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Both the Second World War, which had been going on for 5 years, and the long life of US Admiral Halsey, were negligibly short.

But the short period between 4:46 p.m. and 4:48:20 p.m. on September 6, 1944, was unforgettable for Halsey and the U.S. Navy officers and sailors who fought with him in the Battle of Bermuda...... If their lives had not ended in this sea battle.

"Smoke, let the destroyer cast the smoke!"

At 4:47:10 p.m., when the first fatal Reaper 2 missile had already been in the air for 1 minute and 10 seconds, someone in a group of stunned staff officers around Halsey reacted.

"Hurry up, smoke quickly!" Halsey shouted in a hurry.

In fact, without his order, the nine Fletcher-class destroyers guarding the nine battleships had already begun to smoke. But there is also a process of putting smoke, how much smoke can be put in more than a minute?

"Avoid! Circumvent! Evade quickly! ”

"All anti-aircraft artillery fire! Hurry up! ”

"Jammer...... Turn on the jammer! ”

All sorts of measures to deal with missiles were taken automatically in accordance with the orders given a long time ago, and the nine battleships on the sea suddenly accelerated and began to take an S-shaped evasive course, and all the antiaircraft guns on the ships opened fire with a roar, and no matter where the missiles were, in short, they fought first, and it was good to be brave.

Then there are the so-called electronic jammers - radio devices that can emit interfering signals. However, it is certainly useless, because the Americans do not know what frequency the "Reaper" 2 missile uses, and the "Reaper" 2 missile system also has frequency hopping communication technology. But the U.S. Navy procured a lot of this useless jamming equipment and installed it on every warship.

And just when the officers and men of the US Navy were scrambling to take all kinds of basically futile means against the Reaper missile, the short 2 minutes and 20 seconds were over!

The first Reaper-2 missile launched from the Gneisenau had already swooped down from more than 1,000 meters in the air, broke through the dense anti-aircraft fire, and slammed into the top of the A turret of the battleship USS Missouri.

The huge, sturdy, majestic, 3 destructive 406mm cannons and 184mm thick (top) armor turret were as fragile as an eggshell under the impact of this 2-ton missile, and the missile broke through the shell in an instant, and then exploded inside the turret, turning the entire turret into a dazzling fireball. The entire battleship was stomped by a giant, and the bow sank sharply, but before it could bounce off the water, a second fatal blow followed.

This time it was the bow deck of the battleship Missouri, which had no armor protection, and broke through several 40mm anti-aircraft gun turrets installed in the bow, and broke through several decks until it was close to the bottom of the ship, and then there was a big explosion, which almost blew up the entire bow of the Missouri, and lit a lot of miscellaneous things, and the fire began to burn.

Immediately after that, the third missile hit the stern of the USS Missouri, and the missile still broke through from an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and the armored deck of the stern of the USS Missouri could not withstand the impact of the missile, which was a big guy weighing more than 2 tons! How can it be blocked by more than 100 mm of steel plates?

The missile equipped with an armor-piercing warhead directly drilled into one of the power sections of the battleship, and exploded there, and the huge explosion power directly destroyed the boiler room and engine room of the entire power section, and also caused a fire, so that the battleship completely lost a quarter of its power - the power compartment of the Iowa class is very reasonable, divided into four independent cabins, each of which has 2 boilers and 1 engine and its own cabin, even if the engine and boiler of one section are blown up, the battleship will only lose a quarter of the power.

But the misfortune wasn't over, and at 4:50 p.m., a fourth Reaper 2 missile hit the Missouri, this time hitting the massive B turret. The tragedy of the A turret was immediately repeated in the B turret, the turret was blown up like papier-mâché, and a huge fireball rose up, and the fire burned violently, turning the bow of the USS Missouri into a sea of fire.

In just over a minute, the huge battleship with a standard displacement of nearly 45,000 tons was hit by 4 Reaper missiles in a row! The two main turrets in the bow were completely blown away, the bow was almost destroyed, and one of the power sections in the stern was completely destroyed.

Moreover, four huge explosions and vibrations in a row also damaged and broke the pipes and lines on this battleship, and faults immediately appeared everywhere, either steam leaks, or short circuits and fires, which caused great difficulties to the damage pipe work!

