What is the longest wait? Someone else is in the toilet and you're outside the toilet? Well, that's not what we're talking about now. The feeling of the German Vice Admiral Lütjans and the British Vice Admiral Holland may be the kind of people who wait outside the toilet for many years.

There are many coincidental coincidences in history that make people laugh, such as now, although both countries have admirals, but in such an important naval decisive battle, the leader of the troops happens not to be the supreme commander of the navy - coincidentally, both men have the same rank of lieutenant general.

On the Reich, the flagship of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, the bridge was busy, with some people checking the position of the fleet and the warning circle, while others were asking the alert ships behind to see if the British Navy had been found.

Lu Teyans raised his head, looked at the clock hanging in the command room, and tapped on the table with anxiety, his face tense and expressionless. Only he knows how anxious he is. The pressure of making this decision has made him crazy now.

The vice admiral lowered his head and stared at his fingers, seeing that the hands that had once been extremely strong were trembling slightly. He knew that if he opened his mouth now, his lips would tremble and his voice would be out of tune. He was not afraid of the responsibility on his shoulders, but of burying the dream of an empire.

He had the urge to turn the bow of the ship and fight with the British opponent with a cannon. It's a pity that he knows that he can't do this, because he doesn't even have the qualifications to fight to the death, he can only escape, only run away with his life.

I don't know how many times, he looked up again, looked at the wall clock on the wall, and looked at the minute and hour hands in a daze. He prayed for the dawn to come soon, but he was afraid that it would approach. Contradictory feelings linger in my heart, lingering and making people suffer every minute.

Because dawn was the moment when he began to attack, the carrier-based planes in the hangar had already hung up bombs and torpedoes, and were eagerly looking forward to the moment when dawn came; however, he did not dare to look forward to the arrival of dawn, because the moment of darkness before dawn might be the moment when the British battleship fired all its guns and destroyed itself.

And on the Hood, the flagship of the British fleet, Vice Admiral Holland also kept taking out his pocket watch, frowning to look at the time on it. If there is one person in this world who can now understand the mood of Vice Admiral Lütjens, the commander of the German fleet, it is undoubtedly Holland.

The same anxious waiting, the same nervous hesitation, the same urgent expectation, and the same fear and confusion. They are indeed two brothers and sisters at this moment, each experiencing their own depression and fear. As the flagship of the fleet, as the core of the entire fleet, the battlecruiser Hood at the feet of Vice Admiral Holland now took the lead and rushed to the front of the entire fleet, followed by another great ship of the sea, the Prestige of the same battlecruiser.

Vice Admiral Holland put down his pocket watch, for he found that his hands were trembling, and if this overly nervous detail was seen by the others on the bridge conning tower, it would affect morale for a certain amount of time—any detail, Vice Admiral Holland wanted to do his best.

He had an obsession in his heart, which had been the obsession of the British Royal Navy for a hundred years, and there was a figure in front of him, which was in the heart of every sailor of the British Royal Navy. He wants to be on a par with that hero Nelson, and he wants to create his own Holland legend!

The sea was still pitch black, and nothing could be seen in the distance, but Holland knew that the German fleet was there, not far away. The hands of the clock were already pointing to the number that had been waiting for it in the heart, and it seemed that God was on the side of the British this time.

"Order the fleet, speed up!" Vice Admiral Holland stood in front of a window in front of the bridge, and by a faint light he could faintly see the two majestic turrets in the bow of the battleship Hood, and the four 381 mm guns that gave him confidence. This is the capital of his decisive victory, and it is also the guarantee of the future of the sea power of the British Empire.

News has just come that a British submarine hiding near the port of Holland has sent a telegram confirming the non-discovery of the German Navy. This information gave Vice Admiral Holland a boost of confidence and let him know that the German naval fleet must be ahead of him.

So at this fateful moment, at 2:41 a.m., Holland gave his order to attack: "Turn on the boiler afterburner! The whole fleet will sprint at maximum speed! Close the distance between it and the German navy!"

And at 2:41 a.m., the German Navy received bad news that made Lütjens dizzy. The destroyer, which was on guard at the very end of the line, sent back the news with a signal light, and at 2:37 a.m., the radar of the rearguard ship spotted the following British ship formation, and it seemed that the distance was becoming more and more unfavorable to the German Navy.

