A few minutes later, the fighter planes pressed down on the German warship group.

The tactics of the British military aircraft group made Qin Chuan a little unbelievable. It was the same as before, which was to lower the altitude and attack along the blind spots of the warship's anti-aircraft guns.

Under normal circumstances, the last attack had failed and it cost a heavy price, so the British Air Force should change its tactics in a targeted manner.

But they didn't... maybe because they didn't know what tactics to use, or because the British were too traditional.

Then Qin Chuan discovered that the British tactics had actually changed. They concentrated fighter jets to attack a stronger fleet, that is, the first fleet.

This strategy is correct, and the British also found that there was a reason why German warships did not have air defense blind spots, that was, they separated the two fleets to cover each other.

So……

If the aircraft group is divided into two teams to attack two fleets at the same time, the two fleets can perfectly exert the air defense capabilities of the secondary gun.

But if the fleet only attacks one of the fleets, especially the one with stronger combat power, it means that only the weaker fleet can play a role.

This idea is good because it weakens half of the German fleet's air defense capabilities at the first time. Especially if the battleships "Richelieu" and "Strasbourg" are injured, then the German army will only have one "Dunkirk" battleship and cannot play a role due to attack. Then the result of British fighter jets attacking the German fleet will be completely different.

However, what the British army did not expect was that... the German fleet "Richelieu" was only slightly injured, and at the same time, the increase in the German fleet's air defense capabilities was not only tactical, but also the use of "near-blasting fuse" shells.

So, fighter planes dived but one after another was destroyed and fell into the sea.

Of course, the British tactics still played a certain role... Even though the Second Fleet had the "Richeliu" battleship, its air defense firepower was still insufficient to destroy all British fighter jets in the air.

So the First Fleet was subjected to violent bombing, especially the "Dunkirk" battleship... The battleship was surrounded by fighter jets and bombers. Every figure passed by, a series of machine guns and explosions sounded, accompanied by shocks from the sea.

With a loud explosion, a bomb exploded on the stern of the Dunkirk ship, and the entire hull shook violently. The No. 5 turret was surrounded by a ball of flame, and there were still many bullets and shells flying towards the warship in the air.

On several occasions, Qin Chuan even thought that the warship he was in would be destroyed or blown to pieces, but it still sailed as usual, carrying a ball of flame and black smoke to make snake-shaped maneuvers. At the same time, the air defense equipment on the warship continued to shoot into the air... French warships were stronger than expected, especially battleships.

Of course, battleships are not so easy to be sunk, so Qin Chuan has never seen the world.

With a "boom", a bomb hit the front of a destroyer on the left. The bomb may have penetrated the destroyer's ammunition depot, causing a violent explosion. The huge fire erupted violently from the hull into the air. The powerful shock wave caused a heat wave and sea water to rush towards the "Dunkirk", which instead slowed down the fire in the No. 5 turret.

But the destroyer...the burning fire was still advancing in inertia, but the front soon sank like a rock. With it, there were soldiers on the destroyer. Only a small number of them could escape and be rescued, and more were trapped under the deck and sank with the warship.

Several torpedo attack aircraft dived towards the Dunkirk.

As mentioned earlier, the "Swordfish" torpedo attack aircraft is a biplane spiral aircraft, which makes it very prominent in the enemy fleet, and because of its slower speed...the maximum speed is only 222 kilometers per hour.

In fact, what is more important is that the German "Bismar" battleship was injured by this torpedo attack aircraft, so the German Navy is very familiar with this torpedo aircraft, so it aimed its air defense firepower at them as soon as possible.

A piece of bullets passed by, and two torpedo attack aircraft were shot into a fireball and fell into the sea on the spot.

The other four torpedo aircraft broke through the firepower network under the cover of other fighter jets, and then dived down again to reduce the altitude... The torpedo attack aircraft has high requirements for launching torpedoes, such as altitude, speed, etc. Otherwise, the torpedo will malfunction due to excessive impact.

It is also because of this that pilots flying torpedo attack aircraft often call British pilots jokingly calling them the use of their own lives to destroy enemy warships.

Then the torpedo plane leveled at a low altitude... This is also a necessary action, otherwise the torpedo will not be able to hit the target due to the wrong angle.

After that, they fired deadly torpedoes... A series of white trails headed straight to the flank of the Dunkirk.

Qin Chuan only heard someone shouting: "Torpedo, left full rudder!"

One torpedo exploded under the strafing of a machine gun, and two torpedoes passed through the stern due to the maneuvering action of the Dunkirk.

There was also a torpedo hitting the hull, and there was a loud explosion in an instant. The warship seemed to be heavily slapped by a big hand, and then shook back. Qin Chuan was almost lifted to the ceiling. Fortunately, he grabbed the guardrail tightly and was not thrown out.

A staff officer was not so lucky. He was thrown out of the window by the reaction force and fell on the front armor more than ten meters away. Qin Chuan poked his head out and saw that he was just falling on the shell of a shell, afraid that his spine would be broken into two pieces.

However, the Dunkirk can still continue to sail.

French warships do a good job of underwater protection:

First, the main armor belt extends 2.5 meters underwater with an inclination angle to minimize threats from underwater.

Secondly, lightning protection walls (actually reinforced hulls), lightning protection compartments, fuel compartments that play indirect protective roles, armor partition walls, multiple armor partitions combined with watertight compartments, etc. are adopted at the lower part of the armor belt.

Again, a thick layer of foam rubber is also filled between the ship shell and the lightning protection wall, which can effectively reduce and buffer the impact caused by torpedo and mine explosions.

These protections allow the Dunkirk to continue to fight, only because the hull's water inlet speed has decreased.

At this time, another battleship, the Strasbourg, made a wise decision... Seeing that the Dunkirk became the main target of British fighter jets, it took the initiative to distance itself from the Dunkirk.

Once the distance is opened, the Strasbourg can use its secondary gun to provide cover for the Dunkirk.
Chapter completed!