Bismarck

Operation process (since reconnaissance aircraft have been dispatched and the positions of allied aircraft carriers have been identified before, the reconnaissance period is ignored):

Considering the night battle + worsening weather, and the low search range of the airborne radar (only a few kilometers in front), it is determined that navigation is necessary for effective combat.

At the same time, with the radar technology at that time, it was basically blind to observe low altitude from high altitude (especially at large depression angles. This problem was not solved until the emergence of pulse Doppler radar in the 1970s - even so, with the radar downward vision capability of the third-generation fighter, the detection distance and the probability of searching the enemy would be halved!)

1. Investigation cycle

Lütjens had ordered the reconnaissance plane to take off at two o'clock. Based on the distance and the known predicted position, he determined that the Allied aircraft carrier would be found by five o'clock at the latest.

2. Allied cruisers give early warning and command interception during takeoff.

The Allied cruiser will definitely be able to detect it. However, Grape has the interference skill, so the takeoff interception is considered invalid.

3. Vanguard leads the interception.

According to the earth curvature observation method, Zeppelin could be spotted by the Vanguard 800km away when it climbed to about 140 meters. However, since the Allies lost the initiative, the fighters had to descend urgently to effectively intercept. Zeppelin's large-scale battlefield command ability was enough to avoid the almost blind Allied ship battle in the dark night + clouds, and even steal a wave of heads. In addition, the Vanguard lacked actual combat experience and she could not guide the pilots in real time like 780, so the interception failed.

4. Attack judgment on Allied aircraft carriers.

According to Tovey's battle plan (laughs), in order to cover the battle fleet and prepare for air strikes after daybreak, the Allied forces determined that the fleet's position was 250-300 km away from the Germans. Even if they turned around and disengaged at full speed, they could not escape the Zeppelin's attack range.

The airborne missiles are guided by Zeppelin himself, and the hit rate is basically not off the target.

The missile model is HS500 with a warhead of 293KG, which is determined to be able to penetrate British military armor.

Finally, according to the previous air raid shelter time and the target of the next air raid after dawn, the British aircraft carrier must be full of carrier-based aircraft that need to be refueled and loaded...

and so……

(Nanyun of Midway Island in history: Brothers in distress, I am not alone!

Tovey: Get lost!)

Chapter 813: New Equipment

"hurry up!"

"Cover it up, cover it up!"

"Okay, the camouflage nets here have been pulled up... You guys, go over there and help them pull up the camouflage nets as well!"

"Yes, sir!"

In the Saint-Nazaire dock, the four battleships with scars and the entire dock were covered with camouflage nets by the engineers and sailors. A few hundred meters behind the dock, a piece of open space had long been set up as a fake dock target by the German base engineers who were used to it. As for the camouflage effect... at least Lütjens was quite satisfied with the camouflage effect after flying back and forth three or four times on the real and fake docks in a reconnaissance plane piloted by Zeppelin himself.

As for the workload of maintenance work... Emmmmmm...

Although the underwater injuries were not serious, even the most seriously injured Grape was only hit by a torpedo, which caused some deformation of the inner plate. However, in the face of the overwhelming missile saturation attack, even if the jammers were overloaded and several ship girls personally operated the Gatling close-in defense guns to intercept, the number of missiles that hit the entire fleet reached 60!

Bismarck was hit by 26 missiles, Grape was hit by 23 missiles, Eugen was hit by five, and Zeppelin was hit by six - this does not include the near misses and their impact on the underwater mine protection area TDS and hull structure - you have to know that the shock wave of the near miss bomb exploding in the water is exactly the same as a mine with the same charge in terms of damage to the mine protection TDS and hull structure!

At least after Eugen was hit by a few TDS shells, the tilt of the hull was not slight at all!

If Zeppelin and Eugen had not strengthened the defensive capabilities of their horizontal armor and underwater TDS anti-lightning structures before setting sail, and if these missiles had not attacked in different time periods, giving the damage control team time to make repairs and even giving the ship girls time to turn the bows and use the relatively intact other side to "hard-line" the attack, others would have said nothing, but Eugen and Zeppelin might have been in real danger this time!

