Imperial Overlord

Li Le asked Rommel to wait for half a month, on the one hand because the African Army really needs to rest, on the other hand, because he has to wait for an event in history!

In history, the United Kingdom attacked the Italian military port of Taranto when North Africa was playing smoothly!

That sneak attack sank the Italian battleship Littorio and caused heavy losses to the Italian army huddled in the port.

The sneak attack gave Britain temporary control of the Mediterranean Sea, laying the groundwork for reinforcements to Greece and other operations.

Of course, in history, this sneak attack started when Britain won in North Africa. Now everything is unfavorable to Britain on the North African battlefield, so Li Le does not know whether the British will launch a counterattack to attack Taranto.

But Li Le felt that Britain might try to kill a part of the Italian fleet before leaving, so that the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean could not move westward and threaten the British Navy's H fleet.

"After all, with General Rommel's victories in North Africa, the chains of the three British fleets will be broken by us!" Li Le pointed to the map and analyzed a large number of generals.

He scratched the Suez Canal with his hand and continued his speculation: "The basic structure of the three fleets of the British Navy supporting each other is under threat, so the British will inevitably take countermeasures."

"My head of state, your analysis is very accurate. If I were the commander of the British Navy, I would also find a way to contain the Italian fleet at the last moment." Admiral Raedl said.

After the launching ceremony of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin, some generals of the naval, land and air forces held a combat meeting against the United Kingdom in the port of Kiel.

This meeting was not about landing on British soil, but about expelling the British fleet from the Mediterranean.

After all, the Italian side's war on the Balkans has reached the final preparation stage, and Li Le and his generals do not want to intervene in the complicated Balkan issues this time.

After all, the ethnic groups there are complex, it is simply a guerrilla paradise, and it is the source of a European turmoil.

Cutting off the supplies of the British to Greece and other countries, letting them lose to Italy, and handing over that mess to Italy is what Li Le has been thinking about.

"If the Italian fleet is liberated and the safety of the Mediterranean is handed over to the neutral French fleet, then the British fleet H will undoubtedly be tied to Gibraltar!" Rader said confidently.

In any case, it may be good to say that the Italian fleet is in general combat effectiveness and that the Italian navy lacks fuel, but as long as Italy pushes the fleet to the south coast of France, the British navy will have to take over!

And as long as the Italian fleet moves westward, the only British fleet that can handle it is the H fleet! There is no doubt about this, and there is no need to infer!

At this time, there is a very interesting problem before the British: the local fleet must not only conduct anti-submarine warfare in the Atlantic waters, but also beware of the Germans landing on the British mainland!

The direct consequence of this is that the British mainland fleet is under too much pressure, but cannot receive effective support - the mainland has fallen into a crisis.

Before, or in the course of, this happening, if Germany's well-prepared surface fleet entered the Atlantic, Britain would have collapsed.

Without a real strategic battle, the British navy itself would have collapsed completely overwhelmed.

The most direct consequence was that the British Navy was unable to prevent the German fleet from raging in the Atlantic, sinking hundreds of transport ships, and the mainland was completely isolated and helpless.

Of course, for Britain, there is another way to die: mobilize a fleet to encircle and suppress the German naval fleet, and then be taken advantage of by the German army and land on the mainland!

Both ways of dying are very convenient and quick, and in about a month, the country of England will cease to exist, or be reduced to a second-rate small country in Europe forever!

"So, the navy speculates that the British will definitely think of some ways to delay the occurrence of this situation." Rader stood on the other side of the huge map of the Mediterranean and explained to Li Le.

"The British Mediterranean Fleet now has an aircraft carrier Radiance, and the head of state believes that the British Navy will use this aircraft carrier to make some fuss." After drawing a circle at sea, Redel pointed to Port Said.

The current home port of the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet is Port Said. This is the throat port that can immediately exit the Mediterranean from the Suez Canal.

The British navy chose here because it was ready to leave the Mediterranean as a last resort.

Of course, until the last moment, the British Mediterranean Fleet is reluctant to leave the Mediterranean Sea, after all, this is a part of the mutual support of the British naval strategy!

