Under the cover of night, in the southeast of Bermuda, seven super battleships formed a double formation, and more than 20 cruisers and destroyers guarded it, and blinding white pillars of light continued to sweep across the sea, illuminating the surroundings of the fleet as if it were day. At present, the German Navy is not afraid of the capital ships of the British (Canadian) and American combined fleets, but is worried about being ambushed by British and American submarines. In addition to the submarines of the United States and Great Britain (Canada), what else could threaten these most powerful battleships in the world?

In the tall bridge of the battleship Bismarck, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps. Major Rudolph walked briskly under the puzzled eyes of the crowd. "Admiral, a briefing from the Frederick the Great."

"How?" Lütjans seemed to sense something wrong from Major Rudolph's slightly furrowed eyebrows, was there any bad news?

"Marshal Raeder reminds us of the threat of American aircraft, they now have a fighter that is strong enough to compete with the FW-190, probably a modification of the US Navy F4, which has a maximum speed of more than 600 kilometers, and a solid fuselage with great firepower and very impressive combat effectiveness. In the air battle this afternoon, our FW-190C carrier-based aircraft suffered a big loss, 71 were shot down by American aircraft! ”

With a snap, Admiral Lütjans's pipe slipped out of his hand and fell lightly on the floor, he could hardly believe his ears, 71 FW-190C carrier-based aircraft were shot down by the Americans in an air battle! Since the beginning of this world war, it seems that German fighters have not suffered such a setback.

Lütjans walked up to Major Rudolph in a few steps, grabbed the telegram and read it carefully, and after making sure that he had heard it correctly, a very ominous premonition suddenly came to his heart! It is clear that the Americans have made good use of every minute since the outbreak of the war, and their deep industrial power and technological accumulation (in fact, the German star engine technology was imported from the United States) is now starting to work.

It is quite possible that Germany has lost its best chance to destroy the United States! If only the Japanese hadn't woken up this industrial monster a year ago. The current situation may be just that

Lütjens cursed Germany's loyal ally Japan fiercely in his heart, and then gritted his teeth and ordered loudly: "The fleet is moving at full speed. Target Bermuda. Tomorrow in the early hours of the morning, I will completely destroy the airfields of the Americans with the heavy artillery of the battleships! They must not be given a second chance. ”

When Lütjans gritted his teeth and gave the order, the Z fleet, which was moving with the main forces of the German-Italian combined fleet, also received the order to move westward at full speed.

"What! Let's Z Fleet alone advance to xx north latitude and xx west longitude; There is no aircraft carrier escort! Is Your Excellency Marshal crazy? All five of my missile cruisers will be sunk by American planes! "Feng. Colonel Hinkel jumped up as soon as he saw Marshal Raeder's order. The Z fleet under his command is in addition to these 5 missile cruisers that do not have much self-defense capabilities. There were only a few Königsberg-class light cruisers and 1936 destroyers, and there was not much combat power to resist air raids. Once out of the protection of an aircraft carrier, the whole thing is a dish for American aircraft.

"Mr. Nakasa, see if you can remind Commander Raeder" von. Heinkel knew that he was not a little German captain and was not qualified to say no to Raeder. But the Japanese Navy's Kengoro Nakasa can. Because those 785 missile pilots are now under the command of Liverpay, and without Liverpay, Raeder has no way to order those Japanese to die!

However, Ganfu's answer surprised him. "Commander Raeder's order is quite correct, there are no problems with leaving the main formation. Because our P-35 missiles have a range of only 400 kilometers, we have to get as close as possible to American aircraft carriers. He walked over to the map table and tapped lightly a few times, and said, "And there is no need for us to let the entire main fleet accompany us on the adventure." Besides, according to the arrangement of His Excellency the Marshal. We have Admiral Lysteyan's B Fleet to the west, and the main fleet to the east, and the American aircraft carrier formation, so there is no reason why we should let the big fish not catch against our little shrimp! ”

"Little shrimp? God, these five missile cruisers plus almost 800 P-35s are worth not much cheaper than one Frederick the Great! ”

Kengoro Liver Fu smiled coldly, and a hint of mockery appeared on the corner of his mouth, "But Americans don't know!" They will treat us as a couple of inconsequential transports and leave it alone. You know, in an aircraft carrier battle, neither side will waste a valuable aircraft carrier sortie in vain. ”

"But what if they send a group of bombers against us?"

Liver Fu Kengoro shrugged his shoulders and said to Feng in a serious manner. Henkel bowed slightly and said, "If that's the case, Mr. Colonel, then Kudanzaka." ”

"Kudanzaka? Where is that? Is it a paradise for you Japanese? I don't want to go to heaven where there are Japanese people when I die! Even going to hell is better than that. "Feng. Henkel sneered: "Knowing you Japanese, is the greatest sorrow of my life!" I was really killed by you."

