Lin Jun wants to return to Ukraine, otherwise he will stay in Moscow for a long time, and it will inevitably have disagreements with Stalin on various issues. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And if you are in Ukraine, there are no differences, and you can avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles - neither side will touch the fundamental interests of the other.

However, there is one more question that Stalin and Molotov must be reminded of!

"Comrade Molotov, the strategic bombing of Germany and Western Europe by the British today actually has a very bad effect! On this issue, I think the Americans may be more reliable!

Hopefully, the diplomatic service will remind the British that their night bombardment of German cities has no effect except the demolition of houses! ”

Molotov said: "Yes, Comrade Andrei. According to the feedback of the intelligence services, the night air raids of the British on German cities not only did not reduce the morale of the Germans at the bottom - the military and civilians, but on the contrary stimulated the production of the German military industry, and their military production even reached a historical peak! ”

It would have been possible for American bombers to be stationed in the British Isles, but not yet to bomb German targets: not once!

As for the previous bombing, it's better than nothing.

In January 1940, the British Air Force began bombing Germany, but at that time it was too small to be called strategic bombing. On May 15, 1940, the British launched 99 planes to bomb the area east of the Rhine, and the strategic bombing of Germany began.

The British carried the initial air raids on Germany, and the main targets of the bombing in 1940-1941 were the German submarine bases, the oil industry, and the aviation industry.

Beginning at the beginning of this year, the British Air Force began to bomb German cities as important targets, aiming to undermine the morale of the German people.

From March to June this year, the British carried out night bombing of several cities in the Ruhr area of Germany, but this will be due to the extensive use of radar by the Luftwaffe and the emergence of FW190 fighters, which will give the Luftwaffe a considerable advantage, and the British Air Force will slightly lose more than the Luftwaffe!

This will not have much effect on bombing, the production of the German arms industry may increase by 50% this year, and the production of aircraft will continue to increase significantly!

On 31 May this year, the British Air Force dispatched more than 1,000 planes to bomb Cologne, and in order to organize the bombing, the British mobilized more than 300 bombers from the training units in addition to all the bombers of the front-line air force units and the defense headquarters.

The airstrike, which lasted 90 minutes and involved about 1,500 tons of bombs, destroyed more than 240 hectares of Cologne and razed half of the buildings in the central area. However, only 486 people were killed, 5,027 injured and 140,000 were left homeless.

The effect of destroying the city is obvious, but for war, it is actually not as good as destroying a bearing factory or an aircraft factory! ”

Lin Jun is complaining.

German industry is different from that of the Japanese: many of Japan's industries are actually in the form of small workshops, and the accessories for a certain military product are even manufactured in street workshops in residential areas.

At the end of the Pacific War, the Americans bombed Japanese cities with incendiary bombs, and they almost burned Japan's industrial manufacturing capacity back to the Stone Age!

Although there are many factories in German cities, in fact, their core industries are basically in the suburbs, or even in industrial areas that are separated from the cities.

The city was blown up, and its industry was basically undamaged.

"But comrades, we must also anticipate that such a bombing of the city by the British may reduce the air pressure on our front."

Why did Lin Jun say that?

Because the bombing of Cologne by thousands of planes did not achieve much material effect, nor did it consist in a blow to the morale of the German people - on the contrary, it was estimated that the Germans were more united!

But the night bombing of Cologne and the air raids that followed showed the Luftwaffe General Staff: the prophecy of the bombing, propagated by the BBC radio network, would be carried out as planned!

Now the Luftwaffe General Staff will be forced to withdraw its air forces from the Eastern Front and transfer them to the rear for home air defense!

"Last year, the Luftwaffe had at least 60 percent of the forces on our side, but I expect that to continue to decline, and they will have to take some of it back to protect their homeland.

It is estimated that a large proportion of the ME-110 fighters, Ju-88s and DO-217s, will return to the German interior to serve as night fighters. ”

"Why the bomber force?"

It was Stalin who was questioned.

"Because the current single-engine fighter fights at night, unless it is flown by the best pilots, it is a wasted effort."

Speaking of this, Lin Jun had to give his comrades another vaccination: "But comrades, don't have any hope that the strength of the Luftwaffe on the front line will weaken this year, because the Germans' aircraft manufacturing volume is soaring." Only when the scale of the British and American bombing increases again will the pressure on us be lessened. ”

"Does the intelligence have any news about the progress of the American bomber force?"

Lin Jun heard Stalin's inquiry and replied: "The US 8th Air Force should have been integrated in Britain at present, and if nothing else, it may begin to participate in the strategic bombing of Germany in the middle of next month."

The good news is that the U.S. military and the British are likely to have differences in bombing methods, and it is very likely that they will carry out precision bombing of key German targets during the day, although the British estimate that they will still carry out area bombing of large German cities at night. ”

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After a meeting in the Kremlin and the handover of work, Lin Jun returned to Zhukov's home.

Tomorrow morning, he will go directly from Zhukov-1 airport to Kiev.

When he got home, Lin Jun said to his guard captain: "Take all the people in the villa to the living room temporarily, I don't want anyone to be on the second floor." ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

Landscoch didn't ask why, and immediately carried out the order.

Back in the bedroom on the second floor, I saw Vukinskaya breastfeeding the child.

After feeding the baby and falling asleep, Lin Jun said to his wife, "Kaya, I want to talk to you about something." ”

Seeing that her husband's expression was more serious, Vuginskaya also put away her smile.

"Andrey, what's wrong?"

Lin Jun told his wife about the dispute that happened in the Kremlin some time ago, as well as his own worries.

When he was about to leave Moscow, he still had to tell his wife about the situation, lest his wife not be prepared at all.

Originally, I was worried that my wife would be worried, but I didn't expect that after listening to it, Vukinskaya didn't have a surprised expression at all.

"Sooner or later, there will be such a day. Actually, Andrey, from the time you became the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, I foresaw a possible crisis.

You are young, Comrade Stalin is in his 60s, and the overlap between the new and the old, and the power will one day go wrong!

And you've been going too well all these years, but it's not good. Moreover, today's high-ranking officers and powerful departments, there are your people everywhere, and one day they will arouse the alarm of Comrade Stalin, even if you have a clear conscience. ”

Vuginskaya is the daughter of the old Russian aristocracy and sees through the cruelty of the struggle at the top! (To be continued.) )