Bismarck

Under the obstruction of these two "evil witches" who were killing indiscriminately, the German Marines successfully landed!

Chapter 725: Touching the Corpse

"Charge! For the glory of the Greater German Empire!"

Under the cover of the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen, except for the side fire from a few shore fire points, the Marines drove the small boat and found a landing terrain on the rocky shore. They braved the rolling heat waves and jumped into the waist-deep sea covered with oil residues. Even with gas masks, the pungent and suffocating smell was still there. They stepped deep and shallow on the sticky but slippery oil stains that were hot even through their boots, shouted slogans, climbed up the volcanic rocks on the shore with their hands and feet, then climbed up the hillside, bypassed several burning oil tanks, and rushed to the fork in the mountain road.

However, when a company of Marines, carrying guns and ammunition boxes and covered in mud and oil, ran to the fork in the road in a rather embarrassed manner, ready to fight, they were all dumbfounded by the scene they saw.

"this?"

The sailors were all shocked and astonished - after all, the scene before them was really strange.

If it were just the common scenes on the battlefield, such as corpses lying all over the place, wailing wounded soldiers, bullet holes everywhere, and blood all over the ground... If it was a scene like that, although it was cruel, the soldiers could still accept it.

But as it is now, the corpses and wounded soldiers are still there, and the bullet holes are scattered everywhere, but those corpses and wounded soldiers do not look like they were shot or bombarded. Instead, they look like they were hit or smashed by something - some were beaten into meat patties, some had comminuted fractures, and there were even quite a few wounded soldiers with broken hands and feet. Their hands and feet seemed to have been pressed by something, and have become what can be described as "sheets" of broken limbs - in fact, these "sheets" of broken limbs are smoother than paper!

This scene is really quite scary!

And the wounded soldiers would be fine, but this is a perfectly good road, a dignified public facility, now full of cracks - obviously hit by something heavy, and there are cracks everywhere!

Is this the resurrection of dinosaurs? Or is it the legendary Leviathan, the ruler of the sea in the Bible, crawling out of the sea? !

The soldiers couldn't help but gulp as they looked at the scene that seemed to have been ravaged by some mythical monster. And when they looked forward along the road, they were even more dumbfounded - the culprit of the imagined prehistoric monster that smashed the public facilities into such a state was actually...

Looking at the Basaker (Bo si mao) in front of them, who was wearing a gray military uniform, carrying a turret on her back, ignoring the rain of bullets and the overwhelming force of numbers, holding a crooked anti-tank gun in one hand, and smashing it everywhere like a physics holy sword, the marines looked at each other in confusion and broke out in cold sweats.

"Oh my god! Is our Bismarck secretary so violent (Me, pronounced "membrane")?"

"Violence, too violent!"

"No wonder the British always say that we are an evil fleet..."

"How did Commander Lütjens manage to subdue such a violent secretary?"

Most of the soldiers actually knew that the girl in front of them was not an ordinary person. However, this was also the first time they saw that the secretary who was gentle before had become so scary...

"You ask me, who should I ask? But I think, maybe, maybe... Eh heh heh? Captain of the Zeppelin?!"

"I say, you came here but instead of joining the battle, you are mumbling about something - why don't you come and help?!" Looking at the Marines who were in a collective daze and delusional state and had already started to talk nonsense, Zeppelin, who was holding a machine gun in the front and saving all living beings, became angry on the spot.

The Marines were all trembling with fear at the shouting of this ship girl who was obviously the captain of Archer's GR-186 Regiment, who was shooting one person with one gun. In the end, it was their company commander who reacted first. He nodded and bowed to Qi Bo and began to give orders.

Looking at the Marines trotting into the position under the command of the officers and beginning to take over their positions to provide suppressive fire, Zeppelin nodded slightly.

This is what a qualified commander should do!

Zeppelin knew very well that although he and Bismarck were powerful, the so-called "invincibility" was a complete illusion - except for strong defense and the ability to summon the main body to fire within the range of the main body, the ship girl did not have any additional means of attack! The movement speed was not very fast - at least far from the level of 120 or knots per hour at sea, and even with the main body's defense, even if Bismarck was a battleship, it could be washed by artillery of more than mm! Not to mention that he was an aircraft carrier, except for his accurate shooting, it was basically weak!

