Potsdam, Ysera looked at the telegram sent by Lin Youde, and her eyebrows were twisted.

"What's wrong?" Nia asked curiously.

"Dad is going to transfer the airship of Project K to the Eastern Mediterranean theater."

"What the hell is Project K?"

"The project of installing radars on airships to patrol the Norwegian and Barents Seas."

Lin Youde would propose this project not in a brain hole, but in another time and space American idea, when the Americans deployed several squadrons of soft airships on the east coast of the United States to deal with the attack of German submarines. Although these airships had only encountered one engagement with German submarines after the war, and that engagement had failed, they managed to cover two merchant ships and a large amount of supplies on board just near the combat area.

Lin Youde felt that since the Americans could use the airship to guard the submarine, he should also be able to equip the airship with a radar for night fighters and then search the sea surface.

"Oh, that sounds great." Nia clapped her hands on the table and stared at Ysera, "And then, what about the effect?" ”

"At first, it was good, and then the British enriched the air force of the Faroe Islands and Iceland, and the airships had to retreat into the Barents Sea, but the air flow in the Barents Sea was too complicated and cold enough, so the effect was limited."

"Wouldn't it be just right for Dad to take it? What are you frowning about? ”

"I'm frowning because Dad is going to do something with these airships. I don't know what this Rausch electric cannon is, but it's enough to arm five divisions. ”

"Wow, don't we have money?"

Ysera glared at Nia: "Our money is not inexhaustible, and now we are printing money to hurt the operation of the German economy, and it is all dependent on the wartime system to survive." When the people are freed from the pride, honour and sense of responsibility brought about by war, they will find that the social economy has been completely destroyed, and the quality of life has been reduced by many notches. Now our army is still winning, and when our army wins less often, or when we win but pay heavy casualties, these will become the fuse for the people to resent us. ”

"I don't understand what you're saying," said Nia, nonchalantly, "just keep winning." Dad must have made this thing to win, so it's good to approve it. ”

Viola bit her lip: "I don't have the right to change the text that my father has approved, these can only be executed." But this thing, not only will cost a lot of money, but it will also occupy our alchemy industrial production, affecting the supply of magic parts to the front line, once the Russian army suddenly launches an offensive in the next few months, our army may quickly run out of inventory of magic parts and fall into passivity. ”

"It's only March now, isn't Russia freezing to death and starving to death, and many people are rioting, they are busy suppressing the riot, and they don't have time to take care of us."

"I hope so." Ysera pursed her lips and put the text into the "Permission to Execute" pile.

**

Three weeks later, the port of Athens, Greece.

Lin Youde looked at the alchemy coil unloaded from the ship, and whispered to the operator operating the crane: "Be careful, this is all made of paper marks." ”

"Not only that," said Bohr, who came with the ship, "I think it will take at least eight weeks for the German production of magic parts to return to normal, and until then half of the production will be snickering." ”

"The Russians won't attack at this time," Lin Youde shook his head disappretently, "They have just quelled the civil strife, and Iron Ji needs to straighten out the troops whose morale is shaken." ”

"If you say it's going to be like this, that's probably how it is." Bohr replied, "But, I wonder, is this really worth it?" ”

"Not at all." Lin Youde replied very simply, "This thing is too fragile, it is a good target for fighters, and there is still a zài aiming problem, although the bullet speed is very fast, which will make aiming a little easier, but it is too difficult to use it in actual combat." But if it is used well, it can scare the British into staying in Alexandria to be his 'zài fleet', instead of running to our coastal supply lines and becoming a real zài fleet. ”

"I think our actions in Cyprus have scared the British enough."

Regarding Bohr's words, Lin Youde was silent. Odin's Eye had long told him that the British knew quite a bit about what was happening in Cyprus, and that the British would probably not be intimidated by that, as evidenced by the series of active combat operations of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet after that.

In fact, Lin Youde is not particularly sure whether this thing that was improvised can deter the British who have regained their fighting spirit because of the United States, but he is familiar with the commander of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, Cunningham, who is a very traditional Royal Navy officer, that is, he has inherited the Royal Navy's tradition of fighting when he sees the enemy, but he is not reckless, and he is a powerful character.

The reckless Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is not terrible, and the wise general Zhang Fei in "Three Kingdoms" is terrifying. And this Cunningham is the latter type.

But correspondingly, Lin Youde felt that he could take advantage of the steady part of Cunningham's personality, he would probably never be timid when he saw the Italian Navy, and resolutely adhere to the Royal Navy's tradition of fighting when he sees the enemy, but what if he encountered an unknown threat?

