Lin Jun and Porenin arrived a little late, and there were not many options left in the cafeteria: Lieutenant Vostov, Senior Warrant Officer Aleksandrov, and Gusev also came, and they had not yet eaten: the personal bodyguards did not care about the marshal's food, and the confidential staff officers were so confused by the marshal's instructions one after another, that they did not have time to think about stomach problems. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As for the other working clerks who belong to the system of the Office of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, the concept of the question of the marshal's meal is: the marshal's staff will inform it.

The comrades in the cafeteria said that they could immediately cook a special meal for Comrade Marshal and a few others, but Lin Jun couldn't wait, "We will give whatever we have, bread and mashed potatoes." Isn't there still some beetroot soup in the soup pot, pour it for us. ”

Lin Jun is not a picky eater.

Comrade chef can't just let the marshal drink soup and eat some leftover mashed potatoes, right? Taking out some canned food, Lin Jun shook his head as soon as he saw the label on it: "The United States doesn't want it, why do you even have it?" It's so pervasive! ”

Originally, he had to fry luncheon meat for the marshal's high point, but Lin Jun would rather nibble on hard bread! It's going to be a picky eater again.

However, the solution was also simple--the cooks knew that Marshal Prenyakov sometimes had something for breakfast, and it was easy to make it--the three pots were busy together, and before Lin Jun and his party had finished eating, they made two poached eggs for each of them.

Poached eggs, similar to the Chinese way of eating: pour some soy sauce on the top, sprinkle some salt, Lin Jun never picks the old and tender, just eat the belly - probably like Lin Jun is so easy to deal with marshals are really rare, you must know that many people have very high requirements for the degree of raw cooking of fried eggs.

Lin Jun has always eaten steak fully cooked, thinking that eating medium-rare is similar to the hobby of barbarians, and it doesn't matter if you eat fried eggs, you can eat raw eggs.

After a group of people quickly finished eating, Lin Jun and Porenin went to Stalin's to make a report: as a result, as soon as he heard Lin Jun's suggestion to bomb the Molybdenum mine in Knaben, Norwegian, Stalin said to Lin Jun: "Have you considered the relationship with Sweden?" ”

Stalin didn't even need to ask about the route, he knew that Lin Jun would let the plane pass over Sweden - if he went around in circles, the plane would almost fall into the Baltic Sea when it returned, and Stalin had this geographical common sense.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin. I think that in this operation we can completely exclude the influence of Sweden and do not need to take into account their attitude. Since the fascist army can move its troops through its ground transport routes, we can also use the air routes of this so-called neutral country. ”

Lin Jun said it rightly: the truth is obviously true, but there is a bit of a fist in it-Germany has at least signed an agreement with Sweden, and Lin Jun intends to pass over the Swedes without saying hello.

But then again: the Soviet Union and Germany are in a dead end, and Sweden is helping Germany everywhere, no matter what the reason, according to Darwin's theory, you must have the consciousness to withstand the wrath of the Soviet Union!

It's not bad not to drop the bomb directly on you Stockholm!

"As for the threat of the Swedish Air Force, it is not enough for our escort fighters to stuff their teeth, if they dare to entangle. At the same time that our bombers launched the bombing of the Molybdenum mines in Knaben in Norway, the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs could send an official note to the Swedish embassy informing them that we would pass through their airspace. Of course, the note needs to be sent again when we return to the flight, and ask them to rescue our pilots, who may have been injured in the operation and who had made a forced landing and parachuted into Swedish territory."

For Sweden, Lin Jun's attitude is to be tough: that note should be in a imperative tone!

Stalin thought about it for a while, and called Voroshilov and Alexander and Zhdanov, who had not yet left the Kremlin, and the latter three agreed to the deputy commander-in-chief's suggestion - to bomb the Knapben molybdenum mine!

