Chapter 12: The Attack on the Prinz Eugen
Colonel Tennant was stunned to find all 7 of his ships grounded. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Quick, contact the other ships, I want to know what's going on!" Colonel Tennant yelled.
"Colonel, all ships have reported that their steering gears are all paralyzed and have completely lost power, including this ship, and the entire fleet including this ship has lost power, and our damage management department reports that the tail compartment has been flooded, and the tail compartment can only be completely closed, otherwise the ship will sink rapidly, but this will lead to the inability to repair the steering gear and power compartment at all!"
"It's over, the Dunkirk retreat has failed!" Colonel Tennant was already stupid when he heard the news, he sat slumped in the captain's seat, his eyes were blank, his mind was empty, and he had no idea!
"Colonel, Colonel, the enemy ship has announced in clear code again, if we don't surrender, send us to the bottom of the sea!"
Hearing the news, everyone on the bridge looked nervously at Colonel Tennant, the battle has reached this point, everyone has no intention of fighting, and now they can't even move, how to fight with the murderous German battleship. What's more, the German battleship just now paralyzed 7 of its own warships with a salvo. It's nothing short of a miracle! Such a high hit rate is simply unheard of! Now everyone thinks that this battleship is a new German weapon, and they are poor test subjects, and they are used as experimental targets by Germany's new weapons!
Colonel Tennant also came back to his senses at this time, looking at the nervous eyes of everyone around him, he also knew that it was useless to continue to order resistance now, and his side had been knocked out of courage by the miraculous shelling just now. Now to continue to resist is just an act of death! Rather than this, it is better to surrender as soon as possible, so as not to attract retaliation from the German battleships!
"I order, the whole fleet surrenders to the German battleships in front!" After giving this order, Colonel Tennant suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, although this battle was lost, but it was not a battle, it was really a new German weapon that was too powerful!
"Colonel, the other side has agreed to our surrender, and he wants us to leave the warship immediately in a lifeboat"
"Hmmm! Promise them, but we need at least 2 hours to arrange for the evacuation of all the crew from the battleship," said Colonel Tennant.
"Also, ask the name of the other party's ship, such a powerful battleship, as a loser, at least know who defeated us"
Soon Colonel Tennant got the answer he wanted: "New Prince Eugen, Fleet Commander Zhang Fan!" I remembered it and hastened to report it to the Minister of the Admiralty that the Battle of Dunkirk had been lost and that Germany had put in new warships with amazing power. Unless you commit to a massive Royal Navy, it's hard to win! ”
Colonel Tennant sighed lightly, he himself knew that his remarks were likely to be considered cowardly by the British Navy Headquarters, and only the British Royal Navy would know how powerful the other party was!
Two hours later, all the crews of the seven British battleships had left the ship. At this time, Zhang Fan ordered the New Prince Eugen to start approaching the seven warships. The reason why these small warships were not sunk was because there were other uses.
Just after defeating the 7 warships, Zhang Fan was ready to send them all to the bottom of the sea as his own battle merits, but considering that the actual damage to the 7 battleships was not serious, and after consulting Zero, Zero told Zhang Fan that he could repair them at a certain distance to restore their basic power system. Of course, all of them need to be fully restored, and other relevant materials or willpower are required. But there is still no problem with the basic repair, relying on the zero fusion transformation ability, it only takes a while to make these 7 warships move. Therefore, Zhang Fan was ready to gather these warships together and inform the German Navy to send tugboats to tow them back to port, as long as they were repaired, it would be equivalent to the German Navy getting 7 warships for nothing. This kind of method of using war to feed war, the Huaguo in the previous life played too slippery! Therefore, Zhang Fan also decided to study hard, and if he captured so many warships, the military department would definitely divide some into his own fleet, otherwise it would be too ugly!
Zhang Fan, who thought that his fleet would soon be expanded, was in a good mood. Immediately and even more vigorously command Zero to repair these damaged ships!
By 5 p.m., all seven ships had returned to basic navigational capability. Zhang Fan then ordered a part of the crew to board these captured warships, drive them to the sea far away from the war zone, and wait for the tugboats of the German Navy to tow them back!
By this time, the Anglo-French forces in Dunkirk were already in fear. Transport by sea had been blocked, the land was surrounded by German regiments, and Luftwaffe fighters were bombing in the sky. The morale of the Anglo-French forces had fallen to a minimum.
At this time, in the British Navy Mansion, several naval ministers were discussing with Prime Minister Churchill about the retreat from Dunkirk!
"Andrew, what do you think of the report from the front, saying that there are new German warships, which are amazingly powerful, and have captured all 7 warships of our army and blocked the English Channel!" Churchill asked
"Prime Minister, according to the latest news obtained by the contemptible people, the commander who commanded this warship is Zhang Fan, who achieved an amazing record in the Norwegian naval battle last time, this person is quite valued by the German head of state, and more importantly, Zhang Fan of the German Xuancheng is a warrior of the gods recognized by Valkyrie!" Admiral Andrew replied!
"You don't really believe these rumors! Andrew. This is simply ridiculous, what kind of warrior of the gods, if there really is the favor of the gods, it should also favor our British Empire, not some German," said Lord Pound, the Sea Secretary.
"Pound! You can ignore these rumors, but our army did suffer heavy losses in the last Norwegian naval battle, and these losses were basically brought by this man named Zhang Fan. I only believe the battle damage data that I see in front of me. These data tell me that this person is certainly not simple! We can't afford to take it lightly! Andrew said.
"Well, don't argue, the Dunkirk retreat must go on, Andrew, you immediately organize a detachment to suppress this German battleship. What I need is to withdraw all the soldiers in Dunkirk! They can't die in vain now! We need them to defend the British mainland and prevent a German landing war! Churchill finally decided!
"Yes, Your Excellency. I will immediately arrange a detachment to repel this heroic battleship of the Germans, and by the way, find out what the strength of the other side is! Andrew replied
After the conversation, Andrew immediately went to the Navy headquarters and began to arrange the attack. The purpose of this campaign was to drive away or even sink the opposing warships, so Andrew deliberately arranged for an aircraft carrier to be in the fleet. For Admiral Andrew, who strongly advocated the use of carrier-based aircraft to attack enemy warships. A fleet is incomplete without the accompaniment of naval and air carriers! In order to completely defeat Zhang Fan's new Prinz Eugen, Britain put on a rather luxurious formation! And all the ships were high-speed ships to save time and quickly reach the English Channel to attack the Prince of New Eugen, so as to ensure that the retreat from Dunkirk would not be hindered!