Bismarck

No response...

"I know it's inconvenient for you to come out now. If you hear me, come to my room later. I know you can follow me in stealth!"

Still no response +2···

Since Regel deliberately chose to speak at the bow where no one was, no one could hear what he said. If people knew that their great naval admiral was talking to a warship in the same tone as he was talking to his subordinates, would they think he was crazy?

But even if you can't hear the content, it's still a very strange thing to see the marshal hammering on the armor plates alone.

Obviously, Hindenburg ignored Reger and walked back somewhat unhappy.

No one dared to look directly at the marshal, but they still looked at him secretly.

What happened, Marshal?

Reger returned to the podium.

"General Yamamoto, do you think this ceremony is okay?" he said with a smile.

"It's really shocking, Marshal Reger." Yamamoto said with emotion, "It would be great if Japan also had the shipbuilding capabilities of Germany."

Of course, I was just saying it to make Regal happy...

"Oh, by the way, General Yamamoto, are you going back to Berlin for something? Something unexpected happened to me here and I may not be able to leave until tomorrow. If you are in a hurry, I will send a plane to take you back." Reger said.

He said he had something to do, which was waiting for Hindenburg in the hotel...

"Oh, we are not in a hurry. After this is over, we will go to Taranto for a field observation. There is nothing to do in Berlin." Yamamoto said, "We can leave tomorrow."

"Then I'll arrange a place for you tonight. You can go around Hamburg with the translator. It's a beautiful city."

"It is indeed a beautiful city." Yamamoto nodded.

Reger returned to his hotel in Hamburg.

The sun was high in the sky as he sat behind his desk processing documents, wondering when Hindenburg would come out and what he should say to make her trust him when she came out.

"Knock knock knock--" There was a sudden knock on the door.

Reger immediately stood up from his chair, walked to the door himself, and put on a smiling face.

"prosper--"

"Marshal, this is the training report of the Hamburg fleet this year." A colonel at the door saluted respectfully, and Reger's smile froze in mid-air.

"Okay, I understand." He frowned, took the stack of documents, and didn't even bother to say hello to show that he understood.

"Yes, good afternoon, Marshal!"

"Bang——" the door closed.

The sun gradually set. After an afternoon, the imagined ship girl still did not appear. This made Regler a little annoyed. If it were under normal circumstances, she would definitely appear.

So the question is, where is the KanColle?

This unhappy mood made him feel very uncomfortable during dinner. He always believed that Hindenburg's ship girl existed, and that her not coming out was a disregard for his authority. This understanding made him uncomfortable, but he still maintained a profound expression in front of Yamamoto.

After dinner, the Japanese representatives returned to their respective rooms. The afternoon visit made them have new discoveries. Although Japan is not worse than Germany in terms of shipbuilding industry, it still needs to learn from each other's strengths and make up for its weaknesses.

After dinner, Reger went to Hindenburg's loading dock again and said a lot of things. This time, while the workers were not there, he stayed longer after transferring the soldiers away and said some threatening words, but the cold warship remained the same, without any sense of life.

"I told you to come to my room later!" He said this unhappily and left.

When all the streets and alleys of Hamburg were plunged into darkness, apart from the patrolling military police, only Reger's room still had the light on.

"The Marshal is really dedicated." The soldier on duty said so. Only such a leader can lead the German Navy to a great revival.

No sleep for one night.

When Yamamoto woke up the next morning, he was surprised to find that Regler looked tired and had dark circles under his eyes.

"Marshal Reger, I didn't expect you to be so diligent at night. I want to learn from you." Yamamoto praised.

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Chapter 326: The rise of aircraft carriers and the failure of Regel's large-scale construction...

It has been more than a week since the Battle of the Mid-Atlantic, but the impact of this battle is still far from over...

A butterfly in South America flapped its wings gently, and then a hurricane blew up in North America. This naval battle was a turning point from quantitative change to qualitative change after the butterfly flapped its wings.

The world's major military powers were all keeping a close eye on the naval battles between Germany and Britain, because every battle between them could be regarded as a textbook example - whether it was Britain's sneak attack on Taranto or Germany's Jedi counterattack in the Atlantic.

