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    In July 1944, the Germans prepared to launch a landing operation in Britain to completely eliminate the British like the "Hastings Operation" in World War I.  But this time it ended in failure.  Having learned the lesson of being successfully landed by Germany in World War I, how could the British not be wary?  They have set up a large number of fortifications in places suitable for landing, laid mines on the nearby seabed, and mobilized a large number of civilian personnel to assist in surveillance.

    The Germans suffered a huge loss this time. In the one-month landing operation, they lost 200,000 people, and finally had to withdraw in despair.

    Germany, which failed to land in Britain, had no choice but to return to the old path of bombing and wolf packs, and began to increase its efforts to strangle Britain.  They used the six aircraft carriers sold by China, plus their remaining two aircraft carriers and numerous battleships, heavy cruisers and destroyers. Under the protection of the air force, they rushed out of the English Channel and arrived at Brest on the west coast of France (still in Germany).  under control).  Using this as a base, it began to compete with the United Kingdom for sea power, and contained many of the United States' Atlantic Fleet forces.

    And the Americans, who had been troubled by German and Japanese submarines for a long time, finally found a good way to transport aircraft.

    The first is the northern route. They built several large transit airports in Canada's Newfoundland, Labrador Peninsula and southern Greenland. They also expanded air bases in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. In this way, their  Several new types of fighters and bombers can land directly in Britain after adding auxiliary fuel tanks and using a few transitions.

    They also found a way on the central and southern lines.  First, they used various means, both soft and hard, to get Brazil to lease the reefs of San Pedro and Sao Paulo. They also forcibly leased several pieces of land in places such as Belem and Recife in Brazil to build large transit airports.  In this way, they have a foothold in the Atlantic Ocean and can transfer the plane directly to Africa.

    As for the southern route, they followed the same pattern and built large transit airports on Ascension Island and St. Helena Island.  In this way, you can fly directly to Namibia.

    There is no doubt that this series of actions by the United States and Britain are big moves, and these places are not good places.  For example, the San Pedro and Sao Paulo reefs are a reef slightly exposed from the sea, with a total area of ??less than 2 hectares and a maximum altitude of 17 meters.  It consists of several small islands and many reefs. The largest island is only 5,300 square meters, which is the size of a football field.

    But the eager Yankees directly built several large artificial floating islands, and then towed them with tugboats and arrived here under the escort of the fleet.  Then sit the floating island on the bottom.  On the other hand, a large number of civilian merchant ships were requisitioned, earth and rocks were transported from Brazil, and the area of ??the island was expanded through reclamation.  In this way, they built this small reef into a large airport.

    It is also very difficult to build large airports in the alpine zone of the Arctic Circle, but these difficulties are nothing to the wealthy Americans. With their investment, they quickly completed these large transfers  Airport construction.  So a large number of American aircraft began to join the battle in Britain and Africa.

    After the problem of insufficient number of aircraft was solved, the United States and Britain began to bomb cities in Germany, northern France and Belgium with all their strength.  However, Germany has a large number of jet fighters and various anti-aircraft missiles. Therefore, the results of British and American air strikes are limited, but the losses are very heavy.  However, there were many American and British aircraft, and there were always fish that slipped through the net and successfully broke through the blockade net, and carried out strategic bombings on cities, factories and various facilities in Germany and East Africa.

    The same is true in South Africa, but the United States does not dare to bomb the Japanese mainland and can only attack targets and supply lines outside the national border, although it also lost a lot of materials and personnel.  But since only the forward bases were attacked, there would be no loss in productivity.  Although the damage in Germany was relatively small, most of it was in local cities, and there was still some loss of productivity.  So Germany began to carry out strategic shifts, gradually relocating some factories that were easy targets to Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and the Baltic countries.

    However, no matter in the original time and space or in this plane, neither Japan's Kita Ikki nor Germany's Hitler were crazy enough to think that they could force the United States to surrender.  Their request is nothing more than a decent ceasefire with the United States and maintaining the current territory.  The problem is that the Americans have no intention of ending the war with them.  In the early stage, it may be due to the needs of the arms conglomerates, or the stubbornness and prejudice of government bosses, but in the later stage, the Americans have invested too much and there is no room for a truce.  Therefore, Germany and Japan cannot even achieve this!  For this reason, Germany and Japan can only work hard to find ways to force the United States to cease the war. Otherwise, if this loss continues, neither Germany nor Japan can bear it.

