Imperial Overlord

Wearing a decent navy uniform and letting the warm sea breeze blow on his face, in Kiel, an important naval base in Germany, he can't feel the cold wind from the Atlantic at all.

Because the Baltic Sea is in the distance, an inland sea protected by Denmark and Norway, there is almost no atmosphere of war here.

In addition to the large warships in the naval docks that are hurrying to transform, and the large ocean-going submarines that are being built overtime in the smaller docks next to them.

The scaffolding that was erected made the originally neat and classic German-style warship in front of it look a little messy and shabby.

However, this is indeed a new warship. Compared with the warships of the British Navy that have been in the water for some years, every warship in Germany seems to be young.

For example, the famous battleship Bismarck was a new type of battleship that was just launched in 1940.

However, with the order of the head of state in June, this battleship, which has just been commissioned and is regarded as a major concern by the British Navy, has to be modernized again.

Watching a brand-new battleship under construction in the dock, but unable to fight for their motherland, why not let the officers and soldiers of the naval surface ships feel haggard?

But the Fuhrer's order is not something that the weak navy can disobey now. What's more, the Führer also gave the Navy a huge benefit: an aircraft carrier Zeppelin.

"How is the construction progress?" Wearing the admiral's dress, Raedl asked his adjutant, looking at the beautiful battleship Bismarck, the crystallization of his life's hard work.

The person in charge of the shipyard who accompanied him smiled and replied for the adjutant: "Your Excellency Marshal, all the 37mm anti-aircraft guns have been replaced, and the progress of the project has been completed by more than 50%."

The battleship Bismarck was originally equipped with a 37mm anti-aircraft gun, which was a product of the German Navy itself.

The performance of this anti-aircraft gun is too poor, and the data is garbage to the extent that military weapons fans can't bear to look at it.

The loading method it uses is still the outdated manual single-shot loading, the rate of fire is low, and it cannot form a continuous barrage at all.

When the battleship Bismarck was in service, the air threat was actually not obvious, so the anti-aircraft weapons that the German army equipped this battleship could not be compared with those perverted battleships in the late World War II.

It is precisely because of the lack of attention to air defense weapons that the Navy has been using the backward "37mm caliber hand-pulled machine".

This nickname refers to the fact that when the 37mm anti-aircraft gun is firing, the breech block is closed and the firing is completed in one go. The gunner finally has a hand-pulling action, so it is widely circulated among military fans.

Bismarck, who used this weapon, was shot short by a torpedo when the British Navy dispatched an unadvanced swordfish torpedo attack aircraft to intercept it, which eventually led to the final tragedy.

In June, Li Le asked to use Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns to replace the 37mm single-shot anti-aircraft guns originally equipped by Germany.

As a result, the fire density of the German navy's anti-aircraft guns has more than doubled, and anti-aircraft machine guns have been added as supplements in some positions that originally did not have anti-aircraft guns.

The anti-aircraft firepower of the refitted battleship Bismarck has been greatly enhanced, which is also an effort by Li Le to prevent his battleship from being attacked by the enemy air force.

Thanks to his efforts, the aircraft carrier Zeppelin was 90% complete in a month, and the battleship Tirpitz was nearing completion.

If it weren't for the temporary installation of more anti-aircraft weapons and the conversion of all 37mm anti-aircraft guns into 40mm Bofors, Tirpitz's progress would have been faster.

Similarly, Scharnhorst, which is smaller in size and has fewer improvements, is already undergoing final commissioning, and the removed dock will be refitted for Prinz Eugen.

The major refit of the German surface ships is being carried out in an orderly manner. When all the surface ships are ready for battle, the strength in Rader's hands cannot be underestimated.

Once the configuration is complete, the German Navy has 2 new battleships, an aircraft carrier, several cruisers - it is definitely a large naval fleet.

With this fleet, the German army will be more sure to fight against the surface! With the submarine force, the grasp of strangling the British maritime transport line is even greater.

"The new Bofors anti-aircraft gun is much stronger than the original anti-aircraft gun." The adjutant who has tested the new artillery is still very fond of this modification.

The rear of the Bofors anti-aircraft gun is an upright wedge-type breech block. The action of opening and closing the breech block is usually completed automatically by the artillery recoil, which improves the automation and the firing speed of the artillery.

The feeding mechanism above the barrel has 3 rows of fixed rails, each row can accommodate a magazine. Empty magazines are automatically removed, and the loader can keep the gun firing as long as he keeps changing the magazines.

