Chapter 585 Operation Sea Lion VII

"Boom!"

When the 4.81-ton grenade exploded in the Dover Fortress area, Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was hiding in the underground bunker, suddenly felt the ground shaking, as if the end of the world was coming.

Although the landing point of the shell was still a little distance away from the underground command center, all the people in the command center were knocked over by the huge vibration, and the lights suddenly dimmed, and then flickered. Several young staff officers in the underground bunker who usually looked elegant couldn't even suppress their screams.

The power of the Dora and Gustav cannons is really unprecedented and powerful!

"It must be the Dora and Gustav cannons firing!"

On the Norwegian Sea, Vice Admiral Paulus had already boarded the bridge at this time, standing side by side with the captain of the Baltic Sea, an old naval colonel in his sixties with a gray beard.

The old colonel's surname was Attenborg, and there was a "von" in his name. Looking at his age, you can tell that he is an old navy who participated in World War I. He had been the captain of a destroyer brigade during World War I, fought the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, and fought against the Russians in the Baltic Sea. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel after the end of the last war, and thought he would never have the chance to wear a uniform again in this life.

But who knew that he would encounter the era of the German Navy's turnaround, but the talent reserve of the originally small German Navy was seriously insufficient, and even the captains could not be assembled for a while. So they had to bring back the old navy, retrain them and let them go back to their old jobs.

Colonel Attenborg learned to fly an airplane during the interwar period, and now he was assigned to the Marine Corps as the captain of an amphibious assault ship.

Hearing Paulus' words, the old colonel Attenborg also raised his telescope and looked at the shaking scene dozens of kilometers away, and was also a little surprised.

"This firepower is really fierce!" said the old colonel, "It seems that we really have a chance to pass through the strait safely."

The old man didn't believe that he could pass safely at first. Compared with the British who have been operating in Dover for many years, how could it be so easy for the Germans to pass? But now, he also believed that the British Empire would soon be finished - because they could not even defend their own doorstep.

"There will be no problem." Paulus wiped his palm and said, "The British will have a hard time tonight, and their radar will be interfered by us, and they will not even find that we have passed the strait. No, it is not that they cannot find it, but that they will find that we have passed the strait."

The torpedo boat detachment of Lansdorff has passed through the strait... or is passing through the strait. They dragged aluminum foil balloons to create the illusion of a large fleet passing on the British radar screen. On the one hand, it was to lure the British to expose their firepower, and on the other hand, it was to create the illusion that the fleet had passed.

Such an action of "balloon-induced artillery shells" would certainly not be without cost. Although the British artillery shells did not hit a torpedo boat, the huge waves created by these shells overturned several of them. Among them was Lansdorff's "flagship". The rear admiral lost his ship again and is now swimming, trying his best to swim to the beach on the French side of the south bank of the English Channel.

"Sir, the radar seems to be broken!"

"Broken?" Rear Admiral William Tennant, who was commanding the battle in a bunker command post that was shaking from time to time and shedding some dust, heard another bad news.

"How many are broken?" Rear Admiral Tennant asked.

Of course, there are more than one 284 fire control radar in the Dover coastal battery, but 20, and each "real battery" has a 284 radar. In theory, as long as one 284 radar can work normally, it can guide the 20 batteries in Dover to fire.

"All broken!"

The staff's answer surprised Rear Admiral Tennant. How could all of them be broken? Although the Germans' firepower was very strong, several armored turrets had been blown up by a powerful bomb, and there were one or two super cannons of unknown caliber firing. But there were still many batteries that were safe and sound. How could the radar be broken?

It turns out that Rear Admiral Tennant and his men didn't know that aluminum foil strips could interfere with radar. Although British radar experts have long known about this method and have conducted experiments, the Royal Air Force has also stored a large number of aluminum foil strips for interference. However, neither Britain nor Germany had used aluminum foil strip jammers on the front line before today, nor had they made this "secret weapon" public.

Because this "aluminum foil jammer" is only valuable in large-scale air raids, but both Britain and Germany have been relatively restrained in the issue of throwing bombs indiscriminately so far, and the bombing behind enemy lines is limited to the level of harassment bombing. That is, a few or a dozen high-speed high-altitude bombers are dispatched at a time, relying on speed and altitude to break through. Moreover, the radars of both sides are not particularly reliable these days, and the breakthroughs of several high-altitude and high-speed aircraft may not be detected by the radar of the other side. If aluminum foil strips are thrown all the way, wouldn't it be telling the other side where they are?

