The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 741

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June, when the Battle of the Sun Never Sets ended, Hans’ navy was still chasing the Sun Never Sets Navy in the North Atlantic. The warships of both sides often exchanged fire, but the British army was no longer interested in fighting. After the fall of their homeland, they began to retreat southward, preparing to go to the Mediterranean or the west coast of Africa to rest and replenish supplies, and then go to Tianzhu to join the new government of the Sun Never Sets.

The German navy had been at sea for nearly two months, and they had been fighting continuously for a long time, so they were also very tired. In addition, the warships had been fighting outside for too long and needed a period of repair and maintenance. So after seeing the British army fleeing, they did not choose to continue chasing.

To be honest, if the Germans had islands in the Atlantic Ocean for resupply, they might be able to continue chasing, but their overseas colonies were divided up as early as World War I, so apart from their homeland, they had no territory overseas, which led to their logistics supply being completely dependent on the homeland, which greatly restricted the scope of activities of the German Navy. The fuel carried by their warships had been used up a month ago.

Later, they barely gained the ability to continue fighting by sending a large number of supply ships and oil tankers from the homeland, but such supply was very difficult.

The farther away from the homeland, the greater the pressure on logistics supply.

After all, not only the warships themselves need to consume fuel, but also the supply ships that accompany the warships in combat.

Therefore, if the distance is too far, the fuel of the supply ships is not enough for them to burn, so how can they supply the warships?

This situation made the German army unable to continue chasing the British army, at least in the short term, there was no way to pursue them deeply.

However, they did not gain nothing after this battle. At least they conquered the British mainland and opened up the British Strait, an important passage to the south. In this way, the German fleet no longer needs to go from the North Sea to the north of the North Atlantic, and then go south again. They can directly pass through the British Strait and stop at the port in the southwest of Gaul, and then get supplies here before going south to fight!

With this supply point in the southwest of Gaul, the combat range of the German Navy can reach the Mediterranean region, so the next step, the German Navy’s offensive direction, needless to say, must be the Strait of Gibraltar!

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Berlin, after landing on the shore, Admiral Dönitz hurried to Mainz’s office and made an application to him.

“You want to capture the Azores?”

Hearing Dönitz’s words, Mainz raised his eyebrows.

The Azores were originally the territory of Portugal and were sold to the Eagle Sauce before the economic crisis broke out in 1925.

Originally, the Eagle Sauce military coveted this archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, but in the end, President Harding leaked the news in advance, causing the archipelago to fall into the hands of Vanelk’s Goldman Sachs Group. The reason why Goldman Sachs took over here is very simple: they plan to develop it into a tourist resort, allowing ships traveling between continental Europe and North America to dock here, and tourists can take a short rest and play here.

Not to mention, this kind of business plan sounds really like that. Every year, a large number of ships travel between continental Europe and North America. If a high-end tourist resort is really built here, business will definitely be good, at least that Those ships traveling between the two continents no longer have to go around the Norwegian Sea from the back of the North Atlantic. They can fly directly from Europe to North America, and then stop at the Azores for repairs and supplies.

In this way, as long as this place can provide excellent ports and docks, and has a certain ability to repair and maintain ships, it can help them attract a large number of ships to dock. With the docking of these ships, even if they do not rely on the income of the tourism industry, but only rely on the income of maritime transportation, they can make a lot of money!

So when Goldman Sachs proposed this plan, countries around the world did not have any doubts.

Although the Eagle Sauce military was very angry about the loss of the fat meat in their mouths, Goldman Sachs was still Eagle Sauce’s own company after all. Their control of the Azores was equivalent to the Eagle Sauce. If Mainz controls this place, he can just requisition it directly if he needs to use it. Therefore, the military did not insist on anything in the end, but acquiesced to this matter.

So, starting from 1926, the Azores fell into the hands of the Eagle Sauce.

For Mainz, the Goldman Sachs Group is actually a pawn he has placed in North America. Vanelk’s layout and planning in the Azores are all prepared for the navy of the Third Reich, so he naturally would not object to Goldman Sachs’ occupation of this place.

But at this time, Dönitz proposed to send troops here, which made Mainz a little hesitant.

After two years of development, Goldman Sachs invested heavily in a series of transformations to the Azores, including improving the construction of ports and corresponding supporting facilities, and building a very deep deep-water port, which is enough to dock more than 200,000 tons. Large cargo ships.

Moreover, a medium-sized shipyard was built on the archipelago, with three 20,000-ton docks that can repair ships below 30,000 tons.

In future plans, Vanelk also intends to continue investing to increase the repair capacity here to 50,000 tons, which is exactly the tonnage of the German aircraft carrier.

However, although Goldman Sachs is controlled by itself and this place is also built for the German navy, Goldman Sachs is still nominally a company of the Eagle Sauce, and this place is still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Eagle Sauce.

The German army will not be able to use the facilities here in a short time.

If it is really like what Dönitz said, it is conceivable that this will definitely add fuel to the already tense relationship between Hans and the Eagle Sauce. Maybe doing so will completely push the Eagle Sauce into the arms of the sun that never sets, so that they can completely unite to deal with Hans.

So Mainz shook his head:”Don’t touch the Azores for the time being. We need a foothold in the North Atlantic, but this foothold is not urgent. After all, our main enemy now is not the Eagle Sauce. Directly occupying the Azores is equivalent to going to war with the Eagle Sauce. Getting involved in such a war is not good for us!”

Mainz could guess Dönitz’s intention to send troops to the Azores. He must have known that Hans and the Eagle Sauce would have a war in the future, so he wanted to take the initiative before the war and control the most important stronghold in the North Atlantic in advance!