"Thankfully, the French surrendered early, otherwise we would have had a meeting in this ruin today." Wander through the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. Kesselring said with some smugness.

"As long as you can send us up, in a few months, you can celebrate our victory at Buckingham Palace, the British." An army general next to him said with a smile. In the end, Wilhelm II relived his grandfather's former glory, even more than what he did after the Franco-Prussian War! Although the coronation could not be held again at Versailles, Wilhelm II airlifted the entire German hierarchy, and from that moment on, Paris would become the general command of the German attack on Britain. Wilhelm II personally commanded this large-scale campaign. And named this battle "Emperor Offensive"! The leisure time before the meeting was beautiful and at the same time short, and after a few words of greeting with familiar people, with the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor, the final plan of the Emperor's offensive will be finalized in a few hours! The prelude to the Battle of England is about to begin!

Before the meeting officially began, the Red Baron and his subordinates frowned slightly as they held the battle sequence list that had just arrived. On the face of it, the Luftwaffe did put together 25,000 combat aircraft of various types for air strikes against Britain, and Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Spain also put together 10,000 planes on paper. This document was presented to the Kaiser and received his approval and appreciation. But when the popular baron got the copy of the document, he found out that it was boring! There may be 35,000 planes on paper, but the actual number of aircraft that can be used and the quality of the crew will probably be discounted!

"The attendance rate of the Condor Air Force and the Imperial Air Force is certainly not up to the standard on paper, and the former has been responsible for the Army's ground support operations. During the Battle of Toulouse, they were counterattacked by the other side, and the losses of ground support were relatively large. The intact rate of fighters can be about 8 percent, but the pilots can only guarantee 7 percent at most. They were supposed to be transferred back to the rear for repairs, but the General Staff nevertheless included them in the attack echelon. As for the Imperial Air Force, even more so, they fought with the American and British air forces from the beginning of the war. Whether it was the beginning of the strategic bombing, or the later air battles of the Bay of Biscay and the Battle of Saint-Nazaire, they have always been fighting on the front line, although the Imperial Air Force has 1,800 aircraft of all kinds, but I estimate that after a long period of attrition, no more than 60% of the crews can be used. It certainly doesn't have a 90% uptime rate on paper. Kesselring whispered. As a front-line Luftwaffe high-ranking officer, he naturally knew a lot about the situation of the various air armies.

"In that case, what about the need to call up these aviation forces from the General Staff and include them in the operational sequence? They're supposed to be resting. Didn't you make it clear in the report? Looking at his confidant and beloved general, the Red Baron is not too accusatory, but the dissatisfaction in his words has been exposed.

"They're already resting, and under normal conditions they should be able to recover as fast as they are on the table, but in reality, we are seriously short of spare pilot resources. The plan developed by the General Staff after receiving the report was based on past experience and rules. They don't understand anything that is too specialized. And the Kaiser demanded that they had to put together enough air fleets, so they had to do that. Major General Garland has moved on to Air Force training and training. He once told me that we were throwing the future of the Air Force. Kesselring's words were also full of helplessness.

After two estimates, Richthofen had a rough estimate of the Luftwaffe corps in his hands now, and 25,000 aircraft could indeed be scraped together. The General Staff did not lie about this, after all, it is easy to produce aircraft. The assembly line in Germany can fully meet the needs, but the available pilots are probably more discounted. It would be nice to have 22,000 of the 25,000 aircraft on standby. Among them, there are some newcomers who have just come out of aviation school and have never been on the battlefield! Faced with this situation. Richthofen was even less optimistic about the prospects, and he now preferred the Navy to be as they say. Completely isolate Britain, and only in this way can the Air Force have any hope of victory!

As a result, the Red Baron, who had received the inside information, had to readjust his plan, but at this time, to his surprise, his plan would have to be revised in the next few days. Because his plan only took into account the presence of some moisture in the Luftwaffe, but did not take into account the great shrinkage of the Allied air forces! The French campaign was within the acceptable range for Germany, but for a country like Austria-Hungary, the heavy attrition of the French campaign was close to the limits recognized by the country. The Luftwaffe was probably more than 2.5 times the size of Austria-Hungary. However, in terms of battle losses, the Austro-Hungarian air force accounted for more than 40% of the total losses of the German and Austrian air forces.

In addition to combat losses, this is which. Scrap due to mechanical failure or other causes is several times higher than that of the Germans. This fully exposes the weakness of being a third-class power. In the face of such heavy losses, Austria-Hungary, which had to import high-performance engines from Germany, naturally could not hold on, so the so-called shrinkage rate of 10,000 Allied aircraft can be described as amazing! According to Richthofen's later estimates, the most usable aircraft is no more than 6 percent! Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

The strategy set by Deutsche Space this time is to win every step of the way, first cutting out the British defenses, and then focusing on cities, industrial facilities and transport hubs! After the baptism of the French campaign, the Luftwaffe also realized the limitations of strategic bombing, although the aircraft can easily cross hundreds of kilometers, but the difference between bombing a target 500 kilometers away and bombing a target 1,000 kilometers away is not ordinarily large. If you bomb the former, you can drop 100 tons of bombs with less than 25 HE177 bombers. The loss rate may only be 7%! To attack targets in depth, it may take 50 HE177 bombers to achieve the same output, and in the face of multiple interceptions by the opponent, the loss rate may be as direct as 15%. The Germans have limited capital, and they must make good use of the resources at their disposal. Moreover, the British capital was not far from France, and if the Luftwaffe attacked London, the British would have to fight a war of attrition with the Germans here.