Fortunately, he has now received a notice from above: the first batch of "mass production" command and fire control computers will be equipped on the four warships under his command!

What's more, according to the technical data and installation specification documents that have been sent, due to the imagination of the Persian cat, these circuits and electrical equipment have been made into a decentralized chassis and centralized wiring mode. So when installing, you only need to make a small hole at the location of the damaged superstructure, and then send the "circuit modules" that have been split into boxes in and put them together. It is not necessary to dismantle the entire superstructure and then lift the heavy large-scale mechanical computer into the core area of ​​the hull as before - although the superstructure has been blown into ruins by anti-ship missiles, even so, it still requires extra man-hours.

And in this way, it can be installed together during the overhaul now!

However, even so...

Looking at the shattered ruins of the superstructure, and even the originally tall and majestic bridge, which was now half collapsed and in such a miserable state, Lütjens couldn't help but touch his buzz cut, shook his head, and said with emotion:

"Oh, it's really called a bald cat..."

Hearing this, Zeppelin in the front cockpit was delighted, and at the same time, Lütjens felt a pain on the finger wearing the clover emblem ring.

It felt like being snorted and pinched hard by the claws of a "bald Persian cat".

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Two thousand kilometers away from the Brest Fortress, the war was raging outside Moscow.

Although Rommel's Fifth Panzer Army and Model's Fourth Army still failed to capture the stubbornly defended Tula and even left themselves in a crippled state, even so, with the tenacious resistance of the Soviet army's third "core defense line" and the rainy and muddy climate and environment in autumn, the German army, which had already staked everything, still made several possible breakthroughs on the front line - the reason why it was said to be "possible breakthroughs" was entirely because the Soviet military and civilians behind the defense line were also doing their best to consolidate the precarious defense positions.

From Tver in the north to the Volga in the south, across the 2,000-kilometer-wide front line in the entire central part of the Soviet Union, every foot and every inch was covered with the blood of the Soviet Red Army's heroic, tenacious and unyielding struggle!

At the same time, it also drained the last of the German invading army's strength.

"…The most dangerous breakthrough points are in the Klin region (between Tver and Moscow), the southwestern fortress area of ​​Moscow (in Podolsk), the left and right wings of Ryazan, and the Penza region…"

Marshal Vasilevsky, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, was reporting the current battle situation to General Secretary Stalin in front of a huge map. Opposite him, Stalin nodded, and his hand holding the pipe was also trembling slightly.

The development of the military situation has now become a topic that must be discussed in every meeting of the Kremlin.

only……

Although Stalin's expression remained stern, there was no sign of panic in his eyes.

"How are our reserves being deployed, Comrade Vasilevsky?"

"The assembly of the main force is 70% complete, Comrade Stalin!"

As the Chief of the General Staff, Vasilevsky was fully aware of the strength of his subordinates. He was confident and even smiled as he extended his teaching stick to several locations on the map: "... Because of the delay in the construction of fortifications in advance during the Battle of Moscow, we planned to train 233 million troops in the four months of the second half of this year. We have trained million troops and are now deploying them. At the same time, the industrial sector has also completed the production of nearly tanks, including medium and heavy tanks! ... Now our Saransk Front and Volga Front on the southwest line (Penza-Saratov-Stalingrad) have basically been deployed. The Kaliningrad Front, which is scheduled to counterattack in the direction of Moscow, is also being deployed. Only the troops in the front of Moscow need to defend against the assault of Guderian's army group in the front and the Manstein group and Chrysler group in the direction of Ryazan at the same time, so they are now constantly drawing troops to replenish the three most dangerous breakthroughs. However, even so, it is expected that in the next month, the remaining nearly one million troops will be basically deployed in place!"

"Wait, that's not right!" After hearing what Vasilevsky said, Stalin thought about it and still felt a little doubtful: "You just said that the reason why Moscow's counterattack troops have not been deployed yet is that they are still attacking in the Moscow front and Ryazan direction?"

