Bismarck

He was the most frivolous one, winking at Bangtai, "Well, Bangtai, you didn't expect Zeppelin to have such a shy side, did you? When she got on the boat, all the guys on our boat stared at her without blinking. Iceberg used to blush."

Although he was still very fierce when he saw Zeppelin chasing his secretary at the end...

"Hey, hey, do you have any ideas?"

"What do you think?" Bangtai rolled his eyes at him, "Don't talk nonsense, I'm married."

"Wow, don't you feel it's a pity that such a good secretary was snatched away by another guy?"

"Okay, okay, Lindemann, stop teasing Bontai. You all know his wife." Although Lütjens was speaking very seriously, Lindemann just laughed.

Tigress

But I have to say that Bangtai is really nice to his wife.

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"Let's go. They must be waiting anxiously on the beach." Lütjens waved to his subordinates, and then they walked out of the office.

The sailors looked at the commander in beachwear with curiosity, not knowing what was going on.

The originally serious captain and fleet commander looked so handsome after putting on sunglasses. The young men felt envious and jealous.

After walking for more than a kilometer, they finally arrived at the beach that Bismarck mentioned.

What first caught their eyes was not the four beautiful girls, but the four sharks neatly arranged on the beach...

"Are they preparing a snack?" Lindman whispered.

"Captain! You're here!"

When Bismarck looked up, she saw four people standing not far away. She almost didn't recognize Lütjens today. He was so fashionable wearing sunglasses?

The four girls turned their heads at the same time, almost scaring them...

What's going on with this guy with soot all over his head? His originally snow-white skin is now covered with black charcoal marks.

"What are you doing..." Lütjens took off his glasses and asked curiously.

"Ahem, this is not something you can light a fire with?"

The girls were good at fighting, but when it came to lighting a barbecue grill, they spent a long time trying to figure it out but failed. Instead, they ended up with a mess on their faces, like a Persian cat turning into a calico cat.

After understanding the cause and effect of the fight, the men burst into laughter and said, "Go wash up quickly. Let us make the fire."

Lütjens patted Bismarck's shoulder, and his hand touched her shoulder, which felt like mutton-fat jade.

"Then I leave it to you!"

Bismarck quickly ran towards the seaside.

ps: After investigation, it is found that tiger shark is just a joke...it means a really big fish. The term "tiger shark" comes from the lyrics "WeareMa,veRick, save us, don't let us go" at 1 minute and 24 seconds in the song "Thisgame" in the anime work "No Game No Life". It is spoofed by people because it sounds similar to "fish, really big fish, tiger shark". According to the current information, there is no so-called "tiger shark" species found in the world, only species such as tiger cat shark, ringed tiger shark and some sharks commonly known as "tiger shark".

Chapter 596: After the daily routine, there are annoying things

Barbecue became very simple after the captains joined in. At least gentlemanly manners were indispensable. The girls didn't have to do anything. They just watched from the side. The fire was lit and the ingredients were put on. After the first coat of oil was applied, a meaty aroma wafted out immediately, and someone licked his tongue quickly.

The captain and admiral are of a very high rank, but they still have life skills. Their cooking skills are quite acceptable. Just look at Tirpitz's satisfied expression. Lindemann said he came to relax on the beach, but in fact he was here to be her cook. Often, Tirpitz would quietly stuff the uncooked meat into his mouth.

"It's so hot..." Lindman didn't know how she could eat it.

Sorry, KanColle is not afraid of heat...

Eugen and Zeppelin were much more gentle, and because they were wearing the clothes they were rather shy, so they didn't eat much.

After the barbecue, they dragged over four sharks, cut off their fins in an orderly manner, and started to prepare the so-called shark fin feast.

Lütjens finally knew where the shark came from. The four people who learned the whole story could only express their pity in their hearts. It would have been a good idea to bite it, but it chose to set its eyes on the steel battleship. The outcome can be imagined.

"These four fish are so big, we can't eat them all," said Lindman.

Is not this nonsensical?

Bismarck rolled his eyes at him and said, "We eat the fins, not the body. You have never seen the world..."

