Just an hour after the Monet Dam was heavily damaged, two other targets were also destroyed, and judging from the results, Huaxia and Britain did better in this plane! At least one more dam was blown up. However, unlike in history, this heroic unit that carried out the punitive operation was attacked by German night fighters in a frenzy! In the end, only four of the 12 Huaxia Yunlong heavy bombers involved in the bombing returned, and when they landed, two of them were forced to scrap. And the remaining crew on 4 planes is only 16 people! As for the 18 Mosquito graded by the British to escort them, only 2 came back in the end, and the Germans' crazy attack like a bloody piranha overwhelmed the Mosquito planes, which had an advantage in speed, and under the ambush of ground anti-aircraft artillery and the encirclement and interception of a large number of night combat aircraft, many Mosquito planes hated the spot!

"They only took off with a third of the fuel at most! Just to catch us! It's crazy! "A British pilot exclaimed in the channel after seeing the German HE219 fighter kill a Mosquito plane at unimaginable speed! And then this Owl night fighter plane also lost control because of the high dive speed! This life-for-life style of play made the British who participated in this operation feel a burst of fear!

The result of the battle was still very successful, hundreds of square kilometers of industrial areas were flooded by the rolling river water, but because the upper part of the dam was blasted in Huaxia this time, the total amount of river water discharged was very large, but the speed was not very fast, and the casualties caused were smaller than in history. But the damage to the industrial area was far greater than what the British had done in history, the generating units of the three dams were completely destroyed, and the violent explosion caused serious damage to the entire interior of the dam. The rift is wider, and it is difficult to recover. Looking down from the sky. The whole dam felt like a piece had been gnawed off. And the downstream has become an ocean.

The plan of the British succeeded, they succeeded from stinging the Germans. It made the Germans realize that war is not a one-way slaughter. When the Germans dropped bombs on the British cities, the British would also treat them in the same way! When the Kaiser received the news, there was a terrible silence in the hall.

"We are going to completely destroy the country of Britain, and the Air Force must destroy it at all costs! Bring in the air forces from other places, and we will continue to expand the strike area! "The angry Kaiser did not lose his mind, and in the end he did not speak out in public about the use of poison gas bombs, or did the actions of the British warn the Germans? Anyway, the Kaiser's order limited the war to conventional means!

"In addition, I hope that the Air Force will take up your responsibilities in earnest. I have given more than 45% of the share of military spending to the Air Force, your task is not only to drop bombs on the heads of the other side, but also to prevent the other side from dropping bombs on German soil, the territorial defense system that you have built up with a third of the Air Force budget has not worked as well as it should, Richthofen, you have only two choices, first, to hold up a large umbrella over the Reich in two weeks sufficient to defend against all attacks, and second. Choose to resign! I will never allow this to happen again! "At the end of the meeting, in the face of all the high echelons of the Reich, the Kaiser spoke for the first time that the Red Baron was ready to resign. This shock is not small!

"Marshal, you don't seem to care much about the Kaiser's words?" After the meeting. Kesselring looked at the breezy red baron with some confusion, the other party's composure was really a little unexpected for him, facing the anger of the Kaiser. The Red Baron didn't seem to worry about himself at all.

"We have reached the end, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the means have been exhausted. Since you are powerless to change this fact, what's the use of you being in a hurry? The red baron looked at his most trusted subordinate with a somewhat complicated look. You, as a front-line commander, should know this best. Our fleet throughout Europe is already operating at full capacity, and in almost a month of fighting we have lost more than 5,900 aircraft of all kinds, and only 5,000 additional aircraft, although the net decline rate is not large, but unfortunately this is only on paper, we have lost 5,000 skilled crews. The newcomers are all rookies, and the combat effectiveness will inevitably decline, and the British obviously have no intention of giving in, a quick victory is no longer possible, and the next thing is a long war of attrition! ”

"What if we transfer a fleet of aviation from the Middle East and North Africa? Especially in the two river basins, we still have a great advantage, and the power of the United States and Britain in the Middle East and South Asia is very fragile. Kesselring thought for a moment and said.

"Remember! Don't mention this suggestion again, whoever dares to make this suggestion will die without a place to be buried! The aviation forces of the Middle East and Transcaucasia are dead and alive! Unless the land forces of the Entente have reached Berlin! Our aviation power in both places must be guaranteed! There are fuel depots for the entire empire! There must be no room for error! The Red Baron said in an unusually stern tone. Don't be fooled by the superficial phenomenon, no matter how strong the air defense forces of these two regions are, they will not look back, because here they will directly face the blow of the local aviation forces of China! ”

As the leader of the Luftwaffe, the Red Baron has always had a very correct strategic outlook, and he is clearly aware of the various threats faced by the Allied bloc, and with the declaration of war in China, the strategic environment of the Allied countries has become unprecedentedly bad, even worse than at the beginning of the war! The two most important fuel producing areas of the Central Powers are almost at the doorstep of Huaxia, and the reason why the other side does not launch an attack is not because it is incapable, but because it is waiting for Germany to transfer the forces originally used to defend Huaxia to other places! The Red Baron believes that the air power that China can use is definitely no less than that of the Germans, and even if China does not trigger it, the air defense pressure in the entire Middle East and Transcaucasia will definitely be the greatest! Therefore, these forces cannot be used to kill, even if the Kaiser threatens to dismiss him!

"In that case, it's really hard for us to put more pressure on the UK, and a war of attrition is not a good thing." Kesselring said with a grim face. In fact, he didn't say the latter sentence, that is, he was no longer optimistic about the outcome of this battle, according to the current deduction, the Luftwaffe offensive was close to its peak. Neither the combat load of front-line aviation units nor the speed of replenishment in the rear will not increase significantly in a short time.

