Britain was destroyed and divided between Tang and Germany, which is eye-catching.

Especially the Tang Empire, directly obtaining the entire main fleet of the British Royal Navy, hundreds of warships is a huge wealth, and it is a powerful war machine in a short period of time, which is fearful.

Britain fell, the war in Western Europe ended, and the German army sent a torrent of steel to southeastern Europe and blitzked the Soviet Union. The Atlantic Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire has been stationed on the island of Ireland, which is a strategic support point for the Tang Empire to look at Europe, and the Tang Army will build a naval, land and air force base there to guard against European occupation.

This is one of the big jihua in Zhang Meng's heart, and now it has been realized, which plays a key role in the future global strategy of the Tang Empire.

The remaining main forces of the Tang Army's Atlantic Fleet took most of the captured French main fleet and most of the capital ships of the British main fleet, and marched towards the mainland of the Tang Empire, and after the Tang Army captured Portsmouth, it focused on plundering all the Jishu materials, experts and Jishu workers of the British Naval Engineering Administration, they were the core of the British Empire's naval industry, and were plundered by the Tang Empire, which would greatly enhance the strength of the Tang Empire in the construction of the naval industry.

The return voyage of the Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Army was divided into two routes, one through the Mediterranean Sea and back to the Tang Dynasty via the Suez Canal, and the other through South America and from the South Pacific.

Such a plan of action is suspicious, but in fact it is a tactical action of the Tang army. When the Don fleet transits through the Strait of Gibraltar, it seized the British Gibraltar naval base, and after entering the Mediterranean, captured British Cyprus. Another major battle broke out through the Suez Canal, and the Don Airborne Forces took control of the Suez Canal before the Italians and Germans, much to the annoyance of the German and Italian armies, who had been fighting there for most of the year. However, because there was an agreement between Zhang Meng and Hitler, whoever occupied it belonged to whom, so the German and Italian armies just complained and withdrew, and they continued to attack the remnants of the British and French forces in Africa, and they had no time to compete with the Tang army.

When passing through the Indian Ocean, the Tang army seized the British Indian Ocean territory and captured Sri Lanka, an outlying island off the Indian Peninsula. As a base for the future containment of the Indian peninsula. After reaching the Bay of Bengal, he seized the Andaman Islands and contained British Burma.

The British colonies captured by the Tang army were islands hanging out of the sea. Under the onslaught of the huge fleet fire and naval aviation of the Don Army, only a small part of the Marines was needed to defeat the defending British units, and only the airborne forces were mobilized to enter the battle during the attack on the Suez Canal and Sri Lanka.

Fortunately, the British mainland had fallen, and the British army had lost its fighting spirit. In addition, the British Army was already small. After the outbreak of World War II, most of them were transferred back to their homeland for defense, and the British troops in the overseas colonies were even smaller, so under the powerful naval and air force of the Tang Army, these British colonies soon fell into the hands of the Tang Army and became the overseas territories of the Tang Empire.

Similarly, another Tang fleet, which had returned to China via South America, made a detour through South America, seizing the British Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and other Caribbean islands along the way, and reaching the southernmost tip of South America to seize the British Falkland Islands. It is the direct sea route to South America and Antarctica.

The Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Navy conquered the British colonies along the way, replacing the British Navy as a powerful presence deployed globally. It also received the title of the empire on which the sun never sets.

As for British India, British Burma, British Singapore, and Canada, because the geographical area was too vast, the Tang army was limited in strength, and it was temporarily impossible to control such a large place. At the same time, for example, British Singapore had 100,000 British troops stationed in it, known as the first fortress of Shijie, and the attack required Daliliang, so it did not touch. As for Canada, because it is a neighbor of the United States, Tang Jun does not want to stimulate the giant beast of the United States, so he will let it go for the time being.

With the defeat and surrender of Japan, only the Soviet-German battlefield in the entire Shijie is still breaking out in tragic battles, as for the African region, the remnants of the British and French forces can not defeat the German-Italian coalition forces at all, with the fall of Britain and France, the remnants of the British and French armies in Africa have been unable to get supplies, their battle guns are getting smaller and smaller, and it is a matter of time before they are eliminated by Germany and Italy.

The Tang Empire has fallen idle, and the large-scale military operations of the Tang Army have ended and entered a time of recuperation. The Tang Empire seized a huge territory through war, which spread throughout Shijie. In particular, he seized most of the British maritime colonies, which were the support points of the strategic channel, Zhang Meng knew that the United States in later generations relied on those strategic support points to control the entire Shijie sea, so he attached great importance to it and allocated 2 billion Tang Yuan to build naval and air bases on various strongholds to strengthen control.

The Australia occupied by the Tang Army and the Far East ceded by the Soviet Union both required a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to consolidate its rule, so the Tang Empire actually had no time for other things, and invested a lot of energy in it, and unilaterally stopped the war.

