Maybe Connathan didn't know what despair was like, but now he definitely knew it. When his fleet overpowered the German battleship fleet, the new commander of all fleets of the British Royal Navy felt that he had won the battle.

But now, he knew a tragic fact, that is, no matter how obvious the superiority of the detachment was in the division of the fleet, it was only the victory of the detachment, and the gap in the combat capability of the main fleet could not be reversed with a successful raid.

One after another, the Stuka bombers rushed down the clouds and screamed towards the British Navy's wounded battleship Villain, bomb after bomb was dropped, and the battleship Villain had to abandon its straight course and take an S-maneuver in favor of relieving the pressure on it from the Germans in the air.

But as the battleship Villain slowly turned, hoping to fire more bombs from the sky and torpedoes from the water, Connathan forgot about another deadly presence. Just on the distant sea level, the battleship Marshal Raeder of the German Navy, which was slowly recovering, was bombarding the battleship Villain with its 380 mm guns.

Originally, the German Navy's artillery bombardment could not hit the Villain, but when the Villain suddenly changed course and took an S-shaped maneuver, the shells scattered around the battleship Villain immediately became fatal. Soon a 380 mm shell hit the battleship Villain, and the huge explosion blew off a secondary gun on the left side of the Villain, and also shot the surrounding anti-aircraft guns into the sky.

The battleship Villain, which was wounded again, also slowed down as it entered the water, because about half a minute before it was hit by German artillery, a torpedo also hit the rear of the battleship - you must know that the name of this battleship was Bismarck, and the first torpedo also hit its stern and jammed its rudder.

History is always a striking coincidence, the renamed German Navy battleship, when it was in service in the UK, still did not escape the fate of being hit by a torpedo, but this time the torpedo fired by the Germans did not jam the rudder, but pierced the steel plate in the tail, causing the battleship to flood.

As a result, this water intake directly slowed down the battleship, so it collided with two torpedoes that should have been able to be fired more. The two torpedoes once again hit the tail of the battleship Villain, and the huge explosion directly destroyed the tail propeller and also blew up more than half of the steering gear.

At this time, the battleship Villain almost lost its ability to maneuver, and then the German bombers began to drop bombs and torpedoes even more unscrupulously, and launched a siege on the wounded beast.

"Our battleships lost power and soon they were besieged by more aircraft, and the shelling of German battleships also hit us, and now we are no different from the target. Connathan stood on his bridge, and when he saw the report of the damage to the battleship, he reluctantly said to his men: "Order the battleship to continue firing! We must sink another German battleship before we are destroyed!"

Because the battleship Villain was so badly damaged that the planes of the German naval aviation abandoned the idea of attacking the battleship Nelson and decided to concentrate their forces on sinking the battleship Villain first. At this moment, the Germans did not know that the battleship Villain had become the new flagship of the British Royal Navy, so the attack on this battleship had a significant effect on suppressing the British Navy and confusing the command of the British army.

"Send a telegram to the battleship Queen Elizabeth...... Our battleship won't last long! Tell them that our ship has been continuously attacked by Germany and cannot continue to command the battle, and ask them to choose a suitable commander and continue to command the fleet to fight!" Connathan reluctantly ordered his subordinates: "Hurry up! At least when the telegraph communication is maintained, send it out quickly!"

At about the same time that Conason gave the order to replace the flagship, the 8 main guns of the battleship Marshal Raeder of the German Navy were once again ready. The cannons were all aimed at the British battleship Villain, which was closest to the German Navy, and the black hole of the guns exuded the smell of death.

"Adjust the elevation angle of the guns! All guns drop by 1 degree!" With the order, the well-trained German gunners maneuvered their guns and aimed them at targets that were barely moving in the distance.

"Ready!" shouted a sergeant, and as he shouted, all the soldiers straightened up, and shouted at the same time, "Ready, ready to fire!" and then after hearing the order to fire, the cannons began to roar one after the other. The roar was still audible even with ear-protected headphones, and each cannon was stretched back sharply due to the recoil, and then slowly pushed back into its original position.

