"Send a message to all posts! Tell them to evacuate! Order the boiler compartment to close the power deck of all personnel! The captain finally took a look at George. "You lead the damage control personnel to have a look at the damage if … I mean, if there is any rescue, please work hard."
Then he turned to his first mate, "Send a signal to the aircraft carrier Eagle that our ship is sinking, please organize rescue workers."
"Captain! There are many compartments in the middle of the hull, and the pipelines and telephone lines have been damaged! Many cabin people may not get the order to abandon the ship and escape. "George didn’t leave but woke up his captain.
"Send someone to inform each cabin immediately! If there is water, shout for 3 minutes! Make sure to rescue most people. "Captain Nye closed his eyes because he had seen himself directing the bridge to tilt to a very serious degree.
Several officers ran frantically out of the bridge, and they were ordered to find contact personnel to lead them to escape together. George also hurried downstairs. As soon as he returned to the main deck, he saw a sea of people, sailors were abandoning the ship and jumping into the sea. More people were scrambling around the lifeboat, and from time to time they heard gendarmerie guns and warnings.
George wanted to find a Frank and others in the hull, but he found that the stairs were full of seawater. He looked around to find his colleague from the crowd, but he found that it was all in vain because the surrounding area was a mess, and it was not the time to find someone.
He was pushed by the crowd to the side rail. He saw that the side rail was once far away from the sea, but now it is less than three meters away. There are oil leaks floating on the sea, and there are many British sailors. He just wanted to turn around when the crowd pushed the boat and hit a man’s head. He choked, salty and astringent, and the cold water struggled to surface. Suddenly, he saw the flag of the British navy falling at the top of the high mast.
Chapter 256 256 Hunting swordfish
"Seahawk 1! Seahawk 1! Empire Command Center to Seahawk 1! " Blue sky and white clouds are in charge of the 2nd Fleet Alert of the German High Seas Fleet. The sound of "Please answer when you hear" came from the headset of the pilot of fw19 fighter.
"I’m Seahawk 1! Finished "The commander of the aircraft carrier anti-fighter formation of the Empire, a two-year-old young man with unparalleled sophistication and composure, gently pushed and pulled the joystick to keep the plane on its original course.
"Our reconnaissance plane came back due north … but our radar found that it was followed by some guests, and there were about five or maybe four enemy planes," said the commander of Imperial in the earphone. "There is too much radar noise, so we can predict the number of enemy troops."
"Haiying No.1 will intercept it!" Youth intercom calmly said, "Seahawk 2! Follow me to meet you! His plane climbed to the cloud to alert the entire theater! "
"Haiying No.2 White!" Wingman immediately replied
His six fighter planes didn’t talk nonsense and immediately climbed up. The engine roared sweetly. The performance of the 6-meter-high fw19 fighter plane was brought into full play. This is simply their paradise.
This former military officer was later selected to be sent to the naval ship training base to study. The young man’s name is Gunter? During the Polish campaign, Lalta had not been ordered to cooperate with the army by an aircraft carrier (the aircraft carrier of his Imperial was launched only later), but he won his first record in a few wars and became the only pilot with actual combat record in the naval air force.
He gently accelerated the plane, and the engine spun more cheerfully, sticking to the clouds. He and his wingman soon saw the unique plane shape of the returning friendly reconnaissance plane and recognized it as a German plane at a glance.
"Seahawk 1 to Eye 1! Welcome home! " Gunter? Lal call way in the phone
"thank you! I’m descending! The oil is running out! " Reconnaissance plane replied
"wingman! Keep the course, you search the left, I’ll take charge of the right, confirm the number after finding the target, and don’t rush to attack "Gunter? Lal said while looking for prey.
"wingman white" his wingman clearly answered.
Soon they found a few small black spots in the distant sky, and it’s no wonder that these British fighters are chasing further and further, because they really can’t catch up with fw19 to improve the reconnaissance plane, which has a maximum flight speed of 61 kilometers per hour.
