A few minutes later, the old anti-aircraft warning radar in the base finally caught a large number of flying objects, but at this time, the distance between the German aircraft group and the base was less than 100 kilometers, and the size of this aircraft group seemed to be a little different from the "more than a dozen" in the announcement.

“shit！” The radar soldier looked at the extremely long wavewidth on the oscilloscope screen, and was so frightened that he almost sprayed a mouthful of water on the expensive oscilloscope, "All the flying objects have been captured at such a wide distance, and this TM can make the movement of the dozen or so planes mentioned above?" No matter how I look at it, there's one less zero, right? ”

He hurriedly picked up the phone next to the scope and dialed the command.

"Hello? Here is radar station number three! We've caught the Germans! The radar soldier said nervously.

"Really?" The liaison soldier on the other end of the phone said in disbelief, "I didn't expect your radar to be out of order!" Uh, that's not what I meant...... I mean...... Provide the location of the German fleet and guide our fighters to the blockade! ”

"That's fine...... But ......" the radarman paused, "but the Germans may have a little too much......"

"Many?"

"Well, judging by the radar display, the number of German aircraft in the fleet may not be a dozen as the bulletin says, but a few more ......"

"Add another zero...... the liaison soldier said silently, and then shouted, "A hundred or dozens of planes?!" Are you kidding? Oh...... Maybe I gave you a wrong radar assessment earlier......"

"Our radar is fine!" The radar soldier was annoyed, "Although it is very old and backward, it will never go wrong!" ”

"Okay, okay." Under the tone of such affirmation from the radar soldier, the liaison soldier also realized that the information sent back by RF133 earlier may be wrong, "I will report this information to the general immediately!" ”

……

"What?" Admiral Forbes, commander of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, looked at the telegram in his hand and asked the communications officer with a look of astonishment, "The Germans have more than a hundred planes flying towards us?!" ”

"Yes, General Forbes." The communications officer wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded in reply, "And we're less than 80 kilometers away - maybe closer." ”

"God!" Forbes' expression was at first incredulous, but slowly turned into rage, "Why did I only know this news now?!" ”

"Because...... Because Commodore Auston was the first to get the news that there were only a dozen planes, he thought that it was just a German face loss because the Den Helder base was destroyed by us, so he sent a dozen planes to harass our naval base to find face, so he felt that he could solve this situation himself, and there was no need to bother you......" The sweat on the forehead of the communications officer rubbed more and more.

"Shit!" Hearing this, Forbes slapped the message on his desk directly, "Is he a pig?!" Or am I, the commander of the fleet, a fake?! ”

The communications officer saw that Forbes, who had always been kind, was so angry that he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Also, how did the Germans send so many planes here?" Forbes is a 60-year-old veteran general after all, and after the initial anger, he quickly calmed down, "With such a huge fleet of planes taking off, why didn't our agents send any news back?" The agents of the Military Intelligence Agency have always been very reliable, and they should not miss this kind of information. ”

"Perhaps, maybe it didn't take off from land?" The Communications Officer cautiously published his profile.

"You mean it took off from the sea?" Forbes touched his chin, thought carefully for a while, then shook his head and said, "Probably not, the German aircraft carrier group should now join up with their battleship detachment and evacuate the North Sea, right?" After all, Denheld's rotten, and if they stay in the North Sea, it won't be easy for them to leave if they get entangled by us......"

"So, what do we do now? Checkmate? ”

"In any case, we can't stop the current fleet of German aircraft on this scale." Forbes sighed, "Let's get out of Scarpa—hopefully we'll be in time." ”

However, the fleet in a state of repair, it is not said that it can be evacuated, and a minute after the emergency alarm sounded at the base, since there were still naval officers and sailors sitting in some entertainment venues laughing and laughing - they still thought it was a mistake by the person in charge of the alarm, after all, Scapa is so safe, where can the enemy fight here?

It was not until Forbes's anxious voice appeared on the radio, conveying the situation of the German carrier-based aircraft to everyone, and repeating "this is not an exercise" several times, that the officers and men of the home fleet hurriedly ran to their warship and prepared to untie the cable and set sail.

However, although the tension brought speed, it also brought panic, which made a light cruiser collide with a panicked thousand-ton escort destroyer when it was urgently leaving the port, and the escort destroyer was smashed in two on the spot and sank quickly, and the light cruiser was also seriously damaged, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

Seeing that the warship was sinking, many officers and men on the light cruiser hurriedly ran from the various cabins to the deck, trying to jump into the sea.

"Smack!" Two crisp gunshots rang out suddenly, and the rioters were quickly shaken, and they all looked up in the direction where the gunshots came.

"Everyone, stop!" Outside Cambridge, the captain of the ship, who was carrying the rank of major, shouted as he put his pistol back on his belt, "Give me back to your posts!" ”

"But captain, the ship is about to sink!" A young naval soldier who was relatively close to the bridge said in horror.

"I know! Mr! The captain glanced at him, and then turned his gaze to all the officers and men of the ship, "It's going to sink, yes, but we can't let it sink here, the water here is too shallow, and if it sinks here, it will block the waterway for the entire fleet to retreat!" We've got to get it out! Gentlemen, England needs everyone to do their duty! ”

The officers and men huddled on the deck looked at each other twice, and then retreated to their respective posts.

Yes, England needs everyone to do their job.

With the efforts of all the officers and men of the ship, the light cruiser, which was seriously flooded, began to slowly accelerate, and almost climbed out of the harbor while sinking, giving way to the other warships behind.

"Buzzing" Just when the home fleet was trying to retreat outward, the German carrier-based aircraft group finally appeared in the sky in the "eyes of all the people", and at this time, the warships moored in the Scapa Naval Base only successfully withdrew more than a dozen warships with small tonnage and quick response, except for a few capital ships directly moored outside the base, most of the capital ships were still crammed into the not open base waters like dumplings.

This undoubtedly gave the German air force an opportunity to "shoot targets with live ammunition and real ships" that would never occur in peacetime.