Chapter 766 West Wind 12

14 o'clock.

Off the coast of the port of Seychelles, inside the flagship shock cruiser, Hill stood at the door of the open command tower and began to suspect that he had decided to let two Spanish-class battleships enter the port to add coal.

"How long will it take?"

"Mt. Gen. Tonis said they would take at least 8 hours."

"8 hours? Why for so long?"

"Because." The staff shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands helplessly: "General Tonis said that it would take another day for General Campbell to arrive, so his soldiers needed to take a break when they entered the port and go ashore for a drink."

"A drink!"

When Hill, who was worried, heard the last sentence, he immediately jumped up as if he had been stepped on his tail. If he had a perspective, he could definitely see that there were already "three flowers gathered" on his head!

Hill wants to drag the Spanish lieutenant general out and beat him up. Is he on vacation? Are these Spanish fools full of straw in their heads? This is already deep in the Indian Ocean, and the Chinese may appear in the next second! At this time, it is already very dangerous to let him enter the port to add coal. He is actually going to let the soldiers drink and have a drink?!

"General, General!"

God seemed to feel that the blow was not enough, so when Hill was so angry that his forehead was blue, the communications officer suddenly shouted, "General, Lieutenant General Tonis."

"What is he? What else does he want to do?!"

"He sent two telegrams from the port's telegraph station, one to Spain and the other to General Campbell." What!" The bridge was petrified, and the telegram took the initiative to ask Lieutenant General Campbell. Did he think that the Chinese navy was all paper?

Hill trembled like a sieve. He wished he could send someone to shoot the idiot immediately!

But the telegram has been sent. What else can he do? Fortunately, this idiot knew how to use the port radio instead of using the communication equipment on the ship! Hill had to use the word friendly army over and over again to warn himself to calm down, and ordered, "Intify Tonis immediately that you must leave the dock within 4 hours!" In addition, let the submarine set out and patrol along the northeast.

Order the cruiser detachment.

"Enemy attack!"

"God, 4 o'clock, Chinese plane!"

Before he finished speaking, the sad alarm sounded from everywhere, and countless sailors who avoided Lie Heo began to run crazily to their positions, and the ropes of the awning were quickly cut off.

Hill was stunned, looking at the large group of planes in the sky, and his head was buzzing! Campbell has been sending telegrams for three days that the Chinese aircraft carrier is around them. Why did he come to Seychelles after only one night? Come to yourself!

Did Campbell surrender to the enemy?

"Right rudder!"

"Let the cruiser detachment plug horizontally on our left side."

Hill shouted loudly. He had no time to think about this. A quick-fire gun quickly pointed to the sky, and the ammunition was carried directly on the deck. More sailors had put on their helmets and were ready to put out the damage pipe with a leather tube.

"General, Tonis."

"It's too late to care about them." Hill rudely interrupted the staff. Now he doesn't even want to continue to wait for Campbell. Since the enemy will appear here, it means that Campbell is either dead or deliberately delayed by the Chinese. As for the Spanish battleship in the port of Seychelles, it is the only thing he can do now.

It's prayer!

As soon as the voice fell, the four latest Caliden-class light cruisers began to fire fiercely, and then countless fire points also spewed on the decks of the two prestige-class battlecruisers. It should be said that after being ** by Xinhua aircraft over and over again, the countries of the Union have made great improvements to anti-aircraft firepower!

Among them, the most typical are the Atlanta-class cruiser in service in the United States and the British Caliden-class light cruiser. The former is completely designed to surpass the Jinghai-class anti-aircraft firepower of that year. Although the tonnage of the latter is small, the anti-aircraft firepower has been greatly enhanced, and even sacrificed the sea firepower for air defense. 50 The 00-ton hull is only equipped with two 152mm naval guns, but it is equipped with 10 47-mm rapid-fire guns and 6 dual-loaded 7.7-mm Lewis machine guns!

The prestige-class battlecruiser has further improved its air defense design. In the early design, only two 76mm guns had air-to-air shooting capabilities, but now they have been changed to 10 47mm rapid-fire guns and 16 double-loaded 7.7-mm machine guns, and the first air defense command post has been set up.

In the whole fleet, the two Avenger-class battleships have the weakest air-to-air firepower, with only six 47mm rapid-fire guns and four temporarily equipped double Lewis machine guns.

Eight warships, more than 200/air-to-air fire units, the air defense intensity has exceeded that of any large fleet before the war! The intertwined fire nets were dense. Standing on the bridge, there were already smoke rolling in the sky at four o'clock. Before the two falling dragon tooth torpedo attack aircraft reached the top of the fleet, black smoke fell down.

The sudden strong anti-aircraft fire also aroused the wild names of the dragon wings. The two dragon teeth took the lead in leaving the formation, wiping the sea under the cover of four bumblebees, and carrying out ultra-low-altitude raids at a height of less than 30 meters.

