The Third Reich in Desperation

William knew the other party's concerns. Taking advantage of this moment of respite, he took out the time bomb and looked at the time he had set with Pierce before. Instead of pressing the start button immediately, he set the time bomb again. The setting was shortened by 3 minutes.

Not far from Pierce, William, who was squatting behind the stack of cans, looked at the exit on his right, and then reminded Pierce on the lower left to prepare to escape.

Pierce nodded slightly, indicating that he had received the message.

After getting a response from his teammates, William prepared his pistol and bombs in silence.

Hiding behind the cart full of cans, he slowly pushed the cart of oil toward the exit.

On the opposite side, the eyes of dozens of pairs of security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs all moved in unison with the movement of the emerging cart.

It was the first time they had seen such a conspicuous and arrogant person.

A Soviet soldier couldn't hold back the unwillingness in his heart, and suddenly pulled the trigger in his hand.

The sharp sound of bullets piercing the air seemed so abrupt in this space.

Fortunately, because the soldier who fired the gun was very nervous, the bullet eventually deviated far from the target.

"Idiot!" Seeing this, the commander of the security force of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs turned around and shot dead the impulsive and reckless guy who disobeyed orders without hesitation.If he hit more accurately and detonated the oil, everyone would have to be buried with him.

At this moment, Pierce, who was hiding in another direction, fired violently, and the two agents also fired in response.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, William immediately pushed the cart and rushed to the exit.

The moment he dodged out of the exit, William pressed the bomb on the cans on the cart and pressed the start button.

When the Soviet soldiers of the security forces saw that William was about to escape as an impostor, they also shot violently at the exit.

And Pierce took the opportunity to take the opportunity to push down the can with two agents, and then rushed all the way to the exit where William ran.

As the three escaped, they knocked down dozens of cans.

In the chaos, the facilities here collapsed one after another, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

"Bang!" The commander of the Soviet security forces shot Pierce in the thigh.

Pierce staggered, rolled over and fell in the middle of a pile of fallen cans.One of the overturned and broken cans also leaked pungent gasoline!

"Damn! Don't shoot!"

Asked about the smell of gasoline, the Soviet commander quickly ordered the soldiers not to shoot.He didn't want to take these soldiers to heaven to meet Marx after detonating the oil.

William, who had already rushed out of the core area of ​​the factory, knew that if he did not leave, everyone would be killed in the fire.So, without hesitation, he gathered the agents he had deployed along the way and returned normally.

At the critical moment, William and his party stopped and jumped onto the hidden military helicopter parked outside, and took Pierce's men and his subordinates to board this helicopter named "Chidori".

And this special operation is the first time that the German army has put the helicopter, which was previously a secret weapon, into actual combat.

After the engine started, William looked at his watch and said softly with regret: "It's time".

After taking off on flat ground, the oil factory under the feet exploded with a rumbling sound, and the burning flames devoured everything like a terrifying death.

Including the security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, including the ordinary garrison soldiers who rushed to the factory without knowing it, and three German agents including Pierce.

Willian lost his teammate forever.

"Everything is for the Third Reich." William said silently to himself.

Text 789 The determination of the High Command

In the quiet corridor, there was suddenly a fierce running sound, and there was a series of rapid echoes in the relatively empty space. An air force major rushed into the room where Alfred C. The 1st Air Force Command under the command of General Le waved the document in his hand and shouted loudly: "Orders from the command!"

Several German generals who were analyzing the situation in the Soviet Union were pointing around a map, and they were discussing the feasibility of sending bombers to attack Leningrad.

In the past few days, they have drawn up a plan to bomb Leningrad, but in the end, they can't change the current situation of the Soviet Union's northern front.

"Urgent mission, the headquarters called to order all the bombers deployed at the airport under the jurisdiction of the Northern Army to take off and bomb the military-industrial facilities in Leningrad."

The major officer who came to deliver the documents saw that no one was paying attention to him at all among the big guys behind the scenes, so he continued to speak, with an expression that was not shocking and endless.

Sure enough, everyone raised their heads when they heard such important news from the major.

The commander of the bomber unit of the Ground 1 Air Force, who was staring at the map and thinking of a way, obviously heard this important message, and hurried over and grabbed the telegram paper from the major's hand.

The content above was like a time bomb, which exploded in his eyes and passed to his brain, completely short-circuiting his place for thinking.

Another air force junior award from the fighter unit took the message from him, but he didn't realize it either, and just stood there in a daze.

The message written in the telegram is similar to what the air force major who came to deliver the letter said. This message is: "Take off all the long-range bombers that can take off, and attack the Soviet army in the Leningrad area with full escort of fighter jets. The military industrial facilities completely destroyed the military factories there, paralyzed the war potential of the Soviet army in Leningrad, and paved the way for the next battle of Leningrad.

