Z after 858 (middle)

The night began quickly and deeply, and 130 nautical miles northwest of the Azores, a little red light rose and fell with the waves, like a fleeting stream of color to the north. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

The Huangshan ammunition supply ship's spacious cargo hold is filled with rows of special anti-roll ammunition racks with grooves, and a 500-kilogram aerial bomb is placed in each groove.

In the corner of the ammunition compartment, a simple log cabin sat around several vigilant soldiers.

This scene may be normal in the eyes of others, but in Lefei's opinion, it is particularly wrong, it should be because this is a naval transport ship, and it is sailing on the ** sea, and there are dozens of warships around to escort and protect it, why do you need someone to guard the ammunition depot? If there is really any danger, it is enough to open the sea valve directly, but it is said that after these soldiers boarded the ship from Hawaii, they ate and slept here, and they almost did not leave an inch.

What do they protect?

Are these ammunition depots and the second-generation incendiary bombs shown on the Navy supply manuals real?

Le Fei's eyebrows had been twisted into Sichuan characters, and he walked to the bomb under the leadership of a captain officer who was guarding the ammunition.

The bomb was no different from an ordinary high-explosive bomb in terms of shape and volume, but when Le Fei walked to the back of the rack, he saw that three of the four stable tails at the tail were painted bright red, and the corners of his eyebrows jumped twice involuntarily.

The glaring red told him that it wasn't an incendiary bomb, it was just a cover-up.

As the commander of naval aviation, one of the people who was considered likely to succeed Long Guozhang, a high-ranking officer who had already entered the General Staff, knew better than him what it meant to have the bomb marked in red.

Even the powerful incendiary and asphyxiating gas bombs have only a patch of yellow and red on the stabilizer tail.

And on top of this, there are three whole pieces.

Maybe this doesn't mean anything in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, but in the confidential room of the Ministry of Defense, there is a legend that the more colorful the bomb, the more dangerous it is! It's like a colorful viper!

It is impossible to mark three pieces of red in the incendiary bomb!

Le Fei turned his head to look at the captain who had moved himself into the ammunition compartment after boarding the ship from the ammunition, and did not even leave half a step to eat and drink: "Can you tell me now?" ”

"General, I can't explain it. According to the order, I am only responsible for supervising the use of ammunition and cooperating with you in dropping them when you are ordered to do so. The captain raised his right arm in salute, and lù pulled out of his shirt, and the small black and white symbol of impermanence on the collar immediately burst into the light.

"Is it the suffocation that you developed? How powerful is it? ”

"Perhaps." The captain seemed to know his identity, but he only smiled, lowered his saluting hand, and seemed to think that it was impolite to answer a vice admiral's question in this way, and after thinking about it, he added: "General, I can't answer your question, but I can tell you that it was born from an experiment that accidentally failed to mix stains and pesticides. ”

"Stain remover and pesticide mix?" Le Fei was a little confused, these two things have appeared in recent years, and when the effects are obviously different, someone actually mixes them, no wonder the emperor always uses "big-headed monsters" to describe those guys.

The captain seemed to see Le Fei's doubts, and he didn't explain but said lightly: "Can I give you an analogy?" ”

"What analogy?"

"Theoretically, they can ruin Britain!"

The captain's words made Le Feidu, who was accustomed to seeing life and death, feel a shock in his heart, and the power of suffocation still sends chills down the spine of many people, but he never thought that only ten years later, the mysterious ghosts would actually come up with weapons that were more terrible than suffocation.

4000 pieces of 500 kg "suffocation", theoretically can destroy Britain!

What the hell is this terrible thing?!

"General, my mission is to protect them." The captain pointed to the never-before-seen fuse and delay fuse interface in the middle of the bomb's tail and said, "Unblock and use them when necessary to help my country win!" ”

The crisp and neat words made Le Fei understand that it was impossible for him to know what the hell this was from the mouth of this loyal ghost captain, after all, people are ghosts, and from the nature of the troops, even if Commander Long Guozhang came, he had no right to ask.

