At 7:20 a.m. on July 29, Winston Churchill was woken up by a violent knock on his door. Yesterday's attack on the French Navy put him under tremendous political pressure. The leaders of the Free French movement in England almost came to their homes to protest. The reaction of parliament and the people also expressed puzzlement at the British government's attack on the French navy in a state of "neutrality" during this most dangerous period in Great Britain.

That night, Churchill had to make a national address to the people, declaring that he had made this decision as a last resort and painful choice, and that only God knows whether he was telling the truth or not. Having to deal with the reproaches of various forces, Churchill was busy last night until 2 o'clock this morning.

After a day of tossing, he was exhausted and had just slept for a few hours when he was urgently woken up by his secretary.

Looking at the Prime Minister who was still rubbing her eyes, the female secretary Maggie shouted at Churchill: "On the radio, the Germans are broadcasting, they say that the two demon warships are besieging the Cunningham fleet, and the Dreadnought has been shot and burned!" ”

Churchill, who was rubbing his eyes, was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly turned on the radio in the room to listen.

Hannah was well prepared for the ambush of the Cunningham fleet outside the Strait of Gibraltar.

The German Navy, which had already anticipated the British action against the French Navy before the war, deployed a full ten submarines near the Channel of Gibraltar to monitor the movements of the British Navy while attacking the Atlantic Ocean in a high-profile attack on the fleet.

The Cunningham fleet's first passage through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean in preparation for an attack on France had long been within their surveillance. It's just that at that time, the German submarine force received instructions from the Berlin side and did not launch an attack for the time being, because at that time, the Germans still had to borrow the hands of the British to solve the big problem of the French navy.

When the British Navy took out five of Millsbeek's French capital ships, they rushed to leave the Mediterranean. Their "use value" has also come to an end. Although Hannah had guessed in advance that the British would then attack the French navy in Dakar, she was not prepared to wait any longer to prevent long nights.

In the past 24 hours, five more submarines have arrived from elsewhere, eventually setting up ambush circles on the east and west sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. On the eastern side of the island, near the entrance to the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean, there are five submarines in ambush, and on the west side, there are a full ten submarines in different firing positions, ready to wait for the rabbit.

But these submarines. Just as a last resort insurance.

Because the tactic of sneaking up on enemy ships by submarine-launched torpedoes is too gambling, it is safer to use surface warships to solve the opponent in order to ensure that there is no time.

According to the plan drawn up before the war, the submarines lying in ambush on both sides of the Strait of Zhiluotao would not attack at the first time. At that time, due to the tight defense of the patrol ships from Gibraltar at that time, and the high vigilance of the British ships themselves, these German submarines lurking nearby did not force a sneak attack, so the British fleet was allowed to safely pass through the most dangerous part of Guò until they sailed 60 kilometers away from the fortress of Gibraltar. Only then did the surface fleet, which arrived overnight, fire the first shot of the ambush.

Among the many plans for encircling and destroying Cunningham's fleet, the easiest way was to take advantage of the enemy's superiority and attack the two British aircraft carriers with pure naval aviation. However, considering that the current British Navy also has radar, and the characteristics of the Tejas class armored aircraft carrier are too thick (in history, the ship swallowed ten 500-kilogram bombs and escaped on its own without sinking), in the end, the German Navy still chose the most prudent way to use the night to approach and solve the opponent's artillery battle. Reenactment of the Battle of Bergen.

On the evening of the 29th, the German ships had just sailed out of the strait using the British ships. In the battlefield situation not far from the land, the Shane sisters relied on the land background to lead the fleet to dock and use the land background as a source of interference to approach the British fleet.

The southern coastline of the Strait of Gibraltar is full of cliffs, although the altitude is only one or two hundred meters. However, it was very beneficial for battleships to use it to cover their radar signals. In 1940, when radar technology was just beginning, it was not yet possible to tell the difference between the radar signal of a battleship operating against a mountain and the mountain signal. As a result, the German capital ships, led by the Schahn sisters, successfully approached the 25,000-kilometer range of the Canning fleet, and when the radar crews on the ships had just discovered the signal anomaly, the two ships had already started the first round of test firing in the dark of night.

