"Sir, Thor's troops have all set out."

At 11:55 pm on September 6, Admiral Hoffman, who was commanding a fleet to pursue the USSR battleship fleeing at sea, received a secret telegram from the Georgetown Island base.

"Tor's Force" is the code name of the attack aircraft group led by Colonel Peltz.

Admiral Hoffman nodded, and was about to issue a dead order to the Vienna "You can't lose it anyway" when the report came again.

"Admiral, good news!" This time the talk was Major General Mayer, "Telegraph from the 27th Submarine Detachment and the 'Jean Suer Formation'. They had just sunk three Iowa-class battleships that were severely damaged by us, and also 3 heavy patrols, 3 light patrols and 25 destroyers!

In addition, there are tens of thousands of US Navy officers and soldiers who have fallen into the water on the sea. The Jean Suer formation is working hard to salvage it."

"Good job!" Hoffman laughed, "I have killed 4 Iahua-class ships... Now we are about to kill another Soviet-class ship!"

He said this and turned around and asked, "What's the distance now?"

“33,000 meters!”

The nautical staff will answer immediately.

The pursuit of the Soviet Union was a little more troublesome than expected, because the aircraft carrier of the 30th US Special Mixed Fleet (also divided into many formations and dispersed operations) sent dozens of 4u and 6 aircraft to bomb the formation commanded by Hoffmann at around 6 pm on September 6.

The bombing did not achieve any results, but it entangled Hoffman's formation for more than an hour, and also shot down a seaplane tracking the Soviet Union. As a result, Hoffman's formation lost the Soviet Union!

However, the Soviet Union was unable to avoid the pursuit of the Hoffman formation. At around 8 o'clock in the evening, a BV138d long-range seaplane discovered the Soviet formation. Three hours later, the Soviet battleship was already within the missile range of the Gneesenau missile battleship!

"Send three A-seaplanes to drop flares over Soviet-class battleships!" Hoffman ordered, "Missile 1, 2 ready!"

This time, Hoffman did not choose to launch a saturation attack, but chose to launch multiple batches of attacks by volleying the two bombs.

The reason for doing this is of course to save ammunition. Hoffman wants to kill more than one Soviet ship now, but he wants to sink the Soviet escort ship together!

Because there were more than 2,000 officers and soldiers on the Soviet Union, there were at least 3,000-4,000 people on the several light patrols and destroyers escorted it. If all the ships were sunk, the US Navy would have lost nearly 6,000 experienced naval officers and soldiers at once!

This loss is no less than losing a Soviet-class battleship!

There are now two "Iahua"-class battleships, five "Montana"-class battleships and three "Alaska"-class battlecruisers in the major shipyards in the United States. There are more aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers under construction.

However, experienced naval officers and soldiers are limited. If there is a large loss, there will be no experienced personnel to drive after the ships under construction are put into service.

Therefore, after the four "Iahua"-class battleships were severely damaged or sunk, the commander-in-chief of the EC's Atlantic Front, Navy Marshal Lütjens issued an order to "eliminate or capture US Navy officers and soldiers as much as possible."

It also asked the frontline fleet commanders not to be afraid of losing the main ship.

Because the European Community shipyards now have sufficient shipbuilding capabilities to continuously provide combat ships for the navy. Moreover, as the battlefield value of missile ships has been fully verified, all non-missile ships are actually outdated and should be eliminated after fighting the war. So it doesn’t matter how much you lose now, as long as most of the naval officers and soldiers on the ship can be saved.

The situation is similar to that of the Americans. Now the most valuable person in the European Navy is also the experienced naval officers and soldiers, including the pilots of the Navy Aviation Corps.

Around the early morning of September 7, 1944, the blazing light emitted by the flare enveloped the Soviet battleship, which was running away at full speed. One minute later, two "Death" 2 missiles dragged the flames and smoke and flew 30,000 meters away. One of them hit the stern of the Soviet ship, directly penetrated the deck near the main gun turret of the stern of the Soviet ship, and effortlessly broke through to the Soviet power section, then exploded there, directly destroying 4 boilers and 2 steam turbines, wasting half of the Soviet power, and triggering a fire!

Now the Soviet Union has not only become a very eye-catching target in the night, but also a burden on its escort ships. They not only have to face the Gneisenau, which also has 18 death missiles, but also the Gneisenau battleship and the Blüchel heavy cruiser, which are in the same formation as the Gneisenau.

