On 26 January, the battered battleship Nelson returned to the British mainland with what few remaining friends remained.

The weary Commander Cunningham disembarked from his ship, and as his feet stepped onto the sturdy harbor ground, he was greeted by a gendarme from the Admiralty.

Someone must be held accountable for this devastating defeat. While his fleet was still on its way home, a special team had been formed in Britain to assess whether Commander Cunningham had made any mistakes in command in the battle.

Standing in the harbor to greet Cunningham was the former commander of the Home Fleet, John Brown. Tovey.

Whether it was the former Commander Phillips who committed suicide or the current Cunningham, it was a complete accident to become the commander of the home fleet. 、

Before Britain went to war against Germany in 1939, the commander of the British Home Fleet was John Brown. Tovey. But in this era when history was changed by Yanzhòng, John. Tovey fell ill with pneumonia shortly after the war, and it took months in his hospital bed to recover, forcing him to temporarily cede one of his commanders to Phillips and later Cunningham.

After the Battle of Bergen, Commander Cunningham, who had returned to his home, had been temporarily relieved of his duties and was subject to domestic scrutiny, and he was replaced by the former commander John Cunningham, who had recovered from illness. Lieutenant General Tovey.

As a result, the former committed suicide after the defeat of the Norwegian Sea, and was recommended by him to Churchill's Andrew. Cunningham, however, "defeated" more than half of the Royal Navy's belongings in one fell swoop in the night battle two days ago.

Before being taken away by the gendarmes, John had recovered from his illness. Lieutenant General Tovey walked up, hugged the decadent Cunningham, and comforted him: "It's not your fault, Andrew! It was those old men in Congress who forcibly asked you to attack when the conditions were not ripe. ”

Before the home fleet sorties. Cunningham had a relationship with John. Tovey discussed how to deal with the current superiority of the German Navy in night warfare. The Battle of Bergen was a completely unexpected battle for the British Navy. Originally, they just wanted to carry out a simple shelling, but they never imagined that a sneak attack would become a decisive battle, and the decisive battle would become an ambush war, but the object of the ambush would be themselves.

When departing from Scarpa's Bay. Commander Cunningham was in high spirits, but when he got off the ship, he was a decadent middle-aged man with a depressed will. In the face of Lieutenant General Tovey's persuasion and encouragement, he walked away silently. Outside the port where Nelson was anchored, it was now crowded with the families of sailors who had rushed to hear the news, and Cunningham, as the general of the defeated army, really had no shame to face them.

Before boarding the car that had come to pick him up, Cunningham suddenly turned his head and turned to John. Lieutenant General Tovey. His eyes lit up and he said, "Remember the plan I discussed with you before leaving, execute him, John, this is the last chance for the Royal Navy!" ”

The plan mentioned by Cunningham was not to engage in a direct fleet decisive battle, but to use the advantage of the long attack radius of the aircraft carrier's aircraft to attack the port where the German warship was anchored and sink it directly in the harbor.

About this combat scenario. At that time, he was given the British Navy high brass, including John Brown, who recommended him. The full support of Lieutenant General Tovey. It was only three days after Cunningham took office as commander. The Imperial Navy used the only usable "Eagle" aircraft carrier to conduct relevant targeted training, mainly to train the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft to take off planes and drop bombs at night, and to improve the existing torpedoes so that the depth of their airdrops could be adapted to the depth of the water in the port of Kiel.

The original idea of the British was to use aircraft carriers to enter Dutch waters at night. The aircraft carrier fleet then penetrated through Dutch airspace into German territory and reached the port of Kiel, where the two Demonic German ships, possibly anchored in Kiel, were sunk in the harbor.

As for the Dutch government's subsequent protests and diplomatic disputes, they were just "trifles".

This was the tactical scheme that Commander Cunningham really wanted to adopt against the German fleet after he became the commander of the home fleet. Unfortunately, while the plan was still being planned, the Norwegian campaign had already broken out. Coupled with the political pressure from within the country later, it interfered with his command.

If it weren't for the fact that the weather was too bad in the next few days on the 23rd, the aircraft carrier would not be able to take off and land planes at all, otherwise Cunningham would have held his troops still under pressure and waited for the opportunity to use the aircraft carrier to raid.

It's a pity that there aren't so many ifs in the world.

Now that the Home Fleet has been defeated, regardless of the outcome of the review, Cunningham, the defeated general, is no longer qualified to command the Home Fleet in battle, and can only hand over his ideas to John Tovey to carry out.

And at this time, the Royal Navy, as Cunningham said, has no way out.

In the Battle of Bergen, the home fleet suffered heavy losses, and now only four battleships remained, two of which were not lightly damaged and needed to be returned to the dock for overhaul. The two remaining battleships are no match for the other party's two cutting-edge warships, and even if they add the two battleships that are being transferred back from the Mediterranean, they are still not strong enough.

