Five Hundred and Sixty Nine Pacific War

The German-made battleships that were tested in the Indian Ocean and strengthened to the British Navy in the Indian Ocean finally returned to the Atlantic Ocean in anxiety. Along the way, the warship avoided the tracking of German submarines and had to bypass the blockade of the German Navy. It took a month to finally reach the Canadian port from the Indian Ocean all the way through the waves.

Because of the war with Germany, this warship has been renamed the "Hamster". It is the battleship with the ugliest name in the Royal Navy - but this battleship is indeed the main battleship with a relatively short age among the active battleships of the British Navy. .

The villain joined the aircraft carrier Ark Royal staying in the Canadian port and the repaired HMS King George V to form a large-scale British Atlantic First Fleet. When naming this fleet, the British authorities in Iceland deliberately avoided the sensitive term of the home fleet.

And at almost the same time when the British HMS Villain entered the Atlantic Ocean, the battleship of the same level originally built for the UK in the German port was undergoing final testing. An unprecedented comfort in supporting the Führer's top naval commander.

Interestingly, this kind of battleship built by Germany funded by the United Kingdom has become the first battleship to serve in a hostile country at the same time. It is also strange that it has two levels of names at the same time: Britain is called the villain class, and Germany is called the navy. Marshal class.

Germany finally has a new type of battleship that can accompany the fleet to fight together. At this moment, the shortcomings of the High Seas Fleet's night battles have finally been filled, and it has become almost invulnerable.

This battleship is also equipped with a more powerful radar and fire control system, which can fire at night with artillery to hit the target it wants to attack from 20 kilometers away. At the same time, the armor protection level of this battleship has also been slightly improved, weakening the armor of some unnecessary parts, and strengthening the configuration and quantity of anti-aircraft weapons.

Since the commissioning of the Admiral Raeder, the German Navy has entered a vacuum period for launching ships: too much steel is occupied by the army, some frigates and patrol boats that are not necessary to be built have been cut down, and there will be no high seas fleet in the next six months The new ship was launched, and all the energy was put on the four aircraft carriers that started construction at the same time.

In the future, the German Navy will have three overseas main fleets: the strongest Atlantic High Seas Fleet, with 5 active aircraft carriers as the core; the second most powerful Arctic Ocean Attack Fleet, which will have 2 aircraft carriers; the weakest Mediterranean Escort fleet, under the jurisdiction of 1 aircraft carrier.

However, apart from the High Seas Fleet, which has already taken shape and made outstanding achievements in combat, the other two fleets now only have the skeleton of a personnel department. Even some tasks that should have been handed over to the navy were taken care of by the air force's strategic bomber unit under the command of Dick.

For example, the Soviet Baltic Fleet, which has been huddled near Leningrad, was attacked at night by German long-range strategic bombers flying from Prussia.

It was wiped out in one fell swoop-the entire military port was visited by more than 300 butcher bombers, and the bombs dropped caused a raging fire in the port of Leningrad. The Soviet-class battleship Belarus was hit and injured, and it can only be repaired in the port until now.

At this time, the disadvantages of maintaining a huge fleet without other support forces to support the fleet are revealed. The original steelmaking technology of the Soviet Union was not advanced. The direct consequence of barely launching a few battleships was that the supporting dock facilities for repairing these battleships were backward. Once the ships were injured, they could not be repaired in a short time to continue participating in the battle.

On the contrary, the U.S. Navy, after they were attacked by Japan and sank two aircraft carriers including the Enterprise, rushed to repair the seriously injured Saratoga aircraft carrier, and participated in the naval battle off the coast of the Philippines against the Japanese Navy. Fleet raid operations. Although the German Navy has not received a complete assessment report in the course of this naval battle until more than ten days later, the Japanese Navy did suffer a dark loss from the US Navy under unexpected circumstances.

To be honest, Akado is more concerned about the Pacific battlefield than his own Eastern Front, because although the 3 million elite German troops on the Eastern Front are not enough to attack, they are definitely more than enough to defend against the Soviet Red Army that has just been hit hard. He is more concerned about American industry. Whether the potential has been fully stimulated like in the previous life.

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

However, in terms of oil, the United States is still unshakable. After all, the German navy did not dare to attack on a large scale from the ships sailing from the Middle East to the United States through the Mediterranean Sea, and Mexico and the oil exploration in the United States can also meet the industrial production needs of the United States, so Many weapons of war are still being produced at a frightening rate.

