Bismarck

Lütjens now suddenly understood why the Führer almost lost his temper in front of him and a few others in the small room at the cocktail party the night before.

However, if the scientists don’t cooperate, I’ll have to find another way.

After all, he was a famous general. Although he didn't understand technology, he knew how to do his job. Now Lütjens actually had a general idea.

However, before this idea was finalized, I, who had just taken over the military industry and scientific research and was completely blind, had to first conduct some research on the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the military industry - after all, without investigation, I would have no right to speak.

It is said that this was said by a librarian in a library.

only……

"Bismarck, you have to help me make a few phone calls to notify people and arrange research tasks... We just came here to manage scientific research and don't know anything... If you don't help me make phone calls and send notifications, you can't let me organize them to come here for a briefing by myself, right?"

"You are an incompetent secretary."

Lütjens put one hand on his waist and the other on his forehead, half complaining and half pretending.

"Well...Okay, I'll make the call..."

Although he was very angry and wanted to develop an anti-aircraft missile, he knew that his captain was really too busy. Bismarck, who was originally indignant, drooped his ears, tugged at Zeppelin's sleeve, and then moved to the phone together and began to flip through the phone book and dial a number.

Looking at the depressed look on his own ship cat, Lütjens could only smile helplessly.

Although he was very angry with the scientists, fortunately the two girls beside him were still on his side.

The war has been going on for several years, but her secretary has not turned into a cold-blooded animal. She is still a pure, kind, and sometimes silly girl. Even her sisters, probably influenced by her sister, have different personalities, but they are the same as her in terms of innocence and kindness.

Although this kind of personality is a little willful and a headache sometimes, but... at least it is more adorable than "certain other" personalities, right?

If I really were to adopt a personality that was somewhat rebellious, vicious, cocky, naughty, and arrogant, wouldn't I feel like something beautiful was being damaged?

at the same time……

"A-choo! A-choo... Who is cursing me behind my back?"

Secretary Bailey Dura Despicio, who had just come out of the hospital after accompanying the First Sea Lord of the British Empire, Marshal Cunningham, to visit Tovey who had performed his duties conscientiously and was hospitalized on official business, suddenly sat up in shock as if she was dying, and she jumped up from the car seat and sneezed twice in succession, as if she could still talk and laugh like a year ago.

"What's the matter, wife?"

"It's work time, your wife is not here! (＃｀皿')"

Looking at the driver and the guard in front of him, who were pretending to be serious, and then looking at the marshal next to him who called someone "wife" in public when they disagreed with each other, although he was an elder, he still had to save face when he went out, and he was also ashamed and angry, and he rolled his eyes at the people around him. The marshal looked innocent.

But think about it, as a ship girl, how could I sneeze?

Someone must be scolding me! Yan Zhan thought secretly.

PS: According to "Hitler's Atomic Bomb" (co-authored by Rainer Karsch and Heiko Petermann), there were indeed quite a number of scientists who were traitors during World War II. In addition to the fact that the chain reaction that had just been developed in 1939 was brought to the United States by the Jewish female scientist Lise Meitner (1878-1968), which was understandable, there were at least two traitors, Siegfried Flugge (1912-1997, a member of the German nuclear bomb research team) and Max Debruck (1906-1981, the discoverer of Debruck scattering, who switched to biology in his later years and won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the replication mechanism and genetic structure of viruses. This person accepted sponsorship from the Rockefeller chaebol in 1937). In fact, not to mention that quite a number of scientists were indeed traitors to their own families, even those scientists who did not openly traitor to their own families were not moral role models.

In fact, the Germans did launch the world's first nuclear explosion at the Ohrdruf test site in March 1945. In this explosion, German scientists used 3 Soviet prisoners of war as "road bombers" to test a nuclear explosion of about 1200-500 tons, as well as some other nuclear tests. After that, these scientists just clapped their hands and went to the Allies with the materials a few days later - no one cared about the prisoners of war who were killed, although this point is exactly the same as the "good end" of Unit 1000 and Unit 731...

Chapter 743: Soldiers with Conscience

Lütjens Diary.

July 1942, 7, cloudy to sunny...

It has been five days since I took office as the Director of Scientific Research, but work is still not going smoothly...

The research work on scientific research institutions has been going on for several days and is still ongoing, but the relevant information obtained so far is a headache...

