Mediterranean Hegemony Road

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London

There is a fierce quarrel within the British government. The world war has progressed to the present, and the supply of materials in the British Isles can no longer be guaranteed.

Submarines operating in the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Pacific Ocean, and aircraft raging over the British Isles seriously threatened their material transportation.

Secretary of the Interior Comples took the lead in expressing his dissatisfaction: Since May, the enemy's fighter planes have become more and more rampant. On average, the number of enemy planes that appear above our heads every day has not exceeded 1,500 sorties.

Just now the enemy launched a large-scale raid on Berlin, causing tens of thousands of casualties and millions of people homeless. Even the German government had to hide to work.

What would we do if this happened in London? When will the Air Force be able to guarantee the safety of our heads?

Other problems can be put aside first, the enemy plane above the head is the real killer, and now they go to and from get off work, they all feel like they are working with their heads up.

Since the fall of the Strait of Gibraltar, the British Isles are no longer safe, not only the threat from the sky, but also the rumors that Bulgaria will conduct a landing operation.

It doesn't matter if it's true or not, anyway, they have to prepare as if it's true, otherwise if the enemy suddenly comes over, wouldn't it be fatal?

The English Channel is too narrow to guarantee the safety of the British Empire. As long as they do not gain air supremacy, they will be in danger for a day.

I'm sorry sir, I can't answer this question for you. The Royal Air Force has limited strength and cannot shoulder this important task! Air Force Commander Hugh Caswall Dowding said indifferently

Originally, as early as 1938, he should have retired, but because of practical needs, his application for retirement was delayed indefinitely.

It is precisely because he has been in this position for a long time that General Dowding truly understands the strength of the British Air Force. If he wants to rely on the power of the Air Force to protect their safety in the sky, it is better to expect God's blessing.

Since the outbreak of the Battle of Britain, the Royal Air Force has lost 2,648 fighters, 3,876 pilots, and even more logistics personnel.

This is only a local loss, and the air force deployed overseas has suffered even more. The air forces in Sicily and Egypt have been completely wiped out, and the pilots of the South African Dominion have refused to take off.

As the saying goes, a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. Now Hugh Caswall Dowding doesn't matter anymore. It doesn't matter whoever it is. Now the Royal Air Force's family property is kept somewhere.

General Dowding, do you know what you're talking about? The people fed you with money. At this time, you tell me that you are not capable of guarding the airspace of the British Empire. What are you doing for food? Comples asked sharply.

That's enough, Mr. Comprice, stop playing bureaucratic here! How much is the military budget allocated to our air force every year?

Do you think it's still a war? Any aircraft can go to the sky to fight? said Hugh Caswall Dowding with a sneer

Are the British short of planes?

There is no shortage!

Ordinary planes with backward performance are everywhere. Although they are not as happy as Bulgaria, it is not a problem to gather seven or eight thousand planes casually.

However, there are not so many aircraft that can go to the sky to fight. As soon as the British air battle began, the Royal Air Force automatically retired half of the fighters.

There is no way, these mediocre fighters are completely giving the enemy a record, which is a waste of the pilot's life.

Pilots are also a precious resource, especially fighter pilots. In order to ensure the number of pilots, the British have to repeatedly compress the training time of pilots.

For the sake of safety, the training base of the Royal Air Force is no longer in the British Isles, otherwise these rookie pilots would be thrown into the street during the training.

Now the Bulgarian fighter planes are cruising over the British Isles every day,

If they happen to meet each other, it will be meat buns beating dogs.

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Before Comprice could finish speaking, Churchill stopped the quarrel between the two.

Enough is enough. Today is for you to discuss countermeasures, not to listen to your quarrel! What everyone needs now is to help each other and find a way to tide over the difficulties together.

The enemy has already hit our doorstep, and the English Channel can no longer protect our safety. Once the enemy lands, what can we do to stop them?

This is the most realistic problem. In the era of aircraft carriers, the Royal Navy no longer has the power to coerce the world. With continuous bombing, the British no longer have the arrogance of the past.

