This Soviet class is going to be done! Hu Fumeier thought that the Soviet class had two power cabins, and each power cabin had a boiler cabin with four boilers. In other words, blowing up one boiler cabin could at least cause the battleship to lose at least half of its power.

Hufumeier, who felt victory, put down his telescope, then reached out to take out a cigar from his pocket. Before he could light it up, an unexpected change occurred.

The nine 406mm main guns of the Ukrainian, which seemed to be unable to resist, flashed out the cannon again, and 9 406mm shells spewed out. One of them was unbiased and hit the 260mm thick front side armor on the 7th floor of the Vineto bridge. The shells tore the 260mm armor without any effort, and then exploded below the command tower of the Venetto. The huge power of the explosion of the 406mm shell was transmitted to the command tower. Everyone was bounced into the air by the impact force from their feet, and then fell heavily. Hu Fumeier only felt that the back of his head hit some hard object, and then completely fainted and never woke up again!

This is probably where the battleships are trembling. As long as there is no generation gap between the two battleships, there is nothing foolproof. Even if the opponent cuts corners, it may still cause a pretty fatal blow.

Therefore, the confrontation between battleships can only belong to the truly fearless warriors!

Seeing thick smoke and fire rising from the bridge of the Battleship Venetto, Major General Chandler, who was commanding a counterfeit battleship, had hope ignited in his heart.

The bridge is the command center of a warship, or even the brain of a fleet! If that Veneto class was a flagship, the German fleet would have a very likely chaos.

This is the opportunity!

Thinking of this, Chandler ordered the Ukraine to continue firing and bombarding the Venetto, while ordering the light cruiser and destroyer following the Ukraine to launch a charge towards the Venetto who was shot on the bridge.

His purpose was not to sink the Venetto, but to force it back. As long as the Venetto broke into a leg, the Ukrainian opponent would only have two Venetto-class ships left.

1:2, there may not be no way out!

However, what happened next disappointed Chandler. The severely damaged Venetto did not retreat, and continued to fight against the 406mm shells fired by the Ukrainian. One minute later, under the command of the deputy captain located at the rear bridge, he turned the hull across the 6 381mm cannons from the two main turrets that could still be used at the Ukrainian.

Admiral Hippel and the destroyer Z46 rushed out from the right side of the crossing team, aiming at an American Fletcher-class destroyer rushing in front with 203mm and 128mm cannons. Although it did not hit, it also blocked the route of these American ships that risked their lives to charge.

At the same time, the two battleships, Vittorio and Imperial, also turned the ship across the ship less than 18,000 meters away from Ukraine, and aimed all the main guns at Ukraine.

There are now a total of 24 381mm cannons bombarding the Ukraine, and the distance between the two sides is close enough. At this distance, the artillery battle is almost a replica of the line-based infantry queuing and shooting!

Every time the two sides fired against each other, battleships would be shot, either Veneto or Ukraine. Since the 381mm cannon bombarded Ukraine was one and a half times more than the 406mm cannon of Ukraine, the Ukraine would only get 2-3 shots, and Veneto would get 1 shot.

Such a counterattack quickly decided the outcome. At 2:45, a 381mm armor-piercing projectile fired by the Imperial crashed into the armor on the side of the Ukrainian ammunition depot. The 380mm thick steel plate did not block the 381mm shell. The shell exploded in the ammunition depot and exploded more than 200 406mm shells stored there. The violent explosion caused devastating damage to the Ukrainian, and the hull was blown into two pieces. A few minutes later, the "counterfeit and inferior battleship" with a standard displacement of nearly 60,000 tons and more than 2,300 crew members sank into the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to more than a dozen people were rescued, more than 2,300 people, including the captain and formation commander Major General Chandler, were all killed!

The sinking of the Ukrainian battleship also means the destruction of the entire formation. Several American destroyers escorted it were also killed in the later maritime pursuit. Nearly 4,000 American naval officers and soldiers were either captured or sunk into the cold Atlantic Ocean!

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"Col. I've found the American battleship formation! The radar is directed at 11 o'clock, about 90 kilometers away."

"That's great... Everyone should pay attention. I am Colonel Peltz, the target is ahead of us. Now I'm ready to attack. Each squadron lowers its height and unfolds the formation of the gold comb."

