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The sound of cannons roared and gunpowder filled with smoke. When the sun rose, the sea and sky in the Norwegian Strait were already covered by bloody gunpowder.

In order to avenge the sunken battlecruiser Hood, the British Royal Navy, under the command of Horan, launched a fierce attack on the German Navy Lütjens fleet.

The warships on both sides poured shells into each other frantically, and the battle entered a white heat in the blink of an eye.

The Holland fleet has an advantage in terms of number and quality of the main battleships. The two Britannian ultimate battleships equipped with 20-inch main guns and four Queen Elizabeth-class super battleships equipped with 18-inch main guns, and the German Lütjens fleet, which has only four Bismarck-class battleships equipped with 18-inch main guns, obviously have a very big advantage.

The two sides fought fiercely until around 8 o'clock in the morning. The Bismarck ship was shot three times, and the No. 2 fuel tank located at the bow was damaged and broken. At the same time, the bow was close to the waterline, which not only leaked a large amount of heavy oil, but also reduced the speed to 28 knots. The other three Bismarck-class battleships were also injured to varying degrees. The Tilbitz was hit by a 20-inch shell from the Ultimate Battleship of England. The stern was hit and the fire ignited. It took more than 30 minutes. The entire stern was like a big rooster with its tail burned out.

Seeing that the British navy was strong and did not dare to fight, Lütjens ordered the fleet to stop when they were better and quickly leave the battlefield.

Because the British Navy lost the Hood super battlecruiser, Horan vowed to avenge Hood with teeth, otherwise it would be difficult for him to explain to the British government and people. Therefore, Horan's fleet blocked the retreat of Lütjens's fleet back to Norway and prevented the enemy from escaping home.

Lütjens was forced to order the fleet to turn around and sail to the North Atlantic Ocean, planning to rest in the Mediterranean. In order to cover the fleet's safety and get rid of the British fleet's tracking, Lütjens asked the German Navy Command for help. After Hitler learned that they had successfully sunk the Hood super battlecruiser, he was extremely happy and immediately signed the head of state order for the Third Reich Air Force to immediately dispatch the assistance.

For the Luftwaffe, the only medium-range bomber that can be found at this time is the Folk Wolf Ta-200 medium-range bomber.

In response to the needs of World War II, the original bombers of the Luftwaffe had an advantage in dealing with bombers from Allied Britain and France in the early stages of the war. However, after the Chinese Empire largely exported advanced H5 medium- and short-range tactical bombers and h6 long-range strategic bombers to Britain and France, the Luftwaffe was far behind in bombers.

As a result, under the stimulation of the war, the Luftwaffe quickly launched the development and production of new bombers targeting H5 and H6 bombers.

Of course, for the Luftwaffe, the development of its new bomber began long before the outbreak of the war, but the Luftwaffe has always believed that the active bombers are sufficient for combat missions and have not approved procurement. As early as July 1, 1938, the Ministry of Aviation of the Third Reich (rlm) issued the technical specifications for the development of a new medium bomber. The specifications require that the maximum speed of the new aircraft should reach 600 km/h (373 mph) and be able to carry 4,000 kilograms (8,852 pounds) of bombs from a Spanish base to bomb any British bomber

Location. In addition, the new aircraft must be equipped with a supercharged cockpit and remote self-defense weapon. The power is the new 2500 horsepower engine (Junkers Jumo 222 or Daimler-Benz DB604) that was being developed at the time. This is the 'bomber-b' plan. Aladdo, Donier, Folk Wolf and Junckers submitted their respective plans. Aladdo's e340 plan was rejected by RLM, Donier 317 received a development contract with low priority. Junkers 288 and Folk Wolf 191 were selected and continued to develop at full speed.

