. "How did they...how did they show up there?"

General William Heams, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Naval Operations Department, wrote incredible clearly on his face, but the staff officers had verified the report he had just received and updated the location of the main force of the German Atlantic Fleet on the giant combat instructions - 60 degrees west longitude and 40 degrees north latitude, close to the junction of the United States and Canada's territorial waters.

"It turns out that their target is not Norfolk..."

Naval Minister General William Benson looked sad. If nothing unexpected happens, the German fleet was aimed at the British government in exile and Canada, which has recently formed a formal alliance with the United States. In other words, the air defense attacks and alerts at the Norfolk military port can basically be lifted, but the British government in exile and Canada seem to be in great trouble!

"What to do? Send our Atlantic Fleet?" Himes was a little impatient.

"Then it's just the Germans' expectations!" Benson shook his head, "not to mention that our Atlantic Fleet can't compete with the German Atlantic Fleet even if we put all our strength into it, the mines and German submarines outside the Norfolk military port are enough to stop the fleet!"

In the week when the German Scher fleet was missing, the German mine-branch submarine continued to mine on the east coast of the United States. The daunting TDD mines sank 7 US cargo ships and 2 Canadian cargo ships, further increasing the record of the German mine-branch submarine to 11 merchant ships and 5 warships, with a total tonnage of nearly 20,000 tons. At this time, a limited number of US mine-sweeping boats were still busy cleaning up the mines that had increased every day. If you are not careful, these mine-sweeping boats themselves would be blown away by German mines loaded with 300 kilograms of intense explosives, so the progress of mine-sweeping is extremely slow. At present, more than half of the ports on the east coast of the United States have been completely blocked by mines, which was a situation that no one expected before the war broke out.

"Submarine..." Himes wanted to talk about his submarine again, but after thinking about it, he overturned his opinion, "The submarine is not as good as going north to deal with the German fleet!"

General Benson was silent, as a senior general of the US Navy. He and Himez both had a very German name, but now they were fighting with Germany with real guns. This seemed to be a great irony to both of them from the beginning. According to the orders of the Navy Department, in the previous week, more than 70 American submarines had already gone to the Gulf of Mexico to conduct blockade attacks, and achieved good results in sinking 11 enemy cargo ships, but in the face of Germany

When the Chinese destroyer was in the country, the American submarine still had no chance of winning. Therefore, four of them were sunk within a week. Benson did some calculations and with such a war loss ratio, the United States still had a certain advantage, but the Germans were not stupid. On the one hand, they began to take stricter escort measures, and on the other hand, they allowed some merchant ships that departed from Germany to bypass South America and go to Mexico's west coast. The Chilean Navy's fuel replenishment and escort in the middle, and the route gradually became busy.

"Send a secret telegram to the British government and let them take care of themselves! All we can do is to let the American submarines anchored in their military port cooperate with their actions. We can only sincerely wish you sincerely!"

Speaking of this, Benson sighed helplessly, rubbed his tired eyes, and walked towards the bathroom.

By the evening of July 16, Edward VIII's British Navy had confirmed that the Americans provided information - a very powerful German fleet was moving towards southeastern Canada. But what the Germans wanted to do was as confused as the Americans.

That night, the battle in the southern United States was extremely fierce. As night fell, the Luftwaffe's support to the ground was greatly reduced, which gave the US defenders the best counterattack opportunity, which was still strong. In New Mexico and Texas, 560,000 US Army officers and soldiers launched a fierce counterattack against the invading more than 400,000 German-Mexico and Mexican troops at night, but they were defeated, known as the bloody night on the border. During the battle lasted for nearly 10 hours, the American infantry, which had its main weapons, was massacred by fierce firepower of German-Armored Forces.

In New Mexico, the 17th Infantry Division of the US military left its position and launched an active attack on a German advance unit surrounded by the land from its back. What they did not want to encounter was a mixed combat unit installed by the German Royal Combat Army Guderry. Although there were only more than 2,000 people on one side of the German army, their 23 assault tanks made all the American anti-tank weapons pale. 27 infantry fighting vehicles equipped with dual 20mm machine guns shot and killed US soldiers exposed in the wilderness with crazy firepower, and 56 semi-tracked armored vehicles. The German infantry field millimeter mortars on it, and the 7.92mm G17 general-purpose machine gun was very

The MP22 submachine guns improved on the basis of mp16 have a very effective killing effect on enemy soldiers at close range. In this wilderness near Las Cruces, they were filled with German guns and cannons all night. At dawn, the German officers and soldiers were surprised to see the large field ahead of them full of the bodies of American soldiers. Because the retreat orders of the US commander were too hesitant, 80% of the soldiers of this infantry division were killed in the fearless charge, and the blood of more than 10,000 soldiers dyed the entire land red. Even the coldest people were moved by this scene.

