Four Hundred and One Very Tangled

Akado is not in a good mood recently, because he is about to worry about the British strategy. All kinds of whimsical plans were gathered by his subordinates, but most of them were unfeasible.

It’s not that Accador has never thought about using the familiar American island-hopping tactics to deal with Britain. As long as a nail is driven in Iceland, which is relatively easy to fight, it seems that Germany can easily starve the British Isles to death. However, this plan, which seems to have a higher success rate, is buried with a mine that most people cannot see.

The first is what the island hopping tactics rely on, in other words, what exactly the island hopping tactics are used to attack the opponent. To put it bluntly, it is actually the transportation capacity, 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 to death. Once this tactic is implemented, the two sides are actually jumping islands together-everyone has a control area behind the enemy's line of defense. What is the competition at this time? Of course it is a logistics supplement! The United States and the United Kingdom are separated by Iceland, and Iceland and Germany are also separated by the United Kingdom. It depends on whether the United Kingdom will starve to death first or Iceland will starve to death first.

Is Germany capable of maintaining a regular shipping line between Iceland and Norway? Does Germany have so many escort ships only to protect such a long route? At that time, British submarines will wreak havoc on this transportation line. Will Germany's precious materials be thrown to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean to feed the fish?

Even if the British submarines can't beat the record of the German wolves on this hole-filled transportation line, Akado is not very sure if it is just a competition of who can persist more. According to the analysis, the materials in the UK can last for 3 months. If you tighten your belt to live, 4 months is not impossible. It will take at least a month for Germany to lay down Iceland and then build a base to start blocking the UK. This is nearly half a year for the UK in one breath.

Taking a step back, even if Iceland is really captured, will it completely cut off the British sea transportation line? That's not the case. Iceland is not really between the United States and the United Kingdom, but is on the upper side. Therefore, as long as the American transport ship slightly shifts its route to the south, it can completely avoid the German aircraft stationed in Iceland. There is only air transportation via Iceland, nothing more.

In addition, the United Kingdom still has 13 battleships and battlecruisers. If these warships are transferred back to the British mainland in batches, and some guerrilla tactics are used to consume time with the German navy, then when will this war against the United Kingdom be fought? Only God knows. If the United Kingdom is allowed to last for another year, then the newly launched aircraft carriers and newly produced fighter jets of the United Kingdom and the United States will join the war, and Germany's technological advantages will disappear. At that time, Germany will be completely finished.

Calculated in this way, the British can at least rely on the remaining transportation and supply lines for more than half a year. At that time, whether the United States will enter the war or whether the Soviet Union will turn against Germany is unpredictable. One of the best situations in the UK: If you don't hit me, I will disgust you here.

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There are at least three necessary conditions for the implementation of island hopping tactics, that is, superior combat force, sufficient battle 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 prone to a lot of problems in battles where the outcome is not clear.

The No. 6 aircraft carrier huddled in Wilhelmshaven for the final installation, because the recent sinking of No. 5 did not dare to do anything to steal chickens. After a brief heyday of 6 ships, the German aircraft carrier fleet quickly fell back to the level of 4 ships. Akado was a little relieved that the "World's No. 1 Navy" that had once flourished in the German Navy Said, disappeared.

The two latest German guided missile destroyers sent out a few days ago are not very advanced weapon configurations, but are just a preliminary experimental product of the combination of Germany's long-term rocket development results and guidance technology.

This new type of anti-ship missile weighs more than 7 tons, which is almost the weight of two fighter jets. It can rush to its target at a speed of 850 kilometers per hour. On the way, it needs to use the destroyer's radar as a guide to help correct the missile's flight trajectory, and finally it can accurately hit the target.

And because its attack trajectory is an inclined dive attack, its armor-piercing ability is not ideal. In theory, it can only attack combat targets below heavy cruisers. Unless luck is very good, this missile's ability to fight battleships is very general. After all, because of the compromise on the range of 20 kilometers, the warhead of the missile is only a little more than one ton. It is similar to the warhead of the Air Force's secret weapon aviation-type guided bomb "Fritz X".

