One Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-Six Winners and Losers

Maybe Connerson didn't know what it was like to feel hopeless before, but now he definitely knows it all too well. When his fleet overwhelmed the German battleship squadron, the new commander of all the fleets of the Royal Navy felt that he had won the battle.

But now, he knows a tragic fact, that is, no matter how obvious the advantage of a sub-fleet is over a sub-fleet, it is nothing more than a victory for the sub-fleet, and the gap in the combat capabilities of the main fleet cannot be reversed by a successful surprise attack. over here.

One after another, the Stuka bombers rushed down the clouds, screaming and rushed towards the battleship HMS Wicked, which was already wounded by the British Navy. Bombs were dropped one after another. route, and switched to S-type maneuvering to relieve the pressure brought by the German air force.

However, when the battleship Evil was turning slowly, hoping to launch more bombs from the sky and torpedoes from the water, Connerson forgot about another deadly existence. On the sea level in the distance, the battleship Admiral Raeder of the German Navy, which was slowly recovering, was using its 380mm main gun to continuously bombard the battleship Evil.

Originally, the bombardment of the German Navy could not hit the Villain, but when the Villain suddenly changed its course and adopted an S-shaped maneuver, the shells scattered around the battleship of the Villain immediately became deadly. Soon, a 380mm shell hit the battleship HMS Villain, and the huge explosion knocked off a secondary gun on the left side of HTS, and shot all the surrounding anti-aircraft guns into the sky.

The speed of the battleship Wicked, which was injured again, also slowed down due to the water intake, because about half a minute before being hit by German artillery, a torpedo also hit the tail of the battleship—you know the battleship in the previous life The name of the ship was Bismarck, and the first torpedo also hit its stern, jamming its rudder.

History is always an astonishing coincidence. This German naval battleship, which was renamed and renamed, still failed to escape the fate of being hit by a torpedo when it served in the United Kingdom. However, this time the torpedo launched by the Germans did not jam the rudder. It was the steel plate at the tail that broke through, causing the battleship to flood.

As a result, the water entry directly slowed down the speed of the battleship, so it hit two torpedoes that should have been opened more. These two torpedoes hit the stern of the battleship HMS Villain again, and the huge explosion directly destroyed the propeller at the stern and more than half of the steering gear.

At this moment, the battleship Hellcat almost lost its maneuverability, and then the German bombers began to drop bombs and torpedoes from the air even more recklessly, and launched a siege on the injured behemoth.

"Our battleship has lost power and will soon be besieged by more aircraft, and the bombardment of the German battleship will also hit us. Now we are no different from the target." Connerson stood on his own bridge , after seeing the report of the damage to the battleship, he said helplessly to his subordinates: "Order the battleship to continue firing! Before we are wiped out,

Definitely sink another German battleship! "

Because the battleship HMS Villain was so damaged that the German Naval Air Force's planes gave up the idea of ​​attacking the battleship Nelson, and decided to concentrate their forces to sink the battleship HMS Villain first. At this moment, the German army did not know that the battleship HMS Villain had become the new flagship of the Royal Navy, so the attack on this battleship had a significant blow to suppressing the British Navy and confusing the command of the British army.

"Send a message to the battleship Queen Elizabeth... Our battleship can't last long! Tell them that our ship has been continuously attacked by Germany and cannot continue to command the battle. Please choose the appropriate commander and continue to command the fleet. Let's go!" Connerson helplessly ordered to his subordinates: "Hurry up! At least send out the telegram as soon as possible!"

Almost at the same time that Connerson issued the order to replace the flagship, the 8 main guns on the battleship Admiral Raeder of the German Navy were ready again. These cannons have all been aimed at the British battleship HMS Villain, which is closest to the German Navy, and the black hole exudes the breath of death.

"Adjust the elevation angle of the artillery! All the artillery is lowered by 1 degree!" Following the order, the well-trained German gunners manipulated their artillery and aimed at the almost immobile target in the distant place.

