Chapter VIII The Contest of Aircraft Carriers
Zhang Lin commanded the heavy cruisers of the Second Fleet to begin to release smoke screens in a large area of sea to cover their own fleet from reconnaissance and attack by enemy aircraft, when the smoke screen covered a large area of the sea area, Zhang Lin ordered all ships to turn off their engines, and the air defense artillery crew was not allowed to fire guns without receiving an order, and the violators of military law were dealt with!
Half an hour later, the fighter group of the enemy aircraft carrier came to the area where the second fleet released the smoke screen, and the thick smoke screen covered the second fleet intact, resulting in the fighter group not finding anything, and ten minutes later, the bomber group came to the smoke screen area, hovering over the smoke screen area and waiting, and after another five minutes, the torpedo bombers also arrived, and the smoke screen covering the second fleet dispersed a little at this time, Zhang Lin was a little anxious, and asked the telegraph operator, "When will the support of my aircraft carrier arrive?" The telegraph operator replied, "Sir, just now the commander of the Combined Fleet ordered us to hold out for thirty minutes, the Sixth Fleet has covered our aircraft carriers Ares and King Kong to support our troops, and the fighter groups of the two aircraft carriers have taken off and arrived at our positions in about thirty minutes." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Thirty minutes is a huge test for the Second Fleet, if it cannot withstand the attack of enemy aircraft, then the Second Fleet will be completely lost, if it drags the enemy and waits for the Sixth Fleet's aircraft carrier money to support, then it will deal a devastating blow to the enemy aircraft carrier's fighter group, and the enemy will be inflicted heavy losses! Zhang Lin observed the smoke, now that the smoke had faded, it would take another five minutes for the enemy's planes to discover the Second Fleet hidden in the smoke screen, and another twenty minutes for our aircraft carriers to be able to support it.
"Order the ships to start their engines, and the anti-aircraft artillery crews are ready to fire!" After Zhang Lin's order was issued, the roar of the battleship engine began to be heard in the silent sea area, and then the aircraft of the enemy aircraft carrier found the abnormality, and the attack began here, when the smoke screen began to fade, eight battleships loomed on the sea, the enemy's bombers dived, and began to bomb the ships of the Second Fleet, weakening the air defense of the ships, and the anti-aircraft guns of each ship began to spit fire dragons, and then there were constantly planes that were hit and fell into the sea, but more planes began to attack the Second Fleet, The enemy's planes underestimated the air defense capability of the Second Fleet, and all kinds of sophisticated anti-aircraft guns were prioritized in the Second Fleet, resulting in heavy losses to the enemy planes, but there were still planes that avoided the dense anti-aircraft fire and dropped aerial bombs on the ships.
The most dangerous thing is not the bomber, but the torpedo machine, the bomber will cause serious damage to the superstructure of the ship at most, but it cannot sink the ships of the second fleet, the torpedo machine is different, the most afraid of large surface ships is the torpedo, once the mine armor in the key position is penetrated, and the damage management is nothing more than control, then the final next time the ship is to sink, the first wave of air raids has passed, the second wave of torpedo machines have been whistling, drop torpedoes around the ship and turn around!
"Right String found a torpedo!"
"The torpedo is close to the right chord!"
"Right full rudder! Decelerate! Zhang Lin calmly commanded the Edward to evade the torpedo because the Edward was equipped with advanced hydrolistening radar, and the oncoming torpedo was discovered early, and the evasion action was made in advance, otherwise with the maneuverability of the battleship, it would be difficult to avoid it after discovery, and the probability of being hit by the torpedo was very high, which was also the helplessness of all battleships, but with excellent protection capabilities, it was difficult for the torpedo with a smaller caliber to cause devastating trauma to the armor of the Edward, even if it was hit, it would not affect anything, let alone sink.
However, this time it was clearly not a small-caliber torpedo, the enemy had been prepared for this for a long time, and they were armed with large torpedoes of 533 caliber, which was not good news for the battleship.
"Report the flagship, Allure was hit by an enemy torpedo, a large amount of water entered the left chord, the damage pipe has been controlled, and drainage is underway!"
Even if Zhang Lin responded to this in advance, but the Second Fleet still had ships hit by torpedoes, which no one could avoid, as time passed, most of the enemy's torpedo machines had left, and more were shot down by the Second Fleet's anti-aircraft artillery crew, Zhang Lin's Edward was torpedoed to the right chord, but the good mine protection drum and mine protection wall bin successfully resisted the damage of this torpedo, and the Edward only shook violently and did not enter the water.
Soon after the evacuation of the enemy planes, the fighter group that rushed to support the Second Fleet arrived at the Second Fleet, looking at the wreckage of the enemy planes on the sea, it was difficult to imagine how fierce the Second Fleet's anti-aircraft fire was.
Then the Sixth Fleet and two aircraft carriers began to carry out counter-air attacks on the enemy's aircraft carriers, and a large number of fighters began to take off from the aircraft carriers and began to search for the location of the enemy fleet, and then a large number of bombers took off and disappeared into the sky with the fighters, and finally the roar of the torpedo planes resounded in the sky.
Zhang Lin breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the aircraft carriers that came to support, and now he could cooperate with the Sixth Fleet to conduct a decisive battle with the local main forces, and lay down the imperial navy's sea supremacy in Moroccan waters at one time, so as to win the war.
"Spot the enemy fleet! The coordinates are one hundred and twenty kilometers north of the Moroccan sea. ”
After Zhang Lin received the information from the aircraft carrier fighters, he immediately ordered the fleet to go to the predetermined target at full speed, and in that sea area, the exchange of fire had already begun, and the fighters continued to attack the enemy's bombers and torpedo planes, and the bombers dived into the enemy ships, braving the enemy's anti-aircraft fire, dropping goblet aerial bombs, and the torpedo planes dropped torpedoes one after another along the place where the battleships were advancing. A huge underwater explosion shook the ship for a while, and then the enemy ship began to panic, and the surface torpedo caused great damage to the enemy ship and caused the enemy to enter the water.
After a wave of long-range air raids, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Yaslan Imperial Fleet was obviously not as good as that of the Second Fleet, and under this air raid the fleet caused a lot of damage, which had a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the fleet, and two light cruisers were sunk, and one destroyer was also sunk, which can be described as heavy losses.
And the Second Fleet led by Zhang Lin is rapidly approaching the subregion, and a fleet of the Aslan Empire is also coming, and a large-scale naval battle is about to break out!