Imperial Overlord

On August 30, the battle over the UK still left the British desperate. Their London was almost in ruins, and the places of interest that people are familiar with today no longer exist.

For example, Big Ben, now there is only a piece of wreckage left, and no one even has time to clean it up.

The British air defense sector has begun to be forced to transform, with the production of anti-aircraft guns that will not be easily lost, to replace the fighter production that has been on the verge of collapse.

Now the British industrial sector is ordered to produce anti-aircraft weapons at full capacity, the Luftwaffe is facing more ground artillery fire, and the loss is not easy for Goering.

At least in Goering's view, his pilots could not be easily lost over London, which is what Li Le is very sure of.

Therefore, in the past two days, after the Luftwaffe has been broken into pieces and raided some scattered British water supply and power supply facilities, in order to avoid further losses, many bombing missions have been cancelled.

Similar to the results of the previous air battle in Britain, the Luftwaffe suspended its own bombing attacks after the first round of attacks.

However, unlike another time and space, this time the Luftwaffe carried out a very thorough precision bombing of the British industry in a victorious attitude.

It was also a rest. This time the Luftwaffe took the initiative, but Li Le was not very optimistic about the continued air strikes in September.

The distribution of British local industry before World War II that he has mastered has almost been used almost less.

If he continues to attack the British mainland now, the intelligence he can use will be very scarce. On the contrary, the pace of British reconstruction of industry was not within Li Le's knowledge, and he could not use bombing to prevent the British from rebuilding their own industries in the north.

In Li Le's view, the only advantage Germany has gained from a bombing of Britain in a different previous life is to attract the attention of the British from other places to the mainland.

In turn, Germany has been strengthened to a certain extent in other areas - for example, it can concentrate on building the navy, for example, it can delay the British industry to play its role in the war.

"I suggest that in September, we can cancel the plan to continue air raids on the British..." Li Le suggested to Goering and Kesselring at the air force meeting.

Goering played with a fine pen as Kesselring summed up the results of the bombing of British industry.

As the Reich Marshal, Goering was already working on the establishment of a larger Waffen SS according to Li Le's instructions.

He has already extended his hands into the Army as a matter of course, but because the command is still assigned to the Army for the time being, there is no resistance from the Army.

Of course, Li Le's promise to the Army was not a promise to Goering. He acquiesced to Goering's small gestures in reaching out to the Army, but he also supported the Army's differential treatment of the relationship between the SS and the Wehrmacht.

After getting the understanding of the army's senior generals, Li Le promised to let the army put some newly formed Waffen SS troops to the rear to be responsible for some other auxiliary combat work, but not really arm them and be on an equal footing with the army.

The main reason he did this was to gain more space for his command and discourse power of the three armed forces.

Kesselring was surprised that Li Le had judged the current situation so clearly. He knew that the Fuehrer was a very emotional person most of the time. words such as.

But as a more powerful role in the Air Force, Kesselring hated the behavior of wasting Air Force pilots, or squandering the precious Air Force.

Rather than wasting troops, he prefers to use the air force for combat operations where it is easier to establish an advantage.

In fact, for the past 7 days, he has not been so optimistic about bombing London - because most of the pilots were shot down by ground fire, and his fighters had to follow the bombers every time, but they were consuming precious fuel in vain. .

Hearing the Fuhrer say this, he immediately nodded and replied, "My Fuhrer, your decision is correct. Continuing the bombing in such a confused way is not good for us!"

"Of course, if the head of state, your intelligence department, can provide higher-value targets, then there is no problem in continuing to bomb." He glanced at Goering and added this sentence.

For Germany, the internal impact of Li Le's "invisible intelligence department" is also very huge.

Before the Führer launched this terrifying intelligence force, the German top brass had never had such a detailed picture of the enemy's situation.

Relying on this intelligence, the Luftwaffe achieved unprecedented victories and convinced Kesselring that if the Fuhrer could get other intelligence, the Luftwaffe should continue to attack.

The practical marshal of the Air Force firmly believed in his mind that the targets provided by the intelligence unit of the head of state were absolutely worthy of his "regardless of the cost" to send planes to destroy!

