Chapter 845 845 Sacrifice to Richelieu 20/20
When Winston Churchill got the telegram, he crumpled it up and threw it into the wastebasket.
"What's wrong?"
Greenwood asked.
"Lin Youde moved his fleet out of Taranto and into the Adriatic Sea. Now, if we want to annihilate this fleet, we must go deep into the narrow Adriatic Sea. In addition, we were sunk a battleship, supposedly sunk by a new torpedo of the Germans. ”
"A new torpedo?"
"It seems to be a torpedo that can be turned, maybe it's a torpedo version of the self-guided mine they laid out."
"But," Greenwood asked, with a shocked look on his face, "haven't we installed sound jamming devices on all of our ships?" These jamming devices were very effective in dealing with the Germans' acoustic mines. ”
"Lin Youde must have made something new again, don't they always have new things, it's almost time to get used to it, Arthur."
Greenwood shrugged.
"Now the situation is not satisfactory," Churchill looked at the map of the Mediterranean that has been on the table these days, "the sea near Cyprus is protected by the weapon called Jörmangund, and the Adriatic Sea is the reserve of the Luftwaffe, so we can't rush into it, and now the idea of completely seizing the sea supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean has come to naught. ”
"Yes, it's slippery, but it doesn't make sense." Greenwood shook his head, "We have plenty of naval forces now, and even if we are pinned down in the Eastern Mediterranean, it won't hurt." ”
"Lin Youde will also feel harmless, he knows that we don't have the courage to use the advantage of naval strength again to land in Germany." Churchill gritted his teeth hard, "It's a really unpleasant feeling, like punching cotton with all your strength." ”
Greenwood nodded and agreed, "You're right, Mr. Prime Minister. And we didn't just punch the cotton, we also got our hands scratched by the leaves of the cotton. The Americans had lost a battleship, and I could already imagine the look on Miss Charlotte's face when she heard the news when she landed. ”
Churchill imagined it for a moment, but realized that he could not construct in his mind the shocked appearance of a girl like Charlotte.
But this is normal, maybe that Charlotte was really never shocked, and everything was in her calculation and control.
The last time American technicians looked at Jörmangund's photograph and were categorically certain that it was an electromagnetic projection device, and suggested that they were working on the same device as well.
Now, Churchill suspected that the Americans had already had guided torpedoes with real combat significance, and he even suspected that the German torpedoes were brought back to Germany after the Eye of Odin copied the blueprint of the torpedo.
However, Churchill was, after all, a former Lord of the Admiralty, and he was actually quite familiar with Yiqiē at sea. At this moment, as if he remembered something, he drove his fat body to the wastebasket, took out the telegram that he had just thrown into it, and carefully flattened it.
"What's wrong?"
Greenwood asked curiously.
"I was so excited just now, I didn't see some places clearly."
Winston Churchill read the telegram carefully, line by line, before he breathed a sigh of relief.
"What the hell is going on, Winston."
"The sonar of our ships made contact with the German submarine that fired the new torpedo, after which the escort fleet carried out repeated deep-fire attacks on the German submarine, but no oil contamination was found on the surface of the sea. The commander of the escort believed that the Germans might not be dead yet, so he left a destroyer to continue searching the area, preparing to attack the German submarine that had surfaced to ventilate. ”
"In other words, it is possible that we will capture the new torpedoes along with the German submarines?"
"It's just possible, maybe the Germans would have died long ago because of lack of oxygen. However, we can still send divers to underwater exploration to recover the precious torpedoes. However, I always felt that this matter was not easy to do, and the Eye of Odin would 100% install the dead soldiers selected in a special way in this combat unit that uses high-precision equipment, and these dead soldiers will destroy the new weapons in the hands of the real yàn brigade when necessary to prevent them from falling into the hands of the British. If the submarine is really starved of oxygen, then the lurking Eye of Odin agents will definitely blow the submarine out......"
After Churchill finished speaking, Arthur Greenwood shook his head and smiled bitterly: "From this point of view, the veil of the new torpedo of the German army will not be revealed for a while, if the Germans have mass-produced this weapon and assigned it to the first-line submarine force to let it go, then I am afraid that the balance of power in the Mediterranean will not be the current state." ”
"Arthur, don't mythologize the enemy's new weapon, in fact, according to reports, this time the German submarine sank the Tennessee with a total of six torpedoes, presumably with a salvo of torpedo tubes. It's weird, isn't it? If this kind of torpedo refers to where to hit, the Germans do not need to fire so many torpedoes at one time, more importantly, among the guided torpedoes fired by the Germans, except for the one destroyed by the British destroyer, only two of the five torpedoes hit, and the other torpedoes missed the target and sailed until the fuel ran out and the fuse was activated and self-detonated. ”
Winston Churchill crumpled the telegram again, tossed it into the wastebasket, and then sat down behind his desk, exhausted by the previous series of activities.
"Now we are not concerned with the new torpedoes, but with the recapture of Alexandria. We must keep this fortified city that we have been operating in Egypt for many years no matter what, and even if it is in ruins, we should hold it firmly in our hands. ”
Greenwood glanced back at the wastebasket and asked, "How can you mobilize the goddess without mentioning it in that telegram?" ”
"No, actually, if he really has any special maneuver to deal with our tactics, it will be difficult for us to know how many gods he has mobilized against us until the recapture of Alexandria has officially begun. However, theoretically speaking, after merging with the original Mediterranean Fleet, our fleet should have one more god than Lin Youde. ”
"In that case, there is no reason for this operation to fail." Greenwood said with a relaxed face, "Lin Youde's divine power has been squeezed to the limit, and it is impossible for him to conjure up one more divine concubine." ”
Churchill nodded as well.
"Theoretically," he said, "but I may have been scared by Lin Youde, and I can't put my mind at ease......