At the end of April 1938, after three weeks of continuous verbal artillery, the British Foreign Office finally officially declared war on Germany.

Subsequently, nearly half a million British troops mobilized in the past month began to advance towards France in batches, while troops mobilized from Canada and other Commonwealth countries began to move by ship to the British mainland.

The Fox estimates that by mid-May, there will be more than a million troops on British soil ready to go – not including the native defenders.

At this time, although the German army had been continuously expanding its armaments since late 1937, and when it was learned that the British army had begun to mobilize, Germany had also launched a mobilization mechanism accordingly, but by mid-May Lin Youde had about one million regular troops in his hands.

Lin Youde estimated that the British army could continue to mobilize troops from the colonies, and the British mobilized about 10 million troops in World War II in the last time and space, and the British colonies in this time and space were more than the previous time and space, so they should be able to mobilize more troops.

Therefore, once the British had a bridgehead on the coast, they could send a steady stream of troops ashore - unless Lin Youde had the means to cut off the British supply by sea.

Therefore, Lin Youde paid close attention to the movements of the British army, hoping to determine the combat intentions of the British army as soon as possible.

He ordered, to be precise, the German High Command to draw up two sets of battle plans, one in France, where the Germans would fight side by side with the Revolutionary Army against the combined front of the British and government forces, and the other in Germany itself.

The second plan envisaged a decisive battle with the British landing force in the area between Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover, and annihilated the British landing force in one fell swoop.

After thinking about it for a long time, Lin Youde decided to give up the idea of destroying the British army at sea, because at that time, the number of battle queens in the British fleet was too much, and the battle queens of the navy and the army battle queens of the landing force were on the ship, and the firepower was too fierce. The Luftwaffe will temporarily avoid the British fleet and allow the British to land, so that the British Army's warriors will have to face the German Army's Warriors, and because of the fleet's delivery capacity, the British Landing Force will definitely find that their Warriors are not enough, and the British Navy's Warriors will have to provide support to the Army.

It was then that the Luftwaffe would come out and strike at the British convoy at sea.

You know, the British Navy's aircraft carrier power in this time and space is worse than the previous time and space, due to the regrettable surprise attack of the American pilots on the Japanese fleet in the Pacific, the British admiral is extremely convinced that the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower and heavy armor are enough to deal with the "little mosquito", so until the moment of the official declaration of war, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier is still positioned as an auxiliary ship.

The Royal Navy's aircraft carriers are not only small in number, but also lacking in carrier-based aircraft performance, and it is absolutely impossible to be the opponent of the BF109, and although the British Home Air Force has begun to equip with new models, because of the large number of people in Britain who oppose Isabella's air force expansion policy, the speed of refitting is very slow.

More importantly, the planned theater of operations is more than 500 kilometers away from the British mainland, and it is impossible for the fighters deployed on the British mainland to come to the war.

Lin Youde is basically sure that the Luftwaffe will achieve fruitful results, after all, the main body of the Luffae Air Force is the elite of the Lufthansa Air Force, and Lin Youde has raised this air force for so many years, and finally raised results, and in six years, he has reserved four or five thousand shrewd and capable pilots with actual combat experience.

Of course, he didn't have that many planes for all these pilots to go to the sky, so he followed the example of the U.S. Air Force in another time and space, established a shift system, divided the pilots into three different batches, stipulated that each group would perform a certain number of combat flights, then change down to rest, and train new pilots as instructors.

At the same time, Lin Youde also broke up the pilots of the Lufthansa who were not as experienced as the Lufthansa in the original Luftwaffe and mixed them with the old birds of Lufthansa.

By the end of April 1938, the Luftwaffe was armed with 760 BF109 fighters, more than the rest of Europe combined, 910 lightning dive bombers, and 330 new Junkers 2 tactical bombers. After counting the transport planes, the entire Luftwaffe has 3,100 aircraft, and basically as long as you don't count the US imperialism, which is trying to produce planes in order to offset the disadvantages of the war queen and the god queen, the entire earth is the boss of the Luftwaffe.

After the wartime system order was issued, all of Lin Youde's factories were working overtime to build new aircraft, and the monthly output of aircraft was as high as 300.

While the German Army High Command was busy formulating a plan for a decisive land battle according to Lin Youde's instructions, Lin Youde moved his temporary headquarters to Hanover and personally commanded the air force to prepare for war.

