Chapter 1185: The Gochburg Plan – Caribbean Federation
Dressed in the gray marshal's uniform, Hersman emerged from the open Mercedes saloon, holding the scepter of the Imperial Marshal, his personal secretary Natalie and the new chief adjutant Heinz. Colonel Brandt got out of the car first, and now waited by the door with his handbag. Hitler's private secretary www.biquge.info Martin Bowman, was already standing at the gate of the Eagle's Nest, and when he saw Hersmann appear, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.
"Welcome, Marshal." Bowman said in a flattering tone.
"Hello, Martin." Hersman and Martin. Bowman shook his hand.
"The leader is talking to Caesar in Rome on the phone, so he can't come out to greet him." Bowman told Hersmann, "He was outraged by the atrocities that took place in Buenos Aires. ”
The city of Buenos Aires suffered heavy losses in yesterday's bombing, with large swathes of the city in ruins or ashes, at least 100,000 people left homeless, tens of thousands killed in the bombing, and tens of thousands of wounded, mainly poor people burned by the fire, many of whom were seriously injured and in great pain.
And after the end of the bombing, Juan. Peron immediately emerged from the basement of the Rose Palace and went to the European Coalition Command, where he asked for help from Falkenhorst and Canaris in person. Subsequently, at least his ambassadors to Germany and Rome appealed to Hitler and Mussolini for help.
Hesman is because of Juan. Peron's call for help was summoned by Hitler from Tsosen to the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden.
When he walked into Hitler's office, the chancellor of the Third Reich looked very calm and still had a smile on his face, he got up from behind his desk and went up to shake hands with Hersmann: "Reich Marshal, our South American children are in trouble and need our help, do we have the spare power to help them?" ”
"Of course we have the power to spare." "I spoke to Olga on the phone before I got on the plane, and she agreed to send 300 pilots trained in Fw 190 pilots to form a Royal Russian Air Force expeditionary division to Argentina," Hersman said. ”
"Send the Russians?"
"Yes, just send the Russians, they are enough to deal with the Americans."
The Royal Russian Air Force was formed on the basis of defective Soviet Red Air Force pilots and was not very large, with only 1,000 combat aircraft in common use. However, it had many first-class pilots - these were elite people who had grown up in the competition with the Luftwaffe and were particularly adept at interception.
Therefore, after receiving the report of the European Coalition Command in New Asbania, Hersman immediately hung up the phone with Olga in Petrograd and asked her to send an air expeditionary force.
"What about our people?" Hitler asked, "Aren't there enough troops?" ”
"Of course there are enough troops," replied Hersman, "but we should convince the enemy that our air forces are not abundant." ”
At present, the main aviation forces of the European Community are the Luftwaffe, the Luftwaffe, the French Air Force and the French Naval Aviation. The Russian Royal Air Force can only be regarded as leftovers, while the strength of the British Royal Air Force is mainly used in the Indian theater, and the air forces of other countries are basically the existence of soy sauce.
And the strength of the Luftwaffe, the Luftwaffe, the French Air Force and the French Naval Air is quite strong. The total number of standing combat aircraft of all kinds (excluding trainers, transport aircraft and reserve aircraft) exceeds 23000 units! Although it cannot be compared with the number of commonly used aircraft owned by the Americans, the structure is more reasonable, the fighters are more advanced, and the technical level of the pilots is also higher. Therefore, it has always had an advantage in the air training on the two major battlefields of the Atlantic Ocean and Guyana-Caribbean.
But now the superiority of the European common air power is not enough to support the implementation of the "Gochburg Plan", so it is also necessary to transfer the air power of the Americans from the direction of Newfoundland to the Caribbean and New Asbanian directions.
In order to achieve the goal of using New Asbania to attract American air power, it is necessary to make the Americans feel that the air power of Germany and France is approaching the limit of its use—23,000 is a lot at first glance (and it is actually a lot), but the proportion of serious shore-based fighters (including heavy fighters) is not high.
Among the more than 20,000 aircraft, there are more than 5,000 carrier-based aircraft and seaplanes of various kinds; There are no less than 5,000 shore-based medium- and long-range reconnaissance planes of various types, as well as medium- and heavy-duty bombers; At the same time, the number of aircraft (including fighter-bombers) for various ground attack purposes also exceeded 5000. Three five thousand is fifteen thousand, that is to say, the total number of shore-based fighters owned by France and Germany is only a mere 8,000.
