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However, the Faroe Islands Germans, who had become alone after the reconquest of Shetland, were much easier to deal with, and the Allies annihilated more than 30,000 defenders at a limited cost of more than 10,000 killed (more than 50,000 casualties), 106 aircraft shot down, and 3 ships sunk. Strictly speaking, this loss is still a little large, but considering that the Allies have lost a lot of battles before, a large number of veterans have lost, and it is difficult for new recruits to grow, the gap between the quality of soldiers and the German army has been widening, and it is already very good to be able to fight like this

Moreover, after the American and British allies took the Shetland Islands, Mustache became more and more dissatisfied with the German naval commander Raeder, who passively avoided the war, and after Mustache's strict orders, especially mentioning a series of brilliant achievements of the fleet led by his sworn enemy Wegener, Raeder, who felt that his position was unstable, had no choice but to gather the main force of the German Navy's home fleet to go to sea to assist the army in recapturing the Shetland Islands.

Although Mustache specially sent elite air forces to escort Raeder's fleet (Note 1), so that Raeder did not have to worry too much about the threat of the American and British air forces, the U.S. military actually sent six battleships, including two cutting-edge Iowa-class battleships, plus three British King George V-class battleships, even if there were no planes to help the battle, it was by no means a mere two battleships and two battle cruisers in Raeder's fleet

Of course, at first, the American and British battleships were not concentrated, which made Raeder think he saw an opportunity, and he even concentrated Liliang to sink a "lonely" old American battleship and a number of light ships. However. The Allied command reacted very quickly, and despite the huge losses caused by the Luftwaffe interception, it sent reconnaissance planes to firmly target the Raeder fleet, and quickly concentrated the nearby capital ships and a large number of auxiliary ships in the shortest possible time to form a powerful combined fleet.

At this time, the battle cruiser Scharnhorst in Raeder's fleet was heavily damaged in the previous battle, and its power system was seriously damaged, which slowed down the speed of the entire fleet and created conditions for the combined fleet of the United States and Britain to complete the encirclement of Raeder's fleet.

In order to prevent the German fleet from slipping away, the Allies chose the strategy of dividing their forces and losing the battle in the first place, but unlike the Battle of the Danish Strait, this time the Allies had a much greater advantage in strength. The main guns of the four capital ships of the German Navy were only 283mm. There was no real threat to the battleships, and only two Bismarck-class battleships could be relied upon, so even if the Allies were divided into two forces, they would still have at least double the strength advantage in the local area

But. Raeder has a conservative personality though. But on the premise that there is no way back, it still arouses the blood in the bottom of my heart. The command fleet launched a fierce attack on the four American battleships that cut off its path, but the double numerical advantage was not so easy to erase, let alone the early days of World War II. The current Bismarck-class battleships are no longer advanced in terms of performance, especially when compared to the Iowa-class high-speed battleships that have only been in service for less than a month in the United States. The Iowa-class battleship had larger guns than the Bismarck, had thicker armor, and was also faster than the Bismarck, making the battle simply impossible to fight

However, the incredible anti-sinking ability of the Bismarck-class battleships was once again demonstrated in this battle, with four American battleships, and five other American and British battleships arriving after them, almost running out of armor-piercing shells (although not all of them were used against the two Bismarck-class battleships), and even some of the Royal Air Force bombers broke through the interception of German fighters and rushed to the vicinity to drop bombshells and aerial torpedoes on two German battleships (the difficulty and danger of projecting torpedoes was too great, under the interference of German fighters, None of them hit, but they lost more than a dozen torpedo planes. ）。 But the two Bismarck-class battleships remained stubbornly afloat on the surface of the sea, showing no sign of imminent sinking

PS: In history, when the Bismarck was destroyed, the British battleship Zuihou drove to within a thousand meters and bombarded it with its main guns near the waterline, and the destroyer continued to fire torpedoes at it, but it still couldn't sink quickly, Zuihou was still sunk by the Germans, which shows how terrifying its anti-sinking ability is. Of course, it is just that the high sinking resistance is actually meaningless, the Bismarck completely lost the ability to counterattack after fighting for a while, and no matter how good the sinking resistance is, it is just a waste of some more shells and torpedoes for the enemy

Although the anti-sinking resistance was so strong that the Allied fleet was dumbfounded, the two battleships were inevitably heavily damaged, and the battleship Bismarck, which was attacked by the Americans as the primary target, was completely incapacitated, and all four main turrets were dumbfounded, and they could only rely on the only two remaining secondary guns to carry out a symbolic counterattack

And with the exception of the two battleships, the Shane sisters and the dozen or so smaller auxiliary ships were not so durable, and the nine Allied battleships and the numerous auxiliary ships only consumed one-third of the shells used against the two Bismarck-class battleships, sending them to the bottom one by one. Without the protection of these warships, even if the two Bismarck-class battleships were well resistant to sinking, the Allies would be able to use the large-caliber shipborne torpedoes on cruisers and destroyers to send them to the bottom of the sea

Without waiting for all the other German ships to sink, the commander of the Allied fleet, Ernest . Joseph. Admiral King (Note 2) gave the order to deliver a blow to the two German battleships, but at this moment, smoke suddenly billowed from an old American battleship

Note 1: Originally, Mustache was going to send bomber units to attack American and British ships, but the new pilots were sent to the Eastern Front by him, and those old pilots who stuck to tradition generally despised anti-ship warfare

PS: This is a historical fact, and even pilots who have made achievements in ship bombing were forced to retire, the German Navy in World War II was so strange, and there are also embarrassing things such as the selection of 37mm guns that cannot be fired continuously to be responsible for the close air defense of warships, but I personally think that these people are likely to deliberately make trouble for the mustache, just like Heisenberg, a big scientist actually miscalculated the decimal point and caused Germany to not be able to build an atomic bomb

Note 2: This person is also the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy and the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, and it stands to reason that he will not be sent to the front line to command the operation, but Roosevelt was frightened by the British's betrayal of his teammates, and in order to get the command of the combined fleet of the United States and Britain, only Ernest was the commander. Joseph. King's seniority and prestige made it impossible for the Royal Navy to raise objections. (To be continued......)