"Yes, Comrade Stalin. But don't worry, according to the speed of our reinforcement and their attack potential, we can accumulate enough troops by the beginning of December at the latest..."

Before he could finish his words, Stalin snorted coldly.

"I know what you're talking about. I also know that the Kalin and Saransk Fronts are in the Klin and Penza directions respectively, so I'm not too worried. But... we don't have any foreign aid right now. Even the British and Americans, who say they're training troops, haven't made any progress in more than a year? I'm afraid they hope that we'll have a more severe fight with Germany, right?"

Ignoring the puzzled officials around him, Stalin, who interrupted Vasilevsky, put down his pipe and continued:

"Nazi Germany or Poland back then, to put it bluntly, it's a dog-eat-dog fight between the bourgeoisie. Whoever wins will come to attack us. Don't forget that when Hitler came to power, American financial tycoons sponsored his election, but now he has backfired... The overall situation is like this, we can't fight them in a war of attrition! The three armored armies of Manstein, Guderian and Chrysler in front of us are basically Hitler's last resort... Comrade Vasilevsky, if you were Hitler, how many people could you theoretically concentrate if you let the German troops around them fully guarantee the assault of their three armies?"

"Well... according to the intelligence we have, if Hitler makes a desperate move and lets other nearby German troops reinforce, they can probably concentrate 600,000 people and about 1,500 tanks in these two attack directions."

Vasilevsky flipped through the memo in his hand and a cold sweat broke out on his head as he answered.

"So I said, we can't add fuel to the fire in the decisive battle! Remember, we have many enemies, and they are definitely not just the fascist bandits in front!" Stalin snorted lightly and said, "Regarding the counterattack, since the Saransk Front and the Volga Front in the Southwest have completed their deployment, then the attack on the fascist army List Army Group in front of them can be launched - tell (the headquarters representative of the unified command of the southwest theater) Timoshenko that the Soviets want an annihilation war! As for the Moscow direction, make it clear to (the headquarters representative in the Moscow direction) Zhukov and continue to arrange the defense in the Moscow direction. I will use Moscow as bait to attract the Germans to continue the attack - in order to annihilate the main force of the fascist army in large numbers, we must wait until their spirit in Moscow is completely exhausted! At that time, it is time for us to launch a decisive battle!"

Seeing that the General Secretary was so determined that he was even willing to use the capital as bait, Vasilevsky's heart tightened. But before he could express his doubts, Stalin's hand interrupted his words and waved it fiercely:

"Just do as I say - the day after tomorrow is November 7th, the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution, and the Red Square parade will go on as usual! I will personally inspect the parade!"

After glancing around with the eyes of an eagle and a wolf, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) stood up suddenly and made his words final.

PS: 150 million troops in the Battle of Mars, 120 million troops in the Battle of Uranus, and the first phase of the relief of Leningrad (the "Spark" Battle). The Soviet army invested a total of 34 million troops in multiple areas in two months, and produced 8100 T-42 tanks in the second half of the year - this is the data of the Soviet Union's military surge in the second half of years. Since Leningrad (and the Crimean Peninsula) were not attacked on a large scale in the book, although the German army saved a considerable amount of troops to capture larger areas and seize more resources, it did not need to "continuously transfuse blood" to Leningrad and the Crimean Peninsula. At the same time, the Soviet army, which exhausted the German army's strength with solid defense, could also concentrate more manpower for counterattacks.

Chapter 814: Yang Yongfu's Revolutionary Day

On November 7, 1942, the city of Tula was still filled with the sound of artillery fire.

The brutal battle is still going on.

Although the 11,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers under General Katukov tried their best; although the 300,000 Tula soldiers and civilians, with guns in one hand and production tools in the other, still persisted in the production and combat posts of the Tula Arsenal with one mind; and although under the siege of Guderian's Army, the commander of the front, Yeremenko, had been forced to retreat to the outskirts of Moscow with the main force of the front, he was still doing his best to maintain the last transportation line from Tula City to the rear; but under the massive attack of the German fascists, and under the relentless siege of the 140,000 troops of Rommel's Fifth Panzer Army and Model's Fourth Army, even though the Tula soldiers and civilians were brave and tenacious, they were surrounded on three sides in the small Tula City.

