At this time, after the aircraft carrier is towed to the main channel, the auxiliary ship leaves, and the main engine of the aircraft carrier is refueled. At this time, the captain of the "Hanover" gave the command to the main engine to enter three with two vehicles, and the aircraft carrier began to break the waves in the waters outside the port with its own power.

"Lift the off-dock deployment, unload the off-dock deployment." With the order of the captain, the platoon quickly disbanded and returned to their posts. Immediately after that, it was announced on the radio that it had entered the second level of combat readiness.

According to the sea trial plan of the Blomforth shipyard, the aircraft carrier "Hanover" will enter the English Channel through the West Frisian Islands, circle Great Britain and return to its home port from the Faroe Islands eastward. After hearing this, Eric shook his head, believing that the Federal Navy of the German Federation should try not to overstimulate neighboring countries without being fully deployed in place, so as not to cause panic in Britain, France and other countries.

Subsequently, Eric rearranged the route to the sea for the sea trials. It was also suggested that the aircraft carrier "Hanover" go directly north, pass through Heligoland and the Northern Frisian Islands, and then go west into the open seas east of 200 nautical miles from the Faroe Islands, and then return to its home port by the same route.

After changing course, the aircraft carrier sailed for one day and one night to reach the open sea area of 55.9 degrees north latitude and 15.7 degrees east longitude, and carried out sea fire strikes and anti-aircraft defensive fire in this sea area. Through high-intensity testing, all indicators have reached an excellent level.

This area is one of the most open and deepest in the North Sea, with high winds and waves, complex currents, and many reefs and shoals. Eric asked all naval units to first familiarize themselves with the sea conditions in the North Sea, and then enter the ocean, and to make detailed surveys and maps everywhere they go, and to carefully compare and correct the original charts in China......

The sea trials went very smoothly, but some experts pointed out that the "Hanover" aircraft carrier, as Germany's first experimental large ship, undoubtedly has many deficiencies because of its lack of relevant experience, such as the humanization of the sailor's cabin, the combination of air defense weapons from far and near, the angle of glide and take-off, and whether the BF-10C carrier-based aircraft can take off with full fuel and weapons, and so on.

But it was the first time that Germany had completed such a complex project, and it was not easy to achieve such a result in just a few years, and it is very proud.

The German Confederation's navy is ramping up its deployment, and the army and air force are also upgrading their weapons systems.

In a narrow ravine at the Frankfurt Tank Training Base, dozens of main battle tanks are training in dangerous assaults in mountainous terrain and complex water networks.

The strong assault capability of tank units can often determine whether a large-scale tactical maneuver can achieve final victory. In previous large corps operations, tank clusters quietly assembled, and under the cover of narrow mountainous terrain, they suddenly launched a frontal attack on the enemy group, breaking through the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop, so as to sweep through its rear, and finally use the mechanized corps to complete the encirclement, which is a common synthetic tactic. However, the rise of aircraft air strike power will likely overshadow the torrent of steel.

Rommel, Manstein, Guderian and others studied the first battle in World War I in which the German army successfully used air strikes to block the attack of French armored forces. The Tan counterattack, which took place on the battlefield of the Western Front, would not have used machine guns, but armor-piercing shells, then the armored vehicles of the French army would have been destroyed instead of being blocked.

Through careful planning, Guderian and other generals decided to jointly petition the presidential palace to conduct a combined exercise of the three armed services with the participation of tank clusters at the junction of the island and the land. The exercise was divided into two groups, the red and the blue, and the troops were still freely formed into teams, and the high-split attack and defense of the two sides were not demarcated in the large-scale exercise area, so as to test the rapid reaction capability of the troops.

After reading the plan, Eric was very happy, immediately agreed, and proposed to go to the coastal exercise area to watch the confrontation between the two sides in person.

At 0:30 on March 25, 1927, the Cofu Islands and their annexes in the Mediterranean Sea were still silent. However, there seems to be an invisible killing force lurking in the air, which is very disturbing.

The exercise began quietly at 0:30 p.m., but soon grew to a fever pitch.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, the red and blue sides were already inseparable.

