"Thankfully, the French surrendered early, otherwise we would have had to meet in this ruin today. 【Full Text Reading】"Wander in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. Kesselring said with some smugness.

"As long as you can send us up, in a few months, you can celebrate our victory at Buckingham Palace, the British." A general of the 6th Army next to him said with a smile. In the end, Wilhelm II relived his grandfather's former glory, even more than what he did after the Franco-Prussian War! Although the coronation could not be held again at Versailles, Wilhelm II airlifted the entire German hierarchy, and from that moment on, Paris would become the general command of the German attack on Britain. Wilhelm II personally commanded this large-scale campaign. And named this battle "Emperor Offensive"! The leisure time before the meeting was beautiful and at the same time short, and after a few words of greeting with familiar people, with the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor, the final plan of the Emperor's offensive will be finalized in a few hours! The prelude to the Battle of England is about to begin!

Before the meeting officially began, the Red Baron and his subordinates frowned slightly as they held the battle sequence list that had just arrived. On the face of it, the Luftwaffe did put together 25,000 combat aircraft of various types for air strikes against Britain, and Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Spain also put together 10,000 planes on paper. This document was presented to the Kaiser and received his approval and appreciation. But when the popular baron got a copy of the document, he showed that it was boring! There may be 35,000 planes on paper, but the actual number of aircraft that can be used and the quality of the crew will probably be discounted!

"The attendance rate of the Condor Air Force and the Imperial Air Force is certainly not up to the standard on paper, and the former has been responsible for the ground support operations of the 6th Army. During the Battle of Toulouse, they were counterattacked by the other side, and the losses of ground support were relatively large. The intact rate of fighters can be about 8 percent, but the pilots can only guarantee 7 percent at most. They were supposed to be transferred back to the rear for repairs, but the General Staff nevertheless included them in the attack echelon. As for the Imperial Air Force, they fought with the American and British air forces from the beginning of the war, whether it was the beginning of the strategic bombing, or the later air battles of the Bay of Biscay and the Battle of Saint-Nazaire, they have always fought on the front line, although the Imperial Air Force has 18oo aircraft of all kinds. However, I estimate that after a long period of consumption, the units that can be used are only 6 percent, and they will definitely not reach the ninety percent intact rate on paper. Kesselring whispered. As a front-line Luftwaffe high-ranking officer, he naturally knew a lot about the situation of the various air armies.

"In that case. And to conscript these aviation forces from the General Staff and include them in the operational sequence? They're supposed to be resting. Didn't you make it clear in the report? Looking at his confidant and beloved general, the Red Baron is not too accusatory, but the dissatisfaction in his words has been exposed.

"They're already recuperating, and under normal circumstances, they should be able to recover as much as they put on the table. But in reality, we have a serious shortage of spare pilot resources. The plan drawn up by the General Staff after receiving the report was based on previous experience and rules, and they did not understand the overly specialized content. And the Kaiser demanded that they had to put together enough air fleets, so they had to do that. Major General Garland has moved on to Air Force training and training. He once told me that we were throwing the future of the Air Force. Kesselring's words were also full of helplessness.

After two estimates, Richthofen had a rough estimate of the Luftwaffe corps in his hands now, and 25,000 aircraft could indeed be scraped together. The General Staff did not lie about this, after all, it is easy to produce aircraft. The assembly line in Germany can fully meet the needs, but the available pilots are probably more discounted. It would be nice to have 22,000 of the 25,000 aircraft on standby. Among them, there are some newcomers who have just come out of aviation school and have never been on the battlefield! Faced with this situation. Richthofen was even less optimistic about the prospects, and he now preferred that the navy would completely isolate Britain as they said, and only then would the air force have any hope of victory!

So the Red Baron, who got the inside information, had to readjust his plan, but at this time, what he didn't expect was that his plan would have to be revised again in the next few days, because his plan only took into account the existence of some water in the Luftwaffe, but did not take into account the great shrinkage of the Allied air force! The French campaign was within the acceptable range for Germany. But for even such a country as Austria-Hungary, the tragic attrition of the French campaign was already close to the limits recognized by this country. The Luftwaffe was probably more than 2.5 times the size of Austria-Hungary. However, in terms of battle losses, the Austro-Hungarian air force accounted for more than 40% of the total losses of the German and Austrian air forces.

In addition to combat losses, scrap due to mechanical failure or other reasons was several times higher than that of the Germans. This fully exposes the weakness of being a third-class power. In the face of such heavy losses. Austria-Hungary, which had to import high-performance motives from Germany, naturally couldn't hold it, so the so-called shrinkage rate of 10,000 Allied aircraft can be described as amazing! According to Richthofen's later estimates, the most usable aircraft is no more than 6 percent! Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

The strategy set by the German space this time is to win step by step, and first cut out the defense of the British. Then we will focus on cities, industrial facilities and transportation hubs! After the baptism of the French campaign, the Luftwaffe also realized the limitations of strategic bombing, although the aircraft can easily cross hundreds of kilometers, but the difference between bombing a target 5oo kilometers away and bombing a target 1ooo kilometers away is not ordinarily large. If you bomb the former, you can drop 1oo tons of bombs with less than 25 HE177 bombers. The loss rate may only be 7%! If you want to attack a target in depth, it may take 5O HE177 bombers to achieve the same output, and you have to face multiple interceptions by the opponent, and the loss rate may be as direct as 15%. The Germans have limited capital, and they must make good use of the resources at their disposal. Moreover, the British were not far from France, and if the Luftwaffe attacked London, the British would have to fight a war of attrition with the Germans here.

