Chapter 616 Wanli Iron Pliers 9

Ten minutes of disappearance.

Later, many naval warfare researchers used this sentence when commenting on the largest naval battle since the start of the Pacific battlefield.

Strictly speaking, at a speed of 20 knots, it only takes nine and a half minutes to sail 6,000 meters.

Why do you say that? Because the two strongest New York-class battleships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet at that time were equipped with 356mm MK8 guns, although the maximum range on paper reached 28,530 meters, the error in such a distance was simply terrible. If you want to hit it, you have to get at least close to 23,000 meters, which means that the Idaho only needs It takes another ten minutes to hit the 11th Fleet that is slaughtering Fleet N.

But the last ten minutes have now become extremely long. When he heard the sad siren, Lieutenant General Andrew realized that he had lost. From tactics to heart, he lost completely.

He guessed that Ji Rushan would never take an aircraft carrier, so he wanted to use his superior forces to fight for consumption and fight at night to offset the other party's aviation advantage, but in the end, he lost the whole plan because of Mayo's clumsiness.

Looking at the opponent, he is so calm that it is scary.

He didn't know whether it was Ji Rushan himself who led the four Hebei-class battleships, but he had an absolute numerical advantage in the pressure of his soldiers. He could reach out in time. They were still calmly shelling the N fleet, which had completely lost the ability to fight back. It can be seen that the commander in front of him was difficult for ordinary people. Imagination of a thick nerve.

In the retina, a mass of gunpowder smoke is the base, soaring straight into the sky. The height of hundreds of meters can't be hidden from anyone. When this scene falls into the eyes of the sailors who can save their partners in just ten minutes, the blow to morale is indescribable.

The only remaining light cruiser in the N fleet, Puerto Rico, adhered to its duties, avoided the entanglement of the Xinhua cruisers, and rushed from between the two fleets to the black-pressed fleet in the distance. Six single 127mm large anti-aircraft guns and eight single 40mm rapid-fire guns fired at the same time. As the only one in the U.S. Pacific Fleet at this time Timing takes into account the anti-aircraft cruiser, and Captain Carson knew his accusations.

But its naval gun has just begun to work. The four Xinhua Navy Weiqing-class destroyers that have been waiting for it to leave the N Fleet's mainship fire ring are like seeing a fighting dog that smelled the smell, such as a hurricane that swept across the sea, with a 37-sections, when Captain Carson's Puerto Rico's 12 152mm guns were working. Only three rounds, 40 spears and three-type torpedo lightning 8,000 meters away!

8000 meters, 40 pieces!

Even if the distance is too far, even if the Puerto Rico has a speed of 27 knots, it can't escape from this large network. What's more, the watchman can't see the track at all and can't tell the bridge to evade there.

When the water column rushed to the sky 15,000 meters away from the Idaho, there was already a unique buzzing sound of fighters next to the bridge. A monoplane with a beige bumblebee pattern roared from the sky over the fleet and rushed to the dense anti-aircraft guns that had already been hit by four Xinhua cruisers. Almost in an instant, Andrew saw several fireballs falling from the sky.

The gap between morale and technology can be made up by tactics, but when the two are completely suppressed and unable to play, technology becomes the weight that determines the outcome of the war.

"The left rudder, the capital ship is in the middle, and the cruiser protects the two wings."

"Focus on all machine guns and artillery that can shoot in the air!"

"Carl, you are responsible for special air defense."

"Jefferson, speed up, let's rush over!"

The plane that fell like a meteor woke up Lieutenant General Andrew and made him refreshed again, because he had not completely lost. It was only two hours before nightfall. It was only 97 nautical miles from here to the bottom of the Gulf of Panama. As long as he could survive this period and enter the Gulf of Panama, he could enter the canal overnight. Back to the Atlantic Ocean, there are enough anti-aircraft guns to support yourself!

Lieutenant General Andrew looked at the fleet that attacked him at high speed, and then looked at the remaining three capital ships of the N fleet that could be approached in a few minutes. His red and brown eyes saw the weakness of the other party!

"They don't have enough planes and torpedoes!"

Yes, there are only 52 dragon teeth facing 23 warships. The loading of aviation torpedoes determines that at least four to five pieces are needed to ensure the sinking of the capital ship, and its fleet is at a full speed of 20 knots, and the other party's hit rate will not exceed 70% no matter how powerful it is!

"Fire!"

In the past few months, the additional anti-aircraft guns began to hiss, and more machine guns joined the chorus. The sky seemed to explode in the distance, flashing with countless black smoke.

