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At the beginning of World War II in the original time and space, Germany swept through most of Europe with a raging force.

In less than a year, Germany successively captured Poland, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. In the entire Western Europe, only Britain was still resisting. At this time, Mustache extended an olive branch to Britain. Due to the insufficient crude oil reserves in Germany before the war and the need to prepare for the subsequent war against the Soviet Union, Mustache believed that too much power should not be consumed on the Western Front. Moreover, Germany's main enemy was the Soviet Union, so it could just beat Britain. As long as Britain said it was no longer an enemy of Germany and returned the former German colonies it had taken away during World War I, it could sign a peace treaty.

Unexpectedly, the new British Prime Minister Churchill was a hard nut. Chamberlain's past experience made Churchill completely ignore the mustache's diplomatic tricks. In his speech at the inauguration ceremony, he clearly stated: "Our policy is to use all the power God has given us, on land and sea. and the sky, fighting against the dark evil forces that have never been seen in human history!" After several attempts by Mustache to persuade him failed, he couldn't help but became angry and ordered the formulation of the "Sea Lion Plan" to invade Britain.

However, the German army, which had previously been invincible and invincible, suffered a huge defeat on the British battlefield. The Luftwaffe and the British Air Force fought fiercely over Britain. From July to the end of October 1940, the Luftwaffe lost 1,733 aircraft (Britain claimed 2,698), and the British Air Force lost 915 aircraft (Germany claimed 3,058). German ground forces were unable to enter British territory from beginning to end, and the "Sea Lion Project" ultimately had to be shelved indefinitely.

In 1974, after the war, the British Military Academy Sandhurst conducted a large-scale battlefield simulation activity, using the most advanced computer simulation technology at the time to re-enact "Operation Sea Lion" that the Germans failed to execute.

In order to reflect the authenticity of this reenactment, the British Army specially invited three senior German generals from World War II to serve as referees for the exercise - ace pilots who participated in the Battle of Britain and were later appointed "Fighter Directors". General Adolf Galland, who participated in the "Operation Weser" invasion of Norway, and General Friedrich Rueger who was responsible for clearing minefields off the British coast in "Operation Sea Lion", and who participated in the Battle of Crete, and General Heinrich Reitner, who commanded the German 4th Parachute Division.

In addition, the various parameters set in the exercise were set according to the actual establishment and deployment positions of British and German naval, land, and air force units in September 1940.

On the first day of the exercise, which was September 19, 1940 in reality, all parties involved in the exercise calculated the severe weather on the strait based on the weather forecast at the time. Due to the delay in improving the weather conditions, the landing fleet put together by the German army had to wait in the port. At the same time, German aircraft and ships launched offensive mine-laying operations, laying mines on various routes where British ships rushed to rescue the strait, and the German feint attack troops also began to conduct landing operations in Iceland.

The bad weather continued until the afternoon of September 21st. In the evening of the 21st, the German army received a weather message indicating that the weather conditions had improved the next day and landing operations could be carried out. As a result, the huge German landing fleet began to assemble at dusk and crossed the English Channel at night. This fleet was soon discovered by the British, who immediately sounded the invasion alarm. At midnight, the British Home Fleet set off from various anchorages and sailed towards the English Channel to the south.

At dawn on September 22, a German airborne force composed of 8,000 paratroopers landed in southern England, blocking the communication line between the beachhead and the interior. Behind them, a German army consisting of 80,000 ground troops successfully landed on the beachhead in southern England. However, due to the lack of professional landing ships, the German army was forced to use barges to forcibly deliver troops to the beach. This resulted in 25% of the barges being destroyed by artillery fire during the landing process. In order to cover the landing battle, the Luftwaffe used all its forces to seize air superiority on the beach, but failed. They lost more than 300 fighter planes in one day. In contrast, the Royal Air Force paid the price of 237 fighter planes being shot down.

On the naval side, a small British ship formation led by the cruiser HMS Manchester tried to rush into the Strait to bombard the landing site, but was blocked by German torpedo boats and submarines. Fearing that large ships would be targeted by German aircraft and submarines, the Royal Navy temporarily refused to allow these ships to enter the Channel for reinforcements.

During the ground battles from the 22nd to the 23rd, the German army managed to advance more than ten miles inland and occupied the ports of Folkestone and Newhaven, but both ports were completely blocked before the British army retreated - Just like the behavior of the German troops in the port of Cherbourg during the Normandy landings. Although the railway leading to the beachhead was blocked by the Luftwaffe, the British army still managed to organize forces to carry out a counterattack on the 23rd, preventing the German beachhead troops from continuing to advance inland. Although the German army had deployed all 10 divisions as the leading force ashore, due to the lack of follow-up supplies, they had to stop the attack and wait for the next wave of fleets to arrive with supplies and ammunition.

However, these supplies would never arrive.

On September 24, when the second and third waves of German barges sailed out of the port and embarked on their journey across the English Channel, they were intercepted by a Royal Navy interception formation consisting of 17 cruisers, 57 destroyers and torpedo boats. .

In this near-carnage naval battle, 65% of the German transport ships were sunk by the British formation, and the rest were forced to return to French ports. Only a small number of transport ships successfully transported supplies to the British mainland.

At the same time, when the British formation confirmed that the situation in the strait was under control, the British capital ships belonging to the Home Fleet sailed into the strait one after another, completely cutting off the German reinforcements. Seeing that there was no hope of victory, the Germans had no choice but to try to use transport ships to withdraw part of the landing troops. However, during the retreat, many transport ships were sunk by the Royal Navy fleet, causing heavy losses to the German army. In the end, the German vanguard, isolated and helpless on the British mainland, was forced to surrender to the British army on the 28th because they ran out of ammunition and supplies.

In general, despite this computer simulation exercise, the first batch of German landing troops achieved better results than expected. However, because the Luftwaffe failed to control the air over the beach, they were unable to prevent the British Home Fleet from entering the English Channel. This ultimately resulted in the second and third waves of German fleets being decimated by the Royal Navy. Of the nearly 90,000 German troops who landed in France, only 15,400 successfully retreated back to France. 30,000 people were captured by the British army, 60,000 were killed in the battle, and another 50,000 people died in the English Channel when the transport ship was sunk by the Royal Navy during the operation - accounting for one-third of the total casualties. .

All six magistrates participating in the exercise, including three representatives of the German army, agreed that "Operation Sea Lion" would be a complete defeat.

Although "Operation Sea Lion" declared bankruptcy, the top German military officials still seemed not to give up on the remaining value of the operation. They geniusly used this completed plan in the biggest scam in human history - "Barbaro" to attack the Soviet Union. Sa" plan.