Chapter 115: Operation Sea Lion

After the First Battle of the Yellow Sea between Tang and Japan, the Japanese Combined Fleet was completely annihilated for the second time, which made the Tang Imperial Navy completely control the initiative in the Pacific theater, blocked the Japanese sea lines of communication, and besieged more than one million Japanese troops in Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula, and Japan's defeat was not far off.

The military liliang of the Tang Empire is mainly concentrated in the navy and air force, because of the relationship between the population base, the size of the army has always been a weakness, and it takes a lot of troops to control the vast area of Oceania of millions of square kilometers, and the newly occupied island of Taiwan also has the remnants of the Japanese army, which requires a lot of troops to encircle and suppress, and the main force of the marines is concentrated on the Luda Peninsula, and guarding the brigade fortress is already the limit of the Tang Army's ground offensive.

In this way, the offensive of the Tang Empire on land has been suspended, and the main force of the land war against Japan has been changed to the national army and the communist army, they have attacked all the way from the frontal battlefield in North China, and launched anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in the northeast all the way to harass the enemy's rear.

The Tang Empire promoted the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and naturally did not allow the two sides to break out into a civil war, so it has been pressuring the two governments to prepare to establish a democratic coalition government to end the situation of division and chaos for decades, and the joint anti-Japanese war is an opportunity. China's major democratic parties are very much in favor of this, and they have assisted in drafting various constitutions and laws of the coalition government.

Although the Nationalist Government was very dissatisfied, the strength of the Tang Empire was obvious to all, and the weapons and equipment of the national army, funds and other sources all relied on the assistance of the Tang Empire, and the war against Japan had to be supported by the navy and air force of the Tang Empire, so they were forced to accept the requirements of the Tang Empire.

In the North Pacific Ocean. The Tang Empire used the army aviation units stationed in the Northern Islands as the main force of the bombing of the Japanese mainland, destroying the heavy industrial base of the Japanese army, various military factories, shipyards, gun factories, docks and other targets. Do not allow the Japanese army to have a military liliang that threatens the Tang Empire in a short period of time.

On the other side, the second aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Empire consisted of four Doukui-class aircraft carriers, 20 escort aircraft carriers, 16 Poseidon-class light cruisers and 14 Fengshen-class destroyers, as well as more than a dozen ocean-going supply ships and submarines, and a ship formation entered the North Atlantic to participate in the German-led operation against the British Sea Lion.

In fact, before the Tang Imperial Navy formed the Atlantic Fleet and set off for the European theater. Hitler couldn't hold it anymore. You must know that the fighter plane is fleeting, and Hitler did not want to give the British enough time to prepare, so he did not wait for the Tang Navy to arrive in Europe, and the German army had already started.

In the month before the arrival of the Don aircraft carrier battle group in the North Atlantic. Hitler ordered Goering to send his air force to bomb the major airfields in the British Isles, intending to destroy the British air force on the ground and clear the air threat of the German attack on Britain.

The British and German air forces are almost the same in terms of fighter performance, and the German Junkers and Britain's Spitfire are both foreign trade export models of the Tang Empire's Raptor land-based fighters. The only difference is that the British Air Force is armed with less than four hundred aircraft. The Luftwaffe, on the other hand, had more than 3,000 aircraft, which was overwhelmingly superior to the British Air Force in terms of numbers.

The main reason for this huge disparity in numbers is that the British Air Force has been keeping an eye on the size of the German Home Air Force, and for every fighter built in Germany, the British mainland will also build a fighter in order to balance the German superiority. However, the British Air Force ignored the Tang Empire for a long time, and most of the aircraft of the Luftwaffe were secretly produced by the Tang Empire, and the Tang Empire went to war against Japan, and all Shijie thought that a large number of aircraft produced by the Tang Army were used to fight against Japan. As a result, the British Air Force was also negligent, resulting in a huge gap between the number of aircraft in Britain and the German army after the war between Britain and Germany.

However, the Luftwaffe was too arrogant. More than 2,000 planes were dispatched to attack major British airfields, but the British army had already received a tip-off and placed fake planes at the airfield in advance for the Germans to bomb and paralyze the Luftwaffe, while the British Air Force quietly ambushed the German planes on their way back.

On the first day of the Battle of Britain, the Germans lost more than 100 bombers, and the British were unscathed, much to Hitler's fire.

