The weather is good over the Atlantic Ocean west of the English Channel, with a few thin white clouds floating at low altitude, 4 ooo meters above the clouds. The warm sunshine in early summer shines through the bright aircraft cabin, bringing a little warmth to the cabin, which has become cold due to the low temperature at high altitude.?

Major Johannes Steinhof held the joystick in both hands, and while flying the plane carefully, he observed the surrounding situation through the huge semicircular glass compartment on the head.

What caught his eye was an unforgettable spectacular scene. The huge formation of 162 ju88, s.m.79, f-19o, f-2oo, he-115 and Folk Zero had already covered the sky in the air. Wherever Major Johannes Steinhof saw, there were densely packed with planes, layered and majestic.

This is just the first assault wave, and there will be the second and third assault waves later! If all the planes of the three assault waves are concentrated, it will be several times more spectacular than the current scene!

Major Johannes Steinhof thought to himself: "In this world, there is no fleet that can confront our Luftwaff and naval aviation! The advantage of the air is now the most critical factor in determining the ownership of maritime hegemony, and Germany was lucky to seize the opportunity of the naval military revolution this time..."

"Major, the reconnaissance plane No. 87 has sent a telegram, and the enemy ship formation has been disbanded!"

At this time, Major Johannes Steinhof's navigator/telector Carl Miller loudly informed the information he had just received.

"The formation was disbanded? When did it happen?" asked Major Johannes Steinhof.

"Just just appeared," said Carl Miller. "The telegram said it had just appeared, but the enemy fleet had been disbanding the formation for some time. Currently, there are only four enemy ships tracked by the O87 reconnaissance aircraft, namely one large transport ship and three destroyers."

The O87 reconnaissance aircraft is an F-2oo equipped with a Fug2oo radar system. It took over another F-2oo to track the British fleet (e-fleet) three hours ago. However, the Fug2oo radar system has limited detection distance and is not very accurate. This O87 aircraft is afraid of being spotted by the British fleet (many British ships also have radars), so it dared not follow too close. As a result, the British fleet that was tracking only at dawn "reduced" and changed from at least 4 ships. It must have detected the following German reconnaissance aircraft with radar at night, so it disbanded the formation and ran away in all directions.

However, this is not a big problem for the first assault wave commanded by Major Steinhof, because there were originally 9 f-2oo and 9 he-115 in the first assault wave formation, which were used to search for enemy fleets.

"Ask all reconnaissance aircraft, I am Major Steinhof, the commander-in-chief of the first assault wave." Major Steinhof turned on the communicator and began to issue orders, "I order the reconnaissance aircraft to start searching for the enemy fleet..."

...

The airplane motive came from the horizon. The sky was clear and cloudless, and the field of view was very good. The air defense lookout of the battlecruiser, the flagship "Reputation" of the e-fleet flagship "Reputation" battlecruiser, soon emerged from the telescope's eyepiece.

"The position o5o, and above the number of frames, all are single-engine aircraft! It should be our aircraft!" The lookout reported loudly. Although the specific model is still unclear, it can be confirmed that the ones flying over are single-engine aircraft. The bombers and torpedo bombers deployed in Brest in Germany are twin-engine and three-engine aircraft. This shows that there are no bombers and torpedo bombers in the planes flying over now, so it is basically certain that they are British aircraft.

When he heard the report from the lookout post, Lieutenant General Phillips, the commander of the e-fleet, breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, the 279 radar on the "Reputation" had already appeared these aircraft, but the radio station on the "Reputation" had not contacted the other party for a long time.

At this time, the communication officer on the "Reputation" suddenly reported loudly: "Sir, contact them, the fighter jets of the 71st Squadron, the 121st Squadron and the 1st Squadron are flying here!"

It turned out to be three "Eagle" squadrons, no wonder they couldn't contact them at the beginning! Admiral Phillips thought to himself. The so-called "Eagle" squadron is actually a fighter squadron composed of American volunteer pilots.

Because Britain's own fighter pilots suffered heavy losses in the past year and now they lack experienced old birds. So they had to ask the United States for help. Under Roosevelt's arrangement, some experienced pilots were recruited from the US 6th Army Air Force and formed three "Eagle" squadrons.

However, these American pilots are new to the United States and are not very familiar with the situation here in the United Kingdom. They always have problems when they cooperate with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

"Great, let the three 'Eagle' squadrons cover us to retreat westward." Lieutenant General Phillips immediately issued an order to the communication officer of the "Reputation".

