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"How is it?" Lütjens seemed to sense something amiss from Major Rudolf's slightly furrowed eyebrows. Is there any bad news?

"Marshal Raeder reminded us to pay attention to the threat of American aircraft. They now have a fighter that can compete with Fw-190. It may be an improved version of the US Navy's F4. Its maximum speed is more than 600 kilometers, and its fuselage is strong. Firepower Powerful, the combat effectiveness is amazing. In the air battle this afternoon, our Fw-190C carrier-based aircraft suffered a big loss, and 71 of them were shot down by American aircraft!"

With a snap, Admiral Lütjens's pipe slipped out of his hand and fell lightly on the floor. He could hardly believe his ears that 71 Fw-190C carrier-based aircraft were captured by the United States in an air battle. Man shot down!It seems that German fighter jets have not suffered such a setback since the beginning of this world war.

Lütjens walked up to Major Rudolph, snatched the telegram and read it carefully. After making sure that he had heard correctly, a very ominous premonition suddenly came to his mind!Obviously, the Americans made good use of every 1 minute after the outbreak of the war, and their strong industrial strength and technology accumulation (in fact, Germany's radial engine technology was imported from the United States) has now begun to play a role.

Germany has most likely lost its best chance to destroy the United States!If the Japanese hadn't woken up this industrial monster a year ago, the current situation might be...

Lütjens cursed Japan, Germany's loyal ally, in his heart, and then gritted his teeth and ordered loudly: "The fleet is moving at full speed, and the target is Bermuda. In the early morning of tomorrow, I will use the heavy artillery of the battleship to completely destroy the American airport. ! Never give them a second chance to strike."

When Lütjens gritted his teeth and gave the order, the Z Fleet, which followed the main force of the German-Italian Combined Fleet, also received an order to advance westward at full speed.

"What! Let our Z fleet advance alone to XX north latitude and XX west longitude; without an aircraft carrier escort! Have you gone crazy, Marshal? My five missile cruisers will all be bombed and sunk by American planes!" Colonel von Heinkel As soon as he saw the order from Marshal Raeder, he jumped up immediately.In addition to the five missile cruisers that do not have much self-defense capability, the Z fleet under his command only has a few Königsberg-class light cruisers and 5-type destroyers. The whole thing is a dish of American aircraft.

"Mr. Commander, can you remind Commander Raeder..." Von Heinkel knew that he was not qualified to say no to Raeder as a small German naval colonel, but Lieutenant Commander Kengoro Fukuro of the Japanese Navy But it is possible, because the 785 missile pilots are now under the command of Gan Fu, and Raeder has no way to order those Japanese to die without passing Gan Fu!

But Gan Fu's answer surprised him. "Commander Raeder's order is very correct. There is no problem leaving the main formation. Because the range of our P-35 missile is only 400 kilometers, we must try to get as close as possible to the US aircraft carrier." Gan Fu walked to the map table and tapped lightly. After a few strokes, he said again: "And we don't need to let the whole main fleet accompany us on the adventure. Besides, according to the arrangement of your Excellency the Marshal, we have Admiral Lu Steyan's B fleet in the west and the main force in the east. Fleet...the U.S. aircraft carrier fleet has no reason not to catch big fish to deal with us small shrimps!"

"Little Xiami? God, the value of these five missile cruisers plus nearly 800 P-35s is not much cheaper than a Frederick the Great class!"

Gan Fukengoro smiled coldly, with a trace of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth, "But the Americans don't know! They will treat us as a few insignificant transport ships and ignore us. You know, in a battle of aircraft carriers, any Neither side will waste a valuable opportunity for an aircraft carrier sortie."

"But what if they send bombers against us?"

Kanfu Kengoro shrugged his shoulders, bowed slightly to von Heinkel solemnly, and said, "If that's the case, Mr. Colonel, see you at Kudanzaka."

