Rütjans stood on the side of the USS Zeppelin, feeling the Black Sea breeze across his face.

The stars above him were still shining, and there was no expression on his calm face: a big battle was about to begin, but his heart was really very calm, as calm as his face appeared.

This time, he came with the blessing of the Führer, so all this in front of him seemed to him to be just routine work.

With the Führer's support, he won the most unlikely naval battle. It was he who personally brought the Great German Navy to where it is today.

So he was already fearless, because in his eyes victory was always in the hands of the Führer.

"Victory...... When the Führer ...... silently reciting this sentence in his mouth, his fleet will easily win its own victory, without exception!

"Sir! The 1st destroyer flotilla sent a signal that everything was normal! An officer came over, stood up and saluted, and in the hunting sea breeze, reported the news that had just arrived.

"I see!" Lu Teyans put his hands behind his back, nodded and said, "Execute according to plan B!" Change the fleet queue! Watch out for air and underwater vigilance! ”

He had no intention of guarding against the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, because there was only one Soviet battleship on the entire Black Sea.

The battleship was built during the First World War, and it was impossible to pose any threat to his fleet.

Even the French fleet at the rear of His Royal Highness had super cutting-edge battleships like the Richelieu, equipped with 8 381 mm caliber main guns, which were terrible to beat the Soviet battleships.

Similarly, the battleship fleet of the Italian Navy, which was the vanguard, had as many as five battleships, and it was estimated that the Soviet battleships were sunk when one ship fired a salvo.

"Received a call from the Air Force! They have already begun to prepare for the implementation of the purge plan. Another liaison officer from the Air Force walked over and gave an update with his chin held high.

Lütjans realized that it was a little out of place for him to stand here in a daze. He looked at the two officers in front of him and pointed to the bridge in the distance: "Go back and talk!" We're also going to go to Level 1 combat readiness! ”

"The fleet has entered the first level of combat readiness! The inner circle destroyer anti-submarine sonar is turned on! "With one command after another, directional light signals in the fleet came and went.

There is light control, so the whole fleet is lights out. However, this does not mean that there are no lights at all, in fact, in order to prevent ships from colliding at night, there are still faint lights as identification signs.

It's just that the anti-submarine destroyers scattered around the periphery are indeed in a state of lights out. They roam around the periphery and have a larger space to move around, so they are also relatively safe.

"Inform the convoy of convoys that are following us, as well as the supply convoys...... Tomorrow at dawn break away from the fleet and go to Odessa! As soon as Lütjans returned to the bridge, he gave a series of combat orders.

This time, the German fleet not only had combat ships, but also hundreds of transport ships as follow-up support ships.

A large part of them are German transport ships that have been converted before, and they exclusively use containers as a means of transportation.

Therefore, the huge fleet in front of me even exceeded two hundred, and the scale was really unprecedentedly huge.

"The transport ship will break away from our fleet at 2 a.m., and then our overall speed can be increased to more than 20 knots!" The lieutenant of Lütjans replied.

"Hopefully, General Lindemann will be able to complete the mission smoothly......" Looking at the dark night, Ruetjens said softly.

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At the same time that Lütjens arranged for the German fleet to approach Sevastopol, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet had already entered the mode of emergency operation.

Dozens of warships of the Black Sea Fleet, originally stationed in the port of Sevastopol, are urgently lifting anchor and preparing to evacuate to the Sea of Azov.

Earlier, they were stationed here, mainly to threaten the security of the German transport lines, so that the Germans did not dare to use the port of Odessa easily.

Now that the German fleet has entered the Black Sea, their role in threatening the German transport lines has disappeared, and they can only wait for death to stay where they are.

It is impossible to defend the port, even if the whole army is destroyed. Germany had more than ten battleships, and no matter what it did, the Black Sea Fleet would also be annihilated by the Germans at the first time.

Instead of wasting this fleet and letting them be annihilated here, it is better to retreat to the Sea of Azov, at least for a little longer!

You know, the Axis fleet does not have a port that can carry so many battleships here, and after a while, this fleet will inevitably leave due to logistical supply problems.

When the time came, it would be enough to drive the fleet out again, so the Soviet Navy wisely chose a humiliating strategy: to escape.

I have to say that sometimes it is not easy to recognize the situation and make a correct judgment, even if it is a humiliating judgment.

The Soviet Navy did it, they mobilized all the ships they could muster and prepared to flee to the Sea of Azov.

"It's a good option to let the fleet retreat...... But the port can't be retreated, the fortress can't be moved, and we still have to hold on to the rest. "Hearing that the naval fleet was leaving in the middle of the night, Zhukov was relieved of a big stone in his heart.

The problem now was that without the support of the Navy, the Army would have to rely on its own shore defense artillery to defend its fortresses in the face of the huge Axis fleet.

"It's not really good news for us." Vatutin smiled bitterly: "You don't have to go there either, and I don't have to go." ”

"Yes! Originally, the Kerch Peninsula seemed to be safe, but now it seems that this may not be the case. Zhukov smiled wryly.

They all felt that the Kerch Peninsula could hold on for a while, but at this time, the German fleet was killed, but they realized that in the face of the superior navy and air force, the Kerch Peninsula may not be able to be said to be impregnable.

"Wait until dawn...... At dawn we will be able to take off reconnaissance planes and find out the exact location of the German Navy! Vatutin thought of the remaining safer ways to deal with it, and comforted Zhukov.

"yes!" Zhukov nodded, as an army general, his response to the navy is indeed limited: "We can only wait for dawn now!" ”

While Lütjans was waiting for dawn, Zhukov, Vatutin, and others were also waiting for dawn. This day on the Black Sea is not destined to be calm.