Since getting Merlene (Artoria) on board, the British have done one thing to prove her claim. That is to gather the strength of the whole country to build a spiritual ship for Mei Lin.

In the case of non-stop construction in three shifts of the shipyard 24 hours a day, it took only 45 days to build a 2,000-ton destroyer prepared for Merlin.

During the construction of this destroyer, the load-bearing part of the keel of the main body of the ship did not use a single rivet or weld, and it used the keel integration technology used by Lin Han and others.

The miraculous metal fusion technology has made British designers who know this secret almost crazy. They excitedly surrounded the Minister of the Navy and shouted: "The time has come for the revival of the Royal Navy!" ”

The same fanaticism is manifested in those in the informed naval department.

The war of 1940 destroyed not only the Royal Navy's warships, but also their confidence.

Then the destroyer, tentatively named the Fairy in the Forest, went to sea to carry out night artillery bombardment exercises with the Grand Fleet.

Due to the fact that Merlin's strength is still very weak, the perceptual ranging distance is only ten kilometers for the time being, but this is enough to make the British excited and crazy.

After this incident, the British Royal Navy finally solved many puzzles: for example, how the Germans used the standard tonnage of 40,000 tons to build the effect of "50,000 tons of battleships", and finally figured out what was going on with the German Navy's miraculous night shelling technology and battlefield control ability in the course of several encounters with the German Navy.

After that, the entire Royal Navy became Merlin's strongest supporter. Brits who are crazy because they got Merlin. At this time, she was preparing to design a giant battleship for her to serve as her parasite, and the standard tonnage of this battleship, 60,000 tons, was just the starting point. The caliber of the main gun will be as high as eighteen inches, which is the same class as the main gun of the Yamato.

In 1942, when the British Navy completed the last of the George V-class battleships, there was a debate in the country about whether to continue building new battleships.

The course of the Third Battle of the Norwegian Sea has sounded the clarion call to the world for the arrival of the aircraft carrier era, and the naval battle of Guam in June 1942 officially announced the advent of the aircraft carrier era.

Britain after the end of the war in Europe. He himself was suffering from the aftermath of the war. Although they gritted their teeth and tried desperately to restore their naval strength, the previous wars consumed too much national strength, and they were unable to play a naval expansion competition with the Americans -- if it were not for the Battle of Guam, the US Navy would have been completely wiped out. At that time, the British even gave up the idea of competing for the world's first navy.

At present, there is only one battleship on the British slipway that is being "planned to be built", and that is the 45,000-ton Lion-class battleship Lion, but this ship is before Merlin can find the British. It has been out of action for a long time. (Note: Due to the ripple effect caused by the appearance of the Sister Ships of Shane.) The George V-class battleship is 40,000 tons, and the next stage will naturally be upgraded to 45,000 tons)

There are two main reasons: one is that the British are financially difficult and have no money. Because there was no money, the second ship that was originally planned to be built was canceled, and the first ship, the Lion, was suspended for three days and even stopped construction at the end.

Second, due to the impact of the Battle of Guam, there was a great deal of controversy within the British Navy over whether or not to continue to build battleships. As a result, the keel of the first battleship Lion, which had only been laid for a few days, was called off, and then it has been shelved until now.

However, the appearance of Merlene (Artoria) changed this qiē. Senior officers of the Royal Navy after internal discussions. It was decided to build a super-battleship specifically for Merlene, and the object of its reference. It is currently recognized as the world's number one battleship Yamato.

Now the designers of the British shipyard are working overtime to design a matching battleship for Merlin, according to her special abilities. There are three reasons why the battleship was chosen as Merlin's parasite instead of the aircraft carrier.

The first is the special operational environment in the North Atlantic, where the British Navy faces the threat of four German battleships and one Soviet battleship in the Norwegian Sea. Relying on the original five George V-class ships alone and fighting against them was very difficult. The nightmare of the night battle in the Norwegian Sea still lingers in the British, although they now also have the spirit of the ship, but they lack a battleship that can fight alone with the 45,000-ton Bismarck-class battleships - because the George V class in the Royal Navy is a 40,000-ton battleship, with a tonnage of 5,000 tons, and it is only manufactured with "traditional" processes rather than "magically modified" products, and the performance gap between the two sides is very large. And having had nightmares of night battles in the past, the Royal Navy could not but consider the problem of night artillery battles.

The second is the battleship, which is much more solid to the aircraft carrier and is not easy to sink.

