On the map, Norway is extremely long and narrow, covering the north and south ends of Scandinavia, and the shape looks like a long worm lying on a map.

The Port of Narvik is located at the northern tip of Norway, and it is interesting to note that even in the 21st century, the Port of Narvik was only connected to Sweden by rail, but not to any major Norwegian cities.

Historically, when Germany launched the Norwegian Campaign, it sent ten destroyers plus merchant ships and cargo ships, escorted by two sister ships of Shane, to venture across most of the Norwegian Sea and land directly in the port of Narvik. Since the commander of the local garrison was a Quisling, with his cooperation, the Germans were able to land without any hindrance and occupied Narvik, sending a total of 6,000 soldiers ashore before and after.

However, in the Battle of Narvik, the German Navy also paid a heavy price, and the ten destroyers participating in the battle were accidentally sunk or lost due to the bad weather, and could not be evacuated in time, and were finally blocked by the British Navy in the small strait in the Narvik region, and all of them were annihilated.

In the entire Narvik campaign in history, the German troops who landed in Narvik also fought extremely hard, and when the support was cut off and the army fought alone, it withstood the siege of more than 25,000 Allied soldiers, and insisted on retreating on its own initiative after the war situation in Western Europe became clear in June. By this time, the German mountain soldiers and sailors who had taken part in the Battle of Narvik (most of the sailors on the sunken destroyers survived) had been forced back to only three kilometers from the Swedish border by the Allied offensive.

After the war, German soldiers who participated in the war recalled that at that time, if the Allies attacked for one more day, they would be forced to retreat into Swedish territory and then surrender to the Swedes.

In the course of the campaign, including in Hitler here. The Germans also gave up hope here many times, and even Hitler lost confidence and ordered the German troops here to retreat - but the current commander in charge of the Norwegian campaign withheld this military order and did not carry it out, and then as the war situation improved, Hitler also withdrew this telegram.

Due to the inconvenience of land transportation, the German troops who were struggling to hold out in the north could not receive effective support from the Germans occupying south-central Norway, and their only foreign aid was 1,500 "humanitarian medical personnel". The railway from Sweden to Narvik came to reinforce the troops, and this supply route was soon closed due to protests from the British and French.

In the entire Battle of Narvik, the German army in the north actually suffered a crushing defeat to the British and French allies, and the victory was very dangerous.

And in this historical plane that has been changed beyond recognition by the traversers, although there is old history as a reference, but after referring to this history, neither Hannah nor Lin Han has the courage to follow history, like the German army in history. Fight a difficult battle in Narvik and go on such a big military adventure.

In this plane, although the German navy was stronger than the historical German navy, and even completely annihilated the British battleship cruiser formation before the Norwegian campaign was launched, Linhan and Hannah still did not want to set the battlefield of the naval decisive battle in Narvik, which was so remote and close to the North Pole, but concentrated their forces to occupy the port of Bergen in southern Norway, near the mainland, and then after the Battle of Bergen. In the order from south to north, they successively seized Lyconwell on the Norwegian coast. Molde, as well as the port of Trondheim in central Norway, where the German forces on land, under the harsh traffic conditions of the region, halted their advance and concentrated on the capture of the occupied territory

As for the port of Narvik, which is strategically important in the north, the war began. It was captured by the British fleet led by Cunningham. The German and British armies, almost with the city of Trondheim as the dividing line, divided Norway into two in the south and one in the north, and controlled them separately.

After the Battle of Bergen, the British, having suffered heavy losses, wanted to abandon Narvik and retreat to their homeland. At that time, as long as the German navy made the slightest move to attack the north, the British troops who had previously landed in Narvik would land and withdraw as soon as possible.

But the German staff under Hannah's control, under the influence of "Hitler", was deliberately slow to act. The main reason is that Lin Han and Hannah's "daughter" Adolf, under the influence of Lin Han, has always adhered to the so-called strategic thinking of "saving land and losing people, and people and land are destroyed". Both she and Lin Han, after the Battle of Bergen, thought that Narvik was already meat in their mouths, and it was entirely up to them to take it back when they would take it back, and they just wanted to wait for the British to put more troops into Narvik before seizing it and annihilating it.

