Chapter 569

The German battleship, which was tested in the Indian Ocean and strengthened to the British navy in the Indian Ocean, finally returned to the Atlantic Ocean in trepidation. Along the way, the warship avoided the tracking of German submarines and the blockade of the German Navy. It took one month to finally get to the Canadian port from the Indian Ocean.

This warship has been renamed "villain" because of the war with Germany. It is the most ugly battleship in the Royal Navy. However, this battleship is indeed the main battleship with a relatively short age in the British Navy's active battleships.

The villain joined the Royal ark aircraft carrier in the Canadian port and the repaired King George V to form a large-scale British Atlantic first fleet. In naming the fleet, the British authorities in Iceland deliberately avoided the sensitive term "native fleet".

Almost at the same time when the British villain entered the Atlantic Ocean, the same class battleship originally built for Britain in the German port was being tested. This battleship was named by the German head of state as the Reidel admiral battleship. It is an unprecedented comfort to the supreme commander of the navy who has always supported the head of state.

Interestingly, this kind of battleship, funded by Britain and built by Germany, has become the first battleship to serve in a hostile country at the same time. It also has two class names: the British class is called the villain class, and the German class is called the marshal class.

At last, Germany has a new battleship that can fight with the fleet. At this moment, the weakness of the high seas fleet's night combat has been made up and become almost impeccable.

The battleship is also equipped with more powerful radar and fire control system, which can fire artillery at night from 20 kilometers away to hit the target. At the same time, the armor protection level of this warship has also been slightly improved, weakening the armor of some unnecessary parts, and strengthening the configuration and quantity of air defense weapons.

Since the service of Marshal Reidel, the German Navy has entered a vacuum period of ship launching: too much steel has been occupied by the army, some unnecessary frigates and patrol boats have been reduced, no new ships will be launched in the high seas fleet in the next six months, and all the energy has been put on the four aircraft carriers under construction at the same time.

In the future, the German Navy will have three main overseas fleets: the strongest Atlantic high seas fleet, with five aircraft carriers in service as the core; The Arctic attack fleet, next in strength, will have two aircraft carriers; The weakest Mediterranean convoy has one aircraft carrier.

However, in addition to the high seas fleet which has been formed and has made outstanding achievements, the other two fleets only have the skeleton of a human affairs department. Even some of the tasks that should have been assigned to the Navy were handled by the air force's strategic bombers under Dick's command.

For example, the Soviet Baltic Fleet, which has been shrinking near Leningrad, is the German long-range strategic bomber troops taking off from Prussia. In the night, the whole military port destroyed at one stroke was patronized by more than 300 butcher bombers, and the bombs dropped caused the port of Leningrad to ignite a raging fire. The Soviet class battleship Belarusian was hit and injured. Up to now, it can only be repaired in the harbor.

At this time, the disadvantage of trying to maintain a large fleet without other support forces was revealed. The original steel-making technology of the Soviet Union was not advanced. The direct consequence of the forced launching of several battleships was that the supporting dock facilities for repairing these battleships were backward. Once the ships were injured, they could not be repaired in a short time to continue to participate in the battle.

On the contrary, the US Navy, after sinking the enterprise and other two aircraft carriers in a Japanese sneak attack, repaired the seriously injured Saratoga aircraft carrier and took part in the sneak attack on the Japanese naval fleet in the naval battle off the Philippines. Although the German Navy has not yet got a complete evaluation report in the course of the naval battle more than ten days later, the Japanese Navy has suffered a dark loss from the US Navy under unexpected circumstances.

To tell you the truth, akado is more concerned about the Pacific battlefield than about his own eastern front, because although the elite attack of the 3 million German troops on the eastern front is insufficient, it is more than enough to defend the Soviet Red Army which has just been severely damaged. What he is more concerned about is whether the industrial potential of the United States has been thoroughly stimulated as in the last life.

Now, it seems that the industrial potential of the United States can not be underestimated, but it is not as big as expected. The move of the German fleet going south to the Atlantic Ocean has caused great pressure on the United States. Many South American countries have turned to sell raw materials to Germany, which has come to buy the bottom, which limits the industrial expansion of the United States to a certain extent.

However, the United States is still unable to shake the existence of oil. After all, the German Navy, which sails from the Middle East to the United States through the Mediterranean, dare not attack on a large scale. The oil exploitation in Mexico and the United States can also meet the needs of American industrial production, so many war weapons are produced at a terrible speed.

