Chapter 149: The Power of the Dive
Schmidt had thirty JU87s in his hands, so many planes, it was impossible for him to specifically assign that plane to attack that ship, Schmidt only gave a general order:
"The first group attacked the enemy flagship, the second team dived and bombed the enemy light cruisers, the third team flew close to the sea surface, attacked the enemy light cruisers with air-fired torpedoes, and acted immediately."
Schmidt first aimed at the main warships of the Rutte detachment, and the high command gave this kind of dive torpedo a damage value of one light cruiser that was seriously damaged, losing 60 percent of its combat effectiveness, and two of them were about to be sunk. The one-ton torpedo was accelerated by the dive bomber and smashed into the top deck of the ship's weak armor at a speed of more than 1,000 kilometers per hour.
The five light cruisers of the Lütte detachment were Königsberg, Cologne, Karlsruhe, Lepzig and Ningburg.
Schmidt's first group of ten JU87 dive bombers began to occupy their own attack positions, Schmidt divided his ten planes into two groups, the first group dive bombing from a high altitude, the second group flew close to the sea, and fired torpedoes in the air when the Cologne was one thousand meters away.
"Dada...... Da Da ...... Woowoo"
All the anti-aircraft guns on the twenty ships below the Lüte detachment began to fire fiercely, the anti-aircraft fire of the German warships was not weak, and countless plastic inkjet warheads shuttled in the air, but the speed of the dive-diving bombers was extremely fast at this time, diving from more than 5,000 meters in the air to about 1,000 meters, and it only took a few seconds. Although the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the ships below was intensive, it could not stop the JU87 from diving down at a speed of more than a thousand kilometers per hour.
Schmidt was the first to dive. Countless anti-aircraft shells chased after Mister's plane, but when the shells flew away. Mister's plane had already dived far away, and those whip-like anti-aircraft shells chased Mister's plane and strafed, but they didn't hit Schmidt's plane.
"Woo woo" JU87 made a terrible sound, Mister kept adjusting the dive direction of his plane in the air, because the Cologne below kept taking a zigzag route, this method still has a certain effect on the aerial bombs dropped by horizontal bombers, but for the dive bombers of JU87, this is basically ineffective, and these pilots under Schmidt have participated in the Eagle Corps. All the JU87 pilots also went to air raids on Japanese aircraft carriers, and these evasive maneuvers of the ships below were doomed to be useless.
"Hoo ......"
When Schmidt dived to a kilometer above the Cologne, he pressed the bomb button, and a thousand kilograms of torpedoes roared and smashed into the Cologne below like lightning, with a loud "bang", the torpedo broke, and red ink splattered everywhere.
All right! Cologne dropped only a more than 100-kilogram plastic inkjet torpedo. Schmidt felt his fuselage light, and quickly pulled the joystick, and Schmidt's landline JU87 roared again and climbed at a rapid angle almost vertically.
A JU87 dive bomber that followed Schmidt closely did not follow to break through the anti-aircraft fire network. Hit by an inkjet exercise bomb, the pilot had no choice but to wrest his wings at the ship below, indicating that he had shot it down and that it was time to withdraw from the exercise. There were more than a dozen recesses in his fuselage, and the entire fuselage was covered in blue ink. Limer's ammunition and Redder's ammunition are different colors, and Limer's red plastic inkjet bullets are used. The blue plastic inkjet bullet used by Marshal Raeder is so easy to distinguish.
Hit on the top of the Cologne. There is a special staff officer who is responsible for counting the damage, and he is not affiliated with either side of the exercise. The telegram that the Cologne was hit by a heavy torpedo was soon sent to the general command of the exercise of the high command, and Cologne was immediately judged to be seriously injured, and Rutte had no choice, and Rutte cursed in his heart: "Why didn't this damn dive bomber find out that it was so powerful!" ”
The air raid continued, after the second JU87 withdrew from the exercise, the second JU87 followed one after another, this JU87 successfully broke through the air defense network of the ship below, and a torpedo whistled and smashed down, "......bang" This time the Cologne was directly smashed into the middle of the ship, and the red ink flying everywhere splashed the middle part of the Cologne.
Rutte happened to be at the aviation command platform, and the red ink also splashed his face, and now Rutte wanted to cry without tears, and muttered to himself:
"It's over, how can I explain it to Marshal Raeder! I hate the JU87 dive bomber...... Damn it...... Ay...... Hang the white flag to indicate withdrawal from the exercise. ”
Schmidt's first team of dive bombers lost one, but the JU87 that flew air-launched torpedoes casually could not break through the defensive circle composed of the destroyers below, this method of sticking to the surface air-launched torpedoes was very traditional, and the destroyers below were able to defend easily, and the flight speed of the JU87 was not very fast, only more than 300 kilometers per hour.
Schmidt's first group, JU87 dive bombers, was attacking through the attack, and the result was tragic, the front three were painted with blue ink all over the fuselage, and their fate immediately withdrew from the exercise, and the two behind had no choice, and fired two torpedoes at the destroyer from a distance, and as a result, a destroyer of the Rutte detachment was hit by a shot, and the result was not bad, three JU87 dive bombers replaced a destroyer of the Rutte detachment, although this replacement was cost-effective, but Li Mo would never dare, Because Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation has a total of only thirty JU87s, and there are also thirty spare JU87s, how can Li Mo replace the planes with such a ratio, it takes three destroyers to change a song, what about light cruisers, how many JU87s do battleships need to be replaced, that battle damage ratio is definitely not three, and by that time the Raeder fleet has not been completely annihilated, I am afraid that Li Mo will replace all his JU87s.
Schmidt, who climbed into the air, soon knew the result, and immediately knew the result that made him frustrated, and Schmidt hurriedly ordered to his flying group:
"All planes can only use the method of dive bombing, and do not use the method of launching torpedoes close to the sea and air unless absolutely necessary."
When Schmidt gave the order, his group had six more JU87s shot down because they wanted to launch torpedoes in the air, fortunately Schmidt corrected early, all the planes were pulled into the air and carried out dive bombing, this time the Rutte detachment was miserable, the JU87 scream of "woo woo" was continuous, and the warships below were constantly hit by plastic inkjet bombs, and when all the planes finished dropping bombs, Schmidt, who was hovering in the air, looked at the battleships below, and almost eighteen ships hung up the white flag, They are the ships that were sentenced to withdraw from the exercise.
This result made Schmidt can't believe it, the Rutte fleet only had a total of 20 warships, and 18 were destroyed at this time, which is the end of the fleet without aircraft cover, especially the precise bombing of high-speed dive bombers like JU87, which is simply a nightmare for warships, and it is simply impossible to prevent it.
…… (To be continued......)