About 50 nautical miles east of the port of Lostov, a fleet flying the Black Vulture Crusader flag of the Imperial German Navy was slowly heading south.

In this fleet, the one with the commanding flag was not particularly large or particularly powerful, because any warship in this fleet was the pride of Germany.

In the captain's room of the "Frederick the Great", Prince Heydrich sat quietly in a chair, and on the table next to him lay a large document bag, the mouth of which revealed several thick stacks of documents.

Heydrich pulled out the documents one by one, and on the cover of the top one was "Operation Destiny," the original plan for the attack on Pascalflo and the siege of the British fleet a week earlier, from which the German Navy had moved towards a great revival; The second was the "Mad Angel", a plan for an air raid on London, which unfortunately did not get a chance to be implemented for personal reasons of the Kaiser; Heydrich fixed his gaze on the third copy, with "Operation Doomsday" written on the outermost part.

"Operation Doom! Gigi always likes to give these plans some weird names! Heydrich muttered to himself that these plans had been devised by him and Chentian against the British Navy before the war. Looking at the familiar handwriting in the plans, Heydrich couldn't help but think of the sleepless nights when he made these plans, and remembered the determined and focused eyes of Chen Tian. After the fate plan was released half a year ago, they began to plan a series of actions to plan the situation after the fate plan. If the Kaiser approves the attack on London, then they will carry out the "Mad Angel", but unfortunately the reality of the situation is actually Chen Tian's misfortune, the Kaiser, when the Kaiser has achieved great results in naval battles and land battles, insists that the British will soon withdraw from the war, and he believes that the attack on London will completely push the British into the war.

"Will the British really obediently withdraw from the war?" Heydrich sighed, after the end of this operation, the Kaiser would send a peace mission to England to persuade King George and his country to withdraw from the war, but perhaps this was just wishful thinking on the part of the Kaiser himself, where the British would give up their hegemony over the oceans.

As the sky began to lighten, the first reconnaissance planes broke the calm of the sea and took off from the deck of the "Lisa" with a rumbling.

Outside the port of Lostov, the German artillery fleet was slowly heading towards the port, while the British special fleet was anchored 7 nautical miles southeast of the port of Lostov. However, they did not find the minefield, they waited for the British troops in the port of Lostov to send a telegram that the German fleet had shelled, at which point the cruisers and destroyers would tow the submarines and torpedo boats to the rear of the German fleet as fast as they could, and then disperse there to surround the Germans for torpedo attacks.

"Your Royal Highness!" For the 108th time, Heydrich was poring over the Doomsday plan when a knock rang in his ears. He stuffed all the papers back into the file bag, and then locked it in a delicate safe, and no one knew where the German Navy would go in the future except for him and Tatsuten. Originally, these documents would be handed over to Tirpitz and the Admiralty for reference and execution, and after unexpectedly becoming the commander of the High Seas Fleet, he also became the executor of these plans. Any document here is extremely valuable, not only embodying the wisdom and efforts of the two German princes, but also paving the way for the revival of Germany.

When Heydrich opened the door, his lieutenant could not wait to report: "Your Royal Highness, the support fleet that set sail from Wilhelmshaven last night has joined us!" ”

The support fleet referred to by the adjutant consisted of 5 light cruisers and 26 destroyers, which and some of the original destroyers in the fleet were no longer the guards and shields of the battleships, but played a very important role in the operation.

When Heydrich came to the command room, the staff officers had just received a telegram from the reconnaissance plane, and the British lightning strike fleet had appeared as scheduled. Heydrich gave the order without thinking:

"The first flight formation took off immediately!"

Soon, under the watchful eyes of countless German sailors, the planes that had long been lined up on the decks of the two aircraft carriers began to rise into the air one after another, and the seaplanes on the seaplane carriers also began to take off, and finally a huge formation of 81 aircraft flew towards the British special fleet southeast of Lostov.

London, British Admiralty.

After a sleepless night of waiting, Churchill and the other admirals waited anxiously. Their hearts hung in the air as the light grew brighter outside the window, and this lightning strike could greatly boost the morale of the British people to continue fighting, if not to turn the tide of the situation. By the time the British colonial fleet had all gathered on their home soil, they would have a chance to fight the Germans.