Shortly after Ukraine and its captain who hated fakes sank into the sea together, in the night sky hundreds of kilometers away, the "Tor troops" composed of 24 ju188e-2 torpedo bombers finally found the Soviet battleship, which was desperately fleeing under the guidance of the Vienna light cruiser.

The "Thor Force" was originally composed of 30 ju188e-2s, but unexpectedly, it was attacked by twelve P61 night fighters shortly after taking off (they were covering a transport fleet heading towards Georgetown). Two ju188e-2s were shot down in a daze, and four were injured. They were unable to continue their mission and had to fly to Cayenne Airport for a temporary escape.

Although the troops were not good at getting off the battlefield, the Thor troops did not encounter any trouble during the subsequent flight. In the early morning of September 7, under the guidance of the radio waves from the Vienna light cruiser, the Soviet Union, which had escaped very "carelessly".

Unlike the Ukrainian, which was pursued by three Venetto-class battleships, the UEFA hull behind the Soviet Union was only three light cruisers, and they did not dare to follow too close. They had been hiding seventy or eighty kilometers behind the Soviet Union before dark, and tracked by three A-seaplanes (carried on three light cruisers) and one BV138d large seaplane. It was only at night that it accelerated to a distance within 40 kilometers, and used a ship-based radar to light it from afar.

However, Rear Admiral Henry Mullinicks, the captain and formation commander of the Soviet Union, dared not take it lightly at all, because he already knew that 12 Type 21 submarines had bloody battle with the Halsey formation.

In his opinion, the Germans' three stalking light patrols must be to guide the direction of the submarines who don't know where to ambush!

So after discovering the "tail", Rear Admiral Mullinicks ordered the formation to escape at full speed in Puerto Rico. As long as he could escape into the shore-based aircraft protection circle deployed on the shore-based Puerto Rico before dawn, he could rely on the "Catalina" seaplane to perform anti-submarines and get rid of the threat of German submarines.

Even if the Type 21 U-boat encounters a seaplane with radar that can search the water surface, it is still a bit troublesome. At least it dares not float, and hides underwater and cannot maintain a high speed at all times.

But beyond the torpedo of Rear Admiral Mullinicks, what he heard was not the warning of the submarine attack, but the air defense alarm.

"Sir, I found enemy planes, with a number of more than 20, a height of 3,000, a distance of 100, and a speed of 300, and are flying towards us!"

"It's a night torpedo bomber!" Rear Admiral Mullinicks immediately guessed what kind of opponent he encountered, but he couldn't figure out where these medium-sized bombers that could launch torpedo at night took off? Is there a German aircraft carrier nearby? But according to intelligence, the Germans did not have carrier-based torpedo bombers at all?

"Keep the speed of 28 knots, go to the S-shaped evasion route, don't turn on the searchlight, and don't be busy firing the anti-aircraft artillery fire." Rear Admiral Mullinicks thought for a while and did not choose to face the enemy with an air defense formation. Because there were not many escort ships around his battleship, and it was late at night, and anti-aircraft artillery without radar fire control could not hit the target at all.

Instead of turning on the searchlight to expose the target, it is better to continue to take the S-shaped route in a dark and lit manner, and perhaps avoid all torpedoes.

Just when Rear Admiral Mullinicks wanted to escape with his luck, three European Community light cruisers 38,000 meters behind the Soviet battleship ejected a seaplane with flares...

"Sir, two enemy planes are approaching..."

At around 3:40 am on September 7, when the captain and formation commander Rear Admiral Henry Mullinicks heard the loud report from the electronic officer holding the phone, a bright and dazzling fire suddenly emerged from the sky in front of the commander tower.

The experienced U.S. Rear Admiral knew this was a flare that would make the Soviet battleship show its true form in the dark!

Rear Henry Mullinicks' heart suddenly sank, knowing that he could not escape, he immediately squinted his eyes and ordered: "Open all searchlights and pay attention to the sea and the sky!"

"Guns and cannons, all anti-aircraft cannons are ready to fire!"

As the shout of Rear Admiral Mullinicks, high-power searchlights began to sweep into the air. All 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 20mm machine guns also raised their guns (these anti-aircraft guns were installed after the Soviet-class arrived in the United States), and were ready to fire at all times.
Chapter completed!