The battleship formations of the entire Royal Navy were now in disarray, and the few destroyer fleets were moving in a panic, looking for traces of possible submarines. Some of the warships in the fleet have decided to take matters into their own hands and begin to perform Z-shaped maneuvers against submarine attacks.

However, at this time, the captain of the Royal Oak sent a communication, and Commander Cunningham was informed by phone that he had confirmed that his warship had not been torpedoed by a submarine, but by a mine.

This timely communication saved many lives in the Royal Navy.

Commander Cunningham, who wanted to grab the T-shaped head of the German fleet, led the fleet that had unknowingly stepped into the mine array laid by the German Navy. If he thought that he was ambushed by a submarine and the whole fleet carried out an anti-submarine maneuver, it would be a real disaster.

After the war, the captain of the HMS Royal Oak informed the captain that it had been hit by a mine and was awarded the Victoria Medal by a British woman for his correct judgment in the event of a mine.

By this time, Commander Cunningham had realized that he had once again been fooled by his opponent in this battle, and that he had once again fallen into the trap laid by his opponent.

Taking advantage of the advance perception of the ship's soul, the German fleet had determined the movement and course of the British ships a few hours earlier, and then they laid a mine array off the coast of the port of Bergen,

Taking advantage of the weakness of the early radar of the British Navy, which could not accurately distinguish the difference between the signals of large cargo ships and battleships, this decoy tactic was played at sea. Commander Cunningham tried to seize the T-shaped prefix, but he ended up diving headlong into the mine array laid by the opponent, and the entire fleet kept hitting mines. And the British ship that had been mistakenly thought to be ambushed by a submarine. When performing an anti-submarine maneuver with self-inflicted cleverness, performing a Z-shaped serpentine maneuver in a minefield becomes a self-defeating act.

Worst of all, Cunningham had no idea how large the mine arrays the Germans had laid and how deep their own fleet was in minefields.

"All ships are not allowed to maneuver in a curve, sail in a straight line, and rush out of this minefield."

In such a situation, he could only grit his teeth, gamble on luck, and order his fleet to rush out of this minefield in the most brutal way. Leave a qiē "to God" to decide.

Just as the British battlefleet forced its composure. When he decided to venture out of this minefield, several huge columns of water suddenly rose around the battleship Sovereign, which was the last of the second battleship formation with the Vengeance-class battleships as the main force.

This is a column of water that can only be formed by a sixteen-inch, 406-mm naval gun. And the number of water columns. Up to eighteen.

This is exactly the "demon sister ship" that Commander Cunningham has been looking for. Two Scharnhorst-class battleships opened fire on the battleship Sovereign.

The position and timing of their appearance were chosen just right: it was the most embarrassing moment when the British fleet was mired in minefields and was unable to make tactical maneuvers.

The location where it appears. It was the tail of its main fleet, which was "inserted" in a 60-degree diagonal line in the direction of its line. The shelling was carried out at a distance of about 18,000 kilometres.

Just as in the Norwegian naval battle, when Vice Admiral Holland's high-speed fleet was attacked, Commander Cunningham led the main fleet, and this time once again allowed the opponent to successfully "blow up the chrysanthemum". And the situation is even more awkward and dangerous: the whole fleet is caught in a mine formation, unable to maneuver, unable to turn, unable to evade. His fleet consisted of nine battleships, but due to the angle, there were very few guns that could fire at his opponents. What's worse was that it was a snowy night with extremely poor visibility, and when the German battleships opened fire on the last battleship of the Sovereign from 18,000 kilometers away, the entire British fleet could not even see the shadow of the opponent, and was completely in a very disadvantageous situation of being beaten and unable to fight back.

On January 24, at 3:05 a.m., the battleship Sovereign was subjected to the first round of shelling by the sister ships of Shane, and the first round of firing of the German ship formed a close miss, and during the second round of shelling, the battleship Sovereign burst out with brilliant sparks, and its mast was hit by a bullet, and in the third round of firing, another shell hit the aft turret of the Sovereign, penetrating it on the spot, and the 406 mm turret exploded in the turret, and dense black smoke rose from the aft turret and turned into a bright orange-red fire at a height of several tens of meters.

"Damn, how did they appear, how did our radar not detect them?"

A good commander must remain calm at all times, and Cunningham did not let out his doubts, and it was only then that he realized the true meaning of the message that the radar had been strongly interfered with by unknown factors.

"Did the Germans develop radar jamming technology?"

By this time, Commander Cunningham had fully understood the Germans' strategy, they had excellent battlefield surveillance capabilities, and they had long detected that their fleet was approaching, but they had laid a trap here, waiting for his main fleet to fall headlong into the prepared trap.

