The continuous sunny weather made the German armored forces advance very fast, and the complete rail and road transportation also allowed the tank units produced in the German rear to be quickly transported to the front line. The King Tiger has more weight, but the tracks are wider and the hull is a little longer, so overall the tank is more mature and reliable than the Tiger tank.

Now Germany has transferred the production of the chassis of the No. 3 tank to the Czech Republic and other places. The industrial capacity there has been completely digested by Germany, and the industrial strength of the Czech Republic is also very strong, and it has produced all kinds of heavy weapons, including tanks, so it is easy to produce this kind of large-scale weapons and equipment with mature technology.

The world's industry is out of Europe, this sentence means that after the industrial revolution, the industrial progress of human civilization seems to have been developed and promoted in Europe. When it comes to industry, we have to mention the core product of industrial civilization - machine tools. If industrialization is the export of the whole of Europe to the world, then the world's machine tools out of Germany is the best praise for this precision race.

I don't know when it began, the machine tools produced in Germany have become the representative of precision and advancement, representing the highest level of human precision instrument processing. In Germany, where machines have played tricks, Accardo has achieved a revolution in industrial automation, and it is not difficult to imagine what kind of power this revolution will burst out.

The King Tiger tank is a representative product born in this revolution. Through large-scale automated production lines, the mass production speed of the King Tiger tank has been increased by six times that of the Tiger tank, and because of cost saving considerations, many parts have been carefully calculated when they are cut off from the iron plate, in order to achieve the goal of reducing waste.

Therefore, while the T-34, which is famous for its production in another time and space, is trying its best to expand the scale of production, Germany's current ultimate tank Tiger King has created a production miracle in human history in terms of production speed.

So when the 2,000th T-34 came off the tractor production line in the Soviet Union, and when everyone applauded with a big red flower, the King Tiger tank, which was born a few months late in Germany, had already been mass-produced a full 700 units. Krupp even swore at a regular meeting of the company that the tanks he produced would become the future "standardized equipment of the European army", and this term was even plagiarized from the Führer.

In order to save steel, the original planned production of the ninth aircraft carrier was canceled, the dock was moved out of the dock and other port docks, and the construction of four heavy cruisers, that is, the new German cruiser "Munich-class", was started. Two of the new cruisers had already been launched recently, providing the German fleet with a more comprehensive combat capability.

First of all, this kind of battleship is equipped with triple 203 mm caliber heavy guns, which is regarded as the real sea attack ship of the German Navy so far (not counting the Marshal Raeder who detained the British), and for the senior generals of the German Navy who have the plot of large ships and huge guns, it can be regarded as making up for their dream of a big ship and huge guns.

After the tests, the German Navy simply loved this "naval special warship" that used all kinds of high technology. The main reason for saying this is that this is actually the first time that the German army has designed and built a warship specially developed for the navy: the original destroyer and cruiser can only be regarded as a strengthened version of the fast sea attack ship, which is much worse than the real warship of the same class; and the navy's aircraft carrier is also a "temporary product" piled up with civilian technology, and in terms of performance, it can only be regarded as a large modified aircraft carrier.

For a long time, the German Navy did not have any decent naval warships, and it also made the commanders of the surface ship units feel very shameless in front of their counterparts in the submarine forces.

Although the German Navy was very rewarding to win the all-important Battle of the English Channel with a bunch of cobbled together things, a normally developed navy, after making a leap forward with new tactical concepts, would eventually embark on the road to a truly strong army. It is precisely because of this that the German Navy has poured considerable enthusiasm into their shipbuilding plan this time.

And the cruiser Munich, which had just been launched, lived up to expectations and became the pride of the German Navy as the most powerful cruiser in history. This type of warship used a variety of new technologies during the construction phase, and its combat effectiveness reached an unprecedented level. Even Marshal Raeder, after taking the battleship, felt that the battleship should be made the flagship of the entire fleet.

First of all, the Germans used an automatic gun loader on this battleship, which allowed the rate of fire of the main guns of this battleship to reach an astonishing rate. Under normal circumstances, the cruiser of any country in the world would have been beaten into a sieve by intensive artillery fire when it encountered this Munich.

