Chapter 1161: Fort Gauchi Project - Caribbean Federation

Hersmann, wearing a gray marshal's uniform, got out of the open Mercedes-Benz car, holding the scepter of the Reich Marshal in his hand. His personal secretary Natalie and the new chief adjutant Colonel Heinz Brandt got out of the car first and were waiting by the car door with briefcases. Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary, was already standing at the gate of the Eagle's Nest. When he saw Hersmann appear, he hurried forward and saluted.

"Reich Marshal, welcome." Bormann said in a flattering tone.

"Hello, Martin." Hersmann shook hands with Martin Bormann.

"The leader is on the phone with Caesar in Rome, so he can't come out to greet us." Baumann told Hersman, "He is outraged by the atrocities in Buenos Aires."

Buenos Aires suffered heavy losses in yesterday's bombing. Large areas of the city were reduced to ruins or ashes. At least 100,000 people were homeless, and tens of thousands died in the bombing. There were also no less than 10,000 wounded, mainly poor people burned by the fire. Many of them were seriously injured and in great pain.

After the bombing, Juan Peron immediately came out of the basement of the Rose Palace and went to the European Allied Forces Headquarters to ask Falkenhorst and Canaris for help in person. Later, he asked at least the ambassadors in Germany and Rome to ask Hitler and Mussolini for help.

Hersman was called from Zossen to the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden by Hitler because of Juan Peron's request for help.

When he walked into Hitler's office, the chancellor of the Third Reich looked very calm, with a smile on his face. He stood up from behind his desk and went up to shake hands with Hersmann: "Marshal of the Reich, our South American friends are in trouble and need our help. Do we have the spare capacity to help them?"

"Of course we have the spare capacity." Hersmann said, "I had called Olga before boarding the plane. She agreed to send 300 pilots who had received Fw190 driving training to form a Russian Royal Air Force expeditionary division to Argentina."

"Send Russians?"

"Yes, just send Russians, they are enough to deal with the Americans."

The Russian Royal Air Force was formed based on the rebellious Soviet Red Air Force pilots. It is not very large, with only 1,000 commonly used combat aircraft. However, it has many first-class pilots-these people are elites who grew up in the competition with the German Air Force and are particularly good at interception operations.

Therefore, after receiving the report from the European Allied Forces Headquarters in New Asbania, Hessmann immediately called Olga in Petrograd and asked her to send an air expeditionary force.

"Where are our people?" Hitler asked, "Are there not enough troops?"

"Of course there are enough troops," Hessmann replied, "but we should make the enemy believe that our air force is not sufficient."

The European Community's air force is now mainly the German Air Force, the German Naval Air Force, the French Air Force and the French Naval Air Force. The Russian Royal Air Force can only be regarded as a scrap, while the British Royal Air Force is mainly used in the Indian battlefield, and the air forces of other countries are basically soy sauce.

The German Air Force, the German Naval Air Force, the French Air Force and the French Naval Air Force are quite powerful. The total number of various standing combat aircraft (excluding trainers, transport aircraft and backup aircraft) exceeds 23,000! Although it cannot be compared with the number of commonly used aircraft owned by Americans, the structure is more reasonable, the performance of the fighter is more advanced, and the technical level of the pilots is also higher. Therefore, it has always had an advantage in the air training in the two major battlefields of the Atlantic and Guiana-Caribbean.

However, the advantage of the European common air force is not enough to support the implementation of the "Fort Gauche Plan", so it is necessary to transfer the American air force from the direction of Newfoundland to the Caribbean and New Asbania.

In order to achieve the goal of attracting American air force with New Asbania, it is necessary to make the Americans feel that the air force of Germany and France is approaching the limit of its use - the number of 23,000 aircraft seems a lot at first glance (in fact, it is a lot), but the proportion of serious shore-based fighters (including heavy fighters) is not high.

Among the more than 20,000 aircraft, there are more than 5,000 various carrier-based aircraft and seaplanes; there are no less than 5,000 various types of shore-based medium and long-range reconnaissance aircraft, medium and heavy bombers; at the same time, the number of various ground attack aircraft (including fighter-bombers) also exceeds 5,000. Three five thousand is 15,000, which means that the total number of shore-based fighters owned by France and Germany is only 8,000.

And these 8,000 fighters cannot all be used as interceptors. At least 2,000 of them must be used for various escort and cover (covering bases, fleets and reconnaissance aircraft) missions. The last 6,000 aircraft that can be used as interceptors must guard the Atlantic islands, the Atlantic Wall, Guiana-Northern Brazil, New Asbania and important cities and facilities in Europe. The force is not tight, but it is definitely not loose.

