Although the American torpedo was not very powerful, it still made a hole in the starboard side of the Strasbourg, which was not a small damage to the Strasbourg, which was actually just a war patrol, and although the damage management team tried their best to plug the gap, the sea water that poured in just now still tilted the hull and reduced the speed to only 22 knots. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The tragedy was that seeing the Strasbourg being damaged and slowing down, the rest of the US planes rushed over like crazy, and even horizontal bombers came to join in the fun, and the air defense fighters were still unable to protect them despite their best efforts to resist, and the Strasbourg had one 1,000-pound bomb on the front and rear decks, and several near-miss bombs, and was covered with scars.

"Sir, the Strasbourg is in big trouble, and although it won't sink, I'm afraid it will need to be repaired."

Vice Admiral Bei shook his head, now the Strasbourg, whose speed has dropped to less than 18 knots, is obviously in a difficult situation, but it is not without benefits, because the ship has attracted too many American aircraft, after other warships found a few near-missed bombs, it has not been greatly affected, and the Germans who landed on the beachhead lost 2 landing craft, but most of the land forces carried on it were rescued, and the impact was not great, but the P51s who strafed the ground brought a lot of trouble, but the Bf-219 did not easily let go of these enemy planes that dared to pounce at low altitudes, and they were so struck that they fell into the sea.

In the battle, the Americans lost nearly 87 planes and the Germans lost 25 planes, but most of the pilots managed to parachute and the destroyers came to the rescue.

"Intensify the landing and quickly control the landing site." Lieutenant General Bei was ruthless, "The rest of the troops quickly escorted the American freighter back, and all those who delayed, hesitated, and resisted were sunk, they are now prisoners, not uncles!" ”

The news of the heavy damage to a battleship quickly reached Washington, and Arnold was very happy, but after hearing that he had lost 107 sortie planes (the rest were American planes that parachuted to the Canadian-controlled area of Newfoundland), his face was a little unpleasant, and now Cunningham's fleet had not yet arrived, and the airfield on Cornabrook had been destroyed, which meant that his land aviation could only continue to set off from Prince Edward Island to fight the Germans with more than half of the battle damage, which was really fatal.

But under Marshall's stern gaze, he could not say a word, so he had to promise to strike again in the afternoon -- with the more than 120 supplementary planes that had flown from Maine to Prince Edward Island in the morning. Although the order was given, everyone heard him muttering, "Isn't this another refueling tactic in the Caribbean Campaign?" ”

When Admiral Kim heard this, he could only pretend not to know, at least the heavy damage to one battleship still relieved a lot of pressure - Cape Verde lost 4 ships in one go, and now he has to find a way to pull back this loss gap as soon as possible, so that he can explain to the outside world.

But soon, before 12 o'clock, the bigwigs of the Joint Staff Committee received news that made them extremely unhappy: the German army had successfully landed, had taken control of the area around the dock, and was now advancing in depth.

This news obviously belongs to the Canadian rumor, the German army does have Tiger tanks, but the number is only one company, a total of only 14, the rest are all No. 4 or tank destroyers, but it is this 14 Tiger that has caused huge psychological pressure on the Canadians, one has no heavy artillery, two has no air fire to cooperate with the Canadians found that they can't gnaw at the opposite tank at all, so they can only exclaim that every tank they face is a Tiger and then hug their heads and run away. In less than three hours, two positions were lost within 10 kilometers of the pier and the beachhead.

"It's gone!" This was the first feeling of the German officers and men after they went ashore, although the vicinity of the dock was washed by naval guns, but those warehouses that were lucky enough not to be destroyed still hid a lot of good things, all kinds of military supplies, from tents for lodging, all kinds of engineering equipment and tools, and even logistics and military supplies, you can find camel cigarettes and a dazzling array of field rations at any pick, including a large amount of luncheon meat.

"Why don't you destroy these supplies?" Colonel Goult, the commander of the campaign group who commanded the landing, asked the Canadians curiously, and the news he got was shocking, "This is the material deposited by the cargo owner at the wharf, and they are all going to be sold to England...... This, private property is sacrosanct! ”

The crowd around looked at the Canadian like idiots, stunned, but they weren't lying: all the munitions and guns in the dock area had been diverted or destroyed, half of the gasoline in it had been blown up, the only thing that couldn't be blown up was the heavy oil depot, and the defenders had opened the valve and were desperately discharging into the sea - and now they finally understood where the black oil trail off the beachhead came from.

"Order the Marines to advance quickly, and defeat the Canadians before they can slow down......" Watching the 48 planes of cross-platform combat successfully land on the ships, coupled with the news of the successful landing, Machar breathed a long sigh of relief, "Let the engineering troops quickly use the original airport runway to clear the passage." ”

"Führer, good news has come from Newfoundland, we have not only landed successfully, destroyed nearly 200 enemy freighters and a number of escort warships, but also captured more than 100 freighters and millions of tons of supplies." Dönitz was full of smiles and excitement, "On the one hand, the fleet is escorting these trophies home, and on the other hand, it is stepping up the repair of the runway to prepare for the landing of planes. ”

Everyone in the High Command cheered, the result and capture were simply unexpected, and everyone praised the Führer's wisdom from the bottom of their hearts, but Hoffman's brow furrowed: first, he had not expected so many captured Allied freighters; Second, Cape Verde sent an urgent telegram saying that the U.S. military had received new support and that the number of planes had increased......

"Didn't the enemy get drawn to the war in Newfoundland?"

"This ......" everyone looked at each other, wondering why the Führer would say this.

"This should be impossible, since it is known that our troops have landed, the US military will send their aircraft carrier formation to meet it anyway." "In any case, Newfoundland is much more important than Cape Verde. ”

"So it's a strange thing," ...... Hoffman sighed, "I had intended to lure the Anglo-American fleet back by striking Newfoundland, and then our fleet would quickly return to the division, or lure it to annihilation, or relieve the siege of Cape Verde, but now it seems that something is in trouble...... )