"Without a navy, we can't occupy Egypt?" Lin Youde asked.

"Our entire supply line is by the sea. Not to mention the sea transport lines, if we do not have the right to control the sea, our merchant ships can only deliver supplies to Tripoli, and even to Tel Aviv is barely enough, and then we have to rely on land transportation, but on land one is that the roads are very bad, and the other is the Arab robbers. ”

"Do you mean Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?"

Lin Youde's joke achieved good results, and the staff officers all laughed.

But soon his chief of staff put on a stern expression and said: "Although the Arabs lack equipment, their command and dispatch are more sophisticated than we expected, and we believe that a considerable number of them come from Arab tribes that have accumulated some actual combat experience in the Persian Gulf, and there are also people who are proficient in modern military theory in command." ”

The name of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" immediately came to Lin Youde's mind, and then he muttered: "Damn the British." ”

"Well, it's only the British." The chief of staff immediately said, "So if we want to launch a campaign against Egypt, we must first suppress the bandits. And we estimate that even if the bandits are temporarily relieved, we still need to leave a part of the troops to repeatedly sweep along the lines of communication to ensure the smooth flow of traffic. ”

Lin Youde looked at the winding lines of communication along the coast, and a feeling of egg pain arose.

"Let Scholes take care of this, and the paratroopers and Task Force 141 should be happy to take care of these Arabs." In the end, Lin Youde could only say that in theory, Task Force 141 should be able to complete its mission in any environment, and they did complete the task of destroying the Trans-Siberian Railway many times in the Great Siberian Wilderness and retreated, forcing the United States to spread the focus of support for Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Arctic Ocean route.

But Lin Youde was still not sure what 141 could do on the terrain of the Jordan River Valley, and although the German paratroopers were strong in individual combat and trained to fight in a state of lack of ammunition and supplies behind enemy lines, they were better at seizing airfields and cities, and God knows what they could do in such a ghost place where birds and eggs coexisted in open terrain and hills.

As for the sea, Lin Youde now has only a few destroyers and light cruisers in his navy, and it is impossible to fight the main force of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet led by the Warweary.

Only send Oh-chan alone, the Royal Navy has already lost the shame of the queen once, and it is impossible to be defenseless.

No matter how you think about it, to solve the Royal Navy, you can only rely on black technology.

"You move on to Tripoli first," Lin Youde ordered the staff officers, "and then cooperate with Scholes's special forces and paratroopers to suppress the bandits." The principle of engagement is 'kill all Arabs who are armed and suspected to be armed', and the commander on the ground can deal with it himself, depending on the situation. Remember, it doesn't matter what you do, what matters is not to spread the word, we are the teachers of civilization, you know. ”

"Yes." The staff officer nodded dryly, and didn't say anything else.

Lin Youde touched his chin, stared at the map in front of him and continued to think: I don't seem to have heard of any black technology that can quickly solve the Royal Navy.

Guided bombs? That hit accuracy, it's better to drop more ordinary bombs. The 603 technical test squadron has accumulated so many actual combat test data, but the accuracy is still stuck by the process level, and it seems that without solving the technology and process related to integrated circuit chips, there is no way to create a usable precision-guided bomb.

According to Lin Youde, the anti-ship missile is also stuck in a similar problem, and the current test product can be guided by radar waves, but the accuracy is extremely poor, and there is still the problem of insufficient response speed for moving ships, and the automatic driving system is also too complex and huge, very easy to malfunction, and also accounts for a large amount of payload.

In other words, weapons that were born in the 60s in another world are really unlikely to be equipped in advance to the 40s.

The point is that now German scientists can't even use alchemy to make up for the lack of craftsmanship - the key technology is not up to par, and the process is not in a rut, just spending more money in vain.

Lin Youde thought about it for a long time, and felt that the acoustic torpedo developed on the basis of the acoustic mine was a weapon that could be used to try it, but the self-homing head of this torpedo was very simple and easy to be deceived, and the torpedo fired at the big ship was "taken" away by the small boat at once, and the German technical department could not manufacture a self-guided head that could accurately identify the propeller sound of the battleship.

In addition, the range of the torpedo is too short, Germany now uses electric torpedoes, running 5 nautical miles is the limit, but there are models that can run 30 kilometers at a slow speed of 14 knots, but the speed of 30 knots is too slow, and the cutting-edge warship can directly throw it off with the speed.

Lin Youde remembered that the acoustic torpedo had been used on a small scale in the German submarine forces, but he had not yet received a report after use, so he picked up the telephone: "Give me the German Navy Command, yes, pick it up." ”

After a series of transfers, the voice of the German Navy Commander Raeder came from the other side of the phone, because after several transfers of long-distance telephone lines, his voice sounded a little "hoarse".

"Mr. Lin, is there anything I can do for you?"

"I remember that at the end of last year the submarine forces received a new batch of cargo, and I would like to see reports of their use, and now, right away."

"Okay, I'll send it to you right away with the telex cipher system."

