Who killed 'generator' (seven)?

  Two British destroyers advancing into the German line of battle found themselves face to face with the German High Seas Fleet flagship, the dreadnought battleship SMS Friedrich der Grosse, which was in the process of sinking the armoured cruiser HMS Devonshire.

  The German battleship Admiral Scheer was toying with the British cruiser HMS Devonshire like a cat playing with an old mouse, taking advantage of her superior firepower. Unnoticed by the Germans, two British destroyers had slipped through the warning chain set up outside the line of fire of the German warships and were now closing in.

  At this time, the Hipper, damaged by the British battlecruiser Repulse, signaled to the German High Seas Fleet flagship, the battleship Friedrich der Grosse, that she would have to drop out of line temporarily for repairs. Admiral Reinhard Scheer, commanding the German High Seas Fleet from his flagship Friedrich der Grosse, agreed to Hipper's request after seeing her condition.

  The heavy cruiser 'Hipper' Admiral discovered the two British destroyers standing by outside the battleship's line of fire after breaking off the action, which had been set up as a picket line against the German destroyers.

  These two British destroyers, having received the last order from the flagship of the British reinforcement fleet, the battlecruiser 'Hood', attempted to break through the German High Seas Fleet's gunfire line and attack the German battleships with torpedoes, in order to facilitate the retreat of the British reinforcement fleet.

  The two British destroyers finally seized the opportunity to break through the German High Seas Fleet's gunfire after receiving orders. The two destroyers knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime chance and they were on a suicidal mission. However, if they valued their lives, it would ultimately cost the entire relief fleet its life. So, the two destroyers exchanged signals with each other and accelerated to top speed, crazily charging towards the German battleship 'Admiral Scheer', which was flying the flag of the High Seas Fleet. They wanted to get close enough to launch a torpedo attack, sending their torpedoes to the German flagship, causing enough chaos in the German fleet. This would give the relief fleet a chance to retreat and possibly save their own lives.

  The plan originally seemed flawless, but unexpectedly the heavy cruiser 'Hipper' was damaged in the artillery battle and had to retreat to a safe area for repairs. This accidental factor completely destroyed the perfect plan of the 2 British destroyers.

  The heavy cruiser 'Hipper' discovered the two British destroyers and also judged their true intentions.

  The captain of the heavy cruiser 'Admiral Hipper' quickly sent a warning signal to the flagship battleship 'Admiral Scheer' after discovering the true intentions of the two British destroyers. At the same time, he gave orders for full speed ahead and turned the helm towards the attacking course of the two British destroyers.

  When these two British destroyers found the smoke-shrouded 'Admiral Hipper' charging towards them, they tried to turn and run. But the 'Admiral Hipper' was no slower than they were, and she charged straight for their tails.

  The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper opened fire with the two 203mm guns in her forward turret, but the high freeboard of the ship, designed for operation in the rough waters of the North Atlantic, limited the depression of her main armament. The British destroyers had much lower freeboards and the gunners on Admiral Hipper found that their targets were largely hidden from them except for the bridges of the enemy ships.

  The secondary batteries of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, mounted on her broadsides, found their mark and proved ideal for close to medium range shooting, beginning a withering blast that punched holes in British destroyers at the fastest rate possible.

  Every gun on the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper that could bear on the British destroyers was pouring metal into them, German sailors were determined to regain the prestige they had lost earlier in the engagement with the British battlecruiser Repulse.

  The nearest British destroyer to the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper was first to be unfortunate, although the brave British gunners on her did their best with their pathetic 4.7-inch main armament against the German ship, but it had no effect whatsoever.

  Its superstructure was reduced to a smoldering mass of metal wreckage after the fifth salvo from Admiral Hipper. The damage control party that had been on deck just moments before was gone, killed by German naval gunfire.

  The two 120mm main guns at the rear of the British destroyer were hit first, taking the most shells. Two of the main gun turrets that had been firing back at the Germans were accurately hit by armor-piercing shells fired from the heavy cruiser "Admiral Hipper", and after being hit, flames extended to the ammunition depot below, causing a violent explosion. The flames and shockwave directly blew open the two turrets. The height of the flames was so high that it even startled the gunners on the "Admiral Hipper". Later, when bragging in a bar to naive French girls who didn't know any better, they described the height of the flames like this: You didn't see how high the flames were when the British destroyer exploded? You don't know how high it was? The naive and lovely French girls surrounded these old sailors and asked: "How high was it? Tell us!" After teasing the French girls for a while, the old sailors slowly said: "I think it was only about 5 or 6 meters shorter than your Eiffel Tower in Paris." The naive and lovely French girls were shocked, covering their mouths with their hands, looking at these old sailors with admiration in their eyes. And then these old sailors usually achieved their goal - fooling these naive and lovely French girls and spending a romantic evening or N evenings with them until the end of their leave.

  The 'Hipper' Admiral heavy cruiser stopped firing at the British destroyer after seeing its miserable state, and the German sailors on board looked at the British destroyer with a pitiful gaze (after all, they were fellow sailors). The British destroyer had turned into a floating volcano on the sea surface. Nobody would have thought that anyone could survive in this volcano, but it seemed that heaven wanted to emphasize the tenacity of the British sailors to the German sailors. Suddenly, 7 or 8 British sailors rushed out from some cabin door on the destroyer's deck, stunning the German sailors and making their jaws drop. They couldn't imagine how these British sailors had escaped from that harsh environment. Later, some well-informed German journalists heard about this incident and used their connections to interview the survivors in a prisoner-of-war camp, writing a tear-jerking article that won the Best War News Report award in '47 and the highest honor award from the Global Journalists Union the following year. The British sailors also received the Fastest Escape Award from the Guinness World Records. But this is all after the fact; let's focus on the battlefield again.

