"What the hell is the weather...... It's more than a little worse than the Mediterranean. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info"In the bumpy cabin of the plane, a familiar face is still talking.

Lyman was really annoyed, annoyed that this gunther, who was talking endlessly, had not died in the battle of Crete.

He looked at the unique square porthole of the JU-52 transport plane for German paratroopers and looked at the slightly dim sky outside.

I heard that it was still snowing here yesterday, so the planes were collectively delayed until today. Now that the sky had not cleared, they were rushed to the territory of France.

Flying from a place like Crete to the cold of France is definitely not exciting, not to mention the bad weather.

As the ground approached not far away, Lyman felt the tremor of the JU-52's fixed landing gear hitting the ground.

Then there was a violent turbulence, and it was not until the plane came to a stop that the co-pilot opened the door.

A cold wind swept snowflakes into the cabin, making the German paratroopers, who were already dressed in warm clothes, feel the French cold.

The temperature here is so low that anyone can't help but tighten their necks. Fighting in this weather is definitely not good news.

"Whew! It's cold! Thankfully, we wore coats! "Carry your own bags. Gunther lived up to expectations and was still chattering.

Lyman frowned and walked out of the plane's cabin with his mouth closed. Outside the hatch he straightened up, squinting at the snow in the distance.

The snow on the runway has been removed, and some soldiers are still repeating yesterday's work with various tools farther away.

Clearing runways for more than 1,100 transport planes of all kinds is no easy task. Not to mention the time requirements, so the nearby garrisons took part in the labor.

If we add the planes stationed in the French mainland, Germany has already amassed about 2,000 transport planes to the French region. If you count gliders, this figure is even higher.

Calculated that transport planes in Germany could enter France at any time, the German army probably had about 3,000 aircraft at their disposal.

Some of these aircraft were to carry paratroopers, while others were to transport their ammunition and weapons. If it is combined with the troops landing on the glider, it can deliver about 30,000 people in one breath.

The 1st and 2nd Paratrooper Divisions, under the command of General Studenter, had already transferred to France. Although about 500 paratroopers were lost on Crete, the replenishment was carried out quite quickly.

In contrast to the depressed army and navy, which was never able to meet its needs, the Luftwaffe seemed to have successfully completed its preparations from the start.

The air force under the command of Goering and Kesselring crushed the British air guard in one fell swoop, allowing German planes to dominate the skies over Britain.

German paratroopers have always been the trump cards of the German army, and after fighting Crete, almost the whole world knows these terrible green ** ghosts.

Compared to the seasick Army, it was clear that the German paratroopers had a natural advantage when crossing the English Channel - the process of sending the paratroopers had not changed in any way, and they could still fight in the way they were familiar with.

Because of this advantage, it may be that the German paratroopers are the only troops in the entire "Sea Lion Plan" that can calculate their combat power according to their original combat effectiveness without discounting.

Ryman walked down the plane's ladder with a heavy backpack on his back and hot air from his mouth. On another runway not far away, another JU-52 Junkers had just stopped.

The three ugly propellers of the JU-52 were still spinning, and farther on the lawn were neatly parked one after another gliders without engines.

The manufacture of these gliders did not occupy the existing aircraft production line, and these streamlined gliders were practically all wood, reinforced with metal parts only in part of the place.

They will be dragged by the plane and fly over the UK, then choose a suitable position to land on flat ground, and the paratroopers inside will go straight out to fight.

Compared with the real paratroopers who are scattered and descending, the paratroopers who land are formed as soon as they land, so it is easier to form combat effectiveness.

Another advantage is that the training of such paratroopers does not require the use of complex parachutes and does not require parachute training.

It was precisely because of this that Germany was able to train more than 40,000 paratroopers in a short period of time – many of them mere airborne infantry.

It's a pity that there are no helicopters in this era, so there are more ways to parachute operations, and even if Li Le knows it, there is no way to directly copy it.

Therefore, these gliders basically wait for the paratroopers to control the surrounding situation before choosing the area to land safely.

