"Our fleet has confirmed the results. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 INFO shot down a total of 8 British Sea Fighter fighters and 13 Swordfish bombers; Two of our fighters were shot down and are now patrolling over the battlefleet to escort them. ……”

Inside the command bridge of the USS Hipper, Fang Yan quickly skimmed through the battlefield telegrams sent from the front line. Sure enough, the British aircraft carriers were also dispatched, and their task was to cover the main fleet that had been discovered by their own side earlier. Despite being in different camps, Fang Yan couldn't help but admire the British people's action. These carrier-based aircraft cooperated closely with the British main fleet, and it was not untimely to support the battlefield, and if we took into account the touching speed of the Swordfish after hanging the heavy load, the halfway flight took a long time, and the British carrier-based aircraft could have this kind of response.

However, the fruits of the efforts of the British commanders ended there. In this plane, there is no longer a platform that allows British HNA to wreak havoc. Whether compared with other powers or its own air force, the performance of the British Navy's carrier-based aircraft has been thrown off at least one notch, that is, the European continental powers in history have not developed aircraft carriers well, and the navies of various countries in the early days underestimated the air threat, which made the weak chicken like the swordfish continue to harvest people's heads and gain a false reputation.

Now in the face of Germany's first-class monoplane metal fighters, the Swordfish, which can only bully the enemy who has no power to fight back, has appeared in its original form; Fang Yan believes that if there are no British fighters, even if the German army only has 1 Go-152, it will be able to kill seven in and seven out in the Swordfish group!

Fang Yan put down the telegram in his hand, and his gaze refocused on the two Zeppelin-class heavy aircraft carriers in the middle of the fleet, which were shaped like floating islands. At this time, they were releasing the last batch of bombers at a rate of 2 per minute, and huge aerial torpedoes were hung under their sturdy fuselages. One by one, the Go-388s gradually climbed from sea level to an altitude of 3,000 meters, and there, nearly 100 fighters in a neat formation were flying and circling, waiting for their arrival. With loud buzzes and sharp ears, a large formation of more than 90 warplanes quickly took shape, and then swooped down due south and west at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Fang Yan's mouth. While the Bismarck sisters were fighting a bloody battle with the British fleet, the Zeppelin sisters in the rear were not idle: the crews of the two aircraft carriers were fully engaged in the preparation of attack aircraft groups, and their targets were the main British fleet now outside the port of Bergen. The group was extremely powerful against ships: only 32 fighters out of 92 aircraft, and the remaining 60 were bombers carrying explosives. Fang Yan understood that the reason why Chief Bo Mei dared to use such an aggressive configuration was that the weakness of the opponent was the main factor.

The British aircraft carrier not only has a low aircraft capacity, but the aircraft performance is still stuck in the era of biplanes, even if the whole family of the sea fighters on board it is dispatched, it may not necessarily be the opponent of these German fighters. Although the British land-based air force is a strong enemy, the battlefield is now off Bergen, near the Norwegian mainland; Its latest Hurricane fighter is as short as the German Bf-109D, and after flying 300 kilometers away, it has only a very short time left to stay in the air. If the British Air Force really comes, its main force can only be bombers, which undoubtedly does not put any pressure on the German fleet!

Suddenly, Fang Yan's heart moved. Speaking of which, the Sea Fighter and Swordfish carried on the British aircraft carrier also have a short-legged problem similar to that of the Air Force Hurricane. This is not due to the fact that the design concept of the first two is problematic, but purely because they are relatively primitive biplanes, and their technical level itself determines how far they can fly. Previously, Fang Yan was paying attention to waiting for the reports of various reconnaissance aircraft groups, and he forgot about this for a while, and there is no doubt that this is of great significance for the current position estimation of British aircraft carriers!

Thinking of this, Fang Yan immediately focused his attention on the nautical chart next to him. The conscientious staff officer had already marked all the information he currently had on it, so that Fang Yan could have the most intuitive grasp of the situation on the battlefield. At this time, the artillery fleet led by Karls was about 300km southwest of the German aircraft carrier fleet and more than 60km from the port of Bergen; The combat radius of the British carrier-based aircraft will not be higher than 270 km, and its position when it launched an attack one and a half hours ago can basically be determined within a small range.

Fang Yan began to think about what kind of maneuver he would order the fleet to take after the first wave of aircraft was released, if he was the commander of the British aircraft carrier fleet? It is important to know that the area of the current war between Britain and Germany is a relatively closed inland sea: to the east is the Norwegian land, and to the south is the North Sea, where Germany's "air diving fast" activities are rampant. In this environment, there was far less room for British commanders to return to their homes than they had in the Atlantic.

"They'll definitely come back." Fang Yan muttered, and a bright brilliance gradually bloomed in his eyes. At present, Kars is only encountering the slow battleship of the United Kingdom, and the high-speed elites, including Hood and Ark Royal, have not yet appeared. The British had a lot of money to offer, and they certainly wouldn't have turned a blind eye to the two Bismarck-class battleships off Bergen. As for the British aircraft carrier fleet, even if the attack wave it released suffered a big loss in front of the German fighters, they would have to go with the big force: as long as the aircraft carrier still had one aircraft available, they would be able to provide valuable aerial reconnaissance and early warning for the surface fleet!

"The order was given to immediately release four more fighters to reconnoiter in the southwest direction, focusing on the two sea areas of 46 and 47." Fang Yan pondered and ordered. Before the fleet departed, the two Hipper-class aircraft carriers under his command carried a total of 96 fighters from 6 squadrons, although this seems to be a lot, but 32 were previously sent to support the artillery fleet, 12 were used for air vigilance, and 12 were used for early reconnaissance, and only 40 were left to be used. Considering that less than two hours of daylight had passed today, it was necessary for Fang Yan to try to retain some troops, and if necessary, these fighters could also hang 250kg bombs and take off to attack the ship.

"At the same time, each of the two aircraft carriers prepares 1 squadron of bombers (12 units) in the bow area. If there is no news of the enemy aircraft carrier after 1 hour, the attack is abandoned. Fang Yan didn't stop talking, and continued to say to the herald Zhengse. In this Weser River exercise, the task of the Second Air War was to provide reconnaissance and air cover, but Fang Yan believed that he should give full play to his subjective initiative and rush forward when he had the ability to attack. Who stipulates that the auxiliary cannot be played output? If you really want to talk about it, the attack ability of the Hipper-class aircraft carrier is no worse than that of the Canglong Flying Dragon!