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Text Chapter 1087 The Desperate United Fleet

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    After all the Osprey and torpedo attack aircraft had dropped their torpedoes, they immediately returned to the airport in Marsala, reloaded their bombs, and then rushed to launch the second round of attacks.  Although this attack only sank one battleship, six other battleships were damaged, and the remaining six battleships were intact.  However, the fighters of the 4th Wing are coming soon.  They will attack the six undamaged battleships first, and even if they cannot sink them, they will still severely damage them.  In this case, the capital ships of the British and French naval fleets will not be able to escape, and will be completely destroyed in the second round of attacks!

    The Chinese naval aviation fighter planes left in a swaggering manner, but at this moment the commander of the British and French naval fleets, John.  Admiral Jellicoe was about to cry.  In the attack just now, the combined fleet paid the price of one battleship being sunk and six battleships being damaged!  Together with the three battlecruisers that were previously sunk, this has caused the combined fleet to lose more than half of its combat power.  Now, John.  Admiral Jellicoe no longer doubted that these small aircraft had the ability to sink battleships, but it was obviously too late.

    "Your Majesty Commander, what should we do now? After losing so many warships, we can no longer defeat the Chinese. Moreover, although these fighters have left, they will definitely come again, and we can still withstand them.  Attack?" Roslin.  Lieutenant General Wells said with a look of horror.

    He was greatly shocked by the attack power of the Chinese naval aviation fighter planes. This also made him no longer have any confidence in this battle. Instead, he was worried that the combined fleet would be annihilated here.

    "Order the fleet to return immediately! Leave the waters near Sicily. The Chinese aircraft have a limited range, otherwise they would not wait until we are only 80 kilometers away from Sicily before launching an attack! As long as we can evacuate in time, they will  There is nothing we can do!" John.  Admiral Jellicoe gritted his teeth and said.  Obviously, it is impossible for him to step on the Chinese Navy and be promoted to Navy Marshal.  Not only did this battle fail to bring him any glory, it was actually a shame.  The most powerful battleships of the British Navy were gathered together, as well as the assistance of three battleships of the French Navy, but they were unable to defeat the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet. Instead, they suffered heavy losses under the trap set by the Chinese Navy.  With such results, being able to guarantee immunity from punishment is a blessing from God. Wanting to be promoted again is simply wishful thinking.

    "Okay, Commander, I will order the fleet to turn around immediately!" Roslin.  Lieutenant General Wells said.  The attack by the Chinese Navy's aviation force just now was so terrifying that he didn't want to stay at all.  However, now the combined fleet can no longer evacuate at full speed.  Several battleships were damaged, and some were seriously damaged. It was already impossible to evacuate at high speed.  And what they didn't know was that the 120 fighters of the Chinese Naval Aviation Wing were only ten kilometers away from them, and it would only take a few minutes to launch another attack.  It is no longer possible for the main force of the combined fleet to evacuate safely.

    At this moment, the deputy commander of the Combined Fleet, French Admiral Palmiro, was also yelling curses on the battleship 'Bretagne'. Although the Chinese Navy used aircraft to attack the Combined Fleet, it greatly exceeded his expectations, and  He was also shocked by the combat capabilities of these aircraft.  However, this undoubtedly verified his previous guess.  He knew that the Chinese Navy must have set up a trap waiting for the combined fleet to infiltrate.  But John.  Admiral Jellicoe forced him as commander of the combined fleet.  Well now, the combined fleet suffered heavy losses, and even the French Navy's battleship Lorraine was severely damaged. This made him very angry.

    Five minutes later, a large group of black spots appeared in the eastern sky. These black spots were all fighter planes hanging bombs and torpedoes.  The 4th Wing of the Chinese Naval Air Force would set off a little later, so they arrived at the battlefield after the 4th Wing had completed its attack.  However, the outstanding performance of the 1st Wing set an example for them, which also greatly increased the confidence of the pilots of the 4th Wing.  After all, this is also their first time on the battlefield to attack the enemy's capital ship.  Although I have been training for a long time before, it is not true

    "Every team should pay attention to attack the undamaged battleships first. Sunk or severely damage them first, and then attack the injured battleships. Wait until all the battleships are destroyed before dealing with those armored cruisers! Don't let the enemy's attack  The capital ship escapes!" Major General Cai Shudong, commander of the 4th Naval Aviation Wing, ordered.  These capital ships are the combined fleet, or the main force of the British Navy. Only by destroying these big guys can the British Navy suffer heavy losses.  The rest of the armored cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers are not important at all.  !

