69novels Chapter 609
Chapter 609
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: 0.448s Scan: 0.025sDönitz was holding back a fierceness in his heart. As the commander of the navy, he watched his subordinates continue to make great achievements, but he did not gain much, which made him very anxious.
So, after receiving the task of blockading the British Sun from Mainz, Dönitz could no longer sit still. He personally led the team to the North Atlantic and ambushed in the busiest sea in Europe off the southwest of the British Sun, ready to wait and ambush the British Sun’s ships!
This area is basically located in the Cantabrian Sea west of Gaul. It is the only way to enter the Mediterranean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea has two important waterways connecting the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.
India, the most important colony of the British Empire in the world, is located in the north of the Indian Ocean. Therefore, a large amount of materials and property looted from India will be shipped by the British Empire and transported to their own land to feed more than 40 million people in their land!
For the British Empire, although they have 33 million square kilometers of colonies around the world, no colony is as important as India in South Asia. There are more than 250 million people living in South Asia, distributed on more than 3 million square kilometers of land.
There are abundant water networks and fertile plains here, and the annual grain production is as high as tens of millions of tons. A large part of this grain is looted by the British Empire and transported back to their own land, so that their local people can have endless food without farming.
As for India’s own more than 200 million people starving and famine everywhere, that is not a matter for the British Empire to care about!
Anyway, in their eyes, the Indians here are like leeks in the field. They harvest tea one crop after another, and they are endless. They don’t worry about no one using it. Starving to death is a natural adjustment, which is no big deal!
In addition to food, the northeastern region of India also introduced a lot of tea from the Celestial Empire. Every year, a large amount of tea can be produced and shipped back to the British mainland, so that the British mainland has endless tea to drink. These teas can also be processed into foreign trade products of the country for sale abroad to earn a lot of profits.
Speaking of which, the iconic event of the British independence movement, the Boshiton Tea Dumping Incident, was a whole ship of tea that was dumped into the sea by the British mainland from the Indian region thousands of miles away. It can be seen that the British mainland has been using the more than 200 million slaves of India to produce tea for hundreds of years!
In addition to tea, the Indian region also planted a large number of mulberry trees, raised a lot of silkworms, and then vigorously produced raw silk, providing a wealth of silk products for the nobles of the British mainland, and like tea, it has also become their main product for export and foreign exchange!
In short, the Indian region is extremely important to the British Empire, although Indians themselves are very scarce in natural resources. There is neither oil nor high-quality iron ore, nor even high-quality coal mines.
However, even without these natural resources that are crucial to industrial development, the Indian region is still the jewel in the crown of the British Empire and the most important piece of all the British Empire’s colonies!
The fundamental reason lies in the more than 200 million people here. The products created by these people and land have raised the quality of life of the 40 million people in the British Empire to a higher level!
At this time, Hans sent submarine forces from the third region to transport various materials to the British Empire, so that these ships were either sunk or dared not come.
This caused a huge problem for the materials in the British Empire, and after losing the supply of the Indian region, the British Empire began to panic.
They don’t have enough land to feed 40 million people in their homeland! There are large areas of land suitable for farming in the British Empire that have not been reclaimed at this time. They have been relying on blood transfusions from overseas colonies for many years, and have no idea of working hard on their own!
The British, who had been used to a good life, finally tasted the bitter fruit at this time – without the blood transfusion from overseas colonies, how difficult their life would be!
As a result, the British people, who could not make a living and lived in panic, took to the streets, holding various slogans to protest the government’s inaction, letting Hans’ navy do whatever it wanted, and making them unable to even eat!
“We want to eat, we don’t want to starve!”
“The government doesn’t care about our lives, we can’t buy food!”
“Save the children, don’t let them starve!”
“We can’t let the Hans’ conspiracy succeed, we must destroy the Hans’ submarine!”
“Where is our navy? They are doing nothing in the harbor!”
“The enemy is standing by to hang us, and our navy is actually watching the show in the port!”
“The Secretary of the Navy is a wimp, we strongly demand that he step down!”
“That’s right, the Navy Minister is the culprit for the failure of the North Sea Battle, and he must die to atone for his sins!”
At first, the angry people only protested against the government’s inaction and the shortage of supplies!
But soon, the focus of the people’s protest shifted to the navy!
And the main target of their attack was the current Navy Minister, Admiral Charles Madden!
“We can’t go on like this, the navy must be dispatched to drive out all the German submarines!”
“That’s right, if we don’t restore the route, we will all starve to death!”
The Minister of the Navy argued for a while ago and won some time for the navy to recuperate and restore its strength.
As a result, less than a week later, the protest marches of millions of citizens in the British Empire forced the British government to step in. In the name of the government, it ordered the navy to go out and expel Hans’ submarine!
Admiral Charles received this task and couldn’t help but smile bitterly.
He knew that this was a hot potato and that this task was difficult to accomplish.
In order to completely protect their own waterways, they needed to build a large number of destroyers and cruisers, as they did during the First World War, and then form an escort fleet with merchant ships. The escort fleet would be composed of three to five destroyers or cruisers to protect thirty to fifty ordinary merchant ships passing through the area where German submarines were ambushed!
Because of the submarines’ The speed is slower than that of destroyers and cruisers, and destroyers and cruisers are equipped with depth charges, which are weapons specifically used against submarines. Therefore, submarines generally do not actively attack such warships, otherwise they will be courting death. The British Navy still has more than 400 destroyers, so it is not impossible to provide escort.
However, shouldn’t their focus be on the North Sea to the east?
If a large number of troops are placed in the Cantabrian Sea to the south, how can they prevent the attack of the German main fleet?
This is really a dilemma!
The Hans are clearly plotting an open conspiracy, telling you clearly that you can only choose one direction, either place troops in the North Sea area, or use troops to protect merchant ships, and you can only choose one of the two!