The German pocket battleship Admiral Schell charged forward, with a German Vice Admiral's flag hanging from the tall mast, indicating the ship's flagship.

Vice Admiral Lütjans sat in the armored command tower in front of the bridge, silently listening to the captains and officers issuing battle orders. He didn't like the boat, not from the beginning. This battleship was chosen as the flagship only because she had a very complete long-range communication system and could directly communicate with the command.

Having participated in the Battle of Jutland and witnessing Operation Rainbow, he shared the belief of other Navy seniors and colleagues who had lived through those tragic days that the humiliation and pain could only be washed away with the blood of the enemy.

But if we think rationally about tactics, Lütjans felt that with the current strength of the German navy, there was no need for such a risk. The German Navy, like the British Navy, could not afford any losses at the moment.

The tasks of the German Navy were too onerous, and the number of troops was already stretched thin, and the loss of any warship was unacceptable. The Atlantic, the North Sea, the west coast of Africa, everywhere shouted that more ship support was needed. The German Navy had not yet entered the Mediterranean, otherwise it would have to draw another batch of ships, and the cruisers would not fall from the sky, and Lütjans was not a god, it was impossible to conjure a ship out of thin air, and he was now eager to break one destroyer into two.

The welding rivets on the slipways of the German shipyards never stopped, and the SS proved once again to be very good foremen, with their simple and crude methods, whips and iron gold marks, and the efficiency of the shipyards had increased by three hundred percent. Those battleships, which were once only on the Führer's drawings, are now slowly taking shape.

But after all, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the near water, and at least for a year, Lütjans still has to be careful with his calculations. Live a tight life.

"Fifty thousand meters, sir." The captain, Rear Admiral Hertes, reported to Ruetjans.

"Stay on course and wait for the signal." Lütjans stood up, stood in front of the narrow observation slit behind the side of the conning tower, and looked out with his binoculars in hand. The huge silhouette of the Scharnhorst appears in the camera, and he sees the figure swaying in the seafaring bridge of the battleship, and on the lookout bridge on one side, someone is looking at it with a telescope.

"The German Navy will do its duty and obey orders, but if only for the sake of honor. Is it necessary? Or rather, what do you want to prove to the Führer, Your Excellency the Commander. "Lütjens knew the identity of the figure, that it was this guy who had taken his ship and thrown him back on the pocket battleship, but he could only accept it honestly, and could not express the slightest dissatisfaction, because that man was his immediate superior, the commander-in-chief of the German Navy. Ehrlich. John. Albert. Admiral Raeder.

This sortie was entirely a personal act of Raeder, who asked the High Command with all his might that the surface fleet of the German Navy should complete the final blow to the British Navy. Ending his long-cherished wish that has been entangled in his heart day and night for 24 years.

Raeder knew that after this time, Britain and Germany would never have the opportunity to fight such a fleet battle at the same time. This was the last chance for the old German navy. For the sake of the dead and still living admirals of the Second German Reich, and for the sake of the warships that sank in the Bay of Biscay, he wanted to continue the honor of the German Navy in this way. Regaining the glory and pride he had lost, he is ready to reshape the soul of the Imperial Navy. The surface fleet of the German Navy is not an escort detachment of submarine groups, absolutely not.

It is said that Raeder expressed his opinion to the Führer on the phone, swearing a long sigh of bluff and resignation with fierce gambling and swearing, anyway, all the obscene tricks were used, and finally the Führer Reinhardt reluctantly agreed to his request.

The old guy immediately set off from the headquarters, jumped on a torpedo boat and went straight to the escort strike fleet. At this time, the German naval fleet was a little bored, and lined up to play in circles in the sea near Diere, with no goal or opponent, and asked for guidance from above, but there was no reply from above.

No one expected that the top boss would come over in person, and Raeder directly boarded the Scharnhorst, the flagship of Lütjens, and then summoned all the captains to the flagship for a meeting. The lineup in the conference room startled the captains, and next to the admiral sat two admirals, one was Carl. Wiesel, director of naval armament, and William Murphy. Sherman, former commander of the German Battlefleet. The two World War I veterans happened to be drinking coffee at Raeder's headquarters, and the old guy walked out of the office and saw them, and casually asked: "Beat the British, do you want to go?" So they went with them.

