The murky and clear sound of a continuous bullet hit by a wooden body, the crisp and melodious sound of a metal engine being hit by a bullet, and the rising or lowering hum of the other party's roar past it, the symphony of death is always so intoxicating. In the sight of the pilots on both sides, fighter jets falling in smoke or simply disintegrating in the air were a pleasant feeling that could not be experienced when strafing the poor infantry on the ground.

However, for a German sergeant pilot named Korot, he heard a very different sound, and the bullets fired from his plane not only penetrated the fuselage of the opponent, but then seemed to hit other metal objects, and before the foreboding could be raised, the British plane less than 50 meters to his right exploded along with the bomb below it. The power of the 150KG bomb when it exploded in the air was so amazing that countless small fish and shrimp near the explosion site were stunned on the spot, and the flames and shock waves generated by the explosion instantly swallowed more than a dozen planes around it, and many pilots did not even have time to escape before they transformed into real firebirds with their planes, and even on the German destroyer several nautical miles away, the sailors were shocked by the thunder in the clear sky and their ears ached. To make matters worse, a series of aerial bombs from several other British planes exploded, and the airspace was cleared, and the hot air was blown cold by the cold wind for a while.

In this sudden explosion, the formation of the British group, which had been disrupted by the German fighters, became more loose, but the Germans also paid several fighters for this, and the remaining pilots began to be cautious, for them the British planes were no longer slow and clumsy ducks, but time bombs that did not know when they would explode.

Taking advantage of the German fighters to turn again, Keno and his fighters finally arrived, and when they passed by their own 3rd Fighter Squadron, Keno was very frustrated and annoyed, this squadron was only half of the planes left at this time, which meant that if the German fighters attacked again, these British fighters responsible for bombing would probably be destroyed.

For Keno, it no longer matters that he can make it back alive.

"With our planes and bodies, drag these German fighters!"

Keno was tempted to convey this blood-boiling phrase to every British pilot, but he couldn't do it. Either way, the one-winged German fighters soon reappeared in front of them, and after the battle at Bonemouth, the two countries were once again in equal numbers.

At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Madonny and his plane were trying to climb upwards, and behind him were two British fighters in pursuit, and his wingman was entangled in another British fighter.

During the ascent, Madonny made a sharp sideways turn in an attempt to get behind the British, but unfortunately he only inserted himself between two British planes, which was not suitable for attacking, and he had to turn again to look for a new opportunity. It was at this moment that he saw the British planes that quietly crossed the line of attack aircraft.

"Don't let them slip away!"

Madoni's voice is also inaudible to his pilots, and it will probably take a long time to get radio communication equipment on every plane, at least not yet with the technology available to countries. When the two British planes were eyeing again, even Madonny could not stop the less than twenty British planes, and most of the other German attack planes could not get out of the jamming of the British fighters. It was too difficult to build a perfect air defense line with a comparable number of aircraft, and the anti-aircraft guns on the German escort ships were to be used next.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Germans were the ancestors of anti-aircraft weapons, and the first anti-aircraft guns were invented by them during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. In order to break through the encirclement, the French government sent the Minister of the Interior to successfully cross the Prussian defense line in a balloon in October of that year, and arrived at the city of Tours, which is more than 200 kilometers away from Paris, to organize a new combat unit and maintain contact with the Paris government through balloons. When the Prussian army found out about this, they immediately ordered the manufacture of artillery specially designed to shoot balloons. Soon, this cannon was created, it had a caliber of 37 mm, mounted on a four-wheeled vehicle that could move flexibly, and several soldiers operated the gun to change the direction and position of fire in order to track down the balloon that was firing floating. At that time, this cannon had shot down a lot of balloons, hence the name "balloon cannon", which can be said to be the initial prototype of the anti-aircraft gun.

After the appearance of airships and airplanes one after another, in order to deal with the threat of airships and airships, the German military organized personnel to develop special artillery to deal with these aircraft very early. In 1906, the German Erihardt Company (later the Rheinland Arms Company) improved the "balloon gun" and designed and manufactured a special artillery plus for fighting airplanes and airships, which was the world's first modern anti-aircraft gun. This anti-aircraft gun was mounted on a car, had protective armor, had a caliber of 50 mm and a maximum firing height of 4200 meters.

