Chapter 676: Operation Typhoon: Argo Airborne
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The Battle of the Atlantic, which later historians called the largest naval battle in human history, finally won a brilliant victory for the United Nations fleet led by the Chinese Empire at a very small cost.
The main forces of the High Seas Fleet of the Third German Reich suffered a crushing defeat in this naval battle with heavy losses. If it weren't for the three consecutive days and three nights of storms that prevented the pursuit of the Chinese Imperial Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, the High Seas Fleet would probably have been wiped out.
Only Hansen escaped all the way back to Amsterdam with a dozen scarred ships, while the other German fleet led by Hines lost its way in the storm, they were not as lucky as Hansen. When the storm ended, they found that their Chapter 675 Typhoon Operation Argo Airborne was already in the North Atlantic.
The Guanghua Emperor, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, was almost sunk by the German fleet, which was undoubtedly a great shame for the Imperial Chinese Navy to drop a grain of shit in the feast of brilliant victory. ββ
The battleship Guanghua the Great staggered back to Scapa Naval Base for repairs, and the Chinese Imperial Fleet, in retaliation against the German Navy, pursued the High Seas Fleet all the way to Amsterdam, besieging Hansen's fleet in the Amsterdam military port.
When the storm was over, the Hines ship Shan Gen was quickly spotted by reconnaissance planes of the Chinese Empire.
Not long after, the 675th Regiment of the Imperial Chinese Navy fell into passivity and encirclement.
For the United Nations, the great significance of achieving victory in the Battle of the Atlantic was not how many German warships were sunk, but the smooth implementation of the subsequent counteroffensive on the European continent Operation Argo Airborne in Operation Typhoon 675.
Germany lost its sea supremacy and was no longer able to interfere with the combined European landing operations from the sea. This put the Germans in an extremely passive position, because the coalition could carry out a landing operation from any place and concentrate superior forces to break through. However, the German army could only defend passively, and the battle line was too long, and the situation of tight forces suddenly became apparent. ββ
At the same time, the entry of the Chinese Empire into the war brought about a dramatic change in the balance of power between the two camps of the Allies and the United Nations.
This was mainly reflected in the two countries of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire. The population of the Chinese Empire is 5 times that of Germany, the mobilization capacity for war is 20 times that of Germany, the total economic output is 10 times that of Germany, the steel output is 2.5 times that of Germany, the oil reserves are 50 times that of Germany, the aircraft manufacturing capacity is 450 times that of Germany, the shipbuilding capacity is 20 times that of Germany, the combat vehicle manufacturing capacity is 270 times that of Germany, and the production capacity of guns and ammunition is 150 times that of Germany.
In short, in terms of combined strength, the strength of the entire Allied bloc was also inferior to that of the Chinese Empire.
Against this backdrop, Nazi Germany, led by Hitler, has switched from offensive to defensive.
After all, Germany has been fighting for five or six years, and the war has cost Germany nearly two trillion dragon coins and more than three million troops.
But it was the end of the Atlantic War that hit Nazi Germany and the Allies hardest. ββ The Allies lost their High Seas Fleet, which meant that they could not block the attack of the coalition from the sea. The worst effect was that there was a panic within the entire Allies, no one thought that the Allies could defeat the United Nations, and even many high-ranking officials of the German army were secretly paving the way for themselves, they were well aware of the strength of the Chinese Empire and did not think that Germany could win.
Similarly, the German population was disappointed and anxious about the destruction of the High Seas Fleet.
This psychological effect was fatal for Germany and the Allies, because from then on they lost their fighting spirit and their combat effectiveness declined even more.
As the forces of both sides diminished and the strength of the two sides weakened, the outcome of the war gradually became clear.
Hitler, however, felt that he would not sit still. He also had a final straw, which was the nuclear weapons program and missile program that he had spent tens of billions of dragon coins on development.
Hitler, despite Germany's extremely tight finances, still prioritized the development of nuclear weapons.
In particular, in the face of the strong demand from the German Navy to rebuild the High Seas Fleet, Hitler remained unmoved, halted all warship construction plans, and transferred all funds to the nuclear weapons project. ββAt the same time, the steel of the battleship was removed to support the army's steel consumption.
In a way, the Nazis have come to the end and are making a last-ditch effort.
On the other side, the Chinese Empire won the Battle of the Atlantic. This is undoubtedly a great joy for the members of the Chinese Empire and even the member states of the United Nations.
Although Li Dingxin almost lost the battleship Guanghua Emperor, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire severely investigated the responsibility for this, and even prepared to replace Li Dingxin. However, unexpectedly, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, issued a special decree to exempt Li Dingxin from punishment by the General Staff and let Li Dingxin continue to serve as the joint commander-in-chief.
