Imperial Overlord

As this war progresses, the Libyan oil fields in North Africa will become a vital core strategic resource for the Axis powers.

How important this oil field is, there is no need to repeat it. It is because of the existence of this oil field that Germany now has the courage to overdraw its own oil reserves.

And if the oil field fails to play a strategic role as planned, Germany itself would have collapsed 44 years ago due to lack of oil.

Therefore, in any case, Libya's oil fields must start to play a role in the middle of 1941, not a little role, but a decisive role!

In order to utilize such an important core strategic resource, the Mediterranean route becomes very important.

The Axis shipping lines were concentrated and more important than the British shipping lines spread across the Atlantic.

Now the UK has not recovered, they are still slowly regaining their strength. Churchill wouldn't let the Axis routes in the Mediterranean go on for a long time, when the British came to breathe.

War is not a game, even if the strongest country faces the weakest country, it is a process of coming and going.

Britain will not miss this route that can hit the Axis countries hard, and it will use all the power at its disposal to cut off this vital supply line.

You must know that this line is not a lifeline that simply replenishes Rommel's African Army with supplies. It is also a transportation line that transports crude oil back to Libya to feed the European industry!

And Germany's enemy Britain, the strongest force is its naval fleet! Under such circumstances, how could the British fleet sit idly by and allow the Axis powers to use the ocean comfortably?

It is true that with Rommel's counterattack, Li Le may drive the British Mediterranean fleet out of the Mediterranean.

The Axis powers could take Alexandria and cut the Suez Canal through a series of victories!

However, in a short period of time, the German fleet, or the Italian Mediterranean fleet, is unlikely to shake the British H fleet in Gibraltar.

The problem now is that as long as the British are not fools, British submarines from Gibraltar, and surface ships, can do what Germany did in the Atlantic Ocean again in the Mediterranean!

The United Kingdom will use submarines extensively in the Mediterranean to attack the routes of Germany and Italy, and even dispatch the H fleet to directly break the war...

If Li Le wants to maintain the advantage in the Mediterranean, or he wants to protect his lifeline, he can only strengthen his **** fleet and maintain the advantage in the Mediterranean.

Until... he took down the British naval base in Gibraltar and completely held both ends of the Mediterranean in his hands.

However, to support the Mediterranean, the German fleet could only bypass the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Mediterranean from the Suez Canal under its control... This circle made Li Le feel a little painful.

On the contrary, these petty **** aircraft carriers are not Li Le's ultimate move to dominate the Atlantic Ocean. His truly deadly fleet is still in the dock!

Yes! Li Le plans to convert the Hindenburg-class battleship, which has already been built by 40% and will be completed next year, into a real fleet aircraft carrier!

These four aircraft carriers that already have hulls are not **** aircraft carriers converted from cruise ships, but super aircraft carriers with a displacement that may exceed 40,000 tons!

The German head of state, who has been dropped, is not the giant artillery maniac in history. Li Le is now a full-fledged aircraft carrier controller. As for the battleship - isn't Bismarck enough?

Although these super aircraft carriers modified from battleships can only be regarded as general in terms of protection level, they can guarantee that they can carry more than 80 fighter jets in sea conditions such as the Atlantic Ocean.

"My head of state! With all due respect, the plan to bypass the Suez Canal is really an impossible task." Redel was still very pessimistic about this plan.

Even if he knew that his fleet would not have a decisive battle with the enemy's warships in a fixed sea area for a long time in the future, Reidel still didn't feel very interested in the head of state's imagination.

"In Africa, we no longer have colonies... The navy has no combat experience in taking such a long way to enter the Indian Ocean." Rader is obviously more professional in tactical arrangements than Li Lelai.

He only listened to Li Le talking about the Mediterranean support, and he considered the problem that the fleet could not pass through Gibraltar.

Under the influence of this problem, in order to let the German Navy enter the Mediterranean for operations, in addition to the submarine force, it can only go to the side of Suez.

This assumption is still made on the premise that the German army unit, that is, Rommel can use the tanks in his own hands to extend the front line to the other side of the Suez Canal.

"If you want to go through the Suez Canal, not only will you be easily blocked by the enemy on the coast of Africa, but you may also encounter other dangers!" Raidl is worthy of being a marshal of the Navy. He has a whole chart in his mind. came to its own conclusion.

