In this case, Wegener once again bought two aircraft carriers from Japan, and unlike the old models he had bought before, the Shohe and Zuihe were quite satisfactory in terms of tonnage, speed and number of aircraft. With six aircraft carriers and carrier-based fighters equipped with larger-caliber guns to deal with strategic bombers, as long as there are a sufficient number of air defense auxiliary ships, he is fully confident that he will go to the central waters of the Atlantic Ocean to cut off the main shipping routes between the United States and Britain

Although the battleships could not be bought, and they did not dare to hand over to those foreigners who could not be fully trusted, due to the strong support of the mustache who was a giant ship cannonist, a large number of German shipbuilding experts and technicians had rushed to the shipyards in Ukraine to continue to build two Soviet-class battleships and a Kronstadt-class battlecruiser on the slipway, as long as it could be completed, it could fully meet the needs of the high seas fleet. In order to speed up the construction, Wegener even proposed to Mustache that the slightly weaker Kronstadt-class battlecruisers could be abandoned, leaving only the two battleships, and finally got Mustache's consent

In addition, as a result of the lesson, Wegener's first attack on the high seas was farther easterly, leaving him vulnerable to the U.S. mainland and Canadian fleets, which threatened the most. Moreover, at this time, it was already the turn of autumn and winter, and the US airfield in Greenland had been suspended due to the freeze, so the high seas fleet dared to move north, and even the route between Iceland and North America was cut off, and the threat to the British allies was much greater than before.

Naturally, the Allied Atlantic Theater Command will not sit idly by. However, now they can only attack from the British Isles and Iceland, and the size of the aircraft group is greatly reduced compared with the original three-sided attack, and even now with the P-51B/C escort with a huge combat radius, the threat of the long-range bomber group to the high seas fleet is not as good as before, because the high seas fleet is now several times stronger than it was in the beginning, both in terms of anti-aircraft firepower and carrier-based fighters against strategic bombers

Due to the increasing threat of allied strategic bombing, the new large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery shells using the rod warhead quickly became the main type of ammunition adopted by the German army, and the shrapnel splashed by the barrage attack of ordinary large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery shells only made some small holes in the enemy plane, the small steel rods and even the "hinges" that flew out after the explosion of the rod warhead were like knives and saws, which could easily cut off the "skeleton" of the aluminum alloy aircraft, and no matter how large the size of the aircraft was hit by it, there was a great possibility of disintegration in the air. So. The astonishing defensive power of strategic bombers due to their oversized size is gone. On the contrary, because the target is larger, there is a greater chance of being hit by enemy shells, and the loss rate is much higher than that of the escort fighters

The number of carrier-based fighters in the High Seas Fleet is not only much more than last time, but this new carrier-based fighter, known as FW190F, has been replaced with a high-powered aircraft gun with a caliber of 30mm and is equipped with armor-piercing incendiary bombs, which has greatly increased the threat to strategic bombers. Although it was slightly inferior to the enemy's escort fighters when engaging them. However, there has been a qualitative improvement in combat efficiency

And it's worth mentioning. Wegener, who had suffered a loss once, is now more cautious and will no longer rely on the earth to confront the enemy from two directions at the same time, once the AWACS plane discovers that there are too many enemies. Although the speed of the warship is far inferior to that of the aircraft, the patrol position of the AWACS aircraft is at least 200 kilometers away from the mothership, and the large detection range of the AWACS aircraft makes it entirely possible for the fleet to evade it in time.

Moreover, once there is a noticeable change in the position of the fleet, even if the enemy's reconnaissance planes or early warning planes can keep up with them, the enemy's attack aircraft group will inevitably change course and thus increase their range.

Although the Allies did not abandon the attack because of the fuel problem because of the increased combat radius due to the special lack of bombs, the voluntary retreat of the German High Seas Fleet still put the Allied commanders in a dilemma. If you give up the attack, won't so much fuel be wasted? You know, it's not the price of cabbage in the United States, it's the fuel that was shipped to Iceland and the United Kingdom at great cost! Moreover, this kind of long-distance flight will greatly drain the physical strength and energy of the pilots, and after a battle, they will have to go back and rest for at least a few days, and if they give up, the enemy will be able to return to his original position within a day at most to continue the unfinished work, and then the Allied command will have to send other pilots to perform the same task.

If this continues, the Germans will not have to pay any price, they will be able to make tens of thousands of Allied pilots and crews exhausted but have nothing to gain, not to mention whether Britain's already very fragile fuel supply can be supported, and more than half of the strategic bombers and thousands of advanced P-51B/C fighters will be scrapped, let alone the continued strategic bombing of Germany, and whether the security of the British Isles and its surrounding islands can be guaranteed is doubtful

Naturally, the Allied command chose to let the British Isles attack alone, only to be defeated by the terrible anti-aircraft fire of the German High Seas Fleet and the blow of more than 500 German carrier-based fighters, in which more than 700 Allied aircraft were shot down by the Germans, while not a single capital ship of the German High Seas Fleet was sunk or heavily damaged. The Allied Atlantic Theater Command, unwilling to give up, made another attempt, only to lose even worse, and the submarine attack also ended in failure, and the numbers of personnel and equipment losses soared like a fly, but no meaningful results were achieved other than to deplete the ammunition of the High Seas Fleet and make it return sooner

Under the tight blockade of the High Seas Fleet and the German submarine forces, the situation of the material reserves of the British mainland, Ireland and even Iceland becoming more and more obvious is becoming more and more obvious. As fuel reserves declined, it would be nice for Allied planes to barely protect the British mainland, and for a while they were no longer able to launch strategic bombing on the Western European continent, but as a result, a few months later, Germany quickly repaired the facilities damaged by the air raids, and industrial production was not only fully restored, but also increased, and the huge costs paid by the Allies in the previous strategic bombing were almost all in vain (to be continued......