Zhdanov can be said to be synonymous with "ultra-left", he likes to do things in a way that has always been extreme, and he has been much more restrained over the years, so he certainly agrees with Lin Jun's suggestions; Alexander had been in the same line with Lin Jun, and when the NKVD informed that Stalin was only interested in hearing their own understanding of the issue, and that they had already agreed to the proposal of the deputy commander-in-chief, he said that the NKVD would give the most full support to the operation.

I've always known that I wear a pair of pants, and this will have to be the same attitude.

As for Comrade Voroshilov, he has long seen Sweden unpleasantly! -- Originally, Lin Jun's plan to directly bomb the Swedish bearing factory was very much in line with his usual taste, but he had to oppose it for political reasons: this time it was different, just a way, of course I agreed! In the opinion of the First Marshal, such an action would also give Sweden, which is counting on being a straw in the wall, a stern warning!

"Andrey, plan carefully, try to destroy the fascist supply of molybdenum ore in one fell swoop."

"Yes, Comrade Stalin!" Lin Jun replied after saluting.

Stalin made up his mind - he had long since displeased Sweden, but he was patient for political and military reasons, and since everyone thought that the time had come to ignore Sweden's attitude, then do it!

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Bombing a mine, if it is an ordinary iron mine, coal mine, etc., can throw hundreds of tons of bombs at least a medium-sized open-pit mine to stop production for a week or two, and reduce production for a few months. If it is a mine, after blowing up the plant and mechanical facilities on the ground, it can be stopped for at least a few months, and it will take longer to fully resume production!

Lin Jun has seen what the mine is like - as long as the hoists, ore sorting workshops, and power plants outside the mine are destroyed, or the parking lots, garages, and various factories crowded together outside the parallel tunnels in the mountains are destroyed, resuming production is equivalent to building a new mine, or even more troublesome!

Stalin had a question about whether he could completely destroy the molybdenum mines in Norway with 200 bombers at a time, and then he understood after listening to Lin Jun's explanation.

Once the bombing was carried out, the Nazis would not have regained enough molybdenum for at least a year or two - the Knaben molybdenum mine was a shaft, and it had been dug very deep, relatively close to the surface, and it had been exhausted decades ago: this is still the case as we know now.

Moreover, molybdenum ore mining and smelting have another characteristic, which is different from the trade of high-quality iron ore: that is, the importing country of molybdenum ore will generally have one less process in the molybdenum processing industrial system - they will not import raw ore!

This is all determined by the characteristics of molybdenum ore itself.

The molybdenum minerals with industrial mining value in various natural molybdenum ores are mainly molybdenite, and about 99% of molybdenum ores are mined in the state of molybdenite. Molybdenite is a mineral that is easy to flotate, and flotation is the main method for selection: molybdenum concentrate containing 85~95% can be obtained by flotation, and the total recovery rate is 90%.

The Germans imported molybdenum concentrate, saving the step of sorting; The Norwegians, on the other hand, built huge sorting plants in the mine complex -- pulling heavy ore hundreds of kilometers for sorting and solving the problem in the mining area for production managers to choose, and whoever chooses the latter.

As far as Okarkov knows, there is a historic smelter not far from the Knapben molybdenum mine and the only one in Norway: of course it will also be on the list of bombing targets.

As long as the use of hundreds of tons of bombs is reasonable and accurate, the plant and equipment accumulated by the Knaben molybdenum mine over more than 100 years will be in ruins. Years later!

It will take months to clean up a large area of post-bombing rubble, and it will take more time for the production equipment to be restored - whether there is suitable and sufficient equipment for both at the same time is also a problem, if there is no ready-made (the level is not ready-made, because it is not as simple as building a truck or an excavator, and many mining equipment is complete, huge, assembled, and special. In the case of emergency manufacturing - how can it be made? Even if you can find a factory in Norway that can manufacture it, or simply dismantle similar equipment from other places, it will take time to dismantle, and this transportation is even more problematic, and the transportation and installation of heavy and huge mining equipment can be a hassle!

