Britain dispatched a total of seven aircraft carriers this time, plus the warships, supply ships, and troop carriers that escorted the aircraft carriers, the total number exceeded 120, and the scale was larger than the Battle of Jutland.

It was still very difficult for German submarines to break through the layers of protection and attack the aircraft carriers, so the Germans focused on the warships on the periphery, and the battlecruiser Hood fell into sight.

The battleship Hood was a British-built warship in the Battle of Jutland, the Battle of Jutland had a huge impact on British naval strategy, and the British battleships and battlecruisers should have suffered greatly from neglecting defense, so when designing new warships, the British focused on strengthening their defense capabilities.

The Hood increased the thickness of the defensive armor, increased the main armor belt on the side from 8 inches to 12 inches, strengthened the protection of vital parts, improved the fire protection facilities of the ammunition depot, increased the total weight of the armor from the original design of 10,100 tons to 13,550 tons, and greatly increased the weight of the hull structure. Protruding anti-torpedo bulge compartments were installed below the waterline on both sides of the hull to protect the ammunition magazine and power compartment, improving the ability to defend against torpedoes and providing additional buoyancy.

The Hood was only completed and launched in 1918, and the First World War was coming to an end, and Britain had no need to build ships desperately, and with the exhaustion of financial resources, Britain originally planned to build four Hood-class, but only one was completed.

However, this Hood also embodies the ability of the British to build ships, with a standard displacement of 41,125 tons and a speed of thirty-two knots, which was an astronomical amount just after the end of World War I.

After entering service, the warship underwent several major repairs. There have also been round-the-world visits. However, the advent of the aircraft carrier era reduced the Hood to the role of bodyguard.

The German submarine locked on to this behemoth for the first time, and at this time the Hood was still paying attention to the plane battle in the sky, the British and German carrier-based aircraft came and went, and from time to time there were planes breaking through the defense line and dropping bombs on the warship, so all the warships were highly vigilant and completely ignored the threat of the submarine.

There was still a trace of desolation in the hearts of the sailors on the Hood. They thought they would be able to show their skills in the service of Britain's most powerful warship, but when they actually arrived on the battlefield, they realized how awkward their situation was, with an unrivaled cannon, but not a single chance to fire. It's a complete decoration.

The shape of the naval battle had changed completely, and just when they were a little lost, they suddenly noticed that there were four waves above the water, fanning towards the Hood, and there was a huge black shadow near the sea not far away.

German submarines!

It was only then that the British Navy suddenly realized that they had encountered the most vicious enemy, and that German submarines were a shining role in both World War I and World War II. Don't look at the aircraft carriers of World War II who ascended to the supremacy of the seas. However, eighty percent of the aircraft carriers sunk in World War II were sunk by submarines, and another ten percent were sunk with the cooperation of submarines.

To put it bluntly, submarines are the deadly nemesis of large warships. At the beginning of the war, many British warships and merchant ships had been poisoned by German submarines, and the competition over the Atlantic Ocean was already very cruel.

Now although the Hood discovered the torpedo attack, but it was too late, three of the four torpedoes hit the Hood, two of them hit the middle of the huge warship, the German torpedo technology is very mature, the power is also amazing, the middle of the ship quickly appeared a huge depression, under the pressure of the sea water quickly cracked.

Two torpedoes hit the tail steering gear, the power system of the Hood was destroyed in an instant, the aircraft carrier descended rapidly, the warship had lost control, and sporadic explosions were constantly heard in the middle.

Suddenly, as if a red sun was brewing from the hold of the Hood, an incomparable stream of black smoke and fire rushed out, and all the battleships on the sea were startled by this loud sound, especially the British Royal Navy soldiers, who were overwhelmed by the coco.

The ammunition compartment in the middle of the Hood exploded, and the giant ship quickly broke into two pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea at an extraordinary speed, and few of the people on board survived.

In the original history, the Hood was sunk by the Bismarck, and in this time and space, the Bismarck became an aircraft carrier, but the Hood still did not escape the fate of being sunk, and the ship was still destroyed.

At this time, the British Navy actually couldn't take care of the Hood, all their attention was on the aircraft carrier, and the second wave of German attack broke through the interception of the British carrier-based aircraft and began to bomb the British aircraft carrier fiercely.

The first thing to be taken care of is the Ark Royal, which is the name of a warship that the British are very fond of, and there are constantly warships named Ark Royal, which can carry 72 combat aircraft, which is second to none among all British aircraft carriers.

