As this war progresses, the Libyan oil fields in North Africa will become a vital core strategic resource for the Axis powers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no need to repeat how important this oil field is. It is precisely because of the existence of this oil field that Germany now has the courage to overdraw its own oil reserves.

And if this oil field does not play a strategic role as planned, Germany itself will collapse before 44 years because of the lack of oil.

So, in any case, the oil fields of Libya must begin to play a role in the middle of 41, not at all, but decisively!

In order to take advantage of such an important core strategic resource, the Mediterranean route has become very important.

Compared to Britain's vast distribution of transport routes throughout the Atlantic, the Axis shipping routes were concentrated and more important.

The British have not yet come to their senses, and they are still slowly regaining their strength. When the British took a breather, Churchill would not let the Axis routes in the Mediterranean remain stable for a long time.

War is not a game, and even the strongest country faces the weakest country, and it is a process of back and forth.

Britain will not let go of this route, which could deal a heavy blow to the Axis powers, and will use all the forces at its disposal to cut off this vital supply line.

You know, this line is not simply a lifeline to replenish supplies for Rommel's Afrika Korps, it is also a transportation line to transport back Libyan crude oil to feed European industry!

And the enemy of Germany, Britain, is the strongest force is its naval fleet! Under these circumstances, how could the British fleet sit idly by and allow the Axis powers to comfortably exploit the seas?

It is true that with Rommel's counterattack, it is possible that Li Le will drive the British Mediterranean fleet out of the Mediterranean.

The Axis powers could seize Alexandria and cut off the Suez Canal through a series of victories!

However, in a short time, neither the German fleet, nor the Italian Mediterranean Fleet, could shake the British H Fleet in Gibraltar.

Now the question is, as long as the British are not fools, and the British submarines from Gibraltar, as well as the forces of surface ships, can do what Germany did in the Atlantic again in the Mediterranean!

Britain would make extensive use of submarines in the Mediterranean to sneak up on the routes of Germany and Italy, and even dispatch the H Fleet to directly break the engagement......

If Li Le wants to maintain his superiority in the Mediterranean, or if he wants to protect his lifeline, he can only strengthen his escort fleet and maintain his superiority in the Mediterranean.

All the way up to ...... He took out the British naval base in Gibraltar and completely held both ends of the Mediterranean in his hands.

However, in order to support the Mediterranean, the German fleet had to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, which it controlled...... This circle made Li Le feel a little painful.

On the contrary, these petty escort aircraft carriers are not Li Le's killer move to dominate the Atlantic, and his truly deadly fleet is still in the dock!

Yes! Li Le plans to convert the Hindenburg-class battleship, which has already been built by 40% and will be completed next year, into a fleet aircraft carrier in the true sense!

These four aircraft carriers, which already have hulls, are not escort carriers converted from cruise ships, but super aircraft carriers with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons!

The German Führer, who has already been dropped, is not now the giant cannon maniac in history. Li Le is now a complete aircraft carrier, as for the battleship - Bismarck is not enough?

Although the level of protection of these supercarriers converted from battleships can only be regarded as average, they can guarantee that they can carry more than 80 fighters in sea conditions such as the Atlantic.

"My Führer! IMHO, the plan to detour the Suez Canal is really an impossible task. Raeder remains pessimistic about the plan.

Even though he knew that his fleet would not fight the enemy's warships in a fixed sea area for a long time in the future, Raeder was still not very interested in the Führer's imagination.

"In Africa, we don't have colonies anymore...... The Navy does not have combat experience in taking such a long detour into the Indian Ocean. "Raeder is obviously more professional in tactical arrangements than Li Lelai.

He only heard Li Le talk about support in the Mediterranean, and he took into account the problem that the fleet could not pass through Gibraltar.

Under the left and right of this problem, if the German Navy wants to enter the Mediterranean Sea to fight, in addition to the submarine forces, it can only go to the side of Suez.

This assumption was made on the premise that the German Army unit, that is, Rommel, could use his own tanks to extend the front line to the other side of the Suez Canal.

"If you want to go through the Suez Canal, not only will you be vulnerable to enemy attacks on the coast of Africa, but you may also encounter other dangers!" Raeder deserves to be a marshal of the Navy, and a whole nautical chart is in his head, and he draws his own conclusions as soon as he sketches it casually.

