69novels Chapter 458
Chapter 458
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: 0.083s Scan: 0.089sIt is no secret that the British Empire is going to move its capital. Mainz knew this five years ago.
However, the news at this time is completely different from the previous news.
In the past, the British Empire was just a rumor that it was going to move its capital, and it was not really implemented.
At this time, as the proposal to move the capital of the British Empire was passed by the parliament, it means that the work of moving the capital of the British Empire has been officially put on the agenda!
So this news immediately attracted Mainz’s attention!
“Moving the capital of the British Empire will bring us more benefits than disadvantages in the short term, but will bring more disadvantages than benefits in the long term!”
He convened an emergency meeting of the cabinet, wanting to listen to the opinions of the cabinet ministers.
As a hardliner in the government, Little Moustache has never had a good impression of the British Empire. After all, he had fought against the British Empire on the battlefield, and after the war, he witnessed with his own eyes the scene of his motherland being humiliated and oppressed by the British Empire. Therefore, he has always had a deep hatred for the British Empire in his heart!
This kind of hatred is basically impossible to disappear before revenge is completed!
So after hearing the news, Little Moustache immediately expressed his attitude at the meeting
“Fight, I think we should fight early, while the British have dispersed their forces but have not completed the relocation of the capital. Haven’t the Gauls withdrawn their troops from the Ardennes Forest and other places?
I think this is a good opportunity for us. As long as we take action against Gaul, whether the British are willing or not, they must fight this battle with us, otherwise they will completely lose their dominance over the European continent!”
The attitude of the mustache is very tough.
He advocates going to war immediately to destroy the British plan to move the capital as soon as possible, so as to prevent the British from escaping from Europe!
If the British escape from Europe, it will cost Hans a greater price to destroy them.
Moreover, the British navy is strong.
Once they run to Asia, it is basically impossible for Hans to destroy them.
However, they can often go to Europe to threaten Hans’s sea transportation routes.
This is not good news for Hans!
“I agree with the Chancellor, and I also think that the war must start as soon as possible!”
Himmler rarely expressed his opinion. As the head of the intelligence and security departments, he often cannot express his views easily, because most of his statements represent Mainz’s attitude.
But today, Himmler rarely put forward his own views clearly, which aroused everyone’s curiosity!
“Why do you make such a judgment? Is it because you have heard some information that the rest of us don’t know yet?”
Foreign Minister Ribbentrop has just returned from Northern Europe. He was ordered to go to Northern Europe to appease the countries in Northern Europe that were somewhat uneasy about Hans’ expansion. After appeasing the emotions of the three Nordic countries, Ribbentrop went to Moscow again and held a secret meeting with the leader of the Russian Bear, Starling.
During this meeting, Ribbentrop vaguely mentioned the idea of Hans and the Russian Bear dividing Poland together and then signing a non-aggression pact with each other!
Starling seemed quite interested in this proposal, but it is not clear whether his interest is in dividing Poland or in the non-aggression pact between the two countries!
Mainz had said before that Hans’ relationship with the Russian Bear directly determined whether Hans could go to war on the Western Front!
If the Russian Bear cannot be dealt with, then Hans’ environment is not enough to support them in going to war!
Therefore, Ribbentrop is now particularly concerned about other things in Himmler’s hands. These intelligence have a great impact on his work and can help him a lot!
“Well, I did get some bad information!”
Himmler glanced at Mainz, and seeing that Mainz had no objection, he told everyone the information.
“The British Army discovered the information about our development of the Panzer IV and shared it with the Gauls. The Gauls are currently developing a new heavy tank as a countermeasure to our Panzer IV, and are preparing to equip the troops to deal with us!”
This news is indeed not good news. The Panzer IV was not put into production for a long time. It was officially put into production in early 1926, and it has only been one year and five months since then. Hans has only produced less than 2,000 tanks so far, which is not enough to equip even five armored divisions!
The number of their tanks is far from enough, and without enough tanks, they will not have enough weapons and equipment to fight a world war, and they will be at a disadvantage in terms of manpower!
“Moreover, the British Navy seems to be developing a new fighter, code-named Hurricane. It is said that the performance of this fighter is not inferior to our BF-10 fighter. If they successfully develop it, our air superiority may face a huge challenge!”
The two pieces of news announced by Himmler made the expressions of everyone present become solemn. Mainz glanced at Industry Minister Speer and asked:”BF-How is the production of the 109 fighter?”
Although the BF-108 is also a relatively new fighter in Hans, this fighter is just a false image used by Hans to confuse other countries. Hans’ real trump card is actually the more concealed BF109 fighter!
This fighter began production last year, and a batch should have been produced by now!
“B-The production of 109 is not high. Currently, only about 120 aircraft can be produced each month. So far, a total of about 500 F-109s have been produced. However, Messerschmitt is stepping up the expansion of production capacity and is going all out to produce this fighter. By the second half of the year, the production capacity of this fighter should be able to reach 200 aircraft per month!”
The production of 200 aircraft per month is definitely not a lot for a fighter. After all, historically, more than 34,000 BF-109s were produced during the entire World War II, with an average of about 400 aircraft per month. At its peak, the monthly production capacity could reach 800 or even 1,000 aircraft!
War, especially world war, consumes a lot of weapons and equipment.
In the Battle of Britain, the German army lost more than 200 aircraft in just two months.
Such a drastic loss in a short period of time caused the loss rate of German fighter planes to exceed the production rate. The consumption of fighter planes was too fast, and the troops did not have enough fighter planes to support the battle, making the Battle of Britain impossible to continue and ultimately ended in failure!
If the production capacity of Hans’ domestic factory had been increased to the level at the end of 1942, it would be hard to say what the outcome of the Battle of Britain would be!
“Let the Aledau Company stop all tasks and adjust all production lines to BF-109 production lines. Let the Heinkel Company allocate half of the production lines to produce BF-109, and let the Bavaria Company allocate one-third of the production lines to produce BF-109!”
Hans, there are quite a few aircraft manufacturers in the country. In addition to Messerschmitt, there are Heinkel, Bayern, Junkers and Alledau!
Among them, Messerschmitt is specialized in designing and manufacturing fighters, Heinkel mainly produces heavy bombers, Junkers produces dive bombers, Alledau produces bombers and ground support aircraft, and Bavaria is more versatile.
They can produce everything, but currently they mainly produce large transport aircraft, which is the trump card for forming airborne troops!
The difficulty of the battle on the Western Front is not in Gaul.
Although the Maginot Line in Gaul is indeed disgusting, the Maginot Line is relatively fixed, at least it will not run by itself, so the German strategy is to bypass it!
The real difficulty of the Western Front battlefield is actually how to conquer the homeland where the sun never sets.
The army is likely to be unable to be counted on, at least at the beginning!
So they need to pay attention to the navy and the air force The construction speed of the army and navy is very slow. It takes one or two years to build a battleship. If we start planning now, we will probably not be able to catch up with the war!
Therefore, Mainz’s adjustments to the factory are mainly focused on the air force!
Fighter planes are the key to ensuring air supremacy, and without air supremacy, bombers, dive bombers, and transport planes will have no room to fight, so the production of fighter planes is naturally a top priority!
In addition to fighter planes, another very important thing is bombers!
Fighters can only kick open the opponent’s door and make the opponent lose the ability to counterattack, but if you want to completely destroy the opponent’s resistance, you need to use bombers to intensively bomb the opponent!
Therefore, Mainz focuses on ensuring the production capacity of fighter planes, retaining some production lines for heavy bombers and dive bombers, and then leaving the last trump card to the airborne troops!