Outside the Thames estuary, the flagship of the British fleet "Ajax".

Admiral Betty silently watched the sea to the northeast, and just now the special fleet sent a telegram that the German reconnaissance plane had discovered them, and a faint bad premonition appeared in his heart. If the German fleet had fled frantically at this time, this plan would have come to naught.

6.5 nautical miles southeast of the port of Lostov, the cruiser Newcastle, the flagship of the British Special Fleet.

Admiral Karl, the commander of the special fleet, stood on the bridge and watched with high spirits as the large number of cruisers and destroyers advanced to the southeast, and the massive use of lightning strike tactics meant that while killing and injuring the enemy, he would also pay a great price, maybe the 3,300-ton destroyer on his right would sleep at the bottom of the sea, or the 6,700-ton cruiser on his left, but in any case, he was convinced that this fleet would win a great victory.

A few minutes later, a loud explosion was heard in front of the special fleet.

"General, there was an explosion on the starboard side of the destroyer 'Super Goddess', and the ship has already issued a signal to abandon ship, it is estimated that it has touched a mine!"

Carl couldn't believe his ears when he heard the report, it was like dying before he could get out of the school, but how did the destroyer sink it?

"Impossible! We have never laid mines here, how could the Germans possibly mine the fairway through which they were going to pass? Ships were ordered to be on alert for torpedo tracks, this must be a German submarine! The ships continue to move forward and take a zigzag route to avoid the submarines! The submarine towed by the 'Super Goddess' makes its way to its destination on its own! ”

Karl was convinced that it was just an accident, an accident created by a German submarine that had disappeared without a trace. But only half a minute later, another explosion was heard in front of the fleet, this time the hapless light cruiser "Marianne", whose 6,500-ton hull broke off from the middle and quickly sank into the sea in full view of everyone.

An officer reported to Karl with a nervous expression: "General, this time the sailors on several nearby battleships did not find the torpedo track, it must be a mine!" ”

"What? ......" Karl had no time to think about it, when the buzz of a large swarm of flies sounded in his ears, and a swarm of German planes appeared in the eastern sky that frightened all the British sailors.

"General......" The officer's voice trembled a little just now, and Karl was almost stunned at this time.

Move on or retreat? Carl struggled, but there wasn't much time left for him to think about it.

"Send a message to Admiral Betty and ask us for our next move! Now the ships move on, ready to evade the attack of German aircraft! "The order to move on had just appeared on the mast of Karl's flagship, and a succession of explosions spread throughout the fleet. Fire, smoke, and water hit people's eyes, and the sound of explosions, the sound of metal twisting, and the cries of soldiers in the water lingered in everyone's ears.

Many British sailors spotted the drifting mines looming in the sea not far from their ships, and could not help but exclaim: "Oh God! It's a minefield! ”

Indeed, the Germans had placed more than 700 mines of all kinds in this area, including drift mines and anchor mines that the sailor saw, and they waited quietly on or below the surface of the water for the brave British to come and disturb their dreams, whether they were light cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, or submarines, and they would surely sink to the bottom of the sea.

While the British sailors were busy rescuing their comrades who had fallen overboard, 23 Seahawk II fighter-bombers, 20 Ostrich I bombers, 27 Swordfish torpedo planes, and 10 Exocet seaplanes flew over them at high speed. However, to the surprise and wonder of all the British, the German plane actually did not drop a single bomb this time.

Didn't the German plane carry bombs today?

Karl stood on the bridge and watched the German planes fly towards his rear, and it was not long before the planes were not far away from turning and spreading out in large formations, and two or three small battle formations were again flying from the rear of the British fleet. It was only then that Karl suddenly realized that this was a minefield that the Germans had long arranged, and the planes wanted to push themselves into the depths of the minefield.

"Signal! Turn the whole around! Karl shouted hoarsely, in fact they had strayed into the depths of a minefield, and turning and moving on were the same result, and explosions were becoming more and more frequent throughout the fleet.

