Chapter 390: No One Can Afford to Lose
Sir Forbes stood in the bridge command room in despair, looking at all this in agony.
In my ears, the shrill whistle of the German Stuka bomber as it dived came out of nowhere, and quickly turned from a thin whimper to a creepy scream. Immediately, even the battleship Prince of Wales, the flagship of the British First Fleet, on which Sir Forbes was located, sounded the loss alarm sound from electronic instruments.
In the midst of this maddening noise, the command room suddenly lit up. Several incendiary bombs were accurately dropped by German Stuka bombers on the battleship Prince of Wales.
The huge body of the battleship Prince of Wales was shaking violently.
Immediately afterwards, five or six more torpedoes smashed into the deck of the battleship Prince of Wales. The flagship established by Sir Forbes is like a small sampan tumbling on the top of a monstrous wave.
Many of the deck crew members were thrown to their feet, crashed into instruments, slammed into turrets, or tumbled over railings and plunged into the sea...... The screams and screams were endless.
The battleship Prince of Wales is the second ship of the King George V-class battleships in the British Royal Navy, and it can also be said to be the latest and most advanced battleship in Britain so far, and it is one of the main battleships of the British Royal Navy.
Construction of the Prince of Wales began on 2 January 1936 and was launched on 13 February 1939, and the new battleship might not have been brought in for the emergency situation in Dunkirk, the poor implementation of the "generator plan", and the urgent mobilization of warships by the Admiralty.
Of course, because it is the most advanced new ship, Sir Forbes also regarded it as the flagship of the detachment, and placed it at the rear of the main formation for the finale. On the one hand, the ship's equipment is the most advanced, which is convenient for command, and on the other hand, it is also to protect the new ship from being the first to be attacked on the front line.
However, this latest battleship seems to be about to become a beautiful firework on the sea, just like the old battleship "Hood", which has just been sunk.
In the violent shaking of the explosion, Sir Forbes used all his strength to stabilize his body, and subconsciously looked out of the porthole in front of the left side of the command room.
As far as the eye could see, a German F-190 fighter plane was rolling past his eyes, turning a C-shaped arc in the void, biting a "Swordfish" torpedo plane that had not had time to increase its speed.
Dozens of 20 secret machine shells swept along with the F-190's cannon, and then, the British "Swordfish" in front of it turned into a cloud of bursting fireworks.
This firework deeply hurt Forbes' eyes. As the light dissipated, he saw hundreds of German fighters, like countless locusts, rushing into the farmland in his greenhouse and grazing frantically. They swerved at high speed between the warships of the British fleet, rolling or staggering, pulling out a dizzying array of flight paths.
On the way, once they encountered the British "Swordfish" torpedo planes, those German "locusts" would immediately swarm in, and three or two of them would cooperate in the attack, so that the British fighters quickly turned into a cloud of explosive dust.
The remaining bit of anti-aircraft fire in the British fleet, which was increasingly dispersed, was more of a dance for the German fighters than driven away them. If it is said that when the First Fleet of Lütjans first sent fighters, the British First Fleet, which was still intact at that time, failed to occupy the slightest advantage.
How, then, could the British First Fleet, which had now lost a large number of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and, with it, anti-aircraft anti-aircraft firepower on those ships, drive away the more powerful, German Second Mixed Fleet of warplanes.
Every time these damned German planes flew over the head of a certain battleship, they immediately flashed a series of explosive fires that caused Sir Forbes a pain in his flesh.
Battleships that took years to build, a large number of well-trained and excellent crews, were simply gone, and they were destroyed by cheap planes!
At this time, the main formation of battleships, which had just retreated from the British First Fleet, was already in disarray. One battleship after another was paralyzed and shattered in a violent explosion. Some of the warships that lost control even leaned diagonally, and some of them slowly rammed into the friendly ships next to them. Others, who were seriously wounded, broke away from the side of the rearing fleet, and then fell far behind, alone and helplessly in the midst of numerous German warplanes.
Forbes's blood, from his face and lips, faded rapidly, and his face at the moment was as pale as a dead man.
"Commander!" His adjutant wailed, "We're finished, we're finished!" ”
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"I don't know if the Germans' 1st Mixed Fleet will be able to defeat the British?" Behind the left flank of the German Second Mixed Fleet, in the main fleet of the Royal Norwegian Navy, the commander sent by the Norwegian Navy, Rear Admiral Auger, was discussing with his own group of operational staff officers.
As a follower of Quisling, Oger, an unknown lieutenant commander of the navy, helped Norway drive out the Anglo-French forces in Germany, and after Quisling successfully ascended to the throne, he was immediately promoted and replaced the fleet commander installed by the former Norwegian prime minister.
Although his abilities are average, Ogy has one advantage, that is, he is obedient and obedient to Quisling. This time he went out with the German army, and he also brought this good habit to the Combined Fleet. In other words, for Raeder's instructions, the Norwegian rear admiral also obeyed them one by one.
Because Raeder was also commanding an Allied fleet for the first time, there was no precedent to follow. So he put the Norwegian fleet behind the flanks in a proper way, and just followed the scene.
In addition, Raeder and Lütjans also relied on aircraft carriers to fight, so these Norwegian battleships did not receive any orders, and they followed the high seas fleet very safely to play soy sauce.
"You should be able to win, haven't the Germans already won the British fleet once in our Narvik Heights." One of Auger's captains of an armored ship was meeting with the other captains at his flagship.
To tell the truth, the captain's heart has long been in his throat. If Lütjans's First Fleet fails to win, it may be Raeder's turn to take the Second Fleet and their Norway into battle. At that time, how many of these tattered warships can survive the duel between the giant ships of the two great powers.......
The captain's self-consolation method obviously did not move Ogg. If you want to talk about the naval battle of Narvik, it can be compared with today's battle.
The Norwegian naval battle, the German high seas fleet, that lion fights rabbits, and uses two aircraft carriers to sneak attack the defenseless lax British destroyer patrol fleet, isn't this equivalent to a muscular man beating a three-year-old child, and also picking other people's children to do it when they are asleep?
Can you not win?!
But today, both sides have taken out the main force at the bottom of the box, and they are engaged in a head-to-head confrontation without fancy means. Today's battle is a crucial battle that can truly determine the hegemony of the European seas!
No one can afford to lose this battle......