Bismarck

"Captain, according to the Maas, the two Polish ships are very close to us. With the speed of Bismarck, catching up should not be a problem." Lindmann became excited. What could make a commander more excited than war?

The captain was also tempted. The Polish navy was not strong. If there were really Polish destroyers ahead, it would be a considerable victory. He thought about it carefully and then ordered, "Let the Maas report the last position of the Polish army, and then we will move forward at full speed!"

"Yes, Captain!"

The Maas quickly reported the Polish position when they last left the battlefield. The Polish army was heading towards Denmark when they met them, and it was believed that they were likely to be carrying out some escort mission. After some speculation, the captain and Lindemann believed that the Polish destroyers would return to the Gdynia Naval Base, so we continued to move towards the Hel Fortress while increasing the search on the sea, and my route also moved away from the land. As for the destroyers that were specifically sent to search for the Poles, we would not go, after all, we had a mission to do, so we could only try our luck on the way.

After crossing paths with two friendly warships, I immediately increased my speed and sped across the sea at a terrifying speed of 40 knots. Everyone on the bridge and the observation deck focused their attention on the sea in the distance, hoping that the Polish destroyer would rush in without any hesitation. Once I found them, no ship could escape my pursuit.

11:43 am

"Captain, an unidentified ship has been spotted to the right!"

However, I have to say that my luck was pretty good. When my radar found the target in front of me on the right, it was less than two hours since I started sailing at full speed. The two destroyers escorted the three transport ships and slowly sailed towards Gdynia, almost without any chance of fighting back.

I licked my lips slightly and sneered in my heart. I will get back at you for the harm the Poles have done to me! I also accepted the unexpected surprise.

When we were at 19 nautical miles, we discovered each other almost at the same time and identified each other's nationality, and immediately both sides were on high alert.

"Right rudder 30!" Lindemann gave an order, and my bow suddenly turned, heading straight for the enemy's formation. The 40 knots caused splashes of water to splash onto the deck, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing.

"Captain, the enemy's destroyers are breaking away!" I reported in real time. After I showed naked hostility, a destroyer and a minesweeper almost immediately abandoned the transport fleet and ran desperately to the open sea. At the same time, they split into two directions internally, and one formation became three.

It seems that they want to abandon the transport ship. Yes, the transport ship is slow and has no defense. It is certain that the fleet will be caught up. At that time, it will be a dream for this firepower configuration to fight against my battleship. Rather than being sunk together, it is better to escape separately. As for the transport fleet, it can only hope for the best.

But I'm sorry, my target is just your warships, I'm not really interested in your transport ships.

The captain immediately reported that we had encountered the Polish transport fleet. Soon, the order from the Navy Department came down: ordering our ship to change the combat plan and change the goal to sinking the Polish transport fleet.

"Go full speed ahead and catch up with them." The captain patted my shoulder

"Don't worry, Captain. I will chase it to the ends of the earth," I said with a smile, but the prerequisite is that it must be able to run out of my artillery range.

"Go after the destroyer first, then the minesweeper, and finally the transport ship." The captain determined the target order.

"Is it arranged by speed?" I chuckled. "I understand."

So, first of all, it's you - expulsion.

The distance between us and the destroyer was about 18000 yards when we discovered each other, and I started to pursue with all my strength. After 20 minutes, the distance between us and the destroyer was quickly reduced to about 10000 yards.

At this distance, I was almost looking at a dying man struggling desperately. The opponent was desperately doing futile S-shaped maneuvers, and his idea of ​​using high speed to throw me off was ruthlessly shattered when I showed a high speed of 42 knots.

It's all just delaying time.

"The enemy destroyer began to maneuver to evade!" I said lightly, in a lazy tone. I had no interest in questions that would not involve any suspense.

"Test fire a group!" Lindemann quickly ordered.

"clear"

Since we were facing the destroyer, only the first two turrets could be used. At Lindemann's command, the gunners who had already entered the firing parameters pressed the button impatiently.

