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Chapter 168: 911 The pursuit of the wind and clouds(1/2)

When Garland arrived at the battlefield, he happened to see a shocking scene on the battlefield.

The sea was covered with various warships of all sizes. The battleships used huge naval guns to bombard the sea at a distance of more than 20,000 meters, while the destroyer cruisers rushed to a distance of 10,000 meters or even a few thousand meters to launch shelling, and did not continuously release torpedoes.

The shells that shot the lost water created countless white fountains of all sizes on the blue sea, and the black smoke and red flames emitted from the naval guns were dotted.

A huge warship lies on the side of the sea, sank rapidly with the rising flames and thick smoke, creating a huge whirlpool on the sea.

The countless lifeboats and crew members who had no time to escape were struggling and cried, crying and being swept into the sea by the huge suction.

Tons of blue sea water rushed down from all directions, filling the vortex and filling the bones of British sailors.

Looking from a high altitude, the battlefield is as horrifying as Goethe's purgatory depicted in Faust.

Garland heard that an British aircraft carrier appeared near the battlefield, and his head was hot and he left his post without any hesitation.

When he personally flew the plane and led eleven he-100d1 fighters to the battlefield, his head had recovered from its awakening.

Instead of leading his subordinates to the battlefield, he divided into six dual-aircraft formations and formed a circle near the battlefield, looking for the aircraft carrier they were looking for.

The sea is hot and the sky is not willing to be lonely.

The second attack wave, the third attack wave, and the dive bomber formation of the Second Luftwaffe Air Force from the airport near the island of Malta, from Sicily and Taranto military ports, have covered the sky of the battlefield.

More than 200 ju-88, ju-87 dive bombers and fi-167 torpedo attack aircraft rushed to the Royal Navy on the sea with thunderous force.

The British warships hit the sea like hail by the aviation bomb. Torpedoes rushed towards the target with terrifying ripples.

The British sailors did not sit and wait for death. The twenty-mm machine gun and the forty-mm Bofos anti-aircraft gun shells exploded in the sky. From time to time, planes were hit and plunged into the sea with thick smoke and flames. The parachuting pilot then spread white umbrella flowers in the sky.

In order to save his life, the British gunners showed great courage, but they could not resist the influx of German fighter jets.

After the Malayan battleship, the Junquan battleship became the next result of German bombers.

I saw the Malayan battleship sinking to the bottom of the sea with my own eyes. The powerless battleship of the Junquan can only release smoke and interfere with the enemy's sight as Cunningham's orders, and turn the bow of the ship while fighting and retreating.

It seemed to be inspired by the just-sinking Malaya. The King Quan made great power. After turning the bow, the first volley was fired. A 381mm shell from the main gun of the stern of the ship hit the position of the stern of the Earl of Cafur near the propeller at a distance of 22,000 meters, causing the propeller of the Earl of Cafur to stop and paralyze on the sea.

Before the crew of the Battleship of the Junquan battleship enjoyed the joy brought by severe damage to the enemy, a roar came from the bridge of the ship and passed through the sound tube to every corner of the warship.

"Note that there are torpedoes on the port side."

Captain Philip, the captain of the battleship of the King of the King, had accurately measured the position of the enemy plane and quickly pointed out the direction of the plane with his hands.

Members on the bridge could see an aircraft appearing at the port side bow very close to sea level, and the speed came very quickly.

This is a torpedo bomber that they do not recognize. It is about 2,500 yards away from the Battleship of the Junquan?, and it is still flying towards them at high speed. The bridge is filled with panic. The crew shouts alarm signals with various sound tubes.

No gunner saw the enemy plane flying from the port side. At the two 20mm Olicon anti-aircraft guns in front of the combat command room, eight gunners stared at the dive bombers above their heads with all their attention, and used the anti-aircraft guns in their hands to shoot away the gods of death who would make terrifying screams.

It was not until the first mate leaned forward from behind the waveproof screen and cursed them that the eight gunners woke up as if they were dreaming, turned around and looked at the port side, looking for the target mentioned by the first mate.

When the gunners found the torpedo plane, they were frightened to find that the plane was only about 1,500 yards away from them.

"What are you watching? Open fire, open fire quickly." The first mate shouted.

A second passed, maybe two seconds later, the gunners seemed to be at a loss. Then they suddenly woke up!

They paniced and flattened the muzzle that was originally pointing to the sky and fired fire at the enemy planes close to the sea.

