Chapter 467: The Great Battle of the South China Sea (1)
In the South China Sea, after the decisive battle at sea between the main fleet of the Chinese Empire and the allied fleets of various countries began, although the allied forces had the advantage in the number of ships and firepower output, in the face of the superiority of the Huaxia Army's speed and precision artillery bombardment, two battleships of the allied forces were seriously damaged, two cruisers were sunk, and two cruisers were seriously damaged. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Seymour, the commander-in-chief of the allied fleet, was furious and demanded that the fleet pursue the main fleet of the Huaxia Army that was trying to retreat at all costs.
The main fleet of the Huaxia Army continued to retreat, completely putting on the appearance that it did not want to entangle with the coalition fleet, and even when the coalition cruiser was surrounded, it was also a good situation to give up annihilating it, and just blindly retreated, which made the coalition fleet more determined to pursue.
After several hours of chasing, by 12:10 p.m., the coalition fleet was divided into three parts:
In the first piece, more than 30 warships of the fast cruiser fleet rushed ahead, and were sandwiched in the middle by the first team of battleships and the first team of cruisers of the Huaxia Army, and they were desperately trying to get out of contact with the Huaxia Army, but they still wanted to entangle the Huaxia Army fleet and let their own battleships come up to besiege and annihilate them.
In the second piece, the fast battlefleet overtook its own battleship fleet and cruiser fleet and pursued it at maximum speed, but due to the speed of the cruiser, it fell about 30,000 meters behind the fast cruiser.
The third piece, the old battleship squadron and the cruiser squadron, fell at a distance of about 20,000 meters behind the fast battlefleet.
Hu Zhen raised the telescope and looked behind for a while, returned to the chart table of the command tower, glanced at the location map of the two sides laid out by the combat staff officer, and retrieved the data sent by the nuclear submarine, checked that it was completely correct, and then said to the people standing quietly next to him:
"It's time, first, to send a telegram ordering the aircraft carrier's planes to take off, and the land-based torpedo planes and bombers that have been cruising outside will also come up, and the aircraft group will press up and form multiple batches of strikes against the coalition fleet as planned, turning this sea area into a graveyard for enemy warships; Second, the wireless telegraph high-power jammer was immediately turned on, so that the enemy fleet could not send the slightest message! ”
"Yes, immediately send a telegram to notify the group to come!" With a response from the telegraph staff, a dozen telegraph machines in the telegraph room immediately activated and sent out the order tick-tock.
"Yes, the radio jammer immediately turned on to jam the enemy's radio station!" The technical officers, who had nothing to do, immediately responded by ordering the high-power radio jammers mounted on the ships to be activated immediately to carry out all-channel jamming of the battlefield and block any trace of information from the enemy.
Suddenly, the radio station on the coalition fleet only made the slightest whining sound, and could neither receive any telegraph signal nor send a telegram outward, and the radio personnel found out about the situation and reported it to their superiors in panic.
This news was quickly reported to Seymour, commander-in-chief of the coalition fleet.
The coalition forces already have a certain amount of experience, and in the process of using wireless telegraphs, they are often interfered with by some inexplicable magnetic fields in some sea areas, and with the existing technology, they have no idea what is going on, and no one thinks that this is a ghost that the Huaxia army is doing at this moment.
Now that the radio station is unusable at the critical moment, Seymour can only scratch his head:
"This radio station is still not as reliable as cable technology, forget it, if you can't use it, don't use it for the time being, or use the flag signal to command!"
Most of the officers and men of the coalition fleet did not know that the radio station was interfered with, and they felt that it did not matter if they knew about it, and they found it very convenient to use the flag language to communicate anyway.
Of course, they could not have known that the moment was imminent to decide their fate, and even the future fate of humanity!
Most of the lookouts on the mast focused their attention on the "escaped" Huaxia warship.
An absent-minded lookout found it boring to watch the enemy flee all the time, so he rubbed his eyes and used his binoculars to look into the distance.
Suddenly, he saw a strange sight in the telescope: there were countless small black dots on the edge of the sea and sky, flying towards here, and he also heard a completely different rumbling sound in the sound of cannons and waves on both sides.