"Kudanzaka? Where is that? Is it your Japanese paradise? If I die, I won't go to a Japanese paradise! Even going to hell is better than that." Von Heinkel slandered: "I know you Japanese The greatest sorrow in my life! I was really killed by you..."

Gan Fu also ignored von Heinkel's ugly face, but went straight to the chart platform, stared at it for a moment, and whispered to himself: "The airport in Bermuda should be destroyed in the early hours of tomorrow, so that the Americans will There are only a few aircraft carriers left in the aviation force in the Atlantic Ocean, and the number of available carrier-based aircraft is 300, and they have to deal with as many as 15 German and Italian battleships! There are 11 aircraft carriers, and the carrier-based aircraft There are still nearly 700 planes. As long as the commander of the US aircraft carrier is not a fool, he will definitely ignore the five merchant ships." He thought for a while, then turned to von Heinkel and smiled: "Mr. The marshal told me my suggestion that it is best not to bring light cruisers with Z Fleet this time, a few destroyers are enough to protect our five 'merchant ships'."

"Madman! This Japanese must be a lunatic, no, all Japanese should be lunatics! Why does Germany associate with these lunatics?" Von Heinkel thought to himself.

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"God, is that the German fleet? There seem to be more than 20 warships!"

Sergeant Cheney, who was serving as a radar officer on a T-24 naval long-range reconnaissance plane converted from a B-6 Liberator bomber, suddenly found a series of flashing dots on the green radar screen!At this time, the reconnaissance plane code-named Overwatch-12 he was on had just finished a 15-hour search mission and was on its way back to Bermuda.

"What are their directions?" The captain's voice came through the earphones.

"Bearing XXXX, 107 kilometers away from us, is sailing northeast, with a speed of about 30 knots." Cheney replied.

"What? 30 knots... sailing northeast, where are they going?" The captain of Overlooker 12 felt that something was wrong. He gently pulled the nose of the aircraft to turn around, and flew towards the German fleet, and the two sides The distance was shortened to about 15 kilometers.

"My God! There are six ships, no! Seven battleships! How big they are!"

Under the moonlight, the expression of the captain of the Watcher No. 12 suddenly changed, because directly in front of him, seven giant ships larger than the battleship Carolina were cleaving under the protection of a group of small and medium-sized warships. Forward!Moreover, the entire formation unscrupulously turned on all the searchlights, almost turning the surrounding sea area into daylight.

"The Germans are going to Bermuda! They are going to bomb our Kindley Airport with naval guns!" The captain of the Overlooker 12 immediately guessed the intention of the German fleet in front of him.The Bermuda Islands are only more than 50 square kilometers, and there is no depth at all. The whole area is within the range of the battleship cannons, although the Navy also deployed 24 11-inch to 14-inch cannons on several main islands of the Bermuda Islands.However, due to the rush of time, there was no time to build armored turrets. All the cannons were placed in the open air, and they were very close to the coastline, so they were not the opponents of the German battleships in front of them at all.

What's more dangerous is that the US military's Kindley Airport is built by the sea!All it takes is a salvo, and the cannons of these battleships are enough to destroy everything there!

"Sir! There is an aircraft carrier! There is an aircraft carrier in the German fleet! It just released two fighter planes, let's go!"

"Damn it! Damn the German guy!" The captain cursed bitterly, then pulled the nose of the plane sharply, and sped away from the west to the northeast.

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"Woo! Woo..."

Following the telegram sent back by Overlooker 12, harsh sirens rang through the seven main islands of Bermuda. Countless American soldiers ran out of the barracks in a panic, and then they heard loud noises from officers and sergeants. After being scolded, they formed a fairly neat team and walked towards their reserved burial place.Although the U.S. military has been building fortifications day and night on the Bermuda Islands in the past few months, there is no way to turn Bermuda into a real fortress in just a few months, and there is no way to withstand the bombardment of giant 380mm caliber shells. Fortifications.

