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At this time, even Roosevelt could not help but admire the wisdom of the Chinese, but the British representatives were as depressed as eating flies, and at this time there was bad news in the country

After the sinking of the Hood, the British Royal Navy realized that it had no absolute superiority over the German Navy in terms of capital ships, and in order to ensure the safety of the most important southern route (that is, the route between the United States and the British mainland), they decided to ignore the ravages of German warships on the northern route for the time being, but rely on strong coastal fortresses to hold the English Channel with all their might, blocking the southward path of the German Navy's large surface ships.

However, for the northern route, the British are not completely abandoned, but no longer choose to use capital ships to confront head-on, although the British Navy has suffered huge losses so far, but after all, it has a rich background, especially in terms of light ships It has the first shijie (once surpassed by the US Navy, but after changing to 50 destroyers with the US government, this in and out, the number of light ships in the British Navy has once again surpassed the US Navy. and more than 70 submarines, most of which were deployed on the mainland (mainly because there were far fewer colonies than they were historically), which engaged in guerrilla warfare in the North Atlantic, leaving the German Navy scorched for a while.

If the German Navy dispatches its capital ships, the British Navy's light ships will avoid fighting, and because the widespread use of radar has expanded the reconnaissance range, it is impossible for the enemy ships to catch up with them unless the speed is too different. And the British warships during World War II were generally slow. But light warships are light warships after all, if not faster than the German capital ships (those new warships still have a speed advantage, but the old light cruisers and destroyers are a little slower. ), and at most 1 to 2 knots slower.

During World War II, the quality of officers and men of British light warships was the highest, and when fighting with German warships of the same class, they often shaved each other's bald heads and played 0:X such outstanding results, even if the German navy in this time and space strengthened its training because of the late outbreak of the European war, and the situation was better than in history, it was still far from being comparable with the British, not to mention that the British navy still had an absolute numerical superiority. Once the fight starts. The results are naturally conceivable.

In addition, British submarines have been cruising in the North Atlantic, waiting for an opportunity to sneak up on German capital ships and now more and more German transports. Under normal circumstances, attacking warships with submarines is a very ineffective approach, but since Germany now had a total of two battleships. Among them, the Bismarck was also wounded in the Battle of the Danish Strait and is still under repair. Plus the two battle cruisers of the Shane sisters. There are only 3 capital ships that can be used temporarily, but the total number of submarines on the British mainland is more than 50, even if all of them are sacrificed. The ability to sink or even damage a German capital ship would allow the British Royal Navy to reassert its supremacy in the North Atlantic. However, due to the insufficient number of light warships and the fact that the capital ships were designed for the purpose of breaking diplomatic relations in the ocean, the German Navy rarely brought enough auxiliary ships when sailing like the British, which gave submarines more opportunities for sneak attacks

However, at this time, the German navy took advantage of the bad weather and suddenly attacked the Faroe Islands, a Danish territory under the control of the British, in a storm. Although Britain's radar performance is good, it is still not as advanced as China and Germany in bad weather, until the German battleship "Tirpitz" is less than 20 kilometers away from the coastline, and when the British determined that the target was a German warship, the "Tirpitz" battleship on the 8 381mm caliber guns have already roared, the British defenders on the island suddenly became a mess, and it didn't take long for several German destroyers (because the number of landing fighters was small, Therefore, destroyers are temporarily used as landing ships to avoid slowing down the fleet. An infantry regiment of no less than 3,000 men was sent to the main island of the Faroe Islands

Although the British government immediately sent troops to take over this geographically important archipelago after Denmark was forced to become a client state of Germany, due to the great losses of the British Army in the past few years, it was unable to send too many troops in a short period of time, and the Faroe Islands needed to garrison as many as 17 islands, and the main island with the most garrisons could only have one reinforced battalion, and at the same time, because of the short time, the coastal fortresses on the island had not had time to be built, and although the coastal artillery had arrived, they could not be used, so the defense was actually quite weak. What's worse is that due to the raging storm now, the planes on the island can't take off at all

Under these circumstances, after the German infantry regiment launched an attack on the main island under the cover of the battleship's huge guns, because of its absolute superiority in both strength and firepower, and the German army's combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the British army, it took only an hour to wipe out all the British garrisons on the island, and their offensive was so fast that the island's large airfields and oil depots and other ancillary facilities did not have time to be destroyed. And due to the 17 of the Faroe Islands (the total is 18, but one is a very small uninhabited island. The islands were so close that within the same day, the Germans had completely occupied the Faroe Islands

Then an elite Luftwaffe aviation regiment was stationed, with 125 aircraft of all kinds, enough to pose a mortal threat to British warships in the North Atlantic, and if the Germans built airfields large and small on the other islands, and converted the large airfield on the main island into a real air base, the Faroe Islands would have no problem accommodating 500 aircraft. In addition, Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, could be converted into a military port for the German navy. At that time, under the close threat of the Luftwaffe and Navy, it would be difficult for ships in the north of Britain to go to sea, and the German army, which had completely seized sea and air supremacy, could easily land in Ireland and Scotland, and then Britain would really have to fight as Churchill said in his original speech: "We will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the enemy's landing sites, we will fight in the fields and streets, we will fight in the mountains".

Moreover, after the German army occupied the Faroe Islands, it also cut off the connection between Iceland and the British Isles, and after cutting off supplies, the British army in Iceland with a division would inevitably be in turmoil, and it would definitely be easily taken by the Germans at that time. Once Iceland falls into the hands of the Germans, not only will the north of Britain be more threatened, but also the United States will be greatly hindered if it wants to directly enter the war in the future, because land-based aircraft will not have an airfield (in fact, an airfield can also be built on Greenland, but because of the climate, it can only be used for a short period of time every year, and the cost ratio is terrible low). The Americans would have to fight to the death with the Luftwaffe's land-based aircraft with a limited number of high-value aircraft carriers, and the price would be so great that the Americans would give up their intention of directly entering the war. (To be continued......)