Chapter 7: Tirpitz
Kiel
A gray camouflage battleship was moored in the harbor with a supply ship, while they were busy resupplying fuel and food.
Sebastian enjoyed a rare quiet lunch, but a telegram directly from the Führer shattered the silence aboard the Tirpitz.
Sebastian, who was the first mate of the battleship Tirpitz, frowned, looked at the telegram in his hand and complained, "At present, Tirpitz has only been training for less than three months, at this time, what is the purpose of sending the battleship Tirbitz to the Atlantic......"
However, when Sebastian continued to look down, he was stunned by the words "Operation Rhine Operation" marked with the words "Top Secret...... I didn't even know that the fork in my hand had fallen......
Frightened, Sebastian hurriedly ordered the crew, "The fleet will set sail immediately, and the whole ship will immediately accept the "rapid supply" of the Altmark supply ship!"
As Sebastian's order was conveyed to the Altmark supply ship through the flag, a young girl sitting in the bow of the ship in the uniform of a Wehrmacht captain stared wide-eyed, looked at her captain, saw the officer next to her, and nodded. Only then did the girl feel relieved.
"Understood, Commander, Al will work hard"
As the embodiment unfolded, the silver anchor on the girl's ship also lit up, and when Al threw the miniature version of the anchor into the sea, a magical scene appeared, and a series of spiritual fluctuations followed the sea, wrapping the Tirpitz and the cargo ship, and the cargo ship that was originally full of resources instantly became empty.
Tirpitz, who was ready to load food and fuel, was all loaded in a matter of breaths.
During the three months of training in the Baltic Sea, the girl's main task was to use her combat skills to test her cooperation with large warships.
This level is already practice makes perfect for a girl.
Altmark is currently the only large supply ship in the German Navy with ship spirit, and the Altmark's combat skill is "rapid supply"
Through the subspace carried by the Altmark itself, or the resources existing around it, the fuel and ammunition of a target warship can be directly replenished, and this special fuel obtained through combat skills can increase the speed of the original ship by 30% without affecting the service life of the original boiler! This is the most buggy part of the Altmark supply ship!
Tirbitz has a maximum speed of 30 knots, and with the Altmark's combat skills, it can reach a terrifying speed of 39 knots, although the lasting effect is only 24 hours, but it is very objective.
Of course, the more powerful the skill, the longer the cooldown, or some special conditions are required to release it, which is also a balanced withdrawal.
Just like the Altmark's combat skill "Quick Supply", behind the powerful ability comes a long cooldown of up to seven days.
Even so, the Altmark remains one of the most powerful supply ships in the world.
When the replenishment of the fleet was completed, Sebastian breathed a sigh of relief, "It will take at least a day and a half to reach the Danish Channel, I hope it will come in time......"
At this moment, Bismarck and Cheng Hao, dressed in Cheng Hao's coat, were observing the increasing amount of ice floes outside and the increasingly cold weather through the windshield of the bridge.
All this marked the end of a long 7-hour period when the two warships were getting closer to the Arctic Circle.
It is expected that around the early morning of the 23rd, the German ships will be able to cross the Arctic Circle and head towards the northern edge of Iceland.
When Cheng Hao destroyed the reconnaissance plane in the port of Bergen, Norway, history had already changed. Tovey, due to the weather, could never have sent a new reconnaissance plane to the port of Bergen in these few hours.
In the case of not knowing the configuration of the German ship at all, the suspicious Johann . Tovey would inevitably wait until the weather conditions allowed for reconnaissance before sending a fleet to intercept Bismarck and other ships.
In the absence of any clarity about the whereabouts of the German ships, breaking the original deployment would inevitably have an impact on the defense of the British army. Before getting clear information, even John. Tovey also did not have the right to mobilize the escort group to protect the trade ships.
This is the advantage of the traverser, the prophetic nature of history, so that Cheng Hao stubbornly won Bismarck a safe time of at least one day or so.
This time was enough for Tirpitz to reach the Danish Strait safely, and with the cooperation of the U-boat, Cheng Hao was confident that he would fight a beautiful ambush battle.
Yu Chenghao's excitement at this time was different, and Lu Teyansi, who received the Führer's telegram, was in a mixed mood at the moment.
Before carrying out this mission, he even said to his companions who came to see him off, "There is a huge difference in the strength of the enemy and me in this battle, and I am afraid that I will take my old life."
Indeed, in the event of encountering a large British fleet, the Prinz Eugen was not a formidable helper. Bismarck was bound to be surrounded by a large number of British ships, and could not escape the fate of sinking.
Even all this made Lütjans feel like a conspiracy, and the negative Lütjans could be said to have been forced into the position of fleet commander by Raeder.
The same is to serve the Reich, as an SS Raeder just suppressed the Wehrmacht born of himself? Or are you afraid that you will be able to rob him of the marshal of the navy?
However, everything changed when he submitted a report directly to the Führer's office on the proposal to send Tirbitz and Bismarck's Spirits to Awaken......
The angry Führer not only removed Raeder from all his posts and put Dönitz in his position for the time being, but even approved Tirpitz's proposal to go to sea, and even sent the supply ship Altmark, which had always been hidden, to fully support Lütjans's Rheinland exercises......
On the afternoon of the 22nd, in John. On Tovey's orders, the Hartstone Naval Air Base in the Orkney Islands sent reconnaissance planes to take off. Fly towards the port of Bergen.
The planes crossed the North Sea, drilled through the thick fog, and rushed into the harbor of Bergen under anti-aircraft fire, only to be surprised to find that the German ships were no longer in the harbor......
When the news reached John. By Tovey's ears, it was already night.
At 22 o'clock, John. Tovey then received a report from the reconnaissance plane. At 23:45, he sailed out of Scapa Bay with the home fleet.
At this time, the forces were composed of: USS Victory, USS Galati, USS Aurora, USS Kenya, and USS Hermieni.
But Cheng Hao will let John. Did Tovey's wishful thinking kick off?
Cheng Hao, who is familiar with history, naturally will not choose to go head-to-head with the British army, and the vast Atlantic Ocean can naturally hide the whereabouts of Cheng Hao and others.
Cooperate with the U-boats, contain most of the British warships, and find a small group of trading ships to sink them, so that Bismarck can open the ships as quickly as possible, this is Cheng Hao's real plan.
You know, and the power of the size of the human battleship, but not to be underestimated, in the case of retaining the original firepower unchanged, the direct embodiment of the ship can even act with the steel battleship, if you calculate, the current German army has three Bismarck-class battleships (after the convergence of Tirpitz) and a heavy cruiser Prince Eugen, as well as 12 U boats, these are Cheng Hao's confidence!