At 10:20, the fierce air battle was still taking place over the German fleet. Although the carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy was very bad, their pilots still showed enough skills and tenacity.

Knowing that he could not beat the Folk Zero, no "Big Ou" who threw away the bomb chose to escape, and the air battle ended 15 minutes ago. The "Swordfish" aircraft that lost the protection of the "Big Ou" was slaughtered by 20 Folk Zero in a few minutes. This type of aircraft was too "master" and was simply an old antique aircraft. It could not fly up at high altitude and could only deal with enemy aircraft with low altitude and low speed flexibility, which was the area that Zero was good at. And "Big Ou" could at least threaten the Folk Zero by pulling high and diving, but it was not very useful. It just used its own sacrifice to win the opportunity to launch an attack for the "Swordfish".

"Garland, Garland, don't let those damn dive bombers climb and drive them all away!"

"Squad Brandt! Keep the height and don't care about the height. With Garland there, there will be no problem with the height. Just watch the middle and low altitudes and don't let those damn 'swordfish' approach the right side of the fleet!"

"Squad Schwartz, cover the left side of the fleet and drive away the 'Swordfish' planes!"

"Heinrich team, cover the rear of the fleet, don't let the 'swordfish' approach."

"Squad Hofer, you are responsible for attacking, dual-machine formation, fighting the 'Swordfish' style!"

Lieutenant Colonel Weis, the aviation staff and aviation commander of the "Sedlitz", became the busiest person in the entire fleet. He was guarding the aviation command console, watching the six directions and listening to all directions, and constantly sending orders to command five four-air formations to resist wave after wave of enemy aircraft attacks.

The tactics have been well practiced. Four formations are responsible for covering the left and right three sides and high altitudes, and one 4-plane formation is responsible for shooting down the dispersed "Swordfish" torpedo bombers. "Swordfish" aircraft is an easy target to shoot down, especially when they are preparing to drop the torpedoes, which requires low-altitude, horizontal and low-speed flight. For the "old birds" who are flying the Folk Zero, this is easier than target training. Almost every minute a "Swordfish" or "Big Gull" will fall into the Atlantic Ocean from the air.

However, these "swordfish" and "big og" fought to the death and stubbornly organized wave after wave of attacks.

"These British guys are not afraid of death!"

Lieutenant General Mashar stood in the commander's tower of the "Sharenhorst". He was a little confused when he looked at the fierce air battle outside. The British planes fell down like turkeys, but these clumsy small planes continued to attack. Several planes seemed to throw the torpedoes, but they were too far away and there was no threat at all. However, Lieutenant General Mashar felt a bit ominous!

Now, his three warships attracted hatred from the entire British Royal Navy on the Atlantic Ocean! Looking at the appearance of these small British planes one after another, you can tell how angry the British were.

"Lieutenant General, unknown aircraft group was discovered in the southwest direction, with a distance of 65, a height of 2,000, and a number of about 15 aircraft!"

The loud notification from the staff made the atmosphere in the commander's tower tense.

Although there are not many 15 carrier-based aircraft, it is definitely not the Fokker 99 squadron of the "Sedlitz" but the enemy aircraft! If there are necessary carrier-based aircraft carriers, most of them will be accompanied by battleships/battleship cruisers. This means that there are at least 2 British fleets with aircraft carriers and battleships nearby!

"Have you discovered anything in the reconnaissance plane?" asked Lieutenant General Mashar.

"No," Major General Refman said, "After nine Folk 99s were going to bomb, we only had four ar-196 seaplanes available."

This is the inconvenience caused by the small size of the fleet. Only 3 ships naturally cannot carry too many seaplanes. The 9 Folk 99s are part-time reconnaissance aircraft, and their real function is dive bombers. Now the Folk 99 is sent to bomb the British A-1 escort fleet, and there are only 4 seaplanes that can be used for reconnaissance, so it cannot cover a slightly further area.

"There are at least two aircraft carriers, one of which is 'should be the Ark of Royal'." Refman said, "Admiral, should we retreat?"

"How many planes did we catch?" asked Mashar.

Refman replied: "1 'walrus', 16 'swordfish', 5 'big gulls', a total of 22."

“What about the loss?”

"A Folk 99 was damaged during landing, and another Folk Zero was shot down, but the pilot parachuted and escaped, and was rescued and was not injured."

"But we have backup planes, right?"

"Yes, they have been filled with backup planes."

"That's 22 to 0, we have an absolute advantage! I'm almost in love with Anthony Folk, may God bless him." Mashar laughed, and the ominousness in his heart suddenly disappeared, "Let's continue to fight! Let the Folk 99 Squadron load the bomb and take off quickly, and at least three more attack missions must be completed before dark!"

