The Rise of the Third Reich

Hersmann, wearing a gray marshal's uniform, got out of the open Mercedes-Benz sedan, holding the scepter of the Imperial Marshal in his hand, his personal secretary Natalie and the new chief adjutant Colonel Heinz Brandt. Then they got out of the car first, and now they are waiting by the car door with their handbags in hand. Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann, was already standing at the gate of the Eagle's Nest. Seeing Hessmann appear, he quickly stepped forward and raised his hand in salute.

"Marshal of the Empire, welcome." Bowman said in a flattering tone.

"Hello, Martin." Hersman shook hands with Martin Bowman.

"The leader was on the phone with the Roman Caesar, so he couldn't come out to greet him," Bowman told Hersman. "He was outraged by the atrocities that happened in Buenos Aires."

The city of Buenos Aires suffered heavy losses in yesterday's bombing. Large areas of the urban area were turned into ruins or ashes. At least 100,000 people were made homeless. Tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded in the bombing. There were no less than 10,000 people, mainly poor people who were burned by the fire. Many people were seriously injured and in great pain.

After the bombing, Juan Peron immediately emerged from the basement of the Rose Palace and went to the European Allied Forces Command to seek help from Falkenhorst and Canaris. Later, he asked Hitler and Mussolini for help, at least as ambassadors to Germany and Rome.

It was because of Juan Peron's request for help that Hitler called Hersmann from Zossen to the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden.

When he walked into Hitler's office, the Chancellor of the Third Reich looked very calm, with a smile on his face. He stood up from behind the desk and went up to shake hands with Hersmann: "Reichsmarschall, our South American little friend. They are in trouble and need our help. Do we have the ability to help them? "

"Of course we have spare capacity." Hersman said, "I had a phone call with Olga before getting on the plane, and she agreed to send 300 pilots who have received Fw190 driving training to form a Royal Russian Air Force expeditionary division to Argentina."

"Send the Russians?"

"Yes, just send the Russians, they are enough to deal with the Americans."

The Royal Russian Air Force was formed based on the renegade Soviet Red Air Force pilots. It is not very large, with only 1,000 commonly used combat aircraft. However, it has many first-class pilots - these are elites who grew up in the competition with the German Air Force, and are especially good at interception operations.

Therefore, after receiving the report from the European Allied Forces Headquarters in New Asbania, Hersman immediately hung up the phone to Olga in Petrograd and asked her to send out an air expeditionary force.

"Where are our people?" Hitler asked, "Are we not strong enough?"

"Of course the strength is sufficient," Herschmann replied, "but we should convince the enemy that our aviation strength is not sufficient."

The aviation forces of the European Community are now mainly the German Air Force, the German Naval Aviation, the French Air Force and the French Naval Aviation. The Russian Royal Air Force can only be regarded as scraps, while the strength of the British Royal Air Force is mainly used on the Indian battlefield, and the air forces of other countries are basically soy sauce.

The German Air Force, German Naval Aviation, French Air Force and French Naval Aviation are quite powerful. The total number of various standing combat aircraft (excluding trainer aircraft, transport aircraft and reserve aircraft) exceeds 23,000! Although it cannot be compared with the number of commonly used aircraft owned by Americans, the structure is more reasonable, the performance of the fighter aircraft is more advanced, and the technical level of the pilots is also higher. Therefore, it has always had an advantage in air power in the two battlefields of the Atlantic Ocean and Guyana-Caribbean.

However, the current advantage of the European common air power is not enough to support the implementation of the "Fort Gauch Plan". Therefore, it is necessary to transfer the American air power from the direction of Newfoundland to the direction of the Caribbean and New Asbania.

To achieve the purpose of attracting American air power with New Asbania, the Americans must feel that the air power of Germany and France is approaching the limit of use-23,000 aircraft may seem like a lot at first glance (it is actually a lot) , but the proportion of serious shore-based fighters (including heavy fighters) is not high.

Among the more than 20,000 aircraft, there are more than 5,000 various carrier-based aircraft and seaplanes; there are no less than 5,000 various types of shore-based medium and long-range reconnaissance aircraft, medium and heavy bombers; at the same time, there are various types of anti-aircraft The number of ground attack aircraft (including fighter-bombers) also exceeds 5,000. Three five thousand is fifteen thousand, which means that the total number of shore-based fighter jets owned by France and Germany is only 8,000.

And these 8,000 fighters cannot all be used as interceptors. At least 2,000 of them must be used for various escort and cover (covering bases, fleets and reconnaissance aircraft) missions. The final six thousand aircraft that can be used as interceptors will guard the Atlantic Islands, the Atlantic Barrier, Guyana-Northern Brazil, New Asbania and important cities and facilities in Europe. The force strength is not tight, but it is definitely not. To the point of relaxation.

