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"The German naval supply convoy in the Persian Gulf has left the port of Basra, and they are heading south after leaving the bay with an unknown destination."

"The appearance of German naval ocean-going reconnaissance aircraft on the southern coast of India is increasing with increasing frequency. There are even places where these reconnaissance planes can be seen every day. ”

"Traces of German submarines appeared at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca, they tried to cross the strait, but were stopped by our destroyers and anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and the Navy sank one of them. From the captured prisoners of war, we learn that the Germans seem to have used completely new secrecy measures. ”

"If nothing else, the Germans are going to carry out a big operation in the Indian Ocean." After listening to the latest military intelligence report, Xu Jie fell into deep thought, he just said at the naval conference a few days ago that the Germans would not make a big move in the short term, why did the Germans come out in a blink of an eye? Isn't this a blatant slap in the face?

Of course, face is small, and how to deal with it is the key. Will the Germans come out with great fanfare this time against the United States and Britain, or at China? After some analysis, Xu Jie believes that both are very likely. In order to avoid the attack of the Luftwaffe's long-range bomber force and preserve the small number of air forces in India, the main air bases of the United States and Britain are all in the eastern coastal area of India, and they are very scattered, extending from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka in later generations.

These air bases, far from the battlefield, pose a great threat to the future German strategy of India. They took full advantage of the long range of Allied aircraft to constantly hinder the German offensive, and the German airfield construction was obviously slower, and it was not economical or safe for heavy bombers to take off from the rear. The range of the Germans' single-engine fighters is still too short, and the number of twin-engine fighters similar to the DO335 is already insufficient, and it is even difficult to defend the mainland!

Therefore, Xu Jie thinks that the German Navy is very likely to use this opportunity to stab the United States and Britain in the back! Moreover, in terms of the current degree of dispersion and combat effectiveness of the US and British aviation forces in India, there is really no way to face the elite Allied fleet!

First of all, the air force is too dispersed, and an airfield or an air base is generally only a wing of air force. But what can you do with an aircraft in your early 100s against hundreds of wolf-like sea-based air groups? The aviation forces of the United States and Britain are not like those of China, which is concentrated on a few main islands of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. And the power of the United States and Britain is scattered in almost the entire South Asian subcontinent! This density is not at the same level!

The second is that the hardware is not good. The profession is not right! To be honest, the air forces of the United States and Britain are far from China and Germany in terms of scale and technical equipment in terms of ship-to-ship attack capabilities. It's not that they can't do it technically, but they haven't thought about using weapons like guided bombs or missiles at all, and the efficiency of using torpedoes and bombs alone will naturally be worse.

This is true of both professional naval assault forces. This is even more true of these aviation units stationed in India, which were originally mainly based on air supremacy operations and ground support! According to intelligence, less than one-fifth of the US and British air forces stationed in India have received a complete attack on ships! Moreover, among the one-fifth of the aviation units, the reception is mainly reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare, and in the face of the Allied fleets with a well-established defense system, let them go up to fight. I'm afraid the result can be described as tragic.

Therefore, Xu Jie believes that there is no numerical advantage, the density is even more of a coffee table, and the counterattack ability can be described as a tragedy, and the American and British aviation forces in India are a piece of fat in the eyes of the Germans! There is such a big meal on the plate of South Asia, and there is no reason why the Germans should not eat it!

Of course, the so-called grass and rabbits, so close to the west gate of China, the Germans may also come here to visit. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are China's most important westward expansion bases. There are ports that can accommodate large fleets to dock and replenish, and there are many aviation bases and logistics facilities, which is an important center and bridgehead for China to enter the Middle East. And all this can be a reason for the Germans to make a sortie.

If you look at it only by the strength of the forces along the coast of the Bay of Bengal. The air forces of the three countries, which have a huge total amount but are scattered, have the ability to protect themselves at best, and it is almost impossible to rely on the superiority of land-based aviation to fight back. If the Chinese fleet did not move, the Germans could at least retreat in their entirety.

