When the Fury and the Glory finally withstood the most intense bomb attack, the German torpedo planes were finally in place, and the torpedo planes in an attack formation launched a lightning strike against the British fleet from both flanks almost simultaneously, and a round torpedo was thrown into the sea, and then stabilized with the help of sea buoyancy and depth fixing equipment, and then pulled out a trail and rushed towards the target. Cross-over torpedoes are more difficult and deadly than bombs! The huge hull of the Fury was the first to receive two shots!

Cunningham felt the hull jump sharply, and a torpedo hit the middle of the Fury, and the power of the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of cyclone explosives tore through the outer 3 layers of compartments and an armored compartment, and finally blocked the aftermath of the explosion out of the core compartment under the protection of the oil reservoir and the inner mine armor, and the battleship returned to normal after a little swaying, except for a slight tilt. As Cunningham's heart slowly fell, there was another muffled thud in the front of the hull! The torpedo tore open the relatively fragile bow mine protection system of the Fury, and a large amount of seawater poured into it to flood several compartments, but the good compartment still said that the explosive damage of the torpedo was limited to a certain range, and after entering 3,000 tons of water, the left tilt of the Fury reached about 7 degrees, and it was finally stable after reverse water injection.

And the aircraft carrier Glory next to it is not so lucky, the power system is seriously damaged Glory is like a dead fish slowly sailing on the sea, as the saying goes, you will die while you are sick, the Germans implemented this principle very well, more than ten torpedo planes launched an attack at the same time, in just 8 minutes, the Glory was hit 4 torpedoes, of which 3 were hit on the port side, and 1 shot on the starboard side! The intensity of the attack, combined with the damage it began to take, made the fleet carrier completely hopeless. Before the German fleet could disperse, the aircraft carrier had sunk into the sea, and a bunch of destroyers and cruisers around it tried to rescue the people who had fallen into the water, only to be violently beaten by German planes overhead, and a heavy cruiser was sunk after being hit by 2 torpedoes and 2 bombs!

"Fortunately, the loss is not huge." When the German planes over the heads of the British in the hover dispersed. Cunningham began to count losses, and under the indiscriminate bombardment of more than a hundred German attack aircraft, the British lost one regular fleet carrier, one light fleet carrier, one heavy cruiser, three light cruisers and six destroyers. In addition, one aircraft carrier was torpedoed, and another aircraft carrier was hit by two bombs on the foredeck. At this time, Cunningham thought that the Germans had concentrated all their attack power on the British fleet, and such losses were not too much for the huge Allied fleet, at most it would only lose some skin. Overall, Cunningham was quite satisfied with Halsey's arrangement, if it weren't for seeing that the French fleet next to him had no other losses other than sinking 1 cruiser and 3 destroyers. And if the Fletcher fleet can be described as unscathed, then Cunningham will be more satisfied! Canning looked very puzzled, although there was a lot of hatred between Britain and Germany, but it would not make the Germans so worried, right? Is it really good to directly press the British for a violent beating? Cunningham, who thought he had survived the biggest crisis, began to think crankily!

But is that actually the case? Almost an hour has passed since the Allied aircraft group entered the battlefield until now, and in this time. Both sides threw away hundreds of various aircraft, and the Germans failed to make it back to at least 500 aircraft. And the Entente also threw away almost 400 planes! The largest wave of German attacks consisted of nearly 750 aircraft, and a major battle resulted in the loss of two-thirds of the attacking forces, which had never been seen in any previous air battle! Spitfire 9 is worthy of being the most powerful fighter of the Entente right now! However, with the retreat of the large Allied fleet, the Spitfire fighter group hovering over the head of the Allied fleet also ran out of fuel, and in addition to more than half of the planes damaged in the battle, the remaining planes were almost burned out of fuel, and just when the Allied countries were preparing to recover the planes. The biggest crisis is finally here! Twin-engined planes that burst in at high speed from the other direction launched the sharpest attack of the Allied naval aviation!

