Redemption of WWII

Chapter 57 is too ruthless...

After the three senior members of the army left, before Liu Qi could catch his breath, three heavyweights from the German Navy had already walked into the office. 【】

Among them, Raeder and Doenitz Liu Qi recognized the three German naval officers, but Liu Qi, a third young man with a resolute expression, had never seen him.

Out of Liu Qi's confusion, Raeder smiled and said to Liu Qi, "Come on, Andre, let me introduce you. This is the hero of our navy, Commander of the Western Fleet Theodore Krankay. Today I am specially Let him come and meet you."

As soon as he heard the name Theodore Krankay, Liu Qi immediately knew who the person in front of him was.Speaking of German submarines, it is estimated that everyone is familiar with them, but the German surface warships that were not very outstanding in World War II are much inferior in comparison.But this Theodore Krankay is an alternative among surface ship commanders.

At the end of the [-]s Theodore Krankay was still the captain of the German heavy cruiser Admiral Sipper.On one occasion, under the command of Theodore Krankay, the Admiral Hipper miraculously sailed from the English Channel into the Atlantic under the cover of bad weather.At that time, the Royal Navy was struggling to deal with the sea wolves of German submarines, and most of the escorts for the merchant fleet were fast ships, mainly destroyers.The Royal Navy never dreamed that a big guy would miraculously slip out of the English Channel.

If the German submarine forces are all hungry wolves, then the Admiral Sipper commanded by Theodore Krankay at that time was a tiger, and it was the kind that had been hungry for three days.This hungry tiger met a flock of sheep. It would be strange if the fate of the sheep could be better.

A convoy of sixteen ships of various kinds that was loaded with grain and ore from Canada happened to be rammed by a heavy cruiser commanded by Theodore Krankay.Although the escorting four destroyers of the Royal Navy bombarded and fired torpedoes, none of them posed much threat to the German heavy patrol commanded by Theodore Krankay in the end.Theodore Krankay commanded his German level to use a [-]mm main gun, firing one shot at a time to the Royal Navy fleet.Finally, when the Royal Navy's support fleet arrived at the sea area where the incident occurred, except for some lifeboats, even the merchant ships and the British destroyers were driven into the seabed by the German heavy cruiser commanded by Theodore Krankay.

In a naval battle, the total tonnage of the British ships sunk by Theodore Krankay's heavy cruiser exceeded [-] tons.Although the Royal Navy sent two fleets to chase the traces of the German heavy cruiser in the Atlantic Ocean for revenge, a ship is so easy to find in the vast sea.In the end, Theodore Krankay commanded his Admiral Sipper and successfully returned to the German port.This success made Theodore Krankay a German hero for a while, and Hitler personally gave Theodore Krankay the Knight's Cross.

Theodore Krankay's visit gave Liu Qi a sense of enlightenment. Liu Qi knew that Theodore Krankay was probably the commander of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier that had re-entered the construction state and was about to be completed. He is also the commander of the German aircraft carrier formation.Liu Qi said with a smile, "I feel very lucky to be able to meet the commander of our first German aircraft carrier formation." After speaking, Liu Qi reached out and shook hands with Theodore Krankay.

Raider and Dönitz seemed to have the ability to resist Liu Qi's prophetic ability, but Theodore Krankay waved his hand and said, "Colonel Andrew, I have heard about you from Marshal Raider. Don't worry, as long as you come to our navy, the commander of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier is still yours."

"No need, no need." Liu Qi hurriedly resigned, "Let me, a layman, direct the experts, and sooner or later there will be trouble. Besides, I seem to be a little seasick. I was just busy throwing up and throwing up on the boat. What kind of mind is there to direct the battle?"

Liu Qi's words made the three naval officers laugh.After laughing a few times, Marshal Raeder said, "Andrei, you are too modest. Your sinking of the Royal Navy's Rhodes battleship in Egypt is enough to prove that you have extraordinary commanding skills and extraordinary imagination. .I think if you come to our navy, you will definitely perform better.”

Liu Qixin said, "Egypt is trying to grab the gold from the British, otherwise I would be so desperate there. And the British battleships are parked there for me to hit. This is like a target. If I can't sink it, then I am too sorry for my reputation as a time traveler."

"However, you guys came to see me not just to chat..." Liu Qi interrupted everyone's laughter with just one sentence. After all, time is limited, and Liu Qi still has some things to do.

"That's right, it's mainly about the upcoming aircraft carrier formation." Raeder said with a serious expression on his face.

"Oh? What's the problem?" Liu Qi heard it wrongly: The Germans have built aircraft carriers, but they have almost no related soft capabilities. The tactics of aircraft carriers, the formation of formations, etc.... all no bottom...

"I think you also know that our German navy has no shortage of logistics, except for surface ships. Recently, we have been discussing the formation of aircraft carrier formations, but we found that usually aircraft carrier formations are composed of a considerable number of The surface ship force is formed, but there are two problems. First, if several surface ships form a formation, the target will be obvious and it is very easy to attract attacks; second, our navy does not have enough spare warships to form an aircraft carrier formation. "Marshal Raeder said.

