It’s interesting that this kind of battleship built in Germany at the expense of Britain has become the first kind of battleship that is hostile to the country at the same time. It’s strange that it has two levels of names at the same time. Britain calls it the villain class and Germany calls it the Admiral of the fleet class.
Germany finally has a new battleship that can fight with the fleet. At this moment, the short board of the night battle of the high seas fleet has finally been completed and it has become almost slack.
This battleship is also equipped with more powerful radar and fire control system, which can hit the target with artillery fire at night 2 kilometers away. At the same time, the armor protection level of this battleship has been slightly improved, some unnecessary parts of armor have been weakened, and the configuration and quantity of anti-weapons have been strengthened.
From the battle of Lei Deer Admiral of the fleet, the German navy entered the ship water, and the steel was occupied by six armies. There was no need to build frigates and patrol boats, and there would be no new ships in the high seas fleet in the next six months. All energy was put into building four aircraft carriers at the same time.
In the future, the German Navy will have three overseas main fleets with the strongest strength, and the western high seas fleet will have five aircraft carrier cores in active service; The powerful Arctic Ocean attack fleet will have two aircraft carriers; The weakest Mediterranean escort fleet has one aircraft carrier.
However, in addition to the high seas fleet that has been formed and has made outstanding achievements, the other two fleets now also have a skeleton of personnel department, and some of them should be handed over to the navy to complete, and Dick is in charge of commanding the army’s strategic bomber units.
For example, the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Union, which has been camping near Leningrad, took off from Prussia, and the German long-range strategic bomber unit raided the entire military port at one fell swoop. Three butcher bombers patronized the port and dropped bombs, which set fire to the port of Leningrad. The USS Belarus, a Soviet-class battleship, was hit and injured, and it can still be repaired at the port.
At this time, the disadvantages of trying to maintain a huge fleet without his support force were revealed. The original steelmaking technology of the Soviet Union was not advanced, and several battleships were barely submerged. The direct consequence was that the supporting dock facilities of these battleships were backward. Once the ships were injured, they were quickly repaired and continued to fight.
On the contrary, the U.S. Navy, after sinking two aircraft carriers, such as Enterprise, by a Japanese sneak attack, unexpectedly rushed out the seriously injured Saratoga aircraft carrier, and participated in the sneak attack on the Japanese naval fleet in the naval battle off the coast of the Philippines. Although the German navy did not get the complete evaluation report until more than ten days later, the Japanese navy did unexpectedly suffer a dark loss from the U.S. Navy.
To tell the truth, there are more battlefields in the Pacific Ocean than in the eastern front, because the 30 thousand German elite attack on the eastern front is insufficient, but the defense of the Soviet Red Army has just been hit hard, which is definitely more than enough. He is more concerned about whether the industrial potential of the United States has been completely stimulated as it was in the first world.
At present, it seems that the industrial potential of the United States is not underestimated, but it is not as huge as expected. The move of the German fleet in the South Atlantic has put a lot of pressure on the United States. Many South American countries have turned to selling raw materials to Germany, which has limited the industrial expansion of the United States to some extent.
However, in terms of oil, the United States is still shaken by the law. After all, the German navy did not dare to attack on a large scale from the Middle East via the Mediterranean Sea, and Mexico and the United States can also meet the needs of American industrial production. Many war weapons were still produced with a terrible degree.
For example, the docks on both sides of the United States are desperately building aircraft carriers. There are as many as 14 aircraft carriers in the dock, almost twice as many as those built in Germany and Japan. At the same time, the United States has been mass-producing this mature technology from improving the production of 4 tanks, and the monthly output of tanks is close to 3.
However, even so, the American Pacific battlefield was still defeated by Japanese troops. Due to the lack of support from naval vessels, the United States gave up Malaysia and the Philippines one after another, and the British deployed Asian sub-fleets. Most of them were sunk by Japanese troops outside Hong Kong.
Subsequently, the battleship Evil left the Indian Ocean, and the British fleet remained in the Indian Ocean. Genfa crossed the Straits of Malacca, threatening the communication line between Japan and the sea. The Japanese navy’s eastward advance was almost undefended in Australia.
Arrogant Japanese militarist leaders immediately felt that the victory of the war was in sight, and they regretted that they had not moved the superior navy earlier to kill the American Pacific fleet in one fell swoop to end the war. They regretted that they had listened to the words of the 6 th Army and provoked the powerful 6 th Army of the Soviet Union
There is an optimistic view in Japan that once the Japanese army captured Midway Island and wake island and other central Pacific islands, the United States would humiliate and choose peace to end the entire Pacific War. By that time, the entire western Pacific region and a large amount of land in the Asia-Pacific region would be in the pocket of the Japanese empire.
However, it is a pity that the Japanese navy was immediately given a vivid and strong education lesson by the US navy. Only one aircraft carrier in the United States was repaired and appeared. It should not have appeared in the offshore of the Philippines. A Japanese fleet sank three destroyers and two cruisers. An old battleship was also seriously injured and ran aground in the offshore of the Philippines.
What made the Japanese navy even more annoyed was that this flexible American fleet broke through the siege of the main Japanese fleet and returned to Pearl Harbor, which was the only bright spot for the US navy in May.
Angry, the Japanese navy immediately responded. The commander of the naval joint fleet, Shan Fifty-six, received an imperial order from the Emperor, ordering him and Nan Yunzhong to lead the fleet to cover the Japanese 6th Army’s landing in wake island War and regain the initiative.
If someone has studied the whole process of Japan provoking the Pacific War, a very interesting phenomenon will appear. At first, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States in a hurry, and then suddenly, as if it were not in a hurry, it went to the South Pacific to compete for islands such as the Philippines and Malaysia when the power wave was precious.
