Although Li Weiguo agreed to attack German Southwest Africa, he did not dare to guarantee that the German Empire would not become a rabbit that was forced to jump and bite. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is an adventure and a game, ostensibly a new round of war adventure between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, but in fact a new round of game between Li Weiguo and Hitler.

The last successful assassination of Hitler was only a stand-in for Hitler, and after this incident, Hitler became more cunning, and it became more difficult to assassinate him again.

But this is exactly what Li Weiguo is happy about, quite a feeling and excitement of hunting.

"Your Majesty, intelligence shows that there is also a Gestapo that is following Shi Lifen."

Mingyue interrupted Li Weiguo's thoughts.

For the Gestapo, Li Weiguo knew too well that it was Hitler's secret police force.

"What are the Gestapo doing in the colonies of German Southwest Africa?"

Not only Li Weiguo was puzzled, but other civil and military officials were also puzzled.

Mingyue explained: "This Gestapo is different from the Gestapo we have encountered before, although they are also intelligence preparation, but the equipment is not what agents should equip. ”

According to Mingyue's description, the equipment of this Gestapo is too conspicuous, lacking secrecy and specificity, and it looks like a well-equipped army all along.

Li Weiguo suddenly thought of one thing, the origin of this modern special forces came from Nazi Germany, so since Hitler had rebuilt the Gestapo, there was no reason not to develop special forces.

Not good, if Hitler had ordered the German special forces to join the German war in Southwest Africa, the unsuspecting Shence Army of the Chinese Empire would probably suffer a big loss.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo said: "This may be a newly built special forces of the German army, immediately order the African Theater Command to be vigilant, be careful of this force, and if necessary, order the special forces of the empire to dispatch and eliminate the other party first." ”

Seeing that Li Weiguo was so cautious, Zhang Xiaoliu and others were also shocked, and they began to pay more attention to the Gestapo under Hitler.

"Your Majesty, this is the deployment and deployment of troops participating in the war submitted by the Ministry of War, please take a look!"

Zhang Xiaoliu handed over to Li Weiguo a battle plan drawn up by the Operations Staff Department of the Ministry of War, although this time it was a battle in an African colony, but the Ministry of War did not dare to be too careless, after all, it could not guess the bottom line of the German Empire.

The entire battle plan for German Southwest Africa was completely prejudged in accordance with the military experience of the Chinese Imperial Army for many years of warfare.

At that time, the Chinese Empire finally occupied all the colonies of the British Empire, and the strategy used was to encroach step by step, and every concession of the British Empire would make the Chinese Empire gain an inch.

This time is also a test of the German Empire, if the German Empire easily abandons German Southwest Africa, then the result will inevitably be that the Chinese Empire thinks that the German Empire has no strength to contend with it, and then it will intensify its efforts, swallow up all the colonies of the German Empire overseas, and even directly send troops to the German Empire itself.

For this reason, the battle plan of the Ministry of War also took this factor into account, and deliberately secretly transferred the most powerful troops of the Chinese Empire to Walvis Bay Harbor.

Entering the war with the strongest army of the Chinese Empire was actually a show of force by Chiguoguo, used to deter the German Empire and see how the German Empire would react in the end.

In terms of the army, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Shence Army originally stationed in the Walvis Bay Harbor area, the Chinese Empire's African Dispatch Force Command base in Cape Town, South Africa, dispatched troops from two towns, totaling more than 50,000 troops.

At the same time, the Ministry of War also transferred troops from the Central Theater, the Eastern Theater, and the Southeast Theater of the Chinese Empire, covering a large amount of heavy equipment, such as 400 T30 main battle tanks, 1,000 W88 combat vehicles, 500 155-mm howitzers, and 200 37-mm anti-aircraft guns.

In terms of air force, German Southwest Africa is far away from the Cape Town Air Base of the Chinese Empire in Africa, which is beyond the combat radius of the F17 fighters currently in service in the Chinese Imperial Air Force, so the Chinese Imperial Air Force only dispatched 500 F20 bombers to the Cape Town Air Base, intending to carry out long-range bombing.

The shortcomings of the Air Force, on the contrary, gave the Navy a chance.

