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After the war, Mesozoic officers such as Wegener and Raeder took on the important task of rebuilding the German navy, and during this period, Wegener continued to advocate his theory of taking the initiative to attack and attack the enemy's key points. Therefore, when Raeder was reinstated as director of naval education in July 1922, he immediately used his power to "disinfect" Wegener's influence, and the conflict between the two was further intensified.

Raeder was an old-fashioned staff officer, principled and collectivist. Like all the best people produced by the General Staff system of the Second Empire, he admired the highly trained elite and opposed the destruction of order...... Wegener, on the other hand, is flamboyant and sharp, and it seems that he has always struggled to find a haode balance between intelligence and behavior. Thus, as soon as Raeder surpassed Wegener's ranks, the former began to use his personal position and influence to openly suppress Wegener's strategic theories and isolate his old friend in the navy.

On March 1, 1923, Wegener was promoted to rear admiral and began his duties as chief of naval gunnery, at the age of 48. At that time, there were only four vice admiral positions in the German Navy, and the competition for promotion to vice admiral was extremely fierce. In 1925, Raeder had been promoted to lieutenant commander of the Baltic base, and under his activities, Wegener gradually became a loner in the navy

In 1926, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Cenkel, asked Wegener to retire. making room for young people; The latter was isolated and had no choice but to express his approval. In this way, the most talented staff officer in the national navy retired from the military at the age of 51, and eventually reached the rank of vice admiral. Two years after his retirement, on October 1, 1928, at the age of 52, Raeder became commander-in-chief of the national navy

But in this time and space, because of the secret cooperation between China and Germany, Wegener's life ushered in a major turning point. The Far Eastern Fleet is a dagger hidden in the eyes of the mustache ready to stab the enemy, and their task is only to attack. Therefore, the commander of the Far Eastern Fleet must be an admiral who advocates offense. At the same time, the Far Eastern Fleet was not small, so the commander's ability and prestige must be enough to convince the public, and there was no more suitable candidate than Wegener. And Wegener and Raeder are on the same page, in the eyes of the mustache. This was a good thing for the German Far East Fleet, which led Raeder's long run. For any dictator. They don't want to be too huddled below, Raeder's influence in the home fleet is too great, and the mustache can't interfere too much for the time being. But in the Far East, where Emperor Tiangao was far away, it was completely different.

As a result, Wolfgang who once thought that he would never have a future again. Wegener regained his chance, but soon after he arrived in China to take up his post, Wegener found that the commander of the Far Eastern Fleet was not easy

In Wegener's Jihua, the emerging aircraft carrier was one of the two keys for Germany to avoid the weakness of the weak naval foundation and challenge the powerful British and American navies, so after the completion of the Zeppelin, he called Berlin several times, asking for more aircraft carriers and auxiliary ships to be built in China and the mainland, but due to the hostility and obstruction of the naval aviation by Air Force Commander Goering, in the end the mustache only agreed to ask China to convert a battle cruiser under construction into an aircraft carrier.

What makes Wegener even more distressed is that although with his efforts, German aircraft designers and manufacturers have designed a carrier-based modification of the FW190D fighter based on the latest land-based FW190B fighter, and because of the special requirements of the carrier-based aircraft in the process of developing the FW190A carrier-based fighter, this FW190D fighter, which was completely independently designed by the Germans, can be called an excellent carrier-based model in all respects, and is no longer as disappointing as the original BF109. But because Goering threatened the German aircraft manufacturer, "Whoever dares to build planes for the Navy will not want to receive orders from the Air Force in the future!" As a result, not only has the FW190D carrier-based fighter not been put into mass production to this day, but they do not even dare to equip the Far Eastern Fleet with licensed Chinese production

In addition, Wegener knew that capital ships alone were not enough, so he hoped to entrust Chinese shipyards to build some more auxiliary ships such as light cruisers and destroyers, so that the carriers and battleships of the Far East Fleet could be protected sufficiently, but Raeder refused to allocate funds on the grounds that the Admiralty was short of funds, and in fact, if it were not for the high hopes of the mustache for the Hindenburg-class battleships, he would have even wanted to withhold the money

As a result, under the trouble of these two aspects, the German Far East Fleet, although it had the most Haode carrier-based pilots and first-class naval officers and men on Shijie, could only attack the Japanese after the outbreak of the Pacific War, which was obviously unbearable for the arrogant Wegener. For this reason, he did not hesitate to risk offending the Japanese, and skillfully used a Japanese aircraft group that was responsible for the main attack in Jihua, so that the German carrier-based aviation became famous in World War I. But this kind of cleverness can only be played once, even if the Japanese are dumb and can't say what they are suffering from, they will never be fooled again, so what should the Far Eastern Fleet do in the future?

The Far Eastern Fleet is like Wegener's child, in order for this child to thrive, he can abandon the pride and self-esteem he has always had, and after confirming that his boys under his command are indeed super strong in the Battle of the Coral Sea, Wegener finally made up his mind

Wegener's decision caused an uproar in the German Navy, and Raeder angrily denounced him as a "traitor" and a "disgrace to the Navy", because Wegener actually sent a telegram to the mustache requesting that the Far East Fleet be included in the Air Force formation, on the grounds that "since the Navy can have aviation, the Weishenme Air Force cannot have a fleet?" The Reich Air Force is strong and the Navy is weak, and it is up to the Navy to cooperate with the Air Force, not the other way around, so I ask the Führer to agree to put the aircraft carrier group under the Air Force in order to better coordinate with the land-based air force"

The reason why he had been unable to get along with the Far Eastern Fleet was not because he had a grudge against Wegener or the Far Eastern Fleet, but purely because of his pathological desire for dominance in the air and his reluctance to see the appearance of Liliang in the air outside the Air Force, but after the Far Eastern Fleet was incorporated into the Air Force, all this was no longer a problem (to be continued......