It was a monoplane, and the shape of the wings looked a bit like a flying seagull, which was definitely not a carrier-based aircraft on your own aircraft carrier!

What is that? While Admiral Tovey's mind was still in deep thought, Stanger on the side had already exclaimed: "Stuka, it's Stuka!" ”

Colonel Steinger, who was quite aware of the various planes of the Germans, was able to recognize the arrival of the plane, which was Stuka!

Moreover, there is more than one! This plane was just following behind its own plane, and it was recognized, and behind this plane, there were many more, and it was a group of planes that arrived!

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This kind of aircraft has a limited range, and it is absolutely impossible to fly from land, so it must be on an aircraft carrier at sea! I really didn't expect the Germans to come so quickly.

He guessed this correctly.

When the Deutschland began to carry out the humanitarian rescue mission, the aircraft carrier Adolf Hitler, led a dozen warships, including two capital battleships, to form a formation, which was about 400 nautical miles away from the Deutsche Atlantic.

Just after dark, the British aircraft carrier formation was spotted and the carrier-based aircraft took off, and the Adolf Hitler was already only two hundred nautical miles away from the Deutschland.

At this time, the commander of the aircraft carrier immediately gave the order for the carrier-based aircraft to take off, and twenty Stuka carrier-based bombers, with the roar of the engines, rose into the air.

The German naval aviation, although it has not been established for a long time, is not lagging behind at all in their training!

They must not only master the flying skills, but also master the essentials of taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, a month before the start of the war, they were already conducting night flight training, and now, half of the pilots of the whole ship have the ability to take off and land at night!

So, the battle at night began.

Although the distance is long, the speed of the Stuka bomber is twice that of the Swordfish, so when the Swordfish has completed the bombing mission and returned to the field, the Stuka bomber has kept up with the British carrier-based aircraft!

Asim, the captain of the 2nd Carrier-based Bomber Group, was the first to take to the air, and he turned on the navigation lights, led his planes, formed a formation, and flew to the periphery of the air defense circle of the Deutschland in the crossfire.

At this time, the battle had come to an end, and the bright light of the flares could be seen dozens of kilometers away, and taking this opportunity, Asim calibrated his course and circled in the outer circle, following a lone Swordfish plane.

Obviously, the pilot was so frightened that he didn't even notice that there were fighters following him in the rear, and he flew dozens of kilometers, and at this time, it was already a moonlit moon.

When he saw that the Americans' aircraft carrier formation had not even discovered his own side, Asim suddenly came up with a bold plan, he simply turned on the navigation lights, pretended to be the opponent's plane, and actually approached the aircraft carrier!

Now, it's the last moment!

Asim pushed the throttle stick, the engine was full on, and with the sound of whining propellers, the Stuka bomber, entered the dive before the bombing!

As the dive grew, the speed increased, and that terrible howl, echoing in the sky, was the voice of the Grim Reaper!

On the deck, the deck personnel who were carrying bombs were quite frightened at this time, before the war, they had always been in East Asia, they had only heard of it, and no one had ever encountered this terrible howl!

They forgot what they had to do, and after this howling, the entire British fleet, was undefended!

The angle of attack display was working, the target was getting bigger, and Asim could even see the people on the deck running around in a panic as he pressed the throw button.

500 kg of bombs, dropped from the belly centerline, it flew exactly towards the deck of the aircraft carrier!

At this time, on the aircraft carrier, the anti-aircraft artillery fire was sparsely sounded, and a 20-mm anti-aircraft gun fired at the sky, but unfortunately, it was too late!

On the deck, the operators were even more shocked, the bomb was coming towards them!

Run, run!

They scattered and ran away, not knowing where it was safe, when a terrible explosion was heard in the middle of the deck.

"Boom!"

In the huge explosion, the deck of the Athletic God was torn apart, and a huge flame came out, and this flame, along the west wind, burned to the parking area almost in an instant.

There, there are several Swordfish, and there are bombs ready to be loaded!

"Boom, boom!" Explosions, one after another!

When Asim pulled up, the entire deck of the Athletic God aircraft carrier was already in flames, and this fire illuminated the entire sea surface and illuminated the other ships in the formation.

The pilots of several Stuka bombers who followed were instantly drooling, good things, big goals!

They diverted their attention, the battleship Rodney, three triple turrets, instantly attracted all their attention, that thing, more precious than an aircraft carrier!

Blow it up first! Anyway, the current Athletic God is half-crippled if it is not dead.

Asim, who pulled up, also saw the battleship, and he said on the radio: "Attention, attack the large warship first!" ”

Asim is very confident that the bomb he just had just now would destroy the Athletic God, after all, now that the fire is spreading, God can't save that warship!

Historically, the battleship Rodney was quite famous, which, of course, was obtained from the Bismarck.

The Rodney took part in the encirclement and annihilation of the German battleship Bismarck. During the battle, a single salvo paralyzed the "A" and "B" turrets of the Bismarck.

The follow-up shots became more and more accurate, and even at a distance of 2,700 meters, two torpedoes were fired from the torpedo tube on the right side of the Rodney, one of which hit the Bismarck, becoming the only time in the history of world naval warfare that a battleship hit a battleship with a torpedo.

In this battle, the Rodney fired a total of 378 406mm shells, of which 40 hits, maintaining a rate of fire of 1.6 pieces per minute.

This operation has already shown the strong combat effectiveness of the Rodney, and now, the tragic situation of the aircraft carrier Athletic on the side has bought valuable time for the Rodney.

As a battleship with a displacement of 35,000 tons, the Rodney had powerful armament, in addition to 406 mm naval guns, six twin 50 x diameter 6-inch secondary guns, six single 4.7-inch anti-aircraft guns, eight 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and two 622-mm torpedo tubes.

In World War II, it was equipped with four 4-pack 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, which shows that the British knew that its air defense capability was not enough.

The current Rodney has only 14 anti-aircraft guns.