Chapter 146: Helicopter VS Warship (Part I)

Looking back, in the Bohai Strait, near Long Island, the German battleship Saxony, the British cruiser Orlando, the Japanese light cruiser Tatsuda, three warships occupy hundreds of nautical miles of detection sea area, and several lightning strike ships, stuck in the Bohai Bay Strait, a small boat passing through, may be stopped.

"Sir, a UFO has been found, like a dragonfly, with a roaring sound."

"Oh, Jensen, are you sure it's not a bird? If you don't like it, just hit it. ”

The man who seemed to be the captain of the Orlando, shaking the red wine in his hand, looked at the ink paintings and vases on the table comfortably, and there were a lot of similar cosmetics piled up on the side of the table, not caring about the anomalies reported by the crew.

"Okay, sir, when it gets closer, I'll bake it for you and have a delicious lunch."

The crew named Jensen had never seen such an object, and he could only see a vague shadow in the telescope, so he could not be sure, so he could only wait for the object to approach and shoot it down with a gun.

If he did not come closer, then this matter could no longer disturb the commander to admire the spoils of war and spoil the mood of the commander, it was a very foolish thing, and after saluting, the crew withdrew from the cabin.

Helicopters were also spotted on several other warships, but the distance was a bit far, and the sunlight reflected by the clouds above the sea made these people who had never seen helicopters pay much attention, and only the crew named Jensen reported it.

It didn't take long for 8 helicopters to be in place and ready to carry ammunition. Hulin then ordered that the attack could be made, and the eight helicopters began to rendezvous and flew towards the patrol warship.

This time, Zhang Qiang, the captain of the first flight team, commanded on the spot, and Hu Lin, Zhu Hongfei and others only used remote control.

After the order is issued. Hulin had the Victoria Lewis-class cruisers rush to the east of Long Island at full speed to watch the battle. Don't worry about any more dangerous situations. Confident in the helicopter and infrared locking rockets, these are very powerful weapons in modern times.

After the order came down with the Hulin attack. Helicopters flew toward several patrol fleets, helicopter-like machine guns and rocket launchers ready for battle and ready to attack if they approached.

The naval crews of the Saxony, Orlando, and Tatsuda spotted several small points approaching the fleet almost at the same time, but they were flying so high that they could not be sure what was coming.

"Sir, there's something unusual, that big dragonfly flew over..."

"Didn't you get knocked down. You don't want the prize money anymore, do you..." The roar pierced through the captain's room, and almost half of the Orlando could hear the unhappy roar.

“・・・・・・・”

Before the naval soldiers on the warship could see why, eight helicopters had been sealed above the three warships, two helicopters against one warship, and the other two to deal with small gunboats.

"Approach the target, pay attention to the flight altitude, machine gun. Detachment Free Attack ・・・・・"

With Zhang Qiang's order, the helicopter formation began to attack separately according to the attack plan that had been studied many times. Zhang Qiang's Helicopters 001 and 002 stayed above the cruiser Orlando.

At this almost vertical angle, the machine gun could not have such a large upward firing angle. Don't worry about safety. I saw the soldier aim the rocket launcher at the cruiser Orlando, pull it, and the rocket fired at the cruiser Orlando at high speed. Then move on to the next one.

"Bump ...

The rocket accurately hit the 5,600-ton cruiser Orlando, only to explode on one deck at 91.5×17.07. The buildings on Overtime were almost destroyed, and the fire engulfed almost the entire deck. The flames are blazing.

The people near the side of the ship were directly pushed out of the deck by the air flow and fell into the sea, some of them were on fire, or the fire blocked the way, and one by one they fell into the sea like dumplings.

On the cruiser Orlando, I suddenly saw a tongue of fire flying towards the deck, and then another ... The sailors on the deck finally knew that it was a cannonball, a flying machine that could fire cannonballs.

The hurried crew and soldiers ran, looking for more to hide, but to no avail, violent explosions continued to descend on the deck, and there was nowhere to hide.

"Jensen, what's going on, Slash, who have we been attacked?" The captain of the Orlando, who was drinking red wine beautifully, suddenly shook the warship so strongly that the red wine was spilled, and he was frightened back to his senses by the violent explosion.

"Long tube, it's that unidentified dragonfly, we got shot・・・・・" Jensen had just come to the captain's room to report that the tongue of fire he saw was about to hit the Orlando, and before he could reach the captain's room, the hull of the ship shook.

"Shoot back, fight back, fight, fight...

“・・・・・・・”

The explosions continued, the deck of the Orlando was blown out of one crater after another, the hull was seriously injured, the chimney mast collapsed, and most of the sailors on the deck were buried.

The waterline armor of the cruiser Orlando is 254 mm thick composite armor and 1.67 meters high, the armor deck is 50-76.2 mm thick, the front and rear partitions of the armor box are 406 mm thick wrought iron, the exposed battery armor wall is 152 mm thick, the auxiliary gun turret is 127 mm thick, and the conning tower is 305 mm thick.

Such a good defense cannot withstand the attack of modern rockets, although it cannot be directly penetrated, but as long as the overtime is swept away, then the warship will be almost scrapped.

If you don't use an infrared laser to lock onto a little bit, blow up the same place with several rockets, let the rockets explode inside the hull, and it will sink.

Of course, there is no need for this at all, as long as the chimney mast is blown up, the cruiser Orlando can only be a piece of scrap metal, and it doesn't matter if it sinks or not.

And the firepower of the cruiser Orlando is still very strong, and Hulin does not have the strength of the navy to compete with this foreign fleet. Think, the 234mm/32x rear-loading rifled gun× the 2×1,152mm/26x rear-loading rifled gun× the 10×1,6-pounder rapid-fire gun× the 6×1,3-pounder rapid-fire gun× 10×1.

The firepower is strong, but against the helicopter, it is useless, you have to hit the sky first, and you have to hit high. Under the gravitational pull of the earth, it is difficult to hit objects at a height of several hundred meters in the air.

The German battleship Saxony was much more difficult to bite, and Hulin had already rushed over, and saw that the helicopters had fired more than a dozen rockets, and it seemed that the effect was not as good as expected.

Hu Lin is not worried, what about your sturdy, it's a big deal to come a few more. After all, the battleship Saxony is 7356 tons, and the thickness of the armor is 203mm-254mm on the side and 50mm-75mm on the deck.

The Japanese light cruiser Tatsuda was not so difficult, it seems that as soon as a few rockets went up, there was no movement on it, and of course, it was just that there was no German and the warship Nata.

"Please note that the crew of the attacking Longtian should be aware that when the Longtian is sunk, all the Japanese soldiers who fell into the water will be killed, and not a single one will be left."

Seeing that the light cruiser Longtian was like this, Hu Lin didn't want to save ammunition, so he directly ordered the pilots of the third group to sink the Longtian light cruiser, and no one could stay.

"Received..."

The pilots of the three groups of stations that attacked the Longtian received Hu Lin's fierce order, and did not dare to reply more than once, and immediately carried out the order. From Hu Lin's attitude, it can be understood that the hatred of the Japanese, better execution of orders is the first thing.

It's a pity that the Longtian, which is only 3,230 tons, has thin armor, how can it withstand the high-explosive rocket bombardment. After receiving Hu Lin's order, he threw rockets at the light cruiser Tatsuda without money. (To be continued.) )