"Your Majesty, are you planning to use your fleet of aircraft carriers, which are not yet fully trained?"

Dönitz asked thoughtfully, "This is a completely different thing from training!" Please be fully prepared for this! ”

"This king is reluctant to let those soldiers who have not yet been trained to shed blood and fight hard." Old God Cheng Gong waved his hand on the ground and said with a smile: "In this world, as long as you have money, it is a fairly easy thing to find someone to help you fight. This king lacks everything, but not money. ”

After carefully pondering the inner meaning of Cheng Gong's words, Dönitz immediately stood up, saluted Cheng Gong in a German military salute, and said very solemnly: "Dear His Majesty, please allow me to lead your troops to teach the British and French a hard lesson!" ”

Cheng Gong also nodded solemnly and said, "This king accepts your request!" General Dönitz, this operation will be an act of war that our country will form an alliance with Germany and the East and the United States to resist the three countries imposed on us by Britain, France and Australia! The best weapons and equipment must be tested in actual combat before they can be formed, and the best soldiers must accept the baptism of war in order to grow! Your Excellency, this king has officially appointed you as the commander-in-chief of the submarine force of this joint operation, take your submarine and go to battle! ”

My sub! His Majesty said it was my submarine!

Dönitz couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, pressed his right hand into a fist on his chest, and said solemnly and loudly: "Honor is my life!" Your Majesty, Karl Dönitz will not disappoint you! ”

"Germany, you will surely be able to rise from the shadow of defeat in the First World War, wash away the shame brought to you by the French and the British, and regain the honor you once lost!"

Cheng Gong's eyes were extremely solemn and said: "The honor of the German Navy needs to be recast with iron and blood!" The blood-colored rainbow that flashed in Scarbo Bay must not be re-manifested in Germany! The heroic souls of the High Seas Fleet have been waiting in heaven for your generation of German Navy to pay tribute to their brilliant achievements! The battle never stops, and the heroic soul never dies! ”

Dönitz leaned on the heels of his feet, held his head high, raised his right arm 45 degrees, put his fingers together and moved forward, and shouted: "Hi! Hitler! Hi! Your Majesty! The battle never stops, and the heroic soul never dies! ”

Dönitz certainly knew what Cheng Gong was referring to by the blood-colored rainbow of Scarber Bay. Because that is the eternal pain and shame in the hearts of all German Navy!

On June 21, 1919, the German High Seas Fleet, which was detained by the British Navy in Scarber Bay, took advantage of the British fleet's departure from Scarbo Bay to the North Sea for training, leaving only two destroyers as guards, and at 10:30 a.m., all the warships of the German High Seas Fleet received a pre-formulated signal from the flagship cruiser "Emden", and the captains of each ship ordered to raise the fleet flag, battle flag, and Z-shaped signal flag, which were prohibited by the British Navy, and opened the sea valve to prepare to abandon the ship.

With the opening of the wreck valve and the watertight hatch, the British simply had no chance to stop such a massive mass self-sinking. At 12:16, the battleship "Frederick the Great" sank first, and at 12:56, the battleship "King Albert" sank, and the rest of the warships did not sink one after another, leaving only scattered vortices and debris on the surface of the sea.

In the confusion, the British fleet hurried back from its training and tried every means to remedy it, trying to tow the German warship, which had not yet had time to sink, to the shoal and run aground. Despite this, a total of 52 of the 74 German warships detained, including all 5 battlecruisers and 10 of the 11 battleships, sank to the bottom of the sea, with a sunken tonnage of 95% of the total tonnage of the fleet. In the most tragic self-sinking operation in the history of the world's navy, the last to sink was the battle cruiser "Hindenburg", which lasted about 6 hours.

Shortly after Operation Scarpa Self-Sinking Operations, the Royal Navy salvaged the shipwreck of the High Seas Fleet. Because self-sinking and salvage often lead to damage to the keel and distort the hull, and it takes time and money to correct it, most of the salvaged German battleships were disassembled and turned into scrap steel.

