The Japanese Combined Fleet suffered heavy losses, and the base camp was temporarily replaced, and Yamamoto Isoroku once again took up his post, preparing to carry out a death struggle with the Japanese Navy, which had lost air supremacy...... No matter how you look at it, this is a scene that looks quite tragic. Just as the German Navy was marching majestically into the ocean, the Japanese Navy was driven back to its homeland in the middle of the ocean.

After being reinforced by the 232nd Division, General Yamashita deployed a complete battle plan in Malay, and he learned the lesson of the previous battle for the island, when the Japanese army was crushed on the beach by the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and deployed the main force at the core of the island. His plan was to strike back at American forces in the jungles and mountains.

Unfortunately, both he and the Japanese top brass underestimated the losses of the U.S. Navy in the last few naval battles, and as a result, while Yamashita waited for the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Navy had in fact returned to Pearl Harbor, while the Marines were repairing on nearby islands and Australia. Precious time passed like this, the Japanese were waiting for the Combined Fleet to regroup, and the Americans were waiting for their new aircraft carriers to enter service.

Of course, there are people in this world who don't have to wait, or rather, someone's waiting time has passed. On the third day after the Japanese Navy inflicted heavy damage on the U.S. Navy, Lütjans set out from Wilhelmsport with his formidable aircraft carrier fleet, and he was to lead the fleet around the North Sea to carry out an air attack on Iceland.

Compared with the naval war between Japan and the United States, the German navy obviously did not have as strong a foundation as it seemed, and although the German navy's achievements in the Atlantic were not inferior to those in the Pacific theater, it was still difficult to hide the lack of the number of the main warships of the German navy. This time, Lütjens led the main force of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, and only three aircraft carriers accompanied him when he was full.

The Bismarck was sent to the shipyard for overhaul after its last voyage, and the aircraft carrier Tirpitz was also undergoing modernization, so Lütjens had no choice but to change the flagship to the Reich, and set sail in the direction of Iceland with the oldest Zeppelin and Prussia.

He rejoiced that his fleet would no longer have to be unable to sail because of fuel shortages. He even put forward various plans for a decisive battle with the British Navy, hoping to complete his dream of defeating the British Royal Navy and making the German Navy the first in the world. However, when German intelligence confirmed the shipbuilding plan being carried out by the US Navy, he, the commander of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, immediately fell into a gloomy cloud.

According to a message from Army intelligence, the U.S. Navy is building 10 Essex-class aircraft carriers at the same time, four of which have a special bow design, apparently prepared for the state of the Atlantic. The German naval command, which had received this information, was completely shocked by the powerful industrial manufacturing capacity of the United States, and they realized at this time that it seemed that it was not enough to defeat the British Royal Navy in order to reach the top of the world's first navy.

Who would have thought that when the United States began to enter a state of war with its full mobilization, it would have the ability to produce thousands of tanks, nearly 10,000 aircraft, and nearly 100 ships at the same time. There were even more weapons and equipment than the American weapons destroyed by Germany, which could not help but give a pessimistic feeling to those who knew about the situation.

At this time, everyone remembered why the Führer insisted on fighting a landing battle in Britain after attacking France, gritting his teeth and carrying the pressure of huge losses, ignoring the pressure of Soviet troops -- if it had not been for the defeat of Britain itself, Germany might have been drowned in a sea of American-made aircraft artillery.

"Even if we have 3,000 ace pilots, we can't withstand such terrible attrition. This is the statement of the commander of the Air Force, Marshal Catherine, after seeing the total number of aircraft produced in the United States, with some solemnity. He was even pessimistic that the Luftwaffe could barely fight with the United States, and that if it wanted to maintain its superiority, it would need to add at least 2,000 fighters and 4,000 bombers.

Lütjans glanced at the harbor, the Evil Dragon and the Blucher, which were being inhabited, and finally withdrew his gaze as the aircraft carrier moved. He has only managed to make up seven aircraft carriers with all the calculations in his hands, and the Americans, not counting those who have already sunk, are about to have more than 10 aircraft carriers -- this naval resource contest is really a man-to-man and infuriating rhythm.

It's a pity that now he doesn't know that if he puts it in history, he only has a poor battleship in his hands, and he didn't even see the American aircraft carrier fleet, so he was chased and intercepted by the Royal Navy of the British Empire, and after replacing the British battlecruiser Hood by luck, he was wiped out in the Atlantic Ocean in a few days.

