readx;?“ All planes should take off as much as possible within 3o minutes, and immediately after takeoff, throw away all ammunition to carry out the interception mission! The remaining planes that could not take off were pushed directly into the sea! Empty the deck of everything flammable and explosive, whether it's bombs, fish, fuel or planes! Nimitz made the right decision at the critical moment, but alas, the German attack group would not have given the Americans such a long time to clear the deck!

The Americans showed their opponent 21o kilometers away, and after counting the links of information exchange, making decisions, and giving orders, more than ten minutes have passed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Yawen 8w - And by the time the first planes that served as cover in the air went up to intercept them, the Germans had already broken through to a distance of 1oo kilometers! Although the German AR234 bomber is far inferior to the Huaxia dual-power reconnaissance aircraft when it is fully loaded, the penetration degree is still easily 6oo kilometers per hour! If you add up the range of the guided weapon, this last stretch can be described as instantaneous!

The attacking German Magic Box group was flying even faster than the escorting planes at this time, the iron-gray paint and black crosses streaked through the air like a gray ghost, and the guided bombs hanging under the wings were like the sickles of death emitting a deadly glow! In the face of this terrifying existence whose flight degree is still far above that of the Mosquito aircraft, even with the performance of the Skua fighter, there is only one chance to intercept it! If it can't be stopped head-on, the same plane will never have a chance to attack again until the other side drops bombs!

Perhaps in terms of total volume, the Americans' aircraft fleet can still intercept the opponent, but unfortunately, in a hurry, the United States and Britain simply did not have time to coordinate the aircraft groups scattered around, and it was even more impossible for the aircraft to take off temporarily. The advanced fire control that the United States and Britain are proud of, coupled with the VT fuse shell, is also very limited in the lethality of guided weapons! After all, other people's attack range is farther than your effective range, and it's useless if you can't reach it!

"Start attacking, we've set a world record again!" At this time, Admiral Grim, who was in charge of commanding the Magic Box group, gave the order to attack, and a group of AR234 bombers began to disperse into small formations. They ignored the shells that exploded at low and medium altitudes and the Skua fighters entangled in the back, bringing death to the huge fleet below!

The first to suffer was the USS Boxer, located on the periphery, which had just been in service for less than three months before it had its first and last engagement. _>_Yavin_Bar>w'w-w·. -y=a'w-e-n8.234 The bomber dropped 12 guided bombs weighing 1.4 tons on this target! With the exception of 3 bombs that were lost due to mechanical failures, the remaining 9 entered the final assault phase, and the Boxer's dense anti-aircraft fire set up a barrage over the battleship. Artillery shells and 4omm shells intercept these deadly intruders from far to near. Countless pieces of shrapnel flew through the air. The efforts of the Americans finally paid off, 4 bombs were intercepted by dense defensive fire, but 5 of the remaining 3 bombs hit the poor battleship!

A 30,000-ton warship has no defense against a 1.4-ton bomb at all! 3 Bombs easily pierced the Boxer's armored deck. One of the bombs directly destroyed the half-pull hangar because of the problem of fuse explosion, and the shock wave generated by the explosion even swept away the unarmored area at the front of the deck by dozens of meters! The huge gap sent a large amount of air to the burning hangar, causing the fire to spread quickly. Soon it was out of control.

As soon as the other two bombs landed near the ammunition depot, although the violent explosion did not ignite the ammunition depot in the first place, in order to ensure safety, the captain of the Boxer had to order the ammunition depot to be filled with water. The third bomb was the deadliest, this bomb smashed into the engine room of the Boxer, although the Boxer only used an alternate layout, but the most terrible thing about this stage was not only the destruction of the engine inside. The high debris after the explosion even broke through the bottom of the ship! The explosion also destroyed the next door of the engine room, and the water ingress quickly got out of control!