The Soviets were happy to see the Tang army stop fighting, but to their disappointment, Tang and China did not fall out on the issue of the ownership of the Far East, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which the Soviets had been looking forward to, did not appear, but both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were studying Zhang Meng's proposal to build a coalition government system with Chinese characteristics, because they had discovered the first social system that could enable the coexistence of communism and capitalism.

The Tang Empire was quiet, and some Americans were also relieved, they have been speculating whether the Tang Empire will go to war against the United States, after all, the United States has been secretly supporting Britain, and Tang and Germany have always been dissatisfied with this, and have been reluctant to make a move. Now that Britain has fallen, the question of whether the Tang and German armies will attack the United States in the Pacific and Atlantic at the same time is very marketable in the United States, and many Americans have thought about it.

However, the Hoover administration has always maintained close ties with the Tang Empire, and the two sides signed a non-aggression pact between Tang and the United States. However, isolationism in the United States is very strong, refusing to allow the United States to get involved in the war, and the Americans will not allow the US military to get involved in the war unless it is invaded.

Zhang Meng knew this, so he was not worried about the United States, and devoted himself to the construction of the Tang Empire, striving to raise the industrial level of the Tang Empire to a new level in the shortest possible time. At this time, the military strength of the Tang Empire far exceeded that of the United States, but it was inferior to the United States in terms of war potential, which was reflected in the total GDP of the United States and the lack of industrial capacity, which was due to the limited land area and small population of the Tang Empire.

Zhang Meng is convinced that with the development speed of the Tang Empire, it now controls the huge land resources of Australia and the Far East, as long as it vigorously builds and increases the population, its industrial capacity will soon catch up with the United States, and when the total GDP of the Tang Empire also exceeds that of the United States, there will be no need to worry about the United States at that time.

The construction of the national economy takes time, and Zhang Meng knows that he can't pull out the seedlings to help them grow, and he has patience. However, as the Soviet-German battlefield became increasingly white-hot, the German army gradually approached Stalingrad and Moscow, the Soviet and German armies fought to the death, Zhang Meng began to make preparations with both hands, no matter who won the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Tang Empire was in the most advantageous position.

The French fleet and the British fleet brought back from Europe, hundreds of warships gathered in the Tang Empire, making the Tang Empire the first naval power in Shijie in one fell swoop and ascending to the throne of maritime supremacy.

The primary issue facing the Datang Navy is to immediately upgrade these warships so that they can meet the needs of naval warfare in the new era.

However, the question of whether the Tang Navy needed battleships, battle cruisers and heavy cruisers was very prominent, and the navy was divided into two factions, one group believed that the Tang Empire should keep the battleships and battle cruisers captured from the British and French navies, which would highlight the strength of the Tang Empire's navy and the pride of the people. The other faction believes that it should be dismantled and sold to continue the expansion of aircraft carriers, believing that the era of battleships has passed, and the supremacy of the sea belongs to aircraft carriers.

The two factions are at loggerheads, and Zuihou has to be decided by Zhang Meng.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Meng believed that in a short period of time, these dozens of battleships, battlecruisers, and heavy cruisers captured by the British and French navies were still useful, and they were naturally no longer needed in the decisive battle of the main forces at sea, but in the battle for islands and peninsulas in the next few decades, relying on the powerful firepower of battleships, battlecruisers, and heavy cruisers to carry out shore attacks and cover the landing operations of troops could still be used.

The fact that aircraft carriers have replaced battleships as supremacies at sea does not mean that battleships have no use value.

At the same time, the naval opponent of the Tang Empire at this time was actually only the US Navy, and there were still a considerable number of battleships in the US Navy, and the Americans were still building battleships, so the Tang Navy's retention of battleships may be able to receive unexpected effects, such as continuing to stimulate the development of battleships by the Americans.

In the end, Zhang Meng made a ruling to keep the battleships, battle cruisers and heavy cruisers captured from the British and French navies, and the major shipyards of the Tang Empire would modernize and upgrade them, and to make a high-profile announcement that the battleships were still very valuable, and they were still the hegemon of the sea after vigorously installing anti-aircraft weapons, so as to mislead international public opinion.

At this time, the warships captured by the Datang Navy from the British and French navies included six aircraft carriers, 21 battleships, three battle cruisers (two sunk in Australian ports were salvaged), 24 heavy cruisers, 180 destroyers, 19 submarines, and more than 200 reconnaissance ships, training ships, troop carriers, supply ships and other naval logistics ships.

The Tang Army began to modernize these warships, which was a huge project that tested the naval industrial capacity of the Tang Empire.

However, the Tang army is confident that in a year they will have a powerful and incomparable fleet, and some people have even called it the Invincible Armada. (To be continued......)