In Texas, the battle was even more tragic. With the support of the armored forces, among the twenty German and Mexican infantry divisions that were counterattacked by the US military, only the 4th and 9th Divisions of the northern Mexican cluster were forced to withdraw from the positions occupied during the day. In the suburbs of San Antonio, four American infantry divisions and three German divisions launched a fierce battle. The soldiers of both sides were constantly firing and repeatedly fighting for positions throughout the night. Many German tanks even drained all their ammunition. It was not until dawn that the US military withdrew from the battle due to excessive casualties and concerns about the Luftwaffe. The exhausted German troops temporarily stopped chasing. After dawn, many German soldiers even fell to sleep on the battlefield so tired that many people were sent to the battlefield hospital by medical staff as unconscious, which caused some small jokes.

In the morning light, a large number of German war eagles were dispatched in full spirit. Junkers and Henkel kept circling and firing at low altitude. Messerchmit roared over the position. A large number of vultures were constantly looking for opportunities to attack like black crows representing death. On the ground, the elite German armored troops were interspersed back and forth. Guderian's armored army cooperated with the infantry divisions to continuously expand the results of the battle...

On the ground sea in southeastern Canada, sunrise is more than an hour earlier than in the southern United States. Facing the rising sun, one seahawk after another takes off from the flat and wide wooden deck of the aircraft carrier, and the powerful and vibrant German fleet is rapidly sailing towards its target.

At 10:05 am on July 17, a sob air raid sirens sounded on Newfoundland, Canada. Ten minutes later, the black German fighter jets flew to the Port of St. Johns, the most important port on the island. As the most important submarine base and outpost port of the British Empire on the Atlantic Ocean, 53 British and American submarines and more than 30 light ships were anchored here. The largest tonnage was the Churchill-class cruiser built after 1916. This kind of cruiser is usually used as a maritime attack ship. What really made this cruiser famous was the legendary experience of the "Churchill". When chased by multiple German warships, it eventually hid in the American port and stayed until the South American War before being released and returned home.

When the German aircraft attacked, three Churchill-class cruisers were parked in the harbor with other companions without any defense.

As the first wave of air strike aircraft, 6 Sky X-L combat reconnaissance aircraft, 40 Henkel DD fighters, 56 Junkers Ju-DD dive bombers, and 36 Barracuda torpedo bombers flew from aircraft carriers more than 300 nautical miles away. Before they flew to the port, less than one squadron of British fighters took off, and three other medium-sized alert airships were floating over the port, and more than 30 fighters were stranded at two military airports west of the port. Many fighters had just been pushed out of the hangar by aircraft crews. It would take some time for the pilot, fuel and ammunition to be fully prepared.

Faced with 15 British fighters with relatively backward performance, 40 Henkels rushed up like a wolf that discovered food. This was the first air battle that German naval carrier-based aircraft participated since the outbreak of the war. The fighters of both sides came back and forth, and bullets rushed through the air in a string of ground bullets. One fighter after another accelerated, turned sharply, and overturned. The buzzing sounds made by the engines when increasing their horsepower were clearly heard. The pilots used their respective abilities, chasing, biting, shooting, or trying their best to keep their fighter jets outside the opponent's machine gun sight. As time went by, planes continued to fall with black smoke or incomplete bodies, most of which were British fighter jets painted with ring marks.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of fighting between the fighters of both sides, most German dive bombers flew to the British military airport, and the remaining ones rushed toward the harbor where the gradually turbulent became harbor. At the same time, six combat reconnaissance planes easily turned the three airships above the port into three huge fireballs.

On two military airports west of the port, British fighter jets parked beside the runway and in the hangar were soon fatal attacks by German dive bombers. Before these lagging British fighters could exert a little bit of residual heat, they were destroyed by precise dive bombing and machine gun strafing. The ammunition and fuel tanks were not spared. The two airports suddenly lost their function in the sky and the continuous explosion. The airship garage in the northwest of the port could not escape the eyes of German pilots. A dive bomber team detonated the hydrogen tank stored there with more than a dozen bombs. The high temperature quickly took the lives of nearby British officers and soldiers, and turned the small airship base costing more than 1 million US dollars into ruins.

