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Late at night on April 9, Berlin time, Hersmann, who remained in the General Staff building in Tsosen, received the latest report from the Air Force Command on the "air battle on the island of Newfoundland".

"How many were shot down yesterday?" Hirschman, who looked a little tired, took a long sip of his coffee and asked Kesselring.

"230-260, this is the result of examining the camera guns." Kesselring said with some concern, "There are also a large number of US fighter jets in and around Newfoundland, with a total of no less than 1,000 in total. ”

"And so many?" Hersman frowned.

"Yes." "Yesterday the Americans flew more than 500 fighter jets, all daytime interceptors," Kesselring said. There should also be a considerable number of night interceptors and daytime air superiority fighters that did not move. ”

"There are so many Yankees!" Hersman gently turned the coffee cup in his hand, "And their night fighters are enough to deal with the Fokker 42 and ZSO523." ”

A night fighter does not mean that it cannot fly during the day, but this kind of aircraft is generally relatively large in order to carry radar and searchlights, and cannot fight with day fighters, but there is no problem with fighting transport aircraft.

If the US military in and around Newfoundland can still come up with 1,000 fighters, then the probability of failure of the air assault operation is very high.

"It seems that the 'Iceberg Project' must be implemented to distract the US military in eastern Canada."

The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Marshal Raeder, made a proposal. The "Iceberg Project" was part of the "Fort Gauge Plan" to make a small landing in the Labrador area of eastern Canada to attract air forces from Newfoundland to attack. thereby weakening the defense capability of Newfoundland and creating conditions for the execution of air assault operations.

However, this plan also has the great disadvantage of easily attracting the attention of Americans from the Caribbean to eastern Canada. If the Americans massively increased their troops, then the operation to land on the island of Newfoundland would turn into a disaster.

Therefore, there is a special provision in the "Castle Gauge Plan" that the "Iceberg Plan" must be carried out cautiously, and the troops invested in the "Iceberg Plan" cannot be too many...... It had to look like a diversionary attack, and it was hard to grasp.

"Can the 'Iceberg Project' be implemented now?" Hersman asked, "Coastal Labrador thawed?" ”

The coast of Labrador is affected by the cold current of Labrador, which freezes for a long time, with some bays freezing for up to 9 months in the coldest years!

"Not completely thawed," Raeder shook his head, "but we have a unit of icebreakers of the Russian Royal Navy, and a little ice floe won't be able to overwhelm us." ”

The shipbuilding industry in Russia and the original Soviet Union was generally weak, but it was not without its skills. The best thing the Russians did to build ships was icebreakers, because the coastline of Russia was mainly the coast of the Arctic Ocean, and without good icebreakers, the capacity of many ports would be greatly reduced.

Before the signing of the Armistice Agreement, some ships of the Atlantic Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy anchored in Molotovsk (now called Severodvinsk), including all icebreakers, defected en masse and pledged their allegiance to Empress Olga.

As a result, Empress Olga now has the most powerful icebreaker fleet in the world, capable of dealing with even the solid ice of the Arctic Ocean, not to mention the little ice off the coast of Labrador in the spring. Moreover, the cold snap off the coast of Labrador is not too cool for the "polar bears", and it is completely adaptable.

In addition to the "polar bear", Germany now has a trump card of the Winter War, the Waffen-SS Finnish Brigade, all of which are veterans of the Winter War. As long as they get to the coast of the Labrador region, several times as many US troops are no match for them.

Now the question is how to get on board! However, this was not for Hersmann to consider, but for the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht Marine Corps, Field Marshal Graeme (who was an air marshal), and the commander-in-chief of the landing fleet, Theodor. Admiral Bourchadi's conundrum.

By the time Marshal Hesman signed the order to carry out the "Iceberg Plan", the ground forces preparing to carry out the landing operation in North America had already been secretly concentrated in Iceland and the Azores.

Among them, the air assault forces were all in the Azores, and the troops that landed by sea were concentrated in Iceland. The headquarters of Marshal Graham and Admiral Bourchardi were also based in the Icelandic port of Reykjavik.

In early April 1945, Hersmann's son Reinhardt's Royal Guards Tank Division arrived in Iceland, a military stronghold in the North Atlantic, on a transport ship from the Russian Navy.

Although the troops had reached the starting point of the attack on North America - Iceland and the Azores were the two major strongholds of sorties, and in addition to massing a large number of troops, they had built a large number of airfields, barracks, warehouses, and stockpiled huge quantities of supplies - almost all the officers and soldiers did not think that they were about to go to war, because they knew that the attack would be launched in the Caribbean...... It's not a secret to everyone, everyone knows it.

