While Raeder and his carrier fleet were busy dealing with the British carrier-based air group, Ruetjans, who had been rushing for a day and a night, finally stopped the home fleet before Baron Tovey could enter the Royal Air Force support circle.

"Admiral Lütjans, Admiral Raeder's urgent telegram!" A communications soldier saluted with a telegram in his hand.

Lu Teyans returned the salute, then took the message and read it carefully.

"General Lütjans, what did General Raeder say?" Ernst Lindemann, the captain of the battleship Bismarck, who was standing with Lütjens, asked curiously.

"There's trouble on General Raeder's side." Lütjans pursed his lips and clenched the telegram in his hand, "More than 100 carrier-based aircraft of the British aircraft carrier fleet raided General Raeder's carrier strike group. ”

"Huh?!" Lindemann was taken aback, "How's the battle going?" Will it be serious? ”

"The battle has just begun, and the final result has not yet come out, but the situation is not optimistic." Lütjens shook his head, "The British fleet came very suddenly, and the fleet only took off 26 fighters with all its might. ”

"What about us? Did the plan to intercept the British fleet continue? Lindemann asked.

"Go on!" Lu Teyans said with a firm look in his eyes, "If we don't have air support, Britain won't have it, and I've long wanted to have a one-on-one duel with the British battlefleet!" ”

"Admiral Lütjans, the third reconnaissance plane to which the Admiral Scheer belongs, reports that they have spotted the main British fleet directly in front of the fleet!" While the two were discussing, a soldier in charge of liaising with the other ships ran up to them and reported loudly.

"Found it?" Lütjans hurriedly asked, "How far is it from us?" What is the speed and heading? ”

"It's about 50 nautical miles away from us!" The liaison officer replied, "They are hurrying towards us at a speed of about 26 knots. ”

"Great!" Lu Teyansi said with a fist, "I'll see how you hide this time!" ”

Just as Lütjans was excited, another soldier ran up to him.

"Report! An enemy plane was spotted in the air! ”

"Enemy aircraft? Carrier-based aircraft? Lütjans was stunned for a moment, then walked quickly to the outside of the bridge.

"Not carrier-based aircraft of British aircraft carriers." The soldier said and stretched out his hand to a direction in the sky, "It should be a seaplane." ”

Rütjans raised the telescope in his hand and looked along the soldier's arm, and sure enough, he found an airplane with two huge pontoons in the sky.

And the Royal Navy logo on the side of its fuselage is so conspicuous.

"A water reconnaissance aircraft on board the British Home Fleet!" Lu Teyans observed for a while and said firmly.

"Then the British fleet must have discovered us?" Lindemann frowned and said, "Are they going to speed up?" ”

"Hmph." Lütjans put away the binoculars, "Speeding up?" If they sped up, we'd win! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Lindemann asked.

"Since Nelson's time, the sword must be shown in the face of the enemy is the motto of the Royal Navy, and it is their military soul!" "If they run away now, it means that the Royal Navy has lost their military soul - what is the difference between a fleet without a soul and waste?!" ”

Meanwhile, 50 nautical miles away, on the bridge of the battleship HMS George V, Baron Tovey was giving a speech on the radio to the entire fleet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am your fleet commander, Admiral John of the Royal Navy of the British Empire. Koronin. Tovey. Here I would like to tell you the bad news - our plan to return to the shores of England may be cancelled, because a reconnaissance plane has spotted the German battlefleet fifty nautical miles ahead of us, and they are rushing towards us at a high speed of 30 knots.

I know that you are exhausted after a morning of fighting, and you may be tempted to say: Mr. Tovey, I really don't have the strength to fight, I just want to go back to England, have a hot meal and get a good night's sleep.

Yes, to be honest, I thought so too, but no!

Gentlemen, on the other side of the ocean, the bastard of the war-initiator - Leon Andrés - is eager to destroy the 600,000 Allied forces besieged on the coast of Dunkirk, and he can't wait to sail his fleet to the Strait of Calais! Because he knew very well that if the 600,000 Allied troops succeeded in withdrawing to Britain, then his next plan to land in Britain would be completely frustrated!

Yes, that demon didn't just want to plague the continent, he wanted to bring the flames of war to the land of England, he wanted to burn the flames of war! Burn to the land of our great motherland!

I never! No German will be allowed to set foot on my homeland with a weapon!

And now! We and our fleet are the last bulwark of the 600,000 Allied forces in Dunkirk! The last barrier of the British Empire! On this ocean, only us and the warships under our feet will be able to stop the German offensive!

Yes, God can't stop the Germans either! It's just us! And our warships can!

So, today, in my capacity as the commander of the fleet and as a 55-year-old citizen of the Empire, I ask you to cheer up and be by your comrades' side, by your warship, to fight the last battle!

Either we live, annihilate the German fleet, send them all into the sea to feed the fish, tell them that Führer to go home!

Either we die, and the Germans step on our corpses on the land of the Motherland!

But I believe they will not be at ease then, because the Empire will have countless warriors like us, raising their guns, fighting against our enemies on the beaches, in the skies, and in every inch of England!

England expects that every man ill do his duty！ God bless Great Britain！ ”

The British soldiers all listened to the blood boiling, they raised their arms in unison, and followed Baron Tovey and shouted: "God bless Great Britain!" ”

Subsequently, with the exception of the two destroyers, which were responsible for transporting the wounded home, turned to avoid the German fleet, all the warships of the British Home Fleet did not deflect even a trace of course, and rushed straight towards the German fleet.

Twenty minutes later, the vanguard ships of the British and German fleets spotted each other at the same time.

At 1:10 p.m., the battleship King George V, the flagship of the British fleet, was the first to hoist the battle flag and the famous Z-flag. Subsequently, the battleship Bismarck, the flagship of the German fleet, also raised the battle flag and the Z-flag.

At 1:15 p.m., the heavy cruiser "Lützov" in the German avant-garde fleet took the lead in firing a salvo at the British light cruiser "Edinburgh" at 25,000 meters with six 203mm guns in the bow.