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With a loud bang, the super battleship Tirbitz capsized in a huge flame, destroying thousands of people and not surviving, which greatly shocked the German officers and men on the Bismarck battleship who were desperately struggling. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

After the first wave of air raids by the RAF, all the bombs and torpedoes were dropped, and they flew away with a puff of smoke.

Major General Ernst-Lindemann did not say a word, silently staring at the strings of black dots that disappeared in the air. The sea on all sides was full of warships of the British Navy. Especially the two Great Britain Ultimate Battleships, every roar of the 20-inch cannon smashed deep into his heart, as if it was about to break his heart.

In fact, Ernst's heart was already in despair. Look at the rapidly sinking battleship Tirpitz. In less than a minute, all that remained on the surface of the water was a huge foamy whirlpool.

At this time, 5 people in the bridge of the Bismarck were killed by fragments of shells, and Ernst had the bodies carried away. Ernst then informed the combat departments and reported the damage. Including 12 25-mm guns, the tail telecommunications room, which was thickly armored and known as a steel fortress, was split in half, and all kinds of precision instruments were destroyed. The signal soldiers were all killed, except for the eight corpses that were faintly recognizable, the rest were blurred with flesh and blood, and their eyes were full of stumps, severed arms, and flesh and blood.

Before the last wave of casualties could be counted, there was another rumbling sound in the air, like thunder rolling. Under the blue white clouds, a second wave of RAF planes was coming straight at an alarming speed.

In the blink of an eye. An explosive flash of light flashed from under the foremast of the bridge, and the white was scorching and dazzling. Dense machine-gun bullets swept across the steel plates around the bridge, crackling like hail hitting the towers. A burst of tightness.

When the plane drops bombs and fires, it flies a straight line for a certain distance, which the pilots call the "death line." This is the moment when aircraft are vulnerable to interception by enemy aircraft and enemy ship artillery. Torpedo machines, in particular, are most afraid of passing this difficulty. ╔╗

Right now. The time for the British pilots to fly the "death line" was very short, which was not quite the same as the scene when the gunners on the Bismarck were learning to shoot targets, because Britain was equipped with either the Jian-10 series fighters directly imported from the Chinese Empire, or the British fighters modified with the same powerful aero engines as the Jian-10, and their speed was greatly increased, and they had reached the limit of propeller aircraft (more than 900 kilometers per hour).

The Bismarck burst into countless bursts of bright light. There was a loud bang, and the blasted steel fragments and torn corpses flew wildly in the sky, and there was a bloody rain.

The second wave of British planes were mostly torpedo attack aircraft, and three red-headed torpedoes hit the left-chord waterline strip behind the Bismarck's mainmast. The Bismarck was hit hard, and the port side waterline was torn open several times, and the sea water poured into it frantically.

The British planes dropped the torpedoes, then turned sideways, dodged the artillery fire and turned back. Strafing the bridge with machine guns. The British fighters attacked at a clear pace, aimed at destroying the command center of the Bismarck, so that Ernst had no respite, and not a single order could be conveyed in time.

However, the anti-aircraft firepower of the super battleship Bismarck was so powerful. Or let the British aircraft suffer a big loss. Occasionally, one or two US planes were hit by Bismarck's naval guns, dragged thick smoke into the sea, and exploded violently, stirring up huge waves more than 10 meters high. Occasionally, a few wounded British planes, knowing that they could not fly back to the aircraft carrier, gritted their teeth and rammed the Bismarck.

On the whole, the Bismarck was surrounded by the British Navy and had no way to escape. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the morale of the German troops on the Bismarck, in the face of the superb attack skills of the British pilots, coupled with the fierce attack of the British Navy's capital ships. All kinds of anti-aircraft guns on the battleship Bismarck were blown up one after another, and the anti-aircraft fire deteriorated day by day.

The first two waves of British aircraft attacked the left chord of the battleship Bismarck, and soon Holland ordered to continue to concentrate all his forces on the starboard side, with the result that the Bismarck was hit by five more torpedoes. ╔╗Several compartments on the starboard side were flooded with a large amount of water, and the hull quickly tilted to the right. Originally, Ernst could control the balance of the Bismarck through the ship's huge injection and drainage system, but an armor-piercing shell accidentally hit the injection and drainage control room, blowing up all the regulating valves. The dewatering pump was powerless, and the only way was to control the symmetrical filling of water into the port side compartment. The port side main engine room and the main boiler room are the largest compartments on the ground floor and can be filled with 4,000 tons of seawater. When they were flooded, they were supposed to straighten the Bismarck. Ernst did not wait for the engineer and boiler crews to be withdrawn, and gave the order to fill the water with cold and ruthless orders.

