The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 668

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On the afternoon of the 42nd, the two sisters, the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, which were not dispatched, quietly crossed the Kiel Canal from the Port of Kiel and arrived at the west side of the Jutland Peninsula.

Their goal is the Spaka Bay, an important naval port in northern Scotland where the Sun Never Sets! The sudden attack of the German army surprised the British army. Spaka Bay is the most important naval port of the Royal Navy where the Sun Never Sets, where more than half of the main battleships of the Sun Never Sets are moored.

Under normal circumstances, there should be flags fluttering and warships gathering here. Coupled with the complex terrain and hidden waterways of the port, the Sun Never Sets people once proudly said that the defense of Spaka Bay is impregnable and no one can break through here!

In fact, the defense here is indeed very tight. Under normal circumstances, it is indeed difficult for the enemy to threaten here by launching an attack from the sea.

However, the German attack is quite special. The main force of the attack is not surface warships, but underwater submarines and aircraft in the air!

At 3:20 pm, a fleet of six battleships led by Bismarck and Tirpitz stopped far outside Mainland Island where Spaka Bay was located, and fired at the British coastal defense guns on the island.

The British troops on the island immediately opened fire to fight back.

The British attached great importance to the defense of Spaka Bay.

There were more than a dozen artillery batteries facing different directions on the islands outside the port, and these artillery batteries had a large number of large-caliber coastal defense guns.

Generally speaking, the power of coastal defense guns is greater than that of naval guns, because warships will keep shaking at sea, and their shooting hit rate is much higher than that of fixed artillery on the shore.

In addition, the defenders on the island must have conducted detailed measurements of all the sea areas near the artillery batteries, so if a fight breaks out, their shooting parameters will be more accurate than those of the attackers, at least they do not need to spend extra time to measure these data before firing.

So usually, except for the coastal defense artillery of the Qing Dynasty, the artillery of other countries has a great advantage when facing the naval fleet. Once the fleets of various countries find that the opponent has deployed powerful coastal defense artillery on the shore, they usually will not forcefully attack here.

So after the initial panic, the British quickly stabilized.

“Are the Hans courting death? Do they think they can challenge our defenses in Spaka Gulf with just a few of their crappy ships?”

The commander of the base stationed in Spaka Gulf was very puzzled by the confusing behavior of the German army!

The German army was very far away from them. The battleships including Tirpitz and Bismarck almost maintained a distance of more than 30 kilometers. At such a long distance, the artillery of both sides basically had no accuracy. Although they fought each other vigorously, everyone’s guns were off target. After half an hour of artillery battle, no shells hit the target.

This made the British defenders even more puzzled. What on earth was the German army doing? Was it going to attack Spaka Gulf?

It didn’t look like it. How could they fire inaccurately at a distance of 30 kilometers?

Not attacking Spaka Gulf?

It didn’t look like it either. If they came to attack Spaka Gulf, then they had nothing better to do than to come all the way here and shell at Spaka Gulf?

You know, the price of naval gun shells is very expensive, especially the shells of 406mm naval guns used by German battleships.

The price of a shell of this caliber naval gun may be More than 4,000 US dollars, equivalent to 150,000 US dollars in later generations. Basically, one shell is two cars flying in the sky. If the nine main guns fire together, that is 20 cars flying in the sky.

If these shells hit the target, it can be said that the Hans’ money is worth spending, but their shelling is not accurate at all. Most of them fell into the sea near the fort. Only a few shells landed around the island by chance, but they are far from the British coastal defense artillery.

Because Spaka Bay is an important military port where the sun never sets, there are basically no people living on the nearby islands. There may have been some residents originally, but for safety reasons, the British army moved all these people away, turning this place into a military zone. Therefore, as long as the German shells fail to hit the target, there will basically be no results.

So the people of the sun never set couldn’t figure out what the Germans were doing?

Just when they were confused, a series of earth-shaking explosions came from Spaka Bay!

“What happened? What happened in the port?”

“It seems like there was an explosion. Look, that’s the Nelson. Oh my god, she’s sinking!”

The Nelson-class battleship is one of the BIG7 ships born under the Washington Naval Treaty. It is the first battleship designed and built after the First World War!

This type of battleship is called the BIG7 battleship together with the Nagato-class battleship of the foot basin and the Colorado-class battleship of the Eagle Sauce. The main gun caliber of these seven battleships has reached the maximum limit of the treaty, which is 406 mm. It is the battleship with the largest main gun caliber among the battleships of various countries!

Among them, the two Nelson-class battleships of the sun never set began to be built in 192, launched in 1925, and added to the navy’s active service after the war broke out in 1927. It is the most advanced battleship of the Royal Navy and the most powerful battleship of the Royal Navy after the sinking of the Hood!

However, the shapes of these two battleships are so ugly that they are regarded as the ugliest battleships of the 20th century!

The three turrets of the Nelson battleship are all located at the bow, which makes its shape look quite strange, so it can be identified at a glance from a long distance.

Although this battleship is ugly, as the most powerful battleship in the post-Hood era, these two Nelson-class battleships are the hope of the Royal Navy and even the entire British Empire!

They had been hiding these two battleships and had not sent them into battle for a long time, in order to allow these two battleships to play their greatest role, to deal a fatal blow to the German army and completely reverse the situation!

As a result, before these two battleships could make any achievements at sea, they were attacked by German submarines in Spaka Bay!

The unique appearance of the Nelson-class battleship attracted the hatred of the German submarines at once. Although this thing looks ugly, it is large in size, with a full load displacement of 4,000 tons, which is not much different from the Bismarck.

Moreover, the caliber of the main gun of this thing is so large that it will have no effect on the Bismarck. Both the Bismarck and the Tirpitz can pose a threat. If that’s the case, then who should we attack if not you?

There were five German submarines that sneaked into the Spaka Gulf. They took advantage of the opportunity when the Bismarck and the Tirpitz were engaged in an artillery battle with the British coastal defense guns, attracting all the attention of the British army, and sneaked in quietly, catching the British army off guard!

The Nelson was the first to suffer, the Imperial Sovereign was the second to suffer, and the Repulse was the third…

More and more British battleships were hit by torpedoes fired by German submarines!