One Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty
There are a lot of crazy things in this world, but one of them is definitely driving a fighter jet and rushing towards a battleship covered with anti-aircraft guns all over the body - countless dazzling shells dragging light and flying towards you, and the plane you are flying In front of these shells, the fragile ones are no different from a piece of white paper.
Shuttle back and forth among the dense firepower like spider webs, avoid those enemy artillery fires that may cause fatal damage, and then maintain the flight path of the aircraft, and after dropping a deadly torpedo or bomb on the target, try to escape from danger—— Maybe it's safer to challenge a boa constrictor with your bare hands.
Perhaps the task of attacking ships was too dangerous, which led Germany in another time and space to develop an anti-ship missile such as Fritz-X to avoid the risk of losing pilots. It is a pity that in this time and space, Fritz-X is still on the design drawings and has not been equipped with German troops in time, so German pilots have to use their courage to face the British warships with anti-aircraft guns like hedgehogs.
One after another, the Stuka bombers aimed at the British warship in the distance, and began to dive and attack. The buzzer on the plane sounded like a ghost, and the sky suddenly filled with mournful screams. . And some FW-190s with torpedoes mounted began to fly close to the sea, aiming their noses at the side of the British fleet.
As a veteran powerhouse, the British Navy has absolutely excellent training levels. Their anti-aircraft firepower is very calm and calm, and although there are occasional mistakes, there has never been large-scale chaos or collapse. Coupled with the American planes overhead that kept interfering with German planes, the battle between the two sides really became an inextricable situation for a while.
The carrier-based aircraft of the German Naval Aviation tried every means to tear apart the opponent's air defense network, but after losing a large number of aircraft, they still failed to achieve their purpose. The enemy's anti-aircraft firepower network was still impenetrable, and most of the bombs and torpedoes dropped by Germany were also avoided without causing any decisive damage.
The German pilots flying the plane were extremely anxious and tried various methods, but the more anxious they were, the more they felt the pressure brought by the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower. Another ten minutes passed without knowing it, but none of the British warships were hit by the Germans.
"William... If this continues, this attack will be a waste of opportunity! We don't have much time, we can't waste it all here!" A Stuka bomber piloted his plane and rushed towards the sea almost vertically The pilot said to his commander: "I swore an oath under the flag...I will fight to the end for this country."
"Calm down! The next time we dive, try to drop bombs from both sides at the same time to imitate the opponent's S-shaped maneuver!" The voice of the captain came from behind the earphone. The interference sound of the electric current did not affect the anxiety in that voice at all, and people could feel the speaker's helplessness just by listening to it.
"Follow me! This time I must hit that damned British warship!" The German pilot flying in the front shook slightly with the bumps of his plane,
Because of the high-speed dive, his plane was shaking in the air current.
"I'm right behind you! The angle of your dive is too vertical! Change it! Change it! Otherwise, you won't be able to follow the warning prompts to pull up the plane!" The captain's voice continued: "You dive at this angle. The red line is no longer allowed! God!"
The Stuka bomber in front obviously didn't intend to heed the captain's reminder behind it, but roared its engine, and dived almost vertically towards the deck of the British Navy's aircraft carrier Ark Royal.
"Guzman... Hurry up and drop the bomb! Pull up! You idiot! You are too close to the sea!" The captain of the aircraft following him, who was in charge of this batch of attacks, was obviously stunned by the scene in front of him. He tried hard to pull up his plane, but found that the old acquaintance in the distance had no plans to pull up the plane again.
"Tell my son! Captain. Tell him I love him!" Guzman, the pilot of the Stuka bomber, said in a deep voice in the headset. And behind him, at the navigator's position, the shooter, who had been sifted by bullets, was swinging his lowered head back and forth with the air current.
After a pause of about a second, Guzman, the German carrier-based pilot who was about to hit the deck of the aircraft carrier, shouted the last sentence in his life: "Long live Greater Germany!"
"Boom!" With an explosion, the German Stuka carrier-based aircraft crashed into the turret of a dual-purpose gun on the deck of the Royal Ark aircraft carrier. The huge explosion caused the turret, the surrounding armored deck, and many side steel plates to change their shape and splash around.
