492 Battle of England

"Boom!" A cannon shot from the battleship Revenge kicked off the Battle of the English Channel. The battle www.biquge.info was lively from the beginning to the end, and it started as expected by everyone.

Then, the huge cannons on the battleship Rodney began to bombard, and one after another high-explosive shells pierced the air and flew towards distant targets.

At the very beginning, the British gunboats opened fire on the port of Dover, where the coordinates were very clear, and dozens of large-caliber shells turned it into a sea of fire in an instant.

The local residents had been forcibly escorted to the outskirts by German soldiers, and saw their homes destroyed by their own artillery, reduced to a pile of ruins even more completely than before.

"See? This is your country. An SS officer with his hands behind his back, playing with a horsewhip behind his back, spoke in broken English to the desperate British civilians.

When these British civilians were forcibly removed from their homes, most of them thought they were going to be poisoned by the Germans.

However, then they were set up in the suburbs, just waiting to see the expected big scene at night.

Even so, the civilians looked with contempt and hatred at the armed German soldiers in front of them.

Just now, two civilians pulled grenades in their own homes and exchanged the lives of their families for three unlucky German soldiers.

Then, the fierce battle changed its flavor. The Germans no longer knocked politely on the door, nor did they rush into the house recklessly. They shouted orders from outside the door to the people inside to come out, and if the other party delayed slightly, they greeted them with their own grenades.

When seven or eight families were victimized, the remaining British civilians chose to cooperate. They walked out of the house with their hands raised and were searched by German soldiers to prove that they were not carrying dangerous weapons.

Then, the local civilians of Dover, who had given up resistance and handed over the grenades distributed by the British army, looked at their enemies with hatred, but could not resist again.

Facts have proved that no country, in the face of a real war, can achieve the goal of having all its people as soldiers. Most people just go with the flow and live in a chaotic world.

A 406 mm shell whizzed down on the dock of the port, turning it into a huge crater.

The docks, which had already been destroyed, were now even more completely destroyed. It was as if the whole of Dover was illuminated, and a great flame rose again.

Before the explosion had completely stopped, another explosion sounded, as if it was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve in China, and the momentum was even more than many times larger.

Subsequently, the battleship Sovereign and the battleship Weary opened fire, and the artillery fire began to spread to the area where the Germans had landed, some shells fell at sea, others exploded on the beach.

Other shells landed directly on the chalk cliffs, blasting the hard rock to pieces.

Fragmented rocks tumbled down, some smashing against barbed wire. If you just look at the scene in front of you, people who don't know will think that the British army is going to land behind the Germans.

After a round of shelling, the cruisers of the British Navy joined the attack. Some small-caliber shells fell on the beach.

A floating dock that the Germans had not had time to recover stood in a column of water formed by the shells, undulating with the waves, as if it were a pontoon bridge leading to hell.

The K5 train guns also began to attack in the ambush positions near Dunkirk, France, but the train shells the battleships, and they could only rely on devout faith.

How religious? Be so religious that if such a belief were used to buy lottery tickets, it would win the jackpot dozens of times in a row......

Although some shells fell, the British naval fleet simply ignored the attacks that were 108,000 miles away.

It was unrealistic to expect train guns to hit enemy ships, but another deadly threat was a nerve-wracking threat to the British fleet.

The Germans laid quite a few mines in the English Channel, which caused quite a lot of trouble for the British fleet. The battle had already begun, and the British fleet was still struggling with how to deal with the German mines.

Phillips stood on the bridge of his flagship, HMS George V, waiting for the results to be delivered back by the other ships of the fleet.

The German planes above were still buzzing, and the German transport planes were destined to be busy until the end of the night, transporting more supplies for the German soldiers on the front line.

They had to make up for the interruptions in the British fleet during the night, delivering the most urgently needed ammunition and food to the German soldiers who landed.

In addition, due to the weather, including warm clothing, and some worthless but useful security items, they have become priority materials for airdrops.

The tents and coal, and even the flags and the like, were strapped to parachutes and pushed off the planes.

There were a number of airdrop indication areas on the ground that had been ignited, but according to the regulations, the supplies dropped by German aircraft were to be within 2 kilometers of these ignited indication areas.

The reason for this was to avoid the destruction of British bombers, but also to avoid damage from British shelling. At least in the first half of the night, the effect is very noticeable.

The British would always shell the place where the bonfire was lit and raze it to the ground. The German paratroopers, on the other hand, were outside the range of the shelling, smiling and picking up the supplies scattered everywhere.

A lot of supplies were stolen by British civilians, and even this damage was bearable. After all, it's not something too valuable, and it's not something that is urgently needed at the front.

The only munitions that were strictly required to be airdropped were the only airdrop points planned during the day. This point is chosen at random, and the location is also relative to the safest place.

"Sir! The 3rd Destroyer Detachment has spotted a sneaky German submarine, the second enemy submarine we have discovered tonight. An officer walked up behind Phillips and reported.

If he had a choice, Phillips didn't want his fleet to run into the English Channel in the middle of the night to bombard his homeland.

But now, if he didn't carry out his mission, then he had no choice, explained to the angry British High Command.

Nor would anyone listen to any of his explanations - escorted to the Supreme Military Court and then executed to warn posterity.

Every time he thought about this, Phillips had a feeling of crying and laughing. He didn't want to take over the hot potato of the home fleet, but in the end, Charles was promoted, and he could only fill this huge hole......

