The thunder roared and exploded, and the blazing air waves raged across the country; The flight deck and hangar of the Fury instantly became like mud and paper, shattered and dissipated by the violent impact of the bomb explosion. The rolling flames were like magma gushing, and they swept up hundreds of meters in an instant, and the surrounding British sailors were either pierced through their bodies by ****'s shrapnel, and their flesh and blood flew sideways, or they were on fire under the invasion of the hot wind, screaming and falling. From a distance, the entire aircraft carrier seemed to be on fire, and the bright red torch stood on the pale blue sea, so that everyone who witnessed this scene could not help but be terrified of the fate of the sailors on this aircraft carrier.

Burnett was badly injured and fell on the blood-stained bridge, and his whole body fell into a hellish nightmare. In less than ten minutes, the Fury was hit by seven bombs one after another, and the German bomber's attack efficiency was completely beyond his imagination, and its stormy advance made it impossible for his own personnel to make any resistance to the response. The German bomber was a full 80% faster than the Swordfish, which was not much better than the Sea Fighter; Burnett soon discovered that his own anti-aircraft fire could not hit these German warhawks flying like lightning, and the series of anti-bomber training conducted by the fleet on weekdays was a complete joke in actual combat.

What shocked and frightened him even more was that the attack methods of the German planes were also fundamentally different from his own perception: they did not carry out horizontal bombing at an altitude of about 2 kilometers like the Swordfish, but directly flew and dived like goshawks, and threw bombs directly over their heads with the power of comet fire!

Although the German Go-388 carrier-based bombers had harvested a large number of British warships by dive bombs in the battle of Scarpa Bay, because the British fleet at that time was in a stationary state anchored in the harbor and did not have the conditions for maneuver and evasion, the high hit rate of this attack method was not really valued by the British Navy. In the eyes of almost all British officers and men, the aircraft carrier aircraft that adopted the horizontal bomb delivery method were still not as effective in attacking fast-moving targets on the sea surface as they were satisfied, and the aircraft carriers could not really replace the battleships as the main force in naval warfare. It was because of this consideration that Burnett dared to take the initiative to search for traces of the German ocean-going fleet. Now, however, all his preconceived notions of naval and air warfare have been completely shattered by the swooping and screaming German bombers!

"Dive bombing...... If only you could give me another chance......" Burnett spoke hoarsely, scarlet blood spilling from the corners of his mouth. A shrapnel had been cut deep into his chest, and every breath he took was a burning pain in his lungs. With the medical capabilities of this era, it is almost impossible to cure such injuries and diseases with damaged organs. Even if Burnett had God's favor and was able to survive this difficulty, the current aircraft carrier Fury was seriously injured and dying, and there were already signs of not being able to hold on under the successive bombardments of heavy bombs.

Amid the panicked screams of the British sailors, another German bomber swooped down at high speed towards the Fury. Although its tonnage and size were not proportional to the sheer size of an aircraft carrier on the sea, it was an absolute hunter in the battle, and the more than a thousand British sailors below it were waiting in extreme terror for death and destruction. By this time, the Fury had lost its agility and agility, and the anti-aircraft fire on its deck was swept away by the blast of the blast, and the German planes easily dropped deadly armor-piercing bombs. The fighter plane swung sideways, the nose pulled up, and in just a few breaths, the bomb landed precisely on the port deck of the Fury.

As an aircraft carrier converted from a large light cruiser, the armor protection of the Fury was inherently seriously flawed: its 75 mm vertical armor + 25 mm horizontal defense design was designed to resist the 105 mm guns of German light cruisers in World War I, completely ignoring the needs of any aviation operations. When the Fury was transformed into an aircraft carrier, this new weapon was still in its infancy: all countries in the world were groping for the use of aircraft carriers in confusion, and Britain was no exception.

Unable to pinpoint its purpose, British designers built hangars and decks on top of the ship's inherent hull with little modification of the Furious's inherent armor. More than 20 years have passed, and the thickness of the main deck of the Fury has remained at 25 mm. In the face of delayed fuse bombs dropped from the air, she can almost be said to have no defense!

