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Chapter 245:African Strategy

Unsurprisingly, another U.S. airstrike on Hawaii failed, and even the top U.S. officials didn’t know what was going on with the four super-air fortresses heading to Hawaii.

Until the scheduled return time has not yet appeared, the radio connection is silent, and the US Air Force can only announce this depressing result.

It is not that the Americans do not work hard, but that the enemy is not only mysterious, but also powerful.

For this reason, the United States also had to give up the immediate retaliatory behavior against Hawaii, and the patience at this moment is also for better revenge in the future.

The retaliation of the United States will inevitably lead to more counterattacks.

The second airstrike on the west coast of the United States was earlier than originally planned and larger.

The Red Guards Corps' second strategic air force air raid, a full 600 bombers, bombed all the industrial cities on the west coast of the United States.

Thousands of tons of bombs, no money landed on the west coast of the United States, causing huge losses to the United States.

And this is just the beginning, in the next half-month, at least twice a day, each of which targets the industries of the western United States, and although it is impossible to accurately bomb, it cannot be visited every day, and the scale of the bombing is not small.

In half a month, the industrial capacity of the West Coast of the United States has dropped by 40%, and if it is bombed for another month, the industry on the west coast of the United States will be fatally hit.

In this regard, the U.S. government can only choose to move all the western industries to the middle, otherwise it will continue to be bombed, and the huge family of the United States will not be able to bear it.

The United States mainland has been bombed, for the Axis, is definitely a strong agent, a strong American industrial capacity, for the Axis, the pressure is not small.

Now, it seems that the United States has not brought much change to the Allies, and even the United States mainland is within the scope of the attack.

Hitler was one of the happiest, constantly preaching his relationship with the new ally, and in his contacts with Fan Yize, he repeatedly proposed greater cooperation between the two sides.

The Germans were sweet, especially on the battlefields of the Atlantic, where a large number of merchant ships were sunk every day, and the number of merchant ships sinking every day exceeded the shipbuilding capacity of all the Allied countries.

This is the most happy signal for European allies, which means that Britain may soon have to surrender because the sea is blocked.

After high-altitude German bombardment and sea blockade, the situation on the British Isles is getting worse every day.

In this regard, the German spies gave that Britain would not be more than half a year at the latest, and it would face a complete lack of food.

This makes it difficult for Germany to have a more obvious breakthrough on the eastern front at present, but the situation that the British on the western front will not be able to persist, and it is very likely to completely lay down Germany's strong advantage in Europe.

On the eastern front of Germany, the Battle of Stalingrad is beginning, and the Germans are expected to completely occupy Stalingrad within a month, and then enter Moscow in full force.

Although the United States' participation in the war made Germany feel great pressure, Fan Yize's shot made it impossible for the United States to take care of Europe for a while and could not fully support the European battlefield.

This was the most direct support for Germany, Hitler gave his new allies, and it was agreed that a large number of gold diamonds scraped in Europe and Africa were delivered to the Red Guards.

This was the business of both sides, and as a strong foreign aid employed by Germany, the excellent performance on the battlefield, the Germans were very willing to pay for the plundered wealth.

Inside Italy, a secretive German air base, with dense outposts and protective forces, isolated a dozen kilometers around the airport.

In the airport, hordes of German troops, a complete German armored division, tens of thousands of German soldiers, have been training here for two or three months, all kinds of weapons and equipment have arrived at the airport.

Around the airport, there are a large number of armored vehicles and tanks, all of which disassembled all the additional equipment, and the tanks are not carrying weapons and ammunition, reducing the weight of the tanks themselves as much as possible.

Today, most of the German soldiers, ended the training program, on the edge of the airport runway, a fully armed mass.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Rommel, who came from Berlin, appeared at the airport.

This armored division assembled at the airport was also the 7th Panzer Division under Rommel, a powerful brigade of the German Army.

Near 8:30, Rommel looked up at the sky, and in the distant sky, a group of huge transport aircraft flew.

Guided by the ground tower, a huge transport aircraft landed at the airport.

A total of 500 transport aircraft filled the airport, which was almost ten times larger.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the first German soldiers lined up to board the plane.

The tail of the transport aircraft, the huge door is open, you can see the door, is a row of neat seats, the large cabin, separated by the upper and lower two floors, can carry more than 200 fully armed soldiers at once.

The German soldiers marched into the plane, neatly seated, and an aircraft, which could transport two company soldiers and weapons and ammunition at once.

Of the first transport aircraft, sixty transport aircraft, directly loaded all the soldiers of the 7th Panzer Division on board at one time.

Leaving a large number of logistics soldiers, they began to cooperate with the crew of the transport aircraft, and various artillery armored vehicles, weapons and ammunition, and orderly loading into other transport aircraft.

The whole work continued until the evening.

Rommel had not left the airport all day, and had seen his armored division gradually loaded into these huge transport aircraft.

Very shocking, if not seen with his own eyes, Rommel could not have imagined that a complete armored division could actually be delivered by air transport.

According to past operational experience, this military operation, the first troops to arrive in Africa, at most two battalions, the remaining troops, will take two or three months before they can fully reach Africa.

At this moment, the entire 7th Panzer Division took only two days to reach Africa directly.

And these two days, the actual transportation time, less than three hours, the rest of the time is in the loading and unloading process.

In order to meet the arrival of the German army, the Italian Afrika Korps have built enough temporary airfields in Africa.

It must be said that Rommel refreshed his understanding of the war and fully understood what a terrible war-powerful mercenary, whom the Fuehrer had, called his strongest ally.

Mechanized army, playing logistics, playing transportation and efficiency.