In the bilge, the engineers and boilermen faintly heard the rumbling of guns on the deck. They don't know what is happening overhead. Due to the power outage, the exhaust smoke of the exhaust fan was clouded, and the smoke in the cabin was steaming. They were dizzy and stuck to their respective positions, as if in a dream. The cabin was pitch black like hell, and the sea water suddenly poured in, rising to one or two meters at once. All the watertight hatches were closed, and they scrambled to escape, but the water soon drowned hundreds of people here.

Although Ernst tried to save Bismarck by any means, in the face of fierce attacks from the British Navy and Air Force, he knew that these were useless and all in vain. Due to the destruction of the telecommunications room, the Bismarck could not communicate with the German headquarters, and the long fighting caused the Bismarck to have long since departed from its original route, and the Luftwaffe could not find the Bismarck at all.

At this time, the twelfth salvo of fire from the British ship HMS Engli, several 20-inch shells hit the Bismarck. After a few loud bangs, Ernst was shaken to the ground by the violent tremors of the ship's hull.

"What's going on? Report Battle Damage! ”

"Report to the general, our main artillery has been destroyed, and now we have no weapons to engage from a distance."

Ernst suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and the main gun was destroyed by the enemy, which proved that the Bismarck could not hold out for long. ╔╗

At this time, the red-eyed Holland ordered the British ships to keep shortening the engagement distance, until finally they almost fired anti-aircraft guns. Ironically. Flat-fire guns made shells almost useless, because the trajectory was too flat, and the shells cut into the water and became crooked or could not penetrate Bismarck's lower hull. However, the shells turned the upper deck of the Bismarck into a hornet's nest, causing a large number of German casualties. However, we have to admire the strength of the armor protection capabilities of the Germans, even the 20-inch shells fired by the British super battleship failed to penetrate the armored core of the Bismarck, which can be described as a miracle.

Of course. For Horan, his first thought was also to capture the Bismarck. Therefore, the British ship did not sink it, only wounded it.

In order to avoid being captured by the British and to avoid the death of the crew from shelling, Ernst finally ordered the warship to be scuttled.

It wasn't until many years later that Karl Walter, veterans of the Bismarck, recalled that in the last battle, the well-known order to abandon ship had been issued. More than 300 people kept pushing through the aft deck door on the port side, including First Officer Earl, who ordered the abandonment of ship. However, a 20-inch shell pierced the port side armor belt and exploded between them, killing almost everyone.

At 1:17 p.m., the battleship Bismarck sank by itself, ending her less than five-year age. And Rear Admiral Ernst did not leave the battleship and chose to sleep on the bottom of the sea with the Bismarck.

Horan saw that the battleship Bismarck sank by itself, and although he was very unhappy, he was able to sink the Bismarck and Tirpitz. It can be regarded as revenge for the Super Battle Patrol of the Hood. For Holland, the sinking of the Bismarck was like saving his naval career.

However, not long after Holland sent back the news to the British Admiralty that the two super-battleships Bismarck and Tirbitz had sunk, reconnaissance planes of the German 74th Air Wing in Spain, formerly the Frankfurt Air Force, discovered the area of engagement and witnessed the sinking of the Bismarck.

Soon. ╔╗ When the news came back to Germany, Hitler was furious, and immediately ordered the German High Seas Fleet to go out to destroy the main force of the British Navy to avenge Bismarck and Tirpitz, and at the same time, Hitler directly crossed Goering's Air Ministry and ordered the Frankfurt Air Force to sink England, the largest British naval capital ship in the war, at any cost.

After receiving the order, the Frankfurt Air Wing, led by Rear Admiral Holmf himself, 120 Heinkel 119 fighters, 65 Junkers torpedo attack planes, and 36 TA-200 tactical bombers frantically pounced on the British naval fleet that was returning to the Portsmouth naval base.