Now that they have lost their air supremacy, if Bulgaria wants to land on the British Isles, theoretically it is no longer a problem.

It is impossible for the Royal Navy to defend the English Channel. Even at night, they dare not dock at all. Even at night, they must be careful for fear of being discovered by the enemy.

Since Bulgaria used its air force to attack the Italian navy in World War I, they have realized the importance of air defense.

Unfortunately, the British did not expect the situation to be so bad, and lost air supremacy at the beginning of the war.

Minister of State Will Lauren said worriedly: Your Excellency, the enemy's attack has shown signs of intensification. Our intelligence personnel have discovered that Spain, France, North Africa and other regions are building airports.

If we don't take action, the number of warplanes that will appear over Great Britain in the future will not be as small as it is now, maybe three thousand, maybe five thousand.

With the strength of the Bulgarians, even 10,000 or 20,000 are just a number. I can't imagine what will happen if so many enemy planes appear overhead!

This kind of terrible result, just thinking about it makes everyone shudder.

With Bulgaria's industrial production capacity, it is not a problem to manufacture 70,000 to 80,000 aircraft a year. It will not be surprising if the production capacity exceeds 100,000 with the addition of a group of allies such as France and Austria-Hungary.

Looking at the size of Bulgaria's air force, in just a few months since the war broke out, the number has swelled to 1.27 million, and it is still growing.

The other members of the Holy Alliance are not idle either. Even the fallen Netherlands and Belgium have gathered hundreds of pilots.

Not to mention big countries, perhaps no one has hundreds of thousands of potential pilots like Bulgaria, but a few thousand people can still be taken out casually.

Considering the huge population base of the Holy Alliance, as many pilots as needed can be trained, and tens of thousands of planes will ravage the British Isles in a few months, and it is not a myth to cover the enemy's landing.

The pan-international front is no good. Except for the two main forces of the United Kingdom and Germany, the other member states are all making up the numbers. The industry is almost zero, and the military can only be soy sauce.

General Dowding, can the air force go out to meet the enemy? Churchill frowned and asked.

Your Excellency, we are accumulating strength. Every day we will add dozens of fighter planes. What the enemy hopes most now is that we will fight with them to achieve the ambition of destroying the Royal Air Force! Hugh Caswall Dowding thought want to say

Churchill frowned and said: But the enemy's fighter planes are also increasing. Due to the enemy's bombing, our local factories have been forced to move, and we can only produce secretly. In terms of quantity, we have no way to compete with them!

Now our local production capacity is negligible, most of them are produced in North America, and then shipped to the local area for assembly.

However, the enemy's submarines have not been idle, and the main force of the Bulgarian navy has left the Mediterranean, holding back the Royal Navy.

We don't even have enough warships to escort the transport fleet, and the survival rate of the material ships transported to the mainland in a single route is only 94.3%!

In addition, we must also consider the political impact. There are not many neutral countries now. If they are turned to the Holy Alliance, this war will be even more difficult to fight!

94.3% sounds like a good number, but in fact it is already very scary, which means that if you take a British route, you will lose 5.7% of the capacity.

After one trip back and forth, the nearly one-story ship sank in the ocean. At such a loss rate, the ship can be replenished quickly, but the crew is consuming the heritage of the British Empire.

At this time, no one cares about the attitude of neutral countries. Except for the Holy Alliance, which is the pan-international front, other countries have no time to hide. Sending supplies to the British at this time, isn’t it self-inflicted?

Bulgarian submarines and French submarines are all in the Atlantic Ocean. Many times when they see a ship, they just launch a torpedo, and they don't even bother to read the national flag.

At this time, the merchant ships of the Holy Alliance will not appear here, and the remaining neutral countries in Europe dare not have any objections.

For example, in the tragic Portugal, more than ten ocean-going merchant ships were sunk in just a few months. Didn't they swallow the bitter fruit themselves?

They couldn't even find anyone to protest, and they didn't know who was sunk. There are submarines from six or seven countries in this area. Who do they turn to for reasoning?

In the end, they had no choice but to reduce maritime trade as much as possible, and even if they wanted to go, they had to take a detour to avoid accidental injury along the offshore industry.