The design team of 191 is led by Dipl-ing (Master of Engineering) E? Cossell. He has participated in the development of the 189 reconnaissance aircraft. Overall, the fw 191 is a simple-looking, single-wing layout, all-metal structure aircraft. Two cylinders jumo 222 engines (looks like jumo 222 is more promising than the db604) installed in the cabin. An interesting part of the fw 191 is the use of the so-called Morrothop flap, which cleverly integrates the aerodynamic brake device and the landing flap. The designer is Hans Morrothop. The fuel of the aircraft is stored above the bomb bay.

The five fuel tanks and the wing fuel tank between the engine pod and the fuselage. The rear wing of the aircraft is designed with a double vertical tail and double rudder. The flat tail has a small angle upper reverse angle, the rotation of the main landing gear, and the rotation of the main landing gear is folded back and placed flat in the engine pod, and the tail wheel is brought forward into the fuselage. The four crew members are sitting in the supercharged cockpit. The large plexiglass top cover is used by the navigator and the radio operator, who is responsible for manipulating the rear remote-controlled machine gun in the top cover. In terms of self-defense weapons, there is a remote-controlled machine gun tower under the nose (with 2 mg81 7.9 mm machine guns inside). Similar weapons also appear behind the engine pod. The back and belly turrets are equipped with a millimeter cannon and two mg131 mm machine guns respectively.

Since the jumo 222 was unable to deliver the first flight of the aircraft, it replaced it with two 1100 horsepower bmw801ma star engines, which immediately exposed a lot of problems. The change of the engine caused the 191 to be seriously insufficient in power, and the Luftwaffe insisted on replacing the moving parts usually driven by hydraulics and machinery with electric machines to drive another problem: the installation of a large number of wires and motors in the aircraft made the 191 nickname "flying power station". The disadvantage of this driving method is that it greatly increases the already heavy fuselage weight, and what is particularly dangerous is that as long as the generator is shot, all systems on the aircraft will be paralyzed.

In early 1940, fw 191v1 was piloted by dipl-ing Milhorn and completed its first flight. As expected, the problem caused by insufficient engine power during the test flight immediately emerged. Surprisingly, another problem was on the Morrothop flap. The device would experience severe tremors when it was lowered and had to be redesigned. Therefore, only a model of the turret was installed on the plane. The bomb was not carried. After completing ten test flights, fw 191v2 also joined the test flight. However, the total flight hours were only hours.

Since Britain and France used the H5 and H6 bombers produced by the Chinese Empire, Germany was far behind in aerial bombing. In order to solve the above problems as soon as possible, the Luftwaffe agreed to redesign the aircraft and dismantle all motors (replaced by standard hydraulic systems), so v3, v4 and were abandoned. fw 191v6 adopted a revised new design, which installed two specially prepared jumo 222 engines, with a take-off power output of 2,200 horsepower. The new 191 made its first flight in 1940, and the test pilot was Hans Sandel. Although it performed well in flight, the power output of jumo 222 still did not meet the design requirements, and the entire jumo 222 project also had a slim future due to the lack of special metals.

As the jumo 222 engine encountered a lot of difficult problems, and the Daimler-Benz DB604 engine had been dismounted, Folk Wolf proposed a new Ta-200 series solution. V7-V12 several prototypes were abandoned and replaced by the Ta-200. The Ta-200 installed two DB606 or DB610 engines. These two engines were actually made of two DB601 or DB605 cylinder engines in parallel. However, the power-weight ratio of the new engine is not high, which means that the weapon and payload must be reduced. The company has decided to cancel the engine pod turret and change the remaining turrets to manual operation.

The last effort to save the Ta-200 plan was to install four engines that could use the 1340 horsepower jumo 211f, the cockpit was non-supercharged, and the broken steps below the fuselage were deepened to accommodate the machine gunner.

But unfortunately, by this time the entire "Bombard-b" plan had been cancelled because there was no 2500 horsepower engine available, and the Chinese Empire implemented strict aviation engine export controls on Germany's extremely allied countries. The Germans could not obtain this technology and could not get their long-range bomber projects to pass.

