Chapter 33 Blood Debt and Blood Repayment

Berlin, Imperial Palace.

"What? You repeat! "Hearing that Tirpitz led all the main forces of the High Seas Fleet out of port, Wilhelm II was furious.

"Your Majesty, the Generalissimo asked me to tell you that after this war, the world's oceans will no longer be allowed to run amok by the British Navy!" The Chief of Staff of the Navy, Bohr, handed over to the Kaiser a report in the nature of a military order from Tirpitz.

The Emperor sat back in his chair in a daze, and despite his apprehension, the victories described in Tirpitz's report were the same victories he had dreamed of for more than a decade on the throne.

"This Tirpitz is too bold to dare to mobilize the High Seas Fleet to fight without authorization, even if he can return victorious, I will remove him!"

Although the emperor said so, the people on earth knew that he just moved a small stool to himself as a step down, and it was a super crime to transfer a fleet without authorization, and dismissal means not dealing with it, provided that Tirpitz returned triumphantly.

As Tatsuten said to Tirpitz, all the Emperor lacked was the determination to fight the British Navy.

Scapa Flo Harbour, north of Scotland.

When Major Madonie flew to the harbor first in his Sea Hawk II, 24 Dreadnought-class battleships, 3 battle cruisers, 8 armored cruisers, 12 light cruisers, and 52 destroyers of the British main fleet were quietly moored in the harbor.

"Oh God! There are so many big guys in the British! "Madoni didn't have time to praise the God of creation, he raised his right arm high and made two circles in the air: attack according to the plan!

The neat air formation suddenly dispersed, and one plane after another began to search for their respective targets, and the battleships, coal bunkers and oil depots were the best prey for the war eagles.

Madonie's "Sea Hawk II" is an attack aircraft between a fighter and a bomber, it carries a 200KG bomb in its belly, and the nose and wings are equipped with a total of four machine guns. The bomber formation led by Major Maur used the land-ship dual-purpose bomber "Ostrich I", a double-engine, double-wing, double-person bomber with a special magazine and a simple sight, no machine gun installed on the front, and a rotatable twin-mounted machine gun installed in the co-pilot position, with a load of 6 50KG bombs; There was also a kind of "Swordfish" torpedo machine in the first wave of attacking aircraft, each aircraft had a 533mm steam torpedo hanging under the belly, and a machine gun was mounted on the front of the nose, which was operated by a pilot, but due to the large number of warships in the harbor, the torpedoes that required at least 500 yards of surface distance for air launch could not play the maximum effect here, so their task was to sink as many British warships as possible near the harbor or in the channel trying to leave the port, if they could sink large warships in the harbor, it would greatly reduce the ability of the port to enter and exit; If the port was blocked, the main German fleet would go directly to shell London.

"Hey! British, let you taste the power of the German bomb! Madonie muttered as he flew towards the three British armored cruisers docked side by side, which undoubtedly greatly improved the hit rate for horizontal bombing. Madonie gently pressed the bomb drop button with the thumb of his right hand, and the plane lightened, the nose of the plane was pulled up, and the sea eagle roared over the masts of the three ships, and a violent explosion occurred on the deck of one of them.

"Oh!" Madonie looked back at his victory, the superstructure of the poor armored cruiser had been hit, and the billowing smoke quickly enveloped the entire battleship, its hull was not seriously damaged, but it could only stay in the harbor obediently for a short time.

"Yes, I just need some of them to lie obediently in the harbor, especially the battlecruisers!" When this plan was completed half a year ago, Chen Tian explained to Heydrich and Tirpitz that "we can't expect dozens of planes to sink as many British battleships, what we have to do is to damage as many of their fastest battlecruisers as possible, so that the maneuverability of the British fleet will be greatly reduced!" ”

Madonie did not rush to leave after dropping the bomb, when the crowd on the docks was surging, many British naval officers and sailors were rushing to his warship, and countless dock workers were scattering in all directions. He flew over the docks, where a group of British sailors marching in a neat line led by an officer became his next prey, four machine guns firing wildly, soon leaving several neat rows of corpses there.

At this time, Major Mauer of the bomber formation had also taken his plane to the fuel depot near the dock, and his co-pilot accurately dropped the bomb on the plane to an oil tank, which immediately caused a sky-high fire, and many British people who were near the oil tank were instantly engulfed in flames, and countless hoarse screams came from the fire.

On the other side, torpedo machine No. 016 had been hovering around the port several times, but had not found an opportunity to strike for a long time. Its companions, Torpedo No. 015 and No. 018, had already dropped two torpedoes at the only torpedo friendly in the vicinity, the Indomitable, one of which blew through the forward ammunition depot of the 19,000-ton battlecruiser, and after a violent explosion, it plunged to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a lone mast on the surface.

