Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty-Three A Person's War
This is an error.
A wrong time, a wrong deployment of troops, a wrong military operation.
"I'm sorry." British Air Force Commander Dowding couldn't look into Churchill's expectant eyes.
He really didn't want to express his judgment, but reality did not allow him to say some nice but meaningless words of comfort.
Looking behind the desk with some embarrassment, Dowding glanced at Churchill, who was waiting for the result with his fingers crossed. Dowding said with great difficulty: "Our bombing formation was calculated by the Germans and was surrounded and annihilated by German fighter jets several times larger than itself. The fighter formation was outnumbered.
In the end, it was difficult to retreat, but only half of the fighters were withdrawn..."
Dowding paused, took another deep breath, and then summoned his strength and said: "Prime Minister, in the short term, the Royal Air Force will no longer be able to launch any air strikes against Germany."
In fact, this is the most euphemistic way of saying it. Not to mention launching air strikes against Germany, the current Royal Air Force even wants to defend the airspace of the British Isles. It is already a luxury.
The air raid on Calaisgaon was carried out by the entire British top brass, after careful consideration in a very short period of time, and then immediately ordered the implementation. The gap was extremely short, and it was really difficult for leaks to occur. And they relied on them to launch this operation.
Successful deciphering of the German cipher machine.
In order to hide the deciphering of his German code, Churchill even reluctantly accepted a large-scale bombing by the German army, shattering his teeth and swallowing a lot of losses.
Everything is for today.
Churchill, or the current senior officials of the British Empire, actually saw it very clearly that the German army seemed to be wealthy and invincible. However, no matter how powerful their army was, they could not cross the English Channel and land on their own feet and tracks.
As long as you fight for losses and sink the German transport ships concentrated in the port, leaving them without ships to transport troops, your country, Britain, will be relatively safe within a certain period of time.
By that time, even though the Royal Navy was severely weakened and the Royal Air Force had been severely damaged in the final bombing campaign. However, it was impossible for the German army without sufficient troop transport ships to land on the British Isles.
The Port of Calais, the largest port closest to the British mainland, and the German telegram clearly pointed out that the port where troop transport ships are concentrated in important areas, is the opportunity that Britain strives for.
Churchill knew very well that what Britain lacked most now was time. As long as they could squeeze the concentrated strength of the Royal Air Force this time and exchange for the time difference for the German army to cross the river without a boat, they would be able to obtain more supplies from the United States. By then,
Even the militiamen armed by Churchill were able to replace their guns with cannons, greatly increasing their strength.
Yes, after the two disastrous attacks on Narvik in Norway and Dunkirk in France, the British troops were small and there were not many trained soldiers. However, under Churchill's crazy move of all-people troops, the British Empire's combat department
But he estimated that he would receive more than 1.5 million cannon fodder.
Although these civilians who use old stock weapons and lack military training will seriously lack heavy weapons support and will be crushed by the German regular army, they can still play a limited role. As long as the German transport ships are insufficient, the British
The army can lose a lot of cannon fodder, plus its own coastal artillery force, shrink the local fleet that defends the offshore, shrink the local Royal Air Force, and a small number of regular army troops. With the assistance of beach minefields, coastal barbed wire, and machine gun positions,
Drive the small number of German landing troops into the sea.
Although many forts in the British mainland are too old and not suitable for modern warfare. Their beach minefields have lost more than one-third due to continuous destruction by the German Air Force and Navy. The Army is even more concerned about sending heavy weapons to
Went to Dunkirk, then lost all his strength, and became a small arms infantryman during World War I.
However, after all, it can still be used to increase the number.
The Hurricane fighter production line established in Canada has become more and more mature and will soon be able to feed the mainland. Roosevelt in the United States finally agreed to Churchill's request and agreed to use 40 old and outdated destroyers that were both dilapidated and extremely ineffective.
In exchange for some of the British overseas bases that Churchill took out.
Although the British side of this transaction seems to be at a disadvantage, with this batch of almost junk-like destroyers, Churchill can strengthen his escort fleet to deal with the German "Wolf Pack" submarine commanded by a middle-aged man named Dönitz.
force.
With the strengthened transport fleet, the British mainland can get more supplies, weapons, and equipment from the United States and Canada...
Time. As long as Churchill is given another two or three years, no, even just one year of stability, he will be able to re-expand an army force that is barely competent for local coastal defense.
However, Dowding told him that this bombing operation, which was completed in one battle, failed?!
"How could it possibly fail!" Churchill felt as if he was in a dream. The air raid on which he had risked everything failed like this?
"It doesn't matter how much the Air Force loses, we can make up for it. Using the new Hurricane fighter planes produced in Canada and the fighter planes bought by the United States, we can train pilots in the north. As long as we blow up the German transport ships and gain time, we can
It’s not considered a failure.”
Churchill was very eager. Dowding would tell him additionally at this time that the so-called failure just referred to a failure at the combat level, a failure in the air force confrontation. From the perspective of the results of the bombing mission alone, it was a success.
Unfortunately, Dowding continued with a very regretful face: "Prime Minister, on the one hand, the Air Force suffered heavy losses. On the other hand, according to the report of the surviving pilots who retreated, the Germans parked in the port of Calais was not a troop transport ship, but a
There was a pile of wooden model ships camouflaged with paint. What is certain is that the Germans set a trap for us, and we just fell into it."
What do you mean the Germans set a trap and we just fell into it? After hearing Dowding's reply, Churchill almost cursed.
Unless the Germans had long since determined that their code had been deciphered, and had seen through Churchill's hidden act of heartache. Then, they deliberately used telegrams they knew to be deciphered by the British to seduce the British army and let them bomb the dumpsters.
Painted wooden model ship in the port of Calais.
Doesn’t this mean that the German army has once again successfully weakened the already weak Royal Air Force, causing the British mainland air defense force to once again suffer huge losses!
Churchill suddenly felt dizzy. It was like this when the British army invaded Norway, it was like this when the British army surrendered the French fleet, and it is still like this when the British army deciphers the German telegraph.
He didn't understand why the Germans could accurately guess the British actions every time. The key was that these actions involved a wide range of things. They were either the plans of the British Army's top brass, the Navy's top brass, the Air Force's top brass, and even military intelligence.
Operations of Office 6...
Is it possible that the leaders of every important department in the British Empire are spies planted by Germany?!
So how can we fight this battle? Can we rely on Churchill alone?