Bismarck

"…These are the places. There are a total of 381 artillery batteries, including 25 234mm fortress guns, 14 152mm fortress guns, and 45 381mm coastal defense guns. Although the firing range of some artillery batteries is not facing us, we still have to deal with nearly 10 guns, including all 234mm fortress guns and at least mm fortress guns."

"In addition, there is a large airport and a seaplane base here. Fortunately, there are not many fighter planes... In addition, there is a garrison fleet in the port, with four heavily armed light cruisers with five main turrets - they should be the Brooklyn class of the United States - and six destroyers..."

"Also, Bermuda is surrounded by shallows, and there is a minefield at the only entrance in the northwest corner... Oh, and there are a few bunkers next to the oil depot, but fortunately, the oil depot is not far from the entrance, and they don't have any more anti-landing facilities..."

As Zeppelin wrote and drew on the large map, she marked all the defenses of the Bermuda Fortress on the nautical chart. As a ship girl, her perception and memory, coupled with the assistance of the camera, allowed her to quickly note the enemy's main defense points - the military situation was urgent. If it was done by an ordinary person, even a trained reader, it would take several hours to do it. What's more important, the reader had no way to read the camouflaged layout and the minefields under the water...

However, although the enemy situation had been ascertained, Lütjens and his men frowned even more tightly.

The defenses of the Bermuda Fortress were so tight that they were even better than those of the Cape of Good Hope Garrison! Indeed, the title of "Fortress Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean" was not in vain.

Moreover, not only is the defense strong, but the alert is also quite strict...

Just at midnight last night, when the fleet was still 1000 kilometers away from Bermuda, it encountered reconnaissance aircraft sent by the Allies.

Although the fleet discovered the enemy reconnaissance aircraft in advance by relying on the reconnaissance range of the Edelweiss early warning and command fighters that were patrolling in the sky, and then drilled into the gap between the two reconnaissance fans at the maximum radius of the enemy reconnaissance aircraft to avoid the first wave of reconnaissance, it still wasted nearly an hour. By six o'clock the next morning, when the sun was high in the sky, it was still 600 kilometers away from Bermuda. Moreover, at this time, the second wave of reconnaissance aircraft sent from the Bermuda Islands at dawn could no longer be avoided - the closer to the center point, the denser the enemy reconnaissance aircraft, that's all...

The result was that although the Zeppelin that went out to conduct reconnaissance shot down the enemy's reconnaissance plane, the movements of his own fleet were inevitably exposed...

(PS: Allied missile bomber air raid alert!)

(PS: The American-made "Bat" anti-ship missile is the world's first combat-ready "fire and forget" guided missile. It was secretly developed by the US military in the early days of World War II and has the characteristics of automatic aiming and automatic attack on targets. In the late stages of World War II, US Navy combat aircraft conducted the world's first "fire and forget" guided missile operation.

In early 1942, the U.S. Navy began to secretly develop extremely advanced anti-ship missiles, and in 1942 developed the "Pelican" semi-active radar-guided bomb, and later developed the "Bat" missile with an active seeker and a "fire and forget" function on this basis. The missile is made of steel and plywood, 3.6 meters long, 3 meters wide, weighs 850 kilograms, has a maximum speed of 480 kilometers per hour, can fly up to 8000 meters, and has a maximum range of 32 kilometers. It uses an S-band active radar-guided warhead, and the warhead is a 450-kilogram semi-armor-piercing projectile. At the same time, due to its small size and the fact that it can be left alone after launch, the missile can even be carried by propeller carrier-based fighters.

Historically, this type of missile was successfully developed at the end of 1944 and put into actual combat in early 1945. Before the end of World War II, 3000 missiles were produced. Together with the German "Fritz X1" and HS293, it is the world's first generation of practical air-to-ground/air-to-ship guided weapons.

Chapter 709: fanjiandaodan?

The sun was shining brightly in Bermuda, but the fortress headquarters was in chaos from early morning...

"Reconnaissance aircraft No. 257 reported being intercepted by German fighter planes in the XX sea area, and then lost contact!"

"Reconnaissance planes No. 257 and No. 269 near No. 231 went over to investigate. No. 231 was shot down, but before it was shot down, they reported that an enemy fleet was spotted in the XX sea area!"

"Radar report! An enemy fighter plane has been spotted, approaching our island at high speed from an altitude of 8000 meters! The fighter planes on duty have taken off to intercept it... Interception failed! Both fighter planes were shot down, one pilot was killed, and the other parachuted pilot confirmed that the opponent was the 'Edelweiss Witch'..."