And these 8,000 fighters cannot all be used as interceptors, at least 2,000 of them must be used for various escort and cover (cover base, fleet and reconnaissance aircraft) missions. The last 6,000 planes that could be used as interceptors were to guard the Atlantic islands, the Atlantic barriers, Guyana-northern Brazil, New Asbania, and important cities and facilities in Europe.
"The Americans' air forces, though more than twice as large as ours," Hersmann went on to say to Hitler, "are far from being adequately deployed in all theaters of war." This is because the quality of US fighters and pilots is inferior to ours, and they must deploy a large number of fighters in various parts of the eastern coast to intercept our missiles and attack our missile carrier formations. ”
Although the number of missiles launched by the Luftwaffe and Navy into the large cities on the east coast of the United States was not large, there were many US air forces that were contained.
In addition, due to the successful air raid on Bermuda by the Br.810 twin-engine carrier-based bombers of the French naval aviation, it also sounded the alarm for the Americans that Bermuda might fall. So for the past two months, the US military has been expanding facilities on the Bermuda islands. It is estimated that a significant number of air and ground forces will be deployed there.
Hersmann told Hitler: "The dispatch of the Russian Air Expeditionary Force to Buenos Aires is only the beginning of a series of deceptive operations, and there will be further actions that will convince the Americans that the Caribbean is the target area of our attack." ”
The "Gochburg Plan" is now nearing finalization, and a copy will soon be sent to Prime Minister Adolf. Hitler's office, a campaign of this level of landing in North America, required the approval of the High Command Conference, and Hitler, as one of the three giants of the High Command Conference, naturally had to study the details of the "Gödschberg Plan." What Hersmann was now telling Hitler was a key detail of the "Göchburg Plan".
"What are you going to do?" Hitler asked.
"The biggest obstacle to an attack on Newfoundland is not the U.S. ground forces on the island, nor the F7Fs, but the P51s deployed there," Hersman said. This fighter is capable of competing with the Fokker 636 for air supremacy, so we must convince the Americans that our goal is Trinidad. Therefore, we intend to have the Air Force's Fokker 636 and Fw190 fight in the Guyana-Caribbean theater under the guise of naval aviation, while stationing several large aircraft carriers in the port of Belém. ”
Because the carrier-based Me262T high-speed jet aircraft will definitely participate in the operation of the "Gochburg Plan", the F7F will not pose a huge threat to the attacking fleet. However, the P51, a fighter with superior performance at medium and low altitudes, is a trouble, and a heavy aircraft like the Me262T cannot deal with this flexible fighter below 5000 meters (but the powerful firepower of the Me262T is enough to fight against the solid F7F below 5000 meters, and if there is a Fokker 636 cooperation, the F7F is not a threat). If the Americans deploy too many P51s on the island of Newfoundland, it will be a big problem for the European Community landing fleet, which relies on carrier-based aircraft to seize air superiority.
After all, the number of aircraft carriers that can be dispatched by the European Community Joint Fleet is limited, and the carrier-based aircraft that can be carried are at most more than 1,000, of which the Fokker 636, which can be the king at medium and low altitudes, is at most 1,000. It is impossible to crush the P51, which has more than 1,000 aircraft, because the planes deployed by the United States on the island of Newfoundland are shore-based aircraft that can be easily replenished, so it is not advisable to use carrier-based aircraft to fight a war of attrition against them.
Therefore, the air attack on Newfoundland must be carried out in one step, destroying the island's main airfield before the landing operation begins, and completely taking air supremacy into hand.
With air supremacy, the European Community Navy, which already holds sea supremacy, will be able to blockade the waters between Newfoundland and the North American continent through large-scale minelaying, so that Newfoundland will become an isolated island, and it will not be difficult to defeat it. In fact, it is not necessary to completely take it down, it is enough for the landing force to make a bridgehead that can arrange a large airfield.
After Hirschmann outlined his plans to seize air supremacy and blockade Newfoundland, Hitler groaned and asked, "Is diplomatic cooperation needed?" Now that we have resumed peace talks with the Americans, are we trying to take the opportunity to send some wrong signals? ”
"Of course, of course, diplomatic cooperation is needed." Hersman nodded, "Didn't the Americans make a request for the self-determination of an American nation?" I think it would be possible to go further and put forward the demands for Anglo-Canadian secession and Canadian neutrality...... We should give them the misconception that we are in agreement with them on the dismantling of the British Empire.
In addition, we should go further and call for the establishment of a Caribbean federation. It was the merger of the British and French possessions and other independent states in the Caribbean to form an independent, free, democratic and neutral federal state.
I think that the Americans would turn their attention entirely to the Caribbean and ignore the dangers of Newfoundland. ”