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"It's hit! It's hit! It's hit!" Before the sound of the explosion below appeared, the cheers of the bombardiers had already sounded.Because he kept looking down, he didn't see the water column rising, which meant that the bomb hit the aircraft carrier!

The cheers of the bombardiers did not fall, and the aircraft carrier below exploded like a burst balloon. A huge orange-red fireball rose in the center of the hull, debris, smoke, flames, and even human remains The severed limbs were thrown into the air. After the smoke cleared, Wang Guangfu saw from the air that the entire aircraft carrier seemed to have been disemboweled. In the center of the aircraft deck, a large hole that was blazing was impressively visible. !

"Damage Control! Report Damage! Report Damage!"

Admiral Cunningham was also watching this scene. He was thrown to the ground by the air wave from the explosion just now, and he struggled to get up. He saw the terrifying big hole on the aviation deck below at a glance.

"Sir! The aircraft carrier was hit by a bomb, and the flight deck was..." A staff officer put down the phone and began to report the damage. Just halfway through, there were two earth-shattering explosions in succession. The hull of the aircraft carrier seemed to be kicked by something. Like kicking two feet, he jumped twice.

"The stern! The stern was hit by two bombs!" Someone shouted.

"Sir! Damage control report, the power compartment was pierced by a bomb, and the bomb exploded in the power compartment! The entire ship has lost power!"

"Hurry up and repair it! Organize forces to repair it!" Captain Williams let out a desperate roar.An aircraft carrier with working power has no other way out except being abandoned in a naval battle. As for repairing the power cabin... it's just a dead horse as a living horse doctor. It was blown up by a 500 kg heavy bomb !

With the support of a staff officer, Cunningham stumbled into the command center. Before he could open his mouth to inquire about the loss, Fleet Chief of Staff Phillips proposed to replace the flagship.Cunningham naturally knew what this meant.

"Is there no other way?" As soon as Cunningham said these words, there was another loud bang!This was the fourth 500kg bomb to hit the bow of the aircraft carrier.

"Admiral, please transfer the flagship to the 'Voyager' destroyer!" Phillips suggested with tears in his eyes.

"What! It's... a destroyer?" Cunningham was taken aback when he heard this, and quickly turned his head to look for the shadow of the light cruiser Newcastle on the sea, but this "large light cruiser" with a standard displacement of 9320 tons has completely disappeared!

"Admiral, we have already lost the light cruiser HMS Newcastle. When the Brilliance was bombed just now, it was also hit by two 2kg heavy bombs, one of which may have hit the ammunition depot, and the hull was blown in two. It sank in a few minutes." Phillips whimpered: "It's over! We're over, the British Empire is over..."

"Not yet! My lieutenant general!" Cunningham punched Phillips on the shoulder, and said loudly: "Bring me up! The battle has just begun! Our bombers are on the way, and the Chinese will suffer retribution of."

"Now, let the destroyer 'Voyager' approach. In addition, order the remaining destroyers to do everything possible to rescue those who fell into the water. The British Empire needs all of them!"

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"Swordfish, damn Swordfish! Can't you go faster? Our aircraft carrier is almost sinking!"

Over a certain area in the depths of the Indian Ocean, 192 British planes were flying in a standard bombing formation, slowly heading northwest.As the commander-in-chief of this carrier-based fleet, Colonel Anderson was almost dying of anxiety.Because he already knew the news that the Glorious was severely damaged and completely lost its fighting ability and power through the radio!

The flagship of the Indian Grand Fleet is finished!However, the air strike force under his command was still flying slowly at a speed of about 170 kilometers per hour.With such a flight speed, I am afraid that after those Chinese planes dropped the bombs and returned to the aircraft carrier, they have not found their opponents yet!I don't know what this broken plane is going to do?

"Where are we? How far away?" Anderson asked the navigator Sifle behind him impatiently. He had asked the same question at least four times along the way.

"Sir, our current position is XX east longitude; XX north latitude. There are still 65 nautical miles away from the target area." Silver's answer was very careful, even reporting the latitude and longitude.But Anderson only heard 65 nautical miles. 65 nautical miles is about 120 kilometers... In other words, it will take nearly an hour to reach the target area!It's just the target area. It's hard to say whether the target can be found, although there is a "Walrus" seaplane equipped with radar in this fleet.However, if the Chinese fleet must avoid it, it can still be easily done.After all, the opponent has a top speed of 1 knots and can sail nearly 34.5 nautical miles in 2 hours, which is already out of the search range of the airborne radar.

