Fletcher's meticulous arrangement proved to be useless in the end, and under the attack of the high-performance FW190A fighters, both the fighter units that had branched off from the first wave of aircraft and the direct guard planes circling over the fleet were all crumbling in front of the fast and powerful shrike birds. Hellcat, who had historically slaughtered the Zero fighter like a turkey in the Marianas, was so unlucky in this plane that he was knocked to the ground by an old punch from the German FW190 fighter. At this time, apart from the ship-based anti-aircraft guns, there was no longer much force to stop the air raids of the Germans!

"Huh? How come there are only two aircraft carriers, one large and one small? And what about another aircraft carrier? "When the Germans flew over the fleet, they suddenly found that the situation was a little different, the other side was supposed to have two large aircraft carriers, but in fact they were in and out, where did the other large fleet aircraft carrier go? Forget it, don't think about that, let's take these battleships first, the wing commander waved his hand, and more than 40 attack planes of all kinds flew to distant targets in two groups, one of which was a group of 25 bombers of various types responsible for attacking the large fleet aircraft carrier Bunker Hill, and the other 18 aircraft attacked light aircraft carriers!

The fighter units that first entered the battlefield, these planes lightly shuttled in the barrage woven by the anti-aircraft guns, and suppressed the anti-aircraft fire of the aircraft carrier with fierce firepower, the two sides used machine guns to shoot wildly, a FW190 fighter lightly pressed the nose, 4 machine guns and 2 machine guns shot an oval barrage, as the aircraft moved, this barrage moved along the anti-aircraft gun decks on both sides of the aircraft carrier. Flying shells and exploding shrapnel jumped and destroyed everything they could touch, and in just a few seconds, several gun emplacements were in shambles!

"Concentrate your fire on them!" ANGRY AMERICAN OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS CONTROLLED MACHINE GUNS TO CHASE THE PLANE, FIRING A STRING OF SHELLS, AND A FW190 PLANE WAS ACCIDENTALLY CUT OFF BY A 40MM SHELL. Just as the Americans were cheering their victory, the plane, which was destined to be shot down, slammed into the USS Bunker Hill, which was maneuvering at high speed! The huge impact force directly smashed the thin steel plate on the side of the hangar, and then turned into a rolling fireball that tumbled and exploded inside the aircraft carrier! A fighter jet with the remaining fuel and ammunition can do much more damage than a 500KG high-explosive shell! This heroic German pilot turned the small half of the hangar of the USS Essex into a sea of fire with his own life! Explosions came from the cabin hangar, and the violent explosion even blew a side lift into the sea! By the way, I got on the gun emplacements of the small half-pulled cannon deck and hundreds of American officers and soldiers!

After this blow, the anti-aircraft fire of the USS Bunker Hill was greatly reduced, and the remaining bombers rushed in and dropped bombs and torpedoes on the poor guy! IN THE FIRST WAVE OF ATTACKS, TWO 500KG HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELLS WHIZZED OFF THE PYLONS. One shot was bounced off by the heavy armor and caused no damage, while the other hit the narrow bridge, and the huge force directly killed and injured a small half of the people in the bridge! Incidentally, the nearby flue was destroyed. This was followed by two more bombs, one of which penetrated through the aft deck. The explosion above the propeller shaft, although the armor plate blocked the fragments of the bomb, caused a local fire. The fourth bomb fell on the anti-aircraft gun position, and a series of explosions completely destroyed the anti-aircraft fire on one side!

Finally, the deadliest attack came, and 6 torpedo planes launched an attack with almost no hindrance. 6 torpedoes were fan-shaped, the Germans were so bold that a JU90-type torpedo machine dropped a torpedo even at a distance of 600 meters! 3 of the 6 torpedoes hit, all hit the same side, which made the Bunker Hill, which was already on fire, finally come to an end, the fire on the ship was out of control, part of the power equipment also stopped working, and the three large holes in the hull on the other side also allowed the battleship to be filled with thousands of tons of seawater in an extreme time, and soon the angle of inclination of the battleship reached an uncorrectable level, in a series of explosions. The US Navy lost their first fleet carrier!