Raeder said that the British fleet came out, the target was the Strait of Dover, and after his all-out efforts, the Führer finally agreed to give the task of defeating the British home fleet to the German Navy's new High Seas Fleet, and now all of them immediately went out to rush the Strait of Dover, assault the British fleet, destroy the British fleet, and regain the honor of the German Navy. It was 10 a.m. on the morning of D, and there were still four and a half hours before the two sides met.

At 3:15 p.m. on D, in the middle of the English Channel, the weather was sunny and breezy. The British fleet was the first to spot the oncoming German fleet.

"Directly ahead, 20 miles away, an unknown fleet was found, numbering about ten." The lookout of the J-type destroyer Javelin, who was running at the forefront, held the lens of the fifteen telescopes, and looked at the group of large warships with wide hulls and tall bridges, rushing towards him, and he could vaguely distinguish the huge turrets on those battleships, and the young soldier couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

The British fleet immediately began to prepare for battle, the trumpets and drums of battle readiness sounded from the horns, and the sailors, who had been waiting for battle, began to make final preparations in accordance with naval regulations. The sailors quickly ran into their work cabins, the waterproof doors of the bilge were closed and locked one by one, and the marine sailors who were not on duty joined the ammunition groups of the secondary and main guns according to the groups during training. The medic and the stretcher team stood at the foot of the stairs in the main aisle of the deck, the damage management team put on fireproof suits and steel helmets and gas masks, the elevator transmitted the propellant and shells from the hoisting shaft to the turret, and the hydraulic loading system stuffed the warheads and kits into the gun chamber one by one.

The two destroyers had completed their reconnaissance mission, and putting them on the front line was tantamount to sending them to death, and Tovey immediately ordered them to withdraw, and he formed the four destroyers into a group. Placed on the inner line of the fleet, these destroyers will play no role in the battle of the fleet, and if they are placed on the side of the distant enemy, separated by their own battle lines, the destroyers will be shielded and covered by the hull of their own battleships in the shelling battle, while waiting for the opportunity to launch an unexpected surprise attack.

Tovey is a destroyer officer and has his own unique understanding of destroyer use. Of course, this does not mean that he will not fight the battle of the battle line, he participated in the Battle of Jutland. He commanded a destroyer to launch a torpedo attack on Hipper's flagship, the battlecruiser Luzo, but it was unsuccessful, and he was fired by the main guns of the German battle cruisers, and finally escaped with serious injuries, and there was a young staff officer on the Luzo, who was now the commander-in-chief of the German Navy. These two men may never have imagined that after twenty-four years, they would meet again at sea and draw an end to that never-ending battle.

The fleets of both sides approached at high speed. The German fleet was lined up in two columns, each with four ships, and two ships in front and behind, with two German-class pocket battleships in the middle of the column. On the right are two Scharnhorst-class battleships, on the left are two Hipper-class battleships, and on the far on the left are two light cruisers.

Raeder knew very well that the German fleet did not actually have the upper hand, and the two sides could only be said to be evenly matched. Germany's shortcoming was that it did not have a single battleship in the true sense of the word. Although the 283mm main gun can beat all the British heavy cruisers in front of it, there is no way to take the Queen Elizabeth class.

The Queen Elizabeth class is a famous iron turtle with thick armor and heavy armor that can withstand beatings. In the Battle of Jutland, he was in the limelight. The German Navy's existing 283 mm guns had to be within 10,000 meters to penetrate the 360 mm thick main armor. The 356 mm main gun of the Queen Elizabeth, although the performance is much behind the times, is still enough to inflict a fatal blow on all the German warships present, and no German ** ship's armor can withstand the bombardment of this firepower.

