It has been half an hour since the end of the British air raid, just when people were speculating whether this noisy night would be silent, there was a sudden rumbling cannon sound in the direction of the outer harbor, after a few bursts of orange-red flashes, the first flare a hundred times brighter than the stars bloomed in the sky and slowly fell, and then a few more of the same moving flashes ** appeared in the night sky, for a while, the heavy black curtain shrouded in the harbor was peeled off layer by layer, and the ships that were moored in the harbor during the day also reappeared in front of people's eyes. A column, a tower, a gun and a cannon all have the unique style of the German Navy.

After the severe pain of the "rainbow", after more than 20 years of dormancy, under the political pressure from Britain and France and other countries and the heavy burden of the downturn in the shipbuilding industry of their own country, the German navy re-emerged, which was originally in the harbor of the hinterland of France is anchored in this important elite of the navy!

"General, the Outer Harbor Fort has just reported that there are about ten British ships in the shallow waters south of the channel, and each gun position is firing fiercely at each other!"

When the adjutant put down the phone and turned to report, Zhang Hainuo was standing in the observation post above the underground bunker and observing the harbor several miles away with a telescope, and in the flickering light of flares and artillery fire, he could see the black outlines of the battery groups on both sides of the harbor, and the orange flames that erupted from the muzzles of the German- or French-made cannons.

In the era of large ships and heavy artillery, caliber means firepower, and the side with larger caliber artillery will undoubtedly occupy more initiative in naval battles. But every artillery gun has its own blind **, and the range of blind ** is usually proportional to the caliber, volume, and weight of the cannon, and the heavy artillery deployed by the German army in the batteries around Port Saint-Nazaire cannot escape this law. As the British ships continued to move toward the harbor, some big guys with a caliber of more than 200 mm suddenly appeared that they were "out of reach" of their prey, and at this time, they roared all the small and medium-caliber guns below 152 mm. And those batteries arranged in the outer harbor according to the terrain are like several offshore gunboats fixed at anchor** at this time. A white column of water looming over the sea. The nearest distance from these "gunboats" seems to be only a few hundred meters, and although it is impossible to distinguish the attacking British ships with the naked eye from Zhang Hainuo's position, it is enough to distinguish seven or eight through these water columns!

"They've crossed our district!"

A startled voice came from behind Zhang Hainuo, also dressed in a dark blue navy uniform, but there was a difference in the style of the collar epaulettes. This is the one who was transferred from Kiel to Lowndes six months ago. General Lancelot. He held various positions as Director of the Western French Shipping Industry, Technical Officer for the Shipbuilding Industry and Commander of the Defense of Saint-Nazaire. Literally, he should belong to the high authority. Before the war, French shipbuilding was among the best in Europe. However, the devastation of the war zone and the negative attitude of the French population in the German-occupied zone made these industries very underutilized in the early 40s, while the control of the sea was still in the hands of the British. The German top brass also had no intention of using the shipbuilding facilities of the French to build ships for themselves, and the greatest role of the dockyard was to repair and maintain those German ships that broke through into the Atlantic waters to fight, so the so-called shipbuilding director became the ship's repair foreman, and the technical officers studied nothing more than the repair techniques of various ships, and as for the Saint-Nazaire defense commander appointed by the navy, all he had at his disposal was two regiment-sized fortress artillery and an extremely small offshore reconnaissance and alert fleet.

Li Ming put down the binoculars and responded in a deep tone: "Small ships with shallow draft plus degaussing technology!" The cunning British, their real goal turned out to be here! ”

"Bismarck?" There was more surprise in Lancelot's voice.

Li Ming turned his head to look at the giant dock more than two thousand meters away, "Normandy dock!" ”

At this moment, the 251-meter-long, 36-meter-wide German giant ship "Bismarck" is still lying quietly in the giant dock built by the French like a sleeping lion, the current "Normandy" is not a complete dry dock, out of the need to repair the outer wall of the ship, people spent three full days after fixing the Bismarck to discharge 80,000 tons of seawater from the dock, so that the German battleship's 15-meter-high hull is two-thirds exposed to the water, and the bottom of the ship is also solid "sitting" On the bracket at the bottom of the dock, but the remaining sea water in the dock can still drown three normal adults with their heads and feet stacked on top of each other.

The windless sea was suffocating like a tank of oxygen, and the sound of cannons was intense, and from time to time the flames of shell explosions flashed on the shore, and the columns of water on the water, which were then indispensable, were constantly moving towards the harbor. Under the current technical conditions, the night battle of the German fortress artillery could still rely on a good pair of eyes and traditional flares - the hit was not much better than when the British artillery in Dover tried to stop the German fleet from invading the strait!