Although the German Ta-200 bomber was unable to become a long-range strategic bomber due to its unstable aircraft engine technology, its aerodynamic shape and overall design were still excellent. The lack of engine power and the requirement to insist on using electricity to drive all systems ultimately ruined this strategic bomber, but as a medium- and short-range tactical bomber, it can compete with the Chinese Empire's H5 tactical bomber.

Overall, the maximum speed of the Ta-200 reaches 495 km/h, the range is 3,200 km, and the effective bomb is about 1 ton.

The Luftwaffe then dispatched this high-performance tactical bomber group and soon flew to the battle airspace of the British-German naval forces and launched a fierce bombing on the Holland fleet, forcing the Holland fleet to maintain a high-speed pursuit state, gradually allowing the Lütjens fleet to escape.

As a last resort, Holland had to rescue the British base. When Churchill learned that the world's most powerful super battlecruiser, Holland, was so angry that he immediately wanted to shoot Holland. Fortunately, the British Admiralty believed that it was a critical moment, and shooting Holland would further damage the morale of the British Navy. So Churchill asked Holland to avenge Holland, otherwise he would be sent to military court for trial.

At the same time, the British Royal Navy quickly mobilized hundreds of warships, leaving port to search for the Lütjens fleet. At the same time, the British Royal Air Force quickly dispatched a large number of reconnaissance aircraft to cooperate with the navy to find the location of the German fleet. The H5 and H6 bombers at the airport all entered the bomb mount procedure and took off at any time to sank the Lütjens fleet.

The British reconnaissance planes quickly determined the position of the Lütjens fleet and gathered a large number of warships to siege, including the local fleet commanded by General John Tovey and the Mediterranean H fleet commanded by Lieutenant General James Sommerville.

On the 24th, due to injuries, the slowest battleships Bismarck and Tirbitz were attacked by swordfish torpedo aircraft taken off from the Victory aircraft carrier closest to them. Bismarck was hit with one torpedo, but only minor damage was caused. Tirbitz was hit with two torpedoes. But it still did not sink, and followed Bismarck to the Mediterranean, preparing to repair the damage at the port in Austria. The other two Bismarck-class battleships and auxiliary ships continued to enter the North Atlantic Ocean. They met with the German North Atlantic Fleet.

As the weather suddenly turned bad, the British reconnaissance planes quickly lost the target of the German fleet. But Churchill's determination was firm. He ordered the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier to take off the reconnaissance plane at any cost and be sure to find the trace of the German fleet.

On the 26th, Bismarck and Tirbitz provided simple supplies off the coast of Spain. Since Spain did not have a dock for a huge warship such as the Bismarck-class battleship, the Germans had to continue to advance with a tough bullet.

But British spies in Spain obtained intelligence, and 25 "Swordfish" torpedo bombers on the British Ark Royal aircraft carrier closest to the Spanish coastline took off again and carried out air strikes in the face of bad weather.

The pilots of the 25 torpedo bombers were asked to sign a life-and-death certificate, and the British Navy promised that if they died, they would receive twenty times the pension and reward for the British Empire First Class Warrior Medal.

So, these British pilots eventually joined the suicide attack for national honor or personal livelihood.

After being hit by powerful air defense firepower on Bismarck and Tilbitz, only 7 of the 25 British torpedo bombers eventually broke through the German air defense fire network and successfully dropped torpedoes. One of the torpedo hit Bismarck, causing Bismarck to enter the port side. With the efforts of the Germans to repair, the gap was blocked after entering 2,000 tons of water.

However, Tirbitz was not so lucky. Three torpedoes hit almost at the same time, causing a large amount of water to flow into the left and right sides of the battleship Tirbitz at the same time. Moreover, the third torpedo caused the ship's rudder angle to be stuck at 10 degrees. This made Tirbitz only move in one direction under the influence of the current and wind, but this direction was not the Mediterranean, but the English Channel. It can be said that Tirbitz was crashing into the British muzzle.

