For the first time in his life, Churchill hated the fact that there were two things in the world, radio broadcasting and radio, and he wanted to pick up a chair and smash it when he looked at the abominable sound of the transistor radio imported from Germany, but he had to listen to it.

While Churchill was listening to the radio, the British battalion in the Narvik area was being bombed by German night bombers. The German attack on Narvik began at daylight that day.

Before the start of the war on 24 February, the British and Germans occupied the vicinity of Narvik on the one hand, and the port of Trondheim in central Norway on the other, and the two sides faced each other from an inaccessible area of several hundred kilometers. Northern Norway is mountainous and snowy, and there is only one coastal road that leads to the north and south, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The best way to take Narvik from the south to the north is to attack by sea through Guò.

For the British troops stationed in Narvik, their greatest weakness was their isolation from other countries. If the British Navy can guarantee the sea supremacy in the Norwegian Sea, they can rely on the advantages of the terrain on their home ground and the harsh local climate to prevent the German army from attacking north for a long time. But once the navy lost the battle in the Norwegian Sea and lost its sea supremacy, the British troops stationed in Narvik became rootless trees and water without a source, and it was only a matter of time before they were completely wiped out by the Germans.

Just after 10 o'clock on 24 February, the bombing by German planes ended. This once peaceful northern port city is now filled with smoke and flames. The German planes that came were twenty-four Ju88 bombers and twenty escort BF11O night fighters, which dropped a large number of incendiary petrol bombs. In Narvik, near the Arctic Circle, almost all of the local houses were made of wood, and the purpose of the German bombing was mainly to destroy the local houses to avoid being used by the defenders. In addition, the airfield of the British was also bombed.

"Damn Germans, and the damn weather here."

Standing next to a wooden house burned down by a flaming bow sheet dropped by a German plane. Looking at the wooden house that was crumbling in the flames, Lieutenant Jock kicked the leather boots on his feet hard.

Affected by the warm North Atlantic current, Narvik, near the Arctic Circle, does not experience low temperatures in winter, but it is usually around minus seven to eight degrees. But the most annoying thing here is the rain and snow, which is very heavy every year from November to April of the following year. Everywhere there was a white expanse. Living in a tented wilderness without a house is definitely not a comfortable thing. The weather in Britain was bad enough, but the weather in Northern Europe was even worse, and Lieutenant Jock had been feeling sick since he was dropped off by the Navy for more than a month.

Lieutenant Jock was the commander of the garrison company protecting the radar station. It was also one of the two radar stations of the British army in Narvik. However, one of the radars was blown up during the daytime German aircraft attack, and now this radar is the only one in the British army. From the Battle of Norway to the Battle of Bergen, the Royal Navy suffered enough from its opponents in radar technology. Today, the new radar in the United Kingdom is excellent for naval and home defense. It is very rare for the Norwegian Overseas Legion to get one.

He was originally a resident of this wooden house, and after the British army landed 6 Narvik, they conquered the house from the locals, and then built a radar station nearby. The targets of German air strikes, in addition to houses, radar stations were equally focused. However, the night attack was very ineffective, and the nearest bomber was as far away from the target as high as 600 meters. Instead, he burned his dwelling to the ground.

"What's the use of us here protecting you? The Germans came to bomb and you can't see anything! ”

Lieutenant Jock looked at the huge radar cover that had been erected not far away. He spat vigorously on his lips. This radar tree has been here for more than ten days, during which time there have been several waves of German night reconnaissance planes taking off from the direction of Oss 6 or Bergen from the south, and then under its guidance, several batches of night fighters have taken off from nearby airfields to intercept them, but each time nothing has been found, mainly because after each air force takeoff. Before they could get close to the target, the German reconnaissance plane on the opposite side retreated one step ahead of time as if they had smelled something. So the Royal Air Force's night fighter unit missed.

In the past days, apart from sending reconnaissance planes at night and circling around Narvik before leaving, the Germans did not have any serious attacks. This state of "peace" has been maintained until today's daytime.

Then, during the day, the sky had just dawned, and a large number of German battles flew over Narvik, and the first to be attacked were several airfields built by the British army in the area.

Just as during the surprise attack on Oss 6, the British planes used the tactic of flying close to the sea to avoid the German radar search, and the Germans also used the same means to bomb Narvik this time.

