"The Austro-Hungarian Navy's flagship aircraft carrier Bohemia has been sunk, and the Loudon has received moderate damage, presumably an aircraft hit the battleship's side chord, causing a fire. In addition, two destroyers were sunk and several other warships were damaged. An officer informed Tycho of the results of the battle and stepped aside, and now it was up to Tycho to decide whether or not to take off a second group of planes to attack. Although the officer still hoped in his heart that the Italian Navy could defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

"To be honest, I'm disappointed that we sent more than 140 planes and only sank one unarmored aircraft carrier." Tycho looked at Lin Yongsheng and said slowly.

"Let's go, we won't have another chance in today's battle, the land-based aviation has been exhausted, and it would be quite good to be able to put together 100 aircraft in the second wave of attack with the remaining three aircraft carriers, and the other side still has at least 70 or so fighters in the air (including twin-engine planes taking off from Crete). At least 2 fleet aircraft carriers and 1 aircraft carrier can start normally, and if they attack rashly, they will be sent to death. Lin Yongsheng said.

"I'm still unwilling in my heart, for this battle...... We lost at least more than 100 aircraft. And that's not counting the downed planes in Benghazi and the battle-damaged heavy cruiser Gorisia. Tycho said with some reluctance. He had thought that this attack would destroy the ......... of at least two aircraft carriers of the opposing side.

"The bomb was not powerful enough, and if it weren't for the torpedoes, we might not even be able to destroy the Bohemia. This is a technical limitation, not a process for us. Mr. Marshal. Su Mo on the side also opened his mouth to admonish. The tactics and timing are not bad, but what if the weapon is not powerful? In this case, it is enough to get some cheapness. Don't be greedy anymore.

"Okay, we'll go back after we've recovered the fleet." Tycho knew that after the withdrawal of the Heilongjiang aircraft carrier from China, the attack power of the three aircraft carriers was relatively limited, and it really did not make much sense to hold on. If the other party fights back, it is possible to steal chickens and rice. After all, Tycho did not know whether the USS Louden would be able to continue taking off and landing aircraft. If you can, it's still 3 to 4. It's a loss on your side!

"The Italians are gone?" Marshal Jordy, who had just been transferred from the Bohemia to the battleship Prinz Eugen, looked at the flagship in the distance, which was slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea, and asked.

"Hmm. They were all evacuated. Our reconnaissance planes followed and discovered the position of the opposing fleet, and if it had been 45 minutes since the intelligence was sent, it would have been 45 minutes. Their fleet has probably been withdrawn about 35km. Even if we send planes now, it's too late. Said the officer in charge of aviation operations..........

"It's going pretty fast." If Tycho was just a little reluctant to go, then Holdie was left with infinite remorse! Although the Italians had the upper hand, they also consumed a certain amount of aircraft, and now the other two aircraft carriers and one air cruiser in the Allied fleet had recovered the fighters attacking the port of Benghazi, and released a second wave of attack aircraft, and the Loudon had a large hole in the side chord, but the planes on the deck could still be released. As a result, the other party left like this! Even if the fighter planes in the air were to chase after them immediately, it would take more than an hour. Then the other party can run out for more than 50 kilometers, plus the distance between the two sides, then wait until it flies to the top of the other party's head. They are already nearly 300 kilometers away from the fleet, which is beyond the current extreme combat radius of carrier-based aircraft.

It was obviously impossible to fight back, and the withdrawal of the Italian fleet meant the end of the campaign, but for Jordi. The real troublesome things have just begun, and he needs to take responsibility for the defeat of this campaign alone. First, the night attack on the fleet off the port of Al-Bayda led to heavy damage to the Aegean air cruiser and the loss of several transport ships, and then the responsibility for the sinking of the aircraft carrier Bohemia and the heavy damage to the aircraft carrier Louden during the battle off the coast of Benghazi. Such losses cannot be said to be heavy, but Holdie knows that even if he loses this battle, he will not be blamed much, because when he communicated with the Austro-Hungarian high-level, he had already mentioned that Benghazi might be a trap, and the high-level strongly demanded that he should fight, and he could not blame himself for the defeat, and from a tactical point of view, he really did not make any major mistakes in this engagement. …………。

That's right, you read that right, from a macro command point of view, there is nothing wrong with the top of the Allied fleet, as Su Mo estimated, there is no shortage of fighters in the sky above the Allied fleet, but because of the frequent climbs and battles that will be high and low, the number of available fighters will be too small when the opponent penetrates the defense. Haldy and Raeder left enough decks and tried their best to prepare as many fighters as possible, but the performance of the opposing twin-engine bombers at high altitude and high speed was too good, beyond the interception ability of most German and Austrian fighters, resulting in the need to send more planes in order to intercept a wave of fast bombers. This was beyond the pre-war estimates, and the analysis of the pre-war intelligence section concluded that it was impossible for the Entente to concentrate such fast bombers for a group attack. So if there is a real accountability, then the intelligence services will bear the brunt.