"Ready!" A sergeant shouted loudly. Following his shout, all the soldiers stood up straight and shouted at the same time: "Adjustment is ready! Fire at any time!" Then they heard the order to fire After that, the cannons started roaring one by one. The roar could still be heard clearly even with ear protection earphones. Each cannon was suddenly stretched backward due to the recoil, and then slowly pushed back to its original position.

A cannonball flew out of the muzzle, and flew towards its target in a curved line in the sky. It tore through the air, and finally began to dive down violently from the commanding heights. It quickly approached its target, and finally hit it head-on. The badly damaged battleship HMS Outlaw.

The huge force caused the warhead to smash through the thin deck, and from a tricky angle, it rushed into the building below the bridge of the battleship Hellboy, and then it didn't stop its progress and kept smashing into pieces. After laying down several layers of steel plates, he put his head on the armor protection zone of the battleship's core.

Immediately afterwards, a huge explosion began to tear apart everything around, including the soldiers and the structure of the hull. Only where the armor was protected could it barely stop this tyrannical force of destruction from spreading forward. But in other directions, there was no such luck. This shell destroyed a large area of ​​the cabin, and then detonated the ammunition depot of a secondary gun.

"Damn..." Looking at the scene of the explosion in front of him, Connerson knew that there was no hope for the battleship under his feet. He closed his eyes, feeling the explosion tearing the hull, and suddenly the entire battleship exploded, because the fire detonated the boiler and the No. sank down.

According to post-war records, around 3:13 p.m., surviving witnesses saw a huge explosion on the British battleship HMS Villainous, and the entire bridge was submerged in a sea of ​​flames. Connerson Before sitting for two hours in his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, the British Navy was forced to change their commander once more.

The battleship HMS Outlaw sank into the sea after a loud bang, and the British battleship squadron lost half of its combat effectiveness due to this loss. The German fighter jets began to concentrate their firepower to besiege the battleship Nelson, and soon hit the British battleship, and caused it to change its course frequently, making it impossible to pursue the German fleet at full speed.

"Let the warships of the British Navy retreat... If the fight continues like this, the entire army will really be wiped out here!" On the bridge of the USS Franklin aircraft carrier, the first officer looked at his officer and said, "This is not going to happen. In order to consume the German army, the loss of the British fleet was too great."

"It's too late to retreat now. In the original plan, no German could crack our code... And we really didn't expect that the German navy would come out so simply." The leading American captain put his hands behind his back, He said with a serious expression: "At that time, it was estimated that there would be at most four German aircraft carriers. Relying on the secret weapon of land-based fighter jets may cause the British Navy and the German Navy to fight each other."

No one thought that the highest-level communication code of the Allied forces had been deciphered by the Germans. No one thought that the German navy dispatched all its warships by surprise, intending to eat up the British fleet in one go. As a result, it is hard to get off the tiger now. At this moment, the Allied fleet can no longer judge the situation by retreating quickly or continuing to attack.

"It seems that the German fleet already knows that there are two more battleships than we estimated... In this case, even if it rushes forward, it is impossible to achieve any results." The commander of the US Navy thought for a while , sighed and shook his head again: "All we can do now is to retreat first... throw the battlefield to the British and Germans, and end this unnecessary battle."

At this time, it has been determined that the large British warships sunk by the German Navy include the battleship HMS Villainous and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. The remaining battleships of the British Navy could not easily get out of the battle circle, so they could only grit their teeth and continue to rush towards the German fleet, hoping to kill as many German warships as possible before they were annihilated.

Their efforts finally paid off-the battleship Queen Elizabeth and the battleship Ramirez finally rushed to the battlefield. They caught up with the German Navy battleship Belarus, which had no power, and faced the sinking ship. The battleship fired the first main gun shell since the war started.

After two salvos, the German battleship Belarus also began to sink at an accelerated rate. The capital ship designed by the German Navy for the Soviet Union was riddled with shells fired by four British battleships, and finally sank in the Atlantic Ocean. seabed.

At the same time that the British Navy killed the battleship Belarus, the carrier-based aircraft of the German Navy made another contribution and hit the lonely HMS Nelson with a torpedo, completely paralyzing this special-shaped battleship of the British Navy.