And the first-line air force of the British, although it was also at full capacity, with the revival of the aviation industry that had migrated to the north. The British's replenishment capability will be greatly improved, and the Luftwaffe will not be able to maintain its peak condition all the time. The front-line combat forces will gradually shrink. And China and the United States will not sit idly by and watch the fall of Britain, if the North Atlantic route is reopened, then the situation will be too bad!

"Got it?" Richthofen looked at his subordinates, who were about to speak. "I figured it out, but there was no way to solve it, the only hope was up to the navy, if they could guarantee a blockade of the British, then we still have hope of victory. Although this hope is not great, it is a hope after all, if the navy is defeated. Even if it were just a draw, I would ask the Kaiser to stop the Battle of Britain immediately! ”

As the Red Baron said, after the meeting, the Kaiser summoned Count Spee to discuss naval combat operations with his spies, and German intelligence was keeping an eye on the situation on the east coast of the United States, and the Chinese and American fleets had been assembled and had spent several weeks preparing and coordinating. Sooner or later, they will have to act. And the final actions of the Navy were too passive in the eyes of the Kaiser! He hoped that the German Navy would adopt a more proactive strategy, such as minelaying British and Irish ports under the cover of the main force, or more boldly launching the Icelandic campaign to uproot this important node of the Entente in one fell swoop.

And for the order of the Kaiser. Count Spee disagreed, and it was not uncommon for the Germans to carry out a large-scale offensive against mines, but under the double blow of the complex underwater situation near the sea and the defensive mines of the British. There weren't many mines, but a few submarines sank. As for the attack on Iceland. That's even more impossible, let's not talk about anything else. Just gathering the transport ships needed to land is a big project, and it is estimated that before the ships are found, the Allied fleet will be killed!

Of course, in order to prevent the British from doing another punitive operation, the Luftwaffe did strengthen air defense and air traffic control at night. Some of the JU88 and DO217 bombers originally used for bombing missions were converted into night combat aircraft, while increasing the production capacity of radar and anti-aircraft guns to protect key targets, which led to a reduction in the Luftwaffe's ammunition delivery by about 9%. To a certain extent, exchanging dozens of planes for nearly 10 percent of the bomb drops by the other side is a very good deal. But at the same time, the Germans took advantage of the early improvement of the night air defense and interception network, which had a certain impact on the strategic bombing of Germany that was later launched. The gains and losses can only be judged by future generations!

At the same time, the British agreed to feel the pressure, not only from the 3,000 planes thrown away in a month, but also from the material and public pressure caused by the massive destruction of infrastructure. The month was even more difficult for the British, and the only good news was that the British, who were consuming less than they were replenishing.

Of course, this is not to say that British production capacity really exceeds consumption, but the British government has made a numbers game, they have reduced the production target of twin-engine aircraft to produce single-engine aircraft, and the result of this is that the size of the fighter force has been expanded to a certain extent, and the number of night twin-engine aircraft and heavy fighters responsible for attacking heavy bombers has been reduced correspondingly, and in this way, some crew members can be saved. Of course, like the Germans, the new pilots were far inferior to the old birds that had been lost, and the actual combat effectiveness was definitely declining.

The combat effectiveness of the British Royal Air Force has not decreased much at least on paper, but as allies, the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia and the United States Air Force has decreased significantly, and it cannot be said that the aircraft cannot be replenished, and the Americans and Huaxia still send some Foxbat fighters through the continuous transfer of the United States-Canada-Greenland-Iceland route, but unfortunately, the replenishment speed is far less than the consumption rate, and the Huaxia and the United States Air Force in the United Kingdom has inevitably dropped about 1,000 aircraft! Several air wings were dismantled or merged. And personnel are even more difficult to replenish. So on the whole, the situation on the defensive side is not optimistic. Now that the two sides are at a stalemate, whoever gets the replenishment sooner, or prevents the other side from getting the replenishment, wins! The key to determining whether Britain can support it is that in addition to the British themselves, whether China and the United States can reopen the North Atlantic route is the most critical factor!

Churchill obviously knew this, and after the German bombers began to bomb London, the most Churchill did was to discuss reinforcements with the Chinese and American envoys. It's been almost a month since the start of the Battle of Britain, and it's time for the Chinese and American fleets to act! In addition, the British Royal Navy was also quite active, and they repeatedly attacked the German naval blockade in small formations, and the destroyers, light cruisers, and submarines of both sides fought more and more frequently, and in these skirmishes, the two sides won and lost each other. The British hoped to constantly deplete the forces of the German High Seas Fleet with such harassment.

Either way, one thing is certain, and that is that the navies of both sides are about to appear! In this round of naval warfare, although the German navy was inferior in overall strength, it had a geographical and defensive advantage, and they were more likely to be supported by land-based aviation and closer to their bases. The new Allied fleet, dominated by China and the United States, is also full of confidence in itself, and the Americans have seen the tricks of the German High Seas Fleet, and after targeted deployment and equipped with a large number of new carrier-based aircraft, the new Allied fleet is determined and capable of having another attack with its opponents!

Of course, for the Entente, defeating the Allied fleet is only one aspect, more important is to re-establish the escort system, after the last battle of the North Atlantic, the Entente is very clear that it is unrealistic to want to defeat the opponent in a battle, even if the Germans lose, relying on a solid family foundation, the Germans can still easily make up a broken fleet composed of 3 or 4 aircraft carriers, which is a very troublesome thing for the Entente's escort system, the reason why the Entente was before, It is for this reason that the delay in moving, and now, after some planning, the Entente has made corresponding arrangements! When the air battle over England has reached its peak, the naval battle that will determine the future of Europe will also begin! A new phase of the Second World War is coming!

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