"Remember, the first target of our strike was the British Air Force. The second target is the Air Force of the British, and the third is the British Air Force! Our blow to them must not end until the RAF is history! Airplanes in the sky, airfields on the ground and aircraft factories. None of the radar stations and command centers can be spared! In the end, the Red Baron chose a more pragmatic tactic, and as many as 30 elite units of the Air Corps were deployed to a system of bases stretching from France to Germany, and the whole of southern Britain would be the first target of the Germans! The largest strategic bombing in history is about to begin!

While the Air Force was carefully calculating the capital at hand, in the next room, the bigwigs of the Imperial Navy were also considering future battle plans. At the beginning, Count Spee said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "As long as I fight with the Huaxia Navy again." Then the High Seas Fleet is really complete, and he has fought with all the naval powers in the world in his life. The value of a soldier has been fully realized! This somewhat peculiar and somewhat humorous opening line caused everyone to burst into laughter. But Count Spee knew that he was not easy, and that the German Navy's worst enemy was about to appear!

"Judging from the current situation, Huaxia's aircraft technology level is the highest, we and the Air Force have suffered the loss of the Cascha Falcon in the Bay of Biscay, this aircraft is really a miracle, from the beginning of the Iran war to the present is the best, it can really be described as an evergreen. I used to ask about the relevant technical departments. Can the Navy be provided with a more advanced aircraft. And the answer of the technical department is no, because our engine technology has entered a bottleneck period, and it is difficult for the liquid-cooled engine to go up after reaching more than 1400HP, and it is difficult for the BMW 801 to have a big improvement after reaching 1700 horsepower, so in the next year, we will not get a better fighter. Raeder's words cast a shadow over the minds of those present at the beginning of the meeting.

"But from the current point of view, it is unlikely that the Shicha Falcon will be on the ship, except for the British. Both the Chinese and the Americans are accustomed to using air-cooled engines on carrier-based aircraft, and we may not be under as much pressure as the Air Force. In terms of quality, the other party may have a slight advantage. And in terms of numbers, I think we can at least match each other. And we have an advantage in the combination of carrier-based aircraft, we have a large number of twin-engine attack aircraft with guided weapons, while neither the Huaxia nor the Americans have any, and to tell you the good news, our second Caesar-class battleship has already entered service. In the next month, you can join our battle sequences! Then Raeder brought another piece of good news. And with this news, the originally somewhat dull venue was lively again, and after understanding its own basic plate, the German Navy began to study its own future strategy.

Before the Count of Spee and his party came to Paris. The German High Seas Fleet had already arrived in Sardinia and was preparing to move to the west coast of France, unlike in history, because of the stubborn resistance of France in this plane. Moreover, with the help of the United States and Britain, although they still lost in the end, they turned many places into a scorched earth, and the original port facilities of France were beaten. The Germans were forced to carry out emergency repairs to the port in order to accommodate the large Allied fleet. In the end, the German High Seas Fleet chose the central French port city of La Rochelle as the new support point of the Allied Navy in the Atlantic, because the place was less destructive and far away from the British mainland, and it was not afraid of reconnaissance and bombing by the British in three days. It's a little safer.

If you want to make a plan, you must first make a prediction of the other party's actions. Overall, the German Navy's dismantling of diplomatic relations during the French campaign was quite good, with wolves in the deep sea besieging convoys that lacked escorts. And by camouflaging the cruiser to relay information and get supplies. When the Allies began to escort the war, the Germans regained the initiative to break the engagement with their air cruisers. And when Raeder led the main aircraft carrier into the ocean, it was directly finalized, so that the Entente escort force suffered a serious blow, and even had to cut the volume of some routes! But as the situation keeps changing. The Germans now had to face a completely new situation, and their existing strategy had to be changed.

"On the whole, with the fall of France, the situation of maritime transport in the Entente countries did not worse, but improved. According to the estimate of the Admiralty, because there is no need to support the French Army in combat, and there is no need to keep a large number of land units in Europe, the monthly transportation volume of the Entente countries is about 4 percent lower than that during the European war, which means that the Americans can completely transport through the Panama Canal and the North Atlantic route, and the former South Atlantic transportation line can be completely abandoned. Said the Count of Luknal. The Entente could concentrate all their escort forces in the North Atlantic, and perhaps even use their main fleet to clear the way. ”

"Things may be worse than we imagined, at present, the Chinese Navy has at least 6 fleet aircraft carriers stationed in the United States, in this way, after the American aircraft carrier formation plus the French and the Chinese fleet, the total number can reach the scale of the original Atlantic War, plus some aviation technology advantages, then the other side is likely to take the initiative to seek war! The Chinese Navy is a very proactive navy, starting from their predecessor, the Beiyang Fleet, until the Saipan incident in World War I, they have never been afraid of challenges, they are good at looking for opportunities in the changing situation, and striking the opponent in maneuver! We must always be ready to fight another tough battle! Count Spee asked his assistant to take out a chart.

"Due to the bombing campaign of the Air Force, the Allied convoy could only be unloaded in Northern Ireland and northern England, so my blockade line was to be extended from France to Greenland! Normally, this blockade will be entrusted to submarines and aviation cruisers. If we find a large Allied fleet dispatched, we will choose a suitable position to fight the opponent. As the Red Baron said, at present, the German High Seas Fleet is facing a lot more risks than the Air Force, it seems that the more than 20 aircraft carriers of the High Seas Fleet are mighty and domineering, but only 2,000 aircraft can be pumped out.

You can take advantage of maneuverability a few times, but land-based aviation can inflict heavy damage on you if you find an opportunity! So Earl Spee will never choose to fight the Allied fleet close to the island of Ireland, God knows whether the British Lancaster bombers are equipped with guided weapons, if there are, these terrible 4-engine big guys are much more terrible than the twin engines on German aircraft carriers!

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