The lights were bright and the iron wall was clear, Fang Yan moved from the navigation room to the command tower with thick armor protection, and the fear of near death in his heart quickly dissipated with the closing of the gate of the command tower.

Looking out through the slender observation holes around him, Fang Yan saw dozens of scattered black dots, rapidly approaching him from the sky. They had descended to a low altitude of about a thousand meters, and Fang Yan could even see the rings on the wings of these planes in the telescope. In mid-air, bullets rained ****, blazing horizontally, and all the small-caliber guns on the German ships were firing fiercely at these vultures; As far as the eye can see, it seems that thousands of tiny golden snakes and lightning are whistling and shuttling, and their density is dazzling, and it is impossible to see the trajectory and source of each point of light.

Seeing that all the incoming British planes made a posture of attacking him, and no longer maintained their altitude and went to the surrounding waters to cruise, Fang Yan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. His judgment based on the insights of later generations was indeed not wrong, and the British military in the current era still regarded battleships as the absolute core of maritime power without any suspense.

Under these circumstances, even if the British were suspicious of the Bismarck's stay in place and the anomaly of the disappearance of most German ships, including several aircraft carriers, they would never have the slightest relenting and division of forces when they saw that the super fat piece of the Bismarck was so close at hand, almost at their fingertips. What is the sinking of the German aircraft carrier, sending this cutting-edge battleship to the bottom of the sea is the most important key!

On the aft deck of the battleship Bismarck, Luka, a sailor of the first class with a steel helmet on his head, was operating four 40-mm L60 anti-aircraft guns to fire fiercely into the air; With a loud thud that tingled the eardrums, brass shells the size of nuts were soon piled up near the rotating mechanism. However, to his rage and anxiety, he never managed to shoot down the British bomber in the sight. The other party seems to feel that he has been locked by himself, and sometimes he soars into the sky, sometimes lands, his speed increases and decreases, and he sways from side to side, making it extremely difficult for him to aim even if he has independent fire control facilities. If it weren't for the fact that the plane's target was this battleship, Lukka would have barely been able to catch the opponent's flight path!

"Sonorous!" There was a strange sound in the barrel of the gun that was similar to that of normal firing. Lukka realized that he had emptied his ammunition again. He gritted his teeth and pulled the shooting machine back into place, and the loaders on either side hurried forward to replace the gun with a new 30-round chain weighing more than 65 kg as fast as he could. After more than ten seconds, the quadruple medium-range anti-aircraft gun regained its combat effectiveness. Driven by an electric motor, the deck gun emplacement, weighing 11 tons, began to rotate rapidly as a whole; The four 40-mm long-barreled cannons with a net weight of nearly half a ton in two saddles also raised their thick barrels under the action of the hydraulic system, and once again sprayed blazing light at the British aircraft.

Unlike the historical situation, the German Navy in this plane, under the influence of Fang Yan, has made revolutionary improvements to the original medium-range anti-aircraft firepower. The slag 37mm hand-pulled machine, which had a rate of fire of only 30 rounds per minute, was completely thrown into the garbage heap, and was replaced by the Swedish 40mm Bofors, which was still inconspicuous at this time: it had a rate of fire more than four times that of the former. In terms of basic air defense effectiveness, there has already been a qualitative leap over the former.

In order to further strengthen the air defense capability of German warships, Fang Yan also equipped each quadruple or even twin 40 mm anti-aircraft gun with an independent rangefinder. As a result, each 40mm gun crew was able to fight separately in the chaotic anti-aircraft fire, and its hit rate was a qualitative leap from when there was no rangefinder.

However, even so, the anti-aircraft effectiveness of shipborne artillery fire was still quite low. After all, the speed of the aircraft is too fast compared to ships and cars, and this rapidly changing firing parameter is an extremely serious challenge for every anti-aircraft gunner. This is the case with Luca at the moment. In less than 5 minutes, he had poured out enough ammunition to shoot down all the incoming British planes 20 times, but the results of his own gun crew were still zero. It's so hard to hit a tiny plane!

Soon, nearly a ton of ammunition was squandered by Luka again. Taking a deep breath, he tried to calm himself in the chaotic and noisy battlefield, and watched intently at the changing position of the target plane in the rangefinder, and according to the readings. In conjunction with another gunner, the level and pitch angles of the quadruple gun were adjusted at all times. A moment later, a brilliant and dazzling flame of light erupted again from the muzzle **** 2.5 meters away, and 8 shells fired by 4 guns per second formed a row of seemingly sparse metal barrages in the target area, but in fact they could not pass through at all.