"Seahawk 2! Confirm … Four British planes ahead! I didn’t see the fifth one. What about you? " Gunter? Lal frowned and confirmed the number of an enemy.
"I can’t see it either. Maybe there are four?" The wingman also hesitated to answer, and he didn’t quite believe that Britain sent four planes to "die"
It is true that they misjudged the commanders of the Royal Navy’s South 1st Fleet, because the German Navy is the core of the aircraft carrier’s development tactics. The German aircraft carrier is advanced in this era and can hold a large number of war planes. This is why the German Navy can send more than 30 planes to attack at one breath.
However, the British Royal Navy Eagle aircraft carrier is a modified battleship, and the ship is very old. This aircraft carrier is not so much a fleet aircraft carrier as a escort aircraft carrier, which is more appropriate. This aircraft carrier has a total of 21 aircraft carriers, including one German aircraft carrier, which is less than one third.
All these German pilots guessed the number of opponents according to their own situation, but they were confused by their own estimates. They thought that there should be at least a dozen planes attacking each other, but they didn’t expect that there were only four planes, which made them laugh and cry. These four planes were still old biplanes …
"Rahl … this is not bait, is it?" A good half-day wingman pilot just had to ask such a sentence.
"all right! Always have a try! Wingman! You climb into the clouds to look for a big force that they may appear. I attack to lure them to appear … If they have a plane cover, you dive to cover me. "Gunter? Lal wanted to think and said
At this time, when they are not far away from their opponents, let them come without making more detailed plans, so the wingman agreed to climb immediately and Gunter? Lal made a dive.
What is shame? This is called shame! What do you mean, eat all over the world with one move? This is it! The technical advantage of German fighter planes makes the German army dominate the sky, but their tactics of dominating the sky are not advanced at all. Only by relying on the dive speed of up to 6 kilometers per hour, they can defeat all the competitors in the sky.
In a war, the side with the speed advantage often has a certain advantage because they can find the attack position faster-of course, the low-speed side can lure the other side into a dogfight by turning flexibly, but no matter who it is, he hopes to fly a faster fighter into the battle with little performance loss.
The reason for saying so much is simple. Gunter? Lal once again transported the German military to teach general warfare tactics. He dived from a higher position to convert potential energy into kinetic energy. When he was closest to the enemy fighter, he took the lead in fire and then reduced contact at high speed. After an attack, he immediately climbed up and circled to gain speed advantage. After throwing his opponent up again, he looked for opportunities. This set of attack methods was close to 6 kilometers per hour, and fw19 fighters were called enemies when they attacked enemy planes at about 3 kilometers per hour.
Soon Rahl found the best time for him to shoot. His plane rushed to a very close distance. A British swordfish torpedo bomber fired violently sideways, and soon it passed through the thin wing of the swordfish plane, pierced the fuel tank and the pilot flew into the embrace of the vast sea.
Although the British swordfish torpedo bomber is strong, stable, maneuverable and sturdy, it is sought after by the Royal Navy. Unfortunately, even if it is strong enough to face German fighter 3 mm caliber machine guns and 13 mm caliber machine guns, the swordfish has the heart.
When Lal fighter jet rushed through the British aircraft formation and pulled up in the far direction, the hit swordfish torpedo bomber had already crashed into the sea in the thick smoke, and the remaining three planes seemed to realize that something was wrong and gave up the formation and fled.
"Captain! I didn’t find any ambush! Am I still on the alert? " The wingman’s voice came from the earphone, and I could hear that his tone was full of anxiety and expectation.
"Don’t worry about the ambush! You also dive and attack! Even if there is an ambush, we can almost eat the bait before the ambush comes. "Lal let his plane fly high and found an escaped swordfish.
Now you don’t have to pull back to high and dive again, do you? The opponent obviously has no speed advantage. Lal thought to himself, he frowned and decided to change his tactics a little, so he continued his own climb, which made the plane complete a somewhat huge somersault and directly bit the back of an escaped swordfish plane.
