Now it's embarrassing for Li Mo, is it a conspiracy of the British? Li Mo looked around, only to see that the number of bf109 in the air was not very much, Li Mo estimated the number to be about two hundred, it seems that the battle just now was also a heavy loss on his side, at least nearly half of the bf109 was shot down, of course, the burning flames on the sea surface are also telling Li Mo that the British losses are more serious.

"How long have we been fighting in the air?"

"Thirty-eight minutes."

"How much longer will our planes stay in the air?"

"Twenty-five minutes or so."

"Pursue for ten minutes, mainly attack those British bombers who are slow to return, and give Lao Tzu a hateful hit, lest they launch a second air attack."

"It's the commander-in-chief."

The ammunition consumption of Limer's aircraft carrier formation was extremely serious, especially from the shells of the anti-aircraft guns, so it was now necessary to annihilate the British bombers as much as possible.

Schmidt was still commanding the task of chasing and destroying the bombers, and Li Mo hurriedly mobilized ships to help the damaged ships, and if they were really going to sink, Li Mo asked other ships to come up and tie the ships to both sides of the ship with steel cables, so that the ships would not sink for the time being. As long as the British planes are not attacking in the air, then these injured ships should not sink, but the speed of the entire aircraft carrier formation has dropped to seven or eight knots.

Whether the British came to attack the second time depends on whether the pursuit can annihilate most of the British bombers, and Li Mo vaguely remembers that the British bomber pilots had the highest death rate in history. Reaching 50 percent, this time Li Mo estimated that the British bombers were the ones with the heaviest losses.

Li Mo organized emergency repairs while organizing assault boats to rescue those parachuted pilots, whether it was British or German, as long as they were alive and had a breath of air, even if they were seriously injured, Li Mo ordered the rescue, and the medical facilities on the German aircraft carrier were still good, especially the medical room on the Zeppelin. Even the corpses of British pilots. Li Mo also ordered the salvage. When he returned to Germany and was cremated, he sent the ashes back to England, and of course their relics, Li Mo could only do this. In fact, this is chivalry, but Li Mo doesn't know it.

The entire area of engagement was filled with burning flames. Even on the surface of the sea. Countless British pilots floated on the surface of the sea in yellow life jackets. Of course, there were also German pilots, and countless corpses were floating without arms and legs, and the British air raids were repulsed. But the area of the war became hell. This is war, a war of blood and fire, and the soldiers, living and dead, have fulfilled their duty to their country, and all of them are worthy of the title of national heroes, including the Britons who were rescued and taken prisoner.

Of course, some countries do not recognize the captives, saying that they are traitors, Li Mo does not want to evaluate these countries, anyway, it is inhumane to do so, and it is a practice that makes heroes shed blood and tears, such as the Soviet Union.

Soon the fighters who went to pursue began to return one after another, listening to their reports, the British escort planes had to leave the escort planes and escape alone because they were running out of fuel, so these slow-flying British bombers completely became the target of the BF109, almost a one-sided slaughter, this pursuit alone shot down more than 100 British bombers, this result is not brilliant.

It seems that the British aviation division is afraid that it is not capable of launching a second air attack, so it is okay, Li Mo can sail slowly, and at the same time invest more manpower to repair those damaged ships, Li Mo does not want to repair these ships to be able to fight, now can only let these ships not sink, if it is possible, it is better to repair the power system of the damaged ships.

The British air raid blew up three destroyers, severely damaged three aircraft carriers, and slightly injured four, almost half of Li Mo's 16 aircraft carriers lost the ability to take off and land carrier-based aircraft, fortunately none of the aircraft carriers sank, and more than half of the BF109 carrier-based aircraft were lost, and the BF109s sent out to fight were a total of 506, and more than 230 aircraft landed on the aircraft carriers in the end, and the number of casualties in the entire formation was also quite large, not 1,000 but 800, mainly more than 100 carrier-based aircraft pilots who were killed. It's 50 percent of the downed planes, and that's a very good fatality rate.

……

The British Prime Minister's Office, Churchill and several people in the provisional cabinet, as well as the ministers of the three armed services are anxiously waiting for news, the battle plan has been designated, and the "Spitfire Plan" has also been launched, now it depends on the specific effect, you must know that the current British mainland, since the home fleet has been heavily damaged, only these two full aviation divisions can handle it, the British Army still don't say, now there are only more than 300,000 regular troops, and the militia is nearly one million.

In wartime, the cabinet members generally do not interfere in the military, but they cannot help but be nervous, this is the last elite force of Britain, if this defeat or too great a loss, then Britain will lose both the navy and the air force for some time to come. The consequences were absolutely very serious for Britain, and it was also extremely passive for future wars.

"Report, Hugh? Air Admiral Dowding sent a telegram that the American merchant ships had determined the location of the German aircraft carrier formation and were now preparing for takeoff. ”

"Well, keep an eye out for the telegram from Admiral Dowding...... Everyone, let's go to the war hall! Where can you see the whole battle process most intuitively. ”

"Right...... Walk ......."

The group hurriedly followed Churchill to the war hall of the Prime Minister's Office, which was no different from other war halls, but it was particularly large, and there was a separate telecommunications room next to it, and the telecommunications officer immediately told the sand table staff officer the translated coded message, and the sand table staff officer immediately put the situation on the battlefield on the sand table, which was almost the use of actual combat to deduce the sand table situation.

After a dozen people arrived at the war hall, the civilian officials found a place to sit and watch, while the ministers of the three armed services and Churchill went to gather around the sand table, watching and discussing. The sand table is actually a huge map, and several military airfields in Norway are full of countless small models of British planes, and German aircraft carrier formations are also placed.

The wait was long, and in just half an hour, Churchill felt that it was a century long, and suddenly the telegraph officer began to report again:

"Our fleet has reached the coast of Norway, and at the same time it has spotted several German patrol aircraft, the type of BF109 carrier-based aircraft."

The sand table staff officer hurriedly put a large number of British aircraft models on the sand table, and at the same time put several German BF109 models on it.

Churchill's happy year suddenly became gloomy, this Admiral Da Ding is still an old air force general, can't he send a dozen or so pilot planes to clear the German patrol planes before departure? At this time, the hope of raiding the German aircraft carrier formation was dashed, and the next air battle could only be a hard fight. Anyway, Churchill felt very bad, and there was a feeling of chills all over his body.

…… (To be continued......) u