Imperial Overlord

"Boom!" A cannon sounded on the battleship HMS Vengeance, which opened the prelude to the naval battle in the English Channel. This lively battle from the beginning to the end started just as everyone expected.

Subsequently, the cannons on the battleship Rodney began to bombard, one after another high-explosive shells cut through the air and flew to the distant target.

At the very beginning, the British gunboats fired at Dover, a port with very clear coordinates. Dozens of large-caliber artillery shells turned it into a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

The local residents have been forcibly escorted to the suburbs by German soldiers, and they have seen their homes, destroyed by their own artillery, and turned into a pile of more complete ruins than before.

"See? This is your country." An SS officer with his hands behind his back, playing with a whip behind him, said in broken English to the desperate British civilians.

When these British civilians were forcibly removed from their homes, most of them thought they were about to be murdered by the Germans.

However, they were then placed in the suburbs, just waiting to see the expected big drama at night.

But even so, these civilians still looked at the German soldiers with weapons in front of them with contempt and hatred.

Just now, two civilians sounded the grenade in their home and replaced three unlucky German soldiers at the cost of their entire family's lives.

Then, the fierce battle changed its flavor. The Germans no longer politely knocked on the door, nor rushed into the house recklessly. They shouted orders from outside the door to the people inside, and if the other party delayed a little, they would greet them with their own grenades.

When seven or eight families became victims, the remaining British civilians chose to cooperate. They walked out of the house with their hands raised and let the German soldiers frisk them to prove they were not carrying a dangerous weapon.

Then, these local civilians in Dover who gave up their resistance and handed over the grenades distributed by the British army looked at their enemies with hatred, but could not renew their thoughts of resistance.

Facts have proved that no country, in the face of a real war, can be all soldiers. Most people can only go with the flow and live in a chaotic world.

A 406mm artillery shell roared and landed on the pier in the port, turning it into a huge crater.

The pier, which had been destroyed originally, is now more thoroughly destroyed. The whole of Dover seemed to be illuminated, and a huge flame rose again.

The explosion had not stopped completely, and another explosion followed, as if it was as lively as China's New Year's Eve, and the momentum was not known how many times bigger.

Afterwards, the battleship Sovereign and the two battleships Warspite also opened fire. The artillery fire began to spread to the area where the Germans had landed. Some shells fell on the sea, and some exploded on the beach.

Others landed directly on the chalk cliffs, blasting the solid rock there to pieces.

Fragmented rocks rolled down, some hitting the barbed wire. If you just look at the scene in front of you, people who don't know will think that the British army is going to land behind the Germans.

After a round of shelling, British naval cruisers joined the attack. Some small-caliber shells landed on the sand.

A floating pier of the German army that was too late to recover stands in the water column formed by the shells, rising and falling with the waves, like a pontoon bridge to hell.

The K5 train gun also started an attack in the ambush position near Dunkirk, France, but the train gun hit the battleship and could only rely on devout faith.

To what extent do you have to be religious? Be so devout that if such beliefs are used to buy lottery tickets, you will hit the jackpot dozens of times in a row...

Although there were shells falling, the British naval fleet simply ignored the attacks that were 108,000 miles away.

It is unrealistic to expect the train guns to hit the enemy's warships, but another deadly threat has caused the British fleet to suffer.

The Germans laid a considerable number of mines in the English Channel, which caused considerable trouble for the British fleet. The battle has already started, and the British fleet is still worrying about how to deal with the German mines.

Phillips stood on the bridge of his flagship HMS King George V, waiting for the results to be passed on from the rest of the fleet.

The German plane was still buzzing overhead, and the German transport plane was destined to be busy to the end of the night, transporting more supplies for the German soldiers on the front line.

They had to make up as much as possible for the interruptions in transport caused by the British fleet at night, and to deliver the most urgently needed ammunition and food to the German soldiers who landed.

In addition, due to the weather, clothing to keep out the cold, as well as some worthless but useful support items, have become the priority materials for airdrops.

The tents, along with coal, and even flags and things like that, were strapped to parachutes and pushed off the plane.

There are some ignited airdrop instruction areas on the ground, but according to regulations, the materials dropped by German aircraft must be 2 kilometers around these ignited instruction areas.

The reason for this was to avoid damage from British bombers, as well as damage from British shelling. At least in the first half of the night, the effect is very obvious.

The British always bombarded places where bonfires had been lit and razed them to the ground. The German paratroopers were outside the shelling range, smiling and picking up supplies scattered everywhere.

Many supplies were stolen by British civilians, and even this loss was within the acceptable range. After all, it is not something too valuable, nor is it something that is urgently needed on the front line.

Only the arms supplies are strictly required to be airdropped on the only planned airdrop point during the day. This point is randomly selected and the location is relative to the safest place.

"Sir! The 3rd Destroyer Detachment found a sneaky German submarine. This is already the 2nd enemy submarine we found tonight." An officer walked behind Phillips and reported.

If he had a choice, Phillips didn't want his fleet to go to the English Channel in the middle of the night to bombard his homeland.

But now, if he doesn't bite the bullet and carry out the mission, then he can't help it, explained to the distraught British Homeland High Command.

No one will listen to any of his explanations and be escorted to the Supreme Military Court and then shot to warn future generations.

