At 7 a.m. on 2 September, a second wave of 32 Swordfish torpedo planes took off from the Lisa, and nine other Sea Hawk II fighter-bombers and two Ostrich I bombers also rose from the deck of the Super Mother Duck.

At 7:37, the second wave of shock formations discovered that a patrol of three British cruisers appeared in the sea 60 nautical miles northeast of the aircraft carrier formation, and Captain Reb immediately sent a telegram back to the Heydrich fleet, leaving five "Swordfish" and three "Sea Hawk II" to attack the small British fleet.

British Navy Corporal Nini was a gun chief in the stern auxiliary gun of the light cruiser "Goddess of Dawn" and had been in the Navy for 3 years. One of the things Nini said the most was: I am a small person on the "Goddess of Aurora", and the "Goddess of Aurora" is a little trick in the British Navy, but don't underestimate me and the "Goddess of Aurora", because we belong to the heroic and invincible British Navy!

However, what happened this morning became a nightmare for Nini and all the British Navy, when the raid took place, the reconnaissance formation of the "Goddess of Dawn" and two other cruisers, the "Parrot" and the "Oxford", was on its way back to the military port of Scapaflo, and the day before, because a reconnaissance fleet of the German High Seas Fleet suddenly sailed out of Wilhelmshaven, this small reconnaissance group and five other reconnaissance formations that had been patrolling in the North Sea were temporarily sent to the southern waters of the North Sea to monitor the German fleet. As a result, in the evening, as soon as Nini's formation approached the southern part of the North Sea, the hateful German fleet swaggered back to Wilhelmshaven.

"Alas! Little tricks are tossed around by big shots! Nini lamented that for a whole day he had been tormented hundreds of nautical miles at sea. This morning, when the sun was just rising, he took his four younger brothers to start routine practice gun drills, and he was in charge of a 2-inch anti-torpedo boat auxiliary gun, and he practiced day after day but had little opportunity to participate in actual combat. A few days earlier, another of his fellow had taken part in the attack on the German Hurgoland Bay, and that brother had been hungry when he came to him two days with a shiny medal.

Just as the hands of Nini's pocket watch had passed 7:30, the communications corps in the telegraph room suddenly rushed out and shouted: "The port of Scapaflo has been attacked by the Germans!" ”

All the sailors stopped what they were doing and watched the signal corps shout as they ran to the conning tower.

"Attack on Porto Scapaflo? How can it be! Could it be that the submarines of the Germans did it? Nini whispered to his younger brothers that several British merchant ships and small warships had been sunk by German submarines in the southern part of the North Sea since the beginning of the war, but that there were submarine nets installed at the exit of the channel of Scapaflo Harbor, and that there was a large area of mines, in which case German submarines could also dive in, and he thought that the German captain was simply divine.

At this moment, Nini faintly heard a sudden roar of engines on the sea in the southeast, which sounded very crisp and crisp, as if it came from ......

"Look at the sky!" The sailors on the watchtower suddenly shouted, "A strange flock of big birds has appeared in the southwest sky!" ”

The officers of the "Goddess of Dawn" ran to the bridge one after another, and the captain put down his binoculars and shouted:

"All the sailors went into their respective positions, and it was the German plane, and the German planes raided our port Scapaflo this morning!"

"Oh God! I heard you right! Nini stared blankly at his younger brothers, who nodded their ears to indicate that they had heard incredible news as well.

Two minutes later, Nini saw several planes leaving their group and flying towards this direction, and the rest of the ship, including the captain, were all standing at their posts, and the elevation angle of the ship's cannons did not exceed 25 degrees, and the elevation angle of the machine guns on the ship was also limited to a small angle, so that they could not reach the planes in the sky, and he did not understand how those planes could cause damage to the battleship, but they quickly found the answer.

"Oh God! Look, they're torpedoes! An officer on the bridge saw the plane's weapons through a telescope.

"Quick! Full speed ahead and inform the "Parrot" and "Oxford" to avoid torpedoes! "As soon as the captain gave the order, two planes not far away had already dropped torpedoes, which made a high splash on the surface of the water and then sank into the water. A few seconds later, two white water marks appeared on the calm sea, and the extensions of those two water marks intersected at right angles to the course of the British fleet.

"God forbid!" Nini put his hands on the railing and looked at the light cruiser "Parrot" at the front of the fleet, the battleship had just begun to turn, a torpedo hit it impartially, a tall flame rose from the rear of the battleship, the twisted steel made a squeaky sound, the sailors jumped into the water like dumplings, and a few seconds later there was a continuous explosion inside the "Parrot", countless pieces of wood and iron were lifted high and scattered on the surface of the sea hundreds of meters.

Nini covered his ears helplessly, only to find another torpedo speeding towards his battleship. The "Goddess of Dawn" began to make a sharp turn, and more than 300 sailors on board watched as the torpedoes grazed the side of the ship, and more than 300 hanging hearts finally let go for the time being.