At this time, a battleship dragged a thick black smoke slowly towards the port, this is the old armored cruiser "Defense" with a displacement of 12,000 tons, it has just been hit by a 100KG aerial bomb on the tail deck, in order to avoid the attack it began to move, but unexpectedly it was targeted by this depressed torpedo machine.

Torpedo No. 016 soon flew overhead of the "Defense", and the British sailors below waved their fists in anger. After making a big bend, the No. 016 torpedo machine gradually lowered its altitude, and threw its only, precious, and powerful torpedo at the tail of the "Defense" a few meters above the water, and the torpedo began to fly towards the British battleship with waves and bubbles, and the narrow channel did not allow the battleship to turn at all, and the torpedo was thrown almost along the center line of the channel, and the British sailors had no choice, and the people who reacted quickly had already begun to flutter and jump into the water.

Half a minute later, when the No. 016 torpedo plane flew over the head of the "Defense" again, a huge hole had been blown out of the tail of the battleship, and it gulped seawater with its "ass" and sank to the bottom in a posture diametrically opposed to the "Indomitable", firmly blocking the small half of the channel.

Twenty minutes later, the air raid was over, and before the British battleships could even fire a shot at the German plane, only some brave soldiers on the ground were firing hard into the air with pistols and rifles, but their only success was two bullet holes in the wing of a German plane.

The 68 aircraft involved in the first wave of the offensive regrouped over the harbor and flapped their wings to the southeast.

The harbor of Scapaflo was a mess, full of mutilated dead and groaning wounded, many battleships were haggard, or black smoke was emitting, or the mast was broken, or reclining on the berths, and the scene on the pier was even more horrific, 16 fuel depots were bombed, three of them were the most badly damaged, many charred corpses lying on the ground nearby, emitting a disgusting smell, and the road leading to the battleship berths was littered with the bodies of countless naval officers and men. In just half an hour, the invincible navy of the Empire on which the sun never sets suffered more losses than in the previous hundred years combined, and the commander of the British fleet, Jerryd, pounded the table with surprising anger in his hand, and he held in his hand a piece of paper that was scattered on the dock by a German plane, which read: British, we will never forget what you have done in the Bay of Hergoland, and you must pay with blood!

Poor Jerlid hadn't understood what was going on until now.

Nightmare?

No, his Great British Fleet lost 2 battlecruisers, 1 armored battleship, 3 light cruisers, 2 destroyers on this bad morning, and another 1 dreadnought was heavily damaged by 2 torpedoes, 1 dreadnought was hit by bombs, 1 battle cruiser and 4 destroyers were damaged.

German planes?

That's right, those planes were painted with huge iron crosses under the wings, which everyone on earth recognized, and it was the symbol of Germany. But Jerry was puzzled by where these German planes were flying from, this is the north of Scotland, the northwest corner of the North Sea, no plane in the world can fly here with so many bombs and torpedoes from the German mainland, and the nearest land out of Scotland is more than 400 kilometers away from mainland Norway.

"Where did these damn German planes come from?" Frustrated, Jerlid asked the liaison officer to report the situation to the Prime Minister, and at the same time asked the British ambassador and spy in Norway to find out about it as soon as possible. He walked back to the window again, looking at the huge battleship tilting to port not far away, which was perhaps the only consolation of Jellid - the latest masterpiece of the British Empire's ship designers, the Iron Duke-class battleship "Iron Duke", which was completed only in March this year, and his own flagship, was hit by two torpedoes in the morning air raid, and due to the excellent anti-torpedo armor on the side of the ship, the huge ship with a standard displacement of 25,000 tons did not explode and sink like the "Indomitable" and "Defense". However, it still had two big holes blown out of its port side, and after pouring in a large amount of seawater, it tilted about 10 degrees to the left, but the main structure of the battleship was not damaged, and as long as it lay on the slipway for two or three months, it was able to cut the waves again.

Many soldiers and medical personnel on the dock are busy, fire trucks are also actively extinguishing fires, many tugboats and fire boats shuttle to and from the harbor, dozens of water columns spray at the still burning ships, the heavily damaged destroyers are dragged to the repair dock one by one, several uninjured warships slowly sail through the channel, and the sailors on it silently look at the "Defense" on the water with only the upper half of the building left, and its mast still flutters the naval flag of the empire on which the sun never sets, but its glorious era is gone forever.

Soon, news of the attack on Port Scapaflo reached the King and Prime Minister of England, and King George was extremely angry. Lloyd's. George also clamored for the Germans to pay more, but Churchill, the Secretary of the Admiralty, was struggling with the origin of the German planes in the air raids, and the British government soon received a reply from the Norwegian government: there was not a single German plane in Norway.