Chapter 486 turns

Hannah was also not aid in reducing the post-war tonnage of the Navy to half that of Great Britain, and now the greatest threat to Germany was the Soviet terror of armored clusters to the east. Halfway through 1945, the historical Soviet-German war was over even at this time. After such a long dormant development, Hannah also did not know how many 10,000 T34 tanks the crazy Stalin piled up in the country. It was inevitable that Germany would have to divert the vast majority of its military spending to the army.

On the issue of the ratio of the Anglo-German navy, Hannah's bottom line was actually lower, and she even decided to reduce the tonnage of the navy to less than 40% of the British so that more military spending could be freed up for the army. It's just the lowest bottom line she hides in her heart, and she won't say it to the British, and it's convenient to control the float in the future.

Moreover, after 1941, the German Navy has deliberately slowed down the speed of equipment, and the total tonnage of warships in service is only about 60% of that of Britain, and the number of warships under construction is even smaller than that of Britain. The era of aircraft carriers has arrived, and the era of missiles has also been revealed. After the war, if Germany wanted to drastically reduce its navy, the first thing to do was to attack the four battleships in active service, and it was actually very easy for Germany to reduce the size of its navy. In Hannah's plan, the Shane sisters, who had played a major role in the One Year War, were the first to deal with. If possible, she would love to sell the Gneisenau to China. In the future, when too many aircraft carriers will be dismantled, Hannah's other expected buyer is Italy, but the poor Italians may not be able to come up with much money at that time.

In the process of rapid reconciliation between Britain and Germany, another German expression of "goodwill" was the covert return of five British submarines captured during the one-year war to Britain as a "gesture of goodwill". During the One Year War, the German Navy sank and captured a large number of British submarines. Nineteen British submarines were captured throughout the war.

After the end of the war. Since the Germans themselves had too many submarines, these British submarines were very frustrated, and the supply of spare parts was a big problem. To dispose of these submarines, the Germans cheaply sold one to the "old friends" Norway and the Finns, and two to the Italians on the basis of oil-for-warships. The Soviets also bought one for research, and at the same time sold five to the Japanese for the price of scrap iron to pit the Americans.

Of the remaining nine, four of the older ones were dismantled, and the five of the best performing ones were mothballed due to their newer condition, while new buyers were sought internationally. The Germans originally wanted to sell these submarines to China, but due to the lack of parts and accessories for British-made submarines, the accessories were in trouble, and now China's naval equipment is mainly based on the German route. Unwilling to add another British brand to bring maintenance troubles -- after a year of war, German-made submarines were also being sold all over the world because of the large number of them, and the Chinese side bought German submarines.

Now that Britain and Germany began to be friendly, the Germans returned the last five British submarines in their hands to Britain as a sign of "Anglo-German" friendship.

In 1945, there were two other naval powers in the world that could claim to be presence, one was the Soviet Union and the other was Italy. As for the French Navy, poor French. Now there was only one Richelieu battleship, as well as three "antique" battleships. As for the battleship Jeanbar, which had only one fort completed, France was divided in two by Hannah's clever use of redness, and the main industrial base was in the north and south France was unable to complete the rest of the work. The ship was eventually leased by the Americans in 1943 at a high price, and instead of adding the remaining turrets to the ship, the Americans took advantage of the large platform of the ship and piled a bunch of anti-aircraft guns on it. Use it as a large air defense battleship.

As for the Soviet Navy, in 1945, the Soviets owned two battleships, two battlecruisers and three aircraft carriers, in addition to several "antique" battleships left over from the tsarist era. In addition, a fourth aircraft carrier is under construction. After completing the militarization of the Soviet Red Army, he "unexpectedly" received a big gift from Hannah - the Icelandic naval base, and Stalin's "Red Navy" feelings were also provoked.

During this period, the Soviet Union also built battleships and battle cruisers for many reasons. The first is that Germany "enthusiastically" helped the Soviet Union build ships, and the second is the fantastic performance of the German Navy during the one-year war, which made Stalin miscalculate. And Hannah's "conspiracy", the Icelandic military base leased to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Red Army's forcible "lease" of an area of 50 kilometers on the east coast of the Strait of Dardania by taking Turkey lightly in the one-year war, the passage of the Red Navy of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet into the Mediterranean Sea was also completely opened.