At this time, the commanders of the happy British Royal Navy ships were gathering together to celebrate the feat of sinking the two super battleships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, the British sailors of each ship were cleaning up the sick and wounded and repairing the battleship, and the fighters on the aircraft carrier unloaded their weapons and ammunition, drained the fuel and sent them back to the hangar, not realizing that the Luftwaffe was about to attack, at least they did not expect the Germans to know so quickly that the Bismarck and Tirpitz had sunk and immediately launched retaliation.

By the time the rapid anti-aircraft sirens sounded over the British fleet, the planes of the German Frankfurt Air Wing had already pierced through the clouds and began to make a swoop.

The radar of the British fleet had indeed detected the situation half an hour earlier, but the officers of the British ships were celebrating, and the British officer on duty, who was a temporary civilian officer, went to the fleet commander with information, but on the way, he was spilled on the deck and the fuel slipped to the ground, and he knocked his head and passed out. As a result, radar intelligence was not reported to the command of the British naval fleet in a timely manner.

The group of German attack planes that dived down at high speed immediately caused great confusion to the British fleet, and the Luftwaffe had a very clear goal, flying directly towards the two Britannia-class capital ships of the British fleet located in the center.

The anti-aircraft fire on hundreds of warships of all types of the British fleet was in full swing, and countless rays of light shot into the sky, shooting down one German plane after another.

Soon, Rear Admiral Holmf discovered that the British fleet was too large, and if all the directions of attack were concentrated on attacking the England and Scotland, his wing would be shot down by more than two-thirds of the British fleet prepared for anti-aircraft fire before it flew to the target, and the remaining third might not be able to inflict heavy damage on the two British capital ships, and even if the bombs were dropped, they would not fly out at all, that is, they would definitely die. ╔╗

In this case, Major General Kholmev was timid, he wanted to save his life and go home to take care of his children, he did not want to die. As a result, Rear Admiral Holmev gave up the best chance to attack the ultimate battleships of England and Scotland, and if he was not afraid of death, he might have a good chance of sinking one of the ultimate battleships of the British army. Because the British had not yet completed the preparation of anti-aircraft fire, he and his wing had every chance to calmly drop aerial bombs and torpedoes and leave safely. But he gave up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and changed the order halfway through. Have all the planes attack the four closest Queen Elizabeth-class battleships to them.

Rear Admiral Holmf adopted the tactics of a master-feint attack and, taking into account the limited attack power, concentrated his forces on the battleship Queen Elizabeth. He sent a sneak attack group of 65 Junkers torpedo attack aircraft to the right rear of the Queen Elizabeth. He also instructed to concentrate on the use of torpedoes to attack the ammunition compartment in the rear half of the Japanese ship. A group of 36 TA-200 dive bombers flew south against the sun. Then use the refraction of sunlight to carry out a dive-bombing attack on the Queen Elizabeth. The remaining 120 Heinkel Type 119 fighters remained in the front to attract the fire of the British ships and waited for an opportunity to attack the British ships.

Because the fighters on the British aircraft carrier failed to take off in time, the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which had lost air cover and the support of the surrounding fleets, could not hold back the attack of more than 200 German planes with its anti-aircraft fire alone.

Sixty-five torpedo attack planes suddenly appeared behind the starboard side of the Queen Elizabeth, and began to carry out torpedo attacks in turn in a formation of 10 planes, forming a fan-shaped torpedo track, so that the Queen Elizabeth could not escape the fate of being hit by several torpedoes at the same time, whether it was advancing or retreating or standing still.

The starboard side of the giant ship Queen Elizabeth was first hit by a German blackhead torpedo below the waterline. At the same time, 2 more torpedoes hit the starboard stern. With a loud sound that shook the sky, the officers and men of the British ship were killed and wounded countless times, and the tragic scene was rampant.

At the same time, dive bombers appeared from the sunlight, and the anti-aircraft gunners on the British ships were so blinded by the sunlight that they could not open their eyes. At this moment, bombshells fell like a storm. The Queen Elizabeth's front main turret was hit by several bombs, and even the huge 18-inch gun barrel, which weighed hundreds of tons, was blown off and thrown into the sky. Soon several more bombs hit the Queen Elizabeth directly. Originally, the Queen Elizabeth was injured in a fight with the Bismarck, and at this time it was even more ablaze.