The shells loaded with delay fuses roar out, the shells explode at a specific distance, and the scattered fragments can kill dozens of meters of space.

Facing the shells covered with the sky in an instant, Xi Zhiyong sneered in the cockpit. He knew his weaknesses, but Lieutenant General Andrew obviously looked up the air defense capabilities of his fleet, or underestimated the ability of the dragon wings! He shouted and fluttered: "Don't look at those shells. It's more useless than fireworks. It can't hit us!"

"Two or two groups, follow me on the 03rd."

"Pay attention to the cutting angle and hold the vertical pole tightly. We are dragon wings!"

"Kill in."

"Kill!"

The golden reflection of the sun passes under the abdomen of the plane. Compared with the sea eagle, although the horsepower of the dragon tooth is much stronger, the bulkiness of the body is equivalent to offset, but its particularly strengthened low-altitude sea-grabbing ability is really great. When it passes the sea at a height of 50 meters, it feels almost as smooth as in a speeding train. Get ready." Xi Zhiyong turned his head and looked at the No. 03 wingman following the assault, and his comrade-in-arms who had dropped the windshield in the cockpit nodded to him.

In the distance, the first-place Mississippi twisted the 27,000-ton hull crazily, and the sound of machine gun bullets in his ear was endless. Xi Zhiyong gritted his teeth. As the captain, he knew the important surname of the first hit.

Dad twice, and the left wing seemed to have been hit twice by something, but he still had no reaction. He held the vertical pole tightly, leaving only a bigger and bigger ship shadow in his eyes.

"20, 19, 18."

At a distance of 2,000 meters, the "fish bone" takes a minute and a half. There is no problem for the immobile ship in the harbor, but for the Mississippi in the maneuver, for the captain who must ensure that the starting hit inspires everyone, it must be closer.

The bullet shuttled in his ear. When he could see the nervous face of the American sailors, the number in his heart finally reached 10. He suddenly shouted, "It's now!" At the same time, the finger pulled the trigger fiercely.

The two "fish sashimi" hit almost at the same time are like the cold suddenly stabbed on the street corner. The distance of 1,000 meters only takes 50 seconds. In such a little time, even the 37-section Weiqing-class destroyer can't escape.

Boom.

The explosion suddenly exploded from the water, and two huge water mist almost covered the steel beast. When the fuselage swept over the mast and pulled it up again, there were only cheers and excited shouts in the ears.

"Follow up, follow up!"

"A small team continues to attack the Mississippi."

"Team 2 Idaho."

"Team Three Florida."

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The shouts filled the channel. Before the Mississippi came out of the wounds of the two torpedoes, two more "fish sashimi" hit the injured starboard side again. Looking from the sky, the 27,000-ton ship kept shuddering in the explosion.

But just as the third wave of Longya was about to drop a torpedo, the protected cruiser Denver had been slanted into the injured starboard side of Mississippi, blocking Longya's assault line.

After entering the low-altitude sea-grabbing channel, pilots are rarely willing to climb with heavy torpedoes, because the crawling speed is too slow to expose the fragile abdomen. Once the torpedo is hit by dense machine gun bullets, the plane will be destroyed, so the two dragon wings can only unfortunately hit the "fish bone" at the Denver.

It is impossible for the old protective cruisers to block the "fish sashimi". If it hadn't been for the lack of cruisers in the U.S. Navy, they would have been retired long ago, so only two minutes after the explosion broke out from the side of the Denver, the 3,200-ton cruiser disappeared on the sea with 300 sailors.

But because of the delay of these two minutes, it helped Mississippi complete the port water injection, and the deck was restored to balance. Although the speed dropped a lot, at least the battleship was saved.

"32, 33, kill it!"

Seeing that the Mississippi survived, Xi Zhiyong's teeth were about to break. The "fish thorn" is not a spear. In the face of the thick-skinned new battleship, the power is still too small. According to two pieces per warship, it is not enough for the first attack wavelength, so he has long decided to target the most important six new battleships and Two Pensacora-class heavy patrols, especially the two New York-class battleships Mississippi and Idaho, which can cause damage to the Hebei class, just didn't expect the Yankees to play this and use the old cruisers to block the eye-catching!

Lieutenant General Andrew also gritted his teeth. He knew that he still had an advantage, because the other party's planes were too few, but what annoyed him was that although some machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were added, the fleet could not even play a third of the anti-aircraft effectiveness due to the lack of unified command. When he thought about how to improve the fire network The shouting shocked him.

