Chapter 1013: Finally fooled this guy
The situation of the French navy was not as optimistic as Charles said.
There is no major problem in the direction of the Greek port of Piraeus, where three aircraft carriers are docked. At the same time, the French army will lead the Greek military and civilians to "liberate Greece" within a few weeks.
At the same time, the fuel, bombs, etc. needed by the aircraft carrier can be delivered by transport planes, and Greece can also provide it with some and other supplies.
Egypt is no problem either. Charles has been planning there for a long time, and the independence organization will take advantage of the situation to challenge the British colonization.
The British army's defense in Port Said may be very tight. They deployed two infantry regiments, two artillery battalions and an engineering unit there, as well as a naval support regiment, with a total strength of more than 30,000 people.
(Note: The Naval Support Group is responsible for the Royal Navy's port defense. Port Said is directly related to the security of the Suez River and the British Army attaches great importance to it.)
But Egypt launched a vigorous anti-colonial movement across the country, with guerrilla attacks and destruction everywhere. Today a warehouse was burned, tomorrow a factory was bombed, or roads and railways were dug up, and even supplies could not be transported into Port Said.
At this time, the French aircraft carriers will seize the opportunity to attack Port Said, and it will not take much effort to control it and block the Suez Canal.
The real problem lies in the port of Toulon.
The French battleships in the direction of Toulon Port were only two dreadnoughts and six pre-dreadnoughts, and the remaining battleships were deployed in Brest Port and blocked by the British.
However, the British Mediterranean Fleet still had 7 battleships remaining.
Eight ships intercepting seven ships has an advantage, but if the British army is determined to fight to the death, the inexperienced French army is likely to suffer considerable casualties.
General Winter didn't know this.
Charles embellished the data as best he could:
"We have deployed 20 Jenny B bombers and 30 Caproni torpedo bombers on Malta."
"The number deployed in Toulon Port is 10 and 50 respectively, in addition to various types of fighters. The latter can ensure that you cannot launch seaplanes."
"Combined with the Toulon fleet, do you think your fleet can break through the Strait of Tunisia and the Strait of Gibraltar and escape back to Britain?"
Then Charles added:
"More importantly, we have modified five aircraft carriers, Winter, and we are only facing three of them."
"You know where the other two are, don't you?"
Bragging doesn't pay any tax. Charles wants to use this data to destroy General Winter's psychological defenses and make him believe that the French Navy has blocked them in the Mediterranean.
General Winter was so frightened that cold sweat instantly broke out on his face as he held the telegram in his hand.
He knew that France had five aircraft carriers that were being modified, and that he was responsible for cooperating with France to improve the aircraft carriers, so he believed Charles' half-true and half-false words.
"So," General Winter asked, "you didn't fall for it, did you?"
"What?" Charles didn't understand what General Winter meant.
General Winter replied with a few more words: "In the design of the aircraft carrier, you didn't retain the rear half of the ship's guns."
Otherwise, the takeoff and landing of French bombers would not have been so fast. Three aircraft carriers could keep more than 40 fighters and bombers in the air with such a low takeoff and landing failure rate.
"Yes, of course," Charles replied. "You can ask Captain Maher about the layout of our aircraft carrier if you'd like to know."
Captain Maher was the guard who stopped General Winter. He was responsible for General Winter's "safety".
General Winter waved the telegram towards Captain Maher. "Charles said you know the layout of the aircraft carrier?"
"Layout?" Captain Maher looked confused. "What layout?"
General Winter explained, "It's mainly the carrier's runway. You also use a straight-through deck, right?"
Captain Maher said "Oh" and suddenly realized:
"If that's what you're saying, I do."
"I'm not sure if that counts as a straight-through deck, because one of the runways is angled."
General Winter was stunned: "Slanted?"
"Yes." Captain Maher took the telegram from General Winter, took a look at it, exchanged glances with the signalman, and confirmed that it was Charles' order before returning the telegram to General Winter.
Then he took two steps to the radio, took the paper and pen used by the signalman for decoding, drew a simple sketch of the deck of the aircraft carrier, and used two straight lines to represent the direction of the runway.
He turned around and handed the sketch to General Winter. "That's pretty much it. You can see what it does, right?"
If you can understand it, there is no need for me to explain it further.
General Winter glanced at the sketch and at first he was puzzled as to why such an irregular angled deck was used.
But after a moment's thought, he understood. He looked at Captain Maher in shock and asked, "Do you really use a deck of this shape?"
"Of course!" Captain Maher nodded with a proud smile on his face. "This was first invented by Lieutenant General Charles. So your loss wasn't unfair, what do you think?"
General Winter gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Even a guard could speak to him in such an attitude!
However, General Winter still admitted defeat, completely admitted defeat, and was defeated with full conviction.
France has five such aircraft carriers, which are equipped with new bombers and torpedo planes.
What hope is there for the Royal Navy?
Not to mention the Mediterranean, all the oceans in the world will belong to France.
At this time, as an island country, Britain no longer had to consider the issue of German reparations or defeating France, but the security of the British home island and its own security!
As long as Charles surrounds Britain with aircraft carriers and warships, she will be completely blockaded and isolated from the world!
At this time, another telegram arrived from Charles: "Do you understand the gap now, Winter?"
General Winter replied weakly, "Yes."
Even if the "Argus" and "Wrath" were resurrected now, they would still not be able to defeat the French army.
It's hard to imagine that by simply changing the direction of the second half of the runway and turning it at a small angle, Charles gained so many benefits:
Two aircraft can take off at the same time, and the take-off and landing will not interfere with each other, and the take-off and landing zones are easier to manage...
General Winter sighed softly and shook his head slightly.
It will take the British Army at least several years to build such an aircraft carrier, and it is too late now.
"So," said Charles.
"I hope you understand that I don't want you to surrender, nor am I trying to persuade you to surrender. I want to save their lives."
"I don't want to see them die pointlessly under bombs and torpedoes. This outcome is inevitable, and the cost to the French Navy will be minimal."
"You are also saving their lives. The decision to save them or not is yours!"
General Winter thought about it for a while and finally nodded in agreement.
"What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"Give them orders? They might not listen to me."
"I mean, if they don't know this, they won't surrender easily. They will just think I'm a coward and a traitor!"
Charles was secretly delighted that he had finally fooled this guy.
(End of this chapter)
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