The red sun was dazzling, the blue sky was like washing, and on the vast blue sea, the German fleet had begun to rapidly change its formation under the orders of the flagship. Ten massive armored aircraft carriers are surrounded like stars and moons, surrounded by a continuous line of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers. Due to the high speed of the fighters, which allowed them to attack at any angle, the German fleet array completely abandoned the columns of the traditional battle line duel and replaced it with a compact ring formation that could cope with Yuga in all directions. All the muzzles of the guns, including the large and medium-caliber main guns of the battleships and heavy cruisers, were raised high, ready to rain out a storm of enemy aircraft that appeared in the distant clouds.

In the command tower of the Wilhelm the Great, Scheer was watching intently at the aircraft carrier team not far away, which was still nervously recovering the planes. After nearly an hour of operation, the vast majority of the first-round attack aircraft group had landed on the ship; The number of planes hovering in the air waiting to land has been greatly reduced, and no more than sixty or seventy have been roughly counted. The aircraft carrier's deck is staggered with all types of fighters, and ground crews are trying to push them up the elevator after folding their wings and send them back into the hangar: a heavily armored hangar is undoubtedly the best place to stay compared to an open-air deck. The few remaining fighters on the aircraft carrier have all been flown and hovering over the fleet as the last line of air defense: when their large-caliber artillery disperses enemy planes with howitzers at a long distance, they will dive down from high altitudes like falcons, and try to intercept incoming American attack planes at medium and long distances.

After a short while, the roar of the main lookout suddenly sounded in the microphone, and a large black dot soon appeared at the junction of heaven and sea in the distance: albeit at a great distance. But the radar's constant tracking had allowed Scheer to determine the opposing side's camp. What Scheer didn't expect was a little unexpected. The other party found the location of his fleet so quickly. You know, in the previous time, the fleet has been implementing high-speed transfers!

"Goo...... It must have been the aviation fuel we released that exposed the trajectory of the fleet. Scheer, who was frowning and thinking hard, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and couldn't help but curse loudly for his mistakes. Although this order of his own put an end to the secondary damage caused to the aircraft carrier by those fighters who were too late to transfer to the hangar and were attacked, it also enabled the opponent's aircraft group that broke through the interception of its own fighters to quickly discover the traces of its own fleet. However, there was no time for Scheer to remorse and reflect, and his eyes flashed, and he immediately gave the order to open fire.

"Boom!" An earth-shattering roar of a tiger and a dragon roared suddenly resounded in every corner of the Wilhelm. 9 500-millimeter cannons that were like the arms of a titan and pointed straight into the sky instantly erupted with brilliant waves of red purple and magnificent light, rushing into the sky hundreds of meters away; Far away. It was as if a blazing cloud of fire was shrouded in mid-air. The 2-ton shrapnel shot out at a speed of 800m/s, and exploded in the high altitude of the clouds, and nearly 10,000 steel balls shrapnel shot in all directions like a rainstorm, forming an insurmountable barrage of death!

Accompanied by the opening of the flagship, the large-caliber guns in the German fleet suddenly launched a dragon roar aimed at dispersing the incoming American group. Suddenly, countless gray and black clouds and mist burst out around the US military planes, and the debris was like a frenzy, when even several planes fell rapidly towards the sea. In the face of this fierce barrage, the US commander had no choice but to give the order for the group to disintegrate and each to choose the target for attack. To the surprise of the US pilots, the German aircraft carrier in the distance was still carrying out the operation of recovering the aircraft. And the dozen or so planes stacked on its deck are its ideal targets!

When the scattered American attack planes began to attack the target. The last fighter unit over the German fleet also swooped down from a high altitude and engaged in a desperate struggle with the attackers. This time, they did not gain the same numerical superiority as before: the American fleet of nearly 140 aircraft that had experienced the first wave of aerial interceptions was still high, while the Germans had less than three squadrons of Ta-152s to drive. However, the German pilots soon discovered the shortcomings of these opponents, whom they had never met. Although the performance of these American fighters has been greatly improved compared with the British Hurricane, and their speed and climb are hardly weaker than their own planes, they are still tactically stuck in a V-formation of three planes, and their flexibility and reaction speed in combat are obviously different from their own long-wing two-plane formation.

More crucially, these pilots, who have been on the North American continent for a long time, are obviously rookies, and their responses in battle are too young, too simple, and sometimes even naïve. Due to the absolute attention of the decision-making level, the pilots on the German aircraft carriers have more than 300 hours of actual flight training and are also very familiar with various air combat tactics. When the German pilots avoided entanglement with the opposing fighters with a beautiful air maneuver and turned to guò dive-out tactics to hunt down the slow and weak self-defense TBD torpedo planes, the American fighter pilots who had never encountered such a situation were almost helpless!