"Three o'clock, four!"

As soon as I turned my head, four dragon-toothed torpedoes roared on the starboard side, and the machine gun spewed a fire tongue, but these little things were really too fast. When the fuselage in my eyes gradually enlarged, I saw two black spots falling from the abdomen of the plane, forming two white tracks on the sea. The fighters flew through the port window at a speed. These unscrupulous The bastard was about to drive him crazy. He wished that when he set up the machine gun himself, two more white tracks appeared on the sea.

"Don-Don-Don." On the Idaho, everyone felt that the huge hull under their feet trembled three times in a row, and the exploding waves flooded the bow. After the Mississippi, which ran in the front, was seriously injured, the following Edaho was also hit by three torpedoes, and the speed dropped to 10 knots in an instant.

The port began to inject water, and the sailors tried to maintain the balance of the deck. Andrew walked out of the command tower regardless of the obstruction and turned his head. He saw that the sea had been messed up. There were blown smoke and water columns everywhere. The small and fast two groups of enemy aircraft kept shuttling between the ships, and the fire and water columns kept rising from the middle of the ships. Get up.

In the distance, the decks of the unlucky Pensacora and Salt Lake City tilted sharply. It seemed that the opponent focused on the two fast heavy patrols, and the heavy patrols or battlecruisers were indeed too fragile.

After a while, the sound of the explosion began to become rare. Lieutenant General Andrew raised his head, and the fighter plane that began to return in the sky showed him hope: "How long will it take?"

"seven points, boom!" The staff officer was about to answer after calculating the speed of entering the water, and another flame rose to the sky in the distance. Andrew suddenly pinched the armrest with his big hand, and the blue veins on the back of his hand burst. After the Wisconsin waterline was hit continuously, the ammunition depot also exploded!

You don't have to look at it to know that no warship can survive after the explosion of the ammunition depot.

"Seven minutes, we still have seven minutes!"

"Order the uninjured warship to accelerate!"

"Must." When Andrew was about to say that he must rescue the remaining two capital ships of Fleet N, he glanced at the sky with the corners of his eyes, but it was this look that completely petrified his whole body!

The second wave of aircraft!

"God!" --

Flagship.

In the Xiqin Communication Center, several radio stations used to monitor the attack aircraft channel are crowded with people. Although it is impossible for Longyi to shout with the microphone when attacking, because there is no wires on at this time, any sound in the cabin will be transmitted to the microphone. In addition, the dragon wings also like to shout and communicate, so they can hear it. Very clear.

Ji Rushan stood quietly in the distance and saw that the two phonographs in the recording room were engraving the recorded sound into the vinyl disc. Suddenly, he pulled the staff and muttered a few times.

Lin Tai, who was next to

"I have seen the enemy, and it is expected to take three minutes!"

"Where is the first brigade?"

"The first batch of 18 bombs have begun to return, confirming that two heavy patrols Pensacora and Salt Lake City in the first target were seriously injured, Idaho and Mississippi were injured and slowed down, Florida slowed down, sank three Denver-class protective cruisers, and lost one by themselves."

"52 torpedoes, facing the fleet in flight, no matter how lucky they are, they can only be guaranteed to hit about 30. They have done a good job!" After listening to the report of the staff, Ji Rushan raised his hand: "It will be dark in an hour and an hour, so our key is the third wave. Whether we can launch the third wave before the day falls is the key!"

"Yes! I was in a hurry to eat no meat. All of a sudden, there was too much meat, and my mother was still choking!" Lin Tai also smiled bitterly. He didn't know that he had not fully grasped the odds of winning, because it was only one and a half hours away from the night.

Although the fleet is now approaching the distance at full speed of 30 knots, in order to save time and even move the torpedoes to the deck, it takes 30 minutes for the first brigade to come back, at least 30 minutes to refuel and hang torpedoes, and 30 minutes to take off to reach the target. That is to say, it can only launch a wave before falling!

"How long will it take for the 11th Fleet?" Ji Rushan looked at his watch.

"The Nevada and Mississippi have been confirmed to have been sunk. The 11th fleet can complete the roundabout in up to ten minutes. The other 12 fleets' Xinjiang and Dongmeng are still 45 nautical miles away from the battlefield and can be reached in 30 minutes."

"Great!"

"Six battleships, as long as you hold for 30 minutes, Andrew will have to feed the bastard no matter how good he is!" Ha ha." Ji Rushan smiled and breathed a sigh of relief: "He lost a little unfairly."

