Chapter 32 The goal is Pantelleria
But soon Chen Yanlong called Keselin back and asked if he had done his order to change Enigma.
As well as this air combat counterattack, we must prepare a feint to disrupt the attention of Britain and the United States.
Kesseling's reply was simply affirmed, and everything was done as ordered.
Chen Yanlong changed the situation of Enigma according to the solutions he taught in the book (Empire Overlord) that he had read later in life.
It is to encrypt the Enigma password machine.
That is, based on the Enigma cipher machine, a rotor was added, making the work of deciphering such cipher machines 26 times complicated at once!
At the same time, a new mapping system must be added as soon as possible. This system was created by the Germans themselves in the late war, which will make this cipher machine really become a "crypto machine that cannot be deciphered".
However, what Chen Yanlong wanted most was to make computers as soon as possible; to make Germany the first country in the world to use computer systems to militarize.
But this is a later story. The most important thing for him now is to survive first, repel the attacks between the Soviet army and the British and American allies.
"Huh! I'm so depressed! Why do I have so many things to deal with? I can't take a good rest! Wouldn't it be better if I could only travel to 1942 like Hoffman in the book (The Cross) of the book, or the earlier 1940,?"
"If that were the case, I would have more time to deploy and change this destined war! In that case, I would not have to work hard and work hard for my own survival and the suffering of the future German people like now!"
After receiving Keselin's affirmative answer, Chen Yanlong, who hung up the phone again, suddenly sighed in a low mood.
But soon he cheered up and asked himself to continue to study the situation of the Soviet army and the British and American allies.
According to his later memories, he knew very well that the Soviet air force lost 14,700 aircraft in 1942.
However, before the summer of 1943, the Soviet army had no less than 10,000 aircraft.
Moreover, most of them are equipped with new fighter jets such as La-5, Jacques-9, and Il-2, as well as a large number of air force equipment.
Moreover, the Soviet army's radio equipment has gradually become popularized at this moment, and the Soviet army has imitated the German Air Force in terms of tactics and organization and carried out comprehensive reforms, especially the combat experience of Soviet pilots, which has significantly improved its combat effectiveness and rich flight experience.
At this moment, the Soviet army even deployed about 3,000 aircraft, twice as much as the German air force; about three air force armies and their affiliated forces, in Kursk.
The British and American Allied forces deployed at least 4,000 combat aircraft in Sicily, and even more.
"It's really helpless! The key situation of victory or defeat depends on who has obtained air superiority!"
When Chen Yanlong thought of the huge gap in the number and strength of the air force fighter jets between the enemy and us, his calming heart became irritable and restless.
Especially when the British and American Allies bombed the German transport rail system, the German transport system was completely paralyzed, and the German weapons, oil and ammunition could not be transported to the front line for combat; as well as large-scale bombings of German military-industrial enterprises, oil fields, airports, energy factories; natural gas processing plants, power plants, steelmaking factories, ammunition factories; aircraft manufacturing factories, and important big cities and other places, which caused the entire Germany to fall into a disaster of economic and military destruction. Chen Yanlong couldn't help but chill and became uneasy.
"It seems that I will order Sperer and Air Force Equipment Director Ehad Mirch, this production genius, to immediately accelerate the development and production of Me262 jet fighters, as well as to conduct fast and efficient training for pilots flying these jets!"
Finally, Chen Yanlong looked even more firmly and decided.
Because in the late World War II, Brigadier General George C. Macdonald, Director of the Intelligence Department of the US Eighth Air Force, once reported in a record handed over to the US summit: "If the number of German jet fighters could have more than 700 aircraft before 1944, it would be possible to break the current balance of European air power."
When Chen Yanlong thought of this, he could not wait to call the Wartime Armed Forces Minister Sperer and Air Force Equipment Director Ehad Mirch; he ordered them to mass-produce the Me262 jet fighter as soon as possible; and to send people to Vinnica tomorrow to receive the latest model aircraft and design drawings of the Me262 jet fighter.
Speer and Ehad Mirch, who had not yet woken up, were confused and confused for a moment; they even thought they were still dreaming, looking confused and confused.
"This... the Head of State strongly opposed us to research and production of Me262 jet fighters? Didn't he want to produce those anti-aircraft guns in large quantities? But why did he suddenly call Ukraine in the middle of the night to wake us up to mass-produce these jets? What did he want to do? And he also asked us to send people to Ukraine to get the model aircraft and design drawings? Well! In addition to us, there are people who know how to manufacture Me262 jet fighters? This is really strange, strange and strange!"
Then, both of them couldn't help but have such puzzled thoughts and muttered.
"Hey! Forget it, let me go to Ukraine in person tomorrow to see what bad ideas the head of state came up with after a sudden whim!"
In the end, both of them sighed helplessly.
Of course, Chen Yanlong didn't know what they thought.
While Chen Yanlong was talking to them, Keselin was also dispatching his Second Air Force Army and other Air Force troops to remove fighter jets...
When dawn just arrived and the sky was just white, 300 Messer Schmitt BF109s; 200 FW190 single-engine light fighters, 200 Messer Schmitt BF110s, and 100 Messer Schmitt ME210/410 twin-engine heavy fighters; took off from a relatively hidden airport in Italy in a fierce manner.
Their target is Pantelleria Island, the Italian volcanic island, located in the Mediterranean Sea; it has an important strategic position between Sicily and Tunisia, North Africa.
The Mussolini government established a military base here, and the main town of Pantelleria is the only port on the island.
Chapter completed!