The Return of the King chapter 045

Carrying a bouquet of pure white roses, Mainz ignored the surprised gazes and the noises of countless reporters chasing photos along the way, and walked proudly into the Royal Navy's largest military port in Europe, where the sun never sets..

The reporters also knew the rules very well. The moment the colonel stepped into the largest military port of the Royal Navy, they all picked up the cameras in their hands and kept clicking, taking pictures of this historic scene. Second Oh my god, this picture appeared in major newspapers!

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Ignoring the shooting of these reporters, Mainz began to observe carefully after entering the military port.

Scapa Flow is much larger than Mainz imagined. This military port is located in the semi-enclosed waters of the Orkney Islands in the northernmost part of Scotland. It consists of the main island of the archipelago, Hoy Island, and South Ronasa. The island is surrounded by a number of small islands and is a good natural bay, about 24 kilometers long, 13 kilometers wide and covering an area of 130 square kilometers.

The natural conditions in this area are excellent, the sea in the middle is very wide, and three outer islands and a main island surround the bay, leaving only three narrow exits.

The Royal Navy only needs to build coastal defense forts at the three exits of the east, west and south straits and place some obstacles to prevent enemy invasion, so it is very difficult to sneak attack here.

It is precisely for this reason that there has almost never been a sneak attack here. The only exception was the German submarine U-47 during World War II. Under the leadership of the ace captain, it overcame many difficulties and dangers and sneaked into the place. The Royal Navy here carried out an attack. This attack caused considerable losses to the Royal Navy. The new battleship Royal Oak was sunk in this sneak attack!

Mainz took a few casual glances, and after roughly memorizing the topography of Scapa Flow, he lost interest in the place.

The Royal Fleet's local fleet was not in the port today, so he couldn't get much information. He just remembered the distribution of the docks in the military port, the layout of the warehouses, and the layout of the fleet's supporting facilities, and then withdrew his gaze.

After all, there were more than a dozen policemen and soldiers watching him all day long. If he was blatantly looking around, these people would probably kick him out immediately!

The opening theme of Scapa Flow this time was for the public to visit the sunken High Seas Fleet, so everyone was quickly led to the area where the High Seas Fleet scuttled.

As soon as he arrived here, Mainz was attracted by a huge battleship. This battleship was the battleship Baden, which was once the flagship of the High Seas Fleet. When it scuttled, this battleship was rescued by the British army, so now Half of it can still be seen, and the other half is under the sea.

Except for the lucky one"Baden", all other warships were buried in the sea!

Thinking of this, Mainz's mood became a little heavy, and the expression on his face became solemn.

Although the German navy did not perform very well in World War I, their final outcome was not much better than that of the army. The army could still maintain a strength of 100,000 people, while the navy could barely manage a single ship. Gone, all sunk!

The colonel took a deep breath, dropped the bouquet of white roses in his hand, closed his eyes, and maintained a posture of silence.

Unsurprisingly, this scene was naturally captured by the reporters who were following the photo. A large number of reporters also captured this scene at this moment. Together with the previous picture of Colonel Mainz stepping into Scapa Flow, these two pictures They will all be on the front page tomorrow!

It's just that the reporters were a little curious. Could it be that the German colonel's silence was too long?

Isn't this kind of thing just a matter of meaning?

Why does it take so long to observe silence?

They didn't know that the reason why Colonel Mainz didn't move was entirely because he was attracted by the mission reward he had just received!

"Is this the complete set of design drawings for the Bismarck-class battleship?"

Colonel Mainz was obviously surprised when he saw the design drawings piled up like a hill.

[The design of naval warships is a very complicated matter. There may be thousands of cabins inside a large warship, and each cabin needs to be drawn and composed. Therefore, the design drawings of a complete warship may be several tons. The drawings provided by the system , it's already a streamlined existence, so it's not too much! ]

Well, Mainz has accepted the system's explanation. Anyway, these drawings are not for him, but for the designers. It doesn't matter how many, but the more detailed the better!

[The system prompts that the Bismarck-class battleship faced some problems at the beginning of the design.

For example, the German army's artillery level was not good enough, so it could only install two-mounted turrets and could not install the mainstream triple-mounted turrets, which caused the entire battleship's firepower to be greatly affected.

The impact, and the main gun caliber is only 381 mm, which is naturally an advantage when facing a battlecruiser like the Hood.

However, if it faces the U.

S.

military's main battleship Aiva-class or the footbath Yamato-class battleship, it will There is no advantage at all, so does the host want to modify these problems? ]

Just as Mainz was sighing for so many drawings, the system's words brought his thoughts back.

"Um? Can these things be improved?"

Hearing what the system said, Mainz was a little surprised.

[Of course it can be modified. In fact, not only battleships can be modified, but other weapons such as aircraft, tanks, even machine guns and even rifles can be modified, but this requires the host to pay a certain fee! ]

Well, no wonder the system guy kindly reminded me that he wanted to charge!

However, if money can be used to get things done, that is actually a good thing.

After all, it can improve the equipment level of the army and equip the army with better and more advanced weapons.

This will be of great significance to the future Third Reich.

After all, they do not have the British and American Countries such as Germany have accumulated hundreds of years of accumulation.

If they want to build a navy, they have to start from scratch.

Therefore, the number of German warships is definitely not as good as that of Britain and the United States and other countries.

Since they cannot be compared in terms of quantity, they can only be considered in terms of quality!

However, the Bismarck-class battleship has so many problems and is already so powerful. If all these problems are corrected, how powerful would the Bismarck be?

Mainz couldn't help but look forward to it. He couldn't wait to see the day when the improved Bismarck-class battleship was launched!