The German-made battleships that had been tested in the Indian Ocean and reinforced to the British Navy in the Indian Ocean finally returned to the Atlantic in a state of trepidation. [See the latest chapter of this book, please go to 800] along the way, the battleship avoided the tracking of German submarines, and had to bypass the blockade of the German Navy, and it took 1 month to finally reach the Canadian port from the Indian Ocean.

This warship has been renamed the "Villain" because of the war with Germany, and it is considered the most ugly battleship in the Royal Navy, but this battleship is indeed the main battleship of the British Navy's active battleships.

The Villain merged the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, which was stationed in Canadian ports, and the HMS George V, which had been repaired, to form a sizable British First Fleet in the Atlantic. When naming the fleet, the British authorities in Iceland deliberately avoided the sensitive term "home fleet".

At about the same time that the British Villain entered the Atlantic, the battleship of the same class originally built for Britain in the German harbor was being tested in the final test, and this battleship was named the battleship Marshal Raeder by the German Yuan himself, which was regarded as an unprecedented comfort to the supreme commander of the Navy who had always supported Yuan.

Interestingly, this battleship, built by Britain and Germany, became the first battleship of its kind to serve in a hostile country at the same time, and it also strangely had two class names: the Villain class in Britain and the Marshal class in Germany.

Germany finally possessed a new type of battleship that could accompany the fleet, and the shortcomings of the high seas fleet in night warfare were finally made up at this moment, and it became almost invulnerable.

The battleship was also equipped with a more powerful radar and fire control system, which allowed it to hit the desired target at night with artillery fire from a distance of 2o km. At the same time, the level of armor protection of this battleship has also been slightly improved, weakening the armor of some unnecessary parts, and strengthening the configuration and number of anti-aircraft weapons.

Since the commissioning of the Marshal Raeder, the German Navy has entered a vacuum period of ship launching: too much steel has been occupied by the 6th Army, some frigates and patrol boats that are not necessary to be built have been reduced, no new ships will be launched in the next six months for the high seas fleet, and all energy has been put into the construction of four aircraft carriers at the same time.

In the future, the German Navy will have three major overseas fleets: the strongest Atlantic High Seas Fleet, with five aircraft carriers in active service, the Arctic Ocean Assault Fleet, which is the second most powerful, will have two aircraft carriers, and the weakest Mediterranean escort fleet, with one aircraft carrier. Read the full text of the latest chapter

However, in addition to the high seas fleet, which has been formed and has achieved outstanding achievements, the other two fleets are now only the skeleton of a personnel department. Even some tasks that should have been entrusted to the Navy were handled by the Air Force's strategic bomber unit under Dick's command.

For example, the Soviet Baltic Fleet, which had been cowering near Leningrad, was attacked by German long-range strategic bombers that took off from Prussia at night, and the entire military port that was annihilated in one fell swoop was patronized by more than 3oo butcher bombers, and the dropped bombs caused a raging fire in the port of Leningrad. The Soviet-class battleship Belorussia was hit and wounded, and until now it has to be repaired in the harbor.

At this time, the disadvantages of trying to maintain a large fleet without other support forces to support this fleet were revealed. The original steelmaking technology of the Soviet Union was not advanced, and the direct consequence of the reluctance to launch a few battleships was that the supporting dock facilities for repairing these battleships were backward, and once the ships were damaged, they could not be repaired in a short period of time to continue to participate in the battle.

On the other hand, the U.S. Navy, after being attacked by Japan and sinking two aircraft carriers, including the USS Enterprise, rushed to repair the seriously damaged USS Saratoga and participated in a sneak attack on the Japanese naval fleet in the naval battle off the coast of the Philippines. Although the German Navy had not yet received a complete assessment report on the course of this naval battle until now, more than ten days later, the Japanese Navy did suffer a dark loss from the US Navy under unexpected circumstances.

To be honest, Accardo now cares more about the Pacific Theater than about his own Eastern Front, because although the elite offensive of the 3oo German Army on the Eastern Front is insufficient, it is definitely more than enough to defend against the Soviet Red Army, which has just been hit hard, and he is more concerned about whether the industrial potential of the United States is completely stirred up as in the previous life.

Now it seems that the industrial potential of the United States should not be underestimated, but it is not as large as imagined, and the move of the huge German fleet south to the Atlantic has caused a lot of pressure on the United States, and many South American countries have turned to sell raw materials to Germany, which has limited the industrial expansion of the United States to a certain extent.

