Chapter 783 The Night of Tarantto Next

May 9th, 2 a.m.

In the Ionian Sea, 40 nautical miles east of the Otranto Strait, a reconnaissance formation composed of two French submarines and two Italian submarines was fan-shaped with a width of 3 kilometers apart. The lookout on the deck exposed to the water raised a telescope and glanced around nervously.

In the era of no ventilation, submarines of both countries can't potentially observe underwater for a long time, so they must rely on this way to find the enemy first, then calculate the enemy's direction and speed, and get close to the sneak attack little by little. This is why after the war, especially at night, the submarine troops are not very threatening when facing the enemy's capital ships. The main reason.

The rumbling motor engine body spreads around under the sea. One night of high-intensity reconnaissance and patrols made the lookouts droop their eyelids, but they must persist, because within the strait 40 nautical miles away, a naval battle that determines the future control of the Adriatic Sea and even the Mediterranean has been imminent.

Just as the watchman was about to put down the telescope and rub his eyes, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a black spot on the sea 2 kilometers away that was rising and falling with the waves.

What is that?

Just as the lookout was ready to see clearly, the waves had swallowed up the black spot, and it was already empty after the waves swept over.

Did you read it wrong?

When the lookout was surprised, two familiar white water marks suddenly rolled up at the waves, which were the tail of the torpedoes!

"Enemy attack!"

"Dial, emergency diving!"

In the hissing scream, the lookout got into the cabin as fast as possible. While the hatch was quickly locked, the suction holes on both sides of the submarine had also been opened to make a unique hissing sound when absorbing water.

But it's all too late. It's less than 2,000 meters. It only takes a minute and a half to arrive.

The torpedo plunged into the middle of the steering submarine. 450 kilograms of TNT burst into a huge water mass about 50 meters in diameter, without even shouting. The three sister ships next to it heard a loud noise, and then the water flashed, and the submarine disappeared on the surface of the sea.

No matter how stupid people are, they also know that the enemy is nearby, so the three submarines immediately began to dive and hide urgently.

When the aftertaste of the first dive-to-submarine battle in human history could not make everyone feel it, two huge and dazzling clusters of light had flashed in the sky. Several Xinhua long-range hummingbird water reconnaissance aircraft had dropped flash bombs, and then several 50 kilograms of special anti-submarine bombs had fallen.

After the aircraft anti-submarine was realized for the first time in the Battle of Singapore, the Xinhua Navy made every effort to strengthen its capabilities in this regard. In addition to the three aircraft used by the aircraft carriers now have the ability to mount anti-submarine bombs, it has also specially improved the Hummingbird water reconnaissance aircraft to accommodate more anti-submarine bombs.

In addition, naval hummingbirds are all seaplanes, which can take off and land freely without being affected by night, and have unparalleled navigation advantages, so they have become the main force in the aviation anti-submarine warfare.

Four hummingbirds, each of which can carry 6 flares and 12 50kg anti-submarine bombs. In an end, the remaining three submarines were surrounded by water columns. It seemed that the pilot felt that this was not enough, so he also used a 7.62 mm machine gun installed in the nose to repeatedly shoot the target.

The three submarines experienced this kind of attack without the power to fight back. The 200-ton hull was quickly scarred. Two of them lasted for less than a few minutes and then stepped into the trail of the partner just now and disappeared under the water, while the remaining one was lucky. After escaping, he also lurked underwater and never dared to show his head again.

But it didn't know that just as it dived into the water to avoid the attack, 2 Guam-class battleships 5 nautical miles away, with 2 light patrols and 8 destroyers, had rushed to the strait at a high speed of 25 knots

..“ Sir, we have been found."

In the bridge of Guam, the communications officer held up the phone and shouted, "Radar report, position 3 o'clock and 11, speed 25 knots, 7 unknown warships are approaching us quickly, and it is expected that the mast lookout will be visible in 10 minutes."

"Prepare for battle."

"Tell the watchto keep your eyes wide open. If you find the capital ship, tell me immediately." Lying on the chart table, Li Xiuyan didn't even raise his eyelids. Now he only cares about one thing. David Betty, known as a lion, hid there!

Three Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, plus the main ship just launched by Italy, 32 15-inch guns against their own 18 16-inch guns, which can still pose a great threat when everyone has to close the combat distance at night, not to mention that all the main forces of the Italian navy are in front. Once entangled, it will be very troublesome.

