PS: I've been going to my wife's hometown for the holidays these days, so I haven't updated it, I'm sorry, I'll make it up.

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Scarpa's Bay.

Upon receiving the news of the German attack on the Maginot Line, the British government immediately realized that war had broken out. So he hastened to order the home fleet waiting at the Scapa anchorage to leave the port immediately and prepare to meet the German navy.

In the Battle of Jutland more than 20 years ago, the British Empire's home fleet used to suppress air luck suffered a crushing defeat, and 44 dreadnoughts were all destroyed, either sunk into the deep-sea fleet or captured by Germany.

For the world's top powers, such as Britain, the world hegemon who has suppressed the earth for more than two hundred years, the loss of warships is not the most terrible. The shipbuilding capacity of the people is too strong, and they can start construction of nine super dreadnoughts at the same time. According to the wartime system, if the shipyard works in three shifts, a super-dreadnought can be completed in more than a year. Just give them six or seven years to build a more powerful home fleet. What really hurt their vitality was the loss of tens of thousands of officers and men in the naval war.

However, after more than two decades of restoration, the British Empire's home fleet was rebuilt. Although the number of warships cannot be compared with the previous one due to the restrictions of the Washington Treaty, the combat effectiveness is much higher. After the end of the Treaty of Washington, in order to divert the attention of the major powers from Spain, Britain took the initiative to provoke a shipbuilding race, and in just three years, it started to build twelve more battleships.

The Royal Navy now has a total of 22 super-dreadnought-class battleships and four Hood-class battlecruisers in service. Because the home fleet was completely wiped out, although this was a huge loss, it was also equivalent to making the British Navy start over, so now these battleships and battle cruisers are all new, and in the current British naval sequence, the Nelson-class and Hood-class are the oldest warships.

The British navy has always wanted to avenge Jutland's revenge, and has long wanted to beat the hateful Erdezi, and now when they heard the news of the outbreak of war, the navy was very happy. Now I finally have a chance to take revenge!

Admiral Charles Forbes, commander of the Home Fleet, immediately ordered the Home Fleet to pull anchor and set sail in preparation for a decisive battle in search of the main German forces. Among them, the First Rapid Fleet, which has the fastest speed and the widest search range, is the first to leave the port.

The First Rapid Fleet consisted mainly of five "Royal Oak-class" fast battleships and three "Brave-class" aircraft carriers, as well as a fleet of escort and auxiliary ships. The Royal Oak class was a treaty-type battleship that began construction in 1930 to replace the old Dreadnought. A total of five ships were built: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Royal Griffon, HMS St. Andrew, HMS Atlas and HMS Centennial Giant.

Well, the British have always been irregular, and anything or word can become a ship name. However, these words all have a history, either a famous ship in history, or some historical allusion. The same is true of the term royal oak, which comes from an old oak tree that saved the life of Charles II. On September 3, 1651, at the Battle of Worcester, Charles II, who had not yet officially become the monarch of England, led his army to meet Cromwell, but was flown by Comrade Cromwell. Charles II was beaten into a dog and lost even his pants. Charles II, whose army was completely destroyed, fled alone, and at the critical moment when his pursuers were approaching, he suddenly spotted an old oak tree on the side of the road, and this old oak tree happened to be hollow, so he hurriedly hid inside, avoiding the pursuers. A few years later, Charles II made a comeback as King of England and named the old oak "Royal Oak" in honor and in honor.

The Royal Oak has since become the patron saint of the royal family and the mascot of the British Army. Since then, there have been several warships named "Royal Oak" in the history of the British Navy. The most recent was the Sovereign-class super-dreadnought that was wrecked in the Battle of Jutland, the "Royal Oak" was crippled by the Bavaria's accurate artillery fire, and there was no way to escape, so it was captured by the Germans. But because the ship was badly damaged, the Germans felt that it was too uneconomical to repair it, so they just used it as a trophy to show off. After greatly satisfying Wei Er's vanity, the Royal Oak was forgotten in the harbor, and after the Washington Treaty came into force, the Germans did not want to use the broken warship to occupy their share, so in 1922 it was sent to the shipbreaking yard, dismantled and recuperated.

