The Third Reich in Desperation

In his eyes, this is just another deception, just like his deception to Darlan, it is impossible to be sincere.

There are no permanent friends, only eternal interests!Churchill always thought so.

Main body Chapter 436 Wolves who are responsible for the blame

At 6:14 in the morning on June 6, Sir Forbes' British fleet, led by the flagship "Ark Royal", quietly arrived at the entrance of Oran Harbor.

They lined up between the fjords, forming a siege to the port of Oran where the main force of the French Darlan fleet was located.

At this moment, the surrounded French fleet is still unaware of the crisis.

"Report to the commander! We found a large number of British warships between the fjords."

In Darlan's office, a combat staff officer is reporting to his chief in an orderly manner.

Although the sudden appearance of the British fleet, Darlan and the others had not received any news at all before.

However, after all, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has clearly issued a report, swearing on the glory of the Royal Navy and his own credibility that he will not attack the French fleet.The promise of the dignified British Empire must not be too useless.

Furthermore, the British will not disclose their military operations to Vichy France now, and Darlan and his officers and soldiers fully understand it.

After all, Vichy France is no longer an ally of Britain, and they are now nominally following Germany.

Although Darlan's fleet is not actually controlled by Germany and maintains relative independence from Berente's colonial army.

But after all, they are all troops under the name of Petain, and theoretically belong to the Vichy regime.

It is understandable for the British to worry about Darlan and the Vichy regime sharing intelligence with Germany in disguise.

"I see." Darlan nodded with a smile, signaling his staff to step down.

In his view, the British Navy has already suffered from the German fleet in Narvik and the North Sea, and now it is even difficult to dispatch warships to escort its own transport fleet.

The submarine force of the German General Denitz is simply an existence against the sky.

In the propaganda of the German Social Worker News Agency, because the battle on the road has come to an end, Germany's recent enemy has become a maritime power-Britain.

Therefore, their propaganda pages have also changed from bragging about "Lightning Tactics" and armored troops some time ago to now bragging about "Wolf Pack Tactics" and submarine troops.

Under the German propaganda, Doenitz's "wolf pack tactics" have become as famous as Guderian's "Blitzkrieg", and they are called the two "magic weapons" of the Third Reich, land and sea.

The essence of wolf pack tactics is actually to concentrate on using the weak ships of the German Navy to work together to destroy the enemy's large fleet.

Because it started later, the German navy has never been as old as the United Kingdom in terms of the number of large warships.

Speaking of the history of Germany's naval development in the past 20 years, it is almost all an adventure process that relies on a crooked technology tree and takes a slanted sword.

They gave up their deliberate pursuit of large warships, and bet all their brains on the aircraft carrier for the heavy responsibility of surface combat.

For this reason, the German High Seas Fleet has only three battleships in the true sense so far.

You know, the French navy under Darlan now has a huge existence of 7 battleships and 2 battlecruisers.

In other words, measured only by the strength of sea artillery battles, the French fleet now controlled by Darlan is almost twice as powerful as the German navy.

This is also an important reason why Churchill was worried about Darren Jiangde.

Because once the French fleet is merged with the German fleet, the number of battleships in the German High Seas Fleet will immediately triple, and its shortcomings of low artillery combat strength will be completely made up for.

By that time, the Royal Navy would really no longer find a usable advantage in confronting the German Navy.

After all, Reinhardt's aircraft carrier tactics are maintained by sacrificing the number of battleships.This is a trick, but it is also a risky gamble.

If you are not careful, the German navy that is close will become a living target for large British warships.

As for the "Wolf Pack Tactics" that has been widely publicized by the Social Worker News, in the final analysis, it is not a method that can be used to counter the British fleet.

The essence of wolf pack tactics is to concentrate a large number of weak ships to destroy the enemy's large transport fleet, rather than to deal with the enemy's combat fleet.

In action, "Wolf Pack Tactics" required sending several submarines to hunt and scout at sea.

And their hunting time is usually at night.

There is no other reason, just because it is easy to run at night, and it is easy to avoid when encountering unbeatable ones.

And the reason why you have to think about running and avoiding is not because you don't have enough strength and dare not go head-to-head.

In "Wolf Pack", as long as there is a spy submarine that discovers the British escort fleet, it will send out a radio to find all the submarines that are closer, and launch a surprise attack on the enemy at night.

The usual practice is that when a target is found, each ship will pass through the gap or flank of the opposing escort fleet covertly, avoiding its fire strike barrier, and approach the target.

If it was the British fleet discovered during the day, then the German submarines would occupy favorable attack positions far in all directions and hide under the water.

Waiting until night, they will suddenly rise out of the water after approaching, and launch torpedoes at the target at the same time, in order to achieve a surprise attack effect.

Because of the British anti-submarine measures, at this stage in 1940, it was only at the level of better than nothing.

So Doenitz's "wolves" can almost be said to be in a paradise-like environment.

To put it bluntly, they can hit others, but others cannot hit them.

Judging from the news that Darlan knew, Denitz, who invented the "wolf pack tactic", had been promoted from major general to lieutenant general some time ago.

After the Germans occupied northern France, they quickly transformed the west coast of France and the ports in the Bay of Biscay into German submarine bases, established a German submarine production line at full capacity, and delivered a batch of submarines to Dönitz's submarine force. New submarines.

As for those old German pre-production submarines, a lot have been transferred now, and they are going to hunt in the Mediterranean near the Darlan fleet.

After all, in the Vichy government, Reinhardt's reminder to Petain also reached Darlan's ears, letting him know about the existence of German submarines in the Mediterranean.

The information that Reinhardt deliberately sent to Darlan was just to reassure him.

Although there are German submarines in the Mediterranean, their goal is to clean up the British fleet here and not accidentally damage Darlan's French ships.

But today, Darlan mistakenly associated the German submarine with the British fleet that appeared here.

For a moment, he thought that the British fleet appeared in the Mediterranean Sea at this moment, appearing near them, in order to round up the surrounding German submarines.

"Bring me a map."

Darlan thought about it, and decided to look on the map, maybe he could deduce more information.

Text Chapter 437 Churchill's Viciousness

"That's not right..." Darlan spread out the map, and there was a trace of doubt between the furrows of his brows.

"Commander, what's wrong?" Seeing that something was wrong, his adjutant stepped forward and asked.

In fact, the adjutant also felt that the sudden appearance of so many British warships was a bit dangerous at first, but he thought of the telegram sent by British Prime Minister Churchill himself a few days ago, so he didn't think too much about it.