Battle of the Third Reich

"From the report's point of view, this time the Imperial Navy is really at all costs to complete the operation, my head."

Weierle gently put down the expensive celadon teacup in his hand, and said with a smile on his arms with his arms.

"Although the harvest was great this time, I personally think that Marshal Redell is a little too impatient. Is he so eager to build a new ship? Is it that the Navy is willing to sink several warships for these funds?"

"You mean the loss of the Navy this time. Weyler, I am also considering this issue. Although these losses are not comparable to our results this time, but... Marshal Redell really is It made me a headache."

Xu Jun also smiled and shook his head to his chief of staff. Then he turned his face to the navy officer who was standing in front of him and raised his hand to signal: "Continue to report, Major Solens, I want to know all the details."

"Yes, my head of state. Five minutes after the war, the enemy flagship, the heavy cruiser York, completely lost its fighting power, and General Lütjens gave orders in accordance with the situation on the battlefield at that time..."

The naval battle is in full swing. Both warships are madly projecting shells of various calibers to their opponents. The air resounds like thundering gunfire. A forest of large and small water columns is set up on the sea. This sea area is now Half is sea water and the other half is flame.

With the smoke of the unburnt propellant in the gun barrel, the battleship cast a colored smoke pillar that marked the landing point of the shell in order to cover its own smoke, and the billowing smoke from each of the cracks after the battleship was hit, and each The shining fire flames from the muzzle of this caliber artillery, the colorful trails of the tracer, and the various command flags flying on the mast are mixed together to present a magnificent and magnificent picture in front of people, full of that daunting Magnificent and with a kind of evil original tempting bloody, death, and violent picture.

The German fleet finally rushed out of the strait and showed a terrible picture in front of the British Royal Navy's fixed fleet, but his opponent had no intention to express any surprise or sigh.

The British now only have fighting in their hearts, fighting, fighting for their own survival.

The British Ranger Fleet has lost its unified command. The first attack of the German Fleet hit the British Fleet. The Brigadier General Nicholson did not have time to explain who would take over the command of the Fleet and was bombed with the bridge of the York. To heaven, took all his command officers.

The entire fleet command and the flagship command were destroyed by the roar of the bombing of the York bridge.

The blow was so swift and powerful, and the disaster happened so quickly that the British fleet could not respond to the fact that it had cut off the first level of its enemy.

The York has lost its fighting power, and she who has lost the bridge is as weak as a moving target in front of the two powerful enemies Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

After knocking out all of her main gun turrets with precision bombardment by two warships, the York continued with her billowing smoke in her famous death maneuver in the future history of world naval battles.

The engine room was still faithfully executing the last navigation order issued by the bridge. The tough British warship continued to turn to starboard at full speed.

On the side of the Schonhorst, he made a pleasant flat shot to the superstructure of the York and began to turn to the starboard side. She gracefully made a huge arc trail and detoured to the right of the British fleet. Gnesono followed closely. Thereafter.

On the deck of the York, blood had flowed into the river, and the remains and dead limbs of dead sailors killed by German artillery fire were everywhere.

The superstructure of this flagship has been smashed into a honeycomb, and the secondary guns have all been dumb. The York was again struck by a precise horizontal shot from Scharnhorst when swinging to a distance of 1,500 meters from the Scharnhorst flank, and the position of the seaplane hangar in the rear building was accurately hit by four heavy grenade .

Where the lightly armored hangar withstands this violent destructive power, it was exploded into pieces on the spot, and a Banshee III light biplane water reconnaissance aircraft parked on the catapult rails was attacked together with the catapult. The hurricane burst from the base and then rolled over and crashed into the sea from the side.

The spare command tower at the top of the tail building collapsed with its tall rear mast and planted into the burning hangar.

The rear mast tilted forward and then smashed against the already chimney-filled rear chimney of York, breaking into two pieces. The upper mast smashed the lifeboat behind the chimney with a cross of various wires and light cable flags. On the platform, a **** storm made of cracked wooden fragments of the lifeboat suddenly blew on the upper deck.

After completing the work that satisfied her, the Scharnhorst gave up continuing to destroy the flagship. She readjusted the direction of the turret and began to pounce on her next opponent.

The British fleet is still turning to starboard according to the final command of the flagship. Although the flagship’s tragedy deeply stimulated the brave Royal Navy officers and soldiers, the weakness of no unified command was immediately exposed, and the neat queue of the Royal Navy Fleet began. Showing signs of collapse.

The Scharnhorst stormed into the front of the Orion side with full horsepower.

As the No. 3 ship of the fleet following the flagship, Orion was the first to become the next target of the Scharnhorst.

Looking at the German battlecruiser that threw himself viciously, this Riande-class light cruiser was completely out of order.

Orion took advantage of the Scharnhorst's main gun to adjust its position and fired fiercely towards the Scharnhorst. Her reaction speed was unsatisfactory, but her hit rate made all British royal officers and men embarrassed.

The distance between the two sides is less than two kilometers, and the four main guns of the two former main turrets of Orion have all been lost. This is really a thing that breaks the glasses.

