Chapter 1416: China and Germany
"Isn't it a little early for us to go to war now?" After Qin Yue glanced at the memorandum of the meeting handed over by Xu Jie, he said with some hesitation. Since the end of the Iran War, Qin Yue has directly served as the chief of the General Staff of the Air Force, and this time Xu Jie agreed to send the Air Force to assist the Entente countries first, but the specific plan must be formulated through the Air Force General Staff, and how to mobilize that force will be mobilized will be completed below.
"To be honest, it's a bit early, and I wish the Entente and the Allies were both defeated, but time is running out. The situation at sea has changed, and the situation in Europe is already very unstable. Xu Jie smiled and said. Although his tone was flat, he told Qin Yue that this matter had been decided!
"The situation at sea is not good, why are you looking for the navy, what are you looking for me?" Qin Yue's eyes were a little strange, and he muttered in his heart. However, he would not say this kind of thing, but obediently took out some of the information of the aviation units that Huaxia could mobilize recently, and asked the latter to make a final decision.
"Well, I know your doubts, and here I will explain them to you. Our help is to make it impossible for Britain to die, so that the war can continue, not to say that the Germans will be solved once and for all, and we have no strength or intention to do so. All we can do now is to improve the environment in the United States and Britain so that they can take some positive action. Okay, that's it, hurry up and handle this matter, you call Su Mo in later, I have something to say to him. Xu Jie said that Qin Yue still didn't understand a little. Well, but the above speaks, he only executes. After going out again, he called Su Mo in by the way.
Compared to Qin Yue, who was a little confused by Xu Jie's order, Su Mo was the real trouble. At least the former is not life-threatening, and Summer will soon be in Europe. Participated in the Allied fleet, and the position was the Chinese naval commissioner to the Allied countries. It's going to be battle. If you're unlucky, the result will be unimaginable. Judging from internal channels, the Entente countries that have been pushed to the end seem to be planning to fight, this time the opportunity is rare, Huaxia must send people to see the German routines and actual combat effectiveness, and prepare for future battles, and Su Mo, as the best aircraft carrier commander of the new generation, naturally needs to go to the battlefield to actually learn.
In fact, Huaxia had been pushing the Entente and the Central Powers to engage in a decisive naval battle, after all, Huaxia would have to face the German fleet sooner or later. Before that, it is undoubtedly a good choice to let the Entente consume a wave of the other party, of course, from a strategic point of view, the Entente is also the best choice at this time, if you give up the opportunity to fight last and choose to retreat, once the Allies rely on the French base on the west coast of nearly 20 aircraft carriers, it will be difficult for the Allied transport ships to send supplies to Britain, so after Cunningham put forward a proposal, both Nimitz and Pound agreed to this plan, which also made Xu Jie feel very pleased!
Now everyone is about to jump into a trench. So the necessary help is naturally indispensable, so Xu Jie's first round of support to the Entente is to send 5 Shicha Falcon Air Wings to Europe, to give a shot in the arm to the already exhausted Allied Navy's land-based aviation force, and the combat effectiveness of 500 P51 fighters is definitely not weak. After being replaced with Huaxia's new liquid-cooled engine, the performance of this batch of past Shicha Falcon fighters is close to that of P51B, and the performance can suppress FW190A! At the same time, Xu Jie gave a fuse to the Allied fleet. With the P51B's okay range, when the Allied fleet was being chased by the other side, it was running all over the streets. This air force still has a chance to save their lives!
Xu Jie was also deeply afraid that the Americans would not know the meaning and throw these precious fighters into the frontal battlefield like a meat grinder. It is also specially added that this is a unit of naval aviation, which has very rich experience in naval operations, and if the Allied navy has a major operation, if Huaxia is notified one week in advance, Huaxia can urgently transfer about 2 wings of planes from Vladivostok to go over, and the specific route has been thought of, go directly north, then turn east to Alaska, and then fly all the way to the east coast of the United States! This oil burned, Xu Jie was moved by his sincerity! I don't know if the No. 100 aviation gasoline is worth a lot in this era!
