Previously, due to the reloading of the sky system, the original text of chapters 36-50 of the second volume and chapters 1-5 of the third volume was lost, and the ban could not be lifted in time to update the public chapters, so I hope you can understand. At the same time, I would like to give special thanks to the reader for "riding a pig to watch the dusk" according to the VIP chapter to manually help the sky hit it again :)

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6 months ago, Königsberg.

"Your Royal Highness, why didn't we block the shipping lanes and trap all the British warships in the harbor during the first wave of air raids, and then we sent waves of planes to slowly devour them?" The diligent and inquisitive Tirpitz raised his hand to ask again.

Chen Tian put down the pencil in his hand and asked unhurriedly: "Your Excellency, Lord of the Navy, may I ask how many warships and submarines there are in the British Navy besides this large fleet?" ”

"Uh...... The British Navy had 30 new battleships and battlecruisers, 40 old battleships, 100 light cruisers, 300 destroyers and 70 submarines, and their main fleet hit almost all of the latest battleships and battlecruisers and almost 1/4 of the cruisers and destroyers! ...... you mean? Tirpitz knew every British warship as well as if they were always in his harbor.

"After the first few waves of attacks, the harbor of the British should be full of sunken and stranded warships, this time is no longer suitable for torpedo attacks in the harbor, we assume that at this time the main fleet of the British still has 2/3 of the warships left, of course, in fact, our previous waves of attacks are likely to not achieve the effect of destroying 1/3 of the opponent's ships, then we can only use fighter-bombers and bombers to drop bombs, if 4-5 waves of attacks are carried out every day, do you think it will take a few days to destroy most of the warships in the harbor?"

Tirpitz was lost in thought and calculation, but soon he gave his answer.

"About 6-7 days. That's a week's time! ”

"So do you think the other warships of the British Navy will sit idly by during this time? You say that the British have about 70 submarines, and if 10 submarines are close to our raid fleet, how many do you think the raid fleet will be able to defend against? ”

"I can't prevent 1 ship!" Tirpitz began to sweat in the morning.

"Then, about the 3rd or 4th day of the air raid, our air raid fleet will not even have scum left!" Chen Tian smiled, and Tirpitz finally came to his senses.

At 1:15 p.m. on September 2, 1914, the remaining 18 dreadnought-class battleships, 4 armored cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 10 destroyers of the British Grand Fleet, led by the flagship "George V", sailed murderously towards Prince Heydrich's raiding fleet, vowing to tear the "despicable Germans" to shreds.

At 1:20 p.m., the No. 076 "Ostrich I" bomber, hovering over the British fleet, sent back a report to the "Lisa": The British main fleet was heading towards the raid fleet, heading 40 degrees south-east. Speed 18 knots.

1.30 p.m. The Lisa, the flagship of the German raiding fleet, sent its first radio signal in three days: Take your destiny into control!

1.35 p.m. The whole raiding fleet was turned, 20 degrees east-south, at a speed of 16 knots, with destroyers and aircraft carriers in front and submarines behind.

1:45 p.m. The Lisa sent out a radio to inform it of its location.

1:50 p.m. Generalissimo Tirpitz of the German High Seas Fleet issued a flag from the flagship "Frederick the Great" and divided the High Seas Fleet into two pairs in the front and rear, with 16 dreadnoughts, 3 battle cruisers, 6 cruisers and 18 destroyers at a higher speed to form the first fast fleet, which advanced north at a speed of 19 knots, and the remaining 12 old battleships, 4 cruisers, and 12 destroyers with a slower speed, formed a support team and followed at a speed of 14 knots.

2 p.m. sharp. On the decks of the "Lisa" and "Super Duck Mother", the propellers of the planes began to start, and the entire deck was shrouded in a puff of real smoke. The German sailors waved to the heroes who were about to set off, and the attack team, consisting of 24 Swordfish, 8 Seahawk II and 2 Ostrich I, led by Captain Rib, would harass and monitor the British Grand Fleet as it pursued the raiding fleet. Fifteen minutes later, under the watchful eye of thousands of pairs of eyes, they all lifted off into the air and flew north after completing the formation.

At 2:33 p.m., the first "Swordfish" torpedo plane participating in the third wave of air raids landed steadily on the huge deck of the "Lisa." Countless hats representing victory were thrown into the air, and everyone was ecstatic about one huge victory after another.