The distance between the two sides was 24,000 kilometers, and the British first could not resist the pressure and launched the first round of shelling. The British Navy was arranged in an L-shape, with three heavy cruisers and one battleship in the first row, and six light cruisers in a column following behind the outermost Cumberland, Tovey was prepared to make the most of the firepower of the four capital ships before entering the battle line, and strive to get the first result before approaching 20,000 yards.

The British Royal Navy's artillery technology is not much to be seen, even after he obtained Germany's most advanced optical observation and fire control command system after the end of World War I, he still stubbornly insisted on their own old ways, saying that they were complacent, saying that they did not want to forge ahead, anyway, the British Royal Navy insisted that their technology was the best, the Battle of Jutland was proof, and the surrender of the Germans was proof.

A column of coloured water rose in front of and on the sides of the German fleet, and in order to make it easier to identify the landing point, the warhead was filled with dye, and each battleship chose a different color, usually red and blue. The first round of shelling by the British Royal Navy was somewhat ugly, with a deviation of more than two kilometers at the farthest point, and there may have been problems with their range.

The German fleet remained unmoved, still maintaining its original course and approaching the British. Two minutes later, the British fired a second salvo, because the two sides were facing the enemy head-on, so the British fleet could only fire with half of the main guns in the front, the advantage was that it was easier to adjust the angle, and at the same time reduced their own bomb surface, the disadvantage was that the fire density was not enough, and it increased the difficulty of ranging.

The second round of shelling fell short again, but it was significantly better than the first, especially the Queen Elizabeth, whose 356-mm guns fired the most easily identifiable columns of water, two of which fell into the sea about 600 meters in front of the Admiral Schell's side, almost hitting the "flagship" of the German Navy.

Lütjans wiped a cold sweat in the armored commander tower of Scheer, he heard that the command seemed to be in the process of reviewing and preparing to downgrade this pocket battleship to a heavy cruiser, he now very much agrees with the high command, the Scheer can indeed only be regarded as an armored cruiser, what is stronger than her is not as fast as her, and what is faster than her is not as strong as her, and in the end it is not forced to die outside the harbor by three cruisers.

"When this battle is over, I don't even want Scharnhorst! I'm going to hang the command flag on the Bismarck. Lutyans secretly made a decision.

Now he had nothing to do, basically a disguise, with two thin-skinned pseudo-battleships to attract the attention of the British, and the guy who really gave the order sat on the Scharnhorst, crouched in the 350 mm armored conning tower and roared happily to the sky. Now there are three heavy cruisers and one battleship on the opposite side, the 150 mm armor outside the Scheer Command Tower can't stop anything, as long as it is shot, it will be over, now the combat command has a captain, the fleet commander has a boss, Lütjans and his chief of staff are standing by the armored observation window with a coffee suit, and their brains have already run away from the clouds.

"The flagship has started firing!" A loud roar rang out, dragging Lütjens's thoughts back to reality, and he looked sideways through the observation slit to see the Scharnhorst's forward turret shrouded in a cloud of black-gray smoke.

"The main gun began to fire." The gunner, with a headset, gave the order into the microphone. Everyone in the command tower brought headphones, one for talking, and the other for hearing protection, this place was less than five meters away from the main gun turret, so it could be said that the barrel was under their noses.

With a roar, the Scheer's triple main guns fired their first salvo since the start of the battle, and everyone held up their binoculars to look at the British fleet in the distance. After waiting for about half a minute, it felt like half a year of waiting, suddenly six columns of water dyed green rose behind the side of the Kent, followed by four columns of water dyed red in front of the Berwick, which were the work of the Earl of Hipper, and finally the column of water dyed blue on the side of the Queen Elizabeth was erected on the side of the Queen Elizabeth.

"The range measurement is very accurate, and I hit a close miss the first time, and I keep shooting!" Rütjens was finally rejoiced, and the shelling of the Admiral Scheer was the most accurate of the round.

"Why are there only two water columns? Where did the other shot go? The chief of staff asked suspiciously.

"One hit! Adjust the distance to nearly 600. The gunner shouted excitedly into the microphone. Lütjans saw a puff of smoke coming from the middle of the bridge front of the Queen Elizabeth, and he didn't know what he had set on fire. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)