At the moment when the tail battleship was shelled, Commander Cunningham gave an extremely important order.

"All destroyers, light cruisers immediately turned and rushed to the left side of the fleet to prevent the Germans from taking advantage of the late night to carry out lightning strikes, and the rest of the battleships continued to advance on the same course."

At this time, his combat staff officer anxiously reminded him: "Your Excellency, Commander, we are now in a minefield!" ”

"I've studied Raeder's personality and he has a big appetite and a big one. The depth of these mines should be for the vast majority of battleships, and the draught for expulsion and light cruisers is much shallower than ours, and they are much safer than ours. ”

"But the Kanpur"

"That's just a handful of accidents!"

Commander Cunningham said coldly. Upon his return, Commander Cunningham spent a great deal of time studying the tactics used by Germany during the Norwegian war, as well as the tactical style revealed by Raeder's assault fleet during more than two months of operations in the Atlantic. His biggest realization from this is that this is an "extremely greedy" opponent, who can eat ten bites, and will never eat only nine bites. Such a mine array laid by the opponent must also have a great appetite. In this way, their mines must be deeper - Commander Cunningham thinks further, his own fleet is now deep in the minefield, and the opponent wants to achieve greater results. The best thing to do is to use this moment to launch a lightning strike. Cunningham knew that the German Navy had a large number of high-speed torpedo boats of 100 to 200 tons, and that under certain circumstances, if the mines in the mine array were set deeper, those torpedo boats with an extremely shallow draft and even destroyers could operate in the minefield with impunity, which would help them achieve greater results.

Commander Cunningham's conjecture was absolutely correct.

The Camppur mine strike, as Commander Cunningham said, was a complete accident.

In order to make the entire British capital battleship fall into the minefield as much as possible, the mines laid by the Germans were all aimed at the battleships. The Kanpur only triggered the mine because of the bad sea conditions, and the mine had an "accident". There is a deviation in the depth fixing. And in China, he ran out of character, and he was extremely unlucky to bump into it.

Orders were quickly given and communicated to the entire fleet. Light cruisers and destroyers in the fleet began to make bold turns and maneuvers.

At this time, the British fleet, mired in a mine array, fired a large number of flares into the left side of the fleet, under the piercing white light. The lookouts on all the battleship lookouts were wide-eyed at this point.

"Enemy ships spotted!"

Under the strafing of flares and searchlights. Soon. Alarms sounded on both cruisers and destroyers located on the perimeter of the detection of enemy mine-striking ships. Six destroyers, as well as fifteen small torpedo boats, were pounced on from the left side of its fleet.

The poor visibility in the Norwegian sea became their best cover, and they approached a dangerous distance of nearly 10,000 meters to the outer light escort ships. It was only 18,000 kilometers away from the main battleship.

Following radar traps, mine arrays, and bursts of chrysanthemums in the stern of battleships, the fourth meal prepared by the German fleet for the British Royal Navy, the Nightmare of Lightning Strikes, was also served on the table at this moment.

"Cunning German"

A roar similar to anger rang out on almost every escorted cruiser or destroyer. By the time of the previous raid on the German fleet, the Royal Navy had sent out twelve destroyers, a situation that led to a significant reduction in the number of small frigates in the main fleet. The raiding destroyer fleet was mistakenly hit by the auxiliary vehicle, and made a death charge with all its might, only to find that the target was only two 10,000-ton merchant ships of little value. And he suffered heavy losses from the enemy's shelling during the assault.

And while the attention of the Royal Navy was focused on one side, the German surface mine units quietly touched from the other side.

So far, the British did not know what means the Germans used to disable their radar, but the main battleship in the mine array had to face a large number of lightning strikes while suffering from the explosion of the opponent's large battleship.

In the German Navy, even with the two traversers of Linhan and Hannah, the problem of insufficient surface fleet was still serious. Torpedo boats became an important addition to compensate for the lack of their numbers.

On the 20th, when the main German fleet left the port of Kiel on a large scale at night to launch the Norwegian Campaign, German torpedo boats were also quietly transferred from other ports, and arrived in Norway on the 23rd to support the naval operation.

Commander Cunningham's refusal to move south before the weather deteriorated allowed the British Navy to escape the trap prepared for him by the Germans, but also gave the German Navy time to move its torpedo boat units to Norway.

Appearing off the coast of the port of Bergen, there were fifteen torpedo boats on the left side of the British main fleet, all of which were 200-ton S torpedo boats. Of course, these 200-ton torpedo boats are not capable of going deep into the ocean to cooperate with the main fleet, but they are terrible and dangerous weapons of mass destruction when used in coastal defense operations.

