The decisive battle against the Third Reich

A few minutes later, the fighter planes pressed down on the German warships.

The tactics of the British aircraft group made Qinchuan a little unbelievable. It was still the same tactics as before, which was to attack at a lower altitude along the blind spot of the warship's anti-aircraft guns.

Under normal circumstances, the last attack had failed and paid a heavy price, so the British Air Force should change its tactics in a targeted manner.

But they didn't... maybe because they didn't know what tactics to use, or maybe because the British character was too traditional.

Then Qinchuan discovered that the British tactics had actually changed. They concentrated their fighter planes to attack the stronger fleet, which was the First Fleet.

This strategy was correct. The British also discovered that there was a reason why German warships had no air defense blind spots, and that was to separate the two fleets to cover each other.

So……

If the aircraft fleet is divided into two teams to attack the two fleets at the same time, the two fleets can perfectly utilize the air defense capabilities of the secondary batteries.

But if the fleet only attacks one of the fleets, especially the one with stronger combat effectiveness, it means that only the weaker fleet can play a role.

This was a good idea because it immediately weakened half of the German fleet's air defense capabilities. Especially if the "Richelieu" and "Strasbourg" battleships are injured, then the German army will only have one "Dunkirk" battleship and it will not be able to function because of the attack. Then the British fighter planes will attack The result for the German fleet was completely different.

But what the British army didn't expect was that... the German fleet "Richelieu" was only slightly injured. At the same time, the increase in the German fleet's air defense capabilities also included the use of "proximity fuse" shells in addition to tactics.

As a result, fighter planes swooped down one after another, but one after another was destroyed in the air and fell into the sea.

Of course, this British tactic still played a certain role... Even though the Second Fleet had the "Richelieu" battleship, its anti-aircraft firepower was still not enough to destroy all the British fighters in the air.

As a result, the First Fleet was subjected to violent bombing, especially the battleship "Dunkirk"... There were fighter planes and bombers passing by everywhere, and every time a figure passed by, there would be a series of machine gunshots and explosions. There is also vibration from the sea water.

There was a huge explosion, and a bomb exploded at the stern of the "Dunkirk". The entire hull shook violently. The No. 5 turret was surrounded by a ball of flames, and in the air There were still pieces of bullets and artillery shells flying towards the warship.

Several times, Qin Chuan even thought that the warship he was on was going to be smashed or blown to pieces, but it still sailed as usual, making a snake-like maneuver with a ball of flames and black smoke. At the same time, the warship The anti-aircraft equipment continued to shoot into the air... French warships were stronger than expected, especially the battleships.

Of course, battleships are not that easy to sink. Qin Chuan is a bit new to the world.

With a "boom", a bomb hit the front of a destroyer on the left. The bomb may have penetrated the destroyer's ammunition depot, causing a violent explosion. A huge fire violently fired from the hull without moving. It erupted in the air, and the powerful shock wave set off a heat wave and seawater rushing towards the "Dunkirk", which instead slowed down the fire in the No. 5 turret.

But the destroyer... was burning with raging fire but still moving forward with inertia, but the front part quickly sank like a rock, and with it sank the soldiers on the destroyer, only a small part of them. People were able to escape and be rescued, but many more were trapped below decks and sank with the warship.

Several torpedo attack aircraft dived towards the "Dunkirk".

As mentioned before, the "Swordfish" torpedo attack aircraft is a biplane propeller aircraft, which makes it very conspicuous among the enemy aircraft groups, and because of its slow speed... the top speed is only 222 kilometers per hour.

In fact, more importantly, the German "Bismarck" battleship was damaged by this kind of torpedo attack aircraft, so the German Navy was very familiar with this kind of torpedo aircraft, so it immediately aimed anti-aircraft firepower at them.

A hail of bullets passed by, and two torpedo attack aircraft were turned into a ball of fire and fell into the sea on the spot.

The other four torpedo planes broke through the fire net under the cover of other fighter planes, and then dived down again to lower their altitude... The torpedo attack aircraft have very high requirements for launching torpedoes, such as height, speed, etc., otherwise the torpedo will be damaged due to too much damage. Impact failure.

Because of this, pilots flying torpedo attack aircraft are often jokingly said by British pilots to use their own lives to crash enemy warships.

Then the torpedo aircraft leveled at low altitude... This is also a necessary action, otherwise the torpedo will not be able to hit the target due to the wrong angle.

Only after that did they launch deadly torpedoes... white trails went straight to the flank of the "Dunkirk".

Qinchuan only heard someone shouting: "Torpedo, full left rudder!"

One torpedo exploded under machine gun fire, and two torpedoes passed through the stern of the ship due to the maneuvering movements of the "Dunkirk".

Another torpedo hit the hull of the ship, and there was a huge explosion in an instant. The warship seemed to be slammed to the side by a big hand, and then shook back. Qin Chuan was almost lifted to the ceiling. Fortunately, he was tight He grabbed the guardrail to avoid being thrown.

A staff officer was not so lucky. He was thrown out of the window by the reaction force and fell on the front armor more than ten meters away. Qin Chuan looked out and saw that he fell on the shell of an artillery shell. On top, I'm afraid the vertebrae were broken into two pieces.

However, the "Dunkirk" can still continue sailing.

French warships have done a good job in underwater protection:

First, the main armor belt extends 2.5 meters underwater with an inclined angle to minimize threats from the water.

Secondly, the lower part of the armored belt adopts mine protection walls (actually a reinforced hull), mine protection compartments, fuel tanks for indirect protection, armored partitions, multiple armored partitions combined with watertight compartments, etc.

Again, a thick layer of foam rubber is filled between the hull and the mine protection wall, which can very effectively reduce and buffer the impact caused by the explosion of torpedoes and mines.

These protections allowed the "Dunkirk" to even continue to fight, only because the speed of the hull was reduced due to water intrusion.

At this time, another battleship, the "Strasbourg", made a wise decision... Seeing that the "Dunkirk" had become the main attack target of British fighter planes, it took the initiative to fight with the "Dunkirk" The Erke pulled away.

Once at a distance, Strasbourg could use its secondary guns to provide cover for Dunkirk.

At the same time, German Air Force fighters also appeared in the sky above the fleet.