Three Hundred and Sixty-Four Sharp Turns

"Boom!" Hood's main gun fired after tilting to a certain angle, and the huge artillery roared like a mournful cry. Because the battleship was tilted and there was no way to aim it, the shell hit the sea about a thousand meters away from the outer edge of the German High Seas Fleet.

This gun is the sad struggle of the battleship era, and this gun is Lieutenant General Holland's last elegy. Although it was already doomed to fail, Lieutenant General Holland accomplished a feat, a feat of chasing and killing the German High Seas Fleet for 9 hours and 47 minutes, and also completed the first crazy use of battlecruisers and the opponent's aircraft carrier fleet in human history. A tragic attempt at a decisive battle.

The shell hit the water surface, splashing a huge water column taller than a battleship. Let the sailors on the German battleship appreciate the true power of the 381mm main guns on the battleship. Of course, this night's aggrieved escape also allowed the German navy to appreciate why the British Empire was known as the maritime hegemony for a year.

Above the sky, the formation of British Swordfish attack planes came out in full force this time. The fighter planes that took off from the Royal Ark and the planes from the Hermes, this time a total of 40 Swordfish attack planes were dispatched. It also escorted 15 new Dapeng fighter jets from the Ark Royal.

This Roc fighter is the naval version of the British Air Force's Dreadnought fighter, that is, the weird fighter with an electric turret and four 7.7mm machine guns on its back. Of course, the performance of this fighter can't match that of the German f, but it is actually much better than the original Bulldog biplane fighter used by the British Navy. So the most advanced HMS Ark Royal aircraft carrier in the hands of the navy was equipped with this kind of fighter jet to catch up with the air gap of the German navy.

It is also because of this that at this moment, the dense reflection signals on the German warning radar are not 15 British fighter jets, but a total of 55 aircraft. Of course, when several German radar destroyers confirmed the number of British aircraft for the second time, they raised the alert level to the highest level, and the number of British fighter jets was also revised to at least 40.

"God! Don't you really protect the British Empire anymore?" On the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, the flagship of the British Northern Siege Fleet, George, the commander in chief of damage control, let the morning sea breeze blow his face and sighed. Said: "Just now Lieutenant General Holland sent a telegram, he is sinking with the Hood."

In fact, George somewhat wronged God. It stands to reason that God still prefers the British Navy. In the night battle, the battlecruiser HMS Hood of the Royal Navy hit the Admiral Earl Spey of the German Navy for the second time. This can be said to be well-trained British naval artillery, but no one doubts that there is an element of luck.

Moreover, during the escape at night, Lütjens changed his course only once because of his excessive caution, and was discovered by a British submarine. This is also the result of the luck of the British fleet. Just imagine if Lütjens left the bait and led the troops to take another risky turn, at least a 70% probability of avoiding the British fleet. But the reality is that Lütjens did not do this, and almost ruined the entire High Seas Fleet.

In addition, the overall cooperation and communication of the German navy in this pursuit is still a bit slow. For example, in the pursuit,

There is a German submarine that happens to be near the line of the British Navy. If it can be contacted in advance, then this submarine may create a miracle of interception in the middle. It is a pity that the submarine dived without order, because it mistook the former German Navy High Seas Fleet for a British battleship. As we all know, submarines cannot receive communication signals underwater, so this submarine also missed orders from the headquarters.

But then again, if compared with the luck of the German High Seas Fleet, the luck of the British Navy is undoubtedly a bit worse. First of all, in the selection of the chasing force, he chose the No. 1 spy ship of the Navy, Tianzi, with more than half of the German spies. The second is that in the process of pursuit, you should not disrupt the formation and charge freely at the end, giving the spy destroyer an opportunity.

Of course, the sky was clear the next day and the wind and waves were not strong, so that the German Navy could take off the carrier-based aircraft to fight back smoothly, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back. So God's darling, the British Royal Navy, met God's own son, the German Navy this time, so it took advantage of the right time, place and people, and had to taste the bitter fruit of failure.

Günter Lal drove the plane to confirm the intrusion target on the radar, and behind his f was a whole 0 fighter jets piloted by the German Naval Aviation, and it was precisely because he was waiting for these fighter jets to form formation in the sky, This allowed the British attack fleet to be less than 10 kilometers away from the German aircraft carrier fleet.

"Wait a minute, all fighter jets are prohibited from dogfighting! The highest goal is to destroy the opponent's torpedo attack planes and bombers, understand?" Günter Lal reminded his comrades in the radio as he climbed up and prepared to meet the enemy.

