Battle of the Third Reich

"Awesome! It's simply spectacular. The scene now seems to be visible only during the Battle of Jutland. Lieutenant Colonel." Mueller was lying on the observation port of the armored bunker and watching the constantly exploding twenty kilometers away. The British warship shouted excitedly.

"Yes, Colonel. This is what our navy officers and men dream of seeing every day. The destruction of the British battleships. We have been waiting too long for this day." A young German Lieutenant Colonel stood in Mu Le's side answered excitedly.

"You won't be angry because they died in the hands of the army, ha ha ha ha." Mueller said jokingly.

"I'm really afraid that your navy will have a grudge against me because we took your prey. Lieutenant Colonel."

"How come, our navy raised our hands in favor of this action, and we wouldn't be foolish to take our precious warships to fight against the British navy for honor. Now it is the result our navy wants most. Torpedo boats can solve the main force of the Royal Navy without loss. How can we be dissatisfied. Besides, our navy has also made great efforts in this battle. Those artillery command and target determination are done by our navy, so you It should be said that those British warships were jointly sunk by our army, navy and air force. Hahaha." The Lieutenant Colonel said happily.

"Yeah, haha, that's it, Siegfried. You're right, I take back what I said before, these warships should be the common result of our three armed forces. Haha, hit again!" Mueller looked at a warship in the distance The fireball rising up cried with joy.

Mueller felt that it was worth the hard work he had prepared in the past few days to see such a scene. Three days ago, Mueller received a notice from the battle command to ask him to pick up a batch of heavy weapons at the temporary station near the position. At that time, he did not understand what kind of heavy weapons he wanted to be received by his deputy army commander. .

When we got to the station, the weapon-carrying train just entered the station. This train had five locomotives. Although the back of the train was covered with a thick camouflage net, Mueller recognized the huge ones at a glance. What is the goods. Mueller couldn't believe his eyes at the time. The headquarters would send itself four huge k5(e) 280mm train guns. It's too exaggerated. The British used their own artillery to deal with it, and their task was only to block the port. Was it necessary to use such a horrible cannon?

After he read the letter Xu Jun wrote to him, he realized that the general's final goal turned out to be the British navy fleet. This is easy to explain. I heard that the steel plates of the warships are thicker than the concrete bunkers, and really only this kind of cannon can deal with it. Xu Jun also gave Mueller a careful introduction to his action plan and the possible reaction of the British and how to respond by then. This made Mueller even more adore the military wisdom of his young commander. He secretly made up his mind that he must fight this battle well, and he should never let the efforts of the generals go to waste for reasons of his execution.

Over the next two days, huge train guns, supporting hydraulic turrets, and equally large shells were continuously delivered to Mueller. This time Mueller and his officers were busy, and they needed to set up positions, lay rails, and lay a solid foundation. Installing a hydraulic turntable and setting up an ammunition depot, these tasks have to be completed within the prescribed time. As a result, half of the legions of infantry have become engineers.

Then the navy personnel arrived, and the navy sent a whole regiment, led by the navy lieutenant colonel Siegfried who is now standing beside him. Feng. Rowan Kram. In addition to target determination, they are also responsible for the command and coordination of train gun firing. What surprised Mueller most was that the Navy had brought the giant rangefinder used on their ships. Mueller quickly arranged for people to take them around the coast and discuss how to choose the location of the observation station, how to disguise, etc.

In the end, the Legion finally completed all the work within the time prescribed by Xu Jun. After the position was completed, Mueller looked at the large group of various artillery guns with great admiration.

A total of forty-six train guns of various calibers were divided into ten groups according to caliber and range. The huge gun barrels were majestic and the scene was really magnificent. In addition to the six k5(e) produced by Germany, most of these artillery pieces were seized from the battlefields of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, but interestingly, they were all French goods. The caliber ranges from 240mm to 370mm, most of which is more than 300mm. There are twenty doors in three hundred and twenty millimeters. The ammunition of these artillery pieces is also sufficient. According to Mueller, these guns are not necessarily able to finish these ammunitions even if the barrels are scrapped.

According to the general’s order, each artillery was equipped with three times the number of personnel, and each gun was equipped with a mechanical crane and a special medicine bag cart. This increased the rate of fire of those artillery several times. Some models are now the fastest With a shelling speed of one round per minute, even the heaviest 370mm can now be shot in two minutes. According to their precise calculations, the Navy formed several groups of guns at the shooting speed, and prepared to let them fire in turn, so that uninterrupted firepower could be projected on the enemy's head. It now appears that those naval organizations are really efficient.