"Maybe I shouldn't be curious! Guarding them well, trying to suppress the idea of wanting to know what was going on, he smiled and patted the captain's shoulder and walked out of the hatch, and when he reached the door, he suddenly stopped again, turned his head and said, "I don't want to use it." ”

"Me too. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. "The captain smiled and nodded.

The hatch slowly closed again, and the inside and outside trance became two worlds, and Lefei, who was quietly watching the hatch close, knew that if the door was opened again, it would mean that a devil would be released by himself.

After boarding the deck, the sea breeze that still carried the cold air of the north made Le Fei a little sober, he didn't lie in the ammunition hold, he came to the Huangshan because he was curious, because he heard that when his fleet logistics officer was preparing to go to the Huangshan ammunition supply ship to count the bombs, the captain only gave a list and refused to see the real thing, so he came here.

He is not the kind of indecisive person, and he will not be soft-hearted, when he bombarded Banda Aceh, risked the consequences of a war with the Netherlands and even a Eurasian war, he did not hesitate to order the bombardment of the unprepared Banda Aceh, causing tens of thousands of people to not even frown.

Otherwise, Europe and the United States would not have called him a "naval butcher", and even their own people often called him "Living Yama" because they often had a straight face.

Therefore, as long as he gets the order, he will not hesitate to use these bombs, and he also understands a little why the General Staff does not tell the soldiers what kind of bombs they are, just because they are afraid that everyone will have a psychological impact when they use them.

Looking around, consisting of 2 Xiqin-class heavy aircraft carriers, 2 Taiwan-class battleships, 2 Beijing-class battleships, 1 Xi'an-class large cruiser, 5 light cruisers, 16 destroyers, and 7 supply and speed support ships, the 51st Task Force of the Royal Chinese Navy has entered the light and radio control. He knew that only they could decide the fate of Britain now!

"Commander, the flagship has sent a signal."

In the fingers of the captain of the Huangshan, the mast light of the flagship Wuyue aircraft carrier began to flicker, and as the light words were played over and over again, everyone knew the news that the British home fleet stationed in Scapa Bay and guarding the North Sea of England had set off.

"Full speed!"

In the North Sea, at the throat of the German Gulf, under the surface of the ocean north of Helgoland Island, a periscope protruding half a meter out of the water rises and falls with the bō waves.

In 1890, when Salisbury, then British Prime Minister, returned to Germany the small island, which he believed would probably not be able to secure its integration into the Royal Navy in wartime, it was hailed as a foolish decision by the British Empire, along with the sale of warships to Chile the following year, which ended up in the hands of Limer.

Behind the periscope, a half-squinted eye scanned the island of Helgoland lying on the surface of the sea like a giant beast, because there was a cousin who was famous in the world and was known as the "wild bull" in the Far East, so Fang Yuanjia understood the embarrassment faced by the British Navy after losing this small island whose value and strategic position were extremely disproportionate.

But then again, if it was the British Navy in its heyday, it really didn't need to rely on this small island to achieve the containment of Germany, not to mention that Britain and Germany still had the common goal of containing Russian expansion at that time, but today, when the British Navy is plummeting, they have to rely on the distant Scapa Bay, and they can't directly put the sword on the throat of Germany.

After finding no valuable targets, Fang Yuan put away the periscope with some disappointment.

Although the base of the submarine brigade has been moved from Panama to Guantanamo, Cuba, the distance is still too far away, and Yu You shows that he can only stay here for two more days, and if he does not leave after two days, he may repeat the embarrassing scene off the coast of South Africa again. At that time, it happened that General Lefei had solved the urgent need and also reaped the credit for sinking a British cruiser, and if he had to storm himself again because of lack of fuel, perhaps only British shells would be greeted by it.

