It is not that the so-called tradition of the British navy allowed the fisherman's fleet to attack. This tradition is actually not true, the British Navy does dare to fight, and the British people also like people with strong styles, but in the case of bad circumstances, the British Navy is definitely a hero who does not suffer immediate losses! The British knew very well that the size of their fleet was much smaller than that of their opponents, not to mention the lineup of 3 aviation cruisers and 1 heavy cruiser of the AB fleet combined, that is, the A fleet was stronger than the fisherman's fleet. And in the battle just now, judging by the intelligence of the British, the fleet of Fleet A did not lose much. The only thing that worked in favor of the British was that the Germans were at a time when the old power was gone and the new power was not yet born, (to put it bluntly, when the aircraft carrier was receiving the planes and could no longer release the planes.) At this time, there is a bargain to be taken.

From a tactical point of view, the British thought that it was good to go up and fight a stick at this time, and from a formal point of view, it was inevitable that the British would make a move. The Germans can complete the rearmament of the second wave of aircraft in a maximum of two hours after recovering this wave of attacks, and the location of the TY33 transport fleet has been exposed, although the fleet can now give the order to disband, but the losses of 4 cruisers and dozens of aircraft in a wave will still be very large, so the British must not watch this transport fleet be destroyed like this. This transport fleet is larger and carries more supplies, not to mention, the British don't know if they are exposed, if they are, the German fleet will definitely not be able to let go of themselves, and they will definitely not be able to run. The escort aircraft carrier and the aviation cruiser still can't beat the latter! Therefore, after receiving the telegram from the Swordfish, the British ordered other reconnaissance planes to approach the target and prepare for guidance, while on the other hand, they immediately set up a group of planes to prepare for the attack.

If the British did it with a desperate determination, then the German fleet, which was in a vacuum, was even more frightened when they saw the Swordfish. The aviation capabilities of the aviation cruisers are really incomparable with those of aircraft carriers of the same tonnage, not only in terms of attack power and total number of aircraft carried, but also in terms of operation. The deck is small, but it takes a long time to run each time. At this time, apart from a few BF109 fighters in the air, there are really no other direct defense forces, and God knows how much hidden power the Entente still has in this sea area! By now, Cranke even thinks that he has misestimated the strength of his opponent. If only the Americans had mobilized 4 or 5 escort aircraft carriers in just a few days to besiege themselves. That's a really tough situation! Come to think of it. Cranke felt a chill come up from his pelvis!

"Not done yet?" Cranke cursed as he discussed the current situation with the staff officer next to him. To be honest, now there is no other way than to immediately destroy the opponent's guidance aircraft with fighters and run away. "We don't really need to be too nervous, our pilots judged that the other plane's plane was a Swordfish, if the British were going to attack us with such a plane. Then it will take us a long time to prepare. And the scale of the other side will not be very large, otherwise the British and Americans will hold together, leaving an aircraft carrier to release fighters alone to be responsible for the air is undoubtedly the best choice, I estimate that it is a British escort aircraft carrier that has just driven from elsewhere, and we can release 1 BF16 fighter jets in 109 hours. No big deal. "That's when it happened. Krak's aviation staff objectively estimated the forces of the opposing side.

This is indeed the case, if the British Spitfire is better than the F4F, this is true, but when it comes to attack aircraft, it is that even the United States can mock the British. What's more, on the not very good platform of escort aircraft carriers, the attack power of the British fleet is really low, and after some analysis, Cranker thinks that he can retreat one after another, and then fight back with the B fleet, maybe he can still leave the British behind! So, on the one hand, Cranke was preparing to fight back. On the other hand, it demanded that Hoffman's B fleet immediately move closer to him and defend in a group!