The army is not just about guns. As long as the country supports it, heavy artillery is standard equipment in any country's army! Not to mention the British and American ones, the 120mm heavy mortars that played a big role in the Marine Corps' operation this time were captured from the Soviet Union, right?

I heard that this thing is in the hands of the Soviet army, and each regiment can have several.

Moreover, the army's attack and defense are frontal attacks and defenses with a width of kilometers or even ten kilometers. No matter how high a person's defense is, if his combat effectiveness is average and the others are not strong, he can't completely tear open the battle line of several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers! As for this time, it seems that Bismarck and himself have repelled thousands of them, but... who wants this to be an island?

Moreover, this island has mountains on one side and the sea on the other. The only road is surrounded by either hillsides or bushes on both sides. Even the connection between the British rear and the main island of Bermuda can only be achieved by transporting people in small boats in batches, and they have to risk the risk of targeted bombardment from the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen!

To put it bluntly, the British were not good at the terrain, the road ahead could not be opened up, and the people behind could not keep up, that's all!

However, since the Marines are here, it's time for me to do something else...

Zeppelin grabbed the commander of the Marine Corps who was about to go to the front line and gave him an order:

"You stay here and follow the orders of Secretary Bismarck. I have something else to do, so I'll go back for a while."

Looking at the captain of the GR-186 carrier-based aircraft wing who was full of murderous and cold momentum, and the colonel rank on her shoulders, and thinking about the scene just seen by the Basaker violent secretary ship that was like a monster passing through, the frightened Marine Corps captain was completely frightened and nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice:

"I...I understand!...By the way, Captain Zeppelin, do you want me to ask them to get you a boat back?"

"No need, I can go back by myself." Qi Bolin replied casually as he turned and left.

Since everything was exposed in front of his subordinates, Zeppelin didn't bother to hide it and just used the most convenient method.

Then, while the Marine company commander was stunned with fear, he walked directly into the raging fire and disappeared in an instant.

At this moment, behind the fork in the road, other marines also climbed onto the beach. Under the command of the officers, some people ran to the fork in the road to reinforce the vanguard to establish a defense line, while another team unloaded fire extinguishers and small water pumps from several assault boats, and pulled out machetes and fire axes. With the water cannons of the heavy cruiser Prince Eugen on the sea, they began to clear the fire-fighting passage towards the oil depot fire. Behind the Prince Eugen, the flagship of the fleet, the battleship Bismarck, was getting closer and closer to the oil depot dock!

Both the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen have now lowered several small boats equipped with heaters and towing oil extraction pipes. It seems that they are going to directly extract the extinguished but slightly fluid oil residues from the bomb craters on the beach.

"Although it looks like the firefighting work will take until at least tomorrow, we finally made it in time..."

Looking at the fuel gauge in front of him that had already reached zero, Lütjens couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Looking back behind him, in the direction of the stranded and sunken American fleet ten kilometers away, a 50,000-ton battleship was sailing in the mist on the sea at dusk under the reflection of the setting sun, as if searching for something. Although Lütjens knew the truth, he always felt like he was seeing a cute little hamster sniffing around, rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for something to eat...

Although, the actual situation is not much different. These girls under my command must have been starving to death, right?

"Forget it. The most important thing now is to get the fuel first." Lütjens shook his head and his eyes focused. "Send an order to Eugen to control the landing site and the fork in the road. We will also dispatch sailors to form a marine corps to provide support!"

"Yes!"

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While she was still observing the firepower and reconnaissance in the sky, Zeppelin already knew that her captain, Major General Bangtai, had woken up. After "returning" to her body in an instant, Zeppelin quickly "changed" her clothes, and after eliminating the smell of gunpowder and oil, she appeared in front of the bed in the temporary hospital and visited Bangtai who was resting in bed.

In order to save fuel, the ship has implemented a blackout. Except for those essential cabins, the remaining non-essential cabins now only have relatively dim lights. Even Bangtai's ward is no exception.

Captain Bangtai is no longer in danger and has regained consciousness. However, he still needs to rest for a while to recover from the serious injuries he suffered. However, after learning that the fleet's fuel situation has improved, although Bangtai is still very weak, he looks very happy.