"Report the discovery of the German evil fleet to headquarters immediately! Request emergency reinforcements! Also, inform the flight squadron to prepare for an attack immediately!"

"But, the aircraft we can mobilize now, even if we hang bombs on the reconnaissance planes to act as bombers, all together we have is only one reinforced squadron of P-40 fighters and twenty bombers..."

"This... what the hell..."

In the busy command post, two British and American major generals who were seriously short of planes were scratching their heads in anxiety.

However, as he was thinking, the British major general thought of something:

"Hey, buddy, how many 'bats' do you have?"

"There are about twenty of them... Wait! You're not planning to have your bombers hang these on them and go out to fight? This thing is just a pre-production experiment, and the design hasn't been finalized yet!"

The American major general looked at the British major general opposite him with an expression as if he had seen a ghost.

"What else can we do now?" The British major general pouted at the American major general who looked like he had seen a ghost. "Anyway, didn't you say yesterday that the thing can be tested in a simulated combat environment? I think you should stop simulating it and just go for the actual combat now... Bro, I'm not saying anything discouraging, but there are only a few planes in the base, and you know who the Edelweiss Witch on the opposite side is. If you still don't want to let her go, we probably won't have a second chance to send planes!"

"Well... okay!" The American major general gritted his teeth, but in the end, he turned into a desperate face...

"Someone, pass the order! Hang all those 'bats' on the bombers!"

"YESSIR!!"

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In the Bismarck's conference room, Lütjens looked at the Bermuda Islands, which had strong fortifications and the garrison fleet, and his face was gloomy...

“How far are we from Bermuda now?”

"It's still about 350 kilometers." Bismarck calculated the position and answered.

But when these words were spoken, everyone, including my captain and myself, looked somewhat desperate...

Thirty-two and a half knots is equivalent to 350 kilometers per hour, and it will take nearly six hours to reach the Bermuda Islands at a speed of kilometers. But...

The fleet now has only enough fuel to last for eight hours.

Under normal circumstances, fleet warfare would not be played like this. This time, it was really a gamble of life, but it seemed that this gamble was not so easy to make...

Even if we deduct those artillery batteries whose firing angles cannot cover our side, there are still nearly seventy artillery batteries that need to be dealt with, including twenty-five 381mm fortress guns and ten 234mm fortress guns.

Especially the twenty-five 381mm fortress guns, which are the most troublesome opponents.

Even though these fortress guns were only semi-open structures with only one layer of gun shield protection, they were too small and had to be dealt with by guided shells - but the range of guided shells was only thirty kilometers, not much farther than these large-caliber fortress guns.

Moreover, even with guided shells, the hit rate between himself and the fortress artillery was only 50-50.

In other words, in order to destroy the twenty-five fortress guns, they would be hit by at least twenty or thirty 381mm shells. It should be noted that since entering the Socotra Island Garrison, especially since Operation Support, the several ship girls who have fought fiercely in succession have already been scarred on their hulls, even if they have the ability to repair themselves.

If it gets hit by another twenty or thirty 381 shells, I'm afraid it will be finished...

And the fuel now is not enough - in two hours, nearly seventy fortress guns must be destroyed, the Marines must be covered to land and grab oil (even though the oil depot is actually located in the northwest corner and can be reached as soon as entering the Bermuda Bay, but those artillery batteries must be dealt with first), and the fortress garrison fleet must also be dealt with.

Even though the garrison fleet only had heavily-armored light cruisers and destroyers, which were no match for him under normal circumstances, the fuel could only last for two hours at most, and they also had to cover Prince Eugen's landing of the Marines. This problem could not be underestimated...

Is it really going to be a waste this time?

Besides, reality is not a game...

Yingmei, who hated herself, her sisters, and the captains, was not a person of integrity herself.

If I remember correctly, there was a Rhine Camp when Germany surrendered in history. Even in a certain war in the "future" that took place in a neighboring peninsula country outside Northeast China, in order to detain prisoners of war and "sell" them to Taiwan and Southeast Asia as "cheap labor", the Americans not only falsified data, but also openly "modified" the Geneva Convention.

But even so, what should I do now...

Seventy artillery batteries, a garrison fleet, and only two hours. Besides, he and his sisters could not bear any more serious damage...

At this moment, Tizi beside him shouted:

"Commander! Sister! They've sent planes to attack! About thirty of them!"

Following Tizi's shout, Qi Bolin on the other side also fixed his eyes:

"Come on! Just in time for our squadron to kill them!"

