Let’s give a simple example! We are applying to the Commander-in-Chief to build a 30,000 tons aircraft carrier, and the fund is 100 million marks. We will spend 50 million to acquire more than 10,000 tons of merchant ships. A merchant ship with more than 20,000 tons is worth 20 million marks, so that we can acquire at least twenty. We will use the remaining 50 million to transform fifteen aircraft carriers, so that we will have sixteen aircraft carriers. As for the aircraft, it seems that we don’t need to spend money, and the Commander-in-Chief will allocate them to us.

My marshal, see what do you think.”

"Okay... I'm worthy of being the heir to the Krupp family. This business is done well. Our navy has produced more than a dozen aircraft carriers and hundreds of carrier-based aircraft out of thin air. It's exciting to think about it. Let's do it like this, you can write a report immediately."

Redel and Denitz applauded Li Mo sincerely. Under the suppression of Gorene, the navy had no fighter or bomber except for a few reconnaissance aircraft. Now, as soon as Li Mo came, the spring of the German Navy also came.

Li Mo's report was soon sent to the command headquarters. Hitler was also surprised to see Li Mo's crazy plan. In the report, Li Mo stopped the subsequent construction plan of the Berser-class battleships, and all the Hindenburg-class battleships were stopped. The two Berser-class battleships that were almost completed will be completed as planned, but Germany will not build such giant ships and cannons in the future.

In fact, these shipbuilding plans have only remained on paper in history. Germany does not have so many budgets and resources to develop the three armies and navy forces at the same time. Germany does not have the strength. In history, Hitler personally ordered the abandonment of these construction plans due to the pressure of resources and budgets.

On November 5, 1937, Hitler summoned officers to announce that it might be necessary to use force to resolve some territorial problems, including Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Following the merger of Germany and the Munich Conference, Hitler began to ask the Naval Operations Department to formulate a war against Britain, which was later the "Z Plan", and was approved by Hitler on January 27, 1939, and gave priority to other armaments. The Z Plan was a six-year large surface fleet construction plan designed with the Royal Navy and the French Navy as the deputy imaginary enemies. It was intended to build a fleet that could match it before Britain was ready for war and conduct strategic deployment and operation with a large-scale fleet. This plan was very large in scale. If completed as scheduled, the German Navy would have the strength to compete with the Royal Navy.

The "z Plan" includes the construction of ten 50,000-ton battleships, twenty-seven German-class battleships above 20,000 tons, ten 30,000-ton cruisers, thirty-eight light cruisers, etc. Such a huge shipbuilding plan will emptie all Germany's resources and budget, and the Air Force and the Army can only drink the northwest wind. Of course, the Air Force and the Army will try their best to oppose such a shipbuilding plan.

Li Mo's report clearly shows that the German Navy only needs 30% of its resources and budget, and the remaining budget and resources are distributed by the Air Force and the Army. Li Mo does not intend to interfere. Li Mo estimates that Hitler will allocate 40% to the Army and 30% to the Air Force. This is a very traditional distribution method of 3:3:4. Everyone is more accepting of this plan, and there is no less battle between the three branches of the army.

In 1939, Germany's total national income was 98 billion marks, and the military expenditure was 30 billion marks. The Navy could get 9 billion marks. Because it is not in wartime, all maintenance fees, fuel costs, and maintenance costs are not very high. In addition to the salary of Shanghai military personnel, the German Navy could use 5 billion marks to carry out shipbuilding plans in 1939.

Redel, Li Mo and Denitz have already agreed to cut off the giant ships that have not yet started construction and only partially implement the "z plan", such as building only twenty-eight light cruisers, sixty-eight destroyers, three hundred submarines, and ninety torpedo boats. Of course, it will take three years to complete this plan. With the modified aircraft carriers, the German Navy can fight the navy of Britain and France. Of course, a decisive battle is impossible. You must know that Britain built and modified more than fifty aircraft carriers during World War II, and Germany could not catch up with Britain in any case.

Because the Navy's budget and quota were relatively reasonable, it did not arouse opposition from the Air Force and the Army. The joint report of Li Mo and Marshal Redel was approved by Hitler. Catherine and Hitler still argued with reason. The naval carrier-based aircraft were resolved by them on their own or they could not occupy the Air Force's budget. Hitler of course agreed. Li Mo's cleverness was not achieved. In order to purchase these 300 aircraft, it would cost more than 30 million marks, and a light cruiser was gone again.

Li Mo returned to Germany but had no time to rest. What was he doing? He organized people to buy ships all over the world. Since the idea of ​​using merchant ships to an aircraft carrier was made by Li Mo, Marshal Redell of course gave Li Mo the glorious and tedious task to Li Mo. Li Mo also directly asked his father Krupp to send more than 20 buyers to various countries to purchase second-hand large merchant ships.

If Krupp comes forward, the matter will be much easier, and other countries will not doubt it. Of course, Germany also has large merchant ships, but Li Mo does not plan to buy German merchant ships now. After the war begins, Germany's large merchant ships will be spare aircraft carriers!

This large merchant ship transformed into an aircraft carrier is not a whim. Britain is doing it, and Japan is doing it. However, the performance of the aircraft carrier transformed by merchant ships is definitely much worse than that of the real aircraft carrier built. A modified merchant ship aircraft carrier will basically be paralyzed, and two torpedoes will be sent to the seabed. The built aircraft carrier resists three or four torpedoes. The problem is that you must break through the protection circle of other people's aircraft carriers to attack other people's aircraft carriers, otherwise there is no way to talk about it. Therefore, Li Mo attaches great importance to air defense and anti-submarine, and helicopters are the targets of Li Mo's focus on research and development.

The fa223 helicopter is already under test flight. Dr. Folk reported to Li Mo that it can be mass-produced in the second half of 1939. There is no problem with the annual output of 150 aircraft. If Ruger performs three shifts, the annual output of 400 aircraft can be completed. This is really exciting news. The fa223 helicopter has a load of 2,000 kilograms, which is a load of two tons! Carrying ten deep-water bombs is not a problem. Of course, the fa223 helicopter is a little ugly, but it does not affect its performance and use! (Baidu fa223 picture)

The Krupp family sent out the personnel to buy ships, and soon there was news that they bought 22 large merchant ships of more than 20,000 tons in Britain, France, Norway, Sweden and other countries. The quality was 70,000 yuan, and there were six more merchant ships of more than 30,000 tons. The main reason is that the whole world has not yet completely escaped from the economic crisis, and the shipping is relatively less, so the owners of the large merchant ships had to bear the pain of selling their ships.

Renovating a merchant ship is not that simple. It must be carefully surveyed, planned by professional designers, and then issued renovation drawings. For example, water compartment, flight command tower, cat-ear anti-aircraft turret, etc. The power system must be replaced, so twenty or thirty designers can produce complete drawings at least a month. If one or two hundred designers do it in batches, the progress will be appropriately advanced. Of course, Germany has no shortage of designers. Li Mo can draw enough designers from several major German shipyards to participate in the design and transformation. Germany does not lack technical talents, which is not difficult for Li Mo.

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