For the first time in history, the Airborne Forces landed in front of the enemy and defeated them with supplies and support from the air......

Hitler sent the paratroopers into the cold palace, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the SS with three formed paratroopers, and Zhang Jun cursed the damned Wehrmacht grandsons in his office, and at the same time worked on a new parachute operation plan, targeting the island of Malta.

The strategic location of this Malta Island is also very important, as long as Germany occupies the island of Malta, and then uses the airport above, and arranges some planes on it, it can cut off the Mediterranean route between Britain and France, and the various strategic materials plundered by Britain and France from the Middle East and Southeast Asia will not want to be transported back to Britain from the Mediterranean, and must make a detour of more than 10,000 nautical miles to return to Britain, which is a huge disaster for Britain.

Germany's occupation of the island of Malta has another stealth strategic advantage, that is, between Italy and North Africa, a route will be established that can be protected by the air force at any time, even if Germany does not have a single warship in the Mediterranean, and is not very afraid of the British and French fleets, Germany only needs to transport dozens of submarines to deal with the British and French submarines. Historically, Rommel was in North Africa because of the lack of adequate supplies, which led to failure. Now, if Zhang Jun can take the island of Malta, the history of North Africa must be rewritten.

Don't underestimate the North African front, at this time, Crete, Malta, and the first line formed a sharp sword through the Mediterranean, straight into the Mediterranean lifeline of the British army. The supplies needed by the North African Corps will continue to be sent to Africa, and then directly threaten Egypt and West Asia from the sea, and at the same time, the offensive of the North African Corps can easily drive the British army out of the Mediterranean. Pro-German forces in Turkey and Syria and Iraq in West Asia would smoothly come to power and break away from British control. Taking advantage of this advantage, it would be easy to defeat the remnants of the British army in West Asia, and thus Germany's broad southern flank, from the Persian Gulf to the North Atlantic, would be once and for all.

Even if an operation against the Soviet Union was launched, it could echo the offensive of Army Group A from the Caucasus and flank the Soviet army from the north and south. In addition, the two sea transportation routes from the Bosphoru Strait, the Dardane Strait to the Black Sea, and from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea by land were also important sea communication lines for the Soviet Union, and they were also important lifelines for the Soviet Union to accept supplies from the allies in the future war against the Soviet Union.

In addition, Germany has other strategic options, after taking Egypt, take the Suez Canal, so that the Mediterranean Sea can be completely turned into the European Union's inland sea, and the Middle East, which was colonized by Britain and France, will be completely exposed to the German steel torrent.

That is the strategy in the future, taking advantage of the fact that there are two months now, Zhang Jun must let the SS paratroopers attack again, and take the island of Malta 810 kilometers away from Crete in one fell swoop, this distance has exceeded the combat radius of many Junkers transport planes, such as the "Junkers Aunt - IU52" The longest range is only 1250 kilometers, and the combat radius is only more than 600 kilometers. In this way, these transport planes can play a role, and the short legs of German planes are a fatal weakness!! Fortunately, Zhang Jun bought 300 B-29s in advance, which made the United States, which sold these planes to Germany, regret it, but there is no regret in the world to sell them. The willingness of the capitalists to sell the rope that hangs themselves is a huge strategic blunder caused by the greedy nature of the capitalists.

Zhang Jun also has no choice, Hitler has already stated that he will not use paratroopers on a large scale, but Zhang Jun has to hand in a campaign plan for the large-scale use of paratroopers at this time, if it is replaced by someone else, most of them will let Hitler go to the end, of course, Hitler will not do this to Zhang Jun, but he is not happy but sure, you are not slapping the face of the great Führer. However, for the sake of Germany's future strategy, Zhang Jun must carry out this plan. Hitler, if he wants to be angry, be angry. Zhang Jun still had no choice but to hand over the parachute plan to Hitler.

Zhang Jun's plan was written in great detail, and he made it very clear why Germany wanted to occupy the island of Malta, and Hitler knew the strategic advantage that Germany had gained by occupying the island of Malta. Zhang Jun's previous campaign plan was usually approved in one day, but this time Zhang Jun waited for five days, and Hitler finally approved Zhang Jun's parachute plan.

On January 22, 1940, Zhang Jun was approved by Hitler to carry out the parachute plan, and Zhang Jun waited for Hitler's approval for several days, and was not idle, trying his best to collect relevant information about the island of Malta.

The island of Malta was originally garrisoned by a British infantry division, but the British army in Crete, the Greek and New Zealand troops, all retreated to the island of Malta, and now the island has nearly 50,000 troops, the British and French air forces have three flight groups, 80 "Spitfire" fighters that Britain has recently produced, a kind of piston aircraft comparable to the BF109, and 40 bombers, a fully staffed aviation regiment, and the British urgently transported about 20,000 tons of various strategic materials to the island of Malta. As for the British Mediterranean fleet, it can't help much except transportation, and Zhang Jun doesn't fight a naval war with them, and Germany doesn't have naval strength in the Mediterranean, as for the Italian navy, it looks strong, and it has been beaten by the British fleet several times, and it can't help Zhang Jun.

