Chapter 1233: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
To this day, Lieutenant General Eberhardt is still cold with cold hands and feet. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info More than 40 minutes ago, columns of smoke rushing into the sky really startled the Russians! At that time, the Russian lieutenant general trembled with his hands and threw the 12x telescope produced in Zeiss in Germany directly on the deck. When the seaplane confirmed that it was the German fleet, Vice Admiral Eberhardt felt a sweet throat at that time, and a fishy liquid poured up! "Damn British!" The Russians really gritted their teeth and scolded, and their lips were bitten!
It is said that this pot is carried by the British. But the British said that they were also helpless! I'm speechless! Who would have thought that flying all night would deviate so much? I don't want to do that! If it comes to the 2nd World War, the strategic bomber will fly a deviation of several tens of kilometers, and it will be OK to fly for more than ten minutes. But now? This time has been stretched to hours! The slow speed of the plane is one thing, and considering the range, the plane does not dare to fly fast is another aspect! It's fast, I'm afraid I won't be able to fly back, and this situation has been in World War 2. No way, airplanes also have to conform to the laws of physics.......
Otherwise, Lieutenant General Trenchard is still old and spicy, there is indeed a problem in the place where he is most worried, the target of Port Ereli is a bit far away, and it is difficult to navigate, the fleet directly flew away, and almost all of them were delayed ....... The British bombers did not eat this evil fruit for the time being, but the Russians were the first to be pitted!
However, the Russians are thankful that so far the Germans have not made a move, it is not that Count Spee did not see the Russian fleet, he found the Russian fleet 25 kilometers away from him, but he really did not dare to do it! Not only did he not dare to do it, but he was even ready to apply oil to the soles of his feet.
The Count was brave but not reckless, and he was able to overshadow the French fleet at night not because of boldness, but because of precise calculations. And after discovering the Russian fleet, the count decided that this situation was really impossible to fight now! No matter how bad the Russian fleet is, there are 2 dreadnoughts and 4 dreadnoughts!
The Russians didn't hold out for more than 1 hour to really start the fight, but if they wanted to delay, then it was impossible, look at the Thunder Thurbrus operation back then, when the German fleet had a huge advantage, didn't it have to slowly consume the smoke canisters and destroyers of the British? The Russian fleet, although poor, also had 14 destroyers! And what about the Earl's head now? Squadrons of British bombers were flying towards them. If at this time, if the two sides fight each other and open the battle line, then the British bombers will stir up the situation again, how do you say to fight?
The hit rate of the bomb is low, but if a 500KG bomb falls, the entire main mast can be scrapped. If this falls on the turret, it may not be able to penetrate, but it will definitely be damaged. (By the way, historically, the main turrets of Yamato-class battleships could all be blown up by 1,000-pound bombs.) The count's battleship was naturally also afraid. It may be difficult to sink a capital ship with a simple bomb, but it is okay to make it incapacitated! Not to mention the bombers with torpedoes ....... The Earl is dizzy when he looks at this thing!
But the Count did not dare to go, nor was he willing to go. The Count needs air defense over the fleet, and it just so happens that as the port where the main force of the Allied Mediterranean Fleet is stationed, there are indeed 3 squadrons of various aircraft here, although they are not in the number, there are also some things, but 50 planes are still available, and the Earl's fleet itself also carries some seaplanes, which can now resist the bombardment of the British fleet that has not yet been concentrated. And even if you want to go, do you want to run through the sky? That doesn't seem realistic......
Moreover, the Count had already contacted the interceptor unit in Constantinople, in which the interceptor planes originally used to ambush Group B rushed directly to the port of Ereli, and the Bavarian Air Force also said that it would continue to provide reinforcements. The Bavarian Air Force was as reliable as the prince's personal reputation, and this gave the count the courage to persevere.
As for being unwilling? Naturally, it was because he saw that the Russian fleet on the opposite side was so easy to come out once, and if he let you go back like this, the count felt that he was committing a crime.......
The Germans are very entangled, and so are the Russians! The Russian generals, led by Lieutenant General Eberhardt, were also in a state of confusion between wanting to go but not daring to go. Now stay here, at least with the bombers of the RAF as allies. But what are you going to run? What would happen if you evacuated to the north-east and left the RAF's combat radius?
By that time, Count Spee's three quick-following battleships would have been able to shake off the slow quasi-dreadnoughts and catch up at a speed of more than 24 knots, and they would have almost a whole day to hunt down these weak chickens of the Black Sea Fleet! You tell me, how is it possible to escape from the pursuit of German fast battleships when the weather is not so bad now? If the Germans had done something more desperate and ran directly to the gate of the Sevastopol fortress to block you, then the Russian Black Sea Fleet would probably never have been able to return home, right?
As for fighting? The odds of victory are slim, at least in the eyes of the Russians, the power at sea is completely disproportionate! Now for Russia, it is a ...... to stretch out its head and shrink its head. But even so, the Russians were ready to wait until the British bomber group moved!
And to the surprise of the Russians, it seems that the British fleet hovering in the sky also thinks the same ....... "Why haven't we attacked yet?" On Colonel Schott's plane, an officer pointed to the German fleet in the distance.
"It doesn't matter, the fuel load of the V1500 bomber is enough to support us for a while. Our attack now is a refueling tactic, do you see those planes hovering over the German fleet, although compared to us it is just a swarm of ants, but there are more ants, and they can still bite the elephant to death. Colonel Short said with a grim face. The situation was very bad, and the German fleet, which was unable to move due to a sneak attack, became a German fleet that attacked the sea head-on. This made the British air raids much less effective, and the large number of planes scattered around, it was a problem to gather them.
In the end, Colonel Short chose to wait, in his opinion, the German fleet did not choose to go far into the depths of the Black Sea, nor did it choose to attack the Russian fleet, so the other British bombers could always rush to the battlefield with the coordinates of Port Ereli! Time should still be on its side!
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