Imperial Overlord

"Sir! The attack aircraft unit has been entangled by German fighter jets..." On the aircraft carrier Glory on the sea, Cunningham, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, heard the situation he didn't want to hear.

The Swordfish attack aircraft is obviously not a new product of World War II. On the contrary, it is a tombstone-like existence of the British Navy that is extremely backward in terms of experience and concept.

The Japanese attack aircraft and fighter jets, which were born in the same age as the Swordfish attack aircraft, have adopted the most advanced monoplane design at that time, and their performance has surpassed that of the old Swordfish.

In addition, the British can't think of the number of pilots, so that the British, the old world marine hegemon, has a terrible performance in the field of carrier-based aircraft.

Even the best fighter jet of the British Navy, the Sea Fighter, is a biplane fighter, and its performance cannot be compared with the fighter of the Luftwaffe at all.

And how many such naval fighters are there in total? When World War II broke out in 1939, there were only 18 Sea Fighters in total, you read that right, and the British Navy had a total of... 18!

Although the war allowed a large number of weapons and equipment to be mass-produced, the British Navy did not complete its real equipment quality improvement before it fell into a passive state.

Attack aircraft can only rely on swordfish, fighter jets... are still extremely scarce. In real historical time and space, the naval fighter jets that the British Navy used to make up their numbers were sea hurricanes that came from road-based fighter jets.

The navy-specific fighter jet being designed is called Guanbiyan, and it is still an avant-garde design with two pilots. I have to admit that the stubbornness of the British brings an inexplicable sense of joy.

Having said that, it is simply impossible to expect the British now equipped with the most Swordfish attack aircraft to meet the road-based ME-109E fighter jets equipped by the Luftwaffe.

The two planes are not for the same purpose at all, and they are not even weapons of the same era! The German fighters were too good, and the poor British Swordfish were too far behind.

Frankly speaking, the weakness of the German navy has given the British navy time to be lazy. If the 40-year-old British Royal Naval Air Force collided with the Japanese Naval Air Force, the British are likely to lose with a sense of rhythm.

The 5M96-type carrier-based fighters equipped by the Japanese at this time are not sure how much stronger than the Sea Fighters, and the Japanese Nakajima and 97 attack aircraft are better than the Swordfish.

At this moment, the German Navy is training on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier in the Baltic Sea. The carrier-based aircraft are ME-109T and JU-87C. In horizontal comparison, the quality of British carrier-based aircraft is really inferior. Disappointing.

That is to say, during the real World War II, Germany did not have any weapons and equipment that could threaten the air defense of the British fleet. Otherwise, the Royal Navy might really be wiped out due to tactical generational differences.

Cunningham knew what would happen if his plane got entangled by a German road-based fighter.

"These planes are not expected to come back... We will continue to drive westward according to the pre-determined route." Canning glanced at the officer who was reporting, and said somewhat lonely.

As the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy, he was also an ordinary officer. In the era when he joined the war, the Royal Navy of the British Empire still had its own glorious afterglow.

At that time, the fleet of the British Royal Navy spread all over the world, and the tonnage of warships was the sum of the number of navies of the world's second navy and the world's third navy power.

He has witnessed the power of the British Royal Navy with his own eyes, but the glory of the past is now gone. The British Empire is like a rotten tree, which has long lost its glory at this moment.

The era of carrier-based aircraft has come, but the UK is not ready yet... I heard that the German Navy is building a new fleet around the Zeppelin aircraft carrier. I wonder if the British Ark Royal aircraft carrier has the strength to fight.

Standing on the bridge, watching his fleet heading west, the lonely Cunningham put his hands behind his back, thinking about the future of the Royal Navy...

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Over the port of Sirte, the situation has turned into a one-sided slaughter at this time. The German fighter jets swooped down from the sky one after another, and the British swordfish hid in Tibet but could not escape the pursuit of so many German fighter jets.

Covering each other, two German fighter jets grabbed a British Swordfish trying to get out of the field, knocking the plane into parts in an instant.

Although the structure of the Swordfish attack aircraft is still solid, it cannot withstand the powerful ravages of the shaft guns on the ME-109E fighter.

