"From last night to the early hours of this morning, 36 Ju188 torpedo bombers and 16 torpedo boats sent by the Georgedon Island Joint Command, as well as a submarine group sent by the 1st Submarine Command, launched a series of attacks on the US landing formation. At present, the results that can be confirmed by the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info are that 26 enemy ships have been sunk or damaged, of which 16 enemy ships can be confirmed to have been sunk......

In the area along the coastline of Georgetown, the ground forces under the Georgetown Island Joint Command voluntarily abandoned their positions and shrank into the interior of Georgetown according to the original plan before the US troops launched a landing operation. Therefore, the landing operation launched by the US military in the early morning of the 24th Guyana time was very smooth, and the urban area of Georgetown has been completely occupied by the US landing force.

In addition, at around 8 o'clock this morning, aircraft reconnaissance found that at least 150 US landing ships and transport ships had gathered in the area along the beach in Georgetown, and were unloading ships on the beachhead......"

In the Joint Intelligence Command Center of the German General Staff, Admiral Messer, Chief of Staff of the Navy, gave a brief briefing on the latest situation on the battlefield in Georgetown.

Of course, the situation is under control, and the easy landing of American troops in Georgetown is entirely due to the release of water by the German army (European coalition forces). The purpose of releasing the water was naturally to use the Georgetown battlefield to fish out the main force of the US Atlantic Fleet.

Although the European Community now has a great lead in aviation technology and still possesses such "black technology" weapons as television remote-controlled missiles, the German General Staff is still very afraid of the nine super battleships of the US Pacific Fleet.

If they are not destroyed, they will have to live in fear when the Germans attack the Caribbean. As long as the United States dispatched these nine super battleships to take advantage of the night or other weather conditions that are not suitable for sorties, and lead a large number of cruisers and destroyers to surprise the European Community fleet for landing operations, the consequences would be unimaginable...... Those 9 super battleships can have 81 406mm cannons!

The US Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will definitely know the role of these nine super battleships in the anti-landing operations on the Caribbean islands, so the Americans will definitely use them cautiously and will never take them out for risk.

So you have to spend some money to have a chance to hook them out for a decisive battle!

"Have you found the battleships and aircraft carriers of the Americans?"

After listening to Admiral Messer's briefing, Hersman immediately asked about the situation of US battleships and aircraft carriers -- given the scale and importance of the Georgetown landing operation, it was impossible for the United States not to dispatch aircraft carriers and battleships.

"Not yet." Hirschmann was somewhat disappointed by Admiral Messer's answer, who explained, "It is difficult to distinguish between a battleship, an aircraft carrier, and a large transport ship in a night reconnaissance." Daytime reconnaissance operations would be expelled by US shore-based aircraft, and since the waters near Georgetown were only 500 kilometers from Trinidad, the combat radius of US P47 and P51 fighters could be fully covered.

In addition, there are areas north of Georgetown that are covered with clouds in parts of the sea during the day today, which will affect the search operations of aircraft. ”

This was entirely to be expected, as Georgetown was close to the equator, the climate was hot and rainy, and the fleet could easily find clouds to hide from at sea. And the Americans will definitely send a large number of shore-based aircraft from Trinidad to provide direct cover for their own fleet. Most of them will also send destroyer formations to deploy anti-submarine and anti-aircraft cordons around the main fleet.

Hersman smiled nonchalantly and asked, "We can always find them, can we?" ”

"Of course," Commander-in-Chief Raeder said, "the American fleet will not be able to hide for long." But it's useless to find them now, because our fleet hasn't been dispatched yet. ”

Now the main forces of the 1st Fleet of the Combined European Fleet (home port in Belém, Brazil) have been dispatched to the Pacific Ocean. The main forces of the 2nd Fleet (home port Brest) and the 3rd Fleet (home port Gibraltar) have not yet gone out, so even if they find the location of American aircraft carriers and battleships, they can only send Me264, Ju288, Ju188 and Do217 from Belém and Cayenne to attack with remotely controlled missiles.

However, with the interference of American P47 and P51 fighters, it is difficult for these heavy and medium bombers to successfully drop missiles.

And what the German General Staff wanted to hunt was not one American super-battleship of two ships, but at least six super-battleships with 406mm guns.

In order to achieve such results, it is not enough to rely solely on shore-based medium-sized and heavy bombers to carry remote-controlled missiles to attack, and the main fleet must be dispatched.

"Are all 4 of our missile ships ready?" Hersman asked.

