The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 892

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With a loud bang, accompanied by sparks flashing at the muzzle and a slight vibration of the warship, a row of huge shells whistled towards the island not far away!

Boom!

The sound of explosions came from a distance, and the island in the distance was suddenly filled with smoke, and various objects were blown into the sky in the huge shock wave of the explosion!

This is the second round of artillery fire launched by the German army against the Bermuda Islands. Since the previous naval battle has solved the enemy’s surface fleet, the enemy that can threaten the German fleet no longer exists.

Therefore, Nimitz did not remain conservative, but very aggressively lined up the main battleships in his fleet and let them participate in this offensive against the island!

Of course, Nimitz is not the kind of person who underestimates the enemy. While lining up the main battleships, he also released a number of reconnaissance ships and aircraft to maintain vigilance and patrol in the west and south of the Bermuda Islands, close to the Eagle Sauce homeland, to monitor the every move of the US military.

According to the intelligence sent back by the Navy Headquarters, one of the two main fleets of the US military is confronting the German Northern Fleet in the north, and the other should be performing anti-submarine missions in the Caribbean.

However, the German submarine forces in the Caribbean have not seen the other side’s Pacific Fleet for some time, so this fleet is very likely to have reinforced the Bermuda Islands.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, in order to ensure the safety of its own homeland and avoid its two main fleets being defeated by the Germans, the Eagle Sauce chose to transfer the Pacific Fleet to the north and join the Atlantic Fleet. In this way, they will exceed the German Northern Fleet in terms of manpower, thus forming a suppression of Lütjens.

And there is another advantage to doing this, which is that it can protect the safety of the northeastern coastal areas of the Eagle Sauce.

These areas are the first places where North American immigrants settled, the longest time of development, and the most prosperous economy and industry, so keeping them here is the most important thing for them!

However, after some speculation, Nimitz believed that this possibility was not very large, and the reason was very simple.

The Pacific Fleet is the only maritime force of the Eagle Sauce in the southeastern region. The purpose of the US military placing this navy here was to ensure its control over the Caribbean region and to continue to exert pressure on Florida from the southwest of Florida, so that the German troops in Florida would be afraid to move north at will.

Once the main force of the German army moves north in a large scale, the US military can dispatch the Marine Corps to land in the southern part of Florida, take advantage of the opportunity, and cooperate with the US troops in the north to form a north-south pincer attack on the German army in Florida!

In order to resolve this danger, the German army will pull out the Eagle Sauce Navy’s foothold in the southern region and then drive them to the sea. In this way, the Eagle Sauce will need to take a long detour from the eastern coastal area after obtaining it. It will be more difficult for them to replenish their troops and allocate materials, and it will be more difficult to implement a north-south pincer attack!

Therefore, the Pacific Fleet is a ballast stone for the Eagle Sauce, and it is the kind of existence that cannot be easily mobilized. If their random mobilization leads to the loss of sea control in the southeastern waters, it will be a disaster for the Eagle Sauce.

Since the Pacific Fleet cannot be easily mobilized, the reason for the disappearance of this navy is very clear.

“I don’t know if the US military will be fooled. Halsey has always been very stable. If he is in charge of the Pacific Fleet, he will most likely see through my plan!”

As a former Eagle Sauce Navy general, Nimitz is naturally very clear about the famous generals in the Eagle Sauce Navy.

The commanders of the two fleets of the Eagle Sauce are Admiral King and Vice Admiral Halsey respectively. The status of the Pacific Fleet is slightly inferior to that of the Atlantic Fleet, so Vice Admiral Halsey’s rank is one level lower than Admiral King.

However, Nimitz is more vigilant about Halsey than Admiral King. The reason is very simple. He knows the strength of these two people very well, so he can easily judge that the latter’s comprehensive strength is stronger than Admiral King!

Faced with such a powerful opponent, Nimitz is actually eager to try!

To be honest, the German army actually won the previous battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet in an unfair way. Their first round of air strikes caught the Japanese army off guard, resulting in the loss of two aircraft carriers by the Japanese army. The loss of these two aircraft carriers After the mother, the Japanese army’s combat capability dropped significantly, which caused them to fall into a passive position in the following battles!

The US army is different from the Japanese army. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army had no idea that an enemy was coming towards them, so they entered the battle passively and were unprepared before the war!

The US military already knew the position of the German army at this moment, and knew that the German army was attacking the Bermuda Islands, so they were well prepared!

And it was exactly the opposite of the previous situation. At this time, the German army did not know the position of the US army, and the position of the German army had fallen into the control of the US army, so which side was the enemy in the dark and we were in the light. If a fight broke out, the US military would have the initiative!

The party with the initiative on the battlefield often wins, because taking the initiative to attack will disrupt the enemy’s deployment and cause a lot of casualties to the enemy. Death, thereby greatly weakening the enemy’s strength, so that the next battle falls into the control of their own side!

In World War II, in order to gain the initiative, the party that started the war often chose to fight without declaration, and inflicted great casualties on the enemy in the form of a surprise attack, so as to gain the initiative!

This method has been used by both the Third Reich and the Foot Basin. When the Third Reich blitzed Poland, the German army’s troops were actually not as strong as Poland’s army. If the two sides fought a positional war with real swords and guns, although with the combat quality of the German army, they should still be able to win the final victory.

However, even if they won, their record would not be so beautiful. They could not annihilate the main force of the Polish army in just over ten days. They could not end the battle with such a small cost of casualties, and they could not It is possible to use blitzkrieg tactics in positional warfare, and use it so well!

It is conceivable that if both sides declare war on each other and then fight a positional war, the two sides are very likely to fight a war. The casualties of the German army will probably not be less than 100,000, and the duration of the war will not be less than three months.

In the situation surrounded by powerful enemies, if the war drags on for three months, the French and British armies will most likely invade the Third Reich from the west. By then, World War II has not yet broken out, and the Third Reich will be GG. What

‘s the point of fighting! This is exactly what Nimitz is worried about.

Halsey is a steady and wise guy. He doesn’t know what the other party is thinking now!

However, this has aroused Nimitz’s fighting spirit and made him look forward to the next battle!