Fifteen S torpedo boats led the charge at a speed of more than thirty-seven knots, while six drove the fleet at a slower pace and pressed behind the flotilla, quietly approaching the British fleet in the darkness of the night, and would have "touched" closer had it not been for Commander Cunningham's timely and correct response.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The chaotic and dense sound of artillery fire suddenly resounded throughout the sea and air. The British gunners, who were in a hurry, began to fire wildly at the sudden appearance of the assassins. But under the influence of bad sea conditions and poor visibility, the shooting accuracy of the cruisers and destroyers escorted by the side was not too high. The German destroyers, which were located in the rear to cover their torpedo boats charging themselves and were also assaulting, also kept firing and suppressing the fire of the British cruisers.

The corvettes on the left side of the entire fleet achieved their first results only two minutes after firing. A German torpedo boat exploded in a continuous burst of intense artillery fire, turning it into a brilliant red fireworks. However, more torpedo boats passed through the wall of fire woven by the British gunfire. Approached to a distance of less than fifteen thousand kilometers from the capital battleship, and then began to release torpedoes.

With two rounds per boat, the surviving fourteen S torpedo boats fired the twenty-eight torpedoes on board at the British battleships in front of them.

Even with the help of flares, the visibility in the Norwegian sea was still less than 10,000 meters, and the poor visibility gave the German torpedo boat units cover and affected their hit rate, making it impossible to directly aim at the main battleship at a distance of 15,000 kilometers to launch a lightning strike.

This was the most regrettable place for the lightning strike units of the German Navy that night.

Because the torpedo boats that rushed to the forefront of the German rush were not ordinary torpedoes, but the technology that Tong Guò Li Huamei "stole" from Japan, the famous nine-three acid torpedo, that is, the oxygen torpedo. Its maximum range is up to 20,000 meters! When a lightning strike is launched from 15,000 kilometers away. It was quite possible to hit the British battleships trapped in the mine array at this distance.

In 1938, after Li Huamei successfully infiltrated the Japanese Navy as Yamato Nadeshiko, the Japanese Navy's Qiē Niu Huang Dog Treasure was all open to him, including the oxygen torpedo technology that Hannah had long coveted. Tong guò Li Huamei. The Germans easily got their hands on the manufacturing technology of the Oxygen Fish Association. And improve on this basis. Its own 610-mm oxygen torpedo was developed.

Oxygen torpedoes are powerful and have a long range, the only drawback is that they are prone to self-fire storms. With the technology of the forties of the twentieth century. Oxygen torpedoes are still a danger to the enemy and to themselves.

Coupled with the fact that it was a "stolen" technology after all, and the limited time for digestion (it was already 1939 when it was obtained), although the Germans could build an oxygen torpedo from a gourd painting, they never had a good grasp of its unstable temperament. During the many secret test launches, a lot of success was achieved, but there were also many accidents of various kinds.

Oxygen torpedoes have exploded many times in the Pacific Ocean due to the shaking of the waves, so much so that there are as many "jokes" in history that the ships of the sunk side are as many as the enemy ships sunk.

The North Atlantic is in a much worse state of affairs than the Pacific Ocean, where oxygen torpedoes have a higher chance of self-fire bursts. Before thoroughly understanding this technology, Hannah did not dare to lightly load this double-edged sword on expensive submarines or destroyers, and only on "low-cost" cannon fodder torpedo boats for the time being.

In the eyes of the "inhumane" Hannah, the torpedo boat is cheap to build, and the sailors on the boat are cannon fodder, even if there is a self-(crab) explosion accident, it is not heartbroken. In terms of tactical use, although the sea conditions in the North Atlantic are bad, it is still acceptable to use it for offshore defense, especially as a "port breakwater defender".

In order to reduce the "self-fire storm" crisis caused by vibration to oxygen torpedoes, the Germans, who are good at mechanical precision manufacturing, artificially designed special torpedo boats, and the torpedo barrels added special shock absorbing devices, which resulted in a lot of weight increase and affected the speed. And in order to reduce the weight gain caused by this additional design, the German designers turned the idea to reduce the range and bomb load. The special torpedo boats equipped for oxygen torpedoes were not equipped with shells, but only two rounds filled in the launch tubes, and they played a wave and left. At the same time, the combat weight is reduced by sacrificing range and reducing the fuel load, and the design speed is maintained.

Even with so many insurance measures, the oxygen torpedo is still an extremely dangerous weapon for the user. For the sake of safety, the German Navy's combat regulations stated that only when acting as "harbor breakwater guards" would they temporarily take out the warehouses on the shore and load them with torpedo boats.

The British fleet wanted to attack Bergen by surprise, but fell headlong into the trap set by the Germans, which met the operational requirements of oxygen torpedoes. And the lightning weapon stolen by Hannah Tong Guò Li Huamei from Japan also showed its hideous claws for the first time tonight.

