"Bolshevik Party members, members of the Youth League, citizens, the Soviet Fatherland is being invaded by French imperialism and the Motherland needs each and every one of you" The voice of Comrade Serov, First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Republic, was heard over loudspeakers in the streets of Batumi, who called on every Soviet to defend the Motherland and Batumi with action.
This corrupt man, who was ready to go to the Gulag at 6 o'clock in the morning to spend the rest of his life, now showed his true colors as an old Bolshevik.
In just a few hours, Batumi was fully mobilized.
One after another "workers' battalions," "fire battalions," and "labor battalions" were quickly formed, and all young and middle-aged men, men and women, were organized into the struggle for the defense of the Soviet Fatherland.
Now but 1940 is not 1990, although it has just undergone the Great Purge, but the efficient organizational ability of the Soviet Bolshevik Party is still there, so when the confused French are in charge of dropping bombs, the French do not know that the British have released their pigeons, and by the time they are preparing for the third bombing, the city of Batumi has been transformed from a peaceful industrial city into a fighting fortress.
Tens of thousands of citizens threw themselves into the fight to extinguish the fires at the chemical plant, using every tool they could get their hands on, rushing into the flames.
Thanks to the efforts of these brave Soviets, the fire in the Batumi oil city was finally brought under control the next morning, and it was completely extinguished after three days.
In addition, an equal number of young men and women were put on military uniforms within 12 hours of the bombing of Baku, trained by retired officers in factories and institutions, and weapons to be issued to them were taken from munitions warehouses controlled by border guards.
As for the elderly citizens, they were organized to dig trenches in the highlands outside Batumi.
If the Turkish imperialist army really wants to attack Batumi, then there will definitely be a bloody battle waiting for them At the same time, 150 TB3 bombers of a heavy bomber aviation brigade stationed on the Crimean peninsula have taken off and are ready to fly over Turkish airspace to drop bombs on Beirut and Damascus.
The B3 bomber could not carry many bombs at all.
The B3 bomber had to fly over even if he threw even a grenade.
At the same time as these TB3s, Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and Livinov, the former People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, had just been appointed ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States of America, and he would travel to the United States across the ocean via the British.
"Prime Minister, Litvinov is coming to London again," Viscount Halifax immediately told Chamberlain and the other cabinet members who had already arrived as soon as he walked into the conference room at 10 Downing Street.
"Nominally, he went to the United States to be an ambassador."
"This is good news," the Admiralty Churchill immediately spoke, "Viscount, Russia has offered to arrange for you to meet with Litvinov" Viscount Halifax nodded and said, "Yes, they proposed. ” "It seems that the Russian losses in Batumi are really large" Churchill took a puff on his cigar and asked Howard Kingsley, Secretary of State for Aviation, "the Frenchman's briefing has been received" "Yes," Howard Kingsley said, "they have already completed 2 air raids, and the oil city of Batumi is engulfed in flames."
Admiral Ted has already seen the photos, and the bombing effect is very ideal.
The French themselves lost 3 aircraft, 1 of which was hit by ground artillery fire, and 2 were shot down by Soviet fighters. ” The two EO451 bombers shot down were several Lag-3 fighters that had just been transferred from the airfield in Leningrad to Georgia.
In addition, some of the I-16 barely flew to an altitude of more than 6,500 meters because the first wave of bombing ignited the oil refinery, so the second wave of bombing by the French Air Force adopted a high-altitude penetration to avoid ground fire, but because the high-altitude performance of the I-16 was too poor, it did not achieve results.
"Are they still preparing for a third wave of bombing," Churchill asked again.
"Yes," Howard Kingsley smiled, "the wicked can only do it to the end." ” Viscount Halifax added: "The French are quite angry" The fact that the British released the pigeons and left the French alone to bear the wrath of the Red Empire was naturally outrageous.
However, the French have no choice but to continue bombing head-on, hoping to completely destroy the oil refining facilities in Batumi.
"But victory is in sight," Churchill was very optimistic, "without the oil refineries in Batumi, Stalin had no choice but to cut off the oil supply to Germany" Like most politicians and military strategists of this era, Qiu Fatzi seriously overestimated the power of the bombing.
In fact, although the bombing ignited a lot of fuel stockpiles, the damage to the production capacity of Batumi Oil City was not fatal, because the oil warehouse was far away from the core production facilities of the refinery, but it looked terrible in the photos.
