"Boom!" A huge fireball suddenly exploded on the deck of the battleship, with debris everywhere and air waves burst out; the large cruiser "Boston" with a full load displacement of more than 23,000 tons trembled violently under this sudden heavy blow, making every crew member on it worry about whether its main structure would collapse. ↖Located near the explosion point on the starboard side, the twisted and broken steel plates rolled around like twists, and a strong and pungent smell produced by the burning of objects and the combustion of explosives filled the air.

The thick smoke rushes, and the sea of ​​fire is in full swing. The US military soldiers wore gas masks and held rubber hoses to fight fiercely with the rising flames. However, even though the water dragons were sweeping towards the center of the flames, their burning momentum was still extremely astonishing. Twenty meters away, the US sailors already felt the hot temperature that was coming to their faces and could no longer take a step forward. The power of the 800kg aviation bomb is incomparable to any high-explosive shell, and half of them were loaded.

Tons of strong explosives can cause devastating damage to any unprotected parts of a ship. At this time, the large cruiser Boston ate the bomb under the dive bombing of the other party. Not only did the crew's casualties exceed 10% instantly, but key equipment including a double-mounted 127mm secondary gun, 7 small-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and radio chambers also disappeared. The huge vibration also caused the hull plate to be significantly displaced, and several watertight cabins had begun to be flooded into the raging seawater.

After receiving a report from the loss management department, the US Navy General Chris, who was commanding the fleet, was anxious; the water inflow of the warship would inevitably mean a reduction in speed, and the best outcome of the Boston, whose surface equipment was destroyed, was to return to the home port safely for several months to repair. Before the fleet set off, he took all possible situations into consideration. He was lucky and avoided the blockade and surveillance of German submarines. But he did not expect that the other party would use a precious aircraft carrier to

In the case of escorting, the seaplane he sent was effortlessly beaten by the opponent's regular fighter jets, so that the fleet could only wander around the North Atlantic Ocean, which traverses 6,000 kilometers like a headless fly; while facing the enemy's attack aircraft, the fleet without air cover could only rely on anti-aircraft artillery fire and evasion and dodge to support it. The previous naval battles have proved many times that this unilateral battle between ships and air has no future!

"Damn the Germans, how dare they use aircraft carriers separately? Aren't they afraid of being defeated by the United States fleet?" Chris looked at the German attack aircraft flying in the air with his eyes bursting blood, and roared loudly with shock and anger. Through the high-power telescope hanging on his chest, he could clearly see the adjustments and preparations made by the enemy aircraft before launching an attack: the tactical maneuver of calmly adjusting the formation outside the effective range of his small-caliber anti-aircraft guns so that they can cover each other during the attack. It is definitely not something that can be done with the interception of his own aircraft!

Soon, the four bombers dived from different directions and altitudes on the starboard side and launched an attack on the Boston at the same time. Even with the efforts of friendly ships to cover, the starboard air defense artillery fire, which had just suffered heavy losses, quickly lost sight of the other side. Brigadier General Chris almost watched the opponent's plane finish the approaching-dive-dropping series of actions, and then pulled the nose of the plane in the unwilling eyes of all the US sailors, and roared into the sky again in a flying rain of bullets. The black beer bottle-like object that suddenly became larger in his sight made him feel the strong urge to pull out his pistol and shoot it into the sky in the extreme fear of his pupils.

"Boom!" The hull was shaking, and the waves swayed. A bright ball of flame suddenly burst out from the hole on the deck, mixed with the gushing black smoke. Although the explosive power of this armor-piercing bomb was far less than the earth-shaking high-explosive bomb just now, it was the most unwilling strike that any ship would be most willing to face: they fell at an angle of more than 70 degrees, and could penetrate the horizontal armor that was indestructible for shells at regular combat distances, and caused fatal damage to the core compartment of the battleship. Hitting the power compartment would drop sharply, hitting the servo compartment would lose its course; hitting the motor compartment would directly affect the pump, turret, fan and other levels.

With normal use of key equipment, the ammunition depot can directly end the battle! This time, the Boston was very lucky. It once destroyed a heavy armor-piercing bomb that destroyed an Essex-class aircraft carrier, hitting its unprotected secondary bow. However, even so, the bomb still destroyed the refrigerator compartment and its surrounding cabin under the violent detonation inside the hull, and tore the double bottom of the ship in this area, causing a large amount of water to enter the bow. Compared with the steel plate displacement caused by the high-explosion bomb just now, the damage caused by the direct explosion of the armor-piercing bomb was undoubtedly much larger, which seriously deteriorated the most critical navigation capability of the Boston as the attacking ship.

