.

"Marshal, the reserve of the High Command can also transfer about 70 MiG-3 long-range fighters in the direction of Lithuania, as well as about 80 to 100 Yak-9DD ultra-long-range fighters, which can provide full escort for bombing after being equipped with large-capacity drop fuel tanks."

Lin Jun thought about it in his heart, "According to the eighty percent available sortie rate after the arrival of the transfer, about 180 bombers and 150 fighters can deliver at least 350 tons of bombs at one time, which should be enough." ”

The planes are not all in Moscow, in fact, the vast majority of the troops directly under the base camp will not be near Moscow, but only in name: almost all of the aviation units that Porenin can quickly mobilize are currently in the former Baltic countries and several airfields in northern Belarus, and the mobilization is not very troublesome, and a few long-range bomber units near Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia, do not even have to move their nests.

"Marshal, I'm counting according to ninety. The IL-4 long-range bombers in the base camp reserve air force are all new planes that left the factory at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, and most of the crew members have actual combat experience in long-range raids, and they bombed the communication lines between western Ukraine and eastern Slovakia several times last month. ”

"The P-8 group, commanded by Major General Vasily Nikolayevich Zhdanov, commander of the heavy bomber unit directly under the base camp, has been tested for a long time, and several heavy bomber regiments under it are composed of experienced pilots and commanders."

At this point in the war, all the P-8 bombers were concentrated in a few air regiments, and the command was directly in the hands of the high command, in order to form a fist, not to use it like a refueling tactic. Actual combat has proved that the use of heavy bombers in this way is correct -- since September last year, almost every sortie of the Peter-8 has been a large group of more than 20 planes, and there are fighter escorts, and all of them have achieved good results.

Heavy bombers are not front-line high-speed bombers or dive bombers, and they should not use the mode of one or two sorties--the work that one or two bombers can do should not send heavy bombers, and the tasks that require the P-8 to attack are except for very few tactical tasks (e.g., a heavy rain of bombs is required to destroy a specific target, such as an abandoned castle on the top of a hill, and there are no usable dive bombers within one or two hundred kilometers, but there is a regiment 300 kilometers away directly under the P-8 bombers that are idle-- If the commander had the ability, two or three hours later might have two four-shot heavy bombers over the castle and drop a swarm of 250-kilogram bombs! The others are missions that go deep into the enemy's depths.

In the in-depth mission, there are almost no one or two bombers that can be completed, not to mention the strategic mission, which is a campaign-level in-depth bombing mission, which basically requires sending a large-scale formation to attack.

"Can you get the job done?"

Porenin replied in the affirmative: "If you choose a direct route, as long as you give me a good navigator and as much target information as possible, you can!" ”

The IL-4 long-range bomber mentioned by Comrade General is a kind of twin-engine medium-sized long-range bomber, which was developed from the old DB-3 long-range bomber, and has just been officially named IL-4 this year, and the number of production has already exceeded that of the DB-3 type: when it was first produced in the second half of last year to equip the troops, it still used the follow-up number of DB-3, and this year the name was changed.

The IL-4 is very similar to its predecessor, the DB-3, in appearance, except for the navigator compartment on the head. The name was changed because the IL-4 was an aircraft that was completely different from the old DB-3 in terms of internal structure and manufacturing process: the old steel tube frame load-bearing structure was changed to a relatively advanced overall fuselage load-bearing structure, the structure became simple and easy to manufacture, and the quality of the aircraft itself was easy to control.

The internal structure of the IL-4 long-range bomber was changed mainly thanks to the Soviet copy of the Li-2 transport aircraft (a copy of the DC-3 passenger aircraft of the American Douglas Aircraft Company. It is one of the best medium-range long-range bombers in the world, even deep into enemy rears with bombing missions in excess of the designed maximum load!

Porenin also took out all the MiG-3 fighters in the base camp reserve, all of which were prepared for escorting long-range bomber units, and other aviation regiments equipped with MiG-3s were in the air force of various armies.