The huge destructive force even destroyed a considerable circle around the double-mounted turret, which was higher than the flight deck. It directly lifted a fighter parked on it and flew the fighter into the distance. nautical mile.
The sudden explosion caused the entire Ark Royal aircraft carrier to shake and tremble violently. Dudley Pound, who was standing on the bridge, almost lost his footing. He grabbed the table beside him and managed to avoid falling. But when he raised his head in horror, he saw a huge explosion smoke rising directly in front of his porthole, tumbling, transpiring and slowly drifting away.
"We've been hit!" An officer stood firm with one hand on the wall, and screamed while holding his hat with the other: "Quick! Let the fire brigade and damage control personnel rush over there! Hurry up!"
Seeing the explosion in front of him, Dudley Pound was so shocked that he couldn't say a word. He had been praying that the British Royal Navy could save the battle, but finally found that all his prayers seemed to be in vain.
"Go to the place of the explosion immediately! I want to confirm the damage of the Ark Royal! Hurry up!" The captain loudly issued a series of orders behind Dudley Pound: "Let the Liverpool on the side come over quickly , Try to cover us! Call George! Let him confirm the damage to the hull! Eliminate the danger of water entry! Quick!"
This is the difference between a captain and an admiral. As the commander of the fleet, Dudley Pound may be more sensitive about when to attack or when to retreat, but the captain of each ship knows his own warship well, and will issue the latest order in the first time. Orders in line with the current situation.
As a sailor who participated in the Battle of the English Channel, as a soldier who witnessed the disastrous defeat of the Royal Navy, George was sitting in his command post just a few minutes ago, praying that he would not have to appear.
But with the violent shaking of the hull, George knew that his battleship was really hit this time. When the battleship was shaking and the sound of explosions was wafting back and forth in the corridor, he immediately issued a combat order for emergency repairs to his subordinates: "Sideboard! Bring fire-fighting equipment! Move quickly!"
After hearing the order, these damage control officers on standby quickly acted. Some of them used the phone in the cabin to contact the damage control officers near the bombed area, and some took their people and ran directly to the bombed area. , the entire corridor and individual cabins were in chaos, and everyone was playing their best role in stopping the loss.
"What exactly hit us? Now the ammunition bay of the anti-aircraft gun is on fire, and an explosion may happen at any time. It is necessary to prevent the fire from expanding further, so as not to threaten the fuel and other ammunition on board." The captain of the Ark Royal was on the battleship After the shaking stopped, he began to ask what happened to his battleship. Everyone saw the explosion, but for the specific reason, you have to ask the observation post and the witnesses on the deck to get the answer.
In fact, an aircraft carrier is an air base at sea. In addition to thousands of ground staff, service personnel and sailors, there are of course other things in this base: hundreds of tons of aerial bombs, and other weapons and ammunition. The fuel used by aircraft and the fuel needed by the aircraft carrier itself... In fact, this is no different from a huge gunpowder barrel ammunition depot, which is very easy to be destroyed.
What makes Dudley Pound a little helpless is that now the aircraft carrier on his side has been hit by the enemy and is on fire. The situation looks very dangerous. If something happens to this aircraft carrier, the remaining warships will also be destroyed by Germany. The aircraft carrier has been wiped out, and it is likely that only half of the ships will be able to escape back to Canada.
"Could it be that we are all going to die here today?" Dudley Pound looked at the burning smoke that blocked his vision, and couldn't help but let out a low sigh. He was waiting for the villain. There is also the battleship Nelson coming. If two battleships can enter the vicinity of the German fleet at this time and start the artillery battle that the British army is better at, he will have at least a three-point chance of winning.
However, if the HMS Villainous and the battleship Nelson did not arrive on the battlefield on time, then the British Navy might really suffer a catastrophe. The repairing soldiers were frantically busy. They sprayed seawater on the fire, trying to prevent the fire from spreading.
But something desperate happened. When the German planes saw the Ark Royal aircraft carrier on fire, they immediately surrounded them. They also desperately threw bombs and torpedoes at the Ark Royal, trying to completely destroy the British aircraft carrier. Shen. Even in order to attack the Ark Royal, the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which was on fire on the other side, seemed to be ignored at this moment.