Even the German navy officers and soldiers on Scharnhorst couldn't help but look at the tall water column two hundred meters away from the bow and shook his head.

In fact, this does not blame the gunners in Orion. The lucky German howitzer shells earlier destroyed the Orion stern artillery control tower. At the same time, the violent shock produced by the explosion also damaged the sophisticated optical sighting equipment in the battleship main gun control tower. Aimers can now only use the simple spare sight in the main gun turret to aim at the target.

The proud British sailors never thought they would one day be reduced to the use of that simple alternative. Those turret spare sights have not been calibrated for a long time, so this kind of ridiculous result appeared.

Although the German naval officers on Scharnhorst often admit that they are full of knighthood, they have not been generous enough to wait for their opponents to calibrate their sights and give them an accurate blow.

The poor performance of British opponents made them feel a little regret, but the Germans have decided not to give their opponents the opportunity to make up for this regret.

volley. . . . At the same time, the six front guns of the Scharnhorst made a roaring roar. Six rounds of 280 mm heavy armor-piercing projectiles screamed toward the front deck of Orion. The German navy was proud to take a lesson to its British counterpart.

Two seconds later, two huge fireballs and two groups of white smoke mixed with metal debris rose from the Orion’s front deck and bridge.

Four hits, although it is still a bit shameful to fly two shots at this distance, but compared with the previous British performance, it is already very good.

Three of the four shells hit the front deck, one hit the back of the Orion bridge, and the other two shots appeared to fly over the front deck.

The first armor-piercing projectile hit the first floor of the battleship, and it was easily drilled through the 38-mm armor plate about six meters behind the anchor cabin, but the shell did not cause great harm to Orion. .

Because the kinetic energy of the shells was too strong and the armor of the light cruiser was too thin, the armor-piercing shell did not explode but ran unscrupulously across the soldier’s main cabin, puncturing several layers of wooden partitions and tearing the other side. The armor plate was worn out, and a huge water column was stirred at more than fifty meters on the starboard side of the battleship.

The second armor-piercing projectile directly hit the front armor of Orion a main turret. The projectile penetrated the 25-mm armor and hit one of the 152-mm main gun’s heavy tail, which forced it to change its flight attitude. He went to the back wall of the turret and then exploded there.

The mkiii turret was immediately torn apart and the debris of the broken turret was directly lifted from the turret seat ring by a blast shock wave and twisted over to the wide front deck.

The third round of armor-piercing projectile also almost hit the main turret of a. It whizzed past the top of the turret of less than five centimeters, and inserted one end into the lower officer’s main cabin and the officer’s kitchen below the main turret of the battleship’s upper deck b, and then penetrated b The seat ring of the main turret and the side wall on the other side fell into the sea.

The water column produced by the explosion almost surpassed the tall main mast, then slapped **** the rear deck, and almost swept away several machine gunners who were waiting there.

The shot that hit the bridge was not so polite. It penetrated from the corner of the armored bridge and then plunged into the chart room of the battleship and exploded. Not only did the entire chart room be completely torn off, but it also flew to the rear of the chart room. Infirmary.

This shell killed all the staff members working in the chart room and the dozen wounded in the medical office and their military doctors. Those people were the survivors of the attack in the rear building. Can escape the fate of death.

The Orion bridge is now missing a whole piece, and it seems to be a little shaken. The shelling of Scharnhorst made the captain of the search battleship completely dispel the idea of ​​continuing the battle, and the heavy loss made him finally realize the pain. In the end, I faced a battle without chance, and the strength of the two sides was too far apart.

Orion immediately began to turn. It wanted to escape from the terrible enemy ship, but now it was too late to think about it. She was destined to become a food in the mouth of the German fleet.

Afterwards, the captured officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy agreed unanimously that trying to escape from the German navy officers and soldiers with red eyes was more difficult than letting Churchill grow his hair.

All the main ships of the German Navy Fleet have completed their turn and began to press from the right to the British Ranger Fleet.

The Scharnhorst hadn’t been entangled with Orion for long, and she gave up the attack after bombarding two rounds with a tail main gun at the British warship that had a crooked flight path on the sea and continued to cast smoke.

This elite German warship threw Orion without hesitation to the Gnesono, who was still following him, to continue to abuse and began to turn to the next target.

As the first ship of the fleet in this operation, the Scharnhorst shouldered the most difficult task. She must complete the outsourcing of the British fleet in the shortest time, and then all the British warships in cooperation with the outer destroyers and light cruisers. Are blocked in this sea.

At this time, a situation that no one expected was suddenly on the battlefield.

Just as the artillery train composed of the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau, the flagship Admiral Sher, and the Admiral Hipper, ravaged the difficult-turning British fleet on the right side of the British fleet , A German heavy cruiser, who had a red eye for the purpose of revenge, was inserted into the inner formation of the British fleet.

Prince Eugen, this battleship destined to be not ordinary is determined to write her own legend from this moment, starting with her first battle.