A powerful suicide weapon!

Listening to Churchill's words, the ministers and senior generals guarding the cabinet's wartime command had an unreal feeling. This is the British Empire, which is fighting a "gentleman war". Who has ever seen a gentleman who died with his enemies with a pack of explosives?

Moreover, the Germans did not make too harsh demands. In the secret negotiations, the Germans only asked Princess Elizabeth to find a husband named Hohenzollern, the British Empire joined the European Customs Alliance at the same time, handed over South Africa, which was rich in gold, and recognized that Germany and Italy had already acquired the territory and sphere of influence to end the war.

If the local fleet is really defeated, what is unacceptable to such peace conditions? Is it necessary to fight for South Africa's gold?

Everyone has a little bit of this kind of compromise idea, except Winston Churchill. If Churchill was not the prime minister now, but someone else would lead the empire. I guess if this battle cannot be won now, I would have asked for peace and surrendered.

But the current Prime Minister is a Churchill who will never compromise! Moreover, as the British Empire sinks deeper and deeper into the quagmire of war, when it is about to face a catastrophe, the empire's Prime Minister Churchill gains more and more power.

Due to the passage of the National Defense Act, the British Prime Minister and the Cabinet have obtained nearly dictatorial powers to requisition any personnel, materials and industrial and mining enterprises in the British territory in the name of maintaining public security, defending the country, maintaining public order, or effectively carrying out any wars that His Majesty the King of England may participate in!

As prime minister, Churchill can intervene in any work he believes is beneficial to the war according to the bill, and can also order the police to arrest any dangerous person he believes is, and can requisition land and factory mineral materials at will, and can mobilize funds to requisition personnel at will. Churchill also has sufficient personnel power and can promote any military and civil servants he believes are useful to win the war.

Churchill now has more power than the German Hitler and Hessman combined together! In the whole world, only the Red Tsar in Moscow has more power than him.

Such a powerful British Prime Minister was a man who seemed to have an irreconcilable hatred with the German Empire. Except for the false peace talks he recognized, anyone who dared to make peace opinions would be ruthlessly suppressed by him.

Therefore, no one dares to object to Churchill's proposal to pretend to develop suicide weapons.

"The suicide weapons that need to be developed now are mainly anti-ship weapons!" Churchill said thinking, "We cannot let the damn Germans land on the ground, so we must develop weapons that can deter the Germans. I think human-driven torpedoes and rocket-boosted bombs are both feasible. We should vigorously promote them to make the Germans believe that we are equipping these two weapons in large quantities!"

Manned torpedoes and rocket-boosted bombs? Is this too cruel? Several British ministers and senior generals were gasping for breath. Just as they were wondering what the Germans would be scared by these two weapons, they found news about another German fleet.

"The reconnaissance plane discovered three more German battleships!?" Churchill asked in a cigar. "Is it the light battleship with more than 20,000 tons?"

"It seems to be Bismarck, Tirpitz and Gneisenno."

Churchill asked: "What? Then what is it with those two German aircraft carriers?"

"It should be two heavy cruisers," replied a major general of the Royal Navy who was on duty at the cabinet command during the war. "The appearance of the German heavy cruisers and battleships is very similar and can only be identified by size. However, because of the lack of reference objects at sea, it is easy to misidentify."

"So how did the reconnaissance plane determine that they were three German battleships rather than heavy cruisers?" Churchill asked strangely.

"Because they discovered the battleship Gneiseno, which has only three main gun turrets, which is easier to identify. Then, using the battleship Gneiseno as a reference, you can recognize that the other two are battleships rather than heavy cruisers."

"So that's the case." Churchill nodded and ordered, "Then let the local fleet and the Coastal Air Defense Command deal with it. It's best to sink the remaining aircraft carrier and these three battleships that the Germans have!"

"How is it? Can you still take off and land the plane?"

"There is no problem now, and you may need to repair it after you go back. Sir."

"Really? But it looked scary when it exploded!"

"Yes, we are very lucky. The bomb was not dropped, but hung on the plane and hit the deck together. Because the plane's head is relatively large and there is no armor-piercing warhead, the penetration cannot be compared with armor-piercing bombs, and it does not penetrate the armor-piercing deck. Otherwise, we will have great trouble."