"Boston No. 1, call Boston No. 1, I am Haiyan No. [-]." At this moment, the call of the "Walrus" seaplane sounded in Anderson's earphone.

"This is Boston 1, received, here is Boston 1." Anderson replied.

"Boston 1, we found a group of enemy planes at 8 o'clock, the number is about 80, the speed is about 390 km/h, and the direction is northwest."

"What? Really met!" Anderson exclaimed.

"Colonel, I'm afraid this is the case. We are about to encounter the Chinese plane returning from the bombing." The pilot of the seaplane replied with a wry smile.

"Wait a minute, you said their speed is 390 km/h?" Anderson raised his eyebrows, as if thinking of something.

"Yes, Colonel, they are fast."

"That is to say, there are no Min-25 seaplanes among them, and they haven't found us yet!" Although the British side does not know the specific technical parameters of the Min-25, the approximate speed can still be inferred.A seaplane equipped with radar can never fly at a high speed of 390 km/h.

"Colonel, I think...they didn't find us." The captain of the walrus seaplane also noticed something strange at this time. The 80 or so Chinese planes did not change their course, but flew straight to the northwest. It seemed that the Chinese The aircraft carrier is there!

"How tall are they?" Anderson asked again.

"The height is about 3000 meters."

"Okay." Anderson looked up at the thick clouds in the sky, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Attention all, the altitude is 5000 meters, let's go above the clouds!"

Chapter 0855 Sunset of the Old Empire ([-]) Tail-line Raid

"Colonel, are we going to ambush the Chinese devils!" The captain of "Haiyan No. 5" came out from the earphone with a little excitement.

"Ambush?" Anderson twitched his lips and smiled wryly.If the performance of my tube nose swallow is even better, maybe this is an opportunity?Climb on top of your opponents, hide in the clouds, and then swoop when they pass below... Colonel Anderson, who had participated in the air battle in the North Sea a few months ago, knew that would not work.The opponent's 18 to 20 Fw-190Cs can easily destroy their own 40 tube nose swallows even in the event of a surprise attack!And the air combat performance of that A-4B dive bomber is also good, at least much better than the Swordfish and Barracuda escorted by him.If the two sides fight an air battle here, the one who is defeated must be their own side!If its 192 ships are defeated by the Chinese, then the battle in the Indian Ocean will be lost.

"No! We use radar to track them, find their aircraft carrier, and kill it!" After speaking, Anderson turned off the battery, and gently pulled the joystick. fly away.Immediately behind it were 191 British carrier-based aircraft carrying torpedoes and bombs.

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At this time in the Indian Ocean near the equator.The Chinese advance fleet was hiding under a thick cloud when it was approaching noon on this day.Just like the British aircraft carrier fleet that had just been beaten by Chinese carrier-based aircraft and lost the HMS Glorious aircraft carrier, in this era when airborne radar has just begun to be used, the top generals of the Chinese navy still regard the clouds as a way to hide the fleet The trail umbrella.

The fleet on the sea was advancing with the wind and waves. A ray of scorching sun near the equator radiated hot golden light, piercing through the thick clouds, and painting these giant steel beasts with a mottled golden color.Admiral Zhao Zheng folded his arms and stood on the island of the USS Taiwan Aircraft Carrier, looking with satisfaction at this small formation of six warships.A 27000-ton Taiwan aircraft carrier, a 15000-ton Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, and four 3000-ton Type 1936 destroyers.Although there are only six warships, this formation has become a formidable strike force because of the presence of an aircraft carrier!

Just an hour ago, the 83 carrier-based aircraft dispatched by the Taiwan aircraft carrier had just raided a British aircraft carrier battle group.The battle report has been sent back, and the results that can be confirmed are that a Southampton-class light cruiser was sunk, two W-class destroyers were sunk, and the aircraft carrier Glory was hit by at least four 500-kilogram armor-piercing bombs!The whole ship was on fire.Not surprisingly, this aircraft carrier cannot escape the bad luck of heavy damage, and it will take at least a year of overhaul before it can return to the battlefield.By then, the war in Australia may be over.China's losses in this battle were only 3 A-4B Thunderhawk dive bombers and 6 crew members.

Now the Glorious is no longer a concern, but the British still have three aircraft carriers fleeing. Although eight aircraft carriers have been sent to chase them, they have not been found yet.It will be dark in 8 hours. If there is still nothing by then, then the naval battle will not be a complete victory.