Actual combat has proved that even if Zeppelin's own plane is still parked steadily on the flight deck, and the flight deck still retains the last few fighter reserves, and the performance of the P-40 fighter is more acceptable than the F4F Wildcat, but... the Cricket Island Garrison's dozen or so P-40s are simply no match for the GR-4 carrier-based aircraft wing with twenty BF-186s and FW-109s, which can be called an all-ace wing, with Zeppelin personally commanding the C190ISR center in real time and several super aces with hundreds of victories.

In front of the ferocious GR-186 wing, the US P40 fighter jets, nicknamed "War Eagles", were instantly beaten into turkeys. The scene of turkey feathers flying everywhere made even the British and American crews on the bombers tremble in fear - if the fighter jets themselves could not be saved, wouldn't these bombers be the next?

As expected, now that the Allied fighters were struggling to protect themselves, the massacre of the bombers also came...

The PV-1 Ventura, which was converted from a civilian aircraft and had a completely unsuitable structure, defense, and even speed for use as a bomber, crashed into the sea one after another under the tracers of the MG151/20. Even the B-25 Mitchell, a regular bomber, was riddled with holes under the terrifying firepower of the FW-190 and could hardly protect itself...

"Captain! Captain! It's bad! The squadron leader is dead!"

A heart-wrenching voice was heard in the channel.

"SHIT... Brothers! I'm the captain of a small team, and now I'm acting as the squadron commander... Radar soldiers! Report the distance! How far are we from those damn German shipmen?!"

"Thirty-five kilometers, we still have thirty-five kilometers (duh, duh, duh)... Oops! The left engine is on fire!"

"What?! Let's fight! Brothers! Speed ​​up as fast as you can!! We are almost in range, we must throw those 'bats' down!! Even if we die in battle, these little guys will avenge us..."

"We have no way out! Prepare to drop bombs!"

"For the glory of God! For a free (slavery) world..."

The remaining bombers, knowing that they had no way out, instead inspired the pilots to go all out, or to be buried with their own blood! After the bombers, dragging billowing smoke, rushed into the 32-kilometer maximum range of the missiles in twos and threes, the pilots, or the co-pilots beside the sacrificed pilots, looked at the direction of the German fleet in the intelligence in front of them, and used their last bit of strength to firmly press the missile launch button...

One after another, the inconspicuous experimental bat-type anti-ship missiles separated from the belly of the shaky bomber. Regardless of whether the seeker used radar, infrared, optical or even inertial guidance, they ignited the small rockets they carried and began to fly sparsely towards the surface fleet 30 kilometers away in front of the surprised and astonished eyes of the German pilots...

This battle later became the first documented record of an anti-ship missile attack on a ship in the history of world naval warfare...

(PS: The Bat-type missile in history was actually an engineless glide-guided bomb, and it was guided by a single radar. However, in the book, the concept of electronic warfare quickly became popular after the Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Allied forces, who were well aware of the terrifying power of the ship girls, equipped their weapons, which had not yet been finalized, with radar, infrared, optical, and even weapons used in conjunction with inertial gyroscopes in advance...)

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"Instructor! Report! We shot down an American plane, but... they dropped some things, and those things flew in your direction... The flying speed was about 500 kilometers, and the size was very small, so our interception was ineffective! So please be careful to avoid it!"

In the command post of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, the pilots' reports rang out over the radio. Zeppelin, who looked a little surprised, didn't even need to listen to the radio. With her perception, she could see those "strange small powered gliders" 20 to 30 kilometers away.

When communicating intelligence on WIFI, Tirpitz also said that she detected that some of the "small gliders" seemed to have several frequency radars emitting electromagnetic waves. Although there were other such "small things" that did not emit radar waves, they seemed to have several lens-like things on them.

Some were colorless, while others were red and seemed to have something spinning inside... In short, these things gave her a very bad feeling, just like the flying monsters with one eye described in some fairy tales or myth books.

"What is this? It's weird..."

As the two sisters talked, Prince Eugen, who was standing aside, also noticed those "little flying monsters" - could they be some kind of weapon? But she had never seen what they were, and they were still more than 20 kilometers away...

He looked at Top beside him, and began to communicate quietly with Captain Lindemann beside Sister Tizi on the other side. They had never seen the kind of thing described by their warships, and it was still more than 20 kilometers away. Although they could guess that it might be some kind of radar-guided long-range weapon, but... at this time, no one felt that this thing was a big threat...

After all, even if it is some kind of radar-guided long-range weapon, Tirpitz's electronic jammer is not just for show.