  Survivors on the British destroyer, who had escaped to the deck, found that it was not much better than below. The life-saving equipment was almost completely destroyed, and their own warship could sink at any time. They had no choice but to turn over the charred guardrail that had been roasted in the big fire and jump into the sea full of leaked fuel, quickly waving their arms to try to get out of the whirlpool caused by the sinking of the warship. Several sailors were already beyond British gentlemanly reserve, frantically waving their arms towards the heavy cruiser "Hipper Admiral".

  The "Hipper" Admiral's heavy cruiser could not stop on the battlefield to rescue them, and sailors at the stern of the warship threw out some personal life-saving equipment to the British. The British desperately swam towards those equipment.

  The 'Hipper' Admiral heavy cruiser charged towards another British destroyer. The main gunner, who had been depressed for not hitting the vital spot of the British destroyer in the previous attack, didn't wait for the ship to get close and accurately hit the destroyer's mid-waterline with two cannons. Immediately, other large-caliber guns also opened fire. After a batch of shells swept over the upper deck of the British destroyer, a loud explosion was heard, and the ammunition depot on the British destroyer exploded violently. The entire hull first tilted forward and then flipped into the Atlantic Ocean. German sailors were stunned, not expecting the ship to sink so quickly. The British sailors didn't even have time to escape before they sank with the ship into the Atlantic Ocean.

  But the days of being driven out by German destroyers on the periphery were not easy either, because the German Air Force's Stuka dive bombers broke through the entanglement with British fighters under the cover of fighter planes and arrived at the battlefield.

  British sailors found that a queue of German planes emerged on the horizon in the distance, forming a long snake-shaped formation and rushing towards them.

  The commander of the Stuka squadron, Kittel, after carefully observing the battlefield situation, began to contact the navy and asked what targets the air force could work on.

  The Navy quickly replied, sinking two British destroyers, and then German destroyers fired several red smoke bombs to indicate the direction for the 'Stuka' dive bombers.

  "Stuka" dive bomber squadron leader Kittel opened the intercom to assign targets after seeing the red smoke bombs fired by the navy: "Wolf, you and your team attack the British destroyer in front of us on the left, Ruzo, you and your team follow me to attack this one in front of us on the right. Brothers, the sharks below have done a great job, leaving some leftovers for us, it's not enough, we'll make these sharks bleed more when we get back, give us more to eat! Start attacking!" With that, he pushed the control stick forward and dived towards the British destroyer assigned to them, Ruzo and his team closely followed behind the squadron leader.

  Kittel had already set the flaps in the cockpit, adjusted the pitch and propeller, then set the bomb release altitude on the altimeter to 600 meters, finally releasing the dive brake switch. The Stuka dive bomber suddenly lowered its nose and dived towards the British destroyer.

  Behind Kittel were Ruozo and the other pilots in the squadron, who formed a line abreast in their three-plane element, several Stukas diving down towards the British destroyer, the sirens mounted on the landing gear emitting a piercing wail, which could make the enemy feel danger approaching, its psychological impact on the enemy far surpassing the bombs hung under the racks.

  The Stuka dive-bombers swooped down on the British destroyer like a flock of eagles spotting prey on the ground. As the sea rushed up to meet the Stukas, Kittel's excitement grew. He focused his attention on the target, keeping an eye on the flight instruments and the angle of dive with his peripheral vision. He and Ruzzo's squadron were using a 70-degree angle steep dive, and as the surface approached, he felt himself lifted out of his seat, if not for the safety belt holding him down, he could already see the British destroyer's sailors running wildly and the bullets flying everywhere.

  Two bullets whizzed past his cockpit, and then several more hit the engine cowling of the plane, but were deflected by the armor plating without causing any damage.

  But others were not so lucky, one Stuka's engine was hit by the British destroyer's anti-aircraft guns and flames erupted immediately. The plane was in a dive and the pilot struggled to move the controls which were extremely difficult to operate due to the high speed of the dive. He managed to pull out of the formation but lost control due to the intense flames and crashed into the sea like a stone, creating a massive wave. The pilot was unable to bail out because he had dived too low, below 1000 meters, which was also one of the tragedies of the Stuka dive bombers.

  At this time, the red light on the altimeter in Kittel's cockpit lit up, and Kittel knew that the bombing altitude had arrived. He heavily pressed the bomb release button, and a 250-kilogram bomb hung under the belly of the plane and two 50-kilogram bombs hung under the wings made their first intimate contact with their target.

  Kittel then pressed the level-off button on the control stick, and the nose of the aircraft quickly rose. After leveling off he retracted the dive brakes, pulled back on the control stick, advanced the throttle to maximum, and the Stuka climbed slowly upwards in a scream of engines.

  As Kitter's Stuka dive-bombers left the range of the British destroyer's anti-aircraft fire, he let out a long breath, began to circle and observe the performance of his Stuka squadron.

  He was satisfied to see that the squadron had finished its attack. The Stukas, having completed their attack, were pulling up into a climb. One of the two British destroyers that had been attacked had suffered a massive explosion and was listing heavily to starboard, with surviving British sailors clinging to liferafts as they jumped into the sea. The other destroyer also had large fires burning on it, with figures running back and forth across its deck. Two of his squadron's planes had been shot down by the destroyers' anti-aircraft fire, while two more were badly damaged and limping away from the formation, struggling to make their way towards the French coast. Kidel ordered the remaining Stukas to begin their return journey.

  On the high seas, the German Ocean Fleet's Gneisenau and Scharnhorst battleships, relying on their high speed, cut off the retreat route of the British reinforcement fleet under the command of Admiral Lütjens. Completely surrounded the British reinforcement fleet.