For example, the docks on both sides of the United States are desperately building aircraft carriers. There are as many as 14 aircraft carriers in the docks, almost twice as many as those in Germany and Japan. At the same time, since the United States improved and produced the M4 tank, it has been madly mass producing this kind of tank with mature technology, and the monthly production has even been close to 3000.

However, even so, the United States was still defeated by the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield. Due to the lack of support from naval combat ships, the United States successively abandoned Malaysia and the Philippines. The British sub fleet deployed in Asia was completely destroyed, and most of them were sunk by the Japanese army outside Hong Kong. After that, the battleship "villain" left the Indian Ocean, and the remaining British fleet in the Indian Ocean was unable to cross the Strait of Malacca, threatening Japan's maritime transportation lines. The Japanese Navy, which had lost its worries, began to move eastward with all its strength, and even began to approach almost defenseless Australia. The arrogant and arrogant militarist leaders in Japan immediately felt that the victory of the war was imminent. They even regretted that they had not used their superior navy to kill the US Pacific Fleet to end the war. They even regretted that they had listened to the one-sided words of the army to provoke the powerful Soviet army. There is even an optimistic view in Japan, that is, once the Japanese invade Midway Island, Wake Island and other central Pacific Islands, the United States will humiliatingly choose peace to end the entire Pacific War. By that time, a large amount of land in the entire Western Pacific region and the Asia Pacific region would be in the pocket of the Japanese Empire. However, it is a pity that the arrogant Japanese Navy was immediately given a vivid and powerful education lesson by the US Navy: the only aircraft carrier of the United States was repaired and appeared off the coast of the Philippines, where it should not have appeared. It attacked a Japanese sub fleet and sank three destroyers and two cruisers, An old Japanese battleship was also seriously injured and stranded off the coast of the Philippines. What makes the Japanese Navy even more irritated is that this flexible US fleet broke through the encirclement and interception of the Japanese main fleet and returned to Pearl Harbor, which added the only bright spot to the gloomy may of the US Navy. The indignant Japanese Navy immediately responded. Yamamoto 56, commander of the Navy's joint fleet, received an order from the emperor to lead the fleet to cover the landing of the Japanese army on Wake Island and regain the initiative in the war. If someone has studied the whole process of Japan's provoking the Pacific War, he will find a very interesting phenomenon: Japan first attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States in a hurry, then suddenly seemed to be in no hurry, and began to concentrate on wasting precious time to fight for islands such as the Philippines and Malaysia in the South Pacific. The main reason for this strange phenomenon is that the United States blocked Japan's oil, which led to Japan's having to go south and waste precious time to compete for the precious oil exploration areas in the Philippines and Malaysia. This is the main reason why Japan slowed down the pace of war after it attacked Pearl Harbor. At the same time, this also led to the fact that Japan's strategic line was completely in the calculation of the United States: the time needed for Japan's march was in the control of the Americans. So when the battle of Midway came, the Americans could say that they were in control of the strategic decisive battle, even though the US Navy was still defeated, In the next year, Americans will also have the certainty of turning the war around. Japan has not been able to escape this tragic fate: General Yamamoto's plan of sneaking attack on Midway Island has been shelved indefinitely. The army is fully attacking the US garrison in the Philippines and Malaysia, hoping to seize the oil producing areas before the Japanese Navy runs out of ammunition and food. If the German is a bad hand, it has played an unexpected wonderful process, So the Japanese are playing a hand open and winning or losing with the Americans. It's not polite to say that they want to die. In fact, Japan's best chance is after the end of World War I. at that time, as long as it develops at ease and does not start a war, its future situation will be countless times better than that of Germany, which was defeated in World War I. as a result, it won the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Japan after the Russo Japanese war. It is too confident of its own gambling luck. So when the financial crisis came, the Japanese Empire, which used to hold a good hand, pinned its national fortune on a big gamble instead of bearing the crisis and making a smooth transition. During its financial difficulties, it had already controlled the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, occupied Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao, Dalian and other places, resulting in the fact that the three eastern provinces were actually independent, and once again started gambling, This time, however, it was not the confused gambler, the Manchu government was not the isolated poor gambler tsarist, it was the gambler who had been making money.