The Allied aircraft carriers began to enter the headwind direction to recover the aircraft, the remaining Spitfire fighters began to circle over the aviation and then fall in turn, the entire deck has been emptied, the originally tight fleet prevention and control system has also been relaxed, and the ships have begun to rescue and carry out repair work. And at this very time. The Germans' twin attack aircraft groups were dispersing the assault in squadrons. When the dense group of planes gradually dissipated from the sky, the sharpest killing move of the Allies had just arrived! The movements of the small swarms are completely obscured by the dense radar echoes of the large swarms. The British could detect the whereabouts of the other side from the radar, but they did not know at all that those were evacuated on the battlefield, those who had just arrived on the battlefield, and the massive amount of information overwhelmed the air defense command of the British. Coupled with the fact that a large number of fighters were ready to land, by the time these bombers appeared in visual range, the Allied carrier-based aircraft forces had already missed the best time to intercept!

"10 o'clock! It's a bomber! "A destroyer located in the outer ring finally found those twin-engine aircraft with lethal weapons, and the German twin-engine formation that finally found a breakthrough after wandering for a long time entered the attack position under the cover of fighters, and the number of successful aircraft in this wave of penetration was actually not much, and all twin-engine aircraft together were only more than 70. But it was this small fleet that caused the greatest loss of the Allied navy in this campaign! These aircraft, carrying expensive guided munitions, became a lingering shadow on the Entente fleets throughout the 2 war!

This time it was the American fleet that suffered, when it was found that the other side was coming at him, most of the fighters had been recovered, and the rest were ready to be recovered, and there were only two or three kittens that could be used, objectively speaking, this did provide a good opportunity for the Germans, but at the beginning Fletcher was not very worried, after all, in the battle just now, the British fleet was attacked by more planes and there was no big problem. And now that Fletcher's fleet is in good shape, it is not difficult to disintegrate the opponent's attack, at least the vast majority of American officers and men think so. However, they soon realized that something was wrong, and the planes did not lower their altitude at the end into the usual dive or lightning strike course, but continued to fly at an altitude of 5,000 meters! This made Fletcher feel a little uneasy. The other side will not simply fly over his head, and this height is beyond the effective range of most air defenses!

Soon, this dissatisfaction turned into a kind of fear, and one by one, small plane-like objects broke away from the belly of the twin-engine bomber, and the creatures spread their wings in the air and flew like gliders towards the waiting American fleet. They constantly adjusted their posture in the air, and rushed towards the American aircraft carrier formation under layers of protection as if they had eyes! "This is a German guided bomb, I always thought that only China had such a thing!" Fletcher finally knew what it was, a weapon that could be guided, and that China had used it in the Iran War. What is surprising is that the Germans actually loaded them on carrier-based aircraft!

Thousands of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers spewed metal storms at the tiny objects in the air, and even some warships began to pull out thick smoke to cover themselves. These measures had some effect, part of the guidance bombs were shot down by anti-aircraft guns, or the operators lost their target under the cover of thick smoke. But alas, after all, some guided bombs passed through the layers of interception. Then flew to the target with death and destruction!

Fletcher saw with his own eyes a 1.2-ton Fritz bomb crash into the USS Raider! THE SUPER SEMI-ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE WITH A WARHEAD WEIGHING UP TO 1 TON RELIED ON HUGE KINETIC ENERGY TO EASILY TEAR THROUGH THE ARMORED DECK OF THE RAIDER AS THICK AS 50MM, AND THEN WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN, EVEN THE THICKEST 80MM HORIZONTAL ARMOR COULD NOT BLOCK THE BOMB! Like a heavy hammer, the bomb actually penetrated several decks from the flight deck to the bottom of the hull, and with the activation of the time-delay fuse, the explosives up to more than 200 kilograms inside the bomb were ignited, and the violent explosion directly blew a huge hole in the bottom of the hull. A large amount of seawater poured into the power chamber like a fountain. Even if there is compartment protection, but under the multiple effects of high-powered bombs and powerful water pressure. The nearby boiler plant and engine room were completely destroyed, and even the keel was blown off. The Essex-class aircraft carrier was paralyzed on the surface of the sea like a giant beast with a broken backbone.

