It is easy to start a war, but how to end it is the hardest thing.

In the history of World War II, after the end of the French War, Germany threw an olive branch of "peace" to Britain, but the British did not hesitate to refuse, and then the war continued with great reluctance until its final defeat.

In this era distorted by the traverser Yan zhòng, where is the stopping point of this war jointly launched by the Soviet Union and Germany? Even Lin Han himself, who was a traverser, could no longer grasp it.

The unknown is the greatest joy of Lin Han, a time-traveler who takes pleasure in smashing history. Before the outbreak of the Third Norwegian Naval War, the answer that Lin Han wanted to know most was: if the outcome of the naval battle ended in a great victory for the German Navy again, would the British, who had lost all the capital ships of the Navy, grit their teeth and fight the war as they did in history?

It's an interesting topic.

Before the Third Norwegian Naval War, Lynhan and Hannah made great efforts to carry out this trick of "broadcasting the war live", which was an attempt to drive the British out of the war as soon as possible.

The benefits to Germany of forcing the British to a German armistice are naturally self-evident. With the armistice between Britain and Germany, the Americans lost the most important fulcrum that could intervene in Europe and get involved in the war. In that case, only France was left on the European continent, and without the help of Britain, Germany overthrew France in a short time, and Lin Han and Hannah were full of confidence.

Before the outbreak of war, we should think about the worst possible situation, and after the outbreak of war, we should strive for the best goal.

For this broadcast, Hannah recruited all the elites of the German domestic media industry, in addition to a large number of psychologists to join. Behind the sweet-sounding female announcer who was broadcasting to the UK stood a huge team of more than 100 people.

The script broadcast by the female announcer was processed by the elite of these teams of hundreds of people. The tone and atmosphere of the broadcast are controlled. The content of the manuscript was not to fanatically promote the "great exploits" of the Germans, but to describe the naval battle from the standpoint of "humanitarianism" and "compassion". In the process of propaganda, the "idea" of Germany wanting a British armistice was made clear to the British.

When the German Navy, with the help of the superiority of aviation, achieved an overwhelming victory over the British Navy, and the announcer reported on the situation at the front in a "calm" and "sentimental" tone, the result of the victory was only slightly passed. What was talked about more was the fate of the sailors on the ships who were sunk and were sinking the most, the families of the sailors who participated in the war.

On the radio, the German broadcaster talked a lot about "chivalry on the battlefield" and the German Navy's behavior of rescuing British sailors from sunken warships, and "reassuring the British audience with kind words."

From a psychological point of view, when the British people continue to hear the news of the successive defeats of the Royal Navy, and even the final annihilation, there are usually two feelings in the hearts of the people at this time.

One is a fanatical revenge. This kind of sentiment would lead the war to continue, and this was the last thing the Germans wanted.

The other is to "let this damn war" end sooner rather than later, and that's exactly what Hannah and Linhan want.

The broadcast script prepared by the German announcer and his staff behind the scenes was to take great care to provoke the second kind of emotion to the British audience, and to avoid the first one.

When the Ramillis was stuck in a mine and was spinning at sea, the German Navy could have sunk the battleship, which was constantly maneuvering at sea, with a lightning strike. But in fact, it deliberately put it aside for the time being, that is, it took into account the feelings of the British people.

"The last British battleship ended. It should not be a tragic battle, but a humiliated surrender, because they represent the demise of the fighting spirit of the British. ”

This was the advice that Lin Hantong Guò on the Gneisenau had radioed to Hannah and Marshal Raeder, and the two of them also listened to him.

At 2:45, the final battle for the "settlement" of the Ramillis began for the German Navy.

The Ramillis, which still stubbornly refused to surrender, was subjected to dive bombing and shelling. But it did not suffer the most dangerous "lightning strike". In order to prevent the sixteen-inch guns from bursting the battleship's ammunition depot, the Shane sisters deliberately replaced the shells used with grenades when they later joined forces to bombard them.

Although the 406 mm grenade could not penetrate the battleship's main armor belt, a hit on the turret would also damage the base of the battleship. And if you choose a lighter conventional bomb of 500 kg, a direct hit will be enough to dumb the ship's main guns.