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"Admiral, the 'walruses' who monitored the German fleet sent back the telegram, and their Fokker 99 took off again."

"Take off again?" Admiral Forbes heard the report and just nodded, "I understand, please inform ab-1."

Several more merchant ships are about to be bombed! Everyone in the commander tower of the Revenge felt a tight heart, and then they all looked at the sky outside. The morning has not passed yet, and it is still early before dark! At the current attack speed, those damn Folk 99s can strike 2 to 3 more times...

"It seems we need better carrier-based aircraft!" Charles Forbes said in a cold tone. "For Britain, such a requirement is no difficulty. But today, even if we don't have enough aircraft, we will still defeat the Germans. Now the more bombers they bomb, the greater the probability that we will succeed tonight."

At this time, the fleet's communications staff received the latest battle report, "Admiral, G Fleet report that the attack on the carrier-based fleet of the "Ark Royal" was over, and 19 "Swordfish" and 8 "Bigou" lost contact."

57 attacks, 27 missing... This has not yet been calculated to have the injured fighter jets, it is a big defeat!

"Let the Ark of Royals stop the air strikes, the Eagle and the Hundred-Eyed Giant. After retrieving the carrier-based aircraft, there is no need to arrange an attack." Charles Forbes said, "because there will be a better chance tomorrow!"

Admiral Forbes' order obviously saved the lives of many British pilots and also made Lieutenant General Mashal aboard the "Sharnhorst" breathe a sigh of relief. Although there is a powerful Fokker Zero Protection, there is no absolute insurance as long as you get beaten.

"Admiral, the Seedlits, reported that a total of 27 'Swordfish', 7 'Big Gulls' and 1 'Warcelona' were shot down, and a total of 35 were shot down."

Major General Hoffman reported the latest results, and then he looked at the calm sky outside the commander's tower and breathed: "It seems they dare not come again."

Including the 15 "Swordfish" that arrived later (they were sent by the Eagle), the British dispatched a total of 72 fighter jets and lost 35 (actually 37, 2 were injured and fell into the sea on the way back), which was definitely enough to be a crushing defeat.

"Admiral, the dive bomber fleet of the Seedlitz sent back a telegram," another report was sent to Hoffman, and "three more large merchant ships were injured. In addition, the seaplane report of the Leipzig seaplane, five merchant ships in the British escort fleet are currently on fire."

"The British did not disband the formation?" asked Marshall.

"No, the British just abandoned five merchant ships that caught fire and let them fend for themselves. The rest of the merchant ships remained in formation and sailed westward at a speed of about 13 knots."

Mashar pondered for a while and said to himself: "There must be British battleships to the west, and they are going to meet with the battleships. Let the seaplane focus on searching. If there is no discovery of the "Hood" and the "Ark Royal", there is nothing to worry about. No, there is no need to worry about the "Ark Royal". Now, there is no need to worry about the "Ark Royal". The "Hood" is the only threat!"

Although the "Hood" in history was fired into a "royal fireworks" by the "Bismar" or not, it was not known that it was the cannon of the "Prince Eugen", Lieutenant General Maschar did not know that it was a big ship that was strong outside and was hard at the same time.

In fact, for the German Navy, which uses breaking the exchange as the winning method, the "Hood" with a high speed of about 30 knots, a displacement of more than 40,000 tons and 8 15-inch cannons is undoubtedly a nightmare in a nightmare.

The Schánhorst, which only has a caliber main gun, has no courage to fight with it. If the Hood is now on the west side of the A-1 fleet, then the night battle tonight will not have happened at all.

At 4:20 pm, when the sky became dark, four Ar-196s had searched the waters 100 nautical miles west of the AB-1 fleet, and only found two British I fleets with "Revenge" class, and there was no trace of the "Hood" and the "Ark Royal".

"Two 'revenge' class..." Lieutenant General Mashal glanced at Major General Hoffman, "We need to be careful."

The "Revenge" class is very slow, and can only open 21 quarters and cannot catch up at all. Moreover, according to reliable information, the battleships of this class do not currently have radars. In other words, it is difficult for them to find three German ships at night.

"Lieutenant General, you can let the 'Leipzig' go first, and the 'Scharnhorst' and 'Sedlitz' are behind." Hoffman said, "If damaged British ships are found, let the 'Leipzig' solve the problem. The 'Scharnhorst' should not fire as much as possible, so that it will not be exposed."
Chapter completed!