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(Dingtian Novel House.)" Führer, let's send the Navy to fight in the English Channel! ”

Rudolph told Hitler that the Chinese Empire had deployed 12 Aegis ships and electronic combat ships in the English Channel, which could detect Hail missiles launched by the German Army and bombers of the Luftwaffe, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of the air attack on Britain, and that these 12 warships needed to be destroyed. Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗(.) And the only one who could destroy it was the German High Seas Fleet.

Hitler was also well aware of the war situation in the English Channel, but he was worried that he would release the High Seas Fleet, and once it was surrounded and attacked by the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the equipment and combat effectiveness of the German High Seas Fleet would not be able to compete with the Imperial Chinese Navy, and it was very likely that the entire army would be in danger of being annihilated.

Although Hitler knew that he would lose sea supremacy by keeping the German fleet at the naval base all the time, his mentality of avoiding war and protecting the ship made him very cautious, and he did not want to send the high seas fleet. ╔╗

"Is there no other way?"

Rudolph shook his head. Hitler sighed, and nodded in agreement. He knew very well in his heart that Rudolph would not lobby him repeatedly on this issue if there was any way.

In this way, the German Navy's High Seas Fleet received the Führer's highest order to prepare for operations in the English Channel.

By the end of July 1943, the German High Seas Fleet had a total of 54 battleships, including 21 super battleships, 23 fast battleships, and 10 battle cruisers. 22 heavy cruisers and 56 light cruisers. 212 destroyers, 115 submarines (not counting Dönitz's submarine fleet). Other than that. There are also 44 converted escort aircraft carriers of the German Navy.

Due to the large-scale bombing operations carried out by the Chinese Imperial Air Force in tens of thousands of bomber sorties against major German ports and important shipyards, two-thirds of the warships under construction of the German Navy could not be completed on time because of the destruction of the dock, and even destroyed in the dock together, resulting in the inability of many new main battleships and aircraft carriers of the German Navy to be launched, which greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the German Navy. ╔╗

At the same time, the German war machine had been operating for more than five years. Steel was the main expendable of the war, even though Germany used state monopoly to control production and consumption. But it was not enough to support the war attrition of the German army.

Before 1942, Hitler's dictatorship had brought Germany's steel production to its peak. However, as the German army was mired in the Soviet battlefield, the two battles of Moscow and the two battles of Stalingrad caused heavy losses to the German army, and the continuous bombing of important industrial bases on the German mainland by the Allied air forces, Germany's steel production fell sharply. After 1942, Germany's steel consumption could no longer meet the steel consumption of the German army, navy, air force and factory construction, and the gap was 300,000 tons of steel and 1.1 million tons of iron that year. By the end of July 1943, that figure had climbed to a deficit of 2.2 million tons of steel and 5.7 million tons of pig iron.

And with the continuous large-scale bombing of the German mainland by the Strategic Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Empire. A large number of German steel plants were damaged. ╔╗ The population has plummeted, there is a lack of capital, and the ore supply and steel production have fallen exponentially and rapidly, and the situation is very unfavorable for Germany.

As a last resort, Hitler ordered the eleven ultimate battleships under construction to be cancelled and the steel to be dismantled for the production of tanks and cannons. Soon, the German aircraft carriers under construction also became the key bombing targets of the Imperial Chinese Air Force. The German Navy was forced to abandon a dozen aircraft carriers, which were already two-thirds completed, and dismantled steel for the construction of submarines. The submarine forces of the German Navy were also transferred to underground caverns. Avoid being attacked by the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

When the German Navy received the order to go to battle, their morale was not very high. The German Navy was well aware of the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy. In particular, some time ago, the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire had already made the German Navy full of embarrassment, and the main surface fleet of the Chinese Empire was a winning fleet.

The news that the German navy had sailed out of the port of Kiel and was heading for battle in the English Channel was soon grasped by the Chinese Empire. Although the German side kept this highly secretive, since the First World War, the number of men in European countries has dropped sharply, and a large number of young European women have gone to the Chinese Empire under the influence of the policy of introducing European brides implemented by the Chinese Empire, and since they married Chinese men, the Chinese Empire has cultivated millions of people of mixed race from the East and West in the more than 20 years after the First World War, of which more than one million Germans have joined the army, and more than 1,000 of them have infiltrated Germany to engage in espionage activities by the special training of the Central Intelligence Agency of the Chinese Empire. ╔╗The Chinese Empire's intelligence network in Germany operated for nearly half a century, and many high-ranking German officials were pro-Chinese elements, enabling the Chinese Empire to obtain a large amount of German confidential information.

The German navy went to the English Channel, which was the happiest thing for the Chinese Empire, because they were racking their brains to find an opportunity to fight the German Navy in a decisive battle with the capital ships.

The United Nations Command quickly convened an emergency meeting, which was attended by the commanders of the major fleets of the Imperial Chinese Navy, as well as the naval chiefs of Britain and France.

