"Colonel Müller, the Cyprus Regiment fought well in this campaign, and I am very pleased with your command skills. Xu Jun smiled and said to Mueller, who came to greet him: "Your performance in this battle is very good, and you really did not disappoint me, you are indeed an excellent commander." ”

After speaking, Xu Jun looked at the other officers who came to greet him

"You will also receive the commendations and honors you deserve, and I am impressed by your performance, as well as the soldiers, who have proved their bravery and loyalty with their actions."

"Thank you very much for the praise of the commander, we really just did what you planned, and the honor of victory in this battle should belong to you. Without your sophisticated planning and clever tactics, we probably wouldn't have seen this victory at all. Mueller replied excitedly, and the other officers nodded in agreement.

"Haha, how can you say that, the honor of winning this battle should be said to belong to everyone who participated in this battle, from ordinary soldiers to the supreme commander, everyone will get the honor they deserve. The High Command has prepared to award a campaign commemorative medal to every soldier who participated in this campaign as a commemorative and honorary symbol for all those who participated in the campaign. ”

"Ah, that's wonderful, General. Oh, I haven't congratulated you on your promotion to general, but I didn't expect you to go from brigadier general to general in a month's time, and you set another record. On behalf of the officers and men of the entire corps, I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to you that your rank can finally be balanced with your merits, hahaha, but I personally think that the marshal's uniform may be a better fit for you. Mueller said with a smile.

"When did you learn to flatter." Xu Jun leaned his head close to Muller and whispered, "Did you learn from those two guys?" With that, he glanced at the two SS officers standing nearby.

"Hahaha, General, you're really joking."

"Alright, no kidding, let's not stand here stupidly basking in the sun, let's hurry up and go to your headquarters. Although the report is very detailed, it is better for me to listen to your own report on some issues. ”

Mueller hurriedly led the way in front, and the other officers followed behind Xu Jun in a mighty manner, walking towards the corps headquarters. Xu Jun walked into the conference room of the headquarters and sat down at one end of the conference table. The other officers sat in two rows on either side of the table, while the junior officers sat down in a circle of chairs against the wall. The orderly served everyone freshly brewed coffee and some small biscuits.

Xu Jun greeted every officer he knew with his coffee, and then asked Mueller, who was sitting next to him: "Mueller, I carefully read your report yesterday, and the details of the navy are still not very clear, I know their capture plan, which I approved, but I am still not sure about this plan." How the hell did you capture those British ships? How could the British not sink themselves? You tell me about the battle at sea from beginning to end. ”

Mueller hurriedly reported to Xu Jun carefully what had happened after the fierce battle that afternoon. Xu Jun listened to Mueller's story with relish, and he regretted a little that he couldn't see the wonderful scene of shooting at the British battleship with train guns, but it was okay to do so, Xu Jun knew that although he was no longer cold to corpses and blood, if he really saw the scene of flesh and blood, he still couldn't stand it, and it was better not to see it in front of those officers. After becoming a general, the opportunity to go to the front line in person will be even rarer, and it seems that the psychological burden will be reduced a lot to sit in the command headquarters and command his army with a pencil and a map, and the thousands of people will be killed, which is much more comfortable than watching those people being blown up or falling to the ground in pieces.

What made Xu Jun wonder was how the three battleships were captured, and after listening to the narrative of the person concerned, he understood what was going on.

It turned out that after the Luftwaffe's intensive torpedo attack, most of the battleships still insisted on floating on the sea. Although they all hit a lot of torpedoes, they were so large and had a large number of watertight compartments that they were able to float for a while and did not sink to the bottom of the sea right away. But sinking is inevitable, just a little slower.

Most of those battleships were destroyed by the deadly blow of the torpedo, so they were basically incapacitated. At that time, Müller could not help but be overjoyed to see this result, and he wanted to find a way to capture all those battleships, although they were all broken, but after repair, they should be able to be used again, which was a great wealth for Germany. However, Müller could not find any ships to tow them away, and Müller had no experience in capturing enemy ships, so he did not know where to start. So he consulted with the Lieutenant Commander Siegfried.

