"November attack?"

After suppressing the worries about the future situation of the empire in his heart, the old fox suddenly noticed something wrong in the plan for the Eastern Front.

In November, winter is approaching.

Attacking at this time, what the hell does the Führer think?

Don't you think about the weather?

Have we forgotten the lessons of the Battle of Mosco?

The harsh winter on the vast Eastern Front belonged to the enemy and to the Slavs, and Germany's adaptation to winter was far inferior to that of the Slavs, which they felt deeply during the two-year war on the Eastern Front, and the winter offensive of the previous year also proved this point again.

The Führer himself summed up this several times at meetings.

So why the winter attack?

"Because of the supplies."

Kesselring smiled bitterly:

"The Führer believed that as long as we were prepared for the cold winter and had sufficient equipment to protect against the cold, we could defeat the enemy in winter."

"He wants to prove that we are no worse than the enemy in the cold winter, and even better."

The corners of the old fox's mouth twitched.

Racial superiority.

It's all this time, and I haven't given up on this stupid idea.

However, this is indeed the so-called logic of the Führer.

Reasonable.

"Fortunately, this time we have enough supplies and are ready for winter."

Rubbing his forehead, Kesselring sighed and comforted himself:

"It's not the same as before."

"This time, we have enough fuel, and while providing vehicles for use, we can also burn for heating, keep warm clothes, and soldiers will not freeze, and we have enough half-track transport vehicles to transport supplies to the front line in time."

"And."

Kesselring continued, and for this reason he did not try to persuade the Führer, and then he added:

"Roads freeze in winter, and it may be more suitable for mechanized troops to maneuver than muddy summers, as long as tanks and other vehicles are ready to move on frozen roads."

"Yes."

Although he agreed, the old fox did not have much confidence in his mouth.

This time Germany was well stocked, and it was more abundant than ever, but it was not as good as before, and it was also more scarce, and the condition of the empire was much worse than before.

The recent large-scale bombing by Britain and the United States also caused a lot of damage to the Reich, a large number of residential buildings were destroyed, factories were destroyed, most of the factory workers were absorbed into the army, and those residents were also involved in the construction of Germany.

But the casualties caused by the bombing are irreversible.

Also, the Mosko, Starringgrad, Bastion plans, and the defense that lasted a year, was too painful for Germany, the losses were too great, and it was not at all possible to recover in a short time.

Fortunately.

The Germans were uncomfortable.

The Slavs were no better.

Moreover, in terms of abundant supplies, Germany was much better than the Slavs, and it could be directly supplied with the help of that mysterious warehouse.

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That day.

10 Downing Street,

"I'm in trouble!"

Qiu Fatzi was holding a cigar in his mouth, and his eyebrows were worried:

"The loss is so big."

At his desk, there was a report on the losses of the strategic bomber fleet.

In early July, after the Overlord's plan suffered a heavy blow and failed to storm Cherbourg, he consulted with the lame man in the face of huge casualties and reached a battle plan.

The British Empire bomber fleet would join forces with the U.S. Eighth Air Force to launch a large-scale, unrestricted bombing campaign on the German mainland.

Through this means, the two tried to deter Germany, causing a large number of casualties and a large number of homeless people, oppressing Germany, strengthening the anti-war forces in its country, and reducing the resistance of Germany.

During the bombing, which lasted for a month and a half, Britain and the United States sent nearly 15,000 sorties of bombers and dropped nearly 50,000 tons of explosives.

How effective the bombing was was for the time being, the investigation report has not yet come out, but the losses of the Royal Air Force and the US Eighth Air Force are visible to the naked eye.

In fact, at the beginning, the losses were very low, and in the first bombardment of 1,000 planes, only five were really shot down by the enemy, and the rest were caused by mechanical failures, and all of those five were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery.

At the beginning of the Overlord project, the airspace in Europe already belonged to the British Empire and the Allied Forces, and the resistance of the Germans was minimal, and a single squadron of fighters could fly in Europe with impunity.

But in the follow-up bombing, the German air defense suddenly increased.

Jet planes began to enter the battlefield, and other propeller aircraft appeared, as did anti-aircraft guns, with more and more barrels, and even new radio proximity fuses.

As a result, the bombing losses suddenly increased.

After improving tactics and bombing at night, a large number of fighter planes were dispatched to escort the entire escort, but the losses continued to rise but not fall, and in the latest bombing of 1,000 planes, a full 197 planes did not return.

The loss rate is as high as one in five.