    We all know that the only way to make a country unable to continue the war is to cause them enough losses. When the losses reach a certain level and the country cannot survive, then it will naturally cease the war.?But now Germany and Japan are unable to attack the mainland of the United States. They can only watch the Yankees safely and unaffectedly increasing their production capacity.

    This is not the way to go!

    Germany and Japan now have long-range strategic bombers, especially Germany. Their JU-233 can take off from Berlin to bomb Washington. Now that they have captured the Azores and established a forward airfield, there will be no problem. Even  The smaller JU-200 and Do-155 can bomb the United States.

    But there is a problem here. The Germans do not have fighter jets that can escort them.  No one knows better than the Germans what a miserable outcome a bomber without escort would face when faced with a large number of interceptors, especially jets.

    Germany has always been talented in rockets. In addition to bombers, they have now also developed the S-7 long-range intercontinental missile, which has a range of 7,000 kilometers and can also directly hit the United States.  But the cost of this thing is too high. Each one costs several million marks. It can only carry a warhead weighing up to one ton, and its hit rate is quite impressive. If it hits such a far target, there may be ten  An error of a few kilometers.

    The Germans are not fools. Of course they would not use such a low cost-effective means. How about spending millions of marks, or the price of an intercontinental heavy bomber, to drop a 1,000 kilogram bomb?  And what this bomb can hit depends on faith.  Mustache wouldn't do such stupid things.

    In the end, the Germans were forced to come up with a method. This method was very simple and realistic. They launched missiles from submarines!

    The Germans obtained the technology of China's Manatee-class transport submarines in the 1930s. Based on this container transport submarine, they developed their own U-12 large transport submarine, which was used as a wet nurse to feed the wolves.  For blood replenishing.  Now they have modified a missile submarine based on this transport submarine.

    Of course, this is not the kind of missile submarine China has now. Their U-22 model does not have the ability to launch underwater. It has four hydraulically lifted missile launch cabinets installed in the cargo hold, which can be lifted by the hydraulic lift arm.  down, lift to a 45-degree angle and launch behind the boat.

    The Germans have specially developed two missiles for this purpose, one is the V-6 cruise missile and the other is the S-9 ballistic missile.  Because these two missiles have introduced technology recently obtained from China, their performance far exceeds that of their own products.  They have also made the missile launch cabinets modular. Each missile launch cabinet can have 8-16 launch tubes. Such a submarine can launch 32-64 missiles at a time.

    Both of these are short-range missiles, with a range of only 300-1,000 kilometers, and the cost is much cheaper.  In particular, the V-6 cruise missile costs only a few thousand marks, can carry a 500-1,000 kilogram warhead, and hit targets 300-600 kilometers away, so it can be manufactured in large quantities.  These missiles are launched at an interval of 5 seconds, and a total of 64 missiles can be launched within 5 minutes after surfacing on the water.  The submarine then put away the missile launch cabinet, dived and escaped.

    Late in the early morning of September 3, 1944, Germany used 60 missile submarines to launch more than 2,000 missiles off the coast of the United States at cities on the east coast of the United States in retaliation for the United States bombing German cities.

    The United States was devastated by this. Although the warheads of these missiles were not large, the United States was completely unprepared for the fact that its homeland would be bombed.  In addition, these missiles all landed in densely populated cities on the east coast, so the United States suffered heavy losses.  This wave of German missiles caused more than 70,000 casualties in the United States and destroyed a large number of factories.  The most important thing is that it caused a great psychological shock to the American people.

    The continental United States is no longer a safe place to sleep.  You know, the United States has not been attacked for more than a hundred years. Now that it has suffered such an attack, it will have a huge impact on national morale.  Americans in many East Coast cities were leaving their homes for the safety of the Center and West.