If Bunker Hill can still jump a few times in the face of the German butcher's knife, then the other light aircraft carrier does not even have a chance to jump! 3 500KG armor-piercing shells simply and directly solved this guy with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, two bombs directly turned the hangar into a sea of fire, and the other bomb fell directly near the fuel tank, the violent explosion caused the leakage of the aviation gasoline tank, and then encountered the open flame of the hangar and there was an explosion that was difficult to contain! After a series of explosions, the battleship sank to the bottom of the sea with raging fire, and in less than half an hour, two American aircraft carriers were brutally murdered!

The German eagles, who had won two big fish in a row, hovered over the remaining American fleet, and after fighting for a long time, there were still German attack planes that were not dropped by bombs under the wings. This made the Germans very unhappy! They were like vultures hovering over dead bodies looking for the next victim, another aircraft carrier was delayed, and as the minutes passed, the fuel of the German planes continued to drop. In the end, they chose the principle of big fried. Eyeing a heavy cruiser that was not very lucky, under the attack of the remaining more than a dozen bombers and torpedo planes, this cruiser and a destroyer next to it were also sunk, the heavy cruiser was directly sunk by 2 torpedoes cleanly, and the destroyer was directly smashed through the ammunition depot by a 500KG bomb and turned into an extra-large firework and finally disappeared into the sea!

The Germans, having dropped all their bombs, looked at the wreckage at sea and were finally satisfied, until. That is until they find an aircraft carrier coming out of a cumulonimbus cloud! "Luck!" Fletcher sighed as he drew the cross while looking at the very unwilling German fleet walking in the sky. In fact, Fletcher's flagship, the Essex, didn't go far. After all, time is too short. However, fortunately, he hid under the clouds with his aircraft carrier and destroyer, while the other two battleships were unlucky and were directly taken down by a group of aircraft. At this time, Fletcher, who had escaped the catastrophe, did not have the courage to stay on the battlefield any longer, and his aircraft carrier sent 45 aircraft of various kinds in the attack of the Noh wheel just now, accounting for about half of all the aircraft! Throwing away the lost direct guard aircraft, his current aviation power is really not much stronger than a light aircraft carrier. God knows if there is a second wave of attacks from the Germans, and if there are 50 more planes, you will definitely kneel! As for the plane sent out, it can only depend on the situation, if you can save it, if you hesitate a little, maybe you will have to take thousands of lives for it!

Just as the German aircraft group was slaughtering its opponents, the American aircraft group finally reached the radar detection range of the German aircraft carrier. Yes, that's right, after flying for half a day, they just let the other party find out, and at this time they were still about 150 kilometers away from Raeder's fleet. It was probably more than half an hour to fly, and when they reached a distance of about 100 kilometers, they were met by the shrike birds who were waiting for them! By the time it intercepted the German attack group, the U.S. air force had already used up about 20 fighters, and the final result was that less than 30 F6F fighters were left to cover the attack with 60 attack aircraft. And in front of them are almost 90 FW190 fighters! Raeder used this time to completely empty the fighters in the hangar! The fighters of the 6 squadrons rushed to the prey like a pack of lions, and the first wave of impact alone cost the Americans extremely dearly!

The roar of hundreds of cannons covered all the holy seals on the battlefield, and the German fighter group launched a dive attack in squadrons, relying on the double advantages of the number and quality of aircraft, the Germans tore apart the American defensive formation very easily, not to mention covering those ultra-slow torpedo planes, even self-protection became a problem, those lone American planes became the first to be slaughtered, and an F6F fighter struggled to dodge two dive attacks. Then he used a small amount of kinetic energy to bite an FW190 with the blessing of shit luck. The opponent's speed is not high, and it consumes a lot of energy, which is a very good target. Just as he was about to send the opponent back to the west, the ammunition like splashing water swept from the side, and an FW190 fighter flew around its side, cleanly hitting the opponent into a fireball with a long point. A small number of American planes finally formed a self-protecting ring formation to make the opponent's attack less easy to succeed, and they insisted on resisting the opponent's attack, watching those torpedo planes and bombers catch up with the opponent and then break to pieces!