"Wrong?" Lin Tai was surprised. The communication staff went to Ji Rushan and saluted, "Yes, sir."

"Then let's start and let everyone hear how the dragon wings fight."

"Yes." -

"Zi."

The sound of the electric arc suddenly sounded from the spacious hangar. The busy aircrews and sailors raised their heads in surprise. What should they broadcast at this time?

On the transport fleet 100 kilometers away, more than 50,000 ears were also erected at the same time. On the cruiser and on the destroyer, everyone stared at the horn and whispered what was going on.

Just when everyone was surprised, a hiss shouted, tore up the world, ignited the blood, and made everyone stand up suddenly.

"I hit it, I hit it!"

"37, 37 pull up, you're too low, pull up quickly!"

"Boom."

"Xiao Chang! Fuck you, Yankee, I'll kill you!" Team Four, block the Utah!"

"Report, the Wyoming is turning!"

"The Arkansas is running away. I don't have a torpedo! Who still has torpedoes?!"

"Confirm, there are still 15 ships that have not been hit, confirm!"

The sudden noisy broadcast made everyone hold their breath. A series of explosions, wrapped in shouts and roars, made tens of thousands of soldiers as if they were in the middle of the battlefield. When they heard that there were still 15 missed, but there were no torpedoes in the attack brigade, everyone's heart suddenly pulled up and clenched. With a fist, no one expected that the enemy's fleet was so large.

"Don't worry, Lao Xi, I have enough ammunition!"

"I also have it, baby, try Grandpa's fish bone!"

"It's Captain Yang. I can hear his voice." In the hangar of Dongqi, a small aircrew shouted. The second team arrived in time and cheered: "The second team is coming!"

"Two or two groups, free attack!" Captain Yang continued to roar.

"Idaho is mine, I love Idaho!"

"Blocked, I'm blocked, it's a cruiser! The torpedo left, the torpedo left, didn't hit the target, group two, help me hit it back.

"Damn it, my torpedo didn't get up. It sank to the bottom, sank to the bottom!"

In the hangurment, the young aircrew sailor hit the bulkhead with his fists fiercely, and his voice was already crying: "How could this happen? I checked the gyroscope and horizontal rudder three times!"

"It's okay. Torpedoes often fall into the water." The companions patted him on the shoulder and continued to look up at the horn.

"Machine gun, avoid the machine gun!"

"Lao Wu, your belly is smoking, skydiving, skydiving!"

"Mazi, be careful."

"Leave quickly, Mazi, your abdomen is burning. Steady, boom!" In the explosion, several missionless bumblebee pilots turned red. They suddenly grabbed their helmets and shouted, "Pone out the spare dragon teeth!" Hurry up!"

Three spare dragon teeth were quickly pushed onto the deck. In an instant, six black spots were raised on the two motherships again. When they took the hope of sailors to support their comrades-in-arms, a dark cloud appeared in the distance.

"The first brigade is back!"

The shouting broke the calm of the two motherships. In order to save time and accelerate the launch of the third wave of aircraft, Fang Lan ordered the first brigade to divert and land on the two aircraft carriers at the same time.

As soon as the tail hooked the blocking rope, the aircrews and sailors who had been on standby for a long time rushed up.

"Oil gun!"

"Rurpedo, push it over!"

"No bullets, no machine gun!"

It is noisy and busy, crowded with every inch of the deck. Hundreds of soldiers are busy and running. The broadcast just now has made them understand that more torpedoes and planes are needed in front of them!

Under the stimulation of the broadcast, the sailors burst into unprecedented enthusiasm. In just 20 minutes, the first wave of eight dragon teeth had already taken off. Even Fang Lan could not imagine this speed, and he couldn't help but secretly admire Commander Ji's thought of opening the broadcast--

"Damn it, how many planes do they have!"

Looking at another six dragon teeth coming from the low altitude, Andrew's bloody face completely disappeared and shouted, "Battle line, get ready to fire!"

"General, at this time, the battle line will only become." The staff officer looked at the approaching enemy aircraft outside the porthole and said heavily, "Target!"

"But" Andrew pointed to the N fleet with only one left in the distance, pointing to the two Hebei-class battleships in the distance, which had raised their guns, but when he saw the officers around him, he couldn't say anything more.

One hour!

His fleet has not finished this journey. Whether it is the one as long as it rushes forward a little, it is a burst of bombardment, or the crazy shell opened by the Hebei-class battleships, and then it either sinks or turns into a turtle spinning on the sea!

