Imperial Overlord

"Where did Liszt advance?" Li Le stopped in the corridor, turned around, and asked Keitel, who was following behind him.

Of course, the High Command knew how far the fighting in the Balkans was going, but everyone was focusing on Brest these days, and didn't bother about the Balkans, which were sure of everything.

If Marshal Liszt, with the armored division and the elite mechanized infantry, couldn't even deal with the hundreds of thousands of rabble and the roaring British troops, then his water marshal was too much.

"Marshal Liszt's 12th Army's attack went very smoothly, and there are less than two days to go from Athens..." Keitel quickly answered when he heard the Fuhrer's question.

"If we attack and seize Crete now, will it be difficult?" Li Le looked at Keitel and asked anxiously.

Just now, Li Le turned around in his mind and found that the place where the opponent's counterattack is the most sharp now is not Brest, where Germany has deployed heavy troops, but Libya, which has a seriously insufficient defense force.

Earlier, German patrols found the bodies of unidentified reconnaissance troops in the desert, which means that the other party did try to find oil fields in the desert.

Assuming that the other party already knows the location of the oil field, then attacking the Libyan oil field now is undoubtedly more effective than attacking Brest or Romania, whose defenses are so powerful.

To be honest, Li Le would rather lose the military port of Brest than lose the Libyan oil field.

Losing the port of Brest, the navy was hit hard, and the war would be passive for at least two more years. But if the Libyan oil fields are lost, Germany will not have enough oil to continue the war next year.

"My head of state, I don't know much about paratroopers. If we land at sea, I can't estimate how much support Italy can give us..." Keitel really didn't expect the head of state to ask him such a question. He could only answer bravely.

Regarding the attack on Crete, although the Army and Air Force had already made an offensive plan, Keitel was the general of the Supreme Command and did not focus on the Balkans.

The peninsula, which has beaten the British and the Greeks to pieces, is there anything to be concerned about now? Keitel thought to himself.

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

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

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

If there was no real historical bombing of Romania at all costs, Li Le could not have guessed that the Allies would have thought of such a vicious tactic.

Historically, the bombing against Romania has not achieved much results. Relying on the convenient geographical advantage, it is also close to Germany, so it is very convenient to resume production.

But if it was Libya that was bombed, it would be more than a disaster. Libya's infrastructure is very backward, and reconstruction efforts are not comparable to Romania's.

That is almost the same as rebuilding a Libyan oil field. All the equipment destroyed by bombing has to be transported to Africa from far away Germany and Italy.

And the defense of these fragile and important facilities is only in Romania, and less than one-tenth of the troops are simply thin-skinned and big stuffing, delicious and cheap...

This time, the Allies did not have to pay such a high price to find Germany's soft underbelly in Libya, where the defense force 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.

"Tell Ribbentrop not to go! Stay! You go and get Goering and General Stedent to come to me!" Li Le hurriedly spoke and gave the order to reconvene the battle meeting.

Keitel said helplessly and reminded: "My head of state, Marshal Goring is probably already in the car returning to the manor... As for General Student, he may not be able to arrive in a short time..."

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

Compared with the unreliable sea landing, Li Le had high hopes for German paratroopers who were able to recruit and fight well.

Expanding the scale of the paratroopers, and striving to use more paratroopers to participate in the war when landing in the UK, can more or less make up for the shortcomings of the lack of German maritime transport forces.

Moreover, compared with the naval landing, the paratrooper landing also has the characteristics of more concealment, the delivery is more sudden, and the combat position after landing is also better.

If you attack the opponent's coastline head-on, you must meet the opponent's firepower head-on. The paratroopers fought behind enemy lines and could avoid a large number of pre-positioned firepower.

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

He looked at Keitel and changed his order: "Let everyone hold a battle planning meeting for Crete in the Balkans tomorrow! Including General Student."

"In addition." When he said this, he paused for a while, and then added: "In my name, order the troops stationed in Libya to raise the alert level and beware of British sneak attacks!"

Li Le is worried that Libya will be attacked and ruin the good situation. Keitel nodded and understood Li Le's concerns.

"I understand! I will go back to the office immediately and order the Libyan air defense forces to be on alert," Keitel promised.

"Not only the air defense forces of the oil field, but also the port of Sirte will also enter a state of combat readiness! The enemy will attack anywhere in Libya at any time!" Li Le solemnly instructed.

Thinking of the previous incident of the British aircraft carrier attacking Benghazi, I told him that if Sirte was attacked, the result would be very difficult to deal with.

Sirte was finally built into a port with a huge throughput capacity. If it is destroyed, the actual role of Libyan oil fields will also be greatly reduced.

Therefore, both places are extremely important, and the originally small air force will be dispersed again, which is not good news for the defending Germany.

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

The nighttime bombing of the port of Brest began after the Luftwaffe had just won the daytime battle with a big victory.

"Alert! Alert! Take off the fighter jets! Quick! Intercept the bombers coming from the UK!" The alarm bells rang in the airbase, and the pilots climbed into their fighter jets, surrounded by ground staff.

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

Taking off fighter jets at night to intercept enemy planes is naturally not comparable to that in the daytime, but the number of night fighter jets is indeed not as large as that of single-engine day fighter jets.

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 20mm cannons and had a simple nose-mounted radar guidance device.

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

Carrying a large amount of ammunition, the ME-110 fighter with sufficient gun power can be said to be a very good night interceptor fighter.

Later, this kind of aircraft was eliminated, not because of insufficient size and firepower, but because of insufficient height and flight speed.

The 20 ME-110 fighter jets here have just disappeared, and another batch of the latest JU-88 night fighter jets that took off from other airports has also completed takeoff, and 10 formations rushed to the distant target.

The new JU-88 night fighter has a more powerful radar and is also an experimental new model.

It can not only use its own radar to find the attack target, but also has the oblique music weapon system that has just been developed!

To be honest, Oblique Music is not a new weapon system, it just changes the old weapons into a different way of playing.

Therefore, when Li Le proposed the concept of the oblique music weapon system, it only took one afternoon for German engineers to make it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Today, this new weapon is the first time In the war, it was installed on the back of the larger JU-88 bomber, and 4 doors were installed in a square shape in one go.

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

Of course, the radar used by the JU-88 at this time is not as advanced as the future radar. But the enemies JU-88 and ME-110 have to face are not as ferocious as they were after 1943.

A fierce aerial battle unfolding in the dark night is about to begin. On the offensive side were more than 100 A-20s and Hampton bombers taking off from Britain; on the defensive side were the German night fighters that were taking off non-stop.

More ME-110 fighter jets took off and joined the intercepting formation, and the ground guidance station guided them towards the target.

Below them, all the lights in the port of Brest have been extinguished, the anti-aircraft guns and searchlights are ready, everyone is holding their heads, waiting for the moment when the battle starts.