Which two goals do Li Xiaofeng think are more valuable? The first one is the Narvik mentioned earlier. As a key node for Germany's imported iron ore, it destroyed the Narvik port. Germany's industrial production, especially arms production, will suffer a heavy blow. The second key goal is the Knerben Molybdenum Mine.

Friends who know a little about the history of World War II and metallurgy know the value of molybdenum. Simply put, molybdenum can improve the high-temperature performance, wear resistance and corrosion resistance of alloys. For example, alloy armored steel, if it lacks molybdenum, its toughness will be terrible.

The most typical example is the German Tiger King tank. Logically speaking, the weight of the Tiger King and the thickness of the front armor were considered the best in World War II. However, after the Soviet Red Army seized the Tiger King and fired live ammunition, they believed that the Tiger King's defense was truly invisible.

The quality of its armor is far from that of tigers and leopards, and it is simply a black-hearted bun. Logically speaking, with the Germans' meticulous character, they would not use this kind of tofu armor to make up for the numbers. The key problem is the lack of molybdenum!

Germany has almost no rare metals, such as molybdenum, which requires full import. Among them, Germany's molybdenum is mainly obtained from the Knerben molybdenum mine in Norway. So Hitler's invasion of Norway was really not a decision made by the head. Both steel and molybdenum have to rely on this unreliable country. How can he do it if he doesn't take it down?

During World War II, in order to destroy the German iron ore and molybdenum ore sources, the Allies carried out large-scale bombings. For example, on November 7, 1943, 158 long-range bombers from the US Eighth Air Force visited Knerben and almost flattened the entire mining area in one breath. The most direct result was that the source of molybdenum ore in Germany was cut off, and the armor mass instantly changed to water. He could only use the parallel tiger king to fight for the Red Army's increasingly powerful tanks, but the result was naturally not good.

What Li Xiaofeng has to do now is to teach the Germans how to be a human being in advance, directly deal with the Knerben molybdenum mine and destroy the Narvik Port. In his opinion, bombing these two places is typical of low cost and high efficiency.

So is the Red Army capable of attacking these two facilities? It should be said that there are, for example, the Port of Narvik, which was previously in the Norwegian Battle. The Red Army robbed a piece of land from the boss and stationed a considerable number of ground troops in the north of Narvik (a polar infantry army, an armored brigade and a cavalry division), which can launch an attack on Narvik directly from the ground.

Of course, it must also be seen that the Nazis also stationed quite powerful ground troops in Norway (slightly more than the Red Army). After the outbreak of the Patriotic War, the two armies built tight fortifications along the 69-degree latitude line and showed a state of confrontation.

The experience of World War I fully demonstrates that trench warfare is not that easy to fight, and the Red Army is in a relatively high dimension. It is relatively difficult to supply, so there is little chance of winning directly launching a ground offensive. However, it is still possible to use the Air Force to make a fuss.

For example, in Tromso, there is a sea and air base of the Red Army. The base not only houses some of the navy's destroyers and cruisers, but also has powerful naval aviation. Narvik is completely within the attack radius of Su-1 and Ro-2, and even the short-legged Jacques-1 can cover attack aircraft and bombers throughout the journey.

What's more, in order to carry out the Barbarossa battle, the German army drew elite troops from all fronts. The Norwegian Luftwaffe's Luftwaffe's Air Force was relatively weak, and the aircraft were relatively old. A large number of fighter jets were b-109d. The latest-190 was even missing.

However, relying solely on the power of naval aviation to destroy Narvik, after all, the naval attack aircraft and bombers have limited bomb loads and are relatively small in number. If you want to completely destroy a port, the number is not enough, and Narvik's ground air defense is relatively powerful.

According to Li Xiaofeng's vision, the Navy Aviation and the Air Force's long-range aviation should work together. The Navy Aviation Su-1 and RO-2 are responsible for precisely attacking key facilities in Narvik, such as dock facilities. The Air Force's long-range bombers are responsible for mine-braking and bombing railways for transporting iron ore. A two-pronged approach is to completely trap Narvik.

