Imperial Overlord

"It's better to inform the United States and the Soviet Union... We do our duty, and whether we can reduce our losses depends on their own ability..." The politician said with frost on his face, as if he had frost on his face.

Less than an hour later, Zhukov got a telegram document from Turkey. The content on it really made him laugh and cry.

The Turkish call claimed that a large Axis navy had passed through the Turkish Strait, with more than 10 battleships and "countless numbers" of warships accompanying them.

Just such a vague announcement made Zhukov feel powerless - the Soviet Union only had one old World War I-era battleship staying in Sevastopol, how could it be able to resist?

If you count the fortress artillery, you can still hit a dozen. But the premise is that the German fleet with such a large scale is only here to attack Sevastopol?

In addition, the Germans were not afraid of Soviet aviation harassing their fleet? Aren't you afraid of fortress artillery?

Zhukov, who couldn't figure it out, handed the message to Vatutin, who also felt that what happened was a little too strange, and it was a little incredible.

In fact, what they didn't guess was the high-profile purpose of the Axis powers. But in fact the goals of the Axis powers are just those superficial ones that appear on the surface.

It is undoubtedly an unwise choice for Germany to waste a huge navy. On the premise that the United States is completely unable to threaten the Atlantic Ocean, using the Navy to enter the Mediterranean Sea for coordinated operations is an easy plan to implement.

In addition, pulling France into the water is far more politically significant than military. As long as France is tempted once, it can be tempted for the second time, sending a fleet at sea, it is possible to send an army on land!

At the same time, there is another point, that is, the German Navy lacks the ability to command large fleets. All the admirals of the Axis navies, including Lütjens, commanded at most a "guerrilla fleet" composed of several warships.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient command and mobilization ability, it has become a top priority to exercise the troops' ocean-going mobilization ability and the fleet's joint command ability while the enemy has no time to clone.

Taking advantage of equipment, it is no problem for German admirals like Lütjens to carry out hit-and-run attack missions, but it would be completely whimsical if the German navy made it clear that the chariots and horses would fight with the American fleet in the Pacific Ocean.

The German navy does not have that kind of combat experience, nor does it have that kind of dispatching ability - so this time is basically Lütjens's ocean-going training, an operation with a training nature.

Another point is that the German Navy actually has its own shorter shortcomings! Compared with the joint command of large-scale fleets, the German Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities are also a headache.

Because the original combat mission of the German Navy was to break wars, they were destroyers, so they did not have the habit of learning defense skills at all.

The destroyers originally built by Germany are all tyrannical to sea to air, the level of anti-submarine warfare technology is poor, and the performance of weapons is not on the table.

In this case, after the German Navy defeated the United Kingdom, it strengthened its naval anti-submarine training, hired a large number of British anti-submarine destroyer commanders as its own instructors, and strengthened the anti-submarine capability of the naval **** fleet.

At the same time, many commanders of the German submarine force have also been promoted to captains of anti-submarine destroyers, the purpose is to allow them to reverse the operational thinking of submarines and complete anti-submarine operations more actively.

But training is always training, and there must be actual combat testing to know whether this training is effective or not.

Therefore, finding a soft persimmon to pinch it and testing its anti-submarine combat capability has become a small goal of the German Navy in the short term!

Compared with the powerful and experienced U.S. submarine force, the Soviet fleet in the Black Sea has a small number of submarines, and its technology is also very backward. It is definitely a good target for sparring.

In addition, the increasingly abundant supply of heavy oil has also strengthened the determination of the German navy to go to the Black Sea for actual combat training and testing.

The final purpose of this fleet, and the most intuitive purpose, is to attack Sevastopol and the Soviet fortress group on the Kerch Peninsula!

To be honest, the work of transporting the Gustav artillery is too hard. This thing is really easy to use, but the time and energy spent laying the rails all the way has made the D group the biggest army.

What's even more depressing is that that thing is a consumable item. After about 40 rounds of shells are fired, the barrel of the gun will be useless and can only be replaced with a new one.

But Li Le didn't prepare a new barrel for this thing at all - after he crossed over, although he didn't have time to suspend the production and assembly of the Gustav cannon, he suspended all subsequent related production.

Therefore, Li Le intends to use aviation and fleets to solve the difficult problem of the Sevastopol fortress.

In order to overwhelm the artillery in the fortress, the Axis fleet assembled a total of 17 capital ships, with 72 380/381mm caliber artillery, 10 356mm caliber artillery, and several 330mm and 320mm caliber artillery.

This data has overwhelmed the Soviet coastal defense artillery force in both quantity and quality - Sevastopol only has more than 100 coastal defense artillery, of which only 8 305mm caliber artillery can be counted as combat effectiveness, and 18 280mm caliber guns.

Comparing the calibers, it can be easily concluded that the firepower of the Axis fleet is about ten times that of the Soviet army!

If the air combat power is not calculated, the Axis fleet can complete the task as long as it fires outside the range of the Soviet coastal defense artillery and destroys the Sevastopol fortress bit by bit.

In order to cover this fleet~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the Luftwaffe deployed more than half of the fighter and bomber units under the D Army to prepare to cover the Axis fleet entering the Black Sea.

With the accompanying 6 aircraft carriers and more than 200 fighter jets of various types carried on the aircraft carrier, it can really be said to be foolproof.

You know, the Soviet Union deployed in Sevastopol, or the Air Force aircraft deployed on the Kerch Peninsula, there are only less than 500 aircraft.

It turned out that there were still more than 600 aircraft, but as the war progressed, almost all the experienced pilots have been transferred from here, and more than 100 fighter jets have also been transferred.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to rely on the remaining combat aircraft and the remaining rookie pilots to defeat the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft force.

After this calculation, the head of state approved the Atlantic Fleet to enter the Black Sea for operations, and it became a matter of course.

But Zhukov really couldn't understand why the German army was mobilizing at this time to let such a huge fleet come to the Black Sea...