"Sir, 38,000 meters!"

"Sir, the enemy's main formation is beginning to turn and accelerate to the right!"

"Sir, there are three enemy light ship formations that are charging towards us at high speed!"

In the command tower of the missile battleship "Gneisenau", the report of the staff officer was also tight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Sir, the Americans want to seize the T-shaped front!" Rear Admiral Mayer, Chief of Staff of the Fleet, immediately guessed Halsey's intentions, "and at the same time they wanted to disrupt our formation with heavy cruisers and heavy mine destroyers." ”

"Let the cruiser squadron and the second-drive patrol squad deal with the heavy cruisers and destroyers of the Americans."

Admiral Hoffman didn't care much about the American battleships that grabbed the T-shaped formation, but he didn't dare to slack off on the three lightning strike formations of the Americans.

Because the composition of this lightning strike formation of the Americans is very special, it is a combination of one heavy cruiser + more than a dozen heavy mine destroyers. It is specially designed to deal with European or Japanese lightning strike formations equipped with oxygen torpedoes. As a result, not only are there Gridley-class heavy mine destroyers equipped with 16 torpedo tubes, but there is usually a treaty heavy patrol formation.

When encountering an opponent equipped with oxygen torpedoes, the "Gridley" class heavy mine destroyers often fire torpedoes at a high speed of more than 37 knots, not seeking to hit, but to disrupt the opponent. After the torpedo was fired, these "Gridley" class heavy mine destroyers did not immediately retreat, but continued to fight artillery battles with five 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns.

The heavy cruiser used a 203mm cannon to shoot at the enemy heavy mineship carrying oxygen torpedoes and having oxygenated the torpedoes - because oxygenated oxygen torpedoes are very dangerous, once the ship is hit by a cannonball, it will cause a martyrdom, and then the ship will be destroyed.

So this set of tactics really made the heavy mine formations of the European Community and Japan suffer a lot!

And in the battle of the surface fleet formation, this style of play is no less effective. However, in this case, the purpose of the American heavy mine formation is not to sink the opponent, but to disrupt the opponent and buy time for the accelerated turn of its main formation.

In addition, in the event that one's own capital ships are defeated in the battle, the US heavy mine formation can play a role in covering the retreat.

"Sir, it's 36,000 meters, the main American formation is turning again, and they will soon grab the T-shaped position."

The report of the nautical staff came again. The U.S. battleship formation, which steered and maneuvered at a high speed of 28 knots, had too many advantages over the European Community battleship formation, which was traveling at a speed of 20 knots, in grabbing the T-shaped position. In just a few minutes, they had already made the first turn and at the same time brought the distance between the two sides closer to 36,000 meters, and now the second turn began. Soon, two battleship formations formed a herringbone arrangement. As long as the American battleship formation passed through the bow of the Hindenburg from a distance of 32,000-30,000 meters, they would be able to grab the T-shaped head of the killing, and they could pour all the firepower of 81 406mm cannons on the bow of the most powerful battleship of the Germans.

"The battleship squadron began to turn!" Hoffman also gave the order to turn the battleship formation at this time.

"The missile ship team began to act alone, entered the missile launch position, and prepared for missile launch!" He then gave the order, "The first round of 10 salvos was aimed at ships No. 3 and No. 4 of the enemy ship formation, of which the target of the Gneisenau was the enemy ship No. 3 and the Wilhelm II was the enemy ship No. 4." ”

Hoffman's choice of No. 3 and No. 4 of the U.S. battleship formation as the first targets was also the best plan derived from many exercises and war games. Because the missile ship is a floating large bomb after the missile is refueled, as long as the missile launch tube is hit, it will definitely be a mega disaster.

Therefore, the missile ships must not be placed in front of the queue to be shelled, they must follow the butts of several battleships, they must also advance in columns, and they should also give up the good position of the T-shaped formation to the opponent.

In this way, when the opponent grabs the T-shaped position, he will definitely concentrate his firepower on the battleships that are at the forefront of his own column. When the formation of several battleships in front of the array is turning, the missile ship formation behind the array will not follow the battleship, but will turn in place under the cover of the battleship and aim the bow at the target. At this time, the No. 1 and No. 2 ships in the enemy's array had to turn on the spot with a relatively large amplitude and take a long time, so it was not as convenient and quick as hitting the battleships in the rear of the enemy's battle column first.

"Admiral, the enemy ship formation has turned."

