So, when the Battle of Isfahan was not over and the troops on both sides continued to tear apart on the vast plateau, the after-effects of this battle had begun to ferment, but the initial impact of this incident was not the army, nor the German military industrial system, but the navy, which seemed to be unable to fight with eight poles! After some research, the German High Command asked the navy to go to the Indian Ocean immediately after completing the rearmament to provide sea transportation for the Indian raiders, and at the same time look for opportunities to inflict heavy damage on the Chinese navy! In order to plan the operations of the German Army and Air Force in India!

This order came so suddenly that Earl Spee, who was originally preparing to fight with the United States and Britain, was a little overwhelmed! This directly nullified the plans developed by the German Navy. Originally, in another month, the German Navy would complete its rearmament, and then it would use a blockade fleet of submarines and a medium fleet to attack the North Atlantic transport lines. The U.S. and British fleets were then lured to take the initiative, and the main force of the German High Seas Fleet would inflict heavy losses on the opponent on a preset battlefield.

Count Spee believed that as long as luck was not so bad, the German High Seas Fleet would be able to destroy at least four or five aircraft carriers of the US Navy fleet, which meant that the US Navy would not be able to pose a threat to the German Navy for the next year. But now it's a good thing, the Imperial High Command has asked him to fight to the death with the Huaxia Navy first. And then the Atlantic.

"We have no plans to fight the Huaxia Navy at this stage. Now is not the time to do so, and I will not carry out this order. In order to convince the Kaiser and the heads of the air force and navy, Count Spee even flew back to Berlin from Crete. and to present his views to His Majesty the Emperor and other high-ranking members of the army.

"The Navy can't play two opponents at the same time, and the best option is to knock down the weaker one first. After the people disperse, concentrate their forces to deal with the stronger ones. Obviously, compared with China, the US and British navies are at a disadvantage. Moreover, in the Atlantic, the superiority of the land-based aviation of the Americans and the British cannot be brought into play, while we, who occupy the islands of the Atlantic, can use land-based aviation to cooperate with the navy in combat. Why should we give up a low-hanging prey instead of fighting a mighty dragon? ”

"The navy is an important component of the Empire's military power, which means that the navy cannot act in its own interests and must take into account the strategy of the Empire. Now that the Empire is concentrating its forces on attacking India, and at this time your powerful navy is absent, is that good? Without the Navy, who can guarantee the safety of the sea lines of communication? The Chinese Navy has returned to the mainland from the Atlantic, so tell me now. In the absence of a navy, in the face of the strikes of more than a dozen aircraft carriers, how can the security of airfields and important hubs along our coast be guaranteed? Kruger said dissatisfied.

"Give me two months and I can completely stabilize the situation in the Atlantic! Just 2 months! I can make the United States and Britain unable to launch a large-scale attack on the empire in any situation within one year. With this year's time, we can completely divide the winner and loser in India and China. There was a rare hint of pleading in Earl Spee's tone. The marshal had never behaved like this in public since he turned out to be the scepter of the High Seas Fleet.

"Your Excellency the Admiral, on behalf of the Army, I can understand your plan, I believe in Your Excellency's strength, but what if you can't engage the U.S. Navy within 2 months? The UK and the US now ship more than 200,000 people to India every month! The Huaxia Legion can enter India at any time. India is too big. If we attack only from land, it will be difficult for us to threaten the supply of the other side, and eventually our army may fall into a situation where the enemy is fighting more and more, which is fatal to the Empire's Indian strategy! Gluck said it very tactfully. But anyone knows that the Army has no intention of retreating in this regard.

Although earlier, when talking to Rundstedt, Kruger mentioned the importance of the navy in maintaining the army's logistical supply. But it is clear that Kruger's aim is definitely not just on the logistical line. He asked the Navy to do more, and he even wanted the Navy to enter the Bay of Bengal to strike at the convoys and fleets coming from the Strait of Malacca. Otherwise. In the Indian battlefield, it is really possible that the opponent eliminated by the German army has not been replenished by the other side!

