Chapter 11 The Interception of the English Channel
When Zhang Fan received this battle report, he couldn't help but shake his head, there was no way, such a good opportunity was actually wasted by Germany. But he has now received www.biquge.info an order to attack, and that could change the outcome of the battle.
Just now, the Navy Headquarters ordered him to harass the British sea transportation lines and delay the retreat of the British and French forces!
But Zhang Fan doesn't think so, what's the use of delaying, now is the best opportunity. The English Channel is too narrow for the Grand Fleet to deploy. So the Anglo-German fleet was still in the middle of a confrontation in the far seas. With a single ship and a submarine, you can easily block this small strait passage, and you can't open it for a long time.
Soon, the task force - Valkyrie, who received the order, set out for the battle. The name Valkyrie Fleet is a bit too much, but unfortunately now the Germans think that Zero is a Valkyrie, so naturally this fleet is also named the Valkyrie Fleet.
The waves are raging, and a huge steel battleship is cleaving the waves and galloping in the sea! Zhang Fan was sitting in the captain's seat at this time, watching the re-strengthened Prince Eugen easily split the monstrous waves. With a speed of up to 35 knots, the Prinz Eugen exudes an irresistible momentum like a giant beast in the sea!
"Captain, we're 100 nautical miles away from the English Channel."
"Okay, the whole ship is sounding the yellow alert, ready to fight at any time!" Zhang Fan ordered
"Yes! Captain! ”
"Woo! Woo! A shrill siren sounded aboard the Prinz Eugen, and all the crew members immediately rushed to their posts to begin preparations for the battle.
"Send a telegram ordering the submarine force to take the ship as the center of the circle and start a lurking reconnaissance. If you find a transport ship, you need to stop it, and if you find an escort ship, you need to notify the ship immediately, don't go into battle at will, the enemy may send a lot of destroyers, tell them to be careful! ”
After Zhang Fan's order was given, the telegraph operator hurriedly began to convey the order to the submarine force. It should be mentioned here that the Valkyrie fleet is not using the Enigma code, after all, Zhang Fan knows very well that the Enigma code has been cracked by the Allies in history. So Zhang Fan had already changed another set of Enigma codes to the Valkyrie fleet. And it is required to change the codebook once a day. Because there was a god-man Turing in England. This great mathematician of history, he is one of the creators of computers and artificial intelligence. Zhang Fan didn't dare to bet that Turing would not be able to crack the new German Enigma code, in fact, even if the codebook was more detailed, it was estimated that Turing would still crack it. But now all of Germany is using Enigma cipher machines. Therefore, the only way is to change the codebook once a day, and the requirement must not be repeated, which will greatly increase the difficulty of Turing's cracking.
At this time, the submarine force had already received Zhang Fan's order, and these ghosts in the sea quietly moved away from the flagship and began radio silence and stealth reconnaissance!
Soon, Zhang Fan's Prinz Eugen arrived in the English Channel, where many British ships were already waiting for the Anglo-French troops on the coast to retreat to the sea. Since large ships could not dock directly, most of them were small ships helping to transfer British and French troops on shore. At this time, due to the weather, the Luftwaffe simply could not effectively attack. If they continue to retreat, the historic retreat of Dunkirk will be repeated. This is not what Zhang Fan wants!
"The clear telegram informs the British and French ships in front of them to surrender unconditionally, otherwise they will all be sunk!" Zhang Fan said
"Captain, are you going to sink them all?" Zero suddenly appeared
Seeing Zero's appearance, all the crew members of the captain's room immediately lit up, and everyone looked at Zero with fanatical eyes.
But strict discipline makes them stick to their posts and will not leave their posts without permission!
"Zero, I just want to scare them, otherwise so many ships will all be sunk, and it is estimated that there will not be enough shells on the Prinz Eugen," Zhang Fan explained.
"Oh! Scare them! Looks like it's fun," Zero blinked.
"Need my help? Captain, it seems like a lot of fun to be scary," Zero said
"Oh! Can that zero help me increase my hit rate? Zhang Fan asked
"If it's just an amplification hit, not counting the power consumption, you can guarantee that the hit rate will reach 80%, and the other 20% of the error is limited by artillery accuracy and other unknown reasons!" Zero replied
"80% hit!" Zhang Fan gasped, this hit rate is already comparable to the missiles of later generations!