As a layman, I finally figured out the division structure of the scientific research community. Now I roughly understand that these scientists divide the relevant scientific research work into two parts: "basic frontier science" and "engineering application of science". Scholars of KWG (King Wilhelm Society) claim that they are all researchers of "basic frontier science". Their research results reflect the laws of this world, so they can "pave the way" for the field of engineering application, that is, the actual development of products. However, based on my recent observations and research, these scientists seem to be more inclined to be self-righteous and talkative than to work hard...

In fact, during today's research, Professor Werner Heisenberg told me that he and his scientist friends have developed a set of related theories, and now they can develop a research on the element U235 based on this set of theories. Professor Heisenberg promised that this element contains a lot of energy, and once it is properly stimulated, it can increase in value and release a lot of energy - compared to the current burning of petroleum products and the energy of explosives, it is many orders of magnitude higher... Although I didn't understand this very well, almost all physicists swore to tell me that this element with huge energy can indeed be made into a super weapon called "nuclear bomb", and scientists also said that this is indeed feasible and have reported to the head of state - although it sounds like magic and a little incredible...

Professor Heisenberg said that this super weapon would require the refining of at least several tons of uranium, which seemed to be a very small amount of high-concentration uranium, and he also hoped to order a large amount of heavy water to support their further research. According to them, this "super energy or super weapon" would not be seen for several years. Although it might be very promising, it does sound like bragging at least for now. However, it seems that Bismarck has some understanding of this aspect...

In addition to these "cutting-edge developments" that sound a bit boastful, the really worrying problem is that there are too many scientific research and development institutions, and the relationships between them are too complicated - in addition to the three armed forces having their own ordnance bureaus, Himmler's SS is also doing its own thing, and even the Ministry of Posts can come and get involved in the field of nuclear physics - it is said that just in the past few days, there are as many as twenty research groups in the country (in Germany)!

The competition for resources among so many scientific research management institutions has obviously had a great negative impact on our country's scientific research... In addition, when I asked Bismarck to investigate the progress of specific weapons development projects, it seems that he also encountered problems such as designers slacking off and shirking responsibilities, as well as competition for project funds...

Basic scientific research is flashy but not practical, engineering development is shirking responsibility and slacking off, scientific research institutions are duplicating each other's work, and are undermining each other... It is necessary to structurally straighten out scientific research institutions and projects, but I am still an outsider in scientific research, and there seem to be some small circles or even some "deep water minefields" behind these chaos, which may involve a lot if you are not careful... I think I should be more cautious about this issue, and propose a solution after a clearer and more comprehensive investigation...

In addition to scientific research, there is another thing that requires my attention.

Lindemann commanded the main bodies of the ship girls to enter the channel collectively at the Kiel dock, but the forwarded weather forecast made me a little worried. The weather in Kiel seems to be getting better, which may be beneficial for the air raid of British heavy bombers... I have asked Zeppelin to return to her main body to strengthen the defense. In addition, I have reported to the Imperial Marshal with Zeppelin. The Imperial Marshal promised to mobilize a squadron of night fighters to be stationed in Kiel, and he also promised that the Air Force's scientific research group will support my work in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society... In any case, the development idea of ​​"anti-aircraft missiles" proposed by Bismarck does need to be given higher priority...

Raeder advised the Führer today that the Air Force needs to train more combat pilots and suggested that the pilots of GR-186 be transferred to form a new flight squadron... Although Zeppelin and I both believe that this will affect the combat effectiveness of the troops, for the sake of the overall situation, Zeppelin still agreed to transfer some veteran pilots - although some of them are still recovering from injuries with Bonte... The transfer list has been preliminarily determined: Rudel, Helbig, Ehler, Weisenberg... and so on. I hope they will have better luck in the future...

Unfortunately, the war is still going on, and that's all for today.

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Putting down his pen and closing his diary, Lütjens yawned, stood up, and walked to the window of his office. Outside the window, he saw the once prosperous capital of Berlin, now a dark and ruined city...

"Hey... the Empire's air defense..."

Looking at the dark outside the window, and then looking at Bismarck, who was already lying on the sofa in a daze and even talking in her sleep, even though she was not tired in theory as a ship girl, Lütjens, who was full of thoughts and worries, closed the diary, sat on the open camp bed in the office, and silently turned off the desk lamp...

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Under the night sky of the Kiel Naval Shipyard, four huge steel ships are lying quietly in the dock.