At this time, there was a piercing siren sound on the warship, one long and two short. This was a signal to clean up the flight deck, and it meant that our own carrier-based aircraft had returned.Zhao Zheng raised his head, raised the binoculars hanging around his neck, and searched the southern sky carefully, and vaguely saw dozens of black spots flying fast.

Just when Zhao Zheng was full of joy for most of the carrier-based planes to return safely, suddenly the siren on the warship blew again, and this time it was a piercing sound over and over again, which was the arrival of enemy planes. Siren!Zhao Zheng, who was standing inside the island, was taken aback, and saw Chief of Staff Meng Hailong whispering a few words to the radar director, his face changed drastically, and he shouted loudly: "Commander! The radar has found enemy planes, the number is about 200 Frame, distance 85 kilometers, altitude 5000 meters, speed 200, come to us!"

"Damn it! They found us from the carrier-based plane that followed us back!"

Zhao Zheng shook his head and smiled wryly.It’s really a secret. In order to let the carrier-based aircraft return to the voyage earlier, he ordered the carrier-based aircraft to drop the Min-25 type equipped with radar and return first. Unexpectedly...

"Sir! The carrier-based planes request to land, and they are running out of fuel!" The director of air traffic control yelled again.The returning carrier-based aircraft has flown back and forth for more than 1000 kilometers. Most of the A-4B's fuel is almost exhausted. The Fw-190C has a slightly longer range, but it can't last long.

"Let Gao Zhihang lead the fighter squadron for a while, and the aircraft carrier will take back the A-4s first, and then send out the second fighter squadron." Zhao Zheng made a decision after a little thought. He couldn't give up the 62 A-4Bs without them. , Taiwan will not be able to play a role in the next battle.There are still three British aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean, and they will not be more than 200 nautical miles away from the Taiwan, because if it is farther away, the 192 British carrier-based aircraft will not be able to fly back!

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"Attention all Barracuda dive bombers! The first wave of attack is launched by you, targeting Taiwan!"

"All the Swallows, come with me, entangle those Fw-190s, they're running out of fuel, just entangle them."

"All Swordfish torpedo planes, in formation of five or five, target the Taiwan. Throw all the torpedoes on me. We must sink the Taiwan!"

"God bless my king! Kill!"

At this time, Colonel Anderson, the commander-in-chief of the British carrier-based fleet, also began to issue combat orders.According to the original combat doctrine of the British Royal Navy Air Force, the dive bomber should cooperate with the torpedo bomber to attack, but at this time Anderson didn't care about it. With a range of 85 kilometers, those swordfish don't fly in less than 20 minutes! After 20 minutes, the Fw-190Cs on the Taiwan ship may have been fully fueled and have already taken off. With their forty tube-nose swallows, they cannot stop them at all.

And now, just taking advantage of the opportunity of Taiwan to recover the carrier-based aircraft, it launched a surprise attack.Let 75 Barracudas swarm up first, no matter how fierce the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower is, just grit your teeth and drop the bomb!As long as a few 250kg armor-piercing bombs hit the flight deck of Taiwan, this aircraft carrier will be temporarily unable to send carrier-based aircraft to fight!At that time, the Taiwan will not be the meat on the chopping board of the Swordfish torpedo bomber?As long as the Taiwan can be sunk, even if all the barracudas are exhausted, it will be worth it!

It was precisely with this mentality of fighting to the death that the 75 Barracuda bombers, almost after seeing the battle group of the Taiwan aircraft carrier, all rushed to the wide deck of the target, hoping to blow it up. pulpy.

The 18 Fw-190C fighter jets covering the aircraft carrier saw this posture and knew that the British were desperate. They immediately sent out 8 planes to block 40 tube-nose swallows, and the remaining 10 planes went straight to the Barracuda bomber group and attacked them. Spit out a string of flames!The Nanjing Heavy Cruiser and four 1936-type destroyers even surrounded the aircraft carrier tightly. More than two hundred anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns fired continuously, weaving a fire net around the Taiwan.

决死冲击就这样开始了。75架梭鱼义无反顾地冲向了Fw-190C组成的阻击线，8架梭鱼被20mm机炮的强大火力打成了蜂窝，剩下的67架梭鱼仍然没有一丝犹豫就突进了水面舰艇高射火力所组成的火网之中。就像是日本人的自杀飞机一样！

"Boom! Boom! Boom..." Several groups of dazzling flames exploded in the sky above the Taiwan. It was four Barracuda bombers being blown up by the firepower of the surface ships!Five more barracudas were loaded into the water dragging long black smoke.However, most of the enemy planes still broke through the fire nets and began to dive and drop bombs!

"boom……"