Lindeman lowered his head in grievance, he really didn't know.

"If you don't want the shark meat, just give it to the local people later. It'll be a good deed." Lütjens said with a smile.

"Okay." She nodded. "I'm just worrying about what to do with this fish. Let's ask the people on the boat to come and move it."

This way no matter how much you spend, you will waste it.

In fact, Bismarck, who was making fish soup for the first time, did not make it tasty. Everyone else ate it indifferently, except Grape, who spat out the first sip.

"Sister, this tastes so bad..." She held the bowl with grievance and looked at her sister.

Where is the delicious shark fin on the beach?

It's good enough to have something to eat! Bismarck glared at her, and she was embarrassed when she wanted to show off her skills.

He just gave his sister a slap in the face.

Wow, it's so violent to have a sister like this.

The morning's activities ended just like that. Oh, by the way, there was an episode. At the very end, a lot of pilots suddenly appeared on the beach. They came to watch the graceful figure of their instructor - and her girlfriends - with laughter.

Of course, the purpose of feasting the eyes was achieved, and it was also noted in the officers’ notebooks.

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Happy times are always short, and after they end, tedious work comes again.

"Captain, all we can do now is wait...?"

"Yeah..." Lütjens, who was absorbed in looking at the big map, shook his head helplessly.

The excitement of the beach barbecue has passed for several days. But now, I can only sit in the garrison, which is really boring...

Bismarck looked at the captain beside him. Although his face was always calm, anxiety could be seen in his eyes.

However, as a naval admiral and a captain who had seen many storms, he had been suppressing his emotions and trying to judge the enemy situation as calmly as possible...

This is also what those in high positions must do...

Bismarck felt very conflicted as he watched his captain continue to ponder the battle situation over the nautical chart.

But she was just a battleship, and there was nothing she could do about it...

Now the occupation of Socotra Island has been basically consolidated, and even some small dams and simple roads have been built. The Japanese army on the other side has also occupied Ceylon, Maldives, and even Diego Garcia. At least on the surface, the German-Japanese coalition has cut off Madagascar's route to the Middle East and India, and a sea shipping line has been opened between Germany and Japan for trade between the Axis powers.

However, even the British can see clearly that Germany, Italy and Japan are basically at odds with each other.

Germany has already invested most of its resources, manpower and industrial capacity into the Soviet-German battlefield. The forces that can be invested in the Indian Ocean direction can be said to be extremely limited!

As for Japan, it was already in a dilemma of not making enough money on the battlefield in China, and now its main focus is to expand towards Southeast Asia. It is said that the troops have now advanced to such a distant place as Rabaul in the northwest corner of New Guinea Island - if it were not for the fact that the Maldives and Diego Garcia islands are numerous but small in area, it would be considered a lucky find.

Now that Japan's domestic mobilization and resources have almost reached their limits, Japan has no way to deploy more forces in the Indian Ocean! Not to mention developing in the Indian Ocean, with the United States already concentrating all six aircraft carriers in the Pacific, it is only a matter of time before the Nanyun Fleet returns to the Pacific.

Japan itself is a country that never has too many resources and occupied land. Now Japan is eager to transport all the resources it has plundered in Southeast Asia back to the country to build the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and the "Absolute National Defense Sphere". How can it have any extra resources to give to Germany?

As for poor Italy...

Leave those Italians alone.

Please! Although the Italians still have nearly a hundred destroyers, including the largest destroyer in history, none of these destroyers are designed for ocean-going operations. Remember the Bathtub Warriors? To be honest, these ships don't have enough range even in the Red Sea. Even at cruising speed, they can sail from one end of the 2000-kilometer Red Sea to the other, which is already good.

Not to mention, the Italian Navy's battleships cannot easily leave their homeland due to lack of fuel and the threat from the Malta base that has been resisting until now!

