The 761st West Wind Chapter 7

Mozambican Strait.

The strong southwest wind roared through the whole strait. In the churning waves, a fleet moved forward rapidly with the help of the wind.

The waves several meters high made the deterrent with a full displacement of 35,000 tons, like a canned box pinched by a running child in the palm of his hand, bumping with a squeak after bursts of steel friction, and the surges washed the deck with waves.

The deterrent is the third British prestige-class battlecruiser, and the fourth ship Roar is also swaying next to it. The first two prestige and counterattack are currently cooperating with the U.S. defense of the Chinese navy in the Caribbean that may break through the Panama Canal.

All four prestige-classes were built in early 1914. The initial combat targets were Germany's DFlinger-class and Marksen-class. However, after Xinhua participated in the war in 1916 and completed the counterattack in one fell swoop, a wide range of modifications began to be made, mainly by greatly increasing the armor thickness and protection ability, making the vertical main armor belt It has been increased from 6 inches to 8 inches, and the horizontal armor has also increased from 3 inches to 5 inches. The watertight cabin has also been improved, and the problems exposed in the turret fire compartment door have been modified before delivery.

In Hill's view, if it weren't for only three double L42/15-inch guns, the prestige class could have been regarded as the main battleship, and this class of warship was also the first British warship to use a steam turbine to replace the old reciprocating steam engine, which made its speed reach 26 knots and could be used for a long time. Sailing at a speed of more than 20 knots.

Whether in the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean, the use of battlecruisers is not perfect, so Europe believes that such warships should be quickly eliminated in order to save military costs to build more battleships, but Hill does not think so, because so far, battlecruisers are still the only one that can reach the battlefield faster and A capital ship that can carry out long-distance support and long-term combat.

In fact, in his opinion, Xinhua's faster battleships are variants of battlecruisers, but Li Mo is better in power than Britain and Europe, so he can be equipped with thicker armor.

Behind the two warships, there are two Avenger-class battleships King and Resistance. As for the last two Spanish pocket battleships, they are swaying like a river.

Looking at the two Spanish-class battleships churning in the waves, Hill felt that it might be a big mistake to take them with him!

First of all, this kind of battleship is too small. It has eight L50/305 mm guns, but the full load displacement is less than 16,000 tons. After coming from the calm mirror-like Mediterranean Sea to the stormy South Indian Ocean, the weakness of airworthiness has been magnified several times, and what is more serious is its endurance. It's really a problem. We must supply in the port of Mozambique in front of us to continue to go north.

But the problem is that he doesn't want to stop, because he knows very well that as long as the fleet is in port, it will definitely be found by the pervasive Xinhua spies, but if they don't add coal, even if the two Spanish-class ships sail to Seychelles, the return journey will face a shortage of coal. Whether to let them add coal in the port of Mozambique or arrive at the Seychelles first. What's more?

Before Hill could come up with a countermeasure, a hurried footsteps came to his ears.

"General, General Campbell's telegram!"

"Campbell? Damn, is he crazy?" Hill jumped up from his chair. According to the previous plan, both he and Campbell had to keep the radio silent until they arrived in Seychelles to avoid being exposed by the monitoring of the Xinhua reconnaissance ship.

But it's only one day to leave now!

Is it?

The staff nodded heavily: "They were attacked by Chinese planes!"

"Damn it!"

There was a curse howl in the open cabin, and the bulky Short 184 began to descend rapidly. When it tried to lower its height to avoid it, Yang Siyuan had already swept over its head in a bumblebee, and the seaplane was loaded into the sea before it had time to struggle.

"Bah." Yang Siyuan spat fiercely, when it was the turn of these wooden shelves in the sky.

"At eight o'clock, six, three teams go to kill them!"

When Yu Yin was still echoing in his ears, Yang Siyuan had rushed to the enemy plane with four bumblebees. When six camels swaying on the sea and tried to sneak attack saw the bumblebee, they were immediately scared and dispersed.

Yang Siyuan quickly bit one. Unexpectedly, this guy was quite cunning and flew to a cruiser, trying to use the anti-aircraft firepower on the cruiser to help escape. A cluster of smoke began to explode from all around. Yang Siyuan drove the bumblebee and roared down like an eagle that saw its prey. When it was less than a kilometer away from the camel, he pressed the trigger.

A 25mm machine gun and 4 7.62mm machine guns sprinkled bullets on the other side like water, and instantly cut off the camel's tail.

