The surprise attack by the 24 torpedo planes lasted only 12 minutes, which was an insignificant and extremely brief moment compared to the naval battle of Guam, which took the two sides months to prepare and maneuver with each other, but this dawn raid, which showed the perfect coordination of the Chinese forces on Guam, became the last straw that crushed the US Grand Fleet. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the face of the low-altitude surprise attack of Chinese fighters, the 75-150mm side auxiliary guns installed on the eight American battleships were seriously constrained by the firing range and elevation angle, and it was almost difficult to give full play...... It is simply impossible to block the theoretical 3000-meter air defense line.

Of course, what made Lieutenant General Abel even more desperate was the battle damage in this dawn raid......

The battleship USS South Carolina, the main force of the fleet, was unlucky enough to be hit by four torpedoes, and if it weren't for the fact that the last torpedo warhead had not exploded, this first-generation American dreadnought would never have been able to float at sea again...... But even with luck, now this formidable American dreadnought can only float on the sea!

The three torpedoes hit by the battleship South Carolina almost all hit the vital parts, and the watertight compartment on the port side of the battleship was damaged by more than 50, from the numerical point of view, the battleship of the South Carolina had 415 watertight compartments, and the damaged watertight compartments were one-eighth, but the more than 50 watertight compartments were more than 2,000 tons......

This is almost the total tonnage of all the main guns, with the main gun lifter, and the rotating turret of the battleship South Carolina, and at the same time, in order to maintain balance, while constantly pumping water and losing pipes, Rear Admiral Evans had to order more than 1,000 tons of seawater to be injected into the starboard watertight compartment of the battleship, and to increase the water injection as the situation is required, so as to maintain the balance of the battleship!

One of the fatal consequences of the battleship South Carolina was the damage to the fourth side keel in the middle of the battleship, and one of the consequences was that the ship's damage management was almost ineffective, and if the battleship fired a salvo of its main guns, the damage in this area could deteriorate rapidly, and in the worst case, it could lead to the collapse of the ship's structure...... So, the current battleship USS South Carolina has almost lost its combat effectiveness.

In addition, due to the lack of anti-aircraft firepower, the former dreadnought battleship was easily approached by Chinese torpedo planes, and finally hit 2 mines, although the skin is thick and rough, but the protection ability of the old dreadnought armor is obviously not as good as the battleship South Carolina, and the stern is heavily permeable, and directly leads to the flooding of the battleship's bilge as a whole, and the damage management cannot prevent the battleship from losing power quickly!

In addition, although the flagship battleship USS Utah, the former dreadnought Kansas, and the battleship USS Mississippi were hit by mines, they did not cause serious damage, especially the seriously ill USS Mississippi, which once again escaped disaster!

Compared with the severe blow to the U.S. Grand Fleet, Vice Admiral Abel was even more chilled by the Chinese Air Force's battle losses...... In the fierce 12-minute battle, the U.S. Grand Fleet only damaged four Chinese fighters, and except for one confirmed that the fighter plane crashed into the distant sea, the other three damaged Chinese fighters were all out of combat......

Lieutenant General Eber, who was standing in front of the chart, naturally understood what this meant, and he might be attacked by the same Chinese torpedo formation within one hour at most, and what kind of bad situation it would be at that time, to be honest, he couldn't imagine it!

"Order, immediately