At 1:30 a.m. on November 17, 1940, the German partisan fleet was still under strict lighting control. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Aside from the necessary emergency directional light contact, the entire fleet was like a ghost floating in the Atlantic, almost invisible in the darkness of the night.

The weather was so bad that even the stars and the moon were out of sight. So at this time, visibility was extremely low, and it was impossible to see the faces of the battleships in the distance at all.

Growing waves, crashing against the battleship, splashed several stories high. The sharp bow of the German battleship rose and fell in this way on the icy waters of the Atlantic.

It is indeed an icy sea, because it is close to Greenland, and it is often possible to see floating icebergs here, which is frozen all year round.

The German sailors on duty, dressed in thick coats and overcoats, were still shivering and tormenting at the observation posts on the masts.

After all, it's already November, after all, this is the cold North Atlantic, after all, this is the worst place on the planet......

Inside the battleship, which had no lights, the German sailors slept soundly in their beds. Tonight they were ordered to recuperate and get up before dawn.

Compared to Germany's most famous submarine force, these sailors living on battleships lived in a much better environment.

They have beds that are not spacious, but fixed and stable. There is a miniature library to pass the time when you are bored, and there is a special smoking area.

This is a huge, and sophisticated combat weapon, the pride of the German Navy! Compared with similar British warships, the Bismarck was much more cutting-edge.

Although there was a suspicion of wasting firepower, the Bismarck battleship still surpassed most of the existing British battleships.

The largest tonnage warship in German history, with its amazing manufacturing process and terrifying precision instruments.

Germany, which has the world's most sophisticated sighting equipment, has installed a world-class mechanical aiming command system on its battleships.

Don't underestimate this system, it may have been one of the most advanced command systems in the world before the birth of the computer command system.

The German electromechanical fire director mounted on the battleship Bismarck was so large and complex that it was able to be directly connected to the main turret control cabinet and the results of the calculations were displayed in the relevant command compartment with an electromechanical dial.

The accuracy and reliability of the device is still very high, and the length of the aiming baseline is a full 10 and a half meters! This length ensures that the main gun can accurately hit the target at the limit of the range.

In addition to the installation of two large sets of 10.5-meter optical rangefinders, the main gun turret is also equipped with independent 10.5-meter rangefinders, which facilitate the continuation of range-finding and fire-control firing according to the commander's telephone command after the command turret fails.

Unfortunately, the German naval radar was really limited in terms of detection range and its performance was not advanced.

Li Le's time to improve the radar was too short, and the engineers did not have the ability to come up with a high-performance and stable radar that could be used, so they could only improve the original radar and make do with it first.

This set of radars can only detect sea targets at a distance of 30 kilometers, which can only be said to be very ordinary compared to the British and American radars of the same period.

However, for Germany, it is not afraid of temporary backwardness, but only conservative thinking, and it will waste precious time by taking the wrong path.

Now that German engineers are trying to improve their radars, of course, they are not lagging behind.

With the continuous increase of investment, one day, the radar of the Germans will also become the world's first-class radar.

The huge hull of the battleship Bismarck, which is more than 50,000 tons, still rocks up and down on the turbulent sea of the Atlantic waveguide, and compared to the huge power of nature, human beings are still small after all.

On the bridge of the battleship Bismarck, the officer on duty was meticulously standing at his post, and although the lights had been extinguished, he could still see the outline of the main guns in front of his battleship.

He was ordered to wait for dawn, and when it was dawn, he handed over command to Captain Lindemann and Commander Lütjens.

At the moment of sunrise, the entire fleet will open fire, attacking the defenseless enemy, sending the laden ships to the depths of the ocean.

It was definitely a battle with a huge disparity of power, and all they had to do was wait for the dawn to come.

In the distance, on the equally undulating aircraft carrier Zeppelin, in the cramped officer's rest compartment, Hines found himself unable to sleep.

Because the sea conditions were so bad that the USS Zeppelin could not take off carrier-based aircraft, it now completely became a burden on the fleet.

At nightfall, while the waves were still permitting, Lütjans had already arrived on the Bismarck in a dinghy.