Rubbing his eyes and looking again, he found that this was not a dream, but real, so he pointed to the small black dot that was getting bigger and bigger, and exclaimed: "What is that?" Is it an airship? ”
With his exclamation, groups of lookouts looked in the direction he had indicated, and sure enough, they saw groups of small black dots getting bigger and bigger, and they quickly came into view, and the rumbling sound became louder and louder.
"That's definitely not an airship!" Firm judgments were quickly made.
"Not an airship? What is that? ”
"That's a flying machine!" A Wa Lookout had already heard from a remnant soldier who had fled from the Goryeo Peninsula that the Huaxia Army had a metal flying machine that could fly into the air and drop bombs, but most of the Wa soldiers expressed disbelief that there was no metal machine heavier than air in the world that could fly into the sky, that it was some cowards looking for a reason to escape defeat, and in the end, the remnant soldier who told the story was ordered to commit suicide.
At this moment, there was really a flying machine in the sky, and the Japanese people thought of the legend of the aerial machine, and they were the first to show panic.
"Flying machines in the air? Hum! Will they fire torpedoes? Seymour and the fleet commanders of various countries felt that the role of this flying machine was estimated to be similar to that of a huge airship, and at most it was just to frighten people.
Countless planes flew from afar, and in the eyes of the people, bigger and bigger, more and more, and soon covered the entire air.
According to Hu Zhen's request, a megaphone was installed on the plane, and when flying, it would emit a screaming sound, and the faster the speed, the louder the roaring and screaming, creating a powerful atmosphere of terror.
In the early days of World War II, the Germans installed horns in their planes during each air raid, creating strong psychological pressure on the attacked enemy, prompting them to collapse quickly, and it was not until the middle of World War II that both sides became familiar with this tactic, and the Germans dismantled this boring equipment.
Now, Hu Zhen has also used this trick.
The huge group of planes emitted an earth-shattering roar, which overshadowed the cannons and waves of the two fleets, and brought great psychological pressure to the coalition fleet.
This made the officers and men of one coalition fleet after another think about the question with the habitual thinking of the navy: "They can fly, but can they fire shells and torpedoes?" ”
This question will be seen immediately.
The 36 torpedo planes that took off from the aircraft carrier and the 48 land-based torpedo planes that took off from Borneo formed two formations and first launched two waves of onslaught at the 21 battleships of the fast battleship detachment.
The first wave of torpedo planes pressed the nose on the flanks, and from a distance, dozens of planes were almost close to the sea, and when each plane approached the enemy ship, it threw a black object on the surface of the sea, and as soon as the object fell into the sea, it immediately formed a white waterline and quickly rushed towards the allied battleships.
The officers and men on the coalition warship all saw it and exclaimed:
"O my God! This is really a torpedo! ”
"Dropping a torpedo in the air, how did this yellow-skinned monkey do it?"
"Hurry up and get out of the way!"
In a panic, the 21 battleships of the fast battlefleet, regardless of the formation, turned their bows one after another, facing the direction of the torpedo rush, and began to evade according to the standard evasion torpedo tactics.
Battleships use their bow to face torpedoes, rush up large waves that can scatter torpedoes, and use small-caliber rapid-fire guns and heavy machine guns to violently strafe torpedoes at a depth of two or three meters on the surface, so that they have a relatively good chance of dodging torpedoes.
And the Allied fast battleship was desperately dodging the oncoming torpedoes, forgetting the fighters who dropped the torpedoes, and did not fire a single bullet or shell at the first wave of torpedo planes of the Huaxia Army.
After dropping the torpedoes, the first wave of torpedo planes smoothly and quickly pulled up, swept over the enemy ships, circled for half a circle, and left the battlefield.
But while the Allied fast battleships were desperately trying to dodge the onslaught of the first wave of torpedoes, the second wave of torpedo planes swooped down from the flanks and dropped the second wave of torpedoes on the sea.
The two waves of torpedoes formed a huge angle almost vertically, locking the Allied fast battlefleet in the center, and no matter how the Allied battleships dodged, it was already difficult to dodge.
The people on the other coalition warships were stunned, in fact, everyone could do nothing at this time but wait for death, unless the God they believed in himself came.
Many people drew crosses on their chests and muttered:
"O God, come and save your believers!"
"Are these yellow-skinned monkeys not sent by Satan, how can they have weapons more advanced than those in Europe!"
Everything was all in vain at this moment in the game arranged by Hu Zhen.
