stonecrandall Chapter 592
Chapter 592
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“Useless idiot!”
Major General Holland was furious after the German seaplane escaped.
Their position had already been exposed. If they could not shoot down the enemy’s reconnaissance plane at this time, all their intelligence would be mastered by the enemy, and their entire fleet would be in danger! What made him even angrier was that the Hermes aircraft carrier had clearly dispatched a fighter, but two fighters went to besiege an enemy seaplane, but let the enemy escape. This was simply a disgrace. He was so angry when he heard the news!
“General, calm down. Although we didn’t shoot down the enemy plane, we can follow the clues and track the location of the enemy fleet in the direction of the enemy seaplane’s escape. In this way, perhaps the initiative is still in our own hands!”
“They’d better not let me down again, otherwise, they will definitely suffer the consequences!”
Major General Holdland looked back angrily at his two aircraft carriers. His initial expectations for the aircraft carriers have now completely turned into disappointment and anger!
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In the air, the German seaplane reconnaissance planes relied on the protection of heavy fog and clouds to escape the British pursuit, but this did not mean that their situation was safe. The two British planes were still chasing them closely, and they were still in danger of being shot down!
“Report the enemy fleet’s situation to the fleet immediately and tell them to be careful. The enemy has two aircraft carriers, which may have torpedo planes and dive bombers!”
The pilot said to the observer behind him while carefully controlling the plane.
“Got it. I just reported the intelligence back. The fleet asked us to return immediately!”
The observer sitting in the back seat replied.
“There is a tail behind us, it is not so easy for us to retreat!”The pilot looked back and saw two enemy fighters looming in the clouds behind them. It can be seen that the enemy is still trying hard to chase them and does not want to let them go so easily!
“What should we do? The enemy is biting us very hard, and their speed is not slower than ours. If they continue like this, they will catch up with us soon!”
The observer said anxiously.
Although seaplanes also have weapons, they are not used for air combat, but for reconnaissance. Therefore, if they face fighters head-on, their chances of winning are very small. Moreover, the enemy has more numbers than them. The other side has two fighters, but they only have one. If they continue like this, it is only a matter of time before they are shot down.
“Should we go back to the fleet? If we go back to the fleet, the fleet’s anti-aircraft firepower will relieve us of the pressure!”
The observer made a suggestion, and the pilot sitting in front immediately rejected the suggestion.
“No, if we return like this, it would be equivalent to leading the other side to discover our fleet, and then the position of our fleet would be exposed immediately!”
“The enemy’s aircraft carriers may have torpedoes and dive bombers. If they know the location of our fleet, they will send planes to attack us before our fleet gets into position. At that time, our situation will be very passive!”
“What should we do?
The pilot frowned at the observer’s words. He knew that the other party’s worry was right. If they really led the enemy back, their lives might be saved, but the lives of more than 10,000 people in the entire fleet would be exposed to danger!
“Contact another reconnaissance plane, use the ambush in the clouds to shoot down the two enemy planes behind!”
The observer was bold and careful, and made a very bold suggestion.
Use two seaplanes to shoot down two enemy fighters!
Hearing this suggestion, the pilot was shocked and instinctively wanted to deny it, but he glanced at the fog below the plane and the clouds above, and thought carefully that this suggestion might be feasible.
So the pilot nodded:”Okay, then you contact them quickly, and we will find a place to shoot down the two enemy planes behind!”
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Putting aside the fighting in the air, let’s return our attention to the sea.
After receiving the intelligence from their own reconnaissance aircraft, the Germans immediately sounded the battle alert.
“I didn’t expect the enemy to have an aircraft carrier. Now things are getting tricky!”
Lütjens held his chin and looked towards the depths of the fog in the northwest. The appearance of two aircraft carriers was a bit unexpected, because the previous intelligence did not mention this at all.
If Hans himself did not have an aircraft carrier, Lütjens would probably not care too much after hearing the news.
The status of aircraft carriers was not high at this time. They were only second-class battleships in various countries. The main battleships were still battleships, and all countries generally believed that when an aircraft carrier encountered a battleship, it would be a lamb to be slaughtered without any ability to fight back. There was only one ending waiting for them, and that was to be sunk by the battleship’s cannon!
However, the German army was equipped with aircraft carriers itself, and in internal military exercises After seeing how powerful aircraft carriers are, supporters of giant ships and cannons, including Lütjens, no longer dare to ignore those flat-top ships that don’t even have main guns!
Aircraft carriers themselves do not have much combat power, but their aircraft are really too powerful.
In the military exercises inside Hans, even the Bismarck and Tirpitz battleships equipped with anti-aircraft missiles were no match for aircraft carriers in a one-on-one duel.
When aircraft carriers dispatched dozens or even hundreds of fighter jets to launch a saturation attack on them, they had no way to stop all the attacks.
And if they can’t stop the enemy’s attack, they will have to bear the enemy’s fierce blows.
No matter Whether it is the attack of the carrier-based Stuka dive bomber or the TBF torpedo attack aircraft, it can pose a fatal threat to the battleship!
The 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb carried by the Stuka dive bomber can completely blow up the battleship’s chimney when diving and dropping bombs, and can also attack important buildings above the deck such as turrets and bridges.
Even if the pilots are more skilled, they can aim at the location of the ammunition depot at the bow of the ship, use the kinetic energy generated by the speed of the aircraft, drop bombs vertically, let the bombs penetrate the deck, enter the ammunition depot, and detonate the ammunition depot to produce a fatal blow to the battleship!
In short, during the internal training, the German battleships, Including the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, they were all defeated by the repeated bombing of the aircraft carriers.
It was precisely because he had witnessed the power of aircraft carriers in the internal exercises that Lütjens did not object to the aircraft carriers taking the main attack mission in this operation.
At this time, when he heard that the British Empire had also dispatched two aircraft carriers, he subconsciously thought of Hans’ own aircraft carrier, so he felt a little worried.
In fact, the gap between the British Empire’s aircraft carrier and Hans’s aircraft carrier is still quite large. Whether it is the Hermes or the White-eyed Titan, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Midway-class aircraft carrier. After all, there are several generations between the two!