Chapter 367: God's mischief

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If it is said that on the day of January 27, God is on the German side, then no doubt his most pitiful person is Lütjens. But if Lütjens was taken care of as a fleet commander to share with every warship in the fleet, no doubt the high seas fleet is not the luckiest person on this day.
Fortunately, he received an order to rush to the offshore of the Netherlands to find an opportunity to ambush the British captain U-47, Prien, who was operating nearby. At 4:01 a.m. on January 27, 1938, he found a fleet approaching his flanks, so he adjusted the angle after diving, and began to wait for his chance.
Soon the opportunity came, because of fear of being attacked by German bombers at dawn, the fleet fled very hurriedly, even though there was no decent warning of the nearby waters. So u-47 easily fired all 6 torpedoes at a very close distance. As a result, 2 torpedoes hit a cruiser on the wing of the Howe, and the other 4 torpedoes all hit the British. The side of the newly constructed battleship Howe.
As a result, two of the four torpedoes directly hit the Howe ’s ammunition depot, and detonated the large-caliber artillery ammunition equipped inside, and the other one hit the boiler room, scrapping the Howe ’s power system by half.
The large amount of water did not leave much time for the battleship Howe. Within a few minutes, the battleship Howe sank on the sea. Except for a few sailors who had escaped, most of the people who jumped into the sea The vortex formed by the sinking of the ship pulled into the abyss. This time, u-47 escaped again, leaving the British Navy with trauma that was difficult to heal.
Prien is now the world ’s first super submarine ace to sink ships with more than 100,000 tons. After he sank the battleship Hao and sent the telegram back to Wilhelmshaven, Prien was awarded the Oak by the head of state. The Knight of the Iron Cross, Knight, was promoted to the rank of Colonel and smiled and called it "Battleship Killer".
This nickname is indeed deserved. Prien has sunk the three battleships of Palem, Monarch, and Howe after the war. This record can be said to be unprecedented, and it is estimated that it may really be a future. By. The legendary captain himself, Prien, was also ordered to rush back to Wilhelmshaven to receive a new round of publicity reports from the media.
On January 29, 1938, Lord Gott left Dunkirk in a submarine and returned to England. This also marked that the British side completely abandoned the nearly 200,000 troops in the Dunkirk area. But this unit is still fighting hard, because the command issued by the British side is very simple-to the last soldier.
When the Lord returned to the British port, what he saw was so devastating. In the harbour of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, several destroyers and artillery boats were docked sporadically. In the distance, the battleship berths where the warships were originally densely parked seemed so empty.
In just one month, Britain has successively sunk 6 battleships and 3 aircraft carriers, accounting for almost half of the main battleships in active service in Britain. Even if it is counted as a modified warship and a warship serving immediately, almost one third Higher.
You know that although the British Navy is huge in number, the area to be protected is also huge. In the Far East, where the fighting is tight, the British government still maintains a strong maritime power; in the Indian Ocean, to deter nearby colonies, there is also a huge Fleets of ships; Canada, Africa, the Mediterranean, and the South Atlantic. These areas provide Britain with abundant resources, but also involve more than half of the British navy ’s military strength.
Therefore, although the British and German navies still have the advantage of the British navy in terms of overall strength, in the waters near the North Atlantic, the British can already say that they have completely lost the sea control and air control rights, even if they reached the other three King George V. The world-class battleship was launched, and the British Navy did not have a half-point advantage.
At this moment, the battleship Ramilis is performing missions in the Indian Ocean, the battleship Determination is in Africa, the battleship Nelson is performing missions in the Mediterranean, the Rodney is operating near the Straits of Malacca, the Queen Elizabeth is in the South Atlantic, and the Revenge In the Far East of Asia, the only remaining battlecruiser is the retrofit.
The Royal Oak and the Warriors are protecting the aircraft carrier Glory and Fury in the North Sea while avoiding the German Navy's pursuit and returning. So when Lord Gott looked at the battleship berth, there was only a single battleship King George V there, so lonely and pathetic.
A new battleship, two old battleships, and two aircraft carriers that are not particularly advanced, this is the main force of the British navy's local fleet. Of course, the British still have certain advantages in the number of cruisers and destroyers, but in the main combat ships, there has never been such a close moment between Britain and Germany.
