The destruction of Britain and the division between the Tang and Germany is eye-catching.

Especially the Tang Empire, which directly obtained the entire British Royal Navy's main fleet. Hundreds of warships were a huge fortune and a powerful war machine in a short period of time, which was fearful.

The fall of Britain and the war in Western Europe ended. The German steel torrent turned to Southeast Europe and blitzed the Soviet Union. The Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet of the Tang Empire left a squadron stationed on Ireland Island, which was a strategic support point for the Tang Empire to look out to Europe. The Tang army would build a three-military and air base there to warn Europe to occupy it.

This is a part of Zhang Meng's big plan, which has now been realized and plays a key role in the future global strategy of the Tang Empire.

The remaining main forces of the Tang Army's Atlantic Fleet led the captured French main fleet and most of the main ships of the British main fleet to march towards the Tang Empire. After the Tang Army captured Portsmouth, they focused on plundering all the technical information, experts and technical workers of the British Naval Engineering Agency. They were the core of the British Empire's naval industry and were plundered by the Tang Empire, which would greatly enhance the strength of the Tang Empire in naval industry construction.

The Tang army's Atlantic Fleet returned to the voyage in two ways, one by one, one by one, one by the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the other by detour, South America and the South Pacific.

Such an action plan is suspicious, but it is actually a tactical action of the Tang army. When the Tang fleet crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, it seized the British Gibraltar Naval Base, entered the Mediterranean and captured British Cyprus. Another war broke out through the Suez Canal. The Tang army airborne troops controlled the Suez Canal before Italy and the Germans, which made the German and Italian armies very angry that they had fought hard there for more than half a year. However, because there was an agreement between Zhang Meng and Hitler, who occupied whoever belonged to him, the German and Italian armies just complained and withdrew. They continued to attack the remnants of British and French troops in Africa, and had no time to compete with the Tang army.

When passing through the Indian Ocean, the Tang army seized the British Indian Ocean territory and captured Sri Lanka, an island outside the Indian Peninsula. It was used as a base to curb the Indian Peninsula in the future. After arriving at the Bay of Bengal, it captured the Andaman Islands and curb British Burma.

These British colonies captured by the Tang army were all isolated islands. Under the fierce attack of the Tang army's huge fleet firepower and naval aviation firepower, only a small number of Marines could defeat the guards of British troops. Only when attacking the Suez Canal and Sri Lanka were used to participate in the war.

Fortunately, the British mainland had fallen and the British army lost their fighting spirit. In addition, the British army had fewer troops. After the outbreak of World War II, most of them were transferred back to local defense, and there were even fewer British troops in overseas colonies. Therefore, under the attack of the Tang army's powerful naval and air force, these British colonies soon fell into the hands of the Tang army and became the overseas territory of the Tang Empire.

Similarly, another Tang fleet returning to China through South America detoured South America, captured Caribbean islands such as the British Bermuda Islands and the British Virgin Islands along the way, and reached the southernmost tip of South America to capture the British Falkland Islands. There is a direct maritime channel that guards South America and Antarctica.

The Tang Dynasty Navy Atlantic Fleet captured British colonies along the way, replacing the British Navy and becoming a powerful existence for global deployment. It also won the title of the Empire of Sun Never Setting.

As for British India, British Burma, British Singapore, and Canada, because of its vast territory, the Tang army's troops were limited, it was temporarily unable to control such a large place. At the same time, British Singapore has 100,000 British troops stationed, claiming to be the world's number one fortress. It requires great strength to attack, so it did not touch it. As for Canada, because it is a neighbor of the United States, the Tang army does not want to stimulate the American beast, so let it go.

With Japan's defeat and surrender, only the Soviet-German battlefield in the whole world was still fierce fighting. As for the African region, the remaining British and French coalition forces could not defeat the German and Italian coalition forces. With the fall of the British and French mainland, the remaining British and French troops in Africa could no longer obtain supplies. The sound of their battle guns became smaller and smaller, and it would be a matter of time before Germany and Italy were eliminated.

The Tang Empire was idle, and the large-scale military operations of the Tang army had ended and it was time to rest. The Tang Empire seized huge territory through war and spread all over the world. In particular, it seized most of the British maritime colonies, which were the support points of strategic channels. Zhang Meng knew very well that the United States in later generations relied on those strategic support points to control the world's oceans, so he attached great importance to it and allocated 2 billion Tang Yuan to build naval and air force bases on various strongholds to strengthen control.

The Australia occupied by the Tang army and the Far East ceded by the Soviet Union both needed to invest a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to consolidate the rule. Therefore, the Tang Empire actually had no other things, and devoted a lot of energy to it, unilaterally stopped the war.

