"Dunkirk is over, the expeditionary force is over, and the Hood is over......"

Early in the morning of May 15, 1940, when 10 Downing Street had just begun its work, Churchill had not even fully woken up when a piece of news made him almost instantly collapse to the ground. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

From the fall of Clervik on the evening of the 14th to the capture of Dunkirk by the Germans, there were only 12 hours!

All this happened too suddenly, more than 300,000 British and French troops, one. The night came to naught, and Churchill was completely unacceptable, and he was completely unable to account for it to the British people.

Actually, everything that happened was not unforeseeable, and the generator plan itself was a seriously risky plan, and there was a fatal and completely impossible to get out of the loophole.

This plan required the British expeditionary force to flee to Dunkirk at all costs, to abandon everything and flee to Dunkirk at full speed, which was not a retreat at all, but an escape for their lives. Such an order would have directly destroyed the morale of the British expeditionary force.

And they even pinned their hopes on the French soldiers to block the progress of the Germans, the problem is that the British troops around them have fled, how can the French have the heart to continue to fight the Germans?

So, on the night of this day, a once-in-a-millennium spectacle of war was staged in the north of France.

The frantically assaulted German armored units passed directly past the fleeing British soldiers, the British watched the Germans go away, the French followed the British, and kept surrendering, while the German infantry pressed on from behind.

With the exception of Dunkirk, there was hardly any fierce fighting throughout the night, with the German armored forces and motorized infantry advancing north at full speed with the British Expeditionary Force, and the French symbolically surrendered to the large German infantry after firing two shots, and the battlefield was completely indistinguishable from friend and foe.

The 19th Panzer Corps and the 1st Regiment were the closest German units to Dunkirk, and on the night of the 14th, they launched a full-scale attack on Dunkirk.

Although they could wait for the support of the air force after dawn in the morning to fight, according to the information coming from the rear, the ships from the British had already crossed the English Channel and arrived at the port of Dunkirk.

The darkness of the night did cause some trouble for the German offensive, the Dunkirk River network was dense, and the tank troops advanced slowly at night, but again, the Anglo-French army was not much better.

The bombardment of Dunkirk had been going on for several days, and the British expeditionary force had hardly slept for a minute, and was extremely exhausted, and the Germans had never attacked before four o'clock in the morning, wherever they were.

It was precisely because of this almost customary time of attack that the exhausted British Expeditionary Force was sleeping almost all of them this night, and few people had the energy to be on guard.

Therefore, when the German tank army appeared in the city of Dunkirk, the British were hardly prepared, but a few French troops reacted and symbolically resisted.

In the city of Dunkirk, almost no decent fighting broke out, and at two o'clock in the morning, the 19th Panzer Corps and the 1st Regiment were already in full control of Dunkirk except for the destroyed port and beaches.

But the next battle was far from as easy as imagined!

While the large force was resting in the city of Dunkirk, the 1st Panzer Division sent a small force to reconnoiter the British troops in the harbor and on the beach, and less than two minutes after they appeared in the British field of vision, the reconnaissance force was devastated.

The battlecruiser HMS Hood, the British Royal Navy's home fleet, had just completed its refit and arrived outside Dunkirk at night, while the British soldiers on the beach were swimming in the icy waters of the English Channel, heading for their hopes.

In their eyes, the Hood is their harbor home, their hope for life.

As soon as the German tanks appeared on the beachhead, the 381-mm guns of the battlecruiser "Hood" exploded immediately!

Such a terrifying shell, in the hands of this country on the ocean, could accurately hit any target at such a close distance, and the tanks sent out by the 1st Panzer Division to be responsible for reconnaissance were turned into a pile of parts almost instantly, and the firepower of the battle cruisers was simply not something that these tanks on land could withstand.

The huge roar of the ship's guns on the Hood startled Guderian and Li Ling, who were formulating a battle plan in the city of Dunkirk!

The 19th Panzer Corps and the 1st Regiment directly under it simply did not have any weapons capable of threatening this steel monster of the sea!

However, fortunately, it is no longer late at night, and the sky over the English Channel is silent. After the night, it will once again be the stage of the German Air Force!

The news of the appearance of the battlecruiser Hood outside Dunkirk almost instantly ignited the excited nerves of all the naval staff officers in the High Command, the Hood is the flagship of the battlecruiser squadron of the British Royal Navy's home fleet, if he is killed, then it will not be as simple as knocking out a battleship, the symbolism produced here is far greater than a battlecruiser!

It was dawning, and when the soldiers of the expeditionary force finally swam across the long waters and climbed onto the deck of the battlecruiser Hood, the German air force almost poured out, and they had only one goal, and that was the Hood!

At the same time, the first real aircraft carrier of the German Navy, the "Zeppelin", which was carrying out a vigilance mission in the waters near The Hague in the Netherlands, was also moving at full speed in the twilight with his huge aircraft carrier formation, and soon, the carrier-based aircraft wing on the Zeppelin left the deck and rushed into the sky, target: the English Channel!

At six o'clock in the morning, the first wave of German bomber formations arrived over the Hood, ready to start dropping bombs.

At this time, the deck of the Hood was already full of British Expeditionary Force soldiers swimming from the beaches of Dunkirk, and these soaked soldiers were all over the deck of the Hood, and the bombers were in a mess in the air, seriously affecting the use of anti-aircraft fire on the Hood!

With little to no counterattack, the Hood began to endure the ravages of German bombers. .

The captain of the Hood, who was in a hurry, gave an urgent order to return to the ship and forcibly turned the ship, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were still in the water were almost instantly twisted into a pulp by the huge propellers of the Hood, and the sea water was blood-red!

...... (To be continued.) )