The Rise of the Third Reich

"Boom!"

When the 4.81-ton grenade exploded in the Dover Fortress area, Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was hiding in the underground bunker, suddenly felt the earth shaking, as if the end of the world was coming.

Although the impact point of the artillery shell was still some distance away from the underground headquarters, all the people in the headquarters were shaken by the huge vibration, and the electric lights suddenly dimmed, and then flickered on and off. A few young staff officers in the underground bunker who usually looked elegant could not even suppress their screams.

The power of the Dora Cannon and the Gustav Cannon are truly unprecedented!

"It must be Dora and the Gustav cannon firing!"

On the Norwegian Sea, Vice Admiral Paulus was already on the bridge at this time, standing side by side with the captain of the Baltic, an old naval colonel in his sixties with a gray beard.

The old colonel's surname was Attenborough, with "Von" in his name. Judging from his age, you can tell that he is an old navy who participated in World War I. He served as captain of a destroyer group during World War I, fought in the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, and competed with the Russians in the Baltic Sea. After the last war, he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He originally thought that he would never have the chance to wear the uniform again in this life.

But who would have known that the German Navy would be in an era when it was about to turn around. However, the originally small German Navy had a serious shortage of talent reserves, and it was not even able to recruit enough captains for a while. So we can only find the aging veterans, retrain them, and let them return to their old jobs.

Colonel Attenborough learned to fly airplanes during the interwar, and is now assigned to the Marine Corps as the captain of an amphibious assault ship.

After hearing what Paulus said, the old colonel Attenborough also raised his telescope and looked at the shaking scene dozens of kilometers away, and he was also a little surprised.

"This firepower is really fierce!" said the old colonel. "It seems that we may be able to pass through the strait unharmed."

The old man didn't believe that he could pass safely at first. The British had been operating in Dover for who knows how many years. How could it be so easy for the Germans to pass? But now, he also somewhat believes that the British Empire will soon be finished - because they can hardly even defend the door of their own home.

"There will be no problem." Paulus said, wiping his palms. "The British will have a very difficult time tonight. Their radar will be jammed by us and they will not even notice that we have passed through the strait. No. , It’s not that we can’t find it, but we will find that we have crossed the strait.”

What has...or is passing through the strait is Langsdorff's torpedo boat detachment. They are dragging aluminum foil balloons to create the illusion of the passage of the Grand Fleet on the British radar screen. On the one hand, it was to lure the British to expose their firepower, and on the other hand, it was to create the illusion that the fleet had passed.

Of course, such a "balloon-detonated artillery shell" action would not be without cost. Although the British artillery shells did not hit a torpedo speedboat, the huge waves created by these shells overturned several of them. Among them was Langsdorff's "flagship". The rear admiral once again lost his ship and was now swimming, desperately trying to swim to the beach on the French side of the southern shore of the English Channel.

"Sir, the radar seems to be broken!"

"Broken?" Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was directing operations in a bunker headquarters that shook occasionally and shed some dust, heard another piece of bad news.

"How many were broken?" Rear Admiral Tennant asked.

Of course, there is not just one 284 fire control radar in the Dover Coast Battery, but 20. Each "real fort" has a 284 radar. Theoretically, as long as one 284 radar can work properly, it can guide Dover's 20 forts to fire.

"Everything is broken!"

The staff officer's answer surprised Rear Admiral Tennant. How could everything be broken? Although the Germans' firepower was fierce, several armored turrets had been blown up by an incredibly powerful bomb, and one or two super cannons of unknown caliber were firing. But there are still many forts safe and sound. How could the radar be broken?

It turned out that Rear Admiral Tennant and his men did not know about aluminum chaff jamming radar. Although British radar experts had long known and experimented with this method, the RAF also stockpiled large quantities of aluminum chaff strips used for jamming. But neither Britain nor Germany had used aluminum chaff jamming bombs on the front line before today, nor had they made this "secret weapon" public.

Because this kind of "aluminum foil jamming bomb" is only valuable in large-scale air strikes, but Britain and Germany have so far been relatively restrained on the issue of littering bombs, and the bombing behind enemy lines has been limited to the level of harassment bombing. That is to say, a few dozen high-speed, high-altitude bombers are dispatched at a time, and they can break through with speed and altitude. Moreover, the radars of both sides are not particularly reliable these days. The breakthroughs of several high-altitude and high-speed aircraft may not be detected by the other side's radar. If they throw aluminum chaff strips all the way, wouldn't they clearly tell the other side where they are?