Fang Yuan wiped his hands on his oil-stained clothes, then took out a canned fruit from there and ate it with his head down.

The days on the submarine are very boring, especially when performing tasks, due to staying underwater for a long time, many people have developed some evil habits, such as himself, as long as he is bored, he wants to eat, fortunately he is in good shape, so he has not been kicked out of the unit because he can't get into the submarine.

"Captain, three o'clock, the sound of the motor!"

Fang Yuan, who had just stuffed a piece of pineapple into his mouth, jumped up like a rabbit when he heard the report, as if he didn't notice that several submariners behind him were laughing and quietly carrying away the canned fruit he had treasured for half a month.

Behind the re-raised periscope, Fang Yuan caught the sound of the motor as the listener said, only to see several destroyers guarding three huge black shadows, which had quietly poked out from the German side of Helgoland.

What is a warship?

Just as Fang Yuan wanted to give the order to go over and see clearly, a huge column of water suddenly rose into the air several kilometers in front of him, and then the rumbling explosion suddenly penetrated his ears.

"Paralyzed, it can't be that the old man has been discovered, right? These German bastards think they are always British, and they are angry and want to kill people?! ”

Seeing several destroyers rushing straight towards him, Fang Yuan immediately cursed and ordered an emergency dive, and turned right to evade. But what made him strange was that even after he dived, there were still violent cannon sounds on the surface of the sea from time to time.

After waiting for a while, there were no depth charges coming down, and the large-caliber shells were getting farther and farther away, and the nervous submarine soldiers suddenly all looked at each other, stared at Fang Yuan and asked in surprise: "Captain, are you sure you read it right?" ”

"Ahem......." Fang Yuan coughed lightly twice, kicked away these guys who had stolen the captain's canned fruit and didn't even wipe their mouths clean, pretending to be bold and ordered to rise slowly to see clearly, when the periscope appeared a few kilometers away again, the scene in front of him directly made his mouth open wide.

I saw two huge fireballs rising from time to time in the distance on the sea, and from a distance it looked like a giant dragon in the night, constantly bombarding the place where the German Navy had just been discovered in the distance.

It's fired!

On the flagship De Fringer, Hipper, who had just led two Fhringel-class battle cruisers and the Moltke to Helgoland, never expected that he would encounter the enemy's main ship shelling here, and immediately pulled the intelligence officer and asked angrily what was going on.

The intelligence officer was also confused, the afternoon plane reconnaissance showed that there were only small British warships in this area, and the destroyers in the past did not report the enemy's situation, it should be said that there was no trace of large capital ships at all, not to mention that the intelligence department also clearly reported that the British homeland fleet was still in Scarpa Bay, how could it appear here all at once?

The strange thing is that from the water column, in the darkness on the opposite side is the capital ship-level artillery fire, but the density is far from the fleet standard, what is going on?

In fact, the intelligence officer was not wrong, Hipper's encounter was indeed a strange small fleet, which was developed by the late British Admiral Fisher, who proposed the plan of attacking the sea of Bōlo that year, and developed from it.

The fleet was led by British Captain Burnham and an artillery formation of seven shallow-water heavy gunboats, consisting of Lord Clive and Admiral Ulf, who he said had the world's strongest naval guns.

Colonel Burnham who appeared in front of Hipper was actually very accidental, after he received the telegram that Germany was about to move, he immediately went north along the strait to try to support the home fleet, because of the speed, he wanted to come to Helgoland Bay to find a few German light cruisers or destroyers to fight, after all, his fleet is small, but it has firepower that is not weaker than the main force of the fleet, but he did not expect to meet Hipper, who had just drilled out.

The Lord Clive and the General Ulf slowly turned sideways across the wide hull, and the huge single-barreled 18-inch (457 mm) door on the deck spewed out a huge fireball every minute and a half.

