Newfoundland Island time, April 28, 1945, late at night.

General Erich Bell, commander of the 15th Task Force of the European Combined Fleet, was wearing a raincoat and standing on the missile deck of the flagship Bismarck battleship, and watched with his own eyes several sailors dismantled a Yagi antenna that was blown by the strong wind for repair.

At this time, his ears were filled with the whistling of the sea breeze, and the raindrops hit the thick steel plates, crackling, and the hull of nearly 50,000 tons kept shaking in the waves. If it were not for the well-trained old navy, they would not be able to stand firm on the Bismarck. As for the "wash ducks" on the landing ships of thousands of tons organized into the 15th Task Force (everyone is a land duck) were fainting now, General Bei couldn't imagine what it was.

However, for the old navy who have been fighting on the North Atlantic for a long time, this level of storm is common.

"It's done, sir!" A captain who brought several sailors to repair the missile fire-control radar at this time roared to General Bei, "The radar is repaired. As long as the wind and rain pass, our missiles will be of great use."

General Bey nodded and turned his head to Lieutenant General Lindman, the captain of the Bismarck and commander of the 111th Battleship Battalion, said: "Enster, the 'battery' plan will be implemented soon. Bismarck and Tilpitz must not make any mistakes."

"I understand, general." Major General Lindman, who has a pair of big ears and is nicknamed "Sea Elephant", answered, his face full of indelible worry.

General Bei knew very well what the "Elephant" was worried about? The 111th Battleship Battalion (the brigades under the European Combined Fleet are all synthesized and can fight alone). Although it has 2 Bismarck-class battleships, 2 "Germany" class heavy cruisers, 4 "Munich" class air defense cruisers, 8 1936 D-type destroyers, and 1 minesweeper brigade cover, it is not enough to use it to enter Concepsin Bay.

So after receiving the order to break into Concepshun Bay, Major General Lindeman told General Be that he could not complete the task several times. Erich Bey's view on the "Fort" plan was the same as Lindeman, which was simply an unfinished task! So he reported Lindeman and his views to the 1st Fleet and the Atlantic Front.

However, Marshal Rolf Karls, the commander of the 1st Fleet, and Marshal Lütjens, the commander of the Atlantic Front, ignored it and ordered the implementation of the "Fort" plan.

General Bei, who didn't know what to say to Lindman, sighed, turned around and walked towards the commander's cabin at the stern. After entering the cabin and handing the raincoat to the adjutant, he hurried back to the commander's hall.

"Sir, I just received an order from the 1st Fleet Command." Colonel Wolfgang Roman, Chief of Staff of Task Force 11, handed a telegram to General Beer. "The command ordered us to arrive 20 nautical miles west of the entrance to Consepsun Bay by 3 a.m. on the 29th. In addition, all personnel on board must wear white protective suits, goggles, masks and gloves before 3:30."

"What?" Erich Beg was stunned for a moment and then what was this order? If you approach 20 nautical miles from the entrance to Concepshun Bay, it would be under the guns of the US military's shore guns. If the weather turns sunny, you might be attacked by US bombers... In this case, how can the fleet stand on standby? What's the difference between waiting to be beaten?

Also, why wear that strange white protective suit, sunglasses, masks and gloves? What the hell is going on? What are the things that Americans need to use chemical weapons?

No matter how questioned the order was, the orders were still to be implemented. Erich Beg immediately ordered Colonel Roman to convey the orders of the 1st Fleet to the various brigades below and the landing fleet under the command of the 11th Task Force needed to wear strange white clothes, and those who were wearing sunglasses and gloves were not just sailors. The army officers and soldiers who were so seasick that they could not even find the north had to dress up like this. In fact, this was not necessary at all, because all these guys were fainted and could only lie in the cabin to rest and could not go to the deck at all.

At the same time, Lieutenant Brandt, who was standing by the Grace Harbour Airport, received the same order. He and his men must wear protective clothing and gloves at 3:30 a.m. on the 29th, and are ready to wear goggles and gas masks at any time.

All buckets and kettles carried by soldiers must also be filled with drinking water before 3:30. From 3:30, all drinking water must be taken from buckets and kettles.

In addition, all officers and soldiers must enter the trenches or bunkers before 3:30, and all of them enter the bunkers after receiving the order.

"Lt. Col., did everyone go into the trenches and bunkers?"

In an underground command post at the airport, Lieutenant Brandt loudly asked Lieutenant Colonel Schwarzenegger, who was responsible for commanding all German officers and soldiers in Grace Airport.