At 2:45 p.m., Admiral Jerret, commander of the British Navy's Grand Fleet, corrected the fleet's course to 30 degrees south-east. At this time, the British fleet was 75 nautical miles from the German raiding fleet.

At 2:55 p.m., all aircraft involved in the third wave of the gap had returned to the aircraft carrier.

At 3 p.m., Dönitz's submarine U-039 appeared to applaud the transmitter to be repaired, and they sent a telegram asking the flagship to report their situation and location.

At 3:03 p.m., the flagship Lisa sent a telegram back to the U-039 submarine requesting that it follow the raiding fleet at the highest speed on water, and Dönitz was surprised to find that he was about 25 nautical miles behind the other submarines.

At 3:06 p.m., in the command room of the British fleet's flagship "George V", British Admiral Jerryd, who was concentrating on studying and calculating on the nautical charts, was suddenly interrupted by a noisy shout, and the adjutant hurried to report that another group of German planes had appeared in front of the fleet.

"It seems that we are not in the wrong direction, the Germans now want to stop us from pursuing with all their might!" Jerry Leader gently lowered the compass, looking unconcerned. He felt that now that his fleet was in the sea, and that there was no room for evasion as if it were anchored in a harbor, he ordered the ships to continue at full speed.

"Humph! Damn reach the British, when it comes to the sea my torpedoes are unstoppable! Captain Reeb thought the opposite of the British. Captain Rib is a commander who emphasizes teamwork, whether it is a previous exercise or a morning battle, he always takes two wingmen to attack the target together, according to his words: the enemy battleship can't fly, can it dodge one and dodge two, can it dodge the third? The enemy's warships are not with unsinkable continents. Can you survive one and two, can you survive the third?

At this time, a huge figure on the right side of the British fleet attracted the attention of Libu, the standard water volume of 22,200 tons, the British Orion-class battleship Orion, launched in 1912, in a pile of gray British fleet looks particularly new and swaggering.

"Brothers, it's time to get started!" Ribu beckoned his wingman.

The three torpedo planes separated from the group, made a large arc in the air, and then lowered the altitude to several meters above the surface. From a distance, it looks like a few flying fish jumping on the surface of the sea. The sailors on the Orion watchtower were still at a distance of 10,000 yards when they spotted the flying fish, and by the time the report was reached by the captains of the large number of conning towers, Rib's team had already flown to a distance of 1,000 yards. The three plops fell into the water, sneaked in the water for a distance and then left, drawing white tear stains composed of white bubbles on the surface of the sea.

"Torpedo! Right chord found a torpedo! The British sailors sounded the alarm, and the massive battleship began to turn sharply to the right, when the three false torpedo planes also whistled over the mast.

The end result, as Rib said, dodged one, dodged two, but not the third. The last torpedo hit the hungry tail of Orion with hatred, and a huge column of water rose and swept several sailors on the aft deck into the sea. Orion's thick armor belt kept itself from penetrating, but its rudder was completely out of order, and it spun around the sea like a duck in a stroke.

The large fleet of the British and the traditional dense formation saved Mr. Rib two more torpedoes that missed Orion, and one destroyer became Orion's substitute. The 3,000-ton hull was blown to pieces on the spot, and the bones of 235 officers and men remained.

British Admiral Jerry watched his fleet being slaughtered again on the vast sea that originally belonged to the British, and many ships on the left and right sides of the fleet were shrouded in fire and smoke, and the sea was full of white water marks, and no one knew that those had hit the target, and those were left by torpedoes that had not yet found the wronged leader, and fear and mourning had dissatisfied the face of every Englishman.

"The fleet is scattered!" The words came out of Admiral Jerryd's mouth stiffly, but it was too late, the Germans had already dropped all their bombs, the torpedo planes had begun to return, leaving only the two bombers still hovering over the fleet, and the pieces of paper began to fall again, this time writing: Poor Englishman, your king is hiding in the toilet and crying!

Ten minutes later, Jerlid tore up the pieces of paper sent by the adjutant, "Ships are moving at maximum speed!" Slow armored cruisers and destroyers follow freely! ”

The "Ostrich I" in the air clearly saw that the British fleet was spreading out, 16 new dreadnoughts and 3 light cruisers, 6 destroyers were advancing frantically at a speed of more than 20 knots, several old crop cruisers and destroyers were left far behind, and several destroyers were in place to accompany the two damaged dreadnoughts.