This is the history of the human navy can be called a perverted two shallow water heavy gunboats, after the large light cruiser proved to fail, the original development of the 18-inch cannon was useless, just at that time to get the news that China has developed a 16-inch naval gun, and the use of sea and air superiority to gradually obtain the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean sea dominance, eager to solve the problem of the Western Front German army under the proposal of Vice Admiral Sir Renard Bacon, the three 18-inch heavy guns that have been built have been installed on the shallow water heavy gunboat.

Due to the delay of the gun mount, only two ships were commissioned. Originally, they were supposed to be used as a long-range naval artillery force to strike at the German army on the French coastline, expel Germany from the French coastline, and cooperate with the Battle of Paris, but they didn't expect that the coalition forces on land did not have an advantage, and after the service, the Battle of Paris had begun to fall to the Alliance, so the two warships had to take on the task of patrolling the strait and ensuring safety in the case of serious losses of the capital ships.

The German Navy made a mistake, according to later analysis, if Schell, who led the main assault for the second time, chose to be in the daytime, then the mini-fleet led by Burnham with a speed comparable to that of an "ox cart" would not pose a threat at all, but because of the fear of the British desperately, Schell wisely chose to set off at night, believing that after breaking through the channel at night, he could use the thick fog and night to avoid the British home fleet to sweep the strait between Britain and France.

Compared with the 10 280 mm and 16 305 mm naval guns in Hipper's hands, Burnham's small fleet, although they are all improvised patchwork, has two single-barreled 457 mm super naval guns, three twin 381 mm naval guns and two twin 343 mm heavy guns, and even has an advantage in firepower and range.

If it was daytime, Hipper could completely identify the other party with the naked eye and then accelerate to 20 knots, and he could easily get rid of the enemy, and even use maneuver to kill the opponent, but at this moment, the distance between the two sides was 20,000 yards, and Colonel Burnham relied on two small torpedo boats that came out of the front to carry out long-range guided artillery bombardment, so Hipper couldn't see that the other party was that kind of warship.

In fact, Colonel Burnham did not think that he could defeat three well-armed battle cruisers, so he was not willing to close the distance but carried out this extremely inaccurate long-range guided artillery bombardment, but the problem is that Germany is unlucky today!

The two fleets were actually unprepared, and the huge difference between the fleets was to shoot at each other through the darkness, Hipper had the advantage of speed, and the small caliber meant the rate of fire, while Burnham had the distance, and the large caliber was slow but long-range, and could attack outside the range of the German guns.

What's more, having made a decision to die, the British sailors saw that the German naval guns were not as accurate as the legend, and the more they fought, the more confident they became.

At 2:10 a.m., the Admiral Ulf reaped the largest and latter victory in the history of shallow water heavy gunboats.

The frenzied 18-inch naval guns, after firing a blazing fireball, pushed the 12-ton shell to a distance of 21,000 meters and accurately hit the port side of the battlecruiser Moltke, which was lined up.

Although the 18-inch naval gun developed by the British was abandoned by its own navy and considered it unsuitable for combat, the power of the super naval gun was fully realized at this moment, the heavy shell fell vertically on the port side of the Moltke, and its own weight and speed made it easily break through the armor and explode violently inside.

According to the memories of the surviving Moltke lookout, at that time, he only saw a little fire in the darkness in the distance, and from the size of the fire, it was obvious that it was a large-caliber naval gun, but he did not expect that when he was trying to identify the target, the Moltke suddenly trembled. Then there was an orange-red fireball on the port side that was 100 meters high, and when the fire subsided a little, he saw that the port side was hit by a monster, as if some monster had bitten it, a large piece of the hull was missing, and the sea water rushed in, and then the mast tilted rapidly, and he was also overturned into the sea.

Hipper was completely stunned, and soon after seeing a dazzling fireball rise from the port side of the Moltke in the rear, he received a report of severe flooding on the port side and a tilted deck, and then everyone saw that the Moltke had capsized at great speed and fell crookedly just five kilometers southwest of Helgoland Island.

