Chapter 227: Invasion of the Soviet Union

"The mustache at this time should be celebrating the huge strategic benefits brought by this air strike." Ling Liang received the report from the Satanic squadron and sighed.

"That's, where to find a friend like me." Fan Yize, who was on the side, said calmly.

This new round of air raids on Britain was the first major air raid result achieved by Germany in the past year of the British air war.

This has the most direct relationship with intelligence and a powerful bombing force.

Accurate intelligence allowed the German Stuka dive bomber to find and destroy the radar, which made the British Air Force lose its eye in the air at once.

Then there is the powerful ground strike capability of the Satan Squadron, which adopted a very risky low-altitude precision bombing, relying on a strong bomb load, destroying a large number of high-value targets in the United Kingdom.

As a result, a large number of fighter planes were destroyed on the runway at Britain's main air force airfields, and Britain's air supremacy was reversed at once.

The British held out for a year in the air battle of Britain, and even used the air superiority gained by the bombing of the city to come to naught.

Even the Flying Eagle Squadron, which was supported by the United States and supported the British, was almost wiped out in the air raids.

A large number of pilots from various Allied countries suffered heavy losses, and the situation in Britain plummeted in an instant.

The Luftwaffe also took the opportunity to launch another large-scale air raid on Britain, and in just three days, it almost carried out a completely devastating air raid on all the air force airfields and secret air airfields on the British mainland with the posture of killing the British air force.

In the past three days, the Satan's squadron has made a total of 1,600 sorties, mainly responsible for striking key British targets and areas, while the Luftwaffe's main targets are surface ships around the British mainland, trying to continue to attract the remnants of the British Air Force to the decisive battle.

But after three days of bombing, Britain has lost the ability to regain air supremacy, thousands of fighter planes have been destroyed, and all kinds of secret factories and industries have been in ruins.

Even the port of Liverpool was paralyzed for the most few days in an empty space, and many ships were bombed and sunk in the harbor.

The Portsmouth military port and shipbuilding base were also heavily damaged, and the air fortress, which had a range and destructive power that surpassed the German bombers, became famous for a while.

Because Britain, and even the entire Allied forces, there was no aircraft that could catch up with this bomber, and no fighter could intercept the ultra-high ceiling of the air fortress.

The anti-aircraft artillery fire arranged on the British mainland could not reach the bombers more than 10,000 meters high, and then the British could only watch the shells fall on their heads.

Under such bombing, people in Britain are also panicking, because Britain, which has lost air supremacy, is very likely to usher in a full-scale landing of Germany in the British Isles.

As the last resistance force in Western Europe, if Germany landed on British soil, it would be a disaster for the Allies.

The first thing that cannot sit still is the United States, and once Britain is occupied by Germany, the strategic scale of the United States will completely collapse.

The other is the Soviet Union, Germany, which successfully defeated Britain, will be the biggest enemy of the Soviet Union, and in fact, the Soviet Union actually has a plan to take the initiative to attack Germany, but the Soviet Union in history has not yet implemented this plan, and the Germans have taken the lead in launching the Barbarossa plan.

If Germany landed in Britain in full, the Soviet Union would not necessarily be able to sit still.

However, Fan Yize knew that Germany still would not choose to land in Britain, first of all, Germany would never be able to destroy Britain's powerful navy.

At the beginning of World War II, although the German army was overwhelmed, the army was far higher than other countries in terms of tactics and elite. And in the face of the British, it seems to be just a leaky defensive line, and those weak local garrisons. The troops that fled from Dunkirk have not yet been fully integrated. Not to mention the sluggish mood of the British people. But that's it, Germany also did not have the strength to land in England!

First of all, Germany did not conduct systematic large-scale landing training, which was quite fatal to the forced landing of the German Army in Britain.

If Germany really attacked Britain with all its might, even if the German troops succeeded in secretly massing up, with the full support of the air force, and successfully broke through the large number of mine defenses deployed by the British in the English Channel. The troops successfully landed on the British mainland under the cover of the navy, and established a landing ground to consolidate the strength of the defensive line, waiting for the follow-up troops.