However, the British sailors soon heard the splashing of water, and the other three torpedo planes dropped their torpedoes at the same time, and the three torpedoes came galloping in a neat horizontal line, and Nini seemed to see the Grim Reaper swinging his bloody scythe at him again.

The "Goddess of Dawn" and the "Oxford" struggled to twist their bodies with their speed of 25 knots, and they actually dodged the three torpedoes one by one, and when several torpedo planes flew overhead, the British sailors could even see the German pilots on them waving their fists at them.

"God, save us!" Nini's younger brothers knelt on the gun emplacements and began to pray.

After escaping, the cannons on the British battleship began to fire, although all the shells made a low arc and landed in the distant sea.

"Shoot! Shoot at the planes of the Germans! "Ninita knew very well that prayer had no effect.

"Boss, does this work?" One of Nini's younger brothers asked puzzled as he carried the cannonball.

"I don't know, it's always okay to scare them!"

At this time, the remaining three "Seahawk II" had begun to enter the smooth horizontal flight before the bomb drop, and the 100KG bomb in their belly had begun to leap forward, and they solemnly dropped their bombs at a distance of 100 meters from the British battleship.

The bridge of the cruiser "Oxford" was directly hit by one bomb, and the other exploded in the water half a meter on its port side, and the "Oxford" was filled with smoke for a while, and the sea water that poured into the cabin also made it quickly begin to tilt, and the sailors on it decided to give up after a few minutes of hard work, and the lifeboats had not yet let go of a few. The 5,600-ton "Oxford" had already turned upside down, and more than 100 British sailors who had not had time to escape were killed.

I don't know if it was Nini's luck or the good fortune brought by the name of the ship "Goddess of Aurora" itself, the only bomb dropped at it exploded at 5 meters on the starboard side, except for the three sailors on the starboard side who were injured by shrapnel, the "Goddess of Dawn" has not been damaged for the time being.

After dropping torpedoes and bombs, the eight planes began to surround the "Goddess of Dawn" with machine guns, and the instigation of bullets punched holes in the deck and bulkhead of the battleship, and the sailors who were exposed to the gun positions were also hit by bullets, and the sound of the guns gradually weakened. Nini's four younger brothers were also killed and wounded, and he had to give up useless shots and tow them back to the cabin. The officers in the command tower also took refuge in the command room under the protection of the lower armor, and they were reporting the situation to the Scapavolo base and asking for instructions on what to do.

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At 8:15 a.m., German Navy Captain Lieb flew to Port Scappaflo with the remaining 27 "Swordfish", 6 "Sea Hawk II" and 2 "Ostrich I" amid the panicked shouts of the British.

As one of the key breakthroughs of Operation Destiny, the torpedo planes led by Captain Rib targeted the relatively weakly armored but well-firepowered battlecruisers of the British fleet, because sufficient firepower meant that they had a large amount of ammunition in their ammunition depots......

In the straight channel leading to the port, torpedoes marked the mark of death, and one battlecruiser "Invincible" and two other cruisers were slowly moving towards the harbor in the channel at this time, and the British sailors in the bow all watched the white track with frightened eyes speeding from the front......

Boom! Boom!

With two loud explosions, two of the torpedoes falling from the three "Swordfish" hit the bow of the "Invincible", and the huge force of the torpedoes instantly blew through the bow armor of the battleship and immediately detonated the ammunition magazine under the front main gun, making it the second battlecruiser to be blown to pieces after the "Indomitable". Another torpedo was not wasted, and the light cruiser "Southampton" not far behind the "Invincible" became a martyr's object, its bow was torpedoed almost off the water, and the raised bow immediately fell heavily, smashed the water, and quickly joined the ranks of blocking the channel.

In the harbor, due to the close distance between the berths, the torpedo planes did not have much room to play in the first wave of air raids, but at this moment many warships had slowly moved away from their berths, and at the same time put themselves in the middle of the empty harbor.

"Team 1 'Swordfish' is on my heels! Keep the height as low as possible! Ribu's deep roar echoed almost the entire harbor, though his voice was quickly drowned out by explosions elsewhere. He flew over a destroyer almost grazing the mast of the "Swordfish" plane marked 022, and in front of him appeared a relatively wide body of water, without any shelter on the water, and about 500 meters in front of him, a huge British battleship appeared, on which a huge British flag was waving in the wind.

Ribu dropped his torpedo only 2 or 3 meters above the water, and the belly of the 022 was even wet with a splash of water when the torpedo fell, and his two wingmen then dropped two torpedoes 4 meters above the water. The three torpedoes left beautiful white waves on the surface of the water, one after the other, like scratches on the blue cloth along the ruler with chalk.

Ripbla got out of the plane and began to turn, and half a week later there were three loud bangs behind him.

