69novels Chapter 452
Chapter 452
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: 0.031s Scan: 0.020sOf course, if you want to colonize other countries economically, you have to have real skills. If there is no strong military force as a guarantee, why would they let you control them?
Therefore, to achieve the level that Mainz expects, Hans must have a strong army.
Hans’s current army is indeed very strong, but the navy is not yet.
In the eyes of the world, Hans’s navy is far inferior to the Royal Navy of the British Empire, especially since they were completely annihilated by the British Empire ten years ago. Although Hans launched several warships with good performance after the war, the inherent impression of Hans’ navy in various countries has not changed!
For example, Norway, which did not accept Hans’ control before, dared to say no to Hans, wasn’t it because they felt that Hans’s navy was not good, so they didn’t have to worry about Hans after relying on the protection of the British Empire?
Therefore, if you want other countries to be honest, you must build a strong army, including the army, navy and air force, none of which can be missing!
Moreover, it was not enough to have a strong army, they had to fight a war and prove their strength with actual combat.
In order to prevent these countries from repeating and sitting on the fence between Hans and other countries, Mainz planned to kill the chicken to stop the monkey, so that they would know the consequences of opposing Hans!
At this time, only Norway jumped out to oppose Hans, so Norway naturally became the chicken to be killed for other countries to see!
After sending away Prime Minister Romaniya, Mainz gave an order to the commander of the navy, Dönitz, to let his fleet immediately depart from Kiel Port and head to the North Sea region, ready to find an opportunity to collide with the Royal Navy, the sun never sets, to test the other side’s quality, and to prepare for a large-scale decisive battle at sea in the future!
After receiving this order, Dönitz was very excited.
In fact, at the beginning of the war, their navy had been actively seeking war, especially after seeing the army’s unstoppable success on the battlefield in Western Europe, the generals at all levels in the navy were anxious!
Compared with the army, President Mainz’s investment in the navy is no less than that of the army. They have launched two Bismarck-class battleships, eight Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers, two Midway-class aircraft carriers and hundreds of submarines.
In addition, the other two Bismarck-class battleships have been built on the shipbuilding platform, and the keels of the next two aircraft carriers are also being laid. At the latest in the second half of next year, these four main battleships will be launched! By then ,
Hans’s naval strength will definitely be further enhanced!
Although at present, in terms of paper strength, Hans’s navy is still a little behind the Royal Navy, and the number of their main battleships is less than that of the other side, but Hans’s main battleships are very new, and their performance is much more advanced than that of the main battleships of the sun that never sets. If it comes to it, although they have fewer numbers, they may not lose!
After all, the Bismarck-class battleships are of better quality and excellent alone. Except for the Hood battlecruiser, it is difficult for other main battleships to take on Bismarck. With two Bismarck-class battleships as the main force, coupled with the Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser and the Midway-class large aircraft carrier, the fleet is fully capable of competing with the navy of the sun that never sets!
Moreover, after the war, Japan relied on its naval advantage and sent out the navy almost immediately to block the Hans’s outlet to the sea, cut off Hans’s upstream route, and almost completely stopped Hans’s maritime foreign trade!
Faced with this kind of blockade, the Hans Navy was naturally extremely angry from top to bottom. As early as after the outbreak of the war on the Western Front in November, they immediately submitted a joint letter of request to Dönitz, requesting to lead troops to go to the expedition to severely strike the arrogance of the sun that never sets.
However, because he did not receive the order to send troops from Mainz, Dönitz did not dare to make a decision easily.
This month was a very happy time for the army, but it was very frustrating for the navy!
So Dönitz couldn’t wait any longer, and he immediately became excited when he heard Mainz’s words!
“I didn’t let you go out before because the time has not come.
Our enemies are not only the British Empire.
The three Nordic countries are also likely to become our enemies.
They are closer to us, so they pose a greater threat to us.
Before we figure out their attitude, we should not send troops rashly.
“The reason why Mainz didn’t let the navy send troops rashly was that he felt that the war on the Western Front should be based on the army, and now was not the best time for the navy to show its strength.
Hans’s navy has been developing secretly over the years. Although the launching of the two Bismarck-class battleships once caused a sensation and attention from countries around the world, because they were developed on the basis of poverty, compared with the wealthy British Royal Navy, Hans’s navy is like a newborn and is still very weak!
Although all countries are concerned about Hans’s two super battleships, The memory of the battleship is still fresh, but no one would think that with only these two super battleships, the German army has the strength to challenge the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets.
After all, the latter has dominated the ocean for hundreds of years. There have been countless challengers in the long history, but these challengers have all been defeated one by one in the end, and have never really threatened the hegemony of the sea that never sets!
Since those countries have not done it, Hans, a young navy that has developed from scratch and has accumulated less than ten years, how can it challenge a powerful overlord with hundreds of years of accumulation?
Such a stereotype has led to countries underestimating the strength of Hans’s navy. They only see that the number of Hans’s main battleships, especially battleships, is not as good as that of the Royal Navy, but they don’t know that Hans’s naval strategy has completed an epoch-making transformation!
Their core is not the battleships that were once the overlords of the sea, but the new aircraft carriers!
If the Royal Navy of the Sun Never Sets still uses old tactics to deal with them, it will definitely suffer a great loss!
However, Mainz knows that once the countries of the world realize the great role of aircraft carriers, they will probably not continue to vigorously produce battleships, but will instead use their main resources All resources are invested in the production of aircraft carriers!
Therefore, unless a full-scale attack is launched on the British mainland, Mainz is not willing to let other countries recognize the true strength of the Hans Navy!
This time is of course the same:”The two aircraft carriers are our main combat power. Don’t attack this time. With the Bismarck and Tirpitz battleships as the core, these two battleships carry four Scharnhorst-class battleships and four Prince Eugen-class heavy cruisers respectively, forming two combat formations, heading to the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea respectively, attacking the British from the north and south sides!”