Chapter 827 Air Strike, I'm the King! 9
"God, am I right?"
When the less flexible rhododendron torpedo machine drill out of the clouds, he couldn't even believe his eyes, because he saw that three Xinhua Xiqin-class heavy aircraft carriers on the sea in the distance swaggered towards him under the protection of more than a dozen destroyers and cruisers, except for a few taking off. Outside the fighter, there is no terrible fleet described by comrades-in-arms.
"Maybe they all went to attack General Jelico." When Warren thought to himself, the shouts had sounded from the cockpit of every British and American aircraft that participated in the attack.
"Attack."
"Blow up the aircraft carriers of those yellow monkeys!"
"Let's go!"
More than an hour of mechanically long flight has made everyone impatient. Even the always steady Ripak couldn't help it. He suddenly pressed the vertical pole and rushed to the opponent's aircraft carrier battle group. Although the enemy has unimaginable anti-aircraft firepower, as long as one-third of the aircraft rushed in and launched the fish. Ray will also get the biggest result since the beginning of the war!
The eyes were paralyzed with joy and excitement. When one bomber after another and torpedo planes s scrambled to lower their altitude and watched only a few escort planes flying towards them, they did not notice that the cold metal light had sparkled on the clouds that could not be touched at high above their heads.
"Young men, let's go!"
"Let them know what air warfare is."
Swooping, the battle using potential energy began again, and the fierce hiss of the engine blew away the clouds.
Unfortunately, there were no eyes on top of his head. When he stepped on the accelerator excitedly, tried to drop a torpedo in front of his comrades-in-arms, and then ended the long unbearable torment, a cuckoo torpedo plane next to him suddenly broke into two pieces from the middle.
"What's wrong? What happened!"
before he could understand, the second cuckoo also turned into a fire and fell into the sea. When the fighters around him were constantly torn and their wings were broken, Ripac and everyone finally woke up from a beautiful dream. When he finally deflected the fuselage and found a void to let his eyes penetrate the wide upper wing, his heart suddenly condensed. It's fixed.
In the eyes, it is a dense fighter, hundreds of red snakes, and a silvery metallic luster
..“ Captain, on the right.
More than ten kilometers away, a fleet of 62 Longya torpedoes/bombers, 48 Night owl dive bombers and 10 Hornet fighters loomed in the clouds.
In the headphones, the shouts of the partners made Meng Xiaodong see the first aircraft carrier battle group escort fighters and hundreds of bi-winged torpedo planes strangled together. You son of a bitch, I'll deal with you later!" After Meng Xiaodong scolded coldly, he did not change his course and led the crew to continue to fly north.
As time went by, the haze in his heart became more and more gloomy. Will he repeat the scene ten days ago again?
Fortunately, the wait didn't last long, and a beautiful voice like the sound of nature finally sounded.
"Two points, 9 capital ships, 5 aircraft carriers, and 21 auxiliary ships!"
"I found it, I found it!"
"It's our turn!"
When Meng Xiaodong rushed straight down from the thick clouds with his fleet, Joseph King almost pulled out all his hair.
How can this be possible!
The enemy's first attack target was Jelko's battleships, and the second batch also flew in the direction of the battleships after taking off from the battlefield. So who is in front of you now? Just by looking at the number of hundreds, you can see that at least two Western Qin-class aircraft carriers need to be used!
Where do they come from? Are the two aircraft carriers of Xinhua that are being installed and tested by sea also come?!
"Ji Jie."
Before Joseph King and the officers could figure out why the enemy suddenly appeared in front of them, a terrible roar had sounded from above their heads. When several night owl dive bombers rushed to the largest battleship New Mexico, Meng Xiaodong also drove the dragon teeth with the other four partner planes in the attack team. The tip of the wave rushed to the port of New Mexico.
The sudden appearance of the aircraft scared the American sailors. When they adjusted their firepower to deal with the dive bombers, they found that the torpedo planes came close to the sea, and they had to divide half of the anti-aircraft firepower at both ends.
In the anti-aircraft operation, the most frightening thing is the multi-directional enemy. Just when the rapid-fire gun locked the top of the head and starboard side, the two bumblebees without any need for escort also pretended to rush to the starboard side.
The tacit cooperation made the dragon wings know what to do in an instant without contact, but this tacit cooperation made Joseph Jin, who was standing in the bridge of New Mexico, change his face greatly.
