Vice Admiral Hood, who witnessed the tragic scene of the Royal Navy's largest and newest aircraft carrier "Brilliant", had already submerged the front of the wide flight deck under water, and his feet had just stepped onto the flight deck of the "Ocean". Crawl_Book_Net】

The elite aircraft carrier force, which once created the Kiel miracle, lost three of the four aircraft carriers and more than eighty percent of its combat aircraft in its own coastal waters in just four hours...... OVER—Hood really can't think of any other words to describe his current mood.

"Commander, the water ingress of this ship has been controlled and is sufficient to maintain the speed of the ship, please instruct."

Captain Witson, the captain of the "Great Ocean", who came to greet him, reported with a dejected expression.

"Very well, hurry up and recover the planes, deploy air defense, Vice Admiral Betty has collided with the enemy's battle cruiser, and we must immediately avoid the southwest."

"Understood, I'm going to order—

"Rod." Hood stopped Captain Witson as he was about to turn around, "Your face will infect everyone." ”

Witson blushed and straightened his chest in embarrassment: "Commander, I didn't mean anything against you. ”

"It doesn't matter, the only thing we have to do next is to keep the boat. =Novel Debut=="

As soon as Hood's words fell, a terrible siren sounded, and someone shouted like a pig in the electric horn hanging at the lower part of the island: "A large group of high-altitude aircraft has been discovered at five o'clock!" Approaching the ship! ”

"What? And another wave? Hood's heart was shocked, he couldn't believe his hearing, in his impression, the opponent's ship-based attack force should have suffered huge losses in yesterday's battle, and today to be able to piece together the previous wave of attacks seems to be the limit, why is there a second wave after it?

Could it be ...... Was there a major error in the previous information?

No way. Gotta report to the Commander-in-Chief right away—

"Commander. It's dangerous here, so please take command inside the ship immediately. Colonel Witson began to get anxious.

Hood sighed lightly: "Don't worry, follow the steps, so far, we haven't experienced everything......"

Speaking of this, the loudspeaker buzzed again: "The enemy planes are divided into two groups. One of them is rapidly declining, confirming that the pilot aircraft is a four-engine large aircraft! ”

Hoodden gritted his teeth - it was the enemy's land-based bomber!

From Myanmar to the east coast of India, I actually crossed the vast Bay of Bengal, and I found it here, which is a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. Or is it the hand of God who is destined to do so?

No, you can't just throw in the towel. The British Empire's emerging aircraft carrier assault force has not long since the Kaiser's fleet, which is known as the second in the world, was it just washed by these tasteless yellow monkeys at the door of the courtyard wall of his house?

This disgrace cannot be engraved on the door of his head in any way!

Thinking of this, he suddenly went crazy, and His Excellency the commander stamped his feet and shouted: "Send a signal, order all planes in the air to meet the battle, turn to the wind, and take off all planes." There should be no fighter support on the other side - let me go! Beat them up—"

What suddenly landed over the "Great Ocean" was the 13th and 14th Wings of the 11th Air Force, a group of heavy land attack planes of the Third Air Fleet of the Chinese Army, which had been flying for nearly six hours.

Thanks to these special reconnaissance planes, which occupied the space of the bomb magazine with complex navigation equipment and large radio stations, the attack planes were finally discovered before the specified time limit and smoothly guided the attack plane group into a favorable combat position through the powerful radio stations.

The group was divided into two at high altitude: a bomb-carrying horizontal bombing team and a torpedo-carrying lightning strike team, and a horizontal bombing team with a total of 32 planes maintained an altitude of 3,000 meters over the target. In addition, the 50-formed lightning strike team evaded anti-aircraft artillery fire and descended to an ultra-low altitude of tens or even several meters in a roundabout way. Strike at the target with a lightning strike close to the sea.

I don't know whether it was unintentional or powerless, the more than 20 "SEAL Cub" fighters hovering around the "Great Ocean" and the "Dujuan" attack planes used as patrol planes completely ignored the horizontal bomber fleet that was attacking from high altitudes. All of them were facing the group of lightning planes that broke through at low altitudes, but these air supremacies, which formed the outermost layer of the air defense circle, had already consumed most of their fuel bombs in the last round of fighting, and it was too late to return to the only remaining aircraft carrier "Ocean" to replenish it. In the face of the heavy land attack of the Chinese army, which had dismantled most of the self-defense machine guns, the vast majority of the "seals" and "cuckoos" had to retreat after only two or three long shots, but a "seal cub" that did not know whether it was too heroic or a brain-dead mistake, dived and hit the tail of a four-shot giant plane, and in the admiration and exclamation of hundreds of crew members around it, the debris was splashed and the fire was raging.

At this time, there were only three light cruisers and one destroyer around the "Great Ocean," which was 108,000 miles away from the screen provided by the wheel-shaped array formed by the entire reconnaissance unit before, and the speed of the formation was only knots.