But even so, Jordi has not yet figured out one problem, and that is ...... Why are there so many planes in the opponent's attack aircraft group this time? According to intelligence, there are less than 300 carrier-based aircraft on Italy's three aircraft carriers, and even if an aircraft carrier can release up to 40% of the carrier aircraft in a wave, then there can only be about 120 aircraft in a wave at most. But in fact, according to intelligence, there were at least 140 planes in this wave, how did the Italians do it? "The other side has at least one aviation cruiser and one aircraft carrier." When he saw the incoming fleet, Jordi judged it like this. But then the reconnaissance planes discovered the opposing fleet and found that the Italians had only 3 aircraft carriers and no other large air units..........

Raeder was not relieved by the fact that after the campaign, he felt that the German naval hierarchy needed to reassess the strength of the Italian navy and the gap between the Allies and the Allies in terms of aviation technology. For the former. Although the performance of the Italian Navy in the First World War was not bad, except for the first battle with Magifin and suffered a little loss, the rest were victories, but the German Navy top brass still evaluated the quality of the Italian Navy as a second-rate standard, that is, weaker than the British, German, and Chinese navies, and the quality was comparable to the French Navy, and stronger than the Austro-Hungarian and American navies. However, it can be seen from this engagement that the will and tactical level of the Italian navy was far stronger than that of Austria-Hungary, and that the Luftwaffe and navy could not have done a better job of such cooperation in terms of the organization of this air war alone.

Compared with the relatively strong performance of the Italian Navy, what worries Raeder more is the gap in aviation technology between the two sides, if the Lancers Wing blew up Florence not long ago made Raeder feel the strength of German aviation technology, then in the Battle of Naples, the desperate blow of the Italian and Allied air forces made Raeder's heart tighten. And today. When he personally trained the British attack aircraft and the Chinese Foxbat fighters, he was skeptical of German aviation technology.........

"Our Navy has had the most formidable warships and technology on the planet since 1905, our battleships have proven themselves strong in all naval battles, and I have always thought that our Air Force will be the same as the Navy, especially when I first saw strategic bombers, but in fact, we have not been able to get rid of our weak position in the field of aviation since World War 1, especially in this campaign, The twin-engine fighters of the Chinese and the twin-engine fast bombers of the British surpass our country in the field of technology and design, and we do not have the same weapons as them, just imagine, if in the face of every twin-engine fast bomber, we have to use 2 or even 3 times the strength of the troops to intercept, then in the face of the Entente and Huaxia, whose national strength is stronger than ours, how will our future war be carried out? In the report, Raeder wrote. …。

When mentioning the Austro-Hungarian fleet, Raeder's evaluation was decent and unremarkable, but at the same time, he also believed that there were no major loopholes in the command of Marshal Jordi in this battle, and the idea that the other party might be attacking behind the scenes had been discerned, and at the same time he had dealt with it in the formulation of the plan. If it weren't for the technological gap between the two sides, maybe the other side wouldn't have been able to sink even a single aircraft carrier. And the same as Jordy...... He also sensed that the sea-based aviation forces of the last wave of attacks were too strong. It is beyond the limit of the Italian Navy's carrier-based aircraft, but one thing he is smarter than Holdi is that he has already suspected the Chinese fleet that is "evacuating" overseas Chinese in the Mediterranean, but this kind of unfounded speculation obviously cannot be written casually on official documents, and it is not good to cause trouble! So he only mentioned it in a private letter to Hipper.........

The first two things are important though. But if you compare it to the third thing, it is nothing, because Raeder wants to reformulate the future planning of the German Navy and Air Force by summing up the lessons learned from this naval experience. Of course, this matter is very important, and it is not for him to decide alone, but in some respects, he has similar views to General Kesselring, who came to watch the battle from the air force, so the report and judgment jointly issued by the two of them will inevitably have some influence on the German top brass.

Yesterday's two changes, as a result, the subscription hit the lowest point in nearly a month, not even a third of the highest subscription this month. The side position hurts too much! (To be continued).