The Battle of Jutland, the mighty High Seas Fleet

At the end of June, a move by the German army pushed the cloud of war in the east to a new height.

An infantry corps of the Twelfth Army of Army Group E traveled across the Baltic Sea from Kiel, Germany, under the cover of the 1st Heavy Cruiser Detachment of the German High Seas Fleet in the name of strengthening the German base in Bezamo, Finland, on a transport ship. The Port of Vaasa, Nia Bay.

However, after the infantry army arrived in Finland, it did not go to the German army base in Bechamo as Germany said at the beginning, but went to the Finnish-Norwegian border.

This move made Norway extremely frightened, and King Haakon VII of Norway immediately requested assistance from the Allies.

Le Brun quickly gave a reply. He appeased Haakon VII, saying that the first 50,000 people of the Allied 300,000 reinforcements had already set off for Norway on a transport ship. In terms of the navy, under the pressure of Germany, the United Kingdom also passed Churchill's plan to block the German High Seas Fleet, and ordered the first ships of the Royal Navy's home fleet Vengeance-class battleships Royal Sovereign, Royal Oak, Vengeance, and Nelson-class battleships. HMS Nelson and HMS Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, the lead ship HMS Queen Elizabeth, formed the battleship detachment, HMS Fury and HMS Ark Royal formed the aircraft carrier detachment, and four London-class heavy cruisers (HMS London, HMS Devonshire, HMS Sussex and HMS Shroe) Prince County) and two York-class heavy cruisers (York and Exeter) formed a heavy cruiser detachment and headed to the North Sea, preparing to establish a British naval base in Norway and block Germany's only Atlantic outlet.

After receiving the news that the Royal Navy was dispatched, Lyon immediately ordered the entire fleet of the High Seas Fleet to search for the formation of the Royal Navy, in order to prevent the recurrence of the scene of the High Seas Fleet being blocked in Kiel and unable to move as it was as empty as World War I.

The High Seas Fleet, which was ordered by Lyon, immediately refueled and refueled, and set sail to the North Sea before sailing through the Baltic Sea, and began to search for the whereabouts of the British fleet.

North Atlantic.

Standing outside the bridge of the aircraft carrier "Lyon Andres", the flagship of the High Seas Fleet, Rader looked at the other five aircraft carriers not far away, smashing the waves.

The "Lyon Andres" class aircraft carrier is Germany's third type and the latest and most powerful aircraft carrier. It is more than 300 meters long, has a full-load displacement of 45,000 tons, and has a power of 200,000 horsepower. A steam turbine with a speed of more than 33 knots.

In terms of carrier-based aircraft, its carrying capacity has even surpassed its predecessor, the Deutsche-class, reaching an unprecedented 137!

It can be said that the aircraft carrier "Lyon Andres" carried the expectations of all Germans for victory over the British Royal Navy.

A gust of cold wind poured into Raidel's collar, causing him to shiver. He tightened his collar. Raidel put out the cigarette in his mouth, pushed open the hatch on the bridge behind him, and walked in.

"Hello, sir!" The officers and soldiers in the bridge saw Redel walking into the bridge, and they all stopped their work and stood at attention and saluted.

Raedl waved his hand to signal everyone to continue their work, then came to an officer in charge of fleet communications and asked him, "How is it? Has our radar sentry found the British fleet?"

"Report sir, the reconnaissance fleet found no trace of the enemy fleet!" the officer replied loudly.

"What about the reconnaissance plane formation? Did you find anything unusual?" Raidl asked.

"There was nothing unusual except that a Norwegian ocean-going fishing vessel was found 120 kilometers northwest of the fleet a few minutes ago."

"Ocean-going fishing boats?" Rader was stunned for a moment, then asked in doubt, "Why are there still fishermen fishing now? Aren't they afraid of war?"

"I don't know, maybe it's difficult to support the family, so they have to take the risk of war to go out to fish." The fleet liaison officer shrugged and said.

"Okay, let the reconnaissance planes and radar sentries continue to be vigilant." Raedl patted the liaison officer on the shoulder and instructed, "It's not far from Jutland, and the underwater heroic spirits are watching us."

"Understood! Sir!" The liaison officer saluted.

Ten minutes ago, in a certain sea area.

Alan stood on the deck of the fishing boat, watching the vicinity vigilantly while retracting the net.

Suddenly, Axel, who was collecting the net with him, suddenly stopped and put down the fishing net in his hand, which made the unsuspecting Allen staggered by the fishing net.

"Hey man, what are you doing?" Allen stood firm and controlled the fishing net, complaining to his companions dissatisfied.

"Shh." Axel made a quiet gesture, listening carefully.

"What did you hear?" Allen asked curiously.

"Airplane sound, there is plane sound!" Axel said to Allen.

"Airplane sound?" Allen's expression changed, and he turned his ears to listen carefully.

Sure enough, he heard a faint roar of an aircraft engine from the southeast, and it was getting closer.

"There really is a plane, it seems like it's coming to us!" After confirming that there was a plane sound, Allen became excited, "Damn it, it's definitely a German plane! We didn't endure the freeze for so long in vain. , I'm going to inform the superior!"

"Don't be in such a hurry, let's see first." Axel stopped the excited Allen and said calmly, "If not, we might have killed our allies by passing false information to our superiors."

"Okay." Allen smiled shyly and replied, and then continued to pretend to be collecting fishing nets with Axel, looking east from time to time.

It didn't take long for two planes to appear in the sky east of the fishing boat, and the iron crosses clearly visible on the wings indicated where they came from.

"Sure enough, it's a German plane!" Allen said happily, then he dropped the fishing net in his hand, ran back to the cabin quickly and turned on the long-wave radio, and skillfully sent what he saw to the distance according to the codebook. .

100 kilometers away, the bridge of the battleship USS Nelson.

"Sir! The 13th reconnaissance ship sent back the news that they found the German reconnaissance plane!" An intelligence officer ran to Charles Forbes, Commander of the Homeland Fleet, holding a piece of intelligence, and handed the intelligence to Forbes.

Forbes took the information and glanced at it, then got up and walked to the chart, and asked the chartist, "Soldier, where is the reconnaissance ship No. 13?"

Hearing this, the chartist leaned down and looked at it, then pointed to a place on the chart, and said, "Sir, here it is!"

Forbes took a compass from his side, drew a big circle with the spot where the 13th reconnaissance ship was located as the center, then pointed to the east of the 13th reconnaissance ship, and said, "They're in this place!"

"The waters near Jutland?" Captain Nelson, who was standing by the side, smiled and said, "They chose a good place, they wanted to win a tactical victory in Jutland like World War I, and then we sealed it in the base. you?"

"No." Forbes shook his head, "This time they won't even be able to win by practicing tactics!"