"All planes should take off as much as possible within 30 minutes, and immediately after takeoff, throw away all ammunition to carry out the interception mission! The remaining planes that could not take off were pushed directly into the sea! Empty the deck of everything flammable and explosive, whether it's bombs, fish, fuel or planes! Nimitz made the right decision at the critical moment, but alas, the German attack group would not have given the Americans such a long time to clear the deck!

The Americans discovered their opponent 210 kilometers away, and more than ten minutes have passed after counting the links of exchanging information, making decisions, and issuing orders. And by the time the first planes, which were on cover duty in the air, went up to intercept them, the Germans had already broken through to a distance of 100 kilometers! Although the speed of the German AR234 bomber is far inferior to that of the Huaxia dual-power reconnaissance aircraft with the FW190D when it is fully loaded, the penetration speed is still easily 600 kilometers per hour! If you add up the range of the guided weapon, this last stretch can be described as instantaneous!

The attacking German Magic Box group was flying even faster than the escorting FW190D planes at this time, the iron-gray livery and black cross streaked through the air like a gray ghost, and the guided bombs hanging under the wings emitted a deadly glow like the sickle of death! In the face of this terrifying existence, whose flight speed is far above that of the Mosquito aircraft, even with the performance of the Skua fighter, there is only one chance to intercept it! If it can't be stopped head-on, the same plane will never have a chance to attack again until the other side drops bombs!

Perhaps in terms of total numbers, the Americans' fleet can still intercept the adversary, but alas. In a hurry, the United States and Britain simply did not have time to coordinate the scattered fleets of aircraft. And temporary take-off of the plane is even more unlikely. The advanced fire control and VT fuze shells that the United States and Britain are proud of are also very limited in the lethality of guided weapons! After all, other people's attack range is farther than your effective range, and it's useless if you can't reach it!

"Start attacking. Once again, we have set a world record! At this time, Admiral Grim, who was in charge of commanding the magic box group, gave the order to attack, and the squadrons of AR234 bombers began to disperse into small formations, ignoring the shells that exploded at medium and low altitudes and the Skua fighters entangled by the FW190D in the back, bringing death to the huge fleet below!

The first to suffer was the USS Boxer, which had just been in service for less than 3 months before it had its first and last engagement, with 6 AR234 bombers dropping 12 guided bombs weighing 1.4 tons on this target! With the exception of the 3 bombs that were lost due to mechanical failure, the remaining 9 were in the final assault phase. The Boxer's dense anti-aircraft fire set up a barrage over the battleship. 127MM AND 40MM SHELLS INTERCEPT THESE DEADLY INTRUDERS FROM FAR TO NEAR. Countless pieces of shrapnel flew through the air. The efforts of the Americans finally paid off, 4 bombs were intercepted by dense defensive fire, but 5 of the remaining 3 bombs hit the poor battleship!

A 30,000-ton warship has no defense against a 1.4-ton bomb at all! The 3 bombs easily penetrated the armored deck of the Boxer, and one of the bombs directly destroyed the half-pulled hangar due to the problem of fuse explosion, and the shock wave generated by the explosion even swept away the unarmored area at the front of the deck for dozens of meters! And the huge gap sent a large amount of air to the burning hangar, causing the fire to spread rapidly. Soon it was out of control.

One of the other two bombs landed near the ammunition depot, and although the violent explosion did not ignite the ammunition depot in the first place, it was for safety. The captain of the Boxer had to order the ammunition depot to be filled with water. The third bomb was the deadliest, this bomb smashed into the engine room of the Boxer, although the Boxer only used the alternate layout, but the most terrible thing about this stage was not only the destruction of the engine inside. High-velocity fragments after the explosion even broke through the bottom of the ship! The explosion also destroyed the next door of the engine room, and the water ingress quickly got out of control!