The first wave of 14 surviving torpedo boats fired all 28 oxygen torpedoes at a distance of about 15,000 kilometers from the British main fleet.

Affected by the night, although the British ships escorting the ship could not see the underwater trajectory of the torpedo, the sound of the torpedo firing could still be heard by the hydrophones on the ship, and for a while, the escort on the left side of the British capital ship turned to evade.

While evading, the British escort ships did not spare these dangerous assassins who fired poisoned arrows, and the rapid-fire guns on each ship kept firing fiercely at these targets that were getting closer. As the distance between them had been reduced to a dangerous distance of between five and six thousand meters, the British fleet's accuracy had increased considerably.

A large barrage is coming. Three torpedo boats were hit by the British ships in the process of turning and retreating after the torpedo was fired, and the slender and fragile bodies of the torpedo boats could withstand the continuous hits of the four-inch guns, and they made a terrifying sound of steel plate breaking, and soon three blazing torches were lit on the cold surface of the Norwegian Sea.

However, while inflicting heavy losses on these insidious assassins, the Royal Navy's frigates were also hit by the "poisoned arrows" fired by their opponents.

One heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, and one destroyer were directly hit by an oxygen torpedo fired by the Germans at a dangerous distance of five thousand meters, and the destroyer with a small tonnage quickly sank, and the larger light cruiser was also beaten to a half-crippled and dying state. Paralysed at sea. The ship's damage control personnel frantically pumped water to rescue the battleship, but they could not prevent the ship from sinking gradually, and only the heavy cruiser with a relatively tonnage of York-class was not too deadly due to only one shot of medium mines. Barely able to float on the water.

More German torpedo boats attacked this wave. And that's not all.

Ultra-long range of up to 20,000 meters. This allows it to easily enter the course of the main fleet, which is isolated by escort ships. The battleship USS Rodney, the capital ship in the battle line where Nelson's flagship was located, was unexpectedly hit directly in the front of the hull by an oxygen torpedo that ran a distance of 15,000 kilometers, and the water entered more than 3,000 tons. The hull of the guide was tilted five degrees to the left, forcing the captain to fill the other side with water to level it. However, the speed was reduced to two knots as a result.

But the attack of the lightning strike forces of the German Navy was much more than that.

The lightning strike from the left is still just a partial division that attracts the attention of the British Navy!

While a large number of frigates were attracted to the lightning attack of the German ships on the left, just in front of the British fleet on the right, another lightning strike force composed of the same fifteen S torpedo boats passing by, taking advantage of its shallow draft, crossed the mine-covered sea and swooped down on the battleship formation where the Nelson was located from the other side.

And the number of British frigates on this side, since most of them were sent out to launch lightning strikes, the density was much more sparse than on the left, only two light cruisers escorted on this side, and the destroyers that had previously sent lightning strikes were being entangled by German destroyers, and the remaining three cruisers were rushing to meet the wounded and returning destroyers, and the whole escort formation appeared fatally breached. The German torpedo boats, of short stature, were very well concealed in snowy nights. These sinister assassins, painted gray-black, were able to easily approach as far as eight thousand meters from the main fleet before they were discovered.

At this distance, the opponent's torpedo boats could already see the tall figure of the British battleship, which was enough for them to carry out precise aiming lightning strikes.

For a time, the main fleet of the Royal Navy thundered and the alarm sounded.

What Commander Cunningham feared most finally happened in the worst possible circumstances.

From the USS Nelson to the USS Rodney, from the Queen Elizabeth-class to the Revenge-class battleships, the two battleship formations of the Royal Navy, all the guns that could fire to the right were firing. The main gun of the Nelson, as large as 16 inches, and as small as the 40-millimeter ping pong cannon, all rang non-stop at this moment.

But God left the British too little time to react.

Just when the sirens of the British sounded, fifteen approaching S torpedo boats had already fired deadly poisoned arrows at a distance of nearly seven thousand meters.

Thirty oxygen torpedoes made inconspicuous patterns in the dark waters, and they rushed towards the British giant ships that were close at hand.

During the First World War, on June 30, 1918, "St. The "István" was sunk by a torpedo boat of the Italian Navy as it set sail.

This was the greatest and most astonishing result achieved by torpedo boats against dreadnoughts in the history of mankind.

And this time, the German S torpedo boat broke the Italian record on this battlefield with the help of the battlefield grasp ability of the ship soul and the oxygen torpedo technology stolen from Japan.

The S torpedo boat, with a tonnage of only two hundred tons, swallowed a sea monster with a tonnage a hundred times that of him in one fell swoop.

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