Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 51: Army and navy ball game

Although the problem of the landing craft has been solved, it is just a lot of problems in landing operations. A landing craft alone cannot complete a large-scale cross-strait landing. During this time, the German logistics and transportation department is working hard to search for suitable large ships from all over Europe. This is the main force of the navy's landing and transportation.

The combat staff of the Führer’s Base Camp took a lot of effort to let the combat staff of the Army Command understand the difference between landing across the strait and fighting across the river, but this does not mean that the group of guys are ancient elves. Wooden head. This is a group of rigorously educated war mads who have an amazing sense of smell and understanding of the military. After they touched on the new rules of the game, they immediately abandoned the original landing plan that could be seen as a joke and came up with a new sea lion plan that was amazing to Xu Jun. The level of detail exceeds that of previous battle plans. The German bones The rigorous and pragmatic style here has been brought to the extreme.

In the army’s new plan, large ships became the main soldiers of the landing fleet and the equipment began to transfer to small landing ships after crossing the strait line. Tank landing ships chose to tow across the strait, and the first attack wave was in the distance. They gathered at a distance of five kilometers from the coast and then launched an onshore attack.

This is an amendment made by the Army staff after fully considering the characteristics of the English Channel and studying the British Coast Defense Special Report on the opposite side. The English Channel is a special sea area with no wind and three-foot waves. According to the original plan, if soldiers were to take the shallow-bottomed boats directly on the French coast, the physical strength of the Germans would almost end up on the sea before reaching the British coast. After it was dark, God knew that there were still a few people who had the strength to rush to the beach. Choosing to transfer on the Strait Line, even if it only shortens the distance by half, the soldiers can retain a lot of their physical strength. At least there will not be a bunch of German soldiers staggering on the beach as machine gun targets with soft legs.

However, the staff members have not forgotten to constantly emphasize one point in the plan. For the landing operation to be successful, it must be completed on the basis that the Germans have fully grasped the strait’s sea and air dominance. At the same time, the landing force also needs to obtain the German navy. Fire support with the Air Force. In particular, the navy must be able to protect the safety of the landing route, otherwise the plan will only be a picture of the army and a big kick to the navy.

The German Army has an extreme lack of trust in the capabilities of the German Navy. To be honest, the Navy is indeed unreasonable. Even Ryder himself had a personal view of the possibility of the Navy mastering the strait, not to mention the group of guys who had seen a naval cruiser full of army officers sink in front of them.

Although the German navy has not fallen in strength in the past few months, it has risen, while the British Royal Navy has lost its troops, but after all, the lean camel is bigger than the horse. The overall strength of the two sides is still not much different. The British Royal Navy still has one at a critical moment. Fighting force. The German army now only has an overwhelming advantage in the number of battleships, but the special nature of Strait operations has greatly discounted the combat value of battleships. On cruiser destroyer-type ships suitable for operations in sea areas such as the Strait, the Royal Navy has no absolute advantage over the German Navy in terms of quantity or quality.

Reidel took his staff to almost permanently stationed in the combat department of the command during this time. One is to cope with Xu Jun's call at any time, and the other is to cope with the inquiries of the army generals at any time. The key is to avoid the crazy captains who are crying for battle under him.

Ryder has been well-known for this period of time, but no one knows that he is suffering right now. The pile of wealth from the robbery flowed away like a waterfall on the berth, and at this stage, he only had three patched British battleships. The repair cost of the power system alone caused Riddle to smash into most of the heavy cruisers and almost made him angina for half a month. Moreover, these imperial warships still lack matching ammunition. The Krupp Ammunition Factory has worked overtime and only a dozen samples have been produced. Test firing is underway. I don't know if there are any sequelae.

The construction reports of several new types of warships are still on the desk of the head of state until now. It is said that the head of state has been very strategizing for this, and it is not clear what coup is there. Anyway, no one has been sent yet. Manufacturing batch.

The new submarine is undergoing final finalization work. Raidel hasn't seen the drawings yet, but the look of Deniz, who is involved in the development work, is flying. I know the performance must be good. However, according to the order of the head of state, the production of all old submarines will be stopped before the introduction of the new boat type. Now along the canal line, most of the submarine berths are empty. If it weren’t for a few damaged submarines under repair, otherwise it’s true. The same as the ruins.

