Sometimes, it's just that brutal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe more you are afraid of something, the more something will appear......

For example, when you forget to revise, the teacher will randomly check the exam, and then ask you, who can't remember anything, to roll to the back of the classroom and be punished.

For example, when you go out with your roommate to open the black, and you are fighting a blind monk in the jungle, the old professor of the professional class angrily names him and threatens to hang the subject if he skips class.

For example, when he prayed with all his heart that the Germans would be deceived into keeping his navy in Brest, the fleet of the Germans set sail that night......

Yes, when Churchill dreamed that the German Navy would not move, the German Navy, under the command of Lütjens, set sail with all the money it could bring with it.

That's right! It is all the family base to be able to bring! With the exception of the battleship Bismarck, which was repaired at the dock, all the battleships set sail.

In order to maintain the overall speed, the German fleet did not even bring two armored ships, maintaining the flexibility of the entire fleet in a state of rapid navigation, more than 30 knots.

Lütjans was moved to tears for the battleship in his hand: he could finally take his warship across the Atlantic with impunity.

However, things were not as rosy as he had imagined - in fact, most of the warships in his hands did not have enough ammunition, except for refueling.

The battleships, including Tirpitz, had only surplus ammunition and had not received large-scale ammunition replenishment.

More sufficient, were two battle cruisers, because they were armed with 280 mm caliber cannons, which had some reserves in Brest.

These reserves, which had been supplied to the Scharnhorst, were now given to the Gneisenau, which was considered to make up for the consumption of the two ships.

As for the poor Prince Eugen, and the Tirpitz, the rest of the ammunition was the one that had been brought out of the port of Kiel.

Although it has not been replenished, the ammunition in the inventory of these warships is enough for this operation. What worries Ruetjens is the problems after returning home.

On this voyage, the ammunition of the battleship is barely enough, but the next voyage, it will need to be replenished.

I heard that Raeder was desperately mobilizing a special train, hoping to replenish Brest's ammunition stockpile. Now we can only hope that the replenishment can be put in place as soon as possible, so that the German Navy will not be paralyzed in Brest.

The drawbacks of the navy's lack of readiness for war were dragging the German navy a little bit. Although the Führer's support played a role in alleviating it, after all, the Navy was not ready for a real fight.

Thankfully, the British Navy was not prepared for such a war......

The two armored ships left the harbor first, and took the minesweepers around the perimeter of Brest to check the course of the fleet.

After that, under the surveillance of British submarines, the German ship units swaggered out of Brest, once again stirring the sensitive nerves of the British Navy.

"Oh no! Oh no! In the naval headquarters on the British mainland, an officer in charge of reconnaissance waved the telegram in his hand and loudly reported the funeral.

He ran up to the new Charles, pressed a telegram from a submarine monitoring the movements of the German Navy from the front line, and pressed it on the latter's desk.

"Sir...... The news just came that the German Navy had been dispatched, and they increased their speed as soon as they came out of Brest and rushed directly to the Atlantic. The officer said helplessly.

What are you afraid of, hearing the news of the German Navy's sailing, Charles really couldn't cry or laugh.

Just now, he knew that the two convoys of CK-3 and AK-3 transport ships had entered the Atlantic, and at the same time, there were two fleets of AK-1 and AK-2 floating in the danger range.

The AK-3 is a temporary replenishment fleet from the United States to the United Kingdom, consisting of temporarily drawn American transport ships.

This fleet is full of grain transport ships, in order to alleviate the problem of food shortage in the British mainland, because of the loss of the CK-1 fleet and the TC transport fleet.

As for the AK-1 and AK-2, one is an arms carrier, which is loaded with tanks and other military supplies ordered by the United Kingdom; The other is a replenishment ship for important supplies such as steel.

Listen to what these convoys are loading, and you will know that the speed of these convoys is almost as small as crawling.

Coupled with the interference of German submarines along the way, the route and other issues are almost already well known to the German side.

In the past, the British transport fleet had no fear, and even if the German submarines knew the route, they could barely complete the journey by relying on escort destroyers.

Now, it is not the slow submarine force of the German Navy that is chasing these convoys, but a German fleet that can sail at high speeds and encircle and intercept the convoys!