The German planes began to lower their altitude, and bombs and torpedoes fell one by one on the rear of the British fleet, and the bombs blasted up columns of water around the battleship, and the torpedoes made a graceful trajectory on the water, forcing the British battleships to twist their bodies to avoid the torpedoes. Many ships accidentally came into close contact with the mines when they avoided the torpedoes, and the already chaotic formation of the entire fleet became more dispersed.

When Karl was desperate, the port of Lostov and the German bombardment fleet appeared on the sea level in the distance, and the flame of hope was rekindled in his heart.

"Order all ships to let go of the towed submarines and torpedo boats, and all of them will march towards the port of Lostov, and any battleship that breaks through the minefield will freely attack the German fleet! Long live the British Empire! ”

Seeing the signal from the flagship, the British ships fell into a final madness. The torpedo boats, unhooked their cables, sped towards the German fleet at a top speed of more than 40 knots like arrows leaving their bows, while the submarines continued to sail on the surface, ready to disappear into the water and touch each other after they had come within range.

One by one, the British ships flying the St. George's Cross flag exploded, and then began to sink, and the following ships continued to move forward with the momentum of a thousand sails on the side of the sunken ship. After paying 25 torpedo boats, a small group of torpedo boats at the forefront of the British special fleet finally broke out of the minefield.

The bombed German planes began to return home, and they did not directly sink many British ships, but their mission was largely accomplished - to drive the British ships into the minefield. The pilots breathed a sigh of relief, and they leisurely admired the scenery on the sea: in the vast minefield, many dying or sinking British ships were scattered on the sea, countless British sailors were struggling in the water, and the remaining dozens of British warships were scattered in all directions, either busy rescuing their comrades who had fallen overboard, or carefully advancing in the channel cleared by the speedboats and destroyers; To the west, in the port of Lostov, German battleships lined up and bombarded the port, and there was hardly a single figure in the harbor except for the fire and smoke of the explosion, and the houses that were set on fire were silently burning; To the south of the battleship, eight destroyers from the shelling fleet bravely stood out, lined up on the side of the battleship, and with their guns and bodies they met the British torpedo boats; A few miles to the east, a large number of small German ships were speeding in, leaving white water marks on the sea.

The British torpedo boats that had broken out of the minefield continued to sprint, but the German destroyers stood between them and the German battleships. The 120-mm guns of the German destroyers fired desperately, and barrages and waves enveloped the dreadnought British torpedo boats. In the shrapnel flying, the British sailors fell one after another, and the torpedo boats were also hit by the German destroyers one by one, and they either collapsed on the surface of the sea and became a smoking fire, or a large number of people entered the water and slowly sank, and the most wonderful thing was that they exploded directly and scattered fragments in all directions. Finally, the four remaining torpedo boats fired a volley of torpedoes at a distance of 1,500 meters and then turned away in despair. The sparse and pitiful torpedoes were nothing more than a nervous and orderly evasion of the German destroyers, and the battleships in the distance simply ignored what they were doing.

Just after the death charge of the British torpedo boats, several small British ships in the harbor were also inspired by this spirit and rushed desperately to the German battleships, which were not protected by destroyers. The young British sailor had clung to a platoon of machine gun shells last night, and their patrol boat would prove its bloody nature with the only machine gun they had.

On the German battleship, the sailors stared blankly at this strange scene, several almost ineffective patrol boats rushed straight towards the battleship of tens of thousands of tons, there were no torpedoes, no artillery, why did they come to die? The 120-mm secondary guns on the side of the battleship opened fire, and after a few rounds of fire, the patrol boats calmed down, the dilapidated hulls were still floating on the water, and the young sailors quietly leaned against the gun emplacements, letting the blood flow to the deck, their bravery could not save the fate of the country.

A quarter of an hour later, with the exception of a dozen ships in the minefield that continued to risk rescuing people who had fallen into the water, only four light cruisers, 25 destroyers, and 23 submarines of the British special fleet broke out of the minefield, and just when they were rejoicing, eight destroyers from the west and five light cruisers and 33 destroyers from the east appeared in front of the British. Vaguely, people seemed to see two teams of light armored cavalry charging at high speed, the Black Vulture Crusade Banner and the St. George Cross Banner grinning in the wind, and a battle of the brave was about to break out......