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The Mediterranean Sea is about 4,000 kilometers long from east to west, about 1,800 kilometers wide from north to south, west through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic Ocean, northeast to the Turkish Strait to connect the Black Sea, southeast through the Suez Canal out of the Red Sea, is an important traffic artery connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, known as the maritime traffic hub.

The Mediterranean Sea is bounded by the Strait of Tunis between the Apennine Peninsula, Sicily and Tunisia, and is divided into two parts, east and west, with an average depth of 1,450 meters and a maximum depth of 5,267 meters.

It was once a strategic point for the French, Italian and British navies to compete with each other.

After the outbreak of World War II, France was defeated and withdrew from the battle for the Mediterranean, and although the Italian Navy and the British Mediterranean Fleet did not fight a decisive battle, they performed quite well in the battle to break the British Mediterranean route.

Mussolini was well aware that the Italian Navy had a large gap with the British Navy in terms of equipment and training. For example, there is no radar, there is no training for night combat, there is no coordination between the sea and the air, and, most importantly, there is a lack of fuel.

As a result, the Italian Navy avoided a decisive battle with the British Navy in the Mediterranean.

The British Mediterranean Fleet finally waited for the time of a decisive battle with the Italian Navy, and the Royal Navy of Donghua extended its hand into the Mediterranean.

At that time, the Donghua Empire was still at war with Italy. Churchill, of course, was not happy to let the British Navy help the East China Empire fight Italy. As a result, the Royal Navy of Donghua established the Mediterranean Fleet, but it did not have the idea of going to the Italian Navy at all.

In view of the wisdom of the Italian government in ceding Crete to the Donghua Empire, Cheng Gong announced the suspension of the war deployment against Italy quite in a timely manner. East and Italy soon entered the armistice phase of diplomatic negotiations.

The fact that the East China Empire did not continue to expand its war against Italy made Churchill sensitively smell a hint of conspiracy.

The Royal Donghua Navy has the most advanced submarines in the world, and the average water depth is 1,450 meters in the Mediterranean, which is undoubtedly the best combat area for Donghua submarines.

Seeing that the Donghua Empire had put its hand into the Mediterranean, Churchill not only did not feel relaxed, but had an inexplicable sense of crisis.

With the diplomatic and trade relations that the Donghua Empire had always maintained with Germany, Churchill did not see the slightest intention of the Donghua Empire to declare war on Germany.

Now all countries in the world know that the Donghua Empire is clearly emulating the United States during the First World War, and the Donghua Empire will definitely not choose to participate in the war until the final moment when the war situation is clear.

In line with the idea of a gentleman standing up for a wall, Churchill decided not to put the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet under the threat of the East China Navy.

Since the Donghua Empire raised the banner of safeguarding world peace and claimed that its Mediterranean Fleet was here to escort the fleets of various countries sailing back and forth in the Mediterranean, Churchill simply decided to shrink Britain's existing defense forces, not only to withdraw the British Mediterranean Fleet back to join the home fleet, but also to entrust the defense of the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar to the Donghua Empire.

This not only increased the defense force of the British mainland, but also openly handed over the escort of British merchant ships to the hands of the Royal Navy of Donghua, so that British merchant ships sailing in the Mediterranean Sea were no longer attacked by the Italian navy.

With the arrogance of Emperor Cheng, of course, he disdains to let the Donghua Royal Navy play any kind of war. Maintaining peace in the Mediterranean is also an important part of maintaining world peace and stability.

Under the aura of peace of Emperor Cheng, the Mediterranean Sea ushered in a peaceful environment that was rare since the outbreak of World War II.

In the words of Emperor Cheng, only by providing safe transportation routes for the various participating countries can they not worry about war resources and can fight the enemy on the battlefield wholeheartedly. As a result, more and more people died, and more and more blood was shed.

In addition, Africa's large-scale development also requires a stable Mediterranean environment.

