PS: Well, in the future, it will be changed to 3000 chapters, and strive for two more

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The World War II on this plane is very different from the original time and space, and the biggest change is that after France was milked hard by China and the United States, it withstood the frenzied Germany, withstood the first wave of blows from Erdezi, and did not kneel. Therefore, the "Sea Lion Plan" for the Mustache to invade Britain has not yet been worked out.

There was no way, the French army in northern France was still resisting stubbornly, and they were able to get direct support from Britain across the channel, although it was difficult, but they still managed to survive until now. However, the losses of the French in World War I were much greater than those of the original plane, and the human resources were particularly scarce, so after holding out for more than a year, they already felt that they could not hold on.

The other is Ireland, in order to pull out this thorn in the back, Britain gathered a large number of troops to attack the island of Ireland on October 6, 1939. With absolute naval and air superiority, the British army successfully crossed the St. George's Strait and landed in Ireland after paying 50,000 casualties. However, Ireland is not easy to fight at all. The Germans sent five divisions here, together with a large number of militia trained in peacetime, to firmly hold the British.

The British got bogged down in Ireland. So far, it has only occupied a quarter of Ireland, that is, the south-east of Ireland, Dublin and the surrounding areas.

That was not all, as the British suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Norway on 16 October 1939, which gave Germany complete control of Norway.

The only thing that stands out is that their Royal Navy finally got revenge.

On October 22, 1939, in a naval battle off Bergen, the complacent German Navy was ambushed by the British fleet, and the Germans, who had been playing submarines for a long time, capsized in the gutter and were severely attacked by the submarines of the Opium Cow, losing five capital ships, including the Mackensen, and seriously injuring many ships. Finally got back a little face.

This is not the end, on February 9, 1940, under the planning of Qiu Fatzi, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier formation carried out a "Pearl Harbor" style attack on the Germans.

It was a textbook battle, and Vice Admiral Andrew Brown Cunningham, who commanded the British aircraft carrier group, became famous. The most surprising thing was that the main force in this battle was actually the "Swordfish" carrier-based torpedo bomber, which was seriously backward in performance and had become obsolete.

The "Swordfish" carrier-based torpedo bomber is a biplane launched by Fairey in 1928, which is similar in model and performance to the original time and space product of the same name, but earlier. In this world, where aviation technology is developing very fast, this kind of aircraft is actually outdated before it has even been tested for flight.

At the end of World War I, the world's mainstream aircraft have been replaced by monoplanes, and Britain is no exception, but the torpedo planes of the British Navy have not been replaced with monoplanes for a long time. It's not that they really don't know the merits of monoplanes, it's that there's no way. One of the reasons is that their air-dropped torpedoes have always been relatively pitted, and once the speed of the aircraft is fast, it is easy to have problems, and some strange problems such as plunging headlong into the bottom of the sea, failure to set the depth, and so on.

In addition, the British have not paid much attention to carrier-based torpedo aircraft, and even the HNA is raised by the mother. I am not very willing to invest in the model and related subsystems, and the replacement in this area is naturally full. It was not until 1937 that a new single-wing "Barracuda" torpedo aircraft entered service, but for various reasons, until the beginning of the war, the Navy's main carrier-based torpedo aircraft were still the old "Swordfish".

However, biplanes also have the advantages of biplanes, they penetrate from ultra-low altitudes at extremely low speeds, and then there are flexible movements, small turning radius, and excellent directivity. Vice Admiral Cunningham planned an extremely bold surprise attack based on these characteristics of the swordfish.

His target was Wilhelmshaven, the home port of the German High Seas Fleet, in the Yard Bay. In this campaign, the British Royal Navy dispatched all 12 aircraft carriers that could fight, including the "Hundred-Eyed Giant", "Athletic", "Unicorn", "Eagle" and other non-series modified aircraft carriers built in the 20s, as well as the real fleet aircraft carriers built in the late naval holiday, "Ark Royal" and six "Brilliant"-class aircraft carriers (Radiance, Victory, Indomitable, Indomitable, Revenge and Dreadful). Even the fury that had been repaired was on board.

In the early hours of February 9, 1940, Vice Admiral Cunningham commanded the largest aircraft carrier group ever in the Royal Navy's history and launched an air raid on Wilhelmshaven. Although there are many British aircraft carriers, they have the old problem of having a small number of aircraft, even in the plane where aviation technology is more developed. Although the tonnage of these aircraft carriers is larger than that of the same name in the original time and space, under the same tonnage, their aircraft carrier capacity is generally at least one-third or even half less than that of the aircraft carriers of China, the United States, Germany and Japan.

The largest number of "Ark Royal" is only 80, and although the "Brilliant" class aircraft carrier, which has the largest number of aircraft in service on this plane, is also larger than the original time and space of the same name, the standard tonnage has been increased to 32,000 tons, but the carrier aircraft is only 48. The Chinese Han Dynasty-class aircraft carrier, which is almost the same size, has a capacity of 86 aircraft, and the aircraft is even larger. The other five modified aircraft carriers have an even more pitiful aircraft capacity, only about 20-30 aircraft.