India is different from France, and the British Indian colony covers almost 4 million square kilometers of land almost eight times the size of mainland France! Moreover, when Germany attacked France, it was a siege, and this time it could only be expanded step by step from west to east, and combined with India's tragic basic transportation system, Kruger thought that it was impossible to solve the Indian problem in two or three months. Let's not talk about war, it's impossible to drive tanks from the north to the south of India! The battle in India is likely to be a protracted war, so the German army needs the navy to cut off the other side's supplies while ensuring its own supplies, only in this way can the German army have the possibility of victory!

Kruger's words directly pushed Count Spee to the edge of the cliff, and the Count's plan was very well formulated and grasped, but the Count did not dare to guarantee that the battle on the Atlantic would be over for two months. The only thing the count could guarantee was not to suffer, and if Britain and the United States avoided war or even suspended most of the transports, then the German navy could not do anything. And if the army is now using the grand strategy to pressure itself, the navy really has no reason to refuse.

"If it were only to ensure the safety of the sea lines of communication, the navy's aviation forces deployed along the coast would be sufficient to expel the submarines of the Chinese and Allied countries. And the Huaxia fleet has just returned from the Atlantic, they need some time to repair, and Huaxia has a new batch of aircraft carriers about to enter service, and they need a longer time to run in. There should be no thought of large-scale action in the short term. The Navy guarantees the safety of the Indian Ocean shipping routes, but there is no need for the fleet to be transferred to the Indian Ocean. The Count thought for a moment and said.

Didn't you want me to keep the sea lanes safe? I will give you this guarantee now, and as for sending submarines to attack the Entente's route to India, it is also possible to talk about it. Moreover, the earl also pointed out that at this time, the possibility of the Chinese navy entering the Indian Ocean is very low, and in this case, the navy can completely put its forces in the Atlantic.

When the Count said this, the audience fell silent. No one could have imagined it. Count Spee would have insisted so much on his own opinion before the meeting. The Emperor's envoy had already sent a message to the Count, expressing His Majesty's intentions. The latter is on the side of the army, and I hope that the earl can recognize the situation, and everyone will exchange a few words, just one meaning, and hurry up and finish the matter. But who would have thought that the attitude of the naval side would be so tough! Live or die without concessions! This not only greatly surprised the army, but also made His Majesty the Emperor lose face.

Now, it seems that the Kaiser has only two options, the first of which is to immediately remove Count Spee from his post and then force his way through the army's plans. The Kaiser did not fail to think about this method, and the insistence and "unreasonableness" of Count Spee had already made His Majesty the Emperor very annoyed, and in the court, His Majesty the Emperor did not say in front of the palace personnel that he would remove the official title of so-and-so. But this is at most a drunken thought, after all, there is no one in the current navy who can control the overall situation, whether it is Count Luknal or Raeder!

The other option is to adjourn the meeting for a while, and let someone else go to the Count to do his work, of course. There are also some problems with this method, if the Earl of Spee dares not to give face to the emperor and the army, then if he is replaced by someone else, the count will not be able to back down. The current Wilhelm II is really a bit difficult to ride a tiger.

"I propose to adjourn the meeting now, the plans of the General Staff need to be implemented, and the Navy has its own considerations. We still have time to coordinate our own things, and it's not realistic to finalize everything in one meeting. "Just when the air was filled with the smell of deadly gunpowder. The Red Baron's speech gave both sides a step. So, the two sides decisively went down the slope and got off the donkey. The meeting ended abruptly.

"Your Excellency, your statement today is very inopportune, and it is against the entire Supreme Command." The day after the meeting, the Red Baron visited the admiral in a private capacity. And the first sentence to the point made the other party's brows jump slightly.

"Then do I want to thank Your Excellency for giving me a face at yesterday's meeting and not arguing with me on the spot?" The old earl's words were already full of dissatisfaction, giving people a cold feeling.

"I'm here to solve problems, not to keep arguing. The general strategy has been decided before Your Excellency returns, and the navy has little choice. Both the Air Force and the Navy have to serve the strategy, and the strategy now is to occupy India and turn it into our colony. In addition to angering His Majesty the Emperor and his colleagues, I am afraid that the only effect of what you have done is to delay the warplane. The Red Baron said.