Under the onslaught of German fighters, the slowest torpedo planes in the American fleet fell into an extremely passive situation: TBDs were constantly hit by 20 mm or 13 mm bullets in key parts, and fell into the sea with a wail. However, this was only the beginning of the catastrophe that suffered TBD. When they forcibly broke through the interception of German fighters by virtue of their numerical superiority and were preparing to launch an attack on their targets at close range, the air defense cruisers and destroyers deployed on the periphery opened heavy fire on the American planes that entered their effective range in an instant.

Completely different from the clumsy air defense capability of the German Navy in another plane, the Black Vulture Fleet in the current world has established a military construction strategy with aviation as the core early on, so that they are well aware of the strength of this force and pay special attention to the construction of their own air defense forces. At present, a large number of quadruple 40mm L57 anti-aircraft guns equipped on various warships of the German Navy have the performance of another famous Bofors cannon in time and space: its overall ammunition weight is 2.1kg, the maximum elevation angle is 90 degrees, the turret speed reaches 50 degrees per second, and the rate of fire is as high as 140 rounds per minute. Compared with the tragic hand-pulled machine, which can only fire 30 shells per minute, the effectiveness of this small-caliber anti-aircraft gun has undoubtedly been multiplied. At a distance of more than 5,000 meters, the German battleship sprayed a dense barrage, and its strike range was undoubtedly far beyond the imagination of the American pilots!

There was a sharp bang, a rain of bullets, and countless orange-red points of light jumped out of the German battleships in pieces, shooting towards the American fighters who came to charge forward like lightning. Due to the high rate of fire, the German gunners were soon surrounded by a patch of yellow-orange-orange shells. Although, theoretically, it is difficult for current shipborne anti-aircraft weapons to inflict effective strikes on aircraft, the American TBD torpedo aircraft can be counted as an exception.

In order to obtain accurate torpedo hits, American engineers have cleverly equipped this type of aircraft with a set of torpedo drop control devices: the pilot first inputs the target size, speed, distance, and course obtained by sight into this control device, and then puts the target into the scope connected to it, until it flies to the given drop point of the torpedo drop control device. However, this seemingly advanced mechanical control turned out to be a self-defeating design. In order to ensure that the number calculated by the controller is not distorted with the actual situation, the aircraft must ensure that it flies in a straight line before dropping the torpedo; In order for the torpedo to function normally after it is dropped, the speed of the aircraft must be controlled within 190 km/h and the flight altitude must be limited to about 30 meters. For a ship with weak air defense, this maneuver of the TBD is not a defect, but once faced with a warship equipped with a large number of high-velocity anti-aircraft guns, a TBD flying in a straight line at a low altitude at such a turtle-like speed is completely like suicide!

In the historical Battle of Midway, the Japanese fleet, whose air defense was still in its infancy, effectively deterred this kind of American torpedo planes that were being built behind closed doors. Now that the German fleet has been replaced with a rain of anti-aircraft fire, the fate of which can be imagined. German destroyers were armed with 12 to 16 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and cruisers had more than 40 guns, and their barrage made it impossible for TBDs to get past the mine. The American torpedo planes that dared to attack at close range were either blown up in the air or dragged into the sea with thick smoke, and those torpedoes fired at the extreme range did not pose a substantial threat to the fast German warships.

While the American torpedo planes were being violently beaten by German fighters and anti-aircraft artillery, a small number of their fighters and the vast majority of SBD dive bombers broke through the interception of German anti-aircraft fire from a high altitude and flew quickly towards the innermost battleships and aircraft carriers. Compared to the trash fish on the periphery, these big guys in the inner layer are obviously more valuable storage zài. In the face of these uninvited guests carrying deadly and dangerous goods, the anti-aircraft fire on the German capital battleship was in full swing, and its firepower was far more fierce than that of any auxiliary warship. What made Scheer's brow furrow was that these incoming American single-engine bombers seemed to have a speed even higher than their own Ju-87s, and the interception effect of their own anti-aircraft fire was not satisfactory; And perhaps because there are still a lot of planes parked on the deck, more than half of the American bombers have begun to attack their own aircraft carriers!

Moments later, a spree of SBDs swooped straight down from the sky, and although they didn't dive at the same angle as the German Ju-87, they were completely accurate thanks to a sight called the "Norton"! (To be continued......)

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