Chapter 359: Raid

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A brand-new British destroyer is walking through the waves. This i-class destroyer is the latest heavy torpedo destroyer of the British Navy. Both the speed and firepower are very powerful.
This i-class destroyer is the latest generation of "lightning strike ship" in the British Navy that uses torpedoes as the main means of attack. It is equipped with two torpedo tubes that can fire 5 torpedoes at the same time.
However, although this destroyer is considered to be a new type of destroyer with a special feature, its speed exceeds 30 knots, but due to its inherent lack of design, this destroyer can only be forced to curl up in the fleet and cannot fight alone.
The main reason is that the main gun of this destroyer has an elevation angle of only 40 degrees. In other words, the air defense capability of this destroyer is more than a little weaker than that of its peers at the same time-German destroyers and small artillery can fight air The air defense firepower density is almost three times that of British destroyers.
This destroyer is expensive to build, and its anti-submarine capability can only be said to be average. Although the first sonar detection system in the UK is installed, the actual combat effect is not satisfactory. So taking out anti-submarine is not more suitable than the old American destroyers and other British destroyers, so it has to serve as a fleet destroyer and spend time with some large battleships.
But the good days finally came. Such a wasteful destroyer ushered in its most suitable mission. This task is to follow the main fleet south and attack the German high seas fleet at night.
For this plan, the British took out all the power they could come up with, including the two battlecruisers Prestige and Hood (though the third counterattack is also in the British mainland, but it is undergoing air defense modification), the King of England The two fastest battleships George V and Howe.
In another time and space, the original British King George V class battleships all served after 1940. The reason for the slight advance here is that the Royal Navy has accelerated the construction of some warships in response to the war with Germany. Except for the two King George V and Howe that were the first to serve, the remaining three warships of the same class were temporarily unable to serve due to the enhancement of anti-aircraft firepower.
If we count the three cruisers and seven destroyers of the same class, the British Royal Navy attacked the German naval carrier fleet at night, this time it can be said to have taken out all the belongings it could find.
In order to cooperate with the actions of this fleet, the remaining two poor old battleships of Revenge and Determination took the aircraft carrier Hundred Eyes Giant and the glorious class Glory Fury to a total of three aircraft carriers to Norway as suspects. For the purpose. The elite carrier Ark Royal and the newer carrier God Athletics led some cruisers and destroyers as the amount of stress, and rushed to the battle site during the next day to clean up the mess.
So in this battle alone, the Royal Navy has produced the four fastest and the oldest battleships with slower speeds. All aircraft carriers have a large number of cruisers and destroyers, which can be used to determine the future. Sea power belongs to describe this naval battle.
This time, the Battle of the English Channel between the British and German navies, which the later generation historians call the "war of destiny", is opening its curtain little by little. The battle to determine the dominance of the North Atlantic Sea has begun!
In the captain's lounge of this i-class destroyer, two officers were standing quietly without talking. A sitting 40-year-old major officer is looking at a book in his hand without looking up. The content of this book is not special, it is a little-known suspense novel.
And the officer in his 40s stood across from a burly man in his 30s. Looking at the title on his shoulder, it should be the deputy of the colonel officer reading the book. After a long while, he spoke sullenly and asked: "Aren't we just going to sit like this?"
"Waiting to die? I think if this matter didn't call us, then the colonel officer who really sat waiting ~ EbookFREE.me ~ still didn't look up, sneered:" This is war! Only allow you to punch people, not allow others to hit you backhand? If the royal navy of the British Empire did n’t even have the courage to let go of a battle, would n’t you have been here in vain for 17 years? "
"Then what do we do? Break the radio silence? Send a clear message to warn the high seas fleet?" The adjutant said, gritting his teeth, seeming to have put his life and death out of control.
"Then? The British fleet nodded back and the people on this ship would be investigated. We are not easy to put together so many people. Can each be seamless? Really use the British intelligence service as a fool?" The captain ’s officer closed the book and stood up:
It ’s almost time to go to the bridge. We ca n’t sacrifice, but the sacrifice must be a meaningful sacrifice, I do n’t know how you think, I His life is already the head of state. "
The two of them walked up the bridge, and through the wide glass windows around them, they could see a large warship that followed not far from the sea. These warships were sailing close to the sea. British fighters were cruising not far away. Watch out for the German carrier-based aircraft attempting to approach reconnaissance.