The new generation of the Royal Oak is even more powerful, with three triple 16-inch guns, a 50,000-ton standard platoon (self-proclaimed 45,000 tons), and a speed of 27 knots, making it a classic treaty battleship.

The five Royal Oak class ships were all part of the First Fast Fleet, and the three aircraft carriers they partnered with were not actually real carriers, they were the three "boo cruisers", the Brave-class large light cruisers with 18-inch guns. Later, this kind of Daddy Fisher's brainchild turned out to be completely unreliable, and after Daddy Fisher stepped down, the three boo cruisers (the Brave, the Glory, and the Fury) were converted into aircraft carriers by their successors.

But after all, they are only the basis of cruisers, and after being converted into aircraft carriers, their performance cannot be compared with genuine aircraft carriers. And they also have a small number of aircraft, only more than thirty, which is completely incompetent for the main front-line forces. During World War I, they were used as anti-submarine aircraft carriers, specializing in escorting merchant ships on Atlantic routes. After some modernization in previous years, it was used as a scout, as well as a bodyguard to provide air cover for the fast fleet.

Yes, until now the minds of the British have not turned, and they still do not regard aircraft carriers as the main force, but as a supplement and cover for the capital ships. Of course, the British Navy is not without brains, they all clearly see that the future will be the world of aircraft carriers, but these people are not in power.

The current First Sea Lord, Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Lord Marshal Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound is a hardline BB party. In his view, the role of the aircraft carrier is mainly to provide intelligence support to the capital ship, protect the air, and coordinate attacks, as well as to use the knife when pursuing the enemy. The same view as Pound is that it is the mainstream of Britain at present, so the tactics of the Royal Navy are still formulated around capital ships.

This is also an old problem of the British, their brains are very big, so many new things have been developed in history, but most of these things have not found suitable use, but have been learned by others to shine.

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The flagship of the 1st Fast Fleet "Royal Oak".

The First Rapid Fleet, as the vanguard of the Home Fleet, was the first fleet to leave the port. Since the Jutland fiasco, now the British have learned to be obedient and no longer run to play the thin-skinned dumplings of the war patrol, and the four Hood-class ships built during the First World War are the last battle cruisers of the British in this plane, and they are also the last war cruisers on the earth.

During World War I, when Father Fisher stepped down because of Jutland, his successor completely overturned his plan and continued to return to the right path of the Iron Tortoise.

"It's very good that the Germans finally can't take it anymore! We finally have a chance to take revenge! I've been waiting for this day for twenty years!" said Rear Admiral Greenham, commander of the Fast Fleet, happily.

His words were also the voices of the vast majority of British naval officers and sailors at this time, and after the Jutland fiasco, everyone was holding back the fire in their hearts. Now that there was finally a chance to teach the hateful Germans a lesson, the officers and men of the fast fleet were now immersed in the excitement of imminent revenge.

But what they didn't know was that there was a group of Germans squatting in front of their house.

"The Germans are going to make a move, let's stay away......" Quan Qiuzhi saw that the German submarine was adjusting its position on the screen, and immediately ordered.

The four Seawolves of the 46th submarine detachment immediately started their engines and quietly left at a speed of 30 knots. After moving 20 kilometers, they stopped at Quan Qiuzhi and continued to watch.

Over the years, China has climbed the technology tree, so that the current nuclear submarines can communicate directly in the water, and there is no need to float or release communication buoys to carry out communication as before. Now, even if they are tens of thousands of meters below the sea surface, they can still communicate smoothly, not only with headquarters and surface ships, but also with each other, and set up tactical data links and wireless networks.

This is because China's current science and technology tree in communication has reached the level of the early 21st century, and has completed the practical application of neutrino communication and blue-green laser communication. As well as the very tall quantum communication technology, which has also entered the practical stage last year, is only being used on land, and it is estimated that the test work on the ship will be completed by the end of this year.

