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The losses on the British side were relatively small, probably because the King George V-class battleships were thick-skinned but lacked firepower, and their value was low in the eyes of the Germans, except for the Prince of Wales battleship, which was killed early because of its location at the beginning, the other two were attacked by German submarines only in Zuihou, because at this time there were few new torpedoes left of the German submarines, and the two King George V-class battleships Anson and Howe were particularly resistant to fighting, and finally survived by luck. Although they were all inevitably hit hard, they would have to be overhauled for at least two or three months after returning to the base. In addition, 1 heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser and 9 destroyers were sunk in the UK, and the number of permanent casualties was no less than 4,000

In addition, the simultaneous outbreak of the great air battle because of this naval battle also caused another wave in the air battlefield on the Western Front, which had gradually calmed down since the German army moved eastward, and because the air forces of both sides did their best, the air battle that did not last long was fought extremely fiercely. The Germans had 486 planes shot down, while the losses of the United States and Britain were 527 and 264 respectively, judging from this battle, the Germans should have won, but the United States and Britain now more than double the number of aircraft produced each month and the number of reserve pilots, if such an exchange ratio is played in every air battle, the Luftwaffe will be overwhelmed sooner or later

In any case, the Battle of the North Sea ended in a great victory for the Germans, but the German losses were really shocking, except for the 486 planes and the many excellent pilots who had just returned from the Eastern Front. Germany also lost a full 45 submarines, all of which are the most advanced drop-shaped submarines on the Shijie at present, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total number of drop-shaped submarines in service in Germany, and a large number of outstanding submarine officers and men have been killed as a result. After reading the battle report, Dönitz's hands trembled and tears poured out uncontrollably, there was probably no one on Shijie who loved the German submarine force more than him, but it was his Dönitz's decision that cost the lives of so many subordinates, which made him inevitably feel guilty to himself. But even so, Dönitz still has no remorse. Because of the great sacrifice of relying on submarine forces. The German Navy had finally achieved its miraculous goal of wresting naval supremacy in the North Atlantic from the Allies

If you look only at the home fleet, the losses of surface ships of the German Navy in this naval battle in the North Sea were also very staggering, if calculated proportionally. It is even larger than the navies of the United States and Great Britain. A full 23 ships sank. Among them are the Shane sisters, who have made great achievements in the past. Although the two Bismarck-class battleships were not sunk due to their incredible resistance to sinking and the inability of the Allies to take care of the submarine attacks after the submarine attack began, both ships were also damaged like never before

The Bismarck had even lost all power, and Zuihou dragged her dying sister back with the help of her sister Tirpitz, who could barely sail, at a snail-like pace. Along the way, it was bombed many times by American and British aircraft groups, and if it were not for the fact that the German Navy knew the importance of capital ships to the German Navy and resolutely refused to give up, and the Luftwaffe tried its best to rescue (for which the Germans lost 381 aircraft, while the Allies lost 745 aircraft, due to the shortening of the combat distance, the advantage of German fighters was obviously increased a lot). The two ships escaped with one German destroyer, which can be called the best of the best

But the pride of the two German navies was still inevitably overhauled, and the damage to the Bismarck was so severe that it was not impossible to spend more than half a year on it. As a result, the condition of the German Navy's home fleet after the war was worse than that of the Allies, as the United States still had the only two remaining South Dakota-class battleships available, and the two British battleships should have been repaired earlier than the German two. However, Germany still has the "First Fleet of the Luftwaffe", 2 super battleships and 5 aircraft carriers, once they return to Europe, is there still suspense about the result?

After Raeder was dismissed by the angry mustache, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Dönitz, who had once again made great achievements, would inevitably become the new commander of the German Navy, and the Admiral Wegener, who had recently helped Argentina seize the Malvinas Islands, thus strapped Argentina to the German chariot, and led the fleet to bombard the Cape to urge the independence of South Africa (Note 1), would inevitably return to the Navy and become the supreme commander of the German Navy's surface ship forces

Wegener's poisonous plan contributed to a decisive victory in the Battle of the North Sea, thus reversing Germany's previous unfavorable situation in the North Atlantic. However, Dönitz knew very well that without the secret weapon of wire-guided torpedoes, it would be impossible to destroy the Allied capital ships almost completely, and at most this battle would be able to fight a two-way defeat. However, Dönitz did not know that although the Germans eventually developed wire-guided torpedoes, they did not play any role because the sun had set in Germany at that time, and it must be admitted that the historical trajectory of this time and space has been very different due to the efforts of a butterfly named "Hu Weidong" to flap its wings

Speaking of wire-guided torpedoes, we must admit that Germany is indeed leading in the research of guided weapons, and in the field of torpedoes alone, the Germans have developed two kinds of guided torpedoes, in addition to the wire-guided torpedoes that made miraculous achievements in the first use of this naval war, there are also acoustic self-guided torpedoes that have been successfully studied earlier.

But due to the change of history, the sound self-guided torpedo that was deeply relied on by the German submarine force in the middle and late stages of World War II actually had no place to come out, the reason is very simple, due to the limitations of the Jishu level, the acoustic self-guided torpedo can only be used for low-speed torpedoes below 18 knots, although such performance is better than the German acoustic self-guided torpedo in history, but the hydrogen peroxide torpedo with long range, fast speed, great power and no obvious trajectory is extremely popular with the German submarine forces, Therefore, the acoustic self-guidance method, which was not compatible with it, was naturally quickly abandoned by the German Navy. It's just that the mid-line guided torpedo in the North Sea naval battle also exposed a lot of weaknesses, which made Dönitz realize that the acoustic self-guided torpedo has a certain value

Note 1: The self-government of South Africa proclaimed the establishment of the "Federal Republic of South Africa", which was thus an independent state from the status of a British overseas "self-governing territory". However, out of fear of the United States and Britain, the newly formed federal government of South Africa did not dare to join the Axis powers, but only announced that it would remain neutral in this Shijie war. After all, Wegener's fleet did not have many ground troops with him, and it was almost the limit to be able to do this, and the Allies also acquiesced in the independence of South Africa in order to concentrate Liliang against the Axis powers, but in this way, Germany, which temporarily seized sea supremacy in the Atlantic, had another important source of resources (to be continued......