Bismarck

But she soon felt that her idea was wrong. She had no choice but to work hard. If she couldn't help helping Germany fight the war, she would have been destroyed long ago.

"It is said that time travelers can change history, but in fact, they can't change anything." She thought dejectedly.

This is also inseparable from her own idea of ​​escape. She never thought of getting close to Hitler, and naively believed that victory on the battlefield would make him less crazy. But how could she, alone, and not just one person, influence a country's strategy? In the end, Germany was still stuck in a quagmire, and he still went down this path.

Perhaps the only thing that changed was his own destiny, which did not sink in the Rhine exercise.

But the war is not over yet, what has she really changed?

In any case, it was time to think about the way out. Bismarck could no longer ignore the situation. When Hitler's behavior had already touched Bismarck's bottom line, it was impossible for him to remain indifferent.

Moreover, asking her to die for Germany no longer seemed to be a valid reason, and her combat goal should be changed.

To survive and to fight for the people around her, this is her current will.

But the only problem now was that, apart from the fact that she thought Hitler was crazy, her captain and her sister were all fighting for Germany, especially Zeppelin.

Bismarck would never forget Zeppelin's expression when he talked about Operation Rainbow. If the war really failed, she could indeed just pat her butt and walk away without any psychological burden, but what about her friends and relatives here?

So she couldn't escape any more. She had been hesitating before, not knowing whether her joining would help Germany survive or even achieve a truce. At present, this hope was basically impossible. She had to take the initiative to change the minds of the people around her. Even if failure came, they would have a way to retreat.

As for this secret... Bismarck had always thought that he was lonely, that no one could understand him, and he was afraid that others would know it.

But as long as she doesn't tell me, who knows what color her soul is?

What a groundless worry!

"Bismarck, Bismarck!"

Zeppelin's somewhat anxious voice suddenly sounded in the WIFI communication channel.

"Oh...huh?"

After a while, Bismarck, with lifeless eyes, slowly noticed Zeppelin who kept calling him.

"Bismarck, what's wrong with you? It took you so long to answer?" As soon as the call was connected, Zeppelin shouted angrily, "The British are about to launch an air raid, and the commander can't be contacted now! Bismarck, please call the commander and ask about our current battle plan!!"

"Why don't we just look for the captain...wait! What did you say, Zeppelin? The captain can't be contacted?!"

Frightened, Bismarck jumped off the bed. He scanned his own body and instantly found that his captain was no longer on his chaotic body!

"Damn it... Captain, where are you at this time?"

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Although this was not the first time they had encountered an air raid, and the police and gendarmes appeared at the first moment to maintain order, the people who rushed into the streets were still somewhat flustered in the face of the threat of death.

Even the Kiel Naval Hospital was no exception - not to mention that there were still a large number of patients to be transferred from the hospital.

The hospital staff had already been urgently mobilized, and quickly began to carry the patients from their beds and rushed to the air-raid shelter. As a seriously injured patient, Lily should be evacuated first, and two staff members came quickly to carry Lily onto a stretcher.

After all, this is the second floor, and hospital beds of this era cannot be pushed around!

Seeing the staff carrying a stretcher over, Lütjens decided to help.

"Hiss! It hurts!"

The movement was a little too big and accidentally touched Lily's wound, causing her to gasp in pain. Then Lily, who had just felt a little better, started coughing again.

"Dad... cough cough!"

Lütjens, who meant well but ended up making things worse, looked embarrassed.

"Captain, I knew you were coming to the hospital!"

Suddenly, Bismarck's blaming voice rang in his ears. Lütjens turned around in surprise and saw that Bismarck, who had just returned to his room with something on his mind, suddenly appeared at the door.

"Bismarck, why are you here?" he asked.

"There's an air raid, Zeppelin's going crazy, he can't find you anywhere!" she said unhappily, speaking to herself at the same time.

"Hey Zeppelin, I've found the captain."

Needless to say, this was a call to Zeppelin.

