Mr. Lin's inspection lasted until mid-February.

He scoured almost all the German units deployed in Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France, and found quite a few problems, and in some places he stayed for more than three days in order to get them all done.

While Lin Youde was busy inspecting, the war was also developing rapidly.

The Luftwaffe extended mine-laying operations to almost all British ports, and although the British Navy's mine-sweeping operations were relatively smooth after the withdrawal of Oh-chan from the sea, the sharks, jellyfish, and other seafood roaming the British coast still had a serious impact on the British Navy's mine-sweeping efficiency.

In early February, after several days of reconnaissance, the Luftwaffe decided that the British Air Force's fighter replenishment could no longer keep up with the battle damage, so it transferred some tactical bombers to deliver false mines and old anchor mines to the British coast. This, in turn, further slowed down British minesweeping.

The Luftwaffe also used a pilot version of the acoustic homing torpedo to attack cargo ships that were anchored underground off the coast of Britain to carry cargo to small boats.

Although half of the dropped torpedoes did not work smoothly due to mechanical problems with the angle and speed of the water guide, the remaining half still hit three large cargo ships that hurriedly cut the anchor cable and began to maneuver to avoid the German planes when they saw them.

On the contrary, the ships that could not start immediately because of the old machine did not make a sound and avoided the acoustic torpedo attack.

Although the British Naval Technical Committee did not understand the principle of German torpedo operation, they immediately summed up the experience of German torpedoes only attacking ships with the main engine in motion, and this experience was immediately popularized - when they saw German twin-engine tactical bombers flying towards ships, they immediately stopped.

The day after this experience was sent to the ships, two 6,000-ton transport ships were saved.

Two days later, the British spotted the appearance of German twin-engine tactical bombers and dive bombers in pairs.

While the Royal Navy and the Luftwaffe were fighting, the French Navy's submarine forces were also ordered to carry out sabotage missions. However, the French still followed the principle of "limited submarine warfare" in the last war, and when attacking merchant ships, they would first surface to confirm the nationality of merchant ships and give time for merchant marines to retreat from their ships.

The submarine warfare of the French, rightfully for granted, did not achieve much results.

But the submarines of the British returned the color to the French.

At the beginning of February, the British submarine sank the Richelieu, the flagship of the French fleet, and Lin Youde, the direct guide, had to abandon the plan of using the combined fleet of Italy and France to fight a decisive battle with the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy, and then land on the British mainland - the Italian Veneto is still slowly building, and the construction speed is basically the same as that of another world, although the French Richelieu class is being built much faster than the other world, but now only Richelieu has formed combat effectiveness, The only remaining ships of the French Navy were the newer Dunkirk-class battlecruisers, which were okay for mobile combat, and they were a little powerless to fight against the British Grand Fleet; With the exception of the Dunkirk class, the rest of the French Navy are old ships that fought in the last war.

If there is Richelieu, because the British Navy is now only left with old ships, relying on the support of the air force, it can still fight with the British.

Lin Youde was silent for a long time after learning the news of Richelieu's sinking on the train.

Correspondingly, Winston Churchill slept soundly after learning that Richelieu had been sunk.

But the situation is still precarious, and the fact that the people are still hungry has not changed, even though the winter has reduced the demand for coal sharply, and the fact that the people are still starving. In addition, Britain's domestic demand for iron ore has long been unable to keep up, and there is no shortage of all resources, Churchill's cabinet discussed for a long time, and basically believed that Lin Youde gritted his teeth and landed even if the Royal Navy sent half of the German troops into the sea, Britain would be finished, but no one said anything.

Churchill gambled his hope that Lin Youde would not waste the lives of his soldiers.

At this time, Lin Youde was really hesitating, not knowing whether to stand up to the casualties.

It's not that Lin Youde particularly cherishes the lives of his soldiers, he is worried that the rest of the soldiers will not be able to stop the Russian stabbing over. In Lin Youde's current conception, it is almost inevitable to exchange the soldier's life for the spiritual power of the Russian warrior and even the god, even if Isabella and Oh-chan are stuffed into the magic armor to fight, Russia still has the strength to divide the god's queen to attack the conventional troops, and then it can only be exchanged with the soldier's life.

However, also in February, there was good news from Poland, the Polish government finally agreed to NERV to establish the branch to the company level of the Polish army, and the Polish branch has sent the first batch of capable personnel to join the Polish army.

While Lin Youde was actively preparing for war, Russia was also preparing.