It can be said that Germany and Britain were racking their brains to contribute to cutting-edge military theory and practice, and the main result was the rise of the auxiliary ship type, the aircraft carrier, in all the wars. From cooperating with battleships in the beginning, to launching sneak attacks alone in the later period, and then to the two sides only engaging in beyond-visual-range combat of carrier-based aircraft. Except for the pilots, the two sides did not meet!

In the Battle of Newcastle three months ago, although aircraft carriers played an important role, they could not be called the main force to replace battleships. After all, whether it was the destruction of the three large shipyards in Newcastle or the subsequent pursuit battle between the British and German naval fleets, more of it reflected the role of battleships - in fact, if the battleships were fixed and allowed to deliver firepower, they could match three aircraft carriers, but the advantage of aircraft carriers was not here. Although the bombing of aircraft carriers and the air force played an important role in the naval battle and the air forces of both sides also had a highlight performance, it also showed the relative fragility and easy damage of aircraft carriers themselves - in the battle, as long as the deck was destroyed, the entire aircraft carrier would be directly useless.

However, such performance was not enough to convince conservative naval officers in various countries to prove that aircraft carriers could become a main force in their own right. In fact, as early as the time of the Washington Treaty, aircraft carriers were already capital ships, and were only considered to be capable of strengthening reconnaissance range and harassment attacks, replacing the power of battlecruisers. However, it was not enough to prove that aircraft carriers could completely replace battleships.

Although the mobility of aircraft carriers in independent operations was demonstrated in both the Fleet Problem Exercise in 1930 and the Battle of Taranto, and planes and heavy bombs destroyed the Italian battleship fleet in the Battle of Taranto, there has never been a battleship sunk by air force in actual combat. At most, they can "pose a threat to battleships", and that's all.

In other words, until this time, the definition of "failure to sink the battleships in the fleet means failure to seize sea control" still holds true...

But the Mid-Atlantic Battle was different!

It can be said that this battle directly led to the rise of the status of aircraft carriers among various naval powers!

Although historically until the Gulf War sixty years later, the U.S. Navy concluded that the artillery firepower of an Iowa-class battleship was roughly equal to the full-strength attack of three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers...but in the Battle of the Mid-Atlantic, the German Atlantic Fleet fully utilized the maneuverability and attack range of aircraft carriers!

King George V had heavy armor and powerful firepower, but couldn't even see the shadow of the enemy, and the forward bridge collapsed after two bombs...

Although it was only damaged in the middle, from beginning to end, no trace of the enemy was seen except for the planes in the sky. After a large number of planes bombed and killed, the battle ended, and it was a miserable defeat!

The battleship's proud main guns had no chance to be used at all! Unless it wanted to use some Type 3 shells similar to the Yamato, in short, the most fired from beginning to end were anti-aircraft shells... All the main gun shells were sleeping in the ammunition depot!

With only one aircraft carrier, a whole fleet, including a battleship and two aircraft carriers, was forced to abandon its mission due to heavy losses...

The cause of all this was only one aircraft carrier - the Zeppelin aircraft carrier under the command of Admiral Lütjens, commander of the German War Navy Atlantic Fleet! And it was an incredible single-ship assault!

This could be said to be a Zeppelin single-handedly challenging a fleet of the British Royal Navy! It was a fast fleet that had dispatched all its elite troops, accounting for two-thirds of the British high-speed battleships at the time!

The aircraft carrier's flexible combat maneuverability, the suddenness of its attack, and its control range of hundreds of kilometers...are all so terrifying!

The battleships in the whole naval battle were like medieval knights. They had years of training, superb martial arts, excellent armor and specially selected war horses, but they fell down with just one shot from the riflemen... Such battle examples could not help but make the naval circles of various countries begin to reflect...

What would happen if his fleet faced Zeppelin?

Of course, Japan, as an ally, was even more excited to hear the news, and it also strengthened Yamamoto and Nagumo's determination to meet with Lütjens and Zeppelin. Only by consulting them could Japan's aircraft carrier tactics be more perfect. After all, the Germans had practical combat experience.

