Bismarck

"At this speed, it's really difficult to even retreat..."

"Even so, I won't give up easily!" His eyes condensed. Although his consciousness had begun to slow down, his will to fight was still burning! Under the bombardment, the bridge command tower of the Queen Elizabeth battleship was shattered by a 380mm armor-piercing shell on the spot!

Justice from heaven!

"Their captain... is almost finished..."

"Bismarck! I'm here! Ask the commander! Who to attack now?"

Qiberin asked on WIFI.

"Captain, Zeppelin is here with a bomb. Who do you want to bomb?"

"Hmm?" Lütjens was stunned when he heard the voice of the secretary ship in his arms.

"Ask Zeppelin to attack the two battleships that are still capable of fighting! You take a break, I'll let Hyde handle this."

"Yeah, no problem."

Bismarck nodded slightly and sent Lütjens' instructions to Zeppelin.

Lütjens turned around and looked at the headquarters personnel who were too busy fighting to bother with other people's business, and shouted, "Hyde, get ready to take over the bombardment command! Also give me an order, the Italian allies' Blackshirts and the Pilot to prepare for torpedo attacks! The two light cruisers are ready to drive away the enemy destroyers!!"

"Yes!" everyone obeyed.

Especially Hyde, who had known the inside story for a long time, did not refuse and directly sat in the bombardment command seat and began to take over the bombardment of British warships!

After all, even though Warspite was defeated, the enemy is still very powerful...

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A glimmer of light has appeared on the waterline! Five-fifteen!

A battle report has been sent from Bal that a fleet of aircraft bombed the Alexandria airport, destroying twelve to fifteen aircraft. They are now fighting and retreating in the direction of Tirpitz.

In the sky, the group led by Grislavsky, which was climbing higher and heading towards the British group, had already started a melee with the British carrier-based aircraft! Nine Bf-109s at 190 meters, eight FW-4s at meters, fighting against sixteen FF Wildcats and twenty SBD Dreadnoughts, the battle was in full swing!

And on the sea surface beneath their feet, the two main turrets of the Bismarck were still firing tenaciously at the two British battleships! The two Italian destroyers had also left the battle line and began to prepare for torpedo attacks.

In addition to the two British destroyers that covered Warspite's evacuation from the battlefield, the other two British destroyers that were preparing to intercept the Italian destroyers were also included in the range of the 16 152mm main guns of the Duke of Aosta and the (Italian) Prinz Eugen...

Just before the dawn, in the salty morning breeze of the Mediterranean, a fighter plane painted with edelweiss, completely disregarding fuel consumption, rushed from the northwest at an altitude of only one thousand meters and a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour - that is, to the right front of the two British battleships facing away from Bismarck, and rushed towards the British ships firing on the sea at lightning speed!

"Small angle dive! Five hundred per hour!... When the speed exceeds three hundred and sixty and the bombing angle is less than twelve degrees, the low-drag bomb will first enter the water at a depth of about fifteen meters, advance one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty meters underwater, and then be bounced out by the recoil force, and then bounce twenty meters high in the air and fly a hundred meters away, and bounce more than three or four times in a row..." Zeppelin was concentrating and silently calculating the underwater trajectory of the water-floating bomb: "My 500-kilogram armor-piercing bomb has less than two hundred kilograms of explosives, but I must kill a British battleship in one shot to save Bismarck! So..."

The voice of War-weariness suddenly appeared in his mind!

"Zeppelin!"

With a loud shout from War-weary, she, who was slowly retreating, began to shoot at the Zeppelin with the remaining one on her port side and the two twin-mounted 102mm anti-aircraft guns on the rear right side!

However, Zeppelin was well aware that the distance had exceeded the range of the anti-aircraft guns, and the Warspite's hull had tilted about ten degrees. Not only could the rear main guns no longer guarantee the accuracy of their firing, but they all misfired!

"Humph, you better beat our Bismarck first, old witch!!"

With a disdainful snort, he watched as the anti-aircraft guns of the two British warships in front of him began firing. But with such weak firepower and the absence of ship girls, how could Zeppelin care?

"Since the water-floating bullet can hit the target more than ten or twenty meters underwater, what's wrong with me using it as a torpedo?"

For a ship girl, attacking is almost instinctive! Even if it is for Zeppelin to calculate the underwater trajectory of a water-skipping bullet, it is not too difficult.

"…Although the BF-109T2 has improved its wings, its high speed is still a little slow…But it doesn't matter, it's just dropping a bomb…Speed ​​, altitude meters! At this speed, the impact angle…"

"The distance is three hundred... two hundred and five... two hundred and four... two hundred and three... two hundred! Drop the bombs!"

The sharp low-drag bomb sank into the water, and according to the estimated trajectory of the water-skipping bomb, it "swimmed" a smooth arc underwater! Although the speed was attenuated, it still penetrated the almost fragile thin steel plate in the mine protection area of ​​the Queen Elizabeth battleship!

With a loud "boom!", a huge column of water caused the Queen Elizabeth to tilt on the spot! !

