81_81266Accador's mood has not been very good lately, because he is about to break his heart because of the British strategy. All sorts of whimsical plans were put together by his men, but most of them were unworkable.

Accardo did not think of using the familiar American island-hopping tactics against the British, as long as he drove a nail in Iceland, which was easier to fight, it seemed that Germany could easily starve to death in the British Isles. However, this plan, which seems to have a greater success rate, is buried with a landmine that ordinary people cannot see.

The first is what the island-hopping tactics rely on, in other words, what the island-hopping tactics are using to hit the opponent. To put it bluntly, it is actually the transportation capacity, and it is the huge transportation capacity that crushes the opponent.

Island hopping is to jump over some small islands to attack the unprepared islands behind and trap the skipped islands. Once this tactic is implemented, then in fact, the two sides are jumping islands together - everyone has control of the zhì area behind the enemy's defensive line. What is the competition at this time? Of course, it is logistical supplements! The United States and Britain are separated by Iceland, and Iceland and Germany are also separated by Britain, so it depends on whether Britain starves to death first or Iceland starves to death first.

Can Germany be able to maintain a regular transport route between Iceland and Norway? Will Germany have so many escort ships to protect such a long route? When the British submarines wreak havoc on this transport route, will Germany's precious supplies be thrown to the bottom of the North Atlantic to feed the fish?

Even if the British submarines could not beat the German wolves on this transport line full of holes, Accardo was not too sure if it was just a competition to see who could hold out better. According to the analysis, the supplies in the UK can last for 3 months, and if you tighten your belt to get by, 4 months is not impossible. It would take a month for Germany to build a base in Iceland and start blockading Britain, but it would take nearly half a year for Britain in one go.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Iceland were to be taken, would it completely cut off Britain's sea transport routes? No, Iceland was not really between the United States and Britain, but was in an upper-high position, so the US transport ships could completely avoid the German planes stationed in Iceland by shifting their routes a little southward -- the only thing that could be cut off was the air transport line through Iceland, and that's it.

In addition, Britain still has 13 battleships and battle cruisers, if these battleships are transferred back to the British mainland in batches and use some guerrilla tactics and the German navy to consume time, then only God knows when this war against Britain will be fought. If Britain is allowed to hold out for another year, then the newly launched aircraft carriers and newly produced fighters of Britain and the United States will join the war, Germany's technological superiority will disappear, and Germany will be completely finished at that time.

In this way, the British can at least rely on the remaining transportation and supply lines to survive until more than half a year later, and no one can predict whether the United States will enter the war at that time, and whether the Soviet Union will turn against Germany, which is equivalent to giving Britain the best situation: if you don't fight me, I will disgust you here.

Now it can be seen that there are at least three necessary conditions for the implementation of the island-hopping tactic, that is, superior combat forces, abundant campaign time, and transportation capacity several times higher than that of the opponent. To put it bluntly, this tactic is to bully people when they already have an absolute advantage, and it is easy to have a lot of problems in battles where the winner or defeat is not clear.

Aircraft carrier No. 6 huddled in Wilhelmshaven for its final perch, and did not dare to do anything more to steal chickens because of the recent sinking of No. 5. After a short heyday of six ships, the German aircraft carrier fleet quickly fell back to the level of four, and to Accardo's relief, the term "the world's first navy", which was originally very popular in the German Navy, disappeared.

The two newest-type German missile destroyers sent out a few days ago are actually not too advanced in weaponry, but are just a rudimentary product of the combination of Germany's long-standing achievements in rocket development and guidance technology.

The new anti-ship missile weighs more than 7 tons, which is about the weight of two fighter jets. It can rush to its own target at a speed of 850 kilometers per hour, and needs to be guided by the destroyer's radar on the way to help correct the missile's flight trajectory before it can accurately hit the target.

And because its attack trajectory is an oblique dive attack, the armor-piercing ability is not ideal, theoretically it can only attack combat targets below the heavy cruiser, unless it is very lucky, the ability of this missile to fight against the battleship is very average. After all, because of the compromise on the range of 20 km, the warhead of the missile is only a little more than a ton. Similar to the warhead of the Air Force's secret weapon, the aviation-type guided bomb "Fritz X".