Although the wartime blackout meant that large-scale construction work could not be carried out at night, the maintenance work inside the ship never stopped in the three-shift mode.

However, the faces of these workers have become somewhat old. Compared with the vigor and national pride they once had, people now have a hint of silence, fatigue, and even boredom on their faces.

Under the brutal war, Germany also suffered heavy losses in population. Although even Lütjens did not know that after the fierce battle on the Soviet-German battlefield in 1941, in 1942, Germany's million troops on the Eastern Front, excluding the engineering divisions and garrison troops that built roads in the rear and ensured that the transportation lines in the occupied areas were not attacked by Soviet guerrillas, the million troops on the front line were now filled with a large number of troops whose combat effectiveness had declined to the point that they could only complete part of the combat mission. At present, there are only ten divisions on the Eastern Front that can basically be fully equipped and maintain most of their combat effectiveness. Moreover, in the fortifications around Moscow, the combat effectiveness of these remaining elite troops has further shrunk in the brutal war of attrition...

At the front, the German military and factories had to expand the scope of conscription and adjust the factory's labor demand. The conscription age was raised to 16 years old, and some soldiers who were injured and discharged on the battlefield but had a certain working ability were also stuffed into the factories. The cruelty of the Eastern Front gradually spread, and people were enjoying the property they plundered, while beginning to fear the war that could kill them at any time - whether it was their sons who were sent to the front as cannon fodder, or themselves...

In such an atmosphere, it is not surprising that workers recruited from foreign countries began to appear in factories and infrastructure teams, and even large numbers of able-bodied men forcibly conscripted by the occupying power or even prisoners of war for forced labor began to appear.

Although Germany's own naval shipyards and other key departments are still staffed by German workers, the German people are now beginning to panic about the death and destruction brought about by the war, and are gradually becoming numb...

In this atmosphere, some people with ulterior motives easily infiltrated...

In a corner of the shipyard, seven or eight people dressed as workers were gathered together, whispering:

"According to the plan, the British will bomb in the second half of the night. The superiors require us to send a signal near the shipyard at the last minute to locate the bombers..."

"The directional antenna and signal transmitter are ready. Signal flares, incendiary bombs, and incendiary materials have also been arranged near the warehouse... But speaking of which, I heard that the German evil warships are very good at electronic jamming and radio positioning. Will we be okay?"

"It's okay. We are just a one-way beacon, and as long as the plane receives the radio signal, it will directly bomb the area. The bombing range of 1200 planes can definitely flatten Kiel! If they turn on the interference, it will save us a lot of trouble! Speaking of which, half a month ago, when the superiors judged that the German evil warship might come to our place for maintenance, we began to prepare in advance. We even deliberately sold the radio station to the Gestapo through an insider yesterday, concocting the illusion that our organization has been cracked... For this operation, all our communications and organizations were organized by manual communication. The brothers who were captured by the Gestapo also sacrificed voluntarily, and they also brought a whole set of prepared false intelligence and false confessions... So this operation, there is no problem in hiding it from the Gestapo!"

When the leader of the sabotage organization said this, there was some confidence in his tone.

After all, the Germans were already tired of the war, and MI6 was well-established on the European continent, so it was easy for them to infiltrate the factory with a few of their own men. They also arranged a plan to sacrifice the car to save the driver while strictly compressing the time difference.

Germany itself has problems, so no matter how powerful the evil warships are, what can they do? In the face of the overall environment, they are doomed, right?

"Now everything is ready, we just need the east wind - brothers, work harder and cooperate with the air force to blow up the evil warship! Long live the British Empire!"

Several people shouted slogans in a low voice with hoarse voices and somewhat excited looks.

"Indeed, if that were the case, the Gestapo would have been fooled. But..."

The sudden cynical tone startled everyone who were secretly meeting in the warehouse!

The frightened sabotage organization looked back quickly, and saw a German general in a rear admiral's uniform, accompanied by a naval colonel and a girl with twin ponytails who was pointing at the sabotage organization's secret meeting point, and a group of military police with crescent-shaped dog tags, looking coldly at them.

"It's a pity that you can hide it from the Gestapo but not from Eugen of the Top family!" He put his hands behind his back and looked coldly at the group of moles hiding in the dark.

"Catch them! Shoot them on the spot if they resist!"