After the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier Guò Eagle attacked the port of Austria and damaged the Scharnhorst at great cost, the control of the Norwegian Sea apparently returned to the hands of the British Navy. Encouraged by this, the British were strengthened in their confidence to hold Narvik. For more than ten days, the British army continued to transport troops and equipment to Narvik by sea, and by 23 February, the British troops stationed in Narvik had reached nearly 30,000.

On the 23rd of February, when Germany mobilized all its ships in good condition and poured into the Norwegian Sea, the whole of Britain was shocked and shocked.

At 8 p.m. on 24 February, in the Prime Minister's office at Downing 10, the British Prime Minister sat at his desk, listening to the German-British radio broadcast from the Siemens radio next to him.

The German announcer on the radio was using a tone similar to that of a British announcer a few days ago, mocking the British, and the content of the ridicule was the focus of everyone's attention for a few days: the battleship Scharnhorst.

In the German broadcast to the British, the German female announcer openly declared that the Scharnhorst, which the British had previously called a fake, was indeed an impostor, but that he was not disguised by his sister ship, the Gneisenau, but was loaded on a cargo ship. The real Scharnhorst was not injured at all, but the Germans pretended to be injured for strategic purposes.

On the radio, the German announcer's English with a London accent sounds very soft, but very harsh.

"The Scharnhorst, now intact, is heading for Narvik with its equally decorated sister Gneisenau, with all the capital ships of the German Navy. They will teach the British invading army the most severe lesson to the British invading army that invaded Norway and undermined its sovereignty and territorial integrity. While the great German Navy was striding towards the other side of victory, the poor insects of the "Sunset Empire" on the other side of the English Channel were still dreaming of their opponents being seriously injured and trapped in the dock. ”

"Poor worms of the Sunset Empire, just continue to shrink in the harbor and slowly rust! The Royal Navy, which lost its fighting spirit and lost Nelson's face. You are only worthy of being the storage fleet behind the battery. The 30,000 British garrisons in Narvik Harbor, your back route has been cut off by the German Navy, surrender quickly, we will treat you leniently"

On the radio, the Germans openly announced to the world that their fleet was in full attack, and even the strategic objectives were announced. It can be said that the arrogance has reached the point of being invincible. Even more infuriating, on the radio they openly changed the name of the "Sunset Empire" to the "Sunset Empire", and even mocked the Royal Navy as "a fleet of people cowering behind a battery battery".

During World War I, the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, locked in the harbor by the more powerful Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, was unable to break through the North Sea and was forced to become the "Survival Fleet", which has always been a source of pride for the British and used to mock the Germans. However, feng shui takes turns, twenty years later. The Royal Navy was humiliated by its old adversary on the radio with the phrase "Cunzài Fleet".

"It's so arrogant!"

Churchill's secretary, Miss Maggie, snorted and stood up to turn off the radio, but she stopped the action after looking at Prime Minister Churchill's face.

At this time, Churchill rubbed his temples with his hands, his brows furrowed, and he was in a state of extreme irritability.

Since yesterday evening, after the discovery of the traces of the German fleet, the whole of Britain was completely mobilized. Today during the day. Several operational meetings were held in succession at the top to discuss the destinations and objectives of the German fleet.

On the twenty-fourth. More information came about the German fleet, and it was already possible to confirm that the battleship Scharnhorst, which had been badly wounded and had been on board for two months in dockyard, had reappeared on the ocean in "intact" condition.

And the strategic destination of the Germans is not difficult to guess, it must be the port of Narvik in northern Norway. Because on the 24th, a large number of German planes took off from Trondheim in central Norway. The area around Narvik was bombed, and the Luftwaffe and the RAF fought fiercely in northern Norway. The German mountain troops, who were confronting the British in this area, also launched a large-scale ground offensive on this day and made some progress. However, due to the influence of terrain and bad weather, the German army was unable to break through to the northern Narvik region for a short time.

