This scene completely inspired the pilots in the sky, and they let go of their nervousness and restlessness in favor of their high-speed beating hearts. Bombers roared towards their targets, battleships and battlecruisers shoehorned into their mechanical sighting equipment.

The encounter with the Emperor also stunned the other British battleships, and in the face of the menacing bombers, the battleship commanders forgot Jericho's orders and ordered the battleships to maneuver to avoid the bombs. At this time, the fleet could no longer maintain a formation formation, and the commanders and sailors maintained a high degree of unity in the face of survival, and the battleships with high-speed maneuver moved left and right. Maneuvering allowed the battleship to dodge most of the bombs, and the German bombers attacked only two bombs, and they were not critical parts, so they did not cause much damage.

The chaos of the British fleet made the torpedo aircraft formation, which had been waiting for a long time, finally wait for the best time, and the torpedo planes were more threatening than the bombers. Especially when there is no anti-aircraft fire on the target battleship, it is simply a target for torpedo attack aircraft, and the danger is minimized. Maneuvering also slowed down the ships, and the chaotic formation allowed torpedo attack aircraft to fish in troubled waters.

"Send a telegram to the United Kingdom! The Emperor was damaged, and our fleet will continue to pursue the German fleet. Jericho didn't have a better way, maybe it would be a good idea to let the battleship maneuver to dodge the bombs, so Jericho pushed the boat down the river and ordered the battleship to dodge on its own. Then he added

"Yes!" The telegraph officer on one side nodded and recorded the commander's order.

"Send a signal to the Emperor to confirm the damage. Ask if we can help......" As he continued to give orders, an officer who had been holding a telescope and looking into the distance lowered the telescope.

His face was frightened, and his voice trembled a little: "Sir! German planes are attacking again! ”

"Attacking again?" Asking incredulously, Jericho picked up his binoculars and looked at the sea. In the distance, German planes began another round of dive attacks.

"O my God! When did the war on the sea become different from what it used to be? How could an airplane carry such a heavy bomb and how could it last so long? Jericho muttered as he watched the German plane.

"Bomb dropped plane cover! We approached these battleships at low altitudes! And then throw the torpedo in the right place! The commander of the torpedo attack aircraft gave the order to attack while diving, and an obedient answer came from the headset.

The German aircraft formation, whose morale had also been unprecedentedly high, apparently did not fall into a panic again, and they attacked the warships at every turn, and soon the German planes caught a gap in a British battleship. Two attack aircraft with torpedoes attached to the surface of the water threw the torpedoes hanging under their bellies into the water. The tail propellers of the two torpedoes churned in the water, pulled out two straight white lines, and rushed towards the British battleship in front of them.

The British destroyer in the outermost part was too far away from the capital ship in the core of the formation, and the target had no battleship to cover, and these two fatal things went straight to a capital ship, and the whole battleship began to slow down violently, and the entire hull made a sound of steel squeezing. However, it took enough time for the battleship to turn to avoid bombs, to slow down, and to spot the torpedo acceleration, enough time for the torpedo to hit. It did not avoid these two white lines of death, a huge column of water rose into the air, and the "Marlborough" station thunder sword was violently turning to dodge the bombers rushing down from the sky, it successfully avoided the attack from the sky, but was directly hit by two torpedoes.

The parts hit by the torpedo were the bow and amidships, and a huge explosion followed, the battleship was rough and thick, and after a violent explosion, the whole battleship was still floating on the sea, but the huge propeller in the tail was destroyed, and a boiler compartment was also affected by the explosion, and after the speed gradually decreased, the Marlborough finally stopped motionless on the sea. However, the power system is not the most fatal damage, the influx of a large amount of seawater is terrible, the efforts of the damage management personnel are difficult to achieve results, and the large gap caused by the torpedo cannot be simply sewn up.

Ironically, a few minutes later, another torpedo attack aircraft fired a torpedo from the other side, and after drilling a large hole in the right side of the Marlborough, sea water poured into the hole and gradually leveled the Marlborough, until the end of the battle it did not sink, and was finally blown up by the British themselves.