It has to be explained here that one of the main reasons why Fritz X was able to complete the feat of sinking the Roman battleship in another time and space was due to luck. Judging by the other combat records of Fritz X, the actual attack capability of this bomb was indeed somewhat inadequate for battleships - there were many records of damage to cruisers and destroyers, but very few were sunk.

So why does Accardo still want to study this anti-ship missile? The reason is not complicated. As a technical reserve, it will lay a good foundation for the next generation of better anti-ship missiles; whether it is feasible to implement the tactics of escorting aircraft carrier fleets with anti-ship missile destroyers at night; although this weapon is not up to standard against battleships, it is a very useful new weapon against other ships.

Accardo is now sending his own immature missile destroyers, in fact, there is also a fantasy, that is, maybe a small change will be the last straw that crushes Britain. If Britain could be brought to its knees, Germany's problems would be solved.

Fantasy to fantasy, Accardo still did not give up all kinds of preparations for landing in Britain. Together with a number of small minesweepers of the French Navy, he carried out reconnaissance of several major landing areas and destroyed 17 large and small minefields laid by the British.

In order to meet the needs of ground support, the Air Force began to put into service another new aircraft, which is called the Stuka 2, but it has nothing to do with the Stuka. This type of aircraft uses a civilian aircraft engine, which has very little power and flies slowly. And the aircraft uses straight wings, and there is no fancy design.

But the plane was praised by the pilots after the test flight, because it was as easy to handle as a family car, and it was convenient to train a large number of pilots. Such aircraft have large fuel tanks and a large bomb load, allowing them to stay in the target area for a longer time. The important thing is that the aircraft is easy to produce and hardly takes up valuable aluminum alloy materials, and once it is put into production, it has formed a terrifying production scale of 15 aircraft per day.

Such an aircraft could carry 10 small bombs with two 30 mm caliber cannons on the wings. The armament is said to have been modified by the Stuka pilots, and in contrast to the more versatile and sophisticated Stuka dive bombers, the aircraft had only one mission: to attack low-value moving targets in sight.

The bombing of bridges, large pillboxes and fortresses, Germany had the battle-hardened Stukka, so the task of this new aircraft was to destroy the enemy's small targets: tanks, vehicles, positions, personnel...... There are other qiē things.

In Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, Germany is refitting its Hercules transport ships in large numbers, and now the German Hercules transport ships are divided into several important parts: some are transporting important steel on the route from Norway to Germany, some are sending the produced materials to the Netherlands, Belgium, France and other regions, and the remaining part is being converted into landing ships that can transport tanks.

The German Army is also practicing, with about 200,000 soldiers repeatedly conducting landing exercises along the French coastline. General Rundstedt commanded the operation, and Army Group A served as the main force for the landing in the largest landing operation in human history to date.

Due to tonnage limitations, the 2nd Panzer Corps and the 5th Light Panzer Corps were to be sent to the British coastline as the main force of the landing force. Because most of the tanks will use the No. 3 tank and the lighter old Leopard tank, losses are expected to reach more than 50%. But immediately after that, the elite 11th Panzer Corps would be sent to shore, and the situation would immediately turn in Germany's favor.

On several Hercules transports, each of which was set up with 5 firing positions, on which 10 Frederick rocket launchers were secured with ropes. The vessels were used for two purposes, one to support the landing force and provide suppressive artillery support, and the other to destroy minefields along the British coastline with covered fire.

Under Accardo's guidance, the Germans made the most perfect preparations for the landing, and made up for their lack of landing experience in a certain way. Including the organization and coordination of troops in a chaotic state, the allocation of communications equipment, the combination of light and heavy firepower, the arrangement of fire support, the use of airborne troops, and the suppression of superior air forces...... After some training, the German Army, which is ready to land in Britain at any time, can be said to be the most experienced unit in landing operations at this stage.

In the lively February, Germany was actively preparing for the landing of Britain in terms of weapons and equipment, personnel training, and tactical arrangements, and on the other side of the coastline, the British were also waiting to give the German landing force an unforgettable day.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for Führer Accardo's order. Then the beaches of England were stained with blood, and millions of corpses were left in blood, turning the British Isles into a living hell