Here I have to explain that one of the main reasons why Fritz X was able to complete the feat of sinking the battleship Roma in another time and space was luck. Judging from Fritz X's other combat records, the actual attack capability of this bomb against battleships is indeed somewhat inadequate-there are many records of damaging cruisers and destroyers, but very few were sunk.

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

Akado is now sending out his immature guided missile destroyer. In fact, he also has a fantasy, that is, some small change may become the last straw that crushes Britain. If the United Kingdom can be made to succumb, then the various problems facing Germany will be solved.

Fantasies belong to fantasy, Akado still has not given up the various preparations for landing in the UK. He united some small minesweepers of the French Navy to investigate several major landing areas and destroyed 17 large and small minefields laid by the United Kingdom.

In order to meet the needs of ground support, another new type of aircraft of the Air Force began to be put into service. This aircraft is called Stuka 2, but it has nothing to do with Stuka. This aircraft uses a civilian aircraft engine with very little power and very slow flight speed. And there's nothing fancy about the plane's flat wings.

But this plane made the pilots after the test flight full of praise, because this plane is as easy to control as a family car, and it is convenient to train a large number of pilots. This type of aircraft has a large fuel tank and a large amount of ammunition, which can stay in the target area for a longer period of time. The important thing is that this aircraft is easy to produce and hardly takes up precious aluminum alloy materials. Once put into production, it has formed a terrifying production scale of 15 aircraft per day.

The aircraft could carry 10 small bombs and had two 30mm cannons on the wings. This weapon configuration is said to have been improved on the advice of the Stuka pilots. Compared with the Stuka dive bomber with many functions and complicated training, this aircraft has only one mission, which is to attack the low-value moving targets it sees.

Bombing missions on bridges, large bunkers and fortresses, Germany has the battle-hardened Stuka, so the task of this new aircraft is to destroy small enemy targets: tanks, vehicles, positions, personnel... and everything else thing.

In Wilhelmshaven and Kiel, Germany is refitting its own Hercules transport ship in large quantities. Now Germany's Hercules transport ship is divided into several important parts: one part transports important steel on the route from Norway to Germany; The produced materials are sent to the Netherlands, Belgium, France and other regions; the remaining part is being refitted to make it a landing ship that can transport tanks.

The German army is also practicing, with about 200,000 soldiers repeatedly conducting landing exercises on the French coastline. General Rundstedt was in charge of commanding this operation, and his Army Group A served as the main landing force to carry out the largest landing operation in human history so far.

Due to tonnage limitations, the 2nd Armored Army and the 5th Light Armored Army will be sent to the British coastline as the main force of the landing force. Since most of the tanks will be Panzer IIIs and the lighter older Panthers, expect losses to be 50%+. However, the elite 11th Panzer Corps will be sent to the coast immediately, and the battle will immediately develop in a favorable direction for Germany.

On several Hercules transport ships, each ship was set up with 5 launch positions, and 10 Friedrich rocket launchers were fixed with ropes. These ships served two purposes, one to support landing forces, providing suppressive artillery support, and the other to destroy minefields on the British coastline with blanket fire.

Under the guidance of Akado, Germany made the most complete preparations for the landing, which to a certain extent made up for its lack of landing experience. Including the organization and coordination of troops in a chaotic state, the allocation of communication equipment, the combination of light and heavy firepower, the arrangement of firepower support, the use of airborne troops, and the suppression of superior air forces... After some training, these German troops who are ready to land in the UK at any time It can be said that it is the unit with the most experience in landing operations at this stage.

In the lively February, Germany is actively preparing to land in the UK in terms of weapons and equipment, personnel training, and tactical deployment. On the other side of the coastline, the British are also on the alert, waiting to give the German landing troops an unforgettable day.

Everyone is waiting, waiting for an order from Head of State Akado. Then the British beaches were stained with blood, and millions of dead bodies were left floating, turning the British Isles into a hell on earth.