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"Like a goshawk hunting a hare, my cāo column swooped down at a 70-degree angle, and the anti-aircraft shells fired from the British battleship kept chasing my tail, which gave me the illusion that the plane had lost control and crashed. However, there were no other thoughts in my mind, and my eyes were fixed on the slender figure of the growing ship in the sea below: even though it was sailing at full speed on the surface, I kept it within the hit zone. When it was only 400 meters away from me, I did not hesitate to press the bomb-dropping button while slamming into the plane to climb back up. When the uncomfortable feeling of overweight disappeared, a deafening loud sound suddenly poured into my ears; Khanov, the machine gunner sitting behind me, cheered, and then I knew that I had hit the enemy ship! Rudel, the German Stuka bomber pilot, recalled the situation after the battle.

At 8:38 a.m., the first aerial bomb exploded on the stern deck of the Fury. There was a terrifying sound on the surface of the sea, like a meteorite hitting the ground, and you could hear it clearly even from dozens of kilometers away. A cloud of terrifying red light then rose from the tail of the Fury, and within seconds, it rose hundreds of meters into the air along with various debris fragments; The raging flames rushed and roared, and the instant encouragement swept through, until the British soldiers got up. The entire second half of the aircraft carrier was in a sea of fire!

Pitch black smoke billowed up. Xiong Hao's fierce flames burned into the air. Under the thunderous blow of this aerial bomb with a loading factor of up to 60%. The Fury was washed by 10 15-inch high-explosive shells in an instant; Countless cabins and equipment were turned into debris and fragments burst out inch by inch, and nearly 100 sailors flew with severed limbs, blood rain sprayed, and the death was unbearable. Soon, a catastrophic situation appeared on the Fury: no matter how the conning tower was contacted, the stern steering engine room surrounded by monstrous flames did not respond at all, and the course of the entire aircraft carrier lost control, and could only involuntarily turn in a circle on the sea.

See this. The German torpedo planes in charge of besieging the Fury approached it like sharks smelling blood. In the midst of the desperate anti-aircraft fire of the British auxiliary warships, a German torpedo plane was finally hit and caught fire, tumbling and crashing into the sea. However, more torpedo planes broke through their interception and dropped their 450 mm torpedoes at a low altitude of 2 kilometers from the carrier. White lines appear on the surface of the waves, and their speeds of more than 40 knots are like sailfish striving to be the first; The British sailor's face turned pale as he watched as the sickles representing death approached him rapidly, and his limbs and bodies were cold; The slightly smarter guy had already grabbed the lifebuoy and jumped into the waves without hesitation.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "There was a huge thunderstorm, a huge wave rushed into the sky, and the two sides of the Fury were hit by five torpedoes at the same time; The surging waves swept through its deck like madness, sweeping countless sailors into the sea. The torrent of sea water is unstoppable. In just two minutes, all of the Fury's underwater chambers were flooded, and the Fury was like a duck cast in lead. Dramatically sinking into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than five minutes, the ship with a standard displacement of 23,000 tons completely disappeared from the sea, sinking so fast that the fire on the aft deck also had a violent interaction with the sea water, stirring up a large white cloud!

The Brave and Glorious simply had no time to grieve over the sinking of the "sister-sama", as they were also under siege by a group of German attack aircraft. At 8:48 a.m., before the Fury had completely sunk, a 1,000kg bomb hit the amidship of the Brave; The earth-shattering explosion nearly swept its entire hangar into the air, and 16 Swordfish torpedo planes and hundreds of officers and men were engulfed in the heat and flames. Ten minutes later, two more bombs hit the deck one after the other, turning the entire upper part of the aircraft carrier into a sea of fire; The two near-misses caused the hull of the Brave to crack, and a large amount of seawater poured into the generator room and engine room, causing the aircraft carrier's speed to drop sharply. Finally, two torpedoes fired by German torpedo engines dealt the final blow to the burning float, and the ship capsized to port side in a devastating fire and sank completely into the sea at 8:51.

The situation of the Glory was the most tragic. A bomb dropped at 60 degrees bypassed the deck and flew directly into the hangar from the side of the ship; The entire upper area of the aircraft carrier burst into flames like a balloon that had been blown up, and all kinds of steel, wood chips, and the broken wreckage of the aircraft flew through the sky like a storm. Due to the fact that it exploded inside the hull, the damage caused by this bomb was undoubtedly several times greater than the previous explosion on deck. The unparalleled heat shock wave raged through the hull, quickly igniting the jet fuel carried on board the aircraft carrier and eventually causing the damage to completely lose control. At 8:56 a.m., the flames spread to the torpedo bay of the aircraft, causing a catastrophic detonation, and the entire aircraft carrier twisted and shattered like a paper model in the hands of a naughty boy, and finally broke into three pieces and sank.