The water column rose from around the fuselage. When it was close to 3,000 meters, the 7.7mm Lewis machine gun on the target ship, the Roar Battlecruiser, opened fire. This double-loaded machine gun developed for the aircraft was extremely fast, forming a dense barrage on the left side of the hull.

"Poo." After a few sounds, a dragon tooth was the first to be shot in the wing, and the pilot had to throw the torpedo and pull it up to evacuate before reaching the launch distance.

After there was no partner, the other dragon tooth looked more and more lonely. At this time, the other two dragon teeth suddenly pressed down from above, and the three machines formed an arrow again.

The bullets on the Roar became more dense, and the muzzle of the machine gun sprayed flames. When the distance was 1500 meters, the three dragon teeth finally completed the bombing. When the short fish stabbed into the water and pulled out three white waves, the Roar also began to turn the rudder at the same time.

The difference between the new generation of battlecruisers and the old battlecruisers has finally emerged. The larger area of rudder wheels and stronger power make the maneuverability of the prestige-class battlecruisers comparable to that of some light cruisers. While a huge C-type white wave appeared at the tail, three fierce fish spurs rushed to the waves. There is a British submarine not far away.

The unlucky scapegoat didn't even shout. Only 400 and a half tons of boat body exposed to the sea disappeared on the sea at the same time as the water ball flashed. Thirteen submarine soldiers died in the Indian Ocean inexplicably.

This scene made the rest of the dragon wings cheer up and understand that they had met two difficult big guys, so the rest of the dragon wings almost locked the first target on the two prestige levels.

One dragon tooth after another stared at the dense shells and fell quickly, wiping the waves and dropping one torpedo after another.

5 minutes later, the first result finally appeared. After avoiding five torpedoes in a row, the Roar finally could no longer resist. The starboard side of the bow was hit by a fish bone, 450 mm, 750 kg, and 150 kg of loading. Although the fish bone sacrificed the range, it was much more powerful. Although the prestige level The armor laying scheme has been modified many times, and the underwater part has been protected, but the shell is still unable to withstand such a large torpedo, and a huge crack was torn open in an instant.

Hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the cabin along the breach. Although the damage management team tried its best to close all the watertight cabins and passages nearby, the last five cabins were still flooded, causing the speed of the Roar to drop by 2 knots.

The second target had another accident. At that time, the three dragon teeth were aimed at the deterrent, but at the moment of dropping the torpedo, the Caliden-class light cruiser Karadoch suddenly blocked the front at a speed of 28 knots. Two of the three torpedoes hit the light cruiser loaded with 5,150 tons, but made people Surprisingly, the Karadock did not sink immediately, but after suffering for a few hours, it staggered back to the port of Seychelles and was finally captured by two Xinhua light cruisers.

The results of dealing with the two prestige-class battlecruisers that were heavily protected by the four light cruisers were not great, but the dragon teeth of the two Avengers-class battleships had the greatest results. King was hit by two torpedoes at close range, causing serious damage to the starboard underwater part of the rear bridge. Fortunately, it did not hurt the movement below. Force cabin, so it can continue to travel at a speed of 19 knots.

The Resistance was also hit by two torpedoes, and its speed suddenly dropped to 18 knots.

The 36 dragon teeth of the Nanchu are not satisfactory at the cost of losing three, and can even be said to be relatively poor results since the beginning of the war, but this also reminds the Admiralty and the dragon wings that with the deepening of the war, the air defense strength of the navies of various countries has been greatly strengthened, and the dragon tooth is loaded with heavy fish stings. The weakness of poor mobility has also been gradually exposed, which directly led to the Navy's request to replace Longya with the latest 1000 horsepower air-cooled engine developed by a four-engine bomber.

However, the attack squadron of Nanchu did not have no gains. The sudden torpedo attack caught Hill off guard. Seeing that all four capital ships were damaged and the Karadoch was seriously damaged, he immediately ordered to turn left 70 degrees and sail to the Aldabra Islands, trying to return south along the African coast. No.

But only 20 minutes later, Hill was desperate. The thick smoke suddenly rose from the way. The mast lookout reported that he found four battleships, suspected to be the Hebei class of the Xinhua Navy.

"Fight!"

In the case of unavoidable circumstances, even if Hill doesn't want to fight anymore, he must pull out the decisive battle!

At 14:50, Hill sent a telegram to Tonis and the Spanish battleships in the port of Seychelles, asking them to come to support immediately. After that, he ordered the formation of four capital ships and let the three cruisers distance themselves from them ready to carry out torpedo attacks at any time.

Although there were many small-scale artillery battles later, it was not until many years later that people looked back that they realized that this almost even naval battle between 14 inches and 15 inches was the last frontal confrontation between giant ships and cannons between fleets in human history!

"32,000 yards!"

The captain began to report the number.

(to be continued)