After he issued a counterattack command, he first fired his own 210 mm heavy howitzer. This kind of cannon can only hit more than 18,000 meters at ordinary times, but that is under normal circumstances. And these cannons can actually reach 22,000 kilometers under the condition of strong charge, but usually they are not allowed to be used by artillery in this way. Because if it is used that way, it will cause too much loss to the barrel. In that case, the rifle in the barrel will be bald after a maximum of 100 rounds. In the current situation, it is impossible to control so much, and it is worthwhile to be able to strike the British Navy at any cost.

The first round of coverage shooting was really wonderful, the target was the destroyer outside the British fleet. The first reason to strike these destroyers is that the latter air forces will not be targeted by the British when they are on the scene. By the way, they can also calibrate a reference distance. As a result, Mueller was very satisfied. The six destroyers were all smashed to the bottom of the sea by 210 mm of concrete destruction bombs. When the huge fireballs of the destroyers exploded, the whole army cheered.

After the distance corrected train guns began to bombard the British battleships, the entire British fleet was enveloped in the rain of the heavy artillery bombs. It seems that at least three British battleships were seriously injured in the two rounds of bombardment, and incidentally the ships Eight destroyers at both ends were sent to the seabed. Mueller was very excited about his victory, and the German Army was able to beat the British Navy like that. It was a miracle.

"Lieutenant Colonel, why did they stop again?" Mueller was surprised that the British warship had stopped and had stopped two hundred meters before starting.

"I don't understand either. They thought it was enough to move this distance, and they were ready to shoot at us, or they had other problems." Siegfried looked at the warships with high magnification telescopes, and suddenly he was excited Shouted: "Colonel, look at it, "Rodney" is over. We are now sinking a battleship."

"What? Let me see."

Mueller quickly held another high-powered telescope towards the British fleet.

"Oh my god, it’s spectacular, this is the battleship ammunition depot you said before, good guy, it’s terrible. It’s impossible for someone to survive this explosion. God, god, she turned over, god. It’s really magnificent. Look at the huge smoke column that is a thousand meters high. Really, I can’t describe it."

The magnificent and miserable cover of the "Rodney" made Muller yell and admire.

"Colonel, the commander's flag on the "Nelson" was lowered. They were changing flagships. It seemed that "Nelson" had a big problem. His rear cabin was smoking. Maybe we hit her power cabin. If that is the case, it can explain why they stopped again, the flagship lost its power and stopped, and the other battleships followed the flagship. Hahaha, we are really lucky. This is also the end of the Nelson, if she If she really loses her motivation, then she will be no different from a target ship. Now it is up to her to see which battleship replaces her as the flagship."

"Which side of the commander flag are you talking about?"

Mueller is still looking for that flag.

"It has been lowered, of course you cannot find it."

"Oh, in fact, I just don't know when I see it. Hahaha."

"I found it. It turned out to be the "Hood". That's right. Only these ships are equipped with flagship equipment."

Siegfried quickly ran to the phone, picked up the phone and connected to the artillery command post, and then began to order loudly: "The enemy has changed the flagship. Now it is time to focus on the "Hood". Yes, she has been humiliated. The German Navy has made her history for twenty years. Yes, in this way, other warships still strike the same. The firepower attacking the Nelson and Rodney can be distributed to other warships. The focus is still on " Hood." Yes, I saw, haha, it's spectacular, you are doing very well, now you know what to do, haha, well, that's it."

The lieutenant colonel put down the phone and immediately hurried back to the observation port, holding the telescope and looking towards the British fleet.

"This, Colonel, what happened to the group of planes, and when did our air force arrive."

"Just when you called. It's really hilarious now. Those fighters only need to entangle those British fighters to attract all British anti-aircraft artillery, then the following bombers can play. I see those Even if the battleship can escape, God is blessed. Oh, our big guy spoke again." Mueller was nagging with excitement.

I saw a row of tall water columns rising near those British warships, and a few huge fireballs slowly rose from the decks of those warships. But the focus of this shelling was on the poor "Hood". A whole group of 210 mm concrete destruction bombs and other heavy armor-piercing shells over 300 mm hit the deck of the world's most powerful battlecruiser.