Today's Imperial Chinese Navy not only has the world's most powerful super battleship, the world's most advanced submarine, but also the world's most powerful aircraft carrier.

The Air Force's F17 fighter jets were unable to take off from Cape Town to reinforce the German Southwest Africa theater due to the limited combat radius, but the Navy's aircraft carrier battle groups did not have this limitation.

Since the German colonies in Southwest Africa were located on the west coast of Africa, it only needed the Imperial Chinese Navy to seize sea supremacy in the region, and the F18 carrier-based fighters could be used to take off directly from the coastline and enter the battle.

To this end, the Imperial Chinese Navy dispatched eight aircraft carriers this time, the eight most powerful aircraft carriers built by the Imperial Chinese Navy during and after the World War.

The prototype of these eight aircraft carriers was the half-built super battleship Dingyuan, which had the strong armor protection capability of a super battleship, as well as a large aircraft carrier with a sufficient speed of up to 30 knots and a displacement of 50,000 tons.

After that, the Imperial Chinese Navy renamed the eight aircraft carriers as Badayuan, and resurrected the eight former battleships of Dingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Pingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Laiyuan, respectively, and became a member of the battle sequence of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

To this day, although the Imperial German Navy no longer uses steamers to convert aircraft carriers and has begun to build aircraft carriers on its own, none of the aircraft carriers has a tonnage of 50,000 tons, and the strongest aircraft carrier in the Imperial German Navy is only 35,000 tons.

This was the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy, with its unrivalled industrial shipbuilding capabilities and strong financial support, which was not at all comparable to that of the German Empire.

In addition to sending eight large aircraft carriers to the West African battlefield, in order to show the strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy, the Chinese Imperial Navy nominally sent the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy to Africa, but that was only to confuse the German Imperial Navy.

The Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy stood still and kept an eye on the German Imperial High Seas Fleet, and if the German Imperial High Seas Fleet went to German Southwest Africa to participate in the war, the Chinese Imperial Atlantic Fleet would participate in the war.

In this way, as long as the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy did not participate in the war, it showed that the Chinese Empire had not yet entered a full-scale war with the German Empire. It was to warn the German Empire that if the main force of the High Seas Fleet was dispatched, it would be equivalent to an all-out war with the Chinese Empire.

This is tantamount to handing over the order for an all-out war to the German Empire, which will make the German Empire very entangled, and it is not a war, nor is it a war not to go to war.

After all, the Imperial Chinese Navy had more than 10,000 warships of all sizes, with a total tonnage of 12.5 million tons, while the German Empire currently has more than 2,000 warships of various types, with a total tonnage of only 2.7 million tons.

The huge gap in number and tonnage also made the Imperial German Navy dare not easily enter the Atlantic Ocean to take risks. After all, the number of warships in the High Seas Fleet is small and the tonnage is small, even if each warship is comparable to the strength of the same type of warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, once a naval battle breaks out, the two sides sink in a ratio of one to one, and the end of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet is the total annihilation, and there is not a single warship available, while the Imperial Chinese Navy only loses one-fifth of the total number, and the remaining four-fifths of the warships can completely torture Germany.

Of course, there is also the possibility that the German Imperial High Seas Fleet overperformed during the naval battle, defeating the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was four times more numerous and five times more tonnage.

Unfortunately, that's almost unlikely!

Therefore, as long as the Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy remained in Europe, it was unlikely that the German Imperial High Seas Fleet would go to reinforce German Southwest Africa.

According to the report given by the Ministry of War to Li Weiguo, the navy will dispatch more than 2,000 warships of various types, of which more than 400 will directly participate in the battle, and the rest will be troop carriers, hospital ships, supply ships, patrol ships, communications ships, tugboats, and other auxiliary ships.

In addition to the eight Dingyuan-class large aircraft carriers mentioned above, there are also two super battleships, eight super dreadnought battleships, 20 dreadnought battleships, 11 heavy cruisers, 45 light cruisers, 237 frigates, and 22 submarines, and the rest is a large number of landing ships.

