s: Well, I will change it to chapter 3000 in the future and strive for two updates.
World War II in this dimension is very different from the original time and space.
The biggest change is that after France was hard-pressed by China and the United States, it withstood the furious Germany and withstood the first wave of Erdezi's blow without kneeling.
It is worthy of praise that Mustache's "Sea Lion Project" to invade the UK has not been developed until now.
There is no way, the French army in northern France is still resisting tenaciously.
They can get direct support from the United Kingdom across the strait.
Although it is very difficult, they can still hold on until now.
However, the French's losses in World War I were much greater than in the original time and space, and their human resources were particularly scarce.
Therefore, after more than a year of holding on, they already felt that they could no longer hold on.
The other is Ireland.
In order to remove this thorn in the back, the British assembled a large number of troops to attack the island of Ireland on October 6, 1939.
Relying on absolute naval and air superiority, the British army successfully crossed the St.
George's Strait and landed in Ireland after suffering 50,000 casualties.
However, Ireland is not easy to beat at all.
The Germans sent five divisions here, plus a large number of militiamen trained in usual times, to firmly hold back the British.
The Brits are mired in Ireland.
So far, it has only occupied a quarter of Ireland, that is, the southeastern part of Ireland, Dublin and surrounding areas.
This was not over yet.
Then Britain suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Norway that broke out on October 16, 1939, allowing Germany to completely control Norway.
The only thing that was more outstanding was that their Royal Navy finally took revenge.
On October 22, 1939, in a naval battle in the waters of Bergen, the complacent German navy was ambushed by the British fleet.
The German who had been playing with submarines for a long time capsized in the gutter and was severely attacked by Opium Cow's submarine.
As a result, five battleships including the Mackensen were lost, and many ships were seriously damaged.
Finally regained some face.
This was not over yet.
On February 9, 1940, under the planning of Fatty Qiu, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier formation launched a "Pearl Harbor" style attack on the Germans.
This was a textbook classic battle, and Vice Admiral Andrew Brown Cunningham became famous in commanding the British aircraft carrier group.
The most unexpected thing is that the main force in this battle turned out to be the outdated "Swordfish" carrier-based torpedo bomber with seriously lagging performance.
The "Swordfish" carrier-based torpedo bomber is a biplane launched by Fairey Company in 1928.
Its model and performance are similar to the product of the same name in the original space and time, but it was earlier.
In this world where aviation technology develops extremely fast, this kind of aircraft is already outdated even before it has been tested.
In the late stages of World War I, the world's mainstream aircraft models had all been replaced by monoplanes, and Britain was no exception.
However, the torpedo aircraft of British HNA had not yet been replaced by monoplanes.
It's not that they really don't know the advantages of monoplanes, but that they have no other way.
One of the reasons is that their air-dropped torpedoes have always been rather tricky.
Once the aircraft speeds up, it is easy for problems to occur, such as plunging into the seabed, failure to fix the depth, and other strange problems.
In addition, the British have never paid much attention to carrier-based torpedo aircraft, and even HNA is a stepmother.
We are not willing to invest in machine models and related subsystems, so updates in this area are naturally full.
It was not until 1937 that a new single-wing "Barracuda" torpedo aircraft was put into service.
However, due to various reasons, until the war began, the Navy's main carrier-based torpedo aircraft was still the old "Swordfish".
However, biplanes also have the advantages of biplanes.
They can penetrate defenses from ultra-low altitudes at extremely low speeds.
In addition, they are flexible in movement, have a small turning radius, and have excellent directivity.
Vice Admiral Cunningham planned an extremely bold surprise attack based on these characteristics of the Swordfish.
His target was Wilhelmshaven, homeport of the German High Seas Fleet in Yarde Bay.
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In this battle, the British Royal Navy dispatched all 12 aircraft carriers that could be used in the battle, including the "Hundred-Eyed Giant", the "Sports God", the "Unicorn", and the "Eagle" built in the 1920s.
As for aircraft carriers, there are also real fleet aircraft carriers built in the latter part of the Navy holiday, the "Ark Royal" and the six "Glorious" class aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious, HMS Victory, HMS Indomitable, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Vengeful and HMS Formidable.
Even the repaired Fury was on board.
In the early morning of February 9, 1940, Vice Admiral Cunningham commanded the largest aircraft carrier formation in the history of the Royal Navy and launched an air attack on Wilhelmshaven.
Although the British aircraft carriers appear to be numerous, they have the old problem of small aircraft carriers.
This is the same even in areas where aviation technology is more developed.
Although the tonnage of this batch of aircraft carriers is larger than that of the original work of the same name, at the same tonnage, their aircraft carrier capacity is generally at least one-third, or even half, less than the aircraft carriers of China, the United States, and Japan.
The largest number of "Ark Royal" is only 80.
Although the "Glorious" class aircraft carrier with the largest number of aircraft in service in this plane is larger than the original work of the same name, with a standard tonnage increased to 32,000 tons, it only carries 48 aircraft. .