Liver Fu also ignored Feng. Henkel's ugly face turned on his face, but he walked straight to the chart table, stared at it for a moment, and whispered to himself: "The airfield in Bermuda should be destroyed in the early hours of tomorrow morning, so that the Americans' aviation forces in the Atlantic Ocean will only have a few aircraft carriers, and the number of carrier-based aircraft that can be used is 300 in the sky, and there are as many as 15 German and Italian battleships they have to deal with!" There are 11 aircraft carriers and nearly 700 carrier-based aircraft. As long as the commander of the American aircraft carrier is not a fool, he will definitely ignore the five merchant ships. He thought about it and turned back to Feng. Henkel smiled: "Mr. Colonel, please convey my suggestion to Marshal Raeder, it is best not to bring even light cruisers with the Z fleet in this sortie, and a few destroyers will be enough to escort our five 'merchant ships'." ”

"Crazy! This Japanese must be a madman, no, it should be that all Japanese are crazy! Why should Germany be in the company of these madmen? "Feng. Heinkel thought to himself

"God, is that the fleet of the Germans? It seems that there are more than twenty warships! ”

Sergeant Cheney, who was working as a radarman on a T-24 Navy long-range reconnaissance aircraft converted from a B-6 Liberator bomber, suddenly spotted a series of flashing dots on the green radar screen! At this time, the reconnaissance plane he was traveling, codenamed Lookout-12, had just completed a 15-hour search mission and was on its way back to Bermuda.

"Where are they?" The captain's voice came through the headphones.

"Bearing xxxx. It is 107 km away from us and is sailing northeast. The speed is about 30 knots. Cheney replied.

"What? 30 knots sail northeastward. Where are they going? The captain of the Lookout 12 sensed that something was wrong, and he gently pulled the nose of the plane to turn around and flew towards the German fleet, narrowing the distance between the two sides to about 15 kilometers.

"Oh my God! There are six of them. No! It's seven battleships! They're huge! ”

By the light of the moon, Captain Lookout-12's face changed suddenly. Because directly in front of him, seven huge ships larger than the battleship Carryona were cleaving the waves under the guard of a group of small and medium-sized warships! And the whole formation also unscrupulously turned on all the searchlights. The surrounding sea is almost lit up as if it were daylight.

"The Germans are going to Bermuda! They are going to bombard our Kindley airfield with naval artillery! The captain of the Beholder-12 immediately guessed the intentions of the German fleet in front of him. Bermuda is just over 50 square kilometres. There was no depth at all, and the whole thing was within range of the battleship cannons, although the navy also deployed 24 11-inch to 14-inch guns on the main islands of Bermuda. However, due to the rush of time, there was no time to build an armored turret, and all the cannons were placed in the open air, and they were also close to the coastline. So it was not at all an opponent for these German battleships in front of them.

What's even more dangerous is that the U.S. military's Kindley Airport was built by the sea! All it takes is a salvo. The huge cannons of these battleships were enough to destroy everything there!

"Sir! There is an aircraft carrier! The Germans had an aircraft carrier in their fleet! It just released two warplanes, let's go! ”

"Hell! Damn the Germans! The captain cursed hatefully, then pulled the nose of the plane sharply, and fled in a west-northeast direction

"Woo! Woo"

With the telegram sent back by Lookout 12, the shrill sirens sounded throughout the seven main islands of Bermuda, and countless American soldiers ran out of the barracks in a panic, and then, under the loud shouts of officers and sergeants, formed a neat-looking procession and marched in unison towards their reserved burial place. Although the U.S. military has been building fortifications on the Bermuda Islands day and night in recent months, there is no way to turn Bermuda into a real fortress in just a few months, and there are no fortifications strong enough to withstand the bombardment of giant 380mm shells.

And in the war room of the Bermuda U.S. Army Command on St. George's Island, there was already an atmosphere of extreme tension. Lieutenant General Kimmel was covered in beads of sweat, while Lieutenant General Stilwell, the supreme commander of the US Army in Bermuda and had just returned to the Americas from Burleigh, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, was sitting in front of the sand table in a daze, complaining in his heart about his good friend Admiral Marshall. Why did you do this commander of the Fifth Army of the United States Army stationed in Bermuda to himself? Didn't he hint to him that he wanted a position where he could show his talent and establish meritorious service for the United States, why was he sent to Bermuda to die? Did you offend Marshall, a hypocrite, somewhere?

Desperate, Kimmel and Stilwell had no choice but to send telegrams to Norfolk and Washington asking for help, and later the two simply asked Norfolk to immediately send battleships and aircraft carriers to Bermuda to save their lives! The sooner the better!

However, the final order from the U.S.-British Joint Command in Norfolk made the two American lieutenant generals almost mad with anger.

