While convincing Liao Hongpeng, Tan Renhao was also convincing himself. A war that has been fought for almost six years consumes a lot of resources and devours a lot of lives, and at the same time, it is also torturing the nerves of every soldier. Tan Renhao is no exception, every time he walks down from the battlefield, Tan Renhao has to find a reason for himself, a reason for him to return to the battlefield and continue to fight bloodily, a reason to keep him going and not collapse.

The two soldiers in the room are the best soldiers, both are respectable soldiers, but at the same time they are also human beings, people of flesh and blood, and feelings. Tan Renhao rarely brought the events of the battlefield to his home, he didn't want the war to affect his family, but he knew that any family in the empire was inevitably affected by the war. Whether on the front line or in the rear, in the army or in the factory, whether in military uniform or flat uniform, everyone has been affected by the war.

When the aspect was quiet, Tan Renhao felt that even if he was thousands of nautical miles away, the war was still so close to him, as if it was around him, as if it was enveloping him. No matter when or where, he thinks about the war, which has made him a famous admiral of the Imperial Navy, but at the same time, it has also made him less and less of the kind of things that belong to normal people.

"Let's talk about the situation in Europe." Tan Renhao tried hard to forget the lingering shadow in his mind. He was a soldier, but he didn't like war.

"Europe, do you mean England, Russia, or Italy?" Liao Hongpeng raised his head, "Or Spain?" ”

"Whatever, we can't just sit like that." Tan Renhao picked up the teacup, "When I left Zhoushan last time, I heard that major changes are about to take place in Europe, and I don't know what the current situation is. ”

"The situation is good for us. But for our enemies, it's not so good. Liao Hanxiang paused slightly, "You don't know anything about the situation in Europe?" ”

"Dude, I only came back in the morning, and it's only been a few hours now, how much do you think I can know?"

Liao Hongpeng laughed. "That's right, okay then, I'll talk to you about it. However, my news should be outdated, after all, the current situation in Europe is changing several times a day, and no one knows if there will be greater changes tomorrow. What do you want to know? ”

"Whatever, Britain, after all, Britain is the toughest thing to deal with."

"Okay, let me think about it first."

Tan Renhao was very patient, Gan Yongxing gave him two days off, and the phone was on the desk, as long as Gan Yongxing didn't call him, he wouldn't go to the Navy Command to report. You need to pass the time anyway. Take this opportunity to talk more to my brother-in-law who hasn't talked together for a long time. It's not a bad thing, it's hard to spend the afternoon. Liao Hongpeng quickly sorted out his thoughts, and then told what he had seen and heard during his one-year stay in Germany in a more organized manner. From his words, he could feel how strict the training he received in the submarine unit, as far as Tan Renhao knew, all submarine captains were very logical and very cautious people.

Since the defeat of France, the tide of war in Europe has changed much faster than on the Pacific side, and since France, Britain has been the next important opponent of the Allies, and it can even be said that the last powerful opponent of the Allies to win the European theater of war.

The United Kingdom has a unique geographical advantage, and the English Channel is the natural defense barrier of the British mainland. Geographically, the UK is similar to Japan. The English Channel, like the Tsushima Strait, separates the British mainland from mainland Europe. It is precisely for this reason that Britain has a greater advantage over other European powers. In terms of comprehensive national strength, Britain is not much stronger than France, especially in terms of industry, Britain's own industry is even worse than Germany, and what the British rely on for survival is that narrow strait and a navy that has dominated the Western Hemisphere for hundreds of years.

Liao Hongpeng did not mention the history of Britain, which Tan Renhao is well aware. And Liao Hongpeng knows the most about the current situation in Britain and what the combined forces of Germany, the Tang Empire, and the Persian Empire have done in attacking Britain. The real problem is the strait, which is only a few tens of kilometers wide at its narrowest point.

After the defeat of France, the German high command put forward the request to attack the British mainland, and instructed the army, navy, and air force to draw up corresponding battle plans. And what the Germans had to deal with was not actually the British army, not even the British navy and air force, but how to cross the English Channel and land on the British mainland. As long as the Germans were able to cross the Channel and set foot on British soil, it would be easy to defeat the British Army with the German Army's powerful armored forces. Therefore, in the German army, navy, and air force plans, the focus was on how to cross the English Channel.

Naval battle planning, with Raeder in charge of his own, was the most traditional. Raeder himself was a traditional admiral. According to his intentions, if he wanted to attack the British mainland, he had to first seize the sea and air supremacy in the English Channel, and at the same time sweep away the tens of thousands of mines laid by the British Navy in the strait, organize a powerful landing fleet, and carry the army's armored army to the British mainland. This is basically a set of combat plans modeled after the Tang Empire's naval operations to attack the Australian mainland. To accomplish this plan, Germany would first have to build thousands of landing ships. Expand the capacity of the ports near the Strait, in particular the infrastructure of Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne. In addition, it was necessary to accumulate large quantities of war materiel at the front line and to assemble troops to the front positions on the French side of the Channel. Organize aviation to seize air supremacy. Crucially, and most importantly, Germany had to have a strong fleet that could provide fire support to the landing force and prevent the British fleet from entering the Channel. Therefore, Raeder proposed not a campaign plan, but almost a plan for the development of the German Navy for the next five years.

Judging from the situation at that time, it was impossible for the German high command to adopt the naval battle plan, for the simple reason that Germany might not be able to complete the campaign preparations in five years. The time required to build a fleet is incalculable, and even if it is possible to procure warships from the Tang Empire, it will definitely have to defeat the powerful British Navy before seizing sea supremacy in the English Channel. Expanding the port infrastructure will take even more time, and the construction of three ports alone will consume a lot of resources in Germany, and it will take two to three years. It is also unsafe to masse troops on the front line and hoard war materiel. The British Air Force was not going to sit idly by and leave the Germans to prepare for the campaign. In addition, the landing force had to rely on the land force, and the air force had to rely on the air force to seize air supremacy. When this set of preparations is completed, I am afraid that the expeditionary fleet of the Tang Imperial Navy has already entered the North Atlantic, and it will be a question of whether to attack the British mainland or not!

