After expelling the US and British fleets, Bernke did not hesitate at all. On the night of October 12, he personally led the combat fleet to the southwest of Bermuda and launched an offensive from this relatively weak direction. That night, the 18-inch naval guns of German Germanic-class battleships ravaged Bermuda's fortifications, just like the US and British forces used Lexington-class battle patrol to sweep the German coastal defense fortress on Texel Island. At this time, there were as many as 79 US and British submarines deployed in the waters around Bermuda, and 88 small and medium-sized torpedo boats with Bermuda as their home port. These two combat forces tried to attack the main ships of the Allied countries at night, but were hit by the opponents of the Allied countries equipped with new fire control radar and active sonar systems.

In the previous two Bermuda naval battles, the Allied Fleet used the defending facilities of the main fleet Bermuda Islands to conduct night shelling. Although the shelling was not long and the total amount of ammunition was limited, it caused the defending officers and soldiers to suffer a heavy material and spiritual blow. When he learned that his opponent attacked Bermuda again at night, Jin, who was commanding the US and British fleet, was particularly calm. He did not use his main ship to fight Bainke head-on, but instead drew four faster main ships and 19 light ships to attack the Allied Support Fleet that had been exposed during the day, intending to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the Navy's aviation shortening the range of night activities and sharply reducing the attack efficiency to severely damage the Allied aircraft carrier cluster.

Although Bainke is not the kind of naval commander who is good at making strange moves, his outstanding overall situation and rich experience in naval combat allow him to easily deal with Jin, who is cunning and bolder than the brown bear, when he has the advantage. Before dark, he used a secret code to support the fleet to evade at full speed. Therefore, Jin's seaplane searched for him in the middle of the night but could not find traces of the Allied aircraft carriers. Instead, he discovered the landing fleet that was driving from the direction of Azores the next morning.

As an ordinary commander, it is likely that the rapid combat formation that searches for the enemy aircraft carriers will be allowed to attack the enemy's landing fleet. However, Jin did not do this. He knew very well that this was a trap set by his opponent. Once he was deceived, he would not only fail to achieve the expected goal, but also have to pay for the remaining precious ships. So he accepted the result of the defeat in the first round of the confrontation, gathered the fleet and retreated to the sea north of Bermuda. There were many ships missing here for hundreds of years. People called this place the Sea of ​​Death, which is the notorious "Bermuda Triangle". However, not every ship entering this area or the plane flying nearby would crash. It was just that the probability of missing events was high, and most of these events were full of mystery and puzzling.

On October 13, the Allied Fleet still regarded the US and British fleets, which were still alive, as the number one target. Bainke sent a large number of seaplanes and carrier-based aircraft to search for the traces of Jin, but failed to do so. On that day, a total of 22 fighter squadrons rushed to Bermuda from the United States and Canada, which not only completely made up for the losses of the land-based aviation forces the day before yesterday, but also greatly enhanced Bermuda's air defense strength. The newly arrived American and British pilots were ready to fight, waiting for the enemy's carrier-based aircraft group to appear and then do a big fight. However, in addition to a few hurried Allied reconnaissance aircraft that were only a few ignorant seagulls appeared over Bermuda.

Before dark, the US and British reconnaissance planes found that the Allied Combat Fleet was heading towards Bermuda at high speed. Because they were worried that the Allied Fleet would come to shell again at night, the US and British General Forces commander of Bermuda dispatched 12 fighter squadrons to the two closest Canadian airports to spend the night, allowing the submarine and torpedo boat troops to defend their battle positions, and informed the whereabouts of the enemy fleet to Jin, who led the fleet to standby.

As the most omnipotent general of the US Navy, Jin knew that Bermuda's fortifications had weaknesses. If the Allied fleet continued to carry out high-intensity artillery with large-caliber naval guns, it would take less than a week for the landing forces of the Allied forces to step on the corpses of the US and British defenders to occupy the Bermuda Islands. Although most of the information showed that the terrifying Hohenzollern God of War was currently managing his two kingdoms in Europe, several specious intelligence still made Jin very alert. He was worried that the Allied fleet was commanded by Bainke on the surface, but in fact, it was following Joachim's combat deployment. The painful lessons at the end of the Battle of Azore are vivid in his mind, which made him dare not give up.

On the night of October 13, a one-sided battle was staged in the waters south of Bermuda. With the support of 65 submarines, 77 American and British torpedo ships launched the second largest lightning strike operation in history. The largest scale was the British Navy's torpedo boat operations to resist the German fleet during the First Flanders Navy in 1914. As a result, these two super-large-scale lightning strike operations failed to create the feat of "small boats defeating large ships", but instead recorded in history with sad heavy casualties: 4

One American and British torpedo ship was sunk, and 30 returned to the base with injuries. A considerable number of submarines still failed to perform the effectiveness of wolves combat. Nearly two-thirds of the submarines failed to enter the ideal shooting position from beginning to end. The remaining submarines fired a total of 132 torpedoes at enemy ships, but only one-quarter of the torpedoes posed a threat to the target. They finally achieved the record of sinking two enemy ships and injuring five. The price was that three submarines were sunk, one was captured, and five were injured to varying degrees.

