"Discover the German fleet, located due east, 500 kilometers from our fleet!" When the staff officers sent this vital information, the entire American and British fleets were activated! All aircraft carriers immediately went to a headwind course ready to release carrier-based aircraft. The so-called big sword has no edge. This time, the Americans made it clear that they were ready to crush their opponents with their overwhelmingly superior air force. The first wave of aircraft released by the Americans far surpassed the Germans, with a full 1400 aircraft taking off from 36 aircraft carriers!

The planes in front of the queue could not even take off because the take-off distance was too short and could only be ejected with catapults. Halsey's precise calculations allowed the American and British fleets to concentrate the most powerful attack in history, and it is not too much to describe it as invincible! The fleet was so large that it took the American and British fleets 45 minutes to take off the planes and formations alone! Subsequently, a huge group of aircraft, guided by reconnaissance aircraft, pounced on the German fleet!

The U.S. fleet was careful to keep its distance from the battle, and at the cost of giving the Germans more time to prepare, which was nothing if it were a purely decisive battle for the fleet. It stands to reason that if the two sides were to attack, the German fleet should be able to unleash a fleet of 800 to 900 aircraft. Even if there was enough time, how many planes would the German fleet, with a total of 1,800 aircraft, squeeze out even if all the hangars were emptied? The American and British naval aviation still had enough superiority to crush each other's defenses.

But this time, things are different! The Germans' fleet is full of fighters, and they are going to defend! Relying on constant rearmament and take-offs, the Germans were ahead of the attack by the American fleet. 1,100 FW190D and BF109K fighters have taken off one after another! There were even planes from the surrounding islands! As a result, the number of aircraft that eventually circled over the German fleet reached almost 1300 aircraft! Such a huge number almost wiped out the numerical superiority of the American and British naval aviation!

And after the release of this wave of interceptors. The German Navy began to rebuild the offensive aircraft group, which was prepared to provide cover for the Air Force! Rely on home field advantage. The Germans discovered their opponents before the American troops. Therefore, the German army had relatively ample time for rearmament. According to the agreement, the German Navy will prepare at least 500 fighters to cover the magic box formation of the Air Force. And in fact, this time the German Navy overfulfilled its task, and a full 600 aircraft took off and took off to join the Magic Box fleet flying from Portugal with the help of fleet guidance and aviation guidance!

"Hehe, it seems that the Air Force still doesn't trust us." When he saw the Luftwaffe flying in a neat formation in the distance, the German naval commander in charge of leading the team said with some self-deprecation.

"I didn't expect that at this time, they would be able to scrape together hundreds of DO335s to cover the bomber group. It's really hard for them. The voice of the deputy came over the radio. When the two fleets converge, there are a total of 900 fighters! Such a scale of penetration is difficult to stop even the current US and British fleets, after all, just now, the US and British aircraft fleet has just overdrawn their engine capacity. And this time, the German fleet also moved very fast, the fighters themselves could cruise at high speed at a speed of about 500 km, and the AR234 bombers, which used both propellers and jet engines, were not slower than the fighter units! It only takes an hour! They can attack! And at this time, the second wave of the Americans' fleet should not have been released!

"Damn! How did the Germans intercept planes so much? "When the American fleet approached the German fleet. The black-pressed interceptor plane startled the Americans. They really can't figure it out, the Allied fleet is only 16 aircraft carriers, where did so many planes come from?! Although the offensive fleet consisted of 1,400 aircraft, only a little over 900 fighters were available. The remaining less than 500 are attack aircraft of the Sky Raider or SBD type. It is different from the mode of twin-engine aircraft and guided weapons in the Huaxia aircraft group, and the ordinary single-engine attack aircraft to supplement the knife. The Americans now rely on ordinary bombers for their entire attack power. In terms of quality, the United States can't compare with Huaxia, so it can only rely on quantity!

According to the original estimate. Although its own 900 fighters against the same number of FW190Ds cannot be said to be overwhelming, at least it does not suffer. But look at the situation now. The fleet on the opposite side is at least about 30% more than their own estimates! Just about 30% of the enemy planes are definitely enough to drink a pot of those slow attack planes behind them! Something is wrong! The Germans are going to play pure defense!