Although the Boxer was still on the surface, it was only a matter of time before the ship was finally abandoned. Compared to the encounter with the Boxer, the Franklin next to it was much more unlucky. At least the former had a chance to remove the wounded crew from the battleship, but Franklin didn't have that chance, as two 1.4-ton guided bombs pierced the ammunition depot and the other destroyed the power compartment! The explosion of hundreds of tons of ammunition in the ammunition depot directly tore this poor battleship in half! With a loud bang, the entire battleship seemed to be dragged up! Then a cracking sound and a violent explosion came from the middle of the hull. In just a dozen seconds, the battleship broke into two ends and sank to the bottom of the sea with nearly 3ooo US officers and soldiers!

Not far away, another aircraft carrier battle group was attacked at the same time. The aircraft carriers Bunker Hill and Shangri-La, both of the Essex class, also became the focus of German attacks. A salvo of more than a dozen anti-ship missiles overwhelmed these two American aircraft carriers! During the attack on the Bunker Hill, the Germans used another new weapon, the channel magnetic fuse torpedo! The technological level of the Germans in this plane is somewhat stronger than in history, and the stability of sound-guided torpedoes is quite good. Yavin 8w'w'w=.'y· Although a total of 8 shots were fired, only 2 hits, but the explosion at the bottom of the hull still caused serious damage to the aircraft carrier. Plus the motor compartment was destroyed by a bomb. The demise of the Bunker Hill was also a foregone conclusion. Although the core equipment of the Shangri-La has been running and has not been completely destroyed, too much water ingress caused the battleship to finally tilt to 3o degrees! In the case of inconclusive reverse water injection, the battleship was also eventually lost.

At the same time that the Americans lost 4 fleet aircraft carriers in one fell swoop. The British also did not escape the clutches of the Germans. This time, the aircraft carrier Fury, which had survived several naval battles and was regarded as a well-deserved national treasure and symbol by the British Navy, finally failed to hold on! The hull of more than 40,000 tons and the deck that is one size larger than the aircraft carrier next to him make him stand out from the crowd! The so-called rafters rot first, such a big target, who will you hit if you don't hit it? The Germans concentrated more than 3o AR234 bombers and launched a brutal attack on this big guy!

"Bombs and torpedoes rained down from the sky. Like gods fighting in the twilight of the gods, our ships fended off blows from the air with dense firepower, but in the end, as depicted in the Greek epic tragedy, the valiant warriors did not escape death. When the Germans' claws pierced through the heavy armor of the Fury, felt the vibration of the ship's hull, looked at the flickering lighting, and smelled the disgusting smell around me, I knew that the limit of this battleship had arrived! "Post-war. Cunningham, the commander of the British fleet, discussed his last part of the Fury.

The Fury is indeed a classic of Chinese designers, and the thick and effective defense system has successfully blocked several bombs that are not in good places. While other bombs also penetrated the core compartment and landed in the core compartments such as the engine room and the boiler, the attack was confined to the smallest possible location. The fire was also somewhat contained at the beginning. Judging from the damage of the entire battleship, thanks to the ample power system, the initial damage of the battleship has been in a controllable state. But in the end, it was abandoned because of too much water, and the British Navy could not have towed such a battleship for thousands of nautical miles, but even so. The ship's defenses still saved most of the crew, as well as Cunningham!

Along with the sinking of the Fury, there was also a British newly-commissioned fleet aircraft carrier, HMS Revenge, Britain's newest fleet carrier, which was on the road of no return at the time of his first sortie. It was also a fancyless attack, perhaps because the crew above were all newcomers, and they were far inferior to their comrades who had sunk in battle. The first round of the Germans achieved decisive results! The two bombs went straight through the messy anti-aircraft fire, scrapping the power compartment of the Revenge, and then, the Revenge entered garbage time, surrounded by a bunch of planes and killed the target! At this point, the entire combined US-British fleet has lost 6 fleet armored aircraft carriers!

Although the Germans' attack aircraft group was also at the end of the crossbow, it did not prevent them from attacking those light aircraft carriers and jeep carriers with weak defenses! 8 of the 3 Independence-class aircraft carriers were destroyed by guided bombs! These light aircraft carriers were almost killed with one shot! The powerful 1.4-ton semi-armor-piercing projectile smashed directly from the deck to the bottom of the ship! Pierce the entire battleship! Even if the battleship was not destroyed in the core compartment. In the face of a huge hole more than ten square meters square, these battleships with poor watertight settings will not survive!