The base camp reserve aviation team, this "reserve" does not really mean waiting for the time being, and like the original "reserve front", it is not "prepared" at all! It's not about staying in the rear, it's probably the meaning of a force that the high command can use directly.

Lin Jun also knows the importance of long-range escort fighters in war, and the Soviets currently have two kinds of long-range fighters that can be used in a practical sense -- the MiG-3 long-range fighter has been designed according to "long-range" from the project establishment stage, and the Yak-9DD ultra-long-range fighter is simply improved by stuffing a larger fuel tank into the original fuselage: "long-range" flies farther than "ultra-long-range"!

The MiG-3 has a range of more than 3,000 kilometers when cruising at economic speed using auxiliary fuel tanks; The Yak-9DD can fly about 2,200 kilometers without using an auxiliary fuel tank, and with an auxiliary fuel tank, it can fly almost 2,800 kilometers, but this maneuvering ability is not as good as that of the MiG-3 when fully fueled.

"By the summer of this year, when the two new engine plants in the Urals are fully operational, the production of improved and more powerful AM-35 series engines will reach a new level and will be ready for use with the MiG-3."

"Marshal, are we going to resume production of the MiG-3?" Porenin liked the kind of fighter that could escort long-range bombers all the way, but unfortunately it was no longer discontinued, so he was very happy to hear the news.

"Yes, and there are also MiG-1 front-line high-altitude fighters that may also resume small-scale production. However, there will be some minor changes between the MiG-1 and the MiG-3 and the original equipment of the troops, and Comrades Mikoyan and Grevich have already shown me the test reports of the MiG-1 and MiG-3 after the minor improvements. The MiG-1 has an increased range of 200 kilometers while maintaining its superior high-altitude performance, while the MiG-3 will increase its bomb load on the basis of maintaining its original performance, and if necessary, it can be equipped with bombs and rockets to penetrate deep into the local control area and strike at ground targets at ultra-low altitudes. ”

"However, the improved MiG-1 will not resume small batch production until the end of this year, and the production line of the MiG-3 will resume in the summer, and our aluminum supply has almost eased up." ”

The original production of MiG-1 and MiG-3 has been continuously consumed in high-intensity operations, and nearly half of the nearly 8,000 MiGs produced before the war are still in service with the troops: spare parts can only ensure one of the most basic needs, especially in some areas, there are difficulties in the supply of engines, and some aviation regiments often have a few MiGs on hand that need to replace their engines, but it will take a lot of time to get new engines: in the long run, a certain number of high-altitude fighters and long-range fighters are needed -- facts have proved that The performance of the MiG-3 is slightly stronger than that of the Yak DD, which is "added" in the way of "building blocks".

The MiG-1 fighter does not perform well at altitudes below 5,000 meters, so why does Lin Jun plan to resume its production? Because he estimated that by the end of this year, the front would advance 200 to 500 kilometers to the west, so that many targets in the German war machine, including the German mainland, the client states, important cities in the occupied areas, and industrial bases, would be within the radius of the Red Army's front-line bombers.

The Germans will quickly pay attention to the air defense of their homeland, and the British and American air forces on the other side will also bomb targets in depth in the Third Reich, and the air battle is likely to break out mostly at high altitudes - basically above 5,000 meters, or more!

Although the bombers bombed German targets from medium and low altitudes with good accuracy, memory told Lin Jun that the British and American Air Forces could not bear the loss rate of medium and low altitude bombing, and the bombing formations would basically attack at medium and high altitudes: when it became more important to seize air supremacy at medium and high altitudes, the Air Force would need MiG fighters, whose high-altitude performance was better than any Lager and Yak! -- The MiG-1, which is constantly improving, increasing its range, and carrying auxiliary fuel tanks on escort missions, will be the king soaring high above the heads of the Germans!

