Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 737 Naval Battle (7)

News of the German fleet's massacre on the waterway quickly spread to the temporary combat headquarters.

"These damn Germans are so bullying!" Faced with such an arrogant and domineering German fleet, everyone in the combat headquarters was immediately filled with hatred. They were all bullied to the doorstep, who could bear this? Commander Arnold immediately ordered all nearby air force bases to dispatch fighter planes immediately, and the German fleet must pay the price! However, in view of the lessons learned from yesterday's failed attack, he ordered that each attack formation should not be less than 100 fighters.

When the first wave of 130 American P-40 fighter formations arrived near the attacked channel, they saw scattered shipwrecks everywhere on the sea, some large and some small. There are also all kinds of scattered materials and parts, almost covering the entire sea surface; of course, there are also sailors splashing in the water.

At this time, the "culprit" Scharnhorst and several cruisers had already returned to the fleet, and the entire fleet was in an air defense formation and was waiting.

The FW-190T fighter jets that had been waiting at high altitude pounced down with murderous intent. In view of yesterday's losses, Major General Bachmann specifically told the pilots to take advantage of the high-altitude performance of their own fighter jets and not to engage in dogfights with these P-40s. Since the P-40 fighter was not equipped with a turbocharger, the Allison engine had poor high-altitude performance, which affected the performance of the P-40 aircraft. Although the original Chrono P-40F model was modified into a Merlin engine to improve the high-altitude performance of the P-40, because this engine only has a one-stage supercharger and the total weight of the P-40F has increased significantly, the high-altitude performance improvement is not as expected. With the new aircraft types entering service, most P-40s quickly took a back seat or were used for training tasks.

The German pilots gave full play to the advantages of their own fighter jets and used skilled B\u0026Z tactics to launch one round after another of dive attacks on the US fighter jets. Soon, a P-40 fighter jet fell into the sea with thick smoke. Immediately afterwards, another one was hit by a shell, and the plane burst into flames and exploded into pieces in the air.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when one's own fighter jets were entangled with the German fighter jets (and were beaten), the subsequent US bombers avoided the murderous German fighter jets and went straight to the German fleet.

Unfortunately, their small actions were clearly visible to the advanced German radar, and soon the German fleet took off a second wave of fighter jets to intercept these bombers.

Without the escort of fighter jets, the bombers will only be slaughtered when faced with enemy fighter jets. The US fighter jets want to come to help, but they have no time to take care of themselves. If they are distracted, they may be shot down, so they can't care about others. The US bombers were hit one after another, spinning and falling with billowing smoke. Some had their fuel tanks exploded, and the bombs mounted on the planes were detonated, causing a big explosion in the sky. Countless hot fragments sprayed out in all directions and scattered on the sea.

Like moths to a flame, the U.S. bombers rushed toward the German fleet one after another, but most of them were stopped by German fighter planes. Only a few lucky bombers escaped the pursuit of German fighter planes. But when they rushed to the German fleet, they faced an airtight air defense firepower network.

Looking at the US bombers shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of our own fleet in the distance, the adjutant next to Major General Bachmann muttered. "It would be great if there were two anti-aircraft battleships, the Malaya and the Warrior." If these two anti-aircraft battleships followed, I am afraid that they would be able to tear apart all the invading US warplanes without the need for fighter jets. broken.

Major General Bachmann said calmly. "We can hold on without them."

"Of course." They had considered such a large-scale air attack before coming, so they brought many destroyers and cruisers for air defense in the fleet.

In the blink of an eye, the first wave of US military aircraft was wiped out. A total of 130 P-40 fighters and more than 100 bombers were shot down, leaving only some floating oil splatters, broken wood chips, and scattered strips of cloth on the sea. There are still burning bodies.

"Haha, I killed two of them!" Back on the aircraft carrier deck, a German pilot climbed out of the cockpit and shouted excitedly.

"I'll kill four!"

"I'll kill five of them at once! Hahaha!" All the German pilots participating in the war happily exchanged their respective results, because this time the US military sent 130 fighter planes, and almost every German pilot had a result, at least Being able to shoot down a US military aircraft, and many pilots shot down two or more, made them very excited. They felt that these Americans had given them their achievements in vain.

On the bridge, Major General Bachmann heard the staff report that 19 fighter jets were shot down in this air battle and another 27 were seriously damaged, and he made a mental calculation. Yesterday, 15 fighter jets were shot down and 19 more were seriously damaged. With this loss, a total of 34 fighter jets were shot down and 46 fighter jets were seriously damaged.

The four aircraft carriers carry a total of 260 fighter jets, which means that nearly one-third of the fighter jets were lost. Of course, they shot down more than 300 U.S. fighter-bombers at the cost of these 34 being shot down and 46 severely damaged, which was considered a great victory.

The adjutant on the side spoke. "I guess the Americans are not going to let this go."

Major General Bachmann nodded. "Order the fleet to retreat 100 kilometers at full speed."

Sure enough, an hour later, radar detected a group of US military aircraft flying in the distance, with more than 100 fighter jets and more than 100 bombers.

The adjutant couldn't help but gasped. "Ha, are these guys crazy or something?" The first wave of more than 200 planes was wiped out, and that wasn't enough, so more than 200 more planes were sent over? Are these guys crazy? "Show off how awesome your plane is?"

However, the German pilots who went to intercept found that the American fighter models were a bit mixed this time. In addition to the P-40, there were almost all types of fighter jets such as P-35, P-36, P-38, and P-39. .

Major General Bachmann sneered. "It seems that the Americans have sent out all the nearby fighter planes that can take off. Next time, will they also send their pesticide-spraying planes?"

They naturally know that the Americans have a lot of fighter jets and pilots, but so many fighter jets are not concentrated together, but are distributed in various places. It would be impossible to mobilize hundreds of thousands of fighter planes to attack them in a short while.

It was almost the same script as before. The US bombers took advantage of the gap between their own fighter jets and the German fighter jets to head straight for the German fleet. The German fleet also took off fighter jets to intercept, and a few fish that slipped through the net approached the German fleet, and were subsequently torn into pieces by the German fleet's anti-aircraft fire.

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