Chapter 212: Churchill's Fury
Sure enough, after more than ten minutes, the telecommunications officer came to report again:
"A large number of German BF109 carrier-based aircraft were discovered, located one hundred and twenty kilometers above the surface of the East Sea of Norway, with coordinates of 65 degrees 18 seconds east longitude and 128 degrees 34 seconds west longitude."
At this time, everyone became nervous, and they all gathered around the sand table, their eyes staring at the sand table tightly, quietly waiting for the next message:
"The German fleet is about five hundred...... Huh......"
Everyone gasped, didn't the intelligence say that the ratio of carrier-based aircraft in the German aircraft carrier formation was two-thirds bombers and only one-third fighters? Why did the German aircraft carrier formation suddenly have so many fighters, did they change the ratio of bombers and fighters on board the aircraft carriers. At this time, Churchill's face immediately turned from gloomy to crimson, and I saw Churchill slap on the wooden frame of the sand table, shaking the model airplane on the sand table into a flutter, and the other participants in the meeting were frightened by Churchill's angry slap:
"Bang...... Damn the intelligence officer, is he a stupid pig? This is dereliction of duty, this is a crime, a crime against the British Empire, did they not know that such a fatal intelligence blunder would push the British Empire into the abyss? I'm going to shoot this damn intelligence officer......"
Churchill held a cigar in one hand and waved it in the air with the other, Churchill's saliva splashed the face of the ministers of the three armed services, and these three ministers did not dare to wipe their saliva in front of Churchill, so they could only grit their teeth and endure it.
"At the beginning of the battle, the German aircraft group was divided into two, and they wanted to entangle our escort planes to attack our bombers, and our side sent two aviation regiments to deal with one of the German planes, and the other escort aircraft covered the bombers to continue the assault."
The upper level of the sand table was rearranged by the staff officers to arrange the aircraft models of both sides, and soon there was another telegram, and it seemed that the battle was becoming more and more urgent:
"Our 1st and 2nd Air Regiments have been entangled with the 1st German fighter group, the 3rd and 4th Air Regiments have only intercepted some of the German fighters, and about 50 German fighters have assaulted our bomber group."
Now everyone stopped talking, including Churchill, anger at this time could not solve any problems, the entire war hall was quiet, only the alarm clock on the wall was ticking and ticking, and the waiting time was so long, as if every minute and second was as long as a year:
"Our aircraft group broke through the interception of the German aircraft group and began to continue to attack the German aircraft carrier formation, and our side lost 124 fighters, bombed 86 JIs, and the German losses were about 105 aircraft."
"Huh...... Hey...... Suck ......"
That's a big loss! Everyone also knows that the British Hurricane combat is a little worse than the German BF109, and the number of Spitfires with similar performance to the German is not much, and as for the bomber, it is no match for the German BF109. The battle loss ratio was two to one, and although this loss was heavy, the German aircraft were 700 fewer than themselves, and the hope of victory was still great.
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"Our fighter group entangled the German fighters, and the bombers began to attack the German aircraft carrier formation separately."
"Bang...... Bastard...... Dowding mistook me!! This horizontal bomber is going to be intensively assaulted! Yes!! Each assault is the end of sending him to death, hey, I misjudged him as a fool of Daoding, Daoding misled the country! ”
Churchill began to spray again, but what can he do now, Dowding is not in the front line command, but in the Norwegian general headquarters, even if Dowding is in the first line, what can Dowding do in the first line, the German carrier-based aircraft are messing around in the British flight formation, the British aircraft group has time to form, the British aircraft have no time at all, there is no opportunity to go to the formation! Churchill did not have a backache when he stood and spoke, and where the actual situation on the battlefield could be fully described by telegram, it was absolutely impossible.
"All the German carrier-based aircraft shrank into the circle of return of the aircraft carrier formation, and our escort planes and bombers began to attack the anti-aircraft fire circle of the German aircraft carrier formation with all their might."
"Good...... That's how it was played...... "Now Churchill finally said a word of praise.
"The two sides strangled and struggled over the German aircraft carrier...... Hit a German aircraft carrier ......"
"Bang bang...... Not bad...... Pretty good ...... Dowding."
"Hit two German aircraft carriers, these two German aircraft carriers lost their take-off and landing capabilities and are leaning."
"Blow it up!! What is Dowding doing...... Why didn't this seriously injured German aircraft carrier send planes to sink it immediately! ”
No one answered Churchill, and no one could answer Churchill this question:
"Sink three German destroyers, seriously damage four aircraft carriers......"
Now the participants did not dare to applaud indiscriminately, and Churchill's questioning voice became less, but turned into muttering:
"Can anyone tell me that German aircraft carriers are unsinkable aircraft carriers? I remember that the German aircraft carrier was converted from a merchant ship, and one aerial bomb had to be completely paralyzed, two had to be seriously injured, and three had to be sent to the bottom of the sea, and a heavy torpedo only needed one shot to seriously injure, and two had to sink the damned German aircraft carrier, but we have not sunk a single German aircraft carrier until now, why is that? ”
Churchill said in the end, it was already with a crying voice, everyone thinks about it, is it not that there is no torpedo hitting the German aircraft carrier, just the aerial bomb is paralyzed, don't the other British pilots know to attack these injured aircraft carriers? No one knows the answer. In fact, the British pilots had no chance to attack the German aircraft carriers, and their carrier-based planes were already strangled with the British planes in the aircraft carrier's anti-aircraft fire network, and even if they were accidentally injured, they would definitely shoot down the British planes that had swooped into the anti-aircraft fire circle.
The British bombers were charging like moths to a flame, and they were still shot down, and those British bombers could not get close to the aircraft carrier at all, how to attack, even if there were a small number of torpedoes, the anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the aircraft carrier could easily intercept them, as long as the number was not large enough to take care of the anti-aircraft fire on both sides, it would be an ineffective attack, and the fighter pilots could only watch the wounded German aircraft carriers but there was nothing they could do.
"The fuel of our fleet has reached the alarm position, and now it is starting to return home...... We lost our aircraft...... Lost more than 500 aircraft......"
Everyone was stunned, this is the result of the battle, the two elite aviation divisions lost half of their planes, only a few German aircraft carriers were damaged, and the hearts of the participants all sank, this Germany's terrifying strength is terrifying! In just half a year, a formation of 16 aircraft carriers was prepared, although it was a merchant aircraft carrier, but the battle of the German aircraft carrier formation could actually defeat two elite aviation divisions, what kind of situation is this! What a rise this is! The navy, air force and honor accumulated by the British Empire for hundreds of years were crushed at this moment.
This is not over, and the telecommunications officer runs out again to report the situation:
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