"No, no, the Eye of Odin's commissioner will visit you later, and you can just give them the information."

Lin Youde remembered that the German army's telex cipher system was finally cracked by the British, and he didn't want to take any chances.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Youde leaned back in his chair and watched as the staff of the staff was busy, and a large army and a large number of supplies were mobilizing their hands to converge on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean.

And for this force to be used to its fullest potential, it needs to eliminate – or at least neutralize – the Royal Navy's superiority in power.

At this time, the red phone in front of Lin Youde rang.

He picked it up immediately.

"Mr. Lin," Schrödinger's voice came from that side, "we have a brilliant idea, and you should come and see us." ”

The scientists at the Institute of Physics have a mostly friendly attitude towards Lin Youde, but they are also hierarchical, using the distinction method in a famous online game, Lin Youde's reputation in Schrödinger has been admired, and he generally does not use the expression "you should" to speak to Lin Youde.

He would say this, which means that he really has something, and Lin Youde must go over and take a look.

So Lin Youde glanced at the busy headquarters, and felt that he couldn't help staying here, so he nodded and said, "I know, I'll go now." ”

After that, he hung up the phone and said to the chief of staff: "I have an urgent matter to go to 'Unit X', if you have anything to do to find me there." ”

"Unit X" is the code name of the expedition team and escort force on the island.

"Do you need to arrange for guards?"

"No, I've got a god with me." As he spoke, Lin Youde patted Oh Sauce, who was asleep on the chair in the corner of the headquarters, and wiped the saliva from the corner of the little guy's mouth with his hand by the way.

"Oh?" Oh-chan jumped up and shook her head to look around, "Oh? ”

"Let's go." Lin Youde patted her on the shoulder, and then strode out, and Oh Chan hurriedly followed him.

"What a beautiful little girl," a young staff officer in the headquarters whispered to a colleague, "and she must be a beauty when she grows up." ”

"Don't you know, she has been in Germany for seven or eight years, and she is still like that, I guess that's what she grew up like. So instead of thinking about that one, it's better to fantasize about Mr. Lin's daughters, who are really worth looking forward to when they grow up. ”

"Don't talk about working hours." The chief of staff reprimanded, "You are German soldiers, you should be meticulous and attentive at all times!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

**

Lin Youde came to Unit X, and as soon as he got out of the car, he asked, "What did you find?" ”

As he said this, he turned his head to look at the plains that had turned pink—it was actually red, but in the sunlight Element Zero had a peculiar color shift, and it looked pink.

"Mr. Lin, we'll show you the actual demonstration." As he spoke, Schrödinger picked up the walkie-talkie, "Miss Lydia, you can start and repeat what you just did again." ”

"Oh, good." Lydia's voice was as tense as ever.

Then Lin Youde saw Lydia's body standing on a piece of specially cleared ground in Element Zero, lift what looked like a shooting weapon, and then pull the trigger.

Something was shot out and hit a target in the distance.

"You have mastered the method of interfering with the laws of motion?" Lin Youde asked with a frown.

"No, there isn't." Schrödinger shook his head, "But we stumbled upon some elements of the Magic Armor abandoned in the 'Outbreak Zone' combined with Element Zero to take on new qualities. When the power channeled by the gods acts on these elements, it is directly converted into electricity. So we tried to improve an electromagnetic coil cannon. What you just saw is a demonstration of our temporary coil cannon, and because it's a temporary zuò, it can only fire this. ”

Schrödinger took out a steel hammer: "After magnetization, it can be fired out, and it can theoretically reach the kinetic energy of a 37-mm small-caliber gun." However, we think this is a very valuable discovery, and we can equip the future Project V finished body with a high-powered continuous coil rifle, and imagine a scene where the Divine Princesses are holding a live attack that can continuously shoot a live ammunition with the same power as the Long 75 Cannon......"

"That's pretty awesome." Lin Youde paused, "However, I still have a question, what do you estimate the maximum projection mass of this cannon can be?" ”

"It depends on how big the coils we can make." Schrödinger paused, and suddenly had a look of sudden realization, "You don't want to use it to fight warships, do you?" It doesn't make sense, the existence of the curvature of the earth will weaken the advantage of the muzzle kinetic energy, and this thing must be much larger than the ordinary gunpowder cannon, and it will be a disadvantage to shoot it within the range that can not consider the curvature, in terms of protection. ”

"Then launch at a distance from the battleship."

"The curvature of the earth...... Ah," Schrödinger nodded, "you're going to use an airship, aren't you?" But there is still a problem with this, in order to solve the resistance problem, this kind of coil must be made by alchemy technology, and it is expected that a large amount of low-resistance Mithril and Adamantite will be used, even so, the life of the large coil is still very short, and I estimate that it will be useless to launch three or four times. It's not cost-effective from a cost perspective. ”

"You don't want to tell the British that they can only fire three or four times." Lin Youde licked his tongue, "War is such a thing, it's just fiction and reality, and you have to bluff when you can bluff people." ”