"Asshole! Ash! Ash!"

Spruenz, who had been waiting for Crank to turn around in the southern waters of Brazil, not only did not wait for the news of the German fleet turning around, but received a telegram from the Land Aviation. On the evening of March 30, the German Navy air strikes the Land Aviation Base, causing more than 200 aircraft to be damaged to varying degrees, and more than 40 pilots and more than 300 other auxiliary personnel to be injured and killed to varying degrees. This is not the biggest loss. The biggest loss is that a fuel depot with 40,000 gallons of aviation fuel was blown up by the German army. The fires at the scene soared into the sky, like a volcanic eruption, at least half of the losses of personnel and equipment were attributed to the serial explosion caused by this bomb. The German army only lost 6 aircraft in total!

Together with the losses caused by the previous air strike on Rio de Janeiro, the Allies have lost more than 300 aircraft, more than 30 ships (breaking the exchange and losses in the port of Rio de Janeiro) and more than 2,000 personnel. The German side's losses were only a dozen aircraft, and the worst thing was that there was no way to deal with the Germans.

The day after the German air strike, the Brazilian Foreign Minister urgently summoned the Argentine ambassador to protest, threatening: "If your country retains the German fleet, we believe that your country will take decisive measures."

The Argentine ambassador retorted without hesitation: "Why don't you ask your country what it means to have so many US troops and aircraft stationed in your country? You will destroy neutrality first! As for decisive measures, do you want to fight? Believe it or not, I will bring the German Armored Division over to land tomorrow? Let you see whether the American soldiers are powerful or the German soldiers are powerful!"

There has been a long history of the world of whether German soldiers are powerful or American soldiers are powerful. The US military assembled two divisions and fleets in the Cape Verde Campaign, and the aircraft could not defeat only 5-6,000 German troops, but the news of the final "uprising in front of the formation" has long been spreading in South American countries. The prestige of the US military using gunboat diplomacy over the past hundred years was very powerful. Many Brazilians even believed that if Brazil also had the equipment of the US military, its combat effectiveness would definitely surpass that of the Americans! No one was blind. Look at the US troops stationed in South American countries, you will know how strong the American soldiers were.

What's even more terrible is that the US side has not declared war on Argentina for various concerns, but Brazil and Germany have declared war long ago. The Germans have fought against Brazil several times based on this, and even the only remaining strength of the Brazilian navy was completely ruined. Therefore, the whole country complained about President Vagas, believing that he had no idea and chose the wrong camp. This made Vagas even more speechless. Didn't you greedy for the United States to provide a lot of assistance, and the Americans said they had a thick thigh and said they had defected to the Allies?

Now that the Argentine ambassador said he wanted to declare war, the Brazilian Foreign Minister retreated. Who knew that after Brazil declared war, Americans would not follow up. What if they didn't follow up, wouldn't Brazil be beaten up by Axis and La Plata Group alone? I dare not take this risk.

In desperation, Spruins could only hope that the main force of the Atlantic Fleet, which set out on April 1, could block the German fleet's rushing pace.

To be honest, Nimitz personally led his army to the war, and, contrary to normal, did not choose New Jersey to take charge. Instead, he joined the Hornet and Cunningham to coordinate the command after the Unicorn was transferred to the TF44 fleet, and the Hornet became Cunningham's flagship.

It was not Nimitz's whim to go on the Hornet or to compete with Cunningham for command. He had deep considerations: First, Cunningham was the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, and Cunningham could not buy other people's accounts, and Nimitz still had to give him face; second, this battle is very important, and it is related to whether the British and American navies can regain their reputation. Faced with this situation where they can only fight but cannot be defeated, Nimitz must go on the battlefield and coordinate with Cunningham.

At the afternoon of April 3, the fleet had arrived on the sea more than 500 kilometers north of Puerto Rico. The two were speculating with their staff that the possible where the German fleet would go and hide. Major General Macmillan, the new chief of staff of the Atlantic Fleet, suddenly stumbled in, waving a telegram in his hand: "Oh no, something big happened in the UK! The Joint Conference asked us to give up our mission and turn back to Great Britain immediately!"

"What?" Nimitz stood up in shock.

Shaoqing, Cunningham's confidant telecommunications officer also attached himself to his ear and whispered: "I received a secret telegram from Marshal Ponder, and the local area was attacked by the German army. It is suspected that there are signs of landing. Be sure to rescue me. You can act decisively at critical moments!"

Cunningham nodded quietly, indicating that he knew. Then the two looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes. The German was about to land in Great Britain?

Nimitz gritted his teeth: "The fleet turned around to Great Britain!"

At this moment, Churchill, Marshal Brooke, Marshal Pound and even a large number of senior executives were hiding in the basement of Downing Street to hold an emergency meeting.

