Hannah, who knew that the French and herself were not of the same heart, was also happy to see the British Navy and the French ** dog eat dog. Although she had set up surveillance submarines around the Strait of Gibraltar early in the morning, only to ascertain the movements of the British navy so that it could ambush them on the way home, she did not want to warn the French in time, but sat idly by and watched the destruction of the French fleet.

At 4:30 a.m. on 28 July, about 180 kilometers from Millsbeek, the aircraft carriers Brilliant and Dreadnought were heading against the wind, and their speed was accelerated to 30 knots.

The design capacity of the Tejas class aircraft carrier is about 43 aircraft, and in order to ensure the maximum attack effect, the British also used deck mooring to increase the aircraft capacity, and now the aircraft capacity of each aircraft carrier has been forcibly overloaded to 60 aircraft.

At 4:20 a.m., the first wave of 40 planes from the two aircraft carriers was released, and all of them were the slowest Swordfish attack planes.

At 4:50 a.m., the second wave of forty planes was released on its heels, and this wave was all pipe-nosed swallow fighter-bombers. Because the latter was faster than the former, and the former deliberately slowed down, both waves of aircraft reached the skies over Millsbeek Harbor almost simultaneously.

The French garrisons in the North 8 Africa did not react to the British naval raid - the French navy was all focused on the east, guarding against the Italian navy that might be "joking" on them. After the French campaign, the Italians, another enemy of the French, were very dishonest and wanted to stab the French again, but fortunately, under Hitler's stern warning, Mussolini did not take action.

Due to the relationship between the two former allies of Britain and France. The French were not very wary of the British, who were free to move here. Due to the previous Anglo-French-Anglo-French alliance, the British side is also clear about the deployment of the French in Millsbeek, and more importantly, the radar station arranged here is also maintained by British technicians.

July 28th. A radar station at Millsbick that the French army had set up to monitor the western survey had suddenly "malfunctioned" the night before, and had not resumed work until dawn. The reason was that the British technicians who were maintaining at that time replied that they would come to repair it in the morning, and in the middle of the night, the French on duty at that time were also "derelict in their duties".

The French army had just been defeated, and the forces of Darlan, which was now struggling in North Africa, had not yet shaken off the shadow of defeat from top to bottom, and the soldiers were demoralized and had no fighting spirit. It is also more irresponsible when it comes to doing things. Even if technicians had come to repair it that night, it would have been impossible for the radar station to resume its work, as they had deliberately broken it by the British technicians who had helped maintain it.

Cunningham's sneak attack was very successful.

At 5:45 a.m., when Admiral Saul, the French commander-in-chief who was living on the shore, was awakened by the sound of a violent explosion, the first and second waves of attack planes released by the British were violently bombarding his fleet.

At this time, the officers and men of the French Navy, whether on the shore or on the ship, were still asleep. In the face of the British plane that suddenly flew into the port and stopped the sky, there was no power to resist at all.

In just ten minutes. Eighty planes in turn dropped dozens of specially made armor-piercing bombs and a small number of aerial torpedoes on the five French capital ships anchored in the harbor. Although none of the planes dispatched by the British were professional dive bombers, the French fleet at this time was a dead target anchored in the harbor and could not move, and even the anti-aircraft weapons on the ship and the surrounding anti-aircraft array were almost unmanned at this time, and the attacking British planes could boldly concentrate all their attention on lowering the nose, diving, and dropping bombs.

Three Brittany-class battleships. The battleship Brittany swallowed three bombs in five minutes, and four other rounds missed, one of which penetrated the power compartment and exploded, destroying half of the boiler and one turbine, and another armor-piercing bomb dropped by the Tubenose Swallow pierced the No. 1 turret and exploded inside. Scrapped the turret entirely.

One of the four missiles that was nearly missed exploded in water less than two meters away from the left side of the ship's hull, and the resulting water pressure tore the ship through a huge crack 17 meters long underwater, triggering countless water ingress. Thankfully, the remaining three near-miss bullets all landed on its right side, also bringing a lot of water ingress. Due to the "close balance" of water on the left and right sides, it should eventually sink to the bottom of the mooring.

Before it sank, the two tugboats and patrol boats on the side worked hard to tow and salvage, and finally succeeded in towing it to a shallow water only nine meters deep and successfully beached. At the time of the submersion, the deck of the ship was less than a meter from the surface of the water.

The battleship Lorraine was hit by two bombs in the bow and amidships, three shots were missed, and the hull of the ship was tilted 15 degrees to the left.