The bombing was a success. The Royal Air Force deployed sixty Hurricane fighters and more than fifty-six other types of attack aircraft or bombardment aircraft in the Narvik region. After this bombing, more than 30 fighters and more than 40 bombers were directly destroyed on the ground, and later killed the German fighter group over Narvik, and in the air battle, 11 Hurricane fighters were killed, and the air power of the Royal Air Force in the Narvik region suffered heavy losses in one day.

In the process, the two radar stations with high hopes did little to no avail, and they were suddenly and inexplicably interfered with at a critical moment, and hundreds or thousands of signal jamming sources appeared on the surveillance screen at the same time, a strange situation similar to what happened to the Navy during the Battle of Bergen.

Then, in the following short day, the British 6th Army, which lost Narvik's air supremacy, was repeatedly bombed by German planes from the south. The Narvik region is mountainous and wooded, and when the soldiers take refuge in the mountains and forests, it is a good place to escape from air raids, and the loss of personnel is not large. However, if they couldn't hide, the materials and equipment placed on the ground fell into bad luck together, and a large number of them were destroyed in the air raid.

And in the afternoon of the same day, the attack from the Norwegian sea also began. Rumor has passed through the German fleet that Bergen is heading north, dispatching a large number of carrier-based aircraft, and bombing Narvik before dark. Lieutenant Jock received information from the "blind" radar soldiers: on this day alone, the number of German planes flying over Narvik exceeded 600.

Six hundred sorties, Lieutenant Jock didn't know how these "blind" radar soldiers got this number. He had guessed badly that these useless bastards were probably just like the rice buckets of the Navy and Air Force, and all that was left was the skill of wrenching the hand.

Taking advantage of the embers of the flaming bow sheet dropped by the Germans, Lieutenant Jock roasted his body and then walked to the makeshift tent that was still far away, ready to get some hot coffee and a refreshing drink.

Although the Germans did not launch a large-scale ground offensive against Narvik a few days ago, the ground reconnaissance and infiltration of small units never stopped. The most troubling thing is that the relationship between the Swedes and the Germans in the immediate vicinity of Norway is also unclear, and they are called neutral countries, but in January, the border of Guò was opened, and a large number of "German tourists" with "tourist passports" entered the Narvik region from the border.

What could be the so-called German tourists crossing the border on "tourist passports" on this icy February day, at this time of war? Thinking about it with his ass, Lieutenant Jock could also guess that they must be German scouts on reconnaissance and sabotage missions. (Note: During the Battle of Narvik, the Swedes went even further than the book suggests, allowing 1,500 German soldiers to enter Narvik through Sweden in the name of "humanitarian rescuers".) It was not until the British repeatedly protested that the border was closed) The success and precision of the German air raids was entirely due to the fact that Lieutenant Jock had infiltrated from Sweden with all the credit of these German scouts who had infiltrated from Sweden.

The radar station he was responsible for guarding was a thorn in the side of the Germans, although he was already "blind", and neither Lieutenant Jock nor his superiors dared to be negligent in this extraordinary period. In order to protect the radar station, the middle level sent a reinforced company to protect the station, and even placed a Mathilde I tank and two Bren machine gun vehicles in the vicinity to help.

Thinking of coffee, Lieutenant Jock, a junior officer, couldn't help but despair at the prospect of war. Britain's domestic supplies were becoming increasingly tight, and even he, an officer on the front line, began to have a limited supply of coffee. In an exchange with a small number of sailors who had gone ashore to rest, Lieutenant Jock showed that after the Battle of Bergen, the Royal Navy, which had suffered heavy losses, had even lost confidence in defeating its opponents.

"This damn war, this damned Labour traitor, and that damn Chamberlain!"

Like most Britons, Lieutenant Jock put the blame for this qiē on the hapless Chamberlain, cursing him from time to time.

"Boom, boom!"

The dull sound of shelling came from a distance, and Lieutenant Jock instinctively turned his head in the direction from which the sound came from, now from the direction of the Strait, and he also saw the flash of the explosion that pierced the night.

"Such a bright flash, such a loud sound, could it be the main guns of those two demon warships?"

To enter the depths of the port of Narvik, one had to pass through an extremely narrow and shallow waterway, which was not able to accommodate large warships due to the lack of depth. After the British occupied the port of Narvik, they took control of the old forts on both sides of the river. But now the situation there was as Jock had guessed, and the batteries were under heavy bombardment from German battleships.

Within a few hours of throwing white gloves at the British on the Tongguò radio station, the German navy had reached the waters off Narvik with great vigour, announcing the beginning of a "new duel" to the British with heavy artillery bombardment. (To be continued!)

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