On the morning of January 17, the Wallachian plains of Romania were shrouded in silver, and on a bus from Ploiesti to the capital Bucharest, a man in his twenties was dozing off with his head down, a stained tweed hat covering most of his face, no different from the other passengers on the bus, dozing off to kill the boring time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The young Nikolai Ceausescu, like most of the people in the car, was a staff member of the Ploiesti oil district, except that Ceausescu had been working as an oil well firefighter for less than half a year, and had spent most of the previous year in a prison on the outskirts of Bucharest.

The prison was as familiar to the young man as the backyard of his hometown, and he was already in and out of the country: he was only 23 years old, but he was already a member of the Romanian Communist Party for five years, and this time he was sending a top-secret piece of information to the contact point in Bucharest on instructions from his superiors.

The car was driving on the snowy road with difficulty, and seeing that Ceauses, who was dozing, was actually not asleep at all, he kept thinking about the explanation of the secretary of the party committee of the city of Ploiesti when he handed over the information to him last night: "You must protect it with your life, destroy it if necessary, and you must not let it fall into the hands of Antoniscu's people!" ”

What the party secretary handed over to him was a small sealed glass bottle and asked him to keep it personal. The bottle contained pale yellow crystals and a wrapped piece of paper inside. Ceausescu didn't know what was on that piece of paper, but he knew that even sacrificing his own life would not allow the fascists to get it—the importance of what was protected with white phosphorus.

In the event of an accident and unable to get out, he will open the bottle and shake it, and the secret will disappear.

There is not much danger on the road, but the situation in Bucharest is more complicated now, with police patrolling the streets, and the biggest threat comes from fascist reconnaissance of the secret junction site.

Two hours later, the bus arrived at Bucharest Central Station, Ceausescu picked up his suitcase and walked to the city bus station to board the second bus.

The second brother, Nikolai Marin, was very happy with the arrival of his younger brother, he was resting today, so he was at home, and he didn't expect the third brother to come, who he hadn't seen for a few months. Ceausescu didn't even go to his parents on Christmas Day, saying that he was too busy with oil field work to leave.

"How many days off this time?" Marin wished his brother could stay with him for a few more days.

"I'll leave tomorrow, and I'll borrow your bike later."

Ma Lin knew that his brother must be on some task again, so he didn't say much, and ran to the kitchen to prepare lunch for his brother.

Ceausescu needed a hot meal, and Marin took out a small cloth bag from the mezzanine of the attic while his brother was eating, which contained a fine German-made Ruger 08 pistol and two magazines full of bullets.

"Take it with you when you go out, it's been complicated outside lately."

"Where did it come from?" Ceausescu is a little strange, Luger himself has only seen the pistol once, he didn't expect the second brother to have it, you must know that weapons are only equipped with core comrades, and the second brother is just a peripheral member.

"You know what I do, I got it from Germany. I originally wanted to bring it to you the next time I go to the oil field, and I think your people need it. ”

Marin held a position in a foreign trade company in Bucharest, where he was involved with German and Hungarian merchants. The businessmen who only know the interests are also secretly engaged in some smuggling business, and now the situation is unstable, many rich people in Bucharest want to do something about the housekeeper, and Marin has naturally become the best intermediary between these two types of people.

After riding the second brother's bicycle, after a few circles, he handed over the glass bottle to the connector in Bucharest in a tavern on the street, completed the task without danger, and returned to Ploiesti the next day with the gift from the second brother.

Nikolai Ceausescu did not know that the information he had delivered might have left him, a "fireman", busy, because the bottle contained a map of several large refineries and oil wells in the Ploiesti oil-producing region.

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On the morning of January 26, the map that Ceausescu had escorted appeared in Lin Jun's office: the military attaché who had returned to Moscow from Berlin to report to work had personally handed it over to Lin Jun.

This is a detailed map of the deployment of oil field facilities, and Lin Jun's main targets are the Colombia-Akira refinery and the Clyttier-Minha refinery, and he will also bomb the scattered oil production facilities.

Fortunately, Romania's air defense is still relatively weak, and the Luftwaffe and air defense forces have not yet been stationed in Romania, as long as the secrecy is done well, the Germans will not think that the Soviet Union will bomb the Romanian oil fields recklessly.