Fw19′ s tumbling speed is more than enough to deal with the two-winged swordfish. Solar first faced the gray sky, then he found that the sky was far away from him. He saw the sea level, then the sea came and finally disappeared from his sight-and then he found that his nose was aimed at the tail of the swordfish torpedo bomber.
"Dada! Hey! " The British plane also has a self-defense weapon at the tail. Lal was so scared that he quickly adjusted his flight angle to avoid the machine gun attack of the British plane. Only then did he see that the British plane had three pilots.
"chug! Chug chug! " The fw19 fighter machine gun roared again, and soon the other plane started to smoke in the sky. Lal would not pity his opponent. His 13 mm machine gun caught fire again, and this time it was a tragedy that the plane suddenly exploded with a torpedo.
The violent explosion appeared in front of Lal’s eyes, so he quickly pulled up his plane. As a result, his plane flew by the explosion. Lal heard something hit the belly of his plane.
"Oh my God! I hit it! I hit it! " Lal was in shock here, and a wingman came into his earphone, shouting excitedly that Lal looked around and saw an enemy plane crashing into the sea in thick smoke. Of course, he knew that he had hit that plane, which had become a flame, and it must have fallen into piles.
"Find another plane! Don’t let one go! " Lal found another plane while adjusting his flight angle, and soon he found the desperate British plane on the sea.
There is a machine gun at the tail of the British plane. At this time, Lal is facing Lal and his wingman. Lal didn’t want to fly his plane again. Compared with Polish fighters, this kind of British bomber is obviously not advanced. Lal decided to chase and kill these bombers.
Can you imagine a cheetah chasing a deer? The speed of both sides is not the same. Soon Rahl easily got his third victory today. Four invading Royal Navy swordfish bombers did not escape from the annihilation field.
"I’m Seahawk 1! We shot down four British planes! The fifth enemy plane was not found … The wingman and I are now preparing to return! " Lal said to the talker after stabilizing the height of the clouds.
"Allow you to return! Our attack formation may have achieved incredible results. God bless the German head of state and let us … my God … you can’t imagine the record, "said the commander of the Imperial naval air force with some excitement.
Chapter 257 Find those things that have been lost.
When George was fished out of the cold sea, he was too cold to speak. He knew he was lucky because he found a hard board after jumping into the sea. A few meters away from him, sailor George couldn’t reach out to save him.
And when he took a sip of hot water and came to his senses a little, he was the first to get up from the deck and stick to the rail of the ship and look at the distant sea. The once endless behemoth disappeared, and the battleship Malaya, where he had lived for many years, was not there.
"Malaya number? What about the Malaya? " George pointed to the sea and asked the sailors who were in shock. He roared and attracted the destroyer sailors.
"Sir!" Glancing at the rank, the sailor made a gift and said, "Please restrain yourself! Battleship Malaya has sunk. You’ve been floating in the cold river for forty minutes. You’d better have a rest. "
"Malaya number? Don’t lie to me! " George turned around and murmured with despair that the sailor behind him was stunned, and then he saw the deep despair and sadness in George’s eyes.
Suddenly George remembered something and looked at the sailor. "Where’s Captain Brown? Take me to him! Did you find the captain of the Malaya? Get him out of the sea! Quick! "
"Sir! Chef! Calm down! Half an hour ago, Captain Brown sent a message to the whole fleet and decided to join the warships … so we couldn’t save him. "The sailor sighed and said," But when we found it, we will rest in the back cabin. "
"My God!" George once again went back to wait for a while and looked at the sea full of dead bodies, oil stains and wood chips. Then he saw a picture that made him even more horrified.
Far off the sea, a huge British warship is braving thick smoke and burning. Even so, it can still be clearly seen during the day. The warship is slowly sinking, and George can vaguely see someone jumping from it.
In the end, the German army shot down and bravely took off to face all the British planes. A gladiator and seven swordfish bombers were destroyed by German naval airmen. The British Royal Navy fighter pilots showed their extraordinary courage to their opponents. Even though the fighter planes were destroyed, the bomber pilots dared to take off to face the enemy planes and sacrificed their young lives.