But there is a question: with Germany's transportation and supply capabilities, how many troops can be landed in the first wave? How many of them can be armored troops, after all, armored troops need more supplies in the case of limited transportation capacity. And the second and third waves can't all be soldiers, and they have to carry at least half of the supplies.

Even Fan Yize was not optimistic about Germany's strong attack on Britain, not to mention that Germany itself was not very sure about such a landing operation.

Even in the case of destroying the British military port and occupying Britain's air supremacy, the certainty of a successful German landing is extremely low.

In fact, after obtaining the new British air supremacy, Germany did not think of resuming the Sea Lion program, but continued to create fog to make the outside world think that Germany was mobilizing troops on a large scale and preparing to land in Britain.

In fact, however, Germany was preparing more aggressively for an offensive on the Eastern Front.

The idea of the German base camp also had a set, that is, to use the air force to destroy the British, and the submarines to destroy the merchant ships as much as possible.

After destroying the British industry, the second step was to destroy all the British ports, and Germany wanted to completely panic the whole of Britain, so that Britain could not get any supplies from the outside world, and then use this to force Britain to surrender.

Fan Yize's assessment of this is noncommittal, war is inherently full of all kinds of uncertain factors, no tactics or strategy is 100 percent correct, and there are various variables at any time that lead to different outcomes in war.

The Germans have their own considerations, and it may also be the result of the mustache's commanding and arbitrary decision-making, anyway, for Fan Yize, if he is put in the identity of the German decision-maker, he will definitely use the current comprehensive air supremacy to force the British home fleet not to dare to return to help, and then land in Britain.

gnawed the hard bone of Britain first, but after a period of respite, it turned the gun on the Soviet Union.

However, Fan Yize could not influence Germany's decision-making, and he was willing to be a spectator to watch the war in Europe.

Because no matter what the victory or defeat on the European battlefield, for the Red Guard, the results are not much the same.

Fan Yize just hopes that Germany will hold out. For a long time, create more opportunities and time for the Red Police Corps.

This is also the reason why Fan Yize helped Germany, Fan Yize wants to see a Europe that turns the world upside down, not a Germany that is quickly defeated.

The intensity of the German air raids against Britain did not decrease in any way, and this also made Stalin more and more discouraged.

However, what the outside world does not know is that the bomber of the Air Fortress is not a bomber of the Germans.

Three months after the Satanic Squadron began its bombing mission, a second group of bombers also secretly arrived in Germany and was deployed on the Eastern Front.

The second batch of strategic bombing units that arrived in Germany had 300 air fortress bombers, and the most important thing was that this time the bombing force had a two-crew formation, which could ensure that the personnel rested, but the planes did not rest, and the combat efficiency was greatly improved.

Without the knowledge of the outside world, Germany also secretly mobilized troops to the Eastern Front, and the German fighters in the skies over Britain became fewer and fewer, but the bombing of the British mainland became more and more intensive.

The whole world almost thought that the Germans were ready to land in Britain, because a large amount of intelligence fully stated the point, and the Germans were intensively conducting landing maneuvers.

I have to say that the Germans were very well prepared, and they really deceived the outside world.

Time slowly came to the end of June of that year, and the well-prepared German offensive was about to break out.

When Fan Yize officially received the news of Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet Union, he could only express deep regret to Germany, but this result was not the best.

Despite Fan Yize's intervention, Barbarossa was a failed plan, mainly because the Germans underestimated the Soviet Union's ability and willingness to resist.

At the same time, the war plans of the German army were not consistent, and the logistical preparation of the plans was not perfect.

This inevitably leads to a series of nots. As a result, the war will inevitably lead to a stalemate.

With the huge population of the Soviet Union and the second largest industrial capacity in the world at that time, Germany will gradually lose ground over time.

And this is also because from the very beginning, Germany greatly underestimated the mobilization capacity of the Soviet Union.

The main mobilization of the Soviet army (units already trained and ready to fight in the short term) was twice as high as the Germans had estimated.

