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Chapter 609 Operation Sea Lion Part 7

"Boom!"

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

Although the landing point of the shell was a little far from the underground command, everyone in the command was overturned by a huge vibration, and the light suddenly dimmed, and then it shook and flickered. Several young staff members in the underground bunker who usually looked elegant could not even suppress their screams.

The power of Dora Cannon and Gustav Cannon is truly unprecedentedly powerful!

"This must be Dora and Gustav cannons firing!"

On the Norwegian Sea, Lieutenant General Paulus had already boarded the bridge at this time, and stood side by side with the captain of the Baltic Sea, a naval colonel in his sixties with a gray beard.

The old colonel's surname is Atengburg, and there is a "Feng" in his name. Judging from his age, he knew that he was an old navy who had participated in World War I. During World War I, he served as the captain of the destroyer brigade, fought the Jutland Battle in the North Sea, and fought with the Russians on the Baltic Sea. After the end of the last war, he retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and originally thought that he would never have the chance to wear a war robe in his life.

But who knew that it had actually encountered the era of the German Navy turning over. However, the originally smaller German Navy had a serious shortage of talent reserves, and even the captain could not get so much. So they could only find the elderly old navy and retrain them to get back to their old careers.

Colonel Atengburg learned to fly a plane during interwar periods and is now sent to the Marines as the captain of the amphibious assault ship.

Hearing Paulus's words, the old colonel Atengburg also raised his telescope and looked at the scene of shaking mountains dozens of kilometers away, and was also a little surprised.

"This firepower is really fierce!" said the old colonel, "It seems that we are really likely to pass through the strait safely."

The old man didn't believe that he could pass through safely at first. Compared to the British who had been operating in Dover for many years, how could it be so easy for the Germans to pass? But now, he also a little bit convinced that the British Empire would soon be over because they could not even defend their own doorsteps.

"There will be no problem," Paulus said, wiping his palm, "The British will have a hard time tonight, and their radar will be disturbed by us, and we will not even find that we have passed the strait. No, it is not that we cannot find it, but that we have passed the strait."

Already... or in other words, the torpedo speedboat detachment of Langsdorf was passing through the strait. They dragged aluminum foil balloons to create the illusion of passing the large fleet on the radar screen of the British. On the one hand, it was to lure the British to expose firepower, and on the other hand, it was to create the illusion that the fleet had passed.

Of course, such a "balloon-induced shells" action would not come without a price. Although the British shells did not hit a torpedo speedboat, the huge waves created by these shells overturned several of them. Among them was the "flagship" of Lansdorf. The Rear Admiral lost his ship again and was swimming now, trying his best to swim towards the beachhead on the French side of the south coast of the English Channel.

"Sir, the radar seems to be broken!"

"Broken?" Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was shaking from time to time and then falling into dust, heard bad news again at this time.

"How many units have been broken?" asked Admiral Tennant.

Of course, there are more than one 284 fire-controlled radars on the Dover Coast Fortress, but there are 20, and each "real turret" has a 284 radar. In theory, as long as there is a 284 radar that can work normally, it can guide 20 Dover's turrets to fire.

"All broken!"

The staff's answer surprised the Major General Tennant. How could it be all broken? Although the Germans had strong firepower, several armored turrets had been destroyed by an amazing bomb, and one or two super cannons of unknown caliber were firing. But there were still many turrets safely, so how could the radar be broken?

It turned out that Rear Tennant and his subordinates did not know that there was an aluminum foil interference radar. Although British radar experts had known this method for a long time and had conducted experiments, the Royal Air Force also stored a large number of aluminum foil strips for interference. However, neither Britain nor Germany had used aluminum foil interference bombs on the front line before today, nor did this "secret weapon" be disclosed.

Because this "aluminum foil interference bomb" is valuable in large-scale air strikes, but Britain and Germany have been relatively restrained in the issue of littering bombs so far, and the bombing behind enemy lines is limited to the level of harassing bombing. That is, to dispatch several dozen high-speed high-altitude bombers at a time, and make breakthroughs based on speed and altitude. Moreover, the radars of both sides are not particularly reliable these days, and the breakthroughs of several high-altitude high-speed aircraft may not be discovered by the other party's radar. If aluminum foil strips are thrown all the way, wouldn't we clearly tell the other party where he was?