At this time, Lieutenant General Helmut Haye was standing on the charred armored deck of the "Sedlitz" ship and talking to the aircraft carrier's damage captain.

The luck of the "Sedlez" is unbelievable. It was hit by a dive bomber with a 1,000-pound bomb. It was not even severely damaged. Although the steel plates in the collision were sunken and burned to black, they were not penetrated in the end.

Moreover, when the plane hit, there were no crew members or planes on the deck. Therefore, the explosion did not cause any casualties, but only damaged the radar on the aircraft carrier. The shock wave also shattered the glass of the commander tower, causing many people to be slightly injured. Helmut Haye's head was also cut by the broken glass, and a lot of blood was bleeding. He just bandaged it and went down to the flight deck to check the loss.

The fierce battle in the air has ended. The results and losses just reported show that the air strikes launched by the British and American aircraft seem to have ended in a crushing defeat. There are as many as 143 "Anglo-American aircraft" shot down, while the German side suffered only 12 Folk Zero shot down, and the pilots suffered only 6. In addition, the "Sedlitz" was hit by the aircraft, which was at most a "medium break". Admiral Hippel was hit by a torpedo, which was fine. There was also a light cruiser that was hit by a 1,000-pound near-burst, and the "Secette" aircraft carrier was hit by two 500-pound near-burst, but the problem was not big.

But Helmut Haye still frowned and returned to the bridge where there was no glass and air leakage.

"Sir, after receiving a telegram from the Bismarck, General Lütjens ordered us to enter the shore-based aircraft protection circle in Bergen as soon as possible."

Colonel Franz Xinzer reported to Haye with the telegram he had just received. He smiled bitterly and said, "In addition, the General ordered us not to launch air strikes on Iceland and the U.S. fleets. But it is allowed to shoot down near American aircraft!"

It turned out that the Germans had not yet figured out whether there were American planes in the fleet that attacked them just now. Many pilots and the lookout post reported seeing the British concentric circles with the aircraft body, and some people reported seeing the American round bottom five-pointed star.

After the "American and American Attack Aircraft Group" retreated, Haye immediately reported the information on this to the "Bismar" and has finally received relevant instructions.

"Okay, let's retreat to the southeast." Helmut Haye sighed and asked again, "Didn't say you want to cancel the operation, right?"

"No." Colonel Xinze said, "I don't think the above will cancel the action, because it is attacking Gibraltar now. Even if the United States really participates in the war, we have to take Gibraltar and close the door to the Mediterranean!"

"That's good!" Helmut Haye nodded, "and retreated and sent Fokker 99 to reconnaissance. If the attacks on us and those who did not take off from the Faroe Islands or American planes, then they must have taken off from the British aircraft carrier! We have to find them and sink them."

"There are heavy losses!"

On the Ark of Royal, Somerville was squeezing the loss statistics report given to him by Colonel Scott.

90 aircraft were sent out, but only 41 were returned, and 49 aircraft were lost!

"It's worth it!" said Colonel Scott, "We sank a German aircraft carrier, and as long as we sink another one, they will not be able to compete with us for sea control before two new aircraft carriers of 30,000 tons are put into use."

The "they" that Colonel Scott said was not only Germany, but also Italy and France. The number and quality of the battleships of Germany, Italy and France have exceeded that of Britain, but Italy and France now have no aircraft carriers, only Germany has two aircraft carriers. If Britain can sink these two aircraft carriers, then the fleets of Germany, Italy and France will not be able to leave the protection of the shore-based aviation forces for the time being.

"But it's too dangerous to take four aircraft carriers." Somerville shook his head, "We have lost 49 aircraft now and we don't need four aircraft carriers. First, concentrate all the aircraft on the Ark of Royal and the Awesome, and then let the Victory and the Indomitable retreat."

On the four aircraft carriers of the fleet, there were 150 commonly used aircraft and 30 backup aircraft. Previously, the Royal Ark fell a "sea fire" and now it has lost 49 commonly used aircraft, leaving only 100 commonly used aircraft. These 100 aircraft can be fully carried on the Royal Ark and the Kras.

Such an arrangement can avoid losses caused by the Victory and the Indomitable in subsequent operations, but there is also an unfavorable factor, which is that it took nearly 2 hours to concentrate the aircraft.
Chapter completed!