After completing the landing operation under the cover of night, the red side took advantage of its strong material advantage to establish a wide beachhead. The Blues, on the other hand, were in a bad position, taking advantage of the terrain to delay the enemy's attack.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of the blue army believed that his greatest advantage over the red side was the powerful and elite tank force, and as long as he assembled an army of steel, used a ferocious assault, completely overturned the red landing field, and at least annihilated a large number of enemy fresh troops, it was possible to improve the situation on the battlefield.

The planned counterattack would involve an integrated Panzer Division or Panzergrenadier Division (i.e., a mechanized infantry division with a larger number of armored fighting vehicles), and the tactics would be the same method used on the Eastern Front during World War I: using the No. 4 Tank Cluster to tear through the breach, and defeat or even encircle the Red side in front of them.

However, the actions of the blue side have long been seen through by the red side, and the next battle between the two armies will be even more dazzling.

The Blue forces were hit by long-range fire from the Red Sea destroyers during the build-up, causing slow movement, and the armored vehicles that were supposed to be able to assemble a division before the attack was launched were far from this standard, on the contrary, because of the slip of the tongue of the heralds, the logistics trucks also participated in the battle.

The tanks and combat vehicles were protected by iron armor, while the trucks that carried supplies to the troops were only beaten, and the losses in the long-range fire strikes of the destroyers at sea were very serious, and most of them were forced to withdraw from the exercise, which made the front-line supplies of the blue side suddenly become scarce...... In the end, by the early hours of March 25, the only tank reinforcement regiment the Blue side could put in was a tank.

Fortunately, the blue side was not all filthy, after the tank regiment was assembled, the blue side seemed to be blessed by heaven, and at dawn, the battlefield was shrouded in fog, and this fog actually lasted for a morning, effectively delaying the surprise attack of the red team. The blue side quickly seized the fighters, and the fierce armored group was dispatched in unison, with Type 4 tanks, assault guns, half-track armored vehicles, self-propelled guns, etc., quickly tearing apart the first line of beachhead defense of the red side, and even captured most of the positions that the red side had already occupied, and began to engage the red side that continued to land......

But at this juncture, the fog cleared, and the already impatient Red fighters roared in, and under the guidance and command of landmarks all over the sea, they began to bomb the Blue side with all their might. The RED's anti-aircraft guidance team is staffed by senior officers, and there are many of them, and even in focus areas, battalion and company units have the ability to summon aerial bombardment.

At this time, the blue anti-aircraft fire had been basically destroyed by the long-range artillery at sea, and the air raids of the red group were like no one, aiming all the bombs at the blue tank group, and from zero hour to now, the red army has encountered little resistance. Soon it penetrated 20 to 40 kilometers into the small island and seized the forward command post of the Blue Side, the shore-based artillery positions and the important military warehouses of the Blue Side.

However, the BLU did not lose faith in victory, and when the BLU occupied most of the position and advanced to the rear, the BLU began to retreat rapidly, pretending to give up resistance, and dispersed into the already mature forest.

When the red side saw a large-scale retreat from the blue side, it quickly commanded the ground troops to take advantage of the victory and pursued it, and when it charged to the narrow strip between the two mountains, the red side found that the terrain was unfavorable, immediately stopped its advance, and ordered the rear team to withdraw instead of the front team. At this time, it was too late, and the blue troops suddenly appeared in all directions, and with the sound of artillery, the red attacking troops were immediately surrounded by a circular encirclement poured with fuel, and the raging flames burst up several feet high, and the troops could not break out of the encirclement at all.

According to the rules of the exercise, if the Red ground forces are unable to raise the ring of fire within 20 minutes, they are declared dead. As a result, the fire that rose high above burned for almost two hours.

The Red side has lost most of its ground forces, and the intensity and accuracy of the attack will be significantly reduced. According to the procedures of the Ministry of Defense, if all the ground forces of the red side are killed, the final victory of the entire battle will be lost, and even if the red side uses air superiority to defeat all the tanks of the blue army, it can only be regarded as a tie between the two sides. In turn, if the blue side loses its air defense and armored forces, it will not be possible to achieve a complete victory for the entire exercise.

