Chapter 268 Lin Han-style lies
Standing on the hull of the Scharnhorst, sensing the wounds on the 40,000-ton battleship, and deducing the damage suffered after the mines, Lin Han said to Hannah:
"After consecutive victories, we're all so proud!"
Before the attack on the port of Oslo, the biggest mistake made by the German Navy was that the battleships moored in the harbor did not have anti-torpedo nets. And why there is no anti-torpedo net, it is the Germans, it should be said that Hannah is too confident in her own perception, thinking that in the face of her "omniscience", the opponent will not be able to succeed in a sneak attack. At the beginning of the Norwegian campaign, in order to ensure speed, none of the German ships on the voyage carried anti-torpedo nets. After the war, German merchant ships were busy transporting troops and supplies into Norway, and did not carry anti-torpedo nets.
It's not that I didn't think of it, it's not that I'm negligent, it's just that Hannah is overconfident in her abilities.
Hannah, who was integrated with the Scharnhorst, replied to Lin Han: "Pride and arrogance are punished!" Human emotions have degraded me, and I don't like this state. ”
Lin Han comforted her and said, "As far as this injury is concerned, the problem is not very serious, drive back to the dock in Kiel, and it will be repaired in less than a month." ”
The injuries suffered by the Scharnhorst were nowhere near as severe as they seemed. The excellent TDS lightning protection design, coupled with the integrated technology against the sky, allows it to absorb a large amount of damage from torpedo explosions. The Scharnhorst was hit by a mine with only 3,000 tons of water, and the hull tilted seven degrees to the left. Even if they go to sea without maintenance, they can maintain a speed of more than 27 knots when running at full power, which is enough speed for the British ship that struggles to run 24 knots in a row, which is enough to make them "burst into tears" and can only look up.
However, the wounded Scharnhorst will certainly not be able to continue to fight at sea until it is repaired, and he will have to stay in the shipyard for the next month to wait for repairs. But Hannah was there to help. The repair will be much faster.
"In the past consecutive victories, we have all unconsciously started to become arrogant. It's a good thing that this little injury exposes the problem, at least it makes you and me sober up a little bit. You and I have to learn to respect our opponents, who we used to unconsciously see as ants and underestimate them, but they weren't. Ships have already been sent to bring anti-torpedo nets. Now on the way. And when they put anti-torpedo nets, they must be required to hang the torpedo nets to the bottom of the sea. In addition, I also asked a batch of biplane fighters specially manufactured in China to be transported over to guard against this kind of low-speed rogue aircraft. In addition, the balloon will be erected, and the port of Kiel will be strengthened. ”
Hannah had been silent, and Lin Han knew that she was in a bad mood right now, and she wouldn't even show up a figure.
Two days ago, a group of Swordfish attack aircraft attacked the port of Oslo, and in the end only three escaped and returned to the mothership. Wounded, Hannah angrily ordered her core to be transferred to the USS Zeppelin, and then led the rest of the ships out of port to find the aircraft carrier that attacked him.
However, the British Navy had long been prepared. After receiving the returning Swordfish, they immediately returned to the sea. Due to its position at the time was outside of Hannah's perceptual distance, Hannah did not find the Eagle aircraft carrier in the first place, and then due to the excessive power of faith consumed during the defensive operation last night, in the process of pursuing the enemy, because the power of faith was not supplied enough, Hannah did not find the British ship in time.
After dawn, the Germans sent a large number of planes to search, and finally found traces of the Eagle aircraft carrier at sea more than 500 kilometers away from Oslo. This was already outside the attack radius of German shore-based aircraft, and also outside the attack radius of the location where the Zeppelin was located at that time. Hannah took advantage of the Zeppelin's speed to continue the pursuit of the Eagle. Although the fighters taking off from the Zeppelin repelled the first wave of the British Air Force's attack, the location was exposed, and the aircraft carrier Zeppelin, which lacked friendly ships, was worried about being attacked by more British aircraft, and it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and visibility was already very low at four o'clock in the Nordic area. Regardless of visibility or distance from each other, it was unlikely that the Zeppelin would have caught up with the Eagle on this day. And tomorrow, after a day and night of sailing, it will be even more unlikely.
In the end, Hannah had no choice but to give up the pursuit.
Hannah, who gradually possesses human emotions and at the same time gradually considers herself a "god". was actually "tuned again" by a veteran ship that was more than 20 years old, and the depression in my heart can be imagined.
"But sometimes bad things can turn into good things. After this battle, we have only one battleship available in the Norwegian Sea for the time being. The previous superiority of the Navy here has on the surface turned out to be a slight advantage of the British. But in reality it is not, we still have two aircraft carriers, and we still have the advantage of night fighting. In addition"
Lin Han looked to the north and continued: "The British have not yet refused to withdraw from Norway, and it seems that they are still holding a bit of luck. They won a game last night and regained a little bit of confidence, so this fluke mentality will be aggravated. In the days to come, let's see if they send more troops to Narvik. If we continue to increase our troops, it will be in our hands, and the success of the surprise attack on Oslo will become the beginning of another disaster......"
