At the same time that the first Eagle dropped its bomb, almost all the Hawks in the sky followed closely to their respective targets, like a group of predatory golden eagles, dropping bombs one after another on the battleships below, and almost all of these planes targeted the capital ships, and even Marshal Fisher's Britannia became the target of six bombers. Looking at the bombers that were almost vertical from the sky, the British sailors screamed and shot wildly, and their efforts paid off, an Eagle was shot down with an anti-aircraft machine gun by the cruiser responsible for protecting it, but the problem was that the Eagle with a blazing body immediately rammed the light cruiser with planes and bombs.

Then, in the flames of the explosion, this battleship, which had a displacement of less than 5,000 tons, actually gave birth to a terrible ammunition detonation, not only blowing itself into two parts, but also causing heavy casualties to the Britannia, which was less than a hundred meters away.

At the same time, the other two bombers dropped bombs on the Britannia, one of which exploded on the sea less than ten meters away, and the other smashed directly into the stern deck, and then swept around with a huge explosion force, in the impact of the explosion, the oil pipeline of a diesel engine broke, and the Britannia, which was originally racing at 27 knots, immediately slowed down, and at the same time, the leaked diesel fuel caused a fire, and those damaged pipes could only brave the flames to desperately extinguish, and the whole ship was in chaos.

"Marshal, you'd better be prepared to change ships." Betty, who had gone to check on the situation, walked up to Marshal Fisher with an oily face and said.

"There is no need, this is the flagship, and I am the commander, I will live and die with it." Fisher said lightly, although it sounds very heroic and noble, but the helpless pathos is also difficult to hide, this admiral who can almost be said to have single-handedly created the world's largest perfect battlefleet, has understood at this time. The era of battleships is over. In just a few minutes, all 12 capital ships at sea were shot, the Lone Pull hit six bombs in a very short time, and the fire caused by the diesel leakage almost engulfed the battleship with a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, and its end was already doomed.

And so far, there are only three bombers shot down, and he will not think that these three bombers will be worth more than 30,000 pounds when he kills them, and the value of the Lone Jack is 2.5 million pounds, which is completely a battle of unequal value, as the former First Sea Lord. He knew very well what the real war was about.

"The era of battleships has passed, the future belongs to the sky, our old friend laid out a big game, when we cheered his diesel engine and perfect battleship to let us say goodbye to the age of steam, who would have guessed that he would spend twenty years weaving a lie?" He said with a wry smile.

"What kind of plane is that?" General Betty didn't have much feelings, his status was too low, he was not qualified to associate with Emperor Yang, and Fisher, an old friend who had been friends with Yang Feng for more than ten years, was not at the same level. He noticed that at this time a second group of bombers appeared in the sky.

"What's down there?" He held the binoculars and looked at the hundred Swordfish that began to descend in height, and suddenly as if he had been stepped on by the tail, he ignored the fleet commander next to him and picked up the phone and screamed: "Inform the ships, don't let the enemy aircraft approach, it's a torpedo attack plane!" ”

By this time, however, the first Swordfish had already pounced on the battleship Ireland against the sea. Previously, the battleship had already received two bombs, but fortunately, it was also of the Edward VII class, and its protection performance was still good, but it was only slightly damaged, and at this time all the anti-aircraft fire was blocking the four bombers overhead. Those anti-aircraft gunners didn't notice the sudden extra small planes on the sea two kilometers away, and by the time the Swordfish quickly adjusted its firepower, the other side had already rushed to a distance of less than 1.5 kilometers.

At the same time that the British naval guns opened fire. The raiding Swordfish quickly dropped the torpedo, the steam gas torpedo dragged an obvious track under the clear sea water and went straight to the Irish, the sailors on the Irish were stupid, they didn't expect that the plane was carrying a torpedo, including the captain in the command room was a beat slower, and when he came to his senses and roared hoarsely at the helmsman to turn the rudder, the forty-knot-high torpedo was hitting the waterline of the ship, and the explosive power of one hundred and seventy kilograms of antimony and antimony instantly tore a big hole more than twenty meters long under the waterline, The sea began to pour in like crazy.

At the same time, two other Swordfish also dropped torpedoes on it, although one was blocked by a destroyer who gave up its life, but the remaining one hit almost the same position as the first, and the explosion at a depth of four meters made the sea water the most terrifying weapon, and the impact of water pressure easily doubled the rift, and the Irish began to sink in a very short time.

