After driving out the American and British fleets, Beinke did not hesitate, and on the night of 12 October, he personally led the battle fleet around the southwest of Bermuda to launch an offensive from this relatively weakly defended direction. At night, the 18-inch guns of the German Germania-class battleships ravaged Bermuda's fortifications, just as the German-British forces swept away the German coastal fortifications on Texel Island with the Lexington-class battle patrol.www.biquge.info At this time, there were as many as 79 US and British submarines deployed in the waters around Bermuda, and 88 small and medium-sized torpedo boats with Bermuda as their home port.

In the previous two battles of Bermuda, the Allied fleet had used the defenders' facilities in Bermuda, the main fleet, to carry out night artillery bombardments, although the shelling did not last long and the total amount of ammunition dropped was limited, but the defending officers and men suffered heavy material and spiritual blows. Knowing that the opponent had attacked Bermuda at night again, King, who commanded the US and British fleets, behaved extremely calmly; instead of using his capital ships to confront Beinke, he dispatched four capital ships and 19 light ships with faster speed to attack the Allied support fleet, which had appeared during the day, in an attempt to exploit the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and to take advantage of the fact that the naval air force had reduced its range of activities at night and the attack efficiency had been sharply reduced.

Although Beanck was not the kind of naval commander who was good at making surprise moves, his excellent overall view and extremely rich experience in naval warfare allowed him to deal with Kim, who was more cunning than a fox and bolder than a brown bear, and he ordered the support fleet to turn around at full speed before dark, so Kim's seaplane search for most of the night could not find any trace of those Allied aircraft carriers, but found the landing fleet from the direction of the Azores in the early morning of the next day.

In the case of an ordinary commander, it is likely that a quick combat formation that has failed to search for enemy aircraft carriers will attack the enemy's landing fleet, but Kim did not do this, he knows very well that this is another trap laid by the opponent for himself, and once he is fooled, not only will he not be able to achieve the expected goal, but he will also lose the remaining precious ships. So, he accepted the defeat in the first round and withdrew his fleet to the waters north of Bermuda, which was known as the Sea of Death, or the "Bermuda Triangle", because of the number of ships that had disappeared for centuries, but not every ship or plane that flew nearby would have crashed, but the probability of disappearance was high, and most of these events were mysterious.

On 13 October, the Allied fleet still regarded the still vigorous US and British fleets as the number one target, and Beanke sent a large number of seaplanes and carrier-based planes to search for King's traces, but the result was unsuccessful, and on this day, a total of 22 fighter squadrons rushed to Bermuda's aid from the United States and Canada, which not only completely made up for the losses of the land-based air force the day before, but also greatly strengthened Bermuda's air defense strength. However, apart from a few Allied reconnaissance planes that were hurrying back and forth, only a few uninteresting seagulls appeared over Bermuda.

Before dark, the US-British reconnaissance planes discovered that the Allied battle fleet was heading toward Bermuda at high speed, and because they were worried that the Allied fleet would come back to shell at night, the commander of the US-British coalition forces in Bermuda assigned 12 fighter squadrons to the two nearest Canadian airfields for the night, ordered the replenished submarine and torpedo boat units to hold their positions, and informed King, who was leading the fleet, of the whereabouts of the enemy fleet to wait for the rest of the fleet.

As the most versatile general of the U.S. Navy, King knew very well that Bermuda's fortifications were weak, and if the Allied fleet continued to carry out high-intensity shelling with large-caliber naval guns, it would not take less than a week for the Allied landing force to step on the broken corpses of the American and British defenders and occupy Bermuda. Although most of the intelligence indicated that the terrible Hohenzollern god of war was currently in charge of his two kingdoms in Europe, several pieces of plausible information made King very wary, fearing that the Allied fleet, ostensibly under the command of Beenck, was in fact pursuing the operational deployment of Joachim, and that the bitter lessons of the end of the Azores were so vivid that he never dared to let go.

On the night of October 13, a one-sided battle was staged in the waters south of Bermuda, and 77 American and British torpedo ships, in response to 65 submarines, launched the second largest lightning strike in history - the largest was the torpedo boat operation carried out by the British Navy to fend off the German fleet during the First Battle of Flanders in 1914. On the contrary, it went down in history with embarrassing heavy casualties: 41 American and British torpedo ships were sunk, 30 returned to the base with injuries, a considerable number of submarines still failed to play the effectiveness of the wolf pack operation, nearly two-thirds of the submarines failed to enter the ideal firing position from beginning to end, and the remaining submarines fired a total of 132 torpedoes at the enemy ships, but only a quarter of the torpedoes posed a threat to the target, and finally achieved the record of sinking 2 enemy ships and damaging 5 ships, and the price paid was that 3 submarines were sunk and 1 was captured. 5 ships were injured to varying degrees.

