The Third Reich: I Became Emperor

The location of the Strait of Gibraltar is very unique. It is located in a triangular rocky area. There are no rivers, springs, or arable land. The vegetables, food, and fresh water needed by residents are all supplied from outside.

It can be said that almost no one wants to live here, but the geographical location here is very important, guarding the sea route between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.

For this tiny piece of land, the British Empire and Spain have been fighting for three or four hundred years. When the Spanish Invincible Fleet was there, they could still keep the Strait of Gibraltar. When the Invincible Fleet was destroyed, the Strait of Gibraltar was lost.

From the map, Gibraltar is completely on Spanish territory, but it became a colony of the British Empire. Therefore, over the years, Spain has never given up its claim to sovereignty over Gibraltar, but unfortunately there has been no progress.

After all, such an important strategic location, the British Empire will never give it up on its own initiative unless it is a fool.

Unfortunately, with the demise of the Royal Home Fleet, the maritime hegemony of the British Empire once again faces serious challenges.

Originally, Spain did not have the courage, but now the Royal Home Fleet has suffered heavy losses and is no longer able to support the Strait of Gibraltar. Spain's ambitions have swelled instantly.

Especially the German army issued an ultimatum. If Spain could not take the Strait of Gibraltar within the specified time, they would personally attack the Strait of Gibraltar, and then everything would have nothing to do with them.

Although Spain has invested a large number of troops, the British army has also invested a lot of manpower and material resources here in recent years, making it a solid place. Therefore, Spain is equivalent to hitting a piece of iron plate, and the casualties are very heavy, but in order to control the throat, it has to continue to invest troops to fight.

Because as long as Gibraltar is occupied, the strait here can be controlled, which is equivalent to blocking the throat of the Mediterranean. Such an important strategy cannot be ignored.

On the Gibraltar defense line, in the radar room, the officers and soldiers in charge of radar are on duty.

The work of radar soldiers is very boring. They will only be busy when they find the target. They usually stare at the screen, which hurts their eyes.

As time passed little by little, the radar soldier in charge of guarding rubbed his eyes and said to his comrade beside him:"Replace it, my eyes are sore."

It is normal to stare at the screen for a long time, so there will be people who rotate.

"good!"

"Have you heard? There is a fierce battle outside the border."The rotating soldier said in a low voice.

This sentence resonated with many people. Some people couldn't help but say:"It is said that the Spanish cowards were beaten up and fled with their heads in their arms."

"Hahaha, these cowards, who else can they bully except some natives?"Someone laughed.

For the land of Gibraltar, the two sides also have a blood feud, so naturally they don't look happy. Now seeing the front-line troops beating the other side, they are also happy.

""What is the result of the battle?" someone asked hurriedly.

"It is said that more than 10,000 enemies were killed, but the exact number is unclear."Due to work reasons, they stayed in the machine room for a long time, and they were still very concerned about the gossip from the outside world. When they heard that there were tens of thousands, everyone couldn't help but exclaimed, feeling that our army was strong and the enemy was weak.

At this moment, the soldier who had just rotated looked at the radar screen and saw a snowflake. He was stunned and shouted:"Don't talk about gossip anymore, the radar seems to have problems again."

The tone was very calm, without the slightest panic, and it seemed very normal and not surprising.

The officer who heard the fault also said calmly:"What's the reason? Check to see if the electron tube needs to be replaced. The quality of things produced by the empire's military factories is getting worse and worse, and the time used is getting shorter and shorter."

The radars of this era have very low reliability and often have a lot of faults. Generally speaking, all the problems are caused by the burning of the electron tubes, so the officer was not surprised, but felt it was normal.

The radar soldier was not surprised when the officer directly asked to replace the electron tubes, and nodded immediately.

After all, troubleshooting is also one of the basic skills of radar soldiers.

Hearing the officer's shout, the soldier on duty got up and went to the cabinet next to him, opened the door outside, and looked at the densely packed lines inside.

If it is a beginner, seeing such densely packed lines, it is estimated that he will collapse directly, especially those who are engaged in server maintenance, who often work for several days and nights. Without strong patience, ordinary people will collapse directly when they encounter it.

""Sir, the bulbs of the tubes are all on, so it's not the tubes' fault." The soldier on duty turned around and said to the officer.

Hearing this, the officer frowned. If it was another fault, it would be troublesome. After all, he was not a professional. Simple problems could be solved, but complex ones could only be solved by staring at each other in confusion.

"Forget it, report to the headquarters that the radar is broken and ask them to send an engineer to repair it."The officer said loudly

"Yeah, now I can have a good sleep."

"Yes, finally I don't have to stay up late"

"After a few days, my eyes are hurting so much that I can't stand it."

For these radar soldiers, the happiest thing is that when the radar breaks down, the engineers come to fix it, and they can have a good rest.

If it is a serious problem, they can rest for several days in a row, and even take leave to go out for a walk.

Unfortunately, they were wrong this time, because the radar was not broken, but it was interfered by a high-power jammer, which caused the snowflake shape.

Taking advantage of the Spanish troops' attack on Gibraltar, the intelligence personnel of the Third Reich's Military Investigation Bureau delivered a single-soldier jammer to the agents lurking in Gibraltar.

After that, the agent carried the jammer and came to the vicinity of the radar base, turned on the jammer, and made the British radar unusable.

The purpose is to prevent the British radar from searching the German and French fleets, thereby buying time for the navy.

Every battle cannot be solved by one branch of the army alone, it requires multiple departments The British Navy and the British Navy have been fighting together for a long time.

It was the interference of the intelligence department that prevented the British radar in Gibraltar from detecting the German and French fleets, thus buying them time.

The less time the British army has to prepare for the German and French fleets, the greater the chance of losing.

At this time, a huge fleet was sailing on the sea shrouded in dusk, led by ten destroyers, followed by cruisers, and behind them was a group of big guys.

Three battleships, and finally an aircraft carrier that had just been commissioned, the Essex-class aircraft carrier. After plundering all the talents of the entire navy, an aircraft carrier was finally created.

This attack on the Strait of Gibraltar is to accumulate experience for the navy in the use of aircraft carriers. After all, the German navy has zero experience in the use of aircraft carriers, which can be said to be the shame of the empire.

So this is a good opportunity to accumulate experience.