The Third Reich in Desperation

"Commander Cunningham is indeed a famous admiral of our British Empire." Sir Forbes, who was finally relieved when the reinforcements arrived, smiled and said to his adjutant.

"Yes, General Cunningham must have made the decision to take off the carrier-based aircraft to assist the First Squadron before the report of our defeat. With such an accurate prediction of the battlefield situation, look at the Royal Navy's At the top, I am afraid that there are not many commanders who can do as well as General Cunningham." Forbes' adjutant also guessed Cunningham's pre-judged order, and was as surprised as Sir Forbes.

Before the battle becomes clear, he can calculate what may happen next in almost an instant, and boldly follow his own judgment, and immediately invest all the carrier-based aircraft power in his hand.

With this reasoning ability on the battlefield and his decisive attitude when giving orders, Cunningham is worthy of being a famous British naval admiral today!

It can be said that the timing of Cunningham's attack is very good. If he hesitated a little longer and made a decision later, or he followed the conventional procedure and waited until the telegram for help arrived before ordering the fighter plane to rescue, then Sir Bruce's first The squadrons will suffer losses a hundred times greater than they are now.

But he didn't do that. He just relied on the experience and crisis awareness of fighter jets for many years. Before he was sure, he took off all the carrier-based aircraft on all four large aircraft carriers to meet the first squadron.

It was this move that stabilized the morale of the British First Squadron, which was already on the verge of collapse, and even improved.

However, just when the British officers and soldiers had just ignited a little flame of hope, suddenly, everyone's eyes were firmly attracted by a new black spot that appeared in the east.

When the clouds were broken, one after another German FW-190 torpedo fighters revealed their small but terrifying figures.Pieces of dense black dots gradually transformed into sharp and cold black ghosts, filling their field of vision.

Sir Bruce on the flagship opened his mouth wide, but couldn't make a sound, just like a child, babbling and fumbling with round eyes.

The rest of the British officers and soldiers also looked at each other sadly and let out a long sigh. Even some anti-aircraft gun shooters dropped their hands weakly and stopped their futile resistance.

They didn't know, or they were not sure, that the "Swordfish" biplane torpedo planes that responded to them were lagging behind the German fw-190 fighter jets.However, they should have guessed the ending ten minutes later just by looking at the densely packed German fighter planes.

The Prime Minister, there are already more than 400 FW-190 fighter jets, and they have appeared in their sights without bounds.And farther to the east, you can still vaguely see the same endless second batch of German fighter planes following behind the fw-190 fighter planes-there are a huge number of Stuka bombers!

"Almighty God! Have you really abandoned the British Empire!?" Sir Forbes' adjutant, his eyes widened in horror, hissed loudly.

He couldn't figure out why the German High Seas Fleet could produce so many carrier-based aircraft.

Could it be that their fleet is a freak navy full of aircraft carriers?Or, their aircraft carriers are all giant-like, high-tech advanced aircraft carriers with extremely large aircraft capacity.

Like the adjutant, Sir Forbes himself was in disbelief at the dramatic scene before him.

Originally, when he saw the terrifying number of 200 carrier-based aircraft in the Lütjens First Squadron, he was extremely surprised by the strength of the German aircraft carrier combat power.

Puzzled, he attributed this situation to the fact that the German High Seas Fleet put all the aircraft carriers in its hands in the vanguard squadron, so that it was able to form a local advantage.

Otherwise, how can the German army concentrate a full 200 carrier-based aircraft?

Based on this line of thinking, Forbes subconsciously believes that the German High Seas Fleet will not have any remaining carrier-based aircraft that have not taken off.

Moreover, Forbes also guessed that the number of aircraft carriers in Germany is definitely not the two mentioned in the intelligence.

Sir Forbes used the best aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal in the British Empire as a reference standard, and guessed the number of large aircraft carriers in Germany, at least 6!

It's a pity that he guessed half of it right, and it was the half that he guessed right by mistake.

Yes, Germany has 6 Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers, but the aircraft capacity of these large aircraft carriers is almost double the level that Forbes recognizes!

Sir Forbes, and even General Cunningham, could never have guessed this point.

They couldn't even guess that Raeder, who has always been cautious, mustered the greatest courage in his life this time. Like Cunningham, he took off all the troops from the Second Squadron as soon as he got the news of the encounter between the two armies. Carrier-based aircraft, rush to the front line to participate in the duel!

Body 3 Chapter Ninety Nobody Can afford to be defeated

Sir Forbes stood in the bridge command room in a daze, looking at all this in pain.

In the ear, the piercing whistle of the German Stuka bomber when it dived came out from nowhere, and it changed from a thin whimper to a creepy scream.Immediately, even on the battleship Prince of Wales where Sir Forbes was located, which is the flagship of the British First Squadron, a loss alarm sounded from electronic instruments.

Amidst the maddening noise, the command room suddenly lit up.Several incendiary bombs were accurately dropped on the battleship Prince of Wales by German Stuka bombers.

The huge body of the battleship Prince of Wales was shaking violently.

Immediately afterwards, another five or six torpedoes hit the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales.The flagship established by Sir Forbes is like a small sampan rolling on the top of a huge wave.