At present, the ground forces of the red side have lost absolute superiority, while the blue forces have also lost their forward positions and anti-aircraft firepower, and both sides are far from final victory. However, when I heard that Mr. President was personally watching the exercise, the two sides simply competed.

Both sides intend to show their strength in front of the president, and neither is willing to concede defeat first. After the duel of the Great Rift, the red and blue sides unanimously asked the director for permission to use the endgame of the exercise to continue to hold on to the end.

At 17 o'clock in the afternoon, the red and blue sides invariably chose a temporary truce and began to deal with it calmly, trying to find the weak links of the other side in order to win by surprise.

The Red side counted the number of remnants of the ground force and began to quietly withdraw to the beachhead, using the gaps in the battle to recuperate.

At this time, the blue side was not idle. In the narrow mountainous terrain, the tank group began to maneuver covertly in order to avoid becoming a target for air fighters. At the same time, in order to achieve a better concealment effect, any analogues of the surrounding environment began to be fixed for the body.

On March 26, heavy fog again obscured the entire exercise area.

Unable to determine the exact location of the BLU tank cluster and infantry, the RED had to huddle in place and wait for the fog to clear before guiding the HS123 bombers to carpet bomb the enemy, and then surprise the troops into the depths of the BLUE area.

At this moment, the Blues are also taking advantage of the rare opportunity of the fog to cover the infantry with tanks modified with anti-aircraft artillery and boldly encircle the remnants of the Red Army.

However, the roar of the tanks betrayed the Blues, and the remnants of the Red ground immediately made a technical retreat, leaving most of the Blues tanks stranded in the forward position.

It has to be said that the blue side made a serious low-level mistake, they relied too much on the cover of tanks, and did not rely solely on superior ground forces and use the cover of dense fog to carry out lightning raids on the red side, so they lost the opportunity to wipe out the remnants of the red ground forces in one fell swoop.

If the blue side had thought through and ruled out its reliance on tanks, the confrontation between the two armies would have been a different outcome, and the red side would have to throw in the towel.

However, this assumption did not appear in the exercise, and the blue side did not quickly conceal its forces because of a strategic mistake.

At 9 a.m., the fog gradually dissipated, and the blue side, relying on its strong anti-aircraft firepower, did not hide the tank on the spot, but completely exposed it to the sun.

At 9:30 a.m., the RED HS123 bomber was the first to attack, followed by the BF-10 fighter.

Because the FLAK-21 anti-aircraft artillery position of the Blue Army has been devastated by the long-range artillery of the Red Navy, both HS123 bombers and BF-10 fighters have begun to rush to the Blue tank group with impunity and carry out bomb dropping......

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns on the Blue Army's position opened fire in unison, hundreds of artillery pieces fired in unison, and the shells accurately hit more than a dozen arrogant Red fighters.

In the two-hour fierce battle, the Blues lost more than a dozen or four new tanks, and the bold and intensive sorties of the Red fighters also paid a huge price.

At this moment, several destroyers of the Red side suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, and the powerful heavy artillery roared in rows and shells, and the shells exploded in the cluster of Blue Army tanks with unmistakable accuracy. The blue side suddenly received a head-on attack, most of the anti-aircraft guns suddenly fell silent, and the remaining tanks were unable to maneuver flexibly in the potholed position, and suddenly became a live target for the red side.

The scales of victory began to tilt in favor of the red side, which not only lost all its tanks, but also the ground troops were "killed" on the red carpet.

After the exercise, the statistics of damage on both sides also came to fruition very quickly.

The Red side committed a total of 3,000 ground troops, with 2,688 killed; 40 fighters (unclassified) were put into service, and 29 were damaged; 4 destroyers, no damage;

3,500 Blue Ground Troops, 3,471 killed; 80 anti-aircraft guns, 69 damaged; 48 tanks, 27 damaged, 18 seriously wounded;

The results of the exercise made Eric not know how to evaluate it, and finally wrote eight large characters in the inscription column in Huaxia script: "Heroic and tenacious, chaotic".

Guderian, Rommel, and Maninstein were immediately embarrassed.