As the world's first real aircraft carrier, the life story of the Fury is relatively strange, at the beginning the Fury was designed and built as the third ship of the Brave class of strange cruisers, this strange thing called the boo cruiser is the favorite of the famous Sir Fisher.

But the practice of the First World War told the world that both battlecruisers and boo cruisers were flashy gadgets, and they simply did not reach the heights demanded by old Fisher. So at that time, it was also a headache for the Royal Navy, a large light cruiser of the brave class, this kind of dumplings with thin skin and big filling were too delicious for the enemy, but the ships that had been built with so much money and time could not be thrown into the sea and rusted.

In line with the principle of waste utilization, the No. 3 ship Fury was left halfway. At first, the tail main gun was retained, and a 60-meter flight deck was laid only in the bow direction, which is somewhat similar to the Ise air battleship of the devil in World War II.

However, this approach proved unsuccessful, so in November 1917 the stern guns of the Fury were removed and converted into a full-fledged aircraft carrier.

At that time, the performance of the Fury was good, at least on paper, it could carry 20 aircraft, and its maximum speed was 31 knots. It's kind of good and powerful. At least it looks a lot more powerful than the other two aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.

For example, the Hundred-Eyed Giant, which is also a halfway home aircraft carrier, was formerly a passenger ship built for an Italian company, and the largest carrier aircraft is also about 20 aircraft, but the maximum speed is only a pitiful 20 knots, which can only be said to be barely enough to act with the battleship.

As for the Eagle. This one is also a halfway monk. It was originally the battleship Admiral La Torre ordered by Chile. Construction was interrupted because of World War I. It was bought by the Royal Navy in 1918 and converted into an aircraft carrier, capable of carrying 21 aircraft with a maximum speed of 24 knots.

In other words, the three aircraft carriers owned by the Royal Navy at this time were all halfway out of the house, and they were as fast and slow as snails, and forcibly putting them together did not play much role at all.

Of course, the most important thing is that the carrying capacity of these three aircraft carriers is too small, and there are only more than 60 aircraft when the three aircraft are combined, which is not as many as the aircraft of an aircraft carrier in World War II. However, in this year, the Royal Navy has no intention of playing any full-deck attack. For the Royal Navy. The main task of these three aircraft carriers is aerial reconnaissance. As for striking sea and land targets, battleships and battle cruisers took care of it.

In fact, this is the task that the leaders of the Royal Naval Air Force have been asking for, and at first the commanders of the battleships and battle cruisers did not want these three strange friends at all, thinking that they were in the way.

The fleet headed southwest, and after rounding the Kattegat Strait, the three aircraft carriers began to move at full speed against the wind, and several carrier-based aircraft flew into the sky diagonally and flew straight in the direction of Szczecin.

Henry. Bradwardin. Field Marshal Jackson personally commanded the attack, as Sir Jackson, who had just been promoted to Field Marshal in July of this year. This is the best chance if you can get a good big win. He will most likely be the successor of Earl Betty, and perhaps the First Lord of the Admiralty.

After releasing the reconnaissance planes, he sent a very simple telegram to Earl Betty, who was waiting for news from far away in London: "One qiē is normal, ready to attack!" ”

It can only be said that his telegram was sent a little too early, and when the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier flew over Szczecin to reconnoitre, they were quickly discovered by the keen Sukhoi, the commander of the aviation who liked to fly was so familiar with his own planes that he knew by ear that the planes in the sky circling around the city of Szczecin and his airfield were not his own people.

Sukhoi rushed into the cabin almost dancing, happily piloting the plane and preparing for a hearty air battle. But when he rushed into the sky, he found that the enemy had come and gone in a hurry.

Unwilling to lose the opportunity, Sukhoi immediately chased after him, which was hundreds of kilometers, and when he followed the cunning enemy plane through the clouds, he was instantly stunned. There was a mighty fleet on the turquoise sea below.

“1，2，3，4，5……”

Just by casually counting Sukhoi, more than 6 very powerful capital ships were found, and as for the other small cruisers and destroyers, there were too many to count.

At that moment, Sukhoi's hands trembled a little, and he almost trembled and re-pulled the lever up, and after a few rolls, he hid in the thick clouds.

There was no way, he had to hide, because he noticed that the enemy planes were slowly descending, and the three flat-deck aircraft carriers were too conspicuous in the fleet. If he acts rashly, then a large number of enemy planes will take off in a few minutes to beat him en masse.

Although Sukhoi is a little crazy, he is not without brains, he is just a bare commander, and people can pile him to death with a sea of people. And the destruction of a fleet is much greater than the honor of shooting down one or two enemy aircraft.

So Sukhoi chose the most correct approach, and after recording the position and course of the enemy ships, he hurriedly ran away, and hurried home to report this discovery to his superiors.

Some comrades may ask, why didn't Sukhoi send a telegram directly? Isn't that safer? Unfortunately, Sukhoi's car did not have a radio on board, so there was no way to send an announcement. And even if there was a radio station, Sukhoi-san would not use it, he did not know how to send a report, and it was impossible to send a report while operating an airplane.