Liu Qixin wondered, "There are not enough ships on the surface, why do you want me? Is it possible that Raeder is rich, and I want to get some money from me to build some kind of fleet for the aircraft carrier? How can this be done! This navy is a bottom hole , can’t let me pay for everything, if this is something wrong with the navy, then the navy will have to rely on me.” Thinking of this, Liu Qi nodded lightly, “This is a problem…”

When everyone heard this, they immediately became angry: "This is a problem", of course it is a problem!Otherwise, would we still come to you for help?

At this time, Liu Qi didn't know what the three of them were thinking. He was concentrating on how to form an aircraft carrier formation.The goal of the aircraft carrier formation is too huge. This is a problem that cannot be solved in later generations. However, the United States of later generations temporarily solved this problem with heavy aircraft carriers and various interception weapons, but Germany in World War II could not!Although Germany also had guided missiles in World War II, they were the ancestors of guided missiles. The accuracy of attacking ground targets is still a problem, let alone interception. Therefore, the formation method of conventional aircraft carrier battle groups is straightforward.

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"The most indispensable thing for the German navy is submarines, right..." Liu Qi asked after thinking for a while.

"Yeah, but submarines don't have any anti-aircraft or anti-submarine capabilities."

"What if it is modified? Let the submarine be responsible for anti-submarine, and install V3 rockets on the submarine for air defense, but the main force of the fleet's air defense is still to be served by destroyers or cruisers. But the aircraft carrier formation is not used to head-to-head with the British..." The last sentence Liu Qi said it in a questioning tone, isn't it obvious: you have to refer to the formation of the other party when you form an aircraft carrier formation, isn't this just because you want to head-to-head with the other party?

After listening to Liu Qi's words, all three of them came to their senses: My aircraft carrier is not for fighting the British!I am used to eat their transport fleet, and there is no need for such a complicated formation.

Before they could speak, Liu Qi continued: "The submarines scattered in the Atlantic Ocean are the main ones, and the aircraft carrier is supplemented by the hunting and killing battle. The detection capabilities of the aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft are not comparable to submarines and current ship-based radars. If there is an aircraft carrier's reconnaissance plane to guide the submarine to hunt, the efficiency will definitely double. Moreover, the bomber on the aircraft carrier is the nemesis of the merchant ship. Bombing the warship may be beaten down by the anti-aircraft artillery, but the anti-aircraft firepower of the merchant ship is almost zero. The whole thing is an advanced moving target, all we have to do is let the pilots blow up one by one according to the tutorial, but we use real ones.”

"You are right. The aircraft carrier formation does not need to fight face-to-face with the British, but what about anti-submarines? Submarines use direct-flying torpedoes, and they need to be depth-determined before launching, and the existing equipment can't determine the submarine's depth at all. , The submarine anti-submarine you mentioned is simply impossible to do." Raeder said after listening.

"Maybe..." Doenitz spoke at this moment.

"T5 passive acoustic self-guiding torpedo." Before Denitz could continue, Liu Qi took his words. "I think the t5 torpedo has been equipped with the troops now. If the t5 torpedo is not used to attack the escort ship but to attack the submarine, then there is no problem. Maybe the structure needs to be strengthened, but..."

"But what?" Denitz was hooked by Liu Qi...

"What if there was a device that made noise in water?"

"Then..." Doenitz didn't know how to answer. Indeed, if there is a device that can make noise in the water, the t4t5 torpedo will be completely useless. His eyes turned to Liu Qi...

But Liu Qi's expression of "don't ask me, I don't know" made them desperate, so they had no choice but to hand it over to the Navy's scientific research department to solve it...

The understanding of guided torpedoes is only in the primary stage of socialism for Liu Qi, who is half-baked. At most, he knows that guided torpedoes are composed of a guidance system, a control system, a power system, and a warhead. Specifically, it can be said that He didn't know anything, so Liu Qi naturally didn't take this question to himself.However, Liu Qi still allocated some to the navy to buy more planes for the sake of Doenitz and his relatives.This Zeppelin aircraft carrier is fighting alone at sea, and more fighter jets can at least make the sky over Zeppelin safer.

Now only three of the eight 150mm naval guns on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier are left. The Zeppelin aircraft carrier with two fighter jets and thirty bombers can now carry more than 30 more aircraft plus a considerable part of spare parts.In order to strengthen the escort capability, Liu Qi suggested that the positions of the 77 aircraft should be reserved for fighter jets.Those sea-breathing 109mm machine guns hit the armor of the bf6t modified on the basis of the latest bf109g109, and the flames flashed a few times, and only the aircraft guns could barely pose a threat to the bf20t, but unfortunately, it was [-]mm of……

For the carrier-based bombers on the Zeppelin, Liu Qi also does not have a good version.Fortunately, the bomber ju87 was originally designed for Zeppelin. As a derivative of the Stuka bomber, the ju87 was specially designed for Zeppelin.This model is based on the b-type and is equipped with a launch hook, a landing hook and airbags (which can protect the occupants during a forced landing on the water surface). in the boiler of some destroyer, and then...).Like many carrier-based aircraft, the wings of the ju87 can be folded manually to save space.The wingtips are flattened so that the width of the aircraft is 80 cm shorter than that of the b-type.Moreover, in order to increase the voyage, the Stuka installed an additional auxiliary oil tank with a capacity of 300 liters, so that the attack radius of the ju87 taking off on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier reached 87 kilometers (the actual attack distance generally does not exceed [-] kilometers. , to facilitate the escort of fighter jets, of course, if the opponent does not have fighter jets, the ju[-] can fly [-] kilometers freely).