Lin Youde really wants to see the reaction of famous generals in history when they face black technology, he has traveled for so long, and the previous qiē is not a black technology, so the famous generals and famous figures in history are just ordinary admiration, and there is no special reaction, the things in Cyprus made him a little addicted to Kemal, and now he is ready to get addicted again.

"The look on the face of the British Navy when it was attacked by this thing is really exciting." Lin Youde looked at the alchemy coil of the K project airship K113 that was moored on the dock, and said to himself.

**

A few days later, the command of the Mediterranean Fleet in Alexandria.

Sir Cunningham put the telegram he had just received on the table and looked up at his chief of staff, Dudley? Pound: "What do you think?" ”

Pound had read the telegram before he sent it to Cunningham, so he immediately replied: "I agree with MI that it is some kind of weapon." ”

"yes, it must be some kind of weapon, the question is what is it for." Cunningham stepped out from behind his desk and paced slowly around the room, and although Egypt was in short supply at this time, Cunningham still had an office worthy of his status, and he walked slowly on the expensive Persian carpet in the office.

"Is this weapon mounted on an airship, or is it just transported by airship? If it's the latter, why does it have to be transported by airship? Didn't the Germans have fathead fish? ”

"Fathead Fish" is the code name given to ME323 by the British military intelligence.

"Perhaps, this is a kind of equipment that requires a relatively stable transportation environment." Pound speculated, "No matter what, Lin Youde must have some intention to personally serve as the commander of the Eastern Mediterranean Theater, and this may be one of them." ”

"Hmm." Cunningham nodded.

He continued to pace the Persian stalls.

Outside the window, a fleet of cruisers was departing the port, and the lead flagship, the Light Cruiser Goddess, was blowing its whistle.

This light cruiser fleet had repeatedly completed the task of harassing the German transport lines in the eastern Mediterranean, and had achieved the achievement of sinking 15 merchant ships and damaging 7 ships, not only that, but at the time of the previous incident in Cyprus, this light cruiser fleet also risked being attacked by the Luftwaffe to approach Cyprus, provide support to the defenders of the island, and repelled the Italian fleet that came to intercept it, sinking two destroyers and damaging one light cruiser.

Cunningham watched the fleet, which represented the glorious traditions of the Royal Navy, sail for the Mediterranean Fleet's flagship ship, the Warweary, which had been anchored in the harbor for a long time.

Egypt's oil supply has always been a little tight, when the Netherlands fell to Germany, the British troops in Singapore took the opportunity to take over the Dutch East Indies colony and occupy the oil fields of Borneo, but the Americans immediately forced the British to spit out Borneo, Churchill pinched his nose in order to ensure the possibility of an alliance with the United States, and the result was that the British Navy could only continue to scavenge oil from the scattered oil fields of the colonies around the world.

When the British mainland was blockaded before, the Mediterranean detachment stationed in Egypt reported to Cunningham in Gibraltar that they were running out of fuel, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Cunningham risked his life to come to Alexandria to take up the town, and through Guò's adopted daughter to exert influence, the Eastern Fleet's strategic oil reserves in Addu Atoll were mobilized, which solved the urgent need, for which the commander of the Eastern Fleet, Admiral Layton, was very unhappy.

At that time, Cunningham didn't care so much, Lao Tzu had an adopted daughter who was a god, so he could get more resources, and he would adopt one if he didn't accept you.

Now, at last, the Americans have arrived, producing more than half of the world's oil at this time, and there is an oil-producing Mexico next to it, with almost inexhaustible oil being transported across the Atlantic, but prioritizing the homeland Grand Fleet and the ongoing Torch Operation.

In addition, the oil tankers had to bypass the Cape of Good Hope and send oil over thousands of miles, and the Ming Imperial fleet also blocked the gates in the Gulf of Aden several times, and the oil leaked from the sunken oil tankers floated a whole layer in the Gulf of Aden, so now Cunningham's life is still tight. But as long as Tu/Nisis is taken, it's easy to say.

Cunningham thought so, too.

Patton had already defeated the French in Algiers last week, and although he was now plagued by long supply lines and was slow to advance, the fierce general is guaranteed to take the ****** this year.

So as long as Cunningham lasts until the end of the year, they will suddenly be enlightened.

But now Lin Youde's new gadget makes him feel that there are many more unsettling factors in the future.

Jazz stared at his flagship for a long silence before finally speaking, "We need to do everything we can to determine the true face of this threat, so I want to carry out a tentative attack." Do we have enough fuel, Dalí? ”

"Enough, ABC." Pound directly called Cunningham's nickname "ABC", so that he could call him directly to his face as a friend of Cunningham's comrades for many years.

"Alright then, it's time for us to get out and get moving, old man."