The wind howled, the waves danced, and the gray-black clouds hung heavily over the sea, and thunder rumbled. The fiery ruins of several large castles slowly sank in the fierce explosions that burst into explosions, and a short shower of steel and debris fell in the sky, and a large splash of water on the surface of the sea was like a torrential rain. Soon, however, the sea fell silent again as the giant floaters submerged into the water, with the exception of a few lucky ones who swayed through the waves and made a splash to catch the attention of rescuers.

"The order was given to the detachments to retract their formations and restore their normal cruising arrays with battleships as the core." Scheer exhaled and spoke in a relaxed tone. Under the bombardment of their own large-caliber naval guns, the weakly armored US aircraft carriers were almost vulnerable, and in less than 20 minutes, these evil heretics were blown into fragments of submarine reefs. Such a victory also made Scheer, who was born in the traditional navy, feel a bad breath in his heart, and he has been ridden by those heretical aircraft carriers for many years, and now the battleship has also ushered in a gorgeous counterattack!

At present, the US fleet has sunk four large aircraft carriers, and has also taken on two fast battleships, considering the innocuous damage suffered by his own fleet, Schell is undoubtedly convinced that he has won this naval battle -- after all, in terms of numbers and performance, his fleet has an overwhelming advantage, and it is obvious that it has the great power to use two Wilhelm the Great-class and five Bismarck-class battleships to fight against the enemy's three battleships. This kind of crushing in strength is also the ideal situation that the war is most happy to see. In fact, with the exception of the Manstein Plan, which can be counted on a single hand, wars since the beginning of the industrial era have relied on hard power to determine victory or defeat. Even Germany fought alone in the last great war of the three great powers of Britain, France and Russia. It is also closely related to Germany's surging industry, which produces more steel than Britain, France and Russia combined.

With the order of Scheer given. This shelling fleet began to re-assemble its formations; In the previous battle, in order to prevent the torpedo attack launched by the American destroyers on their own battleships, the German auxiliary ships were also mixed up with the other side, and at this moment they were already scattered and floating all over the sea due to various maneuvers. Scheer had no intention of killing the remnants of the American ships that had fled in a hurry: the destroyers were no slower than their own counterparts, and the capital ships could not catch up. Rather than expend too much energy to destroy these small ships, it is better to assemble a fleet in case of another battle. Scheer was clearly more concerned about the location of the other enemy fleet than the fleet that had already lost its main force. If he can destroy another U.S. aircraft carrier fleet, he will not only be able to control the Atlantic sea power and battleships with glorious traditions, but also write an immortal poem in his own history to eliminate heresy.

"Marshal, we have intercepted a telegram that the US fleet with 5 aircraft carriers has appeared in the sea area of the 14th, heading north-northwest, at a speed of 20 knots, and 270 nautical miles away from us!" After a short while, an adjutant quickly walked into the navigation room. Reported loudly to Scheer. The wrinkled veteran on his forehead bloomed with a keen gaze that did not match his age, and immediately grabbed the compass ruler and red and blue pencil on the table for nervous stakeout calculations; After receiving reports of battle damage and fuel surplus from various detachments. Scheer gave the corresponding instructions with great skill. The destroyers and cruisers either retreated first or continued to follow, and the speed and course of the fleet were maintained in such a good condition that they would not respond greatly to the maneuvers of the opposing side.

This time, however, Scheer's wish to make the battleship new in its own destiny was in vain. In the battle just now, the hearty annihilation he achieved against the US aircraft carriers was due to many preconditions: not only were the US aircraft carriers unable to run at high speed due to injuries, but the smoke used to save their lives was also used up in the previous battles, and more importantly, when they were evading the attack of the German air force, they collided with the opponent's heavy artillery cluster in the wind and rain area, and they failed to obtain any long-range warning in advance, which was taken by Scheer's battlefleet. If one of these three factors is not met, the battleship will not be able to annihilate the barbarians; And this is also a core reason why this kind of fusion of art and force, the largest and most complex warplane built by mankind, is helplessly and sadly replaced by aircraft carriers. The slow-paced naval battles in 2D mode are no longer in keeping with the rapid development of the technology of the times, and the victory of the Scheer fleet is a great luck that is hard to come by.