This idea immediately received a positive response from Alxnis, and soon the plan was released. A part of the Air Force's long-range aviation unit took off from the Murmansk base. Flying along the coastline towards Tromso, and after arriving over Tromso, he broke into Westfjord under the cover of Jacques-1k of the local HNA to attack and breach. The mission was mainly responsible for the Tu-3 and Pe-8, which had a larger load of missiles. The long-range aviation unit Il-4, Tu-2 and Ye-2 aircraft groups that took off from Murmansk entered Norway from northern Finland. They were mainly responsible for bombing railways. As for the port facilities and ships in the port, they were mainly handed over to the Navy Air Force to deal with the strike.

It can be said that the bombing of the Navy and the Air Force quickly reached an agreement, but in the bombing of the Knerben Molybdenum Mine, the Air Force and the Navy had a great difference.

Alxnis believed that his long-range aviation force could take off using the airport in East Prussia, fly along the Swedish airline to Norway, and hit Kerbert to destroy it in one fell swoop.

However, the plan was strongly opposed by Sukhoi. Xiao Wangzi believed that it was too difficult and dangerous to attack Knerben in the Baltic direction. First of all, the Germans hoarded heavy troops in this direction, and the air force was very strong. Secondly, they had to cross the Katgart Strait between Denmark and Sweden during this period, and the German Air Force had sufficient interception time. If they went in this direction, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses!

Sukhoi believed that his aircraft carrier special mixed formation could do better than long-range aviation. He left the Barents Sea, hid outside the German aviation army in Norway, slowly approached Knerben, broke into the waters west of Stavanger late at night, released fighter planes at dawn, raided Knerben, and destroyed it in one fell swoop.

However, Sukhoi's plan also has many problems that Alxnis has chosen. The Air Marshal said: "To completely destroy the Knaben molybdenum mine, a large number of attack aircraft are needed. Even if you HNA launch five aircraft carriers at the same time, at best, there are 500 fighter jets, nearly half of which are fighter jets. Only 200 attack aircraft can be used to bomb Knaben. Moreover, the attack aircraft's bombing capacity is limited, how can the bombing effect be guaranteed?"

This is the first one. Alxnis quickly proposed the second one: "Five aircraft carriers, plus the battleships, cruisers and destroyers accompanying the escort, the fleet size must be at least dozens or hundreds, right? Will the German army not respond if such a large-scale dispatch? Moreover, the Jacques-1k range is limited. Your aircraft carrier formation must go deep into Norwegian waters to launch an attack, which will definitely put the huge fleet within the range of the Luftwaffe's attack. Is this risk smaller?"

Alqueznis's opinion does make sense. The ro-2 is indeed very versatile, but the bomb load and range are really impossible to compare with Tu-3 and Il-4. When carrying a bomb of 1,000 kilograms, its maximum range is only 1,000 kilometers, and its combat radius is actually 300 kilometers.

In fact, the maximum strike distance of the special mixed formation of the Red Navy is not yet 300 kilometers. The reason is that the range of Jacques-1k is shorter, and the maximum range of the land version of Jacques-1 is about 650 kilometers, which means that its ideal combat radius is only 200 kilometers. The carrier-based version of Jacques-1k has reduced due to its enhanced structural weight gain, both maneuverability and maximum range indicators, and the real combat radius is actually only 180 kilometers.

In other words, unless the attack fleet does not require Jacques-1k escort. It can launch an attack at a distance of 300 kilometers. If Jacques-1k escort, the maximum attack distance is 180 kilometers.

180 kilometers is too short, completely within the range of the Luftwaffe's attack. If you really want to do this, the risk that the special mixed formation will take is indeed greater.

For a time, neither Alxnis nor Sukhoi could convince each other, and in the end the lawsuit went directly to Li Xiaofeng. As a supporter of the bombing of Nalvik and Knerben, he had to make a ruling.

However, Li Xiaofeng's ruling was a bit strange because he also denied the suggestions of Alxnis and Sukhoi. He believed that both plans were immature.

