Chapter 1309: Chapter 954: The Great Counteroffensive After Christmas Chapter 1309: Chapter 954: The Great Counteroffensive After Christmas Christmas of 1937 was fast approaching.
On December 25th, on Christmas Day, the Britain-France-Australia Three Nations gathered a large number of troops in France, North Africa, and the Balkan Peninsula, preparing for the counteroffensive.
Under the coordination of the governnts of the three countries, these soldiers were going to have a very rry Christmas.
Beef and mutton supplied from Australasia, specialty rabbit at cans and dairy products, potatoes from the Irish region, spirits from the United Kingdom, red wine and bread with foie gras from France made up a grand dinner for the soldiers of the three nations.
In fact, just the expense for this dinner was not small. After all, it was a al for millions of people, which required the beef and mutton to be transported on two large transport ships.
The reason the governnts of the three countries agreed to this significant expense was simple, for after Christmas, the counteroffensive against Germany was to begin.
On February 26th, 1937, more than two million British-French-Australian forces marched out from the Maginot Line and launched a fierce attack on the German Army outside the periter.
To retake Paris as quickly as possible, the three nations amassed over 600 tanks, forming a very large armored cluster.
To coordinate with this armored force in combat, the three nations also gathered more than 3500 airplanes and promptly initiated intense bombing of the German forces at the onset of war.
This was precisely because the Germans had moved a portion of their aircraft to the Eastern European Battlefield, leading to a nurical disadvantage for German planes on the French Battlefield.
Although nations had been desperately manufacturing weapons, equipnt, tanks, and airplanes since the war began, the production speeds among countries were entirely different.
Germany’s industrial strength was indeed formidable, but it was still no match for the combined might of the three countries of Britain-France-Australia.
Looking at the current speed of aircraft production, the United Kingdom was undoubtedly the fastest, with an annual output of at least over 8000 planes.
Germany followed closely behind. Considering Germany’s absorption of the industrial scale of Poland and the Czechoslovakia region, along with the once-great power Austria, Germany’s current industrial scale had already surpassed the native lands of the Britain-France-Australia nations.
According to the projections of the three countries, Germany’s annual production of airplanes was at least over 7000, and very possibly surpassing 8000.
Subsequently, Australasia’s actual aircraft production ranked third in the world, averaging over 5500 airplanes per year.
France ranked fourth in the world, with an aircraft construction pace of about 4000 annually.
Actually, France’s speed of building airplanes could be even faster. If they successfully recovered Paris and reorganized the industrial area nearby, France’s airplane production speed should be able to catch up with Australasia’s.
However, considering that all of Australasia’s airplanes were tal fra airplanes, and the performance and construction costs were entirely different, the aircraft production speed ranking could not fully display a country’s comprehensive strength.
But it cannot be denied, the speed of aircraft production had a significant impact on the current war.
Even though airplanes were consumables in war, due to their powerful role, nations were still continuously building aircraft.
And in battle, whoever could bring out more airplanes would thus hold air superiority.
Germany’s aircraft production speed might have been second in the world, but due to fighting on two fronts, they had to commit Air Force units to three battlefields.
This resulted in a much smaller scale of Air Force for each of Germany’s battlefields than imagined, which is why the German Army on the Westline had fallen into a complete defensive state, without the slightest intention to attack.
The British-French-Australian forces brought out 3500 airplanes, and if the Germans wanted to maintain air superiority on the French Battlefield, they had to bring forth over 3000 airplanes to respond.
But the current state of affairs was such that the Germans could muster no more than 2000 airplanes, so of which were training planes or obsolete models seized from other countries.
Where did the German airplanes go? So were deployed to the Eastern European Battlefield, continuously bombing Russia Nation’s facilities and military.
Another portion was stationed on Germany Mainland, intended to defend important urban cities.
This was an unavoidable matter. Ever since the Battle of Britain, mutual air raids between Britain and Germany had beco the norm.
Although Germany had repeatedly successfully raided urban cities in Britain, the British Air Force was not to be trifled with, having continuously bombed several industrial cities in Germany, resulting in substantial losses for the Germans.
This Air Force stationed on the German Mainland beca one of the key weapons for defending the country’s airspace.
Of course, the German governnt was also planning other air defense asures, such as the infamous Berlin Flak Tower.
Although the British Empire had only bombed Berlin once, it happened when the Germans were entirely unprepared.
But no matter what, the bombing of Capital City Berlin was a disgrace for Germany and it was an event that absolutely could not be allowed to happen again.
To ensure Berlin did not suffer the sa fate, under the orders of the German Chancellor, the Berlin City Governnt began constructing several turrets throughout the Urban City, collectively naming them the Berlin Flak Tower.
As of now, the first Berlin Flak Tower had been completed, ensuring the safety of the Imperial Governnt and Berlin City Governnt.
Because the Flak Tower was close to the Zoo, this turret was internally referred to by the Germans as the Zoo Flak Tower.
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