"Hell! Counting the small convoy of transports, there are almost 10 convoys that will be affected and affected! Charles felt his head go big.

He had to take action now, and if these fleets lost one or two, the British Empire would almost be in chaos.

"Let the native fleet dispatch at once...... "Nothing else, Charles could only let the fleet go out first, covering the fleet that could cover from the German fleet.

"Also, bring the fleets of transport ships closer to each other, as close together as possible!" In order to reduce the losses, Charles had to abandon efficiency and once again change the range of the entire transport fleet.

Only by concentrating all the fleets that are dangerous at sea and then using their own home fleet to protect them can the losses be minimized.

Although the German fleet was fast, it was not flexible and weak. Charles knew that the other side was very powerful in guerrillas, but he was not strong enough to fight a decisive battle with the British Home Fleet.

Charles had the heart to ask how the Germans had chosen such a good time to let their fleet into the Atlantic.

But he kept his mouth shut at the critical moment - words such as espionage and intelligence are now taboo in Britain.

As soon as the shadow troops of the Germans were involved, the severity of the matter would rise, and eventually it would rise infinitely to the level of collapse.

In fact, Charles also guessed that the German Navy must have referred to the intelligence of the submarine forces, and finally determined the time when British sea transportation was most frequent, and dispatched its own fleet at this time.

Like the British, the Germans deployed their own submarines off the east coast of the United States, which played the role of reconnaissance in advance, providing the wolf pack with parameters for early action.

To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the British Navy's home fleet this time is even stronger than the previous home fleet.

The flagship battleship King George V, with the three battleships Balham and Sovereign, as well as the Rodney and the Revenge, and the war-weary, which had just been assigned to the home fleet, set sail en masse, a total of six battleships.

And this time, only one battlecruiser Counterattack remained on the mainland. The reason why he did not take this fast battle cruiser, Charles also had his own calculations.

The last decisive battle with the German fleet with battle cruisers resulted in the loss of two valuable battleships, the Hood and the Prestige.

The bitter lesson taught Charles that relying on battlecruisers to compete with the battleships of the German Navy was a very dangerous option.

Therefore, Charles thought that instead of taking the only remaining battlecruiser, it would be more appropriate to bring a more stable battleship, albeit slowly.

Anyway, the main fleet of the British Navy is generally slow, so the only remaining faster battleship makes no difference with or without it.

Moreover, this time Charles made up his mind not to let his bulky fleet go after the German partisan fleet, as he had done last time.

He planned to let the convoy assemble and arrive intact on the mainland under the protection of the home fleet, and that's it.

In Charles's opinion, isn't your German fleet capable of running, then I won't chase it at all! It's okay to guard your fleet and wait for you to come to the door, and if you don't come, my transport fleet will have no losses, and this exchange will not be lost.

To be on the safe side, the two advanced aircraft carriers, the Dreadnought and the Ark Royal, also sailed with the fleet - the home fleet was still twice as large as the German partisan fleet in terms of strength.

As if there were no losses, the warships dispatched by the home fleet were still unshakable to the German Navy, which was the foundation of the British Navy's strength.

Including the cruisers that searched the German fleet, as well as other auxiliary ships, the British Navy dispatched thirty ships of various types in one go, which was five times the number of ships of the German Navy.

With this mighty home fleet was also a famous British admiral. He is Tom, who was appointed commander of the British Far East Fleet in real history? S? General V. Phillips.

The change in history made him, an admiral who had honestly sat in his office and served as deputy chief of staff of the Navy, have to take over Charles's position and become the commander of the home fleet.

As for whether he can avoid the fate of going to the Far East to eat Japanese torpedoes because of Li Le's butterfly wings, it is still unknown.

"Call Admiral Somerville, and if he thinks he can, let the carrier Radiance be dispatched to help search the German fleet......" Charles, who still felt that his arrangement was not safe enough, gave Somerville another battle order.

Charles, who desperately made a series of tactical arrangements, also knew that he had made a mess of the entire shipping arrangement.

But in order to save his convoy, he had to stick to it. And after giving the order to change the course of the fleets, the news of the departure of the German fleet was notified to Churchill, who had already slept.