Chapter 1240: Sky Thunder One

Chapter 1240 Air Thunder 1

"Let’s start attacking! The target German super-dreadnought battleship, focusing on attacking the flagship and the third battleship!" Colonel Schott issued an attack order. A few minutes later, through semaphores and propaganda, the order was finally issued. Under the leadership of the aircraft, the long-established Group A finally launched the most violent aerial attack since the beginning of this war!

"The British are here, and we can't stop them." At this time, the deputy captain of the Scimitar Squadron wrote in a telegram to the navy. At the end of the day, he added a sentence that can only express sympathy, but there is no egg. Words used: "May God bless you."

However, this telegram finally gave Count Spey an early warning of about 15 minutes. "The fleet turned and sailed to the northeast, preparing to release the smoke screen. The distance between the ships was widened, and the battle line could be separated if necessary." The count is also helpless now. The fleet has no effective means to resist these airborne deaths. Now, it can only be resigned!

Clouds of smoke began to be released from around the battleship, and the destroyer next to it began to drag black smoke around the fleet, as if encountering a dangerous octopus, the German fleet was once again hidden in the smoke that it released, but this time At first, it was a lot lighter, and there was not enough smoke canisters, and the entire German fleet gave people a feeling of recklessness.

"Our chance is here! Rush up, if we can't kill them, none of us can go back!" Lieutenant General Eberhardt said excitedly. And with the airstrikes of British bombers, the Black Sea Fleet rushed up like doping. As the commander of the Black Sea Fleet said, they have no choice. Apart from fighting the Germans at this time, they have no chance to escape! Because if this wave can't kill your opponent, you really can't expect the Russian fleet with a speed of only 15 knots to slip away from the Germans!

"I saw it! It was at 2 o'clock!" The lead plane of a V1500 bomber was the first to spot the battleship Rechadia with half of the stern out of smoke. Under its leadership, 6 torpedoes The machine lowered the nose and flew towards the distant target!

The huge plane glide down at an angle of 15 degrees. The wings of more than 30 meters stretched out like the wings of a giant dragon. The fleet of 7 planes formed a gray figure on the sea under the sun. They tried The image of the medium-sized bomber maintained the formation, but the size of the four-shot bomber was indeed too large, and the operational performance of the 1st fighter aircraft was very bad, so when it was about to pull up at the end, these giant beasts gathered together had an accident!

The dive angle of a V1500 bomber was slightly larger, so its descent speed was a bit slow. When it got closer and closer to the aircraft in front, the pilot in anxiousness pulled the control stick violently, and the nose of the aircraft began to rise. The huge drag instantly decelerated the aircraft that was too fast. Because of the violent operation, the aircraft lost both altitude and speed. At this time, it was less than 300 meters above the sea! The pilot subconsciously prepared to change his posture, but the continuous reduction in speed had reached the brink of stalling. In the end, the gravity of the aircraft overcame the buoyancy. Before the torpedo was thrown away, the huge body first made contact with the water.

"The difficulty of having four-engine bombers in formation at a height close to the sea is the same as walking a tightrope with a box. In order to ensure the formation, we must control the speed, and in order to ensure that the torpedo is thrown down, we must control the speed and height. Meters, how can a big guy with a width of nearly 40 meters be so easy to control? At low altitude, maybe it's just that the pull rod moves a little bit more, and it may directly fall into the sea or collide with the friendly army nearby! The British pilot described it this way.

Perhaps because of the impact of this accident, the British did a very poor job of the first lightning strike. Almost all bombers dropped torpedoes at a fair distance. There have been seven since takeoff. For hours, during this period of time, they endured the fatigue caused by the long flight and endured the threat of air interceptors, and their nerves had been tightened to the limit. If there is an analogy, it is similar to the situation when the Japanese Air Force attacked Guadalcanal from Rabaul. Simple fatigue has made them exhausted.

Five torpedo planes shot five torpedoes scattered within a range of 1200 meters to 800 meters. These torpedo attacks had no rules at all. After two consecutive turns, the Resadiye succeeded in hiding. The first wave of British attacks was launched, but at this time, the British level bomber team also entered the battlefield!

"They are like a dark cloud. Looking from the sea, you can clearly see a group of dark shadows flying towards us. The other party entered at a height of about 500 meters, and then continued to descend, and finally seemed to stop at 100. The height of meters, (Don't be convinced, the British bomber units dropped bombs at 80 feet in the first battle, and achieved very good accuracy.) Then they flew over like a carpet, and dropped the bombs neatly! "A German officer recalled the scene like this.

Unlike the torpedo attack, the bomb attack this time was exceptionally good! An overwhelming strike formed by 8 bombs successfully landed around the Rechadia, and the jets of water caused by the explosion of the 800-pound and 1,000-pound bombs almost covered the entire battleship. There were bursts of thunder-like explosions coming from around the battleship, and from time to time there were bursts of fire bursting out!

The first hit was successfully hit in the middle of the Le Chadia hull~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This 1000-pound bomb directly smashed the chimney behind! An orange fireball rose from the sky, and the resulting shock wave swept across the upper and middle decks in the hit area. A large hole measuring tens of square meters appeared in the superstructure of the hull. The blackened steel plate was huge. The distorted and distorted steel beam tells people how terrifying this level is just now! What’s more tragic is that this bomb was very close to the warship’s No. 2 power supply compartment. Although it was not directly destroyed because of the protection of the armor box, the violent vibration still caused some malfunctions in the diesel generator inside, which leaked. The wires outside the cabin were completely destroyed, and the entire battleship instantly lost nearly a third of its electricity.

The other bomb was somewhere between a hit and a miss. This bomb weighed about 800 pounds, but it fell a little farther from the warship, about 50 meters. Therefore, although it is still equipped with hundreds of pounds of explosives, the damage caused is relatively limited, except for some shrapnels that have made some holes in the hull shell, but the internal lightning protection compartment has not suffered much damage, and the flooding is also very serious. So little, so that the people on the Leshadia did not realize that they had been hit for a long time...

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