One cannon and two cannons, with the deafening and intermittent explosions, more and more anti-aircraft cannons turned their muzzles to the port side, and dense shells shot out rows of white water columns on the sea, blocking the enemy planes like a wall.

Seeing that the torpedo was not good, the torpedo dropped a torpedo, then screamed and swung a circle on the sea, shaking out of the fire net.

Colonel Philip immediately issued the order to fill the rudder with the left. The battleship of the King Quan immediately turned to the port side like a person who was twitched. The giant hull raised high on the right side, causing huge waves to the sea surface, turning the hull into a direction parallel to the torpedo launch.

Looking at the torpedoes swaying past the sea more than a hundred meters away on the left side of the hull, nearly a thousand crew members from Colonel Philip breathed a sigh of relief.

"Pay attention to starboard, watch out for starboard, there are two enemy planes." A heart-wrenching voice rang out in the bridge.

Before Colonel Philip could come back to his senses, the voice continued to shout, "Oh my God, they dropped bombs, they dropped bombs."

Seeing this, Colonel Philip hurriedly ordered his men to make a sharp turn again, but it was too late. A torpedo slid across the sea against the head of the battleship of the Junquan battleship, and another torpedo hit the right side of the ship.

A strong vibration quickly spread along the huge hull of the King's Volunteer to the bridge, and Colonel Philip staggered and almost fell to the ground.

With the help of his aides, Colonel Philip stood firm again and immediately asked the departments to report the losses.

Not long after, the electromechanical and mechanical hair came to report that the propeller on the right side of the battleship was blown up. The steel plate fragments stuck the servo. The rudder cabin was flooded with water.

Colonel Philip had already noticed that the speed of the warship under his feet had dropped sharply, and the huge ship became more and more bulky.

Huge battleships are always the first choice for German fighter jets. An injured battleship is tantamount to shouting at German fighter jets and firing at me.

The repeated attacks on the battleship of the Junquan Battleship "beating the fallen dog" began.

Hundreds of aviation bombs and artillery shells flew from all directions to the battleship of the King of the Kings. The explosion shock waves and shrapnel ruthlessly destroyed the buildings on the deck one by one, and countless sailors died in danger.

One torpedo machine after another released torpedoes against the sea, drilling holes into the hull near its waterline, accelerating its sinking.

"Our ship has lost its power and is being besieged by enemy forces. We will fight to the last bomb, long live the British Empire and long live the Royal Navy."

After sending the last telegram to the flagship, Colonel Philip and his subordinates stood in the bridge like nails, quietly waiting for the last moment to arrive.

On the front and rear decks, left and right sides of the Battleship of the Junquan, the British gunners struggled desperately, desperately shooting at the enemy with their weapons in their hands, trying to attract the attention of the enemy with powerful artillery fire and gain time for the escape of the main force of the fleet.

Under the joint siege of the German and Italian air navy, the sound of cannons on the Junquan No. 1 did not last long.

Thirty minutes after being hit by a torpedo, the front and rear main guns on the Junquan were finally dumbfounded. From the stern to the head of the ship, from the deck to the superstructure, the thick smoke rolled, and the still hull began to tilt to the right.

Ten minutes later, the sound of firing was no longer heard on the Junquan Number, only the explosion when the shells of various caliber were hit.

Two fi-167 torpedo bombers descended from the sky and fired two torpedoes at the starboard side of the Battleship of the Junquan, accelerating the sinking speed of the Junquan.

On the deck, hundreds of British sailors fled around and rushed to jump into the sea, but it was too late.

With a violent right turn, the battleship of the Junquan sank into the cold and dark waves of the Mediterranean Sea.

The sacrifice of the King Quan bought precious time for the fleet led by Cunningham. Lieutenant General Tovey led five light cruisers from Fleet A to cover the eight destroyers around to release torpedoes to the tracking Italian Navy, disrupting the pace of the enemy ship's tracking. Then he turned the bow and chased the battleship of the War War, which was taking the first step.

Large fog of white smoke rose from the array of the Mediterranean fleet, obscuring the sight of German fighter jets in the sky.

Under the smoke, British ships kept provoking the bows to run the S-shaped route to avoid bombs from the air.

Instead of joining the attack, Garland and his fighter squadron took advantage of their speed and flashed over the Mediterranean fleet and rushed southeastward.

"Wild Wolf 3 calls Wild Wolf 1, and Wild Wolf 3 calls Wild Wolf 1. I found the target, I found the target, please reply after receiving it, and it's over."

"I'm Wild Wolf One, we're on the way, we'll be there soon," Garland said excitedly on the radio.

