Although Li Weiguo agreed to attack German Southwest Africa, he could not guarantee whether the German Empire would become an impatient rabbit and jump up and bite people.

This is an adventure and game. On the surface, it is a new round of war adventure between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, but in fact it is a new round of game between Li Weiguo and Hitler.

The last time he successfully assassinated Hitra, he was just a substitute for Hitler. After this incident, Hitler became even more cunning, and it became even more difficult to assassinate him again.

But this is exactly what Li Weiguo is happy about, and he feels and excitement about hunting.

"Your Majesty, the information shows that there is a Gestapo who follows Shilifen."

Mingyue interrupted Li Weiguo's thoughts.

Li Weiguo knew very well about the Gestapo, and it was Hitler's secret police force.

"What did the Gestapo go to the German Southwest African colonies?"

Not only Li Weiguo was confused, but other civil and military officials were also puzzled.

Mingyue explained: "This Gestapo is different from the Gestapo we encountered before. Although they are also equipped with intelligence, their equipment is not something that agents should have."

According to Mingyue's description, this Gestapo equipment is too conspicuous, lacking confidentiality and specialness, and it looks like an army that has always been well-equipped.

Li Weiguo suddenly thought of something. The origin of this modern special forces came from Nazi Germany. So, since Hitler had rebuilt the Gestapo, there was no reason not to develop the special forces.

No, if Hitler ordered the German special forces to join the German Southwest Africa War, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, which was not prepared, would probably suffer a great loss.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo said: "This may be a newly built special forces by the German army. Immediately ordered the African War Zone Command to be vigilant and be careful of this force. If necessary, the empire's special forces can be dispatched and eliminated the other party first."

Seeing that Li Weiguo was so cautious, Zhang Xiaoliu and others were also shocked. They began to pay attention to the Gestapo under Hitler's command and were more concerned.

"Your Majesty, this is a matter of deployment and allocation of troops involved in the war submitted by the Ministry of War. Please read it in the imperial examination!"

Zhang Xiaoliu handed over a combat plan formulated by the Ministry of War Operations Office to Li Weiguo. Although this time it was a battle in the African colonies, the Ministry of War did not dare to be too careless. After all, it was impossible to guess the bottom line of the German Empire.

The entire combat plan for German Southwest Africa is completely predicted based on the Chinese imperial side's years of war experience.

Back then, the Chinese Empire finally occupied all the British Empire's colonies, and the strategy was to erode them step by step. Every concession made the Chinese Empire make the Chinese Empire more and more aggressive.

This time it was also a test of the German Empire. If the German Empire easily gave up German Southwest Africa, the result would inevitably be that the Chinese Empire believed that the German Empire had no power to compete, and would become more and more powerful next time, swallowing up all the German Empire's colonies overseas, and even sending troops directly to the German Empire's mainland.

To this end, the Ministry of War's combat plan also took this factor into consideration and deliberately transferred all the most powerful troops of the Chinese Empire to Whale Bay Port.

Using the strongest army of the Chinese Empire to participate in the war is actually a pure show of force to shock the German Empire and see what the German Empire will react in the end.

In the army, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers of the Chinese Empire Shence Army who were originally stationed in the Whale Bay Port area, the Imperial African Expeditionary Force Command of the Imperial African Expeditionary Force dispatched two towns of troops, with a total of more than 50,000 people.

At the same time, the Ministry of War has drawn troops from the Central Theater, Eastern Theater Command and Southeast Theater of the Chinese Empire, respectively, covering a large number of heavy equipment, such as 400 T30 main battle tanks, 1,000 W88 tanks, 500 155mm howitzers, 200 37mm anti-aircraft guns, etc.

In terms of the air force, German Southwest Africa is far away from the Chinese Empire's Air Force Base in Cape Town, Africa, and exceeds the combat radius of the F17 fighter aircraft currently in service in the Imperial Air Force. Therefore, the Imperial Air Force only dispatched 500 F20 bombers to the Cape Town Air Force Base, intending to carry out long-range bombing.

The Air Force's shortcomings actually gave the Navy a chance.

Today's Chinese Empire Navy not only has the world's most powerful super battleships, the world's most advanced submarines, but also the world's most powerful aircraft carriers.