Although the Moltke did not sink due to the good design of the watertight compartment and was towed back to Germany the next day, the severely damaged hull was abandoned by the German Navy, and due to the tilting speed, only 470 of the 1,350 officers and men survived, and the rest were all overturned and crushed in the hull, and finally suffocated due to lack of oxygen.

During the Battle of Jutland, the Queen Maria was sunk by a German strike, but a patchwork flotilla was returned to the Germans a year later. Looking at the huge fire shining 20,000 meters away, the fleet officers shouted and cheered, but Burnham knew that his mission was accomplished, and began to fight and retreat.

At this time, several German destroyers that rushed over at a rapid pace finally broke through the defensive circle of the British escort destroyers, and after seeing the essence of Burnham's fleet clearly, Hippel suddenly gritted his teeth in anger and ordered a left turn to accelerate.

As the remaining two D-Fringer-class battlecruisers began to accelerate, the advantage of Burnham's fleet was completely lost, and these little guys, who could also reach an ideal speed of about 12 knots, became the target of the German gunners to vent their anger.

The first unfortunate was the Darkworld, a small guy with a twin 15-inch (381 mm) gun, which was attacked by the Hindenburg, the third ship of the D-Vlinger-class who missed the Battle of Jutland, and when the distance was reduced to 16,000 yards, the advantage of German naval gun accuracy began to be brought into play, and eight L50/305 mm naval guns hit the ship with a displacement of just over 3,000 tons.

After being hit by two shells in a row on the wide anti-torpedo watertight compartment on the side of the ship, a large amount of water ingress caused the hull to begin to be seriously unstable, and finally after being hit by a 305-mm shell on the deck, an explosion gap of about 3 meters in diameter, the Dark Boundary quickly disappeared into the sea with 210 officers and men.

Burnham had no choice, knowing that he had already broken out and had no advantage, so he gave the order to disperse and break out.

Once again, the heroic British destroyers saved the main force, and with the darkness of night and fog, these little guys who shuttled through the waves kept launching torpedo assaults on the Hipper's fleet, forcing Hippert to voluntarily pull away.

At 3:20, when Scheer heard the news and led the main force to arrive at an accelerated pace, the Hipper's fleet sank three shallow-water heavy gunboats in succession, but in the face of the situation that had already exploded and was likely to attract the British home fleet, Scheer decisively gave up the pursuit and ordered the fleet not to fight and turn to the southwest.

No one expected that in this small battle, which was hailed as the second Helgoland Bay encounter, an incredible scene would quietly begin.

In the periscope, looking at the General Ulf, who had broken away from the formation and fled to the north alone, and had severely damaged the Moltke, Fang Yuan's heart was as itchy as if he had been stuffed with seven or eight kittens, and ordered to quietly chase after it.

"General, Colonel Burnham's telegram, they found the main German fleet in the Helgoland Bay." The first mate pinched the telegram, looked at it twice more as if he couldn't believe it, and then continued to report in a strange voice: "The colonel said that he confirmed that he had hit a German capital ship!" ”

"Really!"

Even people like Hamilton widened their eyes when they heard the news, and they couldn't believe that a small fleet, known as the Irish Hound (meaning a hairless dog), could seriously damage a German capital ship.

"It was a sudden encounter, and Burnham chose to attack from a distance, observing and guiding the projectile point through a torpedo boat hiding behind the reef, and then passing the message through the light language."

"That's something to celebrate, too!"

Although the first mate and the staff officers described Colonel Burnham's way of fighting and thought that luck was seventy percent, what could be better news for the British Home Fleet at this moment?!

"Boys, it's our turn!" Lieutenant General Hamilton buttoned up his collar, brushed the dust off his cuffs, and turned his head lightly: "I don't know if my country will sign the instrument of surrender tomorrow, but today we still need to be faithful!" ”

"Can't let them beat England so easily!"

RO@。