Hitler did not admit defeat, he was furious and demanded that Goering lead the Luftwaffe in revenge. As a result, Goering had to hurriedly revise his operations and prepare for a desperate battle with the British Air Force.

Zhang Meng, who was far away in the Daming Palace in Chang'an, learned the results of the air battle over the English Channel for the first time, and he suddenly remembered that the German army would lose in the next operation.

"Immediately inform Hitler and Goering that the British Air Force had seven anti-aircraft search radars in the English Channel capable of detecting German bomber groups. The British Air Force did not have enough fighters, and they would choose to surprise the Luftwaffe bomber group and ask them to be prepared! ”

Defense Minister Cai Zhenghua suddenly said: "Your Highness, if we blindly remind the Germans to be careful, it will make the German army stronger and stronger." It's better not to tell them and let them suffer some losses, so that the empire can be more important in their hearts! ”

What Cai Zhenghua said is not unreasonable, but Zhang Meng has other plans in his heart, he has been planning a big jihua, and now he has realized part of it, and the next thing he wants to do is to completely disrupt the entire shijie pattern.

"Don't worry, if Hitler is disobedient, I still have a way to make him unlucky. What I want at the moment is to destroy Britain as soon as possible, because once Britain is quickly destroyed, it will be difficult for the United States to enter the war in time, and Britain and France have large colonies that we need to grab. ”

"But the Germans have already occupied most of Europe, and if they are allowed to occupy LinkedIn again, then their military strength will inevitably skyrocket, and we may not be able to control them."

Cai Zhenghua was still very worried, he didn't know Zhang Meng's dependence, and Zhang Meng couldn't tell him the secret, but Zhang Meng still comforted him: "The British Isles won't all be given to the Germans, remember when we swept away the entire French fleet from the eyes of the British and the Germans?" We will occupy the British Isles, and the ships and overseas colonies of the British Navy will eventually be controlled by us, after all, the German Navy is too weak to have the ability to deliver to the sea. ”

As soon as Zhang Meng said this, Cai Zhenghua immediately thought of the French fleet that was detained in Portugal, and he knew Zhang Meng's methods, and his heart was overjoyed and immediately relieved.

Goering was preparing to attack Britain as originally Jihua, when he suddenly received a call from the Tang Empire's military liaison officer in Germany, and soon a piece of information about the British radar base station was delivered to Goering's desk.

Goering thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to listen to the words of the Tang Empire, and adopted the strategy of taking the plan into a plan, changing the original air raid Jihua into a decoy Jihua, preparing to capture and kill the main force of the British Air Force in one fell swoop.

This day was destined to be a milestone in the history of the British and German air forces, and the Luftwaffe sent 2,000 bombers without fighter escort to bomb London. The British Air Force obtained intelligence in advance, scanned the Luftwaffe through radar, and dispatched the main force to prepare to intercept the German bomber group halfway.

As a result, when the main force of the British Air Force reached the target airspace, it found that the German bomber group was only surrounded by bombers, and all of them were fighters, as many as 1,500 of them, and immediately surrounded more than 400 British fighters.

A fierce battle unfolded over Britain, and the British Air Force was very valiant, but it was still outnumbered, surrounded by several times the German fighters, and could not escape at all, and finally all of them were shot down. The Germans also paid a heavy price for more than 300 planes shot down.

The British and German air forces suddenly had about the same number of planes, but their nature was different, the main force of the British air force was annihilated, and the Luftwaffe only lost one-fifth. Britain completely lost air supremacy, which was fatal for Britain.

Britain was in mourning, Churchill would face the death of the country after coming to power, although he had ordered the British factories to produce aircraft at all, but the German army did not give the British time to prepare another air force, they soon carried out a large-scale bombing of the British mainland, destroying a series of key facilities such as British heavy industry, arsenals, aircraft factories, shipyards, etc., which made the British despair.

However, Hitler was not happy, because he learned the key information provided by the Tang Empire from Goering, and he was always haunted by the fact that the Tang Empire swept away the entire French fleet last time.

Hitler had no intention of crossing the sea to capture Britain, his focus was still on land, preparing to attack the Soviet Union, and Operation Sea Lion was just a cover to paralyze the Soviets.

At this moment, Hitler hesitated, whether he would destroy Britain first or the Soviet Union first, if Britain was destroyed, the Soviet Union would be vigilant, if he went to fight the Soviet Union at this time, who would occupy Britain?

"Could this be the true intention of the Tang Empire?" For the first time, Hitler was confused. (To be continued......)