After so many battles, the German naval pilots can be said to be elite, and the cooperation between dive bombers and torpedo bombers can also be described as perfect.

However, the British army has been bombed by the German naval aviation so many times, and has been deeply aware of the importance of the air defense of ships, so after the last German sneak attack on Scapa Bay, the British army carried out an emergency air defense upgrade on all ships, and all kinds of anti-aircraft guns were piled up without money, and even the original large-caliber secondary guns of each battleship were all dismantled and replaced with the latest British high-level dual-purpose guns.

In order to restrain the German torpedo bombers with excellent performance and great threat to large ships at the most dangerous distance, Britain even dismantled all small-caliber anti-aircraft guns at no cost, replacing half of the gun positions with twin-mounted 40mm L60 Bofors anti-aircraft guns authorized from Sweden and produced locally, and the other half of the gun emplacements were replaced with quadruple 20mm Erlikon anti-aircraft guns aided by the United States, and even some large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns were replaced with single-mounted Erlikon.

The current anti-aircraft firepower of the British Navy is really comparable to that of the German army, even if it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a hedgehog.

Such a strong anti-aircraft firepower, coupled with the George V's air warning radar successfully warned the German aircraft group of attack, so that the ships were prepared early, so that the first batch of six German dive bombers were directly shot down by the British soldiers who were waiting for half of them, and the other three were also forced to throw away the bombs hanging under the belly early, and flatten and accelerated to escape to avoid being beaten into a sieve.

The bombs dropped in a hurry were obviously inaccurate, except for a lucky close miss, which tore a mine bulge on the port side of the Queen Elizabeth, the other two failed to splash the Queen Elizabeth with water.

"Squadrons, don't dive in small formations." Seeing that the three dive bombers were instantly turned into fireballs, Lieutenant Colonel Yarman, who was in charge of directing this wave of attacks, was anxious.

It doesn't matter if the plane is bombed, even if all the planes on an aircraft carrier are lost, it can be easily replenished with the Empire's blowout production capacity, but every sacrificial pilot is non-renewable, and they are the most valuable resources of the Empire.

"Concentrate your forces and dive again, use the Queen Elizabeth as a breakthrough to tear apart their fleet air defense circle!"

"Understood!" The squadron leaders responded.

Several bombers that were originally preparing to dive obeyed the order and raised their altitudes again, and after reforming at high altitude, they dived towards the Queen Elizabeth again.

Compared with the small formation dive, although the large formation assault can share the pressure with each other to a certain extent, it also increases the size of the formation, so that it seems to be no different from the small formation.

But this is not always the case, specially trained dive bomber pilots can maneuver the planes to dive closely behind the tail of the front plane, and such a series of attack methods can control the overall formation size of the large formation to the extent that it is only a little larger than the small formation.

Therefore, only the first two of the 12 bombers of the German round were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery, and the last 10 successfully aimed at the target at an altitude of 400 meters and threw the bombs.

A few seconds later, 10 bombs exploded, four of which landed precisely on the Queen Elizabeth.

I don't know if the captain of the Queen Elizabeth was too unlucky or what, but of the four bombs that hit the hull of the ship, except for one that hit the gun mount of the second turret and caused it to jam, the other three all smashed in the middle of the hull - the bridge was there.

Although three thousand-pound bombs could not blow the entire superstructure away, the powerful force also distorted all the steel near the impact point, and also plunged the entire superstructure into a sea of fire.

The German dive bombardment, including the captain of the Queen Elizabeth, killed more than 300 officers and men of the Royal Navy, most of whom were not killed but burned alive by the burning fire.

A large number of anti-aircraft guns arranged on the superstructure were also damaged, and the anti-aircraft firepower of the Queen Elizabeth was greatly reduced.

Watching the ship Queen Elizabeth not far away burst into flames, John Brown, the commander of King George V's home fleet. Koronin. Baron Tovey hurriedly ordered the other ships: "The Queen Elizabeth is in critical condition!" The ships are trying to help the Queen Elizabeth while ensuring their own air defense! ”

With the order of Baron Tovey, the originally thin anti-aircraft barrage over the Queen Elizabeth suddenly became more and more dense, even denser than before the German bombing.

As a result, the 12 dive bombers that followed the previous group into the dive suffered a heavy blow, and 6 were shot down at once, but the remaining 6 still dived to a height of 500 meters with dense shells before dropping the bombs.

Two of the six aerial bombs hit the Queen Elizabeth, further weakening the Queen Elizabeth's anti-aircraft firepower.

After three rounds of attack by 30 dive bombers, there were very few working anti-aircraft guns left on the Queen Elizabeth.

Seeing that the Queen Elizabeth's air defense was mostly lost, Lieutenant Colonel Yarman ordered: "The remaining dive bombers will stop attacking the Queen Elizabeth, and the Malaya will be the next target!" The torpedo bomber unit can enter the field and send the Queen Elizabeth on its last ride! ”

With a series of orders from Lieutenant Colonel Yarman, the execution of the German naval aviation was vividly displayed at this moment - the dive bomber pilots who were hovering in the sky and preparing to give the final blow to the Queen Elizabeth did not have the slightest love of war or greed after receiving the order, but immediately carried out Yarman's order, gave the fat to the torpedo bombers behind them, and flew to the Malaya not far away, which had full anti-aircraft firepower.

The torpedo bomber pilots did not twist and turn, and 24 torpedo bombers cut into the Royal Navy's fleet air defense circle from low altitude and high speed, and flew towards the Queen Elizabeth under heavy artillery fire.

Less than five kilometers from the Queen Elizabeth, a group of 18 fighters (six of which were destroyed halfway through) began to slow down and split into three teams, cutting into the bombing route from three directions.

Seeing this, the few remaining anti-aircraft guns on the Queen Elizabeth opened fire desperately, and managed to shoot down three while the torpedo bombers slowed down and dropped bombs, but this did not affect the remaining planes in the slightest.

All 15 torpedoes successfully entered the water, dragging 15 white tracks towards the Queen Elizabeth at a speed of nearly 40 knots.

The Queen Elizabeth lost its most effective observation and control position due to the destruction of the bridge, so it could only rely on sailors on the deck to observe the torpedo track with binoculars and then report to the emergency direction control room below the deck, and then the sailors in the emergency direction control room operated the control stick to turn and dodge, which was undoubtedly a great waste of time.