The Rise of the Third Reich

“Tu tu tu tu tu…”

The officers and soldiers on the "Fury" aircraft carrier reacted quickly. When the German dive bombers arrived, all 22 cannons - 6 twin 4-inch high-level dual-purpose guns and 10 2-pound single anti-aircraft guns - were Firing like crazy. However, this kind of firepower is still too weak!

If it were in the North Sea or the Atlantic Ocean, the "Fury" would never be alone like it is now. There would be at least one "air defense escort" (a type of larger tonnage, stronger anti-aircraft firepower, and sometimes equipped with Destroyer with air search radar) and protected by an ordinary destroyer. If the entire fleet is dispatched together, there will be densely packed cruisers and destroyers escorting it.

But today, there is only one transport ship of more than 10,000 tons beside it, and the nearest destroyer is nearly 10,000 meters away.

What's even worse is that the main engine of the "Rage" has not yet completed startup - the "Rage" uses a heavy oil-fired boiler. The heavy oil needs to be heated to a flowing state before starting. The turbine cannot enter high speed immediately after the boiler is started. status, it will take another 15 minutes to slowly accelerate, and the whole process will take up to 30 minutes...

"Haha, this is a dead target that won't move!" Captain Wal T. Heisenberg laughed loudly as he controlled the aircraft to hover to an altitude of 3,000 meters and enter the dive position.

"Start the dive now!" He roared, then lowered the nose of the plane, aligned the drop point mark of the dive sight with the Fury on the sea, then opened the speed brake and dived at an angle of 55 degrees. Started to dive downward - the Ju.88 is not a Ju.87 after all. It is just a medium bomber that "can dive bomb", not a true dive bomber. Although it is theoretically possible to dive at a large angle, it will cause certain damage to the fuselage. For Captain Wal T. Heisenberg, who still has to fly 900 kilometers to return to the base, it is better to take it easy...

"2600...2400...2200..." Captain Wal T. Heisenberg's navigator loudly reported the altitude. When he shouted the number 700 meters, Captain Wal T. Heisenberg only heard the bombardier, Honor Ya Corporal Vrba, a Lean man, shouted: "Let go!"

Then the plane seemed to become a lot lighter all of a sudden, and the whole thing moved upward slightly. Captain Heisenberg knew that two SC-500 bombs had been dropped. He quickly pulled the control stick with all his strength, raised the nose of the plane, and the plane began to climb rapidly amidst the sparse artillery fire.

"Boom!"

There was a loud noise, and the bombardier Vrba shouted: "Hit! Hit! One shot..."

"Wow!" Everyone in the cabin cheered. An SC-500 bomb is no joke. Without an armored deck, it would be impossible to withstand it.

Just as everyone was cheering, another loud noise came!

Another SC-500 bomb hit the poor, thin aviation deck of the "Fury". Everyone on board this Ju.88 medium bomber knows:

This aircraft carrier is doomed!

History will be rewritten from now on!

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"Oh God! Oh God! They hit the Fury. The old Fury is doomed. It has no armored deck..."

British Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who was in the officer's lounge of the Nelson, went crazy when he saw two huge fireballs rising from the Fury.

Although it is old-fashioned, this is an aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons after all! Moreover, it has a speed of up to 30 knots and can follow the maneuvers of the large fleet.

"God, they are coming..." Sir Pound also lay at the porthole and looked around, but he did not see the Fury, and he had no intention of caring about the old aircraft carrier. Because, he saw five twin-engine He-115 torpedo bombers forming a horizontal formation, flying slowly towards him at a height of less than 20 meters from the sea.

A battleship like the "Nelson"...theoretically is not afraid of dive bombers - just a theory - because its horizontal defense capability is relatively strong and it is impossible to be blown over by bombs of the PC-500 level. Therefore, in the eyes of the British Royal Navy officers and soldiers, torpedoes are the most dangerous enemy.

Although the "Nelson" also has 38mm mine protection armor, it also has a mine protection compartment, and has quite good anti-sinking performance. But whether it can be sunk does not mean that it cannot be damaged. If a few holes are opened in the bottom of the "Nelson", the ship will have to be docked and repaired for several months...

"Tu tu tu tu tu tu..."

All the anti-aircraft guns and high-level dual-purpose guns of the "Nelson" that were able to fire out of the port side all fired at once, desperately throwing ammunition at the five "death-seeking" He-115s.

"Boom! Boom!"