Because the U.S. Navy is very weak in the Pacific, it is not even as strong as the navies of the Republic of Lanfang, Singapore, and the Republic of Australia. As the Chinese Empire entered the war, countries such as Lanfang, Singapore, and Australia also joined the war, and although their naval forces were not strong, they were still a significant force. ╔╗

The Navy of the Republic of Lanfang has a six-six fleet, that is, six battleships and six cruisers. More than thirty destroyers, six submarines and one light aircraft carrier. Singapore, for its part, has four cruisers, seventeen destroyers and two submarines. The Australian Navy had two battle cruisers, two heavy cruisers, three cruisers, twenty-two destroyers and seven submarines.

Although the capital ships of the three navies were basically the warships eliminated by the Chinese Empire after World War I and were converted and upgraded before they were handed over to their navies for service, it may seem older to participate in the decisive battle of the capital ships, but it is more than enough to cooperate with the joint landing operations on the west coast of the United States and provide naval and air force fire cover.

In addition, the navies of Chile, Argentina and other countries are also very strong, and they are also controlled by the Joint General Command, and they can be transferred to the west coast of the United States to participate in the war at any time.

In this way, the Pacific Theater does not need the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy to maintain order at all. Therefore, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire transferred the main force of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic Ocean, where it joined up with the Atlantic Fleet of the Chinese Empire, and waited for an opportunity to engage in a decisive battle with the main fleet of the US and German navies, so as to seize sea supremacy over the east coast, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea of the United States, and cooperate with the joint attack on the United States and the counterattack on the European continent.

In view of the fact that the European Allies were already on the verge of scarcity of resources after a long period of war, the Imperial Chinese Joint Chiefs of Staff had lost 100% of the demand for rubber, 60% of the demand for cotton and wool, 32% of the demand for oil, 37% of the demand for iron sand, 24% of the coal (of which 90% was coke), and 20% of the grain had become unavailable from the Allies and had to rely on imports from abroad (mainly the United States).

After the Chinese Empire officially entered the war, the sea trade routes between Germany and the United States were completely blocked, and the import of strategic materials and industrial raw materials that Germany urgently needed was hit hard. The Chinese Empire decided to strike at its vital point, stifle Germany's economic potential and the production of the military industry, and hasten the process of victory in the war.

Out of this idea, in addition to using submarines, surface ships, and other forces to carry out operations to break diplomatic relations at sea and block all possible supply routes to the Central Powers, the Chinese emperor also organized and carried out systematic offensive mine-laying operations to blockade Germany's ports and shipping routes and achieve the goal of sabotaging sea transportation.

Of course, the mine-laying blockade of Germany's major ports was only one part of the Chinese Empire's strategic control over Europe. For the Imperial Chinese Navy, the minelaying of major German ports was in the hope of trapping the main force of the German Navy in the harbor, or making it impossible for the German Navy to return to the port to rest and recuperate, so as to achieve the goal of seizing sea supremacy.

When the main fleet of the German Navy sailed out of the port of Kiel, the Imperial Chinese Navy immediately began to move, the main fleet began to approach the English Channel, and the submarine fleet went to the major ports of the Central Powers with mines to lay mines, so as not to give the German Navy a chance to enter the port to rest or take refuge.

However, this time, due to the joint plan to carry out a landing operation on the west coast of France, the elimination of the German high seas fleet became the most important thing before the landing operation, so the United Nations Air Force soon joined the minelaying operation.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Imperial Chinese Empire authorized the joint commander-in-chief of the Western European Theater of Operations, Admiral Cai Ng, to preside over the formulation of a plan for the blockade of Western Europe by mines, and Cai Ng, who foresaw that the blockade would deprive the German Navy of food, fuel, and ammunition supplies and use "starvation" as the campaign codename.

After the Chinese Empire entered the war, Hitler was worried that the German Navy would be completely annihilated by the Chinese Imperial Navy, so he ordered the German Navy to withdraw from the North Atlantic to the mainland out of the mentality of protecting ships. In this way, the navies of the Chinese Empire and its allies seized the initiative.

Long before World War I, the British Navy had made the blockade of the German Navy in the Baltic Sea its main strategic objective. Now the British Navy is not capable of blockading the German Navy, but they have the experience to cooperate with the Imperial Chinese Navy to carry out a blockade war against the German Navy again.

The Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the British Royal Navy conducted high-intensity anti-submarine operations in the North Sea and the English Channel for half a month. The United Nations naval aviation carried out large-scale bombing of the ports where the German Navy submarines were located, such as France, the Netherlands, and Norway, destroying a large number of submarine production and maintenance facilities, and forcing the German Navy submarines to move into underground caverns. The Sino-British Joint Fleet dispatched hundreds of surface ships and submarines to conduct large-scale anti-submarine operations against German, Italian, and Spanish submarines in the North Sea and the English Channel, destroying hundreds of Allied submarines, and basically removing the threat of German submarines to the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )