"Beautiful! Sure enough, it's hard work! Hearing this, Huzi exploded in an instant, snapped his fingers excitedly, and roared loudly: "Hurry up, act immediately, hurry up and set off immediately!" This battle must be fought beautifully! "Yes!" "Roger!" "Understood!" "Yes, sir!" Not only Huzi was so excited, but the naval officers in the room were so excited that they began to act the moment they received the order. I saw that in the next moment, all kinds of headlights on the aircraft carrier Zhenyuan were lit up one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the entire command room, bridge, and deck were illuminated as if it were day.

Immediately afterward, the bridges of the entire task force were lit up, and the silent radio was resurrected, and the radio wave signal instantly filled the entire void. The entire aircraft carrier group showed a hideous face in just a few seconds! Immediately after that, the decks of all 6 aircraft carriers were busy and began to enter take-off mode. I saw one reconnaissance plane, dive bomber, torpedo plane, and fighter plane after another taking off from the deck one after another, soaring into the sky with a fierce roar.

In a short time, 360 combat aircraft took off from six aircraft carriers. After taking off, the combat planes formed a large group of attack planes in the air, and then swooped down on the port of Tobruk, 220 kilometers away, under the guidance of reconnaissance planes. Even the slowest torpedo bomber can reach it in 40 minutes at most. At this time, the German combat aircraft group had just arrived at the Matrou fortress for a few minutes, and it was too late to return to the defense.

Even if the enemy's radar station can give more than 10 minutes in advance, they will not have much chance to temporarily turn around and kill back to protect the security of the port. Because it only takes 20 minutes, it is enough for the bomber group to enter and exit seven times, play and perform to their heart's content. Taking a step back, even if the German night fighters did not all sortie, and a small part remained, even if there were a lot of ground anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns in the port of Tobruk, there would be no way to completely block this wave of fast and accurate bombing shocks!

All in all, as long as you don't pass out, there is a high probability that the sneak attack will be successful! "Even-bought karma! Report! A massive enemy fleet of aircraft was spotted moving rapidly towards the port of Tobruk! The Allied air forces are about to launch a massive enemy air raid on the port! "When the group entered the detection range of the radar station, a German radar soldier from the radar station in the port of Tobruk discovered the situation at the first time, immediately sounded the air defense alarm and made a report to the superiors!

Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~ "Not good! Enemy air strikes! "Hurry up, get ready for battle!" The fierce scream instantly broke the silence of the harbor and woke all the German, Italian, Navy, and Air Force men from their dreams. In an instant, the port of Tobruk became extremely panicked, and the sailors rolled over from their beds and entered the combat post as quickly as possible.

The air defense units on the shore of the port also entered the artillery positions at the first time, began to load the shells, and adjusted the firing elements. The farther away the air force, they move the fastest, because before that they were already on standby. Unfortunately, most of the night planes had already flown to the Matrou Fortress 25 minutes before the battle.

Although there are a lot of remaining combat aircraft groups, it is too difficult for them to fight in this dark night sky. "Report to the captain! Enemy radars have already detected the bomber group of our army, and the air defense alarm has been sounded! "On a Tiger Army submarine off the coast of Tobruk Port, when the captain Zhang Si was waiting for news in the command cabin, a communications staff officer came to report urgently." It's finally here! ”

Zhang Si's eyelids jumped slightly, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Quick, report this situation to the military seat immediately!" Also, immediately signal the frogman brothers in front to immediately detonate the torpedo and then withdraw as fast as possible! "Yes!" The communications staff officer hurriedly responded, then turned around and ran to the communication room next door. "Haha, it's finally time to amplify the fireworks!" "Devil, give me death!" "Brothers, we will avenge you!"

Due to the limited remote detonation distance, the frogman troops could only venture to stay in a sea area not far from the port of Tobruk, and immediately pressed the detonator according to the instructions after receiving the signal. Boom! Boom! Boom! Immediately afterwards, a series of earth-shattering explosions sounded in the port of Tobruk not far away, and all six torpedoes attached to the Italian warship were successfully detonated. "Oh my God! What's going on! "Report to the captain, our warship has been attacked, and two bomb bays have flooded!" "It's over, it's over! The enemy turned out to have planted bombs on the bottom of our ships long ago! "Oh God! Help me! "Close the valve!" "Quick, head to the beach!" “……”

The 6 capital ships suffered heavy damage almost at the same time, and a big hole was blown out of the hull, and the sea water could not stop it from pouring into the frenzy! After the sea water poured into the cabin, the sailors on the bottom were swept to the ground and struggled desperately in the icy water. The Italian sailors, who had a strong desire to survive, began to frantically save themselves, trying to gain a chance of survival by closing the closed warehouse, draining the water out, and rushing to the shore not far away.

