[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany":3,"chapter-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-134":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Don’t Need Nazis In My Germany",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1294772,1717,"Chapter 400134Chapter NaN","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-134",134,"\u003Cp>September 15, 1940\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The English Channel\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. 1 Main Turret hit! We can’t fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The radar is hit! Radar functions are down!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Send a Repair Team! Quickly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bismarck, having charged with great vigor and blown away the battleship Dunkerque, soon began to be relentlessly pounded by the gunfire of the Richelieu and Strasbourg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, we poured so much of the budget into reinforcing the barbette armor, and it can’t even withstand one blow!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the sorry state of the Bismarck’s turret—which he believed had been powerfully reinforced—being neutralized by a single shot from the Richelieu’s main gun, Captain Lindemann let out an angry shout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that things had come to this, Admiral Lütjens had no choice but to fight, and thankfully, the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and other surviving ships quickly followed suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enemy Richelieu-class battleship, distance 16,000!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Full speed ahead! Run her until the boilers burst!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bismarck sped forward, unleashing fire, and its shells sent waterspouts erupting right near the Richelieu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A straddle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reload, hurry!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Captain Lindemann clenched his fists in tension, a shell from the Gneisenau pierced straight through the Dunkerque-class’s weak flank armor and exploded inside the Strasbourg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A direct hit on the Dunkerque-class from the Gneisenau! The enemy ship is on fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bismarck’s crew cheered at the sight of flames and smoke instantly erupting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes! We should have done this from the start!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Lütjens, pleased in spite of himself, gave a hollow laugh upon catching Captain Lindemann’s gaze, but in any case, the unexpected action was surprisingly effective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once they abandoned the ill-suited long-range gunnery duel and charged into a closer engagement, the German battleships' main guns finally started to play their part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Distance 15,000!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this closer range, even the 11-inch main guns of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau could inflict effective damage on the Dunkerque-class's weak flank armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But naturally, good things didn't only happen for the German Navy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enemy battleships to the rear are firing! Brace for impact!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to their full-out charge forward, shells from the five slow-as-molasses French dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships, which couldn't keep up with the fast battleships' long-range duel, began to fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, did we push too far forward…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain Lindemann, who had been hot-headed, slowly came to his senses, but now, even turning back would only mean getting hammered by the Richelieu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Still not reloaded?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though barely twenty seconds had passed, Lindemann couldn’t hide his impatience, and at that moment, the Richelieu’s main guns fired once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“R-Richelieu-class is firing! Brace for impact!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reloading complete!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lütjens and Lindemann both braced themselves and shouted simultaneously, and the Bismarck, charging diagonally towards the Richelieu, fired its six surviving main guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And right after that, the Richelieu’s shells slammed into the Bismarck’s deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uwaaaah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hit on the deck! Fire has broken out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The engine department is hit! Speed dropping to 24 knots!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the flames erupt on the Bismarck's deck along with the tremendous shock, Admiral Lütjens quickly raised his binoculars to look at the Richelieu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Admiral could see the Bismarck’s main shells score a direct hit on the Richelieu's main guns, causing an explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Colbert sunk!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No. 1 Main Turret non-operational!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, aren’t they separated by a bulkhead! Why is the whole turret knocked out?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The, the traverse mechanism seems to be out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Laborde gritted his teeth at the captain’s scream-like report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two quadruple main turrets installed on the bow were good for concentrating firepower, but they carried the risk of a sharp decrease in firepower if a turret was neutralized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French Navy knew this and had separated the internal structure with a bulkhead to save half of it in case of a hit, but unluckily, a direct hit to the traverse mechanism neutralized the entire turret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The enemy Bismarck-class is losing speed! Distance 14,000!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Laborde glared at the Bismarck, which was still charging at an angle even as smoke billowed from its deck and it lost speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, our side has four guns, their side has six.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bow turret was also hit, so they can only fire two guns if they charge head-on, but the Richelieu can’t use its main guns at all if it turns away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Courbet-class and Bretagne-class battleships fired from the rear, but it only resulted in waterspouts erupting around the Bismarck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enemy Bismarck-class main guns firing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, are we still not reloaded?