"Damn it!" The explosions were clearly audible, only one torpedo hit the steel and exploded, and the other two were the sound of torpedoes coming into close contact with the dock. When his 022 circled for a week, black smoke was emitting from the port side of the battleship, a small hole appeared at the waterline in the middle of the hull, and two waves were falling on the pier about 30 meters to the right side of the battleship. Due to the high altitude at which the other two "Swordfish" threw their torpedoes, the torpedoes passed through the bottom of the ship before they could float up.

Ribu's frustration did not last long, as he was relieved by the violent explosions and rising fireworks in the harbor, and he circled as he calculated the results of the air raids: at least five large and small warships had been sunk and eight damaged, and thick smoke had already hung over the entire harbor.

The Commander of the Great Fleet, Jerryd, had hit rock bottom, and he stood at the window in frustration as the planes with huge iron crosses roaming freely over the harbor ravaged his warship, which had been blocked by the three wrecked warships. At the beginning of the attack, almost all the battleships fired at the German planes with secondary guns, but they had no effect at all and instead blew up the vicinity of the pier. It was the machine-gun fire on the destroyer that posed a certain threat to the fly-like German planes, and just now he saw a German torpedo plane hit by a machine-gun bullet in the tail, Jerlid almost jumped in excitement, but the plane left a few pieces of wood in the air and actually staggered back.

"Signal quickly, all the battleships move quickly, and get out of port as soon as possible to avoid the German attack! And destroyers, with all their might to protect the battleships from the port! The British admiral found that if his fleet did not leave the harbor, it would be sunk by German planes one by one, and that only by sailing out into the open sea would these huge warships have a chance to evade them, and more importantly, find out where they had taken off as soon as possible.

Two strange-looking planes suddenly burst out of the thick smoke, unlike the German planes that carried out air raids around them, their structure looked much simpler, except for the two layers of wings covered with cloth, the entire fuselage was almost only a wooden skeleton, and in the middle of the fuselage was placed an ugly-looking engine, the propeller was located at the rear of the engine, and two long pontoons were installed under the fuselage, and the tail of the aircraft was almost half the length of the wings, compared with the sleek lines of the fuselage "German Swan", these two can be called "British ugly ducklings". Despite this, the ring-shaped logos on the wings of the two reconnaissance planes belonging to the British Navy cheered many sailors.

"Are the British crazy or stupid, do they want to block our attack with such planes?" Ribu was a little puzzled, but beckoned his wingman to follow him towards the British.

Brown, a British pilot, flew slowly over the harbor in the "Big Bird" water reconnaissance plane, and the smoke that wafted from time to time filled with the smell of burnt and sulfur made him cough incessantly, and he was stunned by the hellish scene below. When he flew over half an hour ago, everything below seemed to be back to life, but only half an hour had made it a terrible place on earth. Once upon a time, the overbearing British Navy suffered such humiliation?

While Brown was silently mourning for the British Navy, Rib rushed over with his three "Swordfish", and their machine guns began to fire at the British plane at a position of 500 meters, and by 300 meters, the worried British Navy Ensign Mr. Brown had already spun and planted into the sea with his "big bird" with his folded wings.

"The position of the British falling into the water is much more ugly than a torpedo!" Rib muttered as he flew towards another British reconnaissance plane, which was sent down by a long shot from Rib to join its companion before it could turn around.

For the first time, all the British sailors looked stupidly at the sky, if they once occupied the world's oceans, now the world's skies belong to these German warhawks.

The air began to warm up as the sun rose, and the sea breeze lost the cool feeling it had in the morning.

On the sea in the middle of the North Sea, rows of warships were silently heading north, the waves were cut by countless sharp bows, leaving wide water marks on the sea, and bright flags grinning in the wind.

On this world's second largest fleet, German Admiralty, commander of the North Sea Fleet, and generalissimo Tirpitz stood in the command room of the flagship "Frederick the Great", staring at the endless sea ahead with his deep gaze, and he seemed to be able to see a fierce battle going on on that side of the sea.

"Adjutant, has not received a signal from the Baltic detachment yet?" Despite the fact that the weather was getting hotter, Tirpitz was neatly dressed in the generalissimo uniform, and he glanced at the adjutant next to him, who was wiping his sweat, and asked unhurriedly.

"Yes, Generalissimo, so far we have not received their radio signals, ...... we?"

"Well, that's good! No news is good news! Tirpitz nodded, continuing to stare ahead. Only when the sneak attack failed or the main force of the British fleet discovered and began to pursue them did the Baltic detachment under the command of Prince Heydrich break the radio silence, and now the High Seas Fleet had to trust its companions and endure the silence of waiting to move on.

The radio stations in Wilhelmshaven continued to use the call sign of the Tirpitz flagship to communicate with the German naval bases, creating the false impression that the High Seas Fleet was still in the harbor.