Of course, it was not the most unlucky, the most unlucky was a British light cruiser, the cruiser that protected the battleship Africa was thrown directly from the sea by the force of a torpedo explosion, and then fell down before the hole formed by the explosion below was filled by the seawater, the front and rear ends were supported by the buoyancy of the sea, but the middle part was suspended, and the weight of thousands of tons became the deadliest killer at this time, and the battleship more than a hundred meters long was instantly broken.

With the addition of these torpedo attack planes, this sea and air war has entered the gao tide, overhead are dive bombs or strafing bombers, the sea surface is low-altitude attack torpedo planes, in the sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire and the screams of the Allied sailors, the piercing whistling of bombs and the huge explosion of torpedoes continue to sound, one after another battleships slowly sink with flames, and columns of smoke rise into the sky under the sun.

"Marshal, is it time to think about retreating?" Betty said that the Britannia's fire had been contained, but it had lost a third of its sailing, and that two of its main guns were unusable, which should have been extremely lucky, otherwise the flagship would have been turned into a torch like the Lone Pull.

"Retreat? Will we be able to outrun these two-hundred-knot bombers? Fisher said with a wry smile.

"But if we don't retreat, once their main fleet is encircled, we have no hope, in this state the fleet will not be able to fight, and it will be night in four hours, and it will be impossible for their bombers to attack at night, and we will have one night to escape." Betty said.

Fisher was shocked, he patronized these bombers, forgetting that there was a battlefleet nearby that was not inferior to him in any way, and at this time the Lone Pull and the Irish were completely hopeless, and the Africa was directly blown into torches by six torpedoes, and the remaining nine capital ships were all injured, and there was no hope for the decisive battle of the battleships, not to mention that these planes would fly over and bomb again after refueling and reloading, and when the time came, they would attack at the same time in the sky and the sea, His fleet, which carried all the hopes of the Entente, was probably the only way to annihilate it.

"Retreat, retreat immediately!" He commanded without hesitation.

At this time, the air raid was almost coming to an end, after all, those Eagle fighter-bombers had a maximum of a 250-kilogram bomb, which was a huge gap with those large dive bombers in World War II, not to mention the Swordfish, but just this round of air raids caused the three battleships of the Allied Combined Fleet to be completely destroyed, the Irish was basically about to sink, the sailors on the Lone and the Africa had already begun to abandon the ship, and there was also a heavy cruiser, and four light cruisers were sunk, As for the wounded, there are even more, and their own losses are only ten carrier-based aircraft, which can be said to be negligible.

Just as the Combined Fleet below turned around and prepared to flee, the carrier-based aircraft group in the sky also began to return to the air, and they needed to go back to refuel and reload before conducting a second round of air strikes.

Fisher left behind all the battleships that had no hope, and then led his fleet to turn around to the northeast, of course, not to return to Anmarísmo Sanstrijori, there was no point in going back there, he could only sit and wait, his goal was to return directly to the British mainland, but unfortunately at the same time Yang Yonglin also got the news that he had escaped, and the fleet that was in full navigation turned again, and the two Hongwu-class battle cruisers left the slightly slower battlefleet, and raised the voyage to the limit of thirty-five knots directly to the combined fleet, At the same time, the four Hongwu-class battle cruisers responsible for escorting the aircraft carrier formation also left the equally slower aircraft carriers and rushed straight to the combined fleet.

The second ship of Dingzhen began to recover carrier-based aircraft under the escort of a group of cruisers and destroyers, and at the same time refueled and reloaded them, as for the loss, it is easy to take the spare supplement, the Eagle and the Swordfish have twenty supplements each, and the original Essex class of the Dingyuan-class aircraft carrier can even carry more than a hundred large carrier-based aircraft in World War II, not to mention these Hawks and small Swordfish, which is also the reason why Emperor Yang did not equip them with larger aircraft, what he needs most now is quantity.

Just when the carrier-based aircraft took off again in Dingzhen, Yang Yonglin had already caught up with Fisher's fleet, and the dense light spot on the radar display screen of the Yuanjia, the flagship of the American Task Force, which was soaring at 35 knots, was getting closer and closer, and according to calculations, it was about to enter the range of 30 kilometers of the 280 main gun.

"Prepare to fire, aim for the biggest one!" As his order was given, the parameters obtained by the radar began to be fed into the ballistic computer of the firing director, and then the calculated numbers were transmitted to the turrets in the form of an electric current, and as the turrets rotated and the barrels were raised, the eighteen barrels of the six triple 280 main guns of the Motogari and its sister ship, the Chang'an, were all directed towards Fisher's flagship, the Britannia. (To be continued!)

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