69novels Chapter 1099
Chapter 1099
President Roosevelt was not grateful for what the Germans had done for him. If he could choose, he would rather not be treated like this.
After all, compared to traditional sea transportation, taking an airship is obviously faster!
If you take an airship from Yingjiang to Europe, it will take about a day to arrive, and Hans’s airship is extremely luxurious. He has seen it with his own eyes and experienced it personally, so he knows it very well.
Taking a traditional means of transportation such as a cruise ship not only takes a long time, but also has greater risks on the journey. After all, the sea conditions in the Atlantic are notoriously bad. Even large cruise ships of tens of thousands of tons may capsize at sea!
However, as a prisoner of war of the German army, the German army will definitely not meet all his requests.
So even if Roosevelt was unwilling in his heart, he had no choice but to accept such an arrangement.
After the cruise ship left the port, it joined the German fleet coming from the south in the open sea of the Atlantic.
This was the first time President Roosevelt saw the main fleet of the German army. He squinted his eyes curiously and observed carefully.
The German navy is a fairly young army. Compared with the navies of the United States and the United Kingdom, they were established very recently. Counting from the reconstruction during the Weimar Republic, it has been less than ten years.
Considering the restrictions of the early Versailles Treaty on the development of the German navy, their navy actually formed combat effectiveness later.
People often say that it takes ten years for the army and a hundred years for the navy. If you want to build a strong navy from scratch, it often takes decades or even hundreds of years!
However, the Third Reich did not know what method it used, but it completed the reconstruction of the navy so quickly, and became the world’s strongest navy. It defeated the fleets of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom, and the Three Kingdoms in the Atlantic Ocean, and completely established its position as the overlord of the sea.
Roosevelt has always been curious about what the Third Reich’s navy relied on to complete the counterattack?
Why can they defeat the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom and the combined fleets of the United Kingdom and the Three Kingdoms?
Roosevelt’s luck was neither good nor bad. In fact, part of the German main fleet had already returned. This time, it was Nimitz’s Southern Fleet that was responsible for the escort mission. This fleet suffered certain losses in the naval battle, and many warships were in need of repair and maintenance, so they had already returned to Europe in advance.
And some of the remaining warships had to stay in the south of the Eagle Sauce and the Caribbean Sea to control the Panama Canal and the waters south of the Eagle Sauce, thereby playing a role in deterring the countries in Central and South America.
As an important waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the German army would definitely not give up the Panama Canal, so the German fleet left in the south set up two naval bases in Panama and the Bahamas, stationed in turn, ready to take over the control of the Panama Canal at any time!
So this time the fleet escorting the fleet was not actually strong, with only two battleships, one of which was a Bismarck-class battleship, and the other was a Scharnhorst-class battlecruiser. As for the Midway-class aircraft carrier, it returned to Europe early to rest.
In the upcoming attack on the Russian bear, the German navy has a heavy task.
They will split into two groups, heading north to the Baltic Sea, to assist the German army on the northern front in attacking Leningrad, an important town in the north of the Russian bear.
Considering that Leningrad is guarded by fortresses such as Kronstadt, the German army must take the lead in removing it, so most of the battleships and heavy cruisers will be concentrated in the north to fight.
As for the southern front, the German surface fleet will enter the Mediterranean, then cross the Bosphorus Strait and enter the Black Sea.
The area of the Black Sea is not large, but the radiation area is very wide, and most of the southwestern region of the Russian bear is around the Black Sea.
If fighter jets are taken off from aircraft carriers on the Black Sea, most of the southwestern region of the Russian bear can be threatened, including the very important Staringrad region and the Caucasus oil-producing area.
Therefore, most of the main battleships such as aircraft carriers will be sent to the Black Sea to participate in the attack on the southwestern region of the Russian bear.
Once this is completed, the next target of the German army will be the Sun Never Sets in South Asia.
The British Empire is currently fighting with the Foot Basin, so there is no need to waste time on them for the time being, but it is definitely not a good idea to leave the British Empire to develop slowly in South Asia.
No matter who wins the Australian campaign, it is not good news for the Third Reich, so the best way is to defeat the British Empire and the Foot Basin and completely eliminate this security risk!
However, before defeating the Russian bear, the Empire cannot reach that far, so it will not touch them for the time being.
“What is the name of that battleship?”
Roosevelt was not restricted in his movements. In fact, it is hard to say that a person in a wheelchair can move freely. In most cases, he needs help from others. The person who took care of Roosevelt was York, a young sailor on the cruise ship. York sailor was only seventeen years old this year. Because he did not reach the legal age for joining the army, he could not realize his dream of joining the navy.
However, it has always been his dream to wear a beautiful sailor suit and become a real sailor. For this dream, he made a lot of preparations, including consulting a lot of information and intelligence about the Imperial Navy.
These things are almost all public, and it is easy to find them.
Of course, most of the public information is not confidential information, such as the name of the battleship, tonnage, speed, weapons and equipment, power system, number of crew members and service location, etc. are all public information.
But some core information, such as the operating frequency and band of the radar, the sonar wave spectrum of the ship, the various parameters of the ship’s guns, and the range and hit rate of the anti-aircraft missiles, are all confidential.
These things may be made public in the future, but it is obviously impossible to make them public at this time.
“Sir, that battleship is called Tirpitz, the second ship of the Bismarck class battleship, with a full load displacement of……”
The young sailor was so excited when he saw his favorite battleship that he immediately became a chatterbox and kept introducing it.
Roosevelt did not interrupt his chattering, but focused on the battleship in the distance.
He had heard of the famous Bismarck-class battleships. After all, before the war, people generally believed that the most powerful battleships in the world were two battleships of this type! This is indeed the case. In the Battle of the North Sea, the two Bismarck-class battleships of the German army killed the Hood battleship, which was never set on the sun, and severely damaged the Royal Navy, which was never set on the sun, and used this battle to prove their strength.