In addition to the eight Dingyuan-class aircraft carriers that were converted from the hull of the super battleship, the other super dreadnought battleships and dreadnought battleships were all captured by the Imperial Chinese Navy during the world war, the main warships of the British Royal Navy, that is, most of them were British-built warships, and in recent years, they have successively entered the naval shipyards of the Chinese Empire for modernization and refitting, equipped with the most powerful weapon systems and communication systems of the Chinese Imperial Navy, but the armor and power have not been modified, because it is too troublesome and some are not cost-effective.

The only thing that catches the eye is the two new super battleships.

This is the only two super battleships built by the Imperial Chinese Navy in the twentieth century after the world war, belonging to the imperial class, built by the Nandu Shipyard, and commissioned one month ago and three months ago, one was named the First Emperor, and the other was named the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, both of which were named after the two most famous emperors of the Qin and Han dynasties in Chinese history, symbolizing the strength of these two super battleships.

At the beginning, the two Imperial-class battleships received a total of 115 million yuan in allocation, and the traditional battleship shipyards of the Chinese Empire did not succeed in bidding, but let a newly emerging private enterprise Nandu Shipyard take the order, which really made the old shipyards of the Chinese Empire at that time, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, Huangpu Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard, Luda Shipyard, Beiyang Shipyard, etc., envious and jealous, and released arrogant statements that Nandu Shipyard would never be able to complete the world's greatest battleship construction project in the 20th century.

However, a few years later, when the two Imperial-class super-battleships were launched and quickly passed the naval sea trials, and then entered the battle sequence of the Imperial Chinese Navy, these veteran shipyards shut up, because they could not find any fault with the Imperial-class battleships.

Even during the sea trials, these veteran shipyards sent their top shipbuilding designers and engineers to go through the back door of the navy, and boarded two Empire-class battleships to conduct sea trials together, trying to find faults.

It's a pity that except for some inconsequential minor problems, I didn't find any major problems, and I was really slapped in the face.

For a long time, the orders for warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy have been monopolized by these state-owned enterprises, and the cost of a single ship is high, and even the navy itself has quite a few complaints, and it is a pity that it is useless to let these shipyards reduce the cost of building ships.

Now, with the Nandu Shipyard participating in the competition as a private enterprise and completing the shipbuilding task excellently, under the same quality, the Nandu Shipyard has the lowest shipbuilding price and the highest cost performance, which finally helped the Navy break the traditional monopoly.

This is a very good situation, and even the Nandu Shipyard, which is highly praised by Li Weiguo, encourages more private enterprises to participate in military competition, which can not only reduce the cost of equipment purchased by the military of the Chinese Empire, but also increase the income of private enterprises, solve more employment problems, and break the monopoly of state-owned enterprises, so that state-owned enterprises can have a sense of crisis.

Of course, there is a lot of sadness behind this, in order to win the traditional shipyard, Nandu Shipyard spent a lot of effort on the Empire-class battleships, and took out their most advanced design concepts without reservation.

Taking the First Emperor as an example, the actual full load displacement has reached 68,000 tons, and it is equipped with four triple 461 mm (18 in) L50 naval guns, two triple 155 mm high-level dual-purpose guns, twelve 127 mm twin anti-aircraft guns, fifty 37 mm triple anti-aircraft guns, and twelve 12.7 mm quadruple machine guns.

Its main armor belt is up to 500 mm of Chinese special steel, with a coverage rate of 100%, extending forward to 300 mm and backward to 350 mm, the horizontal deck is covered with 250 to 300 mm of armor, and the armor protection of the main gun turret, command tower, ammunition depot, fuel bunker, engine room and other critical parts is up to 800 mm.

With such powerful firepower and such strong armor protection, if you want to do this in other countries, you can only sacrifice the power system.

However, the Nandu shipyard adopted new technology to solve the power problem of the Imperial-class battleships. Through the use of turbocharging, geared new turbine system, greatly increased output, coupled with the innovative square stern design, seven-bladed gold propeller propulsion, greatly reduced hull drag and underwater power loss, and finally allowed the Empire-class battleship to maintain a combat speed of 30 knots, and the cruising speed has also reached 25 knots.

It can be said that this is a movable superfortress that represents the highest level of industry in the Chinese Empire.