Chapter 663: Seeking Advice from the Northwest
The British side solemnly protested, of course, Germany simply ignored it, the special operations raid is a new concept, especially this time, only 50 special combat personnel and one submarine were used, and unimaginable results were achieved, and the Audible Academy, which was a great threat to the German Far Sea Fleet, was attacked by a sudden attack, suffered a devastating blow, all the personnel were unscathed, and all the staff returned, which gave the staff a lot of inspiration, if it was at the beginning of the war, for the homeland, Or an attack on the Allied command structure, which is enough to create an advantage on the battlefield.
From this day on, Britain discovered that the homeland does not necessarily mean security, and strengthened the defense of the homeland, but this defense because of the lack of understanding of the combat methods and penetration capabilities of the special forces, it is more about guarding against the regular army, and the role is not very large, Germany did not take action after discovering it, they know very well that the special forces may also be able to cause heavy losses to the UK, but the opportunity may be once or twice, and they must seize the opportunity this time or twice, and strive to obtain the maximum effect, which is what they should do.
The elimination of the Listeners' Academy, at least for three or five months, is unlikely to allow Britain to increase the number of listeners, and in this sense, the submarines can act more boldly and continue to tighten the chains against Britain.
However, winter was about to pass, and the settlement of Paris became the established policy, and before, perhaps the entire German War Department and General Staff thought that Paris was a ripe fruit, ready to be picked at any time, but because of the sea chase caused by the German attack fleet, it developed into a battle of airships. It made Germany more deeply aware of the role of airships, and only airships could deal with airships. Compared to the manufacturing capacity of Britain and France and even the United States later, Germany is really a little worse, even with the support of the northwest, which is less than 400 airships from Germany, while Britain has shot down 60 ships, 120 on the mainland, and even more than 400 in Paris. Such a difference really puts the airship at a disadvantage.
In the previous war, although Germany had the upper hand. However, 120 against the scattered 60 may not be able to truly represent the strength of the two sides, Rao is such a large-scale advantage, the British side. Again, there was no complete failure. He still shot down some of the airships.
The result of the air battle in the North Sea was a double advantage, concentrated versus scattered, by the way, the other side was not fully armed, and under various conditions, a 50:4 shootdown ratio was formed, but the German side lost 11 ships. Five of them were too badly injured and had to return for overhaul. In this sense, the advantage is not obvious, under all kinds of advantages, but only a few times the advantage, the airship is strong in attack and defense, even far above the aircraft, no wonder later generations were eliminated.
Airship is a high-priced weapon, the price of a set of airships purchased from the northwest is more than one million, it is impossible to use it as cannon fodder to fight, the price of a 1 million US dollars, when the two sides are almost strength head-to-head, win each other, how much can they have left. Faced with the premise that Paris may have 400 or even more airships, it may be the German side that loses, after all, the other side has an advantage of 100 or even 200 ships.
Originally, the military, which had taken Paris nine times out of ten, also began to consider this problem, when the German airship, in the face of the alliance of Britain and France, was exhausted, what would it be like to take it back, and the previous position of Belgium would be borne by Germany, in that case, even if Paris could be taken, the loss would be unbearable for Germany.
What Germany is willing to take is a complete Paris where great wealth and people can be collected, not a Paris that is so fierce that the war is fierce and the Paris is left with broken tiles, and even if they knew that there would be the current result, they would not hesitate to take Paris in the winter, and they would lose their troops and generals, and not be in such a dilemma as now. If the airship is not resolved, I am afraid that the troops who forcibly attacked Paris will suffer a huge blow, and when the time comes, the losses will be even greater, not only in terms of equipment, but also in terms of personnel.
How to deal with airships became the first way to occupy Paris, which was beyond everyone's expectations, the commander of the airship unit, who personally participated in the air battle in the North Sea, plus some instructors of the airship academy, together with many staff officers, discussed this problem together, but unless there was an overwhelming advantage in numbers, the losses were certain and the amount was not small.