    The 4th Wing of the Chinese Naval Aviation appeared on the battlefield, allowing the joint ship to turn and prepare to escape from the battlefield.The team was shocked.  When the dark aircraft flew over them, many people screamed in surprise.

    "Oh God! There are so many planes, hundreds of them! If they are all planes carrying torpedoes, then we are doomed!" Roslin.  Lieutenant General Wells exclaimed with a pale face.

    John.  Admiral Jellicoe's face was also very ugly, and there was also deep fear in his eyes.  Previously, there were only a few dozen aircraft, but they sank a battleship of the Combined Fleet and severely damaged several battleships.  With so many aircraft coming this time, the battleships of the combined fleet will definitely suffer heavy losses.  If not, all the capital ships will be sunk. Once all the capital ships are lost, the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet and the British and French Navy's combined fleet will exist in name only.  The British Navy would also be severely damaged as a result.  And his bright future will inevitably be interrupted because of this.  Such an end made John.  Admiral Jellicoe was very frightened.  When I looked at the large group of black aircraft in the sky, I felt even more desperate.

    "Use squads as units and launch an attack! Prioritize the intact battleships, don't let one go!" Major General Cai Shudong shouted the order.  Those huge battleships like hills have completely become their prey at this moment!

    After encountering the previous attack by the Chinese Naval Aviation Wing, no one in the combined fleet dared to underestimate these fighters anymore. When these fighters flew to the battlefield, all the warships began to accelerate and continued to  turn in order to get rid of the attack of Chinese fighter jets.

    Four ¡®Fish Eagle¡¯ dive bombers flew towards the ¡®Bold¡¯ battleship. This battleship was the third ship in the ¡®King George V¡¯ class battleships, with a displacement of up to 25,000 tons.  When the Chinese Navy's No. 1 Wing attacked before, he was not attacked, so he is still intact until now.  However, these intact fighters have now become the priority targets of the Chinese Naval Aviation Wing 4.

    "Bold," the British naval officers and soldiers on the battleship "Bold" stared blankly at the aircraft in the sky that had entered the dive channel and began to dive downwards, making a huge scream.  Previously, the main force of the combined fleet was attacked by C'Osprey, a torpedo attack aircraft, so the attack method of 'Osprey' and dive bombers shocked them greatly.  Some people even wondered whether there was something wrong with these Chinese planes and they were about to crash.  However, they will later discover that the attack power of these dive bombers is no worse than that of torpedo attack aircraft.

    Four ¡®Fish Eagle¡¯ dive bombers dived at an angle of sixty degrees until they reached the distance

    ¡°When the deck of the battleship ¡®Bold,¡¯ was only 400 meters away, they dropped bombs one after another, and then pulled up the nose of the aircraft. In the end, these dive bombers almost missed the tall mast of the battleship ¡®Bold,¡¯ and flew into the sky again.  However, the 500-kilogram aerial bombs dropped by these four "Fish Eagle" dive bombers hit the deck of the "Bold" battleship under the action of inertia.

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Two dazzling flames flashed on the front deck of the battleship "Bold". The heavy aerial bomb directly penetrated the front deck of the battleship "Bold" and exploded inside the battleship.  The huge power directly destroyed the bow of the 'Bold'.  The entire bow of the ship was in a mess, and the two twin-mounted 343mm main guns installed on the front deck were also blown away.  Fortunately, there were no shells or propellants in the turret at this moment, otherwise, the battleship 'Bold' would have suffered greater damage.

    The other two aerial bombs fell into the sea, splashing two columns of water into the sky, destroying the

    ¡®Bold, the battleship was even wet.

    Forty Osprey and torpedo attack aircraft and 40 Fish Eagle and dive bombers of the 4th Wing of the Chinese Naval Aviation launched a fierce attack on the battleship of the combined fleet.  Sometimes the two types of aircraft even cooperate with each other, making the battleships unable to dodge bombs falling from the sky when dodging torpedoes.  Such tactics cost the combined fleet of the British and French navies a heavy price.

    The battleship "Conqueror" suffered heavy damage after being hit by three 500-kilogram heavy aerial bombs, and then hit by two 533-mm heavy torpedoes. After suffering such heavy damage, the ship's displacement was as high as 25,000  The thousand-ton battleship finally couldn't hold on anymore and sank into the Mediterranean. Only a handful of the more than 700 officers and soldiers on the battleship survived!
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