Chapter 1485 - For the Motherland (22)_2

The words of the Naval Minister were not an exaggeration. The campaign of interception and escort that unfolded between the Charlemagne mainland and the Southern Ocean colonies had reached a critical point. With the engagement of surface vessels from the Wehrmacht, the battles to interrupt trade shifted from small-scale raiding to full-fledged fleet engagements. The current practice of organizing merchant ships into convoys and dispatching battleships for escort was barely maintaining the maritime logistics. Against the Wehrmacht's new model battleships, superior in performance, both merchant vessels and escort ships would become prey. If this trend cannot be curbed, the entire escort battle will utterly fail, and the navy will lose its reason to exist. Charlemagne, deprived of its overseas lifeblood, will face an even more severe situation.