"Commander, we are about to start the battle, what are you doing here?" she continued to complain.

Lütjens looked embarrassed. Was he caught for leaving his command post?

Lily, who was being helped by the staff to get on the stretcher, looked up and saw Bismarck glaring at the captain. She couldn't help but chuckle.

Hearing his daughter's laughter, Lütjens's expression instantly became more embarrassed.

"This... Bismarck, what's wrong? Did something happen in the fleet?" Lütjens, feeling really guilty, said embarrassedly.

"Of course there is something! Now everyone is waiting for your deployment!" Bismarck said unhappily: "And we will have to wait for your order before we go out to sea!"

"Well, let's go into the air-raid shelter with Lily first... We'll talk about the battle arrangements on the way... Don't we have a battle plan? Just let Zeppelin follow it, and leave the command in the sky to her as usual. As for the port defense, let Bangtai take over the command."

Looking at Lily who had been carefully carried out by the staff, Lu, whose serious image had been instantly shattered, could only grab the back of his head to change the subject in front of Bismarck.

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Before the bombers arrived at the Kiel naval port, the warships slowly sailed out of the narrow fjord outside the port. In the sky, nearly 186 aircraft from the GR-2 Wing and the NJG- Night Fighter Wing had already deployed over the Kiel Port.

The sound of the plane engine outside could be heard very far in the night sky.

Even so, Lütjens, squatting in the air-raid shelter with his secretary and his seriously injured daughter, always felt a little uncomfortable all over.

Although he said that he wanted to see his daughter again before setting off, it was also true that he was not on the ship. The temporary commander there was Bangtai, and the pilot of his flagship was his own navigator - the air raid had not started yet, and if it really came, his secretary could teleport back to join the battle at any time.

But in this case, everyone probably knows now that they really "left their jobs without permission".

Or the kind that doesn’t have any excuses – “accompanying my daughter” is not an excuse!

After I go back, I'm afraid I'll have to explain myself to my old subordinates...

However, it is too late to return to the fleet now...

Lütjens, who always felt that his dignity was almost gone, was bored and could only look across from him at the two little girls in his family, one sitting and the other lying, chatting idly.

"Bismarck, why are you suddenly so depressed today?" Lily asked softly while lying on the makeshift bunk.

"Do you think I look depressed now?" Bismarck rolled his eyes slightly.

"Now, there really isn't." Lily looked at her carefully and said with a smile, "But there was just now." She said affirmatively again.

"That's good," said Bismarck.

"What do you mean, isn't that better? What's better about it?" Lily muttered.

Bismarck was not prepared to speak her mind. Everyone has their own secrets, and she is no exception. Even to the captain and Lily, or even her own sister, these secrets cannot be known.

"It's not happening now, but it was happening just now. Doesn't that prove that I've figured it out?" She said with a smile, "Since I've figured it out, what are you still worried about? Right, Captain?"

Lütjens, who was caught eavesdropping, admitted it openly without asking why. When he saw Bismarck come in just now, he actually felt that her inner depression had been swept away.

"Actually, I was mainly worried that your emotions would affect the battle, but now it seems that you don't need me to worry at all."

"Girls, there are always a few days a month when the mood is not right." Lily giggled.

Chapter 794: Going out to sea

The earth-shattering bombing was finally survived, but the city had already become a devastated place.

Broken walls, tragic deaths of citizens, rolling heat waves, blazing fires. The unbridled fire demons were wreaking havoc everywhere, devouring the little remaining oxygen frantically, burning, boiling, smoking, baking... torturing the city and the civilians in it in various ways...

In order not to delay the fleet's trip, Lütjens and Bismarck, who had settled Lily, set out directly from the hospital and set off for the battlefield again. In the hectic years of war, even farewell could only be a simple wave of the hand.

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The fleet has now set out to sea. If it wants to go back, it can only cross the river from the military port, go to the air force base opposite, and take the two-seat reconnaissance plane specially left behind by Zeppelin to meet up.

