Although the problem of landing craft has been solved, this is only one of a large number of problems in landing operations, and a landing craft alone cannot complete a large-scale cross-strait landing. During this time, the logistics and transportation departments of the German army were working hard to search for suitable large and medium-sized ships throughout Europe, which was the main force of the strait landing transportation.

It took a lot of effort for the operations staff officers of the Führer's base camp to make the operations staff officers of the Army Headquarters understand the difference between a cross-strait landing and a river-crossing operation, but this does not mean that those guys are elm heads that eat ancient times. This is a group of war maniacs with a strict military education, and their ability to smell and comprehend military aspects is amazing. When they figured out the new rules of the game, they immediately abandoned the original landing plan that could be seen as a joke, and came up with a new sea lion plan that amazed Xu Jun, which was more detailed than all previous battle plans, and brought the rigorous and pragmatic style of the Germans to the extreme.

In the army's new plan, large and medium-sized ships became the main force of the landing fleet, and the soldiers and equipment began to switch to small landing ships after crossing the center line of the strait, while the tank landing ships chose to cross the strait in the form of towing, and the first attack wave was assembled five kilometers from the coast, and then launched an attack on the opposite shore.

This was a correction made by the army staff officers after fully considering the characteristics of the English Channel and studying the coastal defense intelligence of the British army on the other side. The English Channel is a special sea area with no wind and three feet of waves, and if the original plan was to let the soldiers take the bunch of shallow-bottomed boats directly on the French coast, then the German army's physical strength would have almost run out on the sea before reaching the British coast, and God knows how many people would have the strength to rush to the beach after vomiting into the dark. Choose to transfer at the median line of the strait. Even if the distance is only shortened by half, the soldiers' physical strength can be preserved a lot, at least there will not be a picture of a bunch of German soldiers stumbling on the beach with their legs limp and being a machine gun target.

But. The staff officers did not forget to constantly emphasize in the plan that in order for the landing operation to be successful, it must be completed on the basis that the German army has completely mastered the sea and air supremacy of the strait, and at the same time, the landing force also needs to obtain the fire support of the German navy and air force.

The German Army had an extreme lack of trust in the capabilities of the German Navy. To be honest, the navy is really worry-free. Even Raeder himself had a personal opinion about the possibility of the Navy taking control of the Strait, not to mention the group of fellows who had watched a German cruiser full of officers and men sink in front of their eyes.

Although the strength of the German Navy has increased in strength during these months, the British Royal Navy has lost troops. But after all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the overall strength of the two sides is still not much different, and the British Royal Navy still has a fighting strength at a critical moment. The Germans now only gained an overwhelming advantage in the number of battleships, but the peculiarities of the strait operation made the combat value of the battleships greatly reduced. And on ships of the cruiser destroyer class suitable for operations in such a sea area as the strait. The Royal Navy still had an absolute upper hand over the German Navy in terms of quantity and quality.

During this time, Raeder and his staff team were almost permanently stationed in the operations department of the headquarters. One is to deal with Xu Jun's summons at any time, and the other is to deal with the army generals' inquiries at any time, and the key is to avoid the crazy captains under him who are screaming for battle.

Raeder has also taken advantage of the scenery during this time, but no one knows that he has a bitterness now. The pile of wealth that had been robbed flowed away like a waterfall of welded flowers on the slipway, and at this stage, there were only three patched British battleships in his hands, and the repair cost of the power system alone made Raeder smash into most of the heavy cruisers, which almost made him angina for half a month. Moreover, these British-made warships still lacked matching ammunition, and the Krupp Ammunition Factory worked overtime to produce only a dozen samples. Test firing is underway, and it is not known if there are any sequelae.

Reports on the construction of several new warships have until now been on the Führer's desk. It is said that the Führer has been very strategic, and it is not clear what the clever trick is, and anyway, no manufacturing approval has been issued for any of them.

The new submarine is in the final finalization work, and Raeder has not seen the drawings yet, but looking at the sparkle on the face of Dönitz, who participated in the development work, he knows that the performance must be good. However, according to the Führer's order, the production of all old submarines was stopped before the introduction of the new boats, and now along the canal line, most of the submarine slipways are empty, unless a few damaged submarines are being repaired, otherwise they are really like ruins.