"Although the American aviation force is nearly twice as large as ours," Herschmann then told Hitler, "it is far from being able to be fully deployed in all theaters. Because the quality of the US military's fighter planes and pilots is They are not as good as us, and they must deploy a large number of fighter planes all along the eastern coast to intercept our missiles and attack our missile carrier formations.”

Although the German air force and navy did not launch many missiles at large cities on the east coast of the United States, they did contain a lot of American aviation forces.

In addition, the successful air attack on Bermuda by the Br.810 twin-engine carrier-based bomber of the French Naval Aviation also sounded the alarm to the Americans that Bermuda might fall. So in the past two months, the US military has been expanding its facilities on the Bermuda Islands. It is estimated that a large number of aviation and ground forces will be deployed there.

Hersmann told Hitler: "The dispatch of the Russian Air Expeditionary Force to Buenos Aires is just the beginning of a series of deception operations. There will be further operations that will make the Americans believe that the Caribbean is the target area for our attack."

The "Fort Gotchi Plan" is now close to being finalized, and a copy will soon be sent to Chancellor Adolf Hitler's office - a campaign of this level to land in North America requires the approval of the High Command Meeting, and Hitler serves as the High Command Meeting As one of the three giants, it is natural to study the details of the "Fort Gotchi Plan". What Hersmann now told Hitler was a key detail of the "Fort Gotsch Plan."

"What are you going to do?" Hitler asked.

Hersman said: "The biggest obstacle to the attack on Newfoundland is not the US ground forces on the island, nor the F7F, but the P51 deployed there. This kind of fighter can compete with the Fokker 636 for air supremacy. , so we must convince the Americans that our target is Trinidad. Therefore, we plan to have the Air Force’s Fokker 636s and Fw190s pretend to be naval aviation aircraft to fight in the Guyana-Caribbean battlefield, while stationing a few in Belém Port. A large aircraft carrier.”

Because the carrier-based Me262T high-speed jet aircraft will definitely participate in the "Fort Gotchi Plan" operations, the F7F will not pose a huge threat to the attacking fleet. But the P51, a fighter with superior mid- and low-altitude performance, is a problem. A heavy aircraft like the Me262T cannot deal with such a flexible fighter below 5,000 meters (but the powerful firepower of the Me262T is enough to fight against the sturdy F7F below 5,000 meters. If With the cooperation of the Fokker 636, the F7F poses no threat). If the Americans deploy too many P51s on Newfoundland, it will be a big trouble for the EC landing fleet that relies on carrier-based aircraft to achieve air superiority.

After all, the number of aircraft carriers that the European Community Joint Fleet can dispatch is limited, and the number of carrier-based aircraft that can be carried is more than a thousand at most. Among them, the Fokker 636, which can dominate at medium and low altitudes, can have up to 1,000 aircraft. It is impossible to crush the P51, which has more than 1,000 aircraft, because the aircraft deployed by the United States on Newfoundland are shore-based aircraft that are easily replenished, so it is not advisable to use carrier-based aircraft to fight a war of attrition with them.

Therefore, the air attack on Newfoundland must be carried out in one step, destroying the main airport on the island before the landing operation begins, and completely taking control of the air.

With air control, the European Community Navy, which already has sea control, can block the sea area between Newfoundland and the North American continent through large-scale mine laying. In this way, Newfoundland will become an isolated and helpless island, and it will be difficult to defeat it. It's not difficult anymore. In fact, it does not need to be completely defeated. It is enough to allow the landing troops to establish a bridgehead where a large airport can be deployed.

After Hessmann roughly outlined the specific plan to seize air supremacy over Newfoundland and blockade the island, Hitler pondered for a moment and asked: "Do we need diplomatic cooperation? Our peace negotiations with the Americans have resumed. Do we need to Take the opportunity to send some wrong signals?”

"Of course, of course, we need cooperation from the diplomatic level." Hessman nodded. "Didn't the Americans put forward a demand for self-determination of the American nations? I think we can go further and put forward the demand for the separation of Britain and Canada and the neutrality of Canada... We should Let them mistakenly believe that we are consistent with their position on dismantling the British Empire.

In addition, we should further advance our demand for a Caribbean federation. It is to merge the British and French territories in the Caribbean with other independent countries to form an independent, free, democratic and neutral federal state.

I think Americans will turn their attention entirely to the Caribbean and ignore the dangers of Newfoundland. "