Due to the limitation of combat radius, the Air Force's F17 fighter jets were unable to take off from Cape Town to reinforce the German Southwest African battlefield, but the Navy's aircraft carrier battle group had no such restrictions.

Since the German Southwest African colony is on the west coast of Africa, only the Imperial Navy needs to seize the sea control in the region and use aircraft carriers to take off F18 carrier-based fighter jets directly from near the coastline and put them into battle.

To this end, the Imperial Chinese Navy dispatched eight aircraft carriers this time, the eight most powerful aircraft carriers built by the Imperial Chinese Navy during and after the World War.

The prototypes of these eight aircraft carriers were half of the super battleship built at that time. They had the powerful armor protection capabilities of the super battleship, as well as a large aircraft carrier with a displacement of up to 30 knots and a displacement of 50,000 tons.

After that, the Chinese Empire Navy renamed eight aircraft carriers after the Eight Dayuan, allowing Dingyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Jingyuan, Pingyuan, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan and Laiyuan to resurrect the eight former battleships, to be resurrected in full blood, and to become a member of the battle sequence of the Chinese Empire Navy again.

To this day, although the German Imperial Navy no longer uses ships to modify aircraft carriers and has begun to build aircraft carriers on its own, no aircraft carrier has a tonnage of 50,000 tons. The most powerful aircraft carrier in service of the German Imperial Navy is only 35,000 tons.

This is the power of the Chinese Empire's navy. Its unparalleled industrial shipbuilding capabilities and strong financial support are completely incomparable to the German Empire.

In addition to sending eight large aircraft carriers to the West African battlefield, the Imperial Navy nominally sent the Imperial Navy Indian Ocean Fleet to Africa in order to show the strength of the Imperial Navy, but that was just to confuse the Imperial Navy. In fact, the Imperial Navy drew a large number of main warships from the Pacific Fleet to provide powerful naval artillery support to the Imperial Army.

The Chinese Empire Navy Atlantic Fleet remained unmoved and kept monitoring the German Empire's High Seas Fleet. If the German Empire's High Seas Fleet went to German Southwest Africa to participate in the war, the Chinese Empire's Atlantic Fleet would participate in the war.

In this way, as long as the Chinese Empire's Navy Atlantic Fleet did not participate in the war, it would indicate an attitude of the Chinese Empire that it had not yet begun a full-scale war with the German Empire. It was warning the German Empire that if the main force of the high seas fleet was dispatched, it would be equivalent to starting a full-scale war with the Chinese Empire.

This is equivalent to handing over the order to start a full war to the German Empire, which will make the German Empire extremely confused. It is not right to start a war, nor is it not right to not start a war.

This is also a disguised bullying. After all, the Chinese Empire's Navy has more than 10,000 warships of all sizes and sizes, with a total tonnage of 12.5 million tons. The German Empire currently has more than 2,000 warships of various warships, with a total tonnage of only 2.7 million tons.

The huge gap between quantity and tonnage also made the German Empire navy dare not enter the Atlantic easily for danger. After all, the number of warships in the High Seas Fleet was small and the tonnage was small. Even if each warship was comparable to similar warships of the Chinese Empire Navy, once a naval battle broke out, the two sides sank one to one proportion, and the German Empire's High Seas Fleet was wiped out in annihilation. There was no available warship, and the Chinese Empire Navy only lost one fifth of the total number, and the remaining four-fifths of the warships could completely kill Germany.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the German Empire's high seas fleet performed extraordinaryly during the naval battle, defeating the Chinese Empire Navy, which was four times more numerous and five times more tonnage than itself.

Unfortunately, that's almost unlikely to happen!

Therefore, as long as the Chinese Empire's Navy Atlantic Fleet is still in Europe, it is unlikely that the German Empire's High Seas Fleet will go to reinforce German Southwest Africa.

According to the report from the Ministry of War to Li Weiguo, the Navy will dispatch more than 2,000 warships of various types, including more than 400 combat ships directly participating in the war, and the remaining are military transport ships, hospital ships, supply ships, patrol ships, communication ships, tug ships and other auxiliary ships.

In addition to the eight Dingyuan-class large aircraft carriers mentioned above, the combat ships also have two super battleships, eight super fearless battleships, twenty fearless battleships, eleven heavy cruisers, forty-five light cruisers, two hundred and thirty-seven frigates, and twenty-two submarines. The rest are a large number of landing ships.

