"Where has Liszt advanced?" Li Le stopped in the corridor, turned around, and asked Kettel, who was following behind him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, the High Command knew how far the fighting was going in the Balkans, but everyone had been focusing on Brest these days, and had not paid attention to the Balkans.

If Marshal Liszt, with his armored division and elite mechanized infantry, can't even pack up the hundreds of thousands of rabble, as well as the rumored British rout, then his marshal's water is too great.

"Field Marshal Liszt's 12th Army is attacking very well, and there are less than two days left before Athens......" Keitel replied when he heard the Führer's question.

"If we attack now and take Crete, will it be difficult?" Li Le looked at Keitel and asked in a hurry.

Just now, Li Le turned around in his mind and found that the sharpest counterattack of the other side was not Brest, where Germany had deployed heavy troops, but Libya, which had a serious lack of defense forces.

Earlier, German patrols found the bodies of unidentified scouts in the desert, which means that they did try to find oil fields in the desert.

Assuming that the other side already knows the location of the oil fields, it is undoubtedly more effective to attack the Libyan oil fields now than to attack Brest or Romania, which are so strong in defense that they are against the sky.

To tell the truth, Li Le would rather lose the military port of Brest than the Libyan oil fields.

The port of Brest was lost, the navy was badly damaged, and the war would be at least two years before it fell into passivity. But if the Libyan oil fields are lost, Germany will not have enough oil to continue the war next year.

"My Führer, the paratroopers, I don't know much. I have no way to ......estimate how much support Italy can give us if we land at sea," Keitel really didn't expect the Führer to ask him such a question, so he could only answer stubbornly.

With regard to the attack on Crete, although the army and air force had already planned an attack, Keitel, as a general of the Supreme Command, did not pay attention to the Balkan direction.

Is there anything to pay attention to now on the peninsula, which had already beaten the British and Greeks to the ground? Keitel thought in his head.

Although he also guessed that the Führer might be worried that the British would use bombers to bomb the oil fields of Libya, Keitel did not really believe that the British had such courage and strength.

If he hadn't seen history that had never happened, Li Le might not have realized that the other side would take off bombers in the Middle East to attack Germany's most vulnerable crude oil production base.

The difference is that in the real historical time and space, the Allies forcibly bombed the Romanian oil fields at any cost, and hit Germany's crude oil production.

If it weren't for the historical reality of the raid that bombed Romania at any cost, Li Le would not have guessed that the Allies would have thought of such a vicious tactic.

The bombing of Romania in history did not achieve much results, relying on the convenient geographical advantage and the proximity to Germany, so it was convenient to resume production.

But if it was Libya that was bombed, there would have been more than a little disaster. Libya's infrastructure is very backward, and the reconstruction work is not comparable to that of Romania.

It was almost like rebuilding a Libyan oil field, with all the equipment destroyed by the bombing going to Africa from as far away as Germany and Italy.

These fragile and important facilities were defended by less than a tenth of the troops in Romania - nothing more than a thin crust and a bargain price......

This time, the Allies did not have to pay so much to find Germany's soft underbelly in Libya, where the defense was not strong.

After thinking about it, Li Le still felt that it was the safest choice to grab Crete first. So he asked Keitel, but he didn't get the answer he wanted.

"Let Ribbentrop not go! Stay! Go and get Goering and General Studdent to come to me! Li Le hurriedly opened his mouth and gave the order to reconvene the combat meeting.

Keitel reluctantly reminded: "My Führer, Marshal Goering, is probably already on the car back to the manor...... As for General Student, it may not be possible to reach the ...... in a short time"

When he mentioned this, Li Le remembered that Student had gone to Munich and went there to train new paratroopers.

Compared with the unreliable landing at sea, Li Le had high hopes for German paratroopers who could fight well.

By expanding the size of the paratroopers and striving to mobilize more paratroopers to participate in the war when they land in Britain, we will be able to make up for the shortcomings of Germany's insufficient maritime transport forces.

Moreover, compared with the naval landing, the paratrooper landing also has a more stealthy character, the delivery is more abrupt, and the combat position after the landing is better.

