Sir Forbes, still trying to give instructions as calmly as possible.

This general, who was deeply loved by the officers and soldiers, did not completely panic. After all, he is from the Royal Navy of the British Empire, which has dominated the world, and every order he gives is calm and rational. It was under his command that the British First Squadron did not fall into an uncontrollable mess at the first moment of attack by German carrier-based aircraft, and was able to hold on to the present in the midst of heavy losses!

However, after the loss of the main battleships one after another, the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower is declining gradually. No matter how good Sir Forbes's conducting skills are, he will soon be powerless.

Overhead, there were more than 50 German fighters without ammunition, launching the last wave of frenzied bombing. Based on the amount of ammunition that these German fighters had just shown, Sir Forbes roughly estimated that as long as his fleet could survive the last minute or two, the situation would change!

In the sky, the first Stuka bombers and F-190 fighters had begun to return home, flying back in the direction in which they appeared. Soon, the remaining German fighters will also return one after another because they ran out of ammunition.

"Boom!" There was another loud bang, and the ammunition depot of the battleship Hood happened to hit vertically by a bomb dropped by a Stuka bomber, which immediately triggered a violent explosion of the capital battleship.

This is already the 4th battleship to be sunk! The remaining two ships are now carrying a lot of damage to varying degrees.

Suddenly, just as the officers and men under Sir Forbes began to prepare to pray and were about to lose their courage, to the west of them, hundreds of "Swordfish" biplane torpedo planes quietly appeared.

"Reinforcements have arrived!" This was Sir Forbes' first reaction.

It can be said that Admiral Cunningham's arrangement is simply impeccable. If such a large number of "Swordfish" biplane torpedo planes appeared in time at this moment, it must have been Cunningham's first moment of receiving the news of the encounter between the First Squadron and the German fleet, and he urgently took off almost all the carrier-based planes from the rear. Otherwise, based on the estimation that the average number of carrier-based aircraft on Britain's large aircraft carriers is less than 50, it is impossible to have at least 200 torpedo planes without all-out efforts. Moreover, if he hadn't ordered the dispatch of carrier-based aircraft as soon as he received the news of the encounter, Sir Forbes's fleet would not have been able to converge with the carrier-based aircraft group so quickly.

"Commander Cunningham deserves to be the famous admiral of our British Empire." Finally waiting for reinforcements, Sir Forbes, who was a little relieved, smiled at his adjutant and said.

"Yes, I guess Admiral Cunningham must have made the decision to take off carrier-based aircraft to assist the First Squadron before our defeat arrived. With such an accurate prediction of the battlefield situation, looking at the top of our Royal Navy, I am afraid that there are not many commanders who can do as well as General Cunningham. The Forbes adjutant also guessed Cunningham's pre-anticipated order, and was just as surprised as Sir Forbes.

Before the war is clear, he can calculate what may happen next in almost an instant, and boldly according to his own judgment, immediately put in all the carrier-based aircraft in his hand.

With this battlefield reasoning ability and decisive attitude when giving orders, Cunningham deserves to be the famous admiral of the British Navy today!

It can be said that Cunningham's timing is very good, if he hesitates a little longer and makes a decision one step later, or if he follows the usual procedure and waits until the telegram for help arrives before ordering the take-off of the fighter plane to rescue, then Sir Bruce's first squadron will suffer a hundred times greater losses than it is now.

But he did not do that, he only relied on the experience of the fighters for many years and the sense of crisis, and when he was not sure, he took off all the carrier-based aircraft on all four large aircraft carriers and went to meet the first fleet.

It was this move that gave the morale of the British First Fleet, which was already on the verge of collapse, a little stability and even improvement.

However, just when the British officers and soldiers had just lit a little flame of hope, suddenly, everyone's eyes were firmly attracted by a new black spot that appeared in the east.

When the clouds were broken, one after another German F-190 torpedo fighters revealed their small but terrifying figures. Dense patches of small black dots gradually transformed into sharp and cold black ghosts, filling their field of vision.

Sir Bruce on the flagship, his mouth wide open, but he couldn't make a sound, like a child, babbling and staring at each other.

The rest of the British officers and soldiers also looked at each other gloomily and let out a long sigh, and even some anti-aircraft gun shooters hung their hands weakly and stopped resisting in vain.

They didn't know, or rather weren't sure, that the "Swordfish" biplane torpedo planes that met them were inferior to the German F-190 fighters. However, just by looking at the black and oppressive German fighters, they should have guessed the outcome in ten minutes.

Prime Minister, there are already more than 400 F-190 fighter jets, which appear in their sight endlessly. Farther to the east, you can still see the equally boundless second batch of German fighters behind the F-190 fighters - it was a huge number of Stuka bombers!

"O God Almighty! Have you really abandoned the British Empire!? Sir Forbes' aide-de-camp, his eyes widened in horror, and he roared in a cracked voice.

He couldn't figure out why the German High Seas Fleet could come up with so many carrier-based aircraft.

Could it be that their fleet is a freak navy full of aircraft carriers? Or, their aircraft carriers are all high-tech advanced aircraft carriers that are like giants and have a huge number of aircraft.

Like the lieutenant, Sir Forbes himself was amazed by the dramatic scene before him.

Originally, when he saw the terrifying number of 200 carrier-based aircraft in the first detachment of Lütjans, he was extremely surprised by the strength of the German aircraft carriers.

Puzzled, he attributed this scenario to the fact that the German High Seas Fleet had placed all the aircraft carriers in its hands in the vanguard squadron, so that it could form a local advantage.

Otherwise, how could the German army concentrate a full 200 carrier-based aircraft?

In line with this line of thinking, Forbes subconsciously believed that there would be no remaining carrier-based aircraft in the German High Seas Fleet that had not taken off.

Moreover, Forbes also guessed that the number of aircraft carriers in Germany is definitely not the 2 as stated in the intelligence.

Sir Forbes used the best aircraft carrier HMS Royal in the British Empire as a reference standard to guess the number of large aircraft carriers in Germany, which was at least 6!

It's a pity that he guessed half right, and he guessed the right half by mistake.

Yes, Germany has 6 Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers, but the carrier-based aircraft capacity of these large aircraft carriers is almost twice as high as Forbes recognizes!

Sir Forbes, or even General Cunningham, could not have guessed this in any way.

They couldn't guess that Raeder, who had always been cautious, actually mustered the greatest courage in his life this time, and like Cunningham, as soon as he got the news of the encounter between the two armies, he took off all the carrier-based aircraft from the second squadron and rushed to the front line to participate in the duel!