Except for the eight Dingyuan-class aircraft carriers that were modified on the hull of the super battleship, other super fearless battleships and fearless battleships were all during the World War. During the Chinese Navy, the Imperial Chinese Navy captured the main battleships of the British Royal Navy, which were mostly British-built warships. In recent years, they have entered the naval shipyards of the Imperial Chinese Navy for modernization and modification, and equipped the most powerful weapon system and communication system of the Imperial Chinese Navy. However, the armor and power were not modified because it was too troublesome and some were not cost-effective.

The only thing that makes people shine are two new super battleships.

These are the only two super battleships built by the Chinese Empire Navy when it entered the 20th century after the World War. They are imperial-level and are under construction by the Nandu Shipyard. They were successively served one month ago and three months ago. One was named the Shihuang Emperor and the other was named the Hanwu Emperor. They are both named after the two most famous emperors in the Qin and Han dynasties in Chinese history, symbolizing the power of these two super battleships.

At that time, the two Imperial-class battleships received a total of RMB 115 million. The traditional battleship ship shipyards of the Chinese Empire did not bid successfully. Instead, a newly rising private enterprise, Nandu Shipyard, took the order. This really made the old shipyards of the Chinese Empire at that time, such as Jiangnan Shipyard, Huangpu Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard, Luda Shipyard, Beiyang Shipyard, etc., envious and jealous, and made bold statements that Nandu Shipyard would definitely not be able to complete the world's greatest battleship construction project in the 20th century.

However, a few years later, when two Imperial-class super battleships were launched and quickly passed the naval sea test and passed the Navy test, and then entered the Chinese Empire naval combat sequence, these old shipyards shut up because they could not find any fault with the Imperial-class battleships.

Even during the sea trial, these old shipyards sent their top shipbuilding designers and engineers to go through the navy's back door, boarded two imperial-class battleships, and conducted sea trials together, trying to find out the fault.

Unfortunately, except for some irrelevant minor problems, no major problems were found, and they were really slapped in the face.

For a long time, the orders for naval warships of the Empire of China have been monopolized by these state-owned enterprises. The single ship is expensive, and even the navy itself has quite a complaint. It is a pity that it is useless to make these shipyards reduce the cost of shipbuilding.

Now, as Nandu Shipyard participates in the competition with a private enterprise and completes the shipbuilding mission excellently, under the same quality, Nandu Shipyard has the lowest shipbuilding price and the highest cost-effectiveness, which has finally helped the Navy break the traditional monopoly.

This is a good situation. Even the Nandu Shipyard, which Li Weiguo highly praised, encourages more private enterprises to participate in military-indu competition. This can not only reduce the cost of China Difang's procurement of equipment, but also increase the income of private enterprises, solve more employment problems, and break the monopoly of state-owned enterprises and allow state-owned enterprises to develop a sense of crisis. Only when the sense of danger can they survive for a long time, it is a great thing for the country and the people.

Of course, there are also a lot of sadness behind this. In order to win the traditional shipyard, Nandu Shipyard spent a lot of effort on imperial-level battleships to bring out their most advanced design concepts without reservation.

Taking the Shihuang Emperor as an example, the actual full load displacement has reached 68,000 tons. Four triple-mounted 461mm (18-inch) L50 naval guns were installed, two triple-mounted 155mm high-level dual-purpose, twelve 127mm dual-mounted anti-aircraft guns, fifty 37mm triple-mounted anti-aircraft guns, and twelve 12.7mm quadruple-mounted machine guns.

Its main armor belt is up to 500 mm Chinese special steel, with a coverage rate of 100%, extending forward to 300 mm and backward to 350 mm. The horizontal deck covers 250 to 300 mm armor, main gun turret, command tower, ammunition deck, fuel silo, engine room and other key parts of the armor protection is up to 800 mm.

Such powerful firepower and such strong armor protection, if other countries wanted to do this, they could only sacrifice the power system.

However, the Nandu Shipyard has adopted new technology to solve the power problem of the Imperial-class battleship. Through the new turbine system with turbocharged and gear transmission, the output power has been greatly improved. Coupled with the innovative square stern design and the seven-blade gold propeller propulsion, the hull resistance and underwater power loss have been greatly reduced, and the Imperial-class battleship can maintain a combat speed of 30 knots and a cruise speed of 25 knots.
Chapter completed!