Operation Rainbow took place at a time when Dönitz had not yet left Britain as a prisoner of war who had just been released from the UK. When he read the news from a British newspaper, Dönitz almost broke down. However, the belief in the rebuilding of the German Navy sustained him not to fall.

This shame often surfaced in Dönitz's mind during midnight dreams, tearing at his soul like a nightmare, devouring his heart, as if to remind him that the undead of the High Seas Fleet sunk in Scarber Bay were waiting for him to be redeemed.

Upon his return to Germany in 1920, Dönitz did not hesitate to rejoin the German Navy. Under the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany could only have a very small navy, could not possess submarines, and had only 1,500 naval personnel, and Dönitz was promoted to lieutenant on November 1 of the same year as the captain of the T-157 torpedo boat in the national navy of the Weimar Republic.

On September 1, 1933, Dönitz was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and in September 1934 he took command of the light cruiser Amden. After the signing of the Anglo-German naval agreement between Germany and Great Britain in 1935, Germany was able to possess submarine forces.

In October 1935, Dönitz returned to serve in the submarine force and was promoted to colonel; In the same year, the "National Navy" of the Weimar Republic was renamed the "War Navy". After returning to China, Dönitz devoted himself to the study of submarine tactics, using the experience of World War I and cooperation with foreign countries in the interwar period to privately develop and research submarines and train submariners to revive German submarine forces.

At that time, the German naval doctrine was based on the ideas of the American military strategist Alfred Mahan, who advocated the combination of submarines and surface ships to strike at enemy fleets. After intensive research, Dönitz found that the vast majority of the supplies needed by Britain depended on the return of goods from the overseas colonies, and that 75% of the materials consumed by Britain each year were imported for 75% of oil, 88% of iron ore, 95% of copper, 99% of lead, 89% of wheat, 84% of meat, and 93% of cooking oil.

The UK carries more than 68 million tonnes of goods by sea each year, with as many as 2,500 British transport ships sailing the seas every day. Such a large amount of strategic materials need to rely on the merchant fleet, and attacking them is tantamount to cutting off the source of British strategic materials, and the British mainland's material reserves will definitely not be able to support it for long.

Dönitz summed up the actual combat experience of the First World War and felt that it was too risky to attack the convoy with a single submarine. However, if a number of submarines can be assembled to attack the convoy and hunt like wolves on the steppe, it will be able to strike at the merchant fleet with overwhelming force.

Based on this concept, Dönitz believed that with the current strength of the German Navy, it was necessary to change the form of the fleet from surface ships to submarines. Therefore, he began to advocate in the Navy for the large-scale construction of a submarine fleet. If he could be given 300 U-boat Type VII submarines to form a submarine fleet, he was confident that he would defeat Britain in the next war.

However, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Raeder did not agree with Dönitz's idea. The reason for this is that the implementation of wolf pack tactics requires powerful radio communications, radar and sonar technology, which is a difficult problem that Germany, or indeed all countries in the world, cannot solve.

Even so, Denitz did not give up on his wolf pack tactical concept. He and Raeder fought for funding within the navy, and at the same time competed with Hitler's political and metallurgical network, especially Hermann Goering.

Especially after the Donghui Kingdom's long-wave radio communication technology announced to the world that it had achieved breakthrough results, Dönitz became more confident in his wolf pack tactics. It's a pity that now this technology has been taken away by the Soviet Union, and Germany has been trying to exchange long-wave radio technology with the Soviet Union through technology exchange, but the Soviet Union has said nothing and will not agree.

While trying to get back the long-wave radio technology from the Soviet Union, Dönitz suddenly received an order from Hitler's Führer to take a regiment to the Donghui Kingdom to help the Donghui Navy train their submarine forces.

When he got the news, Dönitz was simply ecstatic.

Because the submarines and Thunderfish of the Donghui Navy are currently known as the strongest in the world, there is no one!

Since the Donghui Navy asked him to help them train their submarine forces, this means that the submarine technology of the Donghui Navy will be fully open to him!

God is indeed bless glorious Germany!

The X-type submarine of the Donghui Navy is simply tailor-made for his wolf pack tactics!