On the other side, under the cover of two Italian light cruisers, the little angel and the little devil had already reached the torpedo launching position on the left front of the British battleship at a speed of 36 knots!

Although the two ships only have twelve torpedoes in total, it is definitely enough for additional fire!

ps: Did everyone have a happy Valentine's Day yesterday?

Probably a historical fact~

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So you can see for yourself how wild the fox is.

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The source of the information is Churchill's memoirs and Fox wartime documents

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The 120000 troops in Auchinleck's hands are historical strength (not counting the reinforcements)

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The fox has 2100 German soldiers, 50 tanks, and 3800 Italians.

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Churchill believed that Fox could only operate 12 tanks at most.

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Chapter 457: The old witch ran away

"...Do you know what happened in Alamein?"

Under the dim light, a fat man was leaning on a chair, holding the phone in one hand and a newly delivered telegram in the other. In the other hand, another gloomy male voice was slowly coming out of the phone:

"I already know about this matter, and I have the same opinion as you..." The gloomy man seemed to be silent for a while, and after a while he slowly continued to speak: "...I am also very nervous now, this time, I might ask you to worry more..."

"Well... who wants our goals to be the same?" The fat man snorted and spoke into the phone with a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Also, these are just on credit, remember you still have to pay me back when the time comes!"

"I see. Besides, it's not like I won't return it to you. Don't be so stingy. Besides, this matter is beneficial to both you and me - isn't it? My dear friend..."

“…Hmph…Okay!”

"It's settled then. I'm hanging up now."

With a "click" sound, a busy tone of "beep...beep...beep..." came from the phone. The fat man glanced at the phone in his hand, snorted, hung the phone heavily on the hanger, and then shouted to the outside in a bad mood:

"Someone! Prepare the car! I'm going to the Admiralty myself! Now!!"

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"Damn it! Is this a single-machine lightning strike?"

Looking at the Queen Elizabeth in front, it lost its combat effectiveness directly under the "thunder strike" of the fighter plane that caught a glimpse! The captain of the Warrior battleship at the end of the team, apart from ordering the helmsman to quickly turn to avoid the Queen Elizabeth that had been directly damaged in front, the only thing he could do was to watch the jade-white fighter plane that seemed to have an edelweiss painted on it, roll a few times easily in the dense but inaccurate barrage of 40 ping-pong cannons, and then fly away close to the sea surface, leaving only a line of ripples caused by the high-speed airflow of the propeller...

Just as the captain was stunned, an observer shouted: "Attention! Enemy destroyer! 11 o'clock on the left front! Fifteen kilometers away! "

"What? Fifteen kilometers?! This is the torpedo range... Oh no! Turn immediately! Turn right..." Before the British captain finished his words, the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which had just passed by on the right and was tilted and paralyzed on the sea, suddenly made an earth-shattering noise!

The earth-shattering explosion happened only a few hundred meters away, but the feeling on the battleship Warrior was as if the earth was shaking!

"... Queen Elizabeth... is over..."

Everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. But before they could turn the rudder, four 380mm armor-piercing shells had already hit them!

And the coverage is really accurate!

With a loud bang, the Warrior battleship, which had already lost one of its main turrets, was also severely damaged! At this time, the Warrior battleship, which was turning, had no way to fight back!

Bismarck, who was resting in a chair, opened one eye and glanced in the direction of the Warrior.

Although he no longer had to personally supervise the artillery, there was no problem in slightly correcting Hyde's shooting error value according to the data observed by the observers.

So, the battleship Warrior, which was turning, became Hyde's artillery training target on the spot.

Although the Bismarck only had four main guns left, the accuracy of the Bismarck's fire was much better than that of the Warrior! For a moment, the Living Target, which could only take the beating but not fight back, was hit repeatedly and screamed in agony!

Instead of turning to…

The direction in which the Italian destroyer released the torpedoes was in the opposite direction to the Warrior's course, which meant that the consequence of not turning would be being torpedoed five minutes later!

This old World War I-class warship, although the armor for defending against artillery battles is relatively complete, and although the 330 mm main armor belt is only 3.66 meters high, its ability to defend against torpedoes is terrible! Even if a two-meter-wide torpedo belt is added on each side during the modification, there is no sense of security at all!

After all, although the added lightning protection belts provide additional safety distance, they are all empty compartments and water ingress can be just as fatal!

The Warrior did not have any "evil spirit transformed into a witch", and it was night time now, so it was impossible to detect the dangerous and deadly lightning strike underwater in advance!

In just five minutes, the Warrior was hit by seven shells from the Bismarck! Although it managed to escape the maximum range of the torpedo by turning, it had completely lost its combat effectiveness!

On the sea level in the east, thousands of rays of light suddenly lit up!

The sun is out, it's daytime!

Looking at the rising glow, Zeppelin couldn't help but look up at the sky above his head. An air battle had come to an end.

Although he did not intervene, the distance between his main body and the enemy was only forty nautical miles, and his main body's radar was more than enough to search the area of ​​the air combat.

