The speed of a fully loaded torpedo machine is naturally lower, and in order to have enough fuel to go back, only the most economical cruising speed can be chosen. More importantly, the British Navy did not find those seaplane carriers hidden behind the capital ships, and when they began to meet, they were too far away, and under the cover of the smoke screens generated by the capital ships and the fleet, the British did not find 3 seaplane carriers at a distance of 15KM behind the main fleet. And after the official engagement, these seaplane carriers did not participate in the war, the reason is simple, the German aircraft carrier load is extremely limited, except for two machine guns to fight air combat, there is no use, and even if they fight in air combat, they can only hit bombers with full loads, and professional fighters can't beat them.

"Stop them!" Scheer soon realized that the most aggressive offensive was about to be launched, and a large number of torpedo boats sprang out of the gaps in the British fleet. They rushed towards the German fleet like a pack of wolves, led by light cruisers. The capital ships of the British roared again, and nearly 100 tons of various shells per minute whizzed and smashed into the German fleet in the distance. The combat power of the Grand Fleet exploded at this moment, and the attack from the air and the sea unfolded at the same time. In the face of this fierce wave of attacks, Scheer could only lead the huge high seas fleet to open the distance, the number of auxiliary warships of the high seas fleet was insufficient, and the main fleet had no advantage, in the face of this wave of attacks, Scheer chose to avoid it reasonably, but he did not dare to retreat. Once they choose to evacuate, the formation is likely to be chaotic under the enemy's dense lightning strikes, and at this time they are still within the attack range of the Grand Fleet. In a battle on the battle line of equal strength, the side with a chaotic formation is not far from death!

Fortunately, the Sailfish bomber with this torpedo flew too slowly. At the same time, in order to maintain formation and identify the main German battleships under the smoke screen in order to attack, the Sailfish needed to slow down further, which gave the Germans time to take off their seaplanes. The Fokker DR3 fighter with a pontoon took off in a staggering manner. They formed a three-plane formation in the air, and then launched an attack without waiting for all the men to arrive. The Kaiser still attached great importance to this battle, and he really gave the best to the High Seas Fleet, the battleships, the supplies, the planes and the pilots! Among them were the Luftwaffe's number one ace, the Red Baron Richtfen, and the Blue Marx Medal Oswald. Burke, and his younger brother Owen. Well, there is one of these people who is not very famous now, but who is very famous in history. The man's name was Goering.

"Damn, they have escort planes!" Burke cursed under his breath. Burke and his team had just climbed to a certain altitude when they spotted several DEH10 Sailfish planes suddenly rushing out from the opposite side, although this aircraft was originally designed to be used as bombers. The issue of air combat was not considered at all, but in the case of the range of a single-engine aircraft not being caught, these crews, who had not learned how to attack the sea, took up the escort mission by the way. Don't think about maneuverability, how high maneuverability does a twin-engine three-man aircraft from World War I want to be? However, the British made other enhancements.

Firepower and protection! The British made this type of aircraft into an air tank of the same period!. In a rare move, they installed armor near the driver's cockpit in the first place. The occupant in front is protected because he is the pilot of the aircraft. The reason for adding armor to the last crew is that the average experienced opponent likes to go around the back and attack. As for the telegraph man and navigator caught in the middle? I'm sorry. Pray to God for yourselves. IN THE NOSE OF THE AIRCRAFT, THE BRITISH INSTALLED 2 12.7MM MACHINE GUNS. The telegraph operator in the middle also had 2 detachable light Vickers machine guns. THE REAR MACHINE GUNNER WHO SAT AT THE END ALSO HAD A 12.7MM MACHINE GUN, WHICH WAS TERRIFYING COMPARED TO THE GERMAN PLANES THAT ONLY HAD TWO 7.92MM MACHINE GUNS AT THAT TIME!

"These big guys are like a porcupine, with spikes all over their bodies. It's hard to find their firepower, especially when these planes are huddled! Burke recalled after the war. Of course, he doesn't know that these Swordfish are just as troublesome in air combat when they are not equipped with torpedoes. Burke led his group fearlessly towards his opponents, and everyone in his group was an ace pilot, even the best of them had shot down seven planes on the Western Front. As experienced pilots, they know that it is extremely irrational to clash head-on with the opposing side. This kind of play of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 is really not worth emulating these aces. For these huge birds of prey soaring in the air in front of you, it is the best choice to kick their butts hard behind the side! The three planes dodged the sailfish head-on with a nice dodge. In a matter of seconds, they appear diagonally above each other!