Following Lindemann's cold words, the military police rushed forward. After a short fight, the unprepared sabotage organization was handcuffed by the ferocious military police and put on the waiting prison van. But before the sabotage organization leader was put on the van, he passed by Lindemann and the other two, and glared at the twin-tailed ship girl with eyes like a wounded beast, and then cursed:

"You evil spirits who blaspheme God will go back to hell sooner or later!"

Eugen was a little scared of this kind of gaze and hid behind Top. But when he saw Eugen being scolded, Top immediately exploded:

"You bunch of murderous arsonists now have a reason! Come on, drag this kid out!"

"Hehe, you F-Cs are doing much worse than us... uh..."

The sabotage organization leader seemed to want to say something, but halfway through, he was punched in the stomach by a gendarme, and then the leader, who curled up like a shrimp, was dragged out by two burly gendarmes. After watching the leader being dragged into the prison van, Top comforted Eugen who seemed to be frightened behind him.

"Eugen, it's okay. This is what happens to these arsonists who kill civilians without blinking an eye..."

"But, Top, do you still remember what happened in the Arctic Ocean..."

Perhaps it was because he heard the words "You Hans cats are not much better than us", and thought of the scene he saw across the Arctic Ocean, where the gendarmerie under Kumets kicked open the door of a Norwegian port with live ammunition and threatened civilians to "cooperate with the work", and Eugen couldn't help but show some hesitation on his face.

After learning the reason why his heavy cruiser hesitated, Top was somewhat silent. Top himself was actually not used to such things.

The military police had already taken the sabotage organization away, but Top and Eugen were speechless. Lindemann, on the other side, looked at the man and the ship in front of him in silence, and shook his head helplessly with the same feeling.

"Forget it, at least we haven't done anything that would make us feel guilty. In the final analysis, we just want to survive this war and protect the country and the people as much as possible, that's all..."

Shaking his head, Lindemann took out a pack of cigarettes from Top's pocket, took one for himself, and put the pack of cigarettes back into his pocket. Before walking out of the warehouse door, he patted Top on the shoulder and said, "Let's go. I have asked Tirpitz to set up bait beacons at sea... It will be Zeppelin's turn to command the next air battle..."

"Forehead……"

Top looked at Lindemann, who was once regarded as his "rival in love" and whose temperament suddenly became like that of a middle-aged uncle, in silence as he walked out of the warehouse. However, before he could turn around to look at his twin-tailed heavy cruiser, which was also in a state of confusion, the air defense alarm in Kiel Port rang shrilly...

"Forget it, I really shouldn't think so much...Eugen, let's go too. Although Tirpitz has activated the jammer, the British may have other means of navigation. We still have to go back to the dock and prepare for the bombing."

"Hmm..." Eugen, with her twin ponytails hanging down, nodded.

At the same time, at the airport near Kiel Harbor, a fleet composed of the remaining fighters of the GR-186 carrier-based aircraft wing and the night fighters of the 2th Squadron of the NJG- wing were already ready to go on the runway.

"Lieutenant Heinrich Xia Yan Wittgenstein reports that the 2th Squadron of the th Battalion of the NJG- Wing is ready to attack!"

"I am Colonel Zeppelin, commander of the GR-186 Wing. I am in charge of this air battle - everyone, attack!"

Hearing the order to attack coming from the headset and watching the single-engine fighters equipped with radars in front of him taking off, His Royal Highness Prince Xia Yan Wittgenstein tightened the strap of his flight cap, gently pushed the throttle, and started his plane.

The JU-88 night fighter began to roar and accelerate on the runway. Soon the lift of the wings broke free from the influence of the earth's gravity and flew off the ground, rushing into the dark and deep night sky.

However, looking at the gradually taking-off of the war eagle and the dark lights under the starry sky outside the cabin, the ace pilot, who was born in a noble family but was always humble and low-key, spoke little, and had a true chivalrous spirit, could not help but be silent...

"Come to think of it, the reason I joined the Air Force was to revive the country, but now, it seems... apart from protecting the people from being bombed, there is nothing else to say..."

"This Nazi Party... Never mind. As a soldier, I can only choose to fight with all my strength to protect the people... Let's drive these bombers away first, and then we can think of other things..."

The handsome but sad Prince Xia Yan closed his eyes and sighed slightly. When he opened his eyes again, his originally confused look became firm again and he looked towards the deep starry sky in the west.

That was the direction from which the radar reported that thousands of British heavy bombers were coming...

