But the battleship was originally very strong in defense, and it was even more difficult to sink under the protection of 72 carrier-based fighters and more than 30 air defense auxiliary ships, and even the aircraft carrier Ark Royal was quite strong, and Wegener sent an aircraft carrier to the battleship formation not only to provide fighter protection, but also specially arranged well-designed air defense tactics. When this wave of attack planes hit the head and broke the blood, if the US commander gave up the attack, then the German army would be able to destroy a large number of US carrier-based aircraft at no great cost, which could be regarded as a profit; If the Americans insist on continuing the attack, they will inevitably have to adjust their tactics and send more carrier-based planes, and then the US fleet's own air defense will certainly be much weaker, and the German aircraft carrier squadron will be able to take the opportunity to send carrier-based aircraft units to raid the US aircraft carrier formation, and as for the position of the US fleet, the German carrier-based early warning planes have already discovered the location of the US fleet long before the US early warning planes discovered the German fleet

And the Americans have been aggrieved for more than a year, and finally have the opportunity to be ashamed, how can they give up so easily? Although the battleship was not as important as the aircraft carrier, if they killed 6 at once, it would also hurt the German Navy, not to mention an aircraft carrier, but they soon found that this was not an easy task

Although the Germans had only sixty or seventy planes, which seemed to be much less than that of the enemy, more than half of the US planes were bombers or bomb-mounted fighters, and in fact the disparity in numbers was not as great as it seemed, and the average quality of the pilots of the German carrier-based aircraft was far from being comparable to that of the US military. You must know that they are actually a great collection of Luftwaffe super aces in history!

In particular, the super-genius Marseilleu, who was known as the "Star of Africa" in history and renamed the "Star of HNA in this time and space", drove his plane like a lone hero into the US military plane group and rushed left and right, causing chaos in the US army, and even more so that the Americans could not open fire wantonly because they were worried about accidentally injuring their comrades, as a result, Marseyu was not only unscathed after a few times in and out, but also shot down a whole 5 US planes, Marseilleu's dreamlike performance caused a huge blow to the morale of the US army, while the morale of the German army was bursting. Even Hartmann, the second-most talented pilot in the German HNA crash, was completely impressed, knowing full well that he would not be able to achieve such a level in his lifetime

And the Germans relied on more than just fighters on aircraft carriers for air defense. The German avant-garde fleet of 6 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and 28 air defense destroyers with a total of no less than 300 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns posed a huge threat to the US aircraft fleet from a long distance. Moreover, the high rate of fire of the German anti-aircraft guns further enhanced the lethality of the close-fire fuse shells, and for a time the US planes in the air fell one after another like raindrops, which caused the formation of the US bombers to be completely disrupted, which gave the German fighters more opportunities to attack.

The large number of German auxiliary ships was like a barrier that prevented the US aircraft group from approaching the seven capital ships of the German army. From the outermost German warship to the aircraft carrier in the center. The distance reached almost 10 km. Since the attack group flies at a speed determined by the slowest bomber, it is only a little over 400 km/h at most, a distance of at least a minute and a half. During this period, the German army's large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were enough to fire tens of thousands of close-fire fuse shells, and the shmelnel flying in the sky caused great damage to the US aircraft group.

In particular, the US officers and men had never experienced such intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire before (in the past, the Axis pilots who attacked the American fleet experienced this kind of pain), and most of them were the first time (although the US pilot training mechanism is remarkable, the loss of more than 1,000 excellent carrier-based aircraft pilots in the previous series of defeats cannot be completely compensated by training alone). Participating in the war as a carrier-based aviation force, panic was inevitable, so that many bomber squadrons were completely scattered, which gave German fighters a large number of opportunities to attack, and seriously affected the success rate of air strikes.

And since the Germans could have guessed in advance that the Americans would definitely give priority to attacking the only aircraft carrier in this fleet, the six battleships were guarded around it in a ring in advance, and not far from it there was a defensive ring composed of 16 Crescent-class destroyers.

Therefore, when some American bombers were lucky enough to rush to a high altitude near the German capital ship and began to dive, they were soon baptized by more than 600 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and the German close fire guns were not only densely fired, but also frighteningly accurate because of the gyroscopic sights and the German army's well-trained (Note 1).

When the US commander realized the problem and ordered his subordinates to withdraw from the battle and regroup, the loss of the US planes had already exceeded one-third due to the fact that the German bombers had squads and even scattered squads of German bombers to send them to death. At this time, they did not even accurately drop a bomb on the main aircraft carrier of their former ally

After receiving the unfavorable reward for the attack, Spruance's face sank, and the adjutant persuaded him, "Commander, the situation doesn't seem right, do you want to withdraw first?" ”

Although Spruance also felt a little bad in his heart, he quickly settled down when he thought of his own strong strength, shook his head firmly, and insisted, "You can't retreat from the army, you can't let it slip away with the big chance of victory that you finally won't get!" You must know that the day of the general election is approaching, and the pressure on Mr. President is very high! ”

Note 1: Historically, the German anti-aircraft artillery units did not have close-in fuses, artillery sights, or gyroscopic sights, so it stands to reason that the air defense effectiveness could only play one or two percent of that of the Allied antiaircraft artillery units. However, they still shot down tens of thousands of planes, and this achievement revealed that the devil antiaircraft artillery units with similar equipment conditions, but the results of air defense battles were basically in single digits, or even zero eggs, did not know a few streets, which is enough to show that the quality of the German antiaircraft artillery units is excellent. Although the performance of the German Navy's anti-aircraft guns in history was far inferior to that of the Army, it was mainly due to the neglect of air defense in the design of warships before the war, coupled with the secret troubles of anti-Greek people, Wegener carried out a vigorous rectification for more than a year after taking office, and even recruited many veterans from the Army, and now the quality of the German Navy's anti-aircraft artillery is not inferior to, or even surpasses the Army, ...... to be continued