After entering 1944, the intensity of the Shijie battle suddenly decreased a lot, and there was a stalemate in many battlefields. The first is that Japan and the UAE are currently in a state of no war to fight, they cannot defeat the enemy, and the enemy is equally unable to launch an attack on them, and the two sides can only stalemate like this until one of them has enough to break the balance of Liliang. Although Britain, which is currently in the most difficult period since the outbreak of World War II, was almost in danger of extinction, the scale of the war was actually not large

After the strong rise of the high seas fleet cut off the sea line of communication between the United States and Britain, the mustache thought that it was possible to force the British to submit, and immediately tried his best to dispatch more than 2,000 planes of various types to resume the air raids on Britain that had actually been stopped before, but although Britain was so short of fuel that most of the planes could not take off, the sea of anti-aircraft guns that burst out with all their might caused heavy losses to the German aircraft group, and the air raid lasted less than a month. More than half of the air force units that Germany had managed to squeeze out had already been lost, while the British's anti-aircraft guns had increased instead of decreasing

The mustache, who had no choice but to stop the bombing, soon discovered a new fighter, and after the number of anti-aircraft guns was large to a certain extent, it was indeed possible to ensure air defense without relying on aircraft, but now the sea control was in the hands of the German army, if Britain could take to the air too few planes, and the navy not only had two Prince of Wales-class battleships left with insufficient attack power, but also because of the lack of fuel, they could only retreat into the harbor. Therefore, as long as the attack range of the heavy artillery of the British coastal fortresses was avoided, the German army could directly land on the British mainland under the escort of the navy. Now that the mustache, whose mind is not as sober as it was at the beginning of the war, has completely forgotten one thing, that even the previous battle plan to retake Shetland and the Faroe Islands has been abandoned by him because of the lack of mobile forces, and where does Germany have enough spare strength for a time to fight the landing on the British Isles, which requires more troops?

In any case, the second British landing battle began, and the battle situation was not as smooth as the mustache thought, Britain was indeed unable to send a group of aircraft to bomb the German fleet and transport ships, and even the auxiliary ships, which still had an absolute advantage in numbers, could not go to sea to harass the German sea supply lines due to the lack of fuel, but because of the activity of Tito's guerrillas in the Balkans, most of the German army's small mobile forces were contained, making the German landing force unable to follow. At its peak, the total number of troops was just over 200,000. And on the island of Britain, there are no less than 3 million British troops alone! If we add the US and Commonwealth troops stranded in Britain, the total number is as high as 4 million, and in such a disparity in strength, the superiority of the German army's high quality cannot be brought into play at all

The landing force operated close to the coast (and it was not possible to get close to the most central area of Britain along the coast). Because the heavy artillery of the nearby fortresses was enough to inflict a fatal blow on the German convoy and ground forces. It's fine. Once out of range of the ship's guns, it would quickly be overwhelmed by the Allied sea of men. After one victory after another, the morale of the Allies was rising day by day, while the German army was becoming more and more decadent. In the end, the Germans had to leave more than 70,000 corpses and more than 20,000 prisoners to retreat from the island of Britain, while the Allies and British civilians also paid a huge price of more than 500,000 dead and wounded, but finally won this key battle, Stalin spoke highly of the Second Battle of Britain, calling it "one of the most decisive battles of World War II"

For the British, the Second Battle of Britain not only dispelled the shadow of the country's demise, but also greatly boosted the morale and confidence of the military and civilians throughout the country, so that they could be strong through the most difficult years of their lives. By mid-1944, more than half of Britain's surface ships had been converted to coal-fired power, and although their performance inevitably deteriorated compared to when they burned oil, they at least regained the ability to go to sea to teach the Germans a lesson, and the increasing production of oil substitutes such as coal-to-oil and shale oil also allowed British aircraft and submarines to regain their combat capability little by little. There was an increasing threat to the German High Seas Fleet, which blockaded the British Isles.

In fact, strictly speaking, the U.S. government suspended aid to Britain shortly after losing control of the North Atlantic, so the blockade of the German navy was already difficult to inflict any substantial losses on the Allies. And the U.S. government did this not entirely because it was afraid that its own navy would lose too much, but also because the British could hold on without relying on their own aid.

The reason is very simple, the materials that the United States provided to Britain before were mainly two categories, one was fuel, which was no longer indispensable after Britain chose a new air defense strategy of blasting anti-aircraft guns; The second is food, Britain has killed more than 5 million soldiers and civilians in the war, more than 10% of its total population, which is of course an extremely painful loss, but objectively reduced the British need for food, and the Luftwaffe could not even blow up British industry, let alone agriculture and animal husbandry, which was more difficult to destroy, so the development of British agriculture and animal husbandry was not greatly affected. In addition, the British became more and more able to endure hardships and stand hard work under the tempering of the war environment, so they miraculously achieved food self-sufficiency in such a difficult war situation, so food no longer had to be provided to Britain. Since aid is no longer a necessity and the sea is so dangerous, the Americans will naturally not hold on any longer, but Roosevelt has repeatedly promised Churchill that after a large number of new capital ships have formed combat strength in the second half of the year, he will take out the German High Seas Fleet as soon as possible and resume aid to Britain

After the United States suspended its aid to Britain, it was natural that the intensity of aid to the Soviet Union increased rapidly, even more than doubled before, which undoubtedly greatly increased Stalin's confidence. In September 1944, the main force of the German Army Group South moved south from Stalingrad to seize Baku, the largest oil field in the Soviet Union, and finally returned in vain under the difficult resistance of the two main forces of the Soviet Caucasian Front and the Steppe Front, although the number of Soviet casualties and missing exceeded 200,000, almost double the number of permanent attrition of the German army, but the Soviet high command still regarded this as a great victory, and praised the commanders and fighters of the two major fronts (to be continued......