Bismarck

"Ms. Liliana, why are you here?" Krupp asked in surprise, "Didn't you say you would come at Christmas?"

"I don't have anything to do recently, so I came here first and will leave after Christmas." Lily brushed off the snow on her shoulders and walked into the house.

"Where's my dad?"

"He is in the study. Do you need me to call the general?" Krupp asked.

"No, I'll go find him myself and give him a surprise." Lily blinked mischievously.

Originally, Liliana wanted to give them a surprise, but after she went upstairs and saw the scene in the study, all she was left with was shock.

Of course, there is anger.

She never thought that her best sister would hug her father intimately and even raise her head to kiss him.

If Liliana had a worldview, she would feel that her worldview had been refreshed.

"What are you doing-"

There was a scream, accompanied by Lily's trembling voice, and the atmosphere in the whole room seemed to freeze.

There was silence for perhaps a few seconds, but it felt like centuries.

Bismarck turned her head and looked at Lily, who was angry. She awkwardly let go of her hands from Lütjens and took a few steps away - but it was useless. Lily had already seen her actions clearly.

There is nothing to refute.

“You guys…”

Lily raised her hands in disbelief, pointing at her father and former sisters, unable to utter a complete sentence.

"Lily, I--" Bismarck tried to comfort her.

"Stop calling me names!" she screamed. "You're making me sick!"

"Lily, close the door and come in first." A rare look of embarrassment appeared on Lütjens' face as he said this.

"Are you afraid that others will know about this?!" Lily's lips curled up in a sarcastic smile.

"I have always respected you, but you disappoint me! No, you simply disgust me! She -" Lily pointed at Bismarck, "She is about the same age as me. How about it? It feels good to sleep with someone who is almost the same age as your daughter? Aren't you ashamed?"

"We didn't..." Bismarck wanted to say that we didn't go to bed, but clarifying it at this time would only add fuel to the fire, so he had to swallow his words halfway through.

"Lily, our relationship is not what you think." Lütjens said, "Can you close the door and let us talk inside?"

"It's not like that?" Lily sneered. "I just saw that scene. You want me to believe that it's fake? Is it possible?"

"And you, Bismarck, I really have nothing to say to you. I actually believed you. Really, I actually believed you. Hahaha!"

Liliana smiled, but that smile looked sad no matter how you looked at it, and tears appeared in the corners of her eyes.

"Lily, I really am..."

"Oh, I know what you want to say, do you really like your captain? Don't you, Bismarck?" She sneered.

Bismarck looked at Liliana in silence. She knew that she had hurt Lily. Perhaps it would have been better if she had confessed it at the beginning. However, she was greedy for her friendship with Lily and had kept the matter a secret, thinking that she could keep deceiving people until now when she was careless and the truth was revealed.

But are Lily and I really friends? If I have been deceiving her, how can I be her friend?

"I'm so stupid. How could I believe you?" Lily smiled, but deep sadness overflowed from her. "You are not a human at all. How can you speak human language..."

Seeing that Lily's words might reveal something, Lütjens had no choice but to step forward and pull Liliana into the study, then closed the door.

"let me go!"

Lily walked up to Bismarck, looked at her, and spoke word by word.

"Bismarck, tell me, what did you tell me at the beginning?"

Bismarck certainly knew what he said, but now he couldn't say it anymore...

"How shameless! If you don't say it, I'll say it for you." Lily sneered, imitating Bismarck's tone at the time and said, "I'm not interested in being your mother~"

"It seems that you are tired of doing this with my sisters, Bismarck, and you want to be my mother. Tsk tsk, this is ridiculous and embarrassing to say it out loud. My sisters actually want to be my stepmother."

Bismarck once admired Liliana's self-cultivation. At that time, no matter how angry Liliana was, she never lost her composure. She just stood there quietly with a calm tone. She was full of aristocratic demeanor and did not look like a shrew at all. But now... she could only be described as angry after being betrayed.

"Dad, don't you think this is ridiculous?" Lily laughed, "A thing that is not even human actually wants to be my mother. I'm sorry, I only have one mother!"

Her mother died when she was very young, leaving only a vague impression. However, it was precisely because of this impression that her mother was irreplaceable in Lily's heart. No matter who wanted to shake her mother's position, Lily would be the first to disagree.

no matter who.

As for Lütjens, he was also a great figure in Lily's heart. Even though she often didn't see him for a whole year, she knew that her father was a hero.

A hero is supposed to have a chivalrous code, but now, the hero in her heart is about to betray her, which is a huge blow to Lily.

For some reason, she attributed all this to Bismarck, who was not a human being.

"Dad, tell her you don't like her, tell her to get out, and I'll pretend nothing happened." Lily pointed at Bismarck and said.

She calmed down, but only her voice was calm, her heart was not, and her tone became more resolute.

The atmosphere fell silent again. Lily looked at Lütjens, and Bismarck was also looking at her captain.

Although she didn't want to make Lily sad, when Lily really said this, Bismarck hoped that the captain would give her the answer she wanted.

Don't blame her, everyone is selfish.

Stay silent.

"Dad, say it!"

"Sorry, Lily, it's time for me to have my own life." Lütjens said slowly as he looked at his grown-up daughter.

Lily's face suddenly turned pale, and Bismarck squatted down and started crying.

"do not talk--"

"Actually, I've been wondering when it would be appropriate to tell you. Since you've seen it, let me tell you today. I like Bismarck." Lütjens continued, "Bismarck is right. When I first saw you, I really had nothing to do with her. It was only after we got to know each other that I gradually developed a crush on her. She was the one I pursued, and everything had nothing to do with her."

"She is not a human!!!"

"Does it matter whether he is a human being or not? What is the difference between Bismarck's ideas and ours?" Lütjens asked back.