Fortunately, God gave me the best to let Sukhoi return smoothly. Li Xiaofeng was also taken aback when he heard about the emergence of the Allied fleet, which had always been strong, in Danish waters.

Although a certain immortal knew that the Royal Navy would not give up, sooner or later he would come to avenge the last one-shot revenge. But he didn't expect it to come so quickly and decisively, and even the aircraft carrier was dispatched, is this trying to play tiger and tiger?

Of course, this is impossible, and the three aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy have killed a maximum of 60 aircraft, which is not enough to stuff the teeth, even if all of them are torpedo planes and bombers. I'm afraid the focus is still on those battleships and battle cruisers. The British and Americans probably still want to solve the problem by conventional means.

The British and Americans are conservative. It doesn't mean that Li Xiaofeng is also conservative. After the last sneak attack on Kiel with some results, he gained confidence in Sukhoi's aviation. And this time Sukhoi accidentally broke through the enemy's plot, so there is no reason not to teach the British and Americans a lesson!

"Why is aviation taking the lead again? Our Red Banner Baltic Fleet has been training for several months, and it's time for our Red Banner Baltic Fleet to eat some meat, right? ”

When Li Xiaofeng was once again preparing to hand over the task to Sukhoi's air force, Basilev could not stand it, as a particularly enterprising and attacking admiral, he was fed up with sitting and watching the play and staring, and he desperately wanted to wrestle with the British and Americans. To prove that the Russian Navy does not have to be worse than them at all.

This made Li Xiaofeng a little embarrassed, because from the perspective of historical development, the air force is the king, and surface warships will play the role of covering and cooperating with bodyguards in the future. Naval battles will revolve around the Air Force, and it will be almost impossible to fight a traditional artillery battle like Basilev did.

But Li Xiaofeng can't refuse strongly, this hurts the old man's feelings too much, and the Red Banner Baltic Fleet has been practicing for so long, what's the matter if you don't come to the field?

So he can only say this: "First of all, the air forces will deliver air strikes, weakening the enemy with all their might, and then your fleet will deliver the final fatal blow!" ”

Such a reply satisfied Basilev. In his view, this is the right way. So is it really the right way? Let's put it this way, it's okay! It is unrealistic to expect the lads of Sukhoi to be as powerful as the aviation of the Pacific theater in World War II. Although the previous air raid on Kiel had achieved good results, it was more of a surprise. In fact, the effect of the bombing was very average, at least neither aerial bombs nor torpedoes sank any capital ships, and what really sank the enemy's capital ships was actually magnetic sinking mines.

In other words, the results of the bombing were very mediocre after the elimination of magnetic mines. Needless to say, there are almost no aerial bombs, and aviation torpedoes are also ultralight because the payload capacity of the aircraft is too low in these years, and it is difficult to sink enemy ships.

Therefore, it is really difficult to say how effective Sukhoi's attack will be this time, because this time it is not a fixed target, and in the face of a fleet maneuvering on the sea, the hit rate of both torpedoes and aerial bombs will probably be lower. To put it mildly, Sukhoi can only harass the enemy, and it is almost impossible to solve the problem with aviation. To put it bluntly, a certain immortal is just preparing for the aviation to accumulate experience.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng will not explicitly sue Sukhoi, and he is not optimistic about him, which is too demoralizing. On the contrary, he constantly cheered Sukhoi and encouraged him to achieve the best results of the air strikes.

Sukhoi is also gearing up, according to the experience of the last time, he adjusted the aircraft equipment, imitation of the British cuckoo torpedo aircraft will become the main force, this kind of member, the maximum speed of 170 kilometers can reach 540 kilometers of torpedo aircraft can carry a 450 kg torpedo.

Based on the experience of the last air raid on Kiel, horizontal bombing and dive bombing were really not powerful, so this time Sukhoi pressed Po on torpedo attacks. He threw 60 Cuckoos in one go, and under the cover of 28 Ford fighters, slaughtered the enemy's fleet.

Of course, this was only the first wave of attacks, and the second wave consisted of the slow Lenin-1, 20 Lenin-1 and 10 Fords were responsible for attacking the "fish that slipped through the net". Of course, this is only Sukhoi's own optimistic estimates.

In the early morning of October 10, the first and second attack waves set sail and, according to the results of reconnaissance, the enemy's fleet had reached the northern tip of the island of Luen, about a hundred kilometers from Szczecin, which was exactly within the effective combat radius of the torpedo planes. The Cuckoo can finally carry a 450-kilogram 18-inch torpedo to attack, instead of a 150-kilogram 13-inch special aviation torpedo in order to ensure the range during the previous air raid on Kiel.

Confident in this attack on Sukhoi, he is ready for an unprecedented victory. Of course, Basilev was prepared for the same thing, and in order to meet this challenge, his fleet was all sorted, as long as the dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts who could move were all pulled into the battlefield, and his fleet was in full position at the southern tip of Bornholm Island, when Sukhoi had completed the attack. His fleet will outflank the rear of the enemy's fleet. Deal with enemies by shutting down the door and hitting the dog.