However, such a high hit rate must come at a price! "How much will it cost?" Zhang Fan asked
"Each shot costs 1,000 Wish Power!"
"I'm going, 1000 points of willpower, it's really a high consumption and high return!" Zhang Fan calculated, he still has more than 10,000 wishes in his hands now, and this performance will pay one-tenth of his wishing power once, but considering the huge deterrence, it is still worth a try!
At this time, the rescue ships and escort warships of the British and French forces discovered the existence of the Prinz Eugen, after all, their detection distance of the sea radar was far less than that of the Prinz Eugen. Although the principle of the radar system has not changed, the optimization of the overall structure and materials still makes the radar detection efficiency of the Prinz Eugen far exceed that of these British and French fleets.
"Woohoo! Whining! "After the discovery of the German battleship, a piercing red alarm sounded on the British and French ship regiments, and everyone panicked! No way, their current escort battleships only have 6 destroyers and one cruiser! And the behemoth with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons in front of them is an existence that they can't shake at all. At this time, the Anglo-French forces on the coast also discovered the German warship, and all the soldiers who had already boarded the ship ran down from the landing ship in a frenzy, for fear of being named by the opponent's heavy artillery!
After warning 3 times in a row of clear messages, the Anglo-French forces still showed no sign of surrender!
"It looks like we have to give them some color, otherwise they won't give up," Zhang Fan thought.
And at this time, the 6 destroyers and 1 cruiser were still rushing towards the Princes Eugen, it seems that they wanted to close the distance and fight with the Prinz Eugen, after all, if the distance is not close enough, the guns of these light battleships will not be able to shake the main armor of the Prinz Eugen!
Colonel Tennant, who was in charge of the cruiser at this time, was really frightened! When the hell did this German warship touch this, and why didn't the British fleet stop her!
But now everything is not important, if the German battleship is not repulsed at this time, the Dunkirk retreat will not be carried out at all, you must know that many of the retreats are civilian ships. It's fine that there are no enemy ships, but if there are enemy ships, they will definitely withdraw as soon as they get out of smoke. After all, they are not an army and are not obliged to throw their lives here!
Fortunately, there was only one German battleship, and he could only hope that his 7 ships could repel or even sink the opponent, of course, to accomplish this, distance was the key factor. As long as there is a close enough distance, the torpedoes of 6 destroyers can pose a huge threat to this large German battleship, and it is even possible to sink her! If this German battleship was sunk, it would be a great achievement!
Huge opportunities and crises loomed over Colonel Tennant, and even made him ignore why the Germans would send only one battleship to attack them!
In the face of the menacing British fleet, the Prinz Eugen simply knocked the ship horizontally, so that all the main guns could be directed towards each other!
Looking at the 7 British battleships in front of him, Zhang Fan said to Zero: "Start strengthening, aim at their steering gears and paralyze them all at once!" ”
"Consume 1000 wish power, temporary reinforcement begins, and the hit rate is greatly improved" Zero's eyes reflected a mysterious pattern, and in an instant, an incomparably mysterious pattern was also reflected on the hull of the Prince Eugen, and this mysterious pattern flashed by.
"Fire!" Seeing that Zero had completed the blessing, Zhang Fan ordered without hesitation.
"Boom!" In the midst of the earth-shattering roar, the 4 twin main guns of the Prince Eugen let out an angry roar!
"What! Fire at such a distance! Colonel Tennant was taken aback to see that the Prince Eugen had opened fire first at such a distance. But he is not worried, because the farther the distance, the worse the hit rate, and it takes many corrections before it is possible to hit the opponent, which is common sense!
It's a pity that the Prinz Eugen in front of them is an existence beyond common sense, and just when Colonel Tennant was still thinking nonsense, a huge explosion poured into his ears! "Shot! That's impossible! ”
Eight shells accurately hit these 7 battleships, especially Colonel Tennant's ship, which was taken care of, and was hit by two 203mm guns at the same time.
It's a pity that Zhang Fan was unwilling to kill, so he didn't use explosive bombs, but armor-piercing bullets. So although these 7 enemy ships were hit, they were armor-piercing damage and were not directly exploded! Otherwise, with the small body of these destroyers, if they are kissed by the main guns of the battleship, they will definitely be blown up into the sky, and there will be no second result.
But now the armor-piercing damage only made all their steering gears finished, making all 7 battleships lose power and become iron coffins at sea!