Succeeding Cunningham John Brown. Vice Admiral Tovey accepted his offer and began to prepare with all his might a plan for the sinking of the German ship in the port of Tongguò.

After the Battle of Bergen, the Scharn sisters decided to take turns returning home for repairs in order to deter the British Navy. Limhan's ship returned home with several ships wounded in the battle for repairs, while the Scharnhorst stayed in the Norwegian port of Oslo for a long time.

During the battle, the Scharnhorst ate a sixteen-inch shell fired by the Nelson in the aft turret mount, which did not penetrate but caused the aft turret to turn and get stuck. Later, on the way back to the port of Oslo, Hannah used some of her faith to repair the stuck turret seat. As for the shell of another fifteen-inch gun, since it was a dud, plus the minor part of it, after returning to Oslo, the parts sent from the country could be replaced and repaired by themselves. As for the damage of the small and medium-caliber secondary guns on his body, most of these can be repaired by passing through the facilities in Guò Oslo.

After the naval battle on 24 January, the battleship Scharnhorst stayed in the port of Oslo for a long time to be repaired, and he was not worried about being attacked by British submarines, and this "trust" immediately attracted the attention of the British navy, which was bent on revenge.

Compared with the port of Kiel, which has been in operation for many years, has perfect air defense facilities, and is equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft balloons, Oslo, which has just been occupied by the Germans, is undoubtedly an easier target. When the weather in Oslo was informed by the meteorological department that the weather in Oslo would improve after 1 February, the British Royal Navy, which was eager to turn around in World War I, decided to take advantage of this opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

The Royal Navy, which has suffered a series of defeats, really needs a hearty victory to get rid of the current extremely wolf bèi passivity.

The battle plan was quickly drawn up, and the technical department and the military industry department also worked urgently to make a batch of aviation torpedoes suitable for port combat delivery, and then waited for the weather to improve.

On 1 February, as the weather improved, the Germans actually held a grand religious ceremony in the port of Oslo, and even notified the British side in advance, asking them not to carry out a raid on this day to prevent "accidental bombing of civilians". This is great news for the Royal Navy, but it is also bad news.

The good news was that the intelligence officers who were present at the ceremony easily confirmed that the battleship Scharnhorst remained in the harbor at all times.

The bad news was that because the port of Oslo was brightly lit that night, in order to prevent the British from taking the opportunity to sneak attack, the Luftwaffe also raised the air defense level, and it was obviously impossible to take advantage of its bright lights to carry out a sneak attack.

But in John. At the strong request of Commander Tovey, the British Navy decided to launch an air raid at 6 a.m. on 2 February, citing the "darkness of the lights."

At the combat meeting, John. That's how Tovey explained it to his colleagues.

"It is impossible for people to maintain a state of high mental vigilance for a long time. The religious ceremony on the night of February 1 will greatly increase the vigilance of the local German air defense forces, but this vigilance, like a string being pulled to the extreme, will reach its peak at night when the lights are bright. But when the party is over, the lights go out, and it will quickly drop to the bottom. ”

John. Tovey's views were shared by the Navy's operational staff officers, and the corresponding combat plan continued to be implemented with slight modifications.

On February 1, the "Dancing God" event that took place in the port of Oslo made Oslo lively and noisy for a while. By about 1 a.m. the next day, the "Dancing God" was over, and the residents and believers who participated in the event went home exhausted and went to sleep. And the German air defense forces, which had been crumbling very tightly before, began to loosen the string, as the British expected.

In order to cover this operation, at 11 o'clock the day before, the British Royal Air Force in the northern port of Narvik also dispatched dozens of night bombers to bomb the port of Bergen, northwest of Oslo, near the Norwegian Sea. Due to the Luftwaffe's early preparations, the bombing operation was intercepted by the German BF110 night fighters, and the results were not large, but they suffered heavy losses, while Oslo did not leave a single bombing order.

By bombing Bergen with Guò, the British proved to the Germans that "we have come", thus allowing them to relax their tightened strings once again psychologically.

At three o'clock in the morning of 2 February, the only remaining mobile capital ship in the Royal Navy's possession, the aircraft carrier "Eagle", escorted by several destroyers and a small number of cruisers, quietly sailed to the vicinity of the Kattegat Strait, about 300 kilometers from the port of Oslo. In order not to be too conspicuous, the British sent only a small number of warships to participate in the operation - but after the Battle of Bergen, the Royal Navy, which had been greatly weakened, was now unable to mobilize more large fleets to participate in the convoy.

At 3:40 a.m., the "Eagle" aircraft carrier increased to 24 knots, sailed against the wind, and in the first attack wave, a total of 12 "Swordfish" torpedo planes flew off the deck and disappeared into the vast night sky.

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