Chapter 125 High Seas Fleet Resurrection Plan
The Tang Empire unilaterally ceased the war with the Soviet Union and occupied the Far East, which annoyed Germany, and Italy also protested against the Tang Empire.
However, the Tang Empire did not care. Zhang Meng made his position in a phone call with Hitler. The Tang army had captured millions of square kilometers of land and now it was necessary to consolidate the rule of these places. The Tang army had limited military resources and it was impossible to expand the war.
Although Hitler was not very willing, he was able to get Zhang Meng's promise. The Tang Empire no longer interfered in European wars, and the rest of Europe and the Soviet Union were occupied by Germany and Italy. The Tang Empire no longer intervened in military affairs and continued to provide Germany and Italy with various weapons and equipment and oil exports and other strategic materials.
Whether it was Hitler or Zhang Meng, they all understood that after dividing the world, the Tang, Germany and Italy might not be allies, and wars could break out and become enemies. Therefore, the Tang Empire stopped at this time, and in fact it was also guarding against Germany and Italy.
The Tang Empire's navy pushed forward, capturing all the colonial strongholds and Suez Canals in the past, and they would build powerful fortifications there and deploy the forces of the navy, army and air force. In the future, once the Tang, Germany and Italy alliance broke down, the Tang Empire would control the entire world's maritime transportation line, have the capital to compete with the German army, and would even be stronger than Britain and more thoroughly encircled Germany.
Hitler also attached great importance to the construction of naval forces at the beginning, but when the German army swept across the European continent and occupied Britain, Hitler suspended huge naval projects due to the shortage of steel resources and handed over the steel to the army to make tanks and cannons.
The Tang Empire captured the entire French naval main fleet overnight, which stimulated Hitler and made him unhappy. When the Tang Empire used its old tricks again and it was another night to capture the entire British Royal Navy's main fleet. Those were hundreds of warships, which were enough to make any country become the global maritime overlord overnight. What's more, the Tang Empire's navy was already very powerful. After absorbing the main force of the British and French fleets, the Tang Empire's navy had become the global maritime overlord, and even the US Navy dared not defeat it.
Hitler was greatly stimulated. When news of the Tang Empire and the Soviet Union's unilateral ceasefire came, and when the Tang Empire learned that the Tang Empire had obtained millions of square kilometers of land in the Far East without a single shot and bullet, Hitler completely understood that the Tang Empire was preparing to deploy the next war, whether Germany defeated the Soviet Union or the Soviet Union defeated Germany. The Tang Empire would be invincible and prepare for the next war in advance.
Hitler immediately convened a meeting of senior German naval generals to rebuild the German high seas fleet on the agenda. Hitler instructed the German navy to build it quickly because the Tang Empire was likely to stop exporting high-performance military steel and other strategic materials to Germany. Before this, the German navy should be established as much as possible and rebuild the high seas fleet.
At this time, the German Navy had only two old-fashioned battlecruisers of the Schánhotes class, three Spie-class pocket battleships, three Hippel-class heavy cruisers, five light cruisers, 22 Z-series destroyers and 245 submarines. The two Bismarck-class battleships under construction were suspended due to the transfer of steel to the army. At the same time, it was also because Germany could not build large warships in large warships, and most of the docks were squeezed into positions by submarines and destroyers, so more large warships could not be started at the same time.
As Hitler attached great importance to the German Navy, the German Navy finally ushered in a real spring. They received financial support of up to 160 billion German marks, equivalent to about 8.5 billion US dollars. On the one hand, this huge sum came from the German army's plunder of European countries. In particular, the looting of Britain caused a huge harvest of the German army. On the other hand, the German army massacred the Jews on a large scale and seized their property.
It can be said that the German war machines can operate quickly, mainly based on the plunder of the entire Europe and use the financial resources of the entire Europe to maintain the operation of the German army. This force is very terrifying.
The German Navy, which received huge financial support, quickly restored the resurrection plan of the High Seas Fleet. They will complete 8 large aircraft carriers, 8 super battleships, 12 P-class pocket battleships, 4 O-class battleships, and 5 heavy cruisers in the next 18 to 24 months. 44 light cruisers of various types, 68 destroyers of various types, 90 torpedo boats of various types, and 249 submarines of various types.
Such a huge naval shipbuilding plan. Although the funds have been in place, there are two problems. One is the large number of shipbuilding docks and shipbuilding workers. As the German army occupied most of Europe, France and Britain's shipyards and workers obtained enough support. The second problem is that the large amount of steel needed, which was only one-quarter of which Germany and France could only provide. Before the fall of the United Kingdom, the British steel factory was bombarded by the Luftwaffe, causing the British steel factory to be paralyzed and could not resume production in a short period of time, so all the remaining steel gaps had to be imported from the Tang Empire.
Fortunately, the Tang Empire's steel production capacity was extremely large at this time, with an annual production capacity of 30 million tons. Its own steel demand was not much. In particular, the Tang Empire received hundreds of warships from the main naval fleets of Britain and France, and many local shipbuilding plans were cancelled.
The Tang Empire has always been the targets of the belligerent countries. In addition to Germany and Italy's allies, it also exported steel to China, and even used the Far East Channel to export steel to the Soviet Union. The Tang Empire has always been doing business while fighting and seizing the greatest profit.
Germany wants to import steel materials on a large scale, but the Tang Empire did not set any obstacles. Except for some secret special steel models prohibited export, such as TP90 aircraft carrier deck special steel, TP202 warship protection special steel, TP203 submarine deep submarine special steel, etc., are listed as top secrets and are prohibited from exporting to any country. Other steel materials are not restricted and will continue to export to earn foreign exchange.
As expected, the German Navy was able to import the required steel and materials on a large scale from the Tang Empire, and the plan to resurrect the high seas fleet was quickly launched.
A huge shipbuilding frenzy was suddenly set off in the entire European German-occupied area. Hundreds of warships laid keels on the ship platform, and a giant European sea beast was about to wake up.
Chapter completed!