"Yeah! My head of state... If your intelligence personnel can still send back news, then we can continue to find important bombing targets..." Goering looked at Li Le, also full of expectations.

Is there an easier job in this world than the previous bombing? The targets have been precisely selected, and even what is inside is introduced.

Bombing these nodes did weaken the British air defenses - Goering had to admit that the British high-value targets destroyed by the Führer in the first round were really high-value and worth destroying targets!

"The British are investigating internally... My intelligence department can't continue to deliver news for a short time." Li Le touched the photos of the targets marked as destroyed on the table in front of him.

This is a photo brought back by a reconnaissance plane that was secretly filming inside the bomber. It clearly marked the destroyed factory and other buildings.

When Goering heard Li Le say this, a painful expression appeared on his face-he suggested that Li Le use such high-level spies as little as possible, and he hoped that these spies could play their role in more important aspects.

However, Li Le not only used intelligence without restraint and no cover, but also blatantly wanted to tell the other party that Germany had spies in high-level Britain.

Kesselring, who was sitting on the other side, did not understand why the Führer was so eager to use such an important intelligence officer. He had advised the Fuhrer to provide proper cover for this senior intelligence officer.

Unfortunately, the Fuhrer was very confident that the other party could not find any hidden intelligence personnel in Germany, so he did not follow his suggestion.

"London is almost in ruins... The value of bombing there is already very low." Kesselring said confidently: "If there are no new targets worth attacking, bombing there is just a waste of time."

Now that things have become like this, Kesselring also knew that it was impossible to blame the Führer, so he simply stated his conclusion again.

Li Le's real killer move was not in the air, but in the sea, so he accepted Kesselring's statement with kindness.

In Li Le's view, it is an impossible task to use the existing air force to kill the British industrial system. Rather than wasting your time and experience here, save your strength and do something else.

What he really prepared for the United Kingdom was the complete strangulation of the British maritime transport line based on the wolves, in cooperation with the naval task force of aircraft carriers and battleships.

Only by paralyzing the import of raw materials in the United Kingdom and fundamentally destroying the transportation of industrial raw materials in the United Kingdom can it be possible to really defeat the United Kingdom.

Therefore, the current delayed attack is just buying time for his navy, laying out smoke bombs for his real ultimate move, and enhancing the power.

On the other hand, as a fake head of state, Li Le, who understood the British determination to resist, also placed the battlefield to defeat the British in North Africa. It can be said that Li Le's strategic focus is now in North Africa.

It is precisely because he has prepared two backers, the Navy and North Africa, that he can judge the cost performance of air combat bombing so rationally.

Of course... Then again, it would have been a better outcome if the air raids could actually make the British capitulate.

"I agree in principle. Let the Air Force suspend the bombing for three days... Let's set a three-day rest period first! Give the pilots a vacation!" Li Le kindly agreed to Kesselring's request to suspend the bombing.

At this time, Bowman pushed open the door of the conference room and walked in: "Victory! Head of State!"

After the salute, he nodded slightly to Goering, then walked to Li Le's side: "My head of state! Victory news from North Africa!"

"Oh? Victory news?" Li Le raised his eyebrows. It seemed that Rommel lived up to expectations and won the victory he deserved in North Africa.

"The news of General Rommel?" Goering is also very interested in this news, because he has been very concerned about the poor desert since Libya's oil fields had his 1% stake.

"General Rommel defeated the British and rescued at least 50,000 Italian prisoners... Moreover, he actually pushed the front back to Egypt." After reading the telegram, Li Le threw it to Goering, who was interested.

Judging from the information inside, it is unlikely that the British want to counterattack. Without Benghazi and Tobruk as buffers, Rommel's way of attacking Egypt will definitely be better than before.

"Rommel... Awesome!" After reading the telegram, Goering completely remembered the young man who had been the captain of the guard for the Führer.

He handed the telegram to Kesselring, who read the shocking news of the victory: "Captain British Admiral Wavell, Lieutenant General O'Connor..."