"Captain, come to think of it, you've been lying down for several days." Qi Bolin stood at the head of Bangtai's bed, looking at Bangtai who was recuperating in bed, and said softly.

"Yes, you have worked hard these past few days... Now the oil depot in Bermuda has been occupied by the commander and his men. I am relieved now."

Bangtai's face was a little pale, but he was smiling.

After all, wherever there is oil, there is home.

"Yeah!" Zeppelin nodded, turned his head and looked out the porthole in the direction of the sunken Allied warships.

The sun had already set on the sea and sky, and the blood-red sunset cast its last twilight on the Bermuda sea. Except for the direction of the Bermuda oil depot where the flames were still rising to the sky, the blue sky seemed even deeper as the sun set.

Even in the dim twilight, Zeppelin, who could "sense" the surrounding environment without light, saw that not far ahead of him, a 50,000-ton large hamster, driven by its captain Lindemann, gently passed by a bridge mast exposed on the sea surface. At the same time, it gently dropped a buoy with a flashing green light.

As a naval aircraft carrier, Zeppelin naturally knew that this navigation mark was called a sunken ship mark, which was specially thrown to him by Lindemann to indicate that there was a sunken ship here - that was the US Navy's CL-50 Helena heavy-duty light cruiser. Even though this heroic light cruiser was hit by two main gun shells and more than 150 secondary gun shells by Bismarck and was seriously injured, even though it lost power and could not move in the shallows, it still used its last strength to launch a tragic bombardment at the Prince Eugen that was entering the port - until it was completely sunk by the main gun of the Tirpitz that arrived...

Every three seconds, Lindemann threw a flashing green buoy in front of the remains of the light cruiser with a name that sounded like ancient Greek tragedy, like a silent tombstone, as if telling the last respect of Rear Admiral Lindemann, one of the best captains of the German Navy, to his tragic and respectable opponent.

In fact, even Zeppelin herself was full of respect for the light cruiser Helena, which fought back until the last moment. However, what she was about to do now was not so respectful. Lindemann had just sent this respectable opponent, whose name was full of ancient Greek tragedy, to the bottom of the sea within a quarter of an hour, and she was about to run to her body and pull out the oil extraction pipe to drain the fuel from her wreckage...

When Qi Bolin thought of the words "touching the corpse", his face became a little strange.

However, the fire in the oil depot is still very fierce. One night is definitely not enough to rescue the fuel!

"Tsk... There's nothing we can do about it. Although I'm not a pervert, this is the only way I can do now..."

However, even though I said that, I really, really, really don't want to do such a tasteless thing...

The lights in the room were very dim, but Bangtai, who was lying on the hospital bed, could still see that Qi Bolin's face turned pale and blue. Obviously, she was a little confused for some reason.

"What's wrong, Zeppelin?"

"Um... Captain, nothing. I was just thinking about how to deal with the American reinforcement fleet..."

“Don’t you have that thing…something that seems to be called FanJianDaoDan…?” Bangtai thought for a moment before pronouncing this somewhat difficult “word”.

"Yes, but my main body doesn't have the fuel to travel at high speed. Captain, you know that when carrier-based aircraft take off and land, I need a speed of more than 25 knots!"

When he thought of this question, Zeppelin felt a little crazy. But the next second, even though he was still a little weak lying on the bed, Bangtai said something that almost frightened Zeppelin to death...

"What's so difficult about this? Just pump the oil out." Bangtai pointed out the porthole with a matter-of-fact look on his face: "Didn't you say they sank a few warships on the shoal? Just pump the oil out of them."

"Eh!"

The collapsed Zeppelin suddenly wondered if the shameless guy lying in front of him was a fake Bontai!

A few hours later, the US Navy, which had come from afar to reinforce, was inexplicably attacked by mysterious weapons in the dark night. Two destroyer squadrons and one cruiser squadron were collectively destroyed, and the reinforcement plan came to an end.

By dawn the next day, thanks to the efforts of the rescue team, the fire in several oil tanks near the dock was finally put out!

