"Sir, enemy plane!"
A trembling shout suddenly reached George Yilu's ears, but Yilu didn't care so much. Instead, he continued to lower his head and read the report dictated by the carrier-based aircraft pilot-his fleet had been attacked from Kwajalein Atoll. The Ming Dynasty fighter jets bombed twice, but because there were not many fighter jets taking off from Kwajalein Atoll, there were only twenty or thirty. Among them, there are 12 Xianglong four-engine bombers and Yunlong water reconnaissance aircraft that can only drop bombs horizontally and have no accuracy at all. Therefore, two waves of bombings only sank two destroyers, and the impact on Fleet D was quite limited.
And this is the third time that Ming Dynasty fighter jets have arrived... Although they arrived a little hastily, not long after the second bombing was over, they shouldn't cause too much damage, right?
Just when George Yilu thought of this, a trembling shout rang out again.
"God, there are at least 100 enemy planes on the port side!"
What? 100 enemy planes?
George Yilu was a little confused and suspected that there was something wrong with his ears!
"Oh God, 100 planes, they're coming to bomb..."
Are there really 100?
George Elliot quickly ran to the left side of the bridge, raised his neck, raised his telescope and looked up at the sky. He suddenly stood there blankly as if he had been hit by a body-holding spell. Looking at the sky with a telescope from where he stood, he saw hundreds of biplanes flying over in a cloud...
These biplanes are definitely not British, because the current British carrier-based aircraft are all single-wing "pigeon planes" and are not equipped with biplanes at all, so these biplanes must be from the Ming Dynasty... But where did they come from? Coming? Kwajalein Atoll? impossible! If there were so many planes there, they should have bombed them long ago. Why did they wait until now? What did you do early?
If they didn't come from Kwajalein Atoll, where did they come from? Are there Ming aircraft-carrying warships nearby? 100 aircraft, that's at least two aircraft-carrying battleships!
Could it be that...the main force of the Ming Dynasty's Pacific Fleet has already arrived?
When George Yilu thought about it more and more, he became more and more frightened. The Ming fighter planes in the sky had already begun to attack. However, they did not rush towards the Black where George Yilu was located. Instead, they split into two lines and rushed towards the two standard displacement ships. The 14,400-ton Qiang Sheng class - the Black class has a standard displacement of only 9,300 tons, which is 5,100 tons smaller than the Qiang Sheng class. It looks far less valuable than the Qiang Sheng class, so the more than 90 aircraft in the air temporarily ignored the Blake and Bren. Heim, all went to bomb the two "big aircraft carriers", the Strong and the Terror.
The first to launch the attack were 24 Ssangyong 2 carrier-based reconnaissance bombers taking off from the Shu Zhongwang and Kuizhong Wang. This type of fighter aircraft can carry a 250 kilogram armor-piercing bomb in two-seat mode, and can also Dive bombing can be carried out at a maximum angle of 40 degrees. Although the accuracy of bomb delivery is not as good as those later bombers that can dive bomb at a large angle close to 90 degrees, it is enough to deal with the Qiang Sheng class which does not have much strong anti-aircraft firepower.
When the 24 Ssangyong 2 bombers were divided into two columns and began to dive bomb the Strong and Fearful, the flight decks of the two aircraft-carrying armored cruisers were in chaos. The fourth attack wave of the Qiang Sheng had just returned, and about twenty "pigeon planes" were huddled together on the angled deck. The deck near the superstructure was filled with 100-pound armor-piercing bombs and high-explosive bombs, at least There are as many as fifty or sixty! In addition, there were some ground crew members coming and going on the deck pulling hoses used to refuel the aircraft.
At the same time, there were many "pigeon planes" being chased around in the sky, trying to land on the noisy deck.
Since the Ming army's Ssangyong aircraft followed the British army's pigeon aircraft, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the Qiang Sheng and Terror did not react at first. When they reacted and started firing ammunition, the dive bombing It's already started!
The angled flight deck of the Qiang Sheng was hit first. A 250-kilogram armor-piercing bomb fell from the sky, easily penetrated the wooden flight deck of the Qiang Sheng, and exploded in a warehouse where aircraft parts were stacked below the deck. The fire caused by the explosion instantly ignited a hose used to transport fuel on the deck, causing a fire. Then another 100-pound bomb stacked on the deck was exploded - these bombs were all picric acid bombs, very sensitive, and exploded one after another under the vibration of distance!
The fire and shrapnel from the exploded bombs swept across the flight deck, turning it into a real hell. The pigeon planes parked there were destroyed one after another, either being blown to pieces or being swept away by the fire. Become a "burnt pigeon"! The worst thing was of course the pilots in the cockpit. They were about to take off to fight again, so they were all wearing seat belts. In the rush, they had no time to untie them, and they could only watch themselves being engulfed in fire.
In just a few minutes, the Strong and the Terror were turned into two floating fire coffins by the bombs that suddenly fell from the sky and the bombs that were ignited or exploded... because these two aircraft-carrying ships had Too many flammable and explosive items are not properly stored! So the fire was completely out of control from the beginning. The flames were flying around the ship, unable to be extinguished, and quickly engulfed everything.
But the disaster of the British Royal Navy had just begun... Just when 24 Dragon fighters cleanly blew up two Powerful-class aircraft, the disaster moment for the two Crown-class aircraft came again. Find their 12 Dragon 2 carrier-based fighter jets. These fighter jets are also equipped with 100 kilograms of bombs. They can also carry out dive bombing. Almost at the same time that the SsangYong aircraft accomplished their feats, these flying dragons also swarmed up and began to dive and drop bombs on the two Crown-class ships.
The fate of the two Crown-class ships was almost exactly the same as that of the two Strong-class ships... The high-explosive bombs and armor-piercing bombs piled on the deck were exploded by 100 kilogram bombs falling from the sky, which soon ignited the aircraft and oil pipelines on the deck. , and the oil pipeline ignited the oil depot. Fire and explosions swept through the two crowns one after another, turning them into two blazing fire ships in the blink of an eye.
The loss of the four aircraft-carrying armored cruisers happened almost instantly. Witnessing all this, George Yilu's mind opened wide and his eyes turned red. There was nothing inside except one thought - it's over. ! The British Empire is over! The Royal Navy is finished!
"Enemy plane! Coming to us..."
A crying voice shouted in George Yilu's ear.
George Elliot also saw the fighter planes rushing towards the Black where he was...but this time it was not bombers or fighter planes with bombs, but 12 sea-skimming Thunder Dragon torpedoes. bomber.
"Zuo Manduo..." George Yilu's reaction was quite fast, and he shouted immediately. With his shout, the Black began to turn sharply again, turning its bow and facing the twelve torpedoes that had just been dropped. And this "Lucky Blake" was really lucky. Twelve torpedoes actually passed by both sides of it, and none of them hit.
"My life is saved..." George Yilu, who was so frightened that his face was covered with beads of sweat, just took a breath when he heard several dull explosions, which came from the starboard side of the Blake. .
George Elliot quickly turned around to take a look, and saw that the Blenheim, which was less than 3,000 yards away from the Blake, had been torpedoed several large holes below the waterline, and was flipping and sinking...
"Five, five aircraft-carrying armored cruisers..." George Yilu's voice was trembling when he spoke, his heart was almost broken, his face was gray, and tears were about to fall.
At this most desperate moment, someone suddenly shouted: "Reinforcements! Our reinforcements have arrived!"
George Elliot turned his head and looked eastward, only to see dozens of smoke pillars appearing over the eastern ocean - the main force of the British Royal Navy's Australian Fleet had arrived!
