"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The anti-aircraft guns of the Island Nation Navy's 1st Carrier Squadron opened fire. One 127mm Anti-aircraft Gun after another launched the first attack.
Shells exploded in the air, leaving clusters of black smoke behind. Shrapnel sprayed in all directions, striking at nearby targets.
The anti-aircraft shells used at this time still had delayed fuzes. Only after reaching a certain altitude would they explode. Naturally, their power could not compare with that of shells after the invention of the proximity fuze.
The German carrier-based aircraft group had already dispersed. BF-109 fighters strafed the anti-aircraft positions with aircraft machine guns and cannons, suppressing them and creating opportunities for the Dive Bombers and Torpedo Bombers to attack.
"Attack the escort warships on the perimeter first, then the carriers!"
"Whoosh!" Four Dive Bombers launched an attack on a modified Fubuki-class destroyer.
"Evasive maneuvers! German Aerial Bombs!" the sailors aboard the destroyer Akatsuki roared.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Although the anti-aircraft guns aboard Akatsuki were still firing wildly, they could not stop the four Dive Bombers.
Four heavy Aerial Bombs came smashing viciously down at Akatsuki.
One heavy aerial Armor-piercing Shell struck Akatsuki's After Deck.
"Boom!"
The bomb exploded, nearly blasting away the entire rear half of Akatsuki. Seawater rushed into the hull through the breach. This destroyer, with a displacement of less than two thousand tons, soon sank beneath the waves.
Under the attacks of the German carrier-based aircraft, the escort warships of the Island Nation Navy's 1st Carrier Squadron were sunk one after another.
Small warships like destroyers had virtually no power to resist. Once hit, sinking was almost inevitable. Light Cruisers and heavy cruisers could not hold out for long either. Heavy aerial Armor-piercing Shells and heavy aerial torpedoes were both fatal threats to them.
"Whoosh!"
Four Dive Bombers attacked