readx;?“ The unfolding of any campaign revolves around three elements, our situation, the enemy's situation, and the friendly army's situation! As long as we can do these three things, we are only half way to victory! Raeder muttered to himself as he looked at the large-scale charts hanging on the wall! The small blue flag representing the German fleet has been planted at the eastern entrance to the Gulf of Aden, and the small green chess piece representing the air support unit is on six airfields less than 5oo kilometers away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info_ Ya> Wen _8w·w·w-.-y'

A circle drawn with a blue dotted line marks the combat radius of the Navy's carrier-based aircraft group, while several other huge circles drawn with a green dotted line represent the attack radius of AR234, the combat radius of TA152, the cover radius of 262, and so on. Several curves represent the various preset routes of the Air Force. In addition, there are some scattered dots on the map, scattered around the battlefield, these dots represent various reconnaissance aircraft of the Luftwaffe Navy and Air Force, Raeder has never relaxed his attention to reconnaissance, until now, when others have firmly believed that the opponent is in the Gulf of Aden, Raeder still dedicates a considerable part of his forces to maintain vigilance in other directions!

"Tomorrow, everything will be over! Win or lose. This confrontation, which lasted for more than two months, will end in blood and fire. Maybe that's a relief for us, right? Count Luckner said after pouring a cup of Ceylon black tea for Raeder.

"You seem to be confident in tomorrow's battle?" Raeder looked at his former rival and said to his old partner.

"I can't think of a reason to lose, they almost fought on our preset battlefield and the advantage of us! Whether it is quality or quantity, we have an advantage, the offensive force is a magic box force covered by a large number of fighters, and the defensive force is a defensive network composed of 262 Storm Bird fighter units, and the Skua 3 fighters in China have no advantage. Plus the adversary is in such a small sea area. It is impossible for our attack to be missed. Tell me, how do we lose? Count Luknall asked rhetorically.

That's why I'm upset! Our hole cards were already played in the battle with the Americans! We don't have any secrets in front of Huaxia, and their reconnaissance planes may already be able to distinguish every AR234 bomber! Our fleet is also under the watchful eye of the other side, don't tell me you didn't see those Huaxia fast reconnaissance planes flying from southern Iran!

So now the question arises. Yawen8w-w'w-.=y-a-w-e·n=8'.What confidence does Huaxia have to fight us in such a passive situation? What do they rely on? What other hole cards do they have? In front of his old friend, Raeder's uneasiness and irritability were expressed, and he did not give the final order to attack because of the uneasiness in his heart! He did not believe that the commander of the Chinese fleet could be so stupid. Therefore, on the one hand, he stepped up reconnaissance of the surrounding battlefields, and on the other hand, he asked the Air Force to continue to test the Chinese fleet left in the Gulf of Aden to see what they were doing!

And everything that followed seemed to confirm Raeder's fears, and there was an accident when the Luftwaffe AR234G reconnaissance aircraft was conducting its last approach reconnaissance! A new type of aircraft that has never been on the battlefield easily shot down this peep! "Their hole card is a jet fighter! Huaxia has achieved a large-scale launch of jet aircraft! I see! Raeder said thoughtfully.

Now, the hard questions that were bothering him had finally been answered. Huaxia really has a backhand! They hid this hole card very well and it was not revealed until the end! Previously, even if the German AR234 bombers were cruising near the Huaxia fleet, they did not let the Huaxia carrier-based jets sort! Until the situation reaches the point where it is irreversible! The fleets of both sides are already approaching each other's attack radius! Seeing that he was about to copy the guy and prepare to open the film, Huaxia's hole card was played! On this point, Raeder had to say that the other party was very tolerant! And admire this spirit!

Huaxia's hole cards were indeed a bit out of Riedel's expectations, he didn't expect the other party to actually achieve something that the German Navy's efforts had failed for several years! However, when the final hole cards were revealed, it was seen in Raeder, although the opponent's hole cards were a little tricky. But it did not go beyond the limits of tolerance of the Luftwaffe! Raeder and the Red Baron drained almost all of their elite troops for this battle, even if the other side had a certain number of jets? The German Navy could likewise get cover from jets! With a small gap in quality, Raeder believes that his numerical superiority can completely overwhelm his opponents!