"As an FW190 pilot, my favorite thing to do is to leisurely hunt down attack planes that are not capable of resisting, and we can easily catch up with them. Then hide in the dead corner of the opponent's rear machine gun, slowly and leisurely approach, we can even see the opponent's desperate and frightened expression, just 300 meters away! See it clearly! Then we pulled the trigger at a distance of 200 meters. In less than 3 seconds, I can turn them into a flying mass of aluminum! A German pilot wrote in his diary before the war, and the language was full of comfort and cruelty.

The remaining tens of kilometers are simply a road to hell for the American attack aircraft group, several aircraft are shot down almost every minute, and in the end, the number of attack aircraft capable of successfully striking the visual distance of the Raeder fleet does not exceed 20! And they have been washed to pieces. Attacking in a disorderly manner from several directions, these remaining American planes struggled in the roar of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, and then saw the opportunity to drop bombs, sparse firepower and enemy interference made the hit rate of these bombs low to a certain level, except for the two destroyers on the periphery were sunk, the Americans' attack was completely disintegrated, after losing about 18 F6F fighters and almost all the attack aircraft, Fletcher completely lost the battle, at this time he could only run away with the rest of the fleet, The farther you run, the better!

But fortunately, Raeder's fleet has no ability to attack the opponent in a short period of time, in addition to leaving a moderate amount of planes as defense, the rest of the thing is to recover the two sets of planes released, this time the Germans fought very well, and the air exchange ratio is close to an exciting number! The loss ratio is 3 to 1! The Americans dropped three planes, and the Germans lost 1! Of course, there are a lot of torpedo planes and attack planes to make up the numbers, but being able to play such an exchange ratio is indeed beyond Raeder's expectations! Under the cover of aircraft, two aircraft carriers and one aviation cruiser sequentially entered the upwind direction to recover the aircraft group. When the sunset cast its last rays on the deck, the last FW190 fighter was returned to the hangar by elevator, and Raeder planned for months, only to end the battle in the South Atlantic, which lasted only three hours. So far! In a week, there will be no more forces in the entire Atlantic that can threaten Raeder's aircraft carrier detachment!

"If the TS18 transport fleet doesn't go far, we can visit them." At the celebration banquet in the evening, Ryder humorously imagined the next battle plan, "Also, how is the situation of Colonel Crank's fleet, if you can, I hope he can join us in the next hunting feast!" Send them a report and tell them that this is a rare opportunity and that you need to take advantage of it! Raeder remembered Colonel Cranc, who had been MT all the way for him, and said with a little shame in his heart.

"The USS Emden was damaged, and then its speed was greatly reduced due to damage to the power system, because Colonel Frank lacked enough destroyers to provide anti-submarine alert, so the Emden was attacked by an American submarine one hour ago, and after being hit by two torpedoes, it was sunk, but before that, a huge part of the crew was safely transferred to other warships, and the submarine was also sunk." An officer next to him said.

"Well, let's observe three minutes of silence for the fallen officers and men of the German High Seas Fleet. That's all for today's banquet, everyone rest early, we still have a lot of things to do tomorrow. The sudden bad news clouded today's victory with a layer of dust, and Raeder was reluctant to continue celebrating the victory. As he said, he still has a lot of work to do, and he must expand his gains! Really hurt the Americans! "Do a good job in anti-submarine and air defense, our plan must not fail because of a small omission!" Before going to bed, Raeder emphasized for the third time. Colonel Crank, in turn, reminded Raeder of the brutality of the war with his own losses. This is the first time he has led the army independently, and the army cannot fail, and before the dust settles, even if he has an absolute advantage, he cannot relax in the slightest! Raeder kept reminding himself in his mind!

When the sun rises again, the German High Seas Fleet will once again be galloping over the Atlantic!

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