"Mr. Lieutenant General, Norfolk ordered the SBD dive bombers, TBD torpedo bombers, and all reconnaissance planes and transport planes on Kindley Airport to immediately fly to the New Bern airfield on the mainland. The rest of the fighters and bombers, plus enough fuel to fly 1,500 km, were put on bombs to carry out a round of air strikes on the newly discovered German battleship formation, and then also flew to New Bern"

"What!" Before the chief of staff, Colonel Jim, had finished reading the telegram in his hand, Stilwell jumped up, ran over and snatched the telegram from the other man's hand, looked at it twice, and began to curse. "Damn. Damn it, we were abandoned by the US Navy! They don't care about us anymore. All I wanted to do was get the plane back home. Stilwell gritted his teeth. And he shouted, "They are murder!" It was the murder of a whole 50,000 Americans! I'm going to accuse them to the president, accuse these murderers! ”

No wonder Vice Admiral Stilwell was in a hurry, according to the order of the United American and British Combined Fleet Command, all planes on Bermuda would leave. Including the naval transport plane that sent him himself to this Jedi! That is, all the Americans above Bermuda. There is no way to return to the United States now, even if Stilwell fights to court-martial, and spends the rest of his life in a U.S. Army prison! Waiting for him and 50,000 U.S. Army and Navy officers and sailors was only hell or the German Nazi prisoner of war camps.

"Joseph. Don't say it's useless. Washington won't care about us. Kimmel was ready to sacrifice his life for the country, so he looked indifferent, he stood up, put on his lieutenant general's uniform, nodded at Stilwell, and said: "The night horizontal bombardment of more than 100 A-20 and B-25 aircraft will not be able to deal with the German fleet at all." They would be in Bermuda before dawn, and we would inspect the forts and positions on St. George's Island. Then let's go inside the bunker. With that, he said to Chief of Staff Jim, "Arrange for the headquarters to withdraw to the bunker, and we will wait for God's arrangement there." ”

At 3 a.m. on October 27, 1939, 10 nautical miles south of Bermuda.

There was a sudden flash of orange-red light on the surface of the sea, followed by a dull roar like thunder, and at the same time, the whistling sound of a train moving at high speed broke through the air.

"Boom" one after another super-large caliber shells have already landed on the positions of the US troops in Bermuda, as well as on the Kindley airport, and the earth suddenly trembled, like a huge volcano is erupting!

Stilwell, who was sitting in the bunker of the U.S. Army Headquarters, several kilometers away from the front line, saw everything in the bunker shake, the electric lights flickered on and off, and dust fell from the ceiling of the bunker in bursts. What made him especially unbearable was the fact that Lieutenant General Kimmel had just told him that this seemingly sturdy bunker could not resist the 380mm first-class large-caliber naval guns of the Germans and Italians! In fact, the bunker was able to withstand only three direct hits of shells of no more than 305mm caliber! If it's a 356mm shell, just one shot is enough to kill everyone in the bunker.

Even hiding in a bunker made of reinforced concrete could not escape this fate, so how much hope did the officers and soldiers in the infantry trenches and civil fortifications on the front line have to survive? The American soldiers, who had been rushing to repair the fortifications for several days, suddenly discovered that they were the most stupid fools in the world, and they actually believed that the fortifications dug with their own hands could withstand the naval guns of the German Navy. Not to mention the main guns of 380mm and 280mm battleships and armored ships, even the 203mm heavy cruiser guns are much more powerful than the largest caliber 155mm howitzer owned by the US Army in Bermuda! Even the 150mm and 140mm guns of light cruisers and destroyers were difficult for the trench fortifications of these army infantry to resist.

However, the U.S. military was not blindly beaten, and the 24 large-caliber 11-inch and 14-inch shore guns deployed on several main islands opened fire and counterattacked at the first opportunity.

"Boom."

An 11-inch large-caliber shell landed on the sea less than 50 meters away from the starboard side of the battleship Bismarck, setting off a column of water more than ten meters high.

"Near-missed! These Yankees are really accurate! The captain of the Bismarck, Colonel Klinsmann, shouted.

"No, it's radar! Their radar is better than ours. Lütjans frowned slightly, of course a senior general of his level knew that Germany was not an all-round leader in science and technology, especially in radar technology, there was still a certain gap compared to the United States and Britain. Although Hitler had forced Britain (home) to hand over some of its advanced technology after taking control of all of Europe, Germany's radar was still far behind that of the United States.

"Have you determined the artillery positions of the other side?" Lütjans asked his chief of staff aloud. Just before the fleet entered the shelling position, he had already ordered the release of seaplanes to observe the point of impact of the shells. Once the U.S. batteries fired, they naturally couldn't escape their eyes.

"Seaplanes reported that more than 20 large-caliber shore guns were found firing, and 15 enemy large-caliber guns were also spotted at the lookout post." The Chief of Staff was quick to report to Lütjens on the latest report received.

"Guns, adjust the shelling plan, first take out the Americans' batteries, and then destroy them from the airfield!" Lütjans commanded loudly: "Fight hard, kill all those damned Yankees!" ”

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