In order to achieve the purpose of the raid, it is not possible to conduct aerial reconnaissance of Ploiesti in advance, which requires collecting intelligence on the oil-producing areas of Ploiesti, relying on the help of the Romanian Communist Party, and obtaining distribution maps and data photos (it is not surprising that the Romanians will help Lin Jun to destroy the industrial facilities on the ground in their country, because this is normal in extraordinary times and cannot be compared with the current conventional concept). ）

Take low-altitude bombing to ensure hits. What will be the cost of tactics? The casualties of Romanian oil refineries and their own pilots, but in the face of the war these are minor issues, and humanitarian matters will be considered after the fight.

The British didn't think about civilian casualties in 43 years, and Lin Jun didn't think about it, war can put all so-called ethics and morality aside.

Alexander had secretly ordered the border guards of the Ministry of the Interior to create some friction on the border with Romania, which was easy: the patrols on both sides had always been tense at the slightest sight, and a little more fire would have been satisfactory.

Constant friction at the border, which lasted for several months, allowed the Romanian authorities to become accustomed to the tension and suspicions of the previous period. Once the timing is right, suddenly the problem is solved in one fell swoop.

Lin Jun's opinion after consulting with Air Force Director Arksnis was that once the bombing was launched, it would be an overwhelming air raid, and while using the air forces of the Ukrainian Special Military District and the Odessa Military District, a number of bombers from Moscow and the Ural region would be dispatched to support the south.

While being able to effectively deal with the possible dogs jumping over the wall of the German army in the north and reserving sufficient strength, Lin Jun probably had close to 500 bombers and nearly 300 new fighters on hand.

There are about 250 SB-2s, 200 DB-3s, and 50 Pe-8 strategic bombers that have just formed combat effectiveness, while the escort fighters are basically Lag-3 and Yak-1, and there are more than 30 MiG-3 long-range escort fighters improved according to Lin Jun's drawings.

Although not a swarm of formations, a super-large fleet of nearly 800 aircraft required extremely rigorous preparation for a sudden attack, involving 23 airfields spread over a vast area between the Crimean peninsula and the Republic of Moldova.

Many aircraft deployed in other regions need to be transferred, and all aircraft need to be systematically arranged according to different performance, and grouped at different ranges and speeds. Fighter jets and SB-2 fast bombers will basically be based on airfields on the Black Sea coast of Moldova and Ukraine, of which bombers will basically not appear in the airfields closest to the border, and most of them will be deployed near Odessa.

The long-range DB-3 and Pi-8 bombers will be based on the Crimean peninsula, where several airfields will be about 680 kilometers away from the target in a straight line, and the fleet will fly directly over the Black Sea into the skies over Romania and fly straight to the Ploiesti oil field, escorting them with a group of MiG-3 fighters.

These bombers will be able to drop more than 1,000 tons of bombs at a time, which can semi-paralyze the production of the entire Romanian oil-producing area in a single shot, and the bombing of different scales, once activated, will be launched multiple times, and must temporarily paralyze Germany's oil supply in a short time.

Such a large fleet of aircraft needs an experienced air commander, and each detachment also needs to have a good commander, so Lin Jun recruited his old subordinate, Major General Fedor Petrovich Porenin Air Force, who is now the commander of the 13th Bomber Aviation Division.

"I need a map and a profile photo of the target area, and I need to assemble these troops as soon as possible, conduct a period of pilot training and communication between the detachments, and lay out the detailed sortie times and respective routes of each part of the entire operation." After learning that he was about to command a strategic bombing operation of unprecedented scale, Porainin was soberly aware of the heavy responsibility and that the preparatory work in the early stage would be a huge project.

In China, Porenin never disappointed Lin Jun, and if you want to choose the air commander, Porenin is definitely the first choice.

"After deciding on the preliminary plan, you go to Odessa to prepare. We don't have an exact timing for this operation, but I guess it will be in early April. There is only a clear goal, and confidentiality is very important. We already have the map, the photos are being collected, and you can make some models of the refinery to familiarize the pilots of the detachments. I will send you all the materials as soon as possible, and the preparation must be done carefully, this time we are taking risks. ”

"Yes, Comrade Marshal! Guaranteed completion of the task. ”

"Well, I'll accompany you to the Kremlin in the afternoon, and Comrade Stalin will listen to the advice of the air commander-in-chief." (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.) )