However, Eugen still felt a little overwhelmed by his curiosity.

Little Eugen with twin ponytails thought about it. If even Top, Zeppelin, and Grapes didn’t know… maybe she could only ask Bismarck…

Thinking of this, Eugen, who was puzzled, didn't care about the secretary cat whom he regarded as an idol, who was still racking his brains with Commander Lütjens to figure out the battle plan based on the defense map of Bermuda. He left Top's side, walked over quietly, and gently pulled Bismarck's arm. Then, he pointed his finger at the direction of those "flying gadgets" to Bismarck, who was looking at him with a puzzled look:

"Sister Bismarck...what are those flying machines? Do you recognize them?!"

"Aircraft?" Bismarck was a little puzzled and used his perception to explore the area. More than 20 kilometers away in the sky, German fighter planes were flying in groups of three or four. They had glider-like wings and were round. And in front of these small things were... infrared cameras?! Optical cameras?! And those that didn't have cameras but emitted electromagnetic waves... were radar domes!

When Bismarck, who had seen a lot of things from later generations, saw this thing, his eyes were suddenly wide open! And he was filled with panic!

A cold sweat suddenly broke out on my back.

With a loud shout, not only Lütjens beside him was startled, but also Tizi, Eugen, Lindemann and Top on the other side were somewhat puzzled. Even the entire fleet command center and WIFI were all shouted out by her:

"Anti-ship missile! This is an anti-ship missile!! They developed an anti-ship missile?!"

"FAN JIAN DAO DAN?! What is this? Is that the name of that thing?"

The crowd around them, who didn't know the truth, looked at the Persian cat, whose fur had stood up as if it was facing a great enemy, and they all looked puzzled...

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PS:

Although it may not be related to the novel, I still want everyone to know how the free America treats our soldiers.

The official tampering of the Geneva Convention and the official human traffickers during the Korean War meant that 2/3 of the PLA did not return (look at those who "did not want to be repatriated". In the end, there were still hundreds of them who came back, and even more than escaped from prison. Some even "followed the Indians to live in India" - do you believe it? - Source: The Korean War, published by the Japanese Land War History Research Popularization Association)

Chapter 710: Source of Interference

"Fan Jian Dao Dan? Is that the name of that thing?"

“Eh…Ehhhh?!”

Because it was the first time seeing this thing, and there was no special word in German to describe this kind of "tracking and guided weapons and ammunition for attacking warships", the panicked Persian cat was anxious, and blurted out the four Chinese characters that he had heard so many times in his previous life that his ears were calloused...

Who knows what will happen? People still don’t take the anti-ship missile seriously, but are interested in the pronunciation of the four Chinese characters said by the Persian cat...

The Persian cat, who was already looking at a formidable enemy, suddenly became depressed:

"You are focusing on the wrong thing! Anti-ship missiles... those things are very dangerous!"

"But what exactly is this 'Fan Jian Dao Dan' you mentioned?"

Well, even his own captain looked at him in confusion. On the other side, a bunch of "ignorant people" who had never heard of this term were also looking at the Persian cat like curious babies.

Aren't they just seven or eight gliding iron lumps? They are still 20 kilometers away, and Grapes has already turned on the electronic jammer. Even if a few of them are emitting electromagnetic waves, they are not afraid, right?

Even though this thing has a speed of about 500 kilometers, it was dropped from 32 kilometers away after all, so everyone, who didn't know how powerful it was, looked down on it a little...

Even at a speed of 500 kilometers, it's not as fast as an airplane...

Except... a Persian cat from the future, whose knowledge is far more extensive than that of people today...

"But... anti-ship missiles... those things will track our movements and bomb us!!" Bismarck was so anxious that he almost shouted: "Some of those things are equipped with TV cameras and infrared detection devices! Electronic interference is ineffective against them!"

Looking at the anxious Bismarck, when they heard that the electronic jamming was ineffective, the captains and shipgirls around them looked at each other and finally felt something was not right...

"Then...what about setting off a smoke screen?" Lütjens asked - I guess if it was a camera, then it would be a good idea to set up a smoke screen to cover it, right?

Although Germany's optical facilities are world-famous, there are really not many cameras in this era. As for televisions, they are simply luxury goods. Although the house did have a TV before it was bombed by the British, the captain, who was busy with military affairs, rarely had time to watch TV. At most, he would occasionally listen to the news on the radio when he had free time...

The world of this era, sincerely, is just this...

I think if I put up a bunch of smoke screens to cover myself up, I'll probably be fine, right?