Chapter 2083： Assault on Calais II

"Immediately send a telegram to the aviation team, saying that we have been bombed by the Germans! One hundred thousand urgent!"

"Order the fleet to dissolve the formation and use two capital ships as a team to cover each other to avoid attacks!" Major General Lynn explained that, compared to those temporary machine guns, the Major General believed in British Air Force Camel fighters and DH9 interceptors. The disbanding of the fleet is for the convenience of avoidance. After all, at this time you can't expect the 6-pound run on friendly ships to cover each other...

"It's the Edward VII-class battleship! If the information is correct, it should be the Africa and the Irish!" While the British were busy responding to the upcoming air strikes, the German bomber units were already preparing to allocate targets. The two largest battleships in the British battleship squadron were first spotted. Unlike other battleships, the Edward VII-class twin-mounted 9.2-inch secondary main guns deployed at the four corners are too conspicuous. (Historically, the second-level main guns of this class of battleships were installed alone.) As the most capable of fighting in the entire British fleet, who would you fight if you didn't fight?

The first group of 6 K4M twin-engine aircraft first launched an attack on the Africa at the head of the team. The bomber carrying 100KG bombs and a large number of cannons launched an attack from the front of the British warship, and the side air defense like a hedgehog. The firepower is different. The forward air defense firepower of the warship is very weak. At this time, the Africa has no anti-air firepower except for a 6-pounder gun and a few machine guns located in front of the building!

A series of bullets fluttered up and down in the air, falling into the water from time to time to create a column of water. This ignition power did not pose any threat to the German bombers. Under the horrified eyes of the British, the K4M twin-engine aircraft was less than 100 meters above the sea. When the two sides got together less than 400 meters, the three 20MM machine guns on the K4M nose and the hypothetical machine gun on the wing spewed dense flames!

At this moment, the firepower of more than one dozen large-caliber machine guns and aerial cannons on the first three K4M twin-engine aircraft completely suppressed the opponent! Bullets fired across from three directions swept across the front cabin and deck surface of the warship! The flying warheads easily penetrated the glass and fragile partitions of the front compartment like seeds of death! Accompanied by the beating barrage, the busy British officers and soldiers on the deck were directly beaten into a ball of trembling pieces of meat by the powerful bullets. With the movement of the aircraft, an elliptical bombing area moved quickly on the battleship. They relaxed. He beat the hypothetical anti-aircraft machine gun and bulletproof steel plate into a twisted iron sheet, and then sorted out the British gun positions on the left like a sledge.

When flying over Africa, three 100KG bombs mounted under the fuselage roared down. The three planes dropped 9 high-explosive bombs in less than a minute. Each bomb was loaded. The amount of medicine exceeds 50KG! It is more than 5 times the charge of a 6-inch shell! But within a minute, nearly half a ton of explosives flew onto this poor warship!

Boom! A series of water jets rose from the side of the warship. The first round of bombs was not very accurate, except that a bomb fell on the side of the hull and wiped a 6-pounder gun from the deck and left one behind. Except for the bullet holes that penetrate the two decks, the other two bombs entered the water almost close to the ship’s side. If it were a German battleship, there would be nothing except water in the individual sealed cabins. But unfortunately, this time It was a British battleship, or an old British dreadnought ship!

After entering the water and exploding, the bomb crazily squeezed the seawater, and the seawater also transmitted energy to the British battleship nearby. A huge amount of high temperature and high pressure bubbles pushed the shrapnel into the fragile hull of the British battleship at a very high speed. In the sound of metal distortion, the energy generated by the bubble burst tore a gap between the two hull plates, and then, the surging sea water and shrapnel directly hit the thin steel plate behind the sealed cabin. Become a sieve! Hundreds of tons of sea water poured into the hull.

And the other 3 bombs that hit this battleship landed near the chimney in the middle of the hull. You know, the front is not afraid of flue armor, not to mention the use of honeycomb steel plates to protect the exhaust vents of the chimney! A series of intensive explosions came from the middle of the hull. Two chimneys were torn into pieces by shrapnel flying horizontally, and dozens of exhaust pipes in the entire flue were also destroyed. Part of the exhaust gas was poured back into the boiler warehouse. Some boilers were lacking Oxygen turned off instantly. At the same time, the fire caused by the bombing began to spread on the hull. The British tried to put out the fire. However, the continuous explosion and the collapse of the cabin made these British soldiers who tried to save the warship difficult to protect themselves. Just when the British were fighting with the fire, the Germans The merman torpedo machine is here!

Four K6 bombers roared from the sea to quickly approach the hapless warship. They kept the altitude between 30 and 50 meters, and controlled the speed at 80 kilometers per hour. At this time, the Africa has been covered by flames, and the hull power is also damaged, then the rest is very simpleA bomber threw the torpedo down at a distance of less than 600 meters. One minute later, with three explosions at a distance, the former dreadnought battleship with a displacement of more than 15,000 tons was blown into two sections and sank into the sea. Ten minutes later, his ship of the same class Irish was also hit by two torpedoes and stayed on the English Channel forever. At this time, before the arrival of the British combat power, another British battleship and an armored cruiser were also destroyed under bomb and torpedo attacks from the Luftwaffe.

"The British fighters are here." When the sea off the port of Calais became a mess, the British fighter forces finally arrived on the battlefield. The English Channel was originally very narrow in Calais, and there were many British airports. Just near the coastline, there were still aircraft on duty 24 hours a day, so after Major General Lynn’s air support, the British follow-up fleet arrived quickly.

"It's declining." Seeing that the British were scattered but the forces of three squadrons, the fighter force responsible for air cover arrived and felt like a fist hit on the cotton. Not only was the number of planes small, but also the model. In a mess, there are not only advanced camel fighters and DH9 interceptors, but also some old-fashioned planes, and even a few planes seem to be seaplanes with buoys removed... This should have been pieced together by several squadrons, and some aircraft seemed to have no other purpose besides consuming German ammunition.

"Kill them, if we move faster, we might be able to shoot British troops on the ground with a machine gun in a while." A German fighter pilot said.

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