Chapter 2: Lütjans
When Cheng Hao and Andreas came to the conference room of the Bismarck battleship, Cheng Yuan was surprised to find that in addition to Admiral Lütjans, there were also Admiral Mut Brinkmann, the captain of the Prince Eugen, and the senior officers of the two ships.
"Now that everyone has arrived, then I will announce the main objective of our operation, the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen led by the Commander of the Fleet, Lütjans, carefully dived into the Endless Sea, destroying the enemy's supply lines is our plan, our main battle target is not the enemy's warships but trading ships, in our battle with the British, the decisive goal is to destroy its long supply lines.
Britain is an island country, from meat, grain and other daily necessities, to iron ore, oil and other strategic resources, all rely on cargo ships from distant Oceania, North America, South America, Asia and the Middle East and other places, the most effective area to achieve this goal is the North Atlantic, where all supply lines converge, as long as we can win this war, we can greatly relieve the pressure on the British Army and Air Force! ”
The above is the goal of the operation in the Rhine exercise, and I would like to say sorry to my colleagues who are doing it, and I will not tell you about the plan until the operation begins, but please be careful, Ruetjans raised the brown paper marked top secret in his hand.
This order is so far known only to His Excellency the Führer, the Commander of the Ship and the Commander-in-Chief of the Submarines, and you are the fourth group, think about it, how long can the British hold out under fire after we cut off the supply lines on which Britain depends? ”
As Lütjans's inspiring speech ended, everyone present, except for Cheng Hao, smiled, as if they had seen the picture of the Imperial Navy completely cutting off the British supply line.
The solemn conference room became noisy, and Rütjens waved his hand, and continued, "From now on, radio silence will be enforced, and no one shall send a single telegram except on the orders of me and the two captains!" Except for Captain Cheng Yuan, others can leave first."
When it was confirmed that Colonel Mutt Brinkmann and the others had left, Lu Teyans suddenly collapsed on the seat, looked at Cheng Yuan and smiled bitterly, and said in a tired voice, "See? ”
I have to admit that Lütjans's speech was very inflammatory, but Cheng Hao, who came from the future world, knew that the operation of the Rhine exercise was not so simple at all, and the operation was full of accidents from beginning to end.
At first, they had to wait for the Shane sisters to attack from the south and form a coordinated pincer posture with Bismarck in the north and south, but they didn't expect the Shane turbine to strike, and Griffner was struck by lightning, and as a result, Prince Eugen, who was not in the sailing range, temporarily became the only partner.
Initially, Bismarck's target was the troop convoy, pinning his hopes on the bad weather that had not been encountered for many years, quietly appearing, taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the opponent's home fleet was too late to intercept it at Scapa, and quickly reached the endless sea.
I didn't expect to be discovered by planes in Nori on the way, and I didn't expect the British to judge Bismarck's movements through intelligence and intelligence, and as a result, heavy troops were set up in the three waterways. I had no choice but to go toe-to-toe with the Hood and the Prince of Wales.
Although the Danish Strait was undoubtedly a great victory in terms of results, the Rhine Plan, which was preceded as a naval battle, turned into one of the most brutal naval battles in the Atlantic theater of World War II, with the strongest British and German warships Hood and Bismarck successively becoming wrecks at the bottom of the Endless Sea, plus the 50 dead of the Mashona, a total of about 3,560 officers and men died in the ocean.
The adventure of the Germans did not lead to a strategic breakthrough, but instead lost the last chance to turn the German surface fleet over, which was undoubtedly a huge failure!
But how can these words be said to an old man who has devoted his life to the country, Cheng Hao hesitated for a moment, and slowly organized the language: "Your Excellency, Commander, I personally think that only the two battleships Bismarck and Prince Eugen are simply not capable of fighting against the huge British fleet system, Hood, Prince of Wales, prestige, counterattack...... Britain has too many large warships, and we are constrained by the need to preserve our numerically weak forces.
Why didn't the Rhine exercise be delayed for a while until the Tirbitz sea trials were completed, when we would have two Bismarck-class battleships ready for operation! ”
Hearing Cheng Hao's answer, Admiral Lütjens sighed, his bright eyes revealed a rare tiredness, "I have long warned Marshal Raeder that it is too dangerous to send only two warships to attack, if the Royal Navy concentrates its forces on the endless sea, the Bismarck will be besieged by 5 or 6 battleships, not to mention aircraft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers, even if it only engages two or three battleships, the Prinz Eugen is not an ideal helper."
Did you know, I also went to Berlin to state what I had seen to Raeder, hoping to postpone the "Rhine exercises" again so that I could accompany the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Tirpitz. ”
But he rejected me. Any idea what he said? He stressed that Britain should not miss the opportunity, and that Britain was struggling to survive in the Mediterranean, and the only way to do this was to take advantage of the situation to cut off its supply lines. Saying that, Lu Teyansi knocked hard, "He's blasphemous!" ”
With such a huge disparity in the combat strength of the enemy and us, once they encountered the enemy's main fleet, they pinned Germany's last hope on this big gamble!
I have read your information, at this time, Admiral Lu Teyansi annotated Cheng Yuan with eagle-like eyes, "After graduating from the Imperial Naval Academy in 1939, the strength of the spiritual network reached a rare S level, and the famous "Future Navy Must Be a Three-Dimensional War" and "The Relationship between the Armed Forces of the World and the World Pattern" were published in the academy, which shocked the naval command and was called into the imperial navy in the same year......
If you are a Chinese to join the Imperial Naval Academy, your talent must have been affirmed by His Excellency the Führer, and I only want to ask you one thing now, can you resonate with Bismarck? ”
"Resonance?" Cheng Yuan, who had long been frightened by Lu Teyansi's evaluation of his predecessor, carefully recalled the information about resonance in his mind.
The so-called resonance refers to a peculiar kind of telepathy between the combatant and the weapon, just like his own child, which does not require words, does not use movement and vision, and does not use words to complete long-distance spiritual communication, so that the other party can be perceived.
There is no reasonable explanation for the source of this induction, but all countries have found a law, the higher the strength of the spiritual network, the greater the possibility of resonating with the weapon, and even the miracle of contracting several martial spirits, the larger the martial spirit body, the stronger the burden on the spiritual network of the contractor, and resonance is a necessary element to produce martial spirits.
Manifestation! Cheng Hao's mind was suddenly stunned, looking at the 8:37 words marked in red letters in the lower left corner of the retina, swallowed his saliva, has he been in a coma for more than a day, looking at Lu Teyansi who looked slightly angry on the side, Cheng Hao hurriedly said, "I already have psychological induction, I guess I fainted the day before yesterday because of resonance."
After speaking, looking at Lu Teyansi's pensive appearance, Cheng Hao quickly touched the beads of sweat on his forehead, the pressure that Lu Teyansi gave him just now was too great......
"Yes, that's good, with your S-level spiritual network, it is estimated that you will be able to manifest the Martial Spirit in two days at most" Lu Teyansi's brows, which had been frowning slightly, finally relaxed, and it seemed that he was going to re-designate the battle plan.
"Colonel Cheng Hao, it's not early, go back and rest early, I'm going to tell the base camp the good news immediately" Lu Teyansi got up and patted Cheng Hao on the shoulder, and walked towards the radio room, leaving Cheng Hao alone with a confused face......
Wu Ling ...... Isn't this the ship's mother, Cheng Hao tugged at the corners of his mouth, thinking speechlessly, this world is really interesting, thinking that Cheng Hao also strode towards the direction of the captain's room......