Not only Portugal, but Denmark, Norway, Sweden and other countries are also considering whether to give up their neutral status and join the Holy Alliance.

Everyone is not a fool. The British will sink their ships. Neutral ships exist and can help transport supplies.

However, it is different for the Holy Alliance. These ships are dangling in the Atlantic Ocean. God knows if they are delivering supplies to the British?

For the sake of safety, let's just sink it first. Anyway, there are many contradictions among European countries, such as the relationship between Spain and Portugal.

At this time, there is no surprise for the Portuguese to stalk the Portuguese. Anyway, even if they have the evidence, it is useless. Now the Holy Alliance is still forcing them to stand in line!

For example, Switzerland couldn't help it, and the Holy Alliance directly embargoed their supplies on the grounds that they were still trading with the Germans.

As a neutral country, if it does not trade with the Germans, what kind of neutral country is this?

However, it is different from the standpoint of the Holy Alliance. It is an indisputable fact that the trade between Switzerland and the Germans has increased the war potential of the Germans.

The Swiss are naturally not stupid, they have discovered this problem a long time ago. Now it is blocked by the Holy Alliance at this time. If it continues to trade with the Germans, then the next trouble will be big.

Take the issue of food, for example. Switzerland’s local food production is limited, so it has to import part of it from the outside world. There are also industrial products that need to be exported and imported raw materials from the outside world.

These are not what the Germans can provide. At this time, the Germans need the assistance of the British, and they can’t meet their own needs. How can there be surplus materials for them?

The British are also aware of these issues. If the situation on the battlefield continues to deteriorate, it will not be long before the major neutral countries in Europe will abandon their neutrality and join the Holy Alliance.

The strength of the enemy is growing, and their life will be even more difficult under the ebb and flow.

Hugh Caswall Dowding said with a wry smile: Your Excellency, everyone is clear about these issues, but the enemy is strong, what do we use to fight?

From the beginning of the war to the present, the pilots of the Royal Air Force have almost changed a round, and the new pilots are still in training. You must know that not all pilots can fly fighter jets!

The enemy is now waiting for us to fight and consume them. If the air force attacks now, we will fall into their trick!

Don't forget that the Royal Air Force is the biggest threat to the enemy's landing in the British Isles. As long as our strength still exists, they will not dare to act recklessly!

Foreign Minister Attlee frowned and said: General Dowding, judging from the current situation, it won't be long before the Swiss will join the Holy Alliance. How long can the remaining Denmark, Norway, and Sweden last?

Once these countries have joined the Holy Alliance, then our life will be difficult, and it will be even more difficult to win this war!

These countries fall to the Holy Alliance, and the first unlucky ones will not be the British, but only the Germans in the center of Europe.

As long as you look at the map, you will know that the life of the Germans is already very difficult. Under the background of enemies on all sides, it is very good that they can hold the line of defense.

If Switzerland enters the field, then the Germans' line will become longer again, and the military pressure will further increase.

Don't look at Switzerland as a small country, and it doesn't have much military strength, but this is likely to be the last straw that crushes the Germans.

This layer of window paper, everyone tacitly did not pierce it. At this time, it is very difficult for the British to support the Germans.

Since the implementation of the Bulgarian bombing strategy, the British have been exhausted, and they had to form a large army on the mainland.

This consumed a large amount of supplies, and the aid originally expected to the Germans had to be greatly reduced. Coupled with the looting of the Holy Alliance submarines, the situation became even more severe.

According to the current situation, the Holy Alliance does not need to attack with all its strength. If it continues like this, the Germans will collapse by themselves in two or three years.

As the so-called dead friends never die poor, there are people in the UK who advocate abandoning the Germans, and at the same time use diplomatic means to stir up internal conflicts in the Holy Alliance and disintegrate this anti-British group.

Of course, this kind of voice cannot become the mainstream, and it is less than the most pessimistic capitulators.

Regardless of how difficult this operation is, the most important thing is that even if this alliance is disintegrated, they still cannot win this war.