Chapter 154: Reddell is served
Half an hour later, Schmidt flew eight kilometers away from Raeder's fleet with the entire fleet, Schmidt did not let his fleet attack immediately, Schmidt spread his fleet out, and each squad attacked a large ship, such as a pocket battleship, which was the most valuable to attack.
Fortunately, Schmidt divided his fleet into four groups, otherwise the losses would have been great, because Raeder had replaced all his large-caliber guns with disperse shells. For example, a 380-millimeter warhead can hold more than 200 steel ball bullets of 200 grams, and the explosive power of this steel ball bullet is about the same as that of a melon-type grenade, but after being sprayed out by the explosion, the power of this steel ball bullet can be comparable to the warhead of a 50-millimeter anti-aircraft gun. If such a big hole is blown out of a high-speed aircraft, the air will instantly tear the entire aluminum skin of the fuselage around it, and the plane will only disintegrate in the air.
After Schmidt and the group were divided into four groups, they adjusted their course and prepared to occupy the attack position, but the heavy guns on the pocket battleships and heavy cruisers below Raeder began to speak, and as soon as these shells hit the air, they exploded violently, and then sprayed countless small steel balls. As long as it is hit, it will immediately withdraw from the exercise, and if it is unfortunately directly hit by a 380-millimeter plastic bomb, then the plane will be directly turned into various parts, so this German exercise is relatively dangerous and very close to actual combat. Of course, those sprayed marbles are plastic inkjet bullets.
"Bang bang...... Bang bang ......"
The first group of eight planes rushed towards the Gneisenau at an altitude of 5,000 meters, and it was known that the nine front main guns on the Gneisenau suddenly attacked, and nine large-caliber shells were fired instantly. In an instant, countless blue fireworks bloomed in the sky, but fortunately, the planes of the first group were not very dense. However, three planes were still hit by marbles and withdrew from the competition.
Schmidt was not far away and immediately discovered the situation. Hurriedly let all the planes immediately escape from the attack range of Raeder's fleet, Schmidt's first attack fell short before it was launched, and it was not Schmidt's timidity, but Schmidt's feeling that he could not make fearless sacrifices in war.
Soon Schmidt gave a new order:
"All JU87 dive bombers climbed to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters and used two aircraft formations to attack the enemy, remember, only dive bombing can be used."
"Understand ......"
Before Marshal Raeder could rejoice, the Red plane, which had just fled, was back and forth. This time, the planes of the red side flew at an altitude of eight thousand meters, and the large-caliber artillery could of course hit an altitude of eight thousand meters, but now these planes of the red side are swarming from all directions, and they are all in groups of two, even if they hit, they can only destroy the two planes of the red side, and the large-caliber naval guns have protective covers, and his elevation angle is very limited, and the maximum angle will not exceed seventy degrees.
That is, Raeder's large-caliber artillery fires dispersion shells. After firing at most, the RED planes flew over his fleet, and now it was the matter of the anti-aircraft guns, and JU87 began to dive down with a "whin" in the sky. And the various anti-aircraft artillery fire of Raeder's fleet is also desperately blocking and shooting, and bullets are shuttling in the air, although these bullets are plastic inkjet warheads. Hitting a plane can also damage the plane.
There was a plane that was so smoked by a plastic inkjet bullet that the pilot had to parachute in a hurry. Of course, the Reder fleet below will save him, and this is not really a showdown between friend or foe. It's just a drill.
The dive speed of the JU87 was so fast, and the number of planes diving at the same time was so large that although Raeder's fleet could intercept some of the JU87 dive bombers, when most of them successfully completed the dive, they threw torpedoes at several huge battleships, "bang...... The sound of banging ......" sounded continuously, and in just three minutes, all JU87s were dropped, and Raeder had thirteen large ships withdraw from the exercise, looking at this result, Raeder really had nothing to say, and hurriedly ordered the entire fleet to immediately turn and flee.
Raeder's fleet has not gone far, the second round of air raids came again, this time it was the same as last time, forty-two planes flew over the fleet together, the news of the retreat of Raeder's fleet was immediately sent to Li Mo, Li Mo of course let his aircraft carrier formation immediately turn around and catch up, anyway, the distance from Raeder's fleet was about two hundred nautical miles, hanging Raeder's fleet to bomb.
Schmidt lost six JU87s in the first air raid, and when he returned home, Li Mo ordered the supply ship to redeploy six brand new JU87s to the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and the number of aircraft in the second round of air raids was a full flight group.
Immediately followed by another round of "woo" screams, JU87 made a terrible sound to dive bombing the Raeder fleet, this time the anti-aircraft fire was a few points weaker than the last time, because some warships were judged to be seriously injured, can not shoot in the air, and when this round of air raids is over, Raeder collapsed directly, his fleet lost more than 20 warships, this battle has no way to fight, can only be beaten, can not fight back, that is the most aggrieved thing, there is no way Raeder had to personally send a telegram to the General Headquarters of the Command Department Exercise to admit defeat.
The news was quickly spread to Li Mo's aircraft carrier formation, and of course everyone celebrated excitedly, Li Mo's prestige in the eyes of these bastards had taken a step further, and there was not a single soldier who didn't like to follow a commander who could lead them to victory.
Li Mo was celebrating, but the German High Command was holding an emergency meeting, that is, a meeting on the strategic direction of the Navy in the future, and this exercise had clearly explained the core position of aircraft carriers in future naval warfare, but whether the two battleships under construction in Germany should continue to be built, because the two battleships were about to be completed, whether to continue to build or change to aircraft carriers, the people in the Command made a mess over this matter.
There were many opinions and reasons for everyone, and no one could convince anyone for the time being, so the meeting was put on hold for the time being, and everyone meant to listen to their opinions when the commanders of both sides of the exercise returned.
At this time, Li Mo had already commanded his aircraft carrier formation to join Marshal Raeder's fleet, although Li Mo was not afraid of Marshal Raeder, but he still respected Marshal Raeder more, Raeder was under such heavy pressure from Goering, and still stood under pressure and helped Germany build a good navy, which is an achievement in itself.
…… (To be continued......)
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