The port of Tobruk seems to be embedded in the land with an oval C, and is a relatively narrow harbor. In this harbor, it can not only be an excellent shelter from wind and waves, but also effectively block submarine attacks and even long-range artillery fire from battleships. In this way, the ships are not too far from the coastline, and they are only a kilometer away.

At the same time, due to the limited capacity of the MKI manned torpedo, the torpedo body can only hold 270kg of aluminum-containing explosives, and its power can sink thousands of tons of warships, but for large-tonnage battleships and heavy cruisers, there is no way to directly kill them in seconds. Therefore, if they deal with it in time, they still have a chance to run the battleship aground on the beach! Even this does not mean that these capital battleships are gone, because such serious injuries can be said to be broken, and without a few months of repair, they can only hope to return to the sea!

And a few months is enough for Yang Fan to do a lot of things. The battered battleship, which had an extremely strong desire to survive, fought desperately and sprinted wildly towards the shore. However, at the moment, the number of ships in the harbor is a bit large, and it is not easy for them to rush to the beach. In this way, the Italian fleet, which had already become very busy, suddenly completely turned into a group of ants on a hot pot, and it was chaotic.

"Haha, well done! Let the brothers quickly retreat, we should also enter the battle mode, and see if there is a chance to bite hard! Through the periscope, he clearly saw the chaotic scene in the distance, Zhang Si nodded excitedly, although they were only playing auxiliaries tonight, but the soldiers who didn't want to be marshals were not good soldiers, and he also had the ambition to be the main force.

"There is news from the front that the enemy radar station has issued an early warning! Reconnaissance planes, dive bombers and escort fighters went at full speed, and torpedo bombers continued to follow behind! After receiving the relevant orders, the commander of the bombing formation, Meng Xinke, could only throw off his arms and do a big job, leading the fast combat planes to take the lead first, and the slow torpedo planes to replenish the guns.

There is really no way to avoid this situation, although Yang is hanging, but after all, he is not an immortal power that can shatter the galaxy with a sword, and there is no way to do what he wants. In addition, although the torpedo machine was slow and difficult to operate, it was necessary to bring these heavy guys to achieve the ideal bombing effect against the enemy's naval fleet.

The main advantage of the dive bomber is the high penetration rate and the high hit rate. The high penetration rate is not difficult to understand, its attack mode determines that it is a difficult target to hit, and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are basically ineffective against dive bombers. However, machine guns/small-caliber cannons have limited range and power, and when they can fire, the opponent has often entered a stable dive attitude, and it is difficult to prevent the bomb from dropping bombs even if they can get continuous hits against a sturdy dive bomber.

However, the disadvantages of dive bombers were also obvious, mainly because they had very limited lethality against battleships and cruisers with strong horizontal armor. Therefore, if you want to blow up and sink these big guys with rough skin and thick meat, you often need a torpedo machine to kill them with one blow. As we all know, the torpedo during World War II was not only very expensive, but also too heavy. Any one of them is more than seven or eight hundred kilograms, which is twice the bomb load of a dive bomber.

In order to withstand the large overload during the dive, the dive bomber needs to have a high structural strength, so its own weight can eat up a large amount of bomb load. The payload capacity of the torpedo machine is much higher than that of the dive bomber, but at the cost of it, the torpedo machine is often the one who lags behind in the formation, both in terms of speed and range. Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of the torpedo aircraft are precisely the opposite of the dive bomber.

Torpedoes are a very big threat to large surface warships, one is enough to slow down the flood, and the increase in the number of hits is even more dangerous. In contrast, the penetration rate and hit rate of torpedo machines are very low. Although the aviation torpedo has been structurally strengthened, it still has very high requirements for speed, altitude and attitude when it is launched.

It is not difficult to imagine a torpedo plane that is very slow, flying in a straight line at low altitude, and has a very average strength, and it is appropriate to call it a live target. In order to effectively cover the maneuvering range of enemy ships, torpedo aircraft had to attack in groups, and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were the main threat to them, especially with VT fuses. In addition, aviation torpedoes are limited by volume and weight, their speed is not fast, their range is not far, and the hit rate is not destined to be high.

