The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1070

It is true that the main force of the naval forces of the Foot Basin is the Combined Fleet, but this does not mean that the Combined Fleet is all their possessions.

In fact, in addition to the Combined Fleet, the Foot Basin also has some other warships. The performance of these warships is relatively poor, or the age of the ships is relatively old and close to the retirement age, so they are sealed up or transferred to the second-line troops such as the Coast Guard and the reserve forces.

These warships are all-encompassing, with ironclad ships that have been in service since the 1870s and battleships urgently ordered during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

However, without exception, these warships are very old and their performance is very backward. According to the standards of the main battleships of the navies of various countries in the world, these warships are definitely not good enough.

However, using these old warships to perform escort tasks and bombarding the enemy forces on the shore by the way should not be a big problem, as long as they do not encounter the enemy’s new main battleships.

And it just so happens that their opponent, the Royal Navy, whose sun never sets, was also completely defeated in the previous series of defeats, and there was no new main battleship to send out to threaten them.

Therefore, the old fleet that the people of the foot basin had gathered together after searching their stomachs and scraping their stomachs was still invincible in the Pacific at this time.

Of course, this statement is not very accurate, because the German Atlantic Fleet controlled the Panama Canal, and some German warships had entered the Eastern Pacific. If the German navy was also counted, the fleet that the foot basin people had filled in was naturally not worth mentioning.

Fortunately, the current range of activities of the German army is not large, and it has not penetrated into the Pacific Ocean, so the threat to the foot basin is not great. Therefore, in a short period of time, the foot basin does not need to worry about being invaded by the Third Reich!

They themselves also think very clearly that the foot basin has nothing to offer. The land is narrow and barren, and there are many people living on it!

It just so happens that the foot basin is not so easy to capture. The foot basin people who rushed to the Bushido spirit have a strong spirit of dying for the country. In this case, foreign invaders who want to conquer this land must pay a very high price!

If the land of Foot Basin is vast and fertile, then it is understandable that the enemy would go to such great lengths to attack them, but they do not have such favorable conditions, so the people of Foot Basin feel that as long as they do not take the initiative to provoke the Third Reich and do not make a mortal enemy with the other party, then the Third Reich should not go to such great lengths to threaten them!

After eliminating this threat, Foot Basin’s actions were very fast.

On the one hand, they continued to collect these retired or sealed old warships, while on the other hand, they launched domestic military mobilization.

Australia is not an island, it is a continent with an area of millions of square kilometers, so to completely occupy it, it is definitely not enough to rely on the navy alone, they must send the army to land!

And the number of the army brought this time cannot be too small, because there are still seven or eight million people in Australia. If these local Australians realize the invasion of Foot Basin and mobilize themselves, they may be able to organize hundreds of thousands of troops.

In this way, the landing troops of the foot basin will face a very huge threat. If they cannot defeat the enemy and thwart the opponent’s counterattack, they may not even be able to hold the beachhead. Once they are driven into the sea by the opponent, the number of casualties will be very high!

Therefore, intelligence is also very important. They must conceal the intelligence of their country’s increased military mobilization as much as possible, so as not to be discovered by the British and then notified Australia, thus causing unnecessary trouble!

The battle to attack Australia was a sneak attack, which was similar to the Pearl Harbor attack in history.

Historically, in order to complete the surprise attack, the foot basin people made many small moves in diplomacy to confuse the Eagle Sauce people, and they also planned to stick to the time and submit a declaration of war to the Eagle Sauce half an hour before the bombing began, so as to turn their sneak attack into a fair and aboveboard attack.

As a result, there was a problem in this process. The sneak attack began before the declaration of war was submitted.

And this time, the foot basin people planned to replicate the Pearl Harbor operation.

In order to paralyze the British as much as possible, the Foot Basin people continued to negotiate with the British on the issue of Australian iron ore, and spread the word that the Foot Basin side would send a heavyweight to South Asia in the near future to have detailed discussions with the British government.

The reason for doing so is to create a feeling that the two sides are still negotiating and have not yet reached the point of tearing their faces apart. In this way, the British side will inevitably lower their vigilance. After all, usually only when the negotiations fail will the other party resort to force.

At present, the negotiations are still going on, and the possibility of the Foot Basin side directly using force is very low.

This is the thinking logic of normal people, and the Foot Basin people want to take advantage of this!

In November, when the northern hemisphere has entered late autumn and some areas of the Foot Basin have even begun to snow, the southern hemisphere has entered spring and the temperature has begun to gradually rise.

Smith, who lives near the port of Darwin in the northwest of Australia, went out early in the morning and went fishing on a brand new fishing boat that he bought at a high price.

There are many archipelagos in northern Australia, where there is plenty of sunlight. The ocean currents from the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean wash each other, bringing a lot of nutrients, making the seawater rich in algae, and the algae attract a large number of fish that feed on algae.

This makes the fishery resources in northern Australia extremely rich. As long as those who go out to sea to fish are not particularly unlucky, they can always return with a full load!

Smith spent a lot of money to buy a fishing boat, and even owed a debt to the bank.

But he was not worried at all. As long as he thought that he could earn 200-300 pounds from going out to sea, he would be overjoyed!

At this rate, he can earn back the cost of buying a boat in as little as half a year. If he works hard in the next six months, he can even earn a house!

With a house, he can marry his girlfriend Linda, who he has long been eyeing!

Thinking of Linda’s fiery passion and water-like charm, Smith’s heartbeat accelerated and he worked harder!

Smith was lucky. When he went out to sea today, he happened to encounter a large school of migrating fish. With one net, he caught enough fish that would have taken several days to catch before.

Smith was not so lucky. He obviously did not check the almanac when he went out today!