Moreover, the aftermath of the Mid-Atlantic Battle did not stop there... If we add the HMS Illustrious, which was successfully ambushed by a vengeful Italian submarine less than a day away from Gibraltar, one of the three large aircraft carriers of the British Royal Navy sank and two were seriously damaged. Now the only aircraft carriers that can be used are the two old-fashioned light carriers, the Centaurs and the Hermes... And the dispatching capabilities of the light carriers are very limited, and they have no human rights in front of the main carriers...

Just three days ago, the British were still smugly mocking the Italian Navy's main fleet that was bombed and sunk in the harbor as a group of sparrows, but things have changed, and retribution comes quickly. Now it is the turn of the German and Italian radio stations to proudly announce that the British Navy's aircraft carrier forces have collectively lost their combat effectiveness...

Just when I was sure that the aircraft carrier was fully qualified to suppress the battleship, I found that I didn't even have a single regular ship that could go out to sea...

This is not good news!

The British Royal Navy, which dominated the oceans for 300 years, had encountered countless enemies, but few of them could defeat the powerful Royal Navy like this.

Even in history, only Admiral De Ruyter, a legend of the former Dutch Republic of the Seven Provinces, who dared to lead the Dutch naval fleet to attack London, bombard Chatham Road, and capture the British Navy's first-class battleship Royal Charles, had such a level of record. Although the great admiral himself died in the hands of the French Navy due to the betrayal of his allies, he has become a legend...

And now, Admiral Günther Lütjens of the Greater German Empire has become another legend...

"Glorious will need three months of repairs, and Formidable will need at least half a year of overhaul. Even if the newly built fourth ship of the Glorious class, Indomitable, is rushed to service in March next year at the earliest... The two more advanced HMS Implacable class ships are still struggling on the slipway..."

Churchill looked gloomy as he saw the report handed over by the Admiralty with a bitter face and lowered his head, but this time he did not curse - it was not that he was indifferent, but that he was numb...

How could this bastard named Lütjens be so abominable!!!

He was involved in the Norwegian Naval Battle, the Battle of HMS Resolution and the CE-15 Escort Fleet, and the aftermath of the Icelandic Naval Battle is that the Icelandic underground resistance organization is still cooperating with the German special forces to resist the British occupation forces... During Dunkirk, he, the German Army and Air Force coordinated the three services of sea, army and air force to cut off the retreat of more than troops. Although Britain repelled him in the Battle of Newcastle, the Newcastle shipyard and the Ark Royal... were also heavy losses!

The most important thing is that, despite the heavy losses, it did not cause much impact on the other side! In three months, the Zeppelin commanded by Lütjens had damaged its reputation near Iceland, and now it had almost destroyed the entire British aircraft carrier fleet in the Battle of the Mid-Atlantic!

Below, the First Sea Lord was still reading the report with a grimace...

"In view of the status and significance of aircraft carriers, the Navy recommends that the government increase investment and resources in the Indomitable, HMS Hatred and HMS Indefatigable, and immediately start designing new aircraft carriers. The current design code is the Royal Ark II class, and it is planned to build at least four..."

"I agree." Churchill was too lazy to listen, and he stretched out his hand to take the report, flipped through it twice, and stamped it with his seal to indicate his agreement. The Admiral on the other side took the stamped document and did not retreat, but stretched out his hand to take out the next report and continued to read...

"...Regarding the Mid-Atlantic investigation, our military court investigation team has already conducted a preliminary investigation into Summerville's command process in the Mid-Atlantic Battle and found no obvious mistakes... The military court investigation team has decided to recommend that Summerville be exempted from prosecution and continue to serve..."

"The investigation team believes that Zeppelin's performance in this naval battle shows that when an aircraft carrier takes the initiative to attack, the operational initiative brought by its maneuverability and range is very terrifying, and it is recommended that the British Navy should also use aircraft carriers in this way in the future..."

But now, in Britain, apart from two light aircraft carriers, there are no aircraft carriers... Churchill and the Admiralty Secretary were actually silently complaining and mourning...