"Bang--" Anthony spewed out a flame of more than ten meters. Two huge projectiles whizzed out, flew ten kilometers in the blink of an eye, and then both exploded beside it, and the rising water column directly covered it.

Near miss!

"Eh" I uttered softly, it seems that I adjusted the parameters incorrectly, and the gunner's order had some flaws, so I changed it a little on my own initiative. I thought I could hit the target on the first shot, but it luckily escaped.

But the near miss was pretty good, and the gunner showed a satisfied expression on his face. He immediately modified the shooting parameters according to the impact point, and the gunners started reloading.

However, near-miss bullets are not without damage. During the loading process, I keenly noticed that the opponent's speed was decreasing rapidly. Upon investigation, I found that the rear power area close to the impact point had been flooded on a large scale - the hull was pierced by the shock wave.

"Bang, bang, bang" a series of artillery fire suddenly came at me, I was caught off guard, and it was almost impossible to dodge at a distance of 8000 yards. I didn't want to dodge, so I just faced the artillery fire directly. However, the gunnery officer on the opposite side was obviously not skilled. Several naval guns passed through low parabolas and scattered around me, but none of them hit me. The splashes only wet the already slippery deck.

The enemy ship began to turn——

"Watch out for torpedo attacks from enemy ships!" Lindemann shouted.

As soon as he finished speaking, I saw the destroyer that had already come to the side shoot out a series of columnar objects, and as soon as they entered the water, white wakes appeared!

Torpedo! My pupils shrank suddenly. It was coming towards me at a speed of 50 knots. Now the relative speed reached 80 knots!

"Contact in 3 minutes!" I said nervously. The torpedoes from the opposite side shot out in a fan shape, and it was almost impossible to dodge by turning the rudder fully!

"Don't be nervous," the captain finally stood up and said to me in a deep voice, "Find the right direction. Your sense is more useful than the helmsman now."

"Yeah," I replied, but my heart was still beating fast.

The main guns fired, and the two guns in front fired again. After correction, the four projectiles accurately hit the destroyer that had already turned sideways! It exposed the largest area in front of me, which was fatal. Two shells instantly penetrated below the waterline, one in front and one behind, and then I saw the entire water surface suddenly shook upwards. In addition to the armor that exploded outwards, the shock wave also tore its deck upwards, and debris flew all over the sky. Another shell penetrated the command tower. Almost the entire superstructure was blown away, and officers such as the captain died in an instant. However, one shell flew over the rear deck and rushed into the water, without hitting.

However, three shells were already a fatal blow to this light target. Seawater poured in from the huge wound, and the enemy destroyer quickly tilted to the side. After a while, it turned sideways with the bottom of the ship facing up and the bow pointing to the sky, and sank into the icy Baltic Sea.

"The destroyer is sunk!" the observer cheered.

I observed the sea and it seemed that no Polish crew escaped. They all sank with the battleship...

"Torpedoes approaching," Lindemann shouted

In my mind, the fan-shaped image drawn by the eight torpedoes was rapidly approaching. I started to slow down the moment the shells left the gun, but the natural deceleration rate was too slow, and I would be hit before the fan-shaped image opened, so I endured the feeling of my ankle being torn off and turned on the propeller to reverse. I watched the speed drop rapidly with a bitter face, and finally waited for the interval between the torpedoes to open, and I aimed at one of them and drove in accurately.

The torpedoes flew past me on both sides and disappeared into the distance, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I squatted down and rubbed my swollen ankle. Before I could catch my breath, the captain had already started the next order.

"Turn and start searching for the minesweeper"

"Yes," Lindemann said

It was more convenient to search for the minesweeper. I had been paying attention to its position before it left my sensing range. After killing the destroyer, we immediately turned to that sea area. After the navigator estimated the approximate search location, I began to search based on the situation. It didn't take long for me to see the minesweeper that had tried its best to escape.

It's just that speed, I can't bear to watch it.

I approached it quickly, ignoring its desperate artillery fire, intending to use the 150mm secondary gun to send it to the bottom of the sea at close range.