Therefore, both Britain and Germany regard this anti-radar weapon with very low technical content but very effective as a highly confidential killer, and they do not know that the other party has long had the same equipment.

"What? All the radars in the Dover Strait area are damaged! How is this possible?" British Prime Minister Churchill suddenly turned black when he heard the news.

Needless to say, these radars must have been broken by the Germans! And their landing fleet is near the Dover Strait! Are you really going to land in Dover? Dover is not 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 a look of fear, and quickly comforted him, "In fact, we also have the same weapon."

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

Will it be? God knows!

No one can answer these two questions.

"Prime Minister, Dover has enough defenders." Viscount Brooke, the chief of the Imperial General Staff, replied. "And London's defense is also very tight and will not be captured by tens of thousands of airborne troops."

There are many defenders in London, with the number of regular combat troops exceeding 100,000, and the elite guard armored divisions deployed in the British Army. Such defense is certainly not something that can be captured by a sudden attack falling from the sky.

Churchill was still worried, he was silent for a moment, and then said to the cabinet members: "Your Majesty the King cannot be allowed to stay in London anymore. I suggest asking His Majesty the King to go to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands immediately."

Fort William is located in the Scottish Highlands with a dangerous terrain, next to Lake Lin that leads to Lorne Bay, and is backed by Mount Ben Nevis, which is covered with snow all year round. It is surrounded by mountains and canyons. It is definitely a good place to persist in the struggle.

According to the plan, once the Germans landed in the UK, the king and most members of the cabinet would be transferred to Fort William to lead the resistance. London was handed over to Princess Elizabeth Regent and Deputy Prime Minister Attlee.

However, now Fatty Qiu is not sure whether the Germans are really going to land, so he gave a compromise and asked the king to leave first, and stay with the cabinet for a few days to see the situation.

...

"Boom!"

A huge fireball suddenly rose on the sea in the south of the Dover Strait. In the fire, a freighter filled with four or five thousand tons of ammunition was broken into two pieces and was sinking rapidly.

"Submarine! There are British submarines nearby!"

Someone immediately shouted inside the bridge of the Norwegian Sea amphibious assault ship. Lieutenant General Paulus and Colonel Atengburg looked at each other, and their faces were a little ugly. They avoided Dover's cannons but could not avoid the submarine ambushed in the water... No, now the cannons cannot avoid, because the ship that was hit and caught fire was a target for shelling on the dark sea.

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

The USS Frederick I missile cruiser is the flagship of General Rolf Karls, the commander of the 5th Fleet. All ships passing through the Dover Strait are under his command.

"Hurry, Z-shaped anti-submarine route!" Colonel Atengburg hurriedly ordered the chief lieutenant of the ship.

As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball rose 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 a fire ignited on the sea. It was not that there were bursts of explosions like fireworks. This was the rocket or high-explosive ammunition on the ship was exploded!

"Hehe, there are British submarines near us!" Colonel Atengburg took a breath as he looked at the unlucky fireworks, which were not too far from the Baltic Sea outside the bridge porthole.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

At this time, the destroyers and lightning strikers (actually light destroyers) had already reacted and began to fire flares and drop deep-water bombs.

There are currently two main anti-submarine weapons for the German Navy, one is deep-water bomb, and the other is deep-held bomb. These two weapons were invented by the British to deal with German submarines, but now they have become the weapon used by the German Navy to fight against British submarines. Since the sea control power changed hands on the Atlantic Ocean, breaking the war is no longer the main task of the European Combined Fleet led by the German Navy.

General Denitz, commander of the German Navy Submarine Force, was transferred to the commander of the latest European Joint Escort Command after the "Fight of the Sea of ​​Fog". There are also many German Seawolfs who have made great achievements in the battle. Now they have followed Denitz to become the destroyer captain. (To be continued.)
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