Obviously, the enemy is determined to sink his flagship first!
The fire tongue gushed out from the decks of the nine capital ships, and the surrounding cruisers and destroyers were desperately protected. Unfortunately, the latest Atlanta-class light cruisers were taken away by the battleship formation to prepare to delay the enemy aircraft. In terms of air defense strength, Joseph King's fleet was not as good as Jelko.
The dispersion of anti-aircraft firepower has finally brought bad results.
Although the captain's desperate steering maneuver and a long S-shaped tail appeared on the stern, a 250 kg armor-piercing shell hit the bow deck first.
As soon as he saw the place where the bomb hit, Joseph Jin's face changed color, especially when he saw Meng Xiaodong, who was flying to the port side, suddenly turned to the stern of the ship, and he roared anxiously: "Stop, stop them."
From the other party's actions, he can know that the Xinhua Navy already knows its fatal position!
As a battleship with a centralized protection concept, the New Mexico-class battleships are almost comparable to the Guam-class in protection. They are not enough to rely on 250 kilograms of armor-piercing shells and "fish bone" torpedoes.
But the problem is that Joseph King didn't understand that there was such a bug as Li Mo in the world. It was his driving force that made the box-type centralized protection layout first appear on the warship. After the emergence of this new protection method, the Imperial Royal Navy, which has always liked to compete with itself, was even more about how to sink it. The layout of battleships is studied as a top priority.
After years of research and practical exercises, I finally found the nine-character truth of "swing the stoon, hitting the vertical, and sweeping the upper layer".
Centralized protection refers to the section from the bow No. 1 turret to the middle of the last turret of the stern through continuous strengthening and strengthening, so as not to be easily penetrated by shells. However, the problem is that the displacement is not unlimited. When the core part is protected layer by layers, the stern and superstructure will inevitably be weakened. Especially the stern, once the rudder is hit, it will definitely die in a powerful battleship.
Joseph King knew this weakness, but he didn't expect the enemy to know it, so he sweated anxiously when he saw the direction of the enemy plane.
Naturally, Meng Xiaodong will not let go of such a good opportunity. After avoiding the two wings of the most concentrated anti-aircraft guns, he aimed the "fish bone" at the stern of the ship.
"Ban Bang." After a few soft sounds, the five "fish sashimi" separated from the hanger at the same time.
1500 meters.
The speed of 42 knots only takes a little more than a minute, which is enough time for a small warship to get rid of, but for a large warship with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, it takes a few minutes to turn the rudder alone.
The torpedo rushed to the stern in a fan shape. Although New Mexico, which rushed left and right, avoided three of them, two fish stunges accurately hit the target.
"Boom, boom."
The explosion began from the stern of the ship, and it was like a bulging bag on the calm sea. The pressure brought by 150 kilograms of standard TNT explosives instantly burst the bulging bag, not only pushing the splash to a height of 100 meters, but also directly blowing up the rudder, one of which even directly hit the propeller.
From the destroyer next to it, I only saw that the stern of the New Mexico first tilted slightly up, and then suddenly began to turn.
Later, it was learned that the torpedo not only blew off a dozens of tons of pure copper propeller, but also destroyed the underwater structure. A large amount of sea water poured into the engine room along the cracks, causing the warship to lose all its power in a few minutes.
The harsh alarm sounded from everywhere, and the sailors no longer cared about air defense or damage. They hurriedly put on life jackets and ran in the direction of the lifeboat. After losing a large number of excellent naval personnel, the consequences of the decline in the quality of the U.S. Navy were finally completely exposed.
According to the standards of the Xinhua Navy, after losing power, the ship will be abandoned unless it cannot be saved. You can also hang a white flag to withdraw from the war to save yourself. If the final victory is not on your side, open the sea valve and sink, while the U.S. military is in disorderly condition that it can be saved, and the will to fight is obviously weak to the extreme.
In ten minutes, a battleship in the middle of the Ally lost its combat effectiveness, and there was a great panic. In any case, this could not be accepted by everyone, so that other warships that were being avoided were all chilled.
"General, telegram, it was sent by General Jelico. He asked you to retreat immediately!"
"Retreat? How can I retreat now?
In the face of scattered sailors and dense enemy planes, Joseph King pinched the telegram and wanted to cry without tears. If the telegram could come ten minutes earlier, maybe the ending would not be the same, but what else could he do now? And my flagship is over!