Marshal Raeder said: "Ready, Wilhelm II and Maria. The missile cruiser Theresa, as well as the missile battleships Gneisenau and Dunkirk, are ready. Always ready to go!

In addition, the missile cruiser USS Fiterik I, the missile cruiser USS Wilhelm the Great, the missile battleship USS Schlieffen and the missile battleship USS Europaburg (the second ship of the Dunkirk class) will complete their sea trials before the end of the year and be officially commissioned in the Combined European Fleet. ”

The refit of the eight "missile ships" was carried out in two steps, and the first to enter the plant were the refit of Gneisenau, Dunkirk, Wilhelm II and Maria. Theresa. The other four battleships/armored ships entered the plant eight months late, so they were completed a few months later - because of the experience of the first batch of four missile carriers, the second batch of missile ships was retrofitted in a relatively short time and could be completed in 1944.

Incidentally, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th ships of the newly designed Type B missile cruisers (the converted P-class ships were renamed Type A missile cruisers) were also secretly built in October and November 1943 on the 30,000-ton slipways of several large German shipyards, and were scheduled to be commissioned by the end of June 1946.

The missile cruiser of this class will be improved on the basis of the Type A missile cruiser, the standard displacement is still up to 24,000 tons, and the number of missile launch tubes installed is more (depending on the type of missile equipped, the number of missile launch tubes will change) can be fully 1 times more than that of the Type A missile cruiser, reaching 40 tubes (20 twin seats)! It will also be equipped with ship-to-ship missiles or cruise missiles that are more advanced than the Reaper-2 missiles.

And the large cruise missiles of the V4/V5 series, which are under development and are ready to be installed on Type B missile cruisers (with a take-off weight of more than 6.5 tons, when installing large cruise missiles, the twin launch tubes need to be replaced with single tubes) are also planned to be equipped with miniaturized nuclear warheads!

Therefore, the Type B missile cruiser is actually a powerful strategic-class weapon!

In addition to these 20 twin-mounted cruise (anti-ship) missile launch tubes, four twin-mounted ship-to-air missile launchers will also be installed on the B-type missile cruiser -- the development process of Germany's surface-to-air and ship-to-air missiles is not slow at all, and there are six ground-to-air and ship-to-air missile projects currently under development, including the Hs297 developed by Henschel, the "Waterfall" developed by EMW, and the R series "Rhein's daughter" developed by Rheinmetall. Ship-to-air missiles have already entered the testing stage. It was expected that the troops could be practically equipped by the end of 1945!

If you look at the progress of the development of German missile cruisers and missiles (this is top secret, the Americans do not know), the Americans are also quite right to rush to a decent and peaceful strategy in 1944 or 1945.

But 4 missile ships are enough for the Americans!

According to the latest European Combined Fleet detachments, the missile battleships "Gneisenau" and "Dunkirk", which belong to the 2nd and 3rd fleets, respectively, are the flagship of the preferred task force and the flagship of the battleship group.

The two Type A missile cruisers are also part of the 2nd and 3rd fleets respectively, and they are both the flagship of the alternate task force and the flagship of the cruiser group.

That is, under the 2nd and 3rd fleets of the combined European fleet, at least 2 task forces are operating around "missile ships".

The 40 "Reaper" 2 TV remote-controlled anti-ship missiles are the biggest killer weapon of the entire task force.

"Then let's strike our killer weapon!" Hersman smiled and said, "I think it's quite possible that the Americans will take the initiative to seek a decisive battle with them!" ”

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"Rudolph!" Hans-Karl. Major General Mayer's voice came from the telephone receiver, "Immediately come to the chief flagship, it must be there in 30 minutes." ”

"Yes, Major General." Rudolph. Feng. At lunch on 24 August, Rear Admiral Heinsberg-Hersmann received a telephone call from Rear Admiral Mayer, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Fleet, in the officers' club in the port of Brest.

As a staff officer of the fleet, Hersman Jr. knew very well what it meant to "go up to the chief flagship"?

At present, the nine sub-fleets under the combined European fleet are all "command fleets" and do not have flagships in peacetime - because they will not go to sea to fight in the name of the 1st to 9th fleets at all.

If the squadron commander wants to lead the squadron himself, then the fleet commander will usually carry a capable command aboard the "preferred" or "alternate" task force flagship. And usually the commander of the fleet will board the flagship of choice, and in the 2nd fleet is the missile battleship "Gneisenau"!

As one of the important fleet staff officers, when the commander of the 2nd Fleet set out for the expedition, Hesman Jr. naturally had to wait for the flagship missile battleship "Gneisenau".