But it's all rushed here, and it's impossible to go back. There is an abyss ahead, and the American fleet will also take the lead in jumping. At a distance of 150 kilometers from the German fleet, two huge groups collided. The Germans had a very clear goal, they did whatever it took to penetrate the opponent's defensive circle, and the target was more than 400 attack aircraft behind them! The roar of the cannons and the roar of the engines resounded throughout the sky, and the groups of aircraft on both sides fought within a radius of hundreds of kilometers. The huge wing was torn apart after a collision, and the two sides then fought in squadrons or even in 4-plane formations. The explosions in the sky never stopped. There was even an officer on the periphery of a German destroyer who claimed to have witnessed at least 30 explosions in a minute! Countless planes turned into fireworks in the sky. Elite pilots and fighters representing the highest level of aviation on both sides were reduced to nothing in a matter of seconds. Only the debris scattered on the sea proves that they once existed.

The US aircraft fleet rushed to the target almost waist-deep in blood, and in the last leg of the journey of more than 100 kilometers, the Americans lost a third of their aircraft fleet! And when they could finally clearly see the ships on the sea, the most difficult test had just arrived, and the naval aviation of the Allied countries did not hesitate to risk being shot down by their own antiaircraft artillery to hunt down the US attack planes that were entering the attack route. And at the same time, the German fleet on the sea also opened fire! A huge funnel-shaped barrage weaves together into a nearly impenetrable web of fire, shattering all flying units that try to pass through to pieces.

However, relying on the huge base, the lucky ones in the US-British fleet eventually passed through the opponent's interception. And the first target they set their sights on was the hapless Austro-Hungarian fleet! A huge armored aircraft carrier and the medium-fleet carrier Silesia next to it were the first to be targeted, suppressed and covered by as many as 30 Skua fighters. The small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the side chords of both aircraft carriers were almost all beaten into a pile of scrap metal. More than 20 Sky Raider attack aircraft dropped at least 35 rounds of fish and more than a dozen bombs on two aircraft carriers!

Such dense firepower completely encircled the two unfortunate battles, with the Silesian aircraft carrier being sunk first. Three torpedoes that hit the side chord almost simultaneously almost completely destroyed the waterline of the vulnerable aircraft carrier. In just a few minutes, the medium-sized aircraft carrier sank to the bottom of the sea. Another Loudon-class armored aircraft carrier also did not escape the fate of destruction. After being hit by 7 armor-piercing shells and 6 torpedoes, accompanied by a series of violent explosions, the aircraft carrier, which was unfortunately set on fire to the ammunition depot, finally disappeared into the sea. At this point, with the exception of Marshal Haldy's flagship, Austria-Hungary lost all his fleet aircraft carriers in this naval battle! The Austro-Hungarian fleet, which was once considered a maritime power, has since completely sunk, and the total destruction of the navy has also aggravated the already acute political contradictions in the country to a certain extent!

Almost at the same time as the Silesia was attacked, another German detachment was not spared. The USS Moltke and the adjacent USS Blucher were also on the radar of two groups of American and British attack aircraft. As a first-generation German aircraft carrier, the Blucher simply could not have opened more than under such a strong attack, and was directly knocked to the ground by a wave of bombs and torpedoes! And the Moltke next to it was a little unlucky, at the beginning. When Germany's first armored aircraft carrier thought it had escaped after successfully dodging more than a dozen fish and at least six bombs, a damaged sky raider loaded with ammunition stumbled into the Moltke's waterline! That's a bomber with 2 1000-pound bombs and 2 torpedoes!

The violent explosion directly tore a large hole of more than 30 meters in the side of the hull! The shock wave from the explosion also tore through the inside of the hull to be given to the boiler compartment and the nearby aviation gasoline depot! High temperatures and pressures of up to several hundred degrees of steam spread throughout the hull. And mixed with the fuel vapor that spilled from the aviation gasoline tank. And just at this time, a short-circuited power line ignited gasoline vapors, and a series of unstoppable explosions sounded inside the hull. Thick black smoke and flames poured out of the breach in the ship's hull. Just ten minutes later, the captain of the Moltke ordered to abandon ship.