This sea and air battle kicked off. The first thing that will appear is still the battle between the planes. Field Marshal Jackson ordered the planes to be released for aerial reconnaissance for the last time before breaking into the operation, and the planes crashed headlong into Sukhoi's fighter fleet escorting torpedo planes, and after an encounter, two of the four Royal Navy Cuckoo torpedo planes were shot down, and the other two turned around and ran away.

Naturally, Sukhoi was in hot pursuit, and his fighter squadron completely forgot about its mission, and rushed towards the enemy planes, leaving the torpedo fleet behind. I really have to say that Sukhoi was lucky. Fortunately, this is still the exploratory period of aviation operations, and everyone's problems are piled up, otherwise the torpedo planes that lose the escort of fighters will be happily hunted by enemy planes.

As Sukhoi's torpedo fleet flew over Marshal Jackson's fleet, Sukhoi's fighter fleet was dogfighting camel fighters flying from the USS Fury, USS Cyclops and USS Eagle. A large group of fighters stuffed the middle and high altitudes to the full, and the two sides were constantly entangled and biting their tails, and from time to time some fighters dragged their smoking tails into the sea.

However, this qiē had nothing to do with the torpedo planes, they were originally operating at low altitudes, and under the leadership of the long planes, one by one the cuckoos aimed at the target and entered the attack route in turn.

Kokolin, a veteran of the operation, recalled: "As a top pilot in the regiment. I led a squad of comrades to target a big guy. This is definitely a battleship! It has a staggering seven turrets. A battleship with such great firepower should be the enemy's main force, so I rushed towards him as soon as I pushed the joystick! ”

When recalling this experience. Kokorin blushed a little, because at this time he already knew that he had made a mistake, as a farmer's son, Kokorin could barely read a few words, because he was selected to enter the Air Force because of his good health, and the requirements for such a soldier could not be too high. It was already good that he could tell the difference between a capital ship and a cruiser.

But for the Agincourt on the battlefield, this was a real tragedy, and she probably never imagined that she would be targeted because of the conspicuous seven turrets. Honestly, she was a very fragile battleship, in the words of the British: "One torpedo can sink it!" ”

Kokorin entered the attack route first, this uneducated warrior flight skills are really good, he took the middle mast of the Agincourt as a reference, flew straight towards the center line of the Agincourt, until the distance of 800 meters he threw the torpedo down, as the plane lightened, the cuckoo jumped up sharply, Kokolin took advantage of the situation to get out of the attack route beautifully.

After Kokorin dropped the bomb, the three wingmen who followed him also dropped their bombs, and the four torpedoes rushed towards Akincourtt not far away. With a loud bang, the first torpedo dropped by Kokorin hit the vicinity of the "Saturday" turret accurately, and Kokorin, who was sitting in the engine room at the time, seemed to feel the Agincourt trembling.

It is a pity that the comrades-in-arms who followed Kokolin's attack were not so lucky, the torpedo of the No. 2 machine was set to a depth and went directly through the bottom of the Agincourt, the torpedo of the No. 3 machine grazed the stern of the Agincourt and was detonated by the wake, and the No. 4 torpedo directly missed the target.

However, even if the Agincourt escaped the attack of the three torpedoes behind, Kokolin's torpedo hit the rear ammunition depot just near the rear ammunition depot, and the thunderhead with a charge of 145 kg of TNT instantly scattered the already weak armor of the Agincourt with the help of water, and a large amount of seawater poured into it, and the Agincourt soon began to tilt to the port side, and the speed immediately fell.

But none of these were the deadliest, and what was even more deadly was that the wake detonated mine No. 3 damaged part of the steering gear, and the steering of the Agincourt became very difficult, and in Kocorin's words: "The next big guy will have to go around the sea!" ”

After Cocorin made a good start, the remaining torpedo planes also found the target and launched an attack, one after another torpedoes dragged a long trail to Jackson's fleet, explosions came and went, in just ten minutes, the Iron Duke, the North Dakota and the Captain of the Hundred were hit one after another, and the shape seemed to be very bad!

However, after the torpedo machine finished dropping the bomb, Sukhoi frowned, the attack effect was too far from expected, most of the torpedo machine hurriedly dropped the torpedo far from the target, and even some of the torpedoes sank directly to the bottom after dropping. Moreover, even the four battleships that were recruited were not particularly seriously injured, except for the Agincourt, which was particularly miserable because of its fragile structure, and the other three battleships quickly regained their balance by means of reverse water injection.

Such a result made Sukhoi half a waist cold, and the highly-anticipated torpedo attack proved to be only a tickle, and the combat effectiveness of this formidable fleet was basically maintained at eighty. For the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, this eighty percent combat effectiveness is a trench!

Let's put it this way, the Anglo-American combined fleet with eighty percent combat strength is enough to beat Basilev, anyway, Sukhoi is not optimistic that Basilev can deal with the remaining enemies, and at this time he is considering whether to notify Li Xiaofeng and ask him to order Basilev to cancel the following operations. And at this moment, a scene that Sukhoi did not expect happened...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you Comrade Juventus!