May 2, 1942 at 3 p.m., cloudy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Over St. George's Strait, 55 kilometres south of the island of Ireland and 200 kilometres from the Irish capital, 12 very bloated and obese ME323 transport planes, escorted by 36 Fokker Zeros, loomed in the clouds. This large transport aircraft, which can carry up to 12 tons of cargo or 120 armed soldiers, was developed on the basis of the ME321 large gliding transport aircraft.

Moreover, ME323 is also a Franco-German cooperation project. Created by Germany's Metschmidt and France's Riss-Rhône, the latter offers a reliable 14-cylinder radial engine, the 14N, which can take off with 1,140 hp and 1,035 hp at an altitude of 5,000 meters. Although this engine is backward compared to the air-cooled engines produced by the German company BMW and Siemens, it has sufficient production capacity to fully meet the needs of the ME323, and the performance is very reliable and the price is extremely low.

So the engineers of Messerschmidt and the Land God Rhone Company installed six Earth God Rhone 14N engines on the ME323 transport aircraft. With a total power of more than 6,000 horsepower, the aircraft can fly 750 kilometers at a speed of 200-245 kilometers per hour when fully loaded, which is exactly the right time to fly a one-way detour from Brest to Dublin (which has to bypass the Cornwall Peninsula in the United Kingdom). It's simply a plane tailor-made for a raid on the Irish capital!

Due to the rapid fall of France to Germany after the Battle of the Mediterranean, the ME323 transport aircraft not only used French technology in the development process (because of the participation of French engineers and mechanics to speed up the development process), but also arranged production in French factories - these factories were opened before the war, and had very good skilled workers, engineers and equipment, which were not inferior to German factories. According to today's production schedule, the German Airborne Transport Command can receive at least 200 ME323 transport aircraft this year.

Hunk Otto. Lieutenant Skorzny sat in a seat near the window in the "big belly" of the ME323 aircraft, and outside the window were white clouds like cotton wool, giving people the feeling of traveling on a large passenger plane.

If all goes well, it's a trip - the flight to Dublin is a pleasant one, as the commander of the 323rd Special Mission Combat Aviation Regiment of the Luftwaffe using these ME323 aircraft assures.

Because the 5th Fleet and the landing flotilla had already attracted most of the RAF's attention, and a squadron of P.108S heavy bombers had already gone to the vicinity of Cornwall to throw foil strips before the planes of the 323rd Special Mission Combat Aviation Regiment took off, the radars deployed by the British on the Cornish Peninsula should now be invisible.

As for the Irish, there is no need to worry, because the whole world knows that the Irish hate the British. Britain, once the richest and most powerful empire in the world, starved hundreds of thousands of Irish to death between 1845 and 1850 during the Great Irish Famine caused by the potato germ, during which the British government not only did not come to the rescue, but also prevented the Ottoman Sultan from donating £10,000 to the hungry people in Ireland - because Queen Victoria herself provided only £2,000. In the end, the Ottoman Sultan had to send three ships of smuggled grain to Ireland to aid the hungry...... This attitude towards the Irish can no longer be described as "indifferent", but borders on a deliberate policy of genocide!

Thus the Great Famine became the beginning of the awakening of the Irish national consciousness and the independence movement!

Although nearly a hundred years have passed since the Great Famine, and Ireland has become a free state, the road to national independence has not yet been completed. Britain also controls Northern Ireland in the north of Ireland, and Ireland is not a true republic, but a "Free State" under the banner of the British Empire.

However, the Irish are not content with the status quo, and the current Irish Free State government is also notoriously anti-British, and under the leadership of this anti-British government, Ireland is now the only Free State in the entire British Commonwealth that has not declared war on Germany and has remained neutral.

And the members of the "Moonlight Squadron", who had been to Ireland during the war, all knew how pro-German the Irish were, just look at the uniforms of the Irish army, which are exactly the same as the uniforms of the German army.

So Otto. Lieutenant Skorzny was convinced that as soon as the 38t tanks and heavily armed German soldiers appeared in the park in front of the Irish presidential palace, the Irish government would happily invite the Germans to send troops to the station, because the Irish were not against the German invasion, but feared that Ireland would be occupied by the British again after the German invasion failed.

