If Ozawa's plan had been placed in the French Navy or the Italian Navy, which had been in full swing, it would have been impossible to accomplish it, and if it had been placed in the arrogant US Navy, most of them would have scoffed at this system. Only by encountering the extremely rigid Germans can this combat system that is as accurate as clockwork be carried out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In addition, according to the different needs of actual combat and the unique tastes of the Germans, Ozawa and the Japanese advisory team have formulated a total of 4 sets of plans from A to D.

Most of the steps in the plan were accurate to the minute, and they were compiled into an operational manual, which clarified and solidified command responsibilities to each officer and sergeant major, and proposed a coordinated strategy for A/B posts to complement each other. Because the navy calculates artillery and ballistics all year round, and at the same time uses a variety of instruments to measure speed, bearing, and angle, its mathematical level far exceeds that of other arms.

At the same time, the Germans are notoriously obscure for hating ambiguity, and there are often opinions in history about the German army falsely reporting their own losses, and the actual reasons are very complicated, because the command staff officers rely on the figures reported by the front-line troops, and if the battle situation is tragic, the general front-line commander can only report a vague approximate number, and the staff officers are not accepted because of the "vagueness", let alone statistics, so black humor appears, the more fierce the battle, the more fuzzy the number, the less relevant losses of the German army's "statistics", If a certain unit is killed and no one reports the losses, then the staff officer solemnly writes down the matter - no losses on that day!

No one in the fleet concerned questioned this complex logical system, but thought that it should be so, and all of them were in awe of the commander and the advisory group.

"Attention to the whole ship, implement the D-class plan!" With Colonel Sedelitz's roar, the entire Dunkirk was like a huge dose of stimulant, and all the crew began to run.

The D-class program is the highest-level combat program, and in this tactical context, the supreme command authority is transferred from the captain to the air commander, and all officers and men, including the personnel of the bridge command department, are to provide combat services except for the necessary posts.

At 10:01, the order to fight was issued;

At 10:07, the 24 direct cover aircraft belonging to the Dunkirk ship were mounted on the auxiliary fuel tanks and lifted off one after another;

At 10:29, the first artillery detachment landed with a direct cover plane, and within 9 minutes, all 27 fighters had landed, and the ground crews rushed up and began to replenish their fuel bombs;

At 10:51, the fighters who had completed the replenishment took off again after changing pilots, and together with the Dunkirk direct cover aircraft, they formed the first air defense echelon of 51 aircraft, responsible for regional air defense, and at this time the attack aircraft group reinforced from the rear was already in sight;

At 10:59, the 11 Ju-98s to which the Dunkirk itself belonged began to fly at full speed and waited;

At 11:02, the 48 He-218s that flew from the rear, with the shortest range and the fastest speed, entered the airspace control area and prepared to land in turn to replenish fuel, and 34 Ju-98s plus 36 Bf-219s with auxiliary fuel tanks on them rushed forward at the most economical speed, preparing to join the 11 Ju-98s that had just taken off;

At 11:04, the two runways were operating at the same time, carrying out the He-218 supplementary go-around operation, one after another aircraft fell from the two deck runways at the same time, and then quickly refueled the work, the fastest operation speed of each runway could reach 1 sortie per minute to complete the reception, everyone's spirit was highly concentrated, this was the weakest moment of the Dunkirk, the deck was covered with planes full of ammunition and waiting to be refueled, all the officers and men, even including Sedlitz, assisted the ground crew to carry out the operation;

At 11:19, 34 Ju-98s and 11 Ju-98s converged, and 36 Bf-219s formed an attack wave to bypass the exclusive airspace of the fleet and fly towards the attack target, with no one on the deck distracted;

At 11:44, all the fuel replenishment was completed, and the operation mode was suddenly reversed, changing to take off at full speed, and the two runways were released together, and the efficiency reached 3 planes in 1 minute at the earliest......

At 12:09, the radar reported that the enemy aircraft group was 185 kilometers away from the fleet, and at this time all the attack aircraft groups had been completely released, and the last 60 dive bombing formations, including 12 Ju-198s belonging to the Dunkirk (carrying bombs to carry out dive bombing missions), had been released, and the formation could catch up with the attack echelon that had set off in the early stage with its own high speed.

So far, Ozawa has dispatched all 141 attack formations, including 36 fighters, 60 dive bombers, and 45 torpedo attack planes, with 51 air defense fighters remaining on the Dunkirk and only 29 fighters left in the main force of the aircraft carrier. It was quite a risky operation, but it was only a small number of planes, and it was necessary to form as many attack groups as possible and cover the exposed target of the Dunkirk.

"Hooray!" Officers and men on the left and right, including Sedlitz, cheered, and they were three minutes faster than the plan required, and there was not a single accident.

"Now, please take your place, prepare air defense, we will let the Americans have no return!"

