When Joachim landed, Captain Rudel was already waiting on the runway.

"I heard that it was the first bomb to hit the first shot?" Rudel curled the corners of his mouth, "It's amazing." ”

"This is all due to the fact that the captain usually forced us to strengthen training." Joachim replied, half-jokingly, half-earnestly - everyone knew that Rudel's brigade had the craziest training, and that last month they had lost five planes during bombing training because of the intensity of the training, the fatigue of the pilots, and the excessive number of hours the planes were running.

"Do you know what you sank?" Rudel asked, the expression on his face smiling.

"I've picked one that looks bigger, what's that, sir?"

"That's HMS Hood, the flagship of the Royal Navy." Rudel stepped forward and punched Joachim in the shoulder, "Damn you're not really peeing on the wheels of the plane, this damn shit luck!" Get ready to receive the award from Mr. Lin in person. ”

Joachim was overjoyed, his mouth grinned, revealing a mouth full of white teeth: "It's really fake, that's Hood, it looks even uglier than in the photo!" ”

Suddenly he remembered something, and hurriedly asked Rudel: "So, is my confinement ......?"

"Nope." Before Joachim could finish speaking, Rudel interrupted him, "How long should you be locked up, or how long you should be locked up, at most let the secretary prepare wine and other good food for you during the confinement meal." ”

Half of the joy on Joachim's face vanished in an instant.

But then Rudel took two cigars out of his pocket and stuffed them to Joachim: "See you like cigars very much, take them." What about your best friend? ”

Rudel's words made Joachim's smile disappear completely.

"He was shot down by the enemy Flying Warrior." Joachim turned his head to look at the two-plane formation that had just fallen on the runway, the wings and tail girders of the two fighters were full of bullet holes, "Mr. Captain, is our loss a little too great?" ”

"Didn't I say it, even if you lose the entire brigade, as long as you can sink one enemy ship, it's worth it." Rudel's face was calm—even a little indifferent—"So my biggest concern is not the losses, but whether our bombs will work against the enemy." I once asked Mr. Lin to assign some of our men to train in torpedo attacks, but Mr. Lin rejected my suggestion, believing that there was no chance for the torpedo machine to drop torpedoes. ”

"I'm afraid Mr. Lin is right." "The kind of anti-aircraft firepower that requires a torpedo machine that reduces its speed to less than 100 knots and keeps flying in a straight line at a low altitude before dropping a torpedo is simply a target, not to mention that the low altitude is the area of activity of the flying battle girls, and they don't need to use weapons at all, just catch up with the bulky torpedo planes and kick them into the sea with their feet." ”

The launch of aviation torpedoes has strict conditions, the height of the aircraft must be strictly controlled when the torpedo is dropped, otherwise the fuse may be triggered when the torpedo enters the sea, and the speed of the launcher must also be reduced, if the torpedo is dropped at a speed of more than 100 knots, the fuse may be damaged at the moment of entering the sea, and other parts may also malfunction; In addition, the body of the torpedo needs to be kept as stable as possible, otherwise the torpedo may roll directly to the bottom of the sea when it enters the sea.

The most terrible thing is that the speed of the torpedo in the sea lasts for 30 knots, so it belongs to a weapon that can be evaded by the warship by its own maneuvering, and the torpedo machine must occupy the most powerful firing position when firing the torpedo in order to ensure the hit. In the face of constantly evading warships, the torpedo aircraft formation may have to seize the attack position many times in order to occupy an advantageous position, so the entire attack process may last for more than ten or twenty minutes. During this process, the torpedo aircraft will always be under the attack of enemy anti-aircraft fire and flying battle girls, and the survival rate is definitely much lower than that of dive bombers who only stay within the enemy's fire range for a minute or two.

Joachim and Rudel, at this time they all realized that if they had torpedo planes in today's offensive, not only would none of these fighters come back, but they would probably eat duck eggs on the results of the battle, which means that not a single torpedo was fired correctly at the enemy fleet. All the people in the torpedo fleet will be sacrificed in vain.

The two of them couldn't help but sigh in their hearts about Lin Youde's foresight.

They didn't know that Lin Youde was not far-sighted at all, but just used the history of another time and space as a mirror.

In another time and space, in the naval war between the US imperialism and Japan, the survival rate of torpedo planes on both sides was terrible. At Midway, the U.S. military dispatched three squadrons of VT-3, VT-6, and VT-8 torpedo planes to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier, and only one of the 15 torpedo planes of the VT-8 that arrived first fired torpedoes, but the position was too bad to hit; The entire VT8 was shot down, only one of the 15 pilots survived, and all 15 rearblock machine gun shooters were killed in the rain of Japanese bullets. The VT6 that arrived later was much better because the Japanese army was attracted to VT8's side, but the evasive action of the Kaga caused VT6's attack to be dragged on for a long time, and finally Zero came and beat VT6 to the ground.

