Chapter 609: Stalking 1

The minelayer "Dacia" of the Romanian Navy has a full load displacement of 4,515 tons, a total length of more than 108 meters, a width of 12.75 meters, a maximum speed of 18 knots, and a cruising speed of 15 knots. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The INFO ship is armed with 3 105mm guns and 20mm guns, and can carry at least 200 mines when fully loaded!

Since the outbreak of the war, it has been carrying out defensive mine-laying missions, and has laid a number of minefields between Mangalia (Romanian seaport) and Burgas (Bulgarian seaport), forming a long-lasting anti-submarine protection line against the Red Navy.

Those minefields had already caused the sinking of two Black Sea Fleet submarines: the S34 submarine in Burgas in November 1941 and the Sc-204 crashing into a mine near Varna in December.

The Romanian Navy has only a few minelayers, and the 3,600-ton "Carol" and the 273-ton "Aurora" known to the Soviet Union have been reimbursed, except for the incomplete "Admiral Muche" and "Durostor", the only Romanian minelayer known to the Red Army is the "Dacia" in front of Lieutenant Chikalov, which is also the largest minelayer in the Romanian Navy!

Two fighter jets attacking a warship with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons may seem like hitting an elephant with an airsoft gun - but this "elephant" is not a tiger, and its teeth are not very sharp! "Airsoft gun" also has its killer feature, the killer weapon for ships created by Marshal Prenyakov for the fighter unit!

"Don't let the civilian ships in the river be attacked, the warships in the **** sea will always work, right?!" Comrade Lieutenant thought "viciously" in his heart - the comrades of the Red Navy would send caviar for themselves and Kulakov's actions!

There are also two small Romanian gunboats on the sea farther away from the "Dacia", but they are more than ten kilometers away, so we will leave them alone for the time being -- the "Dacia" should be carrying out minelaying operations, so those escort boats will be farther away for the time being.

"It doesn't matter what mission it's doing, it's going to kill it! Number two, have you learned the arson tactics of the deputy commander? ”

As soon as he heard the call of the long plane, Kulakov estimated in a second: since the sortie, it has been flying in the most fuel-efficient way, and the 281-liter belly drop tank should still have two-thirds of the fuel in it!

"I've learned, but I'm not very accurate."

Kulakov told the truth: In the military aviation school, there is a teaching course on fighter jets to attack ships with auxiliary fuel tanks, which was invented by the deputy commander-in-chief, but the number of old auxiliary fuel tanks is limited, and everyone basically only has one chance to "fight", and the simulation has been done several times.

"No problem, I'll come first, you strafe, from the 90-degree direction of its hull first!"

"Yes, Lieutenant!"

The straight-line distance from the base has exceeded 200 kilometers, which is beyond the maximum call distance of the airborne radio -- for the time being, there is no reinforcement to be counted on, and if the "Dacia" reports back to the sea, it will not know where it has gone.

At this time, two large smoke balls exploded in the air, and the Romanians' 105-mm naval guns opened fire! Rechkalov, regardless of the threat of artillery fire, "descended to a height of 30 meters!" Follow what the textbook says! ”

Two fighters roared down in height and pounced on the target a few kilometers away! The speed of the long plane has been increased to 400 kilometers per hour, "Start firing at a distance of 500 meters, don't use the cannon yet, and then hit when you get close!" ”

"Understood!" At this time, Kulakov's landline plane was slowing down, and it was distancing itself from the long plane.

At a galloping speed, Rechkalov seemed to feel small-caliber tracer bullets whizzing around, but this was really bad enough to threaten!

At a distance of 500 meters, the target image in the sight is large enough! Rechkalov grabbed two machine gun firing buttons! Suddenly, the machine guns on the two wings of the P39 fighter and the upper part of the nose roared, and the bullets shot like a storm towards the superstructure of the "Dacia"!

There are a small number of impact points on the sea near the minelayer, and nearly 100 machine gun bullets are hit on the hull every second!

The anti-aircraft guns of the Romanians immediately dug fire, and the machine-gun bullets plowed the middle of the hull like a dense rake! The crew operating the cannon was beaten into a sieve by machine gun bullets and stirred up fragments, and flesh and blood flew everywhere!

The planes given by the Americans were second-rate, but the machine gun bullets were first-class -- four-fifths of those 7.62 mm bullets were armor-piercing shells with carbide cores, which were extremely penetrating, and the other fifth were tracer incendiary bombs that caused trouble, although the small warheads contained pitiful incendiary charges, which could still ignite jet fuel after piercing the plane's skin.

Since the "Dacia" was originally an old-fashioned passenger ship, the steel plates of the superstructure were not thick, and they were not made according to the standards of warships: there were no sackcloth bundles and rope curtains to protect against machine-gun strafing, not to mention 12.7 mm machine gun bullets at such a distance, even half of the 7.62 mm armor-piercing shells would have pierced its bulkheads!

The minelayer that was strafed would have fallen into hell, and even the people in the cabin on the first floor would be hit, and suddenly half of the ship would be surrounded by blood and screams!