"Let the 4th detachment fill the loopholes, and be sure to ensure absolute safety within the warning range!" Phillips commanded his men.

The submarines of the Germans were an absolute threat to the British fleet, and this was already the consensus of the British Navy. Within such a narrow range, of course, the first thing to guard against is the German submarine force.

Tonight was a battle of wits between the two commanders, with the British fleet on the attacking side, and the Germans mobilizing all the forces they could muster in order to make the British fleet return in vain.

In the last hours of February 14, or around midnight on the 15th, a loud bang was heard, and a cruiser of the British fleet was torpedoed by a German submarine, and the naval battle officially broke out.

The destroyers of the British fleet swam from all directions like sharks that had asked about the smell of blood, dropping a barrage of depth charges on the heads of German submarines.

A German submarine was sunk in this way, but the ensuing attack was like a tidal wave that opened the floodgates, wave after wave.

"Flares?" A British officer spoke up and suggested Phillips. The best way to deal with submarines is to have a light, which will make it impossible for German submarines to hide in the dark.

Or, at least, to provide some illumination to the surrounding battleships, which would be relatively easier to deal with German submarines.

Mobilizing a fleet in the dark, and looking for targets, is a very troublesome thing. If there's a light source for lighting, that's a different story.

Phillips hesitated, he did not think of simply firing flares to drive out German submarines. But it was too close to the French coast, and he feared that things would be different.

If he fires flares and provokes other German attacks, it will definitely make things even more out of control.

It is a pity that the German attacking forces did not give Phillips time to hesitate. A few minutes later, a flare was fired from the German plane, lighting up the entire sky.

The burning raw materials emitted a dazzling light, which made everyone's eyes squint involuntarily, but then, the planes in the sky saw the warships on the sea clearly, and attacked one after another.

There were so many battleships that the German pilots didn't know which one to attack. And there were so many anti-aircraft guns that one plane was soon hit by the sudden artillery fire and crashed into the water.

With the exact range, the fire of the German train guns became more and more accurate, the sneak attacks of submarines became more unscrupulous, and the German attacking planes became more ferocious.

The British fleet, having lost its superiority in maneuvering in the narrow strait, was now faced with different flanking attacks in three directions, and suddenly became confused.

The battle of the naval fleet, once it is mired in chaos, will magnify the crisis tenfold or even twentyfold. The British fleet had to begin to retreat, slowly moving back on the road it had been on.

Just as the British fleet was about to withdraw from the range of the K5 and K12 train guns, an explosion came from the rear of the fleet. The first British battleship, the Prince of Wales, to retreat in a hurry, crashed into a mine......

It was originally the battleship Prince of Wales, which had just been launched, and this time the operation was only barely in battle. It was carried by key sailors who had been drawn over, as well as students from the Sailor School.

Even so, the battleship carried a full 170 people less than the required crew, which was barely enough to participate in the shelling of targets on shore.

When the fierce battles on the battlefield are seen, such a battleship is no longer fit to continue to exist in the queue - it will disrupt the formation and drag down the movement of the entire fleet.

Therefore, Phillips, in line with the principle of covering the retreat of the battleship Prince of Wales, let the battleship enter the waterway that swept the mines first.

I thought it was safe, but God knows why a mine appeared here, and the battleship Prince of Wales was paralyzed in the middle of the waterway.

At the moment when that mine exploded, Tom? S? General V. Phillips felt something explode in his head.

He was still defeated in this vicious battle, because he still damaged a battleship.

The damage at this moment is not a simple injury. If the German planes bite to the death, whether the battleship can be kept will become a question.

Even if Germany stopped attacking now, it is not known whether the power system was damaged, and the battleship Prince of Wales, would it be possible to fly the combat radius of German aircraft before dawn?

Shook his body imperceptibly, Tom? S? V. Phillips forcibly pulled himself out of the blow of defeat and continued to care about the situation in front of him.

Originally, the minesweeping process was very hasty, and the entire demining channel was not very wide, and now the battleship Prince of Wales was lying across the waterway, almost covering half of the entrance.

Originally, in the melee, the battleship had to perform a serpentine maneuver to avoid the attack of bombs and torpedoes. Now I have to retreat into a narrow waterway that is half blocked, and I feel like a dojo in a snail shell.

Now Phillips knew that he was no longer capable of taking care of the wounded battleship Prince of Wales, and in desperation, he could only take the fleet first.

Phillips, determined to leave his wounded battleship behind, quickly let several of his battleships retreat back into the waterway, but by this time, the last battleship to enter the waterway, the Queen's Monarch, was also hit in the tail by a torpedo fired by a German submarine.

This time it was lively. Throughout the waterway, two battleships with smoke and explosions blocked most of the entrance, followed by destroyers and cruisers, which could only pass cautiously.

The accuracy of the train guns improved this time, and the fixed artillery positions were still very accurate in hitting fixed targets, and soon a shell hit the entrance of the waterway, hitting the paralyzed battleship Sovereign.

Although this time the hit did not hurt or itch, it gave the bombers who could not find their way at night to indicate the target. Soon a number of bombs were dropped on the place of explosion, which made the Prince of Wales next to it also unlucky.

Three minutes later, the remaining British fleet began to move south, retreating in the direction of Portsmouth, and the two battleships, which were on fire in place, became targets for the German troops.