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The situation, where they had fired first just before but the enemy was reloading faster, fueled Admiral Laborde's anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the sailors of the French Navy, who had been enduring airstrikes since dawn, skipped lunch, and continued the engagement late into the afternoon, were now completely exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, the Algérie scored a direct hit on an enemy Scharnhorst-class! Fire on the enemy ship’s deck!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the chaos, a shell from the new French heavy cruiser pierced the Gneisenau’s deck, which had obsolete World War I-style armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a truly chaotic slugfest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are we really struggling against those things that can pierce our deck with a heavy cruiser?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“S-Sorry!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it soon became clear that even that was a complacent complaint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“S-Strasbourg is hit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Strasbourg, which had been taking a beating from two Scharnhorst-class battleships at close range, took a direct hit on its deck and erupted in an explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s the Hood! Approaching the Strasbourg!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the German fast battleships drew the French Navy's attention from the front, the Hood, having closed in, landed an effective hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Main guns loaded!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the magnificent cannons roared, creating a shockwave, and everyone tensed up, both the Richelieu and the Bismarck’s salvos missed each other, with no direct hits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no sooner had that happened, the Bismarck’s main guns roared to life again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, what kind of reload finishes the moment the shells are gone?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was at that moment that an urgent radio message came in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-This is the Courbet! Admiral, airstrike from the west!-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been too focused on the gunnery duel with the Bismarck, and with the radar knocked out long ago, he hadn’t noticed at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The scale?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-N-Number unidentifiable! The, the enemy aircraft are-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What do you mean by that?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A-Admiral.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dumbfounded Admiral Laborde was about to snatch the binoculars from Vice Admiral Abrial, who had called him in a trembling voice, when the Bismarck’s shells fell, and he smacked his eye on the binoculars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Agh, damn it all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hit on the side armor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Richelieu's main guns fired again, the admiral, who had staggered for a moment, angrily raised his binoculars, then fell silent before muttering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh God.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An air fleet, clearly numbering in the hundreds, was swarming in, blackening the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The French Navy, in what seemed like a last-ditch effort, unleashed a tremendous barrage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“E-Engine department hit! Speed dropping to 18 knots!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire on the deck!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2 and No. 3 Main Turrets are non-operational!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3 Secondary Turret is non-operational!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Repair teams! I know you’re going through hell, but hang in there a little longer!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was meaningless to even count how many hits we’d taken or from which ship. The Bismarck was being pounded relentlessly, and its deck was already a wreck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a relief that many of the shells coming in at close range hit the sturdy side armor instead of the deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, unlike in the original history where a few hits would have crippled it, we were somehow holding on thanks to the reinforced armor and the sailors who had gone through intense damage control training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Captain Lindemann was busy encouraging his subordinates, Admiral Lütjens watched through his binoculars as the Gneisenau listed from the bow and began to sink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing the scene of destroyers frantically rushing from the rear to rescue the crew floundering in the sea, Lütjens turned away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reloaded!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fire!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bismarck’s one surviving main turret roared, and the vibration shook his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling the recoil, Lütjens raised his binoculars again to look at the enemy fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bombers and torpedo bombers, swarming like bees, were literally violating the enemy fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Strasbourg and Richelieu, which were ahead of the other ships and had lost most of their anti-aircraft defense capability from constant bombardment, were the perfect prey for the air force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Strasbourg, which had been struggling to resist while being subjected to a coordinated attack by the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Hood with its deck ablaze, suffered a sympathetic detonation from successive dive-bombing attacks and met its end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Richelieu, which had seemed invincible in the battleship duel, was hit by a series of torpedoes and bombs, and was neutralized as its remaining main turret fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air force, not satisfied, began a fierce attack with the vigor to devour the entire French fleet in the rear as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…They’re devouring the opponent we struggled to death against so easily.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Lütjens gave a hollow, bitter smile over the tattered pride of his navy, having achieved a victory that was nothing but wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Richelieu, respond! Richelieu!-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Admiral!-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kuhk…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The commander of the French fleet, Admiral Laborde, heard the static from the radio and staggered to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at his hand, feeling a sticky sensation, and realized it was the blood that filled the ship's bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked around and realized he was the only one left standing on the bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only corpses strewn on the floor and those groaning in pools of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Who's the commanding officer!