However, the attack of the American and British fleets ended here, and the remaining attack planes were either destroyed or dispersed into separate small groups, and they did nothing in the face of fierce air fire and deadly interceptions, and in the end. At the final stage of the interception battle, the Americans threw away at least 300 more aircraft . Before returning home, half of the incoming fleet was reduced to ashes! And the results in exchange for the battle also made the Americans more satisfied, 2 armored aircraft carriers and 2 medium fleet aircraft carriers! If only there was another wave. The U.S. Navy's record has every chance to surpass the Chinese Navy!

Of course, if we consider the strength of the German fleet in the Battle of Ceylon and the strength of the fleet dispatched this time, it is obvious that the opponent facing China is more powerful. The Chinese faced two dozen fleet aircraft carriers, while this time the Americans faced the Allied fleet, which was inferior in both quality and quantity.

"Something is wrong." When the results of the battle are received from the front. As a group of U.S. Navy officers and sailors celebrated the success of the first wave of attacks, Fletcher felt a sharp sense of unease. Frankly. The defense of the German fleet was a bit beyond the expectations of the Americans, according to the Americans' estimates, this wave could destroy at least 6 German aircraft carriers, but only 4 have been sunk so far, and 2 of them are medium-sized.

"It's nothing, right, the Germans must have realized that they couldn't beat us, so they chose to defend, right? Isn't that a normal thing? Halsey said with some surprise.

"They know they can't beat us, so why do they keep fighting? The opponent is playing at home, and they will get more information. If you find something wrong, you can just flash people, and it's not that you can't run away. The Azores, although final, are not as important as the German High Seas Fleet, right? The Germans were not stupid, and there must have been other motives for the engagement in such a situation. Fletcher said with a gloomy face.

"It doesn't matter if there are other motives, the German fleet has only a few planes, and the land-based aviation that can land on us nearby is either limited in number and cannot pose a threat, or it will take a long time to arrive. It shouldn't be a big problem, and we've been far from the battlefield since the release of carrier-based aircraft. We have alert planes on the periphery, they are coming, and we have plenty of time to warn! Halsey said nonchalantly.

And just when the US and British carrier-based aircraft forces attacked, under the cover of German carrier-based fighters, the Germans' magic box also launched an attack on the US and British fleets, and the entire aircraft group launched a sprint at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the target! The fleet cruises at speeds of up to 525 kilometers per hour! And the arrival of the German fleet was indeed unexpected by the United States and Britain, because it was almost impossible for Germany to keep the entire fleet at high speed cruising at this distance. If the JU90 and FW190D cruise at high speed while carrying bombs, they will not be able to fly back without the Americans fighting!

But it turned out that the German attack really exceeded the expectations of the opponent, and when the German aircraft group flying at high speed was spotted at a distance of 210 kilometers from the main fleet, the Americans were stunned! Those strange bombers with strange appearances, fast speeds, and unexpected ranges instantly chilled the hearts of the Americans! People always have a sense of fear of what they didn't expect. And this fear soon spread to the entire fleet, because the attack of the Germans this time was too unexpected!

"The fleet takes off all carrier-based aircraft! Instantly! Right away! When the alarm from the front line came, he realized that there was no better way for the calculated Nimitz, and the only thing he could do now was to do his best, although he was surprised by the new high-speed long-range bomber of the Germans, but at the same time he was very confident in the performance of the Skua fighter.

At this time, the US carrier-based aircraft formation was in a very awkward situation, the second wave of attacks had just been released, most of the fighters in front of the aircraft carrier had already been dispatched, and the bombers behind the deck were waiting to take off, and the deck was occupied by a small half, even if the US and British aircraft carriers still had stocks in their hangars, they could not put the prepared planes on the deck and take off. And what is even more terrifying is that these waiting attack planes are now full of fuel, if a bomb falls in the group. This aircraft carrier is really finished, it's useless for God to come! Thinking of this, Nimitz broke out in a cold sweat!

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