Having eliminated the British Home Fleet, the German High Seas Fleet immediately launched an operation to rescue the drowning man.

After overnight rescue, the High Seas Fleet successfully rescued more than 2,000 British officers and men and more than 500 German officers and men on board.

In order to avoid retaliation by the RAF, at 6 a.m. the Battlefleet and Carrier Strike Group returned to Den Held, where they were to make initial minor repairs, such as draining water and plugging some holes in the waterline.

However, Lütjens left behind four destroyers and a light cruiser to continue the search and rescue personnel, although there was little hope of surviving after freezing overnight.

Although the Count Zeppelin and the Friedrich were the two oldest warships of the High Seas Fleet, their sinking still greatly weakened the strength of the High Seas Fleet.

At the same time, the serious damage to the two ships of the Lyon Andrés class and the aircraft carrier Deutschland puts the tactical core of the High Seas Fleet – the Carrier Strike Group – in the awkward position of having only two aircraft carriers available for the next six months: the Deutschland-class DF-3 Scharnhorst and DF4 Gneisenau.

And as for the battlefleet, it was even worse.

After a close encounter with the home fleet, although three German battleships survived with thick skin and flesh, the British warships were definitely not bad, and their powerful firepower caused almost every one of the three German battleships to survive to be seriously damaged.

In particular, the flagship Bismarck, which had been set on fire for some time, was hit at close range with 17 rounds of 356mm shells, 11 rounds of 381mm shells, and more than 200 shells of medium and medium calibers.

Thanks to the Bismarck's good design, although its main armor belt was riddled with holes and leaks, the core area surrounded by the armor box was not seriously damaged, so that despite the terrible blows, it still sailed autonomously to the sea 300 kilometers from Den Halder before losing power - the oil storage tank was broken, the fuel leaked and ran out of fuel all the way - and finally several large tugboats were sent by the Den Helder base to tow it back to the port.

The news of the fleet's victory spread throughout the world not long after the battle ended, while the British and Germans received the results as soon as the battle ended.

Leon didn't sleep all night in excitement after getting the battle report, and pulled Ludwig and several other core figures of the empire to drink all night.

Ever since he came into this world, he had never been so happy.

To be honest, Lyon really has no absolute certainty of the final victory - there is no problem in fighting the countries of Western Europe, but against the behemoth of the Soviet Union, Lyon is really not sure that he will win.

However, according to what he learned in later generations, Germany could not avoid a war with the Soviet Union in any case, and according to Stalin's plan, Germany did not take the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union would definitely not let Germany rise.

And if you want to defeat the monster of the Soviet Union, if nothing else, at least Germany needs to mobilize the strength of the whole country to confront it, and there is no room for distraction to fight on other fronts, that is, Germany must avoid fighting on two fronts.

Looking at the original history, Germany defeated France in 39 days, and there has been no enemy in Western Europe since then, which seems to avoid a two-front battle but in fact it is not, because although there is no enemy in Western Europe, Britain, which is only separated from the European continent by the English Channel, has been eyeing Germany, which forced Germany to leave 58 divisions on the Western Front to build an Atlantic barrier to prevent Britain from crossing the English Channel and landing on the European continent and opening up a second battlefield.

Although most of the 58 divisions were low-quality and understaffed, they still had about 950,000 men and more than 1,500 tanks and more than 5,000 artillery pieces.

There is no doubt that if these 950,000 men, 1,500 tanks and more than 5,000 artillery pieces could be deployed on the Eastern Front, Germany would definitely be able to attack Moscow before the winter of '41, when Army Group Center would attack in other directions along Moscow's powerful railway network, and the Soviet-German war would probably be rewritten.

So in this life, Lyon vowed that Britain could no longer contain so much power in Germany, and that Germany must solve Britain once and for all before launching the Barbarossa Plan.

And to solve the British, first of all, the Royal Navy.

But how easy is that? Before the outbreak of the war, the Royal Navy had a huge fleet of 6 aircraft carriers, 12 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 56 cruisers and 183 destroyers, but what was left of Germany after World War I? It's just 6 old former dreadnoughts and some old cruisers that can't be broken anymore.

So in order to solve the Royal Navy, Lyon can be described as painstaking, since the signing of the "Portsmouth Peace Agreement", he has taken Germany to endure humiliation, and now so many years of hard work have finally paid off, the Atlantic has been invincible since then, how can Lyon not be excited?

At dawn the next day, the Deutsche Herdgeung devoted a full space to announcing the complete annihilation of the Royal Navy by the High Seas Fleet.

People who got up early to work were shocked when they saw the news, it was their dream for many generations to defeat the British Navy! And now it's happening!

Many companies or organizations even held special celebrations to celebrate the Navy's victory.

Three days later, Raeder, who had returned to China for treatment of his injuries, was welcomed by local soldiers and civilians at the Kiel military port, and then flew to Berlin on the Führer's plane, which was waiting at the airport.

At the Berlin Air Force Airport, Lyon personally took a group of high-ranking government officials and generals of the Supreme Command to pick up Raeder.

As soon as Raeder, who was lying on the bed, was pushed off the plane, he saw Leon not far away and a large group of people with the rank of lieutenant general walking towards him.

Seeing this, Raeder hurriedly wanted to sit up, but a sharp pain pulled him back to the bed, and he could only smile bitterly twice and said, "Yuan...... Monarch...... Sorry......"

"No, don't be sorry, just lie down in peace." Leon smiled and patted Reddell's bloodless hand.

Then he asked the medical staff accompanying him with concern, "Doctor, how is General Raeder's injuries?" ”

"Führer...... Ray, General Raeder...... "The doctor is from the Keele Central Hospital, and if it weren't for the care of Raeder, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the Führer, so he looked nervous.

"Don't be nervous, relax." Leon smiled, "I don't eat people, the cannibalistic British fleet has been wiped out by General Raeder, what else is there to fear?" ”

"Hahaha!" The people next to him laughed and laughed, but they didn't know if they were really laughing or cooperating.