"It's better to inform the United States and the Soviet Union... We fulfill our obligations. Whether we can reduce our losses depends on their own abilities..." The politician said instructing as if frost was hanging on his face.

Less than an hour later, Zhukov received a telegram document from Turkey, which really made him laugh and cry.

Türkiye's call claimed that a huge Axis navy passed through the Turkish Strait, with more than 10 battleships and "number of warships" accompanying them.

Just such a vague announcement made Zhukov feel helpless - the Soviet Union had only an old World War I battleship stayed in Sevastopol, so how could it have any resistance?

If the fortress artillery is included, it can still be fired. But the premise is that the German fleet with such a large scale is just to attack Sevastopol?

In addition, weren’t the Germans afraid of Soviet aviation raiding their fleets?

Zhukov, who couldn't figure it out, handed the telegram to Vatujing, who also felt that what happened was a bit weird and incredible.

In fact, what they didn't guess was the purpose of making such a big fanfare in the Axis. But in fact, the purpose of the Axis is just those superficial purposes that seem to be superficial.

Wasting a huge navy is undoubtedly an unwise choice for Germany. On the premise that the United States is completely unable to threaten the Atlantic Ocean, it is easy to implement the plan to use the navy to enter the Mediterranean to cooperate in combat.

In addition, pulling France into the water is much more politically than military. As long as France is moved once, it can be moved for the second time. Sending a fleet at sea and an army may be sent on land!

At the same time, there is another point, that is, the German Navy lacks the ability to command large fleets to fight. All the Axis naval generals, including Lütjens, have commanded at most "guerrilla fleets" composed of several warships.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient command and mobilization capabilities, taking advantage of the enemy's lack of time to clone the troops and exercise the troops' ocean mobilization capabilities and the fleet's joint command capabilities have become the top priority.

Taking advantage of the equipment, it would be fine to let German naval generals like Lütjens perform attack missions that would run away after fighting, but if the German navy clearly showed that cars and horses were fighting with the American fleet in the Pacific, it would be completely whimsical.

The German Navy did not have that combat experience and such dispatching ability - so this time was basically Lütjens's ocean training, an action with a training nature.

Another point is that the German Navy actually has its own shorter shortcomings! Compared with the joint command of large-scale fleets, the German Navy's anti-submarine combat capabilities are also a headache.

Because the German Navy's combat mission was to break the battle, and they were destroyers, they did not have the habit of learning defensive skills at all.

The destroyers originally built by Germany were all powerful to sea and air, poor anti-submarine combat technology, and their weapon performance was even more unpredictable.

Under this situation, after defeating Britain, the German Navy strengthened its naval anti-submarine training and hired a large number of British anti-submarine destroyer commanders as its instructors, strengthening the anti-submarine capabilities of the naval destroyer fleet.

At the same time, many commanders of German submarine forces were promoted to captains of anti-submarine destroyers, with the purpose of allowing them to reverse the combat thinking of submarines and actively complete anti-submarine operations.

But training is always training, and practical testing is required to know whether this training is effective.

So, finding a soft persimmon to pinch it and testing your anti-submarine combat capabilities became a small goal for the German Navy in the short term!

Compared with the powerful and practical experience of the US submarine force, the Soviet fleet in the Black Sea has a small number of submarines and is also very backward in technology. It is definitely a good target for sparring training.

In addition, the increasingly abundant supply of heavy oil has also strengthened the determination of senior German Navy to go to the Black Sea for practical training and inspection.

The final and most intuitive purpose of this fleet is to attack Sevastopol and the Soviet fortress group on the Kerch Peninsula!

To be honest, the work of transporting Gustav cannons is too difficult. This thing is easy to use, but the time and energy spent laying the railway tracks along the way made the D Group Army topped the head.

What’s even more depressing is that the thing is a consumable. If it hits about 40 rounds of shells, the barrel will be scrapped and can only be replaced with a new one.

But Li Le did not prepare a new gun barrel for this thing at all. After he crossed over, although he did not have time to suspend the production and assembly of the Gustav cannon, he suspended all subsequent related production.

Therefore, Li Le planned to use aviation troops and fleets to solve the difficult problem of Sevastopol Fortress.

In order to overwhelm the artillery in the fortress, the Axis Fleet assembled a total of 17 main battleships, with 72 380/381mm caliber artillery, 10 356mm caliber artillery, and several 330mm and 320mm caliber artillery.

This data overwhelmed the Soviet shore defense artillery troops in terms of quantity and quality. Sevastopol only had more than 100 shore defense artillery pieces, of which only 8 305mm caliber artillery pieces and 18 280mm caliber artillery pieces.

By comparing the caliber, you can easily conclude that the fleet firepower of the Axis power is about ten times that of the Soviet army!

If the air combat power is not calculated, the Axis fleet can complete the mission by firing outside the range of Soviet shore defense guns and destroying the Sevastopol Fortress little by little.

In order to cover this fleet, the Luftwaffe deported more than half of the fighter and bomber troops under the D Army to prepare to cover the Axis fleet that entered the Black Sea to fight.

With the 6 aircraft carriers accompanying them and the more than 200 various types of fighter jets carried on the aircraft carrier, it can be said that they are foolproof.

You should know that the Soviet Union deployed only less than 500 air force aircraft in Sevastopol, or on the Kerch Peninsula.

It turned out that there were more than 600 aircraft, but as the war progressed, almost all experienced pilots had been removed here, and more than 100 fighter jets had been removed.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to rely on the remaining combat aircraft and the remaining rookie pilots to defeat the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft troops.

After the plan came here, it became natural for the Head of State to approve the Atlantic Fleet to enter the Black Sea to fight.
Chapter completed!