-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Laborde let out a hollow laugh and picked up the radio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“All ships, retreat to Calais.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Admiral!-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could hear someone shouting over the radio, but it didn't matter to Admiral Laborde, who was dizzy from the blood trickling from his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly reached out and closed the eyes of Vice Admiral Abrial, who lay on the floor with his eyes open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Any friends still alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Admiral!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing a voice respond as soon as he asked into the voice pipe, the admiral let out a low laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least I’m not alone on this big piece of scrap metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m sorry, gentlemen. My incompetent self ended up losing this fine ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…Scuttle her and have all hands abandon ship.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought he heard sobbing from the other end of the voice pipe, but the admiral raised himself and, from the completely shattered bridge, looked at the Bismarck, now close enough to be seen clearly with the naked eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That damn ship has become a tattered wreck, too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the Bismarck, its forward main turrets completely shattered, aiming its secondary guns, Admiral Laborde fumbled in his blood-soaked uniform, pulled out a cigarette, and lit it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Vive la France. …Fatherland, do not forgive me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, the tattered bridge of the Richelieu took a direct hit from a shell and exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>September 16, 1940\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Northern Germany, Berlin – Government Building\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days in land warfare is barely enough time for a unit to maneuver, but two days in naval warfare is more than enough time for several ships, into which the nation's budget was poured, to become sunken scrap metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The battleship Gneisenau, the heavy cruisers Admiral Hipper and Blücher, are sunk. The Bismarck will need eight months for repairs, the Scharnhorst six months, and the Prinz Eugen three…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sinking of the Gneisenau is painful, but it’s a relief that in such a fierce battle, the loss was limited to only one capital ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Admiral Raeder’s report highly praised the fact that the damage control training I had requested played a large part in the Bismarck’s survival, which was some consolation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a victory, if you could call it that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, ignoring the damage and looking only at the military gains, it could be considered a great victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We defeated the pride of the French battleships, the Richelieu, which was difficult to face even with the Hood and Bismarck combined, and the fast battleships Dunkerque and Strasbourg were also sunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On top of that, the fleeing French fleet was relentlessly pursued by the air force, and with the additional sinking of the Lorraine, the only French ships that returned to Calais alive were four obsolete battleships, two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering that even their surviving ships would take time to repair, just like ours, the French Navy has certainly been neutralized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the Reichsmarine, the key player in this victory, had nothing left either. The time and budget required to repair those ships is honestly staggering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I just can’t shake the feeling that this was a Pyrrhic victory…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no answer to my monologue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the aide's seat, where Claudia would usually chime in with a remark, was the new aide, Mr.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berger, instead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s a competent man of a similar age to me, but something is still lacking…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain Lindemann, who caused this unexpected incident, received a one-month suspension from duty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s called a suspension, but for the captain of a battleship that’s going to be in the dock anyway, a one-month suspension is just a disciplinary action for show.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the Reichsmarine’s perspective, although they took massive damage, the result was that the Bismarck survived and they annihilated France's main force of fast battleships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They earned the right to tell the Luftwaffe that they were able to achieve military merit thanks to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The funny thing is that the Reichsmarine is claiming the Bismarck sunk the Richelieu, the Royal Navy is claiming the Hood did it, and the French Navy is advertising that they fought heroically and then scuttled the ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a pointless pride battle…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyway, an anxious Churchill requested the swift dispatch of reinforcements, promising an escort with the Hood, which had suffered relatively less damage in this battle, and we sent General Rommel out this very morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hood, which was sunk on the Bismarck’s first sortie in the original history, is now escorting a German landing force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The changes in history are amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I was lost in idle thoughts, a hurried knock came, and Berger, who had received a telegram, handed it to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tore open the telegram without much thought, and my eyes nearly popped out of my head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Sikorski Line has collapsed, and the Polish and Soviet armies are fighting near Warsaw?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had been consistently pushed back, but I thought they were holding on somehow after we drastically increased military equipment support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this all of a sudden?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hastily reading the telegram, I thought I knew the reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, it wasn't a purge.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Georgy Zhukov, who was said to have resigned as Chief of the General Staff, had become the commander of the Polish Front Army and was launching a general offensive with 10,000 tanks.\u003C\u002Fp>",2467,"2026-06-05T17:48:35.000Z",1,"novelbin.me","2aa5530a20b466f444696375dd4ae401708b4b6564094a967ad17e08c98173dc","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-184","i-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-chapter-183",190,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-don-t-need-nazis-in-my-germany-cover.jpg"]