When the 10th Swordfish attack plane was beaten into a sieve and crashed into the ground, the plane of the commander of the British attack group was still flying in the sky.

He drove his own plane to avoid the attack of the two ME-109E fighter jets, and gave a desperate order on the radio: "All planes break through and return by themselves!"

Then, in full view, a German fighter dashed towards his fighter, pouring its own on his fighter.

The Swordfish attack plane was finally hit, and began to lose its altitude with thick smoke. British commander Williamson clutched his pierced thigh and watched his plane crash to the ground.

This British naval aviation commander, who should have been famous for his command of the air raid on Taranto, reached the pinnacle of his life in the Battle of Benghazi.

Before he took off to bomb Sirte, he had just been promoted to lieutenant colonel by Cunningham. As a result, he was shot down by a novice pilot of the German army during the air raid on Sirte Harbor and became the opponent's first. record.

"Long live the British Empire!" Having lost control of the plane, he shouted his last voice into the intercom and crashed on a German-built floating pier.

The huge explosion caused the floating pier to start flooding, and the German engineers and Italian soldiers on the ground began to rush to repair the floating pier regardless of the fierce battle overhead.

The British pilots did not find out why the German engineers who should have been concealed on the ground came out to repair a pier in the rain of bullets. Now they are too busy to care about things on the ground.

If they can have time to carefully analyze and observe carefully, and then attack the dock experiment, maybe they will discover the secret of the rapid construction of the German dock.

However, the current British Swordfish attack aircraft are evading the pursuit of German fighter jets.

In the sky, in the cabin of the first trainee training plane, German novice pilots were cheering for their first victory, and the second batch of German fighter jets also joined the battle group at this time.

The aircraft dispatched by Germany this time was able to find all the fighter units near Sirte. All 38 fighter jets took off to meet them, and even the 4 ME-110 fighter jets in charge of patrolling were pulled out.

The fighter jets flown by the Luftwaffe have an absolute advantage, both quantitatively and qualitatively. They simply had no reason to let the British attack planes in front of them escape, so there was no reason for the British fighters to escape.

The last two Swordfish fighter jets had flown to the sea far away from Sirte, but they were still shot down by the German fighter jets that were chasing them.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon on October 13th, the German fighter jets returned successfully, and they shot down all the British aircraft, not a single one was spared.

However, the six JU-87 Stuka dive bombers that took off from the airport near the coastline did not find the British fleet. They searched the nearby sea and finally ran out of fuel and had to return.

At the German-Italian Afrika Corps front-line headquarters on the outskirts of Tanta, an officer told Rommel the news of the attack on Sirte: "General! Sirte was attacked by a British carrier plane half an hour ago... ...no news of the victory has come."

"Andrew Brown Cunningham... If his brother was half as good as him, I might still be in Matroux." Rommel frowned and glanced at the map in front of him, and commented happily.

"Has our losses been counted... Will it become the second Benghazi?" Rommel asked with lingering fears, recalling the rough report on Benghazi's losses sent by the Italian liaison officer an hour ago.

He saw the loss data above~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and now he thinks about it with trepidation. Benghazi has almost been wiped off the map. Thousands of material losses have been lost, and it is even more difficult to rebuild.

"General... Our loss report has not come out, but a few minutes ago Sirte also gave the statement that the loss can be tolerated. I think it will not be as bad as Benghazi?" Alfred, chief of staff of the African Army Corps The lieutenant general replied to Rommel.

Rommel nodded, agreeing with this statement. He also didn't want to see the second Benghazi fiasco. The same thing happened twice. That was the rhythm of being slapped in the face by the other side.

"The Italian fleet is already rushing to Malta, and the submarine force and the destroyer force are opening a search net in the waters near Benghazi." Lieutenant General Alfred pointed to the sea surface on the map and drew a hastily.

"If the British navy returns, we have a high chance of hitting the British Mediterranean Fleet." Finally, a lieutenant general of an engineer who did not understand naval warfare comforted an army armored admiral.

"We've already lost, Mr. Chief of Staff... In a few days, whatever is left of the Mediterranean Fleet, they'll be there in exchange for the fleet that's about to be driven out of the Mediterranean in exchange for two ports... The British won. ." Rommel did not accept the other party's safety and said with a sneer.