Chapter 356: A Miracle Didn't Happen
In the early morning of 5 November, the combined ships of the four navies, which had abandoned the attack on the port of Minggang, came to the port of Lengshan, which was about 500 kilometers away from the port of Minggang.
At this time, the size of the combined fleet of the four navies had been reduced a lot, and the losses of the combined fleet of the four navies could be described as very heavy in the battles with the independent fleet and the independent division of the air force, as well as in the landing operation of storming the port of Minggang.
As the strongest of the combined fleets of the four navies, the Red Tiger Navy, at this time there were only two large aircraft carriers, one small aircraft carrier, six super dreadnought battleships, two battle cruisers, five dreadnought battleships, four heavy cruisers, sixteen light cruisers, and twenty-six destroyers.
You must know that the Red Tiger Navy originally had 16 regular aircraft carriers and 20 escort aircraft carriers to join the combined fleet of the four navies, but now there are only three aircraft carriers left, and all of them are damaged, and the other capital ships have also lost more than two-thirds.
As the combined fleet of the four navies, the Blood Wolf Navy, which is second only to the Red Tiger Navy, now has only one large aircraft carrier, one escort aircraft carrier, four super dreadnought battleships, two battle cruisers, three dreadnought battleships, two heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers and fourteen destroyers, and the losses are also very heavy.
The Ice Lion Nation Navy also has one large aircraft carrier, one super dreadnought battleship, one dreadnought battleship, one light cruiser, and two destroyers left.
Only one medium aircraft carrier, one super dreadnought battleship, one dreadnought battleship, one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, and two destroyers remained in the East Bear Navy.
In the bridge of the Violet Super Dreadnought Battleship of the Red Tiger Navy, Marshal Long Cote of the Red Tiger Country said in a hoarse voice to the naval commanders of the other three countries: "Now we are about less than seventy kilometers away from the Lengshan Port of the Great Qin Kingdom, let the army troops prepare for the landing operation!" ”
Originally, the fleet commanders of the four navies gathered on the aircraft carrier Sturdy of the Red Tiger Navy, but on the way to Lengshan Port from outside the port of Minggang to Lengshan Port, the Sturdy aircraft carrier was hit by a number of aerial bombs and torpedoes in succession, although in the end the Sturdy aircraft carrier did not sink, but it was also seriously injured, and its flight deck was no longer able to allow carrier-based aircraft to take off and land.
And the fleet commander of the Four Nations Navy, when the injury of the aircraft carrier Sturdy was not too serious, had already been transferred to the Super Dreadnought battleship of the Red Tiger Navy.
The Violet is the last class of super dreadnought battleship of the Red Tiger Navy, with a full load displacement of 56,000 tons, equipped with four triple 45 times caliber 432 mm main guns, eighteen 50 times caliber 155 mm secondary guns, and a maximum speed of 22.5 knots.
Admiral Delva of the Ice Lion Country said with a gloomy face: "The losses of our four navies are really too great, our Ice Lion Country Army, the East Bear Country Army, and the Red Tiger Country Army are also very large, do our Four Nations Alliance still have the ability to open up another battlefield in the northeast region of the Great Qin Kingdom?" ”
In the process of rushing to Lengshan Port, the combined fleet of the four navies encountered 10 rounds of air raids by the independent fleet and the independent division of the air force, and in these 10 rounds of air raids, the carrier-based bombers of the independent fleet and the bombers of the independent division of the air force sent a considerable part of the aerial bombs and torpedoes to the numerous transport ships carrying the army units of the three countries, namely the Ice Lion, the East Bear, and the Red Tiger.
In these 10 rounds of air raids, at least nearly 200 transport ships carrying army units were blown up and sunk, causing the three armies of the three countries to lose about 130,000 men in the Ice Lion, Dongxiong, and Red Tiger, plus the 270,000 lost in the storming of the port of Minggang, and now there are only 800,000 left in the Ice Lion, Dongxiong, and Red Tiger armies that are following the combined fleet of the four navies.
In such a short period of time, there were one-third of the losses, which made the morale of the land forces of the three countries very low, not to mention that because the combined fleets of the navies of the four countries also suffered heavy losses, almost in the next landing operation, they could not provide too strong artillery support and air fire cover for the land forces of the three countries that launched the landing.