"Captain..." Bismarck, who was squatting and crying with his head in his hands, raised his head. Crystal tears hung in the corners of his eyes, which made me feel pity for him.

"You, you—bang"

Lily was so angry that she suddenly slapped Bismarck in the face.

The poor Persian cat had already considered such a situation, and in order to prevent Lily from getting hurt, it had already lowered the hardness, so she was slapped to the ground.

Liliana rushed out.

"Lily——"

"I'll find someone to follow her, you don't have to go." Lütjens stopped Bismarck who was about to go out and said.

"Captain, but, late at night..."

"It's okay, go back to your room first." Lütjens sighed and said, "I need to take care of these things."

Bismarck nodded silently and returned to his room.

Looking at the captain who suddenly sighed, and then looking at the door, Persian Cat suddenly felt anxious and blocked in her heart... But her captain had this temper, Lily had this personality, and after all, they were biological father and daughter... What could she say now?

Moreover, the relationship between me and Lily might end here.

Bismarck lay on the bed, silently recalling every little thing he had with Lily. It was on this bed that they had spent many happy times. It was here that they got to know each other better on the night they first met. But now, she was the only one left on this bed.

No sleep for one night.

Liliana didn't come back and Lütjens didn't say anything. He probably went to the hotel.

When I went downstairs early in the morning, the maid and the butler looked at me with somewhat subtle expressions.

"You know everything, right?" Bismarck said to Krupp casually. Lily shouted so loudly at the door yesterday, so the relationship between him and Lütjens should be known to everyone.

"Yes." Krupp nodded and meticulously laid a napkin for her.

In fact, the funny thing is that the relationship between Bismarck and Lütjens was basically known in the upper class of Germany, but this family was the last to know about it. But then again, Krupp should have known about it a long time ago, but he just didn't say it for professional reasons.

Lily should be the last to know.

She laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Where is the captain?" Bismarck asked.

"The general went to the Admiralty early in the morning. An urgent telegram arrived at daybreak today."

"You call me before dawn, so urgently, what's the matter?" Bismarck muttered.

Department of the Navy.

"General Lütjens, this is the combat order left for you by the marshal." Lütjens hurried to the Navy Ministry, but found that Reger was not in the office at all. He went out for inspection and sent someone to leave him a combat order.

It was marked top secret and wrapped in brown paper.

Lütjens knew that Reger didn't want to meet him, but he didn't care. He took the plan from the staff officer and opened it.

"Rhine Exercise?" he repeated, looking at the words on it.

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Chapter 334: Rhine Exercise Prelude - Single Ship Sailing

In December in the Arctic Ocean, the thick polar night obscures the sea and sky, creating a vast expanse of desolation...

The dark clouds were pressing down on the top of our heads, making people feel breathless. On the dark sea, the wind was blowing the blizzard, bringing up one raging wave after another. The huge waves splashed up water foam all over the sky, covering the already dark sea surface with a large area of ​​ominous gray. Moreover, in this pitch-black night, there were dangerous icebergs like silent and deadly ghosts, floating everywhere between the waves... This scene was like the endless winter after the Ragnarok War in the Norse mythology, making people feel extremely depressed, and even a little desperate...

Under the thick night, the battleship Bismarck was sailing alone on this sea of ​​despair - just like Admiral Lütjens's mood, it was as terrible as hell...

The misunderstanding with Lily is already hard to explain, and this kind of problem is already a headache...

But what's even more worrying is that I'm afraid I don't have the time or the opportunity to talk to her properly...

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"Captain, what's wrong?" Bismarck saw Lütjens walking in silently at home with a very bad look on his face.

Is it because of Liliana's incident? She thought.

"Nothing, I just think that our vacation is over." Lütjens sighed, "Come to the study with me, I will show you something."

"Ok."

Bismarck followed him to the study in confusion, only to see Lütjens pull out a stack of papers from his briefcase and throw it on the table.

"Snapped."

Lütjens is well-educated. He can remain calm and restrained even in the worst of circumstances. This allows him to throw something out without caring about his manners. I'm very curious about what's written in it.

"what is this?"

"Take a look at this. This is the latest combat plan. It's ridiculous! Haha, Rhine Exercise..."

Bismarck was about to ask when he heard this familiar name and was stunned.

Rhine Exercises...

"what?!"

She quickly picked up the document and took a look. Without having to flip through it, she could clearly see at the top: Operation Rhine Exercise.

I don't know how to describe the feeling when I saw these words. Her heart was beating wildly. Bismarck opened the pages with a barely perceptible tremor, as nervous as if she was reading a verdict.

Will what is coming come sooner or later?

Lütjens knew long ago that there would be a special attack operation, and the name of the Rhine Exercise did not matter to him, but when he saw the content, he was completely stunned.

What kind of staff officer could formulate such a battle plan? This is not a battle at all, it is suicide!

He had never seen such a shameless person!

This so-called plan is completely different from the previously agreed-upon implementation opinions for the "exercise action"!

Although theoretically, the Rhine exercise should be to let the two battleships of myself and Brest form two formations and go out separately to "clamp" off Britain's shipping lines and completely collapse the British Empire by attacking its transportation lines. There is nothing wrong with this idea. Even when the head of state asked for my opinion last time, I said so.

But... this guy Reger actually said that speed is of the essence and he wanted to set sail immediately to disrupt the trade through the Denmark Strait in the North Atlantic, and he also said "the faster the better"...

What a joke!

The plan mentioned at the beginning was to wait for the Brest fleet to be ready, and then go out to sea together to attack. It was a safe combat plan that required mutual cooperation. It was not the current behavior of sending a single ship out and rushing to death!

"Is Reger crazy?" Bismarck was stunned after reading the plan and didn't know what to say.