The current Cunningham fleet is no worse than it was at the time of the Battle of Bergen. There was not even a single escort battleship in the fleet, only three cruisers and seven destroyers to escort it, and this poor escort force could not withstand the fire of two battleships and six air defense cruisers at close range.

In less than 10 minutes after the start of the battle, the Dreadnought aircraft carrier ate three shells in a row, one of which pierced the hull and hit the hangar, and ignited a fire, and the Dreadnought aircraft carrier burned into the brightest torch in the night on the spot, although the ship could still travel at a speed of 26 knots, but the fire on the hull of the ship still burned non-stop, and it was difficult to extinguish it.

During the First Battle of the Norwegian Sea, the fuses of German naval guns were not sensitive enough and the dud rate was very high, but this defect was corrected by the post-war scientific research department after half a year's efforts. In this battle, the fuses of the German ship's shells have been improved, and only one of the 16-inch shells that ordered the British aircraft carrier that night did not explode in time because of the excess penetration, and the dud rate was greatly reduced.

Suddenly approaching by German battleships, the situation of another aircraft carrier, the Radiance, was also in a worrying situation. In the darkness of the night, he kept doing the curved maneuvering of the shells from the German ships, but he still ate two shells in ten minutes, one hit the flight deck, made a large hole with a diameter of more than one meter, drilled into the lower deck, and exploded in the sailor's cabin, killing dozens of sailors, while the other shell pierced the bow from one side, and penetrated the other side due to excessive penetration, and finally fell into the sea and exploded. The damage was minor.

Then the British cruisers and destroyers escorting the ship took advantage of the cover of night to rush to the German ships and fire torpedoes, forcing the two battleships of Shane to turn around and evade. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the aircraft carrier Radiance took the opportunity to turn around and flee to the northwest at full speed, but unexpectedly fell headlong into the submarine ambush position that the Germans had already pre-arranged. The ambush operation was a joint operation of the surface fleet of the German Navy and an underwater submarine.

At 4:05, the fleeing aircraft carrier Brilliant was locked by a German submarine U49 equipped with a snorkel that had been ambushed nearby for a long time in the absence of a frigate. The boat fired four rounds in quick succession from a distance of four thousand meters, and after turning its head, it fired two more from its tail, eventually hitting two torpedoes, and fifteen minutes later it was hit twice on its port side by another German submarine. Soon due to too much water, the speed of lying on the sea was greatly reduced, and then mournfully waiting for the fate of sinking.

The naval battle has reached this point, there is no longer any suspense, and the next time is just the final struggle of several British ships caught in an ambush circle.

When the British fleet at the nearby fortress of Gibraltar learned of the attack on Cunningham, they sent their only six torpedo boats to help, but they were too far away to reach the battlefield and the battle was decided.

When the battle was fought until about five o'clock. As the sky grew brighter, the two carrier-based aircraft hidden nearby on the Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers flew into the battlefield and dropped bombs on the remnants of the British ships frantically fleeing at sea.

When Churchill was woken up by his secretary to listen to the "live radio" of the Germans, in fact the fighting was over. The Cunningham fleet was close to total annihilation, with two aircraft carriers, three cruisers, and seven destroyers forming a task force, and only one seriously wounded cruiser and two destroyers barely escaped back to the nearby fortress of Gibraltar. Four of the six torpedo boats that arrived that night were sunk. Two wounded and captured.

The wounded British cruiser, although it escaped into the fortress of Gibraltar, was later on its way to Alexandria, Egypt, for repairs. Attacked by a French submarine. Enraged, the French Navy unceremoniously fired several torpedoes at the accomplice involved in the destruction of the French fleet, eventually sinking it.

As for the two targets that the German Navy was concerned about, at seven o'clock, the hull of the flagship aircraft carrier Guanghui was tilted so tightly that the left deck was almost touching the sea. The British sailors on board were jumping into the water like dumplings, while a German cruiser was parked nearby and was busy receiving and rescuing the sailors who had fallen overboard.

As for the commander of the British fleet, Cunningham. He did not escape by diving, but sank with his flagship.