3:20. When the German fleet stopped attacking, the Larimis was on fire, all four main gun turrets were blown to pieces, and the secondary and anti-aircraft guns were almost completely destroyed from the previous bombardment and shelling. During the previous half-hour attack, the Ramillis was hit by five 500-kilogram shells and 126-inch main gun shells, almost all the ship's external facilities were blown up and destroyed, and the front and rear radio rooms were also destroyed by bombing and shelling. The casualties were even more severe.

Only the last 4.7-gun twin secondary gun of the ship was left to fire, and his power system, which had also suffered heavy damage in the battle, could now only grind at sea at a speed of less than five knots. Even if the Ramillis now announces its surrender with the flag raised, the Germans will have to bother to tow it away.

On the Ramillis, Captain Burt, who was nearly fifty years old, looked at the sailors on the deck who were still fighting desperately a few minutes ago, and his eyes were full of sadness.

After being violently and repeatedly "washing the deck" by the Germans from the air to the sea, the Ramillis had already been destroyed to the point that it could not form a "ship", and as far as the eye could see, there were huge holes and breaches everywhere that had been blown open, and there were torsional and deformed steel plate breaches everywhere, and sharp protrusions could be seen everywhere, or human body parts such as organs, intestines, and limbs scattered all over the place.

Such a hellish and tragic scene made Captain Bert, who had experienced the Battle of Jutland, couldn't help but be sad and indignant when he saw it.

It was an "unfair, unequal" naval battle, but in the naval battle, the British sailors still showed a fearless fighting spirit. With the main guns completely destroyed, the power lost, and the conveyor belt of the bomb lifter losing power, the British sailors lined up in a long line. 4.7-inch shells are lifted out of the ammunition depot and sent to the deck by manual relay transfer of shells, loaded, aimed, and fired.

However, the heroic resistance of the British sailors could now be over. 3:20. The German fleet voluntarily stopped the attack, retreated, and then demanded their surrender through Moore from the searchlight.

"Are you going to surrender to us? I'm sorry, but our ship could not receive the surrender of such a large number of German ships. ”

As a proud member of the Royal Navy, Captain Bert replied to the Germans in this way, but the expected Germans were furious, and the next stormy attack did not happen.

He was greeted by another round of persuasion.

There were still two hours before it got dark, and both Lin Han and Hannah had plenty of time.

The battleship Ramilis, he could surrender. It can sink itself, but it must not be "sunk" by the German Navy.

This is the proposal that Lin Han proposed to Commander Raeder from the perspective of ending the Anglo-German war as soon as possible.

The chivalrous Raeder felt that this was very reasonable, anyway, the German Navy had achieved an unprecedented victory in this battle, and in the final battle of the palace, how the Ramillis would die, he did not insist on his opinion. So far in the war, there have been too many sunken British warships and dead British sailors, and even Raeder felt "soft-hearted".

As a result of the destruction of the radio station. Unable to contact London, Captain Bert at this time. His opinion had become the key to the continuation of the Anglo-German war.

From 3:20 a.m., the German fleet, which was "watching" him, kept sending him a "letter of persuasion" by light signal. At four o'clock, a light transport speedboat was lowered from a German destroyer, and under a white flag, it sailed from the port side, where all its secondary guns had been destroyed.

This time. The negotiators sent by the Germans proposed a new proposal to Captain Bert in person: self-sinking!

It is obviously impossible for the captain of a British battleship to give up his honor and choose to surrender, so Lin Han finally retreated and persuaded him to sink himself. The negotiators told Captain Sùbert very humanely: The German Navy is ready. A destroyer can be sent at any time to receive sailors on board. At the same time, Captain Sùbert was told that he could keep all personal belongings, sabers, guns, and other "memorable" items, and that the Germans would not disgracefully confiscate any trophies that could represent the Ramillis.

The Germans' offer of "surrender" was very favorable and humane, and looking at the young sailors on the deck, as well as the wounded soldiers who fell on the deck and groaned, Captain Bert finally agreed to the Germans' proposal of "self-sinking".