Now he has 7 aircraft carriers in his hands that can be used for combat, and it is already as much possessions as his Führer has painstakingly purchased for him. Germany is not a natural choice like the United States, which is rich in resources on a huge island in the two oceans, and it is impossible to abandon the army to give priority to the development of the navy and air force, and this is doomed to Germany to pursue the principle of the Continental Army like China, and the army will always occupy an important position in priority development.

This time Lütjens was not even accompanied by the battleship Marshal Raeder, which did not return to Germany after shelling Iceland, but was ordered to go north for a friendly visit to England, and then, after refueling Liverpool, head south to Gibraltar, where repairs were carried out. The German Navy is trying to adapt itself to the new role of the global navy, which inevitably leads to the disadvantage of force dispersion, but at present, the German Navy has no natural enemies in the Atlantic Ocean, so this degree of dispersion is still beyond the tolerance range of the German top brass.

"Turn on the radar of the destroyer detachment and search the nearby seas. After watching his fleet sail out of the Wilhelmsport, Lütjans gave the first battle order for this voyage, and the carrier-based reconnaissance planes of the naval aviation were ready, parked on the deck waiting to take off, ready to rush into the sky at any time, and the whole fleet was normal, and it didn't take long to sail at a speed of more than 20 knots.

The navy's voyage is not so much burning oil as burning money, and heavy oil will consume tens of thousands of tons at every turn, and if these fuels are replaced with gasoline and diesel, they can be consumed by a tank army for several weeks. Add to this the wear and tear of equipment and maintenance, the consumption of ammunition and the cost of personnel - compared to the army and air force, the navy can be regarded as a real luxury consumption.

Just on the USS Reich, where Lütjens sits, more than 1,600 breakfasts are prepared every day by 7 o'clock, and then the same amount by 12 o'clock - and maybe even more so if there is a combat mission. The entire battleship is built of tens of thousands of tons of steel, and every weld and rivet must be checked every day, which is not a war with the enemy, but a contest with oneself.

"Take off anti-submarine helicopters and patrol the near sea area...... Let the patrol aircraft take off and alert the airspace nearby...... Hurry up and train, it's not easy to set sail once!" Lu Teyans continued to command, looking at the officers of various departments on the busy bridge.

On the surface, the Navy's tight oil reserves seem to have been alleviated, but Germany's oil shortage has only been partially alleviated. In the Report on Economic Development in Wartime, the Führer went so far as to promise to be the first to implement restrictions on fuel consumption in the core cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Rotterdam and Warsaw. While this measure was applauded by the civilians, it suddenly added 3 million civilian motor vehicles to Germany, and the fuel consumption reached a new level.

The military is very unhappy with the lifting of the oil curtailment, because it has allowed German fuel reserves to not have a drop of fuel in excess of the Libyan oil field after the expansion of production capacity. Guderian even wrote to ask Accardo why he wanted to dismantle the military at such a time, but after Accardo replied, he never mentioned the topic of the oil policy.

In fact, Accardo was also helpless, he had to take out at least part of the war dividends to distribute to the people, so that he could have the confidence to reconcile the various domestic contradictions brought by the war to Germany. He and his propaganda department had been preaching the benefits of war, but those who believed in the Führer needed to see them for themselves.

As the war continues, Accardo is already lifting the ban on many restricted industries. First of all, the most important grain industry, Accardo liberated his country's war time limit that restricted the grain trade when the German army invaded Ukraine. At that time, the German military was also dissatisfied for a while, but then stable food prices and domestic support for the Führer increased, and the lifting of the restrictions had a good effect.

Immediately afterward, Accardo played this trick again, and he subsequently lifted the alcohol restriction and allowed all types of fine wine to be sold openly on weekends in Germany and France. This move once again made the Third Reich boil, the war seemed to be getting farther and farther away from them, and a good life seemed to have begun.

The more daring Accardos then allocated 20 percent of the steel production to the entrepreneurs to produce more civilian products. This is the fundamental reason why Linus was able to control a part of Norwegian iron ore - although the process was somewhat unpleasant, Accardo still felt that this method of taking from the people for the people could gain more support from the German people.

So this time, in terms of oil, he began the same reform.