The "Hui" galloped ahead and chased it at 6: 00 a.m. more than half an hour later, and quickly evacuated to the west end of the English Channel. After General Forbes boarded the ship, this huge battle cruiser immediately raised the flag of the fleet commander!
The officers and men of the British fleet are getting more and more uneasy when it is dawn, but will the German army miss the opportunity to create great achievements?
At 6 o’clock, the German bomber group that appeared in the direction of the French coast was almost overwhelming, and more than 200 Stukas flew to the high school like flocks of goshawks; Low-hanging torpedoes and Yamaichi play the role of osprey; The formation of torpedo speedboats on the sea surface is like a fierce stab of gray sharp blades. This three-dimensional attack mode has been practiced by the Germans in the Baltic Sea for many days, but the British are always ignorant of it!
Forbes, an old man with rich experience in war, was there after all. He managed to hold his breath and made the accompanying light cruisers and destroyers build a sea fence around the German. There was not much anti-aircraft ammunition left in each ship, but they needed to keep more when they saw that they were about to rush out of the strait.
Just as Hood was preparing for the battle, the light cruiser Hermion, which was driving in front of the fleet, suddenly had a huge explosion. It was obvious to the naked eye that its sharp ship had become blurred. The hull of Maebetaka rose high and the stern of the ship fell into the water. At this time, the sky was bright and the torpedo track was approaching, and the German fleet was still more than ten kilometers away. This situation made Forbes and his generals look white and bloodless!
Less than a minute later, the destroyer "Mu", which was driving on the right side of the fleet, was unexpectedly born on its left side by an unexpected explosion. The explosion was so powerful that it tore the destroyer’s weak hull as easily as lighting firecrackers in a matchbox, detonating a few shells in the front main gun ammunition depot. As soon as the spray fell, the whole ship was swallowed up by flames and smoke and overturned irretrievably to the damaged port side.
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When Captain Cole of the Hood first came to his senses, he shouted "Left full rudder!" before Forbes ordered him. Pay attention to mines! "
Floating mines may also be observed by naked eyes, but cobalt mines usually lurk several meters horizontally, and there is no professional equipment to show and avoid them.
The huge battle cruiser’s amazing agility turned to the towering mast and showed a left tilt, but these beautiful moves have been economical. At 22: 00, the Hood touched the thunder at a place less than the mouth of the strait. The strong impact of cobalt mine made in France tore it weak. The seawater at the bottom of the ship surged into many cabins of the ship and the watertight doors were broken, and suddenly the sailors did not come to close the watertight doors at other key parts.
Seeing that the situation can be saved, Fox has to make the fleet sail to the nearest port of Exeter!
The incoming German bombers have flown to the fleet, and the British panic just gave them a chance! Torpedo bombers first approached and successively dropped * * pilot torpedoes. The dazzling white water mark on the sea surface is like a piece of glass that was suddenly cracked. The crack appears in the opposite direction. Almost all water marks extend towards a small area of the same area.
The huge "Hood" has been the focus of the opponent’s attack for a long time. As a result, it was hit by three air torpedoes in succession in the past few minutes. Although its armor is not as good as Nelson’s, the waterline armor of the hull has an inch and a lightning-proof compartment. It just carried the first two torpedoes, but the third one hit it impartially. The ship’s wall was damaged by mines. The torpedo bombardment suddenly cracked a powerful warship with a displacement of more than three meters and a height of more than two meters.
While the British warships were scrambling to avoid mines on the sea, the German dive bomber pilots also threw themselves into the attack happily. They changed their cautious tactics yesterday, like heavy cavalry in the Middle Ages, and regarded the enemy infantry defense standard as large-angle dive and extremely high dive one after another. The bagpipes screamed endlessly, and the black bombs accurately hit the British ships that were more frightened than rabbits.
This time, the logistics department of the German army still prepared several kinds of bomb blades, kilograms of high-explosive anti-personnel bombs, kilograms of air-borne armor-piercing bombs and kilograms of heavy-duty air-borne armor-piercing bombs by the British opponents. One-class killer of "Nelson" sank a day ago, and the dive bombers will become extremely slow after being hung. So far, these ships have not flown to the stranded British ships, but the German dive bombers "Queen Elizabeth" and "Counterattack" have already hung up such amazing anti-ship weapons!
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Even the 10,000-ton heavy cruisers are more powerful than the fragile surface in the face of the old-fashioned anchor mines. After the Beric hit the mines, it ate German torpedoes one after another and shot two torpedoes, and it capsized in less than minutes. Two new destroyers, which came into service before the explosion of the war, lost their souls before the French made cobalt mines!
In the sight, British ships fled frantically to Exeter port like a lost dog. German bombers flew all over the sky. After seeing those anti-aircraft guns that exploded in the middle of the sea, the water column rose and the flames and smoke were everywhere, forming a magnificent picture of war. Of course, this will also hurt the British people forever!
Several gunboats sailed out of the port of Exeter, trying to support this group of seemingly strong but fragile capital ships. However, in the crisis, they completely ignored the German submarines lurking outside the port! The heavy cruiser "York" caused dozens of crew members to drown when two Japanese mm submarine-launched torpedoes drilled black holes in its port, and the seawater surged in for a short time. When the seawater was poured into the boiler room, the warship was thick and white, and there was a strange scene of black smoke, white water and gas mixed. After the loss, the warship suddenly collapsed on the sea and was ravaged by Stuka.
