The tragedy of the aircraft carrier "Dreadnought" continues.

As the burning fuel spread, the fire soon spread across the flight deck. Soon, the warplane, which was not detonated, was soon ignited.

At this time, the British sailors on the aircraft carrier should have pushed these fighters into the sea, but the fire stopped their steps, which made them watch the fighters be engulfed in flames, and then with a "boom" and a ball of flames, fuel also leaked out.

The flight deck became the grave of the British Navy, the fuel flowed with flames, like lava from a volcano, flowing from the deck to the cabin below, blocking the passage, cutting off the back road for the crew's escape, hundreds of crew members shouted in panic in the cabin, but no one could hear them, and the soldiers only fled into the water like dumplings to avoid being burned alive by the fire.

Unlike the British navy and air force, which were caught off guard and plunged into chaos, the German and Italian air forces had a clear division of labor and conducted this war in an orderly manner.

Generally speaking, it is very difficult to fight this battle in an "orderly manner" under such circumstances, after all, the fighters in the air can be said to be "dancing with demons", and no one can tell who is not.

But it's not that hard to say.

The German and Italian armies had made a plan before the war...... The Italian Air Force was responsible for bombing warships, and the Luftwaffe was responsible for dogfights with the British Air Force.

This distribution was of course justified, the Italian Air Force itself was no match for the British Air Force, and could not be compared in terms of fighter performance or pilot quality, so of course it could not deal with the British Air Force.

On the contrary, it was not difficult to carry out the task of bombing the British warship, because the warship was there, as long as it was ordered to reach the airspace over the warship...... Open the bomb bay and drop the bomb and you're done.

The Luftwaffe had an advantage over the British Air Force in terms of fighter performance and pilot quality, and they were of course responsible for the air. Of course, because the German army also has some "Stuka" bombers with excellent performance, they also take care of the sea.

Air Marshal Kesselring said to the Italian Air Force: "For you there are no planes in the sky, that is, there are no British planes and no German planes. The battlefield is only you, and your goals...... British warships! ”

As a result, the Italian Air Force even knew that a British fighter was biting him in the tail, and they turned a blind eye.

Because they knew that even if they reacted on their own, such as evasive maneuvers, it would not help with the performance of Italian fighters and bombers, and it was better to give their lives completely to God or the Luftwaffe.

The Luftwaffe also lived up to their expectations, and they were usually able to shoot down enemy planes before British fighters could shoot down Italian fighters, or they were destroyed by German fighters immediately after the British destroyed Italian fighters...... This was a very cost-effective solution for the German and Italian air forces, because it was effectively exchanging an Italian fighter for a British fighter.

And the Italian aircraft group, because the British Navy could not safely shoot into the air...... Anti-aircraft artillery shells exploded in the air in a string, and even anti-aircraft machine guns fired a dense barrage in the air, which was very easy to cause accidental damage when enemy and enemy fighters were entangled together.

This gave the Italian bombers an opportunity, and one after the other they dived down and dropped bombs at the British warships.

Following the "Intrepid" aircraft carrier was damaged and caught fire, the "Invincible" aircraft carrier was not spared, a BR bomber dropped two bombs on the "Invincible" aircraft carrier, one fell into the sea and exploded, the other hit the elevator, directly penetrated into the aircraft hangar and exploded, fortunately there were no fighters in the hangar, so the explosion only damaged the hangar and the elevator.

A "Stuka" bomber swooped down from a high altitude at high altitude at high speed with a piercing whistling sound at a high angle.

The "Stuka" bomber is a dive bomber, and its advantage over horizontal bombers is its high hit rate, because it dives down from the air at almost right angles, and the dropped bombs will also fall towards the target with a similar trajectory of the bomber, and this process does not even require a complex aiming system.

The "Neptune" also sensed this danger, and the anti-aircraft artillery shells on the warship rained down on the target, but because the target speed was too fast and the angle changed too much, the anti-aircraft guns missed one after another, and on the contrary, several fighters flying nearby were smashed into the air...... Because the fighters disintegrated so quickly, the gunners didn't even know whether it was the enemy's or their own fighters.

At the same time, the captain of the "Neptune", Colonel Andrei, urgently ordered to maneuver to evade, but it was too late, and two bombs fell from the sky with a sharp whistle...... One hit the starboard side and did not explode and fell into the sea, and the second wrecked ship's chimney exploded in the engine room, leading to the fact that only one boiler could operate normally in the entire ship, and all the ship's communication systems were paralyzed.

Colonel Andrei was about to rejoice that the "Neptune" was still holding out, but he heard the soldiers on the side of the ship shouting: "Torpedo found!" ”

Andrei hurriedly ordered: "Right full rudder!" ”

However, because the cruiser almost lost power and was very slow, Andrei could only watch as the torpedo drew a long waterline in the water and went straight to the side of the ship, and then exploded with a loud "boom".

In a few moments, all power on the "Neptune" was lost, and a large amount of sea water poured into the hull from the broken hull, and Colonel Andrei could only give the order to abandon the ship.

Almost at the same time, the destroyer USS Northwest, which was busy shooting into the air, was also hit by two torpedoes, and Vice Admiral Tovey realized that there was an enemy submarine group lurking in the water......

Vice Admiral Tovey guessed correctly, these submarines were the submarines of the Toulon fleet, five of which were German "U" submarines, which were sent by Hitler to reinforce the underwater forces of the Mediterranean operation, and three were French submarines of the Toulon fleet...... The Germans captured nineteen submarines from the Toulon fleet, but unfortunately the German Navy did not have enough submarine crews, and the other submarines were still being trained, and only three were combat-ready, so in the end only eight submarines participated in the campaign.

But this was enough for the British Navy to drink a pot, aerial bombs, torpedoes in the sea, explosions were endless, and even some warships collided with transport ships fleeing in a panic, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Finally, the Italian bombers finished dropping their bombs and withdrew their troops, the remaining British fighters withdrew from the battle, and the German aircraft group circled around the ship group as if demonstrating, and then flew in the direction of Italy.

All that was left for the British was a cloud of flames and black smoke on the surface of the sea, and a few warships that had sunk to the point of being left were very reluctant to stay for a while, and then disappeared into the sea.