Therefore, both Britain and Germany regarded this low-tech but very effective anti-radar weapon as a highly confidential killer, and they didn't know that the other side already had the same equipment.

"What? All radars in the Strait of Dover area are damaged!? How is this possible?" When British Prime Minister Churchill heard the news, his eyes suddenly turned dark.

Needless to say, these radars must have been damaged by the Germans! And their landing fleet is near the Strait of Dover! Is it really going to land at Dover? Dover is not that far from London!

"Prime Minister, the technical department believes that the Germans used aluminum foil jamming bombs." Viscount Porter, Chief of Staff of the Royal Air Force, saw Churchill showing fear and quickly comforted him, "In fact, we also have the same weapons."

Churchill seemed not to have heard his words and just asked in a hesitant tone: "Will it be Dover? Will London be raided by airborne troops?"

can you? God knows!

No one can answer these two questions.

"Prime Minister, there are enough defenders in Dover." Viscount Brooke, the Imperial Chief of Staff, replied. "And London is also very well defended and will not be captured by tens of thousands of airborne troops."

There are many defenders in London. The number of regular combat troops alone exceeds 100,000, and they are also deployed in the British Army's elite Guards Armored Division. Of course, such a defense cannot be captured by a sudden attack from the sky.

However, Churchill was still worried. He was silent for a moment, and then said to the cabinet members: "His Majesty the King cannot be allowed to stay in London any longer. I propose that His Majesty the King go to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands immediately."

Fort William is located in the dangerous Scottish Highlands, next to the forest lake that leads to the Bay of Lorne, with Ben Nevis covered in snow all year round, and surrounded by mountains and canyons. It is definitely a good place to persist in the resistance struggle. .

According to the plan, once the Germans landed on British soil, the king and most of his cabinet would move to Fort William to lead the resistance. London was handed over to the Princess Regent Elizabeth and Deputy Prime Minister Attlee.

But now Fatty Qiu was not sure whether the Germans were really going to land, so he made a compromise and let the king leave first, while he and the cabinet stayed behind for a few days to check the situation.

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"Boom!"

A huge fireball suddenly rose on the sea in the southern Strait of Dover. In the light of the fire, a cargo ship of 4,000 to 5,000 tons loaded with ammunition was broken into two parts and was sinking rapidly.

"Submarine! There's a British submarine nearby!"

Someone immediately shouted on the bridge of the Norwegian Sea amphibious assault ship. Lieutenant General Paulus and Colonel Attenborough looked at each other, both of them looking a little ugly. He had escaped Dover's cannon, but he couldn't escape the submarine ambushing in the water... No, now he couldn't escape the cannon either, because the ship that was hit and set on fire was a target for cannonballs on the dark sea.

"Colonel, the Friedrich I ordered us to take the anti-submarine route!" At this time, the communications officer on the Norwegian Sea shouted.

The guided-missile cruiser Friedrich I is the flagship of Admiral Rolf Karls, commander of the 5th Fleet, and all ships currently passing through the Strait of Dover are under his command.

"Quick, quick, Z-shaped anti-submarine route!" Colonel Attenborough quickly ordered to the first officer.

As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball shot up on the sea. This time, a T-type landing ship converted into a fire support ship was hit by a torpedo. It did not sink immediately, but ignited a fire on the sea. No There were also bursts of explosions like fireworks—the rockets or high-explosive ammunition on the ship were exploded!

"Hell, there's a British submarine nearby!" Colonel Attenborough gasped as he looked out the bridge window at the unlucky fireworks ship not too far away from the Baltic.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

By this time, the escorting destroyers and torpedo ships (actually light destroyers) had reacted and began to use flares and drop depth charges.

At present, the German Navy's anti-submarine weapons mainly include two types, one is depth bombs, and the other is hedgehog depth bombs. These two weapons were invented by the British to deal with German submarines, but now they have become a weapon used by the German Navy against British submarines. Since the control of the sea in the Atlantic has changed hands, it is no longer a European coalition led by the German Navy to break the war. The main task of the fleet is now.

General Dönitz, the commander of the German Navy's submarine force, was transferred to the commander of the newly established European Joint Escort Command after the "Battle of the Sea of ​​Fog". There are also many German Sea Wolves who have made great achievements in breaking the war. Now They all followed Dönitz and changed careers to become destroyer captains.