After Garland finished speaking, he immediately adjusted the frequency of the radio to another channel.

"Wild Wolf One calls Falcon One, and Wild Wolf One calls Falcon One. We found prey No. 1, and brought your people with me. The coordinates are..."

After reporting coordinates to the bomber troops, Garland's landline also flew to the battlefield and met with Wild Wolf 3.

After the naval battle between the Mediterranean Fleet and the Italian Fleet broke out, the swordfish torpedo attack aircraft on the USS Eagle aircraft carrier continued to attack the Italian Navy, and the torpedoes they fired had nothing but caused some panic to the Italian Navy.

A swordfish torpedo aircraft that had completed a lightning strike mission was unfortunately discovered by Wild Wolf III.

Following the swordfish torpedo plane, Wild Wolf 3, easily found the USS Eagle aircraft carrier.

When Garland arrived, he happened to see Wild Wolf 3 chasing the enemy plane in the air. After saying hello on the radio, Garland cheered and joined the pursuit.

Nine swordfish torpedo planes hovered over the aircraft carrier after performing their lightning strike missions, and were about to land one by one according to the navigation when they suddenly saw the German fighter plane appearing and fleeing in all directions.

The swordfish torpedo aircraft adopts an old-fashioned biplane structure and an open cockpit, which looks not much different from the old aircraft during World War I.

His top speed is only 225 kilometers per hour, while the maximum speed of the he-100d1 fighter jet driven by Garland is close to three times its maximum speed.

Garland tweaked the joystick, and the plane shook left and right a few times in the air. He skillfully avoided the bullets fired from the rear machine gun of the swordfish torpedo machine in front of him. Then he put it firmly into the sight. The 20mm cannon installed in the engine and the two mg-17 machine guns on the left and right wings opened fire.

Garland clearly felt a rhythmic vibration from the fuselage, and then saw the right wing of the swordfish torpedo machine suddenly break, and the fuselage was rotating irregularly spiral toward the sea. Three human-shaped objects were thrown out of the cabin one after another, and a graceful curve was drawn in the air to fall towards the sea.

Garland skillfully manipulated the plane to accelerate and dive, flashing by next to a dancing British pilot.

The moment he passed by the bloody pilot, Garland raised his hand and waved his fist at the shocked pilot, then flew away in a cool manner.

With a thud, a tall splash of water splashed on the sea surface. After a moment, a human-shaped object floated onto the water in a large shape...

When Garland pulled up the fighter planes and met his subordinates at high altitude, none of the nine swordfish torpedo planes were spared and all were shot down. He immediately moved his target to the USS Eagle aircraft carrier.

The Eagle aircraft carrier swayed left and right on the sea, doing S-shaped maneuvering, and its huge hull swayed and white waves rippled across the sea.

It maintains a safe distance from the USS Eagle aircraft carrier, allowing the shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns on the ship to explode in the surrounding sky.

Garland led his subordinates to a circle in the sky and turned to the stern of the ship, then lined up in two columns, dived towards the deck of the USS Eagle aircraft carrier against the British anti-aircraft guns.

The moment he flew over the deck, the 20mm machine gun shells and 7.92mm machine gun bullets made countless bullet holes on the deck, and even swept a bloody path in the anti-aircraft gunners on the deck.

Twelve fighter jets fired in turn. After a scene of flesh and blood flying, the air defense firepower on the Eagle aircraft carrier dropped sharply. Falcon 1, who had just arrived at the battlefield, immediately led his subordinates to launch a fatal attack.

Accompanied by a special whistle, a squadron of nine Stukas formed three three-machine formations and launched dives one by one.

Without enough anti-aircraft artillery interference, the amazing hit rate of the Stuka dive bomber was fully utilized.

Two 1,000 kilogram armor-piercing bombs and four 50 kilogram high-explosion bombs landed almost simultaneously on the middle and tail of the USS Eagle aircraft carrier.

The shock waves and shrapnel of four 50 kilogram bombs instantly swept away almost half of the crew on the deck, and several unlucky guys standing on the edge of the deck were pushed out of the deck by the air waves and flew towards the sea with their hands dancing.

Two PC-1000 armor-piercing bombs drilled through the floor of the flight deck and the steel plate below, and were then detonated by a fan-shaped delay fuse of the bullet tail.

The dazzling flames ejected from the huge gap between the flight deck and the hull, with several human-shaped objects interspersed in the middle.

Amid the explosion, large pieces of steel plates and wood chips were torn apart by shock waves and flew into the sky.
To be continued...
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