A beautiful blonde woman pushed open the door of an office, and behind her, outside the door of the secretary's office, there was a busy scene.

Someone is answering the phone, someone is explaining something to someone, and in the noisy huge room, everyone seems to have their own work to do.

Only in the office, which had just been pushed open by the secretary, was a quiet paradise. There was only one person working here, and there was a large stack of papers stacked on the desk.

"Alright, let's put the file here! Let the 11th destroyer detachment sail to escort the NG-2 flotilla to the United States. Hearing someone approaching his office, Somerville commanded without looking up.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy has always been a very proud position, having once been the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful maritime power.

It's a pity that now the glory is gone, and all that remains is endless loneliness and regret. The British Royal Navy, which has stepped down from the altar, now has a sad smell of defeat from the inside out.

The pressure on General Somerville is still huge, and he is really worse than Cunningham who left the mess behind.

He was probably the weakest commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy in British history. He had only one battleship under his command, and his combat strength was less than one-tenth that of the German Navy.

With such a weak Royal Navy also tasked with the tending of the Atlantic shipping lane, as well as the symbolic patrol of the home defense, Somerville's ability to do so has not yet resigned, which shows that he is still very capable.

Before the United States and Germany, but also to bring Britain out of the shadow of defeat, Somerville can be regarded as his own efforts.

"General! The liaison officer of the German Navy arrived, right outside the door. The secretary who walked in put the papers in front of Somerville and spoke.

Somerville was stunned for a moment, then finally remembered the purpose of the other party's coming here to find him, and then nodded and said, "Okay, let him in!" ”

A German naval officer with the rank of rear admiral walked in, raised his arm very respectfully in front of Somerville, and gave a standard German hand salute: "Hi! Hitler! ”

"Good afternoon!" Somerville stood up, returned the salute with the standard British naval salute, and then bowed, "Sit!" Want to drink coffee? ”

Although Britain's supplies are still relatively scarce compared to before the war, high-level coffee and black tea have never stopped, which is the so-called high-level privilege, which is a treatment that ordinary people cannot enjoy.

And with the surrender of Britain and the successive victories of Germany, British supplies were also restored, and very quickly.

"Thank you!" There was no concession, and the German major general was also very casual because he often came to Somerville's office. This is where he worked, and he was one of the liaison representatives of the German Navy in the UK.

There were many such representatives, for example, in the port of Liverpool, there were also German liaison officers and coordination officers. They were responsible for the entry and departure of German ships, communicating with the British, and exercising all the privileges that Germany had acquired.

When Somerville's secretary served coffee and went out to close the office door, the German officer looked at Somerville and said, "The 10 landing ships we ordered are making good progress, and I am grateful for your help, Your Excellency." ”

These landing warships could no longer be built in Germany, after all, the limited dockyards were already used to produce combat ships and repair existing warships.

The docks in France are producing submarines, as well as destroyers for air defense and anti-submarine use, which are very critical. In particular, anti-submarine destroyers are combat ships that must be mass-equipped for protective navies.

In the past, Germany fought a broken war, and only destroyed it, and not allowing the enemy to use the sea was a victory. But this notion is outdated, and what the German Navy needs today is to use the sea.

So, the warships that used to be inconsequential are now baby bumps. Tactics that have not been exposed to before must now be relearned.

But it is precisely because of this that Raeder and Dönitz and other German naval leaders found that they had too few resources at their disposal.

Germany, unlike Great Britain, could mobilize a large number of civilian ships in wartime, since Germany itself had very few civilian ships.

Now more than half of these ships have gone to the Mediterranean, and the rest are basically piled up on the Baltic Sea route.

Who would have thought that just a year later, German shipping would be so busy that even Raeder was a little desperate?

As a result, a large number of civilian shipyards are desperately producing, working overtime to manufacture more transport ships to fill the gap in demand.

Container carriers were launched one after another, and the pace of production was no slower than that of the Americans, who produced the Liberty Wheel.

On the one hand, it is because the container ship mechanism is simple and easy to produce, and on the other hand, it is also because the demand is really huge, and the profits of manufacturers are so high that they are off the charts.

The booming production of civilian ships naturally crowds out the production capacity of military ships, especially non-combat ones.

Raeder and Dönitz and others are both old-school naval commanders, and they are all from breaking belligerents, so they have the same reflex, trying to ensure the production of combat ships, and do not pay attention to the follow-up of supporting ships.

The result cannot be called bad, but it is a serious problem: the German Navy lacks landing ships for landing, minesweepers, anti-submarine ships for escort ships...... In a word, except for combat ships, nothing is missing.

To compensate for these problems, Germany ordered 10 fast supply ships from France to supply its own fleet.

At the same time, 10 new fast destroyers, 4 air defense cruisers, and 10 large landing ships were ordered from the UK.

None of these ships are main combat ships, so they are not afraid of the British to be careful. Even if it was delivered a little later, it would not affect the combat effectiveness of the German Navy as a whole.

Of course, if these warships are put into service on time, then the German Navy's ocean-going combat capability will be raised to a higher level.

The landing combat capability will also be markedly enhanced, the carrying capacity will also be stronger, and the ability to support the landing operation will also be more guaranteed.

It's just that there is still a big gap between the distance and the ability to land in the United States. It is simply impossible to count on these dozens of ships to change the balance of forces between the two sides in the landing operation.

"General Gers is gracious, it's my job." Somerville smiled and replied.

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