Chapter 377: The Fall of the Black Sea Fleet (Part I)
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Roosevelt continued and requested:
"If a country goes to war against the United States, I need your support for my proposal to go to war."
Marina and Emerson discussed this issue in a whisper, saying:
"Dear President Roosevelt, if the United States is attacked, we will support your counter-attack motion against the attacking country."
Marina's remark is level, what he means is that if the United States is attacked by another country, then the United States can only declare war on the attacking country.
This is a bit of a gap between Roosevelt and Roosevelt's desire to join the side of the Central Powers, but this is also a step forward, but Roosevelt will continue to fight, who will let the Jews have to ask for him!
"What if the attacking state is an ally? If we have declared war on the attack, it is equivalent to declaring war on the Allied country where the attack is located, right? ”
Marina continued to discuss with Emerson for a moment, then replied:
"If the attacking country has allies, we agree in principle to declare war on the attacking country and its allies."
Roosevelt's goal was achieved, and Japan's allies were Germany and Italy! Although Germany snubbed Japan after Führer Rommel came to power, they still had an alliance agreement, which can also be regarded as Japan's allies Germany and Italy.
Roosevelt and the two Jews quickly agreed on the terms, and Roosevelt's mood swept away the gloom of the past, and he personally sent the two Jewish representatives away in a wheelchair.
Emerson was not unaware of Roosevelt's intentions, Roosevelt wanted to participate in World War II as soon as possible, and another secret mission given to Emerson by Führer Rommel was to delay the United States into the war as much as possible.
Now it seems that the president of the United States has made up his mind to enter the war, but who is this country that attacked the United States? Looking at the whole world, there are only two countries that have the ability to attack the United States.
The first is Britain, but Britain can completely rule out that Britain cannot fight the United States at the same time as it is at war with Germany, and they absolutely do not have the ability to do that.
The other country was Japan, which at this time was pursuing an expansionist policy and had a strong navy and air force.
As for Germany, it was fighting the Soviet Union at this time, and they were also thousands of miles away from the United States, so it was impossible for Germany to attack the United States.
Emerson immediately understood what Roosevelt was talking about attacking the country, and he immediately drove back to Marina's house, and used Marina's personal telegraph to send Rommel a long telegram, which was Roosevelt's request.
Emerson could not have asked Führer Rommel to dissolve the German alliance with Japan, it could only be the responsibility of Führer Rommel, but Emerson believed that the great Führer Rommel must have known what to do.
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Guderian commanded 400,000 German field troops in the southern sector, breaking through three lines of Soviet defense in two days, and at the same time capturing many Soviet prisoners.
Because Odessa is more than 190 kilometers from the German-Soviet border, Guderian's two-day attack can only rush to Odessa, and surround it, it is impossible to launch an attack overnight, and Guderian is not the kind of reckless person.
When to attack, when to rest, Guderian has a precise assessment, absolutely not beyond the physical limits of the soldier, this is the best front-line commander, he will take all factors into account.
And the tactical command of the Soviet army can only be described as bad, the Soviet Union lined up its troops and defended everywhere, so it lacked a defensive experience of strategic depth, and in the face of Germany's blitzkrieg, it was really a tofu scum defense line.
The initial defeat of the Soviet army, which was doomed by Stalin's placement of millions of troops evenly over several thousand kilometers of defensive line, was not a strategic mistake that could be changed by the heroic resistance of individual Soviet units.
After the bombing of the Odessa airfield, Captain Smith was ordered to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in the Odessa military port, with a total of 12 JU8 dive bombers in the Smith squadron.
The aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet in this air attack had about more than 160 aircraft in three groups, of which 80 were JU87 dive bombers, the other twenty were horizontal bombers, and the rest were all BF109 fighters.
Most of the twenty horizontal bombers are playing soy sauce, and it is very difficult for horizontal bombers to bomb moving warships, and if they bomb at low altitudes, the anti-aircraft weapons on Soviet warships are not vegetarian, so these horizontal bombers can only choose medium and high altitude bombing, so their effectiveness is much worse.
If it weren't for the Soviet Black Sea Fleet in the harbor, these horizontal bombers would be a pure waste of ammunition, although the area in the port of Odessa is large enough, after all, it is not as wide as the sea, and there are still certain restrictions on the places to avoid, maybe there are a few bombs on these horizontal bombers that can hit the target.
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
More than a hundred bombers flew towards the port of Odesa, the largest number that Guderian could draw, and the rest of the planes had their own missions.
According to Guderian's idea, he sent about 500 bombers to directly wipe out the number of Black Sea Fleets, so as to completely eliminate this threat from the sea in the future.
However, Army Group South started the "Barbarossa" plan with that little plane, and the first wave began to rush into the air, and the use of the air force was already at the limit.
Guderian still gritted his teeth and asked Catherine to transfer 120 planes to carry out bombing missions, Guderian did not dare to say that he could deal a devastating blow to the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, at least inflict heavy losses on the Black Sea Fleet, and at the same time expel the Black Sea Fleet participating ships from the port of Odessa.
In this way, when Guderian's ground forces attacked Odessa, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet could not use naval guns to support the ground defenders.
You must know that the caliber of naval guns is relatively large, and if a 203-mm naval gun falls on a tank about ten meters, the tank will become scrap metal, and there is no possibility of repair, which is why Guderian gritted his teeth and dispatched planes to bomb the Black Sea Fleet.
The main surface ships of the Black Sea Fleet are 1 battleship Paris Commune, 3 heavy cruisers Red Caucasus, Voroshilov, Molotov, 2 light cruisers Red Crimea, Red Ukraine, 3 destroyer lead ships, 11 new destroyers, 4 old destroyers, 44 submarines, 2 gunboats/escort ships, 18 minesweepers and 84 torpedo boats.
The Soviet Black Sea Fleet protected Soviet foreign trade, and the share of trade in the ports of Odessa accounted for 50% of the Soviet Union's foreign trade, which shows the importance of Odessa and the Black Sea Fleet to the Soviet Union.
"Captain Smith, your squadron is attacking the heavy cruiser on the lower left, it seems to be the Red Ukraine."
"Understood."
After Smith received the order from the commander of the formation, he began to line up in a long snake formation, because JU87 is a dive bomber, and it is best to bomb a moving target like a warship, it is best to dive bomb one by one, Captain Smith's squadron has a total of 12 aircraft, and even if the Soviet heavy cruiser has enough anti-aircraft artillery, it is impossible to shoot down all the JU87s, as long as a 500-kilogram aerial bomb hits the target, it is enough to seriously injure the Red Ukraine.
"Adjust the course and enter the bombing route from the tail of the Red Ukraine."
"Understood."
"Bang bang...... Bang bang ......" (To be continued.) )