But everyone knows that once this plan is implemented, whether it is successful or not, it means that the Second Air Force, which is responsible for supporting the Northern Army Group, must mobilize its maximum strength to carry out the mission on the Eastern Front.

Prior to this, among the three major air forces on the Eastern Front, the First Air Force, which had relatively fewer combat missions, was also responsible for the air defense of the eastern part of Germany, including the Polish occupied area.Once the war is fully launched, the air defense tasks in eastern Germany will all have to be handed over to the ground air defense forces.

Of course, these issues are not issues that the air force generals present here need to consider. What they think in their minds is to complete the tasks of the high command and win the war on the Soviet Union's northern front.

"Are you sure this is news from the country? If there is such a thing as a false order at this time, it will cause very terrible consequences!" General Koehler raised his head and looked at the major officer from the Air Force Intelligence Room. Confirmed with a rather solemn tone.

They can completely mobilize all the fighters remaining in East Germany to go to the front line, but in that case, once the Soviet Baltic Fleet aviation and long-range bombers go to air strikes on Berlin, there will not be much Luftwaffe power to intercept.

"General!" The major waited until the other party looked at him, stood at attention immediately, and saluted: "I have confirmed the password, and I have sent a confirmation telegram to the country, and used another set of backup passwords for re-verification. Top secret orders from home, nothing wrong."

"That is to say, the high command put their own safety and the safety of Berlin where they are on the line. Is it going to give up defense and do everything possible to strengthen the offensive?" A senior staff officer looked at Koehler.

General Koehler nodded, then turned around and looked at several of his colleagues: "Soldiers, from this moment on, we don't have to be restrained anymore. At least for now, it seems that Berlin no longer wants us to work part-time in the East." The air defense intercepted. We can use all the reserved forces to launch a full-scale attack in the direction of Leningrad."

"It should have started a long time ago. Because of problems such as military supplies and weather, we have never had a chance to create a big record on the northern front. The 2nd, 4th, and 5th Air Forces have already been fully dispatched. Cooperating with the Central Army Group and the Southern Army Group have fought several large-scale bombings."

An air force major general clicked on the map with his hand and said: "Not only do we want to bomb Leningrad, we also want to bomb the city of Luga, bomb Kingisepp! Blow up those damn Soviet fortifications!"

It’s not that Germany never sent bombers to attack Leningrad. In fact, as early as more than a month ago, the British were still holding on to the British Isles. When the Soviet army attacked Germany across the board, the German air force secretly dispatched to Norway. 20 new long-range bombers, all of which were painted with the standard livery of the Soviet Air Force, took off from the airport at the northern tip of Norway, crossed the skies over Finland, and attacked semi-military factories such as the tractor factory in Leningrad.

This plan is to destroy Leningrad's tank production capacity in one fell swoop, temporarily causing Leningrad to lose its industrial capacity to manufacture a large number of tanks, and it can also reduce the intensity of the Soviet steel torrent when the German army counterattacks in the future.

However, this plan obviously did not go smoothly at the beginning. After the first batch of 20 bombers took off in Norway, they just flew to the border area between Finland and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Air Force, which was still relatively complete and powerful at that time, found something strange and had to terminate it. surprise attack.

Subsequently, in order to ensure the absolute safety of Leningrad, the Soviet army deployed a ladder-shaped fixed anti-aircraft artillery position consisting of 400 anti-aircraft guns on the ground, and another 110 mobile anti-aircraft guns deployed on rails and vehicles. The air defense support unit has formed a multi-level air defense firepower network that is static and active.

There is no doubt that this is Zhukov's masterpiece when he presided over the work of the Soviet General Staff.

It has to be said that Reinhardt failed to get rid of Zhukov in the "Great Purge" at the beginning, which indeed left a big hidden danger for the subsequent Soviet-German war.

At the same time, under Zhukov's arrangement and order, there are a total of 100 fighter jets deployed along with these anti-aircraft artillery units, of which 50 are fixed air defense fighter jets dedicated to this area, and some of them are allocated to Ukraine. The frontline air force in the territory, but the deployed airfield is actually closer to Leningrad.

For a target with such tight air defense measures, it is simply an impossible combat task to enter the airspace for large-scale destructive bombing.In the past few times, the German army disguised itself as the Soviet Air Force and carried out many tentative attacks on these areas. It was found that the deployment of the Soviets here has no dead ends, and there is no time to relax.

"Our bomber unit penetrated deep into the inland of the Soviet army to bomb, the risk factor is too high, and now all the planes are taking off to bomb Lenin on a large scale, who can guarantee the success of the operation?"