Dozens of tons of tanks can be loaded into aircraft, and is there more efficiency than this?

Today, Rommel knows that war can still be like this.

In the group of transport aircraft came a colonel, came to Rommel, saluted the army, and said, "General Rommel, in two hours, the fleet can take off."

“Thank you for your assistance.”Rommel also saluted a military salute and thanked him.

“General Rommel has been kind, and here I represent the Strategic Transport Wing, and I wish the General victory on the African battlefield.”The colonel smiled and said.

“You have an air force wing that can deliver me an armored division to Africa at once, and I am confident that on the battlefield in Africa, I will not have any worries.”Rommel said solemnly.

“It is your Führer who has the strength and vision to cooperate with our leaders, and as friendly armies we will meet your operational needs.”The Colonel said.

"The mystery of your army, the outside world has been discussing, in Germany do not know how many people are curious, today, this is a feeling extraordinary, but also let me feel what is called small, the original sky is so broad."Rommel lamented.

"The general is a muffin."The colonel said, and took a folded ginger from his chest and pocket, and handed it into Rommel's hand.

Rommel took over in doubt, and opened it, a trading agreement with the autograph and seal of Hitler, the German Führer Hitler.

"Fifty transport aircraft, included in the combat sequence of the 7th Panzer Division?"Rommel said with some surprise.

“Yes, when it comes to Africa, our fifty transport aircraft will be in the service of General Rommel for a long time.”The colonel nodded and continued: “And the general will soon ascend, because your head of state has plans to form an African group in Africa, and it is believed that with the general's talent, he will soon become a German field marshal.”

Rommel had never heard of anything in this regard, and there was no news in the military.

Seeing Rommel's doubts, the colonel took a step forward and whispered, "Libya is rich in oil."

In a simple sentence, Rommel's eyes flashed an understanding, suddenly understood that this time to Africa, it seemed that it was not only to help the Italian army defeat the Allies, but also to have other tasks.

That’s 50 transport planes.

“Our second transport mission is an armored regiment of the SS, as well as a large amount of oil extraction equipment and related staff, oil exploration work and tasks have been completed.”The Colonel said.

Rommel was not ordinary, and upon hearing these words, he asked, “I don’t know what the Fuehrer paid for it.”

Germany has not explored any oil in Libya, and there have been no rumors of oil in Libya, and Libya's oil news is obviously told to Germany.

"I don't know, it's our leader and your head."The colonel shook his head and said.

Rommel did not continue to ask questions, but he knew that the price paid by Germany would never be cheap.

Because what Germany wants most now is oil, and if it can really extract Libyan oil, it is too important for Germany.

The next two talked a lot about logistics and transportation, and they no longer had access to military secrets from both sides.

Since there are 50 transport aircraft, Rommel also wants to understand the various performance data of these transport aircraft as soon as possible.

The Giant Spirit transport aircraft, a rather remarkable transport aircraft, at least Rommel believes that Germany can not currently produce such an amazing performance of strategic transport aircraft.

Two hours later, the strategic transport aircraft group, took off on time, under the cover of night, headed for the African continent.

Three hours later, at night, all of them landed smoothly at the field airfield, and for only three hours, a German armored division with great combat capability secretly appeared in the Italian Afrika Korps.

Far away in the Pacific Ocean, Fan Yize received the news at the first time, ordered the transport wing, directly to stay in Europe, without returning.

In addition to the Atlantic battlefield, this will be the last time Fan Yize will help Germany.

This time, with the help of Germany, whether the Germans can grasp and cherish it, Fan Yize will not interfere again.

Several large oil fields in Libya have told the Germans that they have also sent a huge strategic transportation force, and if the Germans can't even protect these oil fields, it is better to go home early to hold the children.

Of course, with this last help, Fan Yize also got a lot of what he needed.

Cooperation with Germany is not gratuitous, there is a global strategic layout, and then earn a little military spending, the big countries are playing like this.

In fact, the Germans are not in contention, the German barbarosa plan, Fan Yize has provided Germany with a lot of help, but Germany still made some mistakes, resulting in the Battle of Stalingrad, still in accordance with the original historical trajectory broke out.

This, so that Fan Yize a little helpless, this took out the Libyan oil, just in time for the Germans in Italy's request for help, but also intend to enter Africa.

The moustache was also a tactful man, immediately mobilizing Rommel's 7th Panzer Division to Africa, and began to plan to further strengthen its military presence in Africa, protect Libya's oil fields, and expand the German military presence in Africa.

When the Germans mined Libya's oil on a large scale, they believed that the Allies would not be able to sit still, and the allies who did not have the ability to counterattack Europe would inevitably regard Africa as the main battlefield.

This is what Fan Yize wants, and the more Germany strengthens its military presence in Africa, the larger the size of the army that the Allies will send to Africa.

Therefore, Germany went to Africa, and Fan Yize was so active that he wished Germany to send hundreds of thousands of troops to Africa.

On the time of the arrival in Europe of the German 7th Panzer Division, the Red Guards' offensive in South America also began.

The Panama Canal, an important hub for U.S. Atlantic and Pacific traffic, is the U.S. Navy’s most critical maritime traffic line.

Cutting off the Panama Canal is equivalent to cutting off one of the U.S. Navy’s legs.

The Red Guards, which have settled in the Isabella Islands, have built huge temporary airfields, amphibious landing fleets, and have quietly arrived on the edge of the Panama Canal.

The combat machinery of the Red Guards Corps was running rapidly, and the multi-army joint landing operations were once again exposed.

Over Panama at night, transport planes dropped a large number of scattered flowers, and the defenseless Panamanian army and the U.S. military were still asleep.

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