Every time I think of these, Phillips has a feeling of crying and laughing. He didn't want to take over the hot potato of the local fleet, but in the end, Charles was promoted, and he could only fill this huge hole...

"Let the 4th team fill the loopholes, and we must ensure absolute safety within the alert range!" Phillips instructed his subordinates.

German submarines are an absolute threat to the British fleet, which is already the consensus of the British Navy. In such a narrow range, of course, the first thing to watch out for is the German submarine force.

Tonight is a battle of wits and courage between the commanders of the two sides. The British fleet is the attacking side, and Germany has mobilized all the forces it can dispatch in order to make the British fleet return without success.

In the last hours of February 14, or around midnight on the 15th, there was a loud noise. A cruiser of the British fleet was torpedoed by a German submarine, and the naval battle officially broke out.

The destroyers of the British fleet swam in from all directions like sharks that smelled of blood, dropping a barrage of depth charges over the heads of the German submarines.

A German submarine was sunk in this way, but the attack that followed was like a tide that opened the gate, one wave after another.

"Flare flares?" a British officer suggested Phillips. The best way to deal with submarines is light, which will make German submarines hidden in the dark nowhere to hide.

Or at least provide some lighting to the surrounding warships, which would also make it relatively easier to deal with German submarines.

It is a very troublesome thing to mobilize the fleet in the dark and find the target. If there is a light source to illuminate it, that's another story.

Phillips hesitated, not without the thought of simply firing flares to expel German submarines. But it was too close to the French coast, and he was afraid that things would change.

If he fires flares and draws in other German attacks, it will definitely make things even more out of control.

Regrettably, the German attacking forces did not give Phillips time to hesitate. A few minutes later, a flare was fired from the German plane, illuminating the entire sky.

The dazzling light from the burning raw materials made everyone squinted involuntarily, but then, the planes in the sky could see the battleships on the sea, and they attacked one after another.

There were so many warships that the German pilots didn't know which one to attack. And the anti-aircraft artillery is too much, so many that soon a plane was hit by the sudden artillery fire and crashed into the water.

With the exact range of the German train guns, the artillery fire has become more and more accurate, the submarine attacks have become unscrupulous, and the German attacking planes have become fierce.

The British fleet lost its maneuvering advantage in the narrow strait, and now it has to face different attacks in three directions, and it suddenly becomes chaotic.

Once the naval fleet is in chaos, the crisis will be magnified ten times or even twenty times. The British fleet had to start retreating, slowly moving back on the way it had been.

Just as the British fleet was about to withdraw from the range of the K5 and K12 train guns, an explosion came from directly behind the fleet. The first British battleship Prince of Wales to retreat in a hurry collided with a mine...

It was originally the battleship Prince of Wales, which had just been launched, but this time, it was only a reluctance to fight. It carries the backbone sailors who have been transferred over, as well as the students of the naval school.

Even so, this battleship carried a full 170 people less than the prescribed number of crew members, which was barely a state that could participate in the shelling of targets on the shore.

Waiting to see the tragic engagement on the battlefield, such a warship is not suitable to continue to exist in the queue, it will disrupt the formation and drag down the actions of the entire fleet.

Therefore, Phillips, in order to cover the retreat of the battleship Prince of Wales, let the battleship enter the mine-swept channel first.

I thought it was safe here, but God knows why a mine appeared here, and the battleship Prince of Wales was paralyzed in the middle of the waterway.

At the moment when the mine exploded, General Tom S.V. Phillips felt something explode in his brain.

In the end, he lost the battle, because he did damage a battleship anyway.

The damage at this moment is not a simple injury. If the German planes held on tight, it would be a problem whether the battleship could be kept.

Even if Germany stopped attacking now, I wonder if the battleship Prince of Wales has a damaged power system. Is it possible to drive out of the combat radius of German aircraft before dawn?

Shaking his body imperceptibly, Tom S.V. Phillips forcibly pulled himself out of the defeat and continued to care about the battle situation in front of him.

Originally, the demining process was very hasty, and the entire demining waterway was not very wide. Now the battleship Prince of Wales is lying across the waterway, covering almost half of the entrance.

Originally, in the melee, the warship had to conduct a snake maneuver to avoid the bomb torpedo attack. Now I have to retreat into a narrow waterway that is half blocked, and it has a feeling of being a dojo in a snail shell.

Now Phillips knows that ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ he is no longer able to manage the wounded battleship Prince of Wales, and in desperation, he can only take the fleet one step ahead.

Determined to leave the wounded battleship and slip away, Phillips quickly retreated several of his battleships into the waterway, but at this time, the last battleship to enter the waterway, the Sovereign at the rear, was also captured by a German submarine. The fired torpedo hit the tail.

This time it got lively. In the entire waterway, two battleships exploding with smoke blocked most of the entrances, and the destroyers and cruisers that followed could only pass carefully.

The accuracy of the train artillery has improved this time, and the fixed artillery position is still very accurate in hitting a fixed target. Soon a cannonball hit the entrance of the waterway, hitting the paralyzed battleship Sovereign.

Although this hit was painless and itchy, it indicated the target to the bombers who could not find their way at night. Soon, many bombs were dropped on the site of the explosion, causing the Prince of Wales to be unlucky.

Three minutes later, the remaining British fleet began to move south, retreating in the direction of Portsmouth, and the two battleships that were on fire became targets of the German troops.