"The commander-in-chief predicted very correctly, the Mi warship is really ready to have anti-air strafing firepower!" After the Battle of Luzon, Du Ligao was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel because of his military exploits, Hu Zhen determined that the aerial bombardment of the Battle of the Caribbean was still under his command, and he was holding a voice radio on the airship at the moment, calling to the airships: "Raise the altitude to an altitude of 800 meters, avoid the rain of heavy machine guns of the Mi army, fly to the center of the heavy machine guns to suppress strafing, and carry out bombing." ”

The Chinese Army's airship heavy machine gun uses tracer bullets, which form a light chain when strafing, which can better ensure that the gunner aims at the target than the heavy machine gun fire of the Mi Army.

These chains of light locked the battleships of the Mi army, and the Mi troops on the deck were shot and fell, and the deck was bloody.

"The airship is about to drop bombs, hurry up and avoid it!"

The airship flew into the sky, and the formation of the Mi warships was in chaos, and the brave charging posture that had just been formed was immediately thrown into chaos.

Hu Zhen ordered: "The Dahua, the Great Xia, the Maine, the Wind, the Thunder, and the Lightning strike the enemy's weakest battleship, the Texas, and the rest of the cruisers strike at the enemy's cruiser flagship." ”

Only the 34 main guns on the Dahua, Daxia, Maine, Hurricane, Thunder, and Lightning fired at the Texas salvo were much weaker than the entire salvo just now, but the accurate salvo strike at a speed of more than two times a minute was not something that the Texas with a displacement of only 6,772 tons could withstand.

After three salvos, the Texas was hit by more than a dozen bullets, and the bilge was flooded due to the explosion, and the speed slowed down to twelve knots.

The airships in the air saw the Texas slowing down, and the six airships withstood the strong wind and pounced like a pack of wolves, dropping 12 500-kilogram mine bombs 800 meters above it.

The bombs dropped by the airship at an altitude of 800 meters were not very accurate, but the Texas was unfortunately hit by a bomb that hit the deck, carrying huge kinetic energy into the bottom compartment before exploding violently, immediately opening two huge holes, and the boiling sea water suddenly poured into the deck like a fountain.

Complete one's misery. The shells of the Huaxia Army also flew over at this time and smashed the deck of the Texas.

The Texas received such a blow that it could no longer withstand it, and the bow went into the water. The entire stern butt was raised high, revealing the steering gear, thruster propeller and other parts, completely losing the power to move forward.

The cruiser fleet of the Huaxia Army also carried out an accurate salvo with a rangefinder and sank a Mi cruiser.

As the sun rises, the wind on the sea becomes stronger and stronger.

The Huaxia Army's air fleet of 36 airships withstood the gale. Drop all the magnetic mine bombs in the hull of the boat.

These magnetic mines, falling into the seawater, immediately rushed towards the hull of the ship at a distance of 50 meters nearby, and after sticking to it, the magnetic fuse automatically detonated, completely sinking the Texas that had cocked its tail, and sank two cruisers.

Those mines that did not rush to the target, due to the pressure of the seawater, eroded through the spare fuse, and after five minutes, they ignited the fuse on their own and exploded on their own. It will not have any effect on the continued fighting of the Huaxia warships.

After the bomb was dropped, the striking power of the heavy machine gun on the airship on the battleship was basically negligible, and after Du Ligao asked Hu Zhen for instructions, he returned to the ship to load the bomb and continue to attack, which took at least an hour.

"Immediately regroup and shell the enemy!" The damage management team of the Oregon succeeded in restoring its speed to 16 knots, braving the bombardment of airships, rushing up and issuing flag commands to the ships with the newly hoisted signal flags.

After the sinking of the battleships USS California, USS Texas and two cruisers, the morale of the Mi army was greatly damaged, but under the command of the flagship Oregon. It's a little neat again.

At this time, the Huaxia army was about to turn to the right and stay away from the Mi fleet, and the Mi fleet followed up with the advantage of speed, and the distance between the two sides was shortened to within 3,800 meters.

"Concentrate artillery fire again on the Oregon!" Seeing this, Hu Zhen immediately ordered the spearhead to be aimed at the flagship of the Mi army.

The proximity of the distance coupled with the accurate data provided by the nuclear submarine. The artillery shells of the Huaxia Army were amazingly accurate, with two salvos, and more than 20 shells smashed on the hull of the Oregon.

A 210 mm shell hit the front main gun of the Oregon, overturning its battery and detonating several shells and their ****** stacked there.

The thick barrel swept across the deck, sweeping down a large chunk of objects on the deck.

There was also a shell that fell on the deck. Piercing through the port side, blasting a large hole in the port side, the sea water rushed in, and the Oregon suddenly leaned to the left, and the speed immediately dropped to less than twelve knots.

Seeing that the flagship was besieged, the Mi warships desperately counterattacked, but the Huaxia warships consciously widened the distance between them, and the shooting accuracy of the Mi army was far inferior to the Huaxia warships, that is, they hit, and the key parts of the Huaxia warships were equipped with improvised reactive armor, and the explosive effect of the shells was greatly reduced, and the damage to the Huaxia army was not great.

"Sink the enemy's flagship, the Oregon!" Seeing this, Hu Zhen gave the order to fight the enemy's flagship to the death.

After several salvos, the Oregon could not escape, and after more than 30 shells, a large explosion occurred, and 662 people from the commander of the fleet, John Trung and the ordinary crew, sank with the ship, and none of them survived.

After the sinking of the Oregon, the scales of victory had tipped in favor of the Chinese Army.

At this time, the Mi army also had the battleships Brooklyn, New York, and Columbia, as well as twelve cruisers, in terms of quantity, although compared with the twelve cruisers and three battleships of the Huaxia Army, the number of warships on both sides was exactly the same, and it seemed that a fair duel could be conducted.

However, the disadvantage of the Mi army was irreparable: three battleships were sunk, especially two of the flagships were sunk one after another, which brought a devastating blow to the morale of the Mi army, and the soldiers had completely lost the confidence to continue fighting.

The pre-war plan of the Mi Army was to use the Oregon as the flagship first, and if anything happened, the California would take over as the flagship, and if the California also happened, the eldest captain of the Columbia, Miller. Colonel Forse took over as the flagship.

The first two flagships sank one after another, but Miller. Without hesitation, Forsey ordered the ship to raise its flagship flag and take over the command.

When the Mi army was in chaos, the Chinese warships 3,800 meters away even used small-caliber artillery to carry out crazy and accurate artillery bombardment of the Mi warships.

Groups of bullets rained down on the Mi army battleships, and the Mi army also frantically shot at the Huaxia army, but the accuracy was more than one grade worse, and the seemingly fair shooting between the two sides actually became a unilateral beating of the Mi army. (To be continued.) )