In addition, I have to say that although there are many British cruisers and destroyers, most of them are crucified by German submarines on the route between the North Atlantic and the United States. The actual number of local destroyers and cruisers is not even as good as that of the German Navy. .
Just as Lord Gott was staring at the only battleship King George V, a British soldier on the front line of Dunkirk was sitting in the trenches with a rifle listless, holding his lunch box in both hands. daze.
The clear soup in the lunch box is not much different from the boiling water, and there is a lot of dust at the bottom just dropped by the shelling. The moldy piece of bread has long been swallowed. After all, who is hungry for a long time doesn't account for the quality of the food, right?
His face was full of exhaustion, and the German attack seemed to be slower, not as intense and dense as it had been the other day. However, there are well-informed officers talking about the navy. I heard that for the war in the Dunkirk area, the navy lost almost one-third of its main battleship in the North Sea.
As a British Army, although he does not know how many warships and sailors the British Navy has, but the British, which has always claimed to be the first navy in the world, must not be one third of the number of warships? Ten ships? Twenty?
In short, it was defeated, and it was miserable. This is his most intuitive understanding of the failure of the Navy. Of course, another thing also proved from the side how terrible the Navy ’s failure was-from January 27th, the ships that evacuated people were almost extinct. Occasionally, there was one at night, and they were all civilian ships. No military battleship came to Dunkirk.
He took a few sips of the clear soup mixed with sand and mud in the lunch box, and the remaining foundation was poured at his feet, and a little bit of cleaning up. Then he stood up in the trench and smiled at the body of his comrade who had died long ago. Looked at the position opposite.
The Germans over there seemed to be eating, and the British soldier seemed to smell a dish of vegetables. Even he heard that German food is very scarce, most of the meals are mainly potatoes and various vegetables, but now he is hungry and feels that potatoes are already the most delicious in the world.
In the afternoon, the British soldier did not wait for the violent fighting and fighting of the previous day, and the German tank did not appear in front of him. Those terrible killing machines harvested hundreds of British soldiers ’lives. To burn the best British tanks into scrap iron. So those German tanks are one of the most terrible war weapons he has ever seen-because there is also an equally terrible weapon called Stuka.
I do n’t know what time it was in the afternoon. Anyway, when the British soldier was taking a nap in the trench, his platoon leader took a tour with him. The British platoon leader kicked his toes with his toes and then chatted a little. Topics about ammunition and weather.
"Sir, why didn't the Germans attack in the afternoon?" Asked the British soldier who stood up and saluted.
"The people above are negotiating. If there is no accident, we will lay down our weapons and surrender." This platoon leader has a good relationship with the company commander, and it happens that the company commander is the division's younger uncle, so this company has always been well informed. Grass-roots units, otherwise it is impossible to know the news of the defeat of the navy.
Yes, after all, there was no accident. Almost an hour after the platoon leader left, cheers from the mountains shook in the distance. War songs were even sung on the German positions, and the laughter and laughter joined together. Just when the British soldier did not know how to be good, the platoon leader once again appeared in time, telling him that he could put down his arms and wait for the Germans to come and suffer.
On January 30, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops surrendered, and General Kamalin shot himself in his headquarters. The United Kingdom and France mourned, while Germany was a country full of enthusiasm. With Dunkirk's surrender, there was nothing more to stop the Germans from going south. More than 1 million German troops rushed to Paris, the capital of France, singing a song of triumph.
De Gaulle's 10th armored army retreated, and it was not until the suburbs of Paris that he stopped his defeat. More than 70,000 British soldiers in France received a weird order to abandon their lines of defense and control areas, concentrate on French coastal cities, and then board the departing ships and return to the British mainland.
The 300,000 French soldiers who had just been mobilized had to use their rifles and bayonets to try their best to prevent the 3000 army tanks of the German Army from entering their capital. The whole of France mourned and the government was in chaos.
Just at this moment when France was all around, another amazing news came that Italian leader Mussolini finally couldn't help but shot, Germany was sweeping Europe too fast, making the Italian leader feel that he would never make another The decision was to watch Germany take advantage.
So just an hour after Dunkirk's surrender, Italy could not wait to declare war on Britain and France.