Chapter 653: Talking about Wolf Pack Tactics to Dönitz
Chapter 653: Talking about Wolf Pack Tactics to Dönitz
Satisfied, this is quite satisfactory.
However, if you give me a few more technical talents, I think I will be more satisfied.
But, steady progress is the only way to go. If Beisu and the United States can snatch your technical information and talents in the future, why can't I do the same?
Sooner or later it will be ours.
"I can already see the sincerity of the general and the navy. The general is indeed a man of great things. He has charm and courage."
I'm not here to listen to your empty talk, I'm here to solve the next problem the Navy will face.
"Alice, go get some food. This is too serious. I'm not used to it."
In the ancient Eastern culture, if things are not discussed at the dinner table, it will be a little less interesting.
It was not appropriate to eat bread and butter while discussing business. Alice naturally understood this point. She went to a Chinese restaurant and asked for a table. After the table was set up, she went to the living room.
"General, the food is ready. Do you think we can take our seats now?"
"Let's go." Zhou Weiguo put the cigarette in his hand into the ashtray.
Dönitz was a little surprised.
He really wasn't here to eat. He was here... to do some business.
"The navy is different from the army, and I can't read nautical charts either. It's just that those involved are often confused, while those on the sidelines can see things more clearly. For some things, I'm just giving you some reasonable advice, and this advice is very relevant to you."
Dönitz still didn't understand, but he followed Zhou Weiguo to the dinner table.
Alice, the housekeeper, stood by and poured wine for the three of them. She couldn't sit at the table in such an occasion.
"What did General Zhou mean by what he said just now?" Dönitz asked after drinking a glass of wine.
Seeing that he was asking about this after just one glass of wine, Zhou Weiguo thought for a moment and, not wanting to waste time, said, "I wonder if you think, with your strength, you can fight a decisive battle with their home fleet and win."
"No." Dönitz was confident, but not impulsive.
"Yes, you can't. A country that can call itself the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets maintains this title because it has a domestic fleet and an external fleet that are enough to make the world ashamed. Without this fleet, they can't do it."
"General Zhou is right. The key is that this fleet of theirs will cause us trouble. The officers and soldiers of our high seas fleet are not afraid of life or death, but if we can't break the deadlock, we won't be able to last long."
Dönitz spoke the truth, a confession and a display of candor. Seeing him get this far, Zhou Weiguo paused and said, "Why must we compete with them on the surface? You won't be able to do that in twenty years."
"If we don't fight, how can we win?" Dönitz was desperate. He thought there was a way, but now it seems that he has no way.
"Go to those who are more powerful than you. Although their surface ships are more powerful than yours, they cannot match you in terms of submarines."
"Submarine?" Dönitz looked up at Zhou Weiguo, he didn't understand.
Zhou Weiguo chuckled. "You've heard of wolves. A single wolf might not be able to take on a tiger, but a pack of them can tear a tiger apart, let alone a few. The cost of building a battleship is enough to build several submarines. Submarines operate underwater, making them easier to hide."
"Even if we engage their surface ships, with surface ships as a supplement, and underwater ships as a supplement, we could throw in a hundred or more submarines, each carrying six or more torpedoes. That's how many torpedoes we could throw at them. If all these torpedoes were fired at the same area, how many of them would be able to dodge?"
It was as if the door to a new world had been opened for Dönitz. Until now, he and the top naval officers had been confined to a misunderstanding, that is, surface ships could not break through the enemy. This would most likely cause the situation of decades ago, where the High Seas Fleet could not leave the port.
But now, this man's words gave him another idea. My surface ships can't get out, so what if I can't get out underwater? As long as I expand the scale of my submarines, what can you do even if you have eavesdropping equipment? How many can you bomb me with? Besides, it's not that I won't build surface ships, but the scale is developing towards submarines.
Dönitz looked at Zhou Weiguo calmly. If he had some disdain for this man just now, now he was grateful.
Just as Zhou Weiguo said, those involved are often confused. He and the navy cannot see through this point, but outsiders can immediately untie this obviously weak but unbreakable knot.
He picked up the refilled drink and looked at Zhou Weiguo; "Zhou, this glass of wine, I toast you on behalf of the navy."
"You're welcome." This is just your masterpiece and has nothing to do with me. You could have come up with it without me, just like Guderian's raid on the Ardennes Forest. He could have come up with it without me, but it would probably have taken a long time.
However, since you haven't figured it out, I'll take it and it's mine. Although it's shameless to take things away from others, as long as it's useful, that's fine.
At the west gate of Changsha, several military vehicles were parked at the city gate.
The car door opened and General Okamura Yasuji, dressed in military uniform, got out of the car. Then, Yamadajima and Nanjō Yunko also got out of the car and came to his side to look at the ancient city gate.
After the Battle of Wuhan, in order to consolidate and contain the military strength of the mountain city, the 11th Army and the Ninth War Zone fought back and forth several times, but each time they were unable to enter this place. Now, he came in.
Although the method was not appropriate, he finally entered this place.
The ceremony of entering the city was very lively. Most of the colorful flags hung above the city walls praised His Majesty's wise guidance, while some were written to praise His Majesty's own good command.
Whether the other party did it on purpose or not, only the few people present knew.
"Reporting to headquarters, our 11th Army has fought bloody battles with the enemy for over a month and has successfully captured Changsha. Now, the remnants of the enemy's th War Zone are fleeing westward, and our troops are actively pursuing them."
Looking at the imperial soldiers standing with their heads held high on the city wall, Tojo calmly gave orders to the telecommunications director beside him.
Except for a few adjutants, the rest of the people did not know that this was actually a deal, so everyone present was excited. In their opinion, it was an honor for them and the soldiers to have such a commander.
"After the troops enter, do not harass the civilians. Soldiers must pay the locals for meals. I don't want that devil to cause trouble for you because of some people, nor do I want him to cause trouble for me. Do you understand?"
Okamura Neiji turned his head sideways and looked at the several division commanders who were following him.
"Hi." Several division commanders naturally knew who Okamura Yasuji was referring to, Zhou Weiguo, who had now been transferred to the Guangxi battlefield.
This demon forced the headquarters to kill the commander of the 104th Division.
This is not the most terrible thing. The most terrible thing is that when something happens, he doesn't come to you directly. He goes to Tokyo.
This guy, damn it, can't be messed with.
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