"I have already stated the importance of the aircraft carrier fleet in naval battles, and you have seen the fleet's aircraft carrier Zeppelin." Li Le had to give his generals a good technical lesson in future naval battles.

For a large group of generals who have never seen future naval battles at all, I hope they really realize the role of aircraft carriers and are familiar with this role. Changes to future wars can only allow them to truly experience the power of aircraft carriers.

Zeppelin is the teaching aid for this class, a necessary tool to intimidate these generals with their physical size.

"At one time, many people believed that aircraft carriers could only carry light aircraft and could not challenge the kingship of battleships." Li Le pointed to the models of various aircraft and ships on the table and began to pour out his theoretical knowledge.

This set of rhetoric has been spoken to Rader once, and after Rader's choice and summary, it has become today's speech of the head of state.

After fully summarizing the experience of using Japanese and American aircraft carriers, Li Le can be said to be the most thorough researcher on aircraft carrier tactics in the world so far.

His explanations also ranged from technology to tactics, so that all the generals here understood the huge role of aircraft carriers in war.

"Now! Our own aircraft carrier can carry more advanced fighter jets, allowing Stuka to take off from the sea!" he said, pointing to the model of the aircraft in front of him.

"These planes can carry bigger bombs and can mount fish attacks! This allows the fleet to attack enemy battleships from 200 kilometers away!" he said as he walked over to the battleship model.

"200 kilometers... The battleship still doesn't know where the enemy is, and the battle begins!" Li Le said while shaking the model of the battleship twice, simulating the attack of the aircraft.

"Gentlemen! The battle will soon be decided. The battleship will be sunk by torpedoes, but the main guns will not even have a chance to fire!" Li Le gave his conclusion with a smile.

"My head of state, what if the number of aircraft taking off from the aircraft carrier is not enough to threaten the battleship fleet?" an admiral asked.

"Marshal Goering! How many planes do you think will be guaranteed to sink against a battleship?" Li Le did not answer the admiral's question, but turned to Goering.

Goering stood up, sneered and said, "If there is no problem with sight, 15 planes will be enough. If I say... one is almost the same."

His contemptuous answer made the air force commanders around him laugh, but the naval generals looked ugly and dismissed this answer.

"The Zeppelin can carry 30 attack aircraft, which is definitely more than enough to attack a battleship!" Li Le gave his answer, and Rader nodded to express his acceptance of this statement.

"Since everyone thinks the inference I said is correct, what about when the formation of the aircraft carrier fleet reaches a certain level?" Li Le said, pointing to the model of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin in front of him.

"When there are four or more aircraft carriers, the opponent's battleship fleet, even if there are 10, may be sunk!" He said as he walked to the Mediterranean map.

At this time, everyone is still discussing how important a round of aircraft carriers can play in naval battles.

The buzzing discussion in the venue was very lively, at least in the eyes of many people, the future of this kind of aircraft carrier fleet will eventually replace the battleship ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is very beneficial to Germany.

Compared with the number of battleships, Germany will not be able to catch up with the number of British fleets within 5 years.

Even catching up in numbers would not make up for the gap in training and command of battleship personnel in a short period of time.

But aircraft carriers are different! With the aircraft carrier, the German navy has found a shortcut to surpass the British opponent in a short period of time, just like the army surpassed the British in terms of tanks!

I heard that the Navy is making every effort to refit the aircraft carrier in the design of the Hindenburg-class battleship, increasing the number of aircraft carriers in the German Navy to five.

This is more than the British aircraft carrier! Does that mean that the overall strength of the German navy in the future will hopefully surpass that of the British navy?

For the German Navy, this is great news, or at least exciting news.

"Cough cough!" When he walked to the map, Li Le didn't give his generals much time, so he coughed twice and withdrew their attention.

He pointed to the port in southern Italy and said to all the officers: "So, let the British have the aircraft carrier Radiance in the Mediterranean! Then they use this aircraft carrier to attack the Italian military port. The possibility is very high!"

"This is also a tactic with a very high probability that our navy has discussed. It is very likely that the British will attack Taranto!" Rader followed, supporting the head of state's judgment.

"We have a judgment, there is only one thing we can do, wait there, and wait for the British to throw themselves into the net!" Li Le finally said and added.

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