From 4:20 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, the Allied Fighting Fleet, which had not retreated and was advancing, launched a fierce artillery bombardment of Bermuda that lasted for three hours, and hundreds of heavy shells flew over a distance of more than 20 kilometers, dealing a devastating blow to the island's aviation facilities, coastal defense fortifications, and villages, towns, and ports. Especially after dawn, the Allies dispatched a large number of carrier-based planes to cooperate with the fleet, focusing on attacking two aviation bases and a number of field airfields in Bermuda, destroying more than 400 American and British fighters that were ready to be put into a counterattack on the ground, and the defenders suffered numerous casualties!

The United States and Britain Joint Operations Committee, the highest command body of the US-British coalition forces, issued him "12 gold medals," requiring him to assist the defenders of Bermuda in defending this vital strategic position, and even made it clear in the telegram that once Bermuda was lost, the people in the eastern part of the United States would fall into an unprecedented panic.

Knowing that nothing could be done, King led the fleet south at dusk on the 14th, and he telegraphed to the Bermuda garrison command that night should be closely coordinated in accordance with the plan of the previous joint combat exercises, and use all available combat forces to fight against a strong enemy.

Like a rehash of history, the Allies found the latest contact code book from a captured U.S. submarine and successfully deciphered the adversary's combat communications. Knowing the real-time movements of the Golden Fleet, Beinke immediately began to formulate a new operational deployment, ordering the combat fleet to set up a combat queue in the southeast sea area of Bermuda, and the support fleet and landing fleet waiting for orders 200 kilometers and 300 kilometers behind it respectively.

After nightfall, the Allied battle fleet slowly pressed forward with minesweepers and submarine destroyers, only to enter the range of large-caliber naval guns, two Germania-class and two German-class ships took the lead in long-range artillery bombardment, Mackensen-class and Bavaria-class then joined the battle group, and the accompanying light cruisers advanced on both wings to guard the sea with radar, destroyers and submarine hunters cruised slowly around the fleet, using sonar and searchlights to guard against American and British submarines.

With the sound of loud explosions, Bermuda, devastated by the shelling, trembled helplessly. There was almost nothing combustible on the island at this time, and the outline of the island quickly disappeared into darkness whenever the light of the shell explosion faded. At first glance, no life can survive in such a harsh environment, but in fact, 20,000 American and British officers and soldiers are silently suffering in bunkers. In the coastal forts that had not yet been destroyed, the gunners pushed the shells into the chambers and prepared them in the gun chambers, while in the bunkers of the radar stations, which were put back into operation after dark, the officers looked tense at the spots of light that represented the ships on the fluorescent screens.

At about 11 o'clock, a U.S. and British fleet comparable in size to the Allied battle fleet finally appeared in the waters northeast of Bermuda, and all the main warships were divided into two diagonal columns, and the light ships were guarding the two wings of the array, and entered the battlefield with a steady pace.

Now that their own fleet was in place, the coastal defense forts in Bermuda, guided by radar detection data, launched artillery counterattacks against the Allied fleet, and the lightning ships hidden in the sea on the north side also launched a light cavalry assault in an attempt to draw the enemy's attention firmly to the front of the battlefield.

Having deciphered enemy communications and being able to control the battlefield through the ship's radar, it was impossible for the steady Beanke to lose such a naval battle, and he calmly adjusted the formation of his fleet, with all the capital ships meeting the enemy in a single column, and the light cruisers and destroyers carried out a short naval assault to the north, easily crushing the American and British torpedo boats rushing from the direction of Bermuda.

On the other side of the battlefield, Kim closely watched the opponent's array changes through his ship's radar, and when he found that the Allied battle fleet was turning towards him, he realized that his plan had failed again. Although his fleet theoretically had a chance of victory, King pragmatically abandoned this hope, quickly adjusting his strategy, having his capital ships bombarded at the edge of effective range and sending light cruisers and destroyers on torpedoes.

Beinke ignored the opponent's change of formation, and before the enemy light ships approached, all the German battleships fired a salvo of main guns on the port side as they sailed eastward. Although the target was more than 20 kilometers away, the Germania-class fire control radar still showed an astonishing effect, and after five rounds of firing, the ships of the US and British fleets were continuously damaged by near-miss bullets.

King did not want to prove his courage by fighting blindly to the death, and he no longer cared about the so-called personal reputation, he saw the importance of reason from the defeat of the British Navy in the last war, and the only hope for a turnaround, the torpedo attack of the light ship group, finally failed due to the extremely heavy medium and short-range artillery fire of the enemy fleet, he very decisively led the fleet to turn north, and withdrew from the Bermuda Sea at full speed, leaving this devastated archipelago to the enemy's tiger and wolf division.

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