September 1, 1939, at 3:45 pm British time, Scapa Bay.

The flag saying "England needs everyone to do their duty" was hung on the battleship "Nelson". At the same time, every British ship in Scapa Bay received the same order.

"The war has just begun!" Admiral Charles Forbes stood in the commanding tower of the "Nelson" and said to everyone around him, "Even if the Germans achieved temporary victory with cunning and untrustworthy sneak attacks, it would not be possible to surrender England!"

"Yes, sir!" everyone replied.

"Air strike!" Then someone shouted, "Another batch of torpedo planes are rushing towards us!"

Charles Forbes calmly grabbed the handrail beside him, turned his head to look at the scene outside the commander's tower that he would never forget for life.

On the sea, two huge aircraft carriers were catching fire, the "Furious" and the "Brave". Three minutes ago, the Fleet Chief of Staff reported to Forbes: "Furious" hit three bombs, one shot at the bow, two shots at the entire unit, and all pierced the deck! One of them also penetrated the hangar! The huge explosion almost destroyed the deck and caused a fire in the hangar. The fire is now spreading and becoming difficult to control!

Charles Forbes knew that the "Furious" was about to be finished. The hangar was destroyed, the deck was destroyed, and the fire that devoured everything might have ignited aviation fuel and might have exploded munitions! In the end, even if the aircraft carrier was not sunk, the repair work might take one year or even two years to complete.

In addition, the USS Brave aircraft carrier was shot two times, which were also bombs! And they all penetrated the thin deck effortlessly, and one of them also ignited the hangar. The fire also spread on the USS Brave. The losses suffered by this aircraft carrier were almost the same as the USS Riot! If the battlefield was not in Scapa Bay, it and the USS Riot could only be abandoned...

In addition to "fury" and "brave", the battleship "Iron Duke" which serves as a training ship has become a prey for German torpedo attack aircraft because of its huge size. It has hit 6 torpedoes within 5 minutes and is now tilted seriously to the right. The captain has requested to abandon the ship.

Another "old" battleship, the Royal Oak, is now under fierce attack by German torpedo bombers!

Suddenly, a shocking loud noise came from the middle of the Mainland Islands, the main island of the Onik Islands, which constituted Scapa Bay. Admiral Forbes looked over and saw a huge mushroom cloud rising into the sky!

"This is..." Admiral Forbes gritted his teeth. He knew that this was the oil depot in Scapa Bay that was destroyed! The 200,000 tons of heavy oil and 10,000 tons of aircraft fuel stored there were burning!

This is the masterpiece of the he-111. While some of the he-111 bombarded the anti-aircraft gun positions, some he-111 bombed the oil depots, naval airports and port facilities in Scapa Bay (mainly docks). These three are crucial to a naval base.

On the other side of Scapa Bay, the "Counterattack" battlecruiser, known as the "Royal Navy Repair" (because the ship received two major modifications during the interwar period and stayed in the dock for too long), is now under attack from torpedo planes...

"The 20th Squadron of the Torpedo Plane, follow me! The target 'Counterattack'!" The formation led by Lieutenant Adolfo Inghart has now entered the position of attacking the "Royal Oak".

He is one of the few real naval officers in the German Navy Air Force. He is from a naval family. One of his uncles is the commander of the battleship detachment who participated in the Jutland Naval Battle. So he knew which ships in Scapa Bay had no attack value at all, and which ships must be sunk or severely damaged!

For example, the three aircraft carriers converted from large light cruisers are opponents that "must be eliminated".

Unfortunately, the "Ark Royal" and the "Hood" have both left Scapa Bay, otherwise these two ships would have been destroyed!

In addition, the two "reputation"-class battlecruisers left over from World War I were also very valuable targets of attack.

Because any German naval officer (referring to the real navy, not the guy who has transferred from the Air Force) knows that in the huge British Royal Navy, the ones that really pose a huge threat to the German navy are the "Ark of Royal", "Raging", "Brave", "Glory", "Glorious" four fast aircraft carriers and "Hood", "reputation", and "counterattack" three battlecruisers!

These seven giant ships not only have sufficient combat power, but also fast enough! They are all huge threats for the German Navy, which uses maritime breaking and intercourse as its main combat method. If the British Royal Navy loses them, then the entire Atlantic Ocean will be allowed to come and go with two "Shanhurst" and two "Sedritz" class (the second ship "Admiral Secker" of the Seedrits class will be completed before the end of the year).