The Soviets were happy to see the Tang army stopping, but to their disappointment, the Tang and China did not make a fuss over the Far East issue, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party that the Soviets had been looking forward to did not appear. Instead, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were studying the construction of a coalition government system with Chinese characteristics proposed by Zhang Meng, because they discovered the first social system that could enable ** and capitalism to coexist. Both sides were devoted to research and discussion, and the establishment of a coalition government was also put on the agenda under the strong pressure of the Tang Empire.

The Tang Empire was quiet, and some Americans were relieved. They have been speculating whether the Tang Empire would go to war against the United States. After all, the United States has been secretly supporting Britain. Tang and Germany have always been dissatisfied with this and have been holding back and not taking action. Now that Britain has fallen, whether the Tang and Germany armies launched an attack on the United States in the Pacific and Atlantic at the same time. This question has a very market in the United States, and many Americans have thought about it.

However, the Hoover administration has always maintained close ties with the Tang Empire, and the two sides signed a non-aggression treaty between the Tang and the United States. The isolationism in the United States is very powerful and refuses the United States to be involved in the war. Unless it is invaded, the Americans will not allow the US military to be involved in the war.

Zhang Meng knew this very well, so he was not worried about the United States. He devoted all his efforts to build the Tang Empire and strived to improve the industrial level of the Tang Empire to a new level in the shortest time. At this time, the Tang Empire's military strength was far superior to the United States, but its potential for war was not as good as that of the United States. It was reflected in the fact that the GDP of the GDP was still behind the United States and its industrial capacity was insufficient. This was because the Tang Empire's land area was limited and its population was small.

Zhang Meng firmly believed that with the development speed of the Tang Empire, he now controls huge land and resources such as Australia and the Far East. As long as he builds vigorously and increases his population, his industrial capacity will soon catch up with the United States. When the total GDP of the Tang Empire also exceeds that of the United States, he no longer has to worry about the United States.

The construction of the national economy takes time, and Zhang Meng knew that it was impossible to boost the growth of the seedlings, so he was patient. However, as the Soviet-German battlefield became increasingly fierce, the German army gradually approached Stalingrad and Moscow, and the Soviet-German armies fought desperately, and Zhang Meng began to prepare for both. No matter who wins the war, the Tang Empire was in the most favorable position.

The French fleet and British fleet brought back from Europe, hundreds of warships gathered in the Tang Empire, making the Tang Empire the world's number one naval power and ascend to the throne of the overlord of Shanghai.

The primary issue facing the Tang Navy is to immediately upgrade and transform these warships so that they can meet the needs of naval warfare in the new era.

However, whether the Tang Dynasty navy needs battleships, battlecruisers and heavy cruisers is very prominent. There are two factions within the navy. One faction believes that the Tang Empire should retain battleships, battlecruisers, etc. captured from the navy of Britain and France, which will highlight the strength of the Tang Empire's navy and is the pride of the people. The other faction believes that it should be dismantled and sold, and continue to expand aircraft carriers. They believe that the era of battleships has passed and the maritime overlord belongs to aircraft carriers.

The two factions were quarreling, and Zhang Meng had to make the decision in the end.

After thinking about it, Zhang Meng believed that in a short period of time, these dozens of battleships, battle cruisers and heavy cruisers captured from the British and French navies were still useful, and the main sea forces naturally could no longer use them in the decisive battle. However, in the next few decades, island battles, peninsula battles, etc., relying on the powerful firepower of battleships, battle cruisers and heavy cruisers to conduct cross-strait attacks and cover the troops to land and fight. This is still useful.

The replacement of battleships by aircraft carriers to become the overlord at sea does not mean that battleships have no use value.

At the same time, the only maritime opponents in the Tang Empire at this time were actually the US Navy. There were still a considerable number of battleships in the US Navy, and the Americans were still building battleships. Therefore, the Tang Navy retained battleships and could receive unexpected effects, such as continuing to stimulate the Americans to develop battleships.

In the end, Zhang Meng made a ruling to retain battleships, battle cruisers and heavy cruisers captured from the British and French navies. Major shipyards of the Tang Empire will modernize and upgrade them, and to announce that battleships are still very valuable, and after vigorously installing air defense weapons, they will still be the overlord at sea, in order to mislead international public opinion.

At this time, the warships captured by the Datang Navy from the British and French navies include six aircraft carriers, twenty-one battleships, three battlecruisers (two sinking from Australian ports), twenty-four heavy cruisers, one hundred and eighty destroyers, nineteen submarines, and more than two hundred reconnaissance ships, training ships, warships, supply ships and other naval logistics ships.

The Tang army began to modernize these warships, which was a huge project that tested the naval industrial capabilities of the Tang Empire.
Chapter completed!