In this way, the Axis Red Sea-Indian Ocean route was almost deserted, except for a few isolated supply ships that had to worry about the threat of Allied hunting bombers, torpedo boats and mines from time to time. On the contrary, the Allies were transporting resources to Sudan (which still belonged to Egypt at that time) through the road and railway network built for the Colony 2C Plan on the African continent, and then breaking them up into small pieces and transferring them to the Red Sea coast. Then, under the eyes of the scattered Italian patrol fleet, they openly transported one ship after another to the Arabian Peninsula and to Auchinleck's hands. It is said that Auchinleck is now building a large number of crude oil refining equipment in Iraq's oil fields to support a certain amount of arms and industrial production capacity, while also transferring materials from India to build the Hejaz Railway from the Red Sea to the hinterland of the Middle East.

Although Auchinleck's move was approved by Churchill and the British Parliament, and they promised to hand it over to the British government after the war and then privatize it...

As for the Axis powers, no matter who they were, they did not have enough troops and resources to occupy or even blockade these areas... On the contrary, they had only a few transport ships on their side, and they had to be extremely nervous to prevent losses!

Also, the Italian Navy has already started to complain...

But... Speaking of which, what the hell is this PLA guerrillas in North China fighting against the IJA who blocked the transportation lines...

These things are all strategic troubles...

Moreover, the trouble may not only come from the battlefield!

The consumption of two battleships, an aircraft carrier and a heavy cruiser of the Indian Ocean Fleet is not a small number, and to support this fleet stationed here, the actual resources needed are actually more, and now there is a stalemate here that cannot be broken for the time being!

Just think about it, if we spend so many resources and still don't see any results, I wonder if that guy Redel will say something weird in front of the Führer.

The captain didn't say anything to him or anyone else, but Bismarck knew that the pressure the captain carried was the greatest and heaviest of all.

Although I really want to help the captain, but...

Bismarck shook his head helplessly, silently helping the captain fill the empty coffee cup with coffee, and then taking out the ashtray that was full of cigarette butts and ashes and emptying it.

The headquarters was already filled with smoke, and the atmosphere was like that of a cultivator, which Bismarck was still not used to. But looking back at the captain who was still racking his brains, Bismarck moved his lips slightly, but in the end he said nothing. He just silently turned up the power of the exhaust fan on the flagship...

Of course, in fact, this also consumed the extremely valuable fuel reserves in the garrison even more...

but…

Anyway, if you want to stay awake, don't you have coffee? At least if the ventilator is turned on, it can at least reduce the nicotine toxicity of the captain...

Bismarck placed the empty ashtray back next to the captain. She looked up at her captain and saw that Lütjens was still as sullen as ever, smoking a cigarette and standing straight in front of the map, like a pillar, resisting the invisible heavy pressure while thinking about how to break the deadlock...

---------At the same time, the battlefield of Stalingrad-----

boom! boom! ! boom! ! !

A barrage of artillery fire suddenly exploded in the counterattack formation of the Soviet army! The counterattack formation launched by the hastily trained Soviet Red Army mobilized soldiers was suddenly filled with blood and gore!

Even the sides and rear of the heavily armored T-34 tanks could not withstand the shrapnel from the German SFH-18 howitzers! One tank after another was paralyzed on the ground, billowing smoke and blazing flames...

As the Soviet infantry suffered heavy losses and the tanks were paralyzed, the German army, which had been somewhat embarrassed by the counterattack, was jubilant! The German soldiers were rubbing their hands in high spirits, waiting for the bombardment to end, and then they would rush out of the trenches and launch another surprise attack on the Soviet position at Gumrak Railway Station!

The bombardment lasted only twenty seconds! After the bombardment, the fascist bandits, wearing white military coats and wrapped in white cloth, climbed out of the trenches. Under the cover of the MG-42 machine guns and anti-tank guns on the battlefield, the fascists grabbed the Kar98 carbines and MP40 submachine guns in their hands, screamed, and rushed towards the Soviet army with heavy casualties!

but……

The soldiers of the Soviet Red Army did not show the slightest sign of retreat!

In this sudden shelling, although the Soviet army had suffered heavy losses, those Soviet soldiers who survived the shelling rolled into the bomb craters, hid in the corners, or found the destroyed tanks, and relied on those tanks that were unable to move due to the shelling to resist stubbornly on the spot!