Therefore, although Vice Admiral Cunningham has as many as 12 aircraft carriers, there are only 498 carrier-based aircraft, and for this operation, in addition to the 200 Sea Fire and Sea Hurricane fighters used for escort and self-defense, the other 298 are all Swordfish torpedo bombers

This time, the main force is the Swordfish style with extremely outdated performance, but it is this outdated thing that makes the Germans suffer a big loss.

As the home port of the High Seas Fleet, Wilhelmshaven must be very strict in terms of defense, and air defense radar and other things are indispensable. But they did not calculate by all their calculations, the British would use such old-fashioned biplanes to fight the main force.

At 2:10 a.m., Vice Admiral Cunningham's aircraft carrier squadron released all 298 Swordfish torpedo bombers on the sea 370 kilometers from Wilhelmshaven, which was not Pearl Harbor and could only carry out a wave of attacks.

In fact, until the start of the war, British aircraft carriers did not have the ability to fight at night. But for the sake of this operation, the British also let go. On the one hand, they modified the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, arranged the indicator lines on the deck with fluorescent diodes, and on the other hand, specially selected a group of pilots for three months of intensive training.

In order to avoid the detection of German radar, the Swordfish lowered their flight altitude to fly close to the sea surface very early, and evaded the radar with the curvature of the earth. Flying in a low-altitude formation in the dark of night, everything can only rely on the instruments on board and the navigation lights of friendly planes. This requires extremely high technical requirements for pilots, and at the same time, it is also a very dangerous thing, so the British pilots who participated in this operation are all elites with nearly 1,000 flight hours, which is almost all the family background of British HNA.

During the flight to Wilhelmshaven, three Swordfish made a mistake and crashed because they flew too low and touched the surface. Two more collided with each other because they were too close. But the remaining two hundred and ninety-three swordfish, unrelentingly, continued to advance.

Flying at an ultra-low altitude of more than 100 meters, where "the wheels were almost all rubbing against the waves", completely rendered the Germans' radar completely useless. On the contrary, when the air listening post that was about to fail first discovered the attack planes, but by this time, the group was less than 60 kilometers away from Wilhelmshaven.

Wilhelmshaven suddenly became alarmed, the air defense positions immediately entered a combat state, and all ships also hurriedly lit fires to preheat the boilers, and the night fighters at the same airfield also took off urgently to intercept them.

The British did not expect the Germans to do so, and they did not expect the British to be so bold as to attack their heavily guarded home port. At this time, except for a few light ships such as destroyers and torpedo boats that carried out combat readiness patrols, the boilers of all large and medium-sized ships moored in the home port were all in a state of flame-off, which was to save fuel and reduce the loss of parts of the power system. After the air defense sirens sounded, it took about 40 minutes for these ships to go from re-firing and pressurizing to being able to move freely.

A large number of BF-116 night fighters of the German Navy soon found the Swordfish attack group, and they flew over the attack group, firing a large area of flares, and the figure of the Swordfish was immediately exposed.

However, the Swordfish planes did not panic when they found themselves exposed, but lowered their altitude again, and the group lowered the altitude to a dangerous altitude of less than 50 meters above the sea surface, and at the same time reduced the flight speed to 120 kilometers per hour.

But when the BF-116s cut into the angle of attack and prepared to attack, all the German pilots were dumbfounded. Because they had a problem that they had never encountered before, the swordfish that were the targets, flew too slowly and too low.

The Swordfish were only traveling at about 120 kilometers per hour, and when the BF-116 attacked from behind, it would rush over its head in the slightest blink of an eye, missing the shooting window. Although biplanes have long been outdated, their biggest advantage is small wing load, good flight stability, and extremely low stall speed. It's like a swordfish, even if it maintains a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, it can still fly steadily. But the BF-116 is not good, this new land-based jet night fighter is too fast, the minimum allowable speed is also more than 480 kilometers per hour, and this speed is very dangerous.

In addition, the altitude of the swordfish is too low, almost flying at an altitude of fifty or sixty meters close to the surface of the sea. In this dark night, the unique "low-speed and high-performance" advantages of the biplane are vividly brought into play, and the swordfish can unscrupulously rely on the instrument to play this kind of aerobatic performance-like "seawater washing wheel" type ultra-low-altitude flight. But the Germans didn't dare to play the jets like that, and they wanted to play a similar game in the dark, which was no different from suicide.

In addition, there is a problem, that is, the radar of the BF-116 is almost useless, the Swordfish are too low, the radar echo of the target and the clutter of the sea surface are intertwined, and only the flare can detect the target.

The two groups of 96 BF-116 night fighters attempted several times in the process, but only six Swordfish were killed. However, he lost six of them, two of which were caused by a stall that slowed down too low and crashed on their own. The other four didn't control the altitude well, and rushed directly into the sea.