Just as Fleet A and Fleet B were speeding up to get closer, the BF109 fighter who was patrolling in the air pounced on the voyeur next to him like a falcon, and the heavy and slow Swordfish had nothing to do in the face of the BF109 fighter, and a simple point shot tore the Swordfish to pieces. There was an instant silence on the battlefield, the British planes were rushing to the battlefield, and the German fleet was preparing the next wave of fighters for sortie. Increasingly, Cranker felt that something was wrong, and ordered the deck to prepare the fighters while also having the ground crew prepare the attack aircraft in the hangar. In general, hanging bombs and refueling in hangars is prohibited. Because once the hangar is shot, it is very easy to cause a martyrdom. If you have to do this, you must get the permission of the captain. Cranke didn't want to have a tail behind his ass after this fight. So. He'd rather give up the attack on the TY33 convoy than take out this voyeur guy!

Crake and Hoffman quickly came to an agreement. Hoffman ordered the Hamburg to take off the remaining seaplanes to reconnoiter in the direction of the appearance of the Swordfish, while on the other hand, he used the relatively complete half of the deck and the half-pull hangar to prepare the BF109 fighters, the take-off situation was very bad, the BF109 fighters did not have auxiliary fuel tanks, and the internal fuel and ammunition had to be limited. Even the armor at the rear of the pilot's left wing was removed! All the loads that could be removed were removed, and I was able to barely slide and take off from the back of the deck. And even so, a BF109 fighter jet plunged into the sea when it took off because the runway was too short!

As the minutes ticked by, the Germans stared at the radar screen while waiting for news from the reconnaissance aircraft. They did not know how many planes the British fleet had sent to the ground. If it is two escort aircraft carriers, there will be no more than 40 planes sent, then they can still resist, if it is 3, there will be losses in Bacheng, if it is more, then it is really impossible to eat and go around, but Cranke believes that the Entente will not have such a strong force in this sea area. What Kranke didn't expect was that the reconnaissance plane actually discovered the location of the British fleet before the British attack aircraft attacked, and the radiolocation facilities carried by the seaplanes successfully intercepted the location of the target, and then the Germans deciphered the British telegram, and the British fleet demanded that the TY33 transport fleet be quickly disbanded. They will be in charge of the queen of the temple.

In the end, when the British group appeared on the German radar screen, all the people breathed a sigh of relief and made a fuss for a long time, it turned out that there were only two or three kittens like this! The planes sent by the other side were only one squadron, about 16 planes. The cruising speed is estimated to be less than 200 kilometers. (Actually, that's how fast the Swordfish can cruise when carrying a bomb.) In history, Comrade Prime Minister was so black that his leg was broken by this thing! It is also true that a wave of attacks of this magnitude is hardly a threat to Fleet A. And when the two sides met, the Germans were even more relieved that they were facing not the British's Sea Spitfire 5, but the Sea Hurricane! This backward aircraft has no way to face the cutting-edge BF109TF! Thereupon. The Germans fought one of the most painful air battles. With one British plane after another being smashed into pieces in the air or dangling and falling, in less than 20 minutes, the British attack was completely disintegrated, and even Yu Chong's nearest Swordfish attack plane failed to enter the range of the German anti-aircraft artillery!

When the British offensive was broken up, the Germans immediately launched a wave of counterattacks. At this time, the distance between the two sides was not far, and the maximum distance did not exceed 300 kilometers. After an escort aircraft carrier lost 16 aircraft, there was no aviation power, and in the end, the second wave of attacks launched by Fleet A, under the cover of 4 BF109 fighters, 10 attack aircraft carrying 250KG bombs took off from the aircraft carrier (of which BF109TF were 6 and JU90 bombers were 4), although this wave of attack was the smallest group of aircraft sent by both sides today, but Cranke believed. This little force is still enough to clean up the British!

It is true that the carrier-based aircraft of the escort aircraft carriers of the British Navy are inferior to the Americans! The American escort aircraft carriers are at least F4F and TBF aircraft, and the number is sufficient. And the British are not only carrier-based aircraft coffee tables. And the number is not enough, there are only 24 planes on the escort aircraft carrier Giant! There are only 20 that can be used! Only 4 aircraft were intercepted in the end! In the face of broiler chickens in the middle of broilers, the Germans naturally taught their opponents how to behave in minutes, and 10 attack planes roared to the target. The rest was simple, in front of the wolf-like German attack aircraft, the British escort aircraft carriers did not hold out for even a quarter of an hour! In less than 5 minutes, it was hit by 2 250KG high-explosive shells and 1 500KG high-explosive shell! With a loud bang, the entire battleship instantly broke into two and sank into the water. Also buried with him was a flat-plate destroyer, which was hit by a 250KG bomb. The depth bomb bay, located in the rear, was ignited directly, and after a loud bang, it turned into a pile of debris.