But in any case, torpedoes were the only means capable of ensuring the sinking of enemy ships. "What? A large number of Allied bombers are about to arrive in the port of Tobruk? Rommel didn't fall asleep at this time, but sat in the war room of the headquarters, and his complexion changed suddenly after hearing the news! Ni Mei's, this is really afraid of something! "Yes, Your Excellency Marshal, there are no less than 350 Allied combat aircraft, and they should arrive in 15 minutes at most! Moreover, the other party also dispatched frogman troops, which have already inflicted heavy damage on the fleet's 6 capital ships! ”

The German communications staff officer nodded seriously, although he also hoped that this was not true, it was just a false alarm. It's just that the cold objective facts will not be distorted and transferred because of personal consciousness, even if he doesn't want to admit that he doesn't want to face it, it won't work. "Bastard! How could such a thing happen! ”

Rommel was so angry that he trembled all over, and he had a premonition before this, knowing that it would definitely not be peaceful tonight, so he was fully prepared in all aspects. However, it is a pity that under Jiang Qiang's manipulation, Rommel finally did not hold the bottom line, and transferred most of the night fighter groups guarding the port to the front line to participate in the battle to fight against the Allied ground forces and aerial bomber groups that were frantically attacking. Because Rommel really didn't want to go back to the pre-liberation period and be repulsed by the Allies dozens of kilometers away in one night. It's because of such a "thought difference" that it is now uncomfortable!

"Send an immediate telegram to the front-line air units, so that they don't get too entangled with the allies and return home as soon as they complete their support mission!" After all kinds of thoughts swirled in his mind, Rommel immediately ordered: "Order the coastal air defense units to be ready for battle and make every effort to intercept the incoming enemy aircraft group!" "The fighter group is ready to take off immediately to meet the enemy, and no matter what, they can't be easily attacked!" "Also order the reconnaissance aircraft unit and the submarine force in the Mediterranean Sea to find the anchorage of the enemy fleet as quickly as possible!"

After issuing a series of battle orders, Rommel said murderously: "These damned things, we must retaliate and make them pay a heavier price!" "Buzz!" More than ten minutes passed quickly, and the Allied bomber formation arrived as scheduled, and the roar of the dense engines seemed to be rolling muffled thunder all over the world, exuding supreme coercion without anger and self-authority.

At this moment, a high-altitude searchlight on the coastline of Tobruk Harbor was turned on, and beams of bright light rose into the sky. Immediately afterwards, anti-aircraft guns on anti-aircraft positions on the shore scrambled to spew out long tongues of fire and fired wildly at the Allied bomber groups that began to dive at high speed. At the same time, the Italian naval fleet made the same move, with anti-aircraft guns of all calibers firing at full range.

In an instant, the gunfire was loud, and one after another dragged light bullets drew brilliant rays of light in the air, forming countless criss-crossing firepower grids. At this time, there is no need to talk about exposing the target, because the reconnaissance planes of the Allied bombing formation can completely hide the port of Tobruk, which already has significant geographical features, under the illumination and radar scanning of the reconnaissance planes.

At this time, instead of waiting to be beaten and bombed, it is better to fight frantically to cause panic and damage to the enemy bomber formation to the greatest extent. If you don't want to die on the battlefield, you have to be not afraid of death first, otherwise the first person to die is yourself! "Hey, why are there really no enemy fighters coming out to intercept them?"

I don't know if I was afraid of being accidentally injured by my own ground anti-aircraft fire, or if all the night fighters were sent out, and the escort fighters that had been rushing to the forefront did not encounter the German aircraft group that was intercepted in the air. "There are all groups of reconnaissance aircraft and fighters, do not stop, move on, expand the search area, and be ready to fight at any time!"

However, for the sake of safety, dozens of escort fighters did not participate in the ground attack, but continued to fly forward and cruise, expanding the security warning range. "Brothers, hit hard!" "Ghost, don't let me die yet!" "Damn the devil, go to God!" The dive bomber pilots who followed the fighter group began their show. In the face of the dense enemy anti-aircraft fire, they did not have the slightest fear, and divided into several bombing batches to go head-on, and launched a deadly dive bombardment at the enemy fleet, air defense positions, and other military targets anchored in the harbor.

Da-da-da-da! Strings of calibre ammunition rained down like a torrential rain, blasting at the enemy anti-aircraft guns on the warship that were spewing flames with hatred and murderous intent. Either you die or I die, what else can I say at this time, it's over! When the plane dived to the best position, the pilots did not hesitate to press the bomb drop switch and smashed one heavy bomb after another at the enemy ships.

Dive bombers are characterized by high lateral accuracy (determined directly by the course of the aircraft) and low longitudinal accuracy (because of the need to know the timing of bombing), so they can accurately hit the target by cutting directly along the course of the enemy ship and aiming the bomb. Boom! Under the calm and calm operation of the dive bomber pilots, one after another heavy bombs accurately hit the target. Immediately afterwards, I saw a cloud of flames rising into the sky, illuminating half of the sky at once.