If Norway doesn't have it, or Germany has it or can produce it immediately, then transportation is even more of a big problem!

It's not easy to build a mine, it's not a small coal kiln: a basket can be dug with a head, and a pickaxe and a tram can be mechanized.

Under normal circumstances, the plant and equipment of the mine is a "dense type" and basically belongs to the "pile type" rather than the "scattered type" of buildings in the Moscow city -- but the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Intelligence Department of the General Staff have a way to let Lin Jun and others know what the actual situation of the Kenaben molybdenum mine is.

Alexander's subordinates have always been known for their swiftness and ability, and this time it was the same: as soon as they received the order of the People's Commissars, within a few hours they summoned from the Committee of Nonferrous Metals Industry several experts and leaders who had visited the Molybdenum Mine in Knaben in Norway a few years earlier, and some of the photographs taken at that time were delivered before dark, whether they were commemorative photographs in the homes of those people or in the archives of the Committee; The Intelligence Department of the General Staff also sent a lot of photos of the Konaben molybdenum mine plant, and also pulled a few industrial experts who know about molybdenum ore production, and they will explain in detail which types of factories are the most important and the most troublesome to build in molybdenum ore production!

It is difficult to build and easy to destroy -- in fact, destruction is also a technical job, just like blowing up a bridge and demolishing a house, and brute force is a waste of effort and resources, and it is also necessary to pay attention to technology.

A group of people who were found were taken to the Air Force Committee. That night, a group of mappers, industrial experts, comrades who had visited the Knabaen molybdenum mine, air force technicians, photo analysis experts, and so on set up a battlefield in a large conference room of the Air Force Committee, and they were busy with each other in coordination and with one heart.

Some of the real-life photos taken are photos of people and group photos, but there are also photos of the exterior of the factory, and very few are photos of the equipment inside the factory - probably due to technical secrecy and blockade, many Swedes were only allowed to visit the factory and not allowed to take pictures.

It's quite friendly, some mines are not allowed to take pictures of their own visiting groups (more confidential?). There is no chance to enter the door, and you don't even know that a certain country is mining a certain ore. Metal resources, especially important and rare metals needed in industry, are truly strategic materials. ）

There are also a few large-scale photos taken from the low hills near the factory area, which partially fills the disadvantage of not having aerial photos - the comrades of the industrial committee have some qualities: Lin Jun knows that in the 30s, most of the various visiting groups and visiting groups sent by various industrial powers to each other were more or less with special purposes, and all countries were doing things like grass and rabbits, but not those who Lin Jun knew decades later in the name of investigation and learning from experience. Even a county-level government travels abroad dozens of times a year!

When I came back from an expedition, I brought back a lot of rare foreign goods and a lot of landscape photos, but there was nothing substantial: they were all busy looking at the scenery and playing - completely despised! Moths of the country!

Not only relying on photographs, but also the comrades who have been to the Knaben molybdenum mine have recalled the detailed layout of the plant according to the photos, which does not need to be too precise, as long as there are no mistakes in general -- of course, it is not possible to say that the rectangular plant is triangular. Because most of the bombers will carpet bomb the mining area and the concentrator together, and the other part will bomb the non-ferrous metal smelter intensively, it doesn't matter what equipment is inside each tall building, it will turn into a pile of rubble and scrap metal anyway.

As for the Norwegian fine maps needed for pilotage, the Intelligence Department of the General Staff has them, and they have collected maps issued by countries all over the world, and even military maps have been put in a whole warehouse! Helping the pilot determine exactly where the mine is located is not a problem.

With the help of a few experts, a topographic map of the target area and its surroundings at dawn was completed!

Lin Jun did not go to Zhukov, nor did he go to the Air Force Committee with him, and after dealing with some other things in the Kremlin, he slept in the lounge of his love for a while. When I woke up, I saw the large drawings and maps sent by Porenin: they were very detailed, the Knaben Molybdenum Mine was similar to the mine I imagined, the buildings were very dense, and the conveyor belts, transportation systems, ore conveyor, and sorting equipment were tall and piled up, no matter how you looked at it, it was a good target for intensive bombing!