At this point, the first battle between the navies of the two sides came to an end. During the four-hour engagement, due to some fortuitous reasons, the German fleet was gathered in one place, and the British and American navies suffered heavy losses due to the double inferiority of strength and technology, three escort aircraft carriers and about 80 aircraft of various kinds were completely lost, and three anti-submarine destroyers did not escape. And in the German Navy, only the Nuremberg aviation cruiser received moderate damage. However, the flight deck is basically unusable, and you can only return home.

After recovering the second wave of attack aircraft, Kranke did not have the heart to attack the scattered TY33 fleet, although according to the Germans' speculation, the position of the dissolution of the fleet and the TY33 fleet at this time was only about 180 kilometers, which is nothing for aircraft, but if it is replaced by a battleship, it will take at least 3 hours to run! The pilots were already very tired after two attack operations and one anti-aircraft interception operation, and almost all of them had already taken to the air twice today. Therefore, if you send planes to attack, on the one hand, it will be difficult to find scattered transport ships, and on the other hand, the conditions themselves will not be very good. So after solving the British fleet, Kranke integrated the remaining German fleet.

Although the British fleet failed to save the world and successfully put itself in a series of engagements, one thing is for sure, the British sacrifice was not useless, they gave the TY33 fleet at least 2 to 3 hours to evacuate, and they also used up almost all of the German fleet's ability to fly that day. In a sense, the British did not save the world, but saved the TY33 fleet! It is not an irony that they covered the safe evacuation of the precious transport ship and the supplies on it at a relatively small cost, and in the end, the victorious German fleet failed to sink even a single transport ship on the same day!

"With the Nuremberg being heavily damaged, the B Fleet has actually existed in name only, it is difficult for the Hamburg to meet the needs of breaking diplomatic relations at the same time, and even self-defense is a difficult thing, the other side only has one escort aircraft carrier to destroy the Hamburg without sufficient aviation power, so I hope that the Hamburg can be merged into the A Fleet, and we will first cover the Nuremberg to sail a distance to the northwest, and after leaving the battlefield, let Your Excellency return alone." Colonel Cranke said this at a high-level meeting. His meaning was clear, to compensate for the lack of reconnaissance forces with the seaplanes of the Hamburg, and at the same time to cover the evacuation of the Nuremberg.

"Yes, the Nuremberg can also contribute the remaining aircraft, pilots, fuel and ammunition to make up for the losses of the A Fleet in the engagement. But I hope I can stay in Fleet A and continue to fight. I knew the sea very well, and the captain of the Nuremberg could have sailed the ship back. Colonel Hoffman was supportive of Krrank's request, but also wanted to continue fighting. In this case, Colonel Krank, as the chief officer of the two fleets, has the right to decide, so he doesn't mind very much, not to mention, with the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, Colonel Kranke needs someone who can keep an eye on the Austrians, and Colonel Hoffmann, who is fluent in Hungarian, is naturally a good choice.

While the Germans were consolidating their forces and sharpening their knives, the Allies were in a gloomy position, with two convoys destroyed within a few hours, and the entire South Atlantic defences deteriorating dramatically before new forces intervened. Even on the verge of collapse, the large loss of escort aircraft carriers not only made it difficult for the Entente to pose a threat to the German attack fleet in a short period of time, but also caused a great reduction in the pressure on German submarines because of the loss of anti-submarine forces, and it can be expected that in the near future, German submarines will be even more rampant! After the news reached the top of the Entente, it was proposed to temporarily reduce the volume of shipping in the South Atlantic to 40% in order to reduce losses. At the same time, the main fleet of the Entente was also required to immediately attack and destroy these German attack ships that were rampant on the ocean.

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, hukaikaka for the tip~~~. (To be continued.) )