"So what did the Germans think of the Chinese fleet? Are they really confident that they will retreat in full force under the flanking attack of the Chinese land-based aviation and fleet? Or do they think that the Chinese fleet has just returned home and is not suitable for another attack? So you're going to come up and pick up this leak? Suddenly, Xu Jie somewhat understood the other party's thoughts. Eighty percent of the Germans are looking down on the power of China!

"This is an opportunity! Really let Su Mo say right, if you want to fight well, maybe you can really end the war half a year early! If you are under the cover of land-based aviation, I will really not be able to deal with you, and if you take the initiative to jump out, you will be killing yourself! Count Spee: What's the matter? Quite a steady person. Why are you so impatient? It's not his style! Xu Jie kept complaining in his heart!

Although it is possible that the Germans will go in a circle, or they may have flipped a shot and concentrated on helping the land-based sweep of the west coast of India. But no matter what, Huaxia must seize this opportunity! Shortly after the order to bring the Huaxia fleet into first-class combat readiness just two days earlier, the order for an emergency dispatch was issued again. And this time, in order to be more covert, the whole fleet will be dispersed and assembled in the predetermined assembly area, and it will definitely not go through the Strait of Malacca, but will first go south from the various islands of Indonesia in the future, and then assemble after reaching a sparsely shipped water, like sailing in a northwesterly direction. Bypass the Strait of Malacca and even the Andaman and Nicobar Islands! Make a large-scale strategic detour at sea, and if you are lucky, the Chinese fleet will appear behind the back of the Germans! Then unleash the fatal blow!

With Xu Jie's order, the Huaxia naval fleet, scattered in ports across Southeast Asia, began to assemble rapidly. At the same time, the air force of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands began to increase rapidly, and at least 15 fighter wings were sent to this most important westward base in China! These air forces came from Thailand, Burma, Sumatra, Java, and even transferred from Taiwan and Guangdong! The main task of these fleets was to deplete and advance the German Navy.

At the same time, ocean-going reconnaissance aircraft units subordinate to the General Staff Headquarters have also increased their troops in the waters near the Bay of Bengal. Huaxia even negotiated with the United States to use its aerial reconnaissance forces in the Diego Garcia and Chagos Islands in the central Indian Ocean to monitor the movements of the German fleet. An invisible net began to gradually unfold, just waiting for the Germans to send it to the door!

Just as the Chinese navy was preparing to welcome this guest from afar, the Allied fleet had already left the Gulf of Aden and joined up with the supply fleet from the Persian Gulf, and a huge fleet of hundreds of warships of various types spread out on the sea. Several detachments are spread over an area of several hundred square kilometers! After the Battle of the North Atlantic, the German Navy reached the peak of its power again in just a few months!

This time, however, even the mid-level generals understood that they had exhausted most of their pre-war reserves. The Caesar-class aircraft carriers that started construction in front of the station have all been put into service so far, and the construction of new large aircraft carriers has just begun, and within 2 years, the Germans may not be able to obtain a supercarrier like Caesar! Now is an important turning point period, and the power of the German Navy is continuing to rise? Or is it gradually shrinking. It depends on how this battle goes! The pressure on Count Spee and others was even greater than when they first fought with the United States and Britain during the Eastern Atlantic Naval War!

The fleet assembled by the Germans was even larger than the previous two engagements, and this time it was really a general mobilization within the Allied fleet, with the German High Seas Fleet, the Austro-Hungarian Fleet, the Spanish Fleet, and the Turkish Fleet all in place! The number of aircraft carrier detachments even reached 5! The number of aircraft carriers in the fleet has once again exceeded the 20 mark! And in terms of quality, it is much higher than the last battle in the North Atlantic!

Raeder's First Aircraft Carrier Strike Group is the same as last time, with two 18,000-ton aircraft carriers Blücher and Von der Tann, two Moltke-class aircraft carriers Moltke and Goeben, and the Spanish fleet's Ibilis. It is equipped with 450 aircraft of various types. This is also his good luck, in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Allied fleet sank 4 ships, and the other three squadrons were sunk, but the Raeder fleet was almost completely retained. So this time the establishment remains unchanged.