At six o'clock in the afternoon of 25 February, shortly after the sun had set over the western horizon, the last sailors of the Ramillis were transferred from the battleship to the receiving German destroyer, and the sea was about to flood the top deck of the Ramillis.

According to the results of the "negotiations" with the Germans, the Ramillis opened the sea valve and sank itself.

At that time, several cameras installed on destroyers and cruisers captured the entire process of British self-sinking and sailors' transfer, which also became important material for Germany's propaganda war against Britain.

Captain Bert was the last to leave the Ramilister, and after boarding the battleship Scharnhorst in the transport boat Tongguò, he stood on deck and gave the final salute to the sinking ship in the night.

At this time, not only the battleship Scharnhorst, but also all the ships of the German Navy that participated in this naval battle also fired their guns to the sky to celebrate at this moment.

All the sailors who had left their posts also gathered on the surface of their respective hulls, lined up, saluted, and then sang in unison the war song of the German Navy, "We Go to England". This song was once changed by Lin Han to "We Go to the Land of Sakura", and then it was widely circulated in China, but its original source was Germany.

"We're singing today

Drink the cold wine

I'm leaving,

Just make the glass crunch

Let me hold your hand again

Hold your white hand

Goodbye, my sweetheart

Goodbye, my sweetheart

Goodbye, cherish a lot

We're going to go on a march

We're going to go on a march

We're going to England

England! ”

Although he couldn't understand German, Captain Bert was not familiar with this famous battle song of the German Navy. Listening to the German sailors singing in celebration of the victory in the Great War, Captain Bert burst into tears.

Just like the sun that has just set in the west, the sun never sets on the empire across the four oceans, and the era of self-supremacy is over.

Witnessing the destruction of the Royal Navy of the Empire on which the sun never sets as a captive is definitely not pleasant! Captain Bert didn't choose the fate of sinking with the ship, but he was unwilling, he wanted to board the two legendary "Demon Battleships" in person and see with his own eyes whether they were as full of myths as the legend.

Commander Raeder warmly received Captain Bert, who was a prisoner, and as a victor, Raeder showed a good demeanor and did not show the slightest sign of triumph. The two had dinner together, and at the dinner table, the two discussed their views on the future situation between Britain and Germany.

At the dinner table, Captain Bert said to Raeder:

"You're just helping the British Empire get rid of an old rag!"

Influenced by Hannah and Lin Han, Raeder, who also began to become venomous, replied to him:

"There is nothing wrong with the United States of America, but the British Empire"

Raeder shook his head in disbelief as he sighed at the Bert

"Without the navy, the empire of the sun never sets, and there is no longer a qualification to call itself the empire on which the sun never sets!"

Without the main surface fleet, the current British Empire would face an unprecedented crisis in its maritime shipping industry. The British Isles is an island country that is heavily dependent on foreign imports, and once shipping is cut off, how long can the UK be able to hold on?

And it's not just a matter of the German naval threat, the empire that never sets the sun can call itself an empire, all of which are built on its powerful navy across the four oceans, and now that the navy is completely destroyed, how can the British Empire control its colonies located around the world?

Although he doesn't know much about politics, Raeder also understands that after today's war, the day of a major reshuffle in the world pattern will come in advance.

The "polar bears" have been looking forward to the warm seas of the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans for a long time, and the Russians, who have been waiting for a long time in Central Asia, will not give up this good opportunity to take advantage of the danger and stab Britain.

And the "Japanese friends" on the Scharnhorst, needless to say. The empire on which the sun never sets without a navy is already an out-and-out empire of sunsets, and the Japanese, who have long been "dizzy from hunger," will never let go of a good opportunity to fall into the well.

The biggest variable is that the attitude of the Americans, when faced with the "great situation" of the total destruction of the Royal Navy, will be even more intriguing.

Regardless of the attitudes of all parties, one thing Raeder may be sure of is that after today, the Sunset Empire has been literally branded as the "Sunset Empire" by the German Navy. (To be continued......)

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