Marshal Fairford of the Blood Wolf Country sighed and said: "Now that the navies of our four countries are combined, there are only seven aircraft carriers left, several of which have basically lost their combat effectiveness, and the carrier-based aircraft that can take off are all less than seventy, and the Great Qin Yueyang Front Army will definitely deploy a lot of fighters in the area of Lengshan Port, I feel that with the current strength of our four-nation naval combined fleet, it may not be possible to succeed in storming Lengshan Port, and the losses of our four-nation naval combined fleet are indeed too great, alas-"
Admiral Withertham of the East Bear Country was more determined to attack Lengshan Port, "Our four navies have already paid such a big price, if we can't achieve more achievements, the four of us will definitely face considerable pressure after returning home, so I think we must follow the original plan, let our East Bear Country Army, Ice Lion Country Army and Red Tiger Country Army launch a landing operation against Lengshan Port, and take Lengshan Port at all costs." ”
Withertham's words made the faces of the other three commanders become solemn.
Marshal Long Cote of the Red Tiger Country Navy coughed and said: "Although the submarine forces of our Red Tiger Country Navy and the Blood Wolf Country Navy have severely damaged this Great Qin Navy fleet belonging to the Yueyang Front Army and sunk more than a dozen aircraft carriers of the other side, but these achievements alone cannot make up for the huge losses of our four countries' navies, and I agree to capture Lengshan Port at all costs, otherwise I will not be able to explain to the cabinet after I return to China." ”
Admiral Delva of the Ice Lion Country hesitated and said: "According to the information that our Ice Lion Country has, the Great Qin Yueyang Front Army has built twenty-four batteries in Lengshan Port and arranged a lot of large-caliber coastal defense guns. ”
Lengshan Port is the largest civilian port in Yuan'an Province, and after the Yueyang Front captured Lengshan Port, it did not completely close Lengshan Port, so the Yueyang Front Army built twenty-four batteries in Lengshan Port Port, and did not hide it from the intelligence department of the Ice Lion Country.
The Marshal of the Red Tiger Nation, Long Kete, picked up the binoculars, looked at the direction of Lengshan Port, and then said in a deep voice: "No matter what, you have to give it a try, and order the army troops to prepare to land in Lengshan Port!" ”
As soon as Long Cote finished speaking, a large number of fighters and bombers of the independent division of the air force appeared in the sky in the direction of Lengshan Port, and quickly flew towards the combined fleet of the four navies.
Longcott's face changed then, but he did not cancel the previous order, "Let all the carrier-based fighters that can take off rise into the air, and all warships maintain an air defense formation, and tell the officers of the army units of the three countries that there is no advance or retreat in this battle!" ”
The independent air force division of the Yueyang Front Army learned that the combined naval fleets of the four countries were likely to launch a landing operation at Lengshan Port, and in a short period of time, eight fully equipped air regiments were assembled at various airfields near Lengshan Port.
According to the establishment of independent air force divisions, each air regiment has 72 Xiuniao fighters and 36 goshawk dive bombers, and the eight air regiments with a full establishment add up to 576 Xiuniao fighters and 288 goshawk dive bombers.
When the Combined Fleet of the Four Nations Navy approached Lengshan Port, more than 800 fighters of the eight air regiments of the Independent Air Force Division were all dispatched to first launch an air attack on the Combined Fleet of the Four Nations Navy outside Lengshan Port.
Nearly 300 large-caliber coastal defense guns from the 24 batteries in Lengshan Port also launched a fierce artillery bombardment as the landing craft carrying the Army units of the Ice Lion, Dongxiong, and Red Tiger approached the port.
The landing operation lasted for a full day and a night, and in the early morning of November 6, Marshal Longcott of the Red Tiger State had to give an order to stop the attack on the port of Lengshan Harbor.
In the forced landing operation of one day and one night, the losses of the army units of the Ice Lion, Dongxiong, and Red Tiger were about 200,000, but they did not capture any of the batteries in Lengshan Port.
In fact, if the offensive continued, although the land forces of the three countries suffered heavy losses, they could barely hold on, but the combined fleets of the navies of the four countries could not bear it.
During the whole day of 5 November, eight air regiments of the independent air force division of the Yueyang Front launched a total of nine waves of air raids against the combined fleet of the four navies, and in the afternoon, two more air regiments with full strength flew from other places to various airfields near Lengshan Port and took part in the four waves of air raids on the combined fleet of the four navies that afternoon.