"The first wave of bombers sent back the report. They achieved four hits and one round of near-loss results against a large enemy cruiser. At present, the American warship was already in the sky, and the black smoke rising up made it impossible for our pilots to determine the specific injuries of the warship!" On the heavy cruiser of Hannover, two hundred kilometers away, the young adjutant reported to Colonel Cole, who was commanding the escort fleet with excitement. Although his bomber formation also suffered a destruction in the attack.

The price of 1 injury, 2 pilots were killed, but such an ending was undoubtedly the situation that both officers and soldiers on either side were most happy to see. Even for a large battleship, 4 heavy bombs were quite injured, and the attacks suffered by cruisers with armored indicators were far less than that of the other. What's more, there was a wave of torpedo aircraft on our side that had already taken off; when the superstructure and anti-aircraft artillery of the enemy ships were blown up, it was the best time for them to replenish their guns!

The next battle was the same as the German pilots expected. When the six torpedo aircraft arrived at the battlefield due to the limited single-wheel release capability of the escort aircraft carrier, the largest American warship was still emitting flames and smoke; its bow was obviously buried, and both air defense firepower and avoidance speed were reduced to the lowest point since its service. Faced with the American warship that could only be used as mermaid meat, the German pilots naturally did not let this acquisition go.

A great opportunity to win medals and bonuses; white tracks quickly appeared on the sea, and their agile movements of 40 knots of high speed made the American naval officers and soldiers pale. The experienced German pilots soon discovered the air defense blank on the starboard side of the Boston and launched intensive attacks in this direction. Although the power of the aviation torpedo is the smallest among various carrier platforms, they are still the terrifying existences that every warship officer and soldier is afraid of as snakes and scorpions!

Under the scrupulous manipulation of the first mate, the Boston, which sailed at a speed of 26 knots, struggled to avoid four of the torpedoes, but the other two successfully hit the target. The large hull steel armor and the inner next door were torn apart in an instant, and high-pressure water waves began to rush into the inside of the hull. The situation facing this new ship that had just been in service for less than two years finally reached an extremely severe level: not to mention the breaking mission, even returning to the base safely became an unattainable luxury for the hundreds of officers and soldiers on the ship.

As noon approached, the bomber formation that took off for the first round landed on the Nymph. The pilots seized time to have a meal and rest, while the ground crew were busy refueling and mounting bombs for the fighter so that it could take off again in a short time. According to the report sent by the torpedo aircraft formation, the large American cruiser still insisted on floating on the sea and retreating to the northwest at a speed of 13 knots. While amazed at the opponent's tenacious vitality, the German aircraft carrier also became more determined to annihilate it in this sea area. After some intense preparations, the seven bombers were again ejected from the short deck. For the seriously injured and struggling Boston, they were the last offensive finisher to harvest the heads.

"The 7th Cruiser Fleet just suffered a crushing defeat in the A67 waters. They were attacked by German aircraft carriers, and the USS Boston cruiser unfortunately sank; combined with the intelligence that several submarines such as S-201, S-137 encountered enemy aircraft aircraft during hunting and were forced to dive and avoid, we can almost conclude that some German aircraft carriers are already active in the Atlantic routes and serve as the escort force of their transport fleets. In this way, it is difficult for traditional surface ships to break through the traffic.

It works. As long as the weather is sunny, the opponent's advantage in aviation power will be enough to blind our fleet, and he can only bear the other's plane's beating without any power to fight back. In the bad weather and nighttime when the plane cannot be dispatched, the range of our fleet's reconnaissance is also limited to a range of only twenty kilometers. To find a target in the entire Atlantic Ocean, it is tantamount to search for a lost slim needle in the study." Admiral Johnson concluded in his subsequent report.

"Unless a balanced fleet composed of fleet aircraft carriers is dispatched, the separate breaking of cruisers will not only fail to achieve the expected results, but will also have a huge risk of losing the warship in vain." Major General Nimitz, the commander of the 1st Battleship Fleet, flashed his eyes and proposed a plan to avenge his previous shame. "Since the Germans use the aircraft carrier power separately, our army should seize this fighter jet and concentrate their superior forces to give a heavy blow to the opponent. In addition, it is now a critical moment when the Atlantic fleet must attack." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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