For example, the dockyards on both sides of the United States are desperately building aircraft carriers. There are as many as 14 aircraft carriers in the docks, which is almost twice the number of aircraft carriers under construction in Germany and Japan. At the same time, the United States has been frantically mass-producing this technologically mature tank since it improved and produced the m4 tank, with a monthly production even close to 3,000.

But even so, the United States was still defeated by the Japanese army on the Pacific battlefield. Because of the lack of support from naval combat ships, the United States gave up Malaysia and the Philippines one after another. The periphery of Hong Kong was sunk by the Japanese army.

Afterwards, the battleship HMS Evil left the Indian Ocean, and the remaining British fleet in the Indian Ocean could not cross the Strait of Malacca to threaten the Japanese sea line of communication. The Japanese navy, having lost its worries, began to move eastward with all its strength, and even began to approach Australia, which was almost defenseless.

The proud and arrogant militaristic leaders in Japan immediately felt that the victory of the war was in sight. They even regretted not using their superior navy to kill the US Pacific Fleet earlier to end the war. They even regretted listening to the army's one-sided words to provoke the powerful Soviet army .

There is even an optimistic view in Japan that once the Japanese army captures the central Pacific islands such as Midway Island and Wake Island, the United States will humiliately choose to seek peace to end the entire Pacific War. At that time, the entire Western Pacific region and a large amount of land in the Asia-Pacific region will become the possession of the Japanese Empire.

But it is a pity that the arrogant Japanese navy was immediately given a vivid and strong education lesson by the US Navy: the only aircraft carrier in the United States was rescued and appeared in the offshore waters of the Philippines where it should not have appeared, attacking a The Japanese squadron sank 3 destroyers and 2 cruisers, and an old Japanese battleship was seriously injured and stranded in the offshore area of ​​the Philippines.

What annoyed the Japanese Navy even more was that this flexible American fleet broke through the siege and interception of the Japanese main fleet and returned to Pearl Harbor, which was the only bright spot in the gloomy May of the US Navy.

The furious Japanese navy responded immediately. The commander of the combined navy fleet, Yamamoto Fifty-Six, received an order from the emperor, ordering him and Nagumo Chuichi to lead the fleet to cover the landing of the Japanese army on Wake Island and regain the initiative in the war. right.

If someone has studied the entire process of Japan's instigation of the Pacific War, they will find a very interesting phenomenon: Japan first attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States in a hurry, and then suddenly seemed to be in no hurry, and began to concentrate on wasting Precious time to scramble for islands like the Philippines and Malaysia in the South Pacific.

The main reason for this strange phenomenon is that the United States blocked Japan's oil, which caused Japan to waste precious time going south to compete for the precious oil mining areas on the islands of the Philippines and Malaysia. This is the main reason why Japan slowed down the pace of the war after it attacked Pearl Harbor in a hurry.

At the same time, this also led to the fact that Japan's strategic route is completely under the calculation of the United States: Japan's marching route, the approximate time required is under the control of the Americans, so by the time of the Battle of Midway Island, the Americans can actually be said to be Everything is under control in the strategic decisive battle. Even if the U.S. Navy at Midway Island still suffered a disastrous defeat, the Americans are sure to win the battle in the next year.

Japan in this life also failed to escape this tragic fate: General Yamamoto Fifty-Six’s plan to attack Midway Island was shelved indefinitely. Grab the oil producing area before the food is exhausted - if the Germans played an unexpected wonderful process with a bad hand, then the Japanese spread their hand to win or lose with the Americans. To put it bluntly, they call themselves suicide .

In fact, Japan's best chance is after the end of World War I. At that time, as long as it develops with peace of mind and no longer provokes wars, its situation in the future will be infinitely better than that of Germany, which was defeated in World War I. The bet won He won the Sino-Japanese War and won the Japan after the Russo-Japanese War. He was too confident in his luck.

So when the financial crisis came, the Japanese Empire, which had a good hand, placed its national destiny on a big gamble, instead of undergoing the crisis and smoothly transitioning from its financial difficulties - it had already controlled the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan. , occupying Jiaozhou Bay, Qingdao, Dalian and other places, resulting in the actual independence of the three eastern provinces of the Japanese Empire, once again opened a forum for gambling, but this time, it was not a muddled bad gambler. The Qing government was not an isolated poor gambler. Tsarist Russia , is the gambling king of America who has been sitting on the bank to make money.