Lin Youde boarded the surrendered Roberts, and the first thing he said to Captain Roberts was: "How thick is your main armor?" ”

"One hundred and fifty millimeters, sir."

Lin Youde couldn't help but be speechless in his heart: Isn't Nima thicker than those British paper-skin heavy patrols, no wonder the armor-piercing shells fired by the 152 howitzer are so low in their damage.

Then Lin Youde asked them about the underwater injuries of the hull, and then found that the underwater defense of this cargo is also very reliable, according to the old ghost on the ship, the ship was designed to consider that the offshore combat will eat mines, so the defense of mines is particularly concerned. (The old ghost is the chief engineer, because he works below the deck all the year round, so the people in the engine room department are called "ghosts", and the chief engineer, the highest person in charge of the engine room, has become an old ghost, and the second engineer below is called the big ghost and the second engineer in turn...... ）

Only then did Lin Youde confirm that his perception of Roberts was wrong, he had always thought that it was a paper thing because of the classification of this thing as a shallow water gunboat, a gunboat, when he mentioned gunboats, he thought of those small gunboats or something, and as a result, he unconsciously despised the Roberts-class shallow water gunboats.

But in fact, this is something specially designed by the British Royal Navy to conduct offshore operations, and in the fashionable name of the 21st century, it should be called Littoral Combat Ship.

If it is to be called a Roberts-class littoral combat ship, then Lin Youde will never dare to underestimate it.

So you see, names are really important, good names can be used to deter enemies, and they can also be used to protect their own secrets.

After Lin Youde turned around on the boat, the casualties of the artillery battalion were also counted, and after an artillery battalion was fired by four 380 giant cannons, more than 400 people died in the battalion, leaving more than 100 people, and those who were not injured at all were watching the drivers of the transport vehicles of the artillery battalion from behind.

Lin Youde's heart was very heavy for this tragic casualty, and even the joy of seeing his daughter could not resist this heavy mood.

"Daddy?" Sophie stood beside Lin Youde, pulled Lin Youde's trouser leg, and looked at Lin Youde with a small face, "What's wrong with you, are you angry with us?" ”

"No, but you're going to get spanked when you go back."

"Why, aren't we meritorious?"

"Sophie," Lin Youde squatted down and looked at his daughter in a parallel position, "You remember, a leader should be rewarded and punished clearly, those who have merit should be rewarded, those who have faults should be punished, and there is no such thing as merit and demerit offsetting, and mistakes must be punished, and then rewarded." ”

Sophie nodded slightly.

Lin Youde continued: "In addition, you are responsible for your own actions, and if you decide to sneak out to play, then you will have to pay the price for this decision, no matter what you do later, this price must be paid, understand?" ”

Sophie nodded vigorously this time.

At this time, Lin Youde heard someone among the captured British officers around him whisper in English: "Michelle, you know German, what do they say?" ”

"Lin Youde is educating his daughter about imperial studies."

"Imperialism? Could it be that the Lin Empire will be inherited by the youngest child? This would cause the ...... of the War of Succession"

Lin Youde ignored the discussion of the captives behind him, reached out and touched Sophie's head, smiled at her, and then stood up and said to the lieutenant of the guard platoon: "Go and collect the bodies of the fallen artillery battalion soldiers and sort out the names." I'm going to write a handwritten letter to each of their families. ”

"A handwritten letter, sir?"

"That's right, they lost their lives because I didn't know much about the Roberts class, and I want to apologize to their families in person." Lin Youde paused, "No, I'd better visit them in person." ”

If it was the world and era in which Lin Youde originally lived, Lin Youde's visits to the families of more than 200 people who died in battle one by one would definitely be regarded as a show, and maybe he would be criticized and criticized a lot, but Lin Youde was very sure that even in that time and space, he would make the same decision when he encountered the same thing.

He was sure that his inner desire to apologize to the families was not false, but that he wanted to convey these feelings to the families - no, they had to be conveyed to them, with sufficient sincerity, and vowed never to make the same mistake again, and not to let the soldiers lose their lives because of these mistakes.

**

Two days later, Lin Youde and the Eastern Mediterranean Theater Command, which had advanced to Ismailia, converged.

By this time, the Germans had routed the main forces of the British Eighth Army, forcing the remnants of the Eighth Army to retreat to Aqaba. But there was a fly in the ointment of this victory: the British Eighth Army deployed on the coast retreated to the west side of the canal under the cover of warships on the sea.

Now the British are holding Port Said at the mouth of the canal. Port Said is bordered by the Suez Canal to the east, Lake Manzalei to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north. The British apparently intended to defend the stronghold by combining the power of the fleet on the sea with the advantage of Guò.

At the same time, Odin's Eye also reported that the British were laying mines in the Suez Canal, and that they were planning to sink ships to block the canal, but because the British themselves were very dependent on the canal, once the canal was blocked by shipwrecks, Britain would lose control of India, which was currently trying to gain independence.