"Tranquility on the Western Front," the completion of the army's armaments, and the international strategic environment are very good, how could Stalin not increase investment in the navy under the situation of many "favorable" situations.

At the beginning of the Holy Impact, the Soviets finally understood that the aircraft carrier was the king of future naval warfare, but the two battleships and the two battle cruisers in their hands had been completed or were about to be completed, and they could only admit that they had invested the wrong money. During this period, the Americans, who lacked battleships, had the idea of buying Soviet-class battleships, but Stalin, who was accustomed to taking advantage of people's danger, asked for too high a price, and the Americans themselves had a plan for the construction of the Montana-class, and in the end they still did not negotiate.

In 1945, the overall strength of the Soviet Red Navy had surpassed that of the Italian Navy, but due to the special geographical environment of the Soviet Union, its main naval force was divided by the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.

If it were possible, the Linhan family would very much like to pull the Soviets into the water and participate in the siege of the Americans.

But neither Hannah nor Artoria dared to bet everything on Stalin.

Stalin was an extremely shrewd and cautious man, and his favorite thing to do was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight to seek the greatest benefit for himself, and in history, even to fight Finland, he had to make a deal with Germany, and it was completely unrealistic to ask the Soviet Navy to go around half the world to fight the Americans in the Pacific Ocean -- in fact, even if it was Germany, Hannah's ability to transfer the German Navy to the Pacific Ocean to wage war with the US Navy met with a lot of opposition within Germany. Many Germans also couldn't figure out why they shed blood for the British, and wouldn't it be better for Britain and the United States to fight against Germany from across the strait?

Only a few people with strategic vision supported Hannah's point that the United States was so powerful that if it did not take advantage of this last opportunity to inflict heavy damage on him, the British and Germans would be overwhelmed by the Americans on the oceans for the next hundred years. If it weren't for the Hannah's mother and daughter's other identities, the prestige of "Hitler" would be unstoppable in the Germans. This British-German-Japanese trilateral alliance in the Pacific Ocean could not be formed at all.

As for Italy, the last country that "reluctantly" qualified for the Pacific naval battle. After the end of the one-year war, Italy's domestic economy has not improved, and no new large warship has been launched into service, and it can only continue to serve with one vote of old ship repairs, and the only two aircraft carriers it has are still German goods, and all of them are escort aircraft carriers. One was an escort aircraft carrier that Germany "sent" to Italy before the one-year war. The other was mortgaged by the Germans after the end of the war under an oil-for-warship agreement. The Pacific theater has long been the era of aircraft carriers, and these "bathtub fleets" of the Italian Navy are just jokes when they are pulled to the Pacific Ocean.

In the face of the increasingly terrible US Navy, in the first half of 1945, in addition to co-opting the Germans and finally determining through negotiations that Japan, Britain and Germany would join forces against the Americans, another blatant thing the British did was to snipe at the United States in the financial market.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States issued a large number of war bonds around the world. After the outbreak of the Battle of Guam. Although the US Navy was completely annihilated by the Japanese, the huge industrial strength of the United States was there, and when the US Congress launched a huge shipbuilding plan, the sales of its war bonds sold to the whole world were very optimistic, and everyone was very confident that the United States would win the final victory in the war.

After the Holy Shock began, when the world discovered that Americans were enemies of the "gods", the US Treasury began to fall.

But after the second half of 1944, one after another Essex-class aircraft carriers and "Weekly Carriers" poured out of the slipway. Once again, the world's confidence in the United States is soaring.

But around New Year's before 1945, people in the British financial industry were hinted at by the government. Began selling Treasuries on the New York and London stock exchanges, while shorting the dollar.

Then, with the "gathering of the three gods", Britain and Germany openly showed their support for Japan, investors and speculators around the world once again stopped looking at the United States, and some shrewd people even thought of the Russo-Japanese War. At that time, the whole world joined hands to trap Russia. It's just that this time, the object of everyone's pit has changed from Russia to the United States.