"Where on earth is he hiding?" Li Xiuyan, who had a mustache, looked at the broken island group on the coast of Greece.

"S sir, the reconnaissance aircraft reported that the Italian navy and the Austro-Hungarian navy exchanged fire ahead!"

"Boom."

Just as the Guam led the formation to prepare for the two raids, the first shell was fired at the Battle of Otranto.

"Left wing, destroyer, fire at full speed!"

In the wide strait, cruisers and destroyers hanged together, and a cluster of flashing flames kept pushing the war to **. Both Delfino and Camacho carefully chose to launch the first wave of attacks with cruisers.

"Is there any news from General Betty?"

"Not yet, General."

Answer, let the Italian Vice Admiral Camacho, who was standing on the bridge of the USS Francesco Caracciolo with a big beard, looked grim and even remembered the naval battle of Seychelles not long ago. Didn't the British come? Did Betty run back in fear?

This is very likely. For Britain, as long as the Strait of Gibraltar is guarded, it can ensure national security. Moreover, after the Chinese put a large number of troops into the United States, there are not enough troops to land in France. If only Spain and Italy are destroyed, at most, it can only make Britain unable to continue the war. But it will not seriously hit the strength of the country. After all, the mode of war has changed. Decades ago, the era of ending the war with a few warships has passed, and the war has become a confrontation of the country's comprehensive strength.

So, did David Betty, known as the British Lion, really not come?

"General, general, found the Chinese fleet! 40 nautical miles behind us, the destroyer is intercepting!"

"Damn it, why did you find it so close?" Camacho's face turned black, jumped his feet and shouted, "It's the two capital ships!"

"It's two Guam class ships, which should be identified by the bune should be the Guam and the Simon!"

"Gam? The butcher? Damn it, why is he here!"

Camacho scolded secretly. Although he had long thought that it might be a Guam-class battleship, he heard that the team was led by Li Xiuyan, who was known as a "butcher" in Europe, and his heart shivered. Because he and his Guam were so famous, at the beginning of the war, they led two Guam-class battleships deep into the Atlantic Ocean. First, they shelled the British Falkland base, and then slaughtered a whole convoy fleet and dozens of troop carriers off the coast of Uruguay, sank the Agincourt, and then went all the way into the North Sea to sink. More than a dozen merchant ships shelled New York in the end!

At that time, Europe changed color when it heard of Guam, and according to statistics, more than 40,000 people died on Li Xiuyan and the two Guam-class battleships he led during that period!

"Add up all the people on your 13 battleships, not more than 40,000!" Camacho pinched a cold sweat. Li Xiuyan is famous in Europe, even more frightening than several other Chinese generals, because in the eyes of Europe, he is too addicted to killing, and the battle is brave and flexible. The reputation of the Guam-class battleship is the thrilling sea of the attack on the Atlantic Ocean and the Coral Sea by his own hands. It was fought in the night battle.

If someone else comes, Camacho may be able to rely on the cruiser to deal with the other party, but he can't do it in the face of the "butcher". His way of rushing and attacking by speed is too dangerous. If he breaks through behind him and strikes himself with the Austro-Hungarian navy, ten lives are also dangerous!

"Order the 7th and 8th Cruisers to lead the destroyers to intercept and order."

"General, it's the capital ship! They are coming up!"

The order was interrupted as soon as it started, and Camaccio's heart suddenly sank. Only seven Austro-Hungarian battleships finally appeared on the sea level under the protection of the cruisers. Obviously, Grand Duke Delfino also got the news of the arrival of the "butcher"!

Camacho took a deep breath. At this moment, he couldn't help thinking about where David Betty was. He shouted, "Tell General Samaras that I need his help to stop the enemy for at least an hour!"

"Get ready for the main array, left rudder 15 degrees, get ready to fight!"

.. While the Francesco Caracciolo slowly turned its rudder, David Betty was already restless in the Kerkyra Strait, east of the Strait of Otranto, at the confluence of Greece and Albania, and across the Strait.

"Middle General, do we have to continue to wait?" The staff officer looked anxious. The Italian and Austro-Hungarian navies not far away had exchanged fire. According to the agreement, they should help Italy hang the Austro-Hungarian navy at this time, and then turn back to Taranto. After that, they led the Italian supply fleet waiting there to bypass Sicily to Corsica at the intersection of Italy and France, but now they are wearing Vibetti had no idea of attacking at all and continued to order to wait, which made everyone a little uneasy.