Lyman looked at the neatly parked gliders, carried his luggage and followed the instructions of the Air Force officer who had come to meet them on the ground, and walked to the barracks that had been prepared for them in the distance.

One by one, the paratroopers carried all sorts of luggage and supplies, and finally joined together. They gathered from a dozen people to a hundred or ten, and then into hundreds, and walked densely into the distance.

And in the distance, there are planes getting closer and closer. The sound of engines near the airport was continuous, and every few moments, a plane landed here.

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"The Germans are massing forces in France...... Every day, intelligence officers report to us that they have seen a transport plane flying towards France! A British intelligence officer reported the news he had sent from his downline.

Sir Dill felt his head explode when he gathered the news—he had only returned from the construction site on the Wall Peninsula a few minutes earlier, and he had not even had time to take off his coat.

Looking at his men, Sir Dill took off his coat, and then took the report and looked at it carefully: "About 1,000 planes assembled?" ”

Because of the sudden action of the German secret police, British spies in Germany and France were basically swept away, so the entire spy network needs to be rebuilt by Britain in the near future.

Building a spy network covering an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The hastily established intelligence network is often frustrating in terms of reliability......

For example, although Britain provided a lot of funds for the underground resistance organizations developed in France, and often used submarines to deliver weapons and radio stations, the actual results were not satisfactory.

On the one hand, these improvised rebel groups may be killed again at any time, and on the other hand, there is a fatal problem, that is, unprofessionalism!

Yes, unprofessional! Most of the information reported by most of these newly developed spy networks is very vague and highly subjective.

For example, when they see three planes flying overhead, sometimes they can only pass back vague information such as "how many planes have flown by".

Even if they were precise, they couldn't tell and judge the problem. In short, they don't know how to process and identify information, which makes British intelligence have to be irritated to help deal with this kind of problem.

However, the staff of the British intelligence services in the rear did not go to the front line to see what happened with their own eyes, so many of the converted messages were meaningless or simply contrary to the truth.

Now, for example, Sir Deere clutched the telegram in his hand and did not believe the ridiculous-sounding intelligence that the Germans had assembled 1,000 planes.

What do you call a thousand planes? Is it counting the fighters, or is it not counting the number of fighters? If you count the fighters, the number of German aircraft assembled near the French coastline would have already exceeded 1,000, or even more than 5,000 - is this still up to you?

If this information is about the number of transport planes, then it is good news! Because no matter how you calculate, about 1,000 transport planes are not enough to deliver German paratroopers.

In other words, this information showed that the Germans were far from ready to land in Britain...... These are just a paper analysis of the intelligence content, and if other considerations are taken into account, there are even more trade-offs.

For example, is this number accurate? If accurate, that package does not include the entire territory of France? Is it a local area, or is it a whole in France? It's all a problem.

So, in the end, what Dill could do was to throw the telegram in his hand on the desk, wave his hand to his subordinates and order: "I know about this matter, you can copy two copies, to Mr. Prime Minister and the Air Force Command." ”

Recently, it has snowed in France, and the weather in Britain is not very good, and the clouds are very thick, but German reconnaissance planes are still tirelessly visiting the British coastline, tirelessly taking useful and useless photos.

Judging by the frequent activity of German reconnaissance aircraft, it seems that the Germans really intend to fight an unprecedented large-scale landing battle in winter.

"How is this possible?" Looking at the map in front of him, marked with many incoherent fortification symbols, Dill said to himself.

The German navy was already at a disadvantage, and the German troops had no combat experience of such a large-scale landing - in any respect, it seemed that the Germans would have to wait until after February.

But I don't know why, Dill just felt that the Germans were going to play real this time, and this instinct made him sleep.

The main reason for this was that in December 1940, because the United States stopped most of the transportation of material aid, the British mainland fell into an unprecedented crisis.

Britain now looks like it has a million-strong army, but the north is paralyzed. And the south, near London, is not completely paralyzed, but it is not optimistic.

It was not an easy task to prevent the German army from a large-scale planned landing operation by relying on troops that were currently difficult to mobilize.