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After the remaining warships fled into Exeter port in panic, the German Stuka bombers continued to hunt down the remnants of the enemy, fearing the fire resistance of the British port. Their attacks eventually forced a British cruiser and three destroyers to run aground in the harbor due to serious injuries. As the Germans gradually blocked the strait, they never returned to their former home port and tragically chose to self-destruct before the German ground troops entered the port!
With the Queen Elizabeth and the Counter-Strike stranded and Hood still moving in the English Channel, only the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship Malaya and a few destroyer minesweepers are left.
A great opportunity is in front of us. German army commanders and pilots never want Dunkirk to regret haunting their military career again. After the first attack fleet returned to the French airport, the second group of bombers composed of old goo immediately filled their positions. Although the German naval air show has been blocked by Herman Goering, Yo, when the German navy was still equipped with four large groups of water torpedo bombers, quite a few of which were advanced, a small formation of these bombers braved the low approaching of British warships to prevent artillery fire and was required to have the ability to dive bombing since the beginning of research. At this time, it showed that the blockbuster didn’t fit the diving performance very well. Around the Malaya, a column of water rose like a forest, and only when it approached, did it project torpedoes at a distance of about concave meters.
Although the gunners of the Malaya set a record for shooting down a German plane in just ten minutes, a large number of torpedoes eventually made them escape. The ship ate two navigation torpedoes in the old sea from Exeter Port, and two heavy near-miss bombs and several small bombs were successively eaten in the old sea, which directly bombarded the ship’s combatants, causing heavy casualties!
The mighty autumn wind and fallen leaves swing in England Chapter 36 Paratroopers’ troubles
Second, the Petalan Slaughterhouse will soon shock the world. The "culprit" of the classic six battles of one enemy behind the scenes was directing another battle hundreds of roads before the arrival of Lebanon.
Here, the number of attackers far exceeds that of the British troops in the front of Lepetta, and the number of defenses and firepower are inferior to that of the German troops in the front of Lepetta. However, this seems to be a strange battle. The attackers come from all sides and belong to hundreds of different corps, and they have a common title, the British Soil Guard!
For the British second-line forces, that is, the huge militia group Rogan has the information that the army was formed in June, and the training ended in July. "More than 10,000 people were equipped with all kinds of miscellaneous weapons. However, from the weapons seized in the street fighting in Cardiff, it can be seen that a small number of militia were equipped with Tian Chun Tian rifles and American troops temporarily equipped with mouth rifles during World War I, and even gangs loved" Chicago Typewriters ".It is said that the British fake Molotov cocktails were not available. Rogan estimated that it should be great for Cardiff to" stay away "from the Germans’ potential landing in
A few cannons can’t support the militia bravely and effectively, but their greatest advantage is that they are familiar with the terrain. The administrative area of Jiafu alone reaches square kilometers, which is exactly half of the Isle of Wight. But it doesn’t have such a natural barrier as the Sorent Strait. Except facing the port of Bristol Bay, the other three sides are relatively flat areas, and the route around the city is as long as concave kilometers. If four paratroopers are evenly deployed in the whole defense line, people can only reach it. In this way, the final result is that the defense line is washed apart by hordes of British militia, while some German soldiers can watch the other side leave heavy footprints on their own
In order to avoid this situation, Logan formulated the key defense and dotted line tactics at the beginning of the war action planning, that is, three sections of defense zones were drawn in the long defense line of the blade kilometer. The southwest side of the defense zone is near Haicheng Town, and the west side is Swansea Port and Buhoken Buckens Mountain. This section of defense zone is listed as a third-class defense zone, with soldiers and 3 tanks per kilometer. The meandering Taft River tributary guards the whole east side of Cardiff. Although it is only more than ten meters at the widest part of Cardiff section, the small dry river is more than one meter deep and the water flow is gentle, but it still defends quite good terrain conditions. Therefore, this section is listed as a second-class defense zone with four soldiers per kilometer and three tanks throughout the defense zone. In the end, the main forces and firepower of the first-class defense zone, which has the advantages of terrain and faces the north of the Welsh deep area, are deployed here and commanded by Bruno brower, the head of the 7 th Parachute Division.
In each section of the defense line, the German staff officers studied and planned according to the aerial photos, and the paratroopers occupied the highway almost as planned. Hills and some buildings have built defensive positions and controlled other areas that are not directly guarded within the range of machine guns. In addition, they have deployed warning minefields in some areas that may be infiltrated by the British army, and each tank has been properly utilized, either buried in the strong front fire support points in the positions or hidden behind the front-line positions to carry out mobile warfare through the power higher than that of infantry. However, it is worth noting that due to the restrictions of lowering the war, each tank can be used as a battery in situ after filling the fuel tank until the 6 th Army delivers ammunition supplies!
As Logan and the staff officers expected, the warning of the German army’s lowering of Cardiff spread all over Wales and England. From around midnight, the British militia 6 continued to appear in the north and east of Cardiff, and their successive attacks were defeated by the German secret fire fighters, but the casualties were not many. At about 3 o’clock in the morning, the two battalions of the British regular army arrived late, and they struggled several times as much as their own militia. However, when the German tank guns rang, the militia let their regular army brothers move forward alone like magic. In this battle, the British casualties finally broke through 500. "
"Sir, a large number of British troops appeared in the west! Captain Buckorn asked us to send reinforcements! "
When the communication officer sent this report, Logan had just finished his third cup of strong tea tonight. I have to say that staying up late is a very hard thing, and it is even more unacceptable to stay up late.
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