Just when several torpedo planes were charging under the fierce German anti-aircraft fire and finally approaching the ideal bombing position, a strange "buzzing" sound appeared above them at an inopportune time.

The soldiers on several "Swordfish" listened to the sound, and except for the pilot of the plane, they all looked up "invariably", and then they were startled "invariably", and finally "invariably" patted the shoulder of the pilot sitting in front of them.

"Ahhh The German's plane is overhead!! Hide! Hide!! ”

The second half of the torpedo plane's attack route is an ultra-low-altitude flight, almost close to the sea, so this requires the pilots to concentrate all their energy, and if they are slightly distracted at this time, they may cause the tragedy of aircraft destruction and death.

A little distraction can be like this, not to mention the unlucky people who are now "suddenly attacked" by their teammates, when a pilot was startled, his hand shook and unluckily pushed the joystick, and he drove the plane directly into the sea.

The other pilots reacted quickly and subconsciously pulled up the plane, worthy of the reputation of the Royal Navy.

After a wonderful maneuver to change the offensive route, the pilot turned his head and glared at his teammates and roared angrily after braving the German anti-aircraft fire to regain the height.

", you?!"

"No, no, no!" The torpedo operator and communicator in the back row waved their hands again and again, pointing to the three planes behind them that were chasing their own leveling, "The Germans' fighters!" ”

“shit！” The pilot who turned his head followed the gaze of his comrades, and sure enough, he saw three seaplanes sprayed with German standard iron cross paint, and burst into a foul language, and hurriedly stepped on the accelerator, so that the plane's engine entered the afterburner state, trying to get rid of the German plane that was being leveled.

He knew very well what would happen if a slow, thin-skinned swordfish was bitten back by a German fighter.

In order to survive, the communicator sitting at the back also operated the 7.7mm "Vickers" aviation machine gun he was responsible for...... Oh no, the aviation "little water gun" (compared to the 196mm cannon on the AR20 carrier-based water reconnaissance aircraft) "raised water" at the German reconnaissance aircraft that were chasing after them.

Although the two huge pontoons attached to the AR196's fuselage for landing on water have severely slowed down its speed and reduced its maneuverability, this is not comparable to the old Swordfish, which has a maximum speed of only 225 km/h.

What's more, these "Swordfish" all carried a 1600-pound 533mm aviation torpedo.

Therefore, after a "long" pursuit battle of more than ten seconds, the two "Swordfish" were exploded in the air and turned into a fireball in the sound of AR196 cannon fire, and the fragments scattered and fell into the sea.

Only then did the two British "Guanbi Swallows" soaring in the sky to watch the show find that three German planes had mixed in behind their attacking fleet.

“FUCK！ Where did those three German planes come from? The pilot of the No. 1 "Guanbi Yan" hurriedly maneuvered the plane to accelerate and chase towards the "swordfish school" that was being unilaterally beaten by his family.

"Definitely hiding in the clouds!" No. 2 "Guanbi Yan" said firmly, as if he had known that there were three German planes in ambush in the clouds.

Although the AR196 is equipped with a powerful 20mm cannon, which makes it a threat in combat, it is still a reconnaissance aircraft anyway, and it is not as far as a professional fighter in every way.

The two British "Pipenose Swallows" quickly caught up with one AR196 that reduced its speed to 220 kilometers in order to attack the "Swordfish", and then mercilessly "nourished" the AR196 into the sea with eight .303-inch (7.7mm) aviation "water guns" on both wings.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the other two AR196s hurriedly drove the afterburner to raise the altitude, trying to re-enter the clouds to avoid the British fighters, but the maximum speed of 448 kilometers per hour of the "Pipe Nose Swallow" completely shattered their illusions, and they fell into the sea one after the first "Pipe Nose Swallow".

After wagging their wings at the remaining "Swordfish" and signaling that the enemy planes had been completely annihilated, the two "Guanbi Swallows" that had won three kills left this "land of right and wrong" full of German anti-aircraft shells and returned to a safe place to continue "watching the show."

"The Germans have been killed, regrouped! Regroup! "The commander of the Swordfish group, fortunately not being shot down, immediately gave an order to the other Swordfish by radio after confirming that the threat was eliminated.

After hearing the commander's order, the scattered "Swordfish" quickly regrouped in the safe area, but the number had been reduced from 12 at the beginning of the attack to 6.

The formation of six aircraft, in the case of a separate formation attack, obviously could no longer pose any threat to the German heavy cruisers with strong anti-aircraft firepower.

"Damn it!" The commander of the "Swordfish" sighed in frustration, he felt that it would be difficult for him to sink a German heavy cruiser today to avenge the death of the British cruiser in Jutland.

"Sir, why don't we follow the example of the Germans and try a joint attack with attack aircraft and bombers?" Just when the commander was about to lead the rest of the "Swordfish" to bite the bullet, one of the sailors had an idea and thought of the classic combined bomber-torpedo attack tactics of the German naval aviation.

"But we haven't been systematically trained...... the commander opened his mouth, but nodded anyway, "that's all there is to it for now." ”

The British Royal Navy did not have sufficient training in the joint attack tactics often used by German naval aviation, or in other words, the whole world lacked sufficient knowledge of the tactical tactics of naval aviation compared to Germany.

Historically, although mankind successfully used carrier-based aircraft to sink ships as early as August 1915 (a British "Short" 184 seaplane sank a Turkish supply ship with a torpedo), it was not until the British army attacked Taranto on November 9, 1940, sinking one Italian battleship and damaging two, that the world began to gradually realize the impact of naval aviation on naval warfare.

And the decisive battle of the pure aircraft carrier fleet in the real sense did not even appear until 1942 (on May 3~8, 1942, Japan formed a sea formation with 3 aircraft carriers, 125 aircraft and 27 large and medium-sized warships, and the United States formed a sea formation with 2 aircraft carriers, 141 aircraft and 20 large and medium-sized warships, and carried out the first pure aircraft carrier naval decisive battle in the history of naval warfare in the Coral Sea, and the combat distance between the two sides exceeded the visual distance and the main gun range of 20 kilometers for the first time, and the main guns of all escort warships did not fire a single shell, Allowing aircraft carrier-based aircraft to engage in integrated naval and air warfare, the result was the loss of one light aircraft carrier, one destroyer, 80 aircraft, and 900 men per day; The United States lost an aircraft carrier, a destroyer, a tanker, 66 aircraft, and 543 people. ）

Therefore, the tactics that Lyon brought to the German Navy were ahead of their time, and it is understandable that the current British Royal Navy lacks sufficient knowledge and training in this tactic.

It is ironic that Britain, which was a pioneer in aircraft carriers in history, has been reduced to the point of learning from Germany.