333 bad luck
This is a war, a brutal war that mobilizes the entire strength of one's own country, and then destroys the enemy's territory and kills as many enemy citizens as possible. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In this war, the attacking side will do everything possible to weaken the enemy's war capability, including starving the other side's citizens and paralyzing the other country.
After a loud explosion, the munitions ship, which was filled with cars and stuffed with weapons and ammunition, broke apart in the flames and began to sink into the invisible abyss.
Old Jack realized at this time that he was standing on top of a bomb that could explode. He looked at the plane in the distance in embarrassment, and forgot to speak for a while.
The second JU-87C dive bomber also chose a transport ship and dropped bombs on the deck of the transport ship before the other side could react.
So, as the second explosion came and the flames rolled and steamed, the two Stuka bombers flew away, and the entire British fleet fell into an inexplicable panic.
"This ...... This is a plane of the Germans! Damn it! This is a plane of the Germans! Old Jack, who came back to his senses, opened his mouth and pointed to the German plane that was gradually turning into a small black dot in the distance, and shouted loudly.
Although he had served as a sailor in the Royal Navy many years ago, where had he ever seen such a high-end commodity as an airplane in his years of fighting for the Empire?
In the previous war, the battleships on the sea shelled each other, which was the main theme of the struggle for hegemony in the ocean.
In the era of the First World War, the new weapon of the aircraft was simply a battleship with rough skin and thick flesh, and there was no way to do it at all.
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Old Jack was really crazy. He looked at the enemy planes in the distance and could not believe his eyes all the time.
If it weren't for the transports exploding, if the transports weren't sinking, he would have thought he was asleep in the bridge and had a terrible nightmare.
But now, with the sea breeze blowing, he looked at the friendly transport ship that was burning and exploding in the distance, and he was so shocked that he couldn't even speak coherently.
Will the Germans' planes come back after they are gone? When you come back, will there still be only two? Will it be a hundred, will it be two hundred?
"O my God! Have you abandoned the people of England? Isn't Britain already falling? Looking at the sea in the distance, Old Jack muttered.
The entire fleet had already sounded the alarm by this time, and the British naval liaison officers on the transport ships began to arrange for sailors to be on the temporarily installed self-defense weapons station, ready to fire at the air.
No one is professionally trained in anti-aircraft fire, and most of the transport ships simply do not have such weapons warfare.
Some of the ships were equipped with flat-firing guns that fired at the sea, and these weapons were used against German submarines.
Only a few ships had 25 mm caliber cannons on them that could raise the elevation angles. Such a weapon was originally used for courage, but now when it is really taken out to fight the enemy, only God knows how powerful it is.
Because of the great losses, most of the sailors in the transport fleet were actually rookies with no sailing experience.
They don't even have the qualifications to be sailors, let alone use anti-aircraft weapons to stop enemy bombing.
However, it is even more impossible to sit and wait for everyone to sit still. In this case, as long as you have a weapon in your hand, you will inevitably fire back, desperately trying to keep yourself alive.
"How could there be a German plane? Yes? How the hell did they get here? Old Jack, who finally came to his senses, pulled the liaison officer's sleeve and asked with fear on his face.
The young officer from the navy also turned pale with fright, and stammered back, "You ask me? Who goes, I ask? ”
God is pitiful, he is just a liaison officer, mainly in charge of route arrangement, as well as shabby things such as regulating fleet navigation, and he hasn't even touched a gun yet!
The destroyers on the periphery are realigning as much as they can, hoping to provide the fleet with as much anti-aircraft fire as possible when the enemy planes return.
The commander of the destroyer fleet was reporting the encounter with the German plane to the London naval command, which was far away.
On the other side, because only German naval planes were seen, the fleet still maintained a neat formation and accelerated forward.
"The Germans are attacking the TC flotilla! The Germans are attacking the TC transport convoy from Canada! An officer waved the message in his hand and ran to Dudley, who was waiting for news. Bond.
Pound heard the news and almost fainted. That TC fleet has been changed and strengthened, and there are dozens of transport ships in it!
Not only that, but there were several munitions ships in this fleet, carrying supplies and food that Britain urgently needed!
Because too many transport ships have been sunk by German submarines, every large transport fleet in recent times has been precious and cannot be lost.
Now that the planes of the Germans have appeared in the sky over the TC fleet, the huge losses are basically a sure thing......
"Can we afford to lose like this?" Dudley? Pound looked helplessly at Churchill beside him and asked in a low voice.
Churchill's face turned white with anger, and he wanted to throw the document in his hand on the other party's face - can I afford the loss? How can I afford to lose?
Are you Dudley? Pound doesn't know what state the price of daily necessities in London has skyrocketed to now?
White flour and finished bread can already be described as a serious shortage! Not to mention the industrial side of steel, and the all-important munitions!
This TC convoy can no longer arrive at the port on time, and the shortage of supplies in Britain is bound to reach a new height, and the pressure on him, the prime minister, will be even greater.
"Let Charles's fleet get over quickly! We can't afford to lose any transport fleets casually anymore! That's the fleet! Not a ship! Churchill was furious, lowered his voice and scolded.
Although his words were muffled, countless naval officers heard them. If the transport fleet suffers any further losses, the possibility of further price increases is even greater.
It's only right to find a chance to go out and grab some food first...... Don't go hungry when the whole family is hungry.
"Charles's fleet has turned, there are too many old battleships with slow speed, and the speed of the entire fleet cannot be raised, and it will not be able to rush to the sea area where the accident occurred in a short time." Dudley? Pound also felt depressed.
With a fleet of old battleships built in 1917, go after a brand new fleet with an average age of less than 7 years...... Who loves to do this kind of work, who will do it, and he wants to resign?
This side is helpless because the fleet is too far away, and the TC fleet over there has seen a bomber formation of ten Stuka in the sky.
To be able to see ten planes flying overhead at the same time in such a place, the sailors of the British transport fleet really had 10,000 *** flying in their hearts......
If they could, they would really like to scold their mother, or ask the Admirals of the Royal Navy: "How many enemies have you sent for us to carry?" ”
The submarine troops, who were already depressed and had to be on guard against the Germans at all times, are now good that they even have airplanes......
The depressed British sailors, standing on their transport ships, watched as the planes shuttled between the scattered anti-aircraft fire, and then dropped bombs on the defenseless transport ships.
Compared to torpedoes, which are sometimes easy to use and sometimes difficult to use, the Stuka bomber, carrying bombs, has considerable destructive power in the face of slow transport ships with almost no anti-aircraft firepower.
The explosions were one after the other, and in just a few minutes, German planes sank six British transport ships at the cost of zero casualties.
Together with the two ships that were sunk just now, the British transport fleet has already sunk 8 ships, and the losses can be described as huge.
However, this is certainly not the point of the suffering of the British transport fleet, and it is only the beginning.
A few minutes later, on the British escort destroyer, who had been paying attention to the sky, a sailor saw the battleship Bismarck rushing towards like a hill in the distance!
It is really not easy to see such a magnificent, neat and well-designed battleship in the vast sea.
And in the other direction of the fleet, the British transport, which had not had time to turn around and disperse and escape, saw another battleship of the same design and appearance.
Similarly, directly in front of them, two German battleships were already aimed at their noses with their guns. One was the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and the other was the battlecruiser Gneisenau......
Blocked by four capital warships, the poor worms of the British TC transport fleet have never been more desperate than they are today.
In the bloody waters of the Atlantic, which had been stirred up by the battlecruiser Scharnhorst, it had not been quiet for a few days before the German battleships appeared.
Moreover, 4 ships appeared in one go! You must know that each of the four warships in front of you is a star that is enough to use half of the Royal Navy fleet to encircle and suppress it!
The desperate British destroyer could only open fire and hastily prepare to launch torpedoes. But the opposing warships obviously did not intend to give them a chance to resist.
From the 381 mm caliber main gun to the 88 mm caliber secondary gun, a fierce fire caused the entire TC transport fleet to be drowned in an explosion of fire.
Old Jack on the transport ship, until he was blown to the surface of the sea by the gas wave of the gasoline explosion, did not understand why his luck was so bad today......