Chapter 122: Fierce Battle in the Sea and Air (Part II)
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Clive felt his body suddenly lighter, and he jerked the joystick. Clive's landline squealed and began to turn around and climb.
Clive had just climbed less than 300 meters when an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the sea, and the vibration caused by this explosion made Clive clearly feel the tremor of his plane.
The Ark Royal was hit the deck with precision by a heavy aerial bomb dropped by Clive, which first pierced the top deck of the Ark Royal and then exploded in its inner hangar.
The Ark Royal was tragic, the front half of its deck was overturned, the entire hangar and the two floors below were almost destroyed, and the Ark Royal had completely lost its combat capability.
A heavy bomb was not enough to send the tens of thousands of tons of Ark Royal to the bottom of the sea, and then a second JU87 followed, and another aerial bomb weighing 1,000 kilograms roared and fell.
With a loud bang, a huge column of water rose into the sky, and the second JU87 dropped its bomb into the sea. Each JU87 has only one chance to dive and bomb, and whether it hits or misses, the JU87 must fly away immediately.
Cunningham, the commander-in-chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, was on the Ark Royal, and Clive's heavy aerial bomb could make Cunningham miserable, and the shock caused by the explosion directly overturned Cunningham standing on the aviation command platform on the deck.
It was precisely because he fell in time that he escaped the metal fragments that flew everywhere, and the deputy commander who accompanied him on the aviation command platform, his entire head was wiped out by a flying steel plate.
But Cunningham was no better, his head hit the deck, and at this time his head was also bleeding, and the staff officers on the aviation control tower suffered heavy casualties.
Blood flowed across the deck, moans and screams converging, and Cunningham's heart sank, and sank. Cunningham's feeling was peculiar, he had been on the ship for almost most of his life, and this feeling meant that the warship could not be saved.
Several staff officers, who were not seriously injured, came up to Cunningham's support, and Cunningham immediately ordered to them:
"Quick, the fleet command will immediately move to the Hood."
Several staff officers saw Cunningham's mouth open one by one, but they couldn't hear anything, and one of the staff officers hurriedly asked loudly:
"Commander-in-Chief, what are you talking about? Please repeat it. ”
Cunningham also watched the staff officer's mouth open and close, and he couldn't hear any sound.
Cunningham immediately understood that the earth-shattering loud noise just now had deafened everyone's ears, even if Cunningham opened their mouths wide at the moment when the bomb hit, but they didn't have time to cover their ears with their hands, and their ears were deafened like this.
Cunningham knew that it was useless to say anything, and with the support of his staff officers, he struggled to get up and threw himself at the radio microphone of the air defense command platform.
Cunningham shouted hoarsely into the radio microphone on the aviation command platform:
"I am Admiral Cunningham, I order the Hood to take over the flagship, I am ......"
Cunningham desperately yelled into the microphone, blood gushing out of his head, and the smoke from the Royal Ark enveloped the entire air defense command platform.
The screeching of "woo" ensued, and Cunning thought that this was the end, that this time God was not looking after the Ark Royal, and that the second heavy aerial bomb had been dropped five meters from the side of the Ark Royal.
The violent explosion stirred up a huge column of water as high as more than 30 tons, and the huge body of tens of thousands of tons of the Royal Ark also swayed violently from side to side, and the hull of the Royal Ark was still torn open by the violent explosion with a diameter of about one meter, and the sea water surged in.
Clive's squadron had twelve JU87 dive bombers, and with only three heavy aerial bombs, Ark Royal couldn't stand it, which wasn't fun.
The rest of the JU87 dive bombers of Clive's squadron still dive bomb at the Ark Royal regardless of the fact that while you are sick, you will be killed, and the same applies to air strikes.
A third earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the superstructure of the Royal Ark was almost completely destroyed, and the air defense command platform where the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Fleet was located could not even be found.
The Ark Royal's power system stopped working during the night, and the entire aircraft carrier burst into flames, accompanied by a small burst of ammunition, and the Ark Royal was about to be finished.
The fourth heavy aerial bomb continued to hit the Ark Royal with precision, and the tens of thousands of tons of hull suddenly broke into two sections, which were sinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, thus forming two huge whirlpools.
Those who were lucky enough to escape from the Ark Royal paddled desperately, trying to get out of this huge whirlpool, and if they were pulled down by the whirlpool, the chances of survival were equal to zero.
The remaining eight JU87s immediately gave up their dive, and then quickly climbed to an altitude of 7,000 meters, and then they contacted Clive, who was hovering at high altitude, and Clive asked them to join the attack on the battleship "Hood".
Although the British battleships were thick-skinned and thick-skinned, the top deck of the battleships still could not bear the one-ton iron lumps, smashed a hole, and used German heavy aerial bombs with delayed fuses to directly torture the British battleships to death.
The entire Mediterranean fleet was in a catastrophe, their carrier-based aircraft were lost, two aircraft carriers were sunk one after another, and even the majestic battleship was blown into two, and the other two were seriously damaged.
Five of the seven cruisers were lost, the remaining two were also in thick smoke, and the destroyers, on the contrary, lost less, only one was sunk.
Just when all the officers and men of the Mediterranean Fleet thought that the air raid was about to end, the BF109, which was flying close to the sea, suddenly appeared again, and the injured warship was completely unable to escape the light torpedo fired by the BF109.
Andrew's tactics were quite successful, and these BF109s were here to harvest the remnants of the human head, well, commonly known as the head grabbing.
All the destroyers of the British Mediterranean Fleet did not see it correctly, and immediately covered the two battleships that were still wounded and accelerated to escape, and the two wounded cruisers were left behind to break off.
Light torpedoes could not penetrate the armor on the sides of the battleship, they could only attack those destroyers, but the destroyers were fast, small and flexible.
More than a hundred BF109s pursued all the way, and the torpedoes fired by BF109 fighters inherited fourteen more British destroyers. Only two wounded battleships and five destroyers escaped from the entire Mediterranean fleet.
The Mediterranean Fleet lost more than two-thirds of its ships, especially since they were blown up into two more advanced battleships, two aircraft carriers, seven cruisers, and the battleships that escaped were also badly damaged and had to undergo major repairs before they could enter the battle.
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