However, the training and preparations for the landing were still proceeding in a step-by-step manner, and a group of Russian soldiers were arranged to board ships, row, and wash the beach in the bay covered with ice floes every day. And a lot of equipment for fighting in winter and cold areas has been sent down, as if it is going to land in some cold place next.

But this very obvious sign went unheeded, and no one, including Reinhardt and Ribbentrop the Younger, thought that they were about to go to war, let alone that they were about to set foot on the eastern coast of Canada, which was as inhospitable and cold as Siberia.

At noon on April 10, Reinhardt, who had just landed on the beach of Reykjavik with a battalion of panzergrenadiers, suddenly saw little Ribbentrop in a winter field suit.

Ribbentrop Jr. stood in a tall Steyr command car, raised an arm and pointed at the somewhat chaotic troops on the beach, and said something to a man in a German overcoat and military cap beside him. As if seeing Reinhardt, little Ribbentrop stopped explaining and began to wave vigorously to Reinhardt.

Reinhardt hurriedly ran over, he was carrying a backpack weighing twenty or thirty kilograms, and an MKb42 automatic carbine in his hand, but he still ran fast, obviously with very good physical strength.

Running to Ribbentrop Jr., he found that it was Marshal Graeme, the commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps, who was standing in the carriage of Steyr's command car with Ribbentrop Jr. He hurriedly put the automatic carbine on his back, and then gave a German salute: "Your Excellency the Marshal." ”

Marshal Graham and Hersmann are good friends, of course they know Reinhardt, so they raised their hands with a smile: "Reinhardt, I didn't expect to see you here...... Oh, and became a major. ”

Reinhardt smiled embarrassedly: "Marshal, this is ...... Foolish rank, I'm not qualified to be a major. ”

His rank of major is a rank in the Russian Army, not in the German Army. With the Germans, he was still a second lieutenant.

"Qualifications are not the same as qualifications," Graham said with a smile, "and it depends on whether you are qualified or not." He glanced at the Russian soldiers who were scrambling on the beachhead, "How's it going?" Will they be able to carry out the landing and beach rush mission? ”

"They? Beachbreaking? Reinhardt was stunned by Graeme's question, "Marshal, they're armored soldiers." Isn't it so hard that we shouldn't go ashore after the Marine Corps has succeeded in seizing the beach? ”

Instead of answering Reinhardt's question, Graham asked, "If you want them, this synthetic battalion, to carry out the beach-grabbing mission, do you think it is possible to complete it?" ”

"Them?" Reinhardt thought seriously for a while, "I'm not sure, maybe I can go ashore, but I definitely can't immediately engage in high-intensity combat, maybe I will be beaten by the Yankees on the beach." ”

"Oh, I see." Graeme nodded, and instead of asking any further questions, he sat back in the chair of Steyr's command car before waving at Ribbentrop Jr. Ribbentrop Jr. got down from the command car and got to the ground, then the car started and drove away.

"Reinhardt, we're going to North America!" Looking at Marshal Graeme's car, Ribbentrop Jr. said in a calm tone, "The Royal Guards Tank Division will draw a part of its troops to form an advance group, and the first group will set off, and tomorrow will leave." ”

"What? Tomorrow? Reinhardt was stunned, "Where are you going...... Can this be asked? ”

Ribbentrop Jr. nodded and said, "You can ask, but I won't answer, the target area will be revealed only after boarding the ship." He looked at Reinhardt, "Are you going?" ”

The first to set off was only part of the Russian Royal Guards Tank Division, forming a brigade-sized advance group, commanded by German Army Colonel Werner. Feng. Levizzo, Ribbentrop Jr. will serve as chief of staff. If Reinhardt wanted to go, Hersman Jr. could arrange a temporary position for him to go to the Labrador coast to open his eyes, and by the way, accumulate some credit that would allow him to rise to prominence in the future.

"Go, of course I'll go." Reinhardt replied without hesitation.

"Okay, then go get ready." "It's been very cold in the North Atlantic, so bring winter clothes...... Also, the Caribbean weather is very hot, so summer military uniforms must also be brought. ”

The order to bring summer clothes was actually intended to conceal the misconception that everyone was heading to the Caribbean before boarding the ship. Although the ground forces assembled in Iceland were already in isolation from the outside world, Field Marshal Graham decided to keep it a secret until the troops boarded the amphibious assault ships Bremen and Europa.