All right! The shouting and screaming of the family members in the Kiel military port, coupled with the crying of children, Dönitz really couldn't stand it, and went directly into the lounge of the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, the preparations for the past few days are very cumbersome, even Dönitz, the shopkeeper, does not have much time to rest, and now he can sleep well. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Dönitz is a strange person, he was very nervous before the war, but when it came to the real war, he was not worried at all, which gave Dönitz's subordinates a reassurance, and the coach was confident! Then this mission is nine out of ten, and Dönitz's little habit really has an unexpected benefit.

As soon as the aircraft carrier formation left the Kiel military port, it adjusted its course and sailed towards the Arctic Ocean, which of course should be farther and farther away from Britain, and Dönitz was of course hiding from the world by doing so.

Scarpa Bay is a semi-enclosed water in the Orkney Islands, the northernmost part of Scotland, England, surrounded by the main island of the archipelago, Hoy Island, South Ronasay Island and a small island, is a good natural bay, about 24 kilometers long, 13 kilometers wide, with an area of 130 square kilometers.

There are 3 shipping lanes connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea, and it is an important naval base for the British Royal Navy. In the First and Second World Wars, Britain played an important role in controlling the North Sea. The British Royal Navy tightly sealed off the bay.

Six of the seven entrances are equipped with anti-submarine nets, and minefields are also laid. Only the 7th entrance has a narrow channel and a rocky underwater area, and there is no fortified submarine net.

Dönitz took eight converted aircraft carriers this time, all of which were more than 30,000 tons, and each modified aircraft carrier carried fifty-eight aircraft, and the Zeppelin aircraft carrier carried slightly more aircraft from the Soviet Union, of which the ratio of BF109 and JU87 was five to five, respectively.

For the sake of the safety of the fleet, Dönitz increased the carrying ratio of the BF109 to 50 percent. Dönitz had a total of four hundred and eighty-eight aircraft this time, half each of the BF109 and JU87.

Each of the other 10 10,000-ton supply ships has two FW223 helicopters, and more than 100 lifeboats converted into assault boats.

FW223 is to search for submarines in the air, assault boats are to listen to the search on the sea surface, destroyers and light cruisers are to provide air defense networks and anti-submarine for aircraft carrier formations, and JU87 on air patrol will also participate in the attack on discovered submarines.

Judging from Dönitz's arrangement, Dönitz can be said to have arranged four anti-submarine networks for his aircraft carrier formation, and the last layer is the cat-eared anti-aircraft batteries on both sides of the aircraft carrier to intercept and shoot anti-torpedoes at close range.

Dönitz has to pay attention to anti-submarine! One torpedo will paralyze the aircraft carrier that is to be refitted by itself, and two will be sent directly to the bottom of the sea, and it is fast to use a merchant ship to modify an aircraft carrier, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it cannot withstand the beating.

Under such tight protection, Dönitz did not believe that British submarines could get close to his formation. As for the air defense of the aircraft carrier formation, it can only rely on carrier-based aircraft and the anti-aircraft artillery of the forest, and the aircraft carrier that has been rebuilt by Dönitz, the air defense weapons are very perverted, and there are no less than 50 twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns on each aircraft carrier, plus the anti-aircraft weapons of destroyers and light cruisers, plus the BF109 aircraft, Dönitz believes that his air defense is still possible, and any enemy who wants to break through his air defense circle will pay a heavy price.

Of course, there is no air defense circle that must not be breached, it is unrealistic, and anything that may arise in a war will arise.

Scapa Bend has a military airfield, according to intelligence, Britain has deployed an aviation division here, about 480 aircraft, plus three heavy aircraft carriers, several modified aircraft carriers, Britain has about 600 aircraft of all kinds here, these planes and the Atlantic Fleet, that is, Britain controls the North Sea and the Atlantic, as well as all the naval forces in the Arctic Ocean.

Dönitz led the entire aircraft carrier formation to sail while constantly taking off and landing carrier-based aircraft, which can be regarded as temporary pre-war training, and aircraft carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing will of course have accidents, which cannot be avoided and can only be minimized, but fortunately, Dönitz has a lot of repairmen and spare aircraft.

In order not to arouse the suspicion of the British, Dönitz chose to sail on the coast close to the Norwegian side, and the straight-line distance from Scapa Bend was not less than 800 nautical miles.

So Dönitz must take the aircraft carrier battle group to the distance of about 250 kilometers from Scarpa Bend at night, and not let the British find out, this is the most difficult step, you must know that Scarpa Bend has 600 British planes, if these planes take off, Dönitz will have more than 200 fighters, it will definitely not be able to kill the British, not to mention that planes from other parts of Britain will immediately come to reinforce it, simply put, once Dnitz is discovered by the British, then go directly to the sea to feed the sharks!

On the first day of the voyage, no British planes were found, and on the second day, Dönitz was discussing problems with Stephen and Schmidt, when suddenly the air defense siren sounded, and the air defense siren of "woo woo woo ......" made people get goosebumps all over their bodies, and the three of them hurriedly glanced at each other, and Dönitz hurriedly rushed to the combat command room:

"Stephen, you go command tower, Schmidt, you command the carrier-based aircraft to take off."

Dönitz commanded his two brothers as he ran, and the two brothers did not say a word, and each ran to his post. Dönitz thought as he ran, "It shouldn't be!" Could it be that the British came to raid their own aircraft carrier formation, and they can't steal chickens and eat a handful of rice! I am more than 800 nautical miles away from Britain, and it is impossible for British planes to have a range of more than 1,600 kilometers! It seems that it is not Britain that wants to engage itself, is it Norway? With Norway's military strength, it is basically impossible.

The conference room and the operational command room were only a few meters apart, and as soon as Dönitz rushed into the operational command room, the telecommunications officer immediately stood up and reported loudly to Dönitz:

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the patrol aircraft found two unknown international planes coming towards our aircraft carrier formation."

All right! The air raid siren almost scared Dönitz, but it was better to be careful, he commanded all the hopes for the future of the German Navy, and he must not be buried by negligence.

"Order the patrol plane to immediately go up and find out which country's plane it is, and report it immediately."

"Order the Z2, Z3, Z4 aircraft carriers to take off eight BF109 fighters each."

The number of aircraft carriers starts with Zeppelin aircraft carriers, which are Z1, and so on, and the Z word in front of it is the meaning of Germany's "Z plan".

The communications officer hurriedly conveyed Dönitz's order, and the entire combat command room was divided into two parts, the left side was the operations hall, which was full of nautical charts and sand tables, and the personnel were mostly naval combat staff officers, and the room on the right was the telecommunications room, which was the center of the entire aircraft carrier battle group, so it had the most complete equipment, the largest number of personnel, and the largest area. (To be continued.) )