"Hey, Captain, they surrendered," I said in a daze.

"Surrender?" the captain said, and then he came to the window, and indeed, the minesweeper had hoisted the surrender flag.

"Captain, are we still fighting?" Lindemann asked in embarrassment. As a German naval officer, his professional ethics made him reluctant to open fire on the prisoners.

The captain looked at him and said coldly, "Tell them that they have ten minutes to leave by lifeboat. We will start bombardment in ten minutes. The timer starts now."

The captain did not bombard the surrendering people, nor did he want to waste time with prisoners, so he just let them fend for themselves in the Baltic Sea, which was not far from the coastline anyway.

We waited for ten minutes, and after ten minutes, when everyone on the Polish ship was on the lifeboat, my secondary gun fired on time. The 150mm gun easily tore the hull of the minesweeper, and under the grief-stricken gaze of the Polish crew, their warship slowly sank to the bottom of the water.

Many crew members shed tears. I looked away from their hateful looks. At least you are much better than our compatriots on the destroyer, aren’t you?

Be content!

This is the scary thing about the gap in strength. The enemy is in front of you but you can't fight back.

I swaggered past their lifeboat and then chased after the transport fleet.

Chapter 38: Automatic Controller

The transport ship was soon caught up, and they were moving in a zigzag pattern ahead of me in vain.

"Warning fire!" The captain had just given the order, but before Lindemann could pass it on, he thought for a moment and said, "No need for warning fire, just sink them."

Lindemann was stunned.

"Yes!"

"Bang bang bang bang" There is no need for main guns to deal with transport ships. My secondary guns instantly formed a barrage of bullets, whizzing into their midst.

Fall, penetrate, explode!

Soon all the ships were on fire and sailed like three burning torches.

"Fire the hull below the waterline." The captain picked up the telescope and looked, then turned to me and said, "Sink it as soon as possible!"

"Captain, they seem to have raised the white flag," Lindman said, pointing ahead.

The captain looked at him without any hesitation, and said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone, "They didn't surrender when they were discovered just now." The implication was that they had lost the qualification to surrender.

"Bismarck, fire!"

"As you wish, Captain" I nodded

The thin hull of the transport ship was shattered into pieces under the continuous bombardment of my ship's guns. A large amount of seawater poured in, and the three ships capsized one after another and sank to the bottom of the water.

Of course, not all the crew members sank with the ship, and many of them escaped in time. We did not attack the surviving crew members struggling in the water like Neon did, but just ignored them, did not provide any humanitarian assistance, and drove past them quickly.

I watched silently without saying anything

After several days of fighting, I have seen many scenes of people being shattered by a single shot, from the small gunboats in Danzig to the tragic attack and defense on the peninsula, to the destroyers and transport ships struggling to survive. Wherever I go, there is always smoke. In the end, I find myself numb. During the battle, I try not to use my perception to scan the scenes in the enemy ships or fortresses, just thinking that my shells hit only machines. People in the machines? Sorry, I didn't see it.

Maybe this is a kind of indifference to life. I don't know whether it is good or bad, but the captain is satisfied with me, that's all.

Well, that's really enough.

We arrived at the Hel Fortress and dropped anchor at an anchorage in the open sea. There were also several of my companions there - one of them was the battleship Schleswig-Holstein. Originally, it was the battleship that should have fired the first shot at Danzig, but now, the "honor" of starting the world war has been taken by me...

When I arrived at Hel, the second day's offensive had ended. After a whole day of artillery bombardment, the Hel Fortress still stood on the sea of ​​the Bay of Danzig. On the contrary, our warships were hit by several shells from the shore artillery, and many of them showed signs of burning.

This is another tough nut to crack.

In the afternoon, a piece of bad news reached our ship - Britain and France declared war on Germany. Of course, this was something I expected, and Lindemann and the captain had already known about it, but it was still a shock to the sailors and junior officers. In their minds, although Germany was already very powerful and had no problem fighting against small monsters like Poland and Austria, there was still some gap in the real confrontation with old powers like Britain and France - especially the navy.