He divided the air force units scheduled to participate in the war into three air groups, delivered different tasks, the 11th air force deployed in Hanover is mainly based on fighters, because according to the previous local wars in the combat situation, Lin Youde's BF109 is different from the BF109 of the German in the last time and space, this type of fighter has a very good ground attack capability, after studying for a long time, Lin Youde feels that this is probably because the engine he gave BF109 in this time and space is better, It combines the ingenuity of engine engineers from Britain, France and Germany. Lin Youde's version of the BF109 has a larger take-off weight, can carry more rockets and bombs, and can also hang a 30mm gun pod to enhance firepower.

The lightning twin-engine engine, which was originally used as a dive bomber, also had better performance after being replaced with an improved engine, and could even carry an 850-kilogram bomb.

Lin Youde was very optimistic about the effect of this bomb on ships, so he assigned most of the dive bombers to the other two air groups.

The 9th Air Force was placed in the Netherlands by Lin Youde with Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands to provide cover, while the 51st Air Force was located on Jutland, and he asked Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to cover it.

Lin Youde judged that Britain was unlikely to take the initiative to attack the two German allies, even if they followed Germany in declaring war on Britain.

On the one hand, it is impossible for Britain to disperse its forces in such a way, it does not have an absolute superiority in forces, and dividing its forces is tantamount to seeking death; on the other hand, if Britain attacks the Netherlands or Denmark, they will be morally untenable, and after the war, these German "little partners" may fall to Russia.

As for the numbers of the three air teams, this was purely done by Lin Youde, in order to confuse the British - even if they failed to confuse the British, it didn't matter, anyway, it would not take much effort to come up with a number.

In addition to these three air groups, Lin Youde also concentrated tactical bombers and established a special bomber air force, also based in the Netherlands, which would take off from the Netherlands to bomb ports and industrial facilities on the British mainland. Of course, if they take off from the Netherlands, these air groups must carry out attack missions without fighter cover, but considering that the British Air Force is still generally equipped with biplanes at this time, Lin Youde's Junkers 2 fast bomber should still have a good survival rate. After all, Britain's main fighters can basically only run more than 300 kilometers, and 400 kilometers can reach the sky, while Lin Youde's twin-engine fast bomber can run 440 kilometers.

Lin Youde's preparations for war proceeded in an orderly manner, and as time went on, he became more and more convinced that the British would land on the North Sea coast.

The intelligence gathered by the Eye of Odin seems to prove this, although the British army is increasing its forces in France, but the pace of the increase has always been slow.

In June 1938, the fox reported to Lin Youde that her "mole" (i.e., the enemy insiders who had rebelled) reported that more than half of the British freighters bound for France in recent weeks had been empty, and that more than half of the British numbers in France had been empty.

At this point, Lin Youde was basically certain that the British would carry out a landing operation in northern Germany.

Lin Youde ordered the evacuation of the factories in Hamburg and Bremen, and at the same time moved women and children to German cities near Austria, and all the industrial workers, except those with special skills who could not leave their jobs, were integrated into the Red Guards to prepare for the defense of Hamburg.

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While Lin Youde was preparing for the war, the British side was also repeatedly considering its own plan.

On June 4, 1938, Isabella convened a wartime cabinet meeting in her office.

"Your Majesty, the forecast given to us by the Meteorological Observatory indicates that the weather and tides for the coming week are most suitable for carrying out landing operations." Winston Churchill looked at Isabella, "After letting this opportunity go, we will have to wait for ten days before waiting for the right tide, but then there may not be as good weather as it is now." ”

Isabella looked at the map that drew the entire plan for the first phase of the landing and did not reply to Churchill.

"......Your Majesty," Churchill persuaded again.

This time he was interrupted by Isabella: "I know, I know. But is that really good? Wouldn't it be too risky? We're going to have to send hundreds of thousands of troops to the beach hundreds of kilometers away, and we've never done anything like that before. And Lin Youde has clearly sensed our intentions, and my spy said that he is evacuating factories in Hamburg and other cities......"

Then Churchill interrupted Isabella in turn: "Your Majesty, we have an absolute advantage in the number of war queens, even if the Germans can be sure that we will land on the North Sea coast, they do not know where we will attack, they must distribute the war queen troops evenly in all parts of the battlefield." We're going to use the overwhelmingly dominant Senki to raid our target, Bremerhaven, and the infantry boys just have to wait for the ship to dock and leisurely step off the gangplank after the Senji has completely taken control of the harbor. ”

Isabella looked at the map, and then the intelligence chief said, "From the indications we have, the Germans really don't have information about where we are going to land." ”

Only then did Isabella take a deep breath.

"Okay, now that we've decided, let's just let it go. D-DAY was chosen on June 9, and it was set. ”