Next, Lieutenant General Tovey ordered his subordinates to calculate the time for the enemy to contact us, and make sure that when the aircraft group arrives above the enemy and our warships have already contacted and started a melee.

"The main target is the enemy's battleship "Dunkirk"!" Lieutenant General Tovey sent a telegram to the Air Force.

Because according to intelligence, several army officers boarded the battleship "Dunkirk" before the war started, and the spy recognized one of them as the lieutenant known as the "Legendary Sergeant".

Of course, Tovey's move was not to kill the "Legendary Sergeant". Lieutenant General Tovey guessed that the "Dunkirk" was the flagship of the German fleet.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Tovey also ordered the carrier-based aircraft of the USS Eagle to be prepared... Although the USS Eagle only has 21 carrier-based aircraft, they are all "Swordfish" torpedo attack aircraft.

Although this torpedo attack aircraft is relatively backward and is a spiral biplane attack aircraft, it has proved its value again and again in naval battles with brilliant results. For example, it repeatedly sank Italian warships in the naval battle against Italy, causing heavy losses. For example, when it encircled and annihilated the German battleship "Bismar" it was used to injure it, which eventually led to the sunk of "Bismar".

This time, Tovey hopes to allow these torpedo attack aircraft to mix with other fighters to attack German warships.

However, what Lieutenant General Tovey did not expect was...

The German warship just flicked and then slowed down quickly and then left the battlefield again... The French warships were fast, so it didn't seem difficult to do this.

This made Lieutenant General Tovey a dilemma. The Air Force's fighter jets have taken off. Could they be returned?

After thinking about it, Lieutenant General Tovey ordered: "Group A and Group B fleets are chasing at full speed!"

From the perspective of warships, this order is correct. French warships are indeed fast, but their defects are also very obvious, that is, there is no main gun at the stern... This means that British warships can chase the enemy's warships.

As for the issue of sea and air coordination, it can slow down the aircraft fleet.

Originally, the enemy and us might be so anxious that no one could do anything to each other, but an emergency situation broke the deadlock.

Colonel Auston was the Air Force front commander, and he was somewhat dissatisfied with Lieutenant General Tovey's caution, for two reasons:

First, Colonel Auston's flight wing had just arrived from Crete to reinforce. The pilot had been flying in the air for more than an hour, and then took off again after emergency refueling on the island of Malta.

Therefore, what pilots need more is to get into the battle as soon as possible, otherwise tension and fatigue will drag them down.

Another thing is that the longer the fighter planes fly in the air, the more fuel it consumes. Colonel Auston is worried that the Luftwaffe will launch a fatal blow to the aircraft fleet when the fuel is tight.

As we all know, this is very important because if the fuel is insufficient, the pilot will not even dare to fight with the enemy fighter, and even if it is aimed at by the enemy fighter, it will not be able to avoid it... because this will consume fuel, and if the fuel is not enough to fly back to the island of Malta, it means that the fighter can only land on the sea or Sicily.

So, Colonel Auston complained to the Air Force Command: "Those navies may not understand air combat at all. They thought that as long as we wanted, they could fly in the sky like warships staying in the sea!"

In some ways, Colonel Auston's concern is still correct, because Tovey is indeed from the navy and does not know much about air combat. What is important in sea and air combat is air combat rather than naval combat, which is also the reason why most American aircraft carrier commanders must have pilot experiences. Of course, Britain did not have this awareness at this time.

"Please, Colonel!" Major General Achille, the commander of the Air Force, replied: "He is Lieutenant General Tovey, the commander of the battleship "Bismarck". He understands the German tactics and of course also understands air combat!"

Major General Achille was wrong this time. If Lieutenant General Tovey knew the tactics of the German Navy in the past, Lieutenant General Tovey would not understand this time... because he had never seen the German Navy play like this.

"He's better understand!" Admiral Auston looked at the clouds outside the window and said, "Because I've already felt danger!"

Before he finished speaking, several black shadows suddenly dived from the clouds, followed by a piece of airline caused by machine gun fire and bullets... In an instant, two British fighter jets were hit and fell down with black smoke and a harsh roar.

"German!" Auston shouted: "German's plane!"

Colonel Auston did not hesitate and bit one of the planes as soon as he turned the nose... But the plane was much faster than him, and Auston could almost only follow it and watch it shoot down its own fighter planes one by one.

Then the fighter plane climbed upwards towards the sun, then made a sharp turn, and killed it back with sunlight on its back at an astonishing speed... The cannon fired violently, and the fighter plane almost penetrated to the top of the Auston fighter plane.

When Colonel Auston turned around with his fighter plane, he had only two of his own fighter planes that were on fire and fell to the ground.

"God!" said Colonel Auston, "It's 'Yellow No. 14'!"

"Malceu?" Major General Archil also knows who this "Yellow No. 14" is.

"Yes!" Colonel Auston replied: "He just shot down five of our fighter planes, but I lost them..."

"General!" Colonel Auston then said: "I request an attack because the Luftwaffe has determined our location and we don't know where they are... They may set a trap for us!"

Major General Archil was silent for a moment and nodded and said, "Please allowance, I will tell General Tovey the situation!"

So, the British army fleet rushed towards the German fleet at the fastest speed, including 12 "Swordfish" attack aircraft taken off by the "Eagle" aircraft carrier.

Redell received the Air Force report right away.

"Sorry, Marshal!" Major General Fischer, the commander of the German Air Force, reported with some trepidation: "Several of my subordinates did not obey the orders and privately rushed into the British fleet and drove several aircraft while on reconnaissance missions. This obviously angered them. Now the British fleet has flew towards you at full speed... I wonder if this disrupts your plan?"

"No, Major General!" Redel said happily: "This did not disrupt my plan. On the contrary, they helped me a lot!"

"So……"

"You are ready for battle right away!" Redell ordered: "After they attack us, your performance will be next!"
Chapter completed!