Light aircraft carriers are like this, not to mention jeep aircraft carriers, if it weren't for the fact that the ammunition of the magic box group is really not enough, it would not be a problem to sink all the jeep aircraft carriers! In the end, as many as 1o Jeep aircraft carriers were sunk by the Luftwaffe. The other 2 were sunk by German submarines that took advantage of the situation, one was sunk on the battlefield, and the other was sunk on the way back! At this point, the whole battle came to an end.

Although the magic box shined in the first battle, the losses were also huge, although the loss of this aircraft was not large when it relied on strength when penetrating the defense. But when you attack, you have to fly in a straight line! And the degree of flight should be limited! This is almost a fixed target in disguise! After the initial confusion, the American and British direct guard planes, which reacted, desperately passed through the interception of the German fighters. Attack these big guys with lethal weapons at all costs!

The efforts of the US-British sea-based aviation saved at least 3 more aircraft carriers! Although the 2OMM cannon is a little less powerful, under the attack like a swarm of swarms, one after another AR234 bombers were destroyed before they even finished dropping their bombs! Plus the losses at the beginning. In total, the Luftwaffe's magic box lost at least a third of its AR234 bombers! And the 335 responsible for covering also suffered a lot of losses, and in the final retreat stage of the Luftwaffe, it could not catch up with those bombers who had been cruising at a high level, and the American and British Skua fighters chased the fighters! Many German fighters hated the ocean because they started to run too hard and did not have enough fuel to return to base.

In this campaign. The losses of the US Navy are again a record high! 6 armored aircraft carriers, 3 light aircraft carriers and 3 jeep aircraft carriers! Both quantitatively and qualitatively, the Germans' achievements made the winner of the Battle of Ceylon, Huaxia, a little speechless! So much so that when Xu Jie received the telegram from above, he was a little puzzled, why did the United States and Britain not fight like this? Lost a bunch of confusion under the First World War?

Originally, Xu Jie thought that after this battle, the Germans should have no ability to advance eastward at all, but they still encountered this incident?! Although the German fleet also lost 2 armored aircraft carriers and 2 medium fleet carriers, these losses were not irrecompensable, and it was probably impossible for the fleet to return to what it was before the Battle of Ceylon, but it was possible to maintain the level before this naval battle or even increase slightly. It seems that the Chinese Navy still has to fight, and this joint operation of the United States and Britain almost defeated most of the results of the Battle of Ceylon in China!

"It seems that we are still too optimistic, Fletcher, you are right. We underestimated our opponents. On the way back, Admiral Nimitz said with a decadent face. This time he lost without a temper at all, he really couldn't imagine that the Germans still had such a hand! Now it seems that even if the German Navy is in decline and not in peak condition, it will take at least 2 years for the American and British Navy to take the islands close to Europe! And after this war, it is equivalent to directly depleting the US aircraft carrier production for a year! In 1 year, the strength of the American and British fleets will be weaker than the German fleet, and considering that the German fleet is also replenishing, if the American and British fleets want to challenge the German fleet again, they will need to save at least 2 years! 2 years!

"Fletcher, in the future, you and General Cunningham can maintain the North Atlantic route, my lesson is already very deep, and maintaining the war situation will be our main task in the next 2 years!" Nimitz added.

"In fact, the situation may not be as bad as we imagined, the enemy of the Germans is not only us, but also China, if they still want the oil fields of the two river basins and Turkey, then the German navy must attack! At the beginning, the German navy was not China's opponent when it was in its heyday, and after this engagement, the German fleet also suffered a lot of losses, and they could not be China's opponents. Despite the crushing defeat, Fletcher is still optimistic about the future, after all, there are many enemies in Germany now! After paying a huge price in two consecutive battles, it was only temporarily suppressed. Although the situation is much better, it is still at a disadvantage overall!

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