Because the British heavy cruiser who could catch up with them could not defeat the "Shanhurst" class, and the battleships that could defeat the "Shanhurst", such as the "Nelson", the poor .8 knots of fastest speed can make it catch up to the "Shanhurst" class?

As for the other two-class battleships of the Royal Navy, the "Queen Elizabeth" class and the "Revenge" class (also known as the R class) battleships, they are only the maximum speed from 25 knots to kilograms. They may have been powerful weapons in the last battle, but now... what are they useful?

So when the attack plan was issued, Lieutenant Adolph Inghart raised objections to the "outsiders" of the Navy aviation force. He did not need to attack battleships at all, but should concentrate firepower to sink aircraft carriers and battlecruisers. As long as the "Ark of Royal", "fury", "brave", "glorious" and "glorious" four fast aircraft carriers and "Hood", "reputation" and "counterattack" three battlecruisers.

Then before the new "King George V" class battleship and "Glory" class aircraft carrier were completed, the Royal British Navy had no ship that could do anything to Germany to break the fleet.

But those guys from the "Air Force Navy" did not listen to his opinions at all, and still listed all battleships and battlecruisers as "equal priority" targets for torpedo aircraft.

Fortunately, as the squadron leader of the 20th torpedo squadron, Lieutenant Adolfo Inghart still has the right to select targets in battleships and battle cruisers.

"Altitude 20, horizontal attack, and torpedo 1,500 meters!" Another series of orders came from the mouth of Lieutenant Adolf Inghart.

The 15 torpedo aircraft under his command were divided into three 5 aircraft formations at this time, and they rushed towards the counterattack almost shoulder to shoulder. The counterattack was a battle patrol that had just been fully modernized and modified, with very strong air defense firepower. In particular, the 2-pound anti-aircraft gun it was equipped with after modern modification was powerful and could weave a fire net to block the torpedo aircraft within 3,800 yards.

But today, such a dense fire net cannot stop Lieutenant Adolf Inghart and his comrades.

Countless orange-red flashes rushed towards Inghart, and then slid past him. The plane passed through the fire net, slowly approaching the battle cruiser in front of him. Suddenly, Inghart felt the plane's distance shocked, and then another!

You must have been shot, maybe you were hit by shrapnel!

Inghart didn't know how long the plane could last, but he found that the battlecruiser ahead was "growing bigger and bigger" and the distance was within 2,000 meters.

"Torpedo! Let it go! Now!" he shouted loudly. Then he felt the plane jump up and the torpedo was released. Just as Inghart was about to pull the plane and leave, the he-115 was shocked again!

"I've been shot! The right engine was shot!" The navigator's scream came from the headphones. It turned out that one of the engines of the he-111 was destroyed.

"Nothing, an engine can fly back!" Inghart loudly comforted his crew members, while carefully manipulating the plane and struggling to leave the fire range of the 2-pound anti-aircraft gun.

"Boom!"

A muffled sound came from below.

"We hit it!" This time the bomber was cheering.

Inghart looked down and saw a huge water column appearing at the stern of the ship of the "Counterattack", which was obviously hit by a torpedo.

At 3:48 and 3:49 pm, the "Counterattack" battlecruiser was attacked by three batches of 15 He-111 torpedo bombers, and 6 5 torpedoes hit the huge warship one after another. One of them destroyed the rudder, three hit the port side lightning belt, and two opened large holes at the bow and stern of the ship. The lightning belts were mainly distributed in the rear part of the ship. The lightning belts could not be installed in the bow and stern.

The sea water immediately poured into the hull of the "Counterattack" and the battle cruiser began to tilt severely to the left.

At 3:52, the Battlecruiser of the USS Counterattack began to pour water into the starboard side to maintain balance to avoid overturning.

At the same time, the Royal Oak encountered a second wave of torpedo attacks. This time, it was a three-row attack array composed of 9 He-115s (each of which is three aircraft). Due to a fierce attack before, the Royal Oak had been shot 4 shots on the starboard side. 3 of them hit the lightning protection belt, not causing much loss. One of them broke through the bow and injected a large amount of sea water, causing the battleship to tilt to the right several degrees.
Chapter completed!