Imperial Overlord

Lütjens was on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Zeppelin, wiping his brand new Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with oak-leaf sword when Churchill got the news of the German navy's dispatch.

Yuan personally signed the order, so that he and his partner Hines, both hang up this enviable military medal of honor.

Outside the porthole, it was still pitch black. Because of the light control, the entire fleet could not see the distant battleships at all.

But the German Navy has radar, a new technology that allows these warships to "see" each other in the dark. Directional light signals are used for communication, and radio silence is not a last resort and cannot be easily broken.

"With the last action, this time around, the senior navy really no longer has to worry about whether the fleet will return or not." Hines looked at Lütjens in front of him with a smile, and asked for a topic.

In the second half of the night, the two of them had to go to bed, but now because the emotions of going to sea have not calmed down, the two of them temporarily played the role of the duty officer on the bridge.

"No one will doubt Yuan's vision anymore, at least there will be no such stubborn guys in the Navy anymore." Lütjens put down his medal and said to Hines.

His record has persuaded everyone, including Reidel, to be impressed by the system of radar and carrier-based aircraft.

This time he went out to sea, and Rader raised his hands to support him, without the slightest intention of making things difficult. The navy has never raised his eyebrows like this before, so he naturally hopes that Lütjens will achieve another success.

"The British must have understood some of our tactics." Hines looked at Lütjens worriedly and expressed his unease.

To put it bluntly, no matter how good the German navy is, they are only partisans who run fast and see far. Once the other side sees through the dependence of the German Navy, the absolute disadvantage in strength is still a huge gap that cannot be eliminated.

In any case, the navy has not challenged the strength of the British main fleet. At present, it seems that even if the battleships being built by the British navy are not counted, the German navy will have to destroy three times as many British naval battleships as itself, and it will be regarded as barely gaining some advantages...

Isn't this a joke? Just ask Guderian or Manstein, or Rommel, and stabilize these famous German generals of the 6th Army, whether they are willing to command the troops and fight against four times the number of enemies, you can understand Lütjens is embarrassed now.

"I know this too, but we have an advantage now. If we don't continue to fight, what will we use to repay the yuan?" Lütjens sighed helplessly and said with a wry smile.

Of course, Lütjens knew that his fleet was actually not strong enough. At most, it was Cheng Yaojin's three-pronged axe. Although it looked powerful, it didn't have any other tricks.

However, he also knew that his fleet, with the might of a great victory, was now in a strong period. How could he wait for the enemy to recover if he didn't continue to act and expand the results at this time?

The current British navy will take more time than the German navy. Once the British navy had a similar number of fighters deployed on the carrier, the only qualitative advantage of the German navy was gone.

At that time, the enemy's fleet was besieged and blocked, and the German navy could only rely on a Zeppelin aircraft carrier to barely support it, and that was the real passive.

Therefore, according to Lütjens, even if the navy only has three axes, they should use them to cause as much damage as possible to the British navy in the shortest possible time.

Only then will the German navy buy itself more time, even if the British navy gets back on its feet.

For the German Navy, more time means more submarines and more warships.

"In a short period of time, British aircraft carriers cannot be equipped with better fighter jets, which gives us a time lag." Lütjens looked at Hines, and then said, "You know more about this than I do."

Hines nodded and said in agreement: "Yeah, now this is our only advantage over advanced carrier-based aircraft, a fighter jet that can shoot down enemy carrier-based aircraft."

"The Air Force assured us that the British will not be able to come up with advanced carrier-based aircraft to target us within half a month." Hines was born in the Air Force, and naturally he trusted the Air Force.

Including Lütjens, they are very satisfied with the recent performance of the Luftwaffe. The air defense of the port of Brest was infallible, shooting down hundreds of RAF aircraft.

Especially the mysterious night battle. I heard that the British Air Force even canceled its plan to bomb the Netherlands and other places. Recently, no reconnaissance plane has flown into the German occupation area.

In fact, Lütjens and others didn't know, but what Li Le knew was that the British Navy was also developing radar. Compared with advanced carrier-based aircraft, the British Navy was still very keen on radar.

If nothing else, the British Navy will also be equipped with its own radar within a few months, and the radar advantage of the German Navy will cease to exist at that time.

