The blue sea and blue sky, the white clouds, it is indeed a good day to travel. A latest-new Fokker F.37 airliner is soaring three or four thousand meters above the North Sea. This Fokker F.37 is the civil version of the Fokker F.36, equipped with four BMW 300 engines with very good fuel-saving performance and reliable performance.

It is a "small double-row" engine, with horsepower between single-row air-cooled and large-double-row air-cooled, with 14 small cylinders in a double-row star layout, weighing only 520 kilograms, but delivering a stable output of up to 980 hp at an altitude of 4,200 meters. It is a civilian engine with excellent performance.

The Fokker F.37, equipped with four BMW 300 engines, can fly continuously for 8 hours at a stable speed of about 300 kilometers per hour with a load of 2,000 kilograms, which is extremely impressive. If it weren't for the imminent war, this aircraft would certainly be another hegemon in the civil aviation market.

The cabin of this Fokker F.37 is also very elegant, well sealed and soundproofed, with comfortable sofa-type seats, and it is very spacious, not at all crowded in the economy class of later civil aviation.

The shell of the aircraft is painted with the "Lufthansa" logo - the world's largest airline with a fleet of hundreds of passenger and cargo aircraft. However, the one Hirschmann is flying on now is a fake "Lufthansa" plane. Its real owner is the Central Security Service of the German Empire, and this is a spy plane!

"The biggest risk of a P-class breakout comes from Scapa Bay," Canaris, sitting across from Hirschman, at a table with a North Sea chart spread out between the two, pointing to the location of Scapa Bay above, "to break into the Atlantic." It is not possible to go through the English Channel, only to go through the North Sea, around the backside of the British island. Scarpa Bay is located in the northwest corner of the British Island, only 460 kilometers from Norway. The British only had to deploy the main forces of the home fleet and naval reconnaissance aircraft there, and the P-class broken formation was very dangerous when it passed. ”

"How's the defense going there?" Hersman stared at the map, his mind full of "Pearl Harbor." If you can come to Scarpa Gulf, and don't try to sink many capital ships, as long as you can get the battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers of the British Home Fleet damaged, you can give the German Navy the initiative for a while.

"There's a naval air station," Canaris said, "and the British Air Force doesn't have an airfield there, so if you want to fly from an airfield in the north of Scotland." As for the anti-aircraft fire, it was also weak, only the old anti-aircraft guns left over from the last world war, which did not pose a threat to our aircraft. ”

"Is there a radar?" Hersman asked again.

"There is no radar." Canaris shook his head and said, "But the British capital ships have radars on them. ”

"It is possible to fly at low altitude skimming the sea to reduce the distance of detection." Commander of Naval Aviation Graeme interjected, "Even if we don't, British radar will only be able to see a few dozen kilometers at most, and only a few minutes for an aircraft." If the combat readiness level is not high, there is simply no time to react. ”

"It's useless even if you have a high combat readiness rating," Canaris said with a laugh. "That naval air station of the British didn't have many fighters, and they didn't think about Scarpa Bay at all. And planes on aircraft carriers. In the case of the aircraft carrier anchoring, it is simply impossible to take off. The anti-aircraft guns on the ships that can threaten the aircraft are the ones that can threaten them, but the fleet does not form an anti-aircraft formation when it is anchored in the harbor, and it is not easy to maneuver. ”

"Basically, you can only stand up to the bombing!" Lieutenant General Graeme laughed, "I can't wait for the war to begin." ”

Historically, why didn't you bomb it in time? Hersmann suddenly discovered that it was not so difficult for the Germans to win the World War, and sometimes it was just a little more resolute.

In fact, it was blown up in history, but not at the beginning. It was bombed after the Luftwaffe showed its might in Poland. At that time, the British were already frightened by the Luftwaffe and evacuated the fleet......

"Have you chosen your plane?" Hersman thought for a moment and asked.

"There is already a plan," Graham replied with a smile, "that the Ju.88 can carry out dive bombing, and the He111 can conduct low-altitude horizontal bombing." The range of these two aircraft is not small, it can be modified with an extended range, and there is no problem in flying 2000 km. There is also a He115 that can be used, which is an existing aircraft. ”

"Seaplane?" Hersman was stunned.

"Just dismantle the pontoons," Graham shrugged and laughed, "and it would save some weight, I've had people experiment with it, and it's totally possible." ”

The HE115 is a seaplane with a very good performance, and it can fly at speeds of up to 355 kilometers per hour with two pontoons attached to it, and the range is up to 3350 kilometers! The armament was 2 machine guns, 1250 kg bombs or torpedoes......

