When the first wave of dive fighters passed over the "Hood," the anti-aircraft gunners on the "Hood" had just entered combat positions, and if this wave of fighters had been bombers or torpedo planes, the "Hood" would have been able to return by now. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When he saw the tricolor flag on the wing of the Eagle Falcon through the porthole of the Hood's bridge, David Beatty's face was extremely ugly.

At this moment, everyone in the bridge, including David Betty, clung to everything that could hold their bodies in hand, waiting for the expected explosion.

There was no explosion, and no people in the bridge felt any vibration, it was a false alarm.

"Whew-" David Betty let out a sigh unconsciously, his voice still full of confidence: "The air force of the Lanfang people is nothing more than that, and then it's time for us to appear, it's time to give them some color and let them know that the Royal Navy of the British Empire is not easy to mess with!" ”

As soon as David Betty's words fell, the crowd in the bridge was about to cheer up their morale, when David Betty saw the water column on the side of the USS Brave, which was driving next to the "Hood", soar into the sky, followed by David Betty's earth-shattering explosion.

Dou Yongyi's first choice target is not the largest tonnage "Hood", but the three aircraft carriers in the British fleet, "Hundred-Eyed Giant", "Brave" and "Glory", for the Lanfang Air Force, the threat brought to them by the "Hood" is far less than that of these three aircraft carriers, as long as the fighters on these three aircraft carriers cannot take off, then the Lanfang Air Force will take what the British fleet on the sea will need.

Lan Fang's bombers and torpedo planes used a four-plane formation to penetrate the defense, so the explosion was far more than once, and in just five seconds, at least three torpedoes concentrated on the "Brave" aircraft carrier, the reason why the numbers are not so accurate is because almost at the same time as the first explosion, the bombers diving in the air also dropped bombs on the aviation deck of the "Brave".

Lanfang Air Force bombers use 500 kilograms of bombs, dealing with the "Brave" such an aircraft carrier with a wooden deck is simply not too cool, although there is a layer of steel under the wooden deck, but the bomb still directly smashed into the hull by virtue of its own inertia, the violent explosion triggered the ammunition depot piled up below the deck, and an earth-shattering sound of martyrdom came, "Brave" was like a huge firework, ending its life in the most brilliant way.

It's really over, and there is no need to rescue it, the torpedo plus the bomb, almost blasting the "Brave" in two from the middle, the entire front half of the "Brave" has almost disappeared, the second half has sunk into the water, the hull that was originally in the middle is raised high, like a broken chopstick inserted into the huge bowl of the Mediterranean, which is jaw-dropping.

David Betty's mouth was wide open, unable to say a word, half a minute ago David Betty was confident, but the reality is no longer enough to describe with a slap - it should be slapped in David Betty's face like a frying pan, making David Betty feel dizzy and his eyes are full of stars.

Everyone in the bridge was also stunned, even the most optimistic people, they didn't dare to easily say anything about defeating Lan Fangren at this time.

It must have been a dream - this is the first thought that comes to many people's minds.

If this is a nightmare, then the nightmare continues.

Almost at the same time that the "Brave" was hit hard, the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" and the "Glory" were also under the key care of the Lafang Air Force at the same time, the fate of the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" was as miserable as the "Brave", after being hit by two torpedoes and three aerial bombs at close range, the hull of the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" was seriously tilted, and it was only a matter of time before it sank, and the condition of the "Glory" was slightly better, and at the time of the attack by the Lanfang Air Force, a cruiser happened to be on the side of the "Glory", and only one of the four torpedoes hit" Glory", two torpedoes hit the hapless cruiser, and the last torpedo somehow did not explode, which allowed the "Glory" to barely escape.

However, although it escaped a catastrophe, the "Glory" was also abandoned, and the deck of the "Glory" was also hit by a bomb, although the "Glory" was lucky, it was not hit by the ammunition depot, but it was no longer able to take off and land fighters, and at the same time, the "Glory" also ignited a raging fire, and the fire had a tendency to spread, and if there was no help from other ships, the sinking of the "Glory" was only a matter of time.

The losses of the British fleet were not only that, in addition to the three aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser and two light cruisers were also sunk, the battleship "Counterattack" and the battleship "Captain Centurion" were damaged, of which the "Counterattack" was seriously damaged and needed to be towed back to the dock for overhaul, and the "Captain Centurion" was damaged in power and could no longer keep up with the speed of the fleet.

David Beatty's tears were in the mood for the British Royal Navy to suffer its worst losses in nearly a hundred years in just ten minutes.

