Chapter 257—The Crisis of the British Empire (4)

The way for the Allies to withdraw from the British mainland naturally could only rely on the navy, and the British and American forces each assigned their own tasks, and the British navy was responsible for transferring the targets that needed to be evacuated in Britain and some important targets in other countries that were willing to evacuate with the British. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The U.S. military, on the other hand, is responsible for the withdrawal of their own troops, as well as important targets in other countries willing to withdraw to the U.S. mainland.

The Germans seemed to know that some Allied forces would choose to abandon the British mainland if they failed to defend London, so another important goal of the Luftwaffe was to destroy as many ports as possible that were not controlled by the Germans.

Every day, several thousand sorties of German planes swept across the coastal areas of the British Isles day and night, frightening the British and American naval fleets into not daring to approach their ports.

If the fleet could not approach the port at will, the retreat would be too far and dangerous, and because of this, the British and American navies had to increase the protection of the port by carrier-based aircraft groups, and the air battle between the two sides became much more intense.

But this time, the gap between the two sides widened, not because of the number of German aircraft, but because the Germans put in a new type of aircraft, which was so fast that the Allied pilots despaired.

This kind of new-type fighter directly abused the Allied fighters, making the already unbalanced air contest even more asymmetrical, and the planes transported by the US military from the US mainland could not even keep up with the daily consumption rate, and the US pilots knew very well that once they took to the air to fight, there was almost no return.

"Oh my God......" The Supreme Commanders of the Allied forces were even desperate, they did not understand how the German means came out one after another, and every time they came up with new means, they were not small ones.

"It must be Wei Qidong, the guy who is rumored to have advanced weapons in his hands, he must have sold the technology to the Germans." There are many people who speculate that although it is impossible to verify this matter, there is no other reason to explain these changes, and even if German industry is developed and sanctioned by the First World War for decades, it is impossible to be so far ahead of them at once Britain and the United States.

That's right, these people guessed right, the early entry into service of this new type of aircraft does have a lot to do with Wei Qidong. In fact, there is no other, it is a jet, but the Germans have been developing jet aircraft since 35 years, and in 39 years, the first jet aircraft HE-178 has been lifted into the air, which is the first jet aircraft in human history.

The appearance of HE-178 has little to do with Wei Qidong, but this aircraft test machine does not have combat effectiveness, in the official history, the German jet fighter in the real sense is the Messerschmidt Me-262 Feiyan that was in service in the summer of 44.

And now, the jet fighter, also named Messerschmidt Me-262 Feiyan, has appeared four years in advance, and its performance is much ahead of the aircraft in the official history, which is indispensable to Wei Qidong's credit.

At present, because the US military has not been in the war for a long time, the performance of many weapons is very average, and the same is true for combat aircraft.

Air supremacy was firmly in the hands of the German army, and the British and American naval fleets did not dare to appear within the range of German aircraft at will.

However, in order to evacuate more safely and to be able to withdraw as many living forces as possible, the Allied high-level leaders have also drawn up plans after considerable discussions.

After discussion, the Allied forces decided to disperse the objects that needed to be evacuated to those northern islands as much as possible, and then use various ships to travel back and forth between the islands and the fleet anchored in the Atlantic, and transfer personnel and materials to the fleet, so as to evacuate in this way.

In this way, the dependence on the port was not very large, and at the same time it could distract the German army, but it was in great demand for various ships.

For this reason, Britain was reluctant to use all its forces to start building all kinds of ships that could be transported, while the United States also transferred all kinds of merchant ships, transport ships, etc., from the mainland, and made various preparations for retreat.

As the Allies gathered more ships, they began to evacuate, first of all important non-combatants, and the British thought of their royalty first, in addition to the heads of other fallen countries, and so on.

These are no ordinary non-combatants, and there is no room for error.

For this reason, the Allies kept a high level of secrecy, sending these men to several hidden islands and then transferring them to the fleet.

However, boarding the fleet does not mean safety, because the German submarine forces are everywhere, and Dönitz has taken the wolf pack tactics of submarines to the extreme, and it seems that there are deep-sea monsters hiding at any time under the invisible water.

Therefore, after receiving people, the British and American naval fleets immediately transferred, and in order to speed up efficiency, they naturally did not send people directly to Australia or the United States, but only needed to leave the United Kingdom, a land of right and wrong.

The British first sent the personnel they were going to evacuate to their colonies in Africa, and the American army had just evacuated the personnel to Iceland and other places.

The two sides were chasing each other in this kind of scramble, the Allies were trying to withdraw more men and supplies in various ways, and the Germans were trying to keep more of their men behind.

For this reason, the Germans also dispatched their aircraft carrier battle group to attack the small battle formations of the British and American navies, after all, the surface fleet of any British and American navy is temporarily ahead of the German army, so a large-scale decisive battle with them is not advantageous.

At this time, the British and American navies did not have the heart to fight the German navy at all, and they needed to speed up the efficiency to withdraw more personnel, so they had to disperse the formation to protect the ranks of merchant ships and transport ships that did not have the ability to protect themselves.

In this way, the German army was naturally given an opportunity to take advantage of, and once this kind of fleet encountered an advantageous German aircraft carrier formation, it would basically end up miserable.

The worst was when a fleet carrying the highest echelons of Belgium and the Netherlands was wiped out and all the people on board were buried in the ocean under the joint attack of three German aircraft carrier battle groups and underwater submarine forces.

One of the British aircraft carriers was also sunk, and not a single ship of the entire aircraft carrier battle formation escaped.

The Belgians and the Dutch can only blame them for their bad luck when they encounter this kind of thing, after all, Britain itself has suffered so much loss.

However, knowing that such a move would increase the losses, the Allies did not dare to stop at all, but overloaded the fleet and did not dare to delay the time.

Because, on April 15, the more than 2 million troops in the London area had been completely routed by the Germans, 1,830,000 were annihilated, and nearly 500,000 were taken prisoner.

With this viable force wiped out, it was difficult for the British Isles to assemble a force that could confront the German multimillion-strong army head-on.