The joint seizure of sea supremacy provided the prerequisites for the next European landing operation.
On the one hand, the joint commander-in-chief, Admiral Cai Yi, ordered the naval blockade of Amsterdam and trapped Hansen's fleet in it and could not get out, and on the other hand, began to deploy landing operations.
At this time, Cai Ye had already decided on the landing site in his heart. ββ That is, to carry out a landing campaign in the area of Lower Normandy.
For this landing operation, Cai really prepared a lot of work and devoted himself to it.
The coalition forces have mobilized 40 divisions with a total strength of 3.08 million troops, including 1.6 million in the army, equivalent to the entire army of the Chinese Empire at the end of the 20th century. From June 24, 43 to mid-July, a large-scale landing operation was planned in the area of Lower Normandy.
The entire landing operation was highly valued by the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao. Wang Chenhao even talked to Cai Ye on the phone once a day, and many plans were suggested and commented by Wang Chenhao.
For this landing operation, the Chinese Empire and the member states of the Great Chinese Federation, the United Kingdom,
Free France and other major United Nations countries provided 250,000 vehicles and 1 million tons of various supplies, most of which were funded by the Chinese Empire, accounting for 90% of the total. Of course, at this moment, only the Chinese Empire has this ability.
However, before the official start of the Lower Normandy landing operation, Cai Ye also directed a landing operation that seemed to be true and false, in order to confuse the German army.
On June 20, Cai Ye dispatched the Second Detachment of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the Second and Third Fleets of the British Royal Navy, a total of 148 ships, to launch an offensive operation in the Strait of Gibraltar to cover the beach-rushing landing operations carried out by the 9th Marine Division of the Imperial Chinese Marines and the 3rd, 17th, and 18th Divisions of the British Army.
Although the combined forces are not large, the battlefield is in Spain, and the combat effectiveness of the Spanish army is very low, and it cannot resist the attack of the powerful naval and air forces of the coalition forces at all.
Although Hitler did not believe that the Allied forces would carry out the main attack in the direction of Spain, he had to divide his troops to reinforce them, after all, once the Spanish direction was lost, the Allied forces would soon enter France through Spain, and then threaten the security of Germany itself.
The German army made a slight adjustment in the direction of Spain, because of the limited number of troops, the German troops who reinforced the Spanish battlefield were only more than 50,000 people, in fact, they could not quench their thirst from far water, and they could not play much role.
Cai Bang saw that the Germans did not mobilize more troops to Spain, so he launched another tentative landing operation in Upper Normandy.
This time the Germans were nervous, and Hitler judged that the Confederation would carry out a landing operation in Upper Normandy, so he ordered Army Group Paris to quickly move closer to Upper Normandy.
But Cai's real purpose was to attract the attention of the German army's general reserve in the Paris theater, and when the Germans were staring at the battlefield of Normandy, an airborne division composed of Eurasian people wearing German uniforms quietly carried out airborne landing in the Argo area under the cover of the strategic air force of the Chinese Empire.
Located between Normandy and Paris, the Argo region is an open plain area suitable for mechanized troops to fight. Surrounded by the three major military towns of Paris, Rouen and Amiens, Argo is located at the intersection of the triangle, which can be described as a dangerous place.
The German high command is well aware of the powerful airdrop capability of the Chinese Empire, and the German high-level military has repeatedly studied and strengthened precautions against the Chinese Empire's airborne troops. However, the German commanders did not think that the Chinese Imperial Airborne Forces would dare to carry out airborne landings in the Argo area, because the yellow-skinned Chinese were easily recognizable, and the Germans could easily mobilize heavy troops from Paris, Rouen and Amiens and destroy them directly.
But Cai Ye dared to do so. Because he has a secret weapon in his hand, a plan that the Chinese Imperial High Command has been plotting for more than twenty years, that is, a white army with Chinese roots.
The 101st Airborne Division is an ace unit in the Imperial Chinese Airborne Corps, which has never been made public in the Imperial Chinese Ministry of Defense before, all because the airborne division is composed of white people of Chinese descent. The reason why the Chinese empire covered up their existence was to wait for the day when they would be sent to the European battlefield to achieve the tactical effect of taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared.
The day has finally arrived.
In the early morning of 22 June, more than 1,000 Flying Fortress strategic bombers routinely bombed the three military fortresses of Paris, Rouen, and Amiens. Because it was a frequent bombing operation, the Germans did not suspect it, but only prepared for air defense operations.
The 101st Airborne Division was caught in the middle of the bomber group. When the Air Force launched a large-scale bombing, all the officers and men of the 101st Airborne Division smoothly carried out the airborne operation in the Argo area under the cover of the darkness of the night and the roaring explosions.
The entire airborne operation was completed in half an hour, but the Germans were unaware!!.