In the war room of the Bermuda U.S. Army Command on St. George Island, the atmosphere is now extremely tense.Lieutenant General Kimmel's head was covered with beads of sweat, while Lieutenant General Stilwell, the supreme commander of the U.S. Army in Bermuda, who had just returned to America from Khabarovsk, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, was sitting in front of the sand table in a daze, with a feeling in his heart. He was complaining about his good friend, Admiral Marshall.Why did he do it to himself, the commander of the Fifth Army of the U.S. Army stationed in Bermuda?Didn't I hint to him that he wanted a position where he could show his talents and make contributions to the United States... Why was he sent to Bermuda to die?Did I offend the hypocrite Marshall somewhere?

Desperate, Kimmel and Stilwell had no choice but to send telegrams to Norfolk and Washington asking for help. Later, the two simply asked Norfolk to immediately send battleships and aircraft carriers to Bermuda for help in the telegrams!The sooner the better!

However, the last order issued by the US-British Joint Command in Norfolk made the two American lieutenant generals almost mad with anger.

"Mr. Lieutenant General, Norfolk ordered the SBD dive bombers, TBD torpedo bombers, and all reconnaissance planes and transport planes on Kindley Airport to immediately fly to the local New Bern Airport. The rest of the fighters and bombers plus enough to fly 1500 kilometers fuel, and then hang bombs on the newly discovered German battleship formation to launch a round of air strikes, and then fly to New Bern..."

"What!" Before Colonel Jim, the chief of staff, had finished reading the telegram in his hand, Stilwell jumped up, ran over and snatched the telegram from the other party's hand, and cursed after a second glance. "Damn it, damn it, we were abandoned by the U.S. Navy! They don't care about us at all, they just want to withdraw the plane to the mainland." Stilwell gritted his teeth and shouted: "They are murder! Tens of thousands of Americans! I'm going to sue them, sue these murderers to the President!"

It's no wonder that Vice Admiral Stilwell was in a hurry. According to the order of the US-British Combined Fleet Command, all the planes on Bermuda would leave, including the naval transport plane that sent him to this Jedi!In other words, all the Americans on Bermuda have no way to return to the United States now, even if Stilwell goes to court-martial and spends the rest of his life in a US Army prison!Waiting for him and [-] U.S. Army and Navy officers and soldiers, there is only hell or a German Nazi prisoner-of-war camp.

"Joseph, don't talk about these useless things, Washington won't care about us." Kimmel was already ready to die for the country, so he seemed indifferent. He stood up and straightened the lieutenant general's uniform. , nodded at Stilwell, and said: "The night-level bombing of more than 100 A-20s and B-25s can't deal with the German fleet at all. They will arrive in Bermuda before dawn. We still go to St. George's." Inspect the forts and positions on the island, and then go to the bunker." He said to Chief of Staff Jim: "Arrange the headquarters to retreat into the bunker, and we will wait for God's arrangement there."

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1939年10月27日凌晨3点，百慕大群岛以南10海里。

Suddenly, an orange-red light flashed across the sea, and then there was a dull roar like dry thunder. At the same time, the whistling sound like a train traveling at high speed came through the air.

"Boom..." One after another, super-large-caliber shells landed on the positions of the US military in Bermuda, as well as on the Kindley Airport, and the ground trembled suddenly, as if a huge volcano was erupting!

Stilwell, who was sitting in the bunker of the U.S. Army Headquarters a few kilometers away from the front line, saw everything in the bunker shaking, the lights flickering on and off, and dust falling from the ceiling of the bunker in waves.What made him especially unbearable was the fact that Lieutenant General Kimmel just told him that this seemingly strong bunker could not resist the 380mm first-class large-caliber naval guns of the Germans and Italians at all!In fact, the bunker can only withstand three direct hits of no more than 305mm caliber shells!If it is a 356mm shell, just one shot is enough to kill all the people in the bunker.

