In order to deal with the threat of Germany, Britain mobilized a large number of aircraft carriers to the mainland, and also frantically started to build aircraft carriers.

The Royal Navy now has eleven aircraft carriers, including the first light aircraft carrier built by the United Kingdom, the Athletic, which has a displacement of about 10,000 tons and can carry 20 aircraft.

The two Brave-class aircraft carriers, namely the Brave and the Koeihao, are both remodeled from battle cruisers, similar to the situation of the Japanese Akagi, with a maximum displacement of nearly 30,000 tons and capable of carrying 48 aircraft.

These three aircraft carriers are all early models, but after that, there was a Sino-Japanese naval battle, the latest generation of aircraft carriers at sea, finally began to show a hideous side, the British suddenly realized that they had fallen behind, you must know that China's starting point has more than seventy carrier-based aircraft, one aircraft carrier is equal to two of the British, which the British Empire can never agree.

In the following days, Britain began to build aircraft carriers despite the decline of national strength, and Britain first built the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, but at this time China's first aircraft carrier Zhenyuan had been launched, and Britain once again felt that its thinking had fallen behind.

Therefore, Britain gathered its best engineers to design a new generation of Brilliant-class aircraft carriers, and a total of four ships were built together, namely the Brilliant, Victory, Terrible, and Indomitable.

This is the largest number of first-class aircraft carriers currently in service in the UK, but the British have made a fatal mistake again, they believe that the traditional aircraft carriers are too weak, so they focus on strengthening the defense capabilities, and the British have added armor to the flight deck and hangar.

However, after the heavy armor was installed, the aircraft carrier's carrying capacity was greatly reduced, to only 36 aircraft, and the Chinese side gave a very low evaluation of this type of aircraft carrier. The weapon of an aircraft carrier is an airplane. Moreover, in terms of positioning, China regards aircraft carriers as offensive weapons.

If the aircraft carrier wants to ensure safety, it should use the aircraft to actively sink the opponent, if it waits until the opponent flies on its head, then the aircraft carrier is finished, no matter how thick the armor is, can it still surpass the battleship?

In addition to the eight aircraft carriers mentioned above, the situation in Europe is becoming more and more serious. The British refurbished an earlier aircraft carrier, the Fury, with the addition of island-style buildings. A less than 20,000-ton Unicorn, capable of carrying thirty-six aircraft, was built, and the British also had an Eagle, which was originally built for Chile and was not completed due to World War I. The warship was converted into the USS Eagle.

The number of aircraft carriers in the British Navy is mostly the top in the world, but China's evaluation of this force is that it is large but not strong, with many warships but not sophisticated, chaotic models, and worrisome combat effectiveness.

Looking at all the British aircraft carriers, only the Ark Royal can reach 70 carrier-based aircraft, the rest are generally around 30, and China's latest Ningyuan and Jingyuan carrier-based aircraft can easily exceed 90. Almost one aircraft carrier can top three of the British.

In addition, due to the large number of aircraft carriers. It is necessary to share more frigates, and to consume more supplies. This is a huge burden, of course, Britain also has to consider the treacherous sea conditions of the Atlantic, but it is also worth the loss!

This time, in order to aid Norway, Britain sent seven aircraft carriers to form a huge fleet, including four Radiance-class aircraft carriers, HMS Ark Royal, HMS Fury and HMS Eagle, and the rest of the aircraft carriers are guarding important areas such as the Strait of Gibraltar, which is already the most powerful lineup that Britain can send.

The British Royal Navy was based in the Shetland Islands near Norway, protecting a large number of Anglo-French troops from northern and central Norway to land and defend the country, but the speed of the German advance was too fast, and by the time British reinforcements arrived, the main German army had broken through the central belt and pointed to the north, and the focus of the British and German battles became Narvik in the north.

The British army, with the help of air superiority, carried out a focused attack on the German paratroopers, and a large number of German soldiers lost their lives, but they still fought tenaciously to buy time for the main force.

The British Navy made a big move, and the commander-in-chief of the German Navy, Dönitz, had already learned the situation in advance through a reconnaissance plane, and Dönitz knew very well that this was the moment that Germany had been waiting for, and whether it could completely shake Britain's maritime supremacy was in this battle.

In fact, since the German Navy had an aircraft carrier, Dönitz was thinking about how to wash away the shame of World War I and completely eliminate the British Royal Navy, Dönitz and Hitler knew very well that Britain's greatest hope was the Royal Navy, as long as the Royal Navy was defeated, Germany would win more than half.