"The fuel consumption of jet aircraft is relatively large, so the stay time of Huaxia jet aircraft will not be very long, plus the degree of attack aircraft cannot keep up with jet aircraft, so their fleet is likely to be divided into two groups, the first wave is used to tear our air defense network, and the second wave is composed of carrier-based attack aircraft. If the opponent attacks now, the Storm Birds may not be in time. But it doesn't matter, as long as they can catch up with the second wave of the Huaxia attack cluster, by that time, their fighters should have already returned. Yavin 8w-w'w-.=y-a-w-e·n=8'.And the attack aircraft will be escorted by the Skua fighters, and the Stormbird can hunt the most threatening guys of these fleets! Soon, a rough plan came out of Raeder's brain!

The advent of jets is truly subversive! However, in terms of tactics, there are still many problems with the direct coordination of new aircraft and old aircraft, and the jet aircraft is fast, so fast that the average propeller aircraft is directly thrown away. Two-like propeller planes can't keep up with the extent! In particular, it is difficult for attack aircraft carrying bombs to form formations with jet fighters, and in this way, the escort role of jet aircraft is greatly reduced, and because of the small range, it is difficult for jet aircraft to fly over the battlefield for a long time and maintain the suppression of the opponent's fighter fleet, so that the significance of jet fighters to the attacking side is limited. Of course, for the defenders, relying on strong flight performance, the improvement of defense by jet fighters is definitely a qualitative change! At this time, the German fleet was in a defensive advantage, and the opponent's "main force of the Chinese fleet" was limited by the pitiful internal oil of the jet planes if it wanted to attack!

Raeder has a very good grasp of time, and there is a saying in China that if you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle! Considering the combat radius of the Storm Birds and the distance from the fleet, the German Navy top brass believed that only when the alert warships on the periphery appeared in the enemy's attack aircraft group, and then sorted, could they avoid the Chinese jet fighters to the greatest extent! The best-case scenario is that when the Huaxia jet fighters are forced to return due to fuel pressure, the Luftwaffe storm birds go up and stab their opponents fiercely!

As for the offensive forces? It's not up to Raeder to decide. Except for the agreement that the German Navy provided 4oo fighters to cover the Magic Box group, all other offensive plans were developed and implemented by the Luftwaffe, and even the escort aircraft provided by the German Navy had to be handed over to the Air Force command. Frankly. The news that the Chinese fleet had jets shocked the Luftwaffe even more than the navy, because the Luftwaffe needed to engage the opponent's jets with a half-hanging aircraft like the AR234 without the jets providing adequate cover! The Luftwaffe, as the attacking side, was also limited by the lack of time for jet planes to stay in the air!

Of course, it's too late to say these things now! As the so-called arrow on the string has to! Even if the German Navy itself did not want to fight. The Chinese fleet may not let the Germans leave safely! And the 6-base aircraft was able to provide the Luftwaffe with a very short period of cover! Once the 6 base air force of 262 has to be evacuated because of the fuel exhaustion, the German fleet may be completely in crisis, the difference in strength between the two fleets is too great, Raeder estimates that if there is no air force support, then at most two attacks, the German fleet will be destroyed! So, if the German fleet wants to live! You can only use the peak moment of your strength to defeat your opponent and block your opponent's attack at the same time!

When a certain situation is close to the plan envisaged by the generals, the generals will act according to their own plans, like a sophisticated machine. Once activated, it will be a chain reaction, at this time, even if the current situation is a little wrong, the general will ignore these problems for a while, and a kind of inertia of thinking will guide the general to act until he realizes the mistake, or cannot continue! And this time Raeder is completely caught up in this inertia!

