stonecrandall Chapter 865
Chapter 865
If we talk about who is most affected by the changes in North America, it is of course the Eagle Sauce itself.
However, as an enemy, the German army has been carefully preparing for more than half a month in the Azores and has been prepared for the enemy’s attack. In the end, the enemy did not come, which made the German army quite depressed!
“”Why did these guys suddenly quarrel among themselves? I have already laid out the minefield and arranged ambushes in advance. Several aircraft carrier battle groups have also been dispatched. I was just waiting for them to fall into the trap, but they didn’t come. Isn’t this a joke?”
Dönitz said to Nimitz with a depressed look on his face. Nimitz nodded and said with a smile:”Who could have expected that there would be conflicts among them or even fights?
I think the Eagle Sauce people themselves did not expect this to happen. So it’s not just you who feel depressed, the Eagle Sauce people are probably also depressed. After all, if they can’t kill our troops in the Azores and pull out this nail this time, it will be too difficult for them to do this again in the future!”
Nimitz’s words were not empty talk. After learning that the British Navy and the British Navy had entered the Atlantic Ocean, the German army stepped up its efforts to strengthen the defenses on the Azores. Not only did they build coastal artillery batteries at several important locations on the island, but they also stationed a large number of army and air force troops. Even the navy itself transferred its main forces here!
Although the German army had already entered the Azores when the war broke out and strengthened the island’s defenses in a targeted manner, the large-scale improvement of the island’s defense facilities and the enhancement of defense capabilities occurred within the past half month!
Originally, in the German army’s plan, although the Azores was important, the Eagle Sauce Navy was unable to threaten it, so they were not in a hurry to strengthen it.
Now that it has been reinforced because of the huge external threat, the external threat has also disappeared, which means that the German army’s previous work was in vain.!
“It can’t be said that it was all in vain, right? After all, after we strengthen the defense of the island, we can treat it as the most solid fortress and fortress. We can rely on it to send troops and take the initiative to attack!”
As the commander of the aircraft carrier fleet, Nimitz doesn’t like to fight a defensive battle at all, because in a defensive battle, the combat of the aircraft carrier will be greatly restricted, and there is no way to fully play their advantages!
Therefore, compared to passive defense, he prefers to take the initiative!
Once an aircraft carrier is moving on the sea, with the hundreds of fighters on the aircraft carrier, they can easily control the sea area of hundreds of kilometers in radius. If several aircraft carrier battle groups cooperate properly, they can completely block a large area of sea. Once the enemy ships in this sea area enter this area, they are here to send them away!
The aircraft on the aircraft carrier has a flight speed far exceeding that of surface warships, which allows them to firmly grasp the initiative. Once they find the enemy’s target, they can take the initiative to launch an attack. When the other side was attacked, they didn’t even know where the enemy’s aircraft carrier was! Even if the other side luckily learned of their location, it would be very difficult to catch up with and sink their aircraft carrier!
After all, the speed of the German aircraft carrier is very fast. Whether it is the Midway-class aircraft carrier or the Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, their speed is not inferior to the cruisers of various countries. The maximum speed of the four German aircraft carriers generally exceeds 30 knots, and the maximum speed even reaches 33 knots!
Such a speed gives them the ability to fly kites. As long as they can find the warships that the enemy is trying to approach early, they can fight and run, while keeping a safe distance, they can take off torpedo planes and dive bombers to attack the enemy’s surface warships!
Although there are no large mouths on the German aircraft carriers, The main guns of the German Navy have a small diameter, and their own firepower is not strong. If they really have to fight alone, a heavy cruiser may be able to sink them.
However, if the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier are included, the advantage of the aircraft carrier over the surface warships is simply too great. Before the enemy discovers them or even approaches them, relying on the range and speed of the fighter planes, they can at least complete two or three attacks on the enemy’s surface ships.
If coordinated properly, the enemy’s surface warships would have been sunk after these attacks!
Even if the opponent is lucky and escapes by chance, because the German aircraft carriers have the initiative in combat, when the enemy approaches them, they can speed up and keep their distance to prevent the enemy from attacking them. In the process, they can also continuously launch fighter planes to Attack the enemy!
This is equivalent to saying that the aircraft carrier uses the ultra-long-range attack method of carrier-based aircraft to kite the enemy to death!
Of course, under normal circumstances, the enemy may not even be kited, and will be killed directly!
Besides, aircraft carriers never fight alone. They are accompanied by a large number of guards and bodyguards with swords. If the enemy warships want to attack the aircraft carrier, they must first ask the bodyguards outside if they agree! Therefore
, the aircraft carrier itself is very safe!
In this case, as long as he is given a chance, Nimitz is confident that he can fight a beautiful offensive war with the aircraft carrier battle group!
When Dönitz heard Nimitz’s words, his eyes turned around.
The reason why he thought of defense first was mainly because he was frightened by the huge scale of the enemy.
The enemy has more than a dozen aircraft carriers, dozens of battleships and nearly a hundred cruisers. Such a huge scale sounds very bluffing, so he subconsciously wanted to strengthen defense instead of taking the initiative to attack.
However, it seems that the enemy will not take the initiative to attack, and if they continue to stay in the Azores, there is obviously nothing to do.
With the enemy’s massive increase in troops, it is very difficult, or even basically impossible, for the navy to escort the transport fleet to Florida. After all, if they really dare to do this, the three enemy fleets will immediately surround them and surround them. At that time, they will become a turtle in a jar, not to mention that the transported combat supplies and even the army’s troops will be sunk, and even they themselves may not be able to escape!
Therefore, they actually have nothing to do in the next period of time!
However, from the perspective of the army, they will never sit idly by and watch the troops landing in North America isolated and helpless without rescue, so the Supreme Command will sooner or later ask them to attack the navy!
Therefore, instead of waiting for the order from the headquarters, it is better to take the initiative to find opportunities, take the initiative to attack, and hit an enemy by surprise!