Another U.S. aircraft carrier group was spotted by the 8th Air Combat Group under the command of Lieutenant General Hu Ge. Five Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers and seven anti-aircraft cruisers formed the core of the fleet, accompanied by two Austro-Hungarian Daun-class battleships. Like Scheer, Hugo, who had received a report of an enemy encounter with the Kars fleet, had been maneuvering since yesterday morning, and had finally determined the position of the US aircraft carrier that had launched a fierce attack on the Kars fleet with the help of a large number of aerial reconnaissance units. Ten minutes later, the attack wave composed of more than 200 fighters began to rise into the air one after another, and was completely released in the early 20 minutes: the attack planes in this group were all prepared by the German aircraft carriers at night, and after discovering the enemy aircraft carriers, they loaded bombs and torpedoes to carry out sorties. With the aeronautical advantages of carrying aircraft and large decks, the German aircraft carrier fleet had every capital to adopt such an aggressive and unrestrained strategy to deal with every naval battle; Although the Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers built during the treaty were not as complete and powerful as the Hindenburg-class, Qingying's design based on the historical Dafeng was also unmatched by the scum Essex in the offensive and defensive fields.

Since the American fleet devoted most of its forces to the attack on the Kars fleet, and for a long time remained in a state of weakness in the air, the detachment sent by the Germans to reconnoiter and guide the attack aircraft group did not meet strong resistance, and fulfilled its mission brilliantly through the constant radio signals sent by Guò. Two hours after the German fighters spotted the U.S. fleet, an overwhelming array of locusts struck the U.S. fleet. The U.S. fleet, which had just contained the first wave of attack aircraft, had only time to release a few squadrons of fighters before it was forced to use smoke again to interfere with the attack. Soon, however, a tragic situation emerged.

The three Essex-class aircraft carriers were maneuvering from another fleet, and they had quite a large stock of smoke canisters that had not been engaged yesterday, but the other two Wasp-class aircraft carriers were full of smoke and could not pull up the thick smoke that enveloped them all at the moment. The smoke raised by the escort destroyers can only form a fog wall around the aircraft carrier, interfering with the low-altitude projection of torpedo planes at a certain distance, but it is difficult to achieve the desired effect on bombers launching a dive attack from a high altitude. Looking down from the sky, the figures of the two Wasp-class aircraft carriers with a displacement of 14,000 tons were clearly visible in the smoke screen, and the German pilots, who were struggling to capture the silhouettes of those large aircraft carriers, naturally poured all their anger on them.

Amid the terrible screams of the Ju-87 bombers, the two Wasp-class aircraft carriers were transformed into a burning floating island in just 5 minutes, and there was no trace of the original deck and hull as far as the eye could see. This type of aircraft carrier was originally a low-tonnage experimental product, and the armor protection was only at the level of its own light cruisers, and a 250kg high-explosive bomb could cause it a heavy blow, and the current bombshells raining down were directly issued the final verdict. Soon, the two aircraft carriers completed their service life and broke off one after another and sank into the sea. And even the three large aircraft carriers hiding in the smoke could not retreat under this wave of German attacks: the hangar of the Essex was hit, and a fire burned most of the carrier-based aircraft inside. Since the aviation fuel was also ignited, the aircraft carrier would have to stay on the slipway for at least half a year, even if it could be rescued.

In the end, these German attack planes returned with the core record of sinking 2 light aircraft carriers of the enemy and suspected of sinking 2 large aircraft carriers. The US aircraft carriers, which released smoke early, not only found it difficult to discover their specific location, but it also became extremely difficult to identify the damage to their targets. The U.S. fleet, which had been attacked by a wave of onslaught, no longer dared to fight, and immediately reclaimed the planes and quickly retreated: by this time they had already learned of the tragedy of another friendly fleet by radio in Guò, and how to escape back to their home port was the core challenge they were facing with an equally crippled lineup.

In order to avoid the aerial reconnaissance of the German fleet, the American fleet with damaged ships did not choose to retreat straight to the northwest, but turned to the northeast in the depths of the ocean and tried to escape. At this time, luck was finally on the side of the Americans, and not long after their demise began, a dense cumulonimbus cloud swept in from the sky and shrouded only a few thousand meters in the air. Obscured by this thick cloud, the fighter jets flying from high altitude will almost certainly miss the fleet: because the pilot's first instinct at the sight of a large cloud is to pull up the nose and enter the air, and the winds, rains, and lightning that may lie beneath these clouds can cause fatal damage to the fragile aircraft at any time. The U.S. fleet had been in fear for several hours, and finally it had reached the dark night, and for them, the most dangerous period had passed, and the next thing was to make a big circle in the vast sea, and return south from the northern seas. (To be continued......)

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