On one side of the window, six other "Swordfish" attack aircraft lined up and rushed into the German air defense dead corner... The angles of these six "Swordfish" attack aircraft were very tricky, and they appeared on the other side of the "Riceliu" and "Strasbourg". In this way, the hull of the "Dunkirk" became the best cover for the six "Swordfish" attack aircraft. The other two battleships could not even see these six "Swordfish" flying at low altitudes.

Qin Chuan said intimately, "Dunkirk" is going to be finished... It has been hit by the torpedo, and its speed has slowed down and its slight tilt towards one side, so it cannot avoid the torpedoes launched by these six "Swordfish".

However, at this moment, the shadow of a fighter plane fell from the sky. Then, with the roar of machine guns, the six "swordfish" sank down like kites wet by heavy rain... Because they were flying at an ultra-low altitude, two of them hit the sea and broke into several pieces in the rolling. Three of them persisted for a while, but eventually fell into the sea. The last one was covered with black smoke at the tail, and it launched the torpedoes it carried into the water at the moment before the crash.

Qin Chuan saw the white waterline coming straight towards the warship, facing the warship's command center... If this torpedo exploded, it would be afraid that the shock would shock the people in the command center to death.

At this moment, the German fighter plane miraculously rolled in the air, then dived down again and fired a shuttle... The "Waohua" bullets brought out two splashes of water in the sea water and approached the white water line. Then there was a "boom", and the torpedo exploded before hitting the warship. The sea water it raised even splashed into the command center.

"Malceu!" Qin Chuan heard the naval soldiers on the deck cheer.

Only then did Qin Chuan notice that the German fighter plane had a yellow "14" painted on the flank... This was Marceyu's plane, but he didn't expect this guy to make such rapid progress.

But Qin Chuan didn't have time to sigh, because someone was already shouting: "Enemy fleet!"

He raised his telescope and looked east, and there was indeed a large group of warships appearing in sight... The British fleet hoped to come to fight while air forces bombarded the German fleet, but obviously they had missed the best opportunity, because at this time the British fighter jets were almost gone under the joint attack of the German Navy and the Air Force.

The British army also owned three battleships, namely the "War War War", the "Jun Quan" and the "Maria".

Among them, "War War" is the flagship, and it is divided into the B fleet with the "Jun Quan". "Maria" originally belonged to the C fleet and the "Eagle" aircraft carrier as a defender mission. However, after learning that the three German battleships were all safe and sound, Lieutenant General Tovey was worried that the British fleet would suffer losses, so he hurriedly asked the "Maria" to come for reinforcements.

These three battleships actually surpassed the German "Dunkirk"-class French battleships in firepower and protection, and are comparable to the "Richeliu"-class battleships. (Note: the main gun of the War War is 381MM, while the main gun of the "Dunkirk"-class battleship is 330MM).

The problem is that these British battleships were all products of World War I. Although their artillery has been modernized, large components such as engines cannot be replaced, so their speed can only barely reach 21 knots, which is far from the 27 knots of "Dunkirk" and the 30 knots of "Richeliu".

As we all know, speed is very important for warships, especially in the battle between warships and warships. Faster speed often means that you can avoid shells and torpedoes from the enemy more flexibly, and can easily seize advantageous positions and fully exert the firepower of existing warships.

More importantly, British battleships do not carry out multiple repeated protection like French warships, so although their surface protection data is stronger than French warships, their anti-sinking and anti-strike resistance are not as excellent as they seem... The flagship "War-Welfare" has been repeatedly damaged and overhauled during combat.

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In an instant, a roar of artillery shells came from the sky, followed by a series of water columns that surged into the sky around the German warship group, and several destroyers were hit on the spot... One of them should have been hit by the main artillery of the British battleship, and the entire hull sank into the sea. After a fire broke out, it jumped up due to the buoyancy of the high water, and then it quickly lost its balance and tilted to the side and slowly sank into the sea.

There were thick smoke, flames, waves of water caused by shells and water vapor evaporated into the air. Fragments of warships and various daily necessities were floating on the sea. Corpse floated in the water, and blood was spreading around. The navy released escape boats and kayaks, and threw out lifebuoys to rescue comrades who were escaping. The scene was in chaos for a while.

This is the British fleet that fought cheaply... The German warship group was busy with air defense, and was caught off guard by the British army.

But the next situation is different.

The British air force has reached the end of its strength, so the Luftwaffe can free up his hands to attack the British warship group... This is also Redell's idea. He asked the Air Force to provide air cover for the German Navy later in order to allow the warships to exert their air defense and strike capabilities to enable the Luftwaffe, which was originally at a disadvantage in number, to obtain air supremacy.

Once the Air Force obtains air supremacy, the British fleet will be in a double blow from the sea and the air.

This is not only because of the chaos of shells facing the air and the ships, but also because of the problem that reconnaissance aircraft in the air can be more powerful...

Just as artillery on the ground requires artillery observers to compare artillery, warships also require reconnaissance aircraft to compare artillery.

The more artillery of ground artillery is not very dependent on aerial reconnaissance, because artillery observers can set up artillery observation stations on high ground, but there is no such thing as high ground in naval battles... It can only rely on the observation of air reconnaissance aircraft, and then tell the warship whether the guns of this round have been far or near and make adjustments.

This is also one of the reasons why cruisers and battleships in this era had to bring several water reconnaissance aircraft... Water reconnaissance aircraft can not only play a role in reconnaissance, but also perform artillery comparisons in combat.

When the British army lost air supremacy, the first ones were shot down were these seaplanes with slow speed, low firepower, and obvious targets... There were two floats under the seaplanes.

In addition, French warships were fast, so only the first round of artillery bombardment could hit British warships accurately.

In contrast, the German Navy can launch artillery shells more accurately with the cooperation of their own seaplanes.
Chapter completed!