The Third Reich in Desperation

Major General Montgomery kept his head up at the sky when the sirens sounded.Even if there were fighter jets flying over his head, he didn't feel a sense of crisis. There were not many people here, and no German fighter jets would pay attention to it, so it was considered a safe place for him.

"Bang bang, bang bang," in the sky with extremely low visibility, the explosion of anti-aircraft shells like fireworks exploded instantly, the deafening explosion and the sound of heavy machine guns firing, rendering the whole sky extremely mysterious.

"Boom! Boom!" The fighter jets soaring and diving in the sky were attacked by anti-aircraft artillery, and gradually suffered losses. Several me-109 fighter jets were shot down. In the dusk that was getting dark, they were like fireballs, clearly Illuminates a limited area of ​​the sky.

Afterwards, the dense bomber fleet flying one after another in the distance was once again black and dense, and the number of them was close to a hundred. The British officers who discovered this immediately shouted loudly that the bombers were coming.

In the command post, when Lieutenant General Brook saw the figure of the bomber in the area, his expression changed drastically and he exclaimed: "No, we need to find a place to hide, that's Stu, who has a very high standard. Card bomber! These things are terrifying, the headquarters must be evacuated immediately!"

Even at dusk, it's not hard to spot the Stuka's signature curved gull-wing wings through binoculars.As for the "flying precision artillery" of the Stuka bomber, let alone Commander Brook, even Commander Gott would definitely order to run away immediately.

"Buzzing..." The sound of the engines of hundreds of bombers came deafeningly, as if they were about to tear the sky apart, and also like the continuous muffled thunder that was originally ringing in the sky.When the Stuka bomber flew to the area where the British Expeditionary Force headquarters was located, a sharp and deadly screeching noise sounded...

One after another, the deadly bombs fell to the ground following the 90-degree dive-dropped Stuka, making deafening bursts.

"Long, long, long, long..." A series of explosions blazed into the sky, illuminating the entire Dunkirk beachhead of the British Expeditionary Force.

When the bomber dropped the first bomb, Montgomery immediately felt a strong sense of foreboding.As a well-thought-out general, he knew how rotten the already bad troop withdrawal would be due to the high-intensity bombing by the Germans on the third day of Operation Dynamo.

He left behind the large troops of the British Third Division and hurried to the Dunkirk beachhead with the division headquarters. Wasn't the purpose of returning to the country as soon as possible and looking for an opportunity to flex his muscles again later?But if he waits like this, it is estimated that his idea of ​​returning to China will really only be an idea that stays in his mind and will never be realized.

No, I have to find a way to return home as soon as possible.Montgomery had a hunch that Operation Dynamo might die soon.And the day when the operation ends is probably not too far away.

Just when Montgomery was at a loss, a young female nurse who had already lost her ground fled to Montgomery's side in a panic, and then she said something in front of Montgomery as if she had found a savior.

Unfortunately, the explosion in front of him was so loud that Montgomery couldn't hear the nurse's words clearly.

"Buzz..." Just as the three Stuka bombers flew not far from Montgomery and the others, the sharp sound of the Stuka's bomb dropping suddenly sounded.

From the moment Stuka began to dive from high altitude, a strong sense of crisis quickly spread throughout Montgomery's heart.He also didn't care what the absent-minded nurse in front of him was saying, he pulled her up and fled this hellish place quickly.

When the nurse held her hand in Montgomery, she showed a sweet inner smile. It had been a long time since the man in front of her held his hand.

Of course, the reason why Montgomery held the nurse's hand and led her to escape was not because he fell in love with her, but purely because of the unique gentlemanly demeanor of the British engraved in his bones.

Although the British often burst out some wonderful emotions beyond gender between men and men, such as Turing who was framed and killed by Reinhardt before.However, between men and women, the British also maintain a characteristic, that is, their so-called gentlemanly demeanor.

This kind of gentlemanly demeanor has nothing to do with love, but it is of great significance.To put it bluntly, Britain has a kind of spiritual advocacy. Even a gay man who has no feelings for women should show his gentlemanly demeanor and take the initiative to help women when they encounter troubles.

Of course, Montgomery is not a gay man, he just doesn't have a mutual affection for this female nurse.However, this did not affect him holding the female nurse's hand and leading her to escape.

On the other hand, when the female nurse saw Montgomery running around like a headless chicken, she couldn't help reminding, "General! Why don't we go into the hospital and hide, it's very dangerous to stay outside!"

As soon as the words fell, three bombs dropped from the air by Stuka fell and exploded at the field hospital suggested by the nurse...

"Run to places where there are few people, don't follow the crowd, and avoid buildings!" Montgomery's explanation came from the nurse's ear.

It turned out that the thoughtful Montgomery didn't run around like a headless chicken just now, but deliberately avoided the regularly moving crowd to prevent being targeted by German fighter planes.

It was also Montgomery's decision early on not to listen to the female nurse's suggestion of escaping into the building.Although people's subconscious will think that in a solid building, it will be safer than outdoors without support.However, as a qualified and rigorous general, Montgomery knew very well that in air strikes, those scattered soldiers outside were rarely "taken care of" by enemy planes, and those seemingly solid buildings were the key targets of enemy bombers .

Text Chapter 385 Fighter is King

"Target appeared!" An observer of the Royal Navy shouted loudly: "Fighters, they are all fighters!"

The observer's words caused the commander of the British vanguard fleet, that is, Sir Forbes, to palpitate.

In the distance, a group of mighty black spots was gradually approaching his vanguard fleet.Even without binoculars, Sir Forbes can see with the naked eye that these are obviously black spots of fighter planes.

