If on January 27 God was on the side of the Germans, then undoubtedly the man he had the most pity on was Rütjens. But if Lütjans, as the commander of a fleet, was taken care of and shared with every warship in the fleet, there is no doubt that the High Seas Fleet was not the luckiest man of the day.

Most fortunately, Captain Prian of U-47, who received an order to rush to the waters off the coast of the Netherlands to look for an opportunity to ambush a British warship operating nearby. At 4:01 a.m. on January 27, 1938, he spotted a fleet flanking his course, so he diverted and began to wait for his opportunity.

Soon the opportunity came, for fear of being attacked by German bombers at dawn, the fleet fled in such a hurry that there was no decent alert for the nearby seas. So the U-47 easily fired all six torpedoes at a very close distance, with the result that two torpedoes hit a cruiser flanking the Howe, and the other four torpedoes all hit the side of the British's newest battleship, the Howe.

As a result, two of the four torpedoes hit the Howe's ammunition depot and detonated the large-caliber artillery ammunition inside, and the other one hit the boiler room, scrapping half of the Howe's power system.

The large amount of water did not leave much time for the battleship Howe, and within a few minutes, the battleship Howe capsized and sank on the surface, and except for a few sailors who escaped by chance, most of the people who jumped into the sea were pulled into the abyss by the whirlpool formed by the sinking of the ship. And this time the U-47 took advantage of the chaos to escape, leaving an indelible wound on the British Navy.

Prien is now the world's first supersubmarine ace to sink more than 100,000 tons, and after he sank the battleship Howe and sent the telegram of victory back to Wilhelmshaven, Prien was awarded the Knight of the Iron Cross of Oak Leaf by the Führer, promoted to colonel, and laughingly called him the "battleship killer".

This nickname is well deserved, Prion has sunk three battleships after the battle, the Barham, the Sovereign and the Howe, this record can be said to be unprecedented, and it is estimated that it may really be unprecedented. And Prien, the legendary captain himself, was also ordered to rush back to Wilhelmshaven to accept a new round of media propaganda.

On 29 January 1938, Lord Gott left Dunkirk by submarine and returned to England. It also marked the complete abandonment of the nearly 200,000 troops in the Dunkirk area by the British side. But the force was still fighting hard, because the order given by the British was very simple - fight to the last soldier.

When the lord returned to the port of England, he saw what it meant to be devastated and ruined. In the harbor of the British Royal Navy, a few destroyers and gunboats were docked here and there, and the battleship berths that were originally densely parked with warships in the distance looked so empty.

In just one month, Britain sank six battleships and three aircraft carriers, accounting for almost half of Britain's main warships in service, and even counting the remodeled ships and the warships that were about to enter service, it was almost one-third higher.

In the Far East, where war is raging, the British government still maintains a strong maritime force; in the Indian Ocean, there is also a large fleet of ships in order to deter nearby colonies; Canada, Africa, the Mediterranean, and the South Atlantic, these regions provide Britain with abundant resources, but also involve more than half of the British navy's strength.

Therefore, although the British and German navies still have the advantage in terms of overall volume, in the waters near the North Atlantic, Britain can be said to have completely lost sea and air supremacy, and even if the other three British King George V-class battleships are launched, the British Navy will not have half an advantage at all.

At this moment, the battleship Ramillis is on a mission in the Indian Ocean, the battleship Resolve is in Africa, the battleship Nelson is on a convoy mission in the Mediterranean, the Rodney is operating near the Strait of Malacca, the Queen Elizabeth is in the South Atlantic, the Revenge is in the Far East of Asia, and the only remaining battlecruiser is being refitted.

HMS Royal Oak and HMS Warrior are protecting the aircraft carriers Glory and Fury in the North Sea, evading the German Navy while returning home. So when Lord Gort looked at the battleship berth, there was only one lone battleship of King George V, which looked so lonely and pitiful.

One new battleship, two old battleships, plus two aircraft carriers that were not particularly advanced, this was all the main force of the British Navy's home fleet. Of course, Britain still had a certain advantage in the number of cruisers and destroyers, but in the main combat ships, Britain and Germany had never been so close.

