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However, in this way, when the German planes changed their playing style, they could easily bomb a British warship and immediately pounce on another ship that was very close, saving time in the battle, which meant a reduction in losses, and more importantly, the altitude of the German aircraft was very low (but this tactic was not specifically practiced, and it was enough to prove that the average level of pilots in the Luftwaffe was the first [only for now]). The close proximity of the British warships caused the anti-aircraft guns on their ships, especially the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, to be restrained when they opened fire, and if they were not careful, they would accidentally injure friendly ships, you must know that these warships are all thin-armored light warships, even anti-aircraft shells can cause a lot of trauma to the hull

In the end, the Luftwaffe aviation regiment was shot down by only 11 planes, and all the remaining seven British light warships were sunk, while the Duke of York, which had long lost its ability to resist and was already as slow as a snail, and could not escape, tragically chose to sink itself, and the British forward fleet was completely wiped out. The only good thing was that this time there was a heavy cruiser Admiral Hippel, who had almost completely lost its combat capability, but was still barely able to sail, and the death rate of British officers and sailors was not as terrible as in the previous naval battles

This time. After deducting the 10 planes that were seriously injured and had to fly back to the airport for repairs (including those injured in the previous battles, when the British anti-aircraft fire was still not weak, they did not dare to leave the team easily, so they could only hold on, and 5 of them crashed midway [counted in the downed data]. This aviation regiment also has 54 aircraft available, 48 of which are also capable of attacking ships. This number would not pose much threat to the more powerful British rearguard fleet using traditional tactics, but switching to new tactics would have been enough to provide strong air support to the Bismarck and the Shane sisters.

And it's worth mentioning. After confirming that the air regiment was certain to win, Admiral Jung resolutely ordered the battleship Tirpitz to sail to the main battlefield at full speed to support the Bismarck and the Scharn sisters, even though the Tirpitz failed to hit a single main gun shell. As long as it can attract the fire of some enemy ships. It can increase the chances of victory for the German Navy in this battle. Anyway, now the Tirpitz just can't attack, but the defense is still very strong, and it's still qualified to be a meat shield

It was learned that the forward fleet was completely annihilated by the indiscriminate bombardment of German aircraft. The commander of the British fleet was naturally heartbroken, but he still stubbornly believed that his choice was not wrong, and now that the battleship King George V had converged with the rearguard fleet, as long as he could sink the Bismarck without heavy damage on the premise that his two battleships could not be seriously damaged, this naval battle was not lost, if he could turn back and kill the half-crippled Tirpitz at that time, even if the light warships lost more, this battle would be a big victory, after all, the total number of British light warships was too much, 10 for 1 capital ship is worth it. The British have always been the main criterion for victory or defeat in battle, and the British navy was obviously larger in the Battle of Jutland in World War I, but they considered themselves victors, and the course of the war later proved this

However, the destruction of the forward fleet still caused a lot of psychological pressure on the British vice admiral, and in order to guard against the German planes, he did not let the 11 light warships rush out of the queue to close the enemy ships and fire torpedoes to disrupt the opponent's formation, but asked them to put all their attention on air defense. However, the traditional anti-aircraft formation did not seem to work very well in the face of the low-altitude bombing tactics of the German air group, and the German air regiment sent two destroyers adjacent to the periphery to the bottom of the sea at the cost of only four aircraft being shot down

Unlike in the previous battles, when the bombing started with a light patrol with strong air defense, this time the commander of the aviation regiment chose to start with the destroyer with the weakest single air defense ability, because this time their purpose was not to completely destroy the enemy fleet by relying only on their own Liliang, but only to tear a hole in the enemy's tight formation in order to rush in and bomb the two battleships. In the previous battle, the two warships on their side had little combat power left, so the aviation regiment had to shoulder the heavy responsibility, and now, as long as the two British battleships were destroyed, with the strength of the battleship Bismarck and the Shane sisters, the remaining British warships could not compete with them at all, and with them, none of these British warships could try to escape

It seemed that the two battleships Rodney, each protected by a light cruiser, were obviously more difficult to deal with, so the commander of the aviation regiment immediately ordered a concentrated attack on the battleship King George V, which was protected by only two destroyers at this time, but the 48 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the battleship King George V cost the aviation regiment a considerable price, and the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the two nearby air defense destroyers also gave it strong support.

As a result, in just a moment's work, the aviation regiment lost 10 aircraft, and even the regiment commander's plane was damaged, but fortunately it was missed, which made him frown, it was obvious that the loss rate of low-altitude bombing was smaller than that of high-altitude dive bombing, but when encountering this kind of large battleship with a large number of small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, it would still want to be painful, but this set of tactics is still very rudimentary, and there is huge room for improvement, but these need to be slowly summarized after the end of this battle

Although the losses were not small, the sacrifices of these German pilots were not in vain, even though it was almost impossible for high-explosive bombs to directly sink the super-defended King George V-class battleship, but after the German aircraft fleet raged, the superstructure of the King George V battleship had been blown up beyond recognition, and almost all of the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns that posed the greatest threat to German aircraft were blown up, and most of the secondary guns and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the ship were also ineffective.

After the air defense of the King George V was greatly weakened, the 6 torpedo planes in the group immediately flew to the battleship King George V to try to launch aviation torpedoes, although the two nearby destroyers concentrated all the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns regardless of their own safety and fired fiercely at the 6 torpedo planes, but after all, the distance was a little farther, and 2 of them successfully dropped the torpedoes, because the oxygen torpedo track was almost unrecognizable, no matter how good the British Navy officers and men Jishu was, they could not avoid it in time, As a result, one of the torpedoes struck the engine of the battleship King George V, where the main engine of the turbine was connected to the main shaft of the propeller, and the explosion and shock wave caused by the torpedo caused a large amount of water to flood the ship's hull and destroy the rudder, destroying its excellent maneuverability, which was not much inferior to that of the Bismarck-class battleships (to be continued......