It's just that these radars, like the radars currently equipped in Germany, are early radar systems with poor performance, and their accuracy and reliability are not very good.

They can neither be used as a fire control radar to direct fire, nor can they accurately obtain the opponent's position. They can only simply tell the user: the enemy is coming...

On the other hand, Germany's advanced carrier-based aircraft advantages may continue for some more time. Although the British Navy's Sea Hurricane project is progressing smoothly, the Sea Hurricane is obviously not the opponent of the German-19ot.

The only thing that can reassure the United Kingdom is that the German Navy has only one aircraft carrier. Even if it uses two or three Sea Hurricane for a -19ot fighter of the German Navy, the British Navy has a chance of winning.

In fact, the Royal Navy's calculus is to use the sea hurricane to entangle the German Navy fighter jets, and then use the battleships to decide the winner...

Once the German Navy's carrier-based aircraft failed to shoot down the British Sea Hurricane fighter in time, the location of the German fleet was no secret.

After confirming the position of the German fleet, the shortcomings of the short legs of the British fleet can be compensated for by early maneuvering.

This is the British Navy's short-term combat plan for the German Navy, provided that it has its own radar and advanced carrier-based aircraft such as the Sea Hurricane.

Unfortunately, under the interference bombing of the Luftwaffe, the experiment and production of the modified Sea Hurricane are nowhere in sight, and there is no hope in sight for at least a month.

"Report!" A German naval officer came over, stood behind Hines and Lütjens, stood at attention and saluted: "Long live! The news just confirmed, we have avoided the second British submarine. ."

"The other party didn't find us?" Lütjens took the report and asked his subordinates.

The other party raised his chin and answered proudly: "Report, sir, we have kept a distance of at least 20 kilometers from the enemy, and we should not have been spotted."

To be honest, if there is no radar system, while maintaining radio silence and light control, Lütjens is very afraid of the cold arrows of the opponent's submarine.

With radar, this problem is much easier to solve. Even if the submarine only has a periscope exposed on the sea surface, the effective distance of the radar to the submarine is much farther than the attack distance of the submarine torpedo.

That night, the German fleet got rid of the tracking of the British submarine force. Because of the radar, the German fleet was almost at a distance of about 20 kilometers and could not see its British submarine at all.

Most British submarines do not dive at night. In order to maintain observation, most of them will adopt a semi-submerged state, or float on the water as a whole.

On the German radar screen, such a huge reflection is almost impossible to confuse with other clutter. So the German fleet easily avoided these submarines and rushed to the Atlantic Ocean safely.

Similarly, that night, the entire Atlantic Ocean fell into chaos because of Charles's temporary deployment order.

The transport fleet that could not hit the German submarine originally was attacked by wolves when going north or south. Various reports were dissatisfied with the Atlantic Ocean, which made Charles devastated and regretful.

Several convoys were attacked by German submarines, and the larger convoys were trying to get together to form a larger fleet to ensure their own safety.

ak-1 and ak-2 were attacked by German submarines at the same time, and 7 transport ships were lost before they barely converged and drove away the surrounding German submarines.

Such losses continued throughout the night, and the British were not fully assembled until dawn.

Of course, such a delay has caused confusion in the arranged transportation plan, and the losses caused cannot be counted~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Similarly, the position of the German fleet is still unknown, and the British fleet can only follow the scheduled route. , move closer to its own transport fleet.

"Haven't found the German fleet yet?" Looking at the bright sky, British Admiral Phillips asked the officer behind him.

"No! Sir! Except for the submarines in charge of monitoring outside the port, there is no German naval fleet in the submarine cordon outside Brest." An officer in charge of liaison, standing next to Phillips, reported.

The German fleet could not be found, which was almost the same as the last time the British fleet encircled and suppressed the German fleet on three sides.

It was dawn, and the sea conditions were much better than last time. The Germans could take off carrier planes, drive out British reconnaissance planes, and attack British convoys at long distances.

Thinking of this, Phillips, who was on his way to the meeting point, had a vague sense of unease in his heart.

He was really worried, worried about his fleet, facing such a strange opponent, making some fatal flaws at a critical moment.