London, United Kingdom.

King George and the Prime Minister sat silently in their seats, and every few minutes a telegram about the British Grand Fleet was delivered to them. What had happened today had provoked them so much that no one had come forward to speak out against Jerryd's actions, and everyone was eagerly hoping that their fleet would be able to save the last bit of face for the British Empire's navy.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to work too hard! I have ordered the Second Fleet to set sail from Petsmouth to support Jerryd, and our submarines have departed from Mali Bend, believing that the German fleet will be wiped out in the near future! Prime Minister Lloyd walked up to the king and comforted.

"Lord of the Admiralty, have you ever found out what secret weapon the Germans used?" King George rubbed his temples and opened his eyes to look at Admiral Churchill.

"Your Majesty, our spies have spotted a ship in the German High Seas Fleet that is similar to ours: the seaplane carrier 'Ergardine', and I think they are using that kind of weapon! Churchill's 1,800-ton 'Ergardine' was originally a Channel ferry completed in 1912, requisitioned by the Navy on August 11, 1914, and then converted into a seaplane carrier at the Chaham shipyard, which was completed on September 1, 1914, and could carry four seaplanes.

"But Your Excellency, General Jerlid said that there were more than 50 German planes attacking Port Scappaflo from the air, and there were so many seaplane carriers from the Germans, I remember that the report of the intelligence department at the beginning said that the German High Seas Fleet only had one mothership that could carry 6-8 seaplanes, and Kiel and other German military ports did not find such ships, and the Germans conjured up so many planes and motherships from there!" Lloyd asked instead.

"This ...... The Intelligence Service is already working hard to find out about it! Admiral Winston Churchill had a few beads of sweat on his forehead.

"All the way to find out? It's all a bunch of rubbish! If the Germans carry out an air raid on London, what do I think you will do? As soon as King George said this, even he himself was taken aback. Indeed, if the Germans were able to strike at the port of Scapaflo, they would be able to strike at London at all.

"Order the Second Fleet to stop advancing and let them defend London! Also, send a telegram to Jerlid and ask him to destroy that German fleet at all costs! The king cried out in panic, and the order completely destroyed the future of Jerryd's Grand Fleet and the British Imperial Navy.

At 4:23, Prince Heydrich stood on the bridge of the good aircraft carrier "Lisa" and silently watched ahead, a group of German battleships with masts appeared on the water antenna, and the sailors shouted excitedly: "High Seas Fleet!" Our high seas fleet has arrived! ”

At 4:26, the flagship of the High Seas Fleet, the "Frederick the Great", raised the flag: all ships turned, the submarine forces lined up in an ambush formation, and the aircraft carrier and destroyer formations followed up at a position of 15 nautical miles from the High Seas Fleet.

At 4:40 a.m., the other 21 submarines, with the exception of U-039, were all turned and arranged in rectangular submarine positions, which were located about 20 nautical miles in front of the High Seas Fleet and opened a path in front of the High Seas Fleet at a speed of 15 knots. At this time, U-039 was still 20 nautical miles away from the other submarines, and Dönitz received an order from Prince Heydrich: U-039 stopped advancing and waited for the other submarines!

Ninety nautical miles southeast of Port Scappaflo in the vast North Sea, a lone submarine floats. On the submarine's conning tower, a young captain sighed softly.

"Alas! Damn the engine! It actually broke down at a critical time, not only allowing a British cruiser to slip out of sight, but also missing the fleet's action, and hopefully the other submarines could get here before the British arrived! ”

"Captain, look!" The sailor, who was watching with a telescope next to him, pushed Dönitz, who was in a daze. In the telescope, columns of thick black smoke appeared in the northern sky.

"It's coming so fast!" Dönitz looked at his watch, and the British fleet set sail at about 1 p.m. and arrived here in four and a half hours.

"All the crew entered the battle position, the submarine moved slowly, and began to dive!" Dönitz took one last look to the north and closed the hatch into the submarine.

At 5.02 p.m. on 2 September, the German Raiding Fleet and the High Seas Fleet received reports from reconnaissance aircraft and the submarine U-039 that British battleships were 43 nautical miles ahead of them. Both Tirpitz and Heydrich knew very well that the critical moment of Operation Destiny was approaching, where the largest battlefleet in the history of mankind would collide violently.

At 5:29, the prelude to the battle of the century was started by the German Navy's submarine forces......