Chapter 252 Surprise Attack 8

“Tu tu tu tu tu…”

The officers and soldiers on the "Fury" aircraft carrier reacted quickly. When the German dive bombers arrived, all 22 cannons - 6 twin 4-inch high-level dual-purpose guns and 10 2-pound single anti-aircraft guns - were Firing wildly. However, this kind of firepower is still too weak!

If it were in the North Sea or the Atlantic Ocean, the "Fury" would never be alone like it is now. There would be at least one "air defense escort" beside it (a type of larger tonnage, stronger anti-aircraft firepower, and sometimes equipped with Destroyer with air search radar) and protected by an ordinary destroyer. If the entire fleet is dispatched together, there will be densely packed cruisers and destroyers escorting it.

But today, there is only one transport ship of more than 10,000 tons beside it, and the nearest destroyer is nearly 10,000 meters away.

What's even worse is that the main engine of the "Rage" has not yet completed startup - the "Rage" uses a heavy oil-fired boiler. The heavy oil needs to be heated to a flowing state before starting. The turbine cannot enter high speed immediately after the boiler is started. status, it will take another 15 minutes to slowly accelerate, and the whole process will take up to 30 minutes...

"Haha, this is a dead target that won't move!" Captain Wal T. Heisenberg laughed loudly as he controlled the aircraft to hover to an altitude of 3,000 meters and enter the dive position.

"Start the dive now!" He roared, then lowered the nose of the plane, aligned the drop point mark of the dive sight with the Fury on the sea, then opened the speed brake and dived at an angle of 55 degrees. Started to dive downward - the Ju.88 is not a Ju.87 after all. It is just a medium bomber that "can dive bomb", not a true dive bomber. Although it is theoretically possible to dive at a large angle, it will cause certain damage to the fuselage. For Captain Wal T. Heisenberg, who still has to fly 900 kilometers to return to the base, it is better to take it easy...

"2600...2400...2200..." Captain Val T. Heisenberg's navigator loudly reported the altitude. When he shouted the number 700 meters, Captain Val T. Heisenberg only heard the bombardier, Honor Ya Corporal Vrba, a Lean man, shouted: "Let go!"

Then the plane seemed to become a lot lighter all of a sudden, and the whole thing moved upward slightly. Captain Heisenberg knew that two SC-500 bombs had been dropped. He quickly pulled the control stick with all his strength, raised the nose of the plane, and the plane began to climb rapidly amidst the sparse artillery fire.

"Boom!"

There was a loud noise, and the bombardier Vrba shouted: "Hit! Hit! One shot..."

"Wow!" Everyone in the cabin cheered. An SC-500 bombshell is no joke. Without an armored deck, it would be impossible to withstand it.

Just as everyone was cheering, another loud noise came!

Another SC-500 bomb hit the poor, thin aviation deck of the "Fury". Everyone on board this Ju.88 medium bomber knows:

This aircraft carrier is doomed!

History will be rewritten from now on!

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"Oh God! Oh God! They hit the Fury. The old Fury is doomed. It has no armored deck..."

British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who was in the officer's lounge of the Nelson, went crazy when he saw two huge fireballs rising from the Fury.

Although it is old-fashioned, this is an aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons after all! Moreover, it has a speed of up to 30 knots and can maneuver with the large fleet.

"God, they're coming..." Sir Pound also lay at the porthole and looked around, but he didn't see the Fury, and he didn't have the heart to care about the old aircraft carrier. Because, he saw five twin-engine He-115 torpedo bombers forming a horizontal formation, flying slowly towards him at a height of less than 20 meters from the sea.

A battleship like the "Nelson"...theoretically is not afraid of dive bombers - just a theory - because its horizontal defense capability is relatively strong and it is impossible to be blown over by bombs of the PC-500 level. Therefore, in the eyes of the British Royal Navy officers and soldiers, torpedoes are the most dangerous enemy.

Although the "Nelson" also has 38mm mine protection armor, it also has a mine protection compartment, and has quite good anti-sinking performance. But whether it can be sunk does not mean that it cannot be damaged. If a few holes are opened in the bottom of the "Nelson", the ship will have to be docked and repaired for several months...

"Tu tu tu tu tu tu..."

All the "Nelson's" anti-aircraft guns and high-level dual-purpose guns that could fire out of the port side all fired at once, desperately throwing ammunition at the five "death-seeking" He-115s.

"Boom! Boom!"