PS: Actually, this chapter is not meant to promote the Nazis, but to say that there were indeed some soldiers with consciences at that time who did not fight for the Nazis' ambitions, such as Prince Wittgenstein.

When Prince Heinrich Schänen-Wittgenstein joined the Nazi Party and the Air Force in his early years, he believed that the little mustache could lead Germany (which was almost torn apart by the Treaty of Paris at the time and had ceded territory and paid indemnities) to revive, but at the latest by the middle of the war he had lost interest in aggressive wars. The reason why he joined the night fighter unit, which was basically defensive in nature (although he was indeed transferred to the Eastern Front to participate in the Soviet-German War for a period of time, it was not his main experience), was also to protect the people from being killed by bombs from British bombers (this was the prince's own statement, and many people, including his colleagues and relatives, confirmed it). There are even rumors that in the later stages of the war, the prince even planned to assassinate the little mustache when the little mustache awarded him a medal in order to end the war (there is no evidence that he colluded with the General Staff Officers Corps, and it seems to be a personal idea. But at least one thing is certain, all of his shootdowns in his life were night combat air defense.)

On the night of January 1944, 1, Major Prince Heinrich Shahyan Wittgenstein, captain of the NJG-21 night fighter wing, who was a winner of the Knight's Medal of Oak Leaves and was considered a true knight, was killed in a night bombing. He shot down 2 aircraft (some say 88-83, which was the record before his last attack), making him the third-ranked night fighter ace pilot in the world.

Chapter 744: Gathering in Berlin

“Research is so difficult…”

With his head down, his face bitter, his ears drooping and his scalp scratched, he ignored the draft papers scattered all over the table. The blond Bismarck lay on the table and rolled around from time to time, spreading his waist-length blond hair all over the table. When he stood up, he would feel pain from the hair stuck in the gap.

When Bismarck was upset, he wanted to cut his long hair, but he thought it was a pity...

Ahhh, so annoying!

Although I had done something "insignificant" with my own ability before, and I had been a warship for so many years, I had some experience with radar and ballistics. But air defense missiles are a system! There is no way to do it by just working behind closed doors!

Not to mention, anti-aircraft missiles are not just a specific component like before, or a process improvement of existing things, but a thing that has everything from rockets to radars, from mechanics to data processing, and even radar guidance alone has to track both missiles and enemy aircraft at the same time... Even though Zeppelin has told him all the principles and algorithms of air target interception, the development of technology is not something that can be accomplished by just knowing a principle.

There are so many things to calculate, coordinate, and integrate...

"Hey, hey, why don't you go find Zeppelin and ask the Air Force if there are any projects?"

Looking at his own ship cat rolling around on the table, Lütjens looked helpless.

I was thinking about something, but someone was rolling around right under my nose. This was really affecting me...

How could this girl not think of such a simple thing?

"I asked, but Zeppelin is busy now... I'm not familiar with the rest of them - come to think of it, Captain, you're not familiar with the Air Force's research team either..."

The depressed Persian cat raised her head and puffed her cheeks at Lütjens, who was also unfamiliar with the Air Force Research Group and took it for granted. After all, it was Zeppelin who had a good relationship with Goering, not her and her captain.

"Uh..." Lütjens was speechless, and a drop of cold sweat dripped down the back of his head.

I... was looked down upon by my own ship cat...

But think about it, Zeppelin's organization belongs to the Air Force, but I don't belong to the Air Force, and I'm not very popular in the Navy, not to mention the Army. As for the group of great masters in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute... Forget it, I'd better think less about the annoying things...

However, there are a few things that I can at least push forward. For example, anti-ship missiles - although this means I have to work with other military departments to get along with them, and even have to work hard to get along with them...

As early as the early 1930s, Germany had formed a "rocket club" with Dr. Hermann Oberth and his favorite student, von Braun, who became a doctor at the age of only 21. Thanks to the aerodynamic foundation of Germany at that time, it was not too late to study turbine engines, rockets and even supersonic fluid mechanics. However, I don't know if it was because Raeder was obsessed with the power of the navy and neglected development, but the research and development projects of these things were not in the hands of the navy...

Although it should be possible to get the funds whether by putting forward a design tender or asking others for it, Raeder might not approve the funds. Moreover, it is well known that Raeder and Goering did not get along well, and he actually did not understand the Air Force...