"We have only one chance. If we cannot destroy Knerben in one fell swoop when the enemy is not vigilant enough, once our attack does not achieve the ideal effect, the Germans will soon strengthen the air defense force in the relevant areas. At that time, we will have to carry out a second and third attacks, and the cost will be even heavier!"

After a pause, he said extremely serious: "So, in the first attack, we must achieve a complete success, and we must destroy Knerben in one fell swoop, and we will never do any second or third rework. So, if you cannot guarantee absolute success, it is better not to move for the time being!"

Because of Li Xiaofeng's insistence, Alxnis and Sukhoi had to go home to work, and at this time, Li Xiaofeng also had a rough idea. His idea was very complicated, including two aspects, involving three departments: the Air Force, the Navy and the KGB.

The specific plan is like this: If the attacks on Nalvik and Knerben succeed in one fell swoop, the problem of the Luftwaffe cannot be avoided. In southern Norway and the waters of Denmark, the Red Army cannot obtain air supremacy, so whether it is the bombing plan of the Air Force directly crossing the Baltic Sea or the special mixed formation attack plan of Sukhoi, they are too risky, and they cannot guarantee the complete destruction of the Knerben molybdenum mine.

How to solve the problem of the Luftwaffe? Anyway, there is no chance to directly grab air supremacy. Li Xiaofeng's idea is to lure him. If the Luftwaffe can be deceived from near Knerbourne, wouldn't it be a great possibility of success?

As for how to deceive, Li Xiaofeng also had a general idea, to build a plank road openly and secretly travel to Chen Cang. He still started from two aspects. One was to bomb Narvik and focus on Narvik, which would inevitably lead the attention of the Luftwaffe to the north.

In any case, the strength of the Luftwaffe is limited. We need to pay attention to both the Barbarossa plan and the English Channel, and finally distract ourselves from Nalvik. Then it is very likely that there will be gaps in Denmark and the Baltic.

The Red Army was not the case. The Red Navy's naval aviation had been playing soybeans in the Barents Sea before, so they could put pressure on Narvik and cooperate with some long-range aviation forces to bomb Narvik day and night, so they didn't believe that the Germans would not be fooled.

What's more, Narvik was just Li Xiaofeng's first card to cheat the Germans, and he had the second direction to deceive Berlin. Compared with the Luftwaffe's previous lack of attention to long-range aviation, the Red Air Force initially established a long-range aviation force with certain capabilities before the war, and bombing Berlin was not a problem at all. Whether it was Ye-2, Pe-8 or Il-4, he could throw bombs in Berlin.

The only problem is that as mentioned earlier, this kind of bombing can only inspire morale and anger Hitler, and there are too many other functions. However, for Li Xiaofeng, it is enough to anger the bearded. When the head of state is angry, the fat man Gore must pay attention to it. Whether it is a retaliatory bombing of Moscow or strengthening Berlin's air defense capabilities, the fat man will do it happily. What the Red Army needs to do is to continuously harass the other party with a small number of long-range bombers, so that they can always keep paying attention to Berlin.

When the German army's little energy and fighter jets were dispersed by Berlin, the gap in the Baltic Sea would be greater, which would allow long-range bombers taking off from East Prussia to safely enter Knerbourne.

After Li Xiaofeng proposed this idea, Alqueznis quickly agreed. Only Sukhoi whined a few times. Xiaowang was a little dissatisfied with him continuing to be a supporting role. Why could he have to harass Narvik and let the Air Force eat meat?

But this is Li Xiaofeng's suggestion after all, and Sukhoi must respect it unless he can come up with a more perfect plan. Obviously, Sukhoi does not have a more perfect plan. So he can only accept reality.

On the night of July 25, Sukhoi's T-mix fleet sneaked out of Murmansk, which included four aircraft carriers, four battle cruisers, four 35 heavy cruisers, four 36 light cruisers and eight 38 air defense cruisers.