After Zhang Jun analyzed the British army, he began to take stock of the strength in his hands, Zhang Jun could use only three paratrooper divisions, and the planes themselves had an air force, but these planes were all short-legged planes, and after flying to the island of Malta, they did not stop at all, and they could not fly back, and even the German heavy fighter BF110 could not support the island of Malta. It seems that the only way to do this is to ask the Wehrmacht for help.

Zhang Jun discussed the battle, how could it be that Rommel was missing? The two men began to have a heated discussion in front of a huge sand table:

"Commander, we have three paratrooper divisions, they are all light weapons and light artillery, these 30,000 people, without the support of the armored division, if they take the liberty of parachuting, there is no chance to retreat, waiting for them can only be the annihilation of the whole army, if the commander you do not come up with a perfect plan, I will not agree to you to carry out this risky plan."

Rommel's bullish temper has come up, and it seems that Zhang Jun must come up with some "dry goods" to convince Rommel.

"Hehe, of course my deputy commander, we have been cooperating for so long, when did you see me arbitrarily, those three elite paratrooper divisions, I am not sure, dare to send them into the tiger's mouth?"

"Then please tell the commander about it."

"I plan it this way, the first step is to bomb the airfield on the island of Malta with ten B-29s, and their chicken coops will be smashed first, so that the British and French forces will completely lose the support of the air force, so that our paratroopers will not be afraid of the enemy's air threat.

In the second step, we will use 152 B-29 aircraft to parachute 152 No. 3 tanks, and then use 80 B-29s to transport one division of paratroopers and three base ammunition, so that we will have a paratrooper armored division, and the task of this paratrooper division is to occupy the airfield on the island.

Step 3: After waiting for the departure of this paratrooper armored division for 20 hours, our other transport planes will reduce their carrying capacity by one-third, add auxiliary fuel tanks, and carry the remaining two paratrooper divisions to be airborne at the paratrooper armored division point, and these two paratrooper divisions will need about 1,200 aircraft.

The third escort group, I plan to send an aviation regiment, a total of 164 Jian-6 fighters, our six masters have a range of 1,600 kilometers, after arriving on the island of Malta, we can continue to fight for 40 minutes, if we can occupy the enemy's airfield in 40 minutes, it is best to occupy it, and if we can't occupy it, we will make a forced landing at our parachute landing point, so the losses may be very large. In addition, we have 18 B-29 bombers that can be loaded with bombs to open the way for the paratrooper armor, as long as they dare to destroy all that stands in their way.

My deputy commander, my plan is like this, you think about it and see if it works. ”

"Hmmm......"

Rommel didn't speak after humming, but stared at the huge sand table and thought, of course Zhang Jun didn't bother Rommel, he made two cups of strong tea himself, and then brought Rommel a cup, and went to find a place to sit down and taste tea.

After a long time, Rommel finally spoke:

"Commander, your plan is feasible, this paratrooper armored division will be used for the first time in actual combat, I think we still need a few days to train those armored soldiers to carry out basic airborne landing, in addition, we can contact General Modell, ask them to immediately find out the defense map of Malta Island, if they can't get a defense map, at least we must know whether there is an ambush in these large flatlands on Malta Island, the paratroopers of the Wehrmacht suffered a big loss last time."

"Okay, my deputy commander, your suggestion is really good, I'll go and contact General Moder and ask him for help, as for the basic parachute training of the No. 3 tank and armored corps, I think it will take about five days, and these five hours will be enough for us to do all the other work."

Zhang Jun's plan to parachute to Malta Island is roughly finalized, and the rest is to actively make all kinds of preparations, the SS special password is the original book code, if you want to decipher Zhang Jun's code, you must get Zhang Jun's codebook, this code Zhang Jun also changes once a month, and there is absolutely no possibility of being deciphered.

Zhang Jun specially ordered a new type of parachute for his paratrooper division, this parachute is much better than the old-fashioned parachute, soldiers can carry a parachute with a personal weapon, do not need to parachute down with a parachute of the paratrooper and the person separately, the paratrooper is already particular about the sudden attack, after landing, but also to find the weapon airborne cabin, if a little accident happens, it is likely that the paratrooper does not even have a weapon, isn't this the biggest tragedy?

The special parachute of the No. 3 tank also needs to be specially produced, this must be large enough, strong enough, this is a tank of more than ten tons airborne, but these are not German parachute manufacturers, all parachutes, use all German parachute manufacturers, it will be over in a few days.

On the fourth day, Moder sent information about the island of Malta, the only airport in Malta, Lucca, 8 kilometres from Valletta...... (To be continued.) )