"Yes, Lieutenant." Lieutenant Colonel Schwarzenegger didn't know what was going to happen, "Everyone went into the trenches and bunkers."

"But there's still a war," Brandt asked, "how can everyone fight when they hide?"

Schwarzenegger didn't know how to fight, and it was the first time he had encountered such an unspeakable order.

"Find a way to overcome it!" Schwarzenegger said with a frown, "The orders above must be followed... There is no room for bargaining. I will check myself after 3:30, and anyone who does not comply with the order will be kept in jail."

Personal inspection and confinement are also the above orders. As a glorious national socialist fighter and Nazi, he naturally had to obey the orders of his superiors unconditionally.

"But..." Brandt is a socialist with independent thinking ability. He doesn't want to give his life because of the strange orders from the top.

"Nothing but!" Schwarzenegger's voice became louder, "Order is an order!"

Facing the furious Nazi giant, Brandt didn't dare to say anything more. He could only attend the meeting with a lot of questions, then drilled out of the bunker, walked along the deep-digged traffic trench, braved the raindrops that began to become sparse, and went to the position where his paratroopers were platoons.

While the raindrops became sparse, American shells became denser, and 105mm and 155mm grenades fell like raindrops. The powerful group of American artillery repeatedly plowed the defense line built by German paratroopers. Balls of orange flames exploded one after another on the position, raising the mines, barbed wire, sand and weapon fragments, and occasionally people's broken limbs and arms into the sky. The 240mm cannons on Bell Island also added shelling. Their power was huge. Every roar, they exploded a gap in the German front line, completely destroying all people within the power range.

This round of artillery was launched after the US military prepared for most of the night. In the pouring rain, the Americans used trucks to drag more than 400 m1 105mm howitzers and m1 155mm howitzers were on the front line. In addition, the self-propelled artillery belonging to the 16th Panzer Division and the 21st Panzer Division (each with 54 m7 "priests" or m12 self-propelled artillery) and the 240mm cannons on Bell Island formed the strike firepower of more than 500 barreled artillery, and repeatedly shot the German frontier positions at Grace Harbour Airport and Grace Harbour. The fragments of the shells scattered wildly, turning the German frontier into a terrifying sea of ​​fire.

Lieutenant General Walton Walker and Major General Ross stood at a high place on a hill less than 5 kilometers away from Grace Harbour Airport, and looked at the rolling fire with a telescope with a telescope. Not far ahead of them was the lake covered with ice floating on the north side of the airport. The smoke of gunpowder was blown across the lake from the German front by the sea breeze. When they arrived at the hill where the two American generals were watching the battle, the strong smell of gunpowder made the two feel very good.

Of course, the Germans could withstand this level of shelling, but the losses were inevitable. When they were fully weakened by the attack, it was the turn of the armored cluster to launch the attack!

Major General Ross put down his telescope and shouted loudly at Walton Walker: "Lieutenant General, they won't be able to support it for a long time. At the latest tomorrow, we will be able to take down the Grace Harbor Airport. In addition, the troops attacking Grace Harbor are also deployed and attacks can be launched at any time."

Walton Walker nodded, "Major General, just have me here. You can command the troops to attack Grace Harbor...it must be taken as soon as possible!"

Although the Germans occupied a large area of ​​territory on the west coast of Concepshun Bay, the ports that can be used are Port Cabernet and Port Grace. Other fishing ports and beachheads are of little use. At most, some infantry and a small number of tanks and armored vehicles are not enough to face up to 300,000 well-equipped American soldiers on Newfoundland Island.

So you will basically win half of the battle against Grace Port. If you win Port Cabernet again, the US military will probably win the battle against Newfoundland!

"Lieutenant General, welcome to board the Athabaska destroyer!" Colonel Cook, Chief of Staff of the Royal Navy Canadian Fleet, Newfoundland Squadron, saluted Fraser, who boarded the Athabaska destroyer. "The Newfoundland Squadron is now ready to fight the German invasion fleet!"

The Athabasca destroyer is a tribal class destroyer with a full load displacement of more than 2,400 tons. It was incorporated into the Canadian fleet before the fall of the British mainland in 1943. It is currently the largest British ships stationed on Newfoundland, so it has become the fleet flagship.

For Fraser, who had commanded the battleship, this small destroyer was really not worth mentioning. However, at this moment, he still showed confidence and nodded to his chief of staff and said: "Tell everyone that our submarines have discovered a huge German invading fleet 50 nautical miles west of Newfoundland. Their target is Conseipshen Bay! Now raise the Z-flag... The British Empire needs everyone to stick to their posts!"