Although the only new ship, the Bismarck, entered service early after a heavy investment, the rookies on the ship are still struggling to shed their shells, various new equipment is being debugged, and the ship's guns have only been test-fired three times so far, and it seems that she cannot be counted on in the recent battle.

As for the Zeppelin, the aircraft carrier did not even peck open the shell, the upper half of the hull was peeled back again, and now it is lying on the slipway like a disemboweled, and it is said that the Führer is still rowing around on the drawings, and it seems that there will be no miracle by the end of the year.

So, old Raeder calculated, and what he had in hand was still the old vote. Moreover, most of them are old and weak, most of them are scarred, although they have been treated and the stitches have been removed, but it will take a lot of time and energy to restore their original strength. The few intact ones are all running wolf at sea, cooperating with the submarine to kill everywhere, and it will be a period of repair and preparation after returning to port.

Moreover, although the ships were all repaired, the gap in personnel replenishment began to appear, and almost all the reserve personnel of the surface ships of the German Navy were pressed up, and even the sailors of the navy's tugboats were transferred to replenish the first-line fleet. If it weren't for Dönitz's posture of preparing to play with his life, Raeder would have been forced to use the brains of submarine cadets. The navy is an absolutely technical service, unlike the army, which can be kicked into the battlefield after 18 weeks of training by dragging a farmer with a rifle in his hand and sending it to the training ground. The training of naval officers and men is a systematic project, and the navy's basic navigation training alone is far more than 18 weeks.

This is the most frustrating problem for Raeder now, if this continues, no matter how many warships are built, they can only be a pile of scrap metal, and no matter how good the battleship is, someone has to drive it.

More of a headache than the personnel crisis, the problem for Admiral Raeder was that the High Command intended the German Navy in its current state to seize control of the English Channel, which was not something that could be done by talking. Raeder knew the strength of the Royal Navy very well, and he was not like the captains under him, who could not ignore the natural sailors on the other side after a few beautiful victories.

The Army's initial landing plan almost made him jump up and curse his mother, and those guys actually asked the Navy to be responsible for protecting the maritime security of a 320-kilometer-long landing area. This is simply a joke, the British Royal Navy is not dead, if the British Royal Navy is desperate and gathers all its strength to rush into the channel desperately, it is simply not something that the current German Navy can resist.

What's more, Britain also has a considerable air force, and once the British army cooperates with the sea and air ashore, the final result is self-evident. Either the German Navy was completely annihilated, or the landing army was completely destroyed, and it is more likely that both will end up together.

Either kind of loss would be too much for Germany to bear, and might even bring Germany back to its original state.

So Raeder and the army staff began to reason with the facts, and they did not come up with a feasibility report until the new plan was introduced. In the end, Xu Jun slapped the table angrily, and Raeder found that he couldn't continue to argue, so he made a serious battle plan with his staff officers.

The Navy's final suggestion was to reduce the landing area to within 100 kilometers, and if the Army agreed to this suggestion, then the entire fleet would be dispatched to cooperate with the minefield to defend both sides of the landing route, and go all out to defend the safety of the landing route.

Xu Jun remembered that in the history of the original world, the German Navy and Army were also fighting each other on the same issue. The reason is simple, it comes down to a lack of confidence in their abilities on both sides.

Since the army lacked confidence in landing across the sea, it wanted to expand the landing area as much as possible, intending to disperse the British army's defensive strength. The navy, on the other hand, has no confidence in mastering the sea control in the strait, so it desperately demands that the landing area be reduced and the security of the landing fleet be protected with the cooperation of the minefields.

Now, the two sides finally came to an agreement, and as expected, as in the history of Xu Jun's original world, they ended up kicking the ball at the feet of the Luftwaffe.

Raeder patted his chest and said that if the Luftwaffe could control the air over the strait, stop the Royal Air Force from attacking the German Navy, and cooperate with the navy in combat, he would be 90% sure that the landing operation would be safe at sea and that he would be able to hold the strait supply line.

The opinion of the army side is the same: if the air force can seize air supremacy, the navy can guarantee the security of the strait, and the army has absolute certainty that it will successfully land in Britain and wash Churchill clean and send it to Xu Jun.

The result of the Army and Navy ball game turned out to be that the ball was shot into the goal of the Air Force. (To be continued)