China's Han Dynasty-class aircraft carrier, which is almost the same size, carries 86 aircraft, and the aircraft are even larger.
The aircraft capacity of the other five modified aircraft carriers is even more pitiful, only about 2,030.
Therefore, although Vice Admiral Cunningham has as many as 12 aircraft carriers, he only has 498 carrier-based aircraft.
For this operation, in addition to the 200 Seafire and Sea Hurricane fighter jets used for escort and self-defense, they also 298 all Swordfish torpedo bombers The main force this time was the Swordfish with extremely outdated performance, but it was this outdated thing that caused the Germans to suffer a big loss.
As the home port of the High Seas Fleet, Wilhelmshaven must be very strict in defense, and air defense radars and other things are indispensable.
But they never calculated that the British would use this outdated biplane as the main force.
At 2:10 in the morning, Vice Admiral Cunningham's aircraft carrier formation released all 298 Swordfish torpedo bombers on the sea 370 kilometers away from Wilhelmshaven.
Wilhelmshaven was not Pearl Harbor and could only carry out a wave of attacks.
In fact, until the war began, British aircraft carriers did not have night combat capabilities.
But for this operation, the British people also risked their lives.
While they modified the aircraft carrier's flight deck and used fluorescent diodes to arrange indicator lines on the deck, they also specially selected a group of pilots for three months of intensive training.
In order to avoid the detection of German radar, these attack aircraft lowered their flight altitude to a height close to the sea very early and used the curvature of the earth to avoid radar.
Flying in formation at low altitude in the dark night, everything can only rely on the instruments on the aircraft and the navigation lights of friendly aircraft.
This requires extremely high technical requirements for pilots and is also very dangerous.
Therefore, the British pilots participating in this operation are all elites with nearly a thousand flying hours.
This is almost the entire wealth of British HNA.
During the flight to Wilhelmshaven, three Swordfish made mistakes midway and crashed because they flew too low and hit the sea.
Two more planes collided because they were too close.
But the remaining 293 Swordfish continued to advance unyieldingly.
Flying at an ultra-low altitude of more than 100 meters at an altitude of more than 100 meters where "the wheels were almost brushing against the waves" completely rendered the German radar useless.
On the contrary, the air monitoring station that was about to expire first discovered these attack aircraft, but at this time, the fleet was less than 60 kilometers away from Wilhelmshaven.
An alarm suddenly sounded in Wilhelmshaven, and the air defense positions immediately entered combat mode.
Each ship quickly lit a fire to preheat the boiler, and night fighters at the same airport also took off to intercept.
The British move really caught the Germans by surprise.
They never expected that the British would be so bold as to launch an air attack on their heavily guarded home port.
At this time, except for a few light ships such as destroyers and torpedo boats on combat readiness patrols, the boilers of all large and medium-sized ships anchored at the home port are all turned off.
This is to save fuel and reduce the loss of parts in the power system.
After the air defense alarm sounded, it would take about forty minutes for these ships to re-ignite and pressurize them to being able to move freely, no matter how fast they were.
A large number of German HNA's BF116 night fighters quickly found the Swordfish attack group.
They flew over the attack group and fired a large flare, and the Swordfish figures were immediately exposed.
However, after these Swordfish aircraft discovered that they were exposed, they did not panic.
Instead, they lowered their altitude again.
The fleet lowered its altitude to a dangerous height of less than fifty meters above the sea, and at the same time reduced its flight speed to 120 kilometers per hour.
But when the BF116s cut into the attack angle and prepared to launch an attack, all the German pilots were dumbfounded.
Because they encountered a problem they had never encountered before.
The target swordfish flew too slowly and too low.
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The speed of the swordfish is only about 120 kilometers per hour at this time.
When the bf116 bites its tail and attacks from behind, it will overshoot in the blink of an eye and miss the shooting window.
Although biplanes have long been outdated, their biggest advantages are small wing loads, good flight stability, and extremely low stall speeds.
Just like a swordfish, even if it maintains a speed of 120 kilometers per hour, it can still fly smoothly.
But that won't work with the BF116.
This new land-based jet night fighter is too fast.
The lowest allowed speed is more than 480 kilometers per hour, and this speed is very dangerous.
In addition, the height of the swordfish is too low, almost flying at an altitude of fifty or sixty meters close to the sea surface.
In this kind of dark night, the unique "low speed and high performance" advantage of the biplane is fully utilized.
The Swordfish can use the instrument unscrupulously to perform this kind of stunt-like "sea water washing machine wheel" ultra-low altitude flight.
But the German jets don't dare to play like this.
If they want to play a similar game in the dark, it is just like committing suicide.
In addition, there is another problem, that is, the radar of the BF116 is almost useless.
The Swordfish are too low, and the radar echo of the target is intertwined with the sea clutter.
Only flares can find the target.
There were a total of 96 bf116 night fighters in the two groups that attacked and intercepted.
During the process, they tried several attacks, but only six Swordfish were shot down.
However, he lost six of them, two of which slowed down too low and stalled and crashed on their own.
The other four planes failed to control their height and rushed directly into the sea
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