Although Summer did a lot to make the Germans as hooked as possible, there were still many loopholes, for example, there were no Chinese reconnaissance planes around the German fleet. At the same time, there is not much radio communication for intelligence exchange, of course, the biggest loophole is that the Huaxia fleet has not sent a large-scale attack group until now! This was unthinkable before!

If Raeder could calm down, he would have a problem. In fact, the battlefield between the two sides has already been decided, and the German Grand Fleet will not be able to evade the reconnaissance of China if it advances in the direction of the Gulf of Aden, and even if the Germans are lucky enough to meet the opponent before Huaxia, the Chinese fleet will definitely be able to appear in the German fleet very quickly, after all, the German fleet has a small combat radius of carrier-based aircraft. And the scale of the main forces of the Huaxia fleet is too large, and the number of reconnaissance aircraft is hundreds! If the Germans were facing the main fleet, then such a high-density reconnaissance would soon be able to show the German fleet, followed by a ferocious attack! But until now, the blow of the Huaxia fleet has not come, an hour has passed, and the German perimeter alert fleet has not even appeared in the incoming aircraft group, does it not explain the problem?

But alas, Raeder subconsciously ignored all this! When he was highly concentrated, information stimulated him! He couldn't wait to play all his hole cards! Raeder quickly informed the Air Force of the approximate location of the Huaxia fleet, and the AR234 bomber group, which was already on standby, immediately flew to the target under the cover of the escort group dominated by TA152 fighters and DO335 fighters! With the dispatch of a large number of propeller aircraft, the German ME262 is also on the battlefield again!

A small part accompanied the AR234 group to launch an attack on the Huaxia fleet, while the other part flew to the German fleet, ready to provide cover for the German fleet, and in just a few dozen minutes, the powerful sea and air forces that the Germans had been preparing for months were quickly activated! Even after more than 2 years of bloody battles, the Luftwaffe still has a strong force and can still play a wave of sharp counterattacks on the local battlefield! The formidable Ar234 bomber swarm roared towards the target, surrounded by hundreds of various propeller fighters!

With the addition of electronic warfare aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft, the huge formation of nearly a thousand aircraft of various types can indeed make any fleet frightened! Even with the strength of the Huaxia Fleet, if you don't die, you have to lose your skin! After all, in the years when there were no anti-aircraft missiles, the only effective interceptor weapon in the face of bombers carrying guided bombs was an airplane, and the flight degree of the AR234 was enough to drive almost all propeller aircraft crazy!

Just when the Air Force was concentrating on the strongest wave of attacks, the German Navy's aircraft carrier formation was also releasing its own aircraft group, but unlike when the nearly two dozen aircraft carriers released hundreds of carrier-based aircraft in one round, this time only the fleets directly under the command of Count Luknall and Raeder were releasing fighters! The spectacle of 5oo fighters roaring off from deck and hundreds of planes circling over aircraft carriers is indeed terrifying, but for these German naval high-ranking officers who have witnessed the pinnacle of the German High Seas Fleet, such a scene can be described as insulting!

Even judging from the size of the German fleet now, 5oo fighters are far from reaching the upper limit of the fleet's aircraft capabilities, and the hundreds of planes of the Germans back then were a large number of aircraft, including attack aircraft and twin bombers! After the release of this wave of cover aircraft, a large number of fighters remained on the decks of the aircraft carriers of the German fleet! And after an hour, the fleet of 6 releasing aircraft will reach more than 4oo racks! For a period of time, there were about 9oo aircraft (mainly fighters), which was the ultimate ability of the Germans!

But alas, this wave of attacks is for defense! If you count the ME6 fighter group that flew from the ground to support the German fleet from 262, such a defensive force is probably the strongest defense group in the history of the German Navy! And when the radar of the German Navy saw the fast group flying from the direction of the big 6, Raeder's heart finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that there would be no problems with his fleet. But even so, such a force seems to be a little insufficient in the face of the upcoming attack!

At this point, the Germans have played all their hole cards, and all Raeder can do is wait slowly, waiting for victory or defeat to come!

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