And it seems that the Lanfang people have no intention of stopping, because the British fleet has lost all air protection, and now the airspace above the fleet belongs to the Lanfang fleet, and the Lanfang people can go back to load the bombs and torpedoes, and then fly back again.

Truth be told, David Beatty has never liked the night, but David Beatty now hopes that the sky will get dark as soon as possible, and then the British fleet will be able to use the darkness to escape.

It's a pity that it's only half past eight in the morning.

"Full speed ahead, flatten the airport of the Lanfang people-" David Betty was so angry that he could not back down at this time, only forward was the only way out.

"Mr. Commander, we can't go any further, the Lanfang airfield is twenty kilometers east of Oristano, and if we want to attack the Lanfang airfield, then we have to enter Oristano Bay-" Rear Admiral Tomkinson, the captain of the Hood, offered his opinion.

The reason why Rear Admiral Tomkinson did not object to David Beatty's arrangement was because Rear Admiral Tomkinson, like David Beatty, believed that the fleet's air defense network and the Air Force's warplanes could provide adequate protection for the fleet. Now it is different, the combat effectiveness shown by the Lanfang Air Force is beyond the norm, and it definitely needs to be re-evaluated, and the three aircraft carriers in the fleet, two were sunk and one lost their combat capability, and the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower did not show the ability to be expected, at this time, it would not be brave to continue to implement the previous battle plan, but stupid.

Speaking of which, the British Navy also has a tradition of "going down to the top" - in the last world war, David Betty squeezed out the then British Navy Commander John Jellicoe, and now Tomkinson also has a lot of ideas.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a general who doesn't want to be a commander is not a good general.

"We must move forward, otherwise the glory of our Royal Navy of the British Empire will be ruined, and you should know very well what this means for Britain at the moment." David Betty is stubborn and has a reason to stick to it.

"Glory" is as magical as "faith" and can take hundreds of years to accumulate and only a few minutes to destroy. David Betty knows very well that Britain is no longer the most powerful in the world, and if the glorious tradition of the Navy is lost, then David Betty really can't think of anything else that Britain can be proud of.

A vast colony?

Don't be funny - as long as Britain suffers defeat today and the aura of the "Invincible Armada" is shattered, tomorrow the colonies will be in turmoil.

Hundreds of years of glorious history?

That's not something to be proud of, on the contrary, because of hundreds of years of colonial history, Britain has successfully set up countless enemies, not only those colonial people who have been oppressed by the British for hundreds of years, these old imperialists in Europe, Lanfang, Germany and other emerging countries will not let go of the British, and even the United States, the British own son, will pounce viciously and tear it up, don't think that the Americans stood with the British in the last world war, so this time they will stand with the British.

The Americans in these years are all grass on the wall, not the world police, Americans will only stand with interests, it seems that whoever will win, Americans will choose, this has nothing to do with blood, only with interests, this is determined by the nature of capital.

In other words, the war in European countries is similar to the separation of ordinary people's families, and they are relatives who come and go, not to mention the large circle of twists and turns in the last world war, this time in the world war, King George V of England and William III of Germany are still cousins, and Pierre of France is Qin Zhiyuan's eldest brother, shouldn't you still fight when you should fight?

"If we move forward, it will not only be the glory of the Royal Navy that will be ruined, but you should also know what this means for Britain today." Tomkinson didn't budge.

That's right, Britain is also short of troops at present, because France is not well prepared, Britain needs more land forces, and at the same time needs to expand the navy, if because of David Betty's stubbornness, the British fleet is completely wiped out in the Mediterranean, then this battle does not need to be fought again, and tomorrow George V can be defeated and sued for peace.

David Betty and Tomkinson on the bridge are like-for-tat bulls, and the others are silent, and no one dares to raise their voices at such a time, lest they incur a mixed doubles between the two big names.

But there are always some people who are unconscious, and the roar of the engines of the Lanfang bombers is getting bigger and bigger in the distant sky, and these "blind people" finally replenish the bombs and torpedoes, and once again come to teach the British how to behave.

This time the British fleet was much more prepared, and almost at the same time, all kinds of machine guns and machine guns began to fire one after another, preventing these Grim Reapers from approaching the British fleet.

It's a pity that the training of the British is really not very good, or the combat effectiveness of the Lanfang Air Force is really too strong, there are still explosions constantly, and every dull explosion sound is like a sledgehammer hitting David Betty's chest, making David Betty gasp and feel like he is going to suffocate.