Although the ground anti-aircraft fire of the German-Italian coalition forces is very dense, in the absence of close-fire fuse shells, if these anti-aircraft fires want to hit the Allied planes in the night sky, they really need to rely on faith! Of course, these ground anti-aircraft firepower are by no means decorations, especially those 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, which are not in vain, and once they are directly hit, they are absolutely certain to die. A blind cat can also meet a dead mouse, let alone such a dense ground anti-aircraft fire.

In just a few minutes, more than 10 Allied dive bombers were swept away by anti-aircraft artillery. Three of them were disintegrated by direct volleys, and the rest were heavily damaged and lost their balance and could not continue the fight. In an irretrievable situation, the brave pilots did not choose to parachute to save themselves, but crashed headlong into enemy warships or anti-aircraft gun positions that were firing wildly with the determination to die.

In this world, not only the devil pilots have the courage and ferocity, and will choose to complete the final blow in the same way before the crash, but also these Allied pilots who have long been out of the way! Under the round-and-round frenzied and indiscriminate bombing of the Allied pilots, the air defense positions on the shore of the port of Tobruk and the military fleet in the harbor constantly rose up with balls of flames, and I don't know how many bullets and bombs accurately hit the ground targets, causing serious damage to the enemy again and again.

In just a few minutes, the port of Tobruk was transformed into a world of fire, and the originally dark harbor was now lit up by piles of blazing flames. "It's spectacular!" "Quick, get into the fight now! Blow up and sink all these damn warships! "Just before the attack of the dive bomber group was over, more than 50 torpedo bombers arrived belatedly and finally arrived at the fierce battlefield that had been fully deflagrated.

The British torpedo pilots, who had extremely rich combat experience, immediately divided into two teams and cut diagonally from the bow of the enemy ship, and the two teams launched an attack formation perpendicular to each other. The torpedo course is perpendicular to the enemy's course, which is the most advantageous position for attack.

If the enemy ship evases, it must be that the bow of the ship will face one of the torpedo planes, and the other team of torpedo planes will get the best attack position. The team of torpedo planes that were evaded could also take advantage of the enemy's evasion to change course and re-cut to the side. At this time, both the ground air defense forces and the anti-aircraft artillery of naval ships had experienced the ravages of huge groups of dive bombers, and the anti-aircraft fire had been seriously damaged.

At this time, more than 50 torpedo planes entered the battlefield, which was undoubtedly the last few steel nails nailed to the coffin board for the Italian fleet. However, just as the torpedo group unfolded its formation, ready to happily start the feast, the situation changed abruptly. More than 10 German BF110 night fighters suddenly came out of the torpedo group diagonally behind like ghosts.

Da-da-da-da! As soon as these German fighters appeared, they bared their ferocious fangs and frantically vented strings of caliber ammunition. Boom! These bulky torpedo planes, which could only walk in a straight line, fell into bad luck in an instant, and one after another German night planes exploded in volleys and turned into fireballs! The entire torpedo fleet was wiped out in an instant!

It turned out that Rommel expected the Allied torpedo opportunity to arrive on the battlefield one step later, so he sent the few remaining night fighters out in advance in order to intercept the torpedo planes that posed the most threatening to the fleet. Because as long as these torpedo machines can be taken out, the Italian naval fleet in the port of Tobruk will suffer serious damage at best, but there will be no devastating blow.

It is clear that this tactic of "breaking the line" worked wonders, and the torpedo planes were defenseless in the face of night fighters! "Even God! Damn the Germans are ambushing us from behind! "Come and help!" "Don't panic! Fight with them! Go ahead and throw torpedoes! ”

The torpedo pilots were all stunned at once, and they never dreamed that the Luftwaffe would play such a routine. But at this time, however, they had no choice but to send arrows, even if the Luftwaffe bit their butts to chase and kill, they could only go up and complete the projection.

"These dogs have actually got behind us, turn back and rescue!" "Kill it!" "Even-bought karma!"

The Allied fighter pilots who were cruising around on guard really did not expect that the German air force would not fly from the distant land, but would actually kill diagonally from the sea behind. After seeing the situation in front of them, all the fighter pilots suddenly turned red-eyed, and instantly entered a state of rage, and turned around and killed back as quickly as possible.

However, those German night fighters were also red-eyed at this moment, and they didn't think about and snuggled about the Allied fighters who were returning at full speed, and continued to frantically pursue the Allied torpedo group.