Helplessly, the distant water could not save the thirst of the near, and the horizontal bombing team of the Chinese army, which entered from a high altitude, swept over the "Great Ocean" formation in a dense formation in a straight line without any interference, and more than 100 swarthy kilogram-level aerial bombs rushed down.

Not only that, but the hull of the ship trembled violently due to several near-misses that burst open one after another on both sides, and the hastily blocked lightning breach was again flooded, and the hull quickly tilted to the port side, and the damage management department urgently filled the empty compartment on the starboard side in order to restore balance, which in turn caused a sharp decrease in speed, which to a certain extent facilitated the attitude and aiming of the clumsy Chinese torpedo plane.

In such a shocking indiscriminate coverage bombardment. All the escort ships turned their rudders indiscriminately towards the outside of the formation to evade. * The anti-aircraft firing was temporarily stopped, and the "Great Ocean", which had lost its screen, was left alone in the formation and became an excellent target for the Chinese torpedo planes.

Taking advantage of the confusion caused by the horizontal bombing team, more than 40 "Haixiang Thunderbolts" that had penetrated the outer air defense circle were divided into two groups, and from both sides of the front of the "Ocean" formation, a three-plane squadron broke through one after another, and almost unhindered dropped millimeter aviation torpedoes weighing 8 kilograms one after another at a distance of 500 to 1,000 meters.

1:11 a.m. A new large-caliber torpedo with a warhead more than twice as powerful as the 4-mm Type 12 aviation torpedo dropped by the previous carrier-based aircraft hit the front of the port side of the "Great Ocean," stirring up a terrifying column of water 50 or 60 meters high when it landed, and the huge hull of the "Great Ocean" of 19,000 tons trembled violently, the port side quickly tilted to 10 degrees, and the speed dropped to less than 1 knot.

Two minutes later. Two identical torpedoes hit the starboard aft part of the "Ocean" almost simultaneously, and the violent explosion tore through the multiple bulwarks of the underwater hull. Hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the engine room, and almost all the engineers were drowned, and the "Great Ocean" immediately stalled and stopped sailing, becoming a dead fish drifting crookedly and drifting with the waves.

At 1:17 a.m., three torpedoes hit the port side of the "Great Ocean" in succession, flooding the boiler room, powering out the entire ship, and all the pumping units failed. By 1:01, when the last torpedo hit the rear of the port side, the edge of the flight deck of the "Great Ocean" was close to the sea, and a few minutes later, the entire hull of the ship turned to the left and sank, and the crimson bottom of the ship and the huge brass propeller were completely exposed.

At 1:03, the "Great Ocean" disappeared from the sea with 974 crew members, including Vice Admiral Hood, and the four fleet aircraft carriers that sailed from Bombay were all wiped out, and the remaining carrier-based aircraft still in the air were unshipped. I had to fly to the coast and make a forced landing. In the end, only three "seals" and six "cuckoos" successfully landed on land dozens of nautical miles away.

The targets of the Chinese army's land offensive were not limited to the "Great Ocean," as the light cruiser "Goddess of War," which was the first to resume anti-aircraft shooting, was ravaged by at least 10 torpedo planes in turn. Three heavy aviation torpedoes plunged into the rear of this small cruiser with a standard displacement of only 33 tons from two directions, blowing up the entire engine room and steering gear, and the "goddess of war" struggled for less than five minutes before sinking under the sea in a lascivious posture with the stern facing down, the bow raised high above the water, and the water splashing everywhere.

The air raid, which lasted for a few minutes, came to an abrupt end with the scattering of a huge column of water at the tail of the "Goddess of War".

Seventy "Hai Xiang Lei" and five "Hai Xiang Lei Detectives" that had lost their stock converged at an altitude of 1,000 meters, regrouped, and headed back to the east.

A quarter of an hour later, the light cruiser "Browder", which searched and rescued the crew of the overboard ship around the sinking site of the "Great Ocean" and the "Goddess of War", which were floating with large areas of oil and debris, found another large group of aircraft in the air.

"It's a big four-engine plane again! Quantity...... Forty to fifty! ”

"They're back?"

"No, it's a new place! Where did the yellow monkey get so many big planes? ”

"Damn, how did they get here! It's more than 4 nautical miles to Myanmar! ”

Shrouded in despair, the crew noisily rushed to the anti-aircraft position, and the entire anti-aircraft fire of this 33-ton small ship was only two single-barreled 3-inch anti-aircraft guns and two single-barreled one-pounder machine guns, and six Vickers water-cooled machine guns mounted on anti-aircraft gun mounts. Although one kilometer away are the "Brand" and two destroyers of the same class, which are also carrying out search and rescue missions, it is obvious that they cannot be pinned on anything to help, and there is not a single plane of their own in the air, and once the enemy planes with absolute superiority in numbers attack, all four small boats together may not be enough for everyone to eat.

However, the large group of four heavy land attacks loaded with bombs and torpedoes flew straight south of the "Browder" in complete disregard, leaving not a single bomb, not even a single bullet, for it and its companions.

The goal of this new batch of large aircraft is ......

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