Another carrier, the Dreadnought, had intermittently eaten a total of ten 406 mm (sixteen in) shells from the German ship, plus a bunch of medium-caliber secondary guns during last night's battle. As well as swallowing a full seven rounds of armor-piercing aerial bombs, although this is an armored aircraft carrier, but after taking so many shells, even a battleship cannot withstand it. By seven o'clock, the ship had already lost power, and its whole body was at risk, and from time to time there were igniting munitions detonating in the hull. The captain abandoned the ship as early as six o'clock and gave the order to abandon the ship.

Surprisingly, despite the fatal damage, the underwater part of the ship appeared to be undamaged, and despite the fact that the fire had been burning for more than three hours, the ship was still stubbornly afloat on the water, while the surrounding area was filled with abandoned sailors and lifeboats, and similar to the sinking aircraft carrier Radiance, there was also a German cruiser near the ship receiving British sailors who had fallen overboard.

After receiving the British sailors who had completely abandoned the ship, two groups of FW190TF fighter-bombers took off from the two Zeppelin aircraft carriers, and bombarded the burning Dreadnought as a training target in a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, dropping more than 30 aerial bombs, directly hitting as many as 15 of them, and the ship only supported in the sea for less than three minutes and was sunk.

By the time Churchill heard the "live broadcast", the fighting that took place near the Strait of Gibraltar was over. The German radio station against Britain deliberately "adjusted" the time of the battle, pretending to be a live broadcast.

Lin Han and Hannah, who came from the future, understood very well the importance of propaganda warfare. While the battle was still going on, a communications ship in the fleet directly "wrote" the battle on the spot, processed the battle process in the "Spring and Autumn Brushwork," and sent it back to China, where a group of professional literati in China would carry out artistic processing on the basis, and then broadcast it in the form of "live broadcast" on the radio broadcast to Britain in the early hours of the day.

Seven o'clock was the early morning broadcast time of the "Deutsche Welle" to the British radio, and the German side wanted to use the means of "live broadcasting" to make the British civilians in the entire British Isles more "close" to the fighting that took place in Gibraltar, so that everyone in Britain could really feel that the war was around them and experience the cruelty of the battle, so as to arouse their anti-war feelings.

The German announcer on the radio station took the processed manuscript and pretended to have just received a telegram from the scene, and described the battle scene at the scene in vivid voice. Of course, there must be a huge gap between the specific battle situation and the content read on the manuscript, but these German announcers only need to consider the listening situation of the British people, anyway, the British fleet is finished, and who cares if the way they sink is the same as what is said on the radio.

While Churchill was nervously listening to the "live" broadcast of the war, his secretary brought a telegram he had just received, which had been sent from the fortress of Gibraltar. On the radio, the battle between the British and German fleets had just begun to rage, and a telegram from the fortress of Gibraltar informed Churchill of the outcome of the battle "in advance".

"Damn Goebbels, it's so deceitful!"

After reading the contents of the telegram, the excited Churchill finally couldn't bear it anymore, he raised his foot in a gaffe, kicked the German-made radio that was doing "live reporting" to the ground, and cut off "it's" "lie".

At 8:15 a.m., the announcers of the German radio, who had been performing for more than an hour, finally spoke of the end of the battle and the near-total annihilation of the British raiding fleet, and they called the Cunningham fleet the "unrighteous fleet," saying that the fleet had been forced to carry out an "unjust" operation, and finally came to an end in the most disgraceful way.

At half past nine, at the gate of No. 10 Downing Street, the angry British people gathered again.

In December last year, Chamberlain was ousted by the people and parliament for his crushing defeat at the First Battle of the Norwegian Sea.

Churchill, who succeeded him, failed in three naval battles in more than half a year, defeating the Royal Navy, the pride of the empire, with the sun never setting on it. The successive defeats finally shattered the string in the hearts of the British people.

After a few minutes of silence, at ten o'clock, someone shouted out the voice that everyone wanted to scream in the street outside Gate 10 of Downing Street.

"The traitor Churchill step down!"

At first, it was just a handful of scolding, but soon the voices grew louder and louder, and finally turned into the angry shouts of thousands of people at the same time.

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