"Although the American air force is nearly twice as large as ours," Hersmann continued to say to Hitler, "it is far from being able to be fully deployed in all war zones. Because the quality of the US fighters and pilots is not as good as ours, and they must deploy a large number of fighters all over the eastern coast to intercept our missiles and attack our missile carrier formations."

Although the German air force and navy did not launch many missiles at large cities on the east coast of the United States, they did contain a lot of American aviation forces.

In addition, the successful air attack on Bermuda by the Br.810 twin-engine carrier-based bomber of the French Naval Aviation also sounded the alarm to the Americans that Bermuda might fall. So in the past two months, the US military has been expanding its facilities on the Bermuda Islands. It is estimated that a large number of aviation and ground forces will be deployed there.

Hersmann told Hitler: "The dispatch of the Russian Air Expeditionary Force to Buenos Aires is just the beginning of a series of deception operations. There will be further operations that will make the Americans believe that the Caribbean is the target area for our attack."

The "Fort Gotchi Plan" is now close to being finalized, and a copy will soon be sent to Chancellor Adolf Hitler's office - a campaign of this level to land in North America requires the approval of the High Command Meeting, and Hitler serves as the High Command Meeting As one of the three giants, it is natural to study the details of the "Fort Gotchi Plan". What Hersmann now told Hitler was a key detail of the "Fort Gotsch Plan."

"What are you going to do?" Hitler asked.

Hersman said: "The biggest obstacle to the attack on Newfoundland is not the US ground forces on the island, nor the F7F, but the P51 deployed there. This kind of fighter can compete with the Fokker 636 for air supremacy. , so we must convince the Americans that our target is Trinidad. Therefore, we plan to have the Air Force’s Fokker 636s and Fw190s pretend to be naval aviation aircraft to fight in the Guyana-Caribbean battlefield, while stationing a few in Belém Port. A large aircraft carrier.”

Because the carrier-based Me262T high-speed jet aircraft will definitely participate in the "Fort Gotchi Plan" operations, the F7F will not pose a huge threat to the attacking fleet. But the P51, a fighter with superior mid- and low-altitude performance, is a problem. Heavy aircraft like the Me262T cannot deal with such a flexible fighter below 5,000 meters (but the powerful firepower of the Me262T is enough to fight against the sturdy F7F below 5,000 meters. If With the cooperation of the Fokker 636, the F7F poses no threat). If the Americans deploy too many P51s on Newfoundland, it will be a big trouble for the EC landing fleet that relies on carrier-based aircraft to achieve air superiority.

After all, the number of aircraft carriers that the European Community Joint Fleet can dispatch is limited, and the number of carrier-based aircraft that can be carried is more than a thousand at most. Among them, the Fokker 636, which can dominate at medium and low altitudes, can have up to 1,000 aircraft. It is impossible to crush the P51, which has more than 1,000 aircraft, because the aircraft deployed by the United States on Newfoundland are shore-based aircraft that are easily replenished, so it is not advisable to use carrier-based aircraft to fight a war of attrition with them.

Therefore, the air attack on Newfoundland must be carried out in one step, destroying the main airport on the island before the landing operation begins, and completely taking control of the air.

With air control, the European Community Navy, which already has sea control, can block the sea area between Newfoundland and the North American continent through large-scale mine laying. In this way, Newfoundland will become an isolated and helpless island, and it will be difficult to defeat it. It's not difficult anymore. In fact, it does not need to be completely defeated. It is enough to allow the landing troops to establish a bridgehead where a large airport can be deployed.

After Hessmann roughly outlined the specific plan to seize air supremacy over Newfoundland and blockade the island, Hitler pondered for a moment and asked: "Do we need diplomatic cooperation? Our peace negotiations with the Americans have resumed. Do we need to Take the opportunity to send some wrong signals?”

"Of course, of course, diplomatic cooperation is needed." Hersman nodded. "Didn't the Americans put forward a demand for self-determination of the American nations? I think we can go further and put forward the demand for the separation of Britain and Canada and the neutrality of Canada... We should Let them mistakenly believe that we are consistent with their position on dismantling the British Empire.

In addition, we should further advance our demand for a Caribbean federation. It is to merge the British and French territories in the Caribbean with other independent countries to form an independent, free, democratic and neutral federal state.

I think Americans will turn their attention entirely to the Caribbean and ignore the dangers of Newfoundland. "