The car that had driven in earlier had also been destroyed in the parking lot. If we wanted to go back to the port, we could only rely on the "No. 11 bus" to get back.

Under the rolling heat wave, the once beautiful streets were illuminated by the flames, and the bodies of the dead citizens could be vaguely seen among the ruins. Although the fire brigade, the military police, and the ambulances were desperately trying to put out the fire in this hell on earth, the few safe passages that were finally opened were also filled with busy people...

Looking at the blazing flames everywhere, Bismarck was also very angry.

If the mustache is not a good person, then Britain and the United States are even less good! And if you think about it, it seems that the United States, which was the best in the world in the previous life, has been causing trouble all over the world all day long, acting as the police of the world. As for Britain, haha, this troublemaker.

"Since they're not good people... forget it, I just don't like these bastards!"

Bismarck, who had temporarily put his mind at ease, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and found a reason to continue fighting.

He even raised his head slightly and glanced at his captain.

It turned out that his own captain was also gritting his teeth with veins bulging, and he had the same look when he looked at the ruins.

It seems that they have the same idea.

…………On October 1942, 10, at 23 a.m., the fleet left the port…………

In the Kiel Bay of the Baltic Sea, four giant steel ships that had been renovated and renovated welcomed the dawn of the European continent.

Although the bridges of several ships have been slightly reduced in size, and the missile launch boxes arranged in every available space on the deck make the warships look somewhat messy, and even due to the weight gain and linear modifications of the transformation, everyone's speed has dropped by about half a knot to one knot, but the combat effectiveness of the fleet has also been greatly increased.

The missile cruiser Prinz Eugen, which was modified with an angled deck steam catapult and equipped with ten long-range reconnaissance aircraft and sixteen Zeppelin anti-ship missiles, and whose fuel carrying capacity was increased to 3700 tons so its endurance was enhanced to 7900 nautical miles/17 knots, and the Bismarck and Tirpitz, each carrying 24 anti-ship missiles. Under the shining sun, the four majestic warships formed a column and slowly sailed into the Great Belt between Zealand Island, where the Danish capital Copenhagen is located, and the Jutland Peninsula.

But their captain seemed to be missing.

"Why haven't the Commander and Sister Bismarck come yet..." On the Prince Eugen missile cruiser at the front of the formation, Eugen with twin ponytails would raise her head from time to time, staring at the bright blue sky in the refreshing autumn weather in a daze.

"I don't know. Kiel was bombed badly. We can still see thick smoke and flames now... Maybe the bombing was too severe, so they were delayed on the road?" Top said absent-mindedly while sitting in his seat.

"These British people are really bastards!" Eugen clenched his fists angrily. But soon he changed his tone: "Hey... Top, the commander got away this time, are you unhappy? Ouch! Why did you hit me!"

Hearing Eugen asking this "stupid" question, Toph couldn't help but laugh and tapped Eugen's head gently: "You idiot, you can't even answer questions like this for your sister."

"Hey!" Eugen covered his head and protested stubbornly.

"Okay, okay. I know you don't want us to quarrel. Besides, it's human nature to care about your daughter..."

Looking at the angry little rabbit, Top rubbed his fingers and pretended nothing happened. At the same time, he calmly chose the hat with the color of forgiveness.

Lindemann, who was in the bridge of the battleship Tirpitz, also had a wry smile on his face.

A stack of technical documents for anti-ship missiles was thrown aside. A pink Tirpitz was lying on the table, pulling Lindemann's sleeves and shaking them back and forth. While shaking his arms, he pretended to be cute and said, "Lindemann! The commander has run away. I want to rest too!"

This request is really reasonable. Now that the commander is gone, why should they work so hard?

Looking at the noisy hamster, the officers and soldiers on the battleship Tirpitz were already used to it - there were even sailors on the ship who made a bet behind the scenes: when would the "pursuit and fugitive relationship" between their captain and their pet hamster be determined!

"So, what's going on here? Commander, you set the bad example, why am I unable to control Tirpitz now..."