The most unfortunate thing is the Proswan. Although the ship only ate two aerial bombs, one of the aerial bombs hit the ammunition depot and caused a martyrdom, and the ship was blown up into two loads and sank to the bottom. Due to the deep water level at the anchorage, the ship had more than 700 sailors on duty at that time, and because of the sudden outbreak of the battle, most of the people were still sleeping when it was bombed, and because it sank too quickly after an air raid, only 34 people were rescued afterwards.

The old battleship Oceano, which was directly hit by three aerial bombs, missed nearly two, and was forced to run aground on the beach in a later air raid. The most unfortunate of all was the only battlecruiser in the French Navy, the Strasbourg, which was the only large battleship of the French capital ships anchored in the harbor that did not have anti-torpedo nets attached to it, mainly because it had just arrived from the French port of Toulon yesterday, and the sailors did not immediately attach anti-torpedo nets for lazy reasons. This information was quickly telegraphed to the Cunningham fleet last night.

After receiving this information, eight of the planes of the British sortie carried aviation torpedoes specifically against him. At that time, the eight Swordfish attack planes flew to an altitude of less than 20 meters and dropped aerial torpedoes at a distance of less than 500 meters; except for one torpedo that fell headlong into the mud at the bottom of the water, five of the remaining seven were hit by the target, and the ship held out on the water for 40 minutes before finally capsizing and sinking into the harbor.

The British Navy dispatched only two waves of eighty planes to almost cripple the French capital ships in the harbor, and after completing the air raid mission, these British planes strafed the nearby French airfield. Due to the previous Anglo-French alliance, the British knew the location of the local French airfield, and most of the forty French planes parked nearby were handed over to Darlan by Hannah "kindly", and as a result, thirty of these planes were destroyed on the ground in the first round of air raids.

At 5:25 a.m., after the first and second waves of attack aircraft had withdrawn, the British planes of the third wave again flew over Millsbeek, and they dropped more bombs on the remaining three French battleships, which were scarred on the surface of the Zài. The Brittany and Lorraine swallowed three and four more bombs respectively, and the Ocean also ate two bombs, and the three ships were blown up from the inside out. All three ships were severely damaged.

At this time, the French troops in the harbor had already reacted, and during the air attack, three British aircraft were shot down by ground anti-aircraft fire, and one was shot down by French P40 fighters taking off from the local airfield. And the accompanying Sea Spitfire fighters also shot down two French aircraft.

In just one round of attacks, the Cunningham destroyed the capital ships of the French battleships in the harbor with two dead and three disabled, and he lost only four planes in total.

The biggest misfortune of the French is that they were in a state of "alliance" with the British, and there was too much support from the "Free French Movement" in the new French government. At this time, the Italians, who had already started a war with Britain and France, were forced to maintain strict neutrality because of German pressure, and the British navy was not under much pressure in the Mediterranean.

"Either you don't do it, or you have to do it thoroughly!"

Although he was extremely disgusted by the attack on the French navy, Canning himself made a clear distinction between personal feelings and orders from his superiors. After receiving all the planes released, the British planes, after reloading and resupplying, soon launched a second round of attacks.

At half past nine o'clock in the morning, the remaining battleships of the French Navy, which had run aground, were again subjected to the inhumane "whipping corpses" of the British naval aviation. The three battleships that were heavily damaged were each eaten with a different number of bombs, and the three ships were full of holes and miserable holes, and the French sailors who were rescuing the damaged ones at that time suffered heavy casualties in the air raid. One of the aerial bombs hit the ammunition depot of the battleship Ocean, causing a martyrdom, and although the battleship did not sink on the bottom beach, the damage caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot still turned the battleship into a pile of scrap metal exposed on the sea. The two battleships, the Lorraine and the Britannia, including the previous round of attacks, were directly hit by ten and twelve shells respectively, in addition to a large number of underwater damage from close misses. The magnitude of the damage has also reached the stage of "waste work".

A telegram sent to Cunningham by the returning British pilots reads:

"We have emasculated the French fleet!"

However, in the second round of attacks, because the French army had certain preparations, the British lost eight planes in this wave of attacks, and the remaining eight fighters of the French ** were also shot down and destroyed in this attack. Two British pilots who parachuted were torn to pieces in the air by angry French ground anti-aircraft artillery fire, and two unlucky pilots were brutally beaten by the French sergeants who rounded up during the landing, and were almost shot dead on the spot.

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