Because the flagship lost its combat effectiveness too early, the fleet, which was stunned by a stick, was completely panicked. After Joseph King sent a message, several capital ships began to turn the rudder in a hurry to leave here, but it was too late.
Just as the flagship issued its final order, the sister ship Mississippi, which was listed as a key strike, was also hit hard. Mississippi, which dodged two torpedoes, finally fell under the armor-piercing bullet dropped by the night owl.
The first armor-piercing shell hit the front bridge. Although it did not drill through the thick conning tower, the shock wave caused by the explosion still caused a rupture inside the bulkhead, emitting a large stream of small metal. These small particles became deadly killers and swept the entire bridge.
The second armor-piercing shell hit the middle of the two turrets of the ship's stern and successfully drilled into the inside of the No. 3 turret. It also detonated two 381mm armor-piercing shells and medicine bags in the barrel at that time.
The explosion caused the turret weighing more than 400 tons to tilt on the No. 4 turret below, and broke all two barreles, causing Mississippi to directly lose half of its fire.
If a considerable battleship comes at this time, the Mississippi can fly a white flag.
In the sharp and harsh roar, the night owls kept diving down from the sky, cooperating with the dragon teeth close to the sea below, and attacking the poor fleet.
Standing on the flying bridge and looking at the fleeing American [***] ship, Colonel Simpson, the captain of the Royal Ark of the British Navy, was congested in his eyes and used all the known vicious words to curse the timid Yankees.
Of course, the reason why he got angry was not that he didn't want to escape, but that when the Americans ran away, they did not provide any cover for the slow aircraft carrier! Even the American destroyers that had been protected before spread their feet and ignored the Royal Ark.
With the fire slowdown of two New Mexico-class battleships and two Pennsylvania-class battleships listed as the first strike targets, five Northampton-class heavy patrols and five aircraft carriers became the targets of the Dragon Wings.
The wide deck of the aircraft carrier was undoubtedly too obvious at this time, and it lacked anti-aircraft firepower similar to the Western Qin-class heavy aircraft carrier. Simpson could only watch a night owl hovering overhead and suddenly dive down.
The wide wooden splint does not need to be aimed at all, which is perhaps the easiest bombing, so the dragon wing can easily drop the armor-piercing bomb in the center of the deck.
The bomb penetrated the flight deck, and then passed through the lower horizontal armor into the hangars.
In the middle of the deck, it was like a black and red flower. The explosion not only tore nearly half of the flight deck, but also ignited the flammable wood. The raging fire broke the hope of Simpson and the sailors to leave. When the night owl came to the deck in an extremely arrogant posture, he left a string of bullet holes with a machine gun. At that time, thick smoke had risen on all five key hit aircraft carriers.
11:15.
When the attack brigade of the second aircraft carrier battle group returned, the artillery formation composed of two Taiwan-class battleships and three incoming Yanjing-class fast battleships blocked the Joseph King Fleet fleeing to the west
.. Southwest, Jellico battleship formation.
The battle is still hot.
25,000 meters.
Starting from the formation, Fang Jin, the "Barian Bull" of the Ya, only took the initiative to close the distance of 3,000 meters in the eyes of the British and American naval captains.
"Little cow, if you have the ability, you can pull closer! I will smash your head!" The captain of the United States pointed to the four Guam-class battleships in the distance and shouted regardless of his demeanor.
This sentence also represents the voice of all the captains, because everyone really doesn't understand. Judging from the accuracy of the first dozen rounds of shelling, the 406mm heavy artillery of the Xinhua Navy also has little effect at this distance, but why is the "manniu" always unwilling to get closer? And as long as he takes the initiative to lean over, he will definitely avoid it at the same time.
This is also fucking called "Manniu"?!
On the Zhongmeng, General Fang gently blew away the end of the tea floating on it, and the ship, which trembled every minute, seemed to have no effect on him.
The staff muttered in private that this was because General Fang didn't want to work hard. The reason is very simple. A intact Guam-level formation was used to bully the old, weak, sick and disabled. In the end, more than half of the credit was taken away by the dragon wings. The "Man Niu" could not afford to lose the man.
In fact, everyone only guessed half right. Only the gun commander and Tan Haodong, who had read the latest generation of 406mm heavy artillery materials, faintly guessed.