On the other side of the port, dive bombers and torpedo bombers attacked warships in the port with air defense fire from the ground and ships. Although a ju-dd was shot down shortly after the battle began, the effects of the bombs and torpedoes were quickly reflected. A dive bomber taken off the Kemals used the 150-kilogram half-armor-piercing bomb under the belly of the aircraft to hit the British Churchill-class battleship "England" with the 150-kilogram half-armor-piercing bomb under the belly of the aircraft.

The bomb hit the fore deck heavily, penetrated through the three decks and fell into the former main artillery ammunition depot of the unlucky cruiser. A shocking sound, the head of the "England" disappeared! Amid the flames and thick smoke, the warship with great luck was inserted into the water with its stern. The aftermath of the explosion destroyed a warehouse on the dock next to it. Less than 400 officers and sailors on the ship survived the bombing.

Just one minute after the explosion of the "England" sank, torpedo bombers taken off from the German aircraft carriers "Zepplin" and "Tirpitz" attacked British and American submarines concentrated in the south of the port area by horizontal bombing. The 50-kilogram aviation bomb was very deadly to the fragile body of the submarine. Although the British and American crew members used submarine guns and machine guns to fight back on the deck without cover, the bombs that fell still allowed many submarines to sink to the bottom of the water column and fire. For a moment, crew members of the two countries who were struggling desperately could be seen everywhere on the water surface.

The carrier-based aircraft that took off from Ernst, Alexander and Lewald also achieved proud results. Three teams of dive bombers bombed the warehouses in the port area. They were lucky enough to hit the largest fuel warehouse in the Port of St. Johns. Thousands of heavy oil and tens of thousands of tons of coal were ignited, and the thick smoke soared into the sky became the best direction vane for the second wave of German carrier-based aircraft.

The bombing of the port has not yet ended, and no British fighter jets that had taken off had been shot down by Henkels and others. At this point, the British aviation power on Newfoundland was completely erased by the great German naval aviation force.

After 40 minutes of fierce bombing, the first wave of German carrier-based aircraft group began to return with a huge Dishengguo. At this time, there were only 3 cruisers, 12 destroyers and patrol boats and 19 submarines that could still float in the harbor. Under the leadership of British commanders, these ships began to sail out of the port. However, just 5 minutes after the first cruiser left the port, 128 carrier-based aircraft arrived in the second wave of taking off from 6 German aircraft carriers!

Seeing that British and American ships attempted to escape, the torpedo bomber squadron took off from the Kemal landing and then carried out low-altitude torpedo attacks on warships outside the port and at the port. Three dive bombers teams taken off from the Ernst heavy aircraft carrier roared toward the sea and carried out fatal dive bombings on several British warships in the channel. At 11:08, the British cruiser "Prince Patrick" was sunk into the channel. Two minutes later, the British patrol ships "Lion" and "Antelope" also sank into the channel one after another.

The target of the second wave of German aircraft fleet was still the military targets in the Port of St. Johns and surrounding areas. This time, German dive bombers gave priority to the British air defense firepower around the port. As the 75-kg and 150-kg aviation bombs hit anti-aircraft gun positions again and again, the resistance of the port air defense forces became weaker and weaker. About half an hour later, the sound of anti-aircraft guns completely calmed down, and the entire harbor was like a sheep and allowed German carrier-based aircraft to rage.

Another hour later, the third wave of aircraft group that took off from the German fleet flew to Newfoundland. Since St. Johns Port had no more valuable targets, the German aircraft group turned to attack several other civil ports, road hubs, vehicles, barracks and communication stations on the island. When the third wave of carrier-based aircraft group carried out a ground attack, a team of British fighters flew from the Bell Island Strait, which divided Newfoundland Island and the mainland. The German aircraft group only distributed 12 fighters and easily shot down most of the British fighters, and the rest fled towards the mainland without looking back.

In the afternoon, the German carrier-based aircraft group carried out three air strikes on Newfoundland. The British army on the island suffered heavy casualties, and the only two coastal defense artillery batteries were also damaged during the bombing. That night, the British and Canadian troops transported four anti-aircraft artillery companies and their equipment overnight through sea transportation. Four new fighter squadrons were dispatched to St. Augustine, opposite Newfoundland Island.