"General, we have lost half of our combat effectiveness, and all the warships are entering the water, we." Although the staff officer's words were not finished, the meaning was clear, and it was meaningless to continue.

Andrew sat down dely, and an explosion made the Idaho shake again, as if it had completely woke him up and waved his hand: "Order, disband the formation, everyone."

"Boom."

Before the voice fell completely, there was a more intense explosion around than the torpedo explosion just now. The gunman pointed to two black spots on the sea in the distance and shouted: "General, battleships, two Guam class!"

Andrew suddenly felt that his hands and feet were cold, and the enemy's main force really came!

The golden wheel fell down little by little and spread on the sea, as red as blood.

When Idaho, with 577 sailors, exploded in the roar of 18 380mm guns of Xinjiang Province and Dongmeng, the third wave of 46 dragon teeth entered the battlefield again.

Solved the regrouping of the 11th Fleet of the N Fleet and jammed the channel to the Gulf of Panama. Two Guam-class ships blocked the sea, and 48 third wave dragon teeth began to kill crazily again under the eyes of an American camel F1 fighter in the distance.

At this moment, no one paid attention to the lonely camel. The pilot's hands in the cockpit trembled uncontrollably, and the killing almost made him want to close his eyes.

In the explosion, the Mississippi finally could no longer hold on, revealing the huge bottom of the ship, pressing nearly a thousand sailors down, and two dragon teeth roared across its wide belly, aimed at the already tilted Arkansas.

The six double 305mm guns, which were once regarded as pride, have now become a burden. The heavy turret accelerated the tilt and sinking of the warship. When the two dragon teeth unimpeded the torpedoes into the Arkansas ship again, the 26,000-ton beast quickly sank at the entrance of the bay hundreds of meters deep.

The Florida, Utah, exploded one after another, and then the last five old Virginia-classes were also massacred.

Even four Xinhua Yangtze River-class cruisers also raised their butcher knives and joined the feast of blood. Three torpedoes hit the overturned Mississippi. After the explosion opened three big holes in the ship's belly, it was instantly sent to the cold bottom of the sea.

The blood stained the sea, the smoke soaked every trace of air, and the sea was full of sailors calling for help. The torpedoes passed by them, with white tracks, and hit the fleet again and again.

The pilot couldn't look any longer, because he found that no matter in which direction, except for the explosion and explosion, the firelight even covered the sunset, but when he was about to leave, the corners of his eyes were suddenly stabbed. He saw four Xinhua destroyers that had been swimming on the edge actually tied two with steel cables. The Nevada-class battleships Oklahoma and Washington, which have not yet completely sunk, are exposed.

They actually want to be captured!

If it is normal, it is impossible, but now both battleships have overturned, only exposing their bellies on the sea. The sea valve has failed, and there is enough air in the hull seal to ensure that it will not continue to sink.

The pilot's eyes were red. If it hadn't been for the torpedo, he would have learned from the Yangtze River-class light patrol just now and make a hole in the belly of the two battleships to avoid being insulted!

Yes, insult!

For any country, the capital ship has become someone else's toy. Even if it is dragged back to the dock as scrap iron, it is an insult!

The pilot wanted to hit him with one head, but several dragon teeth that had nothing to do after dropping the torpedo had approached him, so he had to speed up and leave the battlefield.

"Report."

"Confirm that the Mississippi sank, the Idaho sank, the Wyoming sank, and the Arkansas sank."

Every time the staff officer says a name, there will be a dazzling cross on the blackboard, and the cigarette butt of Ji Rushan standing on the platform of the ship island will also light up.

On the deck, a returning dragon tooth dragged the barrier rope with bullet holes all over its body. As soon as the pilot got out of the cabin, he was surrounded by cheering sailors and thrown into the sky in the crowd.

31 warships and 71 aircraft were all sunk or destroyed, and 26,547 American soldiers were killed/captured. The price was only two Hebei-class seriously injured, two slightly injured, 6 Longyaury torpedo planes were lost, and 267 soldiers and pilots were killed. Compared with the scale, the cost was negligible.

As the take-off and landing lights on the deck went out one by one, the stars hung in the sky. Ji Rushan and everyone raised their heads. The Pacific Ocean has never been so charming!

"Report."

When he turned around and raised his head high, the bridge was silent. The communication staff quickly took out his notebook. The corners of Lin Tai's mouth cracked his ears, and everyone was preparing to record this exciting moment.

"The Battle of the Gulf of Panama, a complete victory!"

(to be continued)