Looking at the cheating Tirpitz, and then looking at the eyes of the brothers around him who were watching the show, Captain Lindemann really had a look of indifference, and even a little angry and amused.

However, at this moment, on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, Bontai, who was acting as the fleet commander, was not as idle as the other two.

"Current course, speed, wind speed, ocean current speed...etc., go and confirm it for me!"

From time to time, Bontai's roar could be heard from the Zeppelin's bridge.

Bangtai sometimes thought to himself: Ever since I started partnering with Zeppelin, how long has it been since I last did this kind of "formation command work in narrow and busy strait waterways"?

The Great Belt is the dividing line between Zealandia, where the Danish capital Copenhagen is located, and the mainland. Although it is not narrow, it is very easy for ships to get stuck and run aground in shallow waters.

Especially the Zeppelin aircraft carrier that he commanded, which had a large tonnage and a high center of gravity. Originally, he didn't need to worry about this problem if he had a ship girl, but now Zeppelin and her squadron had fought hard with thousands of British bombers and hundreds of fighters the night before, and many of their aircraft needed to be repaired or even replenished...

If that's the case, Zeppelin must be very busy in Kiel right now, and it wouldn't be easy for him to come back!

"Oh, really, it seems that after a few months of illness, I have become a little lazy..."

Rubbing his eyes, Bangtai shook his head and began his own criticism and self-criticism.

As for the commander of their own fleet "running away" or something like that...

"People should check themselves first!" Bangtai just thought about it for a moment and threw the matter directly into the Arctic Ocean.

Behind the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, two BF-109 carrier-based two-seat reconnaissance aircraft, carrying the fleet commander and the fleet secretary respectively, were flying one after the other under the bright sunshine, facing the autumn wind, spreading their wings, and chasing the fleet moving forward on the blue sea...

…………One day later, the dividing line of the mysterious voice from No. 10 Downing Street in the British Isles…………

"Have you confirmed the movements of the Lütjens Evil Fleet?"

"It has been confirmed! They went out to sea at dawn on the 24rd, and on the th they had already advanced to the Skagerrak Strait. And our Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft confirmed in the air battle that the carrier-based aircraft wing of the Edelweiss Witch had already transferred here near Stavanger... In addition, the air force reconnaissance we just received said that they received sea supplies off the coast of Bergen, Norway. And because of the cover of the German Navy and Air Force's destroyer squadron and fighter brigade stationed in Norway, we have no chance to launch an air strike... According to the current situation, around : tonight, the Germans will enter the Arctic Circle and begin to seek to break through our GIUK defense line. Now, Tovey has taken all the main battleships of our home fleet to sea to intercept, a total of six armored aircraft carriers and five high-speed battleships, and the Americans also have a low-speed battleship fleet in Iceland..."

"Wait, six tank carriers? Did you include the four newly commissioned second-batch Vengeance-class tank carriers, the Dreadnaught, the Invincible, the Glorious II, and the Victory II?"

"Yes... In this way, we will have a six-to-one advantage in the number of aircraft carriers and 750 carrier-based aircraft. And we have already coordinated with the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force. They still have aircraft in the GIUK waterway!"

"Wait, then all our main forces are in the GIUK waterway. If Kumets goes out to sea to cause trouble, how will you deal with it?"

"This... to be honest, it's not easy to solve. If we divide our forces to deal with Kumets, we won't be able to intercept Lütjens' fleet. You know, the threat to our British Empire's maritime power from the Evil Fleet is much greater than that from Kumets... Now we can only let Rodney and Nelson take two Titans and, with the cooperation of the Royal Air Force, stay off the coast of Scapa Flow to monitor Kumets. And to be honest, we don't think this force can stop Kumets' three battleships and two aircraft carriers..."

"...It's really a headache... Forget it, Cunningham, I know your situation is difficult, and the strength and record of the Evil Fleet are indeed there. First, hold down this guy Lütjens, and then slowly deal with Kumets' plan. I will help you take responsibility in the parliament. Anyway, this is the only way now..."