News of the air strikes in Newfoundland soon reached the United States and landed on a prominent position in major evening newspapers. The Americans, like their new allies, gradually felt bad, but at the same time, the US Atlantic Fleet stationed in Norfolk military port showed no sign of leaving the port.

At 3 a.m. on July 18, a rumbling sound of cannons suddenly sounded in the southeastern waters of Newfoundland. The dense shells of artillery were then hit around St. Johns Harbor. At this time, there were no ships available for combat in the port. Hundreds of British engineers were working overnight on the military airport. They planned to partially repair the runway of the airport before dawn. The sudden artillery fire caused the unprepared British officers and soldiers to suffer heavy losses. The heavy artillery shells with large caliber made the entire Newfoundland tremble slightly. Fortunately, most of the residents on the island retreated to the opposite side of the strait in the first half of the night, and most of the coastal fishing villages and towns were damaged by artillery bombardment for three hours.

After dawn, a powerful fleet with the black vulture cross naval flag fluttered on the sea southeast of Newfoundland Island. A large number of carrier-based aircraft took off from the aircraft carrier again. More than 200 naval war eagles fought a life-and-death battle with four British anti-aircraft artillery companies landing at night. The British air defense forces resisted tenaciously, but the German naval pilots they faced were ten times more brave than them. More than 80 dive bombers accurately threw bombs onto British air defense positions despite the fierce anti-aircraft artillery and machine gun fire. Although nine Junx ju-dds were shot down, four pilots were killed, and 14 were captured, the fearless German pilots completely defeated the British army's determination to continue to resist.

At the same time, a large number of German carrier-based fighters continued to hover over the island, which made British fighters and reconnaissance aircraft stationed opposite the strait not dare to cross the line.

Under the cover of battleships and battle patrols, 35 German destroyers quickly approached the Port of St. Johns and sank two British submarines lurking in this sea. Then, they used their naval guns to bombard the targets on the shore at close range, and sent signals to the fleet behind them.

At 8 a.m., under the protection of many warships and fighter jets, three super-large landing ships drove to the sea not far from the port, and the soldiers above immediately took landing ships and landing crafts to advance to the coast. Half an hour later, the first German Marines boarded Newfoundland Island. Due to the long-term shelling and bombing in advance, the British resistance on the island was minimal. By 10 a.m., more than 4,000 Marines and an amphibious armored combat battalion completed the landing and controlled the Avalon Peninsula where St. Johns was located. Under the cover of naval aviation troops and tank armored vehicles, the vanguard began to march towards the hinterland of Newfoundland Island.

At this time, the British realized that the Germans did not come to retaliate against the attack of British submarines. Thinking of the distance between Newfoundland and the United States, the Americans gradually woke up, but it was too late! The British army on the island had only more than 2,000 people, neither heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles, and the air defense forces were all lost with the efforts of the German naval aviation. The two small-scale coastal defense turrets were unable to fight against the German Navy's battleships.

As the war progressed, Scher sent the battleship "Baden" and "Futengburg" with four Schliffen-class cruisers and eight bayonet-class destroyers to shell the island's coastal defense artillery along the northern coast of Newfoundland. Under the deterrence of the German battleship 380mm heavy artillery, the only two coastal defense artillery on Newfoundland raised white flags one after another.

At 1 pm, the remaining 2,000 Marines in the fleet also completed the landing, followed by a large number of engineering troops and four crawler bulldozers. When the Marines continued to clear the remaining British troops on the island with the help of tanks and armored vehicles, the engineering troops were working hard to clear the port of St. Johns and the military airport to the west. Although the landing operation was very smooth, the battle on the island continued until the 19th. Most of the more than 2,000 British defenders died in battle, and less than 400 surrendered to the German army.

Since then, the British army tried many times to recover Newfoundland while nightmares, but were fiercely counterattacked by the superior German navy and Marines. The British returned unsuccessfully. With the arrival of German land-based fighter jets and bombers, the German army on the island has increased to more than 40,000, and equipped with 46 anti-aircraft artillery companies. The restored Port of St. Johns also entered a German fleet with considerable strength. At this point, the British knew that their hopes for recapturing Newfoundland were becoming increasingly slim, and the beautiful Newfoundland Island has become an important strategic stronghold in Germany.
Chapter completed!