Moreover, this conclusion is much more comprehensive than what Li Le hastily planned: "If Field Marshal Rommel can continue to win in North Africa, then the British Mediterranean fleet will be driven out of the Mediterranean." ”

Raeder looked at Li Le and said, "It's impossible for this fleet to risk retreating through Malta to Gibraltar!" They will retreat to the Indian Ocean before we threaten Alexandria and capture the Suez Canal! ”

"And if we want to get to the Suez Canal, we first have to go through the Indian Ocean...... This happened to hit this British fleet...... We went around Africa on an expedition against the British fleet, and the odds of victory were not even tenth. In the end, the German naval marshal poured a basin of cold water on Li Le's face.

These tactical problems suddenly made Li Le realize that his efforts to establish a stable shipping route in the Mediterranean Sea were actually very difficult.

"It seems that the plan to refit the aircraft carrier can only be used to train naval aviation." Li Le smiled bitterly and accepted the reality.

"Führer! If we want to cover our own Mediterranean routes, then we can only take the initiative in the Atlantic! Unexpectedly, after rejecting Li Le's escort plan, Raeder proposed his own more radical plan.

As he spoke, he asked Li Le: "My Führer!" Do you have a map here? European. ”

Li Le nodded, then rang the call bell on the table, and then ordered a map of Europe to be sent in.

After the map was ready, Raeder pointed to the route on the Atlantic Ocean and introduced to Li Le: "Führer! The British fleet was spread across the mainland, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, encircling almost all of Europe. ”

"This is a huge encirclement, and the fleets of any European country have to face this encirclement." As he spoke, he pointed to the ports where the British fleet was distributed.

If you count such barren lands as the Arctic Circle and Greenland, the British fleet actually formed a large net that the German surface ship forces could not tear.

The Navy moves faster than the Army, so it can rush to the combat area quickly, thus forming an elastic chain that can reinforce each other.

When Italy was operating in the Mediterranean, the British H Fleet in Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Fleet could flank the attack.

And when Germany threatened the British mainland, the Gibraltar fleet could also be reinforced - in terms of speed, and very sufficient!

In this way, the British could concentrate two fleets on any front to form an advantage and thwart the enemy's attack.

And at the same time, in the other direction, the remaining fleet can regain the initiative as long as it fights well and waits for the victory of the other two fleets!

But now, although Germany and Italy are still unable to break this huge blockade line in terms of horizontal comparison in terms of naval aspects, German actions in North Africa have indeed had an impact on this naval defense!

According to Le's plan, if Rommel's Afrika Korps could capture Egypt, then the British Mediterranean fleet would be driven to the Indian Ocean.

By blocking the Mediterranean Fleet, Britain's three-point encirclement network was completely broken, and as long as it concentrated on attacking the mainland, Britain could only concentrate the H Fleet and the Home Fleet to defend itself.

Well, theoretically, Gibraltar loses its effective threat to the Mediterranean shipping route at this time.

"So, as long as General Rommel can gain an advantage in North Africa, then we may win the war against Britain!" Raeder pointed to the map and analyzed.

"On the premise of seizing Egypt, as long as we keep harassing the British mainland, we can effectively prevent the British fleet from attacking the Mediterranean shipping lanes." Finally, Raeder analyzed.

"What you say makes sense!" After listening to Raeder's analysis, Li Le nodded, and preliminarily agreed with the other party's point of view.

"But we should also arrange some means in advance to find ways to reduce the threat of the enemy's submarine forces!" Then the Führer added.

In real history, Allied submarines did not do much in the Atlantic, because the German transport ships were already small, and sinking them was not a big problem.

However, this does not mean that the anti-submarine technology of the German Navy is good, nor does it mean that Germany in this time and space is not afraid of enemy submarines.

Now in this time and space, because of the emergence of Li Le and the emergence of the Libyan oil fields, the Mediterranean Sea has become the maritime lifeline of the Axis powers, and has become a war zone that the two sides will inevitably fight for.

In this theater of operations, it is impossible for Britain not to invest its own submarine forces and fight a submarine war here that belongs to the British Navy.

With this battlefield, who knows what kind of tactics the British submarine forces will develop, whether they will also start copying German submarine tactics, and whether they will also make the German and Italian transport operations in the Mediterranean pay the price of blood?

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