A autumn rain caused the temperature in southern Germany to drop sharply. The German Navy Commander-in-Chief Redel personally went to the "cliff castle" in southern Bavaria to meet the head of state. Half an hour after the navy marshal arrived at the head of state's vacation villa, a detailed report was made.
The latest German Navy development plan was placed on Hitler's desk.
Since the war began, the overall performance of the German navy has made the head of state very disappointed. Except for the "Scharnhorst" sunk the British's "Glorious" airship in the Norwegian Battle, which has a slight flash, the entire
The German naval surface ships were forced to stay in the port for most of the war and do nothing. If the submarine force had not been satisfied with its performance, the head of state would have long been about to get angry at the naval generals.
Marshal Goring's claim that only the Air Force could force the British to surrender was not realized. During the summer bombing of the British Isles, the Luftwaffe's losses seemed to exceed those of the British, and they expected
The situation where the British could not withstand large-scale bombings did not appear. Moreover, the British showed a momentum of becoming stronger and stronger. In the past month, the losses of the Luftwaffe have become increasingly large, and it is difficult to organize them again.
Effective large-scale bombing.
The Air Force's failure in combat reminded the head of the empire again of the navy that was shrouded by him. It seems that the navy will eventually need to solve the problem with the island country.
"Erich, when will our fleet break into the ocean and cut off the British supply line?" Hitler said, looking at the commander-in-chief of the Navy sitting opposite.
"Dear Head, without the support of aircraft, the fleet cannot carry out continuous ocean-going operations. The empire's navy has no airships and the navy has no aircraft. In this case, going to sea to fight is tantamount to suicide." Raider
The marshal said calmly, "If you want to completely cut off the British shipping, you have to build an advantageous fleet of surface ships as the Chinese did to the Japanese. The course of the war has proved that aviation warships will fight in the future.
Even the Italian Navy can severely damage the British's main fleet with just two modified aviation warships."
The Navy Marshal had to complain to the head of state that Air Marshal Gore had been obstructing the navy's aviation warship development plan, leaving the German Navy with no aviation warships completed and put into service. The USS Ziberling and Strassell are under construction.
The aviation ship was ordered to be suspended by the head of state, and the German navy was simply unable to fight with the British on the ocean.
Comrade Mussolini boasted in front of the head of state with the Italian Navy's victory in the Battle of Oran Bay, which made Hitler feel embarrassed.
"Is this why the navy plans to buy two aviation warships from the Chinese?" Hitler looked at the development outline submitted by the German Navy, which mentioned that if the German Navy wants to make a difference immediately, it must go through diplomatic channels.
Two active aviation warships were obtained from the Chinese.
"This is exactly what I am considering these two days. The Chinese are interested in transferring two active aviation warships to us. They need us to involve American energy in the Atlantic Ocean." Hitler lowered his head and looked at the table.
Searching on the combat map. After a while, he raised his head and looked up and down at Redell and said, "Even if we get these two warships, how can the navy drive them back to the country?"
"If the negotiations are successful, our naval personnel will travel from Italy to China, after receiving the warships, there will be half a year of sea training. In the summer, we can return to Germany via the Arctic Ocean route. On the other hand, if we are in the Chinese
With the help of the two special mixed fleets, we can also bypass Africa and return to Germany from the Atlantic Ocean. Unless the British go out all the main forces, they will not be the opponent of the special mixed fleet with two aviation warships at sea.
.” Marshal Redell said that the Admiral had already made detailed plans for these plans.
Soon, Foreign Minister Ribbintrop was also summoned to the head of state's office.
"Joachim, how are the negotiations with the Chinese about purchasing warships?"
"It's not very smooth. Master!" Ribintrov, who was not tall and wearing a pair of glasses, stood in front of the boss with a respectful and humble expression. "The Chinese currently also need aviation warships. They use the urgency of the war as a reason.
Refuse to sell us the battleships, but they agree that they can build new battleships for the Empire."
"We urgently need airships to defeat the British, Ribbintrov!" The head of state said with displeasure. In the Three Kingdoms Alliance, the Chinese seemed to attach more importance to the role of the Italians and have always spared no effort to support Italian arms.
For Germany, it has almost always been limited to technical exchanges and cooperation. Even rare metals such as nickel, chromium, tungsten, manganese, and antimony that Germans urgently need, require the Germans to pay for gold and silver to buy.
Aligning with the Chinese is also a helpless choice. Americans disdain to deal with the Germans. They are close relatives to the British, and Republican China is the only country in the world that can match the Americans. Their steel production is 45 million
Tons are second only to the United States and have a total population of several times more than the United States. This is something that no country in the world cannot compare with. The population of the entire Europe is less than two-thirds of that of China.
The Republican Army is the most well-equipped army in the world. The degree of mechanization of their army is simply incomparable to the Germans. They also have the largest naval fleet in the world. Even Americans cannot match it now.
contend.
"Dear Head of State, although the Chinese rejected our suggestions, we still have something in our hands that would make them concessions." Ribbintrov said carefully: "They were for the French from China in the Louvre Palace.
The plundered cultural relics are very interested. If we agree to return these plundered cultural relics and give appropriate prices to those two warships, I think the Chinese may be moved by our sincerity.”
"Great! Joachim, negotiate this issue with the Chinese immediately, France, Belgian, Dutch, and Denmark, we can all return it to them!" Hitler said excitedly, "There are 1.5 million in China.
We must also make good use of this power in the German expatriates.”
"In addition, the Chinese do not want us to attack the Soviet Union before completely defeating the British. They think this will cause great trouble to our cause." Ribbintrov continued.
"It's impossible. They've almost occupied half of the earth, and we just want to free the suffering Ukrainians and Belarusians under the slavery of the Russians." Hitler said, "We're forced to put it into practice."
Half of Poland was given to them, and afterwards they occupied a large area of Finland and annexed the Baltic coastal countries. We could no longer bear it. If our actions were later, they would still attack the Romanians."