Kulakov's plane had already distanced itself from the long plane, and he was the ignition man behind him, so he couldn't hurry!

One-fifth of the Americans' 12.7mm machine gun bullets were tracer armor-piercing rounds, while the rest were anti-personnel incendiary shells - the latter did not penetrate the bulkheads, but the fragments and incendiary charges swept across the middle deck, which was more terrifying to the Romanian sailors than the 7.62mm machine gun bullets!

At a distance of about 100 meters, Rechkalov had stopped shooting - he couldn't strafe, his hands had to be free to throw the drop tank!

At a distance of about 50 meters, it was all up to him to judge, he pulled the drop lever of the auxiliary fuel tank, and the silvery-white aluminum fuel tank in the belly of the machine fell like a bomb on the "Dacia"!

The streamlined auxiliary fuel tank accurately hit the deck behind the two chimneys of the "Dacia" at a speed of more than 300 kilometers, and the aluminum fuel tank was suddenly cracked, and the high-grade aviation gasoline inside was splashed out!

Rechkalov's plane immediately pulled up and turned to disengage, and Kulakov, whose speed had dropped to more than 250 kilometers behind, came!

At a distance of 500 meters, Kulakov is a six-barreled salvo! Machine gun bullets shot like a waterfall that sloped down to the middle and rear of the "Dacia"! Kulakov's eyes widened, and his mouth roared, as if he was adding more strength to those machine guns! At a distance of more than 200 meters, he stopped firing from the 12.7 mm machine gun, and the second lieutenant pressed the firing button of the 37 mm gun!

The sound of "knock, knock, knock", the 37-mm M-4 gun did not fire quickly, but each shot could easily tear through the thin steel plate of the "Dacia"! Almost at the same time as the 37-mm guns were fired, a column of fire burst out of the rear half of the "Dacia" -- the auxiliary fuel tank dropped by the long plane was ignited!

Unlike the long plane, Kulakov saw the flash of fire, the fighter turned to the left, and before passing over the target's head, artillery shells and machine-gun bullets swept across the entire front half of the hull of the "Dacia", and the conspicuous bridge was completely covered with machine-gun bullets!

Just like the plane strafing the ship during the day in the movie shot, there is almost no fire to be seen, but the target seems to be shrouded in a faint smoke - unlike in the movie and television drama, it is okay to be strafed by an airplane with 6 machine guns, and it is hell for the people on board!

In just one second, nearly 100 machine gun bullets, 1 37-mm tracer armor-piercing incendiary bomb and 1 tracer blasting anti-personnel bomb hit all the people inside and outside the bridge, and the bridge was full of small pieces of human flesh splashed with blood!

The crew of the bridge of the "Dacia" instantly lost their combat effectiveness and lost control!

Kulakov drove the plane away to the left, turned his head, and saw through the left cockpit canopy that the fire in the back half of the "Dacia" that was attacked by himself was more than ten meters high! A fire lit by hundreds of liters of high-grade aviation gasoline is simply impossible to extinguish with a fire extinguisher!

"Darcia" had no power to resist the two Soviet fighters on the port side, and although such a blow could not send it to the bottom of the sea for the time being, it could only be the target of Rechkalov and his wingman's wanton attack!

"Two, it's your turn!"

When the second lieutenant heard the call of the long plane, he went around in circles and aimed the nose of the "Dacia" in a 90-degree direction - the long plane had just crossed the target at this time, and strafed the "Dacia" from tail to head, turning all the people who were still on the deck into a sieve!

Don't care about the next move of the long plane, Kulakov only needs to smash the auxiliary fuel tank on the target's head! The second lieutenant did not have the "bomb-throwing technique" of the long plane, and in order to ensure the hit rate, the fighter approached at a speed of less than 300 kilometers per hour -- there was no longer the threat of Romanian anti-aircraft machine guns, and he was preoccupied with it!

The machine-gun cannon did not fire, Kulakov concentrated on approaching the target from a height of 30 meters, and before crossing the head of the "Dacia", he dropped the drop tank!

The fuel tank was thrown a little off the rails and smashed on the bridge!

Pull up the plane, and the comrade lieutenant behind will soon be killed!

With just one point shot, Rechkalov surrounded the entire bridge with flames!

"Number two, how many shells are left in the cannon?" Rechkalov shouted into the intercom after breaking away from the strain.

"About 20 rounds! How?! ”

"Leave the minelayer alone, this fire can't be extinguished at once, go and clean up the gunboat at 3 o'clock, leave some shells, there are two mines behind the minelayer, the large one!"

"Understood! I'll keep the shells, and if the fire doesn't catch the mines, I'll go around and beat them with a cannon! "Kulakov" bomb throwing technique "is not very good, but he thinks that he can hit the turret of the tank with that cannon: enter from the direction of 0 degrees from the stern of the ship, and there is no problem in hitting that mine!"

(3000 first, more later.) (To be continued.) )