And in this short period of more than a minute, it was not only the USS Missouri that suffered, its sister ship Wisconsin also suffered 4 Reaper missiles weighing 2 tons, and also caused serious damage!

The stern gun turret of the Wisconsin was blown to the ground, and the bridge was blown to shreds, with twisted and charred metal everywhere. There was also a mess between the two chimneys, and a raging fire broke out, and the B turret in the bow was blown away, and the fire also spread in the bow.

It is clear that these two "Iowa"-class battleships have already suffered heavy losses and have lost most of their combat effectiveness!

"O my God! Oh my God......" Admiral Halsey on the Iowa's whole body trembled, his forehead was bruised, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Halsey, who had been complacent a few minutes before, ready to annihilate the German fleet and become a hero of the United States and the free world, suddenly found his fleet weak and sympathetic in front of the Germans.

Those battleships with 9 406mm cannons and thick steel armor turned out to be as vulnerable to the missile attack that the Germans were gradually maturing in the face of the Germans' gradual maturity, like a wooden sail battleship encountering an ironclad for the first time!

The king of an era, when faced with the lethal weapons of the new era, is as weak as an unarmed child.

The U.S. Navy is now a defenseless child! It can no longer afford to protect the United States!

"Admiral!" I don't know who it was, and shouted in a trembling, seemingly screaming voice, "Here they are again!" ”

"They?" Halsey, whose mind went blank, didn't understand what was going on.

"Missiles! The missiles of the Americans are here again! ”

The people in the Commander's Tower of Halsey and Iowa all looked in the direction of the German fleet, and then they were desperate to find that about 20 "demons" with fire and smoke appeared in the sky, whistling towards them!

Is it really again? And it's still coming in groups, which doesn't let people live?

Thundered......

In the midst of everyone's despair and shock, the aft deck of the battleship "Iowa" was slammed into by a "Reaper" 2 missile! The huge hull shook violently, and everyone in the command tower could not stand, and Halsey also fell to the ground, and his skull hit it somewhere, and his eyes were full of stars.

But before he could struggle to get up, the Iowa was shot twice, and this time the concussion was even more severe, as if an eight-magnitude earthquake had occurred in the command tower. And then for the third and fourth time, as usual...... There was also the fifth "Great Earthquake".

Halsey and most of the people in the Command Tower lay on the floor, their heads in their hands for the hardest minute of their lives. This is not like a naval officer with a gentleman's taste from top to bottom, but like a group of army cannon fodder squatting in the trenches.

When the disaster had passed for a while and everyone was barely on their feet, bad news began to pour in from the telephone in the conning tower.

"Admiral, two shots were fired in the stern, and a power compartment was completely destroyed, causing a fire. There was also a missile that blew through the bottom of the ship, and the stern of the ship was rapidly entering the water! ”

"The bow A turret was blown up, the fire spread, and it was difficult to control!"

"The deck of the ship's seaplane was shot, causing a fire......"

"The ship's starboard side was shot, destroying a 127mm anti-aircraft gun turret, and also detonating ammunition, causing a fire!"

After a flurry of bad news, it was Captain John. A call from Colonel Michae from the bridge of the nautical ship.

"Commander, the battleship Iowa has suffered heavy damage, please replace the flagship!"

"Replace the flagship ......" Halsey, of course, knows what this means!

The Iowa is over!

After the Missouri and Wisconsin were severely damaged and basically lost their combat effectiveness, the Iowa also became a victim of the infinitely powerful German missiles.

"And that battleship can still act as a flagship?" Halsey asked in a trembling voice.

"New Jersey...... Oh God, the USS New Jersey is sinking! Major General Callaghan's voice of pain came.

Halsey turned his head to look over, and saw that the bow of the battleship New Jersey had disappeared, and the hull of the ship had plunged into the water, and the stern of the ship was raised high, and the propellers and rudder were exposed!

It must have been a martyrdom that blew up the ammunition depot and destroyed the bow! Halsey thought to himself: I would have chosen the USS New Jersey as the flagship if I had known it......

"Admiral, let's choose the Washington," Callahan suggested, "and let the Washington come over." ”

Halsey shook his head, "No, let the USS Washington retreat!" Now disband the formation...... Retreat, retreat now!

We have already lost 4 of our best battleships, and we must not lose another 5, otherwise the Caribbean will fall into the hands of Germany, and we, the United States, will be defeated! ”