Snow was flying all over the sky, bullet holes were everywhere, smoke was everywhere, and bullets were raining down...

Even though it "seemed" that someone had mentioned before that today was a special day, now no one remembers it.

Another round of artillery bombardment came. Yang Yongfu, who had just reversed and stopped the tank in the temporary shelter, wiped his sweat, stuck his head out of the commander's command hatch, called on the radio, and looked left and right for the figure of his partner in the tank.

When the Germans retreated, the first thing he thought of was that they might be bombarded, so he ordered a retreat on the spot. But Shura on the other side thought that a newly discovered German anti-tank artillery position on the opposite corner of the street was a greater threat, and insisted on "shooting them to death before they could move." As a result, he retreated into the bunker, but in the intensive bombardment outside, Shura's life and death were uncertain...

"… (BOOM!!) Shura! Shura! How are you?! (BOOM!!)"

"Ahem, Sergei (boom!!), I'm in the warehouse of the Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative opposite you. My car is fine, but I don't know if the cannon opposite has been destroyed (boom!!)..."

Hearing that Shura was fine, Yang Yongfu was a little relieved. After fighting in Tula for so long, he knew that the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative opposite was also a reinforced concrete structure, and it was behind a building. Although the German artillery bombardment blew up the building in front, the shells of these heavy artillery were blocked by the building and could no longer threaten the warehouse behind, let alone the tanks in the warehouse.

Now he had been promoted to company commander, and Shura had become platoon leader, but there were actually only four tanks left in his "company", and two of them were fighting on the other side - and Shura, the platoon leader, was quite desperate when fighting!

Thinking of this, Yang Yongfu felt a little sad - if Zoya had not sacrificed herself, Shura probably would not be like this, right?

However, as a company commander, I still have to preach:

"...Speaking of which, I know you want to kill more German devils, but you should also be careful to dodge when fighting. Even so, you were not blown up by their shells, you are really lucky..."

"I know, I know! Didn't I escape in the end..." On the other side of the radio station, Shura gritted his teeth, his face full of the bad luck of not getting to eat the meat but also getting covered in stench.

"Stop it, it's because this is an urban area, the heavy artillery won't be so easy next time!" Yang Yongfu shook his head and sighed for his old comrade who had become more and more desperate because of his sister's sacrifice. But suddenly he seemed to think of something, his eyes froze, and he loaded the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun installed on the roof with one hand, and turned on the radio microphone again: "Shura! Drive quickly! It's been so long since the shelling, and they haven't moved back. I'm afraid their infantry has crossed the street!..."

"Got it!" Shura's obviously irritable voice and the roar of the tank engine reversing came from the radio headset. And the commander under Yang Yongfu was also very "smart" in Hunan dialect. He stretched out his hand and put the two gearboxes of his T-34 tank into forward gear - tanks are blind in close combat, and this is a temporary shelter for street fighting, which is most conducive to infantry infiltration! If the start is a step later, the German devils who may have touched the street now can directly kill him and his car in the shelter!

Sure enough, as the commander of the tank had just rushed out of the temporary shelter and half of its front end had just extended out of the building's gate, it ran into more than 20 German devils who were searching and advancing with guns in hand and lined up in scattered search columns on both sides of the street less than a hundred meters away!

Moreover, these German devils have already reached the door of the warehouse where Shura is!

Looking at the enemy that suddenly appeared in front of them, both the German soldiers and Yang Yongfu's tanks were stunned for a moment.

Moreover, the two guys walking at the end of the road did not hold guns in their hands like the others, but carried a long and thin "tube" on their shoulders, and there was a spindle-like thing inserted in the front of the "tube"!

Looking at the two German soldiers carrying "barrels" on their shoulders, Yang Yongfu, with his hair standing on end, was the first to react...

"Oh no! Everyone, pay attention! The Germans are carrying Panzerfausts!"

