[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 839: German-Japanese Divergence (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

In fact, before attacking Britain, Hitler's confidence was still very strong. The main reason for the www.biquge.info is that the overall strength of the Luftwaffe far exceeds that of the British Air Force, and first of all, in terms of the number of fighters, Germany has a clear advantage.

At this time, Germany alone had more than 850 fighters, 656 BF109E and 168 BF110, a total of 850 fighters staring at the other side of the channel. In addition to these fighters, there are more than 1,200 bombers.

Second, Germany had occupied most of Western Europe by this time, and it could launch air strikes against the British mainland from anywhere across the English Channel, France, Portugal, Belgium, or Luxembourg, which the Germans did.

After entering 1940, the German army began pre-war preparations, and the aviation units were transferred from the mainland to France, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries, and at the same time gathered a large number of engineers and young and strong laborers. The airfields at the front line were greatly expanded, and a steady stream of materials from the German mainland was brought to the front.

Although the mobilization of troops and the replenishment of personnel and materials will take time. However, the Luftwaffe did not want to wait and began a tentative attack with a small number of troops while preparing for the war. The Germans launched attacks targeting ships sailing in the southern ports of Britain and the English Channel, and the Germans had two operational objectives: first, to understand the British air defense capability and find out the deployment of the British Air Force; The second is to lure British planes into battle and consume the British army's strength in air combat.

By early March, the Luftwaffe had largely completed preparations for war and had launched a massive air raid on Britain. However, the effect was extremely dissatisfying to Hitler, and the German army suffered heavy losses in the first battle.

On the first day of the war, the Germans flew 1,485 sorties, attacking seven airfields in southern Britain during the day and attacking British aircraft factories at night. The British army flew 727 sorties to meet the Luftwaffe in Portland and Southampton, in which 47 German planes were shot down and more than 80 were damaged, and the British lost only 12 "Hurricanes" and 1 "Spitfire", and the losses suffered by the airfield were insignificant.

However, the Luftwaffe did well in the ensuing attack, and in view of the resistance of the British Air Force, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force, Goering, decided to carry out a massive air raid on the main bases of the British army in the south and the aircraft factories in the south of England, and for the next two weeks. The Germans flew more than 1,000 sorties a day to devastate the bombing of these important targets!

Wave after wave of bombing, air battles after air battles, and at this decisive stage, the British pilots had been in a state of high tension for more than a month. Sometimes it takes several times a day, and everyone is very tired.

The most important thing is that the casualties are too serious, since the beginning of the air battle, the British army has 103 pilots killed and 128 seriously injured, the total number of casualties accounts for a quarter of all pilots! The British Air Force began to suffer from a shortage of personnel, especially the experienced pilots, who suffered a large number of casualties, and even some young people who were only about 20 years old were already considered veterans.

At the same time, 295 British aircraft were shot down and 171 were heavily damaged, while the total number of new aircraft produced by Britain plus repaired aircraft at the same time was only 2, and the British Air Force was already seriously damaged! What is even more serious is that the five most important airfields in the south of Britain have been seriously damaged, and the most important command center of the British Air Force, the underground fan command center, has also been severely damaged by the Luftwaffe.

The command heart conducted a comprehensive analysis and evaluation according to the enemy situation reports sent back by the pilots of the radar station, ground air defense observation posts, and air combat operations, and then used radio to command the air fighters to fight.

The command and communication system of the British Air Force is on the verge of collapse, and if it continues like this, the British Air Force will soon lose the strength to resist! The German numerical superiority began to gradually take hold, and in these two weeks, the Germans lost 214 fighters and 138 bombers, but there were still enough forces to continue the offensive.

After that, the Luftwaffe carried out a large-scale bombing of London, and for a long time, the German army carried out large-scale air raids on London day and night, causing London to suffer huge losses of people and property, in an attempt to destroy the city with brutal bombing to bring Britain to its knees.

However, the British people, under such heavy losses, did not give in, on the contrary, they aroused hatred for the Nazi tyranny and their determination to fight!

After the failure of the plan to force Britain to surrender, the Germans wanted to attack their eastern neighbor, the Soviet Union, and Hitler hoped that while the Germans were attacking, the Japanese could launch an offensive from the northeast of the country to the Soviet Far East and Siberia, and the two countries would completely annihilate the Soviet Union by attacking from the east and west.

However, at this time came the news of the signing of a treaty between the Soviet Union and Japan, which greatly annoyed Hitler. The German Foreign Office immediately telegraphed the Japanese government in the hope that Japan would terminate the treaty.

However, the Japanese government's focus is now on Southeast Asia, or Japan has now developed a faint fear of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East, and the Battle of Nomenkan and the Zhang Gufeng incident have shown that the Japanese Army is no match for the Soviet Red Army at all, and there is no comparison between soldiers armed with the spirit of bushido and soldiers armed with steel.

Moreover, the Soviet Union now has more than 300,000 troops stationed in the Far East, plus the defense forces of its client state Mongolia, the total strength has reached 450,000, and the most important thing is that the Red Army in the Far East has far more heavy firepower than Japan, and even the Red Army in the Far East has formed armored corps and artillery clusters, which Japan does not have.

Therefore, compared with the Soviets, the Japanese are more inclined to seize Southeast Asia, especially the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina, which can now basically be regarded as ownerless, anyway, the Netherlands and France have been exterminated by the Germans, and it would be a fool not to take advantage of them.

More importantly, the Japanese were extremely dissatisfied with the Western powers, and it could even be said that they had a deep grudge, mainly because the Western countries had hurt the Japanese too much during World War I.

During the First World War, out of the friendship of the Japanese and British alliances and the consideration of its own interests, Japan fought against Germany on the side of the Entente and at the same time sent troops to seize the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Unfortunately, however, the reward that Japan received from Europe and the United States after the war was a series of policies that oppressed Japan. In particular, the United States, which had maintained an unusual friendly relationship with Japan and had not hesitated to provide support since the founding of Japan, was suddenly uncharacteristically uncharacteristically acting as the vanguard of a policy of oppression against Japan.

It is obvious to all that Japan was restricted and developed after World War I, first of all, the United States, in order to seize world hegemony, advocated the abolition of the Japan-Britain alliance, and at the same time limited the power of the navy's capital ships at the Washington Conference and abolished Ishii. The Lansing Agreement, the restriction of Japan's special rights and interests in Manchuria, as stipulated in the Nine-Power Treaty, and the enactment of an anti-Japanese immigration ban by the United States, cast a shadow over Japan's future.

It is not difficult to see that the purpose of these measures is to stop Japan's development, especially Japan's development to the mainland.

In addition, after the First World War, as an inevitable economic phenomenon after the war, it caused overproduction in the world market, which led to the sharpening of international trade competition.

As a backward capitalist country, Japan, was drawn into the intensifying international trade competition as it became increasingly necessary to import goods from overseas and open up markets overseas as it advanced in industrialization during the World War II. A poor country like Japan, which is not rich in materials and funds, has to find a miserable way out by relying on cheap labor to dump abroad.

However, in order to combat dumping, European and American countries have taken measures to build high tariff barriers among themselves, and Japan has had to gradually squeeze out of the world market, such as India and the South market. (To be continued.) )