I don’t know whether Nini was lucky or the name of "Leona" brought good luck. The only bomb thrown at it exploded at 5 meters on starboard side. Except for three sailors on starboard side who were injured by shrapnel, "Leona" has not been damaged yet.
After throwing torpedoes and bombs, an airplane machine gun encircled the "Leona", and the bombs punched holes in the deck and bulkhead of the warship. The sailors were also hit by bullets, and the guns gradually weakened. Four younger brothers in Nini were also killed and two injured. He had to give up shooting and drag them back to the cabin control tower. The officers also hid in the armored protection command room. They were reporting the situation here to the Flo base in Scappa and asking for further action.
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At 15: 00, the German Navy Wei Libu flew to Flo Port, Scappa with more than 27 swordfish, 6 Seahawk II and 2 Ostrich I in the panic cry of the British.
The key breakthrough of "Operation Destiny" is that Li Buwei led the torpedo plane to lock the target in the British fleet. The armor is relatively weak but the firepower is sufficient. battle cruiser’s firepower means that they have placed a lot of ammunition in their ammunition depot …
Torpedoes in the straight channel leading to the port are marked with the mark of death. One "Enemy" battle cruiser and two other cruisers are slowly heading out of the port in the channel at this time. The British Ministry of Marine watched with fear as the white track flew from the front …
Boom! Boom!
Accompanied by two huge explosions, two torpedoes dropped from three swordfish hit the bow of the enemy ship. The huge power of the torpedoes instantly blew through the bow armor of this warship and immediately detonated the ammunition depot on the front main gun surface. After it became the unyielding, the second torpedo was blown to pieces in battle cruiser, and there was no wave. Not far behind the enemy, the Southampton light cruiser became a ship to mourn for it.
Because the berths in the harbor are very close, the torpedo plane didn’t have much room to swing in the first wave, but at this moment many warships have slowly left their berths and placed themselves in the middle of the open harbor.
"1′ swordfish’ team follow me! Try to reduce the height! " Rib’s roar was almost floating in the whole harbor, but his voice was quickly drowned out by explosions from other places. He flew over a destroyer with a plane marked o22 "Swordfish" almost wiping the mast. There was a relatively wide water area in front of him. There was no shelter on the water surface. A huge British warship appeared in Huo Ran about 500 meters ahead, and the huge British flag was ringing in the wind.
Rib dropped his torpedo o22 just 2 or 3 meters away from the water, and the belly of the torpedo was very wet when it fell. Then two torpedoes and three torpedoes were dropped 4 meters away from the water, leaving beautiful white waves on the water one after the other, like chalk scratching the blue cloth along the ruler.
After Riboulat got off the plane and turned for half a week, three loud noises came from behind him.
"Damn it!" In the explosion, I heard clearly that one torpedo hit the steel and exploded, and the other two were the intimate contact sounds of the torpedo dock. After he circled for a week, the warship was smoking black smoke on the port side, and a small hole appeared at the waterline in the middle of the hull. Two waves were falling at the dock about 30 meters on the right side of the warship, because the other two swordfish threw torpedoes too high, and the torpedoes passed through the bottom of the ship before they came to float.
Rib’s depression didn’t last long. He was gratified by the violent explosions and fireworks in the port. As he circled, he calculated the record of this attack. At least five large and small warships were sunk, and three injured warships were covered with smoke.
The commander of the British fleet, Jared, has fallen to the bottom of his heart. He watched in frustration from the window as the port shuttled freely and the huge iron cross plane wantonly ravaged his warship’s navigation channel. Most of the warships were blocked by those three dilapidated warships. At one time, almost all the warships fired auxiliary guns at the German aircraft, but instead of blowing it up near the dock, the destroyer machine gun fire posed a certain threat to those flies-like German aircraft. Just now, Jared almost jumped with excitement when he saw the tail of a German torpedo plane being hit by machine bullets, but the aircraft actually staggered after leaving a few pieces of wood in the middle.
"Fast signal all warships fast move out of port as soon as possible to avoid German attacks! There are also destroyers to protect battleships from leaving the port! " The British navy will now be sunk by German planes if his fleet doesn’t leave the port. Only when they reach the wide sea can these huge warships have a chance to evade, and more importantly, find out where these planes take off as soon as possible.
In the thick smoke, two strange-looking planes suddenly rushed out around to attack German planes. Their structures looked much simpler except for two layers of wings covered with cloth. In the middle of the fuselage, there was an ugly motive propeller located at the back of the motive. There were two long pontoons on the fuselage surface. The tail wing of the plane was almost half the length of the wing. Compared with these two planes, it could be called "British ugly ducklings". Nevertheless, these two circular logos belonging to the two wings of the British naval reconnaissance plane made many sailors cheer.
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"Are the British crazy or stupid? Do they want the plane to block our attack like this?" Rib wondered, but waved his wingman to follow him and fly to the British plane.
British pilot Brown flew slowly over the harbor in the "Big Bird" water reconnaissance plane, and from time to time, smoke filled with scorching smell and sulfur made him cough. The infernal scene stunned him. When he flew over here half an hour ago, everything seemed to have come back to life, but only half an hour later, it made the adults here miserable. Did the British navy suffer such humiliation?
Just as Brown silently mourned for the British Navy, Liebu rushed over with his three swordfish. When their machine guns fired at the British plane at a position of 5oo meters and reached 3oo meters, the second lieutenant of the British Navy, Mr. Brown, was worried about the country and the people, and he had already planted his "big bird" with his broken wings into the sea.
