Chapter 251: Project Sea Lion (1)

The Luftwaffe has been attacking the British Isles without stopping, but Germany's attack on the British Isles is not only the air force. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because, not only the Luftwaffe has achieved good results, but the Navy has also achieved good results. Hitler also knew that naval strength was the weakness of the German army, especially surface power, which was much weaker than the British Imperial Navy.

At the beginning, after receiving technical support from Wei Qidong, at Wei Qidong's suggestion, Germany began to step up the development of naval forces, improve the most powerful submarine force available, and build more ships. At the same time, the construction of battleships was abandoned and aircraft carriers were built instead, because it was learned from Wei Qidong that the future naval formations would be the world of aircraft carriers.

Originally, due to the contradictions between the air force and navy within the German army, Goering, who was deeply trusted by Hitler, blocked the development of naval aviation. An aircraft carrier without carrier-based aircraft is not called an aircraft carrier, so before Wei Qidong cooperated with Germany, the Germans did not pay attention to the development of the navy.

Until, Wei Qidong finalized the cooperation with Hitler and told him the importance of naval construction, and the German army wanted to conquer Britain and dominate the world, and it was completely impossible to do without a navy.

In addition, when Wei Qidong explained in detail the importance of aircraft carriers in future wars, this slowly changed Hitler's thinking, and when Wei Qidong said that he could provide the German army with several samples of carrier-based aircraft, as well as some technical problems such as aircraft carriers, Hitler overcame Goering's dissatisfaction and began to attach importance to the construction of the navy.

Through rapid development in the past two years, the German navy has gained some scale, of which six main aircraft carriers have been built, and nearly 50 escort aircraft carriers have been built, and these aircraft carriers are equipped with cruisers, destroyers, supply ships, and so on.

At this time, under the blow of the superior German air force, more than a dozen air bases in the British Isles were almost destroyed, and even if the US military entered the war, the British Isles were actually faced with the embarrassing situation of having no air bases available.

Although Britain used a lot of force to open up new air bases, the pace of construction was far from keeping up with the rate of destruction, which was often carried out by the Luftwaffe with more than 1,000 sorties a day.

In the skies over Britain, the British and American air forces were able to lift fewer and fewer planes, and in the end, they actually had to rely on carrier-based aircraft to serve as the main force of resistance, which also reflected the defeat of Britain's land-based air power from the side.

However, the use of carrier-based aircraft to resist the Luftwaffe is naturally not the result that the British and Americans want to see, because with the expansion of the German navy, the British and American navies are also deeply threatened, especially the submarine force of Dönitz, which makes the British and American navies very headache.

Dönitz's wolf pack tactics were indeed as Wei Qidong said, in the early days, the British and Americans did not have a suitable way to deal with it, and it was a time in the Atlantic.

And because of Wei Qidong's suggestion, Hitler increased his investment in the navy, so the forces available to Dönitz are much stronger than those in the official history.

In addition to attacking British and American ships coming and going in the Atlantic, Dönitz's other important task was to blockade the ports of the British islands except for the English Channel, so as to thwart the various support of the United States for Britain. At the same time, the Luftwaffe will also detach some aircraft to carry out continuous bombing of ports along the British coast.

Finally, at the end of November, Hitler felt that the blow to Britain was sufficient, and that preparations for the Sea Lion Project were almost complete, so he ordered the official launch.

In fact, Hitler knew that the British knew that the Germans had a plan to land on the British mainland, so in order to increase the success rate of the operation, the Germans also carried out deception operations in all aspects.

In the choice of the time and place of the landing, Hitler learned a lot from Wei Qidong about the various deceptions of the Allied landing in Normandy in the official history, and then used it in turn on the British and Americans this time.

In fact, this kind of deception is a kind of reversal, in the official history, the purpose of the Allies is to make the Germans believe that the last landing point of the Allies is Calais, and this time, the purpose of the German army is to convince the British and the United States that the place where their German army departed is the area of Calais, and then choose the nearest British landing point.

In fact, the real starting point of the German army was from Normandy in France, and then rushed directly to the British mainland across the English Channel.

In the end, the Germans' deception was successful, and both the British and American forces believed that the Germans' starting point was Calais, the closest to the British, so in the area of Dover, which was directly opposite Calais, while the Germans were preparing the Sea Lion plan, they mobilized a large number of troops, built a large number of defensive facilities, and invested their main forces in this area.

In order to convince Britain and the United States that their choice was correct, Germany also let Goering's air force continue to bomb this area indiscriminately.

"Haha, both the British and the Americans were fooled." Hitler was thrilled to learn that the enemy had indeed been successfully deceived, and that night, during a banquet, he held a banquet and toasted Wei Qidong with a glass of wine for the first time to show his gratitude. Wei Qidong contributed to the success of this deception operation.

"I wish the Germans a complete success...... Wei Qidong congratulated in advance.

"Success......" The German generals present also shouted, but they were also secretly shocked that the closest people around the Führer were not the exploits of their empire, but the young foreigner in front of them.

However, these shrewd generals can see that Hitler's attention to Wei Qidong is definitely not just a product of Sino-German friendly relations, and there must be many important secrets that they do not know, but they do not know these secrets, and there is no way to speculate, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with befriending the young man in front of them.

It is even rumored that the first person under the Führer in the Greater German Empire is not Goering, not Goebbels, not Manstein, etc., but Wei Qidong.

Wei Qidong had also heard such rumors, but he didn't care about them, because he knew that Wei Qidong valued him because his role surpassed that of anyone except Hitler.

Moreover, he Wei Qidong does not hold the power of Germany, and he does not pose any threat to him Hitler, how can the existence of Zhuge Liang around Liu Bei not be paid enough attention? And even if Zhuge Liang is so loyal to Shu Han, Liu Bei does not absolutely trust him, not to mention that he Wei Qidong and Hitler are not of the same nation, so Wei Qidong just listened to the rumors of the first person under Hitler.

Because of this, Wei Qidong was very low-key during his stay in Germany, never interfering in the political situation in Germany with Hitler's attention to him, nor forming gangs, let alone asking for various privileges.

Hitler got up step by step from the bottom, and he saw Wei Qidong's actions, so he had to admire, Wei Qidong was very good at being a man, which was also one of the very important reasons why he attached importance to Wei Qidong.

Hitler attached great importance to Wei Qidong, and Wei Qidong also gave enough returns, and the two cooperated deeply and benefited each other.

Under this premise, the most important battle to determine the fate of Europe has finally begun.

On November 25, the Sea Lion Project was officially launched.