German shore-based planes launched attacks on the British fleet, and the planes of both sides were constantly fighting back and forth in the air, and the German pilots were obviously not as skilled as the British, and from time to time they would be shot down. But these pilots were also fearless, and they also had a numerical superiority, with which they had broken through the British perimeter and pounced on the British fleet.

The Royal Navy frigates attacked quickly, a number of German planes were shot down, and finally several German planes managed to approach the British aircraft carriers and drop bombs.

But these pilots were clearly not much trained, their attacks were not accurate at all, and the bombs basically fell into the sea. In fact, don't look at an aircraft carrier tens of thousands of tons, hundreds of meters long, but compared to the vast sea, these aircraft carriers are like a flat boat, and this small boat is still up and down, if you want to successfully drop the bomb, you need very skillful skills and a lot of training.

The Germans were clearly lacking, and the accuracy of their throws was greatly reduced. However, these German planes also succeeded in attracting all the energy of the British fleet, exhausting all carrier-based aircraft, and concentrating the firepower of the escort ships in the air, providing a golden opportunity for German submarines underwater.

After a long time in the making, a sea wolf finally quietly surfaced and fired two torpedoes. Two splashes hit the bow of the British Ark Royal. The British have always loved the name, and even if an Ark Royal sinks, they will give it to Britain's newest and most powerful warship.

The new Ark Royal was also the first large aircraft carrier to be launched in the United Kingdom, with a displacement of 45,000 tons, capable of carrying 90 combat aircraft, and equipped with a steel deck, it has a good defense capability against ordinary aerial bombs, and is the pride of the British Navy.

But once again, God forsaken the British. Two torpedoes hit the bow of the ship. A powerful explosion instantly tore the bow apart. The sea rushed into the warship, and all the soldiers on board were terrified, and they tried to plug the hole, but the water entered much faster than expected. More and more equipment was damaged, problems arose in the boiler room, and the accumulated high-pressure steam dispersed, seriously preventing the soldiers from rescuing.

The British did not expect to be attacked by submarines. They hurriedly sent escort ships to deal with the German submarines, but at this time two more German submarines attacked, an escort carrier and a heavy cruiser, which were far less huge than the Ark Royal, so they were hit and quickly sank to the bottom of the sea.

The British's troubles were not over, because the Ark Royal was damaged, and the planes could not take off and land, so they had to let the other aircraft carriers retract, although the British had already lost two large aircraft carriers. Many carrier-based aircraft have been transferred to other aircraft carriers, and now they can no longer carry the carrier-based aircraft on the Ark Royal.

So the British had to let the pilots abandon the plane. The Royal Navy's pursuit also had to stop. Of course, the Germans were not happy to the end, the Chinese aircraft carrier group had already caught up, the group launched an attack on the Nazis, the last large German aircraft carrier was hit by three bombs, and the superstructure was almost completely destroyed.

The Germans saw that there was no hope for rescue, so they had to abandon the aircraft carrier, and after a big battle, the German aircraft carrier was completely annihilated, and the British price was extremely heavy, two large aircraft carriers were sunk, two were damaged, three escort aircraft carriers were sunk, and more than 300 pilots were lost.

The Royal Navy had been cut in more than half, and Churchill had no joy at the news of the disastrous victory. He immediately sent a distress telegram to Roosevelt, saying that the strength of the Royal Navy was no longer enough to control the safety of all shipping routes, and the United States had to send troops to support.

At this time, the United States finally came out of the shadow of Pearl Harbor, a large number of warships were launched, as if dumplings, and the main force of the Japanese navy had been wiped out, and the Americans also had enough strength to support Britain, so they immediately agreed to Britain's request.

In addition, the United States also transferred a large number of troops to the British mainland, preparing to open up a second battlefield, Roosevelt had long been ready to snatch the fruits of victory after the war, and he was actually very contemptuous of China's seizure of the South Seas and the Soviet Union's occupation of Eastern Europe.

Both of these economic foundations are not good, and if you want to develop, you have to invest a huge amount of money, and at most you can get some raw materials and labor, in fact, the fattest piece of meat is Western Europe.

As the earliest industrialized region, Western Europe has a well-developed infrastructure, a large number of highly educated talents, and advanced technology. Even if such a place was reduced to ruins by the war, with a little effort, it could be restored to prosperity, and the post-war reconstruction work could bring great significance, and Roosevelt had long regarded Western Europe as his own territory.

Now that China and the Soviet Union are advancing in Turkey, the Turkish army is crumbling, and it seems that it is about to reach the Turkish Straits, the next step is to land in the Balkans, and the United States cannot delay any longer, but must act quickly.