The main reason for this strange phenomenon is that the United States blocked Japanese oil, which caused Japan to compete for the precious oil-producing areas in the Philippines and Malaysia when the south waves were precious. This is also the main reason why Japan suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor and then slowed down the pace of war itself.
At the same time, it also led to the completion of Japan’s strategic route. The United States calculated that it would take about all the time for China and Japan to enter the route. By the time of the Battle of Midway, the Americans had really mastered everything. Even the US Navy in Midway was still defeated. In the coming year, the Americans were sure to turn the tide and win.
This day has also failed to escape this tragic fate. General Yamashita’s plan to sneak attack on Midway Island has been shelved within a time limit. Six armies are attacking the Philippines and Malaysia. The American defenders hope that the Japanese navy can seize the oil producing area before it runs out of ammunition and food. If the Germans have played an unexpected and wonderful process with a bad hand, then the Japanese have spread their hands and won or lost with the Americans. To put it bluntly, it is called seasoned road.
In fact, the best chance for Japan is that it will feel at ease and stop provoking wars at that time after the end of World War I, so its future situation will be several times better than that of Germany in World War I. As a result, it won the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and Japan was too confident to gamble.
Therefore, when the financial crisis came, the Japanese Empire held a good hand and placed its national fortune on a gamble instead of taking the crisis seriously and making a smooth transition. During its financial difficulties, it had taken control of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan Province occupied Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao and Dalian, resulting in the fact that the three northeastern provinces were actually independent. However, this time, it was not a stupid gambler, the Qing government was not isolated, and the poor gambler, Russia, had been sitting in the village to collect money and gamble on the United States.
Chapter 57 57 Persecution
There is an old saying in China that "there are no wet shoes when you walk by the river."
There is also an old saying in China called "ten bets and nine losses"
It’s a pity that the Japanese emperor is obviously not from China and has never heard so many common sayings and dialects. He believes that his ministers always say to him that "Wu Yun is long."
It is said that sometimes it is better to change more emperors. For example, if it were the emperor of China, he would not believe the slogan that complimented him, "Long live the emperor!"
Anyway, the Japanese high-level officials believe in the auspicious words of encouraging each other, and feel that they must be an excellent nation favored by heaven. They are confident that they can win the first time and win the second time, and they will definitely win the most important bet this time.
So the sunrise moved, and I could find all the strength to go to Pearl Harbor, USA, and smashed an unprecedented scene. I felt that I was the leader of the most bully gang in the whole global village. Unfortunately, their name was called the police station.
Look at Hollywood movies and you will know that in most cases, the gangsters broke into the police station, mostly submachine guns and rocket launchers. However, after an hour and a half, the police often succeeded in counter-killing, which is similar in real life. However, they have already considered how to punch back.
In a month, the United States repaired three battleships and one aircraft carrier, and also made seven cruisers and eleven destroyers at the same time. This terrible ship-building capability shocked the world, and prevented Japan from attacking Australia. The United States even sent five tanks to Australia and transferred General MacArthur from the Philippines to Australia to stabilize the situation.
There are 14 local divisions in Australia, and the United States has strengthened the past five divisions to form two regiments. These troops are deployed separately and may land in the area to defend the whole of Australia. Although it seems that the number of this unit is a little insufficient, it is barely satisfactory to be able to transfer fewer troops.
Americans are depressed, too. The warships in their hands are badly wounded, and the strength left to deal with Japan is a little stretched, while the Germans in North Africa are ready to launch a large-scale attack at any time. At that time, once the oil resources in the Middle East are threatened by the Germans, the United States will lose another chip that can be taken out to make a fuss in the future hegemony.
If only the chips are good, but if the Middle East discourse is lost, then the United States will be completely excluded from the mainstream of the world and become a marginalized country, which is unbearable for the United States eager to seek world dominance
Of course, all this will be followed up until the United States smashes Japan, a guy who has nothing to do with smoking, and then we can take a long-term view. If Japan knocks down the table, then the United States will not say that Germany will compete for the future world hegemony. It is estimated that it is still a problem whether it can get a second place.
So the US Navy gritted its teeth and found an accomplished aircraft carrier commander, spruance, who ordered him to conduct an effective partial counterattack against Japan in the waters near the Philippines.
Spruance has successfully won this important naval battle, which is related to the fate of Australia. With the help of British radar technology, the US Navy has improved a naval radar that can be installed on the mast. This radar has just helped the US Navy win a great victory in the naval battle off the Philippines.
Only at this moment did the US Navy and the British Navy know how much advantage the German Navy with radar technology had gained in the Atlantic naval battle, and only then did they find that it was not wrong to lose the Atlantic at all.
However, the Japanese navy has lost the help of German Simon Company, and the development and production of radar system are even more backward. They still have no effective means to counter this terrible weapon.
During the Japanese war of aggression against China, it showed a small country’s deliberate intention to challenge a big country. The Japanese infiltrated China long before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The spy structure was pervasive. Even Japanese spies were mixed into China’s military enterprises. Some women hooked up with China’s generals to obtain military deployment drawings and other core secrets. Even arcado’s post-exhibition achievements in 1992 were mostly influenced by Japanese spy activities.
However, in the two important battles of Nomonkan and the attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States, the Japanese spy agency played a campaign scale level instead of exaggerating the strategic level. The Japanese spy agency did not have a complete analysis of American industry and failed to wake up the Japanese army and the Soviet Far East forces. The combat effectiveness is not what it used to be.
Perhaps it was the spy agency that confirmed reliable information and thoroughly analyzed the national strength of the other side, but the high-level officials turned a blind eye to it when they were terminally ill-no one can say clearly, but one thing is certain, that is, Japan misjudged the war potential of the United States and ignored its determination to go to war.