Just when the Queen Elizabeth was fiercely attacked by German planes, 120 German planes that had attracted the fire of the British ships in the front took the opportunity to break through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Queen Elizabeth and attacked it directly from the front. The frantic strafing on the bridge of the British ship killed and injured a large number of British command personnel.

Several German planes were hit by the British ship's anti-aircraft guns, and before they could completely lose control, the German pilots crashed them into the British ship, blowing off the main mast in one fell swoop.

A series of explosions rang out from the battleship HMS Elizabeth, and under this near-devastating three-dimensional attack, at least 12 torpedoes were hit on the starboard side of the HMS Elizabeth and nearly 20 heavy bombs were hit on the deck. The superstructure of the Queen Elizabeth Super Battleship was almost gone, and the burning hull had begun to tip badly to starboard, sinking rapidly at a speed that could be seen.

The British were dumbfounded, but soon the British became even more frenzied, and British fighters taking off from aircraft carriers quickly flew in and engaged in a fierce struggle with German aircraft. The anti-aircraft artillery of the British ships nearby concentrated fire on the German planes, shooting down dozens of them.

Rear Admiral Kholmf, seeing that he had successfully sunk the battleship Queen Elizabeth, was already able to go back and make a mission, and considering that the Frankfurt Air Force had lost more than two-thirds of its ranks, he immediately ordered the evacuation.

When a dozen German planes fled, the British fleet looked up and down as the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which was sinking under fire and smoke, and all of them were stunned, and the joy of sinking the battleship Bismarck was gone, replaced by endless sadness.

That night, the British fleet returned to its base, but before it could sit down, the air defense sirens sounded, and a large number of Luftwaffe bombers would arrive in ten minutes.

The British High Command, knowing that this was a large-scale retaliatory action by the Germans, ordered the British fleet to leave the harbor immediately for shelter.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, more than 1,400 bombers of the Luftwaffe carried out a fierce bombing of Portsmouth, dropping a total of more than 5,000 tons of aerial bombs, and the whole Portsmouth was in flames.

The British ground air defense units opened fire fiercely, and the most advanced M38 88-mm anti-aircraft guns imported from the Chinese Empire were very ferocious; not only were the rate of fire and the firing height more than twice as powerful as the 88-mm anti-aircraft guns made in Britain, but also the newly developed radio-proximity fuse anti-aircraft shells of the Chinese Empire were also exported to the British air defense forces in large quantities. This radio proximity shell was specially designed to deal with the intensive bombing of Luftwaffe bomber groups at night, because the British Air Force could not take to the air to attack the German bomber groups at night, and could only rely on ground anti-aircraft guns to defend them. Very often, it was difficult for anti-aircraft artillery to inflict heavy damage on the Luftwaffe.

In view of the night bombing operations between Britain and Germany, the Beiyang Ordnance Heavy Industry of the Chinese Empire specially developed a radio proximity bomb suitable for the M38 anti-aircraft gun, which could automatically explode near the German bombers with strong radio signals, and immediately caused heavy damage to the German bomber group.

In the night sky, I saw a ball of fire blooming, and the German bomber that was hit fell to the ground like a meteor.

For the first time, the German bomber group suffered heavy losses after being hit hard by British air defense forces at night. There were more than 1,400 bombers left, and when they returned to Spain, Norway and the Netherlands, there were less than 300 German planes left, and all of them were wounded. The huge losses caused Hitler to scold Goering for being a fool, and Goering was so sad that he did not know why the British had suddenly become so powerful in their anti-aircraft firepower.

The British High Command soon learned through special channels that the German army suffered heavy losses in the air raid last night, and Churchill soon shamelessly let the British side "accidentally" leak relevant information, and thanked the Chinese Emperor in a high-profile manner, and spent hundreds of millions of dragon coins to import the M38 air defense artillery system from the Chinese Empire on a large scale (radio proximity shells for export).

Based on this, the German intelligence department judged that it was the fact that the German bomber group was shot down in large numbers due to the export of advanced M38 anti-aircraft guns by the Chinese Empire to Britain.

The officials of the Chinese Imperial Government scolded Churchill for being shameless, knowing that this was Churchill's deliberate purpose, and the purpose was to instigate tension between China and Germany. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )