Chapter 570 Seven Turrets

Sitting in the cockpit, the sky began to zoom in. He turned his head and looked at the smaller and smaller fleet. Meng Xiaodong enjoyed this feeling very much.

It's just that the 380mm torpedo under the buttocks made the Osprey react a little slow. If he thought that Osprey was a stupid goose before, it is now equivalent to adding another piece of lead to his neck.

However, compared with those opponents in the distance, this slow-responsive "stupid goose" is much better. It can be seen from too much experience that the Short 184, which has insufficient horsepower, is still struggling with the horizon.

A moment later, two seaplane formations passed by thousands of meters in the void. Looking at the torpedo under the other party's abdomen, Meng Xiaodong snorted coldly.

Airborne torpedoes are not new equipment for the Imperial Royal Navy, and the British navy's information about using airborne torpedoes to sink a merchant ship in the Battle of the Dardanelles has already been transmitted back to China. Although they started the war before themselves, is it good for a long time?

The 380mm aerial torpedo under the belly began to be equipped a few years ago, but because its power is really insufficient, the load is only 45 kilograms, and the range of 35 knots/1000 meters is too short, so the Admiralty abandoned it in the counterattack, because it can be used to fight against 10 underwater at this moment. The 0kg TNT super battleship is no different from scratching. You know, even if the thin-skinned battle patrol, he also resisted a mine and continued to return to the base. Unless he was extremely unlucky, the light patrol could be hardened, so the navy only purchased a few for pilot live ammunition training.

At present, the latest equipment of the navy and air force is a 450mm airborne torpedo, which is what everyone wants most. It is 150 kg of loading and has a range of 42 knots/2000 meters. Even if the battleship is not dead, it will be delaminated. However, everyone weighs 780 kg. The air force attack aircraft can be carried without restrictions on running. But it is a little reluctant for the ship-borne dragon tooth attack aircraft that requires to take off at 150 meters. In addition, the plane itself is also overweight and can't fly, so the emperor is so concerned about weight loss.

Looking at the distant enemy fleet, Meng Xiaodong felt a pity. If he was driving a bumblebee at this moment, it was probably a sea of fire in the sky, but this is just thinking about it. With the survival and endurance of the aircraft carrier, he absolutely dares not come to the Atlantic at this time, even if it is escorted by the relevant island, because At least three supply ships are needed, so the fleet is too large and the target is too obvious.

However, looking at these slow wooden lame ducks rushing to the sideboard sideboard of the fleet, Meng Xiaodong has a feeling of wanting to laugh. Sideboard attack is a taboo after years of training and confrontation exercises. Because of the angle problem, it is almost the time when the fleet's air defense firepower is the most tightest. He wants to break through the fleet from this angle. The anti-aircraft fire network will be peeled even if it is not dead!

Now, let the British see how the Chinese do it!

"No. 2, follow me!"

"No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, there are several W-class destroyers in front of the left. Pay attention to the angle and lean in and fight. They don't have anti-aircraft guns!"

After assigning the task, Meng Xiaodong looked at the Schott 184 fleet that passed by from a distance and sneered, "I'm coming back to pick you up."

"Attack!"

It seems to be responding to this shout. The Tumenjiang deck, which originally paid a lot of effort for air defense, exploded like a hedgehog. Although the 152mm main gun did not fire in the air, the two double 130mm high-level dual-purpose rapid-fire guns on the starboard side took the lead in shooting, and the blue sky 10,000 meters away. The black flowers immediately exploded.

At the same time, two Guam-class starboard 12 high-level dual-purpose guns of the same caliber also fired fiercely. Even the two doors installed on Dongting Lake roared into the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. The burst of smoke was wrapped in a large number of fragments and held up the first umbrella in the sky.

"Boom."

The two were unprepared. Short 184, which could not be maneuvered because of its load, was hit by fragments of shells. The brittle wooden structure split in the blink of an eye, and one of the torpedoes turned into a fireball before it fell on the sea.

In this scene, not to mention the suffering British pilots, even Lieutenant General Kafka was stunned. How could such a large-caliber secondary gun shoot at such a large angle to the air?

When the British pilot rushed left and right in the shell fragments, the faster Osprey had also found the target. Unlike the other party's first target, Meng Xiaodong was not so stupid when he knew that he could not nib the beast with a large number of secondary cannons. What he had to do was to kill the fastest guy!

So he chose a Linxian-class cruiser, which first appeared in the Battle of Golan Bay. According to the description of the German intelligence department, this cruiser has a speed of 26 knots and a displacement of 3,750 tons. But it has a very big defect, that is, there is a serious lack of rapid-fire cannons. The whole ship has A 47mm anti-aircraft gun.

This kind of warship is basically no threat to the Guam class and the Yangtze River class, but it is very threatening to the supply ship, so at least it must be hit hard.

Thinking of this, Meng Xiaodong suddenly gave up the flank assault and circled the stern of the ship, which had no time to climb at a low altitude.

The five suddenly scattered Ospreys obviously made the British fleet nervous, especially Galatia, which was obviously targeted, used its fast maneuvering to avoid the fragile position.

On the other side of this time, the British pilots were almost desperate, because a total of 24 quadruple 37mm cannons opened fire!

The 31st Fleet, which did the S maneuver, kept deflecting the bow, and suddenly pulled out countless fire tongues on the rickeing deck. These little guys who had been improved many times showed what high speed was. Li Zhen, standing on the machine gun platform, only saw that the four barrel of the quadruple 37mm machine gun below kept flashing, in the eight The second umbrella was held up at a distance of one kilometer.

The dense black smoke burst out from all sides, and the British pilots were going crazy. They had never seen so many anti-aircraft guns. What surprised them more was that even if the shells left far away, as long as they exploded, the fuselage and wings seemed to have hit a rainstorm. Before waiting for him. They hurriedly avoided it, and the plane began to sink and lost control.

In just a few minutes, there were only five of the ten Short 184s left. Even the five escaped, before they could be lucky, the 25mm rapid-fire machine gun in front of Li Zhen turned up.

At this time, Lao Jiu did not see the vulgarity just now. He stared intently at a plane and quickly shook the handle to press the enemy aircraft in the middle of the cross circle.

The sound of the bombarding was more dense than the drums. When Li Zhen pressed the shell into the gun barrel, he couldn't help looking at the targeted Short 184 and saw that the sky around it seemed to be boiling, surrounded by the smoke generated by the explosion.

Lao Jiu bit his teeth, and the barrel hissed. Li Zhen forgot to check the results and pressed the magazine into the gun barrel back and forth. It was not until an explosion that everyone saw that the enemy plane, which had been aimed for more than a minute, had turned into a fire. That was the picture of the torpedo being hit and exploded.

"I hit it! I hit it!"

Li Zhen and all the members of the gun group waved their fists excitedly. Just as everyone was about to find out where the remaining enemy planes were, the two British seaplanes stubbornly emerged from the smoke.

In an moment, all the shells gathered, and Li Zhen's gun group aimed at them with all its strength.

Just when there was already gunpowder smoke in the distance, Meng Xiaodong's side also made a swooning sound. This was the unique rhythm of shells tearing through the air. The only 47mm anti-aircraft gun on the USS Galatia finally opened fire.

Meng Xiaodong quickly turned to the longitudinal pole. The osprey clumsily avoided the roaring route of the shells and slowly aimed at the stern of the cruiser Galatia. He used all his strength to grasp the longitudinal pole that had become stiff because of the load, stared at the scale on the windshield, and began to descend rapidly.

The two Ospreys, one left and one right, which were approaching, really scared the sailors on the Galatia. However, because they were facing the stern of the ship, the anti-aircraft guns in the center could not aim, and the remaining six-inch and four-inch firing angles were too small to aim at all, so they could only foolishly watch the approaching.

When the two Ospreys finally approached 700 meters, they only saw two torpedoes rush into the water under the abdomen of the plane. Without waiting to check the results, Meng Xiaodong, who was light all over, immediately pulled the pole with his partners and quickly climbed high into the sky.

Two white tracks rushed to Galatia like lightning. Although it tried to avoid the one on the right, the one on the left still hit the stern. An explosion suddenly rushed up from the stern of the cruiser, which had just been launched for half a year. After a moment, the strong smoke rose like a column of smoke.

The Galatia, which survived at speed, quickly slowed down, but Meng Xiaodong, who circled in the sky, was not happy at all.

The 380mm torpedo is too powerful. Although it hit, it did not cause much damage. This cruiser that was hit by the stern rudder should continue to be used in the future as long as it is rescued in time.

However, this is no longer considered by Meng Xiaodong. The relaxed Osprey began to climb rapidly. At this time, the other three also completed the bomb. Unfortunately, the speed of the W-class destroyers reached 30 knots, which was very flexible. Only one of the three Ospreys completed the task, and the other two returned empty-handed.

"Ha ha, don't be discouraged. There are big guys in front of you!" Meng Xiaodong shouted strangely and quickly rushed to the huge airship with a push of the oil rod. The rest of the partners also remembered them when they saw this, and they also rushed over one after another.

The shells were still roaring, and the shining firelight turned red. The last remaining Short 184 was like a drunk, staggering into the sea.

Just as everyone thought that the opponent had finally been eliminated, the torpedo hanging under the belly suddenly rushed into the water and roared towards the Guam.

"Rurpedo, machine gun!"

The lookout shouted anxiously, and all the nearby rapid-fire guns aimed at the sprinting torpedoes, and even two 12.7mm machine guns were added to the chorus.

Incredibly, this not-fast torpedo, magically passed through the incredible fire net like the fallen leaves of the evil wave, and hit the hull of the USS Guam.

Li Zhen, like everyone else, suddenly grabbed the armrest to prepare for the explosion, but the miracle happened again, and the expected explosion and the water column did not appear.

"Captain, the deck report that the torpedo did not explode."

The news did not move Li Xiuyan. In fact, even if it exploded, Guam could block this level of explosion. In addition to the fact that the main armor belt of Guam extended more than two meters below the waterline, the underwater torpedo protection wall was also designed according to the 250 kg level of explosion, so this damage was almost insignificant.

The only thing that surprised him was that he didn't expect his opponent to send planes to do the first wave of attack like him.

In fact, he doesn't want to fight this battle at all. He is not afraid of the opponent, but the American fleet must be about to arrive. If he is caught in the siege of two fleets, it is too dangerous for the 31st Fleet, which is alone and lacks a base. Even if he can escape, it will be very expensive, so after discovering the opponent, he immediately chose to avoid it. , and ordered the Osprey to take off and use torpedoes to disturb the pursuing opponent.

But he didn't expect his opponent to think of this. Obviously, the E-fleet commander didn't want to play with his life.

This is very weird!

At present, the 31 fleet has become a big trouble for Britain and the United States. It can even be said that it has risen to a political mission. If it were filled with human life, it would have to be filled to death. Why doesn't the E fleet commander want to do that?

In the distant sky, five huge fireballs attracted a burst of cheers in the bridge, but Li Xiuyan did not feel happy, because he found that his opponent seemed to be missing a capital ship!

Is it that one is missing, which makes him have some scruples? Thinking of this, Li Xiuyan's eyebrows jumped and immediately shouted, "Let Meng Xiaodong and others not come back and continue to expand the scope."

"Right full rudder, keep the speed over them!"

After leaving the order, Li Xiuyan quickly walked to the chart table. At this time, the naval gun outside roared again. Even if he didn't need to look at him, he knew that this was the remaining three W-class destroyers that the secondary gun was approaching at a high speed.

At this time, he has only one question. Where is the capital ship that should have appeared? Although a battleship is not too threatening, after all, no one wants a capital ship that should have appeared suddenly disappears.

When Li Xiuyan held his chin and looked at the charts near Cape Verde, Lieutenant General Kafka's hands and feet were cold. Although he knew that it was impossible to threaten each other by planes and airships, he did not expect that they only lasted for a few minutes and completely melted, especially the dense anti-aircraft rain of the 31st Fleet just now, which reminded him and Britain, Xinhua has already studied the counterattack tactics after the aircraft intervened in the naval battle!

Watching the other party's bow cross the distance from him little by little, Lieutenant General Kafka trembled angrily. The W-class destroyer did not hold on for ten minutes in the other party's horrible and dense rain of secondary shells, while the cruiser was hit by the rudder and could no longer move, leaving a few old troops. How to chase the ship and two capital ships with obvious speed disadvantages?!

"Mt. Gen., they turned around and headed north!"

"to the north?" Kafka was stunned and jumped up: "Contact Nick, avoid it immediately!"

"Captain, there seems to be something wrong with radio communication." The correspondent ran over with an anxious face: "I think you should go and have a look in person. It seems that all the radio stations are broken!"

"What!"

After Li Xiuyan returned to the bridge and ordered to turn on the radio jammer, he decided to gamble!

Because normally, if the three capital ships are there, the British E fleet will not be decisive. As long as it drags itself for two to three hours, the U.S. fleet will definitely arrive, but the other one will not appear!

ambush? Impossible!

It is impossible to use a battleship with a speed of up to 20 knots as an ambush. The surface ambush must have a speed higher than or similar to that of the other party. Otherwise, you can escape when you see the pillar of smoke. Without the fastest destroyer and cruiser, the E fleet can't stop the 31st fleet that is running away, and this speed You can only be dumbfounded if there is a submarine nearby in time.

Then there is only one possibility left. For some reason, the battleship has been dragged behind and has not arrived yet! Thinking of this, his heart suddenly jumped, and all the destroyers and cruisers of Fleet E appeared in the intelligence, that is to say, if the inference is correct, then.

At 2:50 p.m., he looked at his watch and decided not to cross the Atlantic with the U.S. fleet for the time being, but to continue north!

Half an hour later, he got the harvest because of the reconnaissance report sent by Osprey.

Seventy nautical miles away, a battleship with seven turrets and traveling alone at 15 knots was found.

Akurkin.

Seven turrets!

(to be continued)