Berlin, Germany, High Command of the German Army, Office of the Führer.

Leon stood in the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the light snow falling outside, his expression serious, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Führer, the latest briefing from the Dutch side!" The door was pushed open from the outside, and a soldier with the rank of SS general on his shoulder hurried to Lyon's side with a telegram and said.

The person who came was Ludwig, and he was probably the only one in Germany who could enter without knocking on the door of the Führer's office.

Of course, Ludwig usually knocks on the door, but today it was an emergency that would ignore etiquette.

"Read it to me." I don't know if Leon has a cold, his voice is a little hoarse today.

"Your Excellency the Führer, the damage to the Den Helder naval base has been counted, of which 80% of the ground infrastructure has been damaged, and two of the four underground oil depots have been destroyed. 334 people were killed and 272 wounded, including 212 in your country, including the commander of the base, Vice Admiral Erich Zig. Due to the heroic fighting of your three heavy cruisers, which bought precious time for the evacuation of the base, all the logistics and port ships in the base evacuated the base and carried a large number of supplies to other safer ports for refuge in a safe and orderly manner. On behalf of Queen Wilhelmina and the Government of the Netherlands, I would like to express my most sincere condolences to you and your people for your losses and the loss of your officers and men. - Dutch Admiralty. ”

Leon closed his eyes after listening.

After a long time, he exhaled a long breath and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why are the British so easily able to approach such an important naval base as ours?" Why was the British raiding fleet discovered less than 70 kilometers from Den Held? ”

"According to the Dutch investigation, because the weather was bad that day, and the planes equipped at the Dutch air base that was responsible for providing air cover for the Den Helder base were all relatively old and open-cockpit aircraft, the frequency of reconnaissance aircraft sorties was reduced, and they were not notified to Den Held, so that the naval aviation attached to the Den Helder base maintained the original attendance rate as usual, so that the British fleet was not ......discovered until within 100 kilometers," Ludwig replied with his head down.

"The attendance of the aircraft has decreased, but what about the radar?" Leon was a little annoyed, "Could it be that the radar also went on strike because of the bad weather?!" ”

"Well, Den Helder doesn't have a radar ......"

"No radar?!" Leon turned to look directly at Ludwig, "How can there be no radar?" When the Denghelder Naval Base project was established, I specifically asked to build a complete radar station near the base, and even when the project was being constructed, I also saw the location of the radar station on the engineering drawings, why are you telling me that there is no radar now?! ”

"Führer, the builders did build the radar station according to your requirements, and it was built according to the placement of the highest level radar, but ......," Ludwig paused, "but the radar station was built, and there was no radar in Keri, it was just an empty shell." ”

"Why?!"

"Because Siemens didn't receive enough payment, they refused to supply radar components to the military."

"Didn't I give enough money to the Den Helder project? Why does Siemens say it didn't receive it? Leon was a little angry, he thought at first that it was Siemens' intention, but when he thought about it, it was impossible, because Siemens had always been a staunch supporter of him, and there was no reason to do such a thing.

"Inform Heydrich and ask him to send someone to investigate." Leon waved his hand.

"Okay." Ludwig nodded respectfully.

"And." Leon thought of something, "What about Raeder?" He should have returned to Den Held, right? ”

"No, Führer." Ludwig shook his head, "He ordered Admiral Lütjans, who had been supporting the army in Belgium and had ended up fighting with the French Navy, and his battleship detachment to join him, and then led the entire high seas fleet north, saying that he was going to carry out a mission you gave him to avenge the three heavy cruisers." ”

At last, Ludwig thought for a moment and added, "I thought you knew, so I didn't tell you." ”

"The task I gave him?" Leon is a little confused, if I remember correctly, he hasn't given Raeder any tasks lately.

Suddenly, a plan popped into his mind, and combined with "going north", he could probably guess what Raeder was doing.

"He's got a head open?" Leon thought suspiciously.

At the same time, somewhere in the North Sea, the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Lyon Andrés, the flagship of the German High Seas Fleet.

Raeder stood by the port window, looking out the window not far away, at the Deutsche aircraft carrier that was moving at a high speed of 28 knots.

The German High Seas Fleet had been assembled two hours earlier, and the main fleet, consisting of six heavy fleet carriers and four battleships, began to accelerate northward under Raeder's command.

No one knew what Raeder was in such a hurry to go north for, not even the two battleships that had just fought the French and were still wounded.

"So you're saying that the French fleet has a very strong new battleship, right?" After a long time, Raeder asked Ruetjens, who was beside him after completing his battle report.

"Yes, we have never seen that battleship." "It has a strange appearance, it only has two turrets, all forward-mounted, and each turret has four main guns. Looking at the movement of their main guns, most of them were 380mm caliber, but they were very powerful and accurate, and a salvo from 18,000 meters directly hit the Admiral Schell twice, one piercing its rear main deck and horizontal armor, causing dozens of casualties. The other hit the thickest part of the shield on the front of turret No. 2 and nearly penetrated turret No. 2 and blasted it into the air. ”

As he spoke, Lütjans glanced at the Admiral Schell not far to the right of the Ang Andrés.

A large crater is clearly visible on turret 2.

"380mm caliber, so powerful...... "Raeder muttered, "such a high penetration, either a high-caliber naval gun, or a strong charge...... The French are getting more and more interesting...... We'll avenge the Scheer twice, but we have to avenge the Ron first. ”

"To be honest, General, I don't know where you're going." Lütjans finally asked, and the constant journey north made him very uneasy, because the northernmost point of the North Sea was England.

"Go here." Raeder walked back to the middle of the bridge and pointed to a spot on the map.

"Park ...... Portsmouth?! Ruttyans exclaimed in surprise.