Since then, the dollar has been falling.

In times of war, the fall of the dollar and US debt is definitely not a good thing, and for several years. As a result of the increasingly polarized policy of the United States, political and religious persecution has intensified, and the outflow of domestic capital has become more and more serious. And these situations are hollowing out the roots of the big tree of the United States little by little.

In 1945, after the attitude of Britain and Germany towards the United States became clear internationally, the situation in South America, which was regarded as the backyard of the United States, also changed.

After the end of the war in Europe in 1941, the United States, instigated by the pen bought by Lin Han, took advantage of Britain's weakness and took advantage of the prestige of the "world's first navy" in a vain attempt to replace the British pound as the settlement currency of world trade.

However, this policy was finally abandoned due to the joint resistance of several major powers. But in the process, the United States persuaded the three South American powers: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, to agree to settle their trade in dollars. In the years that followed, the United States increased its investment in South America, especially in Brazil, and its construction of steel plants in Brazil became a sign that Brazil would later move away from the plantation economy and embark on the road to industrialization.

However, after 1945, the economic and trade exchanges between the United States and the three South American countries also began to encounter difficulties.

After the "gathering of the three gods", all three countries invariably sold dollars in exchange for other countries' currencies. For the United States, which is being sniped by the old Europe's joint efforts in the financial market, this is simply a tragic incident of a house leak and overnight rain. However, due to the current terrifying strength of the US Navy, the heads of state of the three countries still have some brains and do not dare to openly abandon the US dollar settlement in international finance and trade, but they have already tested the attitude of the United States through various means and want to end the current state of using US dollars to settle transactions.

In the financial industry, it was sniped by various countries, which led to a sharp drop in the international exchange rate of the US dollar, and the consequences were very serious. In 1945, although the United States could produce almost all the world's commodities, it was also inseparable from importing raw materials and some commodities that it was not good at -- such as steam turbines and boilers made in Britain, transistor radio stations made in Germany, and various rare ores imported from South America.

The depreciation of the dollar has made it even more expensive for the United States to acquire these resources. Fearing the defeat of the United States, these countries often do not want dollars when they trade with the United States, but instead require the United States to use hard currency such as gold or other equivalents.

The war between old Europe and the United States began quietly in the financial markets at the end of 1944.

In 1944, the Americans received information in the Pacific that since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the British had been increasing their defense efforts in the South Pacific, especially in Oceania. Among them, the British spent great strength on the island of New Guinea. Enter the island of New Guinea and its surrounding islands, large and small, and build relevant land facilities and settlements in those plains, suitable for rake cultivation and habitation.

Not only New Guinea, but also many islands in northwestern Australia, such as Timor-Leste, which were snatched from the Dutch, have also increased their investment here.

The place where the British are investing the most is in Australia. They invested in steel mills, aircraft factories, tank shops, and by 1945 Australia was able to produce many military supplies, including Spitfires and cruisers.

After the war between the United States and Japan in the Pacific, the British became increasingly afraid of the annexation of Australia by the United States at war. Increasing investment in Oceania and increasing its self-sufficiency in weapons is of great significance to ensuring Australia's security.

And inside the British high house, another wild idea now, it was Artoria who put forward it, moving the core of the British Empire from Europe and moving to Oceania.

Now, under the guise of the "American threat theory", it is convenient to cover up the transfer of some domestic industries to Australia.

The plan to move Britain to Oceania was a bit of a fantasy, and Artoria's wild idea had many supporters among the British upper class. In contrast to the United States, where the United States is now in full swing, many of the elite in the upper echelons of Britain are as aware as she is of the fact that the single bed in Europe is too small to be crammed here anymore. Jumping out of the dirty quagmire and moving the core of the country to Oceania, a large island in the middle of the ocean, is the way out for the future of the British Empire.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, at the beginning of 1944, at the suggestion of Altoli, an alternate novel was published in England entitled "If Napoleon Landed in England". (To be continued......)