Seeing that his plane was hit, the gunfire on the cruiser became even more crazy. Yang Siyuan did not dare to stay longer and immediately pulled up the plane out of the main fleet of the huge Indian fleet below.

"The attack aircraft is coming! The attack plane is coming!"

"One team, drive away the remaining camels!"

"Second team, third team, strafing the deck rapid-fire gun to protect the attack aircraft!"

"Pennsylvania, I saw Pennsylvania, that's mine!" In the radio, there was a shout from his comrades-in-arms. Yang Siyuan turned his head and looked. The two dragon teeth had been aimed at the American battleship Pennsylvania, which had three chimneys in the center and four double L45/381 mm heavy guns. He immediately shouted, "Follow me, strap the deck and disperse their firepower!"

Under his leadership, the wingman roared down from the sky with him, and the cannon aimed at the wide deck of the Pennsylvania. The steel deck and the superstructure suddenly jumped wildly on Mars. In order to protect themselves, the American sailors on the deck had to target part of their fire at Yang Siyuan.

The two dragon teeth that were supported quickly passed through the dense air defense net. When the Pennsylvania was getting bigger and bigger in front of their eyes, the two "fish thorns" finally got rid of the hanger under the abdomen and smashed a splash on the sea.

"R Torpedo!"

The American sailors had no time to deal with Longya. They aimed almost all the quick-fire at the front of the torpedo. The huge hull burst into a hiss and began to twist violently.

"Boom."

Yang Siyuan, who had just pulled up the plane, only heard a loud noise behind him. He turned his head and saw that a huge column of water had risen on the right side of the huge USS Pennsylvania. It can be clearly seen from his position that the thick torpedo compartment on the right side had been opened, and a whirlpool was in the wound. Formation, this is a unique sign of the water in the hull.

"General, the Pennsylvania was hit!"

Flagship, in the bridge of USS Malaya, Campbell's eyes were in the corner of **. He didn't expect that he had just encountered an enemy plane, and one of the two most important American Pennsylvania-class battleships was hit.

"Pennsylvania reported that the starboard torpedo compartment was damaged, and multiple cabins inside were flooded. Captain Davis had ordered the closure of the nearby watertight hatch, but the sea water still poured into the No. 4 boiler module, losing a quarter of the power, and the speed dropped to 17 knots! At present."

"Damn it, it's the Royalist. The Royalist was hit by two torpedoes, and the deck tilted!"

Before the staff finished reporting, Cameron shouted again. Campbell quickly walked to the porthole and raised his binoculars to see that the bow of the Linxian-class cruiser Royalist ignited a raging fire, and the deck began to tilt to the left.

"Airplane! Be careful!"

The battle was too fierce. The Chinese planes shuttled through the middle of the ships over and over again, and the cannons and bullets were constantly sprinkled on the warships. Both the observers and commanders began to feel overwhelmed. Before Campbell and Cameron, who were checking the situation, did not understand what was going on, they rang behind them. With a scream, a bumblebee rolled on the port side of the light and swooped down from the top, while the two were thrown to the ground by the soldiers.

"DongDongDongDong."

On the thick bulkhead of the bridge, there was a drum-like impact sound. The porthole glass shattered in the sweep. A lookout who could not touch the window was hit in the neck by fragments of a 25mm shell without any preparation, and blood suddenly gushed out of his neck.

"God, Will is injured! Come on, come on, come on!"

"Damn it, starboard, two torpedo planes! God, they were just covering the torpedo machine!"

"Left full rudder."

"Deck Report!"

"Son, avoid it, we avoid it! The torpedoes didn't hit. Damn it, there are two more!"

"General, we must find a way. We can't be passively bombed like this! If it goes on like this, all warships will suffer. Cameron lowered his head and bent down to Campbell.

"I know that they have less than 60 torpedo planes, and we still have a chance!" Campbell shouted, "Shott, order Brigadier General Alex to lead the 2nd Light Patrol to protect the remaining three American capital ships!"

"Santos, send a signal, formation shrink, we."

"Boom."

"General, the torpedo that hit us hit the Blake."

When Campbell gave the order, Malaya was lucky to avoid a torpedo again, but Blake on the other side was unlucky. The torpedo wiped the slanted bow of the Malaya and hit the unwitting first-class armored cruiser on the starboard side. Because the cruiser did not have a torpedo compartment of the battleship, the charge 1 The 50 kilograms of "fish bone" easily tore a crack about 2 meters in diameter in the stern of the cruiser.