"Emmon, where is the German fleet?"

President de Grasse of Ireland. Although Hyde had no real power, he couldn't help but give Prime Minister Eamon a new lease of power. Morality. Valera called and asked about the German landing fleet.

"It should have been past Normandy, and Churchill, a liar, had just announced the victory in Normandy in his speech, claiming to have sunk 2 German aircraft carriers and 1 German battle cruiser in the waters off Normandy."

"It can't be true, right?" De Grass. Hyde asked, a little worried.

"Impossible, because Churchill also called on every Englishman to fight to the end in his speech, which means that the Germans will soon land."

"And will the Germans land in Cork Bay?" De Grass. Hyde asked.

"I don't know, but we're ready." The Irish Prime Minister assured that "all suitable landing sites have been cleared, all obstacles and mines have been removed, German-language road signs have been installed, clean water, food and shelter have been prepared near the beachhead, and German-speaking guides have been prepared." I think the landing of the Germans would have been a military operation with no casualties. ”

"What about the railway? Is the railway department ready? ”

"Ready, 100 locomotives and 1,000 wagons are ready at the train junction in Cork, ready to move the landed German troops to Dundalk."

Located on the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland and just over 70 kilometres from Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, Dundalk has long been the focal point of the Irish army's defences.

However, the Irish army is dressed more like the German army, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the German army. Moreover, the Irish government has always been poor, and there is no industrialization in the country, so it cannot afford to buy good weapons. Therefore, the Irish army is bread and rifles, and the British army cannot defeat them if they really invade.

So the only way for the Irish government to recover Northern Ireland and save most of Ireland from the ravages of war was for the Germans to reach the front line near Northern Ireland as quickly as possible through the southern and central parts of Ireland.

Hang up the phone and the President of Ireland, De Grass. Hyde embarked on his daily routine of walking in the grass before dinner, which was also a rare opportunity to meet the ordinary people of Ireland. Hyde may be the president of the Free State, but he is not the kind of person who lives high above the clouds. Phoenix Park, where the presidential palace is located, is also open to the public, and many people come here every day to relax and have fun, and President Hyde likes to talk to these ordinary Irishmen and understand their needs.

But today, when President Hyde walked out of the presidential palace, he saw that many people who were supposed to be strolling leisurely on the grass were running towards him, and there was a buzzing roar coming from somewhere.

What's going on? De Grass. Hyde said: Could it be that the citizens of Dublin are rushing to ask for an autograph when they see their beloved president coming? He reached into his pocket to take out the pen, when he suddenly heard someone shouting nearby.

"Airplanes! Big plane, big plane! ”

Big planes? How big is it? De Grass. Hyde subconsciously looked up into the air, and immediately saw an unbelievable scene.

In the sky above Phoenix Park, I don't know when more than a dozen "big-bellied" planes appeared. Hyde was the size of any plane he had ever seen, with six engines on the wings, and that humming roar was supposed to be what they were making.

And these big planes flew very low, as if they were going to land on the grass of Phoenix Park in the next moment.

"Mr. President, those planes are going to land!" An entourage of the presidential palace shouted to the stunned de Grasse. Hyde.

"Landing?" De Grass. Hyde looked at it, and sure enough, a plane was about to land on the lawn of Phoenix Park.

"Oh my God, whose planes are they?" De Grass. Hyde asked. He didn't understand airplanes, and he couldn't see the badge on the plane with his old eyes.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not ours!" An entourage suddenly pulled the president's arm, "Mr. President, it is possible that they are British planes...... Get out of here, Mr. President! ”

De Grass. Hyde then followed his entourage back to the presidential palace as if he had just woken up from a dream, and before he could enter the presidential palace, he saw a large group of infantry of the Irish Army rushing out of the makeshift barracks next to the presidential palace, carrying rifles, machine guns, and white flags - if it was the British who got out of those big planes, then greet them with rifles and machine guns, Ireland is weak, but it also has the courage to resist. If it is the Nazis who come, then quickly fly the white flag so as not to cause unnecessary casualties...... (To be continued.) )