The British put on hold the plan to block the channel, but the ships used to block it had already arrived at Port Said and were moored on the canal.

Although there are some fly in the ointment, Lin Youde is also satisfied to achieve such a victory.

Now that the British army in Egypt has completely lost the way to obtain supplies from the outside world, Lin Youde's troops not only cut off the canal, but also cut off the land passage from Suez, a city still controlled by the British army at the other end of the canal, to Cairo and Alexandria, and the British army in Egypt will surrender sooner or later.

Especially for the fleet, which is a big oil eater, it won't be long before the British will no longer be able to use the fleet to protect Port Said because of the lack of fuel.

But Lin Youde did not want to sit back and wait for the British to starve to death, now that the American offensive in Tunis was intensifying, Patton had made a lot of progress, as long as Patton got more troops and more adequate supplies, it was only a matter of time before he broke through Tunis into Libya.

At the same time, there are also indications that the Anglo-American coalition is planning a new landing operation, if the target is not the coastline of Lucinia, then it may be Sicily, and once the Allies land in Sicily, the supply line of Lunis will be cut off.

Therefore, Lin Youde thought that he should continue to carry out a resolute and effective battle, and he began to plan the next move with his staff officers.

**

At the same time, a new wave of admiration for Lin Youde was set off in Germany.

On the morning of the government's announcement of Lin Youde's "unprecedented victory" in the Eastern Mediterranean, the people spontaneously took to the streets, holding aloft Lin Youde's portrait and red flag, and chanting Lin Youde's name in unison in the streets and alleys.

**

Berlin, the building of the German High Command, Manstein, who had returned home for a routine report to the High Command, looked at the crowd on the street outside in the reception room of the German commander.

Whenever the cry of "Hi Lin Youde" sounds, the crowd will hold up the pan-humanist manifesto with the red cover in their hands, so the street will turn red in that moment, which looks quite shocking.

At this time, Manstein heard a knock at the door, turned around, and saw the commander-in-chief of the German army, Walter? Feng? Marshal Brauchitsch entered the room. The old marshal walked slowly to Manstein's side and asked slowly, "This is a spectacular sight, isn't it?" It's been like this since yesterday, although Lin Youde is not an emperor, he is still a foreigner, but now his prestige in Germany is probably about the same as that of Frederick the Great back then, and he is worthy of being a man who lives in Sanssouci Palace. ”

"I saw in the newspapers that he had won an unprecedented victory in the Eastern Mediterranean, and it was normal for the people to be happy about that." "Of course," said Manstein unhurriedly, "Of course, it seems to me that the defeat of the British army is very large because they are stupid, and if they want to attack, they must have the superiority of their forces, and if they attack rashly when the forces of both sides are evenly matched, the head of the British commander must be full of Xiang." ”

Of course, Manstein didn't know that the British didn't want to attack, but they thought that the Germans had attacked, so they planned to make a limited counterattack to explore the reality, but the brave advance of the 7th Panzer Division forced the British to move.

"However," Manstein said suddenly, "I personally believe that from a purely technical point of view, Mr. Lin's action of luring the enemy deep and then using the infantry to surprise him can be written into military textbooks as a classic case of luring the enemy deep and bullying the enemy." He understood the prejudices of the British against him, put all his armored forces out for the British to attack with confidence, and then plunged into the heart of the enemy with pure infantry, which was completely unsuitable for fighting in the open desert of the Sinai Peninsula. ”

Manstein's remarks made Brauchitsch frown slightly.

"General Manstein is really Lin Youde's favorite general." After saying this, Brauchitsch did not give Manstein a chance to speak, and continued, "However, I must also admit that he fought well in the Eastern Mediterranean, and it was completely in line with the military doctrine he had always advocated: to use mobile warfare to pull the enemy's formation, artificially create a flaw, and then launch a deadly counterattack. Among those of us Junkers who are despised by you, there are many people who think that Lin Youde is a guy who can only talk on paper, and his theories are beautiful, but they are only beautiful theories. But now, probably many people's views of Lin Youde are about to change. ”

"So, Marshal Brauchitsch, are you the one who is beginning to change your outlook now, or the one who has changed your outlook in the past? Or are you the one who still thinks he's just talking on paper? ”

"I knew he was a man of war." Brauchitsch replied lightly, "All right, let's hurry up and finish the routine debriefing." ”

(This morning, I went out of Tirpitz, Andrea, and all the new ships, but I still didn't get out of Richelieu.) However, looking at the volume of goods, Richelieu's rarity is the same as that of Bismarck, I looked at the row of Bismarck in my warehouse, and there was no fee, anyway, it would be built slowly sooner or later, and it was not built for a limited time. If it's a limited-time build, I'll probably keep the krypton until it comes out...... ）