These three "Eagle" squadrons dispatched a total of 12 P-51s and 24 P-4Os, a total of 36 aircraft hovered over the USS Reputation and another large tanker used to pretend to be an aircraft carrier, and a light cruiser. The three destroyers were covered with tight protection.

But what Lieutenant General Phillips expected was that these 36 Eagle squadron fighters had been caught by an F-2oo equipped with radar and followed along the way.

"Major, O82 reconnaissance aircraft, reported that a British battleship and a British aircraft carrier were found, and there were about British fighter jets covering the air."

Major Johannes Steinhof, who was leading the fleet to hover in the air, received the report and immediately led an attack aircraft group composed of 144 aircraft (less than 18 reconnaissance aircraft) to pounce over. In fact, the distance between the two sides was not very far, less than 120 kilometers. After 10 minutes, the 279 radar on the "Reputation" appeared in the German aircraft group.

"The radar room reported that there were enemy planes with a number of more than 100 kilometers and a distance of 50 kilometers, and they were flying towards us!" The first mate of the Reputational Officer shouted loudly.

"Click the alarm and prepare for air defense operations." Phillips had expected this situation for a long time, and in fact it was also the meaning of the e-fleet. "Okay, let's see how powerful the German plane is!" Lieutenant General Phillips walked to the side of the commander tower and picked up the telescope and looked into the air.

The fierce air battle has begun at this time, with 32 Fox Zero and 32 F-19o fighting against 12 P-51 and 24 P-4o!

However, the current P-51 has not yet been replaced with the "Merlin" motivation of Rolls-Royce. Instead, it relies on an Alison liquid-cooled motor with only one-stage and one-model supercharger, with its power not as powerful as the Folk Zero. The reason why the Royal Air Force purchased it was because of the "laminar wing" and the better aerodynamic layout, which made the P-51 have extremely excellent mid- and low-altitude performance, and it seemed that it could fight the Folk Zero.

But today there are only 12 p-51s in the air. How can they be the opponent of 32 Fox Zero? Each p-51 is besieged by at least 2 Fox Zero! In mid-to-high altitude, 24 p-4oes are also unable to compete with 32 f-19o. The performance of the p-4o is not as good as the f-19o, and the number is at a disadvantage, so they are soon defeated.

The fighting in the air quickly turned into a one-sided massacre. The American plane driven by the "old bird" from the United States turned into a turkey and fell down, or fled from the battlefield desperately. In less than 10 minutes, there was no P-51 and P-4o in the air.

Seeing that the German fighter jets easily solved these "American Eagles", Lieutenant General Phillips felt his stomach bloated and his whole body felt weak.

"Lieutenant General, what should I do?" The captain of Reputation asked in a somewhat dry voice while handing a helmet to Phillips.

"The target of these aircraft may not be the Reputation, but the tanker!" Lieutenant General Phillips gritted his teeth, pushed away the helmet he handed over, and began to give orders to the panicked captain. "They will probably regard it as an aircraft carrier... This is our opportunity. The ship's left rudder is 45 degrees! Start doing S-type evasion maneuvers!"

Phillips' guess was indeed good. The appearance of large tankers and aircraft carriers is similar. Major Johannes Steinhof, who was preparing to dive and drop bombs at an altitude of oo meters, indeed regarded the tanker next to "Reputation" as an aircraft carrier, and drove his own ju88 bomber head and dived down!

1ooo rice! 9o rice! 8o rice…

The altimeter on this ju88 aircraft kept rolling, and the numbers were getting smaller and smaller, which meant that the altitude was getting lower and lower! Suddenly, a harsh bomb drop sirens sounded, and everyone on the plane felt that the plane was diving at a 6o-degree angle was leaping upwards. This was the signal that the 1ooo kilogram bomb was successfully dropped.

"Pull it up!" Major Steinhof shouted, and at the same time he pulled the joystick of the plane hard to pull up the nose of the ju88. At this moment, a loud bang came from the sea below.

"It's hit!" Major Steinhof looked at the sea through the transparent cabin below, and immediately shouted excitedly. He only saw a huge column of smoke and flames coming out of the unit of a huge "aircraft carrier" on the sea below, and it was obviously hit by a 1ooo kilogram bomb!

This "aircraft carrier" is over! Major Steinhof glanced at a "reputation" class battlecruiser that was maneuvering on the sea.
Chapter completed!