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In this case, the situation facing the United Kingdom was very serious. What made Churchill even more headache was that due to the continuous failures since taking office, his domestic prestige had fallen to the lowest ebb. Although the Luftwaffe's bombing of Britain had provoked
It has become difficult for the compromise doctrine to find a market in the UK due to the shared hatred of the entire UK. However, with the opposition parties
Many important figures, including Clement Richard Attlee, the leader of the Labor Party and Lord Chancellor of the Seal (de facto Deputy Prime Minister), began to openly question Churchill's leadership ability. Attlee even suggested that "if he can't
If he wants to bring victory to Britain, then he should be replaced by a more capable person!", trying to pass the impeachment proposal in parliament to force Churchill to step down early.
Under such circumstances, Churchill urgently needed a victory to boost his prestige, and this time the German battleship "Tirpitz" penetrated the British offshore waters. This was a perfect opportunity. If it could be sunk, Britain would definitely
The whole country is excited. Even if we fail to kill it, as long as we take back the Faroe Islands, it will be an apology to the people.
And what is very beneficial to the UK is that the third ship of the King George V class battleship, and the last of the first batch of three battleships to be built, the "Duke of York", was completed and commissioned not long ago. In this way, although
The battleship "Prince of Wales" has not yet been fully repaired, but the British Navy still has "King George V", "Rodney" and "About"
The three battleships "Duke" are available, but the Germans now only have one battleship "Tirpitz". The British navy has three enemies to one, so the chances of winning are naturally great. As for the German aircraft on the island, after all, there are only 100
Multiple. As long as you bring enough light warships for protection, you don't have to worry too much. Moreover, the three British battleships themselves have quite strong air defense capabilities.
But what the British don't know is that after the invention of the transistor electronic computer, the Chinese Red Party's already good code-breaking ability has improved by leaps and bounds. In addition, some British military communication codebooks were also seized on the battlefields of Indochina for reference. Therefore,
As early as the eve of entering India, Chinese telecommunications experts successfully converted British communication codes into
All of them were deciphered, otherwise the Central and South Field Army, which was mostly composed of new recruits, would not have been able to win so heartily just by relying on cloud explosions. However, the British army and even the British government at that time were frightened by the terrifying power of cloud explosions.
It is not unusual for someone to be defeated like a mountain. Therefore, no problem was found in this aspect.[
In order to make Germany inflict more pain on the British in the European battlefield and reduce the pressure on China, Hu Weidong also immediately deciphered the British code and its writing rules (after the Germans knew the writing rules, unless the British would write the code's code
The machine must also be replaced, otherwise no matter how frequently the password is changed, it will be useless.) told the Germans, so that the intelligence advantage that the British had in history became the Germans. And the British
Every major operation has become increasingly difficult to hide from German intelligence agencies.
It is also worth mentioning that since the invention of the electronic computer has been kept strictly confidential, Mustache took it for granted that all the credit for deciphering the British code was given to the Chinese intelligence agency (when conditions were still very rudimentary, the Red Party code
It has never been deciphered. Now that the conditions are good, it is not surprising to go further, so the mustache did not think much about it.). And was greatly shocked by it. Although the Germans were proud, they
They are also a nation that loves to learn. After realizing that China's intelligence work was worth learning, Mustache immediately sent people to China for further study, and imitated the setup of the Chinese Red Party intelligence agency to greatly strengthen the Nazi party's own intelligence system, and Admiral Canaris
The Army under the leadership of the Army (yes, it is indeed the Army, but the brand name of the intelligence agency is inherently important, so it is not surprising.) The Intelligence Agency has been marginalized faster than in history.
Objectively speaking, Admiral Canaris was an outstanding intelligence expert in the history of World War II. He also made many contributions to Germany. However, due to his personal anti-Nazi stance (in the end, he also participated in the conspiracy against the Nazis).
He was arrested for the assassination of Mustache), so the Army Intelligence Agency he led inevitably contained a large number of similar people, and not everyone can be like him. Although he is very disgusted with Mustache, he can still devote himself wholeheartedly to it.
Many of those working for Germany were secretly communicating with the Allies.
In history, German intelligence was frequently leaked. In addition to the deciphering of telegram codes, this is also a very important reason. Now that Canaris has been marginalized early, it is undoubtedly very beneficial to Germany's confidentiality work, and
Because of this, Canaris did not know that the British code had been deciphered, and the Allied spies in the Army Intelligence Bureau naturally did not know either. Therefore, the British Admiralty failed to realize that while they were still gathering the fleet, the Germans
People already know the sailing route of this fleet well.
Since lessons have been learned more than once before, in order to ensure that this operation failed, the British Admiralty deployed 6 light cruisers and 15 destroyers in one go to protect the three battleships airtightly.
Seeing this posture, the ambushing German submarine knew that even if it launched the torpedo,
At most, it can only hit the outer light warships, and it is very likely that it will be killed. The risk-benefit ratio is satisfactory, and it will also alert the snake, so it gave up the plan to attack, and completely pinned its hope of victory on the ship that had been destroyed.
On the two Bismarck-class battleships that Germany regarded as the pride of the empire
What made the British fleet commander a little depressed was that the Germans took advantage of the storm to easily take over the Faroe Islands, but the storm had subsided when he led the fleet to sail. This meant that the airport on the island could be put into use, although even a hundred
Multiple planes were attacking, and the fleet's powerful anti-aircraft firepower would certainly be able to deal with it, but the loss of ships was difficult to avoid. He did not want to be forced to abandon the mission midway because one of his capital ships was damaged by enemy planes.
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But what made him feel fortunate was that the German plane never came. I don't know if it was because the airport was damaged during the German attack and could not be used for the time being. The seaplane that had been released before finally discovered the enemy's
"Judging from the tonnage, it is definitely the 'Tirpitz'"
(The British thought that the Bismarck was still under repair, so the only battleship of such a large size in the German Navy was her sister ship 'Tirpitz'.), it had sailed out of Torshavn, and there was another
It’s a heavy cruiser, and it’s hard to tell which one of the Hipper-class it is” (To be continued...)