However, when there were still a few torpedo planes left in the VT6, the Japanese Zero Combat shells ran out, and the remaining machine gun bullets could not cause enough damage to the thick-skinned torpedo destroyers, so the VT6 finally had five fighters successfully fire torpedoes, but still none of them hit.

The last VT3 arrived in the best condition. VT3 has a dive bomber squadron VB-3 in the sky that launched an attack with them, and the Japanese anti-aircraft fire is effectively dispersed, and at the same time, VT-3 is also behind the VF-3 as an escort of 5 F4F Wildcat fighters, the captain of the VF3 who led these five Wildcats is still a hanger - he is the later famous Navy Hero Major Thatch, he was besieged by 20 Zero Battles, he led his subordinates to use their own scissors to maneuver and Zero Battles, Beat the Japanese five to one (so the myth of Zero War is a lie at all, the first direct confrontation between the Wildcat and Zero in the US Navy ended in a one-sided victory for Wildcat, and the record of Zero War was all brushed on the F2A Buffalo fighter...... ）。

Even with such good attack conditions, all the torpedo attacks of the VT-3 were lost, and none of them hit......

In the initial stage of the war, the success rate of the Japanese army's torpedo attack was much higher than that of the American army, because the Japanese pilot's training program was higher than that of the American army. But these ultra-high torpedo pilots were exhausted in 1942.

The last highly trained Japanese torpedo pilots were lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz, and it was not the American Wildcat fighters who shot them down, but the battleship South Dakota. In the Battle of Santa Cruz, the Japanese attack on the USS Hornet did not suffer much damage, because there were no battleships in the escort group of the USS Hornet, and at the same time, the fleet air defense command post directed the Wildcats to the wrong place.

But when the Japanese attacked the Enterprise, the effect became very bad - the Enterprise's fleet air defense guidance table was just as bad, and most of the Wildcats only had time to intercept the Japanese planes that had completed the attack and evacuated. But the Enterprise was the flagship of the fleet, and it was escorted by the USS South Dakota. The battleship fired 60,000 rounds of anti-aircraft shells of more than 20 mm in less than three hours of anti-aircraft combat, and it is impossible to count the number of anti-aircraft machine gun shells fired.

The South Dakota eventually reported that it had shot down 29 enemy planes, while post-war studies believed that the number of Japanese planes it shot down was roughly between 20 and 27, mostly torpedoes. Captain Gage of the South Dakota said in his summary of the battle: "Our firearms were limited by elevation angles and fire heights, which made them limited in their effectiveness in blocking bombers entering the dive, but they proved to be very effective when firing at low elevation angles...... I think that the 40-mm combined Bofors gun can effectively crush the aviation torpedo attack, and priority should be given to equipping the aircraft carrier battle group.

It was the combat experience of 1942 that led the US military to form the theory of the uselessness of torpedo planes, and it was not until later that they confirmed that the air defense capabilities of the Japanese fleet could no longer compete with the performance of the new fighters, and then resumed torpedo attacks.

In the face of such a lesson from the past, Lin Youde certainly could not approve the use of torpedo planes in attack operations -- because the battleships of this time and space had to face the threat of the enemy's flying battle girls, their anti-aircraft fire against low-altitude targets was very fierce, not to mention that the torpedo planes had to face the enemy's flying battle girls.

It is precisely because torpedo planes cannot be used that in order to ensure that the dive bombers can kill the thick-skinned battleships, Lin Youde desperately let the dive bombers hang more than 800 kilograms of large bombs -- you must know that in another time and space, the American SBD dive bombers can only hang 2,200 pounds of bombs until they are changed to SBD-5, but they still do not hang such heavy bombs in the mission of attacking ships, because there is a search process for attacking ships, and the range must be guaranteed, otherwise they may have to retreat if they do not find the enemy ships.

But in this time and space, Lin Youde's frantic twin-engine dive bomber can run very far with a large bomb of nearly 900 kilograms. The bomb of nearly 900 kg was lighter in weight than many battleship main gun pellets, but its charge was insanely 400 kg.

It is important to know that the main gun projectile of the battleship, although heavy, had a small charge, generally between eighteen and thirty kilograms. The blast of 400 kilograms of explosives can shatter all the equipment around the hit point, creating huge cracks in the walls of the cabins, and even if it fails to penetrate the deck of the battleship, it can blow the battleship into internal injuries.

Joachim and his comrades had learned this acutely.

Joachim and Rudel were chatting about the previous attack next to the runway, when the airfield cable broadcast rang out: "Pilots, we have just received a telegram from the Rapid Tactical Bomber Group that the British Navy's King George V was hit by a wave attack by a tactical bomber squadron after losing power, and was hit by about 30 bombs, and has now capsized. ”

After the sound of the radio fell, the pilots at the airport looked at each other, and after a brief silence, deafening cheers resounded throughout the airport.