In the total losses, in the 15,000 sorties of bombing, the enemy destroyed more than 1,200 planes and lost more than 1,200 planes, and the battle loss rate reached 8 percent, which was absolutely unacceptable to Britain and the United States.

According to the regulations of the bomber unit, after the bomber crew has carried out 30 bombing missions, they can apply for rotation and fall to a post in the rear security, such as logistics.

According to this battle loss ratio, this means that only a very small number of bomber crews can apply for rotation after completing 30 bombing operations.

The huge losses not only led to a great drop in the morale of the bomber troops, but even induced many small-scale anti-war sentiments among the bomber crews.

If the current problems cannot be solved, then the bombing mission will not be able to continue.

"Prime Minister, I suggest that the bombing of the German mainland be stopped for the time being and the bombing of the Normandy front instead."

In front of him was the Royal Sir of the Great Empire, the commander of the Air Force, a die-hard supporter of the victory theory of the Duhei Air Force, an advocate of the victory theory of the bombing mechanism, and Air Force Admiral Harris.

The most determined, air force victory general, faced with huge losses at this time, also coaxed:

"Although the enemy has also suffered heavy losses, if the bombing continues, the morale of our bomber force will collapse first, and our boys cannot afford such huge casualties."

Twelve hundred were shot down, not counting mechanical failures, and all of them were shot down by enemy artillery fire or fighter jets, not counting mechanical failures, that is, more than 10,000 crew members were lost.

The crew is not the same as the infantry, just find a healthy person, train for two or three months and send it to the front, and survive to be the elite,

Instead, it is necessary to have a high level of Chinese, learn more than a dozen aviation professional knowledge and skills, and then after about a year of various training, finally can fly the plane to the battlefield.

Of course, the gunners had to be removed.

Gunners are still easy to recruit.

"Therefore, we should adjust our tactics, search for intelligence, and find holes in the enemy's air defense before bombing,"

Despite the heavy losses and the beating he didn't even know his mother, Harris still insisted on his theory of air force victory, believing that it only took a strong enough air force and enough bombs to win.

If the enemy also surrenders, it means that there are not enough planes and not enough bombs.

Now the Americans are once again preparing to produce more bombs, more bombers, and even to mobilize the Asian B29 fleet to Europe, which has a larger bomb load and a longer range.

Moreover, the new jet fighters of the two countries, as well as ultra-long-range escort fighters such as the P47N, are also gradually put into service, and the scale of bombing of Germany in the future will inevitably be larger and more violent.

"Okay."

Qiu Fatzi finally nodded helplessly.

He would have liked the bombing to continue.

Although the research report on the effects of the bombing has not been released, it is visible to the naked eye that a large number of displaced people have appeared in Germany recently, and the anti-war sentiment continues to rise because of these bombings, and it is obvious that the bombing is very effective.

This was the only way to support the front-line operations before the Germans were cut off.

However, reality does not allow it.

"Still."

Harris continued:

"We have to continue to carry out small bombing, especially fighter-bomber attacks, to deplete Germany's nascent air force and maintain our air superiority."

He is the commander of a strategic bomber, and he cannot call the shots of such tasks.

"I'll arrange that."

Qiu Fatzi responded very perfunctorily.

At this time, Qiu Fatzi was in a very unhappy mood.

The Germans on the Western Front were like eating gunpowder, and they suddenly did not talk, and the same was true on the peninsula, and the offensive began to reach a stalemate in June, which even affected the situation on the peninsula, and intelligence on the eastern front also came, and the situation there was also very bad, and the offensive and defense actually changed hands again.

Suddenly, the Allied good was gone.

Moreover, recent intelligence suggests that the Germans seem to be preparing to restart their bombing program.

And it's a thousand-plane bombing. Although Qiu Fatzi didn't believe it, the Germans had a lot of strange information, and which Hitler obviously had a problem with his brain, but he also paid attention to it.

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Also at the same time.

White House.

"President."

The head of intelligence, Donovan, walked into the president's office and reported:

"According to intelligence."

His tone was very solemn:

"The scale of this bombing is probably much larger than we expected."

"Even surpassing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."

"Beyond Pearl Harbor?"

The president, who was frowning, raised his head, looked at the head of the intelligence director, and said in a dissatisfied tone:

"Are you sure?"

Obviously, the president is not convinced.

Pearl Harbor: What was that?

It was a fleet attack.

Although the subject of the attack was aircraft, the attack aircraft took off from the aircraft carrier and bombed the port, destroying American warships and planes at Pearl Harbor, and then returning to the carrier to reload and attack again.