With a bomber like the Stuka that can blow a sharp rogue whistle and conduct almost vertical dive bombing, Liu Qi believes that those transport ships bound for the UK will be in trouble.There is nothing to say about the quality of German dive bomber pilots in [-] or [-].All of them are highly skilled and desperate masters. The most enjoyable thing is the sense of speed when diving. If you smash the bomb into your bathtub, you will never throw it into the washbasin.

Now under Liu Qi's suggestion, quite a few ace pilots of the Luftwaffe have transferred to the flight school to become instructors. V3 flies, so the life of the Soviet Air Force is not very easy.Although the Soviet army has more aircraft than the German army, but Germany has more V3 flying, the killer weapon, and there is no problem in defending its vital points.

Liu Qi just has to wait now, until the new generation of German fighter jets form combat effectiveness, and until the pilot students in those flight schools have accumulated enough experience.Liu Qi believes that as long as Germany is given a little more time, the real drama will be staged when the eagle wings are strong enough to withstand the wind and rain.

Liu Qi talked with the three navy officers for a long time, and finally racked his brains to recall several improvement plans, such as extending the front end of the flat flight deck to take off more aircraft at the same time and install longer launchers. increase the freeboard, improve the overall buoyancy and navigation stability, improve the layout of the power system so that the power system of the whole ship will not be damaged due to the damage of a single boiler, refer to the design of the Americans, etc., regardless of whether there is still time to do it. It can be regarded as reluctantly dismissing these three naval officers who are still unsatisfied.

After the three naval officers left, Liu Qi was already hungry and almost died, so after the two air force marshals led a group of air force generals into the office, Liu Qi hurriedly stopped Marshal Kesselring from talking.

Then Liu Qi ran to Minister of Armaments Speer who was talking to his grandfather outside the door.

"My lord, I said that there is no one who orders people like you. The planes used by this army are all the work of your armament department, but you treat me like an animal and pile up all the things on me. What are you doing?" Not interesting enough." Liu Qi said quite dissatisfied.

Speer dressed Liu Qi in ragged clothes, and thought to himself, "You kid is so good that you are so good. Who told you to make such a big battle? You hold tens of billions of aircraft contracts in your hands. Don't you look for it?" Who are you looking for?" Of course, Speer also knew the importance of these things Liu Qi did.Speer smiled and said, "Andrei, as the saying goes, those who can do more work. You are still young, so you should do more for the empire."

"You can't do this even when you're young. I didn't even touch my teeth this early in the morning. I said you're looking for someone to get me something to eat. I'm just working for your armaments department for nothing. Don’t tell me you’ll go bankrupt if you manage a meal!?” Liu Qi almost burst into tears.

"Ah... Andre, why didn't you say it earlier, didn't you have breakfast?"

"Breakfast... I didn't even eat yesterday's dinner. I think I will be the first SS soldier to starve to death in your armaments department in half an hour at most..."

Speer explained to a guard at the door, and told Liu Qi to get something to eat, and then said to Liu Qi, "Andrei, the capital is good for being young, but you have to be careful when you eat. Otherwise, you will suffer from stomach problems in a few years."

"Hey... needless to say, everything was perfect at first, but last night the British made a mess of everything. I was thinking about the bidding, so I rushed here without even drinking water. I thought it was too early to come to your place to make waves, but you guys got up earlier than the chickens, and I didn't even let you take a breath and started ordering me..." Liu Qi is now more than doing work for the landlord's house The long-term worker is still angry, this grievance makes people who don't know the inside story think that Liu Qi has just been released from the black brick kiln.

Finally the guard came over with a tray, but Liu Qi didn't get angry with the food on the tray.There was steaming coffee in a delicate little cup, and three small pieces of very delicate biscuits were pitifully placed on a small saucer next to it.What Liu Qi couldn't bear the most was a huge vase on the tray, which was filled with flowers.

Liu Qi's tears were about to fall.This is not for people to eat. Is this really feeding fish? Moreover, it has to be small ornamental fish. Fish with a bigger appetite will definitely not be full.Of course, it wasn't that the Armament Department didn't want Liu Qi to eat on purpose, but that people from the Armament Department generally didn't eat here.This is just for tea for the guests, even if they are asked to prepare a breakfast, they can't do it, there is no material at all.

Liu Qi walked into the office with a tray almost in tears. Before closing the door, Liu Qi turned to Speer and said, "Minister Speer, you are so cruel..."