A blimp is 200,000 pounds, ten is the price of a capital ship, although Germany has built so many airships, but it is impossible to send them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
That is, in this discussion, there was no method that could be implemented, but a young staff officer unexpectedly proposed, which changed the direction of the whole meeting, since the German side could not find a way to deal with the airship, then it is better to ask the northwest, the airship is the first one he used in the field of war, all kinds of weapons, bombing facilities, have also reached the peak of the level, it can be said that no one is stronger than the northwest in the understanding and use of airships.
The opinion of the young staff officer suddenly made the atmosphere that had been fogged suddenly become clear, and they could not solve it, could not the northwest solve it, and in terms of airships, the northwest has always been relatively strong, and perhaps Germany could be given a solution.
After this sudden incident, the meeting quickly reached a reunification, and the German side, through diplomatic means, also asked the northwest about the issue of airships, how to strengthen the protection of airships, and by the way, asked whether airships could be defended by other methods.
Of course, it is not a straightforward inquiry, Germany to the northwest, increase the order of airships, for Germany, at least can not be on the bright side, and the number of airships of the other side is too different, the manufacture of an airship, it seems that it can be very fast, but in fact, Germany's domestic production capacity, almost all of them are occupied by various military orders, although as much as possible to strengthen production, but military materials, warships occupy a lot of resources, can really move to the airship is very little, simply increase the order, It will be interesting to see if the northwest can increase production. Another aspect is to inquire about solutions and countermeasures.
The Northwest received such an inquiry, first of all, it is welcome to increase orders, the price of 1 million US dollars for an airship, the Northwest can get more than 4 percent of the income, plus the operating rate, machine utilization rate and many other aspects, for the Northwest to promote a lot, the German side has probably placed an order for 250 ships, which is 250 million US dollars, as long as special factories are set up in some cities in the west, and then skilled workers and manpower are sent out, which is not difficult for the Northwest.
But then, Germany's vague request made the northwest at a loss, for the airship, in addition to the war against Russia, used once, because of the good performance, a batch was made, later, because the plane made a breakthrough, the research on the airship is basically in a state of stop, and even the remaining airships have been transferred to Germany in exchange for part of the funds. For the Northwest, the airship is a backward aircraft, like the Northwest eagerly come up with a plan, which is not almost impossible.
When the personnel of the General Staff were about to reject Germany, and especially when they learned about the air duel of more than 600 airships on the North Sea, they were stunned for a moment, if the future warships in the northwest encountered such a threat outside the flight radius of the aircraft, this is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, not only for Germany, but also for the northwest.
Although it is said that the airship encounters the plane, it is vulnerable, but the airplane is different from the airship, the time in the air, the flight radius and the like, there is a certain difference, in case it really encounters this, there must be a countermeasure, otherwise the ship is outside the flight radius of the aircraft, or the gap between the aircraft, if it makes the airship attack, what will be the result, the special advantage of air power, so that the airship or the aircraft, for the ground forces and the navy, has a huge threat.
The crowd debated endlessly, and no one could convince anyone, and some people even prepared to restart the airships and use some small special attack airships to attack these airships in order to achieve the role and balance of air defense.
He didn't expect that he deliberately concealed the news of the plane, and single-handedly promoted the German side to use airships to support the army operations, which would make the world enter the era of airships, and a total of 54 ships were shot down over the North Sea, and more were shot down over Paris in the future, which would become a common burden for the Entente and the Allies, which was beneficial to the northwest.
Do you want to support Germany, 250 airship orders, has been won, then go all out to produce, the northwest can not turn to airship production in an all-round way, so, the productivity of the outbreak Britain, France and the United States, in terms of airship productivity, is far more than Germany, obviously, throughout the winter, taking advantage of the time when Germany did not attack, the entire Britain and France have pressed the treasure on the airship, it is conceivable that the future battle of Paris, will first break out the world's largest air airship showdown, in this case, Germany's inferiority was almost inevitable.
Germany alone resists Britain, France and Russia, this is certainly not a normalization, if the situation enters a war of attrition and stalemate, the German power will not be able to support it for long, which is not in line with the interests of the northwest, Yang Yuanzhao thought about it for almost half an hour, his face showed a trace of tenacity, from the secret safe, found a document numbered BC886, and then asked the secretary to send the document to the General Staff, while he himself sat at the desk, knocked on the table gently, and said secretly in his heart, World War I, Not only are there more and more changes, but also more and more fun. (To be continued......)