Even though he was attacking the British battleships and could not command them himself, Bonte's command ability was very strong. Zeppelin could tell without even listening that under his command, the interception organized by four super aces including Grislavsky was also very effective. Seventeen fighters intercepted the British attack group with only sixteen fighters escorting them, and the BF109 and FW190 fought against the F4F and SBD. Zeppelin himself felt that this was a bit of a ravage...

Although the British carrier-based bombers seemed to be risking their lives, even if they suffered heavy losses, they still had to carry out the bombing despite the pursuit of ace pilots.

"Bismarck! Zeppelin! You two! I'm not done with you!"

Angry and war-weary voices were heard over the WIFI.

"Hmph, wait until your main gun can fire!"

In the climbing Edelweiss fighter plane, Zeppelin snorted with disdain, but silently praised Bismarck in his heart.

Well done!

Zeppelin could also see the location where the Warspite was hit by Bismarck. A main shaft was blown up, and the shells that exploded in the water even blew a hole in the main gun ammunition depot of the Warspite! If it weren't for the two-meter-thick fish-proof area added during the pre-war modification, the battleship's armor-piercing shells had only 18 kilograms of explosives that were not enough to detonate the propellant bags in the ammunition depot to cause a larger explosion. In addition, the surging sea water instantly poured into the ammunition depot and submerged all the propellant bags and shells. The Warspite would have sunk by now!

I silently gave a thumbs up to the Bismarck in my heart.

However, Zeppelin secretly thought it was a pity. If it were not for the air defense and ground attack missions, and the British cruisers were not biting it, it would definitely send another round of Stukas to send Warspite directly to the bottom of the sea!

but…

"You German ships...don't be too happy too soon!"

Qi Bolin's eyebrows raised slightly.

Tired of war, not only did he lose the battle, but he couldn't even afford to lose this person?

"Haha, Zeppelin, don't be too happy too soon. Don't think you can rest easy after repelling me and destroying the Indomitable's carrier-based aircraft!"

As if he knew what Zeppelin was thinking, War-weary actually laughed. He ignored Zeppelin's displeasure and laughed even louder: "Hahahaha, Zeppelin, ah Zeppelin, at most you just defeated me, that's all you can do!"

"What do you mean?" Qi Bolin frowned, feeling that things were not simple.

"Hahaha, aren't you very good at overall combat command and dispatch in air combat? Go check the sea chart yourself!" Although War-weary was also seriously injured, he sneered with pride and disdain: "Haven't you discovered yet? Your main body is still being chased by my cruisers and minelayers, getting farther and farther away from the battlefield, right? Then look at Bismarck's injuries. Apart from dividing her forces to be protected by others, what else can she do? Finally, think about it again. Your Tirpitz seems to be a ship that must be nailed to the Gulf of Alamein, right?"

"I have to remind you that your African Corps is now almost entirely relying on the artillery support of your Tirpitz battleship to survive, right? It's already dawn, and the air force in the Middle East theater has thousands of planes!

In fact, there are only 700 of them, but as we all know, if we are trying to scare people, we naturally have to exaggerate a lot.

With a war-weary and mocking look in his eyes, Zeppelin's expression really changed!

"The most the Indefatigable has lost now is just a few planes. Besides, you should first protect the people in your army. If you fail to capture Alexandria, you will eventually be imprisoned and die in the Mediterranean! So, don't think that you're done just by defeating me, hehe..."

"Then I will withdraw first. I hope I can see you Germans again when I come back. You guys take care of yourselves."

The voice and shadow of War-weariness disappeared, leaving only the unbridled laughter, echoing in Zeppelin's ears!

Bismarck beside Lütjens, Tizi in the Gulf of Alamein, and Lütjens and Lindemann who heard the words of War-weary from the ship's mother, all four of them could not help but curse in unison almost at the same time: "This bastard!"

"Taipei, how many shells do we have left?" Lindemann gritted his teeth, looked at the panicked hamster beside him, and asked.

"There are still 105% of the 150 anti-aircraft shells, less than 380% of the 380 high-explosive shells, and 150 armor-piercing shells left for the main gun, but only rounds of high-explosive shells left. They are almost gone... Lindemann, what should we do..." Tizi asked dejectedly with a sad face.

"Tsk... This is difficult..." Lindemann slammed his fist on the wall, and was silent for a while. Finally, he gritted his teeth and turned his head to look at the hamster who was still pretending to be stupid and lazy: "Listen, we are in big trouble this time!... We have to cover the African Corps, so we can only continue to hold on here! At least we can withstand their opening air raid first! Grape, in addition to anti-aircraft shooting, try to control the main gun to fire! The 105mm anti-aircraft gun and the 37 anti-aircraft machine gun have no turrets. When the main gun is firing, our anti-aircraft gun can't fire at all!"

"Just listen to me. I will control the firing order. You must shoot it down immediately. Do you understand?!"

“…Hmm…” Tirpitz nodded seriously, indicating that she would take the next matter seriously.

"Captain, what should we do..." At the same time, Bismarck no longer had the idea of ​​resting. Although she was very tired, Tirpitz was facing great danger now, and someone had to stand up.