It happened so fast! Yang Yongfu, who had been holding the handle of the anti-aircraft machine gun tightly, shouted to his comrades to pay attention while tightly gripping the trigger on the handle of the heavy machine gun!

The brutal firepower of the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun instantly swept across the base of the wall on half of the street. Even the rocket launcher hiding behind the ruins was cut in half by Yang Yongfu's cold eyes, which only had the instinct to fight. However, about a squad of German devils at the base of the wall on the other half of the street also began to fight back with guns. The bullets of the MP40 submachine gun and MG42 machine gun instantly made a circle of human body outlines around Yang Yongfu! Although Yang Yongfu was not injured by chance, under the cover of firepower, the German devil rocket launcher who was walking at the end skillfully rolled directly to a pile of ruins at the corner of the wall. When he stood up behind the ruins, he had already leaned on the rubble of the ruins and put the rocket launcher on his shoulder!

Less than a second later, there was a loud "BOOM!" and a violent fireball!

Hearing the sound of the cannon, Yang Yongfu instinctively shrank his neck, and a piece of gravel hit the helmet on his head with a "bang". Turning his head, he saw that in the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative warehouse directly opposite the fireball, Shura's tank had already rushed out with the roar of the engine - there was still a wisp of light blue smoke hanging from its gun barrel.

The two partners looked at each other and said nothing more. Instead, they respectively ordered the gunners to point their guns at the street intersection. At the same time, in tacit understanding, one on the left and one on the right, they began to take turns covering each other, reversing their vehicles over the ruins of the barricade and turning the rear of the vehicle around the corner of the shelter to reduce their exposed area, leaving only the turret to use cross fire to block the firing range of the street intersection.

Just now, the Germans only had less than one platoon coming up, and it was obviously just a test. After the test failed, it was probably artillery fire!

At this point in the battle, Yang Yongfu had become very skilled in one of the most important abilities for grassroots commanders - "guessing the enemy's next move."

Although the Germans took away most of the remaining tanks of Rommel's Fifth Panzer Army to attack Moscow, it cannot be said that the Germans did not leave some tanks in the Tula direction. In addition to tanks, those low-height anti-tank guns, which were even a bit obscene in the eyes of tank soldiers but "twice as threatening as tanks", and the newly appeared rocket launchers on the shoulders of fascist soldiers, as well as high-powered individual blasting tubes and explosive packs, were all great threats to tanks with poor close-range vision in infiltration street fighting.

Although, a captured German soldier confessed during interrogation that this thing called a rocket launcher was designed by a woman in the German Navy - I don’t know why, when Yang Yongfu mentioned women in the Navy, he always thought of that hateful German woman who spoke Chinese at the military parade on Red Square in Moscow two years ago!

The enemy on the opposite corner did not move forward, but called for two more rounds of artillery fire, apparently waiting for the tanks to come to support. While Yang Yongfu was backing into a hidden position, he also glanced at the gap in the wall of a building on the opposite corner of the street - an anti-tank gun barrel that had been blown crooked was slightly raised in a pile of rubble.

If it had not been destroyed, that location would have been absolutely inconspicuous in the messy battlefield!

"It's a good thing that Shura shot down that cannon before, otherwise I would have died by now..."

Yang Yongfu shook his head.

Through the smoke of gunfire, tanks also appeared on the opposite German positions. Yang Yongfu did not dare to be careless, and he gathered his thoughts and began to deal with the opponent in front of him with all his strength. Although his tanks had long been replaced with T-85/34 equipped with 85mm guns and special loaders, even so, it was still a half-pound and eight-pound result to deal with the "magic modified No. 48" equipped with inclined armor and 75-fold mm guns on the opposite side. Especially the penetration depth of the German guns on the opposite side was even slightly stronger than his own guns, so he had to be careful!

The two-way four-lane street was not narrow. The four tanks of the German devils on the opposite side were separated and close to the buildings on both sides, forming a double-echelon formation of two in front and two in the back. Under the cover of a group of infantry around them, they fired continuously, taking turns to provide cover, and drove towards them.