At the morning of April 3, the German army suddenly launched a fierce offensive against Great Britain. After more than a year of silence, German planes that had almost never crossed the middle line of the strait suddenly came overwhelmed, which shocked the pilots who were flying spitfire, P-51 and other fighter jets to perform interception missions were extremely shocked. They could not stop the enemy planes on the opposite side. After several months of production and preparation, Hoffman finally accumulated 400 Ar-234 jet bombers and began to carry out the lightning bombing he had always dreamed of.

The maximum level flight speed of the ar-234s is nearly 900 km/h, and while carrying 1.5 tons of bombs, it also has a range of nearly 1,000 kilometers. The 400 ar-234s are more than 200 me-262,600 aircraft with 500 kilogram bombs formed a mighty first attack wave to fly towards their respective targets. They ignored all interceptions and whizzed past the Royal Air Force at a proud speed, and then used bombs or incendiary bombs to attack airports, radar stations, railway trunks and key factories in southern Britain, blew dozens of important targets in the south into ruins or sea of ​​fire.

After the bomb drop was completed, the group of lightning attack aircraft continued to rise. Apart from leaving a string of exhaust clouds in the air, the intercepted fighters could only sigh when they looked at their figures. Although the United States had begun the production of meteor jets, the United Kingdom had not yet obtained it, and even the pilots had only trained dozens of them, and they were powerless to do anything about it.

Many British fighters that took off were unwilling to fail. They gritted their teeth and chased them from behind, and even crossed the strait to pursue them. They wanted to fight the weak section of the jets when they landed, but were intercepted by the German f-190do-412ta-152 and other fighters who were prepared. Hundreds of fighters fought in the air, and a larger number of German troops obviously had the upper hand. Moreover, what is very beneficial for German pilots is that even if they are shot down, they have the chance to jump to their own control area. Tomorrow, they will be a hero, and British pilots can only die in battle or become prisoners of war.

When the first batch of British fighter jets were exhausted and forced landing or landed in other places, and the British air defense interceptor power was greatly weakened, the second attack wave of the German army came again. The main forces of this bombing were ju-188, he-218 and do-412, with nearly a thousand aircraft. They carried out the first thousand aircraft bombing mission of Germany and carried out a huge carpet bombing of the second round of targets and the missing parts of the first round along the offensive route of the first wave of attack. Although the ju-188 and he-218 were not as large as the B-29s, the bomb dropping efficiency was amazing and the damage effect was also not weak.

This is not the fact that the British side collapsed the most. In the afternoon, German Radio suddenly posted a radio, "Our army will launch new epoch-making weapons! Please ask the British people, especially the London citizens, to hide in the air-raid shelter, so as not to be injured by accident." The British side did not believe this fact, and BBC also broadcasted that the Germans were intimidating, but in the evening they reaped their own consequences.

But soon the German army told them with facts that this was not a pale and powerless intimidation, that it was Germany's killer weapon weapon-level v2 missile.

In the evening of that day, launch positions secretly deployed in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other areas received instructions to start launching. There were 34 rocket companies and 119 launch devices participating in the launch, and a total of nearly 500 V2 missiles were launched in total.

Unlike history, because Hoffman emphasized the scientific research spirit in his speech at Penemide, and at the same time interrupted the development and large-scale production of the V1 rocket, the team led by Braun focused all on medium and short-range V2 and long-range V6 missiles. In addition, due to the suspension of British and American strategic air strikes and the great enrichment of German raw material supply guarantees, Penemide made more and faster technological progress than in history! By the end of 1943, the range of the V2 missile using kerosene liquid oxygen engine had exceeded 450 kilometers while carrying 800 kilograms of explosives. At the same time, the guidance method was integrated with the combination of gyroscope inertial guidance and radio hyperbolic positioning. Although the accuracy deviation still reached more than 1 kilometer, it was basically enough for a big city like London.

These 500 missiles are continuously produced in stock over the past few months, each selling for more than 60,000 Imperial Marks, but for Hoffman, the 30 million marks are worth it. The weapons must be tested in actual combat to test whether they are effective. He will not regard v2 as the only means to determine the situation of the battle, but at least he can tell some of the top figures in the UK who are still hesitating that he has some ways to deal with Great Britain, and the result of not surrendering is all destruction.

General Yeshunnek, who was inspecting the front line, watched as one missile after another dragging orange flames flew into the sky in the twilight. He knew that these missiles would eventually land and explode at a speed of more than Mach 4. They could not track, intercept, and even be defensive. He couldn't help but sigh that the epoch-making war changes were about to come to the V6 missiles developed by Braun. It is said that they can hit more than 2,800 kilometers in the future, and can even be installed in the giant submarine currently built in Germany!

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