The real end of the Lowland campaign was the complete defeat of the Dutch army by the 12th Army of the Tang Dynasty, which was subordinate to the Western European Front. www.biquge.info The Dutch army is not very strong in combat, but after the Dutch government joined the European Union, it trained more than 100,000 Dutch troops. The Don army quickly crushed the Dutch army and took control of the entire territory of the Netherlands. In the entire Battle of the Lowlands, the Dutch suffered only more than 1,000 casualties, and then honestly surrendered to the Don army.

The Tang Army also successfully occupied important cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, and the entire Dutch Navy also became the trophies of the Tang Dynasty, in the process the Dutch Navy did not fire a single shot, after the Tang Army stationed in Den Helder and Amsterdam Military Port, the Dutch Navy did not resist at all, and lined up in a not very neat line, saying to the representatives of the Tang Army, we will not play, the ship will be given to you.

The strength of the Dutch Navy was not bad, with a total of seven cruisers and eight frigates. The seven cruisers were divided into three classes, the largest with a full load displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and the smallest more economical and applicable, only about 4,000 tons, but these cruisers were light cruisers with a maximum caliber of 155 mm guns. Because it is generally affected by the military standards of Datang, the caliber of 152mm has never appeared. The frigates are divided into two classes, with four ships of each class, all of which are more than 2,000 tons of cargo.

The technical level of the Dutch Navy is not high, not to mention the large number of ships that Datang has eliminated, even the British Royal Navy and the German Navy at this stage are inferior. Datang didn't have much interest in these ships, and they didn't like to occupy berths when they were thrown in the port.

The advantages of full control of the Netherlands are very numerous, all important ports in the Netherlands can be used by the Datang Navy, and can accept the docking of Datang's transport ships. Both the Netherlands and Belgium have good industrial capacity, and although they are still relatively small compared to Britain, France and Germany, they can at least meet some of the logistics needs of the Don Army, such as the production of ammunition and other military supplies.

Datang also intends to arm a group of relatively reliable Dutch and Belgians to join the anti-EU army, although the two low-lying countries are small in size, but there are more than 30 million people combined, although they have been influenced by some EU reactionary ideas before, but Datang is confident that it can be corrected.

After the end of the Low Ground Campaign, the Datang Navy began to carry out more frequent activities in the waters of the North Atlantic to ensure sea supremacy, and to ensure that its own transport ships could smoothly reach Antwerp, Rotterdam and other ports to provide the needs of the Tang Western European Front. However, the Datang Navy did not engage in relatively large contact operations with the EU Navy. In fact, the British were very shrewd, in order to prevent the Tang Air Force and the Navy from bombing the British Royal Navy's baby-like fleet, so at the beginning of the war, the British Royal Navy withdrew from the military ports in southern England, some wandered on the sea, and some went to the military ports of Northern Ireland and Scotland.

The Tang Air Force did bomb British military ports such as Portsmouth, but the scale was limited, at most two brigades, because the main focus of the Tang Army was on France and Germany, and the bombing of Britain was just a warning and a greater part of scare. Britain did not have any substantial losses.

The three aircraft carrier battle groups deployed in the North Atlantic direction by Datang were not easy to send out to attack the fleet of the British Royal Navy when the Lowland Battle broke out. When the Battle of the Lowlands ended, Datang's three aircraft carrier battle groups were scattered, and one aircraft carrier battle group held the English Channel in order to protect Datang's merchant ships from reaching the port of Hobia; The other two battle groups were in the direction of the North Sea, looking for traces of the British fleet.

was also released, as well as the huge Tang Dynasty battlefleet. Datang arranged ten battleships here, plus various escort ships, and it was also a huge fleet composed of more than 30 ships. The battlefleet will not be far from an aircraft carrier battle group, because its own air defense capabilities are still limited after all, and it must be able to be supported by aircraft carriers.

Strategically, the Tang Navy had to prevent the German naval fleet from breaking through the narrow Baltic Sea and joining up with the British Royal Navy. Although this does not mean that the Datang Navy can't beat them, it will definitely be a little more troublesome at that time, so the Datang Navy has begun to blockade the Danish Strait since the war started, blocking any non-national ships from entering the North Sea.

The strength of the German naval fleet is not weak, at this time there are as many as 7 battleships, more than 10 cruisers of various types, of course, what makes Datang feel more troublesome is that Germany has built a U-boat force of hundreds of submarines.

Among the European navies, Spain and the Netherlands are willing to degenerate, France is a little directionless, big but not strong, but Britain and Germany are working very hard here. In addition to large capital ships, the main direction of development of Britain was aircraft carriers, but light aircraft carriers, so as not to occupy the slipway where they built large battleships; Germany's main development direction is submarines, and the quiet growth of U-boats is something that Datang is very concerned about.

In fact, Britain, France and Spain also began to build their submarines after getting the early submarine technology of Datang provided by Germany, and after absorbing and digesting these technologies, it is not difficult for these naval powers to produce light submarines of more than 1,000 tons, and the threat of submarines to Datang is very serious, and even Britain once proposed that Britain mainly build large ships, and other EU countries concentrate on manufacturing submarines to threaten the Tang Army, but each country has its own thoughts and interests, and such a proposal is impossible to pass.

Germany's submarine force is the largest, unlike German surface ships that are mainly located in ports on the Baltic Sea coast such as the port of Kiel, the main shipyard of German U-boats is the Wilhelmshaven shipyard on the North Sea coast, and Wilhelmshaven has also become the main home port of U-boats. The Germans had already sent a large number of U-boats in the waters of the North Atlantic, forming a challenge to the Datang Navy.

The Datang Air Force bombed Wilhelmshaven, Germany, destroying some of the facilities of the shipyard, due to the depth of the water, Wilhelmshaven could not be built into a submarine base with underground caverns like the Datang Sanya Naval Base, so the submarines were exposed to the water, this wave of bombing also buried the Germans ten U-boats, but there are more such submarines in the sea.

Therefore, the fleets sent by the Datang Navy to the English Channel and the North Sea to carry out escort and search for the main British fleet are most worried about the threat not British battleships and aircraft carriers, but these lone wolves underwater. (To be continued.) )