There were almost two loud noises in succession, and the two He-115s were turned into fireballs. In the air and sea battles of World War II, the most dangerous job was undoubtedly that of torpedo bomber crew members. You can imagine how dangerous it is for a plane to charge at a battleship with dozens of anti-aircraft guns at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour and an altitude of about 20 meters.

"God bless! God bless! God bless..."

Staff Sergeant Hans Brandt, the pilot of the 12th Torpedo Bomber Squadron of the German Naval Aviation, squeezed the control stick tightly, suppressed the fear in his heart, and pointed the nose of the aircraft at the huge mountain-like battleship "Nelson". He kept praying.

He does not know now that the plane of his squadron leader, Lieutenant Wilt, and another He-115 have been shot down.

"Let go!" Hans Brandt suddenly heard the bombardier's cry, and then he felt the plane suddenly jump up several meters.

Run away quickly! Hans Brandt didn't even have time to pray to God for the torpedo to hit. There was only one word in his mind - escape!

Almost at the same time as he dropped the torpedo, the other two surviving He-115s also dropped the torpedo in a panic, regardless of whether they were aiming or not...

And the F5 torpedo they dropped was not a good mine. It was not very powerful, slow, and had a short range. It can only hit a maximum distance of 2,000 meters, has a speed of only 33 knots, can hold 200 kilograms of Hexanite explosives (this was an explosive developed and supplied to the German Navy during World War I, and its power is equivalent to 80% of TNT), and can only be released at ultra-low altitudes. Not a particularly ideal weapon.

"Rumble!" With a muffled sound, the hull of the battleship "Nelson" swayed again. Churchill lost his balance and fell to the ground with a thud. His big head was bleeding from nowhere.

"Have you been hit?" Winston Churchill asked while sitting on the floor, ignoring the severe pain in his head and not rushing to get up.

"It was hit," Sir Pound was still calm, "but the 'Nelson' is very strong and there will be no problem."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another loud noise on the sea, and a huge fireball rose up, as if a volcano on the seabed was erupting.

"This is..." Churchill got up very quickly, ran to the porthole and looked out.

There is another floating torch on the sea!

"It's the Brave..." Sir Pound gritted his teeth, "It was hit by a German dive bomber!"

If the Ju.88 bombs an aircraft carrier that cannot move, it will be accurate every time it is bombed! Moreover, the Ju.88 has a large bomb load. It can drop two SC-500s at one time, and a five-machine formation can drop 10 500-kilogram bombs. For an old-fashioned aircraft carrier without an armored deck, it will be disabled even if it gets hit by one.

"The attack effect of the torpedo planes is very poor." Lieutenant General Graham, who was watching the battle at an altitude of 5,000 meters, put down his telescope and frowned tightly. "The horizontal bombing of the He-111 is of no use. Only the Ju.88 bombs well. Those two aircraft carriers were burned like that, and even if they could be repaired, it would take a year.”

More than two aircraft carriers were ignited by Ju.88s on the sea, and a heavy cruiser was also hit by two SC-500s. One turret was missing, and fires were everywhere on the deck. There was also a destroyer that was blown up by the SC-500 - it was nowhere to be seen on the sea and must have sunk.

And now less than 40% of the Ju.88s have fluttered their wings and flown away after dropping their bombs, and the remaining 60% are still looking for targets to attack.

"General," said Franz Speer, operational staff officer of the Naval Air Force, "it seems that the British aircraft carrier defense capability is too weak and it is difficult to adapt to the current naval battle."

"At least you can't get bombed!" When Lieutenant General Gram said this, another huge water column rose from the sea.

"It looks like a battleship!" Major Franz Speer raised his telescope and looked at the sea below. "This is... this ship is so big, at least 30,000 tons! But the anti-aircraft firepower seems to be very weak, oh, it was hit again! It seems that the torpedo attack plane is about to make a success."

What is being beaten by the He-115 is the "Iron Duke" class battleship - not a serious battleship, but a training ship. This old battleship, which was built in 1912, has little anti-aircraft firepower and no mine protection compartments. Facing the torpedo attack aircraft and F5 torpedoes of the 1930s, there was naturally no way to fight back. In just a few minutes, it was hit by 6 F5 torpedoes, and it began to tilt at a large angle. It seemed that it would not stay afloat for long.

And just when the "Iron Duke" was about to sink, there was an old "Revenge"-class battleship "Royal Oak" on the sea, which also became the target of the He-115 torpedo plane. At the same time, another 4 He-115 five-plane formations completed the attack on the "Nelson" and its sister ship "Rodney" (this ship was not discovered by German spies), losing 6 The aircraft fired 14 torpedoes and hit 3 of them. But the two battleships remained motionless.