"Remember, the first target of our strike was the British Air Force. The second target is the Air Force of the British, and the third is the British Air Force! Our blow to them must not end until the RAF is history! Aircraft in the sky, airfields and aircraft factories on the ground, radar stations, and command centers cannot be spared! "The Red Baron finally chose a more pragmatic tactic, and as many as 3o elite units of the Air Corps were deployed into a base system that stretched from France to Germany, and the whole of southern Britain would be the first target of the Germans! The largest strategic bombing in history is about to begin!

Just when the Air Force was carefully calculating the capital at hand, in a room next door. The bigwigs of the Imperial Navy are also thinking about future battle plans. At the beginning, Count Spee said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "As long as you fight with the Huaxia Navy again, then the High Seas Fleet will really be complete, and I have fought with all the naval powers in the world in my life." The value of a soldier has been fully realized! This somewhat peculiar and somewhat humorous opening line caused everyone to burst into laughter. But Count Spee knew. It's not easy, the German Navy's worst enemy is about to appear!

"Judging from the current situation, Huaxia's aircraft technology level is the highest, and we and the Air Force have suffered the loss of the Cascha Falcon in the Bay of Biscay, and this aircraft is really a miracle. From the beginning of the Iran war to the present, it has been the best, and it is truly an evergreen tree. I've asked the technical department if they can provide the Navy with a more advanced aircraft. And the answer of the technical department is no, because our motivation technology has entered a bottleneck period, and it is difficult for the liquid-cooled engine to go up after reaching more than 14oohp, and it is difficult for the BM8O1 to have a big improvement after reaching 17oo horsepower, so in the next year, we will not get a better fighter. Raeder's words cast a shadow over the minds of those present at the beginning of the meeting.

"But from the current point of view, it is unlikely that the Shicha Falcon will be on the ship, except for the British. Both the Chinese and the Americans are accustomed to using air-cooled engines on carrier-based aircraft, and we may not be as stressed as the Air Force. In terms of quality, the other side may have a slight advantage, and in terms of quantity, I think we can at least match the other side. And we have an advantage in the combination of carrier-based aircraft, we have a large number of dual attack aircraft using guided weapons, while neither the Huaxia nor the Americans have any, and to tell you the good news, our second Caesar-class battleship has been put into service, and in the next month, it can be added to our battle sequence! Then Raeder brought another piece of good news. And with this news. The originally somewhat dull venue was lively again, and after understanding its own fundamentals, the German Navy began to study its own future strategy.

Before the arrival of Count Spee and his party in Paris, the German High Seas Fleet had already arrived in Sardinia. And then to prepare for the move to the west coast of France, unlike in history, because this plane of French resistance is more tenacious. Moreover, with the help of the United States and Britain, although they still lost in the end, they turned many places into a scorched earth, and the original port facilities of France were beaten. The Germans were forced to carry out emergency repairs to the port in order to accommodate the large Allied fleet. Eventually, the German High Seas Fleet chose the central French port city of La Rochelle as the new point of support for the Allied Navy in the Atlantic. The reason why this place was chosen was because the degree of damage was relatively light, and it was far from the British mainland, so it was not afraid of reconnaissance and bombing by the British for three days and two ends. It's a little safer.

If you want to make a plan, you must first make a prediction of the other party's actions. Overall, the German Navy's dismantling of diplomatic relations during the French campaign was quite good, with wolves in the deep sea besieging convoys that lacked escorts. And by camouflaging the cruiser to relay information and get supplies. When the Allies began to escort the war, the Germans regained the initiative to break the engagement with their air cruisers. And when Raeder led the main aircraft carrier into the ocean, it was directly finalized, so that the Entente escort force suffered a serious blow, and even had to cut the volume of some routes! But as the situation keeps changing. The Germans now had to face a completely new situation, and their existing strategy had to be changed.

"On the whole, with the fall of France, the situation of maritime transport in the Entente countries did not worse, but improved. According to the estimate of the Admiralty, because there is no need to support the French 6th Army in the operation, and there is no need to keep a large number of 6 combat units in Europe, the monthly traffic of the Entente countries is about 4% lower than that during the European war, which means that the Americans can completely transport through the Panama Canal and the North Atlantic route, and the former South Atlantic transportation line can be completely abandoned. Said the Count of Luknal. The Entente could concentrate all their escort forces in the North Atlantic, and perhaps even use their main fleet to clear the way. ”

"Things may be worse than we imagined, at present, the Chinese Navy has at least 6 fleet aircraft carriers stationed in the United States, in this way, after the American aircraft carrier formation plus the French and the Chinese fleet, the total number can reach the scale of the original Atlantic War, plus some aviation technology advantages, then the other side is likely to take the initiative to seek war! The Chinese Navy is a very proactive navy, starting from their predecessor, the Beiyang Fleet, until the Saipan incident in World War I, they have never been afraid of challenges, they are good at looking for opportunities in the changing situation, and striking the opponent in maneuver! We must always be ready to fight another tough battle! Count Spee asked his assistant to take out a chart.

"Due to the bombing campaign of the Air Force, the Allied convoy could only be unloaded in Northern Ireland and northern England, so my blockade line was to be extended from France to Greenland! Normally, this blockade will be entrusted to submarines and aviation cruisers. If the existing Entente Grand Fleet is dispatched, we will choose a suitable position to fight the other side. As Baron Red said, at present, the German High Seas Fleet is facing much more risks than the Air Force, and it seems that more than 2o aircraft carriers of the High Seas Fleet are mighty and domineering, but only 2ooo aircraft can be pumped out.

You can take advantage of the maneuverability a few times, but the 6-base aviation can wreak havoc on you if it finds a chance! So Earl Spee will definitely not choose to fight the Allied fleet close to the island of Ireland, God knows whether the British Lancaster bombers are equipped with guided weapons, if there are, these terrible 4 big guys are much more terrible than the twin planes on German aircraft carriers!

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