Germany currently has only three aircraft carriers, which seems to be no match for Britain, but if measured in terms of the number of carrier-based aircraft, Germany is no less than Britain, Bismarck and Tirpitz have more than 80 aircraft, and Munich can also reach 70, in addition, because Germany occupies most of Norway and can also get the support of shore-based aircraft, Dönitz is full of confidence in this battle.

It was a German turnaround, with Dönitz personally commanding three aircraft carriers from southern Norway and heading north along the coast to meet the British navy, a scene similar to the Battle of Jutland during World War I, in which China was involved.

During the First World War, it was the desperate efforts of Germany instigated by Qiao Yu that caused Britain to suffer heavy losses, and this time China's influence on the German Navy was even greater, Germany's aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft pilots were all helped by China to train, and Germany's submarines raging in the Atlantic Ocean also imitated China's wolf pack tactics.

It can be said that throughout the world, China and Germany are the pair of countries that know each other the most, and this time it can also be seen as the Chinese Navy and the British Navy competing again.

The British side has also been paying attention to Germany, and when they learned the news of the German Navy's dispatch, the British aircraft carrier group also changed course and headed southwest, so that they could avoid the German shore-based bombers to the greatest extent and effectively deal with the German Navy.

The North Sea is far less vast than the Pacific Ocean, but under the current circumstances, it is still relatively difficult to discover the fleets above the vast sea, and both sides are actively reconnoitring each other's traces, and in the contest of aircraft carriers, they can be the first to discover each other's traces, which will have a decisive impact on the war.

At this time, London and Berlin were a little dreary and depressing, the air seemed to be stagnant, and the current Prime Minister of Britain was still Neville Chamberlain, and the old gentleman was now feeling exhausted.

He signed an agreement with Hitler in Munich, ruthlessly betrayed Czechoslovakia, and then sacrificed Poland, the old guy did everything he could, he had given the green light to German expansion, and he was waiting for Germany and the Soviet Union to die.

But at this point in the script, Germany no longer acted as Britain had hoped, but turned the spearhead to Western Europe, and it was only at this time that the British suddenly realized that they were not adequately prepared, and that the troops of the three services were in a state of slackness, far inferior to the war machine that Germany had fully mobilized.

Members of the British House of Commons have launched a no-confidence motion against Chamberlain, and the old guy knows that his career as prime minister is coming to an end, and in the most undignified way, but there is nothing he can do, and now Chamberlain's only hope is that the British Royal Navy can defeat the Germans and save his last face.

Britain and Germany are trying to find each other with carrier-based aircraft, but the first to spot the enemy ship turned out to be a German submarine, which was supposed to go to the Atlantic Ocean to attack the British route, but just happened to run into the huge British aircraft carrier group.

The captain quickly reported the news to China, and Dönitz soon received the information, and he immediately dispatched carrier-based reconnaissance planes to search for them, and at the same time ordered the aircraft carrier to be ready for battle.

They were the best of all the German pilots, Hitler attached great importance to naval aviation, so in addition to flying skills, they had to be pure-blooded Aryans, all indicators met the requirements of the Nazis, so that they could be selected into the naval aviation, and then after rigorous training under the Chinese pilots, they were able to adapt to the harsh sea conditions of the North Sea.

Now it was finally time to fight for the German feat, the position of the British fleet had been roughly determined, the three German aircraft carriers against the wind and waves, increased their speed to the fastest, and one after another planes loaded with bombs and torpedoes rose into the air, forming a huge group of aircraft to pounce on the British Navy.

At the same time, the British fleet also discovered the German Navy, the British carrier-based aircraft also took off, and the two naval fleets began to attack each other outside the line of sight, which is very different from the First World War, the battleships that were originally glorious have been put in a secondary position by various countries, and the aircraft carrier is a well-deserved hegemon at sea!

The gap in aircraft carrier technology between Britain and Germany was evident at the beginning of the war, although Britain had seven aircraft carriers, but the number of carrier-based aircraft was not dominant, and what was worse was that it was more difficult to coordinate command, and there was no doubt that it was much slower in speed.

Most of the German planes have been lifted into the air, Britain has not yet fully mobilized, the Nazi warhawks flew over the vast sea, fiercely rushed towards the British, the British planes hurriedly responded to the battle, and the planes were constantly shot down by the Germans easily, several of the German fighters broke through the British blockade, and threw deadly torpedoes at the aircraft carrier Fury at the outermost part of the entire formation! (To be continued.) )