Porainin was busy all night, not only taking care of the maps, but also working overnight in the Air Force Committee to make arrangements, selections, and coordination of troops; It's not just about bombing Norway, it's about the south - Porenin is really busy.

Seeing the bloodshot eyes of his old subordinates, Lin Jun handed the drawings back to him: "You should go to the rest meeting, you can't become fat in one bite, and if you can let the staff officers do it, send it to them to do." ”

Porenin shook his head: "Most of them are divided, otherwise they would have fallen down early." ”

Porenin went to send troops, but the comrades who had also been able to help them all night were put under house arrest -- for a week, like Comrade Okarkov from Leningrad, they had to eat, drink, and rest in a closed guest house.

Everyone has their own jobs, but with the exception of Okarkov, the few non-ferrous metal production commissioners who can stay in Moscow are not the kind that cannot be done without him and one day less: compared with absolutely foolproof secrecy. It's worth it to leave them idle for a while.

The comrades recuperated in peace -- there was no need to worry about the family, for they would receive the news that they would be sent on an urgent business trip to a foreign country, and that they would be back in seven or eight days.

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Polenin selected nine airfields near the six cities of Tallinn, Pärnu, Riga, Jurmala, Ventspils and Liepaja as the bases for the operation, with Air Force Major General Vasily Nikolayevich Zhdanov as the air commander-in-chief for the operation.

Many of the crews involved in the operation took part in the bombing of the Ploiesti oil field in Romania, and the chief bombing navigator was also an important navigator in that operation - "Hero of the Soviet Union", Air Force Major Marina Mikhailovna Raskova, a famous female navigator of the Soviet Air Force.

Zhdanov will lead the Pi-8 bomber formation, and the commander of the IL-4 long-range bomber formation will be the commander of the long-range bomber aviation division, Colonel Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova, who has extensive experience in long-range raids.

As the units arrived at the predetermined airfields, the time of the sortie was set seven days later: since several senior navigators believed that the plan for the attack in the middle of the night and the bombing at dawn was the best, the formation would conduct a night flight for a period of time after the sortie.

Major Raskova was not at all worried about night navigation, and as long as the weather in southwestern Norway was acceptable that day, she was confident that she would be able to guide the formation accurately over the target: the submarine forces would determine the weather conditions on the Norwegian coast there. The bombardment altitude was set at 3,500 meters to ensure a certain hit rate, and it was also able to avoid the threat of most of the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns deployed by the Germans.

The Germans had deployed their air defense forces at important targets in Norway, but according to the usual practice, half of the Germans would not have turned their air defenses into an iron bucket formation where they had not been subjected to air raids -- this would be more or less an iron bucket formation in the Ploiesti oil fields in Romania, and it would be average in southwestern Norway.

The Luftwaffe had too much to do, and it was impossible to deploy a large number of anti-aircraft fighters in southwestern Norway with nothing to do, and the density of anti-aircraft guns was at most the standard level of air defense in wartime industrial bases, and it was not comparable to the density of arming near those key targets on the mainland.

The success rate of the operation should be high, which is an optimistic estimate by almost everyone. As for the question of whether the "borrowed road" will be intercepted -- Sweden does not even have a single night fighter, even if the air raid group is discovered before dawn, it is also a question whether the two-winged "gladiator" fighters of the Swedes will take to the air; Even if it was lifted into the air, the "Gladiator" was faster than the Soviet bomber formation at full speed and flying at full speed, but the routes chosen by Porenin and others avoided the Swedish air bases that are currently known, and it was also a question of whether they could catch up or not find them.

What if you just bump into it? The Swedes are the fighters of the entire air force who are looking for trouble, and the escorted MiG-3 and Yak-9DD fleets can easily pack them all up! (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.) )