From the perspective of the opponent, in addition to a few disabled Normandy and George V, the most important ones equipped with 381mm main guns basically have the ability to fight back. Once they are close to the normal combat distance of 20,000 meters, the other side still has enough lethality. In this general situation, the other side still retains When you have the ability to fight back before death, it is the right choice to turn around the circle as long as you don't let the fish run away.
Another reason is that the newly equipped special-heavy 1050 kg armor-piercing shell is at a distance of 25,000 meters, and the angle of each shell falls exceeds 60 degrees!
What is the concept of60 degrees?
That is to say, the shell falls at a nearly vertical angle, with weight and acceleration. Even if the front armor of the Taiwan-class turret with a thickness of 410 mm and an angle of 30 degrees is laid on the deck, it can't stop the depth of the extra-heavy armor-piercing shell.
According to the naval test, the maximum range of the new 406mm naval gun has reached 38,000 meters. The ideal state at a distance of 25,000 meters can ensure a hit rate of more than 5%, and a hit rate of about 2% can be guaranteed even if the sea conditions are slightly worse.
This is a simple calculation problem. At present, 10 rounds have been played, that is, 360 shells, and 7 shells have been hit according to the worst calculation. According to the summary of the fire control tower above, there are currently 6 confirmed hits. Although it is not fatal from the opponent's state, it is necessary to leave aside the distance measurement of the first three times. The design target has been basically reached.
It is precisely with this powerful shell that Fang Jin is not in a hurry at all.
He needs a chance, a chance for Jellico to mess up and have to disband the fleet!
"Boom." The eleventh round of s volley was played again.
35 seconds later, a dazzling fireworks rose in front of the bow of the George V in the distance.
"Kill!"
The word suddenly popped out of Jelico's mind, who had a deep knowledge of Siby Road Island.
More than ten years ago, Long Guozhang, the commander-in-chief of the Xinhua Navy, personally led the fleet to send the crown prince ordered by Russia from France into the sea with a perfect kill. This time, it was a gorgeous kill after a sharp turn of 90 degrees. It is still talked about by navies around the world, which also makes Long Guozhang himself fight. God. God.
And now, it's the second time.
The armor-piercing shell hit the top of the turret of George V's bow No. 2 turret at a nearly vertical angle of 76 degrees. The thin 180mm carburizing armor on the top of the turret was no different from the wooden board in front of it. After penetrating the turret and killing internal personnel, the shell continued to go straight down the well, while the British navy never got it. The effectively improved sealed hatch further contributes to the damage.
The shells went all the way down, shockingly penetrated the five layers of protective steel plates, and finally reached the rotary disk that transported the shells upwards outside the ammunition depot.
If George V had completed a huge battle before, perhaps the 16 shells stored on the shell turntable had already been exhausted, but now the whole fleet has only played 7 rounds, and there are still 9 shells waiting to be upgraded on the turntable.
Nine 343mm armor-piercing shells filled with explosives, and the power of the explosion can be imagined. It not only spread to the ammunition depot separated by a compartment, but also lifted the top armor and sent the flame into the sealed compartment where the propellant was stored.
According to a lookout of the "Big Eye Thief" squadron, he was in a hummingbird reconnaissance aircraft at an altitude of about 9,000 meters above, and he saw the whole explosion.
At first, it was just a flash of fire, and then the front of the bridge was like a volcanic crater. The hull burst violently. He even clearly saw that a steel plate about the size of a car hit a destroyer with a displacement of only 600 tons, which was rotating outside 1300, and opened on the spot. A terrible wound.
George V is over!
No warship can remain intact under such damage. The hull, which was almost cut off by the former bridge, poured thousands of tons of seawater in less than two minutes. This ship has only been in service for four years and has a full displacement of 25,700 tons. The super battleship named after the Emperor disappeared in the turbulent Atlantic with more than 700 officers and soldiers.
All the British and American sailors who saw this scene were all heartbroken. No one expected that the intact George V could not even bear a shell. Even the sailors on the Guam formation and the Japanese Nagato were secretly surprised, and the latter was completely subjudicated to the silver power of the Royal New China Navy.
Only Fang Jin, holding the teacup still had a light look. After the sharp cold light flashed from the corners of his eyes, he suddenly handed the water cup to the guard and shouted resolutely: "Left rudder, full speed!"
The British and American fleet in the distance began to panic, and there was finally a flaw on the complete battle line.
The opportunity has come!
General Fang rolled up his sleeves.
He wants the world to know how Manniu uses 40,000 tons of battleships to play sea chases!
(to be continued)