"Führer, General Lütjens is back." An excited naval liaison officer reported to Reinhardt with uncontrollable excitement: "After the fleet returned to Wilhelmshaven, General Lütjens and Lei
Marshal Del boarded the special plane together and is now on his way to Berlin."
Although he had received the news of the victory at Narvik a day ago, the naval liaison officer was still very excited at this moment. The hero who created this great victory was about to return, and he would return to the capital Berlin with the honor of the navy.
Reinhard saw the liaison officer's reaction. He was not surprised by this.
This was the first time in the history of the Empire's naval battles that it had not won a single victory that it had its first victory, with such shining results. Not a single ship of the High Seas Fleet was damaged, the entire British squadron was annihilated, and 4,000 British sailors surrendered to the German Navy, a humiliating admission.
The rise of the Imperial Navy gave the High Seas Fleet two more advanced British destroyers that could be put into use after repair. It is no exaggeration to say that such a result has become a miracle in the history of naval warfare.
The one who created this miracle was the German Navy, which was still in decline 20 years ago.
"You go to the airport now and wait for Lütjens and bring him as soon as possible!" Reinhard took a deep breath and said loudly: "I want to award him the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves! I also want to be promoted.
He is an admiral, and I want to name the new aircraft carrier after him!"
Reinhard really wanted to laugh.
He just wanted to win a game at sea, but he didn't expect that Lütjens would win so beautifully. From the beginning of radio silence and hiding his whereabouts, to the concentration of all carrier-based aircraft in the initial stage without leaving any behind.
Fight for an advantage on the battlefield. Each step requires great courage and determination from the commander. If you are not careful, everything will be lost.
Not to mention anything else, Lütjens bravely rushed to the battlefield under the condition of radio silence, and only relied on a simple confirmation with the warning submarine force before the war, and he dared to quickly and decisively invest all the main carrier-based aircraft in his hands.
, this is enough to demonstrate his talent in naval warfare.
No one thought that the German squadron would dare to launch an attack on a British squadron. No one expected that the navy, as proud as the British Empire, would end the battle with a disastrous defeat and the surrender of the remaining troops.
From now on, all those who regarded the Imperial High Seas Fleet as an "existential navy" before this war will understand a certain fact - the German navy is by no means an existential decoration. Once they leak their minions, their opponents will have no chance.
Escape the shattered ending! No one can! Not even the British Royal Navy!
The weak country with an army of only 100,000 at the beginning has now defeated more than a million enemies on the European continent! The drowned rat who once sank all the warships in Scapa Flow has now won a textbook victory.
A resounding slap in the face to the British Empire!
Although Reinhard did not take off his clothes, waving his shirt and roaring to express how proud he was. But everyone close to him knew that the moment the Führer heard the news of the victory, the look on his face was almost pathological.
blood red.
He gave Lütjens a force that did not exist in the original history, and Ltjens brought him a victory that did not appear in the original history.
At this moment, the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs only issued an appeal for restraint, effectively acquiescing to the British and French invasion.
When Finland was hesitant about joining Reinhardt's Allies, Mussolini half-heartedly cooperated with Reinhardt, and Franco spent all his time thinking about how to break away from German control.
However, the Third Reich defeated the British Empire, which was proud of itself, on its least favored shortcomings.
There is nothing more shocking than this. Even the Imperial Navy, which has always been considered the weak point of the German armed forces, can defeat the Royal Navy, which is the foundation of the empire's hegemony on which the sun never sets.
So how could the Third Reich's army and air force, which had proven itself many times and had never encountered an enemy across the European continent, be unreliable?
Joining the Allied Powers of the Third Reich and cooperating with the German Iron Army may become the choice of increasingly large countries...
"The navy has already won a great victory. Now it depends on how your army performs." Walking to the window, Reinhard looked at the clear sky outside the window and silently looked forward to Major General Hans's 30th Infantry Division.
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Germany, Wilhelmshafen.
"It's so unlucky that we actually became the first Royal Navy fleet to surrender to a foreign country." Nono, a young British sailor, complained.
At the beginning, he joined this glorious collective with full enthusiasm. After several years of boring training, he finally waited for his first participation in the war, but what he waited for was such a humiliating ending.
I have to be absolutely miserable.
"Just be content. Remember what happened to those Norwegian sailors before. Compared to fighting to the death and being sunk by a warship that was soaked in such cold water, I am more inclined to surrender." Next to the young sailor, there was a fat man.
The middle-aged second lieutenant showed the young people a positive attitude of being fat and broad-minded and said: "Think about the Norwegians who were sunk by us in the battleship before. Did any of them survive after falling into the water?"
The second lieutenant, who had worked in the Munitions Department, suddenly magically took out a cigarette from somewhere, and then actually took out a lighter, lit the cigarette and started smoking: "Luckily our captain surrendered in time, otherwise
We might have become fishing bait in the sea now."
Looking at the forty-year-old second lieutenant, the young sailor suddenly understood something. A person who only became a second lieutenant at the age of forty may not even have a sense of collective glory, and he may not even have personal ambition.
But now, neither the middle-aged lieutenant who is used to dawdling, nor this young sailor will have a chance to change the status quo. Soon, they will become a free labor force for the German Labor and Construction Corps.
"Hey! That fat guy over there!" A German guard soldier carrying an MP40 submachine gun came over: "What about you! Why are you smoking?!"
After the British fleet surrendered, Lütjens immediately went to the boarding commando on his aircraft carrier to collect all their supplies. Not only self-defense guns and ammunition, but also all personal belongings of the British officers and soldiers except their personal belongings.
Based on the shameless skills he learned from Reinhardt, Lütjens arbitrarily refused the British commanders' request to leave behind the incompetent people with the idea that "the men and ships are in our hands anyway, and it is impossible for them to change the status quo."
They should keep their dignity with bullets and guns, and please don't invade their personal belongings.
The German officers and soldiers took away all the small things they could take away to replenish their empty pockets. Items such as cigarettes were one of their favorite seizures.
Although the German soldier who made the discovery didn't know how the fat British man hid the cigarettes and lighters during the body search, it was not too late to seize them now.
"What is the German guy with the gun talking about?" The fat lieutenant, who did not understand German, looked at the German soldiers who were getting closer and closer with confusion.
"I don't know?" The young sailor on the side still couldn't understand German: "I think he pointed at your mouth and yelled, maybe he wanted me to slap your mouth."
"No way," the fat lieutenant was still holding his cigarette in his mouth, with an incredulous expression on his face: "Well... how about you give it a try."