In addition, it has to be said that although the number of British cruisers and destroyers was large, most of them were nailed by German submarines on the route between the North Atlantic and the United States, and the actual number of native destroyers and cruisers was even inferior to that of the German Navy.

While Lord Gort was staring at the only battleship of King George V, a British soldier on the Dunkirk front was sitting listlessly in the trench with a rifle in his arms, holding his lunch box in both hands.

The clear soup in the lunch box is not much different from the boiling water, and there is a lot of dust at the bottom that has just fallen into it due to shelling. That piece of moldy bread has already been swallowed, after all, whoever is hungry for a long time doesn't care about the quality of the food, right?

Exhaustion was written on his face, and the German offensive seemed to be a little sluggish, not as fierce and dense as it had been in previous days. However, there are well-informed officers who are talking about the navy, and I heard that for the sake of the war in the Dunkirk area, the navy lost almost a third of its capital warships in the first battle in the North Sea.

As a British Army, although he didn't know how many warships and sailors the British Navy had, Britain, which has always claimed to be the number one navy in the world, must not have a third of the number of warships, right?

In short, it was defeated, and it was badly defeated. This is his most intuitive understanding of the failure of the Navy. Of course, another incident also proved from the side how tragic the defeat of the navy really was - since January 27, the ships that came to transport the evacuation of personnel have almost disappeared, and occasionally there is one at night, all of which are civilian ships, and there is no longer a single military warship to Dunkirk.

He drank a few sips of the clear soup mixed with sand and soil in the lunch box, poured the rest of the bottom at his feet, cleaned up a little, and then stood up in the trench, smiled with the corpse of his long-dead comrade beside him, and looked at the opposite position.

The Germans over there seemed to be still eating, making the British soldier smell the smell of food. Even though he had heard that German food was very scarce, and most of the food consisted mainly of potatoes and various leaves, he was now hungry and felt that potatoes were the ultimate delicacy in the world.

In the afternoon, the British soldier did not wait for the fierce fighting and fighting of the previous day, and the German tanks did not appear in front of him, and those terrible killing planes harvested the lives of British soldiers by hundreds, and the best British tanks burned to scrap metal. So those German tanks were one of the most terrible weapons of war he had ever seen -- because there was an equally terrible weapon called the Stukka.

I don't know what time it was, but while the British soldier was napping in the trenches, his platoon commander came to patrol with someone, and the British platoon commander woke up his men with a toe kick and talked about ammunition and the weather.

"Sir, why didn't the Germans attack in the afternoon?" asked the British soldier, who stood up and saluted.

"The people above are negotiating, and if nothing else, we're going to lay down our arms and surrender. "This platoon commander has a good relationship with the company commander, and it happens that the company commander is the brother-in-law of the division commander, so this company has always belonged to the grassroots unit that is relatively well-informed, otherwise it would be impossible to know the news of the navy's defeat.

Yes, there were no accidents after all, and almost an hour after the platoon commander left, the cheers of the earth shaking could be heard in the distance. War songs were even sung on the German positions, and laughter and laughter were continuous. Just when the British soldier didn't know what to do, the platoon commander appeared again in time and told him that he could lay down his arms and wait for the Germans to come and surrender.

On 30 January, hundreds of thousands of Anglo-French troops surrendered, and General Gammel shot himself in his headquarters. Britain and France were in mourning, while Germany was in a national boil. The surrender of Dunkirk could no longer stop the Germans from moving south, and the German army of more than 1 million rushed to Paris, the capital of France, singing triumphant songs.

De Gaulle's 10th Panzer Army was defeated one after another, and it was not until the outskirts of Paris that its rout stopped. The more than 70,000 British soldiers in France received a strange order, abandoned their defensive lines and control areas, concentrated on the French coastal cities, and then boarded the departing ships and retreated to the British mainland.

The 300,000 French soldiers who had just been mobilized had to use rifles and bayonets in their hands to try their best to prevent the German Army's 3,000 tanks from entering their capital.

At this moment when France was already embattled, another shocking news came, the Italian leader Mussolini finally couldn't help but take action, Germany swept through Europe so fast that the Italian leader felt that if he didn't make a decision, he would watch Germany take advantage.

An hour after the surrender of Dunkirk, Italy could not wait to declare war on Britain and France.