When the Fury and the Glory finally withstood the most intense bomb attack, the German torpedo planes were finally in place, and the torpedo planes in an attack formation launched a lightning strike against the British fleet from both flanks almost simultaneously, and a round torpedo was thrown into the sea, and then stabilized with the help of sea buoyancy and depth fixing equipment, and then pulled out a trail and rushed towards the target. The torpedoes that crossed over were more difficult to dodge and deadlier than bombs, and the huge hull of the Fury was the first to receive two shots

Cunningham felt the hull of the ship jump sharply, and a torpedo hit the middle of the Fury, and the power of the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of Whirlwind ** tore through the outer 3-layer compartment and an armored partition, and finally blocked the aftermath of the explosion out of the core compartment under the protection of the oil reservoir and the inner mine armor, and the battleship returned to normal after a little swaying, except for a slight tilt. When Cunningham's heart slowly fell, there was a muffled sound in the front of the hull again, and the unfortunate Fury was hit by the mine again, and it was also the same side of the mine, the torpedo tore through the relatively fragile bow mine protection system of the Fury, and a large amount of seawater poured into it to flood several cabins, but the good compartment still said that the explosion damage of the torpedo was limited to a certain range, and after entering 3,000 tons of water, the left tilt of the Fury reached about 7 degrees, and it was finally stable after reverse water injection.

And the Glory aircraft carrier next to it is not so lucky, the power system is seriously damaged Glory is like a dead fish slowly sailing on the sea, as the saying goes, take advantage of your illness to kill you, the Germans implemented this principle very well, more than ten torpedo planes launched an attack at the same time, in just 8 minutes, the Glory was hit 4 torpedoes, of which the port side hit 3 shots, the starboard side of the knife such an attack strength plus the beginning of the damage to make this fleet aircraft carrier completely helpless, before the German fleet was dispersed, The aircraft carrier had sunk into the sea, and a bunch of destroyers and cruisers around it tried to rescue the overboard, only to be violently hit by German planes overhead. A heavy cruiser was thus sunk after being hit by 2 torpedoes and 2 bombs

"Fortunately, the loss is not huge." When the German planes hovering over the heads of the British dispersed, Cunningham began to count the losses, under the indiscriminate bombardment of more than a hundred German attack planes. The British lost one regular fleet carrier, one light fleet carrier, one heavy cruiser, 3 light cruisers and 6 destroyers. In addition, one aircraft carrier was torpedoed, and another aircraft carrier was hit by two bombs on the foredeck. At this time, Cunningham thought that the Germans had concentrated all their attack on the British fleet. Such a loss is not to mention the huge Allied fleet, at most it is only a few skins, and in general, Cunningham is still very satisfied with Halsey's arrangement, if it were not for the fact that the French fleet next to it did not have any other losses except for the sinking of 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers. And if Fletcher's fleet can be described as unscathed, then Cunningham will be more satisfied with Cunning, who is very puzzled, although there is a lot of hatred between Britain and Germany, but it will not make the Germans so worried, right? Is it really good to directly press the British for a violent beating? Cunningham, who thought he had survived the greatest crisis, began to think crankily

But is that actually the case? Almost an hour has passed since the Allied aircraft group entered the battlefield until now, and in this time. Both sides threw away hundreds of planes of all kinds, the Germans at least 500 planes failed to set foot on the road back, and the Allies also threw away almost 400 planes, the largest wave of attacks by the Germans consisted of nearly 750 planes, a major war lost two-thirds of the attacking force, which has never appeared in all previous air battles, the Spitfire 9 deserves to be the most powerful fighter of the Allied countries now, but with the retreat of the large Allied fleet, The Spitfire group hovering over the head of the Allied fleet also ran out of fuel, in addition to more than half of the planes lost in battle, the remaining planes were almost burned out of fuel, and just when the Entente was about to recover the planes, the biggest crisis finally came, and the twin-engine planes that broke in at high speed from the other direction launched the sharpest attack of the Allied naval aviation

