Even with an innate fear of large-caliber shells, the rather solid armor of the Jean Bar gave the West Frankish crew considerable confidence. Because of the way all three main turrets are arranged at the front of the hull, it has been nicknamed "the world's largest shallow water heavy gunboat" by some naval figures. In fact, its combat performance is no worse than that of the battleships of various countries, but due to the front of the main gun, it lacks rear firepower.

The only dissatisfaction with the "Cardinal" class is that it can only barely maintain a top speed of 23.5, while its opponent, the main battleship of the Imperial Navy, is far superior to this class of West Francian battleships in terms of tonnage and speed, especially in terms of speed.

That is to say, if the "Cardinal"-class battleship cannot defeat the opponent, it is impossible to get rid of the opponent's pursuit. Feng Shui takes turns, and the taste of the East Frankish raid on the fleet during the last Great War is now beginning to be tasted by the West Francians.

In the midst of a loud and terrifying sound, the officers and soldiers of West Francia looked with trepidation at the white water column rising dozens of meters away, even in the dark night, it was still so eye-catching. For a long time, in the maritime battlefield, it has always been the Tang Imperial Navy that is fighting against weak enemies, and no one has ever dared to challenge the authority of the Tang Imperial Navy below. But today, this situation continues, and the "Jean Bar" is now struggling to fend off the enemy, while their teammates are retreating in panic.

This feeling is particularly bitter.

"Right hand drive 35! The shooting command room re-determines the shooting elements! When the telescope saw the shining orange light on the West Francian battleship, Admiral Chen Shiying reluctantly gave a new turning order to the fleet. It was clear that the stalled West Francian warship was putting up a strong resistance to prevent the Imperial fleet from continuing to pursue the West Francian fleet, but he could not go straight to it without hesitation.

The battleship "Qilianshan", with a full load displacement of nearly 55,000 tons, was not as clumsy as it seemed, and in the high-speed movement, in less than a minute, the giant ship first completed the turn at sea, and quickly concentrated all its side fire to fire a salvo.

The rumbling of artillery is always reminiscent of the naval battle in the Skagerrak Strait twenty-five years ago, but the situation is different, it is indeed a modern war. In such a dark night, in fact, neither of the warring sides can see the opponent, and only rely on detection radar to catch the target.

At the bottom of the main deck of the "Qilianshan", which is six floors deep, surrounded by armored steel plates tens of centimeters thick, a group of officers and soldiers are nervously busy transporting ammunition. Regardless of the situation outside, the place was always working in an orderly manner, and the cabin did not know the battle situation outside except for the sound of the command to shoot the commander and the turret from the loudspeakers.

In the lower part of the bridge, the radar control room made a slight whining sound as the expensive electronic instruments worked. In the center of the cabin, there are several yellow-green radar phosphor screens. The screen shows the target echo received from the radar antenna mounted on the mast at a height of several tens of meters, and in order to make the echo on the fluorescent screen more visible, only a soft and dim red light is turned on in the cabin. The main mast of the "Qilianshan" and the radar antenna have been destroyed, and the fire control radar installed on the rear bridge can only be used to capture target information. While the image is displayed on the phosphor screen, the dial, pointer and twist on the instrument are turning, and various reports are transmitted to the firing command room and the combat command center through the telephone.

Five Imperial battleships against one "Jean Bar", the outcome of this tragic naval battle was already predetermined at the beginning. But the West Francian battleship was stubbornly resisted for nearly half an hour. Subsequently, Tang Jinchao's fleet, which hurried to the battlefield, also joined the ranks of the siege, and it was precisely because of the appearance of this fleet that Admiral Alan Kubert had to choose to survive with a broken arm.

The hull of the "Jean Barr" had been so shattered that it had almost lost its original shape, and smoke was spewing violently from all places. All of its main and starboard secondary guns had been destroyed, and only a few small-caliber anti-aircraft guns continued to fire - but this posed no threat to the Imperial warships.

All the superstructures of the West Francian battleship, such as bridges, chimneys, masts, etc., were razed to the ground. Under the thick smoke that enveloped the hull, high red tongues of fire burst out from its gray hull. Most of the Imperial warships had stopped firing, and only two of the Imperial light cruisers approaching were still clearing the resisting West Francian gun emplacements, and the cruisers' main and secondary guns were pouring a large number of shells on them.

Amid the fire and smoke, some West Francian sailors were still desperately trying to load, aim and shoot. When the destroyer Sagittarius approached less than 600 meters from the West Francian battleship, the captain saw a sight that amazed him: there were still people on the devastated warship, unbelievably alive in the flames and explosions, crawling over the dilapidated deck and jumping from the blazing warship into the rolling sea.

The West Francian battleship, which had been shelled by hundreds of shells, was still stubbornly afloat on the surface, and its survivability was truly amazing. The "Sagittarius" was ordered to fire two torpedoes at the West Francian battleship, and with two loud bangs, its starboard side, which had been heavily tilted, sank again, and the warship was about to capsize.

On March 19, 307 Republican, the battleship "Jean Bar" let out its last whimper and capsized on the sea......

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Yulin, Shengzhou Imperial Air Force Flight Test Base.

A huge four-engine heavy plane that had never been seen before slowly hovered over the airfield of this well-defended military base, and its huge size made many pilots, ground crews, and officers and men of the ground air defense force at the airport feel unprecedented shock.

From the fuselage, belly and hemispherical defensive turret on the exterior of the fuselage, belly and stern of this heavy aircraft, it can be seen that this is a new type of heavy bomber, and its size is about one-third larger than the three four-engine heavy bombers currently equipped by the Imperial Air Force: Luofei B11, Xifei H-17 and Jinfei J-19.

"Oh my gosh...... What kind of bomber is this?! ”

"I dare say, this guy can hold at least 10 tons of bombs!"

"Ah...... In that case, its bomb load can top two H-17s?! ”

"I guess its range will increase a lot, right?"

As the personnel at the airport watched the heavy bomber hovering at low altitude waiting to land, the plane had already begun to aim at the widest runway 5 in the base and began to descend slowly. As the moment the load-bearing wheels on the landing gear came into contact with the ground, the huge fuselage slammed down, and under the action of the huge inertia, the fuselage slid forward for hundreds of meters before slowly stopping in the center of the runway.

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