Germany is short of oil, no problem, just buy it from the Donghua Empire; Italy is short of oil, as long as you have money, the Donghua Empire can supply it openly;

Britain also wants oil, yes, in exchange for gold.

All in all, the stable Mediterranean route was a guarantee of security for the large oil fields that the East China Empire had invested in developing in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Nigeria to the Allies and Axis powers.

Whoever dares to attack and destroy the ocean-going oil tankers of the Donghua Empire, the Donghua Empire will definitely use war to retaliate.

In order to ensure that Germany no longer has to worry about the lack of oil resources, the German government has cooperated with the East China Empire to lay oil and gas pipelines in Germany, France, and Spain, connecting oil and gas pipelines from Libya to Morocco.

It can be said that the five high-yield oil fields discovered and exploited by the Donghua Empire in Libya and Algeria completely changed the original strategic pattern in the Mediterranean.

As the discovery of high-yield oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea region of North and West Africa continued, governments around the world finally understood why the Donghua Empire landed in Africa at the expense of war with Italy.

It's so damn fair!

Could it be that the young emperor of the Donghua Empire was really the illegitimate son of God?

The Donghua Empire was already strong enough, so why did they have so much oil at their disposal?

Governments can fully foresee that just for the sake of these large oil fields discovered in Africa, the Donghua Empire will definitely not let other countries get involved in the African Union.

The current Mediterranean route is arguably the busiest sea route in the world.

Since May 1940, when the Donghua Empire successfully manufactured the world's first Aframax tanker with a full load displacement of 120,000 tons, the shipbuilding technology of the Donghua Empire was recognized by all countries in the world for the first time, surpassing the British shipbuilding industry and becoming the world's top.

In October 1941, Donghua Empire launched another Suezmax oil tanker, which once again established the manufacturing technology and process standards of the Donghua Empire's monopoly on ultra-large oil tankers in the shipbuilding industry.

Of course, more than eighty percent of the large oil tankers running all over the world in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea belong to the ocean-going shipping companies of the Donghua Empire.

Of all the merchant ships flying the golden dragon and apricot yellow flag of the Donghua Empire, none of them have been attacked so far.

It's not that the pirates don't want to rob, it's that the Royal Navy's cruise warships of the Donghua Navy are too frequent in the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans.

The Royal Navy of Donghua has no war mission, so they can only devote all their energy to ocean cruises, escorts, and fishing protection.

The well-informed and convenient instant messaging system makes the distress signal issued by the cruise warships of the Donghua Royal Navy to the merchant ships of the Donghua Empire always arrive at the scene of the accident at the first time.

Such welfare benefits are the envy of the merchant merchants of the participating countries.

Every time Richard Jones saw the beautiful warships of the Royal Navy of the Donghua Empire escorting Donghua merchant ships entering and leaving the Red Sea, he felt more jealous than envious.

A retired member of the Royal Navy, Captain Jones, 46, fought in the Battle of Jutland in World War I. After World War I, Jones was forced to retire due to injury.

After the outbreak of World War II, Jones and his container ship "Galaxy" took on heavy ocean shipping tasks from the British government. Non-stop routes between the UK and India, bringing back all kinds of urgently needed civilian and military supplies for the UK mainland.

The "Yinhe" all-container freighter is an ocean-going container ship that can carry 628 standard containers and manufactured by the British Empire from the Donghua Empire with patents and technical standards.

Shipbuilding has always been the bringest of the British Empire's modern industrial civilization. However, since the emergence of that damned Donghua Empire, a large number of shipbuilding orders belonging to the British Empire have been snatched up by the Donghua Empire.

The Donghua Empire not only took Australia, New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands from the British Empire, but also the Andaman Islands, Maldives, Chagos, Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong.

When will the Chinese, who had always been regarded by Jones as yellow-skinned monkeys, be able to snatch overseas colonies belonging to the British Empire with impunity?

Did God really abandon the British Empire and bless the damned Donghua Empire? (To be continued.) )