As for the valuable aircraft carrier formation, Xu Jie still has no intention of dispatching now, almost after the Allied fleet and the Allied fleet fight together, the Huaxia Atlantic Fleet and the American fleet will fight side by side to reopen the North Atlantic route. The main naval force entered the Indian Ocean and launched an attack on the Ottoman Empire at any time with the Chinese Army in northern Iran. Before it can completely tear its face, Huaxia also needs to withdraw all the personnel within the Confederate countries, and this work will take time.
Just as China was preparing for war, the Germans also felt the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air. Judging from the Chinese embassy in the Allies and some of the things that have been done recently, Huaxia will eventually go to the opposite side of Germany! The Germans knew the power of Huaxia, and once Huaxia completed its war preparations, it would definitely have a subversive impact on the war situation. "From now on, we have at most half a year to solve the problems of Europe, and if we fail to seize this last chance, then we will be the enemy of the most powerful alliance in the world, and France and Britain must die!" At the emergency meeting of the Supreme Command, Wilhelm II's tone revealed a sense of determination, and there was a hint of fear hidden in it! This time Germany is in even more trouble than in the First World War!
"It seems that our plan is going to be advanced, the mission of the Raeder fleet in the South Atlantic has been accomplished, and the rest of the tasks will be handed over to the submarine, I need him to bring the fleet back intact. What do you think? At the end of the meeting, Count Spee asked his student, Count Lukner, for advice, and he now wanted to follow up as soon as possible. Although he knew that it would be better to delay for a while, judging from the letter of thanks sent by the army, the Allied army in France was already in short supply, and the role of Raeder's fleet could not be ignored. If there were no external causes, Count Spee agreed that Raeder should continue to fight in the south, but now, the Kaiser had spoken. The plan of action of the German Navy is to be accelerated!
As Cunningham inferred, the German fleet deployed throughout the South Atlantic was already strong. No one would ignore the combat effectiveness of these warships and the more than 300 aircraft of various types carried on them, if the Germans wanted to come out and do a fight with the Allies. Then the Raeder fleet must be brought back, and in this case, the crisis of the southern route will be automatically resolved. Of course, those annoying submarines remain.
"Actually, it could have been a little later, General Raeder's fleet has not yet run out of supplies, and the new wave of reinforcements from the Americans has not yet gone south, which is somewhat in conflict with the division plan we began to develop, and we have struggled to achieve a tactical victory, and we cannot convert it into a strategic victory. There are always some unwilling, and the air fleet that we replenish the Raeder fleet is ready, as long as the battleships are transferred to the field, there are no major losses in the main battleships, and the replenishment speed will be very fast. Count Luknall said.
"Raeder's fleet will stay in the Atlantic for another week at most! It's a death order! I'll get the confidential officer ready to send the report immediately, okay, all that's left is to prepare for the fleet sortie, kid, the most critical moment is coming. For the sake of this battle, we must learn to give up something. His student's answer made Count Spee a little embarrassed, and after some hesitation he relented.
After returning to the island, the German Navy was in full swing. With the exception of the Raeder fleet, the remaining fleets have almost completely rested and replenished, and it can be said that their combat effectiveness has reached its peak. And to the surprise of the German Navy. The Kaiser, the lead ship of the Caesar-class aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of more than 40,000 tons, has finally been completed at the German Navy's Mediterranean shipyard in Crete. And the training tasks were quickly completed, according to the current schedule. The Caesar can be put into battle before the decisive battle breaks out, this aircraft carrier can carry about 3 squadrons of twin-engine aircraft, if you simply talk about the amount of firepower, the service of a Caesar-class aircraft carrier will not increase much combat effectiveness, but the key is that the various electronic warfare aircraft and reconnaissance planes on it have greatly improved the soft confrontation capability of the German Navy, so that the German naval aviation has an electronic warfare force that can accompany the attack of the air group.