"It's late! Rush fire, 5 shots, fire! ”

At 4:40 p.m. on September 6, 1944, Bermuda time, when the German battleship "Hindenburg" began to turn right, it had "successfully" seized the T-shaped position, and the 81 406mm main guns of four Iowa-class battleships, four Soviet-class battleships and one North Carolina-class battleship burst into roar at the same time. Blazing smoke suddenly erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and dozens of black spots in the flamelight tore through the air, and in the blink of an eye, it rushed towards the huge battleship Hindenburg.

The huge recoil and roar made Halsey and the others standing in the command tower feel as if the sky had suddenly collapsed in front of them, and almost everyone felt that the pores of their bodies were swelling, and a sense of pride rose from the bottom of their hearts.

The battleships of the Germans are dead!

Even if they have remotely controlled missiles, it is impossible to change the situation on the battlefield. Not a single one of their 7 battleships (the USS Wilhelm II was treated as a heavy cruiser) would be able to escape, and all of them would be crushed by the powerful firepower of the US Navy.

Without these battleships, the Germans could no longer threaten the islands of the Caribbean.

Until the Germans built an ultra-long-range jet bomber that could fly intercontinentally, they would not be able to threaten the American homeland, even if they had an atomic bomb.

Even if the Germans created a piston type intercontinental bomber, it would be useless, because the intercontinental bomber without fighter escort was nothing more than a target for American high-altitude interceptors.

And how many years did it take the Germans to create a jet intercontinental bomber? Before they succeeded, the United States already had the atomic bomb!

81 water columns appeared in Admiral Halsey's realization, and the first volley was completely empty, with neither a cross shot nor a close miss. However, this behavior is completely normal, as Halsey's nine battleships are still maintaining a speed of 28 knots. For the artillery battle of battleship formations, this was just too fast. And the distance between the two sides is still too far, reaching about 31,000 meters. Even with a fire control radar, it is difficult to hit the target. However, the purpose of the first five salvos arranged by Halsey was not to hit, but to cover the attack of his heavy mine formation.

"Decelerate to 20 knots and turn 10 degrees to the right." Halsey lowered his binoculars and gave a loud order for the battleship to slow down.

Just as the nine American battleships were slowing down, five rounds of rapid firing had ended, and more than 400 shells, the closest of which was hundreds of meters away from the Hindenburg, had hardly gained anything except for the terrifying momentum.

And just when Hoffman and the others on the Gneisenau let out a long breath, twenty or thirty American destroyers had already appeared in their sight, and they also launched two horizontal formations and began to charge at high speed.

At the same time, the nine American battleships began to turn again in order to firmly occupy the vital T-shaped position. If it weren't for the deadly 2.5-ton Reaper 2 TV-guided missile, Halsey would have been a hero to save the free world.

"Sir, the missile launch is ready, and the bow is already aimed at the target!"

When the guns and staff voices sounded again, the missile battleships Gneisenau and Wilhelm II had quietly broken away from the battleship queue, made a sideways turn on the sea, and aimed their bows at the target.

"Launch!" Hoffman immediately gave the order, and any gunnery staff officer passed his order to the missile launch command center of the Gneisenau and Wilhelm II.

"Missile 1 launch, missile 2 launch!"

"Missile 1 is over!"

"Missile 2 finished!"

"Missile 3 launch, missile 4 launch!"

"Missile 3 is over!"

"Missile 4 is over!"

“……”

With the command of the missile commander and the missile operator, the missile launch buttons were pressed one by one, smoke and fire began to rise from the missile decks of the two missile ships, and one after another, missiles no less in size than a small jet were forcibly pushed out of the launch tubes by the huge thrust generated by the rocket engines. Then the folded wings and tail popped out, and then the missiles roared into the air with long tail flames.

"Oh my God! What is that? ”

"Missiles? Is it a missile? ”

"Oh my God, it's a rocket-propelled missile!"

"How is this possible? How can a rocket have such a large thrust? ”

The people in the command tower of the battleship "Iowa" also noticed the earth-shattering missile launch, and everyone was almost stupid.

Since the Japanese, who fought on the Pacific battlefield with the mentality of coping with errands, did not use a suicide Reaper missile during the Midway operation, the Americans had never even seen a jet "artificial intelligence" missile, let alone a missile propelled by a liquid rocket engine. Now the United States' own rockets use smokeless gunpowder propellant (this is a backward solid propellant), and it is simply impossible to propel a missile weighing several tons to fly tens or hundreds of kilometers.

Looking at the twenty missiles that were flying at a very fast speed with thick smoke and fire, Halsey, who had just thought that he would become a hero of America and a warrior defending the free world, suddenly had cold hands and feet, and his whole brain went blank.

It is clear that the Germans have developed a more powerful remote-controlled guided missile! Their previous series of "mistakes" were just to get a chance to launch missiles to kill!