The sun is about to set, and the round bottom is already leaning on the distant mountains. Once it sinks, the world is shrouded in darkness, then this important naval battle will begin, and countless people are looking forward to it. Looking forward to the victory and defeat of this worldly decisive battle, I look forward to an uneasy result.
"The people who ordered us start shifting! Change the British back to the lounge and pick them up closely." The captain gave the order, and the officer on duty on the bridge nodded silently, opened the door and went out, the others As if I didn't hear anything, I kept busy with my work.
"Really don't remind me of the telegraph?" The adjutant seemed to be a little worried.
"I only do what I can be responsible for! As for the high seas fleet, if Lütjens is really so stupid, the head of state will not give him all the power of the imperial sea!"
"Then now ...?" The first officer asked softly.
The captain picked up the telescope, glanced at the huge battleship not far away, and replied, "Do what we should do, and do what we want!"
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On the bridge of the German high seas fleet's command ship, the USS Imperial, Lütjens was contemplating the battle staff staring at the map. In the afternoon, according to reliable information provided by the reconnaissance aircraft unit, they desperately entered the British offshore area. Before being driven away by the opposing fighter, they found that a British destroyer and a battleship were heading south.
But when Lütjens sent the fighter plane to confirm again, he was intercepted by the Royal Air Force at all costs. Both sides broke out in suspicious airspace. Two German fighters were shot down and the British lost four new hurricanes.
This is not good news for Lütjens. The British hidden the fleet so imperviously, giving him an unprecedented sense of terror and crisis. He suspected more than once that the southbound fleet was a huge battleship. The purpose of this fleet was to fight his high seas fleet.
After the comparison of the pictures, the pilot on the reconnaissance plane confirmed that he should see the latest British battleship Hao. This huge battleship can be said to be one of the most advanced battleships in the world at this stage, and this battleship is also Germany The most dangerous opponent on the fleet list.
The super-high speed of Howe makes Lutjens extremely scared. After all, if it is the speed of the old battleship, his fleet can rely on radar to get rid of each other, but the new ones such as Hood and Howe Battleships are different. Once they find an opportunity, they may chase down the German fleet in one go.
"Did the last reconnaissance plane return in the afternoon?" Lütjens asked the aviation liaison officer on the side.
"It is reported that they have returned. They brought back the exact test news. From 10 am, our military reconnaissance plane was driven away from the opposing air force for the first time here." The aviation liaison officer clicked on the chart. Position: "The second time was deported here, the third air battle took place here, the last reconnaissance plane was found here, the enemy fighter plane came, and our military plane was forced to return."
"No matter how many British warships there are in this air defense circle, there is no doubt that these warships are going south!" Lütjens knocked on the chart-filled table and said: "The aircraft that attacked the Dunkirk sea surface ship returned. What? "
"They are attacking each other's surface ships. According to the news just now, this group of aircraft has sunk about 7 ships. Counting the previous, today we have sunk 71 ships of various sizes. There are fishing boats and there are Warship. "The aviation liaison officer replied.
"Order them not to delay anymore! Go back immediately." Lütjens gave the order without hesitation: "All the fleets changed course and after the last plane landed on the deck, the whole army accelerated towards the Dutch waters."
"Yes!" Several officers immediately acted and began to give orders to the ships. In an instant, the entire high seas fleet immediately became busy.
"Report! I intercepted a telegram sent to the United Kingdom. The encrypted file was sent from within our fleet after analysis. On a destroyer, I have ordered martial law inside that destroyer to investigate suspicious persons." Reported behind Lütjens.
"Awesome British intelligence service, just bury a nail and come out now!" Lütjens looked at the sealed telegram: "Unsurprisingly, our current position and speed and direction are exposed."
"What should I do?" Asked the first officer, frowning.
"Everything is the same! Now the two sides are comparing the speed of the fleet and the determination to fight hard! It happens that I am not weak in this respect!" Lütjens said fiercely.
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"All ships in the fleet, start to accelerate the assault!" Lieutenant General Holland gave a command of attack on the bridge of the British cruiser Hood.
More than ten minutes later, on the bridge of the German high seas fleet, the USS Empire, saw the last Stuka landing on the deck, Lütjens withdrew his eyes and issued his own order: "All ships of the fleet began to accelerate back ! "