In the earphones, the voice of the command room of the German aircraft carrier air force came: "The radar confirms that you have encountered the other party! Pay attention to your bottom! Don't let a British plane go!"

"The enemy plane is below! Pay attention to find the target!" Günter Lal shook the joystick slightly, adjusted the attitude of the plane, and then issued his own order loudly.

"Understood! Captain! I am following you to climb, I saw the British fighter below." His wingman replied loudly.

"Above the British fighter jets, there are fearless fighter jets like those encountered by the Air Force, with electric turrets on them, I saw it!" The pilot of another plane reported the enemy situation he saw.

"Follow the tactics of the Air Force! Dive at a long distance and use the propeller center shaft gun to suppress! Pay attention to the shooting precision! We can't waste ammunition!" Jingte Lal didn't have time to arrange the attack plan in detail, because there was no one behind them. Far away is the core air defense circle of the German High Seas Fleet.

As soon as he pushed the joystick of the plane, f flexibly started the best dive action. With the roar of the fighter jet engine, this reliable plane had already approached the speed of 620 kilometers per hour, making Günter Lal's back tight Stick your own seat.

"TuTu! TuTu!" The British Roc fighter jets huddled together began to shoot at the swooping German fighter jets, but because of the small caliber of the machine guns, these bullets formed a continuously floating fire net in the sky .

However, the German fighter jets soon began to fight back. The shells fired by the 30mm caliber nose shaft gun were swift and powerful, and instantly suppressed the small-caliber machine gun on the electric turret of the Dapeng fighter jet.

Günter Lal didn't have time to chat with these British fighters now, he took the lead in attacking, opened fire first, and directly smashed a poor Roc fighter into pieces. Speaking of the terrible 30mm cannon design, but the Luftwaffe equipped it early in order to deal with large bombers and used it to deal with these smaller enemy fighters.

The performance advantage of the German fighter jets and the British Navy have not yet been filled, so there seems to be no suspense in this battle. Not counting the Swordfish attack aircraft, 20 German fighter jets will challenge 15 Dapeng fighter jets. If you can't win again, it seems to be unreasonable.

With one dive attack, the German fighters broke up the formation of the British fighter group. Two of the British fighter jets fell into the sea with black smoke tails, and two were directly smashed into pieces in the air. The Luftwaffe also incidentally shot down two Swordfish attack planes and fell into the sea, completing an intercept cleanly.

The British fighter jets panicked, but they still rushed towards the direction of the German aircraft carrier fleet, but they soon knew that this method of fighting regardless of cost seemed to be unworkable, because 16 more planes flew in the direction of the German aircraft carrier formation f. There are more than 280 aircraft on the German aircraft carrier (because a few helicopters were added half a month ago), while the British aircraft carrier fleet has only a poor 80 or so aircraft.

This is a gap in absolute numbers, a gap that cannot be made up in the short term, and it is also the only advantage that the German Navy can seize command of the sea in the short term. Therefore, when the German Navy sent two formations of 80 attack aircraft and fighter jets to attack the Hood, 36 fighter jets could be deployed for fleet air defense.

What is a big hand, this is a big hand! The British attack aircraft force immediately lost its position. Although it was still flying towards the position of the German aircraft carrier, the formation was completely disrupted by the German fighter jets and turned into a mess.

The British aircraft, which lost the cover of formation formation, were even more passive. The speed disadvantage and technical gap left the entire British air force without the capital to resist. With the tearing of 36 German fighter jets, a full 20 British planes have been shot down, and the rest of the planes cannot even maintain their attack formation.

Although the German aircraft carrier fleet could even be seen from a distance, the British pilots still had no way to get closer to their goal. They tried several times and were shot down by German fighter jets. In desperation, the remaining British Swordfish attack planes bit the bullet and threw the torpedoes into the sea.

At this distance, it is of course impossible for British torpedoes to hit German ships. At most, it can cause the entire German fleet to panic, and then the fleet formation is slightly chaotic. Even the direction of most torpedoes cannot affect the German navy at all.

However, the British naval aviation was forced to throw torpedoes, and the German navy's interceptor fighter formation did not intend to let these poor British swordfish go. The two Dapeng planes accelerated to escape, and all the remaining 53 planes were lost in the airspace near the German Navy.

Of course, the two escaped rocs may be thanking themselves for surviving the catastrophe, but they don't seem to notice that 20 German flotillas with torpedoes and small bombs are following them above the clouds.

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