"Hmph," Churchill shook his head disdainfully, "submarines are a coward's weapon after all, and the Germans, under the leadership of Lin Youde, the yellow race, have forgotten the martial traditions since Frederick the Great?" ”

"It's not about forgetting the tradition, is it?" Charlotte replied disapprehantly, "Regardless of whether submarines are cowards' weapons or not, they do effectively weaken the fighting power of the British Empire, don't they?" If I were Lin Youde, I would desperately tap the potential of this weapon and make the best use of it. And I believe that you, Mr. Churchill, will make the same choice when you come to the position of Lin Youde. ”

"No, I'll inherit Alfred? Feng? Tirpitz's legacy, continued to build the High Seas Fleet. ”

"Will you?" Charlotte raised an eyebrow and questioned in a sarcastic tone.

Churchill was silent.

It seems that the former admiralty minister also knows exactly what choice he will make.

Charlotte didn't continue to ask, but changed the subject.

"In short, due to the threat of German submarines, the battle damage rate of our transport ships has increased by 30 percent in the last month, and a large amount of supplies have sunk into the sea. My finance department told me that if this loss continued, we would be in trouble in the summer of '44, and although there was still more than a year and a half to go before the summer of '44, we still had to take immediate steps to change this terrible situation. ”

As soon as Charlotte's words fell, the commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the US Navy said: "Destroyers equipped with new sonar have been added to active service in batches, and it is expected to form a considerable scale in the first quarter of '43, in addition, the number of anti-submarine patrol aircraft we have modified with Katarina is also increasing significantly, and we are planning to expand several islands in the Atlantic Ocean into Katrina bases to establish an anti-submarine network." ”

In fact, submarines spent most of their cruising time on the surface of the water, so although anti-submarine aircraft did not have sonar buoys and magnetic and infrared detection equipment during World War II, they still posed a considerable threat to submarines. By the way, the reason why the submarines of World War II did not cause a teardrop-shaped hull was not only because the construction technology at that time could not perfectly support the drop-shaped hull, but also because the submarine was sailing on the surface most of the time, so the requirements for surface navigation performance were higher than those for underwater navigation performance.

Therefore, if Lin Youde had a nuclear submarine at this time, then the fact that the nuclear submarine could dive underwater for a long time alone would be enough to reduce the effectiveness of the anti-submarine network during World War II by more than 80 percent.

Of course, if this is not true, Lin Youde not only does not have nuclear submarines, but also does not make much progress in the fuel cell system that he has been investing in a lot - it is really difficult to break through the technological barriers caused by the times.

However, although it was not possible to develop a conventionally powered submarine that was close to a modern submarine in another time and space, the improvements made by Lin Youde's scientists to the submarine within the possible scope of this era have shown a big enough threat at this moment.

The threat was so great that Charlotte frowned at the commander of her Atlantic Fleet.

"It's not enough," she said, "that reactive defense alone is not an effective solution to the submarine threat of the Germans, we need to be proactive." ”

Charlotte looked at Winston Churchill again: "Your Excellency, is your Gomand unit now ready for battle?" ”

"Of course, in reality, Gomand is now preparing for several attack plans, and we haven't determined which one of them is a specific fact."

"Well, then, I would like to send out Gomand to attack the main submarine factories of the Germans."

Churchill thought for a moment and replied: "There is nothing wrong with this, it's just that a submarine factory is generally a fairly large complex, and it is impossible to completely destroy it with a small detachment, and we can only do it partially paralyzed." ”

"That's enough." Charlotte said disapprerovingly, "The whole industrial system in a state of war is in a state of high coordination, and if one part goes wrong, there will be a chain reaction in the others." As long as Gomand paralyzes part of the functions of the submarine factory, it will produce a series of effects, such as the stack of stored raw materials due to the reduction of the throughput of the factory, the backlog of raw materials, and the backlog of raw materials will make the transportation link have to stagnate, and then the stack of the upstream manufacturers producing raw materials will be full of raw materials due to the stagnation of transportation, so the upstream manufacturers have to stop working......"

"Indeed," Churchill nodded, "the strategic bombing of our factories in the Netherlands and France seems to have had a similar ripple effect." ”

"You reminded me," Charlotte said, turning her head to the commander of the Army's Eighth Air Force sitting at the very end of the conference table, "can the Eighth Air Force attempt to bomb the German mainland again?" ”

"Of course we can do that if you wish." The commander of the Eighth Air Force immediately replied, "But I personally do not want to accept such an order. Unlike the French and Dutch air forces, the German air force had complete ground radar guidance, and we bombed some Dutch and French cities close to the German mainland, only to be attacked by the German native air force, which had long occupied a favorable position, and suffered heavy losses. ”

"Okay." Charlotte retracted her gaze, "Then we can only ask the Gomand troops." ”

"yes, human lives are much cheaper than a $220,000 B17 Flying Fortress, right?" Churchill said sarcastically.

Charlotte just shrugged her shoulders and responded indifferently: "It is precisely because of the large amount of dollars that we can now keep the war plane running, Your Excellency Prime Minister." If one day we run out of dollars, then the war will come to an end. ”

"Yes, you're right, so I don't condemn your thoughts, and I'm happy to send the elite Gomand to life and death." Churchill's response was also quite watertight.

At the end of the back-and-forth conversation, both Churchill and Charlotte smiled at each other.

"Alright," Charlotte closed the clip in front of her, handed it to her secretary, and then let the wheelchair back away, "It's not too early today, I should go back and rest." ”

"Good night's sleep to you, and cheer for tomorrow's battle." Churchill immediately stood up and bid Charlotte farewell like a true gentleman.

Charlotte nodded, and then led her personal entourage out of the room.

As soon as she left the door of the conference room, she said to Marshall, who was beside her, "Sue Major Sù Garrison, get his Einsatzgruppen ready, and at the same time the British will start moving, and we will also start moving, targeting the German torpedo factory." ”

"Understood."