However, in terms of oil, the United States still cannot be shaken, after all, the German Navy does not dare to attack the ships that sail to the United States from the Middle East through the Mediterranean, and Mexico and the oil exploitation in the United States can also meet the needs of industrial production in the United States, so many weapons of war are still produced in a terrible degree.

For example, the shipyards on both sides of the United States are desperately building aircraft carriers, and there are as many as 14 aircraft carriers in the docks, which is almost twice as many as the aircraft carriers under construction in Germany and Japan. At the same time, the United States has been frantically mass-producing this kind of mature tank since the beginning of improving the production of M4 tanks, and the monthly output is even close to 3ooo.

But even so, the United States was still defeated by the Japanese army in the Pacific theater, because of the lack of naval combat ship support, the United States abandoned Malaysia and the Philippines one after another, and the British detachments deployed in Asia were completely annihilated, most of which were sunk by the Japanese on the periphery of Hong Kong.

Then the battleship Villain left the Indian Ocean, and the remaining British fleet in the Indian Ocean could not cross the Strait of Malacca to threaten Japan's sea lines of communication, and the Japanese Navy, which had lost its worries, began to advance eastward with all its might, and even began to approach Australia, which was almost undefended.

The arrogant Japanese militarist leaders immediately felt that victory in the war was in sight, and they even regretted not using their superior navy to end the war by taking out the US Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop, and they even regretted that they had listened to the words of the Sixth Army to provoke the powerful Soviet Sixth Army.

There is even an optimistic view in Japan that once the Japanese army captures Midway and Wake Island, the United States will humiliately choose to sue for peace to end the entire Pacific War. At that time, a large amount of land in the entire western Pacific region and the Asia-Pacific region became the possession of the Japanese Empire.

However, it is a pity that the arrogant Japanese Navy was immediately taught a vivid and powerful lesson by the American Navy: the only American aircraft carrier was rushed out and appeared off the coast of the Philippines, where it should not have been, attacked a Japanese detachment, sank 3 destroyers and 2 cruisers, and an old Japanese battleship was seriously injured and stranded in the Philippine coastal area.

To the Japanese Navy's annoyance, the nimble U.S. fleet broke through the encirclement and interception of the Japanese main fleet and returned to Pearl Harbor, which was the only bright spot for the U.S. Navy's gloomy May.

Annoyed and angry, the Japanese Navy immediately reacted, and the commander of the Combined Naval Fleet, Isoroku Yamamoto, received an edict from the Emperor, ordering him and Nagumo Tadaichi to lead the fleet to cover the Japanese 6th Army's landing on 6 Wake Island and regain the initiative in the war.

If anyone has studied the whole process of Japan's provocation of the Pacific War, a very interesting phenomenon will appear: Japan first attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States in a hurry, and then suddenly, as if it was not in a hurry, it began to concentrate its precious time on the South Pacific to fight for the islands of the Philippines and Malaysia.

The main reason for this strange phenomenon is that the United States has blockaded Japan's oil supply, which has led Japan to waste precious time going south to fight for the few precious oil extraction areas in the Philippines and the Malaysian islands. This is the main reason why Japan slowed down the pace of the war after attacking Pearl Harbor in a hurry.

At the same time, this also leads to the fact that Japan's strategic line is completely in the calculations of the United States: Japan's advance route will take about the time it will take to be in the hands of the Americans, so by the time of the Battle of Midway, the Americans can actually be said to have mastered the strategic decisive battle, and even if the US Navy at Midway Island is still defeated, the Americans will have the certainty of victory in turning the tide of the war in the next year.

Japan in this life has also not been able to escape this tragic fate: General Yamamoto Isoroku's plan to attack Midway Island has been shelved indefinitely, and the Sixth Army is attacking the American defenders in the Philippines and Malaysia with all its might, hoping to grab the oil source before the Japanese Navy runs out of ammunition.

In fact, Japan's best chance was after the end of World War I, when as long as it was at ease and no longer provoked a war, then its future situation would be countless times better than that of Germany, which was defeated in World War I.

Therefore, when the financial crisis came, the Japanese Empire, which was originally holding a good hand, pinned its national fortunes on a big gamble, instead of seriously bearing the crisis and smoothly transitioning its own financial difficulties, which had already controlled the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, occupied Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao and Dalian, and caused the fact of the actual independence of the three eastern provinces.