Imperial Overlord

"This **** weather... It's more than a little worse than the Mediterranean Sea." In the bumpy plane cabin, a familiar face was still gushing out.

Lyman was really annoyed, annoyed that this gushing Gunther was not killed in the Battle of Crete.

He looked at the unique square porthole of the JU-52 transport aircraft used by German paratroopers, and looked at the slightly dim sky outside.

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

Flying from a place like Crete, where all seasons are spring-like, into cold French territory is definitely not exciting, not to mention bad weather.

The earth was approaching a little bit not far away, and Lyman felt the shudder of the JU-52's fixed landing gear hitting the ground.

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

A frigid wind rushed into the cabin with broken snowflakes, making the German paratroopers who had already put on warm clothes to feel the cold in France.

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

"Huh! It's so cold! Fortunately, we wore coats!" Carrying his own luggage. Gunther lived up to expectations and was still chattering.

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

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

Clearing runways for more than 1,100 transport aircraft of all kinds is no easy task. What's more, there are still time requirements, so the nearby garrison has participated in the labor.

If you add the aircraft stationed in the French mainland, Germany has assembled about 2,000 transport aircraft to the French region. If you include gliders, that number goes even higher.

It is calculated that the transport planes in Germany can enter France at any time, and the German army has about 3,000 planes that can be used.

Some of these planes carry paratroopers, while others carry paratroopers' ammunition and weapons. If combined with the troops descended with gliders, about 30,000 people can be delivered in one breath.

Most of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of Paratroopers, under the command of General Student, had been transferred to France. Although about 500 paratroopers were lost on Crete, replenishment was done fairly quickly.

Compared to a depressed army and a navy that was never able to meet its needs, the Luftwaffe seemed to have succeeded in its preparations from the start.

The air force under the command of Goering and Kesselring smashed the British Air Force Guards in one fell swoop, allowing German aircraft to dominate the skies over Britain.

German paratroopers have always been the trump card of the German army. After the battle of Crete, almost the whole world has known these terrible green ghosts.

Compared with the seasick army, it is clear that when the German paratroopers crossed the English Channel, the process of delivering paratroopers has not changed, and they can still fight in the way they are familiar.

Because of this advantage, the German paratroopers may be the only troops in the entire "Sea Lion Project" that can calculate the combat power according to the original combat power without any discount.

Lyman was carrying a heavy backpack, snorting hot air from his mouth and walked down the flight ladder. On another runway not far away, another JU-52 Junker aunt just stopped.

The three ugly propellers of this JU-52 are still turning non-stop, and on the lawn farther away, there are gliders without an engine parked neatly one after another.

Building these gliders doesn't take up existing aircraft lines, and these streamlined gliders are actually all wood, only reinforced with metal parts in places.

They will be towed by aircraft to fly over the UK, and then choose a suitable position to land on the ground, and the paratroopers inside will come out to fight directly.

Compared with the real paratroopers who fell scattered, the airborne paratroopers were organized as soon as they landed, so it was easier to form combat effectiveness.

Another advantage is that training such airborne paratroopers does not require the use of complex parachutes or skydiving training.

It is precisely because of this that Germany has trained more than 40,000 paratroopers in a short period of time. Many paratroopers are just airborne infantry.

It is a pity that there are no helicopters in this era, so there are more airborne combat methods, even if Li Le knows, there is no way to directly copy it.

Therefore, these gliders basically choose an area to land safely when the paratroopers have already controlled the surrounding situation.

Lehman looked at the neatly parked gliders, carrying his luggage and following the instructions of the air force officer who had come to greet them on the ground, walked to the barracks that had been prepared for them in the distance.

The paratroopers went one by one, carrying all kinds of luggage and supplies, and finally joined together. They gathered from a dozen people to a hundred and ten people, and then gathered into hundreds of people, densely moving into the distance.

And in the distance in the sky, there are still planes approaching a little bit. The sound of engines near the airport continued one after another, and a plane landed here every not too long.

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"The Germans are gathering troops to France... Every day, intelligence officers report to us that they have seen a transport plane flying to France!" A British intelligence officer reported the news sent by himself offline.

Sir Dill, who had gathered the news, felt his head blowing. He had just returned from the construction site on Wall Peninsula a few minutes ago, and he had not even had time to take off his coat.

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

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

Building a spy network covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers will not happen overnight. And the intelligence network established in a hurry is often worrying in terms of reliability...

For example, the underground resistance organization developed in France, although the United Kingdom provided a lot of funds, often used submarines to send weapons and radio stations, but the actual effect was not satisfactory.

These temporarily formed resistance organizations, on the one hand, may be killed again at any time, and on the other hand, there is a fatal problem, that is, unprofessionalism!

Yes, not professional! Most of the information reported by these newly developed spy networks is vague and highly subjective.

For example, they saw three planes flying overhead, and sometimes they could only pass back vague information like "a few planes flew over."

Even with precision, they cannot discern and judge problems. In short, they don't handle and authenticate information, which leaves the British intelligence services fidgeting to help with this.

However, the staff of the British intelligence department in the rear did not go to the front to see what happened with their own eyes, so many of the converted news are meaningless or completely contrary to the truth.

For example, now, Sir Dill is holding the telegram in his hand, and he doesn't believe at all that the Germans have assembled 1,000 planes, which sounds ridiculous.

What is a thousand planes? Does it count the fighter jets, or not the number of fighter jets? If you count fighter jets, Germany has already assembled more than 1,000 aircraft near the French coastline, or even more than 5,000. Do you still need to say that?

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

In other words, this intelligence shows that the Germans are far from ready for the preparatory work for landing in the UK... These are just analysis of the intelligence content on paper. If other considerations are included, there will be more trade-offs.

For example, is this number accurate? If it's accurate, that package doesn't include the entire territory of France? Is it local to the region, or the whole of France? This is the problem.

So, in the end, what Dill could do was to throw the telegram in his hand on the desk, and waved his hand to his opponent and said, "I know about this matter, you copy two copies to Mr. Prime Minister and the Air Force Command. ."

It has snowed in France recently, and the weather in the UK is not very good. The clouds are very thick, but German reconnaissance planes are still visiting the British coastline tirelessly, taking useful or useless photos.

Judging from the frequent activities of German reconnaissance aircraft, UU reading www. uukanshu.com It seems that the Germans really intend to fight an unprecedented large-scale landing battle in the winter.

"How is this possible?" Dill said to himself, looking at the map marked with many incoherent fortification symbols.

The German navy was already at a disadvantage, and the German troops did not have the combat experience of such a large-scale landing. In any way, it seems that the Germans have to wait until after February.

But for some reason, Dill just felt that the Germans were trying to be real this time, and this intuition made him sleepless.

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

Today, Britain, although it seems to have a million troops, the north has been paralyzed. And the south near London, although not completely paralyzed, is not optimistic.

It is not an easy task to prevent the large-scale and planned landing operations of the German army by relying on the troops that are currently difficult to mobilize.