Moreover, the design of such an aircraft was completed in 1937 and finalized in early 1938. In other words, in September 1939, Generalissimo Goering could theoretically have an air force capable of bombing Scapa Bay into Pearl Harbor!

You don't even have to open a gold finger! No, replacing the commander of the Air Force from Goering to Kesselring is probably the biggest golden finger.

"What about lightning nets?" Hersman asked again, "The capital ship will be protected by mine nets, right?" ”

"No, not generally." "It's expensive, and it's a hassle to use. I would expect the British to lay anti-submarine wire at the entrances to Scapa Bay, but not to every capital ship...... Because that's not necessary. ”

Graeme explained with a smile: "The plane can't theoretically reach it, and the submarine can't get in." ”

Lower one's guard! This is a common problem of all armies in the world in a state of peace, and the transition from a state of peace to a high level of combat readiness is not something that can be accomplished with a single order and a few hours.

"Give 120 He-115 shore-based improvements," Hersman stopped discussing and directly began to "place orders", "120 Ju.88 extended-range models, 120 He-111 extended-range models, plus 100 Fokker Zeros, will be in place by the end of May next year." ”

1,000 planes were hard to come by, the air corps was now short of new ones, and the bombing of Poland after the war began in September 1939 must have been heavy. But 460 can always be made!

"Be ready to strike as soon as the battle begins!" Hersman thought for a moment and said, "Can the intelligence side grasp the movements of the British fleet?" ”

If you want to bomb, you first have to find out if people are there. Although in the event of tensions between Britain and Germany, the British home fleet will certainly concentrate in Scarpa Bay, but who knows if they will go to sea for exercises?

"We've got agents already lurking in Scarpa's Bay," Canaris assured, "and that man has become a British citizen and has lived near Scapa Bay for many years." In addition, we can send submarines for surveillance. You can be sure that nothing goes wrong! ”

"Good! So decided! Hersman clapped his hands excitedly, this is 460 planes! Three hundred and seventy-one aircraft were dispatched from the two attacks on Pearl Harbor, which paralyzed the U.S. Pacific Fleet for several months.

At this moment, the loudspeaker in the cabin suddenly sounded: "I'm the captain, we're almost close to Scarpa, the plane will lower its altitude to 1000 and skim over the sea east of Scapa Bay, pay attention to it." ”

……

Outside 77 Wilhelmstrasse, several black Mercedes-Benz 770K and Mercedes-Benz W07 limousines were parked at this time, and an officer and soldier wearing Waffen-SS uniforms were waiting there.

"Hey! Our Leader! ”

"Hey! Hitler! ”

Some of the citizens of Berlin passing by saw Adolf. Hitler walked briskly out of the Chancellery, surrounded by several officials, and saluted him one after another.

Hitler smiled and saluted in return, then got into his Mercedes 770K, and the car started and flew away in front of everyone's attention.

"Leader," said Ribbentrop, who had slipped into the sedan with Hitler, in a somewhat wistful tone, "the Poles were very tough and refused to budge in any way, while the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain blamed us for annexing Bohemia and restoring the Hohenzollern dynasty. And the leader of Italy, Mr. Mussolini, was also very unhappy with our proximity to the Soviet Union...... Now the situation in Europe is not very favorable for us. ”

"If ......," Hitler thought for a moment, "if we just go back to Danzig and leave the Polish corridor for the time being, will peace be possible?" ”

If Hersmann had heard Hitler's question, he would have been shocked. Adolph. Hitler, the war madman of history and the number one sinner of mankind, is now fighting hard for world peace.

Just when Hersmann and Schleicher were busy preparing for the world war!

Because the situation now is very different from history. Historically, the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact was formally signed on August 23, 1939. Before that, Germany had appeared as "anti-Soviet" and "anti-G".

This gave Hitler the illusion that Britain continued to appease Germany because of Hitler's anti-G and anti-Soviet - if Britain and France really wanted Germany to fight the Soviet Union, it seemed that Germany should be allowed to take Poland.

After all, only by taking Poland can Germany fight the Soviet Union.

However, at this time, under the auspices of Field Marshal Schleicher (who was historically a pro-Soviet faction) and General Hersmann, two leading figures in the pro-Soviet German army, Soviet-German relations were very good, and by the end of 1938, the two sides signed the 10-year "Socialist Axis Pact".

In this case, Britain, France, and Poland took a very tough posture, and Mussolini, who had always regarded himself as anti-G, was not as pro-German as he was in history, and began to distance himself from Germany and Britain and France when the overall situation of the Spanish War was decided.

And the leader Hitler also began to hesitate at this time - Britain, France, Italy and Poland together looked very strong! And it also surrounded Germany on all sides...... (To be continued.) )