The commander of the British Navy's Home Fleet, Betty, has a very good ear, because he heard nothing wrong. The Battle of Jutland on the second day had already reached a critical moment. This time, the Far East aircraft carrier-based aircraft had only one target to attack.
, that is to defeat the British Navy's home fleet, and the formation guarding the Far East Navy's Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group also began large-scale maneuvers, with the purpose of blocking the German seaport and completely surrounding the British and German main fleets.
However, the British Royal Navy's home fleet is also divided into several echelons of battle sequences. The main force is naturally the large battleship squadron. The first, second, and fourth battleship squadrons are all battleship squadrons. Among them, the fourth battleship squadron is the largest, with four under its command.
A battleship detachment.
The third squadron is the battlecruiser squadron, which is the heavy cruiser squadron. The fifth squadron is composed of light cruisers. The sixth, seventh, and eighth squadrons are destroyer squadrons, as well as small minelayers and torpedo squadrons. But there are no
Submarine formation.
Therefore, this time the British Home Fleet entered the German seaport to fight. There were mainly three destroyer squadrons and a light cruiser escort at the rear. As the world's maritime hegemon, the cruisers they used were all large-tonnage giant ships. Why do you say that?
Because this light cruiser detachment is all Invincible-class battlecruisers, with a standard displacement of 17,373 tons, and a full load of about 20,000 tons, while the Far East Navy's light cruiser standard is limited to 6,000 to 4,000 tons.
In terms of overall dimensions and tonnage configuration, the British light cruiser fleet is similar to the battleship fleet of the Far East Navy. It also has a maximum speed of about 25 knots. The armament system is at least standard, with 4 twin-mounted 45-caliber 12-inch tanks.
It has a main gun, more than 10 single-mounted 45-caliber secondary guns, underwater torpedo tubes, etc.
Therefore, the British Navy occupied many firsts at that time, such as the world's first-class ironclad battleships and the world's first-class battlecruisers. However, all British battleships had the same design, and too much emphasis was placed on the speed of the battleships, sea firepower, and protection.
Insufficient force and weak air defense capabilities.
If you want to blockade German ports, you must first break through the British cruiser formation and destroyer formation. Don't the British focus on the speed of battleships? Great!
The Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Navy, Liu Qinghui, had a speed competition with the British Navy, but instead of using naval battleships, he used aircraft carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, the moment the decision was made, the Far East Navy's Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group consisted of more than 140
A light bomber, escorted by more than thirty fighter jets, headed directly for the British Navy's Home Fleet, light cruiser fleet and destroyer squadron.
At the same time, the entire second day of the Battle of Jutland entered its most advanced stage.
Since the main target of the attack is the British Navy's light cruiser formation, there is no doubt that the Fifth Squadron of the British Navy's Home Fleet, composed of seven world-class battlecruisers, will become the target of attacks by Far East aircraft carriers.
target, but there were still more than 20 destroyers around, so the commander of the Far East Navy Liu Qinghui decisively ordered the entire formation of the three Yanhuang-class aircraft carriers to surround and annihilate the three destroyer formations of the British Navy.
This left the Far East Navy's Northeast aircraft carrier battle group completely without any protection, with only three large supply ships and four torpedo ships escorting it. If the British and German navies had one or two submarines nearby at that time, then the Far East Navy's Northeast aircraft carrier would
The battle group will lose all aircraft carriers, causing the fleet's soul battleship to sink.
Perhaps due to luck or other reasons, the British Navy's Home Fleet did not bring submarines, while almost all the German Navy's submarine fleets were devoted to unrestricted attacks on the Allied transport lines.
However, in the subsequent naval battle, the British Navy seaplane carrier HMS Ergardin played a huge role. Regardless of this warship with a displacement of only 1,800 tons, whether it is in terms of appearance, power system, or warship
Even at the highest speed, there is no way to pose a threat to the Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Far East Navy.
However, this warship, whose main mission was originally reconnaissance, was not using its two 4-inch guns and one anti-aircraft gun to play an important role in charge, but the four seaplanes carried by the Ergardin.
HMS Ergardin of the British Home Fleet was originally a reconnaissance ship following the British Fleet Commander Betty in the Battle of Jutland. However, due to a malfunction of a seaplane, it returned midway through the naval battle on the first day and returned again the next day.
While conducting a reconnaissance mission, he was dispatched by British Admiral Beatty to launch a direct attack on the Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Far East Navy.
Although the attack power of the four carrier-based aircraft was limited, at that time, it posed a fatal threat to the Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Far East Navy, which had no counterattack capabilities. Once the four carrier-based aircraft of the British Navy dropped the
The bomb hit the flight deck of the Far East aircraft carrier, so more than a hundred carrier-based aircraft that were fighting were unable to land safely in the end.
Therefore, after this sudden incident, Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Navy Liu Qinghui had no choice but to order some carrier-based fighters to return, along with some bombers, thus giving the light cruiser fleet of the British Navy's Home Fleet a chance to breathe.
Soon afterwards, after about an hour of fierce battle between the Far East Legion and the British Navy's Home Fleet, the main battleship formations of the Home Fleet began to file out of the port. When they were about to face all the main battleships of the British Navy's Home Fleet, Liu Qinghui could only order all the Far East Legion battleships and
The carrier-based aircraft immediately withdrew from the battle.
As a result, the British Navy's Home Fleet saved itself bit by bit from the crisis of being surrounded. However, the losses of the British Navy's Home Fleet at this time were fully twice as large as those on the first day.
However, after gathering all the combat power of the Far East aircraft carrier battle group, Liu Qinghui immediately ordered to launch a third wave of maritime attacks twenty-five minutes later. However, this time, it was no longer an encirclement or interception of the British Navy and the German Navy.
In fact, in the Battle of Jutland, the British Royal Navy's Home Fleet was fully capable of competing against the Far East Navy and the German Navy, but their two light aircraft carriers were not put to great use.
Especially the aircraft carrier Campania, which is an aircraft carrier with a displacement of up to 18,000 tons and is already equipped with more than 30 carrier-based aircraft. However, during the Battle of Jutland on the first day, the aircraft carrier Campania was
When following the British Jericho Squadron to provide reconnaissance missions, they also returned midway due to mechanical failure. This ultimately led to the British Navy facing a completely unfavorable situation in the Battle of Jutland.
As two aircraft carriers of the British Navy, HMS Ergardin and HMS Campania, malfunctions occurred at the same time at critical moments in the battle (one was a malfunction of the carrier-based aircraft and the other was a malfunction of the mothership itself). This shows that the British Navy at that time
There is a serious lack of experience in operating this type of warship, and it is obvious that the aircraft carrier is not optimistic about its combat capabilities.