Although there were NKVD internal guards supervising the war, this was my own country! When the war broke out, why did I join the army? Wasn't it to defend my country!

The remaining Red Army soldiers, relying on craters, corners, and the remains of tanks, gritted their teeth and began to fight back! And the few tanks that were lucky enough not to be destroyed also began to rely on the ruins of the Gumrak railway station on the outskirts of Stalingrad, firing at the counterattacking German troops on the opposite side.

but……

There are too many enemies!

The MG-42s, with their hissing sound like a poisonous snake, made the Soviet soldiers unable to raise their heads. The German tanks and anti-tank guns, relying on their well-trained quality, used simple but not simple alternating leap tactics, firing at the Soviet positions and tanks while, with the support and cover of the infantry, they slowly but resolutely nibbled away at them bit by bit!

Moreover, even in the rear of the Soviet positions, there were rows and rows of shadows of skirmish lines mixed with German tanks! At this moment, the Stuka dive bombers also appeared in the sky - not to mention the accuracy of these guys' bombing, but they also mounted the MK-101 30mm aircraft cannon "Raven" from some unknown time. The two machine guns that fired armor-piercing explosive bombs were a very hateful threat to Soviet tanks and simple earth bunkers!

The Gumrak railway station, which had been fought back with great difficulty, was about to be completely surrounded due to the counterattack of the absolutely superior German army!

Even though the Soviet Red Army's Yak-1 fighters arrived at the battlefield, they were entangled by the German fighters! Under the precise bombing and machine gun fire of the Stuka bombers, one bunker after another and one remaining tank after another were turned into scrap metal or ruins in the roar of the explosion...

The German charge just happened to start from the bombers' attack point - in many cases, the German infantrymen even threw smoke bombs towards the Soviet support points, and then the Stuka bombers dropped bombs directly in the direction of the smoke bombs!

The greatest complexity is simplicity, the greatest ingenuity is effortlessness!

Under the seemingly simple, but not simple at all, tactical coordination of the well-trained German army, the loss of the Gumrak railway station position was inevitable!

The few remaining howitzers in Stalingrad were in danger of being attacked by German bombers at any time, and they fired recklessly! However, the number of these howitzers could only threaten the German infantry and tanks. The range of the howitzers, as well as the pressure from the German Air Force, made it impossible for the Soviet artillery to threaten the German attack on the battlefield support point - Gumrak Railway Station!

"Comrades, the superiors have ordered us to retreat after destroying the railway embankment in order to preserve our manpower!"

He glanced at the order that the telegraph operator had just handed to him, and then handed it to the political commissar who was in charge of the NKVD Internal Guard. After confirming the order again and again, the Soviet commander gritted his teeth with hatred, and issued a humiliating retreat order to his subordinates with a hoarse voice...

Under the strong pressure of the enemy's direct attack, how to organize a retreat without turning it into a rout is the most severe test that the cruel battlefield puts on every commander...

Fortunately, the distance from the train station to the Red October Factory in the city was only ten kilometers...

Chapter 597: The Last Warrior

There was chaos on the way back from Gumrak Station! There were gunshots and fallen soldiers everywhere. Some of them fell on the way of charging, facing the enemy, and some were shot while retreating, with their backs to the enemy.

The roar of artillery fire covered the sky and the enemy troops on both wings advanced step by step. The fire snakes of machine guns were like poisonous snakes, with hissing tongues of fire and poisonous signals, knocking down the Soviet troops who were retreating along the railway under the cover of tanks one after another!

The thing that the Soviet commander was most worried about finally happened!

Many of these soldiers were recruited temporarily from all over the country. Even though they were prepared for war, they knew nothing except basic knowledge of firearms. Even if they were well trained on the training ground, many people were still not prepared for the battlefield where they could die at any time. People who lived with them day and night were shot and blown up in an instant, pierced by bullets, blown into pieces, split in half, or dragged with limbs and intestines. This kind of psychological pressure cannot be simulated by training. There is a saying that is right - the happiest people on the battlefield are actually the dead.

That’s right, it was Lu Xun who said that.