When he said his plan, he didn't expect it to coincide with the lieutenant colonel. Siegfried reported the situation to the naval command at that time, and the navy was overjoyed by the result, saying that they would immediately send warships to receive the fruits of victory. The Navy also has a fleet of destroyers in the Belgian port of Ostend, with twelve high-speed destroyers, and they are ready to send all of those destroyers out. They were ready to tow away the British warships that were stalled, and remove important parts and equipment before sinking those that could not be towed. No matter how you say that this kind of opportunity to face the enemy's large warships is rare, how can you have such a good target ship for your own training in peacetime.

The Navy also negotiated with the Army to add an additional detachment of Army Assault Infantry to each destroyer to deal with the possible resistance of the British. Since the British battleships were equipped with marines, the assault infantry were armed to the teeth with very ferocious firepower, and they were confident that they would be able to beat any marines or sailors who dared to resist into a sieve and give them a good idea of how good the German Army was.

But before the destroyers could leave the port, the situation on the surface of the Dunkelke Sea had changed. The first was the War Weathiness, which made the German Navy the most hated, and the most active battleship of the British Royal Navy suddenly exploded, I don't know if it was its oil depot or ammunition depot, anyway, even Müller's command post at that time felt the violent shock wave. The 33,000-ton battleship turned into a crematorium in an instant, and the fireball soared into the air at a height of 300 meters, and the column of smoke was a full kilometer high. The officers and men of the Navy on that ship were reimbursed at least half of the explosion.

At that time, everyone knew that the battleship was completely finished, and the sailors and officers who survived the explosion scrambled to jump into the sea with various life-saving supplies, and then desperately swam into the distance, the battleship might sink immediately, and it was not a joke to be sucked into it by the current rolled up by the battleship when it sank.

At this time, the warweariness, which had been tilting towards the port side, began to slowly turn to the port side, and the whole ship turned to the sky, and then the warweariness paused on the sea surface for a few seconds, and then began to sink upright towards the bottom of the sea, and forty seconds later, the battleship disappeared from the sea, leaving only a large area of various debris and oil slicks and hundreds of naval officers and sailors floating on the sea.

Then there are the two sister ships, the King and the Rammer, both of which have tilted about forty degrees towards the sea, and the King's condition is so serious that its port side deck is close to entering the water. The officers and men of the two battleships had already begun to abandon the ship fifteen minutes earlier, because if the ship had not been abandoned at that time, if the hull of the ship had continued to tilt, the lifeboat would not have been able to lower the sea. Now the two 31,000-ton battleships had finally finished their journey, and they both tumbled and sank into the pitch-black English Channel to be their companion to their other sister ship, the Royal Oak.

At this time, the only British battleships left on the sea were the Revenge and the Determination and the hapless flagship Nelson, and the three battle cruisers Hood, Counterattack and Prestige had long disappeared from the sea without a trace, and the Hood also had a large explosion of ammunition depot before sinking, and all the crew were killed. The survivors of the other two battleships were much better, they finally lowered the dozens of lifeboats on the two battleships before they sank, and basically at least half of the crew survived, and now they are rowing the lifeboats towards their comrades who fell into the water.

Muller was so frightened when he saw this, the ships seemed to be so badly wounded, and the German navy probably didn't even have a single floating British battleship when they arrived. However, it seems that a large number of British naval officers and sailors can be captured, and he now estimates that at least 6,000 people are floating in the sea. As a result, he could not help but worry about the German navy's ability to bring so many British sailors ashore.

What Mueller did not expect was that the British solved the problem themselves. Gort sent an officer to liaise with the Germans, and the British officer suggested to Müller whether a temporary ceasefire could be suspended for an hour in the spirit of humanitarianism, and they wanted the small ships now hiding in the harbor to go out to the rescue of the poor Royal Navy sailors.