Count Luknar's 2nd aircraft carrier squadron lost one aircraft carrier Ryutsov in the last engagement, and the fleet number of aircraft carriers was only three. However, this time the proud disciple of Count Spee was a blessing in disguise, in order to make up for the loss of combat power of the second aircraft carrier battle group. The old earl handed over a Europa-class fleet carrier to Count Luknal. Although it is still 4 armored aircraft carriers, its combat effectiveness is stronger than the original, and the number of aircraft on board has reached 450!

The biggest change is still the third aircraft carrier formation directly under Count Spee, in the last North Atlantic battle, its two medium fleet aircraft carriers Tiger and Panther, were sunk, and the Europa aircraft carrier was assigned to Count Lukner, the original 7 aircraft carriers are now only 4 left!

But it doesn't matter, this time, the three new fleet aircraft carriers of the German Navy were all arranged in the hands of Count Spee (the Catherine, the King Albert and the Regent Louitpold)! The two Europa-class aircraft carriers Hamburg and Bremen, as well as five Caesar-class supercarriers, make up the most formidable presence in the German High Seas Fleet! The average aircraft capacity of these 5 Caesar-class supercarriers is around 110 aircraft. The number of twin-engine aircraft is 45, and the rest, except for some anti-submarine and electronic warfare aircraft, are all aircraft! The combat effectiveness is very strong, and the total number of aircraft carriers on board 7 aircraft carriers reaches 750 aircraft! The number of twin-engine attack aircraft is around 280! Its output is almost 40% of the entire fleet!

Relative to the last battle of the Atlantic. The only downsizing is the Austro-Hungarian fleet, this time the fourth aircraft carrier group led by Holdi is still 4 aircraft carriers, but unlike the last 4 Louden-class armored aircraft carriers, this time he only has 3 Louden-class aircraft carriers and a 18,000-ton Silesian aircraft carrier. And although the aircraft were replenished with the help of the Germans, they were all old FW190A aircraft. In addition, some novice drivers are flooded with it, and its combat effectiveness is still lower than last time!

As for the fifth aircraft carrier formation? Within the German Navy, there were some well-wishers who even called it a miscellaneous fleet! This fleet consisted of Spanish and Turkish aircraft carriers. They are composed of the 18,000-ton Spanish aircraft carrier and the 27,000-ton Turkish aircraft carrier Istanbul and Baghdad, with only 3 ships! The number of carrier aircraft is only 300. Not only is the scale ranked last among the 5 sub-fleets, but also not good in terms of quality, the two Turkish aircraft carriers are not even equipped with FW190A, and Raeder and others even saw the long-lost fighter on it! It reminded them of the time when the war began!

The combat effectiveness of this fleet is so weak that it is considered by Count Spee and others to have almost no anti-ship attack ability, because the number of attack aircraft on it is very small, and the level of training is also very poor! The combat missions of this fleet were also limited to air defense operations, and the attack missions were not carried out by them at all!

"Or I'll give the Ibilisi back to the Spaniards, the fifth aircraft carrier formation looks too ......." In the end, Raeder didn't say the word shabby, this is too hurtful!

"There is no need, they are just air defense tasks, it is a waste to give him an aircraft carrier equipped with a large number of attack aircraft, and there may even be problems with coordination. That's it for now. Earl Spee said.

As a result, after some preparations, the total number of fleet aircraft carriers owned by the Allied Combined Fleet reached 23! Among them, there are 5 supercarriers, 11 (Caesar-class) large armored aircraft carriers (3 Europa-class aircraft carriers, 5 Moltke-class aircraft carriers and 3 Loudon-class aircraft carriers), 2 medium-sized protection aircraft carriers (two Turkish aircraft carriers), plus 5 18,000-ton light protection aircraft carriers!

And these 23 aircraft carriers already have more than 2100 carrier-based aircraft! And most of the planes on it were newly refitted fighters and new twin-engine bombers by the Germans. After months of preparation, the Allied fleet has finally reached the peak of its strength once again!

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