Two years later, the German Krupp Arsenal developed an anti-aircraft gun with superior performance, and for the first time, a portal gun carriage and a control handwheel to adjust the high and low firing boundaries were adopted, so that the firing speed of the gun was greatly improved. In 1914, Germany developed a new anti-aircraft gun, which used a simple gun plate mounted on a four-wheel gun carriage, the gun plate was folded to facilitate traction and travel, and the gun plate could be opened to shoot in the air. This type of gun disc was adopted by later and even modern towed anti-aircraft guns. This 77-mm anti-aircraft gun was the earliest towed anti-aircraft gun with a relatively complete structure. After the outbreak of the Great War, the German anti-aircraft guns were equipped with improvised sighting devices and firing commanders, and the navy's warships were equipped with the latest anti-aircraft guns and machine guns.

In the German fleet, the battleships were equipped with 88 mm high-level guns for anti-aircraft and anti-torpedo boats, and the 150 mm secondary guns could use artillery to fire grenades to threaten low-altitude targets, in addition to 40 mm and 20 mm machine guns, and 7.62 mm heavy machine guns, so as to form a more three-dimensional anti-aircraft firepower.

On small and medium-sized surface ships, the German Navy mainly uses anti-aircraft guns of less than 77 mm, for example, light cruisers and destroyers mostly use 77 mm high-level dual-purpose guns and 50 mm anti-aircraft guns, plus a large number of machine guns and machine guns, while the anti-aircraft weapons on patrol boats and torpedo boats are mainly machine guns and machine guns.

The standard-class destroyers and hunter-class destroyers that undertook the escort mission of aircraft carrier formations were all new warships launched after 1910, and their main armament was three 150-mm naval guns, four 533-mm torpedo tubes, four 77-mm secondary guns, four 50-mm anti-aircraft guns, 16 40-mm or 20-mm machine guns, and 18 heavy machine guns.

At this time, the three German aircraft carriers had been separated from each other, from west to east were the "Lisa", the "Prince" and the "Super Duck Mother", due to the difference in speed and the need to increase the evasion space, they and the escort ships respectively formed three small aircraft carrier formations, of which 8 destroyers escorted the "Super Duck Mother", 9 around the "Lisa", and the largest "Prince" was under the care of 11 destroyers. These destroyers are roughly distributed on all four sides of the aircraft carrier, and they will escort the aircraft carrier with their anti-aircraft fire and body.

1-2 nautical miles north of these three aircraft carrier formations, 7 light cruisers and 4 destroyers were lined up, drawn from the escort fleet of the landing fleet, after all, the strategic and tactical significance of aircraft carriers is much greater than that of certain transport ships; 1-2 nautical miles south of the carrier formation were 1 heavy cruiser, 2 light cruisers and 10 destroyers, and there were other destroyers and large minesweepers at about the same distance from the east and west sides of the carrier. This tactic is designed to deal with a possible torpedo attack by enemy aircraft, as the aircraft preparing to drop torpedoes must begin to descend at least 2-3 nautical miles from the target, and eventually drop torpedoes at 0.5-1 nautical miles (about 800-1600 yards), and these cruisers, destroyers, and large minesweepers can use anti-aircraft gun and machine-gun fire to form a barrage to prevent enemy aircraft from lowering to a sufficient altitude as the enemy lowers altitude. In addition, they can also deal with enemy planes that attempt to carry out low-altitude horizontal bombing, forcing the opponent to drop bombs at a higher altitude, so that the hit rate of bombing will be greatly reduced.

Five or six nautical miles west of the carrier formation, the battlefleet circled the sea at full speed in two columns, and the barrels and thick armor of these battleships prevented them from rushing forward and backward like the carrier formation; On the sea near Bonemouth Beach, the mighty landing fleet did not have to worry about British planes taking themselves as the first target, and they were still unhurried to send waves of follow-up landing troops to the beach.

12 British planes with bombs slowly and leisurely took advantage of the fact that everyone was busy quietly passing through the air defense line of the German carrier-based aircraft, at this time over Bonemouth Beach, the last British fighter found itself having to face nearly twenty German fighters, and after spending a second weighing the strength of both sides, the British pilot decided to withdraw from the battlefield, but two sea "hummingbirds" generally appeared behind him, and after two consecutive short shots, the British saved the fatigue of the journey back, The skies over Bonemouth finally fell silent. However, by this time, the aircraft carrier formation had already sailed nearly 10 nautical miles from the beach, and it would take at least six minutes for these "hummingbirds", which can compete with the speed of the wind, to arrive at the scene.

"Target location, 5 degrees east-north, 5,000 yards away!" On a spear-class cruiser, the rangefinder loudly reported the firing data, and the ship's guns made final adjustments, and the muzzles of the front and rear main guns, port side guns, and anti-aircraft guns were quickly aimed at the approaching row of British aircraft. The stern-faced gunners clung to the gun ropes in their hands, and beside them, the officers with equally serious expressions waited intently for the order to shoot.