Chapter 1257 Atomic Bomb Fourteen

Although there is only a small "tribal" class destroyer as the flagship, Lieutenant General Fraser, as the commander of the fleet, has the confidence to win at this moment!

This confidence in winning is not blind optimism without reason, but is completely grounded. Because this lieutenant general of the Royal Navy now has a large fleet that can exert its power in the offshore.

In addition to the flagship Athabasca Man destroyer, the Newfoundland fleet also has another 20 escort destroyers, as well as a large number of torpedo speedboats and U-class submarines. In the past two or three days, Fraser used the poor weather and night to mobilize most of the hulls to Concepshun Bay.

Moreover, there is also a Churchill Naval Fortress on the east coast of Conseipshen Bay, with 8 406mm cannons that can support sea battles at any time. In addition, the entrance to the bay is blocked by tens of thousands of mines. After the German fleet approached, Fraser even ordered the PT torpedo boat to block the waterways that were originally reserved as British and American ships. Now, 5 nautical miles inward from the entrance to Conseipshen Bay, there are dense mine blockade belts.

In order to prevent the mines from being removed by the German minesweeper boats, Fraser also deployed a large number of PT torpedo speedboats in the mine blockade belt. As long as the German hull enters the mine belt, he will be hit by the head-on attack of the MK15 torpedoes launched by these PT boats!

The mission of the 20 escort destroyers is to use 127mm and 76mm main guns to protect the PT torpedo boat from attacks by German torpedo boats that venture into the bay. The wooden escort boats are not as good as the s-100 boats with steel shells in tonnage, firepower and speed, so the encounter between the two is definitely not good for the PT boats. Now there is no big problem with the protection of the escort destroyer.

As for the large German surface ships, they dared to rush into Concepsion Bay without breaking the mine formation and the Churchill Naval Fortress on the east coast of Concepsion Bay?

Fraser thought about it, but he really didn't think the Germans had any way to win the battle in Newfoundland.

At this moment, the already sparse rain finally stopped, and a ray of morning light shone out from the east, with fish-white sky directly shooting out. Fraser looked at the direction where the golden light flashed and breathed gently: "The good weather has finally come... The decisive battle is probably coming soon, right?"

...

"Marson, the weather in the North Atlantic has improved."

"Is it better? It's great." Marshal Lütjens, commander of the EC's Atlantic Front, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the weather improved. "Have the early warning plane set off?"

"I've set out long ago, 6 me264h and 6 bv138e took off 30 minutes ago."

It turned out that stormy weather not only appeared on Newfoundland Island, but also swept the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, causing a large area of ​​sea to be shrouded by wind and rain. The early warning aircraft of the EC Navy and the Luftwaffe were unable to take off, and even the reconnaissance capabilities of the Type 21 U-boat were severely discounted.

Therefore, in the past 30 hours, the EC Atlantic Front Command has lost monitoring of the North Atlantic and has been unable to dispatch carrier-based aircraft and shore-based me264 to support German paratroopers on Newfoundland.

Now the storm has finally ended as expected as expected, and the Atlantic Front Command can finally put most of the Atlantic Ocean under its nose once again.

“Did Task Force 20, Task Force 21, Task Force 10 and Task Force 15 report losses?”

"Just report," said Admiral Carl Coral, Chief of Staff of the Atlantic Front, and "there are... 12 destroyers and landing ships that were damaged in the wind and rain, all of which were minor injuries, and no losses were reported for large surface ships."

"Where is the 15th Task Force now?" Lütjens asked again.

Admiral Herman von Fisher, deputy chief of staff of the Atlantic Front and chief of staff of the European Joint Fleet, said: "Sir, Task Force 15 has arrived at point t and can launch an offensive against Concepshun Bay at any time."

Marshal Lütjens nodded slightly and looked at the Air Marshal Keseling, who was sitting in a corner of the combat command center, who was the representative of the base camp and also had the right to use the atomic bomb!

"Albert," Lütjens's tone suddenly became extremely solemn, "Are the 801, 802 and 803 bomber brigades ready?"

The 801, 802 and 803 bombers are used to drop atomic bombs, which are three bombers. Now they have been deployed to the Hero Port Air Force Base in the Azores, and the three terrifying atomic bombs have been in place and have been assembled (the plutonium-239 charge has not been installed into the atomic bomb, and has not been transported to the Hero Port Airport). Just Marshal Keseling's order can carry out atomic bomb drop operations.

"One of the bomber brigades can be sent in two hours." Kesseling paused, "What is the target?"