Of the 31 British pilots, 4 were rescued. Because they were hit by guns equipped by the German army, the pilots rarely had a chance to parachute, but they also achieved admirable results. Two Stuka dive bombers and one fw19 fighter plane of the German navy were shot down and five German pilots were killed.
However, it is still not these British pilots who deserve the highest honor today, because they are ultimately losers, and the German naval airmen have rewritten the history of naval battles this day.
An hour ago, this fleet, a light cruiser Pelopop, sank, and the destroyer of the British fleet was forced to rush to save people. Only half an hour later, it was almost shot at the same time as Pelopop, and the battleship Malaya sank to the bottom of the sea. The whole battlefield became a disaster.
However, this is not the end of the chaos of the German aircraft and the British fleet. Only a few British aircraft were left in one breath, and then they rushed to their main target, the Eagle aircraft carrier.
Soon the aircraft carrier Eagle was hit by a torpedo, but it seems that the British were lucky at this time. The German ships lost a lot of bombs and torpedoes because of the most nervous and chaotic situation. Now these planes have no bombs and torpedoes to continue to attack.
After all, the German ship returned home, but when they disappeared from the horizon, the second wave of German naval airmen attacked the clouds. The German plane lost three bombs in one breath, hit the aircraft carrier Eagle and sent a destroyer to the bottom of the sea.
Almost all the fighting power of the whole British fleet was destroyed, leaving a cruiser with two relatively new destroyers to turn around and flee, leaving three relatively old warships to rescue the drowning people. All the destroyer sailors were very nervous. They gathered around the anti-aircraft gun array and stared at the distant sky with fear.
On this day, the pilots of the German navy sank a battleship of the Royal Navy, the Malaya, an aircraft carrier, the Eagle, a cruiser and a destroyer, which was enough to bring them all honor.
George looked at the slowly sinking warship in the distance, holding the handrail tighter and tighter. A few hours ago, he played poker with Frank and others to amuse himself. A few hours ago, he believed that the Royal Navy was the overlord of the enemy sea like everyone here, but now? He is a Reservoir Dogs, a soldier who is cold and lonely, and a poor sailor who has lost his warship.
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"Fleet speed to the north! There are two English sailors floating there who are freezing to death! We are going to get them! " Gunther Lutjens was very special today. He made people take out their own treasured red wine in the captain’s room and poured it on every bridge officer-the remaining half bottle was sent to the ship’s command bridge, where the whole warship could hear the cheers now.
"Speed forward! Prepare to receive the return ship! They are our hero today! No matter what wine! Get them drunk! " Chief officer said with a smile
Should be too excited. Gunther Lutjens used to end up with his telescope and look at the sea. He realized that it was a mistake to do so before he secretly put his things in his hand. Then he looked around and reached another command, "Report to the room! Give the first report to Shibaoyuan! It is reported that the 2 nd fleet of the high seas fleet hit the British fleet off the coast of the Netherlands and sank a battleship, an aircraft carrier, a cruiser … Commander Gunther Lutjens. "
He finished the order, and there was cheers on the bridge. Today, German naval officers were so happy that generations had been looking forward to things day and night. The predecessors of the German high seas fleet failed to do things. They did it today, and they almost wiped out a British fleet at the same cost.
"general! The radar shows that our fleet has entered our warning zone, and the fighters have been greeted by our brothers. "Radar reported that his words caused another cheer. It seems that everyone has never been in such a good mood in recent years.
"Look! Our hero is back! " After a while, a sailor at the mast watchtower shouted
The first fw19 fighter plane landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the ground crew rushed to help him hit the cockpit hatch and dragged people out of the plane. The soldiers had already prepared, and the second plane rushed to the runway of the aircraft carrier.
Before he finished his words, a pen on the chart table fell to the ground. Everyone looked at the pen and was shocked and speechless. The warship just released water to the other side a few minutes ago to stabilize the warship’s roll, but now the roll has appeared again, saying that all the efforts just now were in vain, and the whole warship is really in danger of sinking.