The Germans had a total of 19 fleet aircraft carriers (including the Austro-Hungarian fleet), and the Spaniards had not yet decided whether to participate in this decisive battle, which made the Germans very dissatisfied, but as compensation, Spain was willing to increase the army and air force stationed in France, and the Allied fleet almost continued the initial deployment, and the entire fleet was divided into 4 detachments, and the newly commissioned Caesar-class aircraft carriers were directly allocated to Count Spee. In addition to this there will be 7 aviation cruisers (including the remaining 3 aviation cruisers of the Kranker fleet. The Germans equipped these ships with aircraft, and a total of 26 aviation warships will have more than 2,200 carrier-based aircraft of all kinds! Among them, the proportion of FW190 aircraft is as high as more than 6%. The remaining 2 percent are JU90 torpedo aircraft, and about 10% are twin-engine aircraft!
Although the Germans saw the formidable combat potential of twin-engine aircraft, the number of twin-engine aircraft in the German fleet was not very large, subject to aircraft-carrying carriers. It's more about undertaking various support tasks. Of course, there were also twin-engine bombers with guided bombs in them, which were to be used as a killer weapon for the Germans at the last critical moment to completely destroy the main warships of the opposing side. In order to ensure the safety of the aircraft carrier fleet, Germany and Austria have come together nearly 100 destroyers and small warships of various types, and many of these destroyers are equipped with centimeter-wave radars with relatively good performance and deployed on the periphery to be used as radar sentry ships. In addition to this, there were 2 dozen cruisers of various types and 1 dozen battleships to guard the left and right.
In addition to these main fleets, the Germans also equipped the fleet with a large number of non-combat auxiliary warships, such as various oil tankers, tugboats, and hospital ships. One of the most special ships is the camouflage ship known as the target in the German Navy, this kind of ship is actually a camouflage aircraft carrier changed from a large civilian ship, with a huge flight deck on it, and some wooden planes are arranged, these warships are fake targets, waiting for the other party to take the bait, because the speed is slow, so the German high seas fleet has 5 targets are organized into a separate team to act, which can attract the opponent to attack naturally, if not, the loss will not be very large.
In addition to the preparation of the naval fleet, the land-based aviation units under the German High Seas Fleet also began to move, to be honest, except for the attack on Corsica, the pressure on the German Navy's land-based aviation regiment was not great, and it can even be said that the German and Austrian air forces did not exert all their strength in the war against France, and the Luftwaffe and naval aviation, which had always had spare strength, had been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to completely push away the opponent in a wave, and the air force had already overstretched the Allied air force in Europe through long-term attrition. And the preparation of the Navy has been completed. Just before the fleet made the final preparations before departure, the 3 air corps of the German Navy began to maneuver towards Spain, Portugal and the islands on the outskirts of the Strait of Gibraltar!
Hundreds of planes maneuvered to these places every day, and naturally it was impossible to conceal the intelligence networks of the Allied countries in the local areas, and such a large-scale movement would not only be carried out by the planes, but also by other units that provided maintenance and support for the aircraft. The movement of a large number of ships and people immediately saturated the capacity of certain ports and transit stations! According to the intelligence sent by the intelligence system, the Americans finally realized that the other side was ready to move! This time it's not a small fight like in the South Atlantic! This is a sign before the dragon of the High Seas Fleet goes to sea!
The Entente found that their actions had to be brought forward, and the American and British fleets began to assemble from various ports to the front, and carrier-based aircraft units, which had been used on land as air reserves, began to return to the carriers. But at this time, an accident suddenly appeared, and the commander of the French Navy, Darlan, suddenly put forward a proposal at this juncture to ask the French fleet to go out to deal with the Raeder fleet in the South Atlantic, which made the American and British officers feel very surprised and dissatisfied!
"What the hell do the French want to do? The one who made such a proposal at this time was simply an accomplice of the Germans! They are splitting the Entente fleet! They are evading their responsibilities! They should all be sent to the gallows! Churchill was furious when he received the news!
But the French say that because of the disruption of the South Atlantic route, their supplies have dropped to about 70%. Even the supply of part of the rear army began to decline. They were very dissatisfied with our actions, so Admiral Darlan raised the slogan that the French fleet needed to solve this problem on its own. A well-timed reminder from a subordinate left Churchill speechless, after all, the incident was fundamentally caused by the abandonment of French interests by the United States and Britain.
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