With these things, China's submarines can communicate with their headquarters and companions at any time, even if they are lying in a submarine cave. At present, these seawolves are communicating with each other through neutrino communication devices, and the communication with the headquarters and the outside world is mainly through the blue-green laser system, using communication satellites to relay.

At this time, the satellite also converts the image on the current sea surface into an electronic signal in real time, and then uses the blue-green laser as a carrier to transmit it to the receiving device on the submarine after post-processing, encryption and other processes. This is a very large and complex system, with more than a dozen satellites in use alone, low-orbit aperture radar reconnaissance satellites and optical reconnaissance satellites, medium-orbit electronic reconnaissance satellites, and giant communication satellites in synchronous orbits......

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"Colonel, it's the voice of the big ships, they're out......" The sonar non-commissioned officer excitedly reported to Colonel Helem Simi.

"Good, they're finally out!" Helam Simi is a good-looking middle-aged man who is a typical German handsome guy. At the time of World War I, he had just graduated from military school and served on the submarine U-77.

At the end of World War I, most of Germany's ace captains were sunk in the sand, either fed fish or entered prisoner of war camps, but this Simi dude was a guy with a lot of character, and the U-77 submarine he was riding in was also sunk by Allied escort ships, and a boatload of people died cleanly, and he was still alive. Later in the war, he became the captain of the submarine U-238, which once again shows how strong his character was. Uh, or rather, auspicious.

Anyway, the submarine that went on a mission with him later was either sunk or captured after being wounded, or it ran into a mine, or it encountered some other accident. But as far as his U-238 is concerned, he has no business, and he still has the leisure to save people, and has repeatedly scooped up the officers and soldiers who sank friendly troops.

In September 1919, the Germans were again fooled by the Allies in a large-scale anti-submarine hunt operation called "fishing law enforcement", and sent 54 submarines, including the U-238 submarine, which was also the largest German submarine operation in the late World War I. As a result, all of these submarines fell into the trap, and most of them became a deep-sea fleet, and only five submarines escaped, including the U-238. The other surviving submarines were all wounded, and none of the U-238 hairs were lost, and by the way, the officers and men of the nearby U-112 submarine were rescued.

If things come to this point, it can only show that Ya's character is bursting. But the most surprising thing was still to come, these five submarines fled like lost dogs, and just happened to break into the mine array laid by the Allies. This mine array was only temporary, intended to intercept the retreat of German submarines, was small in number and not dense. The German submarine was unaware of this, and Brother Simi's U-238 rushed into the mine array and immediately ran into a mine, but the mine did not explode. At this time, the U-251 following him also encountered this mine, but it exploded......

U-238 turned around and scooped up the officers and men of U-251 who had fallen into the water, and continued to run wildly. Later he met a Chinese anti-submarine aircraft and ate an anti-submarine torpedo...... You guessed it right, this torpedo didn't explode, it just stuck straight into the submarine hull, and it was brought back to Germany. The Germans thus obtained a complete sample of an acoustic-guided torpedo.

There are many similar things, and everyone knows that the navy is the most superstitious branch of the military, and since then no captain has been willing to partner with him. But he made a lot of contributions, not to mention anything else, the one who brought back a new torpedo sample was enough to remember a great achievement, not to mention the saving of so many people. So the superiors took this Simi brother very much, and they didn't know how to place it. In the end, he had to be promoted to a level and let him become an instructor at the submarine school.

But the mustache has a different opinion, he is not unconvinced, but he thinks that this Simi brother is a man with strong luck, but he can only be suitable for being a leader, not a comrade-in-arms, because his strong luck will only cover his subordinates. Indeed, since he became the captain of the U-238, the officers and men on this submarine have not lost even a single hair. What's even more amazing is that when he was an instructor at the submarine school, he taught several classes in the Spanish flu, but no one won the bid, while the other classes in the school did have people, which is a miracle.

So after the mustache came to power, let him return to the front line. This time, he was made the commander of the operation, and the mustache hoped to bring good luck to Germany by relying on his strong luck.