Although the Boxer was still on the surface, it was only a matter of time before the ship was finally abandoned. And in contrast to being able to encounter from the boxer. The Franklin next to it was going to be much more unlucky. At least the former had a chance to remove the wounded crew from the ship, but Franklin didn't have that chance. Two 1.4-ton guided bombs, one through the ammunition depot, and the other armor destroyed the power compartment! The explosion of hundreds of tons of ammunition in the ammunition depot directly tore this poor battleship in half! With a loud bang, the entire battleship seemed to be dragged up! Then a cracking sound and a violent explosion came from the middle of the hull. It's just a dozen seconds. The battleship broke into two ends and sank to the bottom of the sea with nearly 3,000 US officers and soldiers!

Not far away, another aircraft carrier battle group was also attacked, and the Essex-class aircraft carriers Bunker Hill and Shangri-La also became the focus of German attacks. A salvo of more than a dozen anti-ship missiles overwhelmed these two American aircraft carriers! During the attack on the Bunker Hill, the Germans used another new weapon, the channel magnetic fuse torpedo! The Germans in this plane have a stronger level of technology than in history, and the stability of the sound-guided torpedo is quite good, although a total of 8 rounds were fired, only 2 hits, but the explosion at the bottom of the hull still caused serious damage to the aircraft carrier. Plus the motor compartment was destroyed by a bomb. The demise of the Bunker Hill was also a foregone conclusion. Although the core equipment of the Shangri-La has been running all the time and has not been completely destroyed, too much water intake caused the battleship to finally tilt to 30 degrees! In the case of inconclusive reverse water injection, the battleship was also eventually lost.

While the Americans lost four fleet aircraft carriers in one fell swoop, the British also failed to escape the clutches of the Germans. This time, the aircraft carrier Fury, which had survived several naval battles and was regarded as a well-deserved national treasure and symbol by the British Navy, finally failed to hold on! The hull of more than 40,000 tons and the deck that is one size larger than the aircraft carrier next to him make him stand out from the crowd! The so-called rafters rot first, such a big target, who will you hit if you don't hit it? The Germans concentrated more than 30 AR234 bombers and launched a brutal attack on this big guy!

"Bombs and torpedoes rained down from the sky. Like gods fighting in the twilight of the gods, our warships fended off the blows from the air with dense firepower, but in the end. As depicted in the Greek epic tragedy, the valiant warrior ultimately failed to escape death. When the Germans' claws pierced through the heavy armor of the Fury. Feel the vibration of the ship's hull and look at the lighting that has flickered on and off. Smelling the disgusting smell around me, I knew that the end of the battleship had arrived! After the war, Cunningham, the commander of the British fleet, discussed his last experience aboard the Fury.

The Fury is indeed a classic work of Chinese designers, and the thick and effective defense system has successfully blocked several bombs that have not landed well. Although other bombs also penetrated the core compartment and landed in the core compartments such as the engine room and the boiler, the attack was confined to the smallest possible place, and the fire was initially contained. Judging from the damage to the entire battleship, it is due to the ample power system. The initial damage to the battleship was kept under control. But in the end, it was abandoned because of too much water and the British Navy could not tow such a battleship for thousands of nautical miles, but even so, the battleship's defense system still saved most of the crew and Cunningham!

Along with the sinking of the Fury, there was also a British newly-commissioned fleet aircraft carrier, HMS Revenge, Britain's newest fleet carrier, which was on the road of no return at the time of his first sortie. It was also a fancyless attack, perhaps because the crew above were all newcomers, and they were far inferior to their comrades who had sunk in battle. The first round of the Germans achieved decisive results! Two bombs pierced directly through the messy anti-aircraft fire, scrapping the power compartment of the Vengeance, and subsequently. The Vengeance entered garbage time, surrounded by a bunch of planes and killed the target! At this point, the entire combined US-British fleet has lost 6 fleet armored aircraft carriers!

Although the Germans' attack aircraft group was also at the end of the crossbow, it did not prevent them from attacking those light aircraft carriers and jeep carriers with weak defenses! 8 of the 3 Independence-class aircraft carriers were destroyed by guided bombs! These light aircraft carriers were almost killed with one shot! The powerful 1.4-ton semi-armor-piercing projectile smashed directly from the deck to the bottom of the ship! Pierce the entire battleship! Even if the battleship was not destroyed in the core compartment. In the face of a huge hole more than ten square meters square, these battleships with poor watertight settings will not survive!