"Fire! And then back up!" Yang Yongfu gave the order, and the gunner below immediately responded, firing at the German tank on the diagonal. The turret of the fascist modified Panzer IV on the opposite side shook, and then a flame shot out from the opening of the turret of the tank. However, the German tank on the opposite side reacted quickly. The other tank in front immediately slowed down, turned the muzzle, and fired back in the direction of Yang Yongfu! And one of the two tanks in the back row immediately came up from the opening in the middle of the road to fill the position, and used the tank that Yang Yongfu had destroyed before as a cover, and began to fire in the direction of Shura to suppress it!

The German infantrymen around the tank were not to be outdone. Three or four Panzerfaust rockets, trailing long lines of smoke, flew towards Yang Yongfu! Yang Yongfu, who had just reversed and retracted half of the front of the car, saw a rocket with thick smoke pass through his turret, and then pierced a deep hole on the wall behind him!

Before he could recover from the shock, Yang Yongfu discovered that although the tank had retreated to the corner of the building, the exit of the bunker in front of him had been tightly blocked by intensive artillery fire!

"Oh no! Their firepower is too strong! We'll be trapped inside!"

Yang Yongfu was extremely anxious.

My tank and Shura's tank were the only anti-tank firepower in this block! If they were suppressed, no one would be able to suppress the German tanks - I didn't have rocket launchers, and the few infantry weapons in the building couldn't do anything to the German tanks, let alone fight back - even if I wanted to fight with explosives, I had to deal with the infantry around the three German tanks first!

Not to mention, the German Iron Fist rocket launcher has anti-infantry grenades! In the eyes of the Soviet Red Army soldiers, the power of this anti-infantry grenade is definitely no less powerful than an infantry gun within 200 meters!

"Damn it..." Yang Yongfu gritted his teeth in hatred, and after shouting at the gunner and driver in the turret, he grabbed a submachine gun from the turret, jumped off the tank, and quickly ran to the bunker gate. But when he wanted to stick his head out, he found that the German machine guns had already blocked the gate!

Their tanks were suppressed by firepower, but the German tanks covered their infantry and fired at the surrounding buildings. Although there were still some soldiers in the basements of the surrounding buildings, they were beaten down by the fierce firepower outside! Not to mention, they only had light weapons in their hands, and they had no way to deal with these three German tanks that were well protected by soldiers!

Although the bunker of the tanks has a retreat route, the warehouse on the Shura side is a temporary shelter, so there is no good way to retreat! Even if we move out of the retreat route, the exit of that route is half a street away. Once the tanks come around, the position at the street corner here will be finished!

The so-called street fighting, as long as you seize the street corner, you can attack the next street corner step by step, and then you can set up machine gun positions to block the road, and finally slowly encircle and eliminate the block defenders surrounded by machine gun fire at the street corner behind you! !

"No, we have to rush out!" Yang Yongfu made up his mind and ordered his tank to "break through the wall and clear the way." But at this moment, there were bursts of "Ura" sounds from outside! At the same time, there were also the "da da da da da" sounds of heavy machine guns!

The rocket launchers that were firing alternately to block their own gate and the heavy machine guns that were suppressing them suddenly stopped!

"This is... the infantry fighting for their lives?! Tanks! Get out now!!"

Thinking of a possibility, Yang Yongfu was suddenly shocked! Without time to think too much, he quickly waved to the tanks behind him waiting for his orders, and leaned out to pick up his submachine gun. Under the heavy snow, there were already several holes and black smoke on the street. Seven or eight tongues of fire rushed out of the windows of the basements and first floors on both sides of the street. Several German rocket launchers on the opposite side had been knocked down.

But the fascist tanks were not afraid of these light weapons at all! Three German tanks parked in a row at the street corner slowly turned their turrets and raised their gun barrels, which were still emitting smoke, towards the infantry fire points that were firing desperately!

How could Yang Yongfu not know that his infantry comrades were risking their lives and exposing themselves to fire, all in order to suppress those rocket launcher operators in exchange for a chance for himself and Shura to reappear!