However, it is precisely because of this that the armored defense of the Ark Royal is relatively weak, and the space is used to load aircraft, and the German carrier-based aircraft dropped more than ten bombs on the Ark Royal, three of which successfully hit the Ark Royal, one of which is still close to missing, and the other two fell on the deck.

At this time, there were still many planes on the deck of the Ark Royal that were being loaded with bombs and fuel, and the deck was in chaos, and the aircraft carrier was at its most vulnerable.

The Ark Royal instantly turned into a sea of fire, and the soldiers who were originally working nervously on the deck did not have time to escape, all of them were engulfed in flames, and turned into a pile of coke, and the fire quickly spread to the inside of the warship, and the aircraft carrier seemed to have become a living coffin at sea, which had been completely scrapped.

The focus of the German attack has been on the Brilliant and the Indomitable, the British have lost two aircraft carriers at this time, and can no longer bear huge losses, they are completely crazy to return fire at the Germans, all the carrier-based aircraft pilots have no regard for danger, desperately entangled with Germany, the ship's anti-aircraft fire does not care about the possible accidental damage, like a storm into the air.

The German torpedo planes were slow and close to the time of dropping, so they suffered the heaviest losses, and all twenty torpedo planes of this wave were shot down.

In the face of the madness of the British, the Germans were desperate, this was a good opportunity to completely trample the old rival Britain under their feet, and they must not let the British have a good time, they want to avenge the Battle of Jutland, they want to vent the shame of the Treaty of Versailles, and they want to completely crush the dignity of the British Empire, which is high above.

Two more German bombers broke through the British interception and dropped bombs on the Indomitable, this time the bomb fell on the rear of the deck, blowing up a huge hole, but it did not completely finish the Indomitable, and it did not even affect the combat effectiveness of the Indomitable, the aircraft carrier was still fighting tenaciously at sea, which was the only benefit of the British to strengthen its defenses.

Germany was bombing British warships, and the British carrier-based aircraft formation had already found traces of the German fleet, and today God was indeed not on the side of the British, the weather conditions above their fleet were very good, and the Germans were able to easily find their targets.

The German fleet, on the other hand, was under the cover of storm clouds, and it was difficult for the British to find them, and just when these carrier-based aircraft were running out of fuel, they finally discovered the German aircraft carrier formation.

This time Germany's good fortune also came to an end, just twenty minutes ago there was a sudden problem with one of the boilers of the Munich, in fact, this is also expected, this warship is an old ship of the First World War, after the hands of China and Germany, although both countries are trying to maintain it, but both countries use this warship as the main training ship.

The high-intensity use has made the Munich have a lot of dark wounds, especially since the beginning of the Polish campaign, the warship has been in a fierce combat state, Dönitz has been preparing to overhaul the Munich after the end of this naval battle, but the sky does not fulfill people's wishes, at this time when there is no problem, there is a problem.

The speed of the Munich dropped, and it did not have time to hide in the storm and be protected, just as it was targeted by the British carrier-based aircraft, and dozens of planes launched a fierce attack on the Munich, this wave of attacks was mainly Spitfire, and in the blink of an eye, three bombs fell on the Munich.

One of the bombs fell through the gap in the elevator, and in an instant there was a violent explosion in the cabin, and the fire enveloped the entire warship, and the German sailors desperately tried to extinguish the flames regardless of their own lives, but it was too late.

This aircraft carrier was once the starting point of the Chinese Navy, giving birth to China's powerful navy, and at the same time the hope of the revival of the Nazi Navy, carrying the pursuit of the sea by both countries, and there is no other warship in history that can have such glory.

The fire completely engulfed the warship, but this legendary aircraft carrier is still stubbornly floating on the sea, in fact, until a day later, it completely sank to the bottom of the sea, after the end of World War II, the Chinese Navy spent a lot of effort to salvage him from the bottom of the sea, the warship was finally towed to Qinzhou, using the broken hull to build China's largest naval museum, becoming the most famous building in Qinzhou in the future, witnessing China's difficult road to the sea!

When the Munich was attacked, the German Bismarck and Tirpitz also tried to come to the rescue, but by the time they arrived at the scene, the British Navy had successfully retreated, and the Germans pounced, and the Germans did not notice that another air formation appeared not far away. (To be continued.) )