Before dark at 3 p.m. on the 24th, a British reconnaissance plane took off from Narvik. The traces of the German fleet were found in the ocean about three hundred and five kilometers to the south, and this important piece of information was sent back before it was shot down. In terms of time, the German fleet would reach Narvik in a maximum of ten hours, and then blockade the area and cut off its maritime connection with the mainland.

On the bright side, the Royal Navy now has six battleships to sortie, and the ratio of capital ships is six to two. But after the Battle of Bergen, the Royal Navy had completely lost confidence in fighting at night.

As for the auxiliary ships, in the two naval battles, the cruisers owned by the Royal Navy also lost more than half, and Germany did not have the upper hand in terms of numbers and combat power.

The Narvik region is close to the North Pole, with short days and long nights in February, with less than ten hours of good visibility. That is, from the point of view of the visibility of the light, two-thirds of the time of sea domination here must have belonged to the Germans.

Now the Germans openly unveil their strategic intentions to the whole world through guò radio broadcasts, and openly challenge the Royal Navy like throwing white gloves, which is completely a naked "conspiracy" method, and put their strategic intentions in front of the British: they not only want to capture Narvik, but also use the defenders here as bait to force the Royal Navy to come out for a decisive battle.

To paraphrase Cunningham to Churchill when he became commander of the fleet: "The Royal Navy decided that it could no longer go to war at the pace that the Germans wanted." ”

The British army, which had previously regained some confidence because of the success of the surprise attack on Oslo, and the massive increase in troops to Narvik was now a major mistake that put Churchill in a dilemma.

In terms of the number of capital ships on paper, the British Navy still has the upper hand. But the maximum speed of the ticket will not exceed twenty-four knots, and the initiative in battle is completely controlled by the opponent. Not to mention the comprehensive crushing advantage of the British ships on the firepower, speed, and protection of the two demon German ships.

The Royal Navy is no longer as huge as it had before the war, with fifteen capital ships, but is so depressed that only the last bit of possessions remains. The Nevada-class battleships purchased from the United States were still undergoing their last maintenance repairs before being sold in the United States, and the British sailors who went to receive them were still on the way, and it was impossible to catch up with the Battle of Narvik.

Churchill heard that the Germans were provocatively challenging the British Navy via guò broadcasts, a medieval duel-like act that proved that they had great faith in the war. In the radio, it was repeatedly mentioned that Narvik's nearly 30,000 British troops wanted to take advantage of the people's feelings and political pressure from above to force the British navy to fight.

Neither Churchill nor the current commander John . Tovey, however, was extremely reluctant to start another naval battle at the pace of the Germans. And Cunningham, who was being dismissed from his post under review, also made his voice heard through his connections, repeatedly opposing the Royal Navy's attack at this time.

While Churchill was listening to the radio, the fleet of reinforcements for Narvik had been sent and was on its way to Narvik, and it was not that they could not reach Narvik before the Germans. It's just that there was a lesson from the Battle of Bergen, and the current British Navy said that it didn't want to engage the German Navy at night, so the speed and distance of action were severely limited. According to the Navy's assumption, they would reach the open sea of Narvik tomorrow, and there, with the help of land-based aviation, they would fight the German fleet to the death.

As to the bombardment of the port facilities and garrisons of the German fleet, which will arrive in Narvik tonight, Churchill can only say: please beg for yourselves.

However, before the main fleet could reach Bergen, Churchill had some time to "halt" their operations and call the main fleet back to Scapa Bay at the cost of the lives of the 30,000 British troops at Narvik.

Of course, Churchill did so at a very heavy political cost, and the mental blow to the Royal Navy was equally great. The Germans were clearly aware of this, and were constantly putting pressure on him with the help of radio broadcasts.

For the 30,000 British troops who had just been sent to Narvik, Churchill could not avoid this decisive battle, and the Royal Navy could not escape either.

Ask for a like.,Catch another chapter in the evening.,But it will be changed tomorrow (to be continued......)