Chapter 254

Fighter planes and bombers in the sky are like vultures smelling rotten bodies. The Malaya battleship, which was originally maintained at a speed of more than 15 knots, tilted at the speed visible to the naked eye after the explosion. The superstructure was emitting thick black smoke, and the speed slowed down suddenly. It seemed that it could not move at all.

Originally like a hedgehog, the warship was full of anti-aircraft guns in the middle, but now there are only a few counterattacks. The fire started to burn, bringing out thick smoke to block out the sun. The flag of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, which once represented the invincibility, was burning in the fire, and sailors running for their lives on the warships were everywhere.

The bomb went straight through the horizontal armor plate in the middle of the warship, and then fell all the way into the ammunition depot of a 76mm sub gun of the warship. The ammunition stored in the magazine exploded, destroying the cabin not far away, and the powerful impact killed one of the Malaya's boilers.

The water poured into the broken cabin, and the whole Malaya began to tilt, but the experienced British navy soldiers were trying to rescue their warship, and the damage was not enough to kill a battleship with 33000 tons of displacement.

On the bridge, the captain of Malaya finally got up from the ground. He looked around. There were sailors and officers who fell to the ground and hummed. Of course, more people got up by themselves and were confused to find out what happened.

"Contact the damage controller! I want to know the damage! Send someone outside to see what happened Send a telegram to Eagle and tell them we've been hit and need more air cover The captain got up and went to the command line.

One of the staff officers looked at him in horror, then immediately turned to the sailors around and cried, "the captain is wounded! Go and call the medical guard

"I'm fine!" The captain yelled angrily, "go down yourself! Show me the damage in the middle of the ship! Now! right off! Go

The staff officer nodded at attention and hurried out of the bridge command room. A soldier came in in panic and stood at attention beside the captain: "report to the captain! Shot in the middle, the ship is sinking. "

"Let the damage controller start repairing the loopholes now! rush to repair! Come on As soon as the captain heard this, his face changed greatly, and he quickly gave the order: "order to fill the watertight cabin on the port side! Adjust the tilt of the warship! "

In the sky, German pilots are climbing again to find their own altitude. A brief exchange of fire just now has fully demonstrated the absolute superiority of German fighters in quality. They shot down seven British Gladiator fighters trying to interfere with Stuka's bomb dropping, bringing back all the losses just now.

"It seems that next time we don't have to lose our torpedoes in such a hurry. Their planes are not our opponents. Even with torpedoes, they can't help us. Captain As the wingman climbed up, he yelled in his headphones.

"Shut up! Watch out for those cruisers! antiaircraft gun! My God The commander of the fw-190 formation, while carefully operating the aircraft to avoid the shells from the British * ship, climbed his own height: "order the formation, brothers! Let's give them a hard one! "

"Four! Number four! Pull up! Nine! Stop pestering! Pull up! We'll form up at high altitude and continue to dive! " The wingman kept repeating in the earphone.

A gladiator fighter red eyes, followed a Stuka fast climb, he bit Stuka's tail, kept firing. However, the German Navy's fighter pilots obviously won't miss such a good opportunity. Two climbing fw-190 fighters were killed, and the crazy British plane was turned into a spare part state on the way.

"Hey! That battleship is on fire! See? " A fighter pilot looked below the clouds and exclaimed.

"Stuka's brother hit it! Stuka's brother hit the battleship Another voice also said in the headset.

"Keep formation!" The commander of the fw-190 formation took a look at the smoldering Malaya battleship and ordered, "kill the tail for the Stuka fleet! Then we dived and dropped bombs. The British plane was in a mess just now. We took advantage of the chaos and continued to attack. "

On the eagle, the commander of the 1st fleet of the Royal Navy lowered his telescope, looked at the captain of the eagle around him, and sighed: "how many Gladiator fighters are left, all of them can fly now."

