The attack of British and American planes in the twilight ended in a dismal end, nearly 150 planes were shot down by German and Italian planes and anti-aircraft fire, only the Lützov was unlucky and hit a 250-pound bomb, and the rest of the warships were hit by some near-misses, and the hedgehog class, which had the most firepower, was identified by the enemy as belonging to the battleship's artillery fire and paid more attention, especially the heavy bombers dropped bombs on the fire below, and did not expect that there were destroyers with mobile air defense towers below, Six were shot down by 128mm anti-aircraft guns with close-fire fuses, while the destroyer itself was unscathed, except for one shot from machine gun bullets. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The battleship forces and aircraft carriers, which were the important targets that the British and American planes really wanted to deal with, had either accelerated their rush towards Bermuda at this time, or they had avoided it far away and had not been affected at all.

At 7:09, the British and American planes that had completed the air raid began to return home, and the German attack planes that had been circling and waiting at a high altitude in the distance immediately followed up, but after flying more than 100 kilometers, they found that something was wrong, and the enemy's flight position obviously deviated from the direction of Bermuda, and the momentum seemed to be aimed at the east coast, which was obviously misleading.

Ozawa was a little nervous as news from the flight commander quickly reached the Zeppelin, but Machar and Crake looked very relaxed: "Don't worry, the AR-352 and the specially modified water scouts will find them." ”

The reason why the two are so confident is that the AR-352 and some modified water reconnaissance have a new navigation and positioning system developed by the German army, referred to as the T system. This is based on the traditional bent-legged navigation system of the German army (including its subsequent improvements) upgraded, and at the same time, it also draws on the hyperbolic positioning method used by Britain and the United States in strategic air strikes and combines the new system formed by the German army's own navigation experience, the main principle is to use multiple beams of radio waves for cross-positioning, but at the beginning, countries used the radio signals of ground radar stations to provide positioning for aircraft, and now Germany can use mobile shipborne radars at sea for positioning assistance.

The positioning method of the mobile process is the same as the method of the fixed radio station, the main difficulty lies in the calculation of the large amount of data formed because of the change of its own position, and it is certainly impossible to complete such a system before, because the old data volume is not processed, the new data volume is pouring in, and it is impossible to guide it in time. But now, with the help of the Z4 computer system invented by Mr. Chu Ze, their relevant calculation process has been exponentially improved, and a set of data is processed every three minutes - this time is equivalent to the speed of the ship's movement is still acceptable.

At present, the artillery formation and the mobile unit have formed a clear position angle, the relative position between the two is known, and the position of the two on the map is also known, and the receiver of the T system on board can construct the target orientation by using trigonometric functions along the radar waves they emit, confirm where they are located, and correct the course. At the same time, the on-board T system receiver can also detect the radar waves used by Britain and the United States, and now the defenders of Bermuda are afraid of the German attack overnight, and have long opened the radar scanning range to the maximum extent, and after the addition of this radar wave, the parameters used by the T system are more abundant, and the aircraft group can be guided to a place near the target position and a range of no more than 50 kilometers.

As for the situation of the last 50 kilometers, it is easy to handle, even if the enemy forces carry out light control, there is a way to detect it, because the AR-352 (Caiyun Change) has been installed on the airborne radar, the sea detection range is more than 80 kilometers, the error is not more than 5 kilometers, and the error of the last 5 kilometers or so can be corrected by specially trained pilots with the naked eye. Thus, a large group of attack aircraft unmistakably found the location of the Bermuda archipelago at 8:15. The British radar station immediately sounded the air defense alarm, but all this was useless, there were no night planes on the island, and the only fighters that followed the attack group to carry out the twilight attack, and now there were no planes to intercept the Germans.

German and Italian carrier-based pilots were inferior to their Japanese counterparts in their ability to skim the sea to find targets, but they compensated for this shortcoming with their superiority in equipment. After the introduction of magnetrons from Japan, and even more because of Hoffman's attention and high investment, the level of Germany's electronics industry, including radar, has made great progress, and the gap between Germany and Britain and the United States has almost completely narrowed as a whole, and even surpassed it in some fields, which has made it possible to attack island targets at night.

The next attack basically entered the routine process, the guide aircraft opened the way first, ignored the anti-aircraft fire below, and used flares to open the passage for the follow-up group, and then there was a textbook bombing action, but the Germans played a new trick this time, accompanied by high-explosive bombs and butterfly bombs - previously used exclusively by the Luftwaffe when bombing Britain, and with the transfer of air force personnel to the navy in batches, this habit was also brought into the navy. Codenamed SD-2, this small butterfly-shaped explosive is quite strange and has five different types of fuzes, including impact fuzes, air explosion fuzes, delayed fuses and anti-operation fuzes, and its goal is not to destroy concrete fortifications, but to accompany enemy soldiers and civilians preparing for rescue and obstruct the repair of the airfield.