A cannonball flew out of the muzzle of the cannon and flew in a curve through the sky towards its target, it ripped open the air, and finally began to dive violently downward on the vantage point, rapidly approaching its target, and finally crashed headlong into the badly damaged battleship Villain.

The sheer force caused the warhead to crash through the slim deck at once, and from a tricky angle, it rushed into the building under the bridge of the battleship Villain, and then it did not stop moving forward, until it smashed several layers of steel plates before hitting the armored protection zone of the battleship's core.

Immediately after, a huge explosion began to tear at everything around it, including the soldiers and the structure of the ship's hull, and only in the area protected by armor did it barely prevent this tyrannical force from spreading forward. In other directions, however, it was not so lucky, as the shell destroyed a large compartment and then detonated the ammunition depot of a secondary gun.

"Hell...... Looking at the explosion in front of him, Connathan knew that the battleship under his feet was completely hopeless. He closed his eyes and felt the explosion tear at the hull of the ship, and suddenly the entire battleship exploded, because the fire detonated the boiler and the No. 2 main ammunition depot, and the whole battleship broke into two in an instant and sank quickly.

According to post-war records, at about 3:13 p.m., surviving witnesses saw a massive explosion of the British battleship HMS Villain, and the entire bridge was submerged in a sea of fire, and Connathan had not been able to sit in his position as commander-in-chief for two hours before the British navy was forced to change their commander again.

The battleship HMS Villain sank into the sea with a loud bang, and the British battleship squadron lost half of its combat strength as a result of this loss. German fighters began to concentrate their fire on the battleship Nelson, which soon hit the British battleship and caused it to change course so frequently that it could not pursue the German fleet at full speed.

"Let the warships of the British Navy retreat...... If we continue to fight like this, we will really be wiped out here!" On the bridge of the US Navy aircraft carrier Franklin, the first mate looked at his commander and said: "This did not serve the purpose of depleting the German army, but caused the British fleet to suffer too much loss." ”

"It's too late to retreat now, and no Germany has deciphered our code in the original plan...... And we really didn't expect that the German Navy would come out so simply. The American captain led by the captain put his hands behind his back and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "At that time, it was estimated that at most about 4 German aircraft carriers would be encountered, and relying on the secret weapon of land-based fighters, it was possible for the British Navy and the German Navy to fight for both sides." ”

No one expected that the highest-level contact code of the Allied forces had been deciphered by the Germans, and no one expected that the German Navy would unexpectedly dispatch all the warships, intending to eat the British fleet in one go. As a result, it is now difficult to ride a tiger, and the Allied fleet can no longer judge the situation in front of it by quickly retreating or continuing to attack at this moment.

"Now it seems that the German fleet already knew two more battleships than we estimated...... In this case, even if you rush forward, it is impossible to achieve any results. The commander of the U.S. Navy thought for a moment, sighed, and then shook his head: "All we can do now is to retreat first...... Throw the battlefield to the British and the Germans and end this battle that was not necessary at all. ”

At this time, it was confirmed that the large British battleships that had been sunk by the German Navy were the battleship Villain and the aircraft carrier Ark Royal. The remaining warships of the British Navy could not easily get out of the battle circle, so they could only grit their teeth and continue to rush towards the German fleet, hoping to kill as many German warships as possible before they were annihilated.

Their efforts paid off in the end - the battleships Queen Elizabeth and Ramirez finally arrived on the battlefield, catching up with the German battleship Belorussia, which had run out of power, and fired the first main gun shell from the already sinking battleship.

After two salvos, the German battleship Belorussia also began to sink at an accelerated pace, and the capital ship designed by the German Navy for the Soviet Union was bombarded by shells fired by four British battleships, and finally sank to the bottom of the Atlantic.

At the same time that the British Navy killed the battleship Belussio, the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft once again made a contribution, hitting the lonely Nelson with a torpedo, completely paralyzing the British Navy's special-shaped battleship.