Light aircraft carriers are like this, so jeep aircraft carriers are even more so. If it weren't for the fact that the amount of ammunition in the magic box group was really insufficient, it would not be a problem to sink all the jeep carriers! In the end, as many as 10 Jeep aircraft carriers, a total of 1 were sunk by the Luftwaffe. The other 2 were sunk by German submarines that took advantage of the situation. One was sunk on the battlefield, the other on the way back! So far. The whole battle came to an end.

Although the magic box shines in the first battle, the loss is also huge, although this aircraft does not lose much by relying on strong speed when penetrating the defense, but it has to fly in a straight line when attacking! And the flight speed should be limited! This is almost a fixed target in disguise! After the initial confusion, the American-British direct guard planes, which reacted, desperately passed through the interception of the German FW190d fighters. Attack these big guys with lethal weapons at all costs!

The efforts of the US-British sea-based aviation saved at least 3 more aircraft carriers! Although the power of the 20MM cannon is a little worse, under the attack like a swarm of bees, one after another AR234 bombers were destroyed before they even finished throwing out the bombs! Combined with the initial losses, the Luftwaffe's magic box lost at least a third of the AR234 bombers in total! The FW190D and DO335, which were responsible for cover, also suffered a lot of losses, and in the final retreat stage of the Luftwaffe, they could not catch up with the bombers who had been cruising at high speed, and the Skua fighters of the United States and Britain chased the fighters! Many German fighters hated the ocean because they started to run too hard and did not have enough fuel to return to base.

In this campaign, the losses of the US Navy again set a record time! 6 armored aircraft carriers, 3 light aircraft carriers and 3 jeep aircraft carriers! Both quantitatively and qualitatively, the Germans' achievements made the winner of the Battle of Ceylon, Huaxia, a little speechless! So much so that when Xu Jie received the telegram from above, he was a little puzzled, why did the United States and Britain not fight like this? Lost a bunch of confusion under the First World War?

Originally, Xu Jie thought that after this battle, the Germans should have no ability to advance eastward at all, but they still encountered this incident?! Although the German fleet also lost 2 armored aircraft carriers and 2 medium fleet carriers, these losses were not irrecompensable, and it was probably impossible for the fleet to return to what it was before the Battle of Ceylon, but it was possible to maintain the level before this naval battle or even increase slightly. It seems that the Chinese Navy still has to fight, and this joint operation of the United States and Britain almost defeated most of the results of the Battle of Ceylon in China!

"It seems that we are still too optimistic, Fletcher, you are right. We underestimated our opponents. On the way back, Admiral Nimitz said with a decadent face. This time he lost without a temper at all, he really couldn't imagine that the Germans still had such a hand! Now it seems that even if the German Navy is in decline and not in peak condition, it will take at least 2 years for the American and British Navy to take the islands close to Europe! And after this war, it is equivalent to directly depleting the US aircraft carrier production for a year! In 1 year, the strength of the American and British fleets will be weaker than the German fleet, and considering that the German fleet is also replenishing, if the American and British fleets want to challenge the German fleet again, they will need to save at least 2 years! 2 years!

"Fletcher, in the future, you and General Cunningham can maintain the North Atlantic route, my lesson is already very deep, and maintaining the war situation will be our main task in the next 2 years!" Nimitz added.

"In fact, the situation may not be as bad as we imagined, the enemy of the Germans is not only us, but also China, if they still want the oil fields of the two river basins and Turkey, then the German navy must attack! At the beginning, the German navy was not China's opponent when it was in its heyday, and after this engagement, the German fleet also suffered a lot of losses, and they could not be China's opponents. Despite the crushing defeat, Fletcher is still optimistic about the future, after all, there are many enemies in Germany now! After paying a huge price in two consecutive battles, it was only temporarily suppressed. Although the situation is much better, it is still at a disadvantage overall!

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