Just as Burke was steadying down his fighter and preparing to dive to attack the enemy below, several tongues of fire suddenly swept from below, and it looked like at least 5 or so machine guns were aimed at him. Burke immediately evaded, but a little brother to his left was a little slower and was bitten hard by the fiery snake below, missing a small piece of the wing. The three planes waddled over each other's heads, then rolled around again and circled behind each other. The three ace pilots were actually bitten back when they hit the bomber, which made Burke and the others very unhappy, so they decided to teach these clumsy big guys a good lesson, well, at least to fight down! And from the position, they are in the direction of 7 o'clock on the other side. Very nice angle.

"Why can't you die?" Burke and the others all saw the tail machine gunner of the Sailfish bomber, this machine gunner is the only threat to the attacking side in the air battle, and killing him is equivalent to a 90% chance of winning. And the experienced Burke and others did exactly that. Burke locked a Sailfish in the center of the aiming ring, then pulled the trigger of the machine gun. Yellow-orange-orange shells flew out of the ejection opening, and the fiery red bullets flew towards his opponent like locusts, and the tail heavy was clearly caught off guard. I saw him quickly bow his head and hide behind an iron plate. 7.92MM BULLETS CLANGED ON THE IRON PLATE. Although the rear machine gunner was suppressed, it did not seem to kill him.

"This plane can actually concentrate the fire of 3 machine guns in the back?" The two tongues of fire made Burke fail, and instead of killing the Heavy in the back, he put himself in a passive position. However, his rich experience still freed him from the entanglement of death. Although he and his squad did not lose anything, they did not take advantage of this encounter either. For the first time, they encountered an enemy armed to the teeth, which left them a little confused. In the end, I had to give up.

Unlike Burke's hard-fought style, the Red Baron and his group were much more cunning, "Our mission is to prevent the opposing planes from lightning striking the battleship. So our first target is a torpedo machine, the second is a torpedo machine, the third is still a torpedo machine, and a direct fight with a fighter is not only unnecessary but also a waste of time! "Before leaving, the Red Baron repeatedly told his team to avoid unnecessary battles, so when they took off, they did not have too much entanglement with the British planes that served as escorts, and after maneuvering around the other party, they locked the target on a Sailfish three-plane formation that was preparing to try a lightning strike." Let's bite off their left wing first! ”

THE DENSE FIRE KING OF 6 7.92MM MACHINE GUNS INSTANTLY BEAT THE TAIL OF ONE OF THE SAILFISH PLANES INTO A SIEVE, ALTHOUGH THE COCKPIT HAS SOME PROTECTION, BUT THE REST OF THE PLACE IS WOODEN, UNDER A RANDOM SHOT, THE ENTIRE TAIL WAS SLASHED OFF, AND THEN STAGGERED INTO THE SEA. "We've got our first results!" A German pilot yelled excitedly. "But it's not enough." Looking at the large formation of more than a dozen planes rushing in the distance, the red baron shook his head helplessly.

How can a bomber formation that covers each other and is equipped with a large number of self-defense weapons fight without large-caliber cannons and long-range rockets? Answer: Fight for luck! In the 2 wars in history, even when the American and British air forces did not escort, the Luftwaffe fought quite hard if it simply relied on the 20MM cannon, and the dense firepower made it difficult for the pilots to play their skills, and if it was a fight between fighters, they could also rely on maneuverability and personal tactical literacy to carry out sneak attacks, and some people counted that the pilots who were beaten down in the 2 wars (if he was still alive. More than half didn't know where the attack came from until they were shot down. The real aces are all veterans who are well versed in the way of sneak attacks, and a play style like that of frontal bull may appear more in a game in Xu Jie's era. But it's not the same when it comes to bombers, especially guys like the US imperialists, who have machine guns all over their bodies, and there are almost no dead ends, and even if a plane has dead ends, other planes will help defend, no matter what kind of skills are used in the face of the B17 group of flying boxes, it has become a frontal attack. And because of the size of the bomber, it is indeed more resistant. So before having rockets to break up the opponent's formation, the Luftwaffe fought quite hard.

ALTHOUGH THE AIRCRAFT AT THIS TIME WAS FAR FROM BEING COMPARABLE TO THE FIRE HEDGEHOGS SUCH AS THE B17 AND B25 DURING WAR II, THE TWO 7.92MM MACHINE GUNS ON THE GERMAN AIRCRAFT WERE OBVIOUSLY FAR FROM THE MG151-20, MK108 AND ROCKETS OF LATER GENERATIONS. Although everyone is an ace, these aces soon find that no matter where they charge, they will be attacked by self-defense machine guns, and because of the hasty takeoff, the whole battle is a bit like adding fuel. Although the elite of the Luftwaffe tried their best, the effect was only half of it!

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