There were almost two loud noises in succession, and the two He-115s were turned into fireballs. In the air and sea battles of World War II, the most dangerous job was undoubtedly that of torpedo bomber crew members. You can imagine how dangerous it is for a plane to charge at a battleship with dozens of anti-aircraft guns at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour and an altitude of about 20 meters.

"God bless! God bless! God bless..."

Sergeant Hans Brandt, the pilot of the 12th Torpedo Bomber Squadron of the German Naval Air Force, held the joystick tightly, suppressed the fear in his heart, aimed the nose of the plane at the huge battleship "Nelson" that looked like a mountain, and kept praying.

He didn't know that his squadron leader, Lieutenant Welt's plane and another He-115 had been shot down.

"Release!" Hans Brandt suddenly heard the bombardier's shout, and then he felt the plane suddenly rise up a few meters.

Run away quickly! Hans Brandt didn't even have time to pray to God for the torpedo to hit, and there was only one word in his mind-runaway-run away!

Almost at the same time as he dropped the torpedo, the other two surviving He-115s also dropped their torpedoes in a panic, regardless of whether they were aimed or not...

And the F5 torpedoes they dropped were not good torpedoes, with little power, slow speed, and short range. It can only hit 2,000 meters at the farthest, with a speed of only 33 knots. It can hold 200 kilograms of Hexanite explosives (this is an explosive developed and supplied to the German Navy during World War I, with a power equivalent to 80% of TNT), and can only be dropped at ultra-low altitude, which is not a particularly ideal weapon.

"Boom!" With a muffled sound, the hull of the battleship "Nelson" shook again. Churchill did not stand firmly and fell to the ground with a plop. His big head was bleeding from an unknown place.

"Hit?" Winston Churchill ignored the severe pain in his head and did not rush to get up. He sat on the floor and asked.

"It was hit," Sir Pound was still calm, "but the 'Nelson' is very strong, there will be no problem."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another loud noise on the sea, and a huge fireball rose, as if a volcano on the seabed was erupting.

"This is..." Churchill got up very quickly, ran to the porthole and looked out.

There is another floating torch on the sea!

"It's the Courageous..." Sir Pound gritted his teeth, "It was hit by a German dive bomber!"

The Ju.88 bombed the immobile aircraft carriers accurately! Moreover, the Ju.88 has a large bomb load, and it can drop two SC-500s at a time. A five-plane formation can drop 10 500 kg bombs. For an old-fashioned aircraft carrier without an armored deck, it will be crippled if it is hit by one.

"The torpedo plane's attack effect is very poor," Vice Admiral Graham, who was watching the battle at an altitude of 5,000 meters, put down his telescope and frowned tightly, "The horizontal bombing of the He-111 is useless, only the Ju.88 bombed well. Those two aircraft carriers were burned like that, even if they can be repaired, it will take a year."

There were more than two aircraft carriers on the sea that were set on fire by the Ju.88, and a heavy cruiser was also hit by two SC-500s. One turret was missing, and there were fires everywhere on the deck. In addition, a destroyer was blown up by the SC-500-it was no longer visible on the sea, and it should have sunk.

And now less than 40% of the Ju.88s have dropped their bombs and flapped their wings to fly away, and the remaining 60% are still looking for targets to attack.

"General," said Franz Speer, the operations staff of the naval aviation team, "it seems that the defense capabilities of the British aircraft carriers are too weak and it is difficult to adapt to the current naval battles."

"At least they can't be bombed!" When Vice Admiral Graham said this, a huge water column rose from the sea again.

"It looks like a battleship!" Major Franz Speer raised his telescope and looked at the sea below. "This is... This ship is so big, at least 30,000 tons! But the anti-aircraft firepower seems to be very weak, oh, it was hit by another one! It seems that the torpedo attack aircraft is about to succeed."

The "Iron Duke" class battleship that was being beaten by the He-115 was not a proper battleship, but a training ship. This old battleship, which was started in 1912, had neither anti-aircraft firepower nor anti-torpedo compartments. Faced with the torpedo attack aircraft and F5 torpedoes of the 1930s, it naturally had no power to fight back. In just a few minutes, it was hit by 6 F5 torpedoes and began to tilt at a large angle. It seemed that it would not float for long.

Just when the "Iron Duke" was about to sink, another old "Revenge" class battleship "Royal Oak" on the sea also became the target of He-115 torpedo planes. At the same time, another 5-plane formation of 4 He-115s completed the attack on the "Nelson" and its sister ship "Rodney" (this ship was not discovered by German spies), losing 6 aircraft, firing 14 torpedoes and hitting 3. But the two battleships remained motionless.