"Middle General, it has been figured out that the team is led by the butcher!"

"Is it him?"

"Yes, the Italians sent a telegram. Lieutenant General Camacho has sent three cruiser detachments and 30 destroyers. In addition, he has asked the Greek navy to cooperate and intercept for at least an hour."

"Let the Greeks intercept for an hour? God, this can't be done!" The staff and adjutant shouted almost at the same time. Everyone knows what happened to the two battleships of the Greek navy. In those years, the Americans were not good at all. They were not so much selling battleships as thin-skinned "friger ships"!

If there is no cooperation of the cruiser, it will be a miracle to stop it for five minutes!

"Mt. Gen., we must set out immediately, otherwise the Greek and Italian cruisers will be slaughtered!"

The staff officer clenched his fist. He had carefully studied the Xinhua Guam-class battleship and the Yangtze-class light cruiser, especially the latter, which was simply the killer of the destroyer. 12 L52/152mm guns, 8 L47/130mm guns, and a large number of 37mm rapid-fire guns, facing the destroyer was simply It's the wolf entering the sheep. What's more, what if it breaks through the protection of the cruiser? There are also eight destroyers under close protection, not to mention that the Guam class itself has 24 130mm and 152mm rapid-fire secondary guns. It is really difficult for its own destroyers to enter the 4,000-kilometer torpedo launch ring.

"No, wait a minute."

"Waiting, but."

Davibetty raised her hand, interrupted the staff, and smoked a cigar fiercely. His face was solemn. He also wanted to rush out to do a big job now, but he knew his responsibility more. Moreover, he was too impressed by the rash pursuit of Delan, so he waved his hand: "I know, but you think it's up to us alone. Can we win against two Guam-class ships? And even if we win, Delfino will get the news and turn around and leave immediately, so we must wait.

"He's coming. He must want to save Delfino. As long as Delfino is entangled, he must fight!"

"But."

When the staff wanted to say more, David Betty had interrupted him: "Send a destroyer to contact Camacho and tell him that I'm here and I won't stand by."

.. 3 a.m.

On the deck of the Limonus, looking at the dense fireballs in the distance, the Greek naval sailors looked solemn, and the gunners stared at the two huge figures faintly visible in the firelight and breathed hard to dispel the tension. The atmosphere on the Healchis next to them was also like a big enemy.

The bravery of Greek warriors is famous all over the world, and it is also second to none among the Allies. Although the Greek navy lacks actual combat experience, everyone's tension is indeed beyond the expectation of Lieutenant General Samaras, but he soon realized that it was because of these two damn battleships.

13,000 tons, 2 double L40/305mm naval guns, 8 L40/203mm secondary main guns, 8 178mm (7-inch, American monster) secondary guns, plus 6 three-pound rapid-fire guns later installed. From the paper, there are so many cannons of second-hand battleships purchased from the United States, and the firepower is absolutely second to none among tonnage battleships of the same class! What's more, it was cheaper than the two German Brandenburg-class second-hand ships purchased by Osman at that time. The confused Greeks signed the contract at that time and promised to pay cash.

But after paying, I didn't know that the Americans didn't like Athena at all, but were afraid of Greece's repentance!

In the final analysis, you can't blame others. When they fought against Osman, Greece tried its best to search for battleships all over the world. When they heard that Osman had bought a new battleship from the Chinese, they were even more nervous. First, they placed orders in Britain and France one after another, but unfortunately, the construction of the war broke out and the war was terminated, and these two monsters It was also bought for emergency response when the brain was hot at that time. Unfortunately, the Greek navy was inexperienced. It only felt that there were many cannons and fierce firepower, but forgot the name of protection and airworthiness.

In fact, the Americans are really powerful. They used the money of armored cruisers to build these two Mississippi-class battleships. The problem is that you get what you pay for! Saving means cutting corners. They are based on the Connecticut class, but the displacement is reduced by 3,000 tons, and the price is saved by half. The final result is that the armor of the superstructure is basically cancelled. The armor of the waterline part is only half of the prototype, the boiler is less, the speed is also lower, the maximum is only 17 knots, and the endurance is even more There are only 10 knots/5000 nautical miles. Moreover, too many cannons and tall cage masts make the heads and feet of the two ships so heavy that they can hardly go to sea in stormy weather. If it weren't for the Mediterranean Sea being calmer than the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, it is estimated that they would have been able to lie in the harbor and do nothing in their lives.