"It's the entrance to Concepshun Bay," Lütjens said, "according to intelligence and the 1st Air Assault Army report, the Americans (and the British) dropped a large number of mines there, possibly more than 10,000!

In addition, there are a large number of PT torpedo boats and U-class submarines operating in Concepshun Bay. There is no way to completely remove them in the short term. There is only one who can drop an atomic bomb! Use the atomic bomb to blow out a landing channel!"

Lütjens means using atomic bombs to mines, light submarines and torpedo speedboats... Compared with another American atomic bomb that killed tens of thousands of Japanese devils in time and space, the "Heisenberg Device" No. 3, which is now to be dropped in Consepshin Bay, is probably a scum in the atomic bomb world, and is an atomic bomb used to "fight fish".

However, this is also the only tactic that can quickly clear the Concepshen Bay and create conditions for the landing ship and the 111th battleship brigade to break into. This tactic of using the atomic bomb to "fight fish" was actually proposed by Hessman. Of course, he knew about the crossroads in another time and space, and also knew the huge power of the atomic bomb explosion in the water.

At that time, the Americans placed a 21,000-ton equivalent atomic bomb 55 meters underwater. After the nuclear explosion was successful, about 2 million tons of seawater and sea sand were sprayed into the sky, and quickly formed a 1,800-meter-high, 610-meter-wide and 91-meter-thick water wall. When the water wall rushed to the beach 5.6 kilometers away, it was still 4.6 meters high and repeatedly hit the beach as many as 9 times.

There is no doubt that any mines, torpedo speedboats, submarines or other ships that are not sufficiently powerful within the range that the underwater explosion of the atomic bomb can reach will be destroyed. If an atomic bomb is caught at the entrance of Concepshun Bay, let alone a mine, I am afraid that even the fish and shrimp will die.

In addition, if the water wall as high as 1,800 meters appears on the sea, it will definitely scare the US and British troops on the island. Maybe they will surrender directly. If they do not surrender, they will throw two more atomic bombs...

Marshal Keseling nodded: "Okay... the target is Conseipshen Bay." He paused, "Because the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb will drop bombs from 10,000 meters, the weather must be absolutely good. In addition, the atomic bomb is a "semi-remote-controlled" bomb, which can adjust its landing point to avoid accidental injury. In this process, absolute air supremacy is required, and the American interceptor cannot be brought close to the me264 responsible for dropping the atomic bomb.

Finally, our army on the west coast of Concepshun Bay must enter the bunker before the atomic bomb is dropped and at the same time do a good job of protection."

Unlike the Americans who used atomic bombs as strategic weapons from the beginning, the German Wehrmacht regarded atomic bombs as tactical weapons (if they were strategic weapons, they had to be controlled by Hitler), so they formulated regulations on using ground troops, navy and aviation to cooperate with atomic bomb operations. Of course, there are preparations for anti-radiation and anti-missile bombs. Although the mishap of the atomic bomb was too big, no one could guarantee that it would not happen. Therefore, Brandt and his comrades dug pits for several days and put on various "anti-atomic bombs" protective equipment.

"No problem... We have nearly 2,000 planes near Newfoundland." As soon as Lütjens's words were released, they were interrupted by the sound of the staff's report.

"Reported that the u-3055 submarine discovered a huge American fleet on the Atlantic Ocean about 700 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland Island!"

700 nautical miles southeast of Newfoundland Island, the United States Fleet!? What's going on?

Kesering and Lütjens looked at each other, and Kesering asked, "They are targeting the Azores?"

"It should... be right," Lütjens nodded, "the Americans should... want to mobilize our main fleet."

"We can't let them bomb the Azores!" Kesselin said, "Even if 'Heisenberg No. 3' is deployed, there are two Heisenberg devices and corresponding charges in the Hero Port base!"

Of course, the plutonium-239 that can fill two 20,000 tons of equivalent atomic bombs cannot be damaged at all. Although they cannot be bombed and detonated by bombing, the 40 kilograms of high-abundance plutonium-239 are contained in 40 solid lead containers and placed in different underground warehouses, it is impossible to produce chain reactions at all. However, it may still cause nuclear leakage and major casualties.

In addition, 40 kilograms of plutonium-239 are priceless metal. If it is damaged during the enemy's bombing, it will suffer heavy losses!

"No, there will be no problem!" Lütjens promised immediately, "I will mobilize the 10th Task Force to pursue it immediately! The 10th Task Force has eight Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers and 640 permanent Fokker 636 fighters."
Chapter completed!