"Fighters take off urgently!" The captain ordered loudly, "let the swordfish take off! Don't mount the bomb, cover the whole fleet! Come on

"Adjust course, sail west! I hope the German Navy doesn't have the courage to catch up. " The fleet commander looked at the smoking Malaya in the distance and added, "retreat at the maximum speed the Malaya can maintain."

"Yes! Commander The captain nodded and gave the order: "signal the surrounding escort ships. After 2 minutes, all of them turn right, heading due west..."

"In two minutes! Heading due west The chief officer repeated the captain's order in a loud voice.

"Send a telegram to Britain! When the Malaya was wounded, our fleet gave up the task of encircling the German fleet and returned immediately. " The fleet commander added.

"Yes The telegraph officer on one side nodded and recorded the commander's order“ Signal Malaya to confirm damage. Ask if we can help... "While he was still giving orders, an officer who had been looking at the distance with a telescope put down the telescope. His face was frightened and his voice trembled: "sir! The German planes are attacking again“ Attack again? " Unbelievably asked, the fleet commander put up his telescope and looked at the sea. In the distance, German planes began a new round of dive attack“ My God! When is the war on the sea different from before? How can an air raid from an aircraft carrier carry such heavy bombs and last so long? " The fleet commander muttered as he looked at the German plane. The German pilots in the sky finally understood what the Fuehrer's so-called long-distance naval battle looked like. After 20 years of development, the carrier based aircraft finally has the power to challenge the sea hegemony. Those seemingly hard armor and sharp spears will not have any effect when the dense bullets sweep over“ Cover the dropped fighters! We're approaching these ships at low altitude! Then throw the torpedo in the right place The commander of the fw-190 fighter gave an order to attack while diving, and a obedient reply came from the earphone. The Gladiator fighters in the low air came up, hoping to interfere with the trajectory of the German aircraft. However, with the experience of covering and the unprecedented improvement of morale, the German aircraft formation obviously did not get into a panic again. They attacked warships at any time and covered each other to kill British fighters from time to time, For a moment, it seemed that the whole sky was occupied by these German fighters with gray camouflage. Soon, the German plane caught a gap in a British warship. Two fw-190s with torpedoes were close to the surface of the water, throwing torpedoes under their belly into the water. The tail propellers of the two torpedoes churned up in the sea, pulled out two white straight lines and rushed towards the British warship in front of them. Obviously, the British destroyer on the outermost side saw these two deadly things. The whole warship began to decelerate sharply, and the whole hull made the sound of steel squeezing. But the destroyer's efforts paid off. It successfully avoided the two white death lines. Two white lines in the sea skimmed the bow of the destroyer, swam past the destroyer and pushed further. Not far from the destroyer, a huge column of water rose into the air, and a cruiser was turning violently to avoid the Stuka bombers rushing down in the sky. It successfully avoided the attack from the sky, but was hit by a torpedo which was let by the destroyer. The beautiful bow of the light cruiser was hit by a torpedo, and a huge explosion followed. The light cruiser was obviously not as thick as the Malaya battleship. After a violent explosion, the whole battleship began to sink at the speed visible to the naked eye. The whole bow of the light cruiser had been blown off, a hole about the size of a fighter was pouring into the sea, and the double main gun in front pointed to its own deck because of the huge vibration“ Peneloper! The peneloper has been hit On the bridge of the British flagship eagle, an officer screamed like a frightened woman, but he was not scolded for his gaffe. Everyone looked at the sea not far away in horror. The bow of the light cruiser that had been hit exploded again. The huge explosion directly destroyed a front turret. It seemed that the ammunition depot was killed because of the fire and vibration. The commander of the British fleet, who did not know what to say, suddenly looked at the commander of the carrier based aircraft on the aircraft carrier and asked, "where are our bombers? Did they send back the message? " Before the officer could answer, another violent explosion occurred on the port side of the Malaya battleship not far away. A stream of black smoke rose from the middle of the Malaya. On the bridge of the eagle aircraft carrier, many parts of the battleship could be seen flying into the sky with the explosion without a telescope. The idea that the battleship Malaya was finished suddenly appeared in the minds of all the British naval officers present.