Many crew members on the deck were suddenly thrown up, crashed into instruments, hit the turret, or fell off the railing and fell into the sea... There were endless screams and screams.

The battleship Prince of Wales is the second ship of the King George V-class battleship in the Royal Navy. It can also be called the latest and most advanced battleship in the UK so far.

Construction of the Prince of Wales started on January 1936, 1, and was launched on February 2, 1939. If it weren't for the emergency in Dunkirk, the poor implementation of the "Generator Project", and the urgent mobilization of warships by the Admiralty, this new battleship might It will not be temporarily pulled to fight.

Of course, because it was the most advanced new ship, Sir Forbes also regarded it as the flagship of the squadron and placed it at the rear of the main battleship.On the one hand, the equipment on the ship is the most advanced, which is convenient for command. On the other hand, it also protects the new ship from being the first to be hit on the front line.

However, it seems that this latest battleship will become a beautiful fireworks on the sea just like the old "Hood" battleship that was just sunk.

In the violent shaking caused by the explosion, Sir Forbes used all his strength to stabilize his figure, and subconsciously looked out the porthole on the left front of the command room.

As far as he could see, a German FW-190 fighter jet rolled past his eyes, turned a C-shaped arc in the void, and bit a "Swordfish" torpedo plane that hadn't had time to increase its speed. .

Dozens of flaming chain-like 20 secret machine shells swept along with the fw-190's cannon, and then the British "Swordfish" in front of it turned into a burst of scattered fireworks.

The fireworks deeply hurt Forbes' eyes.When the light dissipated, he saw hundreds of German fighter planes, like countless locusts, rushing into the farmland in his greenhouse and gnawing madly.They serially tandem at high speed among the warships of the British fleet, rolling, or hopping, pulling out dazzling flight paths.

On the way, once they encountered the "Swordfish" torpedo planes of the British army, those German "locusts" would swarm over immediately, and two or three planes cooperated with each other to attack, making the British fighter planes quickly transform into a burst of dust.

The increasingly scattered anti-aircraft fire of the rest of the British fleet was not so much driving back the German fighters as dancing for them.If it is said that when Lütjens's First Fleet first dispatched fighter planes, the British First Fleet, which was still intact at that time, failed to occupy the slightest advantage.

So, how can the British First Fleet, which is now fragmented and has lost a large number of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, and subsequently lost the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery firepower on those battleships, drive away the more powerful German Second Mixed Fleet? fighter group.

Whenever these damned German fighter planes passed over the head of a certain battleship, a series of explosions would flash out immediately, causing Sir Forbes a heartache.

The battleships that took several years to build, with a large number of well-trained and excellent crews, were simply gone, and they were wiped out by cheap planes!

At this time, the main line of battleships, which had been relatively neat when the British First Squadron had just retreated, was already in chaos.Battleships were paralyzed and shattered in violent explosions.Some out-of-control battleships even sank obliquely, and some slowly rammed into friendly ships nearby.Others who were seriously injured broke away from the side of the retreating fleet, and then fell far behind, alone and helpless, being devastated by countless German fighter planes in turn.

Forbes's blood faded quickly from his face and lips, and his face at this moment was as pale as a dead man.

"Commander!" his adjutant wailed: "We are finished, completely finished!"

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"I don't know whether the first mixed fleet of the Germans can defeat the British?" Behind the left flank of the second mixed fleet of the Germans, among the main fleet of the Norwegian Royal Navy in joint operations, the Norwegian Navy sent The commander, Major General Ogg, was discussing with a group of his combat staff.

As a follower of Quisling, Ogg, an unknown naval lieutenant colonel, helped Norway drive away the British and French allied forces in Germany. After Quisling succeeded in taking office, he was immediately promoted by leapfrogging, and replaced the former Norwegian prime minister. fleet commander.

Although his ability is average, Ogg has one advantage, that is, he is obedient and obeys Quisling.This time with the German army, he also brought this good habit to the combined fleet.In other words, the Norwegian rear admiral also followed Raeder's instructions one by one.

Because Raeder is also commanding the Allied fleet for the first time, there is no precedent to follow.So he put the Norwegian fleet behind the flanks in a regular manner, and just followed suit.

In addition, Raeder and Lütjens also rely on aircraft carriers to fight, so these Norwegian warships did not receive any orders, and they followed the high seas fleet very safely.

"Should be able to win, haven't the Germans already defeated the British fleet once at our Narvik Hill?" The captain of an armored ship under Auger was visiting him with several other captains at the moment. The flagship held a meeting to discuss.

To be honest, the captain's heart was already in his throat.If Lütjens's First Fleet fails to win, it may be Raeder's turn to bring the Second Fleet and their Norway into the battlefield.At that time, how many of these shabby battleships of mine can survive the confrontation between the giant ships of the two great powers...

The captain's self-comforting method obviously did not impress Ogg.As for the Narvik naval battle, it can be compared with today's battle there.

The Battle of Norway, the German High Seas Fleet is a lion fighting a rabbit, using two aircraft carriers to sneak attack the unsuspecting and loose British patrol squadron, this is not the same as a muscular man beating a three-year-old child, and picking other people's children when they are asleep ?