Because of the close distance, Campbell and the officers in the bridge could clearly see that the Blake began to slow down. Just as everyone was worried about whether the Blake could survive, the staff shouted in horror again: "Damn it, General, they all went to the Americans! God, do they have a grudge against the Americans?!"

Taking over the enemy, the dragon wings that had been dispersing and attacking freely on a small scale gathered for the first time. 17 dragon teeth that had not yet dropped bombs roared from all directions to the remaining American Pennsylvania battleship Arizona and two Northampton-class heavycruisers Northampton. The Chester rushed to the horn.

"Concentrate all firepower and order the air defense support of the fifth cruiser formation!"

Seeing the invading enemy, the four U.S. Brooklyn-class light cruisers and two old-fashioned cruisers that protected the three ships kept firing like crazy. The bumblebee, which served as a battlefield cover, also kept passing over the U.S. formation, sweeping dense bullets to the deck to divert fire.

The oncoming fierce artillery fire not only did not scare the dragon wings, but also aroused their ambition to win. At the same time, there was a crazy hiss in the 17 dragon teeth, like the fire phoenix in Eastern mythology, with dragon teeth woven into layers of impenetrable air-aircraft shells of various calibers. The three ships in the center rushed away.

A dragon tooth took the lead in dropping the torpedo. When it was pulled up, a ruthless 47mm shell hit the belly of the plane, and the smoke engulfed the whole fighter plane in an moment. Before the American sailors aimed at the next one, it saw that it actually crashed into the upper layer of the light cruiser Nashville regardless of life and death!

"God, are they crazy?"

The American captain held his head in his arms and staredly at the fire-covered fighter plane hitting him. Before he could understand why these pilots were so fanatical, a white umbrella flower suddenly appeared in the sky, and the dragon's lost dragon teeth with their usual surnames and hundreds of kilograms of gasoline hit the Brooklyn-class light cruiser. On the stern deck.

The flames mixed with orange and black suddenly flooded the whole back deck. The flames began to spread around the deck. The black smoke almost blocked the observation of Campbell and others until it was finally sunk. The light cruiser did not launch another shell.

Before the officers and soldiers of the large fleet came out of the shock, several dragon teeth dropped torpedoes with four L45/381mm heavy guns. The firepower was equivalent to that of the battleship Chester suddenly turned left. Although it avoided three "fish sashimi", the fourth one accurately hit the weak stern.

A white and huge column of water rises from the sea. Anyone who sees this scene knows that the Chinese people's aviation torpedoes charge far exceed that of any Allied countries. The bursting water mass swept through the deck and instantly swept several untouchable American sailors into the sea. The stern of the USS Chester began to emit thick smoke. The speed dropped all of a sudden.

After seeing the Chester shot, a dragon tooth that was preparing for the second wave of attack was pulled up with a torpedoes, and then ignored the shells and fire around him, and rushed to the Arizona again!

This scene made Cameron almost cut off his hair. What did he want to do? Playing with such a heavy torpedo, aren't you afraid of death?!

"God!"

Because all the Xinhua planes were concentrated in the American formation, the threatless Malaya could calmly see the crazy torpedo frenzy.

The dragon tooth finally hit a torpedo, and it was his torpedo that made the Arizona tremble. Campbell saw with his own eyes that two black and red smokes rose from behind the other side of the ship that was blocked at the same time, and then a mass of white smoke also came out of nowhere. Although the time was very short, it was still Let everyone's hearts sink to the bottom of the Indian Ocean!

Because that is the unique performance of the ship's boiler cabin after entering the water!

"General, have you noticed? The Chinese never attack the warships that have been hit. What do they want to do?

"Yes, what do they want to do?"

Cameron's words made a surprise sound in the bridge. At this time, everyone found that as long as the warships that were hit would not be attacked by the second wave, it was very strange, because the hit warships were undoubtedly the most vulnerable, and the success rate of being hit again was much higher than that of attacking those intact warships. And the threat is much smaller, and you can easily get combat achievements!

Then why do Chinese pilots have to pick intact hard bones? Campbell was also stunned at first, but when he saw the slanting sunset, he immediately understood and suddenly shouted, "Dick, contact the remaining ships in the Y1 and Y2 formations and let them come and meet us at full speed immediately."

"Tonight, we will need their protection!" The sound made the eyes around suddenly become more and more.

Condense!!

(to be continued)