A few minutes later, the fighter plane pressed down on the German warship group.

The tactics of the British aircraft group made Qin Chuan a little unbelievable, and it was still the same as before, that is, to reduce the altitude and attack along the dead angle of the warship's air defense guns.

Under normal circumstances, the last attack has failed and paid a heavy price, so the British Air Force should change its tactics in a targeted manner.

But they didn't...... Maybe it's because they don't know what tactics to use, or maybe it's because the British are too traditional.

Then Qin Chuan found that the tactics of the British had actually changed, and they concentrated their fighters to attack a stronger fleet, that is, the First Fleet.

This strategy was correct, and the British also found that there was a reason why the German warships did not have air defense blind spots, that is, to separate the two fleets to cover each other.

So......

If the group is divided into two teams to attack two fleets at the same time, the two fleets can perfectly exert the air defense capabilities of the secondary guns.

But if the fleet attacks only one of the fleets, especially the one with the stronger combat power, it means that only the weaker fleet can play a role.

The idea was good, because it weakened half of the German fleet's air defense in the first place. Especially if the battleships "Richelieu" and "Strasbourg" were wounded, then the Germans would have only one battleship "Dunkirk" and would not be able to function because of the attack, then the result of the attack on the German fleet by British fighters would have been completely different.

It's just that what the British didn't expect was ...... The German fleet "Richelieu" was only slightly damaged, and at the same time, the increase in the air defense capability of the German fleet included the use of "proximity fuse" shells in addition to tactics.

As a result, one fighter plane after another swooped down, but one after another was destroyed in the air and fell into the sea.

Of course, this tactic of the British army still played a role to a certain extent...... Even though the Second Fleet had the battleship Richelieu, its anti-aircraft fire was not enough to destroy all the British fighters in the air.

So the First Fleet was heavily bombed, especially the battleship "Dunkirk...... Fighter planes and bombers swept by, each of which was accompanied by a flurry of machine guns and explosions, accompanied by concussions from the sea.

There was a loud explosion, a bomb exploded in the stern of the "Dunkirk", and the entire hull shook violently, and the No. 5 turret was surrounded in a ball of flames, while there were still pieces of bullets and shells in the air flying towards the warship.

A few times, Qin Chuan even thought that the warship he was on was going to be smashed or blown to pieces, but it still drove as usual, making a serpentine maneuver with a cloud of flames and black smoke, and at the same time, the air defense equipment on the warship kept shooting into the air...... French warships were stronger than expected, especially battleships.

Of course, battleships are not so easy to sink, and Qin Chuan has never seen the world before.

With a "boom", a bomb hit the front of a destroyer on the left, the bomb may have penetrated the destroyer's ammunition depot, causing a violent explosion, and a huge fire erupted violently into the air from the hull without moving, and the powerful shock wave set off a heat wave and sea water rushed towards the "Dunkirk", which slowed down the fire of the No. 5 turret.

But that destroyer ...... The fire was burning but still moving forward in inertia, but the front soon sank like a rock, and with it the soldiers on the destroyer, only a small number of them were able to escape and be rescued, and many more were trapped below deck and sunk with the warship.

Several torpedo attack aircraft dived down towards the "Dunkirk".

As previously stated, the "Swordfish" torpedo attack aircraft was a biplane propeller aircraft, which made it conspicuous among enemy aircraft groups, and also because of its slower speed...... The top speed is only 222 kilometers per hour.

In fact, what is more important is that the German "Bismarck" battleship was damaged by this torpedo attack aircraft, so the German Navy was very familiar with this kind of torpedo aircraft, so it aimed anti-aircraft fire at them at the first time.

A "boom" of bullets passed, and two torpedo attack planes were smashed into a ball of fire and fell into the sea on the spot.

The other four torpedo planes, covered by other fighters, broke through the fire net, and then dived down again to reduce altitude...... Torpedo attack aircraft have high requirements for launching torpedoes, such as height, speed, etc., otherwise the torpedo will fail due to too much impact force.

Because of this, the pilots of torpedo attack planes often joked that British pilots were using their own lives to crash into enemy warships.

Then the torpedo machine leveled at low altitude...... This is also a necessary action, otherwise the torpedo will not be able to hit the target because of the wrong angle.

Only after this did they launch deadly torpedoes...... A white trail went straight to the flank of the "Dunkirk".

Qin Chuan only heard someone shouting: "Torpedo, left full rudder!" ”

One torpedo exploded under machine-gun fire, and two torpedoes passed through the stern of the ship due to the maneuvering maneuver of the "Dunkirk".

There was also a torpedo in the hull of the ship, and there was a loud explosion in an instant, and the warship seemed to be slapped to the side by a big hand, and then shook back, Qin Chuan's whole person was almost lifted to the ceiling, but fortunately, he grabbed the guardrail tightly so that he was not thrown out.

A staff officer was not so lucky, he was thrown out of the window by the reaction force and fell on the front armor more than ten meters away, Qin Chuan poked his head out to see that he happened to fall on the shell of a shell, but he was afraid that his spine would be broken into two.

However, the "Dunkirk" was still able to continue sailing.

The French warships did a good job of underwater protection:

First of all, the main armor belt extends 2.5 meters under the water with an angle of inclination to minimize the threat from under the water.

Secondly, in the lower part of the armor belt, a lightning wall (in fact, a reinforced hull), a lightning protection compartment, a fuel tank that plays an indirect protective role, an armored partition wall, a multi-armored partition combined with a watertight compartment, etc., were adopted.

Again, a thick layer of foam rubber is also filled between the hull and the lightning protection wall, which can effectively reduce and cushion the impact caused by torpedoes and mine explosions.

These protections allowed the Dunkirk to continue operations even if the speed of the ship was reduced due to the flooding of the hull.

At this time, another battleship, namely the "Strasbourg", made a wise decision...... Seeing that the "Dunkirk" had become the main target of the British fighters, it took the initiative to distance itself from the "Dunkirk."

As soon as the distance was opened, the "Strasbourg" could use its secondary guns to provide cover for the "Dunkirk".

At the same time, Luftwaffe fighters appeared in the skies over the ship group.