"Let's attack! Target the German ultra-dreadnought battleship, focus on attacking the flagship and the third battleship! Colonel Short gave the order to attack, and a few minutes later, through the way of flags and shouts, the order was finally given, and under the leadership of their respective long planes, Group A, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, finally launched the most violent air attack since the beginning of this war!

"The British are coming, and we can't stop them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At this time, the vice-captain of the scimitar squadron wrote in a telegram to the Navy, and at the end after a moment of deliberation added a sentence that could only express sympathy, but was useless: "May God bless you." ”

However, the telegram eventually gave Count Spee about 15 minutes to give him a warning. "The fleet turned, sailed northeast, ready to release the smoke screen, the ships were at a greater distance, and if necessary, they could break away from the battle line." The earl is also very helpless now, the fleet has no effective means of defense against these air deaths, and now, it can only be resigned to fate!

Clouds of smoke began to be released from all sides of the battleship, and the destroyer next to it also began to drag the black smoke around the fleet, as if encountering a dangerous octopus, the German fleet once again disappeared in the smoke screen released by itself, but this time it began to be much lighter, there was not enough smoke canisters, and the entire German fleet gave people a feeling of carelessness.

"Here's our chance! Rush forward, if we can't kill them, none of us can go back! Lieutenant General Eberhardt said excitedly. And with the air raids of British bombers, the Black Sea Fleet also rushed up as if it had taken a stimulant. As the commander of the Black Sea Fleet said, they had no choice but to fight the Germans at this time for a chance of victory, and they did not even have a chance to escape! Because if this wave does not kill the opponent, you really can't expect the Russian fleet, which has a speed of only 15 knots, to slip out of the hands of the Germans!

"I see it! It's just 2 o'clock! "The captain of a V1500 bomber was the first to spot the battleship Reshadiye, half of the stern of which was exposed to smoke, and under its leadership, six torpedo planes lowered their noses and flew towards a distant target!

The huge plane slid down and flew at an angle of 15 degrees, the wings of more than 30 meters long spread out like the wings of a dragon, and the group of 7 planes formed a gray figure on the sea surface under the sunshine, they tried to maintain the formation like a medium bomber, but the volume of the four-engine bomber was indeed too large, and the operation performance of the 1 fighter aircraft was very bad, so when it was about to pull up at the end, these hedgehogs gathered together had an accident!

A V1500 bomber's dive angle is slightly larger, so the descent speed is a little slow, and when it is getting closer and closer to the plane in front, the pilot in a hurry pulls the lever violently, the nose of the aircraft begins to rise, and the huge drag instantly slows down the originally fast aircraft, because of the too violent operation, the plane loses altitude and speed at the same time, and at this time, it is less than 300 meters from the sea! The pilot subconsciously prepared to change his attitude, but the continuous reduction of speed was on the verge of stalling, and eventually, the plane's gravity overcame the buoyancy, and before throwing away the torpedo, the huge fuselage was the first to make contact with the water.

"The difficulty of having four bombers bomb in formation close to the surface of the sea is no different from walking a tightrope with a box. In order to ensure the formation we have to control the speed, in order to ensure that the torpedo is thrown, we must control the speed and height, but how can a big guy with a length of 20 meters and a width of almost 40 meters be so easy to control? At low altitudes, maybe just the lever action is larger, it may fall directly into the sea or collide with friendly forces next to it! After the war, a British pilot described it this way.

Perhaps because of the impact of this accident, the British did a very bad job in the first lightning strike, almost all the bombers threw torpedoes at a reasonable distance, and it has been 7 hours since they took off, during which time they have endured the fatigue caused by a long flight, endured the threat of air interceptors, and their nerves have been tensed to the limit. If I had to draw an analogy, it would be similar to the situation when the Japanese Air Force attacked Kuah from Rabaul. Fatigue alone was already exhausting.

5 torpedo planes fired 5 torpedoes scattered in the range of 1200 meters to 800 meters, these torpedo attacks were disorderly, after two consecutive turns, the Rayshadiye successfully dodged the first wave of British attacks, but at this time, the British horizontal bomber detachment also entered the battlefield!

"They are like dark clouds, and when you look at the sea, you can clearly see a black shadow flying towards us. The opponent entered at an altitude of about 500 meters, and then continued to descend, and finally seemed to stop at an altitude of 100 meters, (don't be convinced, the British bomber unit in World War 1 also dropped bombs at an altitude of 80 feet, and obtained very good accuracy.) And then they flew over like a carpet and dropped the bombs neatly! A German officer recalled the scene.

Unlike the torpedo attack, this bomb attack was unusually good! The covering blow of the eight bombs successfully landed around the Reshadiye, and the explosion of the 800-pound and 1,000-pound bombs set off a column of water that almost covered the entire battleship. Bursts of explosions like thunder pierced around the battleship, and from time to time bursts of fire burst out!

The first hit shot successfully smashed into the middle of the hull of the Reshadieh, and this 1,000-pound bomb directly blew up the chimney behind it! An orange fireball rose from the sky, and the resulting shock wave swept across the upper and middle decks of the hit zone, and a large hole of dozens of square meters appeared on the hull superstructure, the blackened steel plates, and the unshapedly steel beams twisted by the huge force told people how terrible this level was just now! What is even more tragic is that this bomb was very close to the No. 2 power supply compartment of the battleship, although it was not directly destroyed because of the protection of the armor box, but the violent vibration still caused some failures in the diesel generator inside, and the wires leaking outside the engine room were all destroyed, and the entire battleship lost nearly one-third of its power in an instant.

The other bomb was somewhere between a hit and a miss, and the bomb weighed a lot, about 800 pounds, but it landed a little farther away from the battleship, about 50 meters. So, although it was still equipped with hundreds of pounds of explosives, the damage caused was relatively limited, except for some shrapnel that made some holes in the hull shell, but the internal mine protection compartment was not damaged much, and there was very little water ingress, so that the people on the Reshadier did not realize that they had been hit for a long time .......

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