According to later information, two weeks after the end of the "bombing of Batumi", the daily output of the refinery was restored to its original 50, 70 a month later, and completely restored three months later.
Stalin, however, deliberately exaggerated the losses "Marshal, the Soviet embassy sent photos about the events in Batumi."
On the afternoon of April 5, 1940, the day after the bombing of Batumi, Colonel Galen, chief of intelligence of the General Staff who had just attended the talks between Hitler and Molotov, brought Hersman a stack of aerial photographs of the Batumi oil refinery area covered in fire and smoke.
"Albert, come and see."
Hersman handed the photograph to Air Force Commander Kesselring, who was in the 1st Operational Command Center with Hersmann.
"I couldn't see anything, it was all covered by smoke."
Air Force General Kesselring carefully examined the photos one by one, "What do the Russians say about their losses?"
Colonel Galen replied: "The French bombs that had suffered very heavy losses hit several large newly built oil storage tanks, igniting millions of gallons of gasoline, and these large oil tanks were very close to the refinery, and after the tanks ruptured, a large amount of gasoline flowed to the plant, causing a terrible fire, which is still burning today."
According to Russian estimates, the refinery will take 12 months to repair, and in at least 6 months, the USSR will lose 70 of its oil processing capacity.
Therefore, Molotov proposed that we take over the processing of part of the Soviet crude oil for 12 months, processing 250,000 tons of crude oil for the Soviet Union every month. ” "250,000 tonnes a month is 3 million tonnes in 12 months," Kesselring said, frowning, "and that's more than half of our oil processing capacity." ” At present, Germany has an annual oil processing capacity of only 5.5 million tons, and the actual output is about 5 million tons, and there are about 4.5 million tons of synthetic fuels mainly for the air force, and there is less than 180,000 tons of shale oil production, and the Estonian province of Baltic State has a large oil shale mine, which began mining in 1918, and the first dry distillery was built in 1924, and the main product is phenolic chemicals.
Combined, the three could fully meet Germany's wartime fuel and petrochemical needs, but if 3 million tons of crude oil processing capacity were allocated to the Soviet Union, Germany's own fuel and chemical supplies would probably be insufficient.
"It's not a problem," Hersman smiled and nodded, "we can agree that we still have a lot of refined oil and chemicals in stock, and even if all the refineries produce for the Soviet Union, we can sustain it for three months."
And France will fall in two months," he pondered and asked, "what else did Molotov discuss with the leader, did he mention the conditions for the Soviet Union to join the war?"
"The Soviet Union demanded the presence of Finland, Russian Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, French Syria, Iraq and Iran.
In addition, the Soviet Union was responsible for the liberation of India. ” "Hmph" Kesselring snorted coldly, "Stalin really dared to think" Hersman smiled and said, "Stalin did not want to go to war, which is why he made such a request that could not be satisfied.
I think he wanted to wait until we and England and France were exhausted before joining."
Kesselring said, "He can't wait for that day," and then he asked Galen, "What else does Molotov want?"
"He said that the Soviet Union's aviation technology was relatively backward and could not resist the French bombers, and if we could not immediately improve the technology of the BF109 and the Fokker Zero, then the Soviet Union would probably not be able to protect the oil-producing areas of Baku, Batumi and Grozny."
Hersman and Kesselring looked at each other and frowned.
This Stalin is really difficult, everything will be used by him to benefit the Soviet Union At this moment, Lieutenant General Paulus, director of the Meteorological Bureau of the General Staff, walked in briskly with a folder.
"Marshal, the weather forecast for April 10 and 20 is out."
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Lieutenant General Paulus reported, "Our experts predict that the weather on the 10th and 20th will be very good. ” "Albert," Hersmann said with a smile as he took the weather forecast, and then to Kesselring, "April 10 is the time for Operation Scythe to begin, and until then our planes will no longer actively violate French airspace."
In addition, I will inform the Navy that the same action will be taken.
With the exception of the activities of submarines, the activities of all surface ships and long-range combat aircraft are to be temporarily suspended. ” This was a temporary method that Hersman came up with to paralyze the enemy, and the navy and air force shrank and did not move, of course, in order to fill the lack of fuel.
At the same time, he intended to put pressure on Romania and Hungary at a meeting of the High Command in the evening, in order to force Romania to immediately supply large quantities of crude oil to make up for the shortfall caused by the reduction in the volume of Soviet crude oil exports. t1706231537: