The commander of the convoy is the commander of the navy and Marshal Raeder personally leads the command, and the commander of the submarine is Dönitz, they escort these German merchant ships to the mouth of the Yangtze River in China, and then they stop and monitor the Japanese fleet outside the Wusong Pass, if Japan dares to act rashly, Hitler authorized the naval commander to attack on his own, and after the merchant ships successfully arrive in Nanjing, these frigates will return immediately, and then it is Li Mo's own business, the German Navy is not a last resort, There will be no war with the Japanese Navy.

Field Marshal Raeder and submarine commander Dönitz have been discussing the plan in the war room in Gneisenau, Raeder's burden as a naval commander is not light, the weapons and equipment escorted are worth 600 tons of gold, and the fleet itself is worth more money, these ships are all the elite of the German Navy, it is a little mistake, otherwise Raeder and Dönitz can only commit suicide and apologize.

The battle cruiser Gneisenau, the second ship of the Scharnhorst class, began construction at the Kieldeutsch shipyard in February 1934, but its design was revised and rebuilt in May 1935, which also delayed the progress of the work. When the Gneisenau was built, it had a full displacement of more than the 35,000 tons stipulated in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty signed by the world powers, to which Germany was not a signatory. The Gneisenau was equipped with armor up to 350 mm thick, equivalent to the thickness of a modern combat ship at the time, and surpassed the British battle cruisers Enemy and Prestige left over from World War I, as well as the French fast combat ships Dunkirk and Strabourg. Equipped with nine 280 mm guns, the Gneisenau had good armor penetration and range due to its high muzzle velocity, but it was still no match for the 380 mm guns of the capital combat ships of the time, which was also a consequence of its hasty service.

Had the Gneisenau been equipped with the six 380mm guns originally scheduled to be modified, it would have been a formidable opponent for the Royal Navy, with the same armor as the British capital ships, but with much faster speed. However, when the Gneisenau was designed, the German Navy did not have 380 mm guns to equip, so it finally used 280 mm guns, because it was designed to attack merchant ships, and was not intended to engage the enemy's capital ships, which also caused its weak guns, but it had a high speed that could break away from the pursuit of battleships.

In the war room of the Gneisenau, Field Marshal Raeder was the commander-in-chief of the escort mission, and all men and ships had to obey his orders. He and Dönitz had been working for five days in a row to formulate a feasible plan, and today they finally came up with a very complete plan and submitted it to the high command for approval.

"Marshal, go and rest! Our escort plan has been sent out, and I think there will be news soon, and when there is news, I will call you. ”

"Hehe, people are older, so sleepy, let's have a cup of coffee and talk!"

"Okay!"

Dönitz hurriedly went to help Marshal Raeder make coffee, and then prepared some desserts and brought them to the lounge next to the war room.

"General Dönitz, you see that we have sailed our fleet to Shanghai in China this time, I heard that Japan has deployed three aircraft carriers and two sub-fleets somewhere, can our air force gain a foothold near Nanjing?"

Marshal Raeder sent the air force out alone this time, and they would depart a week later than the fleet, departing from Berlin, Germany, to the airport of the Soviet Union, and at this time the Soviet Union still had an air force to aid China in China! So after Germany offered to send planes to transit from the Soviet Union, Stalin agreed to Germany's request after careful consideration. German planes entered China from Mongolia and finally arrived at Dajiaochang Airport, also known as Nanjing Airport, in Nanjing, China.

"Marshal, the German planes arriving at the Nanjing airport will provide air cover for our fleet, and I don't think little Japan will dare to move."

"Well, but we still can't be careless to bury Germany's most elite naval forces, Japan has more than 500 planes at the airfields in Taiwan and Shanghai, and there are nearly 100 bombers alone, let's be careful! I heard that your son-in-law only applied to the Führer for one flying regiment, just more than a hundred aircraft, and even if our planes have an advantage, this number of planes is still too few. ”

"Don't worry! Marshal Raeder, my son-in-law is a monkey-like figure, the Führer gave the target of one hundred and sixty-four planes in a flying regiment, plus forty planes in a reserve group, there are already two hundred and four planes, my monkey spirit son-in-law in order to circumvent the Führer's order, ordered to summon more than twice as many pilots, and also carried a hundred sets of accessories, basically can ignore the problem of battle damage, with our excellent performance of BF109 and JU87, are you still afraid of more than 500 planes and ships in Little Japan? Not at all to worry about. ”

"So I'm relieved, your son-in-law is also a young man with a flexible mind, and he has increased the production of various weapons by two or three times in just a few months after returning to Krupp, especially the tanks that are extremely short of us in Germany at this stage, your son-in-law is a talent! Not only does he have a set of management enterprises, but he is also impatient to fight, but he has won the appreciation of the head of state at such an age and has been transferred to the command, and his future prospects are limitless! You have a good eye. ”

"Where! Where!! It's all my stupid girl who has vision, I'm ashamed! I'm ashamed!! ”

Li Mo took great pains to select aircraft, a flight regiment only had four flying groups, Li Mo chose three BF109 fighter groups, two JU87 dive bomber groups, and eight reconnaissance planes at the regimental headquarters. Li Mo didn't choose other planes at all, the German horizontal bomber Do17 has a bomb load of only 1000 kg, and the JU87 is at the same level, it can be said that it is useless chicken ribs, of course Li Mo can't choose this kind of aircraft. After all, the DO17 is an early German bomber, and the new German bomber JU88 is still in test flights and has not been mass-produced.

Germany is indeed very lacking in bombers, not because of Germany's science and technology, but because of Germany's strategic vision, the executives of the Luftwaffe and Hitler both believed that there was no need to develop heavy bombers, and Germany did not realize the advantages of the B29 strategic bomber until the time of its demise, and it was too late for Germany to understand, and many of their factories and cities were turned into ruins under the indiscriminate bombardment of the B29.

The Krupp company of the Li Mo family was not much involved in aviation, so Li Mo left a note for his father Krupp, which explained what Krupp had to do during the time when Li Mo left:

"The first is to go to Hitler and apply for the development of a heavy bomber, if Hitler is not willing to do it, then Krupp and Messerschmitt will join forces to develop the dismounted JU89 bomber."

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