The decisive battle against the Third Reich

First of all, thank you for your support to the soldiers. There is nothing much to say. Please continue to work hard to update and express your gratitude with more and better articles.

Secondly... I still want to apologize, this chapter has led you into a ditch. There are foreshadowings ahead, I don’t know if anyone has discovered it.

"I know!" Qin Chuan replied: "This is not a good idea, but do we have any other options?"

"The problem is that we can't get close, Lieutenant Colonel!" Shuster said: "How do we get there? By ship? Submarine? Or by plane? You know that is Dover. If the Allies built a fake military there, The base will definitely be heavily protected and our transportation vehicles will not be able to get close to it!"

"Since that 'Mart' can swim over there, we can definitely swim over there!" Qin Chuan said.

"You're right, Lieutenant Colonel!" Shuster replied: "But he didn't set out from Dover, and he swam for twenty hours..."

"What are your plans?" Rommel interrupted Schuster.

"First of all, I need to know the range of activities of their warships!" Qin Chuan replied.

Rommel turned his attention to Colonel Schuster, who immediately took out paper and pen and said while drawing a sketch: "This is the strait between Dover and Calais, with a total width of 34 kilometers. British warships Patrol boats generally operate in the waters 15 kilometers away from Dover. The reason is that we have five 280MM caliber coastal defense guns in Calais. Their range is 20 kilometers and they will pose a great threat to warships! "

"What about tonight?" Qin Chuan asked again.

"Their patrol range will be wider at night, up to 20 kilometers!" Colonel Schuster replied: "But no ship, including submarines, can pass their blockade, because we tried!"

"I know, Colonel Schuster!" Qin Chuan replied: "But you must have never tried to be a diver!"

"Divers may be able to do it!" Colonel Schuster said, "But the oxygen tanks the divers carry can only last for one hour at most!"

Qin Chuan also knew something about this. There was no special frogman unit at this time, so the diving equipment was for civilian use and the diving time was relatively short.

(The first person to use diving for reconnaissance should be the US military, which used divers to conduct hydrographic reconnaissance in relevant sea areas during the Pacific War)

"We don't dive all the time!" Qin Chuan replied: "And we can also modify a small thruster like 'Mart', and we can carry a few more oxygen bottles on the small thruster!"

"This may be a way!" Rommel said: "But you can't do it within twelve hours. When it gets dark, you will be discovered by the maritime patrol force!"

"We don't need twelve hours to reach our destination!" Qin Chuan drew a center line on the English Channel on the sketch and said, "Because we start from here, which is the center!"

"How is it possible?" Rommel said: "How can you set off from here? Any means of transportation will be discovered by the enemy!"

"Helicopter!" Qin Chuan replied.

Rommel couldn't help but be stunned, and then nodded slightly.

Helicopters are indeed a good choice. They can fly at low altitudes to designated sea areas at night without being detected by radar, and then the commandos can jump from the helicopter into the sea.

In this way, at least half the time can be saved, and if the propeller speed is fast, the destination can be reached in a shorter time.

"What a great idea!" After thinking about it, Rommel nodded and said, "The radar of the Allied fleet can scan submarines, aircraft, and ships, but it cannot see the divers on the seabed!"

"But..." Colonel Slaine asked doubtfully, "I want to know how they come back after completing their mission?"

Qin Chuan remained silent, and Rommel did not speak either.

Then it dawned on Colonel Slain, and he shook his head and said, "No, that's not a good idea!"

The obvious answer is that there is no way of returning safely, because it is Britain, an island.

There was only one way back, by sea.

But returning from the sea was almost impossible... Britain and the United States had huge navies, and German warships and submarines could not even enter the English Channel, let alone go to Dover to rescue people.

Diving back was unrealistic, not to mention that the British would not give them the opportunity to return to the coast, and they would not be able to carry so many oxygen bottles.

So, this is like a U-827 submarine conducting a reconnaissance of the Edinburgh military base. It is a one-way mission.

"Have you decided, Lieutenant Colonel?" Rommel asked.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

Sometimes it is necessary to make some sacrifices in order for the troops to gain a strategic advantage.

Qin Chuan understood this, and so did Rommel.

"I will never agree to one thing!" Rommel said to Qin Chuan: "You can't lead the team in this operation!"

In fact, Rommel did not need to tell Qin Chuan to know this.

So Qin Chuan felt a little guilty towards his subordinates.

If possible, Qinchuan didn't even want his own troops to carry out this mission, but with the quality of Rommel's troops in France... they were simply not qualified for this kind of special operations.

So, the plan quickly unfolded.

The first step is to mobilize the First Infantry Regiment in the shortest possible time.

In fact there was no need to bring the whole regiment, just one battalion... Their train had just arrived in Berlin.

At Rommel's command, he immediately arranged several transport planes to transport the First Battalion directly to the Maginot Line, and then took a helicopter from the Maginot Line to Paris in the dark to start training.

On the other hand, it is to prepare diving equipment.

Other diving equipment is easy to solve, diving suits and other things are ready, Rommel even specially transferred ten experienced divers from the navy to prepare for the commando training.

The difficult thing is the underwater propeller.

You have to ask the spy "Mat" who has modified and used this thing personally.

In fact, this thing is not difficult.

Because it is used underwater, it must use electricity... Gasoline engines and diesel engines need air so they cannot work in water.

Simply put, it is a battery that drives a propeller to rotate.

The danger lies in the need to protect the propeller, otherwise the sharp and high-speed rotating blades and the water flow it brings can easily cause harm to the person driving it.

These can be easily solved with Germany's industrial level, and this underwater propeller can be produced in a short time.

Not only that, it is said that its speed and carrying capacity will be increased exponentially, which means that Qin Chuan's idea of ​​bringing more oxygen cylinders can be fully realized.

What Qin Chuan has to worry about is whether he can bring these subordinates back again and again.

But no matter how hard Qin Chuan tries, he tries all kinds of methods and angles, but there is no way to have the best of both worlds.