About another five minutes passed. Perhaps it was the British pilot's carelessness, or perhaps Luca finally handed in his good fortune after repeated attempts: the British bomber, which he had coveted for a long time, was finally hit in the belly from the side from below by a 40mm high-explosive bomb. This was accompanied by the appearance of an orange-red fireball with a diameter of almost 2 meters. The lower part of the British bomber was instantly blown to the ground, the parts were shattered and blackened, and after a moment, it fell like a meteorite towards the sea in the attack of the fire, stirring up a white wave about ten meters high.

"Hooray!" Seeing this scene, Luca couldn't help but slap his hands excitedly with his comrades. In order to achieve this result, his gun position had used up more than 1,500 shells, and the total weight of the ammunition poured out was twice that of the enemy plane. However, Lukka soon found bitterly that he was lucky enough to be able to destroy an enemy plane with these shells. Because at this time, the more than 40 British bombers that attacked were hardly reduced; They have already dropped bombs on their heads in the rain of bullets from their own anti-aircraft fire!

"Boom!" The waves exploded and the waves surged into the sky, and on the sea less than 100 meters from the port side of the Bismarck, several huge water masses with a diameter of more than 20 meters suddenly burst out. The white foam flew in all directions, making Luca, who was a hundred meters away, feel the wetness and coldness on his face. Lukka didn't dare or had time to imagine what the consequences of such a bomb falling on his head would be, and he had only one thought in his heart at this time, that is, to take advantage of the opportunity of the British plane's low-altitude bomb drop and single flight trajectory, and use the anti-aircraft cannon in front of him to give them a head-on attack!

The huge ship with a full load displacement of 53,000 tons traveled through the cascading and bursting waves at a high speed of 30 knots, as if the dragon was traveling on the sea, swimming in the north. Fang Yan, who was in the command tower, had already judged by the scale of the waves caused by the explosion that the British had loaded four 113kg bombs with their light bombers. At this time, he did not know whether to be happy or heavy: fortunately, this small bomb did not pose any threat in the face of Bismarck's impregnable defenses, and it was heavy that there must be no small number of them. Unless this ship has a Xiangrui that surpasses the snow wind, it is impossible to retreat under so many bomb attacks!

Before he could think about it, Fang Yan suddenly felt a strong vibration from the warship that was obviously different from the previous salvo of the main guns. The sound of a huge explosion instantly rumbled through his ears, violently destroying Fang Yan's hearing center, which had not yet fully recovered. Lindeman's face was calm and pale, and he grabbed the microphone and asked the damage management department about the damage. A short time later, a familiar middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the microphone: a bomb hit the open deck on the right side of the Central Hospital, destroying all six single-mounted 20mm gun emplacements deployed nearby, killing all 12 gunners, and the hospital was also damaged by the attack of fragments. However, the bomb did not penetrate the armoured open deck, and the resulting flames were completely extinguished in a matter of minutes.

"Boom!" Another violent explosion resounded throughout the Bismarck. The astonishing power of dozens of kilograms of explosives exploded, instantly tearing apart the transport boat on the left side of the amidship, and the flying shrapnel fired vertically and horizontally almost slaughtered the personnel on the two quadruple 40 mm deck gun emplacements before and after the explosion point. The crimson flames rose and rushed up, so that the firefighting team more than ten meters away could feel the scorching and astonishing temperature; The bridge beneath the blast site was a mess, and in the billowing smoke, charred and incomplete stumps could be faintly seen.

"They really didn't get through our armor!" Hearing another report from the damage control department, although Lindemann was extremely distressed by the damage to this brand-new battleship and the death and injury of the officers and men under his command, he could not help but have a faint sense of surprise in his heart. At this time, the wave of attacks consisting of 14 planes that took off from the British aircraft carrier was still entangled by the 10 fighters sent by their own side to intercept them; This fighter, which was less than a squadron, turned out to be an insurmountable barrier for British carrier-based torpedo planes. The torpedo attack that he was most worried about did not appear, and he was six or seven percent sure that the battleship would last until dark.

After receiving two bombs from British land-based aircraft, Lindemann discovered that these bombs were conventional high-explosive bombs; They exploded in the air, but most of the energy they released escaped into the air, and they were unable to inflict any substantial damage on their ships. A deck of open-air armor designed to withstand high-explosive shells alone was enough to keep these blows out of the entire freeboard, including the sailors' quarters! And if it is only to restore the superstructure, it is just an idle matter for the well-equipped home port; It won't be long before he can command the Bismarck to go to sea again!

At this thought, Lindemann's worries and worries finally disappeared completely. Thinking of Fang Yan's previous prediction and judgment about this battle, his surprise was difficult to describe in words. (To be continued.) )

PS: Extremely grateful to the book friends for the large reward that is not moving like a mountain and moving like thunder, but the author is an office worker, and he is usually more powerless, and I hope everyone will be considerate, thank you ~~