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Just a few hours after the U.S. fleet sailed into Farksha Bay, Luca . Admiral Wagner led the German-Austrian fleet to launch its first attack on the American fleet anchored in the harbor under the cover of a rainy night. The U.S. forces were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, and the battle was described as the worst defeat in the history of the U.S. Navy.

As the US fleet approached Iceland, the German-Austrian submarine, which was closely monitoring the movements of US troops in Icelandic waters, immediately reported to the fleet the news of the appearance of the US fleet. Since it was raining in the sea area where the German-Austrian combined fleet was located at this time, it was impossible to take off carrier-based aircraft, Admiral Wagner decided to use the battlefleet to launch an attack on the Americans at night. After everything was ready, on the evening of May 3, under the cover of light rain and dark night, General Wagner personally led the battlefleet to leave the aircraft carrier battle group, stealthily move westward, and pounce on Farksha Bay.

Because the weather had been bad and it was impossible to take off reconnaissance planes, the US military was completely unaware that a naval battle was coming.

At 1:20 a.m. on May 4, the German-Austrian fleet, led by the "United Forces", lined up in a single column about 1,000 meters apart, raised a white identification flag on the mast, and took advantage of the night to break into the Falksha Bay at a speed of 25 knots!

The Americans were also careless, and the patrolling destroyers were only cruising back and forth near the anchorage, and did not set up a guard at all to the distance. Without the knowledge of the Americans, the German-Austrian fleet had been forced into attack positions.

At 2:15, Wagner gave the order to attack with torpedoes first.

The destroyer fleet quickly advanced and, at a distance of 12,000 meters, fired rows of long-range torpedoes, weighing more than 1 ton, at the US warships stationed. At a speed of 45 knots, it quickly sailed towards the dark shadow of the warship that was faintly visible in the distance. "All of them start shelling!" The signal lights on the "United Forces" flashed incessantly, giving the order to attack all of them.

Boom, boom!

With a loud bang, the battleship used its secondary guns to fire flares over the American fleet until this time. The patrolling American destroyers "Luce" and "Patterson" discovered the attacking enemy fleet, and the ship's personnel were shocked and hurriedly radioed the alarm: "Attention! Unidentified warships are entering the port! ”

But it was already too late.

Flares exploded above the US warships, and the "Northampton," "Chicago," "Vincennes," "Astoria," "Juno," and "Quincy" on the outer layers of the fleet were all revealed.

Two torpedoes penetrated the bow of the "Northampton", and both the "Juno" and "Quincy" were also torpedoed. Immediately afterward, countless shells whistled and rained down on the fragile cruisers. The fire began to burn on the sea. And spread, the roaring light of the fire lit up the entire night sky.

In less than five minutes, the three American heavy cruisers "Northampton," "Juno," and "Quincy" completely lost their combat effectiveness.

Several American destroyers, which were on guard, radioed the alarm and then flashed the alarm, and at the same time fired torpedoes at the German-Austrian fleet and engaged in a fierce artillery battle with the enemy. However, the prepared German-Austrian fleet used cruisers to intercept the American destroyers, while the battleships and heavy cruisers continued to dump shells at the American fleet anchorage. Soon several American destroyers were locked by searchlights. After being shot continuously, it soon lost its combat effectiveness.

Cannon rumbled on the sea. The cannonballs pierced the rainy sky with their streamers, the flares flashed, and the whole sea was as bright as day. The Americans also began to counterattack, initially with small-caliber naval guns such as light cruisers and destroyers, and soon several battleships also began to vent their anger.

Jonas? Admiral Ingram wears a steel helmet. Wearing a life jacket, he stood on the bridge of the "North Carolina" and watched the warship's secondary guns fly red tracer bullets into the dark night sky one after another. Beneath a large expanse of white flares, an array of shadowy enemy ships appeared on the surface of the Falkshire Bay.

A few kilometers away in the sea, several cruisers located in the outer layers of the fleet were on fire. "Juno" was hit by three torpedoes. Sinking in a violent firelight. Only a few minutes after the battle began, the American fleet suffered heavy losses. Ingram's heart twitched at the sight of the miserable conditions on the sea.

The enemy abandoned the attack on the American battleship, the shells went over the head of the "North Carolina" and flew closer to the coast, and it was clear that the enemy had found more important targets.

"Oh my God, our aircraft carriers! These damn Germans! The admiral shook his fists and roared angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

The enemy's dense artillery shells, with streamers, flew towards the aircraft carrier, which was still anchored at anchorage, unable to move at all.

Task Force 16, commanded by Rear Admiral Kincaid, was the first to suffer, and at 2:27 a.m., the Enterprise was hit by three shells in quick succession, the first of which made a piercing screech and landed diagonally on the flight deck. It was presumably an armor-piercing projectile with a time-delay fuse, and when it pierced the flight deck and the hangar deck, it did not explode, and the shell made an earth-shattering noise in the cabin of the aircraft maintenance personnel under the hangar, killing the people in the nearby cabin on the spot.

Just a few tens of seconds later, a high-explosive bomb hit the right side of the stern elevator of the Enterprise. A large orange fireball rose from the stern of the ship, and the personnel close to the explosion point immediately flew flesh and blood, and the stern deck and elevator were also damaged. The third shell hit the take-off signal at the rear of the bridge, and the signal station at the rear of the island was completely blown away, and several of the fighters on the deck were blown to pieces, and the fire on the deck was raging and blazing.

Immediately, another near-miss hit the side of the aircraft carrier, blasting a large hole in the left front. Sea water poured into the hull, and the "Enterprise" instantly began to tilt. The fire on the warship was also quite violent, but fortunately, the firefighters on the ship did a good job and quickly stopped the fire from spreading.

This was followed by the USS Saratoga and USS Lexington, and finally the USS Hornet of Task Force 18, which survived only HMS Yorktown of Task Force 15 and HMS Wasp of Task Force 17 because of their anchorage proximity to the coast and their undetected by the enemy.

Ingram was angry, but his heart was terrified. The roar of the North Carolina's upper row of guns was so constant that his ears could barely hear the sound, and his eyes were blurred by the dazzling light of the main guns. But he was well aware that if his aircraft carrier suffered heavy losses, then what awaited him would be a fiasco.

He commanded the battlefleet to begin a desperate counterattack, and now two heavy cruisers, the "Juno" and the "Northampton", had been torpedoed and had to be ordered to abandon the ship. In addition, the three heavy cruisers "Chicago", "Pensacola" and "New Orleans" suffered heavy damage, and yellow flames burned on the warships, and thick plumes of smoke rose into the sky.

Fortunately, the enemy turned its attention to those aircraft carriers, otherwise these weakly defended heavy cruisers would not have escaped their fate.

The surrounding sea was blazing, and there was a chaotic shouting everywhere.

God forbid, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, help the Americans to extinguish the skyrocketing fires on the warships. (To be continued.) )