"The British drowning posture is much uglier than a torpedo!" Rib muttered and flew to another British reconnaissance plane. Before the British plane turned around, Rib sent it to meet its companions with a long shot.
For the first time, all the British sailors looked at the sky stupidly. If they once occupied the world ocean, now the world sky belongs to these German Hawk.
The air warms up with the rising position of the sun, and the sea breeze loses its cool feeling as early as the morning.
Rows of warships in the middle of the North Sea are silently heading north, and the waves are rowed by several sharp ships, leaving wide water marks on the sea, while bright flags are ringing in the wind.
In this world’s second largest fleet, German Navy Minister, Commander of the North Sea Fleet and Admiral Erpitz is in the command room of the flagship "frederick the great". He looks at the sea ahead with deep eyes. He seems to see a fierce battle going on at the other end of the sea.
"that adjutant hasn’t been signal by the Baltic fleet?" Although the weather is getting hotter, Erpitz is still neatly dressed as a admiral. He glanced at the adjutant who was wiping his sweat next to him and asked slowly
"It’s the Grand Marshal Pavilion. So far, we haven’t received their line signal. We …?"
"Well, very good! No news is good news! " Erpitz nodded and continued to watch ahead. Only when the sneak attack failed or the main force of the British fleet was chasing them, Prince heydrich commanded the Baltic Fleet to break the line silence. Now the high seas fleet believes that its companions are suffering from silence and waiting to move on.
The port William line station continues to contact the German naval bases of the flagship call sign of Erpitz, creating the illusion that the high seas fleet is still in port.
Chapter 35 Lead fish out of port
At 9: 45 p.m. on September 2nd, the first wave of raid came back from Flo Port, Scappa, and the last plane stopped firmly on the deck of Lisa. Prince heydrich was listening to the reports from Major Madoni and Major Maurer, and he was very satisfied with the huge results and casualties of the first raid, while the deck crew were nervously refueling and loading Hawk.
"Very good! Your imperial navy has won the honor. I will invite the emperor to present the medal in person. Go to rest first! At 11 o’clock, you will take off again for the third wave of surprise attack. I have to wake you up. This time, the British resistance will increase a lot and your combat difficulty will increase! "
"yes! Thank you, Prince Hall! " Major Madoni and Major Maurer turned around and left. All pilots will take advantage of this hour to eat and rest.
"The British will see when you can hold on!" Heydrich spat out this sentence contemptuously, asking the main force of the British fleet not to leave the port for a moment to pursue him, and the plane kept raiding to let the British navy shed its last drop of blood.
"Prince’s Temple No.3 reconnaissance plane reports that a British cruiser is now 30 nautical miles northwest of the fleet. It is estimated that the second wave of raid fleet met and attacked the British fleet with that warship!" The adjutant came out from the newspaper office with a report.
"Don’t worry about letting the submarine clean it up!" Heydrich glanced at the report. The fleet kept silent all the time. Only planes far away from the fleet could make the telegraph report back to the mother ship. Now he is signaling the surrounding ships. If the British don’t continue to approach, they may be lucky enough to escape.
The British warship that was discovered by No.3 reconnaissance plane was the cruiser "Leona" full of bullet holes.
Ninis leaned against his auxiliary gun and meditated. Just now, his three younger brothers have been reimbursed for the battle. The whole warship lost a total of 36 people and 49 others were injured, and most of them were soldiers at various gun positions on the deck. This warship has almost lost half of its combat effectiveness.
By this time, they had learned about the situation in Flo, Scappa, the home port, where the losses were greatly out of their imagination. A quarter of the main fleet and a fifth of the tonnage warships had temporarily or permanently lost their combat effectiveness. The commander of the fleet sent a message to the "Leona" asking it to move in the direction where German planes came from and try to find out where those planes took off.
Although the captain assured everyone that he would apply for medals for everyone on the ship after the battle, most sailors, like Nini, didn’t want any medals at all. He wanted to go home as soon as possible and end this terrible war as soon as possible. In the battle just now, he led the British navy to be beaten back. If the hull of the Leona was not smaller than the sunken Parrot and Oxford, if he didn’t hide from the torpedo and bomb, he and the ship should now lie quietly at the bottom of the sea hundreds of meters.
"God, forgive our sinful souls!" Nini knelt on the deck and prayed
The emperor really cared for Nini and this British warship.
In the sea off them, Deng Nici uo39 submarine just surfaced for air. Half an hour ago, they reported that there was a slight fault in the plane, which also made them miss the report from No.3 reconnaissance plane just now.
As far as the sea sight distance is concerned, the mast of the submarine’s low ship, Taganfa, is higher than the watchtower. When the Leona is uo39, the submarine crew is breathing the fresh air on the water freely.
The captain of the "Leona" gave an order to fire at all the guns of the German submarine forward ship.
Nini took his only younger brother to his gun position. Although it was not a German plane this time, Nini knew very well that German submarines were not easy to get into the water, so his cruiser could tolerate them.
At last, the crew of uo39 discovered that the submarine was emitting smoke from the chimney of Leona, and immediately gave a snorkeling alarm. When the last crew member got into the submarine and covered the hatch, the 45-inch cannon on the front deck of Leona just caught fire. When the shell landed on the sea near the submarine, uo39 was completely submerged.
"Forward! The ship pays close attention to the sea surface and pays attention to avoiding torpedoes! " Captain Leona decided to cross the submarine’s attack range and intuitively told him that there must be something not far behind the submarine.
Deng Nici uo39 watched helplessly as "Leona" galloped away from a place not far above its head. A minute later, their tail fish detonator shot a torpedo.