    After receiving a slap in the face, the U.S. government immediately stepped in to appease the public and asked the military to prevent such a disaster from happening again. At the same time, it also asked the U.S. military to retaliate immediately.

    Just like the United States used to regularly send large groups of bombers to bomb Germany, now Germany has also begun to regularly bomb the United States with missiles.  If a German submarine sets off from the Azores base and sails with a snorkel for about 6-8 days, it can enter the attack position. After floating and launching all the missiles, it will take the same time to return to the base, and another day to load the missiles, and repeat  Conduct bombing missions.

    Seeing that this kind of missile submarine was so effective, Mustache immediately ordered a large number of constructions, and at the same time placed an order for 80 U-22 submarines from China. Many of the technologies in them came from China, and Mustache did not  Not afraid of China??Learned something.  In the opinion of German experts, Chinese products will only be better.  So they went to China for exchanges, hoping to optimize and modify the U-22 submarine.

    Under the instruction of the world's largest Five-Marxist Party, China immediately began to optimize the design of the U-22 submarine and began mass construction at the same time.

    Since the end of September, Germany has used 70 of these missile submarines, divided into six batches, to carry out large-scale bombings against the United States approximately every five days, and the number of submarines invested has gradually increased.

    This time, the Yankees were in trouble. This German guided missile submarine only had 10-15 minutes on the surface from when it surfaced to launch missiles to when it dived again, so the time available for attack was extremely short.  To prevent German submarine bombing, the United States must invest a large number of ships and patrol aircraft for suppressive patrols.  There are about 3 to 4 million square kilometers of area on the east coast of the United States that are possible attack areas for German submarines. To cover this area will drain all the U.S. escort forces.

    So the United States built an anti-submarine airship equipped with radar, and spent a lot of money to equip a large number of old bombers and seaplanes with radars for suppressive patrols.  However, Americans soon discovered that this approach was of no use.

    Because at this time the Germans had already developed a ship-to-air version of anti-radiation missiles. After they learned that the Americans had done these tricks, they installed such missiles on submarines and used them with radar sirens to specifically deal with them.  Patrol aircraft.  So the United States! Patrol planes and airships were shot down by German missiles many times in a row, making the Americans very passive.

    Having no other choice, the Ghanaian government began to engage in people's war. They recruited a large number of civilian ships, including fishing boats and yachts. These ships were equipped with radar, sonar and weapons for anti-submarine patrols.

    ¡°But civilian ships are not good anti-submarine platforms, even if they are equipped with radar.  They are not so much anti-submarine as they serve a warning function.  However, the Germans did not even spare these civilian ships. They sent attack submarines specifically to target civilian ships, either using missiles or torpedoes, and killed a large number of these "temporary workers."

    Seeing that Germany was having so much fun, the Japanese also wanted to come over and help.  But they do not have missile submarines. Although Japan in this plane does not go astray in the use of submarines, they only attach importance to anti-submarine technology and do not attach as much importance to the submarine itself as Germany does.

    But that doesn¡¯t matter, they have a boss who can back them up.

    China's shipbuilding industry started at a very high level, using a large amount of advanced experience such as assembly lines and segmented manufacturing, and using later generations of operations research to optimize management, improve material purchasing, preparation, and production processes.  The most important thing is that since the 1930s, automation equipment, one-time molding technology, etc. have been gradually popularized, making China's shipbuilding industry extremely efficient.  In fact, although China's shipyards saw a lot of orders in the past, they were far from reaching the maximum output level. This was only because of the social problems after a large amount of automation.

    But in this special period, these problems are no longer a problem.  When China, the big monster, breaks out its production capacity at 80%, it will be very scary.  This 5,000-ton missile submarine, code-named "Type 920", is completely modular. Dozens of factories are working together at the same time, each doing their own thing, and then they can be assembled. This speed is very terrifying.  In less than three months, one ship, dozens of shipyards, and more than 100 ships were started at the same time. China started to make dumplings at this speed.

    At the same time, during the construction period, China organized submarine officers and soldiers from Germany and Japan to conduct simulation training and practical training to ensure that they can use the submarine as soon as they get it.

    On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1944, Japan's first batch of "Type 920" missiles also joined the bombing of the United States.
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