Lin Jun can foresee that the MiG-1 and MiG-3 will write a story similar to that of the P51 over Germany, and the story of the "MiG Dynasty" will be known to the world many years in advance -- although the mission determines that the MiG cannot have the same number of production equipment as the other two series of fighters in the Great Patriotic War, the "Lager", "Yak", and "MiG", the three major fighter pillars of the Soviet Air Force, will truly stand on the Soviet side of the Eastern Front in Europe!

"Regarding the bombing of the Norwegian Kenaben deposit, the Air Force Committee and the Ministry of Intelligence will give you support, and I will give you all I can!"

The Air Force Committee was able to give Polenin the authority he needed, and of course this had to be approved by the High Command -- Lin Jun was in charge of strategic bombing, and Porainin was the specific executor: Comrade General still had several strategic bombing plans, but the target was not as far away as Norway, and Lin Jun would approve them all: either to bomb Slovakia or Romanian targets, and it was difficult to distinguish the difference between campaign and strategy when Red Army bombers attacked in the south, because even front-line fighters could go around the Romanian Danube.

The air defense of the Romanian Air Force and the Luftwaffe in Romania is mainly concentrated in the oil field area, but even the oil field area is already within the combat radius of the P-2 high-speed bombers at the front-line airfields in southern Ukraine.

One of Porenin's plans is to concentrate the Yak-9D long-range fighters (not the Yak-9DD) and IL-4 long-range bombers of the reserve aviation of the base camp in southern Ukraine, and the forces that the air force of the Ukrainian Third Front can draw out, to bomb the Ploiesti oil fields two or three times!

Lin Jun and Porenin talked for a while, but the two of them found that they couldn't solve all the problems behind closed doors, such as the simplest points: the orders to the troops would be too late to be issued this afternoon (for this, it would be efficient to count which troops can move and which things that cannot be transferred can be done tomorrow!). Many units are shouldering the task of directly supporting the operations of various front armies, and some of them have simply been assigned to others, but their numbers have not changed for the time being. ), and the rest of the command needs to coordinate with the place to do it first; Also, a few relatively detailed route maps are not enough, Porainin needs as much detail as possible about the Knaben deposit and its surroundings, and it would be better if there are aerial photos!

And one more problem: both are hungry!

Go to the restaurant, have a few bites, report to Stalin, and say hello to the General Staff and the Ministry of Internal Affairs: the Intelligence Department of the General Staff and the Nordic Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs may have what Porenin needs.

Stalin never appeared in two large dining rooms, he usually ate in his office or in his own dinette - the big dining room was two large dining halls, but there were also many "boxes": these boxes were splendid banquet halls during the Tsarist period, and they were not around the side of the dining room, and some were far away.

If the marshals and the members of the Standing Committee of the ****** were working in the Kremlin, they would usually have food brought to the office at meal times; Those banquet halls are not usually eaten places, but are only used for festivals and gatherings, and the rest of the staff usually choose one of the two "big canteens" in the Kremlin to solve the problem of eating.

Whether it's a cleaning worker, a department head, or a general, everyone is equal in the Kremlin's cafeteria: next to a general, who is likely to sit at a long table and feast, is a comrade plumber, who wants to have a cigarette after eating, but finds that it is gone!

Smoking is not prohibited in the restaurant.

What to do?

"Comrade, is there any smoke?"

"Oh, give." The plumber took out his Mahe cigarette box and cigarette paper, and Comrade General expertly rolled it up himself, took a few puffs, and then stood up and said "thank you" to the man. ”

Let's go.

It may also be that Comrade General took out a pack of Georgian cigarettes after eating, lit them himself, and handed the cigarette case to the one next to him who had just finished eating, "Get one?" ”

"Thank you, Comrade General." The plumber smoked a cigarette and lit it, then chatted with the general with a cigarette in his mouth.

Anything can happen in the Kremlin's big cafeteria, because it's either the Kremlin itself or the comrades who come here to do business -- if you don't eat here, it's a bit far from the Kremlin to find a place to eat. (To be continued.) )