The Assault, which had plummeted in speed, became the best target, and soon, two more Fritz guided bombs hit the hapless battleship, one directly turning the hangar into a sea of fire, while the other bomb entered from the stern direction, blowing off all 4 propeller shafts of the entire battleship! Accompanied by a series of explosions inside. Nearby warships could see billowing smoke and flickering fires from the breaches. The entire battleship turned into a volcano in an instant, and in a matter of minutes, thousands of American officers and soldiers died from various causes such as fire, suffocation, and explosion!

While the Raider was still stubbornly floating on the sea, the light aircraft carrier Independence was also attacked! It had survived a fierce battle in the South Atlantic, but this time. He wasn't so lucky! Two pit viper anti-ship missiles hit it one after another, one of them hit the waterline, tearing a large hole of more than 30 square meters in the hull, while the other bomb penetrated the fragile horizontal protection of the Independence and plunged headlong into the aviation ammunition depot of the Independence, hundreds of tons of bombs and torpedoes were ignited, and in less than a minute, the American light aircraft carrier was torn to pieces by explosives inside itself, accompanied by a huge mushroom cloud rising from the sea, the Americans know, They have already lost the second aircraft carrier!

The red-eyed U.S. military began to fight back frantically, and many fighters who had entered the fuel time gave up landing and launched a decisive assault with the little fuel left in the tank, and these experienced pilots found that the Germans were moving in a straight line and at a uniform speed when using guided bombs, and this gave the Allied fighters the opportunity, they climbed frantically, and then crashed into the target with their cannons and even the plane itself, using their lives to fight for their warships. Under the attack at any cost, many guided bombs lost their targets because the carrier aircraft was destroyed, and fell on the sea in a swaying manner, blowing up huge water columns!

Although the Americans put up desperate resistance, a German twin-engine bomber eventually broke through the interception of the Americans, and they locked on the Franklin as the last target. Four guided bombs and three pit viper missiles whizzed towards the target, but the Franklin's maneuvering and defense were very strong, two bombs were hit by shrapnel in the air, spun and fell into the sea, and one Fritz bomb exploded. Another anti-ship missile flew less than 10 meters from the rear of the aircraft carrier, knocking down half of the superstructure of a cruiser next to it!

The real hit was nothing more than a pit viper anti-ship missile. Facts have proved that the power of the 500KG warhead on the pit viper missile is smaller, this missile penetrated the side of the hangar of the Franklin aircraft carrier, and the fighters inside were blown to pieces, but because there was no fuel filling and bomb hanging operation inside, although dozens of aircraft were lost, the damage to the hull was not large, just when the US officers and men on the Franklin thought they had avoided the biggest crisis, a "highly intelligent heavy anti-ship missile" Falling from the sky, it crashed into the middle and rear of the Franklin's hull almost vertically!

"It's all Spitfire!" Afterwards, an American second lieutenant who witnessed the earth-shattering blow sighed. The twin-engine bomber had already dropped the bomb, but there were two Spitfires behind it that were unwilling to give up, and the German plane saw that it could not run away, so it directly chose to break up with the other side. The bomber, which weighed more than 6 tons, and the nearly 800 kilograms of aviation fuel left in the plane, made the blow very powerful, and the position of the blow was also very good, directly avoiding the armored deck of the Franklin. The massive wreckage of the aircraft pierced the flight deck with gravitational potential energy and plunged headlong into the cabins below the waterline, before the explosion of jet fuel instantly destroyed the cabins of several decks at the stern of the hull.

What's more, this blow directly hit the Franklin's motor compartment! The fire spread along the cabin and pipelines, and at this time, because the motor compartment was destroyed, the internal damage of the Franklin was completely lost! Soon the fire spread to the power compartment, and because of the relationship between the flames and smoke, half of the gas turbines stopped.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and a Fritz bomb hit the paralyzed Franklin, which broke through the horizontal protection and fell into the boiler room, cleanly blowing up the four boilers and the two turbines next to it to pieces, so far, the Franklin can never go back!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, the running pig, and the unauthorized strong reward~~~. (To be continued......)