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Chapter 552 Sea Lion Attack
Because of his promotion, Philger also learned about the true plans for Prism Building.

Still basking in the joy of his promotion, Philg accepted the task without hesitation, seeing it as the first test of his new phase.

Although "Desert Fox" is purely a show of brute force against weaker opponents, he has decided to go all out.

This time, the HMS Ark Royal carrier strike group was also personally led by Admiral Miles. Giving him the authority to conduct integration training was clearly a sign of his high regard and a way to win him over, which Philger was particularly grateful for.

After returning to the home country ahead of schedule, the HMS Ark Royal underwent upgrades at the shipyard, incorporating lessons learned from saturation attacks by mosquitoes and adding five Phalanx CIWS, three Sea Dart short-range missile air defense systems, and a ski-jump takeoff deck.

The upgraded HMS Ark Royal was in excellent condition. Just two days later, on December 20, under the command of Commodore Filger, HMS Ark Royal, along with two destroyers and two frigates, left the naval port to conduct intensive anti-submarine and multi-ship strike exercises in the waters north of the Gulf of Tonkin.

……

In the Northern Hemisphere, European time, on December 23rd, in the evening...
Greenland, southern seas

A U-boat stealthily surfaced, smashed through a thin layer of ice, opened its hatch, and launched an Ar.196 seaplane, which landed on the ice.

After the plane came to a stop, Tang Wen, wrapped up like a brown bear, opened the cabin door and jumped onto the ice. He carefully walked to the edge of the glacier, where a cliff hundreds of meters high lay before him.

The sunlight reflected off the icy, snowy land was so bright that he had to wear sunglasses.

Greenland, the world's largest island, covers an area of ​​211 million square kilometers, but has a population of less than 5, 80% of whom are Inuit people.

If penguins from Antarctica were to invade Greenland en masse, an average Greenlander would have to fight off 2400 penguins.

However, Tang Wen didn't care; he only cared about his mental state.
After spending so many days in the snowy landscape, he went from feeling calm and peaceful at the beginning to experiencing the legendary "depression."

The silence of the heavy snow, the almost black water, the perpetually gray sky, and the cold sunlight—no wonder foreigners are always complaining about how depression has given rise to a ton of sad literature; they're really not wrong.

After briefly examining the several locations that the U-boat was considered, Tang Wen finally chose the most secluded cliff as the port location, and then waved his hand to designate it as a high-level port.

[Silver Coin-100000]

The capacity of the system's ports is not a limit on the number of ships in the port, but only a limit on the number of warships that can be revived in this port. If the capacity is exceeded, the ships can only be deployed to berths. Once a ship is sunk and there are not enough berths, it cannot be salvaged and revived.

However, this is not a problem now. The fleet of Project Sea Lion can be docked in the 50 large berths of the high-end port without much trouble, especially since more than half of them are civilian ships and small auxiliary warships such as destroyers, minesweepers, and frigates, which are quite compact.

The massive, high-class port carved a large C-shape into the cliff face, with berths that almost form a continuous loop that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Standing at the very center of the letter C, Tang Wen silently summoned the warships scattered across various ports and shipyards to this location.

40艘战列舰、1艘航母、以及78艘辅助军舰、50艘民船共169艘出击舰船不断进入泊位，然后又自动后退给新召唤的战舰补位。

As the number of warships increased, the newly summoned warships could only squeeze into the gaps in the ship pile, and the gaps between the warships became smaller and smaller, until they were so close together that they made an unpleasant sound as they rubbed against each other with the waves.

In Tang Wen's view, the black steel structures kept appearing like movie special effects, and in the blink of an eye, a gray steel Great Wall suddenly appeared on the sea in front of him!

The entire C-shaped bend looked as if it were blocked by a chain, with each lock representing a warship flying the Iron Cross flag, all crowded together in the small harbor! This was also the first time Tang Wen had ever seen so many warships. He couldn't help but climb to the top floor of the port hotel, only to find that the entire C-shaped bend was filled with gray!

All 169 ships, already packed to the limit, started their engines. The thick smoke from the boilers and diesel engines instantly coalesced into a spectacular gray cloud that blended into the dark sky, resembling an exaggerated tornado.

The ships that have already spawned continue to move to the outer waters and begin to line up according to their warship type:
The fast fleet, led by the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, was followed by the four battleships Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Gleisenau, with two cruisers and six destroyers positioned around the capital ships.

而在她们身后，26艘伪装旧式战列舰组成5列纵队，其后是80艘辅助战舰和50艘民船组成的130艘超大规模船团，直接组成了10*13的方阵。

Even when arranged in a dense formation, the 169 ships still formed a super fleet that was 1 kilometer wide and nearly 2 kilometers long, stretching as far as the eye could see!

Even though most of the wooden ironclad ships were swaying violently, it couldn't hide their exaggerated sense of oppression.

The entire process of lining up took an hour, and it was almost dark when it was finished. Tang Wen only had time to take a quick look.
However, just one glance was enough to make his heart surge and his blood rush. If he didn't know that most of them weren't even there for show, they might have already become arrogant.

This is what a man should do!
But he couldn't help but think of the 1914 Royal Naval Review:
That damned British! That super naval review gathered 60 battleships. Who knows how much blood the British Empire had to bleed to support it!

However... these warships are not enough right now.

Tang Wen took another deep breath, spread his arms and pushed, and the U-boats scattered all over the world flew over one after another.

However, at this stage, the U-boats also faced the same global deployment dilemma as the Empire, since they could not yet teleport anywhere in the world at will, and could only deploy a portion of them first.

唐文将这个数字定在了1/3，随即81艘旧式U艇、18艘U2501、1艘U4501像是蚂蚁一般在港口涌现，刚刚好凑够100艘。

A total of 269 ships of various colors were moored in an area of ​​several square kilometers of sea. The noise from the engines alone made the air feel like it was shaking, as if there was some kind of background noise.

Unfortunately, Tang Wen has to send these U-boats out now, otherwise he won't be able to keep up with the two fleets and witness the grand spectacle of all 269 ships lined up.

After finishing all this, it was already late at night. After a few seconds of reflection, he dismantled the advanced port without hesitation, then teleported onto the Zeppelin. Lütjens immediately saluted him.

"Commander, all 269 participating ships in Operation Sea Lion are in position. Please give further instructions!"

"Hold on."

Tang Wen looked at his watch under the light, silently counting down the days.

[12/24, 0:00]

As the countdown reached zero, the sound of camel bells and Santa's laughter, which had been absent for a year, reappeared in Tang Wen's mind. He looked up and seemed to see a sleigh pulled by a reindeer gliding smoothly across the sky.

"Sea Lion Fleet, launch!"

(End of this chapter)