Lin Han walked to the room where he had met with Yamaguchi Tawen as he spoke, and then he took off his clothes and hid on the bed with a big thorn.
"Come out, Hannah, I know you're going to need to mend the magic right now."
A few minutes later, the hull of the wounded battleship Scharnhorst began to tremble slightly.
In the room, Lin Han, who was rolling with Hannah, bit her ear and said to him: "I have an idea, as long as the British continue to increase their troops in Narvik, in that case, we can take advantage of their cognitive mistakes."
When Hannah was depressed because of her injury and played with Lin Han in bed to "mend the demon", London, England was full of joy, and after hearing the bad news of defeat and defeat for two consecutive months, she finally got some exciting good news. The success of the surprise attack on Oslo also gave Churchill, who was about to leave London for Washington to "fight the autumn wind", a little more confidence.
After briefly repairing the holes in the ship's hull, Scharnhorst left the port of Oslo on the evening of 4 February and returned to Germany, where he was scheduled to remain at the dockyard in Kiel for repairs.
The injuries suffered by Shane Hotst, Hannah has evaluated, even without the help of "magic change". The captain worked overtime, and the repair could be completed in a maximum of twenty days. If her anti-heaven fusion ability is infiltrated to help, this time can be shortened by at least one-third, and if you don't hesitate to consume a huge amount of faith power to join the restoration work, the time can be shortened even more.
According to Lin Han's Jianyì, on the external publicity. The Germans again went the other way, and the official version was that the Scharnhorst only touched a mine and suffered a slight injury, which could be repaired in half a month at most. And the Kiel shipyard factory, according to official orders, while drinking and bragging in a nearby tavern, deliberately spread rumors, claiming that the Scharnhorst was not badly injured and that it would take at least two to three months to repair.
Exaggerating the injuries sustained by the Scharnhorst and deliberately overstating the timing of its restoration and reconstruction. It was the German navy that dug a pit for the British in heeding the advice of Linhan.
For the next month, there were no large-scale sorties of the German surface fleet, during which the British Navy also transferred the two main battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet back to the mainland, and the ratio of British and German battleships in the North Atlantic was reduced to six to two. Although the Scharnhorst was injured by two torpedoes, two warships on the British side were also hit by mines and shells, which also needed to be overhauled. In fact, the ratio of battleships available to both sides was four to one. In terms of the number of battleships, the British Navy had an absolute upper hand on paper.
Just as Lin Han foresaw. Because the Battle of Oslo had regained a little self-confidence, the British were now reluctant to give up Norway.
On 7 February, a German reconnaissance plane over the Great Norwegian Sea photographed a transport ship escorted by two battleships carrying a large number of British soldiers and equipment heading to the port of Narvik.
The British army was just as Germany expected. The work of increasing troops to the port of Narvik was resumed.
The German side was ostensibly unmoved by the increase in the number of troops in the British Navy, but was worried that the increase in troops would be too small. These days, the German torpedo boat unit in Bergen did not make a single sortie to harass the British convoy. Ostensibly, the Germans were all trying to strengthen the air defenses of Oslo and Bergen. In half a month. In Bergen and Oslo, a complete anti-aircraft balloon net was laid out, and more anti-aircraft positions were arranged, and knowing that the German side had strengthened its air defense, the British army did not have any delusion that the so-called "Oslo miracle" could be repeated again.
On the 19th of February, the Germans staged and directed a farce of their own appearance.
On Elinhan's instructions, the Gnaisenau was also denied some of the markings that would prove his identity, and at the same time the bow portrait of the ship was replaced with the bow portrait on the Scharnhorst, and then disguised as the Scharnhorst to appear in public, claiming that the Scharnhorst had been repaired and was ready to enter the sea at any time.
Under the deliberate indulgence of the Germans, the British sent potential German spies to take pictures of the "Scharnhorst" lightly, and after the film was sent back to China, the picture reading experts quickly saw through the trick of the Germans and believed that it was a fake by its sister ship, the "Gneisenau".
At the same time, the British spies wandering around the Keele shipyard easily learned from the families of the local shipyard workers that the shipyard was still working overtime and overnight to repair the battleship, and the workers were not allowed to go home. This also proves that the Scharnhorst is still not repaired.
So on the night of the 21st, the British revealed the matter in a radio broadcast to Germany, and its broadcast made a sharp tone of ridicule at the Germans, which made the German propaganda minister Goebbels feel like a wolf.
It's just that the British don't know that on the 21st, the Scharnhorst has been restored to a complete state after more than ten days of 24-hour continuous repairs in three shifts, and with the help of Hannah's consumption of the power of faith.
Germany deliberately exposed its flaws and took the initiative to send its face to the door to find a pump, which is Lin Han's favorite trick: to tell the truth as a lie, so that the other party will misjudge.
While the British broadcasters were vitriolic mocking the Germans on the radio, the Scharnhorst affair had quietly sailed out of the dock in the middle of the night and into the Baltic Sea for Norway.
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PS: Shane was struck by lightning, but it was not a reverse gold finger, it was another trap