In the German-occupied zone in northern France, the German army frequently carried out troop movements, requisitioned a large number of civilian ships, and launched one transport ship after another in the shipyard, showing that it was ready for landing operations.

Of course, all this was seen by Churchill's eyeliner.

In the skies over Calaiscom, a British Air Force Mosquito double-engine multi-seat reconnaissance plane routinely carried out a reconnaissance mission over Calais.

"Oh, baby, guess what these Germans are doing? Look at these troop carriers, all gathered on the docks, like they were going to be pulled out tomorrow. The captain of the flight on the British reconnaissance plane said to himself.

"Shut your crow's mouth! Baby, I don't want to fight the Germans, and I don't want them to land on our soil. His lieutenant scolded, in response to the captain's own words.

"It's not up to you and me to decide, it's all up to the Germans when they decide to do it. If they do, do you think our battered Royal Navy or our Royal Air Force will be able to stop them? ”

The captain continued: "Also, your current task is to scout the enemy, not to make small talk with me, pay attention to your right, the German fighters especially like to attack from the right flank, I don't want to be the lunch of the German fighters." ”

"Understood, Captain. But I don't understand why Command sent us to Calais to reconnoitre, isn't this the French port we were going to use in the original generator plan? The deputy asked a question that had puzzled him for a long time.

"Nonsense, if we can use it, can't the Germans use it? Because we didn't use it in the first place, Calais's facilities were not destroyed like Dunkirk, and the Germans would have used it with a little brain. And the reconnaissance of Calais is an instruction from above, we just carry out the order, where is so much nonsense! The captain replied, in fact, he didn't know what the Germans thought, but he refused to admit it for the sake of face, so he casually made up a reason and answered his deputy's question perfunctorily.

In fact, the Royal Air Force would have scouted Calais only because three days earlier, MI6 had intercepted an important telegram from the German side.

The telegram was encrypted by the Germans using the Enigma cipher machine, but the British had cracked it a few months earlier and had deliberately accepted the German bombardment in order to hide the news.

Now, it's their turn to take advantage of the hefty cost and hide the hole cards.

The content of this document is probably the pre-war preparations for the landing of the British mainland to fight, and one of the three ports where the barge troop carriers gathered was Calaisgang, and Calaiscom, because of its relative proximity, even undertook 80% of the barge gathering tasks.

The British United Front Work Department immediately made a decision to launch an air raid on Calais, and the goal of the Royal Air Force's air attack was to blow up most of the barges and troop transports that the Germans had gathered in the port of Calais, so as to completely destroy the German army's capital for invading the British mainland.

Without troop carriers, the Germans would not have been able to cross the English Channel, even with a million-strong army.

Of course, it is essential to send a reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance before launching an air attack, and this is the reason why this British reconnaissance aircraft arrived today - to detect the gathering of Barges of the Calayde army.

In the end, the British got the information they wanted.

According to the information returned by the reconnaissance plane, a large number of civilian merchant ships and military transport boat barges did gather in the port of Calais, and although the British reconnaissance plane was harassed by two German BF109 fighters during this period, the plane finally returned safely to the British mainland and brought back important information.

Churchill then decided to launch an air raid on the port of Calais, three days later, in the early hours of this morning.

In the early hours of the third day, with dark clouds over the English Channel and a very gloomy sky, the sound of rumbling engines resounded in the sky, and 50 British Mosquito twin-fired multi-seat bombers and 30 Spitfires took off from the Dover military airfield at the southern end and headed south towards the port of Calais.

"Call Captain Fox, please answer if you receive it!" Lieutenant Daniel, the wingman pilot at the head of the British Army, called the pilot of the long plane and the commander of the flight echelon, Fox Road, on the radio.

"Roger, please." Captain Fox replied.

"We have reached the designated area over Calais, have we started bombing?" Lieutenant Daniel asked.

"Let's go!" With an order, British Charizard twin-engine bombers, in a team of five, began to bomb the ships in the harbor.

It is also strange to say that the British Air Force was not stopped by a single German plane on this way, although the flight range was short, the weather was gloomy, and the visibility in the sky was low, but now such a large scale of British fighters reached the sky over Calais, and still not a single German plane appeared, and the air defense facilities on the ground did not open fire.

Atmosphere...... Something seems wrong.

However, the British bombers quickly completed two rounds of bombing, and most of the barge troop carriers and civilian ships parked in the harbor were hit by the shells of the British bombers, igniting a raging fire, and the fire became bigger and bigger, and then the hulls of those large "troop carriers" began to tilt and slowly sank into the vast sea water in the port of Calais.

Undisturbed by the Germans, the British bombers carried out several more rounds of bombing, sinking most of the ships in their sight in one go.

In the end, it wasn't until they were ready to return that a sharp-eyed pilot noticed the problem.

"Call Captain Fawkes, call Captain Fawkes!" The pilot said.

"Roger, what's the problem? Please speak. Captain Fox replied.

"Captain, please take a closer look at the ship still burning in the sea, I think it's strange." The pilot continued on the radio: "No matter how I look at it, it feels like it's a pile of wood burning, not like a ship made of steel is burning." ”

"Be specific." Captain Fawkes also seemed to notice that something was wrong, and motioned for him to continue.

"Generally, ships made of steel burn, the fuel oil on the ship is burning, and after these ships sink, the fuel oil floating on the sea water due to fuel leakage will continue to burn, but these ships are burning on the water, and once they sink to the bottom, they immediately stop burning, which is not in line with the scene we see now." The pilot continued: "They are more like a bunch of burning wooden boats, and moreover, there is no burning floating diesel on the surface. ”

"You mean we attacked a bunch of wooden ships?" Captain Fox was a little shocked.

"I think so! Captain, we were tricked by the Germans! As soon as the pilot finished speaking, he suddenly saw a little light flashing on the left wing of his fighter......