The Entente aircraft carriers began to enter the headwind direction to recover the aircraft, and the remaining Spitfires began to circle over aviation and then fall one after the other. The entire deck has been emptied, the already tight fleet prevention and control system has been relaxed, and the ships have begun first aid and repair work. And at this time, the Germans were dispersing the assault in squadrons. When the dense group of planes gradually dissipates from the sky. The Allies' sharpest move had just arrived, and the movements of the small swarm were completely obscured by the dense radar echoes of the large swarm. The British could detect the whereabouts of the other side from the radar, but they did not know at all that those were evacuated on the battlefield, those who had just arrived on the battlefield, and the massive amount of information overwhelmed the air defense command of the British. Coupled with the fact that a large number of fighters were preparing to land, by the time these bombers appeared in visual range, the Allied carrier-based aircraft forces had already missed the best time to intercept them

"The direction at 10 o'clock is the bomber" a destroyer located in the outer ring finally spotted the twin-engine aircraft with lethal weapons. After wandering for a long time and finally finding a breakthrough, the German twin-engine aircraft formation entered the attack position under the cover of fighters, and the number of planes that successfully penetrated the defense in this wave was actually not much, and all the twin-engine planes together were only more than 70. However, it was this small fleet that caused the greatest losses of the Allied navy in this campaign, and these aircraft, which carried expensive guided munitions, became a lingering shadow on the Allied fleet throughout World War 2

This time it was the American fleet that suffered, when it was found that the other side was coming at him, most of the fighters had been recovered, and the rest were ready to be recovered, and there were only two or three kittens that could be used, objectively speaking, this did provide a good opportunity for the Germans, but at the beginning Fletcher was not very worried, after all, in the battle just now, the British fleet was attacked by more planes and there was no big problem. And now that Fletcher's fleet is in good shape, it is not difficult to disintegrate the opponent's attack, at least the vast majority of American officers and men think so. However, they soon realized that something was wrong, these planes did not lower their altitude at the end and entered the usual dive or lightning strike course, but continued to fly at an altitude of 5,000 meters, which made Fletcher feel a little uneasy, the other party would not simply fly over his head, and this altitude was beyond the effective range of most air defenses

Soon, this dissatisfaction turned into a kind of fear, and one by one, small plane-like objects detached from the belly of the twin-engine bomber. These guys spread their wings in the air and flew like gliders to the American fleet, constantly adjusting their posture in the air, rushing towards the American aircraft carrier formation under layers of protection, as if they had eyes, "This is a German guided bomb." I always thought that only Huaxia had this kind of thing, "Fletcher finally knew what this thing was, this weapon can be guided, and Huaxia used it in the Iran war back then." What is surprising is that the Germans actually loaded them on carrier-based aircraft

Thousands of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers spewed metal storms at the tiny objects in the air, and even some warships began to pull out thick smoke to cover themselves. These measures have had some effect. Part of the guidance bombs were shot down by anti-aircraft guns, or the operators lost their target under the cover of thick smoke. But alas, after all, some guided bombs passed through the layers of interception, and then flew to the target with death and destruction

Fletcher saw with his own eyes that a 1.2-ton Fritz bomb crashed into the Raider aircraft carrier, and the warhead of the super semi-armor-piercing projectile weighing 1 ton relied on huge kinetic energy to easily tear open the armored deck of the Raider with a thickness of 50mm, and then went all the way down, even the thickest 80mm horizontal armor could not block the bomb like a heavy hammer, this bomb actually penetrated several decks from the flight deck to the bottom of the hull, with the activation of the time-delay fuse, the bomb inside the bomb was as high as more than 200 kg ** Ignited, the violent explosion directly blasted a huge hole in the bottom of the hull. A large amount of seawater poured into the power chamber like a fountain. Even if there is compartment protection, but under the multiple effects of high-powered bombs and powerful water pressure. The nearby boiler plant and engine room were completely destroyed, even the keel was blown off, and the Essex-class aircraft carrier was paralyzed on the surface of the sea like a giant beast with a broken backbone.