Roosevelt sent Dwight D. Eisenhower as commander-in-chief to preside over the work of the American and British Allied forces in preparation for a landing on the European continent. The United States has shown itself to be the world's largest industrial country, sending a total of five Essex-class aircraft carriers to Britain, and then a large number of freighters carrying tens of thousands of tons of supplies to Britain.

Landing on the European continent was definitely not an easy task, and Hitler was not going to stand still and would definitely send a strong force to resist. Although they defeated Rommel, the desert fox, in North Africa, the German army is still a formidable force, so the United States and Britain must be fully prepared.

For the Soviet army in World War II, many people will think of artillery doctrine and crowd tactics, and countless Soviet soldiers shouted Ulla and rushed to the battlefield. But this argument is not prepared, and in the struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany, the Soviet Union rarely has more than twice as many troops. It's basically above 1.6 to 1.8 to 1.

After landing in Western Europe, the Allies faced the German second-line troops, but their advantage was more than three or five times to defeat the Germans, and they were also fought a beautiful counterattack by Hitler.

Judging from the comparison of the eastern and western fronts, the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army is higher than that of the United States and Britain, and if the Americans had not taken the lead in developing the atomic bomb, perhaps the Soviet Union would have swept across the whole of Europe.

The United States and Britain, out of fear of Germany's combat effectiveness, could only make detailed planning and adequate preparations, for which the Allies gathered a total of 2.88 million troops. The army has a total of 36 divisions, including 23 infantry divisions, 10 armored divisions, and 3 airborne divisions, with about 1.53 million men.

The navy has about 5,300 warships in operation, including 13 battleships, 47 cruisers, 1,200 destroyers, 4,126 landing ships, and more than 5,000 transport ships. The Air Force has 13,700 combat aircraft, including 5,800 bombers, 4,900 fighters, and 3,000 transport aircraft gliders.

The Allies are deploying troops, and China is also at this time, through a few months of starvation war, Japan's domestic livelihood has withered, the economy has fallen on the verge of collapse, especially without overseas supplies, Japan's military production capacity has been reduced by more than 70%, and the remaining factories have to play hide and seek with Chinese and American bombers like locusts.

The most terrible thing is the serious shortage of grain, Japan was not self-sufficient in grain and had to rely on imports, but since the war of hunger, all of Japan's foreign relations have been cut off, and not a single grain of grain can be brought in. Even fishing boats are not able to go to sea normally, and you must know that seafood plays an important role in the Japanese diet, and now you can only get a little bit of it near the shore, and without ocean fishing, Japan's food crisis will become apparent.

This is only the tip of the iceberg, because China and the United States have put a large amount of Agent Orange, the reduction of Japan's domestic grain production has become a foregone conclusion, with a share of at least 30 or 40 percent, and an unprecedented famine has become inevitable.

The collapse of agriculture heralded the fate of 70 million Japanese, who had to choose between starvation and surrender, although their emperor had already mentioned that they had chosen to starve to death.

In order to continue the war, the Japanese government engaged in the so-called decisive battle on the mainland, and wantonly looted the Japanese people, collecting the last bit of food in their hands, according to the Japanese, food must be given priority to the samurai who are most loyal to the emperor, and must be used where it is most needed.

In other words, those conscripts in the army and militia, only they are entitled to food, and others should starve to death of their own choice at the moment when the nation is in danger, which is what a true Japanese patriot should do.

In order to be able to eat a bite of food, millions of Japanese became soldiers who defended their homeland, and the Japanese could no longer provide them with enough rifles, so they had to learn to kill people with the most rudimentary weapons.

For example, sharpening one end of bamboo to make bamboo guns, such as planting improvised landmines, some women, children, and the elderly also undergo special training to act as suicide attackers, and Japan has also developed a frenzied weapon such as human bullets. In addition, the Japanese government has specially recruited a group of young girls and conducted special training for them, hoping that they will give full play to their beauty and use them to assassinate the Chinese and American armies.

China learned about the situation in Japan through various channels, and found that a large number of people in Japan's major cities were starving to death every day, and there was another important sign, that is, there were opposition forces in Japan, and the Japanese who could not survive began to form their own armed forces to confront the government.

Although the number of these people is small, the fact that this situation is happening in Japan, where the people are everywhere, undoubtedly indicates that the Japanese government has reached the end of its rope. This peach is almost ripe.

The Chinese government has also stepped up the pace of troop mobilization, and the southern part of Korea has hit a large army of millions, more than 3,000 transport ships, and landing ships of various types. A group of people with an unforgettable hatred of Japan were summoned from Korea, Nanyang, and other areas that had been seriously plagued by Japan, and they would act as the vanguard of the Chinese army, and after establishing a stable landing field, these people would be slaughtered against Japan with full of anger. (To be continued.) )