In an instant, a dense column of explosive water covered up the battle cruiser with a length of more than 40,000 meters and a length of 260 meters. When the water column fell, the battlecruiser hailed as the most elegant in the world had become unrecognizable. How can her horizontal armor, which is only over 30 mm thick and only over 70 mm thick, withstand the bombardment of heavy armor-piercing projectiles falling vertically. The superstructure of this battleship was blown up and down, and the four 380mm turrets that made her proud were also overturned. The entire battleship was instantly removed from the British Navy’s Pride turned into a pile of scrap iron floating and burning. The newly appointed flagship was ousted by the German artillery before she could function.

In just 15 minutes, all the battleships of the British fleet were horrified. One battleship was sunk, two flagships were completely deprived of combat power, the destroyer lost 70%, and the entire fleet has completely lost its command. .

Without the commander, those captains began to think about preparing to escape. Now they can't care about any honor. Now they just want to quickly bring their warship out of this trap, this beast trap, this shelling hell. Those remaining warships began to increase horsepower, abandoned the two burning flagships and a colleague who is now bottomed up on the sky and full of crew members, abandoned the civilian boats, and continued to risk. The shells of various calibers that had fallen down, against the huge water column rising all around, began to escape towards the other end of the channel.

But their action was still a step behind, and with the roar of engines coming close to the sea, the last escape door of the main fleet of the British Royal Navy's home fleet was tightly closed.

The captains of those warships were horrified to see that at least hundreds of German bombers lined up in a neat formation in the distance, rushing towards the side of the sea and rushing towards their side. These bombers are mostly medium-sized. He111, there are still many ju88. The captains could clearly see from the telescope that the gray torpedoes were hanging under the bombers.

This is not a joke. Although their armor is thick enough, they can't stand so many torpedoes in a row.

They quickly called the Air Force's fighters to intercept the bombers, but the **** wing over the fleet had long been disbanded by the German fighters, and they are now in the air behind the fleet with the German fighters flying up and down. The fighters engraved in the sky above Dunkel were entangled in the high altitude by the German fighters there, and now it seems that they are overwhelmed by themselves, there is no time to manage these naval warships.

Now you can only rely on your own anti-aircraft artillery, and the captains are as confident as their anti-aircraft artillery.

The British Royal Navy’s usual rigorous training finally saw the effect. Those remaining destroyers rushed ahead of the battleship array without command, and then began desperately shooting at the distant sea, ready to use Dense barrage to block German bombers rushing against the sea like a lunatic.

But they forgot one thing. The reason they can survive to the present is that they had been on the right side of the fleet before, and the huge battleships covered them with the hull, so the Germans did not shell them. Now that they rushed from the back to the front, the Germans are certainly welcome. The remaining six destroyers were covered by a large number of shells of various calibers two minutes later. The luckiest of them was that they persisted on the sea for thirty seconds more than their colleagues. With the destruction of the destroyer fleet, only a large amount of floating debris and oil pollution, burning life-saving equipment and hundreds of British sailors who are struggling in the sea are now left between the battleships and the German bombers. .

The battleships can only use their own anti-aircraft guns to fight back now, but to the dismay of the captains, they have only discovered that most of the anti-aircraft guns on the deck were hit by shrapnel due to the previous German shelling. Injured or damaged. Now the air defense firepower that a battleship can organize is not as strong as a destroyer.

The German bombers suddenly dispersed in formation three kilometers away from the battleship. They were divided into small formations, and then each chose a British warship for the final charge.

The British battleships also began their final struggle. They used all the weapons they can still use to shoot the bombers.

The group of headed bombers shook back and forth to avoid the British shells and bullets. As long as the bombed bombers had not been planted into the sea, they would continue to move towards the target by dragging their smoking bodies.

When the first row of aircraft dropped a group of torpedoes in front of the British battleship, they immediately pulled the aircraft fiercely, then turned their heads and flew towards the coast, and they gave way to the bombers behind.

The Germans basically don’t need to do anything to aim. They have woven a net with a sufficient number of torpedoes. In such a dense torpedo net, the British warships will not even have the opportunity to evade. These battleships no matter how hard they struggle. Avoid their final destiny.

As those huge water columns rose from the waterline of the British battleship, the battle of the Dover Strait also entered its climax.

The pride of the Royal Navy is gone forever. ;