There are no more introductions to other battle patrols, heavy patrols and light cruisers. Let me briefly introduce the 38 air defense cruiser. This ship is very similar to the American Adamanda-class light cruiser. It is equipped with 12 130mm high-level dual-purpose guns, with a maximum speed of 32 knots, a standard displacement of 6,800 tons, and can sail 6,000 nautical miles at 18 knots.

The ship is equipped with complete radar fire control equipment and an e-command post, specially used to act as a knife guard for special mixed formations. Since 1938, according to Li Xiaofeng's requirements, each aircraft carrier is prepared to equip at least two air defense cruisers, preferably four.

Of course, the air defense cruisers also encountered strong opposition from the old navy. Most of the old navy believed that the ship's displacement was huge but its military equipment was weak, and it was just a fancy and useless. It would be better to build a few more 36 light cruisers.

However, Li Xiaofeng firmly supported the ship at that time, and as the naval aviation faction grew stronger and stronger, the traditional old navy had to stand aside.

After Sukhoi's special mixed formation went out to sea, it soon disappeared into the mist of the Barents Sea. A day later, when his formation suddenly attacked Narvik and the surrounding German Air Force Base in the form of a huge fleet, Hans and others had no response. They could only respond in a hurry.

After a nearly one-sided air massacre, the Luftwaffe in the Narvik area suffered heavy losses. It was once so embarrassing that it could not even make up a complete fighter. After initially resolving the threat from the Luftwaffe, Sukhoi ordered the formation to start attacking the Narvik port, and used blockbuster bombs to greet the port facilities and German merchant ships in the port for two consecutive days.

Even with the fierce response of the German anti-aircraft artillery forces, Narvik's losses were extremely heavy. All the cargo ships waiting for shipment in the port were sunk, and Narvik almost turned into an iron bottom bay for a while. Not only was the port hit hard, but some Il-4 of the Air Force also began to patronize the iron ore transportation routes, bombing Gabray caused blood from the Germans. Starting from July 27, Narvik's iron ore was cut off.

The rampage of the Red Navy naturally made Hitler furious. Under his strict orders, Goering drew a considerable number of fighter jets and bombers to head north to Narvik, preparing to compete with the Red Navy aviation.

Just as Gorene had just completed the transfer, something happened in Berlin again. In the early morning of July 28, when the residents of Berlin faced the rising sun to prepare for a happy and happy day, a sharp air defense alarm suddenly sounded. A few minutes later, more than a dozen Ye-2 and Pe-8 began to drop bombs in the air, and strings of A-50 bombs fell on the streets of Berlin like raindrops.

Some comrades may have questions, why do you only use a 50-kilogram ab-50? Is this power too small?

Hehe, don't say that Li Xiaofeng doesn't care about the power of the bombing at all. Such high-altitude bombing is harassment. The right way is to load more bombs and cover a few blocks. He is to make all Berliners frightened. What's more, there are fewer bombs and more oil.

After the bomber group dropped the bombs, they could not return on the same route, but instead return home from the Baltic Sea. In comparison, this was much safer.

Berlin was bombed. Although the loss was not great, Hitler was still furious and shouted the fat pig Golin in front of him and scolded the fat man sternly. However, the bearded condemnation had not finished. The next morning, the Red Army bombers came uninvited again. This time, nearly fifty Tu-3s with enhanced range were patrolled again, and rode the German guy's neck and pulled shit.

This gave Hitler a disgusting experience and almost overturned the table. Poor Goering was scolded again as if he was angry. He was so shameless to be a fat man!

On the morning of the third day, the Red Army bombers finally calmed down, and Gorin secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just when he thought he could sleep comfortably, late at night, hundreds of Tu-3s, Ye-2s, Pe-8s and Il-4s arrived in Berlin to send midnight snacks.

This is so exciting! Fatty Ge was criticized again. This time, the head of state issued a dead order. It is necessary to ensure the safety of the lives of the Berlin residents. It is necessary to not let the Russians continue to do whatever they want!

This time, Fatty Ge made a desperate attempt. Not only did he draw a considerable number of fighter jets from the strait, but he really wanted to build a net, just waiting for the Russians to fly into the flames... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!