Although the British suicide bombing failed to sink Bismarck and Tirbitz, they successfully prevented the two ships from fleeing to the Mediterranean. Because the Bismarck battleship decided to protect Tirbitz and did not flee to the Mediterranean alone.

Soon, Horan's pursuit fleet arrived, and at the same time, a large number of British warships arrived one after another. Hundreds of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, and torpedoes used shells and torpedoes to attack Bismarck and the failed manipulation Tirbitz.

Because Tirbitz could not turn, the naval battle seemed very passive, and the enemy continued to occupy the T-head shooting position. In order to cover Tirbitz, Bismarck had to block the British shells for Tirbitz.

Soon, Bismarck and Tilbitz were shot and caught fire. But they fought tenaciously. Although they were attacked by the 20-inch cannons of the powerful British-class ultimate battleship many times, they still staggered and insisted on not sinking. This made the British Navy, which had lost all its strength to surround them, very embarrassed.

The British bomber group finally arrived. The German commander issued an order to prepare for air combat on the loudspeaker and all entered the battle position.

"Two 'H-5' type, 25° on the port side, 8° on the height, and 4,000 meters away!" shouted the No. 2 lookout. Now, the British tactical bombers have entered the visual distance.

"5 enemy planes - 10 - more than 30!" The lookout was so loud that it continued to shout. A team of British aircraft emerged from the clouds and circled clockwise over the German formation.

"Enemy planes rushed towards our ship, more than 100 - there were at least 200!"

"Open fire!"

On the Bismarck battleship, 24 127mm anti-aircraft guns and 156 25mm guns roared together. In an instant, a huge cough-like firepower net radiated over the battleship. The guns were heard, and all the artillery except the main gun were changed to air-fire. At the same time, the air-defense firepower net of Tirbitz was also opened, but many air-defense guns were destroyed before, so they seemed not as powerful as that of Bismarck.

In the dark sky, various shells suddenly appeared, purple, yellow, brown and red.

While the two German ships fired guns, the British fleet completed the tactical formation. They changed the dive bomber to take action first and the torpedo planes followed the entry, approaching Bismarck and Tirbitz from all angles and altitudes.

With the addition of the Volunteer of the Imperial China Aviation, the tactical actions of the British Royal Air Force have been greatly changed and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved. With the help of the Imperial China Volunteer Army, they have strengthened the organization of fighter jets and dive bombers. In order to deal with large surface ships, each aircraft carrier has focused on strengthening fighter jets and torpedo aircraft. The pilots of the torpedo aircraft have extremely high combat quality and are far from comparable in the early stages of the war. The torpedo is also a modified mk-13 red-headed torpedo imported from the Imperial China. In the test, its hit rate is quite high, and it can be deployed at 1,200 meters, with a speed of up to 54 knots. Moreover, the red-headed torpedo of the Imperial China has always been known for its amazing power.

Sure enough, the torpedo crew had extraordinary attack skills. They occupied various favorable positions and threw the first batch of torpedoes around Bismarck and Tirbitz. The German observers quickly judged the distance and angle and reported to the commander repeatedly. The German commander stood in the commander's tower with a pale face and constantly issued various evasion orders, trying their best to keep the battleships and the rafting torpedoes in line with their course.

The Bismarck maneuvered at a high speed of 26 knots at a high speed, and the hull vibrated violently on the sea surface like a broken car towed by a shocked horse.

Soon, the British dive bomber took the opportunity to roar and then dropped heavy aviation bombs after paying a huge price.

The fighter was Feng Chi and Dizhi, and fired the bridge with a machine gun. The Bismarck cleverly avoided the torpedoes, and several of them almost passed by.

However, the British aircraft fleet's attack was extremely fierce, and Bismarck escaped this wave of attacks, but her sister ship Tirbitz could not effectively evade it.

At 12:45, Tirbitz was hit by 12 torpedoes and 22 225 kilogram aviation bombs in a row. In an instant, Tirbitz capsized in the tragic big explosion. (To be continued)!~!
Chapter completed!