The battle tomorrow morning will completely depend on the cannons on the battleship, and his own aircraft carrier is destined to be just a spectator this time.

Unable to sleep, he sat up from his bed. On the rocking battleship, he felt the huge waves outside.

The weather was so bad that it really made the budding German naval aviation sigh. They have not yet shown enough of their great strength, and they have become supporting actors in the war.

"When will the damn weather be calm again?" Feeling his battleship swaying from side to side, Hines muttered in frustration.

Then he slipped out of his cabin, and by the dim light, climbed the stairs at the end of the hallway.

As he pushed open the hatch on the bridge, a cold wind poured into his clothes. On deck, the sailors were inspecting some equipment that needed to be secured, but the efficiency was very slow.

"Victory! Monarch! Good evening sir! A ground attendant saw Hines walking over and recognized it for a long time before standing up and saluting.

After all, it's too dark to see anything clearly. The entire deck was shaking, and the strong sea breeze made it a huge force to take every step forward.

"How's the inspection going? I don't want anything wrong! Hines asked his men in front of him, narrowing his eyes.

The subordinate in front of him hurriedly replied: "Sir! It may rain tonight, and the planes are already covered in canvas. ”

He replied as he pointed to the plane in the distance: "All the planes have been set up, and there won't be too many problems." ”

"It's really bad weather, we never encountered anything like this when we were training on the Baltic Sea!" Hines clutched his windswept hair in his hands and shouted loudly to his men.

Before the shouting landed, a dark shadow in the distance made a sound, and the people around shouted something, because the distance was not audible at all.

Soon, the sound of a huge object falling into the sea came. A soldier hurriedly ran in the direction of the bridge, and saw Hines and others on the way.

"Sir! We need more ropes! The rope holding the plane was so thin that a Stuka fell into the sea! The soldier panicked and ran to the bridge to get more ropes.

Hines looked at his men sadly and scolded, "Go and prepare more ropes!" Take advantage of the fact that it is not raining, hurry up and secure all the planes! Fast! ”

Training is not a substitute for everything, such as how to fix an aircraft on deck under such complex sea conditions.

In order to be able to carry more aircraft, the aircraft carrier Zeppelin also parked ten aircraft on the deck. It's just that, just now, there were eight out of ten planes left......

The Stuka C bomber that crashed into the sea, after the fixed steel cable broke, crashed into a nearby Stuka C bomber and fell into the sea.

In just such an instant, shooting down two German carrier-based aircraft, something that the British Royal Navy could not do, nature easily did.

Hines also ran to those precious planes, and with the help of many people, he doubled the fixed ropes of all carrier-based aircraft.

"Write this lesson down! Don't make the same mistake again next time! After feeling distressed, Hines did not blame his subordinates too much, and after saying this, he went back to his cabin.

No one wants this to happen. But after all, the use of German aircraft carriers is too small, and they can only gradually master many unimaginable details in the continuous exploration.

Walking back into the dimly lit hallway, Hines leaned against the wall of the cabin and pulled out his pocket watch to look at a wall lamp, which had barely passed an hour.

"It seems that this night is still very long." Hines muttered a dejected word and walked to his cabin.

The night seemed like a long one for all. Far behind the German fleet, the British fleet was sailing at its fastest speed, trying to reach the designated position before dawn came.

Just now, after talking to the CK-1 transport fleet, Churchill finally put his mind at ease. His fleet was still there, and no signs of the German fleet approaching were found.

The message shows that the sea conditions near the North Atlantic Ocean are already very bad, and it is almost certain that the aircraft carrier aircraft will not be able to take off.

The German fleet was the fastest, and it could only begin to attack the fleet at dawn tomorrow, which was good news for the British fleet.

Because the British fleet was expected to arrive at about the early hours of the next morning. If the British fleet was fast enough, the CK-1 transport fleet would be safe.

The three commanders of the British Navy, Charles, John? Tovey and Somerville didn't sleep, after all, the next dawn was related to the outcome of this naval battle.

The moment the sun rises in the east, whoever can have the last laugh will know.