The main gunner only needs to step on the firing pedal, and the loader is responsible for reloading the shells in a standing or sitting position in time, and the rate of fire of more than 80 rounds per minute can be maintained.

In comparison, the 37mm anti-aircraft guns originally equipped by the German Navy had a rate of fire of less than 40 rounds per minute at most.

With such advanced weapons, the naval battleship is even more powerful, and the modification work is also very fast, which makes Redel very satisfied.

In a secret air force base not far from the Kiel naval port, the training of naval aviation has also been in full swing.

Forty new, specially modified me-109s and their pilots are being adapted to take off on deck.

They sketched the outline of the carrier's deck on the ground, and then trained how to take off and land in the small space.

In fact, their training did not go well, at least the pilots believed that the me-109 fighter, whose landing gear was designed to be too anti-human, was not suitable for taking off and landing on an aircraft carrier.

Pilots prefer another fighter, the fw-190, and air-cooled engines are also more popular than liquid-cooled engines within the Naval Air Force for the same reason.

Some pilots, after flying the improved Stuka bomber Navy version, believe that even the Stuka is much easier to maneuver than the me-109 during the landing of the aircraft carrier.

Thinking of this, Redel couldn't help but feel a headache. Because of this matter, he was already a little red-faced with Goering.

Redel wanted the fw-190 fighter jet, converted into an aircraft carrier-based fighter jet, for Zeppelin and several later aircraft carriers.

However, the powerful combat effectiveness of the fw-190 fighter in the British air battle, and the longer range, made Goering reluctant to give up the valuable production capacity of the fw-190 fighter.

Now the fw-190 is also the heart of the Air Force, and it is even more difficult for the Navy to get a piece of the pie. Therefore, Raedl had to continue to endure the pitiful landing control of the me-109 fighter jet and train the first German carrier-based aircraft pilots.

Although the me-109 fighter is not suitable for the ship, the modification work has been completed, and Redel already has several planes that can be used for training.

So this group of German pilots may be the most dangerous fighter pilots in the world - they have to fly a very risky aircraft to land on the narrow deck of an aircraft carrier.

The good news, of course, is that once they're combat-ready, they're much more powerful than the carrier-based aircraft on the British Navy's carriers.

Compared with the biplane torpedo attack aircraft like the Swordfish, the Stuka bomber is obviously more modern.

In 1940 and 1941, British naval fighters also used "Sea Fighters" on monoplane fighters, as well as two-seat fighters such as Tubiyan.

These aircraft are obviously not the opponents of the combination of the German Navy's upcoming me-109t and Stuka c.

"Alas... it would be great if Goering could give up the production line of fw-190 fighter jets." As if talking to himself, Raedl looked at the Bismarck battleship in the distance and sighed.

The Imperial Navy has grown from nothing to its current glory in his hands, and the two new battleships have given him the confidence to cut off Britain's fragile sea lifeline.

As long as his navy attacked with full force, Britain would be instantly passive and then forced to surrender.

"Let the Scharnhorst find an opportunity to go to sea first, and order General Lütjens to cooperate with the submarine as much as possible to destroy the enemy's transport fleet." Raedl ordered.

The battlecruiser Scharnhorst is a classic German assault ship design, as well as a classic large ship with small guns.

With a full-load displacement of more than 37,000 tons, it uses a 3-mounted 283mm caliber main gun. This design idea gives Scharnhorst a maximum speed of 33 knots.

The basic tactics of German warships~www.wuxiaspot.com~ have evolved from fighting against the main British fleet during World War I to a hit-and-run guerrilla warfare today.

Under this tactic, all German warships are high speed, thick armor configuration. And a relatively economical and efficient small-caliber artillery was used.

The Bismarck battleship used a 381 mm caliber main gun with a displacement of nearly 50,000 tons. In contrast, the Japanese Navy with small boats and cannons, the Nagato battleship with a displacement similar to that of the Scharnhorst, was equipped with a main gun of 410 mm caliber.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the naval treaty between Britain and Germany restricted the normal development of the German navy.

In order to deceive the British surveillance and reassure the United Kingdom of the development of the German Navy, the German Navy has been trying its best to show the enemy's weakness.

Under normal combat conditions, the caliber of German warships of the same level is smaller than that of British ships, which makes the British Navy feel at ease to allow the German Navy to complete its own shipbuilding plan.

But who would have thought that the day these warships were built, it was not for a decisive battle with the British fleet?