Lutjens took out his handkerchief and wiped it twice on his forehead. Then he bred himself on, walked over to the chart table again, and measured the distance again with the distance gauge he had used for many years.

"It seems that the other side is speeding up, and even if our frigate turns around and releases the torpedo, it may not work. Lütjans threw away his measuring tape, stared at the charts, and said, "I can only give up? Give up a few escort ships and go to trouble the British Navy?"

He knew that the destroyer would definitely not work, and even more destroyers would not be able to slow down a behemoth like the Hood and launch a torpedo? If it did not enter the range of 10 kilometers, it would be sunk, and it would not even survive the longest distance of releasing the torpedo. Even if you are lucky enough to get into the distance, you will be killed by the destroyers and cruisers that rush up, and it is estimated that you will not see the true body of the Hood at all.

"Report!" said an officer, who walked in, his face not very good-looking, and handed a telegram to Lütjens, before reporting with a deep heart: "The armored ship Admiral Spee is turning. ”

"Admiral Spee is calling, I'm going to cut it off! Please continue to lead the army north, long live the Führer! Long live Big Germany!" Lütjens took the telegram and looked at it silently, when he suddenly felt something rush out of his eyes.

These naval officers did not lack courage, but they did not dare to let the future of the empire at sea be ruined by their courage. When disaster struck, the soldiers of the Imperial Navy never lacked courage, as did the predecessors who carried out the Rainbow Project, and now the soldiers who are preparing for the Battle of the English Channel.

The Admiral Spee was followed by two destroyers and a cruiser behind him, and without hesitation when the battleships, which were only armed with small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, turned their bows silently, and with their weak bodies, they stood in the way of the giant battleships of the British Navy.

"The fleet is accelerating! The speed of the ship has been increased to 24 knots! We must make every effort to postpone the start of the battle until dawn!" Lutyans did not use his handkerchief, but wiped it directly on his face with his hand, and gave his battle order in a trembling voice.

All the warships began to accelerate, and a tragic atmosphere permeated, and even some naval fighter pilots asked to take off early, preferring to crash into the sea in a desperate attempt to carry out a wave of air strikes on British warships. But Lütjens vetoed the request, and he wanted to preserve every piece of combat power to meet the dawn that belonged to him.

Soon, the sound of artillery battles between the two sides was heard in the rear, and the German Navy relied on radar technology to fire first, but it seemed that these shells had little effect on the British Navy's battle cruisers. However, the preemptive victory did cause problems for the British Navy, and the entire British fleet had to reduce its speed to 24 knots.

At close range, the British Navy's battleship Hood then fired back, and the first salvo hit the sea near the German battleship because of night aiming, but the second shelling British naval gunners showed their superb aiming skills, directly hitting the German cruiser that rushed over and wanted to launch a torpedo, directly breaking the German cruiser in two.

Admiral Spee, the German armored ship Count Spee, who knew that he was in danger, did not flinch, abandoned the British giant ship and ignored it, biting the cruiser and destroyer on the left flank of the British fleet and opened fire fiercely, sinking a British light cruiser in one go, but he was also paralyzed on the surface of the sea at the same time, losing the ability to continue fighting.

The main gun of the Counterattack hit the rear main turret of the Admiral Spee, directly breaking the tail of the battleship in two, and the front main turret of the German ship was also hit by a British cruiser, and in less than ten minutes after the start of the battle, the 10,000-ton battleship was hit by a fire, and the entire hull began to tilt violently.

The desperate German sailors were still fighting back, and the ship's 150 mm guns were still firing until they were finally beaten to scrap metal. However, the British Navy did not have time to waste time on such a small fish, leaving only one cruiser to continue shelling the German ship to clean up the mess.

Hearing the sound of artillery fire getting farther and farther away, and seeing that the sky was still dark, Lütjans began to feel a sense of despair. Could it be that dominating the seas is just an unattainable dream of the German Navy? Is it true that the invincibility of these days is just a great dream of spring and autumn? Is it true that he will eventually be written into the annals of history with the name of the sinner of the German Navy?

Why? Lutyans clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and asked aloud in his heart: Why? Why don't I have a battleship?