Therefore, both Britain and Germany regard this low-tech but very effective anti-radar weapon as a highly confidential trump card, and they do not know that the other party already has the same equipment.

"What? All the radars in the Strait of Dover area were damaged!? How is this possible?" British Prime Minister Churchill suddenly became a little blind when he heard the news.

Needless to say, these radars must have been damaged by the Germans! And their landing fleet is near the Strait of Dover! Is it really going to land at Dover? Dover is not that far from London!

"Prime Minister, the technical department believes that the Germans used aluminum foil jamming bombs." Viscount Porter, Chief of Staff of the Royal Air Force, saw Churchill showing fear and quickly comforted him, "In fact, we also have the same weapons."

Churchill seemed not to have heard his words and just asked in a hesitant tone: "Will it be Dover? Will London be raided by airborne troops?"

can you? God knows!

No one can answer these two questions.

"Prime Minister, there are enough defenders in Dover." Viscount Brooke, the Imperial Chief of Staff, replied. "And London is also very well defended and will not be captured by tens of thousands of airborne troops."

There are many defenders in London. The number of regular combat troops alone exceeds 100,000, and they are also deployed in the British Army's elite Guards Armored Division. Of course, such a defense cannot be captured by a sudden attack from the sky.

However, Churchill was still worried. He was silent for a moment, and then said to the cabinet members: "His Majesty the King cannot be allowed to stay in London any longer. I propose that His Majesty the King go to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands immediately."

Fort William is located in the dangerous Scottish Highlands, next to the forest lake that leads to the Bay of Lorne, with Ben Nevis covered in snow all year round, and surrounded by mountains and canyons. It is definitely a good place to persist in the resistance struggle. .

According to the plan, once the Germans landed on British soil, the king and most of his cabinet would move to Fort William to lead the resistance. London was handed over to the Princess Regent Elizabeth and Deputy Prime Minister Attlee.

But now Fatty Qiu was not sure whether the Germans were really going to land, so he made a compromise and let the king leave first, while he and the cabinet stayed behind for a few days to check the situation.

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"Boom!"

A huge fireball suddenly rose on the sea in the southern Strait of Dover. In the light of the fire, a cargo ship of 4,000 to 5,000 tons loaded with ammunition was broken into two parts and was sinking rapidly.

"Submarine! There's a British submarine nearby!"

Someone immediately shouted on the bridge of the Norwegian Sea amphibious assault ship. Lieutenant General Paulus and Colonel Attenborough looked at each other, both of them looking a little ugly. It escaped Dover's cannon but could not avoid the submarine ambushing in the water... No, now the cannon could not escape either, because the ship that was hit and set on fire was a target for cannonballs on the dark sea.

"Colonel, the Friedrich I ordered us to take the anti-submarine route!" At this time, the communications officer on the Norwegian Sea shouted.

The guided-missile cruiser Friedrich I is the flagship of Admiral Rolf Karls, commander of the 5th Fleet, and all ships currently passing through the Strait of Dover are under his command.

"Quick, quick, quick, Z-shaped anti-submarine route!" Colonel Attenborough quickly ordered to the first officer.

As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball shot up on the sea. This time, a T-type landing ship converted into a fire support ship was hit by a torpedo. It did not sink immediately, but ignited a fire on the sea. No There were also bursts of explosions like fireworks—the rockets or high-explosive ammunition on the ship were exploded!

"Hell, there's a British submarine nearby!" Colonel Attenborough gasped as he looked out the bridge window at the unlucky fireworks ship not too far away from the Baltic.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

By this time, the escorting destroyers and torpedo ships (actually light destroyers) had reacted and began to use flares and drop depth charges.

At present, the German Navy's anti-submarine weapons mainly include two types, one is depth bombs, and the other is hedgehog depth bombs. These two weapons were invented by the British to deal with German submarines, but now they have become a weapon used by the German Navy against British submarines. Since the control of the sea in the Atlantic has changed hands, it is no longer a European coalition led by the German Navy to break the war. The main task of the fleet is now.

Admiral Dönitz, commander of the German Navy's submarine force, was transferred to the commander of the newly established European Joint Escort Command after the "Battle of the Sea of ​​Fog". There are also many German Sea Wolves who have made great achievements in breaking the war. Now They all followed Dönitz and changed careers to become destroyer captains.