Therefore, anxiety inevitably spread among the crew. However, these anxieties were soon drowned out by the patriotic enthusiasm of the young people - they regarded this declaration of war as another act of oppression by Britain and France against Germany after the Treaty of Versailles. They wanted to seize Germany's living space, which was absolutely unacceptable.

"Captain, I'm coming in."

Due to the outbreak of war, the captain left me, the "radar" that doesn't need to rest, in the bridge to scan the surrounding situation in order to prevent the enemy's sneak attack. Except for disappearing for a while to go to dinner to show the crew that I am still a normal human being, I never left. It feels like I haven't been to the captain for a long time. Today, I finally got a break, so I ran over.

"Come in"

I walked into the room and the captain was looking at the chart.

"Captain, what are you doing?" I leaned over the table and asked with a smile.

"Look at the chart, you're asking questions even though you already know the answer." The captain glanced at me.

"Haha, you found me." I pulled over a stool and sat next to the captain shamelessly, ignoring his gaze.

My skin is getting thicker and thicker... But it seems the captain has gotten used to my company.

"Britain has also joined the war," the captain sighed and said to himself

"Captain, don't worry." I propped my chin with my hand, watching him draw the nautical chart with a pencil, and comforted him softly, "Didn't I tell you last time that there is a high chance that they won't do anything this time? We just need to get to Poland as soon as possible."

Of course, I don’t know what to do after taking Poland...

The captain put down his pen and turned to look at me. "Do you know the comparison of naval power between Germany and Britain?"

I nodded. I didn't know the exact number of warships, but I knew that the German navy was only second-rate in World War II, and it was completely incomparable to the old British first-rate fleet. I knew how big the gap would be - but I didn't know it would be so big.

"Britain now has six aircraft carriers, twelve battleships, three battlecruisers, sixty-five cruisers, and more than one hundred and eighty destroyers, not including those under construction." The captain calmly stated a fact.

“What about us?” I asked

"You are the most powerful one in our navy." The captain smiled and touched my head. "There are only seven battleships, including the two old-fashioned battleships moored next to you. There are only seven cruisers, and the destroyers are too poor. We only have twenty-one... Alas."

"Captain, don't worry, I can be very strong" I looked at the captain and said seriously

"This is the gap between the national foundations, which cannot be made up by your ability. In terms of combat effectiveness, I can say that there is no opponent in the whole world right now, but your ship alone cannot support the German navy." The captain looked at me helplessly. "If possible, I hope there will be more people like you."

"So you accepted my existence very quickly?" I asked curiously. At that time, as a non-human life form, I had always been puzzled by the captain's ability to accept it so quickly, but now it seems that he seems to have explained the reason.

"Otherwise, I will have to put you back into training?" said the captain.

"Forehead···"

"You are not the demon in those myths. Except that your existence is different from ours, your feelings and behaviors are no different from ours." The captain continued to touch my head. "So I never thought of you as a ghost or something like that."

I am originally a human being...

"You can treat me as an ordinary girl," I said with a smile

"A girl with a capacity of 50,000 tons?" The captain looked at me calmly and replied.

My smile froze... Damn it, Captain, have you been led astray by Lindemann!!! It must be, right! This is not your style!!!

"Captain!!!" I was so angry that I clenched my fists. Fifty thousand tons is my weakness.

"Ahem." The captain coughed a little embarrassedly and changed the subject. "Okay, let's stop talking. What are you doing here?"

It's really rare to see this kind of expression on his face.

"Can't I come if I'm fine?" I insisted. "We haven't sat together and read books for a long time." I wanted to play tricks, but when I saw the captain's calm eyes, I had to pout and said, "Okay, okay, actually I came here for something."

"Go ahead, I'm listening." The captain habitually lit a cigar

"Captain, you should have heard about what happened this afternoon and the last night raid?" I thought for a moment and said