Now we need to use these two old-fashioned battleships to deal with the teeth. One tonnage is more than two of our own Guam-class, and you can also know the result with your buttocks.

Samaras has no choice. This is a war related to the life and death of Greece. Greece is not a big country, let alone a naval power. If the Mediterranean defense line is lost, what awaits Greece will be slaughtered! So after he got Camacho's telegram, he immediately took the fleet in front of the enemy without hesitation.

"This is the last moment in Greece! Attack, Spartan warriors!"

The lights flashed over and over again, and the last order of Samaras echoed on every Greek warship. The group of Greek destroyers led by four cruisers rushed to the two Guam class with Italian and French cruisers and destroyers. The battle was suffocating in an instant.

It's a pity.

Courage can't play any role at this moment. Standing in the bridge and looking at the war words of the Greek navy, Li Xiuyan responded with only twelve words.

"Kone him, David Betty must come out!"

At 3:15, the patrol fleet led by the two Yangtze River-class light cruisers took the lead in completing the transverse turn, and 64 rapid-fire guns fired first. 320 shells per minute sprinkled on the incoming fleet of the Three Kingdoms of the Greek and France almost like a rain of bullets.

"22,000 meters, 20,000 meters, 18,000 meters, 16,000 meters!"

"Southeast wind, wind speed three, target heading to the east, angle 030, speed 18 knots."

"Lock the target and fire!"

"Boom."

In order to ensure the hit rate, 18 L45/406mm naval guns fired for the first time after approaching 16,000 meters. The huge cannon flame formed six orange clouds in the dark. The sweeping wind made everyone sway, and the rear seat pushed more than 40,000 tons of battleships by several meters. Half an hour away, a high column of water had been raised around the Limonnos and Heerchis.

The courage of Samaras and all the Greek sailors disappeared in an instant, because they found that their main guns could not even aim at each other at this time, which was too far away!

"Reconnaissance aircraft report, nearly 2 bullets lost, target Limonos!"

"Adjust the elements and reset them."

"Ready."

"Fourth round, shot!"

"Boom."

18 naval guns roared at the same time. After three rounds of aiming and adjustment, the Greek navy, which has extremely weak actual combat experience, finally knows why even Britain, the United States and France have heard that the Chinese navy has changed. This is not an order of magnitude battle at all. Even if the equipment advantage is left, the combat experience of the Xinhua Navy is much higher than that of the Greek Sea. The army is more than several times!

The first to suffer was a Greek cruiser protecting next to the battleship. The shell weighing more than a ton fell directly on the bow. The huge impact made the cruiser's bow seem to have been pressed by the Titan giant. In an instant, the bow was straight into the water, and when the explosion came from the water. At the next time, the bow of the cruiser had been directly cut off, and 272 Greek sailors disappeared from the sea in less than 2 minutes.

The second disaster is the flagship Limonnos. In the seventh round of volley, two 406mm armor-piercing bullets hit its front mast and rear main gun positions one after another. The thin 2-inch horizontal deck can't even block 152mm shells. How can it deal with a ton of armor-piercing bullets?

While the front mast collapsed, a huge fireball was raised on the stern of the Rimonos. The scene of the main turret ammunition depot was martyred again. The violent explosion broke the fragile hull, and the Greek naval commanders, including Samaras, were completely destroyed.

Five minutes later, Hierchis also capsized on the Ionian Sea under the attack of two Guam-class ships, and the sea was poured into the hull. Less than 19 of the 710 officers and soldiers on and off the ship survived.

From 16,000 meters to the end of 14,000 meters, the two Guam-class ships sank the only two battleships in the Greek navy with only 13 rounds of slam shots. Li Xiuyan was not happy with this impressive result, because David Betty had not yet appeared.

"Didn't he come?"

"s sir, what should we do now?"

"Sir, the Austro-Hungarian navy telegram, their battleship Franz Ferdinand was hit and is sinking. Please support us immediately!"

Li Xiuyan's eyebrows jumped. He finally knew the reason for David Betty's late appearance. There was no doubt that this guy knew very well that Delfino was not Camacho's opponent, so he was waiting for him to take action. Only when he took action could he hope to make a fatal blow!