Moreover, this conclusion is much more comprehensive than Li Le's hasty plan: "If Marshal Rommel can continue to win in North Africa, then the British Mediterranean fleet will be driven out of the Mediterranean."

Rader looked at Li Le and said, "This fleet can't risk retreating to Gibraltar through Malta! They will retreat to the Indian Ocean before we threaten Alexander and capture the Suez Canal!"

"And if we want to reach the Suez Canal, we must first pass through the Indian Ocean... This happens to collide with the British fleet... We go around Africa to expedition the British fleet, and the odds of winning are not even ten percent." Cold water splashed on Li Le's face.

These tactical problems suddenly made Li Le realize that his efforts to establish a stable route to the Mediterranean were actually very difficult.

"It seems that the plan to refit the aircraft carrier can only be used to train naval aviation." Li Le smiled bitterly and accepted the reality.

"Führer! If we want to cover our own Mediterranean route, then we can only take the initiative to attack in the Atlantic Ocean!" Unexpectedly, after denying Li Le's **** plan, Rader proposed his own more radical plan.

As he spoke, he asked Li Le: "My head of state! Do you have a map here? Europe."

Li Le nodded, then rang the call bell on the table, and then ordered a map of Europe to be sent in.

When the map was ready, Raedel pointed to the route on the Atlantic Ocean and introduced to Li Le: "Führer! The British fleet is distributed in the mainland, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea, almost encircling the whole of Europe."

"This is a huge encirclement, and the fleet of any European country has to face this encirclement." He said while pointing to the distribution ports of the British fleet.

If you include barren places like the Arctic Circle and Greenland, the British fleet actually forms a large net that German surface naval forces cannot tear apart.

The navy moves faster than the army, so it can rush to the combat area quickly, thus forming an elastic chain that can reinforce each other.

When Italy was operating in the Mediterranean, the British Gibraltar's h fleet and the Mediterranean fleet could be attacked.

And when Germany threatens the British mainland, Gibraltar's fleet can also be reinforced - the speed is still enough, and very enough!

In this way, the United Kingdom can concentrate two fleets on any front to form an advantage and thwart the enemy's attack.

At the same time, in the other direction, as long as the remaining fleet fights defensive battles and waits for the victory of the other two fleets, it can regain the initiative!

But now, although Germany and Italy are still unable to break this huge blockade in terms of the horizontal comparison of the navy, Germany's actions in North Africa have indeed had an impact on this naval defense!

According to Li Le's plan, if Rommel's African Corps could capture Egypt, then the British Mediterranean Fleet would be driven to the Indian Ocean.

Blocking the Mediterranean Fleet, the British three-point encirclement network was completely broken. As long as the attack on the mainland was concentrated, the British could only concentrate the H fleet and the mainland fleet to fight for defense. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Then, theoretically, Gibraltar will lose an effective threat to the Mediterranean route at this time.

"So, as long as General Rommel can gain an advantage in North Africa, then it is possible for us to win the war against Britain!" Rader pointed to the map and analyzed it.

"On the premise of capturing Egypt, as long as we keep harassing the British mainland, we can effectively prevent the frequency of the British fleet from attacking the Mediterranean route." In the end, Redell analyzed this way.

"What you said makes sense!" Li Le nodded after listening to Raidel's analysis, as he initially agreed with the other party's point of view.

"But we should also arrange some means in advance to find a way to reduce the threat of the enemy submarine force!" Then, the head of state added another sentence.

In the real history, the Allied submarines did not make much achievements in the Atlantic Ocean. This is because there were few German transport ships, and it was not a big problem to sink them all.

But this does not mean that the German Navy's anti-submarine technology is good, nor does it mean that Germany in this time and space is not afraid of enemy submarines.

In this time and space now, because of the appearance of Li Le and the emergence of Libyan oil fields, the Mediterranean Sea has become the maritime lifeline of the Axis powers, and it has become a war zone that the two sides will inevitably fight for desperately.

In this theater of operations, it is impossible for the United Kingdom not to invest its own submarine force to fight a submarine battle belonging to the British Navy here.

With this battlefield, who knows what tactics the British submarine force will develop, will it also start copying German submarine tactics, and will it also cost Germany and Italy's transportation operations in the Mediterranean?

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