Müller resolutely agreed to this request, and the small ships had not dared to come out again since they entered the harbor, especially after the ships were destroyed in front of them, and they completely lost confidence that they would be able to escape from Dunkelke. Some of them took risks and tried their luck, but before they could break out of the harbor, they were torn to shreds by the Air Force's converted gunboats.

Although Müller agreed to the British demand, there were two conditions: first, all small boats were to act under the supervision of German gunboats, any attack on gunboats would be regarded as the end of the ceasefire, the Germans would take the most severe revenge for the treachery of the British, second, they must return to the port of Dunkerke after rescuing the sailors, and any attempt to escape would also be regarded as a violation of the agreement, and would be immediately subjected to a devastating blow by the Germans.

The British ** official agreed to Mueller's conditions in one bite, and waited until the British returned. The boats began to sail out of the harbor for the British sailors and officers who were struggling on the sea, and the German gunboats began to watch over the boats, and when they found a ship that wanted to sneak closer to the route back to England, they would unceremoniously shoot at the ships until they returned to their original course.

While the boats were trying to rescue their sailors, the shadows of twelve German high-speed destroyers in the distance had appeared on the sea level, and the German navy began to receive the fruits of its victory.

When the paralyzed British ships saw the destroyers of the German Navy, they did not even have the courage to resist. The battleships invariably hoisted a white flag and a German naval flag on their high masts. As the destroyers approached the ships, the British officers and sailors who had remained on board were already lining up on deck waiting for the German Navy to come on board and take them away.

The British were startled when the fierce German army assault infantry boarded the ships, and they looked at the infantry armed to the teeth with horror, and could not figure out what the Germans wanted to do to them. However, since there was no imaginary resistance, the Germans did not embarrass the British, they just coldly announced that the ship had been captured by the German ** team and sent the British to the destroyer.

The Germans rushed to the bilges of the ships as fast as they could, fearing that the British had opened the submarine valve and began to sink themselves, wondering why the proud British Navy had not done so much until now. It was only when they got to the bilge that the Germans understood the reason why the British did not do it, not that they did not want to do it, but that they could not do it. Now the bilges of these battleships were full of seawater, and no one could find those huge valves in the pitch black water, and even if they did, it would be impossible to twist them in the water.

When the German destroyers learned of this, they did not dare to slack off and hurriedly organized a towing operation. Unexpectedly, when the cable was being hung, the Revenge suddenly began to sink, judging from its injuries, it was indeed unable to withstand it, and the Germans had to abandon the battleship. In the end, they had to drag the Nelson and the Resolve to begin their return voyage, and the Navy was ready to tow them home for repairs, and they had to escort the fleet and aircraft for the safety of the two warships. These are all naval affairs, and Xu Jun can't care too much about it.

The Panzer 19th Army also had brilliant results, sinking three British heavy cruisers and one battleship with train artillery, as if it were the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet, the Barham, and then they also towed the paralyzed battleship Malaya into the port of Calais. Originally, they reported that it was four battleships that attacked them, and it seems that they regarded the heavy cruisers as battleships.

After listening to Mueller's report, Xu Jun nodded slowly, he was very satisfied with the results he obtained. Now there are only two battleships left in the British navy, the Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship Gang Yong, and all the other large ships have been given here. And none of those British cruisers could be pulled out to confront the German Scharnhorst and Gresenor, and the German Navy could now temporarily grasp the superiority at sea in heavy force.

But large warships alone are not enough, and it seems that the construction of the Tzipperin aircraft carrier must be restarted as soon as possible. However, the problem of the British Expeditionary Force must be resolved first.

"Muller, you will now send an envoy to the British, and tell Gort that I agree to meet with him to discuss their surrender. The time was set for 1 p.m. Let him come to our command, he can take three retinue personnel with him. Now I'm going to go and rest, and I'm going to be broken up after a night's drive, so let's get here now, and we'll have a big celebration when we're done negotiating with the British. Haha, that's it, let's break the meeting first. Mueller, take me to your dormitory first,"

After speaking, Xu Jun stood up, saluted the officers present, and then followed Mueller out of the conference room, leaving a room of respectful officers.