The Assault, whose speed had plummeted, was the best target, and soon, two more Fritz guided bombs hit the hapless battleship, one directly turning the hangar into a sea of fire, while the other bomb entered from the stern direction, blowing off all 4 propeller shafts of the entire battleship with a series of explosions inside, and the nearby battleships could see billowing smoke and flashing fire in the breach. The entire battleship instantly turned into a volcano, in a matter of minutes. Thousands of US officers and soldiers died from fires, suffocation, explosions, and other causes

While the Raider was still stubbornly floating on the sea, the ** light aircraft carrier was also attacked, and it successfully survived the fierce battle in the South Atlantic, but this time, he was not so lucky, and two pit viper anti-ship missiles hit it one after another. One of them hit the waterline, tearing a large hole of more than 30 square meters in the hull, while the other bomb penetrated the fragile horizontal protection of the ** and plunged headlong into the aviation ammunition depot of the **, hundreds of tons of bombs and torpedoes were ignited, and in less than a minute, the American light aircraft carrier was torn to pieces by its own internal explosives. With a huge mushroom cloud rising from the sea, the Americans knew that they had lost a second aircraft carrier

The red-eyed U.S. military began to fight back frantically, and many fighters who had entered the fuel time gave up landing and launched a decisive assault with the little fuel left in the tank, and these experienced pilots found that the Germans were moving in a straight line and at a uniform speed when using guided bombs, and this gave the Allied fighters the opportunity, they climbed frantically, and then crashed into the target with their cannons and even the plane itself, using their lives to fight for their warships. Under the attack at any cost, many guided bombs lost their targets because the carrier aircraft were destroyed, and fell into the sea in a swaying manner, blowing up huge water columns one after another

Although the Americans put up desperate resistance, a German twin-engine bomber eventually broke through the interception of the Americans, and they locked on the Franklin as the last target. Four guided bombs and three pit viper missiles whizzed towards the target, but the Franklin's maneuvering and defense were very strong, two bombs were hit by shrapnel in the air, spun and fell into the sea, and one Fritz bomb exploded. Another anti-ship missile flew less than 10 meters from the rear of the aircraft carrier, knocking down half of the superstructure of a cruiser next to it

The real hit was nothing more than a pit viper anti-ship missile. Facts have proved that the power of the 500kg warhead on the pit viper missile is a little smaller, this missile penetrated the side of the hangar of the Franklin aircraft carrier, and the fighters inside were blown to pieces, but because there was no fuel filling and bomb hanging operations inside, although dozens of aircraft were lost, the damage to the hull was not large, just when the US officers and men on the Franklin thought they had avoided the biggest crisis, a "highly intelligent heavy anti-ship missile" was fired Falling from the sky, it crashed into the middle and rear of the Franklin's hull at an almost vertical angle

"It's all Spitfire," an American second lieutenant who witnessed the shocking blow lamented afterwards. The twin-engine bomber had already dropped the bomb, but there were two Spitfires behind it that were unwilling to give up, and the German plane saw that it could not run away, so it directly chose to break up with the other side. The bomber, which weighed more than 6 tons, and the nearly 800 kilograms of aviation fuel left in the plane, made the blow very powerful, and the position of the blow was also very good, directly avoiding the armored deck of the Franklin. The massive wreckage of the aircraft pierced the flight deck with gravitational potential energy and plunged headlong into the cabins below the waterline, before the explosion of jet fuel instantly destroyed the cabins of several decks at the stern of the hull.

More importantly, this blow directly put the Franklin's motor compartment to the end, and the fire spread everywhere along the cabin and pipelines, and at this time, because the motor compartment was destroyed, the Franklin's internal damage pipe was completely ineffective, and soon the fire spread to the power compartment, because of the relationship between flame and smoke, causing half of the gas turbine to stop.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and a Fritz bomb hit the paralyzed Franklin, which broke through the horizontal protection and fell into the boiler room, cleanly blowing the four boilers and the two turbines next to it to pieces, so that the Franklin could never go back

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