Chapter 120: Fierce Battle in the Sea and Air (Part I)
Do not doubt the power of this one-ton aerial bomb, which can directly penetrate a steel plate more than 100 millimeters thick when it falls from a high altitude.
The top deck of the British's battleship is definitely not so thick! A battleship of tens of thousands of tons, if one is hit, it will lose its combat effectiveness, and two or three can sink a battleship of tens of thousands of tons.
Cunningham's tactics are not clever, and Andrew's preparation for battle is perfect, and the baptism of blood and fire is about to be staged.
November 14, 1940 at 7:35 a.m.
The pilot plane found the British Mediterranean Fleet forming an aviation formation, my obedient, the British deserve to be the hegemon of the sea, the sea is full of dozens of warships of various types forming a diamond-shaped aviation formation, carrying out the big S voyage, and the sky above the fleet is shuttled dozens of carrier-based fighters.
"Report to the division commander that the enemy fleet has been discovered, bearing 132 southeast; 456。 ”
Andrew led the entire 4th Air Division like a pack of wolves, fiercely and swiftly pounced on the British Mediterranean Fleet, and the battle began in an instant.
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More than 100 German BF109s roared and swooped down at an altitude of 7,000 meters, the speed of the BF109 was already fast, and the speed of the BF109 accelerated by the dive reached a terrifying 1,000 kilometers per hour.
These more than 100 BF109s did not carry any plug-ins, and their mission was to fight the carrier-based aircraft of the British fleet in the air, and annihilate all these cowards hiding in the aviation fire network.
The Luftwaffe's tactics were generally one main engine, one wingman, and two planes one in front of the other, and lightning swooped down on the Thief Seagull carrier-based aircraft hovering at low altitude.
Dozens of warships of various types on the sea saw the German planes swooping down, and immediately fired into the air, and hundreds of fire whips stirred in the air.
Because the speed of the BF109's plane was too fast, the sound of his dive had changed to the sound of "hmm", and more than a hundred BF109s were divided into more than seventy or eighty attack groups, each charging and killing his own target.
The reaction of the British fleet was not unpleasant, but their movements were still not as fast as the German BF109 that dived, and the German planes shot down more than 20 Thief Seagull carrier-based aircraft in the first wave of dives.
The British Navy below was furious, Cunningham was furious, and he roared angrily with a radiophone in the aviation conning tower:
"Fuck those damn Germans, you bastards, on time, on point."
Cunningham, who was originally a very gentleman, is not a gentleman anymore, full of foul language, this is an existential emergency, and the one who still cares about the damn false gentleman is a gentleman.
"Bumper ...... Bumper ......"
This is a rhythmic rapid fire of anti-aircraft guns, and the caliber of these anti-aircraft guns is also at least fifty millimeters, so his rate of fire is not very fast, and it is generally about ten rounds per minute.
"Dada...... Da Da ......"
This is an anti-aircraft machine gun firing at the air, and the caliber of this type of anti-aircraft weapon is generally less than 20 millimeters, although the power is small, the advantage is that the rate of fire is extremely high, and there are at least seven or eight hundred rounds per minute.
Suddenly black fireworks burst into the air, which was the smoke left behind by the explosion of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, which mainly relied on shrapnel to kill aircraft, and basically attacked indiscriminately.
That's Cunningham's ruthlessness, if you Germans want to bomb our fleet, you have to take out my cover planes.
Your BF109 is advanced, and I can't do it with the Seagull carrier-based aircraft, but I can choose to take credit for it!
The sky was full of black "death" blooming, and shrapnel from the explosion of anti-aircraft shells flew everywhere in the air.
In just two or three minutes, more than a dozen planes were "whining" and screaming, and billowing smoke was rising from behind the tail of the plane and planted on the sea, including the German BF109 and the British's seagull.
Because the German BF109 had half more than the British carrier-based aircraft, almost two-thirds of the German aircraft shot down.
Suddenly, there was another gorgeous scenery in the sky, and the parachutes that bloomed slowly fell to the sea.
The British Navy did not attack the parachutists at this time, and both sides were fighting a war with the chivalry of the Middle Ages.
The BF109 pilots, who rushed into the British Fleet's aviation firepower network, overcame all fears and desperately chased the Seagull carrier-based planes that were scurrying around the British fleet.
These British carrier-based aircraft are really not heroic fighters, they are cowards, because they don't engage the BF109 head-on at all, they just scurry around over the fleet, and then let the aviation weapons of the warships below shoot down the hateful tail.
British carrier-based pilots are definitely not cowardly, their aircraft performance is not as good as the German BF109, rushing to meet the battle, most of them are the result of more dead and less alive, they use this kind of tactics of running around, but they can achieve some results.
The tactics of the British carrier-based pilots were successful, and in the sky there were constantly German fighters whimpering and screaming, braving billowing smoke and planting into the sea, and of course the British carrier-based planes also suffered a lot of losses.
This loss is about two to one, that is to say, the German BF109 has to shoot down a thief seagull, and he has to lose two planes, Cunningham's tactics are really good and successful.
The British Navy was excited at this time, they did not receive the slightest attack, and all the gunners were very excited, and shouted in a loud voice:
"Come on! Damn Germans, look at how Grandpa entertains you. ”
"Haha, Lao Tzu has got a plane."
"Cool! Ha ha. ”
"It's cool!"
"Another one...... Oh yes. ”
"Brothers, kill these cousins."
The British admiral's excitement at this time was understandable, but hundreds of black dots suddenly appeared in the sky, and these black dots swooped extremely fast, and emitted a very terrible scream.
This kind of sound tears people's eardrums, shocks people's hearts, tears people's souls, and that kind of terrifying screaming sound is really terrifying.
Andrew saw the timing, when the British carrier-based aircraft were losing more than half, when they were being chased around, when all British aviation firepower was attracted by these BF109s.
A hundred JU87 Stuka dive bombers, hovering at a high altitude not far away, swooped down from the altitude unawares, and the dive speed of the JU87 bomber was faster than that of the BF109.
More than a hundred JU87s were a small black dot a second ago, and in the blink of an eye, you can clearly see this kind of screaming bomber.
The British Navy, which was still arrogant and insulting just now, was stupid and forced many gunners to cover their ears with their hands because of the terrifying scream, which invisibly reduced the firepower of the entire fleet by one-third suddenly.
Cunningham looked at the JU87 dive bomber that suddenly dived down, and immediately clenched his teeth, and he cursed in his heart:
"The Germans who should have died are still in their hands."
Cunningham's tactical arrangement was excellent, and he put carrier-based aircraft within the range of his own aviation firepower, which forced the Luftwaffe to storm his fleet aviation fire network and fight his carrier-based aircraft.
But the sudden appearance of the JU87 caught Cunningham a little off guard......
[Fallen leaves have a heavy cold, there was no update last night, today the two more together to apologize, the weather is hot and cold alternately during this time, please brothers ideas to increase or decrease clothes, I wish the brothers good health, eat fragrant food, and the body is double ~ Awesome - happiness ^_^, oh yes yes!. 】