Although the various air regiments of the independent division of the air force suffered heavy losses in many air raids, they also dealt a devastating blow to the combined fleet of the four navies.
As of the evening of 5 November, there were not many warships left in the joint fleets of the four navies, and a large number of warships were sunk in the nine waves of air raids.
At this time, the Red Tiger Navy had only four super dreadnought battleships, one battle cruiser, two dreadnought battleships, one heavy cruiser, five light cruisers, and eleven destroyers left.
There are only two super dreadnought battleships, one battle cruiser, one dreadnought battleship, two light cruisers, and six destroyers left in the Blood Wolf Nation navy.
Only one super dreadnought battleship and one destroyer remained in the Ice Lion Nation Navy.
Only one super dreadnought, one dreadnought, one light cruiser, and one destroyer remained in the East Bear Navy.
Under the intensive care of the various air regiments of the independent air force division of the Yueyang Front Air Force, all the remaining seven aircraft carriers of the combined fleet of the four navies were sent to the bottom of the sea during the nine waves of air raids, and almost all of the dozens of warships remaining in the combined fleet of the four navies were wounded.
Originally, after the nine waves of air raids, the fleet commanders of the four navies clearly knew that if the combined fleet of the four navies continued to hold on, perhaps the only way left was to annihilate the entire army.
After all, if it weren't for the darkening of the sky, the enemy's attack aircraft group would have continued to launch the next wave of air strikes, and even the next wave, until all the remaining dozens of warships of the combined fleet of the four navies were sunk.
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of 5 November, Admiral Delaware of the Ice Lion Kingdom made a deep suggestion to Marshal Longcot of the Red Tiger Country: "Marshal Longcott, we can no longer have any luck mentality, although the enemy planes that attacked us today have lost a lot of damage under the blows of the anti-aircraft fire of the warships of the combined fleet of the navies of our four countries, there are at least a few hundred of them that have survived. Then the combined fleet of the navies of our four countries is really going to be wiped out. ”
Admiral Delawre of the Ice Lion Country had a very ugly face at this time, and the Ice Lion Country finally got a sturdy-class large aircraft carrier from the Red Tiger Navy, but the Ice Lion Navy was sent to the bottom of the sea by the bombers of the Great Qin Air Force before it could be warmed up.
Moreover, the Ice Lion Navy's navy had suffered a lot of losses in the battle with the Yueyang Front before, and as a result, the first aircraft carrier formation rebuilt by the Ice Lion Navy's navy this time joined one large aircraft carrier, two super dreadnought battleships, two battle cruisers, two dreadnought battleships, two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers and eight destroyers in the combined fleet of the four countries' navies, and now there is only one super dreadnought battleship and one destroyer left.
This also means that the first aircraft carrier formation of the Ice Lion Navy, which has just been rebuilt, has once again become in name only, and the situation is even worse than the last time.
Marshal Long Cote of the Red Tiger Country then said in a hoarse voice: "Since the sky has darkened, there is no need for our four-nation naval combined fleet to retreat in a hurry, I hope that the army units of our Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and East Bear can continue to carry out landing operations tonight, and if the army units of our three countries can conquer the port of Lengshan Port, we still have a chance to turn defeat into victory." ”
Admiral Withertham of the Eastern Bear Country gritted his teeth and said: "The battle has already been fought to this point, I am really unwilling to flee in such a mess, it is better to make a desperate bet, let the army units of our three countries storm for another night, and see if we can capture the port of Lengshan Port, if we still can't fight it overnight, we can only admit defeat." ”
Fairford, the marshal of the Navy of the Blood Wolf Country, immediately suggested: "Anyway, the remaining warships of our four navies will not be able to support the land forces of the three countries that are landing and fighting, so it is better for the warships of our four navies to stay away from Lengshan Port first, so that even if we still can't conquer the port of Lengshan Port tonight, the navies of our four countries will not really be wiped out early tomorrow morning." ”
In the end, the commanders of the naval fleets of the other three countries, following Fairford's advice, led dozens of remaining warships of the four navies to evacuate the sea outside the port of Lengshan Port at night.
However, the miracle did not happen, the army forces of the Red Tiger, Ice Lion, and Dongxiong stormed the port of Lengshan Port overnight, and no progress was made, and the remnants of the warships of the four navies were also withdrawn, and the army units of these three countries could only choose to give up the landing operation on the port of Lengshan Port.
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