Another technology is the latest German naval 128 mm caliber large antiaircraft gun, the reason why it is so eager to increase the caliber of the antiaircraft gun is that after repeated experiments and research, Germany has developed a radio proximity fuse that can be used in actual combat. As the most terrifying advanced weapon of air defense in this era, the proximity fuse has allowed Germany to enter another stage in the field of air defense at once.

Unfortunately, as the core anti-aircraft weapon of Germany, the 88-mm caliber cannon could not be used because of the size of the shell, which was considered a high-tech product at this time, so this made the German air defense forces seem outdated all of a sudden. Therefore, the ground air defense units of the Luftwaffe and the anti-aircraft artillery units of the Navy began to replace large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on a large scale in order to equip them with such anti-natural ammunition.

In this regard, the Navy has a certain priority in terms of equipment (the fighter air defense system of the German Home Air Force is quite complete, so there is no need to rush to replace ground air defense weapons for the time being. ), so the Navy gave priority to the armament of new anti-aircraft guns of 128 mm caliber.

In addition, the 150 mm caliber main guns on the cruisers and some destroyers can also fire at the air, so the German radio proximity bomb charge has two calibers, namely 150 and 128, and after research, it was decided that 150 will be gradually phased out in the future, and eventually only 128 will be used as a large-caliber anti-aircraft gun.

This has created an interesting phenomenon, that is, German destroyers and cruisers, which originally had the smallest caliber of main guns, may have smaller guns of only 128 mm after the modification is completed one day in the future.

Moreover, German weapons design experts are working hard to equip Germany's most famous 88-mm anti-aircraft cannon with this radio proximity fuse, which will bring the entire German army's air defense capability to a new level. Of course, all of these latest shells were produced in Germany, and even the SS was responsible for their transportation and use. At present, only a few warships of the Navy can use such shells, which also allows the German army to carry out the work of secrecy without fail.

When the cruiser Munich was launched, Accardo knew that the commissioning of the newest German cruiser did not bring him any new surprises. Because Accardo, a time-traveler from the era of missiles in later generations, still thinks that building artillery ships is a wasteful act. However, the failure of the actual combat test of German anti-ship missiles also made him no longer dare to risk the entire navy easily.

The appearance of the radio proximity fuse greatly improved the German Navy's air defense capability, which was a phased achievement that Accardo was very pleased with, and it was precisely this achievement that made the heavy cruiser equipped with 128 mm anti-aircraft guns show its due value -- the cruiser's air defense capability even exceeded that of three German air defense cruisers, and it also took into account the terrible shore support and sea attack capability.

After repeated demonstrations and experiments, relying on Germany's strong industrial production capacity, the weapons that were originally unimaginable have now become a reality, and the German Navy is accumulating its own strength to prepare for world domination in the future.

Of course, there are still countless things that are not quite satisfactory, such as the ban on the "presence of the navy" that restricts the navy from going to sea on a large scale, for example, in order to accommodate the army's tank production plan, and also in order to accommodate the navy's own heavy cruiser construction plan, the navy's No. 9 aircraft carrier was canceled, which made many naval aviation officers bitter, among which the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, Admiral Lütjans, was one of the representatives.

However, judging from the current situation, the development of the navy is still proceeding in an orderly manner, which is great news for all admirals. At least they now have Munich-class heavy cruisers, don't they?

Therefore, standing on the bridge of the Frankfurt, the No. 2 ship of the Munich-class heavy cruiser, the ship did not move at all, even though it was moored in the military port. But German Admiral Raeder still felt that he was becoming the commander-in-chief of the world's first navy, and at this moment he was a little complacent, at least he had done what he dared to think and what he didn't dare to think about in his life.

During his tenure, the German Navy defeated the Royal Navy in one fell swoop, completing one of the most important fatalistic battles since the founding of the German Navy. Then his fleet now crosses the Atlantic, and even if it stops in a military port, it has become one of the most powerful maritime forces in the world.

So he Raeder was destined to go down in history as one of the greatest admirals in the history of the German Navy. So he was a little flustered, feeling that the most correct decision in his life was to surrender to the Führer.

Thinking of this, he walked to the door of the bridge with his hands behind his back, and sighed to the captain who followed him with a smile as he walked: "Do a good job, there will always be a time when our navy will be dispatched." ”