At this time, the German Navy was cheering, and many naval officers were even so excited that they shed tears... The German Navy had not won a victory once. Not to mention the rest, just say that Hitler lost confidence in the navy and ordered the warship to dismantle the warships and build tanks, which caused the navy to fall into dismantle and morale to fall to the bottom.

Unexpectedly, now they can regain their strength with French warships in the Mediterranean... Although this is not a naval battle but a victory for warships against the enemy air force, naval officers and soldiers all know that it is not easier than defeating the enemy fleet in naval battles, so this victory made the German navy completely crazy. They cheered, jumped, and kept throwing their naval caps into the sky.

"Thank you, Lieutenant!" Redel held Qin Chuan's hand tightly: "I can't imagine what kind of crisis we would face without your reminders and suggestions. Please accept my apology... I had doubted you before, but now I realize how stupid I am."

Then Raidel said to Colonel Slain: "Col. If possible, I hope to transfer the lieutenant to the navy..."

"Sorry, Marshal!" Colonel Slain refused without thinking: "I don't think General Rommel will agree!"

Redell couldn't help but nodded and said, "I think so, if Rommel agrees to a talent like the lieutenant, he will be a fool!"

"Marson!" At this time, a staff officer reported: "After receiving information from the Air Force, the British fleet was discovered in the Tunisian Strait!"

Redell took the telegram and looked at it, then smiled and said, "It seems that the British are planning to completely eliminate us!"

Qin Chuan knew what Raider meant. The British fleet appeared in the Tunisian Strait and should join forces with the air attack just now... Obviously, Montgomery planned to use the air force to severely damage the German fleet and then take advantage of the situation to pursue it. If it was not good, it would still capture the severely damaged German fleet so that it could not effectively block the Tunisian Strait.

But now, Montgomery is obviously disappointed.

"Switch!" Redel ordered confidently: "Run to the Tunisian Strait at full speed!"

At this time, Redell should also have confidence, because the damage to the German fleet in the battle just now can be said to be minimal... The British Air Force's key attack target was three battleships, but the "Richeliu" battleship was just because two fighter jets were shot down on the foredeck, causing fire, and the fire was quickly extinguished.

The battleship "Strasbourg" was hit by two bombs... This is because the Second Fleet only had one battleship, Richelieu, so providing air defense for the two battleships of the First Fleet would inevitably lead to a loss of attention. Moreover, the air defense firepower of the "Richelieu" battleship was not as strong as the air defense firepower of the two battleships, Dunkirk and Strasbourg.

This caused several British bombers to take advantage of the loopholes and hit the Strasbourg.

But one of these two bombs hits the front of the turret of the Strasbourg... Although the battleship "Strasbourg" is the No. 2 of the Dunkirk class battleship, its protection is more than that of the "Dunkirk". Compared with the armor of the "Dunkirk" with a thickness of 330MM on the front of the turret, the armor thickness on the front of the "Strasbourg" turret is 360MM.

So the bomb only exploded a dent in the turret and did not cause much damage to it.

Another bomb hit the main deck and exploded a large hole in the 125MM armor and caused a fire... Fortunately, the navy officers and soldiers' crew cabins below, and the loss was that this crew had no place to sleep.

The commander-in-chief of the British fleet was Lieutenant General Tovey, who was the commander of the British Navy who sank the famous German battleship Bismarck a few months ago.

Lieutenant General Tovey put the fleet into three parts:

Fleet A consists of 5 light cruisers, 10 destroyers and 8 minesweepers.

The task of this fleet is to walk in front of the fleet to be responsible for mine sweeping... The reason why this fleet is equipped with cruisers and destroyers is because of fear that the mine sweeping ship will be attacked by enemy naval or air forces.

It is worth mentioning that these eight minesweepers are equipped with new British minesweeping tools: floating minesweeping cables.

This is a magnetic mine specially used to deal with the Germans invented... In the early stage of World War II, Germany creatively invented a magnetic mine, which could sense the magnetic field of a warship and detonate. This detonation method once caused heavy losses to the British Navy.

It was not until the German minecraft plane mistakenly threw two magnetic mines into shallows not far from the coast that the British obtained the two mines and discovered the secrets and developed the corresponding minesweeper ship in a targeted manner.

Fleet B is composed of two battleships and 10 destroyers.

This fleet is obviously the main force of the British army's combat. Their mission is to quickly pass through the Tunisian Strait and launch an attack on the German fleet with Fleet A after clearing the waters in the front.

Fleet C is an aircraft carrier fleet, which consists of 1 aircraft carrier, 1 battleship and 8 destroyers.

Its mission is to serve as a reserve force and also a cover fleet.

It is said that it is a reserve team because the carrier-based aircraft on its aircraft carrier can fight in concert with the A and B fleets, and even when necessary, the battleships and destroyers of the C fleet can be put into combat.

It is said that it is a cover fleet because this time Lieutenant General Tovey is worried that his retreat, that is, the Tunisia Strait, would be cut off by the German army... If this worry comes true, the entire British Mediterranean fleet would be blocked west of the Tunisia Strait and could not return. The result would be either sinking or surrendering, otherwise there would be a day when the ammunition and food were exhausted.

Of course, Lieutenant General Tovey would not let all this happen, so his order to all the fleets was: Once the situation was discovered to be unfavorable to us, he would immediately return along the original one.

Will the situation be detrimental to the British army?

If it were before today, Lieutenant General Tovey believed that it would not be. The British Mediterranean Fleet has always been the most powerful fleet in the Mediterranean. The previous naval battles with France and Italy proved this... The Italian Navy was even beaten to the point of being unable to conceal it. This is also one of the reasons why the British Navy and Air Force can occupy the small island of Malta, which threatens Germany and the Italian military's transportation supply line.

But now...

Lieutenant General Tovey had to put a big question mark in his heart.

The reason is the intelligence sent from the Air Force just now... More than 100 fighter jets attacked the German fleet but were defeated and returned home.

As we all know, air defense is the weakest link of French warships. What made the Germans make up for this flaw?
Chapter completed!