Even hiding in a bunker made of reinforced concrete can hardly escape this catastrophe. How much hope do the officers and soldiers in the front-line infantry trenches and earthworks have to survive?Those U.S. soldiers who had been rushing to repair the fortifications for days suddenly realized that they were the most stupid fools in the world. They actually believed that the fortifications dug out with their own hands could withstand the naval guns of the German Navy.Not to mention the main guns of 380mm and 280mm battleships and armored ships, even the 203mm heavy cruiser guns are much more powerful than the largest caliber 155mm howitzer owned by the US Army in Bermuda!Even the 150mm and 140mm naval guns of light cruisers and destroyers are difficult to resist for the trench fortifications of these army infantry.

However, the U.S. military was not blindly beaten. The 24 11-inch and 14-inch large-caliber shore artillery deployed on several main islands immediately fired back.

"boom……"

An 11-inch large-caliber shell landed on the sea surface less than 50 meters away from the starboard side of the battleship Bismarck, setting off a water column more than ten meters high.

"Nearly missed the bomb! The cannons of these Yankees are really accurate!" Colonel Klinsmann, the captain of the Bismarck, shouted.

"No, it's radar! Their radar is better than ours." Lütjens frowned slightly. A senior general of his level certainly knows that Germany is not fully ahead in technology, especially in terms of radar technology. There is still a gap between the United States and the United Kingdom.Although Hitler has forced Britain (the mainland) to hand over some advanced technology after taking control of all of Europe, there is still a certain gap between Germany's radar and the United States.

"Have you determined the opponent's artillery position?" Lütjens asked his chief of staff loudly.Just before the fleet entered the shelling position, he had ordered the release of the seaplane to observe the impact point of the shells.Once the US military fort fires, it will naturally not escape their eyes.

"The seaplane reported that more than 20 large-caliber shore artillery were found firing, and the lookout post also discovered 15 enemy large-caliber artillery." The chief of staff quickly reported the latest report received to Lütjens.

"Guns, adjust the bombardment plan, kill the American forts first, and then destroy them from the airport!" Lütjens ordered loudly: "Hit hard, kill all those damn Yankees!"

Chapter 0935 opened the door of the United States (four) kamikaze missile

North Atlantic, southwest of Bermuda, 1939:10 am on October 27, 4.

In the morning light, there is a layer of milky white mist floating on the sea surface, dozens of tall masts are looming in the distant mist, and the roar of the ship engine is faint, floating with the early morning sea breeze.

A piercing siren sound suddenly sounded from the ships hidden in the mist. With this long sound, the sea seemed to boil instantly. A dazzling searchlight pierced through the thin morning mist in an instant.

Standing by the railing of the USS Liberty aircraft carrier island, Admiral William Halsey was already a little hot with excitement, looking at his huge fleet, a surge of fighting spirit spontaneously emerged.

Although in the previous few days, Halsey was not sure about the decisive battle with the German navy near Bermuda, but the warlike gene in his blood still made him excited about the upcoming battle!In particular, he had just received the results of an air battle between virtues from the Norfolk base.According to the report of the United Fleet Command of the United States and Britain, in the air contest that took place yesterday afternoon, the United States lost 167 fighter jets and shot down 102 German Fw-190C fighter jets.Judging from the number of lost aircraft, it seems that the United States has lost the battle, but considering the huge production capacity of the United States and the home field advantage of the battlefield close to the United States, the result of the air battle is undoubtedly beneficial to the United States!What's more, in this air battle, the F2000U carrier-based fighter equipped with a 4-horsepower engine performed extremely well. Of the 102 Fw-190Cs lost by Germany, two-thirds were shot down by the F4U, and the F4U fighters paid The loss was only 54.

Halsey knew that even a 4% or [-]% discount on the results reported by Norfolk would be good news.Because the United States already has a fighter that can counter German air superiority.Now the United States only needs to activate its industrial production capacity and produce tens of thousands of F[-]Us, which is enough to defend itself.Even if the four medium and large aircraft carriers of the first and second task forces are completely wiped out in the next battle...