Churchill and the Admiral had no objection to the outcome of Somerville's handling. After all, Somerville was also a capable and famous general, and there was no problem with his command in the Mid-Atlantic Battle. Of course, the most important reason was...the opponent was Lütjens...

It is said that now in the UK, the name of Lütjens has been successfully used to treat children's night crying...

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Lütjens, who was widely missed by the British, was now leading Zeppelin to join Tirpitz. Without the pursuit force, their lives became much easier. They no longer had to hide and headed straight to the port of Brest. It would not take long for them to land on French soil. The next thing was for Lütjens to go to Berlin to pick up his secretary ship.

Regel waited all night in vain, and had obvious dark circles under his eyes when he woke up the next day. To use the words of the later otaku, he was a typical African. The construction failed, and not a single ship girl came out. He spent a lot of money, but it was all in vain. This directly led to his low pressure the next day, and even Yamamoto felt it...

They all returned to Berlin, and after they separated, Reger went straight back to his official residence and called the man with a mustache.

"Führer, it's me."

"Reger, any news?" asked the man with a mustache.

"I have to report some bad news..."

"Hindenburg she?"

"Yes, Hindenburg doesn't have the so-called ship spirit. (Yes, my great construction failed..." Reger said with a sigh.

There was silence for a while, and then a sigh was heard.

"But Führer, maybe Hindenburg just hasn't been completed yet. Maybe we should wait, maybe it will come out later." Reger said quickly.

I hope the Führer won't get mad at him for looking so dark...

"That's all we can do. Please keep an eye on this matter from now on."

The man with a mustache lost interest in continuing the conversation and quickly hung up the phone.

After Regel hung up the phone, he looked at the receiver in silence for a moment, then suddenly threw the phone away in anger.

"Why don't you have it!!!" he roared angrily

"why why!"

"Beep, beep——" There was a knock on the door.

"roll!"

"Marshal, combat report from the Navy Department!" the staff officer outside the door shouted.

"Come in."

The staff officer walked in with his head held high, ignoring the poor telephone, placed a battle report on Regler's desk, and then quickly left.

The conflict between Reger and Lütjens was well known to everyone in the Navy Department. It was said that the two men turned against each other just for Lütjens' beautiful female secretary, and this time the battle report said that Lütjens had won a great victory... Are you kidding me? If he doesn't run away, is he waiting to be vented by the marshal?

I have to say that although the gossip guessed by the German soldiers who were unaware of the truth was still very accurate...it was indeed for Lütjens' female secretary...that's right.

Regel calmed down a little, then walked to the desk and picked up the combat report.

"Under the command of General Lütjens, the Zeppelin aircraft carrier achieved significant results and severely damaged the British task force!"

Very good, very good, Zeppelin and Lütjens, the two fuses are here...

Snapped--

A vase was thrown to the ground by Reger and shattered into pieces. It was his favorite Chinese porcelain and he usually took great care of it, but now...

At this moment, Reger was like a mental patient who had been suppressed for a long time. He smashed everything he saw, and the whole office looked like it had been looted by a madman - of course, not that exaggerated, but almost. All kinds of books were scattered around, and even the secretary who came to clean up was stunned.

It took him a long time to calm down and think about what to do next...

"Fortunately, I still have Prince Eugen..." he murmured.

The news of the great success of the aircraft carrier operation was also known to Goering. He heard that this fat belly also went to the Führer and proposed the request to build a new aircraft carrier. Of course, it was too late to build a new one, but it was still possible to convert a cruise ship into an aircraft carrier - for example, the Europa.

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Chapter 327: Daily Life

Yamamoto said goodbye to Reger and Hitler and went to Taranto, Italy for the next visit. His final stop was to visit Lütjens in Brest, France to end the visit before returning home.

Not long after Reger received the news of the great success of the Mid-Atlantic Battle, Yamamoto, who was covered in the German media's extensive publicity, naturally also learned the news. He was surprised at the disastrous defeat of the British Navy and Zeppelin's terrifying strength of one third, and he also developed a keen interest in Lütjens - how could the captain of a battleship be so proficient in the command of an aircraft carrier?

Maybe, I will get a detailed answer after meeting him...