About the description of the ship girl land battle

Regarding the issue of the Battleship Girl's projection participating in the war at the intersection of the oil depot, many book lovers are worried about the issue of upsetting the balance. Let me explain.

In many other novels and even official settings, the ship's armor is the main gun. But the book clearly states that the ship's armor is just a decoration!

In the book, the cat's attack method is hand-to-hand combat, and Zeppelin uses a light machine gun as a sniper rifle (remember the machine gun in the engineer command post that the cat took down when he sneaked into the oil depot?)

It was stated in the setting from the very beginning that the cats' warships were the real bodies, and the humanoids were just projections. In addition to the theoretically equivalent defense of the real bodies (actually limited by the strength of the hull) and the ability to be invisible (can be discovered by dogs), the projections had no more special means, and their movement speed was not much faster than that of trained people.

The book mentioned that the opponents in the prison break and the oil depot crossroads battle only had light weapons, and because of the terrain restrictions, the British troops could not deploy at all (the terrain here was confirmed by looking up local photos on GOOGLE maps), so the intensity of the battle of crossroads was no higher than the previous prison break.

There are mountains and bushes on both sides. It's just a small path. Of course, it's impossible to get through with just one "cat" guarding the pass.

In fact, the performance of the cats in the Leningrad tank factory is the upper limit of the combat power of the humanoid ship girls (in the book) - they can be spotted by dogs when they are invisible (similar to the Terminator), their speed is not faster than that of trained soldiers, and the 2mm howitzer of the KV152 is enough to threaten the projection. The crazy cats at the fork in the road are simply because the terrain is too narrow and the heavy artillery of the fortress has been destroyed!

In fact, the projection capacity here is also calculated according to the loss of the warship itself. Unlike what most people understand, the hull of a warship is very large, and even a fully defensive warship has a large number of areas that cannot be fully protected by armor.

If you have read the historical data on the battle damage of relevant warships, you will find that the real lifeblood of a warship is the strength of the hull structure and the reserve buoyancy (the stability and tilt after battle damage also play a role by affecting the reserve buoyancy), while the armor only reduces the damage!

It is also for this reason that the "armor-piercing shells" of warships are actually piercing shells, and HE shells can also kill warships. Because both of them can directly destroy the hull structure of the warship and damage the watertight compartments on a large scale!

The pure penetration depth does not have a big impact on the warship - even if it penetrates from the beginning to the end, as long as it does not explode, it can just close the watertight door, plug the leak, and then temporarily weld it with an underwater welder. There are really too many such examples in World War II!

Here we have to @London in the Yangtze River, @Nan Pang who had a power outage in Solomon, and @Hiei who was beaten up by three DDs, Cushing, Ben Lafite and Potato, in Iron Bottom Bay. They were mainly beaten by 127 and 152.

So... even if it's a ship girl, as long as she is on guard (at the very least a military dog), or has enough firepower (a division's artillery regiment), plus the war is a life-and-death battle involving tens of thousands of people and dozens of kilometers, and there is also a backup command system, so the ship girls don't really have that many opportunities to go for the unparalleled skill!

Well... at least that's the case in this book...

Chapter 726: Countries begin looking for ship girls

As early as six o'clock in the morning of June 9th (seven o'clock in the morning in Bermuda, one hour earlier than Bermuda Islands in Washington, USA), Admiral Ingersoll, commander of the US Atlantic Fleet, received an emergency report that an evil warship had been spotted in the direction of the Bermuda Islands.

Facing a powerful enemy, the Americans reacted quickly. In just three hours, Admiral Ingersoll had completed all the preparations, and several fleets had left the port and were on their way to reinforce Bermuda around nine o'clock in the morning! But the distance was a bit far - the straight-line distance from Norfolk to the Bermuda Islands was 960 kilometers, and there were only light warships at the Norfolk base!

What’s more, at a distance of 960 kilometers, even for an F1200F Wildcat fighter with a theoretical range of 4 kilometers, the pilots would be exhausted after flying to the vicinity of Bermuda, and the plane’s fuel was basically exhausted - the Bermuda Islands airport had been bombed by Zeppelin’s air raid at three o’clock in the afternoon, and the plane could no longer land!

In other words, cruisers and destroyers will definitely not get any air support.