Faced with the German fleet, the pilots of the British planes had no idea what was going to happen. The British pilots were relieved that the German aircraft carriers were in front of them, and that there were no German planes that could stop them, but the plan was made in such a hurry that the pilots had not practiced naval attacks at all, and they could only use what little theoretical knowledge they had to attack.

"Lower the height!"

The British pilot, who led the team, made a descending gesture, but he didn't know how many planes were most suitable to attack a German aircraft carrier, maybe 1 was enough, maybe 12 was not enough, in short, he didn't have this concept in his heart. Just as he hesitated for this, there was a sudden burst of cannon sound on the sea in front of him, and clouds of white gunpowder suddenly rose from the nearest row of German battleships.

The British naturally knew that there was such a thing as anti-aircraft guns, and when the fighters could not take to the air to meet the German airships and planes, the anti-aircraft guns they deployed on the coast and in important cities had achieved some success, and the only British warships were also equipped with some one after another, and in addition, whether it was army air defense or naval air defense, artillery scattered grenades were proved to be an effective weapon against low-altitude targets. So the British pilots didn't suspect that the German ships were shooting at them, but they had never experienced such a scene, and the shells were so fast that most of the British pilots didn't even see what was coming at them.

"Quick reload! Keep shooting! ”

Under the loud command of the officers, the gunners did their best to keep the various naval guns firing at high speed, and the clanging sound of shell shells falling on the deck after being unloaded was endless, fortunately the sea breeze was able to blow away the ****** smoke in time, but the sailors were soon filled with a strong smell of fire.

Rows of shells whistled out, and soon bloomed into gray-black salute flowers in the distant air, although the German Navy was famous for its accurate gunnery, but that refers to the attack on sea targets, for those British planes that are not known how many times smaller than the battleship, the shells on the German battleships rarely have a chance to directly hit the opponent, and the anti-aircraft shell time-delay fuse technology is not mature, the group of British planes were not hit one by one and then fell into the sea as people expected. However, this momentum still frightened most of the British pilots, and they pulled up their planes without receiving orders, and the various naval guns on the German battleships were constantly raising their muzzles, and before the cruiser's main and secondary guns reached their highest firing range, the two British planes crashing into the sea became the result of the first anti-air battle of German surface ships.

The German sailors, who did not have time to wipe the sweat from their faces, did not smile, and the other 10 British planes did not turn around and run away, only the anti-aircraft guns on the ships were still firing tirelessly. However, as the British fighters got closer, the machine guns and machine guns on the first row of German battleships also fired, and the dense gunfire suddenly made up for the gap between each round of fire from the naval guns, and the entire deck and port side of the battleship that were firing were filled with faint white smoke.

The remaining 10 British fighters gradually gained altitude and eventually flew over the German cruisers and destroyers, whose anti-aircraft guns and machine guns on the port side had to stop firing, while the sailors on the starboard side quickly took on the difficult task, and the guns on the German warships paused for only a few seconds.

"Turn right in formation!"

The "Lisa" was the first to make tactical maneuvers, and the destroyers accompanying it began to turn around. After a while, the formations of the "Super Duck Mother" and the "Prince" also made the same move, and the three formations centered on the aircraft carrier immediately drew arc-shaped white traces on the sea. Despite sailing downwind, the refueled fighters on the Prince began to glide on deck, and they had to fight to take off before the British planes dropped their bombs.

When the destroyers escorting the aircraft carrier opened fire, it also meant that the British fighters responsible for the bombing were getting closer and closer to the aircraft carrier, and the fierce artillery fire made both the attacking and defending sides fully integrated into the battle. On the gun emplacements of German battleships, shells with residual heat and the sweat of sailors fell uncontrollably on the deck, and the people here did not feel the breath of cold winter at all.

As more and more anti-aircraft shells exploded in the air, the blue sky was quickly erased by a cloud of black smoke, and in the air not far away, two German attack planes that had managed to get rid of the entanglement of British fighters were rushing towards this side with all their might, but all this could not prevent the remaining British fighters from flying over the German aircraft carriers.

"God forbid!"

On the "Prince", the voices of the crew were constantly praying, and although the British planes in the air looked small, the bombs under them were amazingly powerful, and people even began to wonder if the tragedy that had happened to the British fleet would happen to them today.

In fact, these German sailors did not need to be so worried, those British fighters had climbed to an altitude of more than 3,000 meters in order to avoid anti-aircraft fire, and the threat to surface ships from planes that could not be used for dive bombing was not so terrible at this altitude. Several British pilots eagerly dropped bombs on the largest of the "Prince", but all of those bombs fell exaggeratedly hundreds of yards from the aircraft carrier, and even the sea water they blasted could not splash on the deck of the aircraft carrier.