Although the only new ship, Bismarck, entered service early after the heavy money was dropped, the rookies on the ship are still struggling to get rid of the hull, various new equipment is being debugged, and the naval gun has only been tested three times so far. It seems that the recent battle cannot count on her.

As for the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, even the shell was not pecked open, and the upper half of the hull was peeled off again. Now lying on the slipway is like a squid that has been opened. It is said that the head of state is still rowing on the drawing, and it seems that there will be no miracles by the end of the year.

So, the old Riddle calculated that what he had on hand was still the old ticket. Moreover, most of its soldiers were old, weak and disabled, and most of them were scarred. Although the stitches were removed after treatment, it would take a lot of time and energy to restore their original strength. The few that were intact were rushing wolves at sea to cooperate with the submarine to kill them all around. After returning to Hong Kong, they will be refurbished for a while.

Although the repairs of those ships have been completed, gaps in personnel replenishment have begun to appear. Almost all the reserve personnel of the German navy's surface ships have been pushed up. Even the sailors of the naval tugboat have been called out to supplement the first-line fleet. If it hadn't been for Denitz's posture that he was going to kill his life, Ryder would have been forced to use the brains of the submarine students. The navy is an absolute technical unit, unlike the army, which can just drag a farmer into his hand and send a rifle to the training field for eighteen weeks to kick on the battlefield. The development of naval officers and soldiers is a systematic project. The basic naval navigation training alone is far more than 18 weeks.

This is the most depressing problem for Raidel right now. If this continues, no matter how many warships are built, it can only be a pile of scrap iron, and no matter how good warships are, someone will have to drive them.

The problem that caused Marshal Ryder's headache more than the personnel crisis was that the High Command intended to let the German Navy in its current state seize control of the English Channel. This is not something that can be done just by saying. Raidel knew the strength of the Royal Navy very well. He was not like his group of captains after a few beautiful victories, and he could ignore the group of natural sailors on the other side.

The initial landing plan of the army almost made him jump up and scold his mother that the guys actually asked the navy to be responsible for protecting the maritime safety of a 320-kilometer-long landing area. This is simply joking that the Royal Navy is not dead yet. If the Royal Navy is desperate and muster all its forces to rush into the strait desperately, it simply cannot be resisted by the current German Navy.

What's more, Britain still has a strong air force. Once the British army cooperates three times in sea, air and shore, the final result is self-evident. Either the entire German navy is annihilated or the landed army is annihilated, and it is more likely that the two are destroyed together.

Whoever kind of loss will be unbearable, Germany will not be able to bear it, and it may even completely bring Germany back to its original shape.

So Rydell and the army staff began to lay out facts and reason, and they struggled until the new plan was released without producing a feasibility report. In the end, Xu Jun slapped the table angrily, and found that he couldn't continue to wrestle, and then he bit his head and worked out a battle plan with his staff.

The last proposal made by the Navy was to reduce the landing area to within 100 kilometers. If the Army agrees to this proposal, then the entire fleet will be dispatched to cooperate with the minefields to defend both sides of the landing route and go all out to defend the landing route. Security.

Xu Jun remembers that ~IndoMTL.com~ In the original history of the world, the German navy and army were also arguing with each other on this same issue. The reason is simple. In the final analysis, both lack confidence in their abilities.

Since the Army has no experience in landing across seas, it lacks confidence in landing. This is why it wants to expand the landing area as much as possible, in order to disperse the defensive strength of the British army. The navy has no confidence in the control of the sea through the strait, so it desperately demands to reduce the landing area and protect the safety of the landing forces with the cooperation of minefields.

Now, the two tongues finally reached a consensus and unsurprisingly, just like Xu Jun's original history of the world, they finally kicked the ball to the feet of the Luftwaffe.

Raidel patted his chest and said that if the Luftwaffe could control the strait air supremacy, prevent the Royal Air Force from attacking the German navy and cooperate with the navy, he would be able to ensure the maritime safety of landing operations and also hold the strait supply line.

The Army’s opinion is also the same. If the Air Force can seize air supremacy and the Navy can ensure the security of the Strait, the Army has absolute certainty that it will successfully land in Britain, strip Churchill and send it to Xu Jun.

The result of the Army and Navy ball game turned out to be that the ball was shot into the Air Force goal.