The British bomber detachment was in a very good position, with their backs to the sun and keeping the course of the German fleet, and before the bombing began, the huge group was broken up into four squads to carry out air strikes. Three of the squads www.biquge.info aimed at Hipper's flagship, while the other one set their sights on the light cruiser.

"16 O-400 bombers, carrying 20 500-pound bombs and 24 250-pound bombs. You should be able to get some results, right? Lieutenant Colonel Henry whispered as he looked at his most proud bomber detachment.

When the second wave of British bombers approached the target, the anti-aircraft artillery of the entire German fleet opened fire for the first time in real combat! The 5 battleships, 1 large and 4 small, had a total of 18 88mm anti-aircraft guns, 46 2-pounder guns, and a huge number of 12.7mm machine guns. 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND 2-POUNDER GUNS WERE GENERALLY PLACED ON DECK, WHILE A LARGE NUMBER OF MACHINE GUNS WERE PLACED IN ALL AREAS WHERE THE FIRING RANGE WAS REASONABLY GOOD. For example, on the top of the main turret, for example, on the mast, and on the decks of the battleship, for example, .......

Many of the heavy machine guns were taken out of the warehouse before the fight, and a squad of 12 men completed the assumption in a few minutes with a double gun mount, 2 machine guns, boxes of ammunition, and sights like an army machine gun crew, and then aimed the machine guns in the air under the guidance of an officer with a telescope. As for how it actually works. This is waiting to be tested in battle!

THE ROAR OF GUNS RESOUNDED THROUGHOUT THE BATTLESHIP, AND THE 88MM GUN CREW FIRED FRANTICALLY AT TARGETS IN THE AIR, AND WITH THE EFFORTS OF A 10-MAN GUN CREW, EACH GUN FIRED A RATE OF FIRE OF MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS PER MINUTE, ACCOMPANIED BY ORANGE FLAMES SPRAYING OUT OF THE MUZZLE, A BRASS SHELL WAS QUICKLY THROWN, AND THEN THE AUXILIARY RELOADING DEVICE LOCATED NEXT TO THE GUN LATCH WOULD PUSH ANOTHER SHELL INTO THE BREECH.

THE 2-POUNDER GUN AND THE 12.7MM MACHINE GUN WERE SIMPLER, THE FORMER COULD THEORETICALLY FIRE 8 SHELLS PER SECOND, WHILE THE LATTER HAD A RATE OF FIRE OF MORE THAN 10 ROUNDS. A 1-meter-long fiery snake erupted from the muzzle of the 2-pounder gun, the drums located on the side of the gun were depleted almost instantly, and a dozen people lined up to deliver shells from the ammunition compartment below. In just a few minutes, the yellow-orange-orange shells were already piled up next to the artillery!

When the British flew in, the anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns of more than three digits really frightened the British, especially the flagship of Hipper's performance in this air defense operation was very outstanding, dozens of guns and machine guns even more than a ton of ammunition were projected into the air per minute! Hundreds of shells and bullets flew through the air, forming a funnel-shaped barrage. The barrage swayed in the air as the battleship moved, harvesting like the scythe of death on anyone who dared to approach it. Cannonballs poured into the sky like a tidal wave. It's even more beautiful than the biggest fireworks display of the festival, but under the brilliant flames, death hides!

"As we approached the target, pieces of shells flew above, below and next to us, from time to time shells exploded around us, we could barely hear each other's voices, shrapnel and flames flew around us, and for a moment we seemed to enter a world of flames." At that time, a British pilot described the scene with such trepidation.

And in the face of an unprecedented intensity of anti-aircraft fire, the first group of British bombers instigated, they began to climb, then flew from a relatively safe altitude of more than 800 meters, and then dropped bombs downwards in a covered manner. (The effective fire height of the 12.7MM machine gun is very limited, only the 88mm gun and the 2-pounder gun are threatening at this height)

"Right full rudder!" The huge Weimar fast battleship drew a huge arc on the sea, the four rudders were hit to the maximum, and even the hull was tilted 10 degrees to the right side, leaving a huge track on the sea like a giant whale. In this evasion, relying on the shock of anti-aircraft fire, none of the more than a dozen bombs hit. Columns of water once again surrounded the huge battleship. But as with the first time, there is no ...... for eggs.

"They're flying back again!" A moment later, the lookout, who was at the top of the mast, found that the planes of the first wave had returned, and this time, it was a bad thing for Hipper, because Hipper found that the planes had dispersed directly, abandoned the original formation bombing, and rushed towards the Weimar from all directions! And in order to deal with the scattered bombers, the anti-aircraft fire of the Weimar was also forced to disperse, and the long-range dense barrage instantly became fragmented, and it turned out that such anti-aircraft firepower was concentrated together, and it was okay to intimidate, but after dispersion, it was impossible to even intimidate the opponent!

"We can't stop them!" A German sailor who was laboriously operating a 2-pounder gun looked at the approaching British bomber with some panic, and the British bomber, which had already thrown away part of its load, quickly approached from the stern position, and after approaching a certain point, the four Weeks machine guns in the bow spewed out deadly fire snakes, and pieces of bullets began to strafe the deck. Locust-like bullets leap between deck and hull, occasionally reaping the hapless life. After the anti-aircraft fire was dispersed, a British plane finally got fast from a height of 300 meters and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the aft deck of the Weimar!

How powerful is a 500-pound bomb? If the weight of the bomb itself is converted into kilograms, it is 227KG, but such a bomb with a small weight is actually loaded with more than 130KG of explosives! What is this concept? If it is converted to a 15-inch armor-piercing projectile, then it is about 4 to 5 rounds, and in time to calculate the grenade with a large charge of the British, it is also the standard of more than 2 rounds!

The grenade, which fell from a height of 300 meters, easily smashed through the top deck, and then exploded in the upper compartment of the hull! A huge fireball directly lifted the deck within a radius of dozens of square meters! A large hole with a diameter of more than 3 meters appeared in the rear of the battleship Weimar. The force of the explosion pushed the shrapnel and pierced the middle deck below the upper deck! Quite a few fragments even fell on the lower deck before being blocked by the main horizontal armor!

Countless debris swept through a large number of cabins on two decks, and many anti-aircraft machine guns deployed in the open air were also swept away! Although it did not penetrate the core layer, the energy of hundreds of kilograms of picric acid explosives after the explosion was still terrifying, and several passages more than 20 meters long at the back of the entire hull and the compartment next to it turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and the fire caused by this bomb was much greater than that of artillery shells!

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