After the failure of the first bombing, the British had 7 warplanes left, of which only 3 were still carrying bombs. The British pilots were a little overwhelmed to see that the German aircraft carrier that had been attacked by them was safe and sound, and that the fighters that had taken off from its deck were climbing high altitude, but they knew that if they dropped bombs from here like their companions, they probably wouldn't even be able to hurt the German aircraft carrier.

However, the anti-aircraft shells that constantly exploded in the air did not allow the British to think too much, and the German anti-aircraft fire was getting closer and closer to them, and finally the British pilots made an almost crazy decision:

"The fighters that have finished dropping bombs are responsible for cover, and the rest of the fighters are spiraling down in a small radius and dropping bombs at low altitudes!"

After the leader gave his order with difficulty with hand gestures, none of the other pilots objected. Although the circling descent allowed them to descend to a sufficient height in a relatively short period of time, the guns on the German battleships were not vegetarian, and the British had just circled twice, and one of them was hit in a volley, and its bombs were also detonated, and the other two British fighters almost lost their balance under the huge impact.

Although his carrier was still unharmed, Lieutenant Colonel Madonny did not dare to relax, his duty was to destroy every British aircraft that threatened the carrier, and it no longer mattered to him whether he could complete the 100th perfect flight. He braved his own anti-aircraft fire and flew at full speed towards the British fighters over the aircraft carrier, but when he saw that he was about to approach the two planes that were about to drop bombs, the British fighters in charge of covering him stubbornly blocked him.

"Damn! Get out of the way! ”

Madonie had no intention of fighting with him, but the opponent followed him closely, and used a short shot to force him to evade again and again, in order to seek a quick victory, Madonie had to be ruthless to use the killing that he had groped and perfected in training and had never used in actual combat: the plane raised the nose of the plane to climb at a large angle, and then flew upside down over the vertical state, and recovered to level flight with a roll, at this time he and his plane had come to a favorable offensive position above the opponent's rear, after a long shot from four "Firebirds", The British fighter immediately folded its wings and fell into the sea.

The anti-aircraft fire on the German surface ships was still roaring desperately, and the last two British fighters still could not escape the dense barrage of air barrage, one smoked and caught fire, and the other disintegrated in the air. However, fate played a small joke on the Germans this time, and the bomb on one of the British fighters actually fell straight on the aircraft carrier "Prince", and then crashed headlong through the teak plank flight deck and fell into the hangar below.

At this time, there were no British fighters left in the air, the whole world calmed down in an instant, the anti-aircraft guns on the battleship stopped firing, the full deck of bullet shells no longer rolled and collided, sailors, pilots, officers, generals, all stared at the "Prince" with both despair and anticipation ambivalence, this is currently Germany's largest and most advanced aircraft carrier has only been in service for a few weeks, no one wants it to end its journey like this, it has to travel across the oceans on behalf of the rising German navy, Let the world see the white iron cross on its deck, and the golden German eagle emblem on the side of the bridge.

The sound of the explosion was not heard for a long time, and the frightened sailors ventured to look down from the breach in the deck, more than two meters in diameter, where the British bomb was stuck head-first on the floor of the hangar, quiet as a meteorite that had been dormant for a thousand years, although it was still warm. After a while, a deafening cheer came from the deck of the "Prince", and the 100,000 hearts hanging in the air settled down.

Later, according to the dismantling and analysis of the bomb experts, it was concluded that the fuse of this improvised British aerial bomb was very unreliable, and the internal structure of the bomb was fatally damaged by violent oscillation before it fell from the British plane.

The holes in the deck of the "Prince" did not have a great effect on the take-off and landing of aircraft, and in the "Madonny, 100! Amid the cheers, Lieutenant Colonel Madonie successfully completed his 100th landing, which was a significant day for him, and the last maneuver he made was named the "Madonie Flip", which was supposed to be called the "Inmaiman Flip", but for various reasons appeared over the English Channel a year earlier. However, what frightened Madonie was that there were more than 20 holes in the wings of his plane that had been pierced by his own anti-aircraft fire, and fortunately he was not shot down by his own people, otherwise the gunners on the warship would have set up their own own own in the first actual air battle, and it would have damaged the prestige of the German Navy.

On December 27, the air battle between Britain and Germany lasted only an hour, but the significance of this battle was very significant, the air power that the British had worked hard to accumulate was devastated, although the German navy and aviation also had certain losses, but the valuable experience they gained was incalculable, especially the ship-air defense battle provided a good reference for the German ship designers, and the advantages of the German navy's shipbuilding technology over all countries in the world began to gradually increase.