"Bang!" The hull shook violently, the steel plates broke in response, and the half-ton bomb withered and decayed, breaking through eight decks one after another with an unstoppable momentum, and went straight to the bottom of the hull where the Fury was carrying aviation ammunition. Although the Fury was nowhere near as well stocked as the German aircraft carriers due to its small aircraft, she still had nearly 50 tons of ammunition for the 24 Swordfishes, including 24 450 mm torpedoes. In an instant, a devastating and violent energy was released from the inside of the British aircraft carrier, and the surging waves of fire and light broke through the barriers, and actually gushed out from the topmost deck of the aircraft carrier. The top of the aircraft carrier was still like this, and the bottom hull that bore the brunt of the explosion was torn to ashes by the air waves, and the sea roared and swept the entire warship, engulfing all her reserve buoyancy!

"Another British aircraft carrier is finished. Counting the Glory, which served in the Mediterranean, now the British Navy has only 2 fleet aircraft carriers, her and the Ark Royal. Although the Eagle aircraft carrier also has a displacement of more than 20,000 tons, her speed is only at the level of a dreadnought, and its serviceability and regular aircraft carrier are not at the same level at all. Receiving the report of sinking the enemy ship sent back by the front-line bombers, Fang Yan couldn't help but show a somewhat relaxed smile. With the fall of the Fury, his intention to lure the enemy into pursuit and annihilate each of the British warships was finally realized. And this battle, which is a perfect blow to high-speed enemy ships, will also further enhance the status of aircraft carriers in the German Navy; After Fang Yan returns to China, he can become more confident in asking for resources for the aircraft carrier.

The night was as thick as ink, and the heavy clouds completely obscured the stars and moon into the sky. In the wee hours of the morning, the streets of London were silent, except for a few insects swirling and buzzing in the dim streetlights. Yet in the Navy headquarters building in the center of the city, a group of officers sat neatly on either side of the long table in the conference room. There was a slight tiredness on their faces, but there was a look of heaviness in their eyes.

"We're not going to talk nonsense. News had just arrived from the destroyer USS Jupiter that the aircraft carrier Fury had been sunk by German carrier-based aircraft, and that at least 1,300 sailors had been killed in the battle, including the commander of Fflotilla, Rear Admiral Burnett. In the space of 48 hours, the Royal Navy suffered two humiliating defeats: I would now like to ask the gentlemen, what exactly should we do to destroy the wicked German fleet? ”

Churchill's words echoed through the room, his voice eager, anxious, and a little tired. Less than a month has passed since the energetic hawkish politician was reinstated as Lord of the Navy, yet he seems to be 10 years older than he was before the war broke out, and his mental state is rapidly approaching his real age of 65. Since his re-entry into the cabinet, Churchill has lived almost like a year: the mess he inherited in the British Navy was many times worse than it was 25 years ago, the situation collapsed to the point of shock, and the daily bad news made him even more exhausted. If it weren't for the strong loyalty and responsibility to the motherland in his heart, Churchill would have submitted his resignation to Chamberlain a long time ago, throwing the hot potato of the navy to others!

The clock ticked, cigars smoked, and there was a brief commotion in the room at Churchill's remarks, but after a while, no one rose to his feet and presented his statement in front of his colleagues. With the successive destruction of the two detachments of Harwood and Burnett, the German ocean-going fleet has become a lion and tiger that the British Navy is afraid of: even Harwood, who has always been known for his shrewdness and good warfare, was completely defeated at the hands of the Germans, and the other cruisers could not help but weigh their own pounds before trying to intercept them.

What's more critical is that this time the Burnett fleet did not even find out the location of the other party, and became the ghost of the German bombers in a daze, which not only means that the British Navy has completely lost the position of the German fleet, but also means that the difficulty factor of intercepting the German fleet has soared from the original A-class to the SSS in an instant, which is almost impossible to complete. Just imagine, even the aircraft carrier Fury, which has its own air umbrella, cannot support a round under the air attack of the German fleet, so how should the other warships deal with themselves? You know, according to the report sent back by the destroyer Jupiter, which escorted the Fury, the Germans completely blew up the Fury with only a dozen bombers, and how many bombers were there on the German aircraft carrier in total? How could the precious British battleships take the initiative to eat the bombs, let alone the fact that the location of the German fleet is not even clear now!

"Gentlemen, is it possible that the Royal Navy, which has dominated the world for 350 years, will humbly make peace with the weak enemy we have defeated in just a few weeks?" Seeing that everyone did not say a word for a long time, Churchill only felt a strong anger inexplicably rising in his chest, and blurted out directly. For a moment, Churchill's heart was filled with desolation and sorrow: the Royal Navy had done so much, but now the people sitting in this house were all stupid and incompetent juniors!

"Your Excellency, perhaps we now have another chance to take revenge." A voice said suddenly. (To be continued.) )