As the battle progressed, some of the German ships that were originally anchored in the harbor of Saint-Nazaire also continued to move and use their guns to block the attackers on the sea.

Standing on the flat and stable 6 ground, in a sturdy and safe bunker, Zhang Hainuo could not command his fleet to deal with the enemy as usual, which made him feel like he was suspended in the air, it was obvious that in such a limited space harbor, his ships could not make tactical maneuvers consistent with the German Navy's shipbuilding philosophy, and the mixed battles often ignored the technological gap, in addition to the disappointment of the efficiency of the naval intelligence and the shortcomings of the "Fort Saint-Nazaire", He could only silently observe this peculiar battle.

Under the high sprint of the British ships, the near-perfect St. Nazaire line on paper did not really work, and soon there was a dense burst of gunfire under the sound of artillery, and Zhang Hainuo noticed that there were constantly groups of SS soldiers wearing steel helmets, carrying Mauser rifles, or straddle P3s from nearby bunkers and running to the various docks. At this time, his opinion of the special armed forces of the SS finally changed, and at least in the present situation, it was difficult for him to pin his hopes of stopping the enemy's ascending 6 on his sailors—and at the same time, he was surprised and lamented by the audacity of the British.

The fierce gunfire and explosions of the infantry gradually filled the main pier to the west, and it was the first time that Zhang Hainuo was so close to a six-place battlefield since he accidentally got involved in the French battlefield and experienced a good experience of the horror of World War 6. Although there was no steel chariot against each other, no heavy artillery roaring, and he was a professional admiral from head to toe, such a battle still released the yearning for hand-to-hand combat in his bones. Once upon a time, he fantasized that he could participate as an ordinary soldier of the 6th Army in this classic war that left a strong mark on history, and to experience the exhilarations brought by 13 and P38, which had a completely different flavor from the battles between the British and German admirals.

"We repelled the British team that boarded the 6th at Buno Pier, killing hundreds of people, and the rest of the British are boarding the ship and escaping!" After another phone call, the adjutant of the Navy looked very excited.

Li Ming quietly stared at the Buno Wharf less than 1,000 meters away, where the original gunfire was the most dense, and the explosion of the hand ** was also endless, but now it was gradually dissipating, he seemed to see that the SS soldiers in dark uniforms had begun to clean up the battlefield, and near the wharf, several ships flying the rice flag picked up the few remnants of the defeated soldiers.

Suddenly, several roars came from the Normandy dockyard, and those present could not help but be surprised again: it was not only the largest dock in France, but also carried the dream of the German surface fleet to invade the Atlantic for a certain period of time, and once this dock was lost, the large German ships could only be overhauled when they returned to their homeland.

"Looks like the dockyard is under attack, General!" Looking at the fleeting fireballs, General Lancelot timidly asked from behind.

In Li Ming's view, this general may be a first-class technical officer, but he is by no means the kind of commander who is calm and calm in the face of any dilemma.

After a while, the huge roar no longer sounded, but the familiar sound of cannon was still in his ears, Li Ming took a deep breath, "Please Feng. General Karen sent more men to the dockyard to protect our ships no matter what! Contact General Hoffmann and ask him to organize sailors to guard the warship tightly, and not let a single British soldier board the Bismarck! ”

"Yes, General!" The adjutant was also nervous at this time.

"The giant will not be knocked down by such a cold arrow!" Zhang Hainuo gritted his teeth and said.

"I hope so, General! I hope so! Lancelot followed closely behind and muttered to himself.

Why didn't Li Ming himself pray like this? He suddenly felt that he might not have been ashore in the first place, and that it would be much better to stay with Hoffman now and deal with the threat from the outside than to stand here and do nothing!

"General, the Prinz Eugen's power system is fully operational again, and it has applied to leave its berth and go to the waterway to intercept the British ships!" The adjutant continued to be busy with calls from other places, "Ordered to raise the lightning nets on the berths?" ”

The Prince Eugen, the immortal bird favored by the goddess of luck, emotions and reason suddenly formed two thoughts in Zhang Hainuo's head: let it go, no one can kill it; Let it stay behind the lightning net, such a battlefield can hit it hard with a random ** that comes out of nowhere!

Zhang Hainuo did not make a decision immediately, and the phone bell that rang immediately afterwards seemed to be a kind of urging.

"The British units that boarded 6 from the pier of Anton were firmly nailed by us on the way to the Normandy docks, and the SS was trying to surround them!"

This is good news, Li Ming said to himself in his heart, he has now figured out the overall plan of the British, the air raid is obviously just a cover, the attack on the sea and the 6 places is deadly, and now the offensive on the 6 has been contained, so what about the sea from the sea?