If there are professional sappers to investigate, the impact of butterfly bullets will be relatively easy to eliminate, but at least it will also contain the opponent's personnel and energy, since they are ready to take this island within 24 hours, it is necessary to do everything possible to delay it, and it is good to delay for an extra hour. After 40 minutes of airstrikes, Bermuda was in flames.

While the war was raging in Bermuda, the top of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Roosevelt's henchmen were visiting the deteriorating president in the hospital. Roosevelt was depressed by the ongoing war, and although he dealt with the heavy daily work with great perseverance, his health was clearly deteriorating, and the doctors appeared more and more often, and he spent more and more time in the hospital. At first, I just went in in the morning and came out in the afternoon, then I went in in the evening, and I came out the next morning, and then I started to put aside my work and was hospitalized, and it developed from 1 day and 2 days to 5 days and 1 week. The doctors were helpless about his condition, and despite the best medicines and the best specialists, the results were not satisfactory. There are even a few doctors who believe that the president's life cycle may not exceed three years, and they express great admiration for the heavy workload he still has to do.

Although Roosevelt vowed to his subordinates every time that he was determined to run for re-election and fight the war to the end, everyone feared that he would not even make it to the end of his term, let alone make a speech tour around the country. Everyone really wants to stop bothering him about these things, but it is always impossible to bypass the president for such a major decision as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, not to mention that if you don't tell him, the president won't know? But he had to watch the intelligence summary every morning, even when he was hospitalized, and he couldn't hide it at all. Seeing the crowd flocking to visit him, Roosevelt immediately asked alarmedly, "What happened in Washington?" The Germans called? ”

"The Axis Fleet is attacking Bermuda, and after discussion in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it is ready to meet ......"

"Are you sure you can beat them?"

"There is a certain certainty, but the enemy should not flown away with a false shot." Marshall reported, "The Army and Navy have reached a consensus after an emergency meeting, would you like to take a look at it first?" ”

Roosevelt waved his hand and said in a weak tone: "I believe in the opinions you have discussed, I just want to know how many chances we have, the United States can no longer afford to lose now, even if the enemy escapes, at least we can rule out their attack on the east coast." For those who know strategy, the Falkland Islands are much more important than the East Coast, but for the American people, the East Coast is far more important than the Falkland Islands......"

Everyone nodded silently.

"We haven't had a comprehensive homeland defense system for a long time, and I think there may be loopholes and flaws, as well as problems with personnel training and equipment, so I hope you can control the impact and don't let panic spread unchecked."

Roosevelt's words were very vague, but the meaning was still obvious, that is, to relieve pressure on the army and navy -- the navy was likely to be unable to intercept the German and Italian fleets, and the army might not be able to defend itself by a sneak attack by the enemy.

The generals nodded grimly.

After coming out of the hospital, everyone immediately received the news that Bermuda had been attacked and that the airport was almost paralyzed.

At 3 a.m. on 14 October, Lieutenant General Pei rushed to the vicinity of Bermuda with a high-speed artillery formation, and now the target was so obvious that the 380mm caliber naval guns directly aimed at the fire and launched a fierce artillery bombardment. As a large number of naval guns and shells landed, the small Bermuda Islands shook the ground, and the British and American officers and men on the defense finally tasted a similar feeling on the night of Kuah Island, and from time to time fuel or ammunition depots exploded due to direct hits.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Ingersoll, whose hands and feet were cold, received a battle report, when his leading fleet was still 2,100 kilometers away from the island, the desperate and helpless defenders chose to surrender, although the heavy bombers flying from the continental United States in the early morning tried their best to help defend, but their horizontal bombing could not work at all, but was shot down because some of them flew too low, in order to cover the bomber group, General Arnold's ground aviation used all its resources, using a large number of P51 to accompany the attack, but it was only limited to this, The sortie distance of more than 1,000 kilometers from the mainland, even the P51, which is famous for its long range, feels unbearable, and at most it can only stay in the sky over the theater of operations for 10 minutes, and it is not capable of finding a German-Italian aircraft carrier formation further away to attack.

The embarrassment of the Japanese Navy during the historical air war on Kuah Island has now been fulfilled by the US Army Airlines. (To be continued.) )