From 4:20 to 7:20 am on the 14th, the Allied Combat Fleet, which did not retreat but advanced, launched a fierce shelling on Bermuda for three hours. Hundreds of heavy shells flew over more than 20 kilometers, posing a devastating blow to the island's aviation facilities, coastal defense fortifications, villages and ports. Especially after dawn, the Allied countries dispatched a large number of carrier-based aircraft to cooperate with the fleet to fight, focusing on the two aviation bases and multiple field airports in Bermuda, and destroyed more than 400 American and British fighter jets that were ready to be put into counterattack on the ground, and the defenders suffered numerous casualties!

The opponent's step-by-step pressure made Jin bear heavy pressure from the rear. The United States and the United Kingdom's highest command organization, the United States and the United Kingdom's Federal Federation Cooperation Committee, issued him "twelve gold medals" and asked him to help the Bermuda defenders defend this crucial strategic stronghold. He even stated in the telegram that once Bermuda is lost, the people in the eastern United States will fall into unprecedented panic.

Although he knew it was impossible, Jin led the fleet south at dusk on the 14th with a glimmer of hope. He telegraphed the Bermuda defender command that the night should work closely together according to the previous joint combat exercise plan and use all available combat forces to fight against the powerful enemy.

Just like a replica of the historical plot, the Allies found the latest contact codebook from the captured American submarines, and successfully deciphered the opponent's combat communication. Understanding the real-time movements of the Golden Fleet, Bainke immediately began to formulate a new combat deployment, allowing the combat fleet to set up combat queues in the southeastern waters of Bermuda, and the support fleet and the landing fleet were waiting for commands 200 kilometers and 300 kilometers behind it respectively.

After nightfall, the Allied Combat Fleet opened the way with minesweepers and submarine destroyers to slowly press forward, waiting to enter the range of large-caliber naval guns. Two Germanic and two German-classes took the lead in launching long-range shelling. The Markens and Bavarian classes then joined the battle group. The accompanying light cruisers rushed forward with radar and used radar to warn the sea surface. Destroyers and submarine hunters cruised slowly around the fleet, using sonar and searchlights to guard the US and British submarines.

Accompanied by the sound of huge explosions, Bermuda, which was devastated by artillery fire, was trembling helplessly. At this time, there was almost no combustible thing on the island. Whenever the light of the shell explosion passed, the outline of the island quickly disappeared into the darkness. At first glance, no life could survive in such a harsh environment, but in fact, 20,000 American and British officers and soldiers were silently enduring the torture in the bunker. In those undestroyed coastal defense fortresses, the gunners pushed the shells into the barrel and prepared the shells in advance in the artillery room. In the bunkers of radar stations that were re-entered after dark, the officers tightened their faces and stared at the light spots representing the ships on the fluorescent screen.

At around 11 o'clock, a US-UK fleet, which was comparable to the Allied Combat Fleet, finally appeared in the northeastern waters of Bermuda. All the main battleships were divided into two oblique columns, and light ships were guarding the two wings of the array and entered the battlefield with steady steps.

Since our own fleet was in place, the coastal defense fortresses in Bermuda, guided by radar detection data, launched artillery counterattacks on the Allied fleets one after another. The lightning strike ships hidden in the sea on the north side also cooperated to launch a light cavalry-style assault, trying to firmly attract the enemy's attention to the front of the battlefield.

Having deciphered the enemy's communication and being able to control the battlefield through ship-based radar, the steady Bainke could not lose such a naval battle. He calmly adjusted the fleet formation, and all the main battleships met the enemy in a column, while light cruisers and destroyers carried out a short maritime assault to the north, easily defeating the group of American and British torpedo boats running from Bermuda.

At the other end of the battlefield, Jin closely monitored the changes in the opponent's array through his own carrier-based radar. When he found that the Allied combat fleet turned around to face him, he realized that his strategy had failed again. Although his fleet still had the possibility of victory in theory, Jin finally gave up this luxury pragmatically. He quickly adjusted his strategy and ordered the main warship to launch artillery attacks on the edge of effective range, and dispatched light cruisers and destroyers to carry out torpedo attacks.

Bainke ignored the opponent's formation change. Before the enemy's light ships approached, all German battleships carried out port-side main gun volleys while sailing eastward. Although the target was more than 20 kilometers away, the Germanic-class fire control radar still showed an amazing effect. After five rounds of fire, ships in the US and British fleets had been continuously damaged by near-missile damage.
Chapter completed!