Unfortunately, he would not have thought that Tarantto may have been burning. Without Taranto, the Italian navy, which consumed a lot in this battle, could not even supply ammunition!

"Send it to Grand Duke Delfino and tell him that if he wants to win, he will distance and consume the Italian naval shells!" Thinking of this, Li Xiuyan hooked the corner of his mouth: "Speed up to 25 knots, be careful of destroyers and torpedoes, and tell him that we will arrive at the battlefield in 30 minutes!" After saying that, he suddenly raised his wrist and looked at his watch and sneered, "If you want to sneak up, then I will pester you to death!"

..“ Delfino distanced away. Why is that?

Betty pinched the telegram she had just received, and the staff and officers around her looked puzzled. Didn't the Chinese come to cover the breakout of the Austro-Hungarian Navy at all?

"Report that the two battleships of the Greek Navy have been confirmed to have been sunk!"

"General Camacho asked us to support immediately to block his back, otherwise."

"What else?"

"Otherwise, he said that he would turn back to Tarantto immediately!"

"Damn it! This bastard is threatening me!" Betty was so violent that he didn't know that the Italian navy was in danger, but as long as he waited until the two Guam-class ships were hanged together with the Italian navy, he could unexpectedly complete the sneak attack. Do you really want to give up this opportunity?

"What's the use of going back to Taranto? Can he break through Xixi without me?" While roaring, an idea suddenly flashed by. Everyone found that David Betty suddenly stopped and her face turned pale.

"Quick, contact Taranto, be careful of sneak attacks!"

"Taranto? What does this Taranto have to do with it? The Chinese aircraft carrier should be near Malta at this moment. Why is Tarantto involved?

"Idiot, stupid! Go and get in touch! Don't you understand yet? They opened their distance and used entanglement tactics in order to consume the Italian navy, so that the Italians had to return to Taranto tomorrow morning to replenish once before they could go to Corsica! God, we have been tricked! Let's go now!"

Hearing Betty's roar, the staff members' faces changed in a moment. At this moment, a large number of transport ships and supply ships gathered in the port of Tarantto, that is, they went to Corsica with the fleet after killing the Austro-Hungarian navy. What's more, even without these transport ships, Tarant has nearly half of the Italian navy's reserves, and The most important steel mills and shipyards! If it is destroyed, the Italian fleet will not only no longer be able to get supplies, but also not enough reserves to continue!

"God!"

.. Tarant.

This is the most important seaport in southern Italy and the cradle of the Italian navy. Italy's largest naval shipyard is also here. Borgo in the northwest is an industrial zone with a large steel mill jointly operated by European coal and iron. It is one of the centers of the steel industry in Italy. It is with this natural seaport that Italy can defend the Otranto Strait only close at hand and become a well-deserved hegemon of the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea.

At night, the port of Taranto was particularly quiet. The sailors, Mickey and sailors sat quietly on the deck and waited. The ongoing naval battle 200 kilometers away had touched the heart of Italy. Dozens of large transport ships around were ready to berth quietly in the harbor, waiting to be with the triumphant fleet. To Naples.

"March, do you think we will win? I heard that the Chinese sent two battleships to support the Austro-Hungarians.

"What does that matter? Britain also sent three Queen-class battleships, plus the Francesco Caracciolo, we have four warships equipped with 15-inch cannons."

"But Chinese people have planes!"

"Airplane? Don't be an idiot. Can those flies be used at night?!"

"Why not? Didn't Colonel Duhei's flight team perform many night operations?"

"Idiot, it's taking off and landing on land. In such a small place as the aircraft carrier, it may be possible to take off at night, but can they see the landing clearly?"

"How do you know?"

"Of course I know, don't forget, I'm a pilot! And the faster the plane, the more dangerous it is to land. Seaplanes can not be restricted at night, but other planes can't. Moreover, Colonel Du Hei also led us to simulate their battle. When landing on such a small deck, the biggest problem is how to maintain the balance of the aircraft and align it with the deck. At night, I can't do it at all.

"Oh, so that's it. It's no wonder that Chinese planes have no combat operations at night except during the day."

"Not only the Chinese, but also the aircraft carriers recently built by the United Kingdom and the United States do not have the ability to fight at night."

"Oh, then I'm relieved. It's time for me to go to bed."

"Did you die, are you a pig?"

"Ha ha."

