Chapter 8: The Prinz Eugen

This award brought great benefits to Zhang Fan, and the follow-up secret gathering brought more surprises to Zhang Fan!

In the evening at the private residence of the Prime Minister, a very secret gathering began. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe gathering was attended by the mustachioed Führer, SS chief Heinrich Himmler, Air Marshal Hermann Goering, Admiral Dr. Erich Raeder, Reich Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, Wehrmacht Supreme Commander Wilhelm Keitel and many other big names in various departments of Germany!

And their purpose is to introduce Zhang Fan in this small circle and pull Zhang Fan into the Ancestor Committee!

Such a scene of upper-class people staggering each other is really not used to Zhang Fan. After all, in his previous life, he was a science and engineering otaku, an engineer who worked until he died. It's okay to communicate with ordinary people, but it's not so smooth to communicate with so many big people.

"Dear close comrades of the Ancestral Committee, please be quiet" The mustachioed head saw that Zhang Fan's communication with his companions around him was clearly lacking, so he stopped wasting time and opened directly!

"All of you have gathered here to welcome our new comrade, Colonel Zhang Fan. He was a great warrior and the pride of the German Empire. On behalf of the Ancestral Council, I hereby invite Colonel Zhang Fan to join our secret society! ”

As soon as the mustache finished speaking, the audience began to applaud enthusiastically.

Zhang Fan has also been prepared for a long time, and now is the starting point for him to get better support in this Germany. He needs more resources to evolve Zero, and it's up to him to get enough support in this secret society today.

Zhang Fan came to the front and made some simple speeches, although he was slightly interfering, but after all, as a god warrior in the minds of the Germans, he could still attract the favor of some people.

The small party soon dispersed, and after most of the people left, the mustachioed head of state left Zhang Fan alone to talk at night! And Zhang Fan knew that now was the time to talk about conditions. After some negotiations, Zhang Fan successfully met his basic requirements.

A task force fleet was built for Zhang Fan. The fleet consisted of one heavy cruiser, one supply ship, 10 submarines.

The 10 submarines served as Zhang Fan's eyes and ears, responsible for finding out the situation ahead and reporting to Zhang Fan in time. The heavy cruisers commanded by Zhang Fan decided whether to attack or not according to the situation ahead.

Giving command of a fleet, Zhang Fan, of course, has to pay a certain price. The mustache has high hopes for Zhang Fan. This independent formation was required to complete the hunt mission against the British Navy. Although they did not have to participate in major naval battles, they had to make frequent sorties to attack British maritime transport.

In addition, the mustachioed Führer also needs to specially publicize Zhang Fan's achievements, Germany now needs heroes, and Zhang Fan is this very suitable naval battle hero. And he is also a heroic soldier who is favored by Valkyrie, and the bearded head who worships the mysterious existence is extremely important to Zhang Fan!

With the completion of the sale, oh wrong is the completion of the negotiations, Zhang Fan also left Berlin and returned to Wilhelmshaven!

Time passed like water, and soon 3 months passed. The task force specially set up for Zhang Fan was also formed, and Zhang Fan transferred most of the sailors who had previously served in the Z16 to the new heavy cruiser, the Admiral Sipel-class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.

At first, Zhang Fan was taken aback when he saw this very famous Prinz Eugen. Zhang Fan really didn't expect the mustachioed Führer to be so powerful, and he actually assigned this very famous battleship to him in later generations! The Prinz Eugen was built in the mid-30s of the 20th century. On 23 April 1936, the keel laying of the Prinz Eugen began at the Kielkrupp shipyard, and on 22 August 1938, the Prinz Eugen was launched and commissioned on 1 August 1940. In April 1941, he participated in the "Rhine Exercise" operation, and on May 24, he participated in the famous Battle of the Danish Strait with the battleship "Bismarck", hitting the British Royal Navy battlecruiser "Hood" and the battleship "Prince of Wales". Later, due to Bismarck's damage, he had to act separately from Bismarck, and escaped the fate of being surrounded by the British Royal Navy.

As a heavy cruiser with high hopes from the German Navy, the Prinz Eugen was never able to sink any enemy warships on its own during her lifetime, but miraculously survived every fierce battle, which can be called a legend of the German Navy. Unfortunately, shortly after each detachment, the capital ships escorted by her escort were either sunk or destroyed, and later in Operation Cerberus-Thunder, which was withdrawn to the German mainland in early 42, Prince Eugen was unscathed, while her unfortunate sisters Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were both damaged by mines. Xiangrui's identity position was reconfirmed. In the remaining years, it supported the shore bombardment on the Eastern Front and the Great Retreat of East Prussia at the end of the war, and then ushered in the final battle, and was the only large surface combat ship of the German end of the war. It witnessed the entire history of the Third Reich from prosperity to decline, and was compensated to the United States after the war. And that's not all, in July 1946, the Prinz Eugen participated in the U.S. nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, serving as a target ship for the atomic bomb along with Nevada, Saratoga and other ships. After two nuclear explosions to see the artificial sun, it was still unsunk, but it was severely contaminated by radioactivity and became a scrap ship, and was later towed to Kwajalein Atoll for abandonment. The hull could not be repaired due to radioactivity, and it did not sink until 22 December when it flooded Kwajalein Atoll. This ship is as strong as the Sun Country's Yukikaze!

Throughout the life of the Prinz Eugen, she has never been sunk, even after two atomic bombs, she is still unusually strong. So Zhang Fan is very satisfied with this super lucky battleship!

With a quasi-displacement of 14,240 tons, the Prinz Eugen is equipped with 4 twin 203 mm main guns, 6 twin 105 mm high-level guns, 6 twin 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, 6 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and 4 triple 533 mm torpedo tubes, with 80 mm of hull armor at its thickest point, a maximum speed of 32.5 knots, and 4 Arador 196 seaplanes with a crew of up to 1,600 people.

In order to strengthen this legendary battleship to the greatest extent, Zhang Fan specially applied for a large amount of armor and various metal resources from the mustache Führer, and then let Zero consume more than 90,000 wish power points to completely strengthen Prince Eugen from beginning to end.

After the reinforcement, the quasi-displacement of the Prinz Eugen reached 26,500 tons, the power and range of the main gun and torpedo were doubled, and the strength of the super-strengthened hull armor was equivalent to 240mm homogeneous armor, but due to too much armor strengthening, the maximum speed was strengthened, only reaching 35 knots, and 4 Arador 196 (Ar-196) seaplanes were also magically strengthened, which strengthened the speed and flight altitude, which was convenient for faster reconnaissance of the enemy!

It took a total of 3 months to get this set of enhancements down.