A head-on assault on the opponent's coastline will inevitably meet the opponent's firepower head-on. Paratroopers fight behind enemy lines and can avoid a large number of preset positional fire.

"Since General Student is not here, there is no need to rush to hold a meeting......," Li Le also realized that he might be in too much of a hurry.

He looked at Keitel and changed his order: "Let everyone hold a meeting tomorrow on the battle plan against the Balkan island of Crete!" All of them were to participate, including General Studdent. ”

"Also." When he said this, he paused slightly, and then added: "In my name, order the troops stationed in Libya to raise the alert level and beware of a sneak attack by the British!" ”

Li Le is worried that Libya will be attacked and a good situation will be ruined. Keitel nodded, understanding Li Le's concern.

"I see! I will immediately go back to my office and give the order to put the Libyan air defense forces on alert. Kettel promised.

"Not only the air defense forces of the oil fields, but also the port of Sirte must be brought to combat readiness! The enemy can attack anywhere in Libya at any time! Li Le solemnly instructed.

remembered the previous attack on Benghazi by the British aircraft carrier, and told me that if Sirte was attacked, the result would be very difficult to deal with.

Sirte has been built into a port with huge throughput capacity, and if it is destroyed, the actual role of Libya's oil fields will also be greatly reduced.

As a result, both places were extremely important, and the already small air force was again being dispersed - which was not good news for Germany on the defensive side.

The High Command was worried about the British bombing of the Libyan oil fields, and a large number of invading British planes appeared on the German radar, which had just regained calm that night.

The night bombing of the port of Brest, which had just been won by the Luftwaffe after a complete victory and won the daytime battle, began to fought.

"Alert! Alert! Take off the fighter! Fast! Intercept the invading British bombers! "The alarm bells sounded at the airbase, and the pilots, surrounded by ground crew, climbed into their fighter jets.

One after another, ME-110 fighters, in the brightly lit field airfield, turned their propellers and aimed at the slender runway.

The efficiency of taking off fighters at night to intercept enemy planes naturally cannot be compared with that during the day, but the number of night fighters is indeed not as large as the number of single-engine day fighters.

Soon, the first batch of 20 ME-110 night fighters flew into the night in formation and disappeared at the end of the darkness.

The fighters were armed with four 20 mm cannons and had a simple radar guidance device installed in the nose.

According to the guidance of the ground signal station, these aircraft can quickly fly to the vicinity of enemy aircraft, and then rely on small radar guidance devices to find the target and carry out the attack.

The ME-110 fighter, which carries a lot of ammunition and has plenty of cannon power, can be said to be a very good night interceptor fighter.

Later, this aircraft was eliminated, not because of insufficient size and firepower, but because of the insufficient rise in altitude and flight speed.

The 20 ME-110 fighters here have just disappeared, and another batch of JU-88 night fighters of the latest model that took off from other airports have also taken off, and 10 of them have formed and rushed to the target in the distance.

The new JU-88 night fighter was equipped with a more powerful radar, which was also a new model for experimentation.

Not only can it use its radar to find its targets, but it also has a newly developed oblique music weapon system!

Truth be told, the oblique is not a new weapon system, it is just a different way to play the old weapon.

So, when Li Le came up with the concept of the oblique music weapon system, it only took one afternoon for German engineers to produce it.

And today, for the first time, this new weapon entered the war, it was mounted on the back of the larger JU-88 bomber, and 4 doors were installed in a square in one breath.

In other words, these 10 JU-88 night fighters, which took off today, can be called an epoch-making weapon. According to the correct historical trajectory, they will not join the battlefield until after 1943.

Of course, the radar used by the JU-88 at this time was not as advanced as the radar of the future. However, the enemies that JU-88 and ME-110 had to face were not as vicious as they were after 1943.

A fierce air battle in the dark night is about to begin. On the attacking side were more than a hundred A-20s and Hampton bombers that took off from the British; On the defensive side, there were German night fighters taking off non-stop.

More ME-110 fighters took off and joined the interception formation, with ground guidance stations guiding them to their targets.

Below them, all the lights in the port of Brest had been extinguished, the anti-aircraft guns and searchlights were ready, and everyone held their heads high, waiting for the moment when the battle would begin.