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The "fight" continues.

This time, it was a coordinated attack by 36 dive bombers and 32 torpedo bombers.

At 13:20, two batches of dive bombers launched the first attack. After losing 4 aircraft, they successfully dropped "bombs" on the warships. Almost as the dive bomber group began to attack, the torpedo aircraft group also began to pounce on several main warships.

The battleship itself suffered heavy losses in the first wave of attacks, and there were great loopholes in defense, which made it even more difficult to support it.

In this wave of attack, the torpedo plane showed its power. Nine of the 28 aerial torpedoes dropped down hit the target. In the combat room of the "Grand Duke of Frederick", the loud shouts of pilots came from the speaker. The bridge of the battle fleet flagship was hit by two bombs and one torpedo, which had been judged to be "hardly damaged".

The second wave of attack lasted about fifteen minutes. When the sounds in the speaker disappeared, the communications consultant reported to Marshal Holty that the aircraft carrier fleet was preparing to launch the third wave of attack. The Marshal waved weakly, "The exercise was over!"

Although the final "results" have not been counted, Holtie knew very well that in just two hours of "naval battle", the battle fleet had been defeated and had at least "lost" half.

The result was already very clear, and it would be useless to continue to continue, and he didn't want to continue to stay on the battleship and endure the "torture".

The final result was indeed before the evening: the battleship "losed" two battleships, one heavy cruiser and two cruisers, the other two battleships and one heavy cruiser were "hardly damaged", while the aviation fleet only lost 27 combat aircraft. Such a battle loss ratio is completely disproportionate. If converted into money, it is about 250 million to 1.2 million, which is about 200 to 1.

This confrontational exercise established the status of aircraft carriers as the main ship in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, and became an important turning point in the development of the Imperial Navy.

Of course, the results of the exercise were listed as a senior military secret, and all participants had to write confidentiality books. They received several special confidentiality regulations training. The results of this exercise were not made public until after World War II.

After the exercise, the emperor hurried to Germany to attend the funeral of Marshal Hindenburg.

Marshal Hindenburg was a purely admired Prussian soldier. After the war ended, he served as the prime minister of the empire for ten years and made great contributions to the prosperity of the German Empire. The basis of the power of the Hohenzollan family was the Prussian officers' group and the Junker nobles' group. Emperor William II of Germany naturally rushed to the Voydiek Manor in East Prussia.

Many people think that Marshal Hinden has mediocre qualifications, but he only relies on Rudendolf in military terms and relies on Minister of Finance Gustav when governing the country. He doubted his military and political talents. In fact, the Marshal knew people well and was good at communicating with others and listening to other people's opinions, which made him rarely make major mistakes in military command and governing the country. It was precisely because of his sophistication and stability that the German Empire had struggled to overcome several major crises.

As a military collaborator, the Austro-Hungarian Empire cooperated happily after Hindenburg became the chief of staff of the German army. As an allies, the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also maintained a high degree of consistency on major international issues after the war. All of this has a lot to do with the good communication and coordination system established by Hindenburg with Austro-Hungarian during his tenure as prime minister.

In order to show respect to the marshal, after the funeral, the German emperor ordered the promotion of the marshal's eldest son, Oscar Hindenburg, to lieutenant general of the army. However, Li Haydn believed that Little Hindenburg was too fond of showing off, which was far from the talent of the old marshal.

During his time in Germany, Lee Haydn also made a special trip to Hanover to visit the retired Marshal Markensen, and awarded the 85-year-old Army Marshal the Knights' Order of the Supreme Honor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the 85-year-old Army Marshal.

There are few famous generals who are still alive during World War I, and Markensen is the longer-lived among them.

This may be related to his simple personality and never cared about domestic political disputes.

Marshal Makenson is still energetic, quick-thinking, and very talkative.

However, when he complained to Lee Haydn that the German army is currently inadequate and that the equipment is a little behind, Lee Haydn could only smile and say nothing.

The German Army has maintained its troops of about 1.1 million since the war. It is the most powerful army in the world. It is currently equipped with about 4,600 tanks and 3,000 combat aircraft. Although the equipment of most troops has not been updated in time due to funding restrictions, the German Army has always been in the world's leading position in the development and development of weapons and equipment.

As for the slow equipment update, there is no way to do this. Currently, Europe has no country that poses a threat to the German army. France has not recovered after its defeat. After nearly seven years of civil war, Russia has finally unified Siberia and Central Asia, although the Soviet regime has finally unified Siberia and Central Asia, Finland, Eshania, Latvik, Poland, Ukraine, Donets-Don, the Caucasus Federation, Lithuania and most of Belarus have been annexed by Germany, and they have actually been half weakened. Even the Russian Empire in its heyday still fears Russia, and now.

In order to maintain its status as a world-class naval power, Germany spent half of its annual military expenditure of 12 billion marks on naval construction. Especially in 1934, due to the expiration of the Washington Naval Arms Treaty, Japan announced its withdrawal from the treaty, and the Treaty had expired. Germany immediately passed the naval budget for the construction of five German-class battleships with a displacement of 45,000 tons to replace the four King-class battleships that were ready to retire, which made the army even more jealous.

After the signing of the Treaty of Washington, the German Navy eliminated about half of its main battleships, retaining only four "King" class, five "Bavarian" class and five "Markenson" class, a total of four four "Jack" class battleships under construction were converted into aircraft carriers according to the treaty, and its huge submarine force only retained 136 submarines.

Even so, the German Navy has maintained a roughly comparable strength to the United Kingdom and the United States.

Over the years, the German Navy has not built large surface ships, but has built four heavy cruisers, and the number of light cruisers and destroyers has been increasing. In particular, the Navy Aviation Force, after more than a decade of development, has now owned 1,600 combat aircraft, which can be almost comparable to the Army Aviation Force and has become an important air force.

The situation in Europe dominated by Germany and Austria has remained relatively stable, but now it has encountered new challenges in Spain. (To be continued)
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