"Sir, the enemy ship formation slowed down to about 13 knots!" The nautical staff reported to Hoffman in a surprise voice, "They seem to be turning! They are coming to us!"

It turned out that the US Navy commander on the USS Soviet battleship whose power system was damaged and whose speed was greatly reduced (most of the sailors on this ship were free former Soviet Red Navy soldiers, and most of the officers were US Navy officers trained in Russian) knew that their battleship was doomed, so he wanted to fight and try to bring at least one German battleship to the throne.

"Turn?" Hoffman laughed, "Are you going to fight hard? Do these Americans think we are afraid of losing battleships and heavy cruisers now?"

He ordered loudly: "Let Bismarck, Blücher, Frankfurt, z38, z40 and z41 all take over!

Fight me hard! Don't let a single ship go! What I want to destroy is not only the American battleships, but also their naval officers and soldiers!"

"Yes, sir!"

...

"Sir, I just received a telegram from the USS Soviet battleship..."

Panama, within the United States Pacific-Atlantic Fleet Joint Command, the low report from the fleet communications staff broke a suffocating silence.

The silence within the headquarters was because a quarter of an hour ago, they had received a report from the escaped destroyer "Cook" and learned that the "Halsey formation" suffered heavy losses. Three battleships, three heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and more than 20 destroyers were sunk. More than 20,000 American naval officers and soldiers, including Admiral Halsey, disappeared... Even Admiral Halsey himself was missing, and maybe he would be captured by the Germans. This battle was really a loss!

"Think." Admiral Nimitz said weakly.

"U.S. Pacific-Atlantic Fleet Joint Command: Our formation was attacked by enemy missile ships, USS Bismarck battleships and several heavy cruisers around 0:00 on September 7. At present, except for the Soviet Union, the other ships have been sunk. The Soviet battleship also suffered heavy damage. The No. 2 power module was destroyed by missiles, losing 50% of its power. The No. turret A and B were blown up, and the entire ship was in full fire!

Now, the Soviet Union is facing a siege by its superior enemy!

But as long as we have the last shell, we will all keep fighting!

Long live the United States of America, a liberal democracy! Long live the wise and correct Democratic Party of America... Well, long live the greatest President Roosevelt, long live... Our station stops generating electricity."

“…”

After reading the weird-worded telegram, the American Navy colonel, who had a very strange expression, said that it was indeed strange that the army shouted long live for a political party and the president. Everyone in the entire combat command center had a look of horror and surprise.

The fear was because of heavy losses. This time it was not a ship loss but a shame. The Soviet fleet was about to be destroyed, and 6,000 US Navy officers and soldiers were gone. If the losses reported by the "Halsey Formation" were added (the main force of the Halsey Formation was attacked by 12 Type 21 U-boats, three lightning strike formations were also defeated and could only flee in a hurry and had no time to save people), and the losses in the previous battle in the Bermuda Islands, nearly 30,000 US Navy officers and soldiers have been killed or disappeared.

Although the US Navy has three million officers and soldiers on the books, most of them are not crew members on front-line combat ships. The US Navy has a large number of bases and large Marines, as well as a large number of escorts, transports and landing ships. Therefore, the number of people with real combat experience and serving on front-line combat ships is at most 300,000.

Now there is almost 30,000 yuan at once. Such a loss is even more serious than losing several super battleships. Moreover, this terrifying decisive battle in the Bermuda Islands has not ended yet! I really don’t know how many outstanding officers and soldiers the US Navy will lose in the end?

What is surprising is the last telegram sent by the battleship "Soviet".

Although this battleship still has the name of the "Soviet", it is a battleship controlled and used by the US Navy after all! But most of the sailors on the ship are American citizens with "New York household registration". In order to attract the former Soviet Red Navy officers and soldiers to stay on the Soviet Union to fight for the United States, the US government specially purchased some land in the Bronx in the northern part of New York City to build houses and resettle them, and most of the officers are "original" Americans. How could they send a telegram to Roosevelt and the Democratic Party?

Is this too undemocratic?

Moreover, this year is the year of election, and the US president will be voted for in November. What does this mean by such a telegram sent by the Navy? Does the US Navy support the Democratic Party?
Chapter completed!