Chapter 1229: Lightning Strike at Sea
"Sudden thud. www.biquge.info The original smooth firing of the large-caliber machine gun came to an abrupt end. CAPTAIN HARLEY SHOOK HIS HEAD HELPLESSLY WITH THE SOUND OF MACHINE GUNS LOCKING, AND JUST AFTER HE SHOT DOWN THE THIRD BRITISH BOMBER OF THE DAY, THE AMMUNITION FOR THE SIX 12.7MM MACHINE GUNS WAS FINALLY EXHAUSTED. All 3,000 rounds were consumed. Under the attack of him and his brothers, the bomber formation was almost destroyed, and even if there were occasional escapes, the bombs were dropped early.
However, just as Captain Halley was about to report his results to the station, another small group of planes quickly passed by from a distance. "Damn it! There are so many British people coming today. All aircraft that still have remaining ammunition can attack on their own. "Captain Harley gave the order to attack freely, but two of the six planes in the entire squad were wounded and forced to turn back, and only two planes had a little ammunition left.
"Their direction seems to be flying towards the port of Burgas, and the British seem to be aiming at our navy this time." The telegraph operator in the back seat said.
"Anyway, the battle here has nothing to do with us anymore, we have sent their movements out, it's up to Count Luknal to deal with it, if you're lucky, your colleagues in Bulgaria might be able to provide support, and if I'm not mistaken, the Panthers squadron should be at the border between Bulgaria and Romania." Harley sighed. However, to Captain Harley's surprise, this morning's battle was just the beginning for him, and after a one-hour flight, he didn't have time to return to the pilot's lounge for a hot cup of coffee and a side meal. was stuffed with two hamburgers and a bottle of water by the staff next to him, and then a group of ground crews rushed up to refuel the plane and reload it at the same time, and Harley, who had only been on the ground for less than 50 minutes, was once again pushed onto the plane and participated in another air battle.
The C squadron was divided into two parts, one was the 15 bombers of the Raven squadron that happened to collide with Captain Harley's squadron, and the other was the 12 bombers of the Seagull squadron that were lucky enough to slip past the seagull squadron.
"I lost more than half of my attack power before I even started fighting, and there was no one left!" Lieutenant Colonel Wei Lun, the commander of Group C, now felt like thousands of divine beasts were running wildly in his heart. The opponent's interception force is not strong, it is the appearance of 6 interceptors in succession, as a result, these guys shot down at least 9 bombers, damaged 2, and by the way, forced the remaining 4 to throw away their bombs and run away! I haven't encountered the enemy yet, and half of the output has been dropped, so this TM is still a hairy! Lieutenant Colonel Velon's heart is dripping blood!
However, the only consolation for Veron was that there were no planes to interfere from the time Captain Harley's group left until they met Count Luknal's fleet sailing on the sea. Maybe it's the so-called Noji Tailai. In fact, there were some deviations in their routes, and it was precisely because of this deviation that the British fleet caught the ...... of the German fleet, which had not been out of port for a long time.
"It seems that our luck is not bad, the brothers are moving!" Lieutenant Colonel Veron gave the order to attack, and the 12 bombers were divided into 4 squads and formed an attack formation.
"It's a bomber! The British came. "Earl Lukner, who had already learned of the British Air Force attack through the radio waves, was not nervous about the arrival of the British, after all, there were only 12 planes, and it was only too much to say that he wanted to use this aircraft to damage his fleet. After the British bombers were spotted at the lookout, the Count's flagship, the Sultan Osman I, had time to release 4 planes from the deck! The latter two armored cruisers did not have this ability, because there were fewer seaplanes, so only 2 were on the Reshadie, and none on the Redbeard Varedin.
THE BATTLESHIP'S 88MM ANTI-MINE GUNS, 50MM RAPID-FIRE GUNS, AND MACHINE GUNS WERE QUICKLY MOBILIZED, AND THE THREE BATTLESHIPS WERE APPROPRIATELY DISTANCED TO FACILITATE DODGE. The Count's flagship was in the forefront, followed by two armored cruisers. The situation of the British was really bad, there were only 6 torpedoes and 6 bombs out of 12 aircraft, and in the face of active targets, the hit rate of bombs was rather miserable, and only torpedoes could really be relied on.
"It's a boring battle!" Lieutenant Colonel Wei Lun said with some sadness, the so-called boredom means that it is difficult for both sides to treat each other well. "Concentrate your fire on the battleship in the middle of the queue!" Lieutenant Colonel Velun ordered.
"Isn't that the fast battleship?" The poster in the back seat asked.
"It's hard for us to hit it!" There are 4 seaplanes escorted over the Earl's flagship, and the speed can easily run to more than 25 knots, you know, the cruising speed of the FB27 bomber with bombs is 90 kilometers per hour. It's not as fast as a car on ...... highway.
After a short exchange, in addition to the 3 bombers that were sent to attack the Sultan Osman I and used to contain the 4 seaplanes, the remaining 9 bombers were aimed at the armored cruiser Redbeard Vareddin in the middle!
In the 5 minutes that were relieved, the battleship experienced its darkest moment, as the British expected, in the face of an armored cruiser with a speed of more than 17 knots, the horizontal bombardment of a small number of aircraft was really not effective, and the hit was completely dependent on fate, and none of the three bombs fell within 70 meters of the battleship...... The explosion of the water column seemed to be dangerous, but it only wet the deck of the armored cruiser.
What was really sinister was the cross-attack of 6 torpedo machines! THE BURLY FB27 BOMBER AND O-400 IGNORED THE SMALL WATER TUBE MACHINE GUNS ON THE SEAPLANES, AND AT LEAST FIVE 7.7MM MACHINE GUNS ON EACH BRITISH BOMBER WERE NOT GOOD AT DEALING WITH THE SKY HUNTERS, BUT IT WAS EASY TO GET RID OF THESE GUYS! 6 bombers entered the bombing course almost at a perfect angle!
When the altitude of the plane dropped to 50 meters, the air pressure caused by the huge fuselage falling sharply even pushed the sea water to one side. With the roar of the engines, two groups of British aircraft quickly approached the target at a speed of 97 kilometers per hour!
"Release the torpedo!" After all, there are no traversers on the British side, they know that the hit rate of cross-lightning strikes will be better, but they don't know how to fight, and at this time they can only rely on the so-called ethereal tacit understanding. However, this time, the so-called tacit agreement did not exist at all, and the British bomber located on the left chord was the first to drop the torpedo, and the three torpedoes fell into the water in a zigzag shape, pulling out 3 straight white tracks!
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