The British did not expect that the German aircraft carrier group, after sending a wave of attack composed of nearly 200 fighters, would be able to follow up with another wave of attack waves with more fighters than the first wave in just a few tens of minutes.

Busy saving people and running away, they didn't even have time to replenish the ammunition for anti-aircraft artillery!

The German pilots seized the opportunity well, and dozens of dive bombers and hundreds of torpedo attack planes scattered in search of the capital ship.

The 1,200-pound aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes were still powerful, and none of the battleships targeted by the German naval aviation could escape.

After two rounds of air raids, there were very few ships left in the original huge home fleet of the British Royal Navy that could float on the water, and except for the first ship of the five "Queen Elizabeth" class battleships, the "Queen Elizabeth", which escaped death because it was being modernized at Rosses Naval Base, only the "Malaya", which was the first to sail out of Scarpa Naval Base due to injuries, was not sunk.

The "Monarchy" class battleships, which were an improved version of the "Queen Elizabeth" class, survived with higher protection, namely the "Resolve" and the "Ramillis", but both ships were badly damaged, and according to the severity of the injuries, the time and money required to repair them were not much less than the cost of building a "George V" class directly.

For Germany, the raid was thus a strategic victory, and they would be treated like heroes when they set off immediately to return to Germany.

An hour after the air raid ended, a sea strike detachment of four battleships and six heavy cruisers of the High Seas Fleet appeared at sea only thirty kilometers from the Orkney Islands, and the people in Scapa Naval Base could even clearly see the high barrels of the ships.

It's a pity that those barrels are pointed at themselves.

Standing in the bridge of the battleship Bismarck, Lütjans held the telescope with one hand and the handrail in front of him with the other, stood straight and looked at the British Scapa Naval Base more than 20 kilometers away, and then viciously gave the order: "All ships are free to fire!" I'm going to leave Scapa in ruins! I'm going to make every Englishman gnash their teeth when they hear my name! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! As Lütjans's order was delivered to every compartment of the entire fleet, the 18 380mm guns, 18 406mm guns, and 82 203mm guns that had already been aimed at erupted the flames of the monarchy, and large-caliber high-explosive shells rained down on Scarpa, which was already in ruins.

The 10 warships bombarded the battlefield for an hour with full firepower, and did not evacuate the battlefield until all the main guns and shells of all the warships were exhausted and the barrels were scrapped.

In total, they fired 6,000 203mm shells, 1,800 380mm main gun shells, and 1,200 406mm shells, which even lowered the altitude of Scarpa Naval Base by half a meter, so that there was no longer a single intact building in the entire base.

London, United Kingdom.

"Prime Minister! An urgent telegram from Chapingse! The communications officer hurriedly pushed open the door of Churchill's office and sent a telegram to Churchill.

Churchill hurriedly began to read the telegram carefully, and he had not heard anything from Scarpa since he had received his report of "a massive air attack by German aircraft" two hours earlier.

This left him anxious—he knew all too well how bad Scarpa's air defense was—and wondered if the home fleet would survive the catastrophe.

"It's over...... The Home Fleet is finished......" After a few glances, Churchill threw the telegram he had been waiting for for two hours on the table, sat down in his office chair with a pale face, and muttered, "It's over...... It's all over......"

"Is it very, terrible?" The Secretary of Defense, who was sitting next to Churchill, glanced at the pale Churchill and realized that the situation could be even worse than their previous projections of "half of the loss of the home fleet".

"The Iron Duke, the Nelson, the Warweary, the Warrior, and the Resolve sank, the Rodney and Barham sank, the Sovereign was seriously wounded and washed on the beach, and only the Malaya and Ramillis were seriously wounded and evacuated from Scar......pa," Churchill said dumbfounded, "all ...... annihilated."

The other ministers sitting in Churchill's office opened their mouths wide in shock.

If someone told them yesterday that there was a fleet in the world that could almost completely annihilate the British Navy, which ranked first in the world in terms of strength, in just three hours, they would definitely think that person was crazy, but today, such a fact is placed in front of their eyes, and they have to believe it.

"Mr. Prime Minister, I think we have to inform Parliament of an emergency session." The Minister of Economy said solemnly, "The most dangerous moment in the history of Britain has arrived!" ”

At the same time, Germany, Berlin.

Leon is now surrounded by a group of high-ranking officials inspecting a food processing plant.

"Führer! A telegram from General Raeder! An SS officer squeezed through the crowd, handed a telegram to Leon with a look of ecstasy, and whispered.

Leon was talking to the director of the food processing plant next to him, who was full of excitement, when he took a telegram look.

Then he couldn't laugh anymore.

"Oh my God!" Leon's mouth grew in surprise.

"What's wrong? What happened? My Führer? The people next to him were full of doubts when they saw Leon's rare gaffe.

"The latest battle report from the front! The High Seas Fleet under Admiral Raeder made a surprise attack on Scarpa Bay, sinking 8 ships and damaging 2 British battleships, including the flagship USS Nelson! Leon shouted excitedly with a telegram in one hand.

The people at the scene were stunned after hearing Leon's words clearly.

8 British battleships? How many battleships did the Royal Navy have? 13 ships (at the moment they don't know about the existence of George V)? In this one fell swoop, 8 out of 13 ships were destroyed......

After a brief silence, cheers erupted, and people hugged each other and cried with joy.

Many of them were from the era of World War I, and as the older generation who had experienced the defeat in World War I and experienced that kind of grievance, they were more excited than anyone else when they got the news.

"The British can't stop us from rising anymore!" Leon pushed away the SS soldiers beside him, climbed up to a high platform excitedly, and waved the telegram in his hand, "The era of belonging to the Reich is coming!" We want to give Europe a new look in our hands! ”

No wonder Leon was so agitated at the moment, he dreamed more than once that he would huddle in a bunker like Hitler a few years later, feed Sophia and Angelica poison with his own hands, and shoot himself in the temple.

And after receiving this telegram, he understood that it would be difficult for this situation to happen again, because it was almost impossible for the British home fleet to stop his "Sea Lion Project" after being heavily damaged.

As long as he succeeds in landing and occupying the British Isles, Germany will be able to create a truly invincible Atlantic barrier, and the "second battlefield in Europe" like the previous one will no longer appear, and Germany will be able to concentrate on dealing with the Soviet Union.

Coupled with the fact that Germany has developed a large number of allies in the Middle East, two of the three major routes for the United States to send supplies to the Soviet Union will be cut off - the Atlantic route and the Iranian transportation route.

The Soviet Union, which had lost the blood supply from the United States, would not have been able to drag Germany to death as it had done in the previous era.

As long as the next step can go well, then he will be almost invincible, Leon thought excitedly.

However, the next day.

"I declare that Britain will henceforth enter a state of total war, and that all the industrial capacity of the whole country must be transferred in a military direction......," Churchill's angry and high-pitched voice was broadcast throughout Britain, "and we must let the Germans know what it will do to anger the British Empire!" We need to show the Germans how strong the fighting spirit of the British really is! ”

Six months after the outbreak of the war, Britain took the lead in carrying out a national mobilization and entered a state of total war!

This is something that no one expected.