The distance between the German mainland and the continental United States is no closer than the Japanese to Hawaii.

Both are more than 6,000 kilometers in a straight line.

At such a long distance, even the most advanced bombers in the United States can only go one way without carrying bombs, and they need to refill up after landing before they can return home.

The navy of the Germans had long been completely wiped out.

Even submarines were almost completely wiped out because of the strengthening of the anti-submarine forces in the Atlantic.

And now someone told him that the Germans were about to arrive, and the attack on the American mainland could be even larger than that of the Japanese?

No one will believe this.

"Not sure."

Donovan's tone was bitter.

Recently, to be precise, since June, his intelligence work and the intelligence bureau he leads have been unsmooth, and it is completely impossible to do anything, and the budget is the first.

Before the overlord plan, the enemy's intelligence spied on the enemy, and the report was that the enemy had no ability to resist on the western front, and as a result, 2,500 tanks, a large number of anti-aircraft armored vehicles, a large number of heavy artillery fuel and other materials suddenly appeared, and a wave almost drove the landing force into the sea.

Investigating the source of supplies for the Germans, they were not found.

Investigating the project that the Germans were secretly working on did not lead to any useful information.

Investigate that Chen Fan, don't talk about this, it consumes the most resources, mobilizes the most manpower, consumes the most funds, and the report that comes out of the results is better than not checking.

This string of failures made the president visibly disappointed with the Intelligence Agency.

So much so that now he has reported the information, but has not listened to the detailed report, and directly expressed doubts.

Although, this time the intelligence, he himself expressed doubts.

This cannot be said that he is not confident, in fact, this time the intelligence is too outrageous, the Germans launched an attack on the American mainland, the scale is larger than the Japanese fleet, this is really hard to believe.

"According to known intelligence."

Donovan cleared his throat and continued:

"This attack on our homeland is under the responsibility of the same general Kesselring, who reports directly to Hitter."

"Kesselring is an air marshal, so the way of the attack should also be an air strike."

"At first, we expected this air raid to be similar to the way we attacked the Japanese mainland in the early days of the Pacific War, sending a small number of bombers from ships to bomb them."

"Either an aircraft carrier converted from a civilian ship, secretly taking off medium bombers to perform bombing, or a seaplane, or a small plane taking off from a submarine."

"However, according to the monitoring of the flow of personnel in the German Air Force, we found that a large number of pilots were secretly sent to the air base for training, with a total number of about 10,000, and the specific training items are unknown."

"Most of them are veteran pilots."

"In addition, intelligence officers have found a large number of closed airfields in northern Europe, which are heavily guarded by a large number of anti-aircraft artillery units, and aerial reconnaissance has found a large number of large closed hangars."

"Moreover, in some of the leaked information from the wolf guard, there is also a mention of a large-scale bombing of our homeland."

"Also,"

"That's all?"

The president was clearly dissatisfied.

In the absence of strong evidence on this point, can it be speculated that the United States will be bombed on a huge scale?

Intelligence work is such a child's play.

Isn't it time for a new intelligence chief?

"Although from the intelligence analysis, from the technical analysis, the probability that Britain was bombed by the Germans is higher, but the intelligence obtained from the wolf protection is very accurate, so..."

Donovan's tone was low, low, but still clearly visible.

The probability of intelligence is extremely low, but in recent times, have there been few unimaginable things that have happened to the Germans?

"Inform the British."

The president waved his hand.

"In addition, the focus is on the latest research projects of the Germans."

"Yes."

Donovan's mouth moved, and finally he left helplessly.

After that, inside the presidential palace, the people in wheelchairs fell silent for a long time.

It is impossible for the Germans to think about the large-scale bombing of the American homeland, but there is also a fact that the recent German affairs cannot be speculated on by common sense.

There is a very low probability that this is true.

But now, anti-war pressure is high in the United States, and some resistance in Congress is beginning to appear against him.

And the war, a war that involves the whole world, a difficult war, which requires great sacrifices, requires an America that gathers all its strength.

So, he needed a factor to bring America together.

For example, an attack from the enemy, with a certain scale, that causes relatively large losses.

Separated by more than 6,000 kilometers, no matter how big the scale is, how big can it be? The United States can afford it.

But.

"Let Major General Carrod come over."

Thinking about it, the president called the commander of the Native Air Defense Forces, that is, the commander of the National Guard Air Force.

Donovan has already reminded him, then, he naturally has to make a certain response, otherwise it will be easy to be caught.

So he needs to remind the troops, strengthen the domestic air defense, and as for whether it is implemented or not, it is not a question for his president.