The comments of his partners calmed Marge's nervous heart a little. Indeed, since Xinhua owned that kind of aircraft carrier, there is no precedent for being able to fight at night. Even in Falls Bay, South Africa, which was first put into actual combat, it was in the evening. But when he was relieved and ready to sleep in the cabin again, a buzz suddenly came to his ears.

"Who flies at night? Is it the seaplane sent back by General Camacho?

The soldiers looked up one after another and saw only a few black spots in the starlight hovering from the east. From a distance, they looked like a few huge night bats.

"It's strange. I don't seem to have seen this kind of plane."

"Yes, where is it? Depending on the size, it seems to be smaller than our Caproni Ca36. Is it French?

"Probably." Before the pilot finished his words, several dazzling lights suddenly appeared in the night, and all the people staring at the plane felt a tingling pain in front of them.

"Damn it, it's a flare!"

"The Chinese are Chinese reconnaissance aircraft!"

"Quick, get ready to fight, turn on the searchlight!"

The sudden appearance of flares made the port of Taranto suddenly chaotic. After a while, several beams of light had been shot high into the sky. About five minutes later, fire-like bullets rushed into the sky from the harbor and all over the city.

"Young men, follow me!"

The light column and bullets instantly activated the Longya torpedo/horizontal bomber following the reconnaissance aircraft. The 56 bombers immediately lowered their altitude and flew quickly to the awakened Taranto with the cover of the night.

"God, it's a Chinese bomber!"

"Zofu, damn it, didn't you say that Chinese planes can't move at night?"

"God, bullets, I need machine gun bullets!" While cursing, March ran to the machine gun installed on the deck of the transport ship. By the time his partner came running with the ammunition box, the two dragon teeth had brushed his scalp over the transport ship and flew into the harbor.

"What's going on? Did they let us go?

Just as Ma Qi and his partners were facing each other, they only saw a sudden black spot flash under the abdomen of the two dragon tooth machines. Two 500 kilograms of white phosphorus incendiary bombs hit the warehouse area next to the dock from a low altitude of 300 meters. In the blink of an eye, two huge fireballs that everyone had never seen before began to spread out like mercury. A moment later All the buildings in that area were caught in the fire.

"God, what kind of bomb is that!"

One incendiary bomb after another was dropped, and not a loud explosion filled all over the city. A fluffy white smoky thing scattered under the shock wave of the explosion and was quickly ignited, rolling all the burning things around. Countless Italians woke up from their deep sleep and then became coke in the fire. The flames burned more and more. Neither the sea nor the sand could extinguish these unprecedented flames.

"They, they, they are lighting the troops behind!" March suddenly pulled the bolt, and the city and harbor lit up under the fire, which made him immediately understand why the plane let the warships bomb the harbor first, and also used flame explosives, because it was too dark, and they needed to provide ground lighting for the aircraft behind them.

When Marky gritted his teeth and pointed the muzzle of the machine gun in the direction of the enemy just now, a ghostly scream that he had never heard suddenly hit from the top of his head!

"Ji Jie."

March and his partner looked up and saw a few black spots suddenly above their heads. These black spots suddenly swooped down. The sharp and terrible roars, like the devil's call, could not be dispersed. When he could no longer bear to cover his ears, one of the black spots had rushed to the transport ship where he was. On the cruiser next to it.

The plane suddenly pulled up!

At the moment of pulling up, a black dot flashed under the belly of the plane. Machi, who was absorbed in looking at the aircraft that made a terrible sound, only saw that the black dot plunged straight into the front of the unprepared cruiser bridge like a javelin, and then bombarded, an orange flame bursting under the cruiser's deck, and countless steel plates and rivets were blown by air waves. It flew like a terrible wave of steel rain hitting me head-on.

"Ji."

One by one.

One explosion after another. Marky, who squatted on the ground in horror, could no longer contain the fear in his heart. He couldn't imagine that the plane that had been nicknamed a fly by the navy was so powerful. At this moment, he understood why the powerful United States and Britain failed in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, which was not at all. It's manpower that can stop it. This is slaughter!

"9 o'clock, transport ship, that's mine."

In Yexiao's cockpit, the pilot with a helmet and windproof goggles hooked the corners of his mouth and aimed at the 15,000-ton naval transport ship where Markie was located. The warship monks were not enough, and the torpedo boats were not worth using 250 kilograms of armor-piercing bullets, so everyone targeted the fixed eyes in the transport ship and the harbor. Mark.