Looking at the aircraft carriers that sank one after another under the attack of enemy aircraft, Holan standing in the tower of the Tiger Battle Patrol was stunned; He rubbed his eyes over and over again with his stiff hands to determine if he was hallucinating, but the empty sea and the whizzing warplanes made it so real that he could no longer see what he had seen 20 minutes ago. In fact, even the Tiger on which Holland himself was flying had already been hit by a near-miss bomb and a direct hit by German bombers: the former caused 600 tons of seawater to pour into the bow, and the latter blew the starboard side of the Tiger into a hell of broken steel armor and rolled metal. When the bombshell exploded, the huge shock almost sent Holland into the air; And the more than 70 casualties suffered by the battleship under this blow made him feel an unprecedented sense of fear!

"Enemy planes! German torpedo machine spotted on the starboard side! Just as Holland was in the midst of a nightmare, a heart-rending scream suddenly came from outside the command tower. Huo Lan's heart was suddenly shocked, and he turned his head to look, only to see that five gray fighters had appeared at a low altitude less than 4 kilometers away from him, and they were flying towards him rapidly. The captain of the ship, Colonel Bauer, had just given the order to intercept the microphone, and his body was shaking; Of the three 8-pack 40-mm ping-pong guns equipped on the starboard side of the Tiger, two of them have already been destroyed by bomb attacks before the Germans, and the firepower of one anti-aircraft position alone is no longer able to intercept these demonic torpedo planes!

The aerial torpedo that jumped into the sea returned to the depth after sneaking for some distance, and galloped towards the Tiger at a speed of more than 20 meters per second. Although the torpedoes were far less powerful than their submarine and destroyer counterparts due to the limited load of the aircraft, no commander was willing to engage these underwater demomen head-on. Once the hit position is unfavorable or the damage management is improper, the battleship is very likely to be broken by a thunderbolt or even sunk!

In the mournful sound of the alarm bell, the slender body of the Tiger began to turn sharply to the right, and a large splash of water was stirred up at the bow of the ship, as if a waterfall was hanging in the air. The British officers in the command tower all crossed their chests with their hands on their faces nervously, praying that God would bless them from the roaring demons; However, because the German torpedo planes were so close to each other, the British battleships had only a minute and a half to maneuver, which made it almost impossible for the Tiger to remain in full force during the attack. After struggling to avoid three torpedoes, the Tiger's slender hull was cornered, and with a shaking, deafening roar, a column of water that exceeded the height of its mast suddenly rose on its side like a white dragon going out to sea!

As an old ship that has been in service for more than 20 years, the underwater defense of the Tiger has always been its weak shortcoming; Although the underwater protrusion and the longitudinal partition of mine protection have been added in the large-scale refit, the original layout and structure are no longer changeable, and there is still a big gap between its mine protection capability and that of the new capital ships. The explosion of 250 kg of TNT equivalent exploded the outer hull and tore apart the inner partition, and a large amount of seawater rushed down the gap, quickly causing more than 2,000 tons of water to enter and a 7-degree right tilt. Two boiler compartments were flooded, and the speed of the battleship dropped sharply from 30 knots to below 25 knots; Despite the best efforts of the British soldiers to save the soldiers, the situation was still very serious.

"Quick, send a telegram to the George V, we were attacked by a large number of German planes 20 minutes ago, and 3 aircraft carriers have been sunk, so let this team focus on preventing German air strikes!" After hearing the report from the damage management department, Huo Lan suddenly reacted and yelled at the adjutant beside him. The blow he had suffered today was far beyond his knowledge, and the only way to remedy it now was to warn his main fleet of the totally unexpected situation.

The ravages of German aircraft continued. With the sinking of British aircraft carriers one after another, they focused all their efforts on these two battle cruisers that were still scurrying all over the sea; One bombshell after another roared and fell, like meteors, whether it crashed into the sea or hit the target directly, its roaring and angry momentum can only be described as earth-shattering. Within ten minutes, the Tiger was hit by 2 more bombs and 1 torpedo, and its speed dropped to 19 knots; The smoke from the fire on the ship rose 200 meters high, and it could be clearly seen even from 50 kilometers away! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)

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