"The Marlborough! The Marlborough was hit! On the bridge of the British flagship, an officer screamed like a frightened woman, but he was not reprimanded for such a gaffe. Everyone looked in horror at the sea not far away, and thick smoke enveloped the battleship, echoing the unsunken Emperor.

In the dim interior of the battleship, in a narrow corridor, two welders are welding a broken steel bar in waist-high seawater, as long as this place is repaired to the point that it can isolate the seawater, then the pumping machine behind can pump the water out here, so that the battleship can at least drag the serious wounded back to the port-

Damage managers, that is, maintenance workers who are responsible for rescue and disaster relief for warships, are like the ship's personal doctors, and they are an indispensable part of a battleship. However, it can be said that these damage managers are one of the most dangerous professions, as they tend to be found in the underwater part of the battleship and work on the damaged area.

"Hey! George! I've heard that we were hit before we even saw the shadow of the enemy! A damage manager shouted loudly with a tool in his hand, and sparks from power lines burst out from time to time around him, which looked very scary.

"Shut up! Frank! Don't you think we're in a bad situation? This damn sealed door is leaking! It's leaking! While pounding on the twisted 'door', George complained loudly, "All I know is that a thing just now pierced through two decks in one breath and exploded about twenty meters ahead." If you have time to be curious, why don't you think about how to close this damn door! ”

The speed of the influx of sea water is getting slower and slower, and the scary tilt of the whole battleship has gradually recovered, and it seems that the battleship is saved. George let out a long breath, then took a sip of the oil on it, and washed his face haphazardly.

The Indomitable Battlecruiser was easily pierced through the deck by the bomb and exploded violently inside, but fortunately the damage caused did not involve critical parts, and the damage management personnel were able to repair it in a short time.

When George had just come to the gate of the bridge, he suddenly heard the desperate shouts of the lookout post on the mast overhead: "Torpedo! Port! Torpedo! There was a torpedo coming at us on the port side. ”

A huge explosion followed, and George gripped the railing on the stairs of the battleship with his hand, and finally stabilized his body, and when he turned back, he found that the sailor who had sent him up had fallen from the bridge more than ten meters high to the deck. This battleship is finished! The thought crossed George's mind for a moment, and he hurriedly opened the bridge door to see the captain with a bloody face being bandaged by the military doctor. And on the messy command bridge, it can be described as a mess, these officers have just gotten up from the ground, and the explosion just now paralyzed the newly restored command again.

The Indomitable Inferior's thin armor was vulnerable to the furious gunpowder of the torpedoes, and the sea water with blood and broken parts rampaged through the battleship's body, flooding everywhere it passed, and the damage crews had no time to plug the cracks and gaps, and were flooded into new cabins by the seawater, and some soldiers and damage crews were directly submerged in the sea, and there was no time to escape.

Frank, who was talking and laughing with George just now, was directly smashed in the head by the collapsed steel bar, and the other two damage managers around him also collapsed again because of the place they had just blocked, and the sudden influx of sea water was too much and they were drowned in the cabin, and they didn't even have time to run to the stairs less than 5 meters away from them.

This time the damage management personnel could no longer maintain the balance of the battleship, and the turbulent sea water tilted the battleship, and for the British, the battleship had lost its value to save.

Two capital ships were sinking, one capital ship was in danger, and three destroyers and two cruisers were heavily damaged or sunk, and such losses were beyond Jericho's capacity, and he immediately sent a telegram to the Admiralty recommending a retreat. An order was then given to Betty to abandon the pursuit, and the two fleets converged and withdrew to Scapa Bay.

Less than ten minutes after his order, the fleet was still in a state of confusion from advancing at high speed, dodging bombs and torpedoes, and receiving orders to retreat, when a second wave of German planes arrived over the battlefield.

"God, are you going to destroy the British Empire?" Jericho sighed, what he didn't know was that in the first attack wave on the way back, the captain Inmaiman and Richthofen were discussing reloading fuel and ammunition before taking to the air again, because it was only about 15:30, and there was still a long time before dark, enough to take off the third wave of attack. (To be continued.) )