While the head of the machine suddenly lowered the pressure, the left hand opened the speaker switch and turned on the auxiliary pull-up device at the same time.

The angle began to increase, and the transport ship gradually began to be clear from the black spot. In the harsh and terrible sound of howling, the wings had been opened to the maximum. The blocking of the deceleration plate made the plane enter a dangerous shaking. At this moment, there were no bullets in the pilot's mind, no explosions, or even no sound. There is only one thought.

Blow up the target!

When the altimeter reached the red line, the 250-kilogram bomb suddenly flew out and fell straight down. After sliding down for a period of time, the plane finally with the help of an auxiliary lifting device, a little bit of lift finally rushed into the sky. At this time, the pilot was already sweaty.

Danger, hardship and sweat were exchanged for a perfect kill. Turning around, the explosion rose from the middle of the transport ship, and the violent explosion extended from under the deck to the deck. Suddenly, there was a second big explosion in the cabin, and the pilot smiled.

is an munitions ship!

In an instant, Ma Qi, who was hiding in the corner, felt a heat wave coming behind him, and then his feet suddenly shook. The shock wave of the explosion lifted him and several partners high, and then hit the water heavily.

The tear-like pain almost stunned Marge. Fortunately, he was stimulated by the cold sea, so he barely kept his mind and swam to the shore. But when he was about to climb on a approaching torpedo boat and didn't hold the big hand stretched out by his comrades-in-arms, countless fire points were sprayed in the sky again, escorted one by one and found that the end The errand Bumblebee sprinkled all the bullets on the sea and the dock.

Navy Bumblebee was the first fighter to be equipped with a 25mm machine gun, in order to deal with small ships such as dangerous torpedo boats and destroyers. When Markie saw the roaring fighters behind him, he immediately realized the danger and just turned around and was about to leave. Countless The bullet hit the small torpedo boat.

Dozens of Italian sailors with no ability to fight back were torn apart, and the wooden deck was full of holes. When three bumblebees roared past its head in a row, the torpedo cabin at the bow was finally hit by a shell.

"Boom."

The 450mm black-headed torpedo turned into the deadliest killer. The torpedo boat of less than 100 tons was thrown high, and then hit the surface of the water heavily. The waves and whirlpools almost devoured Mickey and several nearby sailors. No one can think anymore. Marge's mind is blank. All he knows is to swim to the shore desperately. When he finally climbs to the dock, he sees a terrible scene.

No matter which direction you look at, in addition to the flame or the flame, dozens of neat transport ships just now have all been slanted and burning with a blazing fire. As for the escort cruisers, they have begun to sink. The warehouse area is burning, the residential area is burning, the shipyard is burning, and the whole Tarant is burning!

A team of soldiers full of flames rushed out and jumped into the sea from everywhere, but no matter how they struggled, the flames were still alive.

From the coast to the dock, a charred baby-like corpse stimulated everyone's eyes. The steel melted and bent in the flames, and the houses fell piece by piece. The whistle and calls for help were endless, and countless big hands stretched out from under the rubble!

A moment later, the third wave of bombers came again, followed by the fourth wave and the fifth wave!

Bombs are still falling. Previously, it was regarded as the strongest anti-aircraft harbor in Europe. Tarant, with a large number of machine guns and quick-fire guns, was like a girl who had been stripped of her clothes. She could only let one Chinese plane after another to do it. The harsh and terrible roar spread throughout the city with the sea breeze.

An hour ago, the beautiful Taranto turned into a sea of fire in the night wind!

May 9th.

Taranto disappears!

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Woo-hoo~, I finally came back from the hospital. I just turned over the book review and said that the hippo has an eunuch tendency. Ha ha, don't worry, you won't be an eunuch. In fact, it was the hippo who had been running in the hospital and at home for something in the past two days. He also stayed in the intensive care unit for two nights and forgot to send a leave note. The reason is that a fellow countrymate was hit by a car on Friday and one leg was damaged. He was an old uncle who was a doorman in Shanghai. He was old and didn't understand Shanghai dialect, so the hippo could only shoulder the responsibility of negotiating with the hospital and unscrupulous drivers. At night, the hospital nurse MM was not allowed to type with this book, saying that it would affect the patient's rest. Breath.

Fortunately, his feet were finally saved, and his parents also arrived in Shanghai today, and the hippo can finally take off the responsibility.

(to be continued)