Chapter Eighty-Five: The Law of Five-Five
In the first half of this naval battle, the strategic objectives of the Germans were basically achieved.
It would be ruthless for Lu Teyansi to come up with using the High Seas Fleet as bait, but what Shen Lang didn't expect was that the mustache of this plane actually agreed!
However, considering that in the original plane, the Führer was able to agree to Raeder's combination of sending the Prince Eugen of Bismecca to go to the Atlantic to break the plan of the war, in fact, this adventure factor is also a perfect score of 10.
The cooperation of the Navy and the Air Force caused the home fleet to suffer a great loss, the two battle cruisers Hood and Prestige, the two capital battleships Nelson and George V were sunk in one fell swoop, and the loss of cruisers and destroyers was not a few, and the dominance of aircraft over battleships fell on the Blue Star in a painful way for the Royal Navy.
"This is a day of great sorrow for us!" Churchill's cheeks trembled slightly because he was too excited, and he no longer had the vigor that he had just taken to power. Still, his eyes were firm and his voice was deep and powerful, and the luncheon with the king was the most important social occasion for the new prime minister to come to power, and they would exchange views and plan the strategy and details of the war.
"In this battle, the absolute superiority of the home fleet in the capital ships no longer exists, but the good news is that with the hard work of Princess Audrey, the enemy's Bismarck, Tirpitz battleships, Admiral Hipper, and Scharnhorst were all sunk by the Prince of Wales, and the German High Seas Fleet In addition to the cutting-edge Gneisenau, there are only three Deutschland-class pocket battleships left, and two former dreadnought-class old ships, which have also lost their oceanic combat capability. For the time being, our Atlantic routes only need to think about anti-submarine warfare. ”
"Speaking of anti-submarine warfare, if it weren't for Dönitz's wolves this time, Audrey might have been able to keep the Gneisenau behind." King George talked about his unconscious second daughter, and the expression on his face was very complicated.
The huge losses of the home fleet, this pot can't be carried by this girl anyway, and the big fleet has little to do with Her Royal Highness the princess from planning to decision-making, and she is not even the captain...... Well, now everyone knows who is actually in charge of the Prince of Wales.
But what does it matter?
At the critical moment when the capital ships were sinking one after another, it was Princess Audrey who stepped forward, single-ship assault, and sunk the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Admiral Hipper one by one in a daze under the overwhelming bombardment of the planes in the sky.
According to post-war statistics, a total of more than 40 Stuka and HE115 attacked the Prince of Wales, and the dive bombers all failed under the coquettish position of the Prince of Wales, and the torpedo planes were even more aggrieved.
At this time, torpedoes generally had a speed of about 30 to 40 knots, and the fastest torpedo during the entire war was the oxygen torpedo of the Motoko family, which is said to have a speed of more than 50 knots.
That's right!
A torpedo of more than 50 knots is a shrimp catcher!
So don't be misled by the setting of a white-haired nest shit, thinking that as long as it's a torpedo, you're embarrassed to go out and say hello if you don't have 60 knots, and the torpedoes with more than 50 knots are all younger brothers......
In fact, it was already Takumi Fujiwara in the torpedo!
So here's the problem, the Prince of Wales, which ran at a speed of 48 knots...... The torpedoes of the Germans were not as fast as the battleships themselves, and the poor torpedo planes braved the barrage to rush to the distance of the bombs, and finally threw the torpedoes down, only to watch the big battleship run away...... Let's go......
Even if he grasps the amount of advance, Shen Lang controls the hull of the ship and can maintain a comprehensive detection within a kilometer of the perimeter, which is also the limit range of the bang cannon he is currently equipped, and I don't know if there is a connection between the two.
Anyway, under the desperate attack of the German planes, the Prince of Wales caught shrimp farmers, drifted on the sea to avoid bombs and torpedoes, and at the same time named the retreating German warships one by one, and achieved incomparably brilliant results.
It was hit only two torpedoes, one did not explode, and one hit the side side, but unfortunately did not break through the anti-mine armor and did not cause much damage to the battleship, but only blew up several secondary guns and bangbang guns, causing 1 dead and 3 wounded.
Combined with a few 380mm shells, this is all the damage suffered by the Prince of Wales in this battle.
Simply the perfect battleship!
"The aircraft carrier faction in the navy can now be regarded as raising its eyebrows, and there is no doubt about the effectiveness of the aircraft's attack on the battleship, but this time because of the fog in Dunkirk, our aircraft carrier Ark Royal did not play its due role, but it was the German land-based aircraft that made a great contribution." The king himself has a long time in the navy, and his royal brother is serving in the air force, so the royal family's understanding of military affairs is not a problem at all.
"But they don't have a single aircraft carrier, and even if they do, it's impossible to run into the Atlantic!" Churchill glanced out the window, "As long as we have the Prince of Wales here, the Germans will not want to go beyond the thunder pool!" ”
"Now that Princess Audrey has become the new idol of the nation, there has never been a woman in the history of the royal family who has achieved such military feats, she is an angel favored by God!"
"Don't praise the child too much...... King George smiled wryly, but just like all fathers who make great achievements in children, there is a clear pride in the reserve, and this smile is so obvious in the wrinkles that it can't be hidden.
The past few days have been a mixture of joy and sorrow for the people of Dahuo.
On the other side, the French white chicken, who has been entangled with my grievances and hatred for hundreds of years, has always coaxed people to look at people with his nostrils, except for Paris, the whole world is the face of the countryside, but he didn't expect to be completely defeated in less than a few weeks, and he saw that the fair-skinned and beautiful lady of Grand Paris was about to usher in the entry of the Saxon barbarian man.
More than 200,000 soldiers were in danger in Dunkirk, and the power generator operation mobilized the ships along the entire coastline, and the scene of thousands of merchant ships, transport ships and even fishing boats rushing through the strait has rarely been seen for hundreds of years.
Immediately afterwards, the home fleet and the high seas fleet fought again, but they did not expect that they brought in the air force to help in the war, and drove out the mighty and majestic fleet, but when they came back, they were more than half of the battle damaged, and they were all wounded, which can be described as a mourning.
The only good news is that Her Royal Highness Audrey, the second princess, who boarded the battleship Prince of Wales under the pressure of the whole country, stepped forward and commanded the ship to sink the four capital ships on the opposite side, and finally barely leveled the battle damage ratio.
God forbid!
God bless the King!
God bless Her Highness Audrey!
The royal family has rejected the seventh batch of applications to interview Audrey, and the Prince of Wales, who has returned to her home port of Liverpool, has become a national icon, and it is heard that people from outside the shipyard looking at the meritorious ship are standing on the hillside.
And the real mastermind behind the scenes, what is the ship's man Shen Lang doing?