The battle plan submitted by the German Army was the simplest, but also the most complex. According to the plans of the German Army, the landing operation did not require fleet support, or even large landing ships. The Germans only needed to recruit a large number of civilian ships. Even fishing boats are enough to transport army combat units across the strait, and then the air force will provide support and cover. This, of course, is the most ridiculous set of battle plans. Even if the German Panzer Army was sent over, how could the war materials be taken care of? How to ensure air supremacy? Also, hundreds of thousands of troops landed together, if all of them were transported by ordinary civilian ships, how could they take care of their safety? How can so many ships be organized and commanded? And these, which are not mentioned in the plans of the army, therefore. This plan was quickly rejected by the German High Command. Let's be direct. The Army came up with not a battle plan, but a "travel plan".

The battle plan submitted by the Luftwaffe was the most daring and avant-garde. Its core is to ensure sea supremacy by seizing air supremacy. The most eye-catching of these is the Air Force's proposed combat operation of dispatching airborne troops to attack Britain.

The Airborne Forces are a new branch of the armed forces that emerged before the Great War, and since the improvement of aircraft performance, the Airborne Forces have become one of the elite units that various countries focus on building. Before the war, the Tang Empire, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, Britain and other countries, or the air force (the airborne forces of some countries belong to the air force) all established their own airborne troops. And a large number of airborne tactics were proposed. During the war, the airborne troops participated in many battles, but the actual combat results proved that the performance of this kind of elite troops, which requires rigorous training, selects the most elite personnel, and is equipped with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, is difficult to convince people on the battlefield, and its "cost performance" also makes it difficult for countries to bear.

There are not many truly commendable examples of airborne operations, mainly because before the war, all countries built the airborne forces as a strategic branch of arms. In actual combat, many tragic battles have proved that the airborne troops are unable to undertake heavy strategic tasks, and at most they belong to the campaign arms, and can even only play a certain tactical role. As a result, almost all examples of successful airborne operations are tactical-level operations, especially on the Russian battlefield, where both warring sides have dispatched large numbers of airborne troops to carry out rapid assault missions at the tactical and campaign levels, seizing important transportation hubs behind enemy lines for the attacking armored forces and destroying the weakest links in the enemy's defense zone. In larger operations, such as the German attack on Crete in 24 and the Tang Army's attack on the Crimean Peninsula in 25, a large number of airborne troops were dispatched, but the results were unsatisfactory, and the losses of the troops far exceeded the results achieved. It is precisely because of this that all countries have successively recognized the limitations of the Airborne Forces on the battlefield and have become more cautious in the use of the Airborne Forces.

The Luftwaffe's plan to send airborne troops to attack Britain was also full of loopholes and carried great risks. As a result, the German High Command did not adopt any battle plan, but instructed the army, navy, and air force to come up with a joint battle plan, and set the time for attacking Britain in the middle of 27 years, and no later than the end of the year.

"Isn't the appetite of the Germans a little bigger?" Tan Renhao quickly discovered the problem, "If Britain was so easy to defeat, Britain would have surrendered as early as when France was defeated. ”

"We can understand this, Germany's eagerness to attack Britain may not be just a military necessity."

Tan Renhao nodded slightly, which he also considered. Now that the Tang Imperial Navy has won a crucial victory in the Pacific, the battle on the Australian side is coming to an end, Russia is about to be defeated, Italy is shaken, and Spain is about to withdraw from the war. It can be said that the Allied bloc has achieved absolute strategic superiority and is moving step by step toward the final victory. Both Germany and the Tang Empire will consider the post-war world pattern at this time and strive for as many interests as possible. The problem is that the Tang Empire dominates strategic offensives in almost all directions, and in the Pacific, Russia, Australia, and even North Africa and the Atlantic, the main forces on these key battlefields are all the troops of the Tang Empire. There is no doubt that the Tang Empire is the mainstay of the Central Powers, and this will be a war for the Tang Empire. But Germany is not willing to be a second-rate power, and if Germany wants to become a world-class power like the Tang Empire after the war, he must do something in the war and must perform on the battlefield. In the end, it was only the European theater that could make Germany perform to the fullest, to be precise, half of the European theater, because on the Russian battlefield, the German army had become a secondary force, and the Tang Imperial Army dominated the situation on the Russian battlefield. Germany, then, will have to make a fuss about Britain. If Britain surrendered with dignity, it would only divide the interests equally, and at that time, Britain would even secretly compromise with the Tang Empire in order to avoid letting Germany sit on a large seat in Europe, and use the influence of the Tang Empire to counter Germany. This is by no means impossible, when Britain dominated Europe, it used the influence of the Tang Empire. The Germans would not fail to take this into account, and Britain, which had always been a feud with Germany, would naturally not tolerate the fact that Britain was still a European power after the war. The most effective, and the simplest way, is to attack Britain and occupy LinkedIn before Britain surrenders with dignity, then after the war, Britain will never be a rival to Germany, and will be reduced to a second-rate, or even third-rate country, like France.

"The Germans are very ambitious, but now it is not up to the Germans to call the shots on the European battlefield." Liao Hongpeng laughed, "The UK is a focus, and there are other issues, such as Italy and Spain. If Germany does not deal with these problems well, then it is impossible for Germany to become the new hegemon in Europe. ”

Tan Renhao nodded slightly, waiting for Liao Hongpeng to continue.