The first torpedo hit the port side of a battleship and exploded, lifting the entire battleship one meter high above the sea with tremendous force.
The 10,000-ton battleship immediately burst into a large hole seven or eight meters wide at the waterline on the port side, and seawater poured in violently, and before five or six watertight compartments could be closed, they were filled with seawater, and the hull of the ship quickly tilted to the port side.
Then came the second, third, fourth, fifth...... At least a dozen torpedoes came into close contact with many battleships, setting off more than a dozen tall water columns.
One of the battleships was torpedoed and hit the vital point, causing a huge explosion, but in just ten minutes, the huge battleship capsized on the surface of the sea and sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There was also an English battleship, which was hit by three torpedoes from two directions at the same time, causing the ship's ammunition to detonate, and it was suddenly unable to support it, and quickly broke into two pieces and quickly sank into the water, and none of the crew members could escape.
After the torpedo machine, the sea was in shambles, at least eight battleships were mineed, and three of them had already sunk irretrievably into the sea.
"Oh God!" Navy veteran Seymour could do nothing but pray for God's blessing at the moment.
"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, let's quickly evacuate the battlefield!"
"Evacuate the battlefield?" Seymour also lost confidence at this moment, but after a moment of silence, he broke out with the last of his heart, and made up his mind to save the fleet: "Order, all the battleships evacuate, evacuate the battlefield!" ”
This means that the supreme commander of the coalition fleet in front of the powerful advanced weapons of the Huaxia Army, although the main force of the coalition fleet is still there, he finally admits defeat with 120,000 pains, which means the first major defeat of the navy of the British Empire in hundreds of years.
However, Seymour wanted the entire fleet to escape at this moment, and he had to get the consent of the Huaxia Army.
In the sky, after the torpedo planes flew away, there were 72 dive bombers on aircraft carriers and 72 land-based bombers taking off from Borneo, a total of 144 bombers flew over the head of the coalition fleet.
According to Hu Zhen's orders, this group of bombers was still concentrated on the rapid battlefleet of the coalition forces.
144 bombers in three waves of 48 each.
When it swooped down, the engine and the megaphone made a loud screech together.
This brought tremendous psychological pressure to the officers and men of the coalition forces, and some weak-willed young sailors, unable to support them, jumped into the boiling sea.
"Hit, get rid of these pesky little flies!"
Finally, a heavy machine gunner came to his senses in the shock and fired bullets into the air with a crane gun.
This time, not only heavy machine guns, small-caliber rapid-fire guns, but even the large-caliber main guns also raised their muzzles and fired shells into the air, hoping to block the dive bombing of the Chinese army's dive bombers.
However, the allied forces' anti-aircraft firepower, from weapon design to training, was originally only intended to be used against slow-moving, hugely large airships, but now it is suddenly used to deal with fast-moving dive bombers, and its role can only be better than nothing.
In the rain of bullets, the dive bombers swooped down according to their usual training, each dropping two 300-kilogram bombs on the enemy ship, and then swept past the enemy ship and pulled up, while the black-and-white camera mounted on the belly of the aircraft quickly recorded the results of the bomb drop.
The remnants of the dozen or so battleships of the fast battlefleet were bombed by three waves of dives in succession, and none of them received at least one bomb in the field, and several battleships were seriously injured and were struggling to sink.
Seymour issued an order for the entire fleet to retreat, but because the wireless telegraph had been strongly interfered with by the high-power jamming machine, it was impossible to send the message, and several bannermen were just about to raise the flag to pass the order, when a bomb fell, blowing up the flag-language rope and the flag-whisperers together.
"Go and give orders!" In the command tower, watching the warships of the fast battlefleet being shot and catching fire one after another, and several unlucky battleships were slowly sinking, Seymour couldn't help but burst into tears.
A couple of brave officers rushed out of the deck, just to find the flag rope and raise a command signal for the fleet to evacuate and retreat.
However, these young officers will never be able to do it.
After the two dive bombers dropped their bombs, when they swept a few dozen meters above the coalition flagship, they used the heavy machine guns and aviation cannons on the bombers to violently strafe the personnel on the deck, and beat these officers to the point of flesh and blood.
"God, God, why didn't you come to save us...... Seymour cried out to God, but God did not appear, and he fell headlong on the deck of the command tower in a fit of rage. (To be continued.) )