"Sir, all orders have been completed, no mistakes have been made, the enemy planes will attack the Dunkirk in about 20 minutes, and it will take about 90 minutes for our troops to attack the enemy fleet."

Ozawa nodded: "Everyone, the winner and loser have been released, how is the success or failure, give it a fight here!" ”

Masal said: "You can let the Air Force bomb the island again, they still have more than 40 bombers, and if they are idle, they will be idle, so it is better to add to the blockage of the Americans......

Cranke added: "Let the S-boats also be dispatched, they still have a lot of experience in dealing with the inshore infantry, and it would be good to send some reinforcements to the island." ”

These few words doomed the 3rd and 5th divisions of the army to misery.

At 12:34, the US attack aircraft group arrived less than 30 kilometers from Dunkirk, and what made the commander Lieutenant Colonel Macmillan tingle was that they encountered more than 40 German fighters waiting for the battle, in order to enhance the strike force, most of the F6F were loaded with 500-pound bombs, and after encountering an interception, they were either forced to throw away the bombs hastily, or they could only use clumsy maneuvers to evade, but the German pilots were still veterans, A few fighters with a fluke mentality were eaten by the opponent directly in the confrontation, and in the end all the fighters could only give up their bombs -- a shadow was cast before they could touch the edge of the enemy aircraft carrier.

Seidlitz seemed to see through his idea when Macmillan planned to divide his forces and rely on his superior number of planes to exhaust the Germans, but his strategy was the same as Macmillan's, letting go of the slow but torpedo-carrying TBF and instead focusing on attacking the bomb-carrying SBD dive bombers. The ideas of the two sides are very close, but the starting point is completely different, the Dunkirk is a battleship converted aircraft carrier, the defense is relatively strong, the US military hopes to use torpedoes to kill the warship, the German army believes that it can rely on its own defense for a while, the key is to maintain his take-off and landing capability. As for TBF, there are other ways to deal with it.

The idea of the US military is very good, but the performance of the American aviation torpedoes is not good, and it must be pounced and fired at close range, which provides the best target for the dense array close-range anti-aircraft fire used on the Dunkirk, and one TBF after another is constantly shot down, and some even the torpedo has not been successfully released. As for the SBD that was intercepted by German fighters, it was even more painful, although more than 10 F6Fs desperately took cover, they were still shot down by Bf-219, and in just 7 minutes, nearly 30 SBDs died in the sea.

"Boom", after avoiding 4 torpedoes in a row, finally a torpedo could not dodge, the captain chose to use the front of the ship to carry hard, the torpedo exploded a three-meter square opening, and the sea water continued to pour in, but under the brave management of the officers and soldiers, only swallowed more than 1,000 tons of seawater to plug the loophole, and quickly injected water to restore the balance, the speed of the overall warship dropped by 2 knots, and the rest seemed to be safe and sound, and there were also a few SBD bombers that missed the net to pounce on the attack, but no bomb was in the middle of the warship, Only 2 near-misses were inflicted.

At 12:58, the American formation that completed the attack mission returned, they paid the loss of 52 aircraft, but only hit 1 torpedo on the Dunkirk, a 1000-pound bomb on the Hipper, the most important goal of paralyzing and destroying the enemy aircraft carrier was not completed, the German fighters lost 8, and the pilots who fell into the water were quickly rescued by the extremely fast fantasy class.

"The attack formation has returned, and they have created enemy aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers, but due to the large number of enemy fighters and intensive fire interceptions, they have not been able to destroy them, and it is recommended to send more forces......

When the staff officer read the message, there was silence on the Unicorn. Cunningham sighed, "The enemy is even harder to fight than we expected...... Have all the troops that attacked in the early morning been gathered? ”

"It's completely retracted and replenished, and it's ready to go."

"It's a pity, I still don't know where the enemy's main aircraft carriers are......" Cunningham pressed his temples with a headache, "where are these Germans hiding?" ”

"Sir, radar reports that a group of aircraft has been spotted 200 kilometers away, possibly an enemy attack group."

"It's coming so fast!" The crowd exclaimed.

"Where are enemy planes?"

"Northeast ......"

"It is estimated that the enemy ships are hidden farther in the northeast, so that all the carrier-based aircraft that can be dispatched can take off, and the air defense fighters will strive to entangle the enemy planes and buy time for the rear."

"140 km, predicting that the number of enemy aircraft will exceed 130 aircraft...... No, 140! Cunningham watched the very nervous planes on the deck fly and listened to the report in the radar room, and the situation suddenly became tense, but Cunningham was still very calm, and while issuing the attack order in an orderly manner, he asked the aircraft carrier formation to hide under a cumulonimbus cloud as much as possible.

"Attention members, the enemy fleet has been spotted and is about to attack!" With Frank's shout, the German attack wave was aimed at the American fleet and swept in......