The only hope is that the Germans can’t get fuel from Bermuda…

As for the five iron turtles that the Atlantic Fleet stayed behind in the mainland, they were fooled by Cunningham's "judgment" before, and are now far away in Boston, 1050 kilometers away. Not to mention, these iron turtles from the World War I era had a designed speed of only knots when they were first put into service. Now, after so many years, due to the aging of the hull, the maximum speed is only a little over knots at most.

A distance of 1050 kilometers would take a full 380 hours even at a speed of knots. Even though Admiral Ingersoll had confirmed through the submarine cable connection with the Bermuda Garrison that Lütjens had lost most of his mm main gun shells in the battle with the Bermuda Fortress Battery, it was still a bit suspenseful for those iron bastards to stop the German evil fleet, which was running out of ammunition, from escaping...

Admiral Ingersoll placed all his hopes on the four heavy cruisers and sixteen destroyers that departed from Norfolk Harbor. But at about nine o'clock that evening, the battle report from the frontline gave him a direct blow!

Although the cruisers and destroyers acted quickly, their defense was poor, and they had no air superiority to protect them! As a result, the reinforcements were defeated by a salvo of anti-ship missiles from a Zeppelin aircraft carrier that had to abandon its moral integrity for fuel!

When those iron cuckolds that could theoretically withstand anti-ship missiles - two Pennsylvania-class battleships and three New Mexico-class battleships - slowly "crawled" to the Bermuda Islands, Lütjens, who had put out the fire in the early morning and pumped oil in the morning, had already slunk away with his fleet that "flew too low", and only the British themselves used scorched earth policy to bombard and destroy the oil depot, but there was no Mao Yue. The ruins of the oil depot were lying on St. George Island, emitting green smoke and a burnt smell. Even when the British and American allied personnel trembled in fear and passed through the three-way intersection that was smashed into a mess by violent demolition and crazy war cats to enter the oil depot for inspection, they found that on the wall of the oil depot, some unsophisticated guy with full malice had written a few lines of large Chinese characters on the ruins with oil stains - such as "Bismarck was here", or "The governor's clever plan brought peace to the world, but he lost the oil depot and the soldiers" and so on...

Even though Viscount Noilles had an aristocratic temperament, good self-cultivation, and was able to keep his emotions under control, after he understood the meaning of "the governor's clever plan brings peace to the world" with the help of an interpreter, he was so angry that he spat out blood and passed out on the spot.

Looking at the lord who was spitting blood and fainting from anger, and then looking at the Bermuda garrison that was "unable to go down", the allied generals looked at each other helplessly...

"Governor Noiles is like this, what should we do now?"

"Hey, call the shaman, another one has gone crazy..."

"Go crazy, Your Excellency the Governor is still pretty good. Think about Sir Riddle of the Gibraltar Fortress and Admiral Willis of the Cape of Good Hope Garrison. They both lost their lives..."

"But speaking of it, when the fortress fell this time, there really was an 'evil spirit' on the German side!" The commander of the Bermuda Fortress garrison talked about this matter with gnashing teeth and lingering fear: "Almost everyone in the vanguard battalion I sent to the fork in the road saw them walk out of the sea of ​​fire, and then they fought here - you see, this place was smashed into this state by those damn evil spirits who grabbed the anti-tank guns..."

The commander of the Bermuda garrison pointed at the battlefield at the fork in the road, which was full of holes and holes, with a look of pain on his face. The other Allied officers also looked dazed.

We had talked about evil spirits before, but most people had only heard of them and had never seen them. But this time, it was…

"There really are evil spirits?! This..."

"Damn the Germans! They are blaspheming God!"

"The Germans actually created an evil spirit. No! This is too big a matter. We must report it to the higher-ups immediately!"

"Agreed! We have to report it immediately!"

As a group of Allied commanders were talking in a chaotic manner, the news that the "evil spirit" appeared in the Bermuda Fortress and fought a bloody battle with the garrison troops and was not at a disadvantage instantly shocked the top leaders of the entire Allied camp.

The first to be affected is the British Empire, the sovereign country of the Bermuda Islands and the only one among the Allied Powers whose top leaders have confirmed the existence of ship girls!