This was a rather catastrophic underestimate, the Germans calculated from the beginning that the enemy had two hundred divisions, but at the beginning of the war, it was discovered that the Soviets had a clearly numbered force of nearly two hundred divisions.

And within six months of the war, the Soviet Union had expanded the number of units of the same level of 800 divisions, and this was not enough to the extent that the Soviet Union could mobilize 10 million troops.

If the German Army had a wealth of combat experience to crush the Soviet army, advanced tactics and perfect communication technology, and the confidence that came with constant victory, the Soviet Union was woefully lacking in leadership, training, and preparation.

But one thing remains constant, and that is that the flaws of the German logistical plan were fatal.

After fully understanding the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, Fan Yize did not plan to change anything, he needed Germany, but he did not need Germany to achieve a comprehensive victory in the war.

The only purpose of helping Germany is to make Germany more likely to contain the United States in the European theater.

So in order to make the United States deeper into Europe, Fan Yize helped the Germans, and if he could, Fan Yize hoped that Germany would advance the battlefield to Moscow.

Therefore, the second group of strategic bombing units supporting Germany also did their best to help the Germans gain more advantages.

On the night of the outbreak of the war, 300 bombers and thousands of German warplanes attacked hundreds of Soviet air bases, destroying 7,000 or 8,000 Soviet planes in one go.

And the strategic bombing units of the Red Guard Corps also began to undertake bombing operations in important industrial areas of the Soviet Union.

Thanks to the participation of the Red Guard Air Force, the German advance was also much faster, and more troops of the Luftwaffe were liberated.

Fan Yize's demand was to destroy the industrial strength of the Soviet Union as much as possible.

It took more than ten years for the Soviet Union to build the world's second largest machinery manufacturing capacity, and there are more than 2,000 large-scale industrial enterprises with modern technology and equipment in the Soviet Union, which not only have strong manufacturing capabilities, but also can independently create technology.

In terms of industry, the USSR was de facto the second in many worlds and the first in Europe.

This is why the Soviet Union was able to emerge from adversity in the early days of Barbarossa and eventually won the war.

When the Germans finally faced the sea of tanks of the Soviet army, it can be seen how helpless they were.

Among the Soviet intelligence that Fan Yize handed over to the Germans was the location of most of the Soviet Union's major power plants, including several large hydroelectric power plants in the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet air threat was resolved, the bombing target became a large number of power generation facilities in the Soviet Union.

Among them, the Red Guard Regiment was mainly responsible for striking large hydropower plants on the territory of the Soviet Union, and the Dnieper hydropower station became the first target to be destroyed.

In order to destroy the dam, the Red Guard Corps dispatched four Air Fortress bombers, carrying special 2,000-pound penetrating bombs.

The unsuspecting Soviets, helpless in the face of low-altitude precision airdrop bombers, the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, the largest in the world, was completely destroyed, the entire dam was destroyed, and flooded hundreds of square kilometers downstream.

As a result, the power supply of dozens of surrounding cities has been paralyzed, industries have been shut down, and many communications have been disrupted.

And this was only the beginning, a few months after the start of the Barbarossa offensive, although the Soviet Union was also constantly recruiting troops, but the industry of the whole country was very badly damaged.

Even the industry, which penetrated deep into the rear of the USSR, was not spared.

For this reason, the Soviet Union had to relocate all the surviving industries to Siberia, where it could avoid German bombing.

In the first few months of the war, the Soviets had lost air supremacy, and even in the rear sky, the Soviets could only helplessly watch German planes wreak havoc here.

For the German mustache, the strategic bombing force under Fan Yize was too strong, and the strike effect was one or two times more efficient than that of the Luftwaffe.

For this reason, the mustache also repeatedly proposed to Fan Yize that Germany wanted to buy this bomber, but Fan Yize refused.

In this regard, the mustache can only ask the German aircraft industry to develop a more powerful bomber to prove that the Germanic nation is the best nation in the world.

And in the North Atlantic, the mustache also made a formal request to hire submarine forces.