The third reason is the "battleship" sentiment of the British upper leadership, and in addition, it also takes into account the reason that the "mighty" battleship can brush more national faith.

In order to achieve a "dream battleship" as perfect as the Yamato, the British themselves did not lack technology, but the only thing they lacked was the power of faith.

As for the issue of the manufacturing process of eighteen-inch naval guns, for the British, although they had some manufacturing pressure, they were not strict.

Historically, during World War II, the reason why Britain did not manufacture new 16-inch naval guns was that it was not needed, because the opponent was the weak German Navy, which could not pose any threat at all, and secondly, it was a fifteen-year naval holiday, the loss of technology, and the scrapping of related artillery equipment.

But this plane, affected by the disastrous defeat of the European War in the past year, the British, who had learned the hard way after the war, desperately wanted to restore the former glory of their own navy, and had already spent a great deal of money on it. The problem of the British was that they only had the technology but not the production equipment, and when the official wanted to localize the naval guns, the corresponding equipment was quickly rebuilt.

Redesigning a qualified 18-inch naval gun was difficult and challenging for British scientists, but it was not a difficult goal for Britain, which was the first in basic science in World War II. As long as you are not afraid of burning money, the official can always pile up what you want.

After Merlin helped build her first spirit ship, the power of faith she possessed was nearly exhausted. For the time being, she is still not fully formed, but now her ability is very weak, and she is unable to realize this plan at all.

How to help Merlin brush up more faith power has become the biggest headache for the British in the past few months. However, this issue was turned around after the Japanese announced the high-profile announcement of Yamato Nadeshiko's deposit.

At Buckingham Palace, King George VI asked Prime Minister Attlee:

"How have you discussed, can we declare the existence of the heroic spirits of England like the Japanese?"

At the time of questioning, Merlin was dressed in traditional Royal Navy attire and was standing next to the Chief of the Admiralty.

The archbishop replied, "Merlin's opinion is that they will sense each other as soon as they are born. China, Japan, Germany, these three countries were born earlier than we gave birth to such national crystallization, Germany and China, it is more likely that they were born ten years ago, and we can only catch up with them now by running fast. ”

The British have analyzed that the "gods" of Germany and China, or the "crystallization of national will", are likely to be the "twin gods" of the current German state religion, Sephirothism. There is also no shortage of high-ranking people in the British government, and after they got Merlin to join, they have already confirmed that Lin Han is the "crystallization of the national will" of China. And the shrewd intelligence analysts of the British intelligence department have finally figured out what is going on with the "5,000-year-old civilization heritage" that Lin Han said to reporters when he participated in the Olympics in the United States. According to what Merlin told the British, only a country with a long cultural heritage of civilization can produce a person like her, and the United States, without a history, could not have given birth to a person like them—this is really great news for the British.

In order to brush up more power of faith, the Germans relied on Hitler's iron fist to kick away all the old European religions, and set up Sephiroslavism as the state religion to brush up the power of faith for the two, and the British wanted to do this, and the trouble would be quite big, after all, the British king could not be as shameless as the Germans to kick God away, and directly set up another god with the "cult" as the state religion.

As for doing something like the Japanese, the British did not think of it, but they did not have the courage to be the first to eat crabs before this. But after the Japanese did it first, the last trace of British hesitation was no longer there

And for the archbishop, of course it is not possible to worship Mei Lin as a god and canonize her, but it is still possible to take a step down and canonize her or something. In the face of worldly forces, the archbishop's discipline is like this, the Ten Commandments of the Bible do not erect statues for others or anything, as early as when he erected the statue of the goddess of the sea, who had drawn the power of faith for Merlin, on the George V-class battleship, he threw it into the Atlantic.

Prime Minister Attlee agreed: "The Cabinet has discussed it, and we have agreed to canonize Merlin. In addition, after the war of 1940, the will of the people was also depressed, and we also needed a bright spot to regain the confidence and ambition of the people! ”

So, like the Japanese, the matter of pushing Mei Lin to the foreground and acting as the patron saint of the empire on which the sun never sets, so as to help her improve her strength and brush up the power of faith, was decided.

In October 1940, with the signing of the Amsterdam Agreement, the war in Europe subsided.

The defeated British lost the Armada that crisscrossed the seas, lost a large area of colonization, and even more severe than these two, the entire "centripetal force" of the British Commonwealth was also lost. In order to improve the morale of the people, even if no Japanese did this, it was inevitable that Artoria would be pushed to the forefront. (To be continued......)

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