"You are the ones who are delaying the warplane! It's the Army, the Air Force, and William! You've disrupted my entire plan, and you may even push everything into the abyss! Doom! Doom! The Count said angrily.

"You only know how to achieve tactical goals and campaign goals, but you don't know what the purpose of war is! Wars do not happen for the sake of fighting, in the final analysis, wars are only an extension of politics and interests, we must know why wars are happening, and at the same time we must know how to end wars! I agree with the Empire's strategy of launching an Indian raid, but this raid cannot be at the expense of weakening the suppression of the British! We can't give Britain a respite, otherwise, today in the Baku oil fields is tomorrow for the empire! Count Spee said bitterly.

"It was precisely in order to avoid this that I agreed with the plan of the army, we must disperse the air forces of the Chinese people, the air battle in Baku was carried out very tragically, and after the start of the Baku air defense campaign, I have already lost no less than 2000 aircraft of all kinds! For the first time, there was a serious negative growth in the number of aircraft of the Imperial Air Force! It is simply not possible to fight like this, so we need the Navy to share the pressure. The Red Baron said.

"Ao, you've been making trouble for a long time, you're trying to find someone to blame!" The marshal finally understood why the Air Force was on the side of the Army, this was normal, the Luftwaffe ran thousands of miles away to fight at the door of Huaxia, it was inferior to the opponent in terms of quality, and it was even a coffee table in terms of quantity, and it was normal to be beaten unwanted. The Air Force was unable to mobilize more troops in a short period of time, so it hit the idea on the head of the Navy, hoping that the Navy's actions in the Indian Ocean would disperse the strength of the Chinese Air Force, especially to relieve the pressure on the Transcaucasia!

"I have a hunch that the end result of your approach may be that neither side is pleasing either. The number of aircraft possessed by the Navy is much worse than that of the Air Force, and even if we go to the Indian Ocean Theater we can play a very small role now, it is impossible for us to go head-to-head with land-based aviation. The Chinese Yunlong bombers and the Chacha Falcon fighters, together with the perfect reconnaissance and early warning system, can completely block the fleet from 600 kilometers away from the coastline! And Huaxia does not have the problem of insufficient troops, I think no matter how poor China is, with half of Asia's land area, hundreds of millions of people and strong industry, it is not a problem to deploy 2,000 Yunlong bombers in India, right? ”

"Even if the Navy goes now, what about cooperating with land-based operations and helping the Air Force share the pressure? The rainy season in India is coming, do you want to end the fighting in a few months? Is it realistic? And when we deploy all our mobile forces in India, British power will be quickly restored with the support of the United States, and perhaps in a few months, your territorial air defense forces will have to deal with strategic bombing in both directions at once! Our only way out now is to suppress the weaker enemy and then concentrate our forces in the Middle East. The Count smiled bitterly.

He now finally understood the cause and effect of the incident, and judging from the indications, it was a dispute over the strategic direction between the army, navy, and air force. But from a practical point of view, this is a serious miscalculation of the strategic situation by the top of the empire! They overestimated the trauma suffered by Britain and underestimated the resilience of their opponents, and in fact, the Count believed that if the German Navy could not inflict heavy damage on the American Navy again in the Atlantic, and continue to put pressure on the transport lines, the United States and Britain would have the ability to bomb the German mainland in three months at most, not to mention how effective it was, at least to distract the Luftwaffe. At the same time, they underestimated the strength of Huaxia, thinking that they could suppress Huaxia first in a few months, which was completely stealing chickens and rice!

Although the Count could sense the mistakes of the German leadership in this strategic adjustment, unfortunately, he had no evidence to prove his reasoning, let alone convince others. His sense of the strength of the Entente was more from the endless convoy of convoys at sea and the formidable speed of replenishment!

"As one of the few sober people, should I rejoice, or should I be sad?" The Count smiled bitterly in his heart. By now, he finally knew that even if he persisted, it would be useless!

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