Fighter planes have always been an extremely important force in human warfare.In land warfare, seizing air supremacy is equivalent to seizing the initiative of the battle.

In naval battles, the side with an aircraft carrier has a detached advantage over a fleet without an aircraft carrier.

In fact, the world's first real aircraft carrier was the "Hermes" built by the British Navy in 1918, the first aircraft carrier to truly adopt an island structure.It was also British military scholars who first proposed the ocean combat model with fighter planes as the main body.

In the opinion of those who hold this point of view, as long as the range problem of fighter jets can be solved, the overwhelming number of fighter jets, their lower cost compared to warships, and fewer casualties when they are destroyed are enough for them to dominate the ocean .

The emergence of mobile airports on the sea such as aircraft carriers provides them with the best way to solve the problem of voyage.

It is conceivable that although the firepower of the giant battleship is powerful, the battleship in the ocean is not cheap fortifications and tanks on the ground after all.The loss of a warship, in addition to the loss of funds and resources to manufacture the warship, the greater loss lies in the hundreds of crew members.

A tank with a simple structure or a small aircraft, as long as a production line is established, on average, it can be produced in a few hours at the fastest.And even if it was destroyed, the number of personnel lost would only be in single digits.

And a battleship, from manufacturing to commissioning, to sea trials, to forming combat effectiveness.The required time is measured in years.Once lost, it is really hard to bear easily!

However, being the first to propose aircraft carrier tactics does not mean that the British were the first to master this tactic.The irony is that it was the Royal Navy's excellent giant ship tactics that, while ensuring the accuracy of the British Navy's bombardment, also made them complacent and stopped trying to use aircraft carrier tactics.

Now that we already have a powerful artillery combat capability worth relying on, why take the risk of using the immature aircraft carrier tactics that only exist in theory. ,

This kind of thinking made the British Empire, which first had an aircraft carrier, have a taste of this kind of tactics.

The British tactic is not wrong, because the aircraft carrier needs enough battleship escorts, and it is easy to be destroyed by the enemy when placed on the front line.After all, the defense capability of the aircraft carrier itself is too weak. Once it is destroyed, the fighter plane will lose its combat capability.The high cost of the aircraft carrier makes this kind of loss extremely unworthy.

The British generals did not ignore the 2 German aircraft carriers known to intelligence.However, they made judgments based on their own perspective and experience, thinking that the Germans, like them, would not be so stupid as to use aircraft carriers as vanguards, and believed that the German vanguard fleet would also use surface warships as the main force.

It wasn't until Sir Forbes saw the piranha-like German fighter planes spread out in the sky in front of him that he suddenly realized that not everyone used the same tactics as them. At least, the Germans now adopted a new tactic.

At this time, it is superfluous to use any words to trust Sir Bruce's mood.

It is not difficult to guess the ending 10 minutes later, just by looking at the approaching German fleet and the traces of cloud beams pierced by fighter planes in the sky that day.

"God!" Sir Forbes stared at this scene, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Send a telegram to Admiral Cunningham, saying that our First Squadron is finished. If he doesn't want to lose 6 ships in one go Battleships, as well as all the destroyers and cruisers of the First Fleet, then let our aircraft carrier launch carrier-based aircraft to rescue immediately!"

Obviously, Sir Forbes already knew that with the carrier-based anti-aircraft firepower of the First Squadron in his hand, it is estimated that he would be beaten to death by the German carrier-based aircraft with at least 200 in front of him.He no longer expected to be able to repel those German fighter planes that were as dangerous as piranhas with the battleship's own anti-aircraft guns.

German fighter planes, at the fastest speed, transformed from a small black spot in the distance into vigorous and dexterous petrels.In the anti-aircraft fire line fired by the British warship, it rolled and passed.

Although the British warships commanded by Forbes have maintained an inverted V-shaped formation, and have already arranged anti-aircraft firepower.The bow anti-aircraft artillery of each warship was aimed at the direction of the roaring German fighter planes.

However, masturbation is really not that easy.At least, these British sailors who have practiced artillery battles at sea all the year round are good at shooting artillery and aiming at sea targets.But they are very unfamiliar with masturbation.

They don't know that the bandit German High Seas Fleet will re-emerge in such a short period of time, they don't know to what extent their opponents have risen, and they don't know that they have actually mastered the cross-age aircraft carrier tactics.In front of the oncoming air torrent, these behemoths on the sea will appear so thin and fragile.

No one can remind them.

From the beginning of manufacturing warships, the British designers ignored the fact that the opponent had an aircraft carrier, so they did not deliberately strengthen the anti-aircraft firepower and the top armor of the battleship.

Not to mention those designers, even Sir Forbes, the commander of the First Squadron, and even Admiral Cunningham of the Home Fleet, could not predict such a rapid and huge development of the German Navy.

At least for now, Sir Forbes, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes, just stood there stunned, watching the tsunami-like huge waves in the air with horrified eyes, and rushed in front of the First Squadron of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, which was still leisurely and conceited just now.

Reinhardt's First Mixed Fleet of the High Seas Fleet did not adopt any surprising tactics.

They don't need any strange moves, this is just an ordinary battle.It's just that the German Navy uses conventional aircraft carrier tactics, while the British Navy uses conventional battleship tactics.

Lütjens, using a simple aircraft carrier tactic, explained to the British commanders a truth that the seas in Europe today are no longer dominated by the British alone.

All the British soldiers who are still intoxicated by the myth of the invincible navy of the empire on which the sun never sets must accept a reality, their sweet dreams, it is time to wake up!