As a British ally, Russia was much more nourished than the British, the Russians completed the connection between the Trans-Siberian Railway and the railway system of the three eastern provinces they occupied, and the Americans' supplies were directly unloaded in Dalian Lushun, and then transported into Russia through the Guò Railway, which strongly supported Russia's production and war preparedness.

According to the information held by the fox, the Russians received the first-generation American tank made by the Americans from the United States, and the fox's intelligence officers did not get the drawings and technical parameters of the tank, but they took photos of the tank hoisting it on a freighter in the United States. Judging from the photos, the American tank is an imitation of Lin Youde's work, and the appearance is very similar, the only difference is the suspension system. The Americans' tanks used suspension similar to those of the Sherman tank from another time and space, with three T-shaped suspension beams each connected to two small wheels, instead of the five large single-row load-bearing wheels that Lin had specified for the German engineers.

If you don't look at the suspension, the two cars are almost identical, and Lin Youde can already foresee that there will be countless oolong incidents on the battlefield in the future due to identification problems.

The fact that the Soviet Union also had armored corps made the German high command very worried, but the commander of the armored corps, Heinz, believed that the Soviet armored corps had no combat experience, and the commanders lacked the tactical thinking to use the armored corps.

And Lin Youde was calm about this, after all, he had long expected such a thing as encountering armored soldiers of other countries on the battlefield - this was not difficult to predict. Lin Youde had already prepared for the German infantry and armored hunters to equip them with anti-armor artillery, and the Germans were equipped with a large number of iron fist rocket launchers to provide reliable infantry anti-armor firepower.

Compared with the enhancement of the Russian Army, the enhancement of the Russian Air Force is not so obvious, the Americans have provided many fighters to the Russian army, but the level of the US military's own fighters is not as good as that of the Luftwaffe, and the new model is still under development, and what is provided to Russia is the fighter planes now used by the US Army Aviation -- judging from the appearance, Lin Youde remembers the P36 in another time and space.

Although the Luftwaffe 109 has the same name as a famous aircraft in another time and space, the content is not the same - the power of the engine alone is a little larger. When I was in Turkey, the international column air force had already driven these different versions of the 109 to beat the Russian army's I-16 and other models, after the end of the Turkish war, the 109 has developed two models, one is the F type after replacing the higher power engine, and at the end of 38, the Messerschmitt factory changed the F2 type according to the Air Force use report, and now all the F2 models are provided to the Luftwaffe. If the performance of the P36 provided by the Americans to Russia is similar to that of the previous time and space, then Lin Youde is very sure that the fate of these fighters in front of the Luftwaffe will not be any different from that of the Russians' Yi-16.

The news of the P36 from the United States was accompanied by the news that the Americans had transferred a license to Russia for the production of air-cooled engines. Fox intelligence analysts believe that these engines have been equipped with the newly acquired Il-series aircraft of the Russian army.

In addition, the Russians seem to have improved their Warriors' Magic Armor, allowing them to abandon the 107 or 122 guns for a smaller but quicker 50 mm or 75 mm gun.

Lin Youde was worried that this change would be detrimental to his armored forces, until the Fox spies stole some of the firing gunpowder used by the Russian 75 guns. Lin Youde immediately organized personnel to evaluate the gunpowder and found that the performance of the Russian projectile was worse than that of the German artillery, so it was judged that the penetration of the Russian 75 gun was likely to be inferior to the German 75 gun.

Compared to these "big" improvements, the Russians' improvements in individual weapons are not particularly noticeable. The Russians did not extensively equip their infantry units with automatic weapons - after all, they did not know exactly what had happened to the British in Germany. The Russians also did not equip the infantry units with automobiles in large quantities as Lin Youde, which of course may have something to do with the fact that the United States did not enter wartime production and therefore did not have enough car production capacity. In this time and space, Russia's own industrial power is far less than that of the Soviet Union in another time and space, and the American father cannot build much for themselves, so he can only give priority to meeting the needs of the number of trucks used to transport materials.

All in all, with the intervention of the Americans, the Russian army that Lin Youde faced was very different from the Russian army he had dealt with in Turkey.

In mid-February, Lin Youde looked out over the Calais Strait in Calais for a long time, and finally gave up the risk of landing in Britain and decided to devote the troops deployed on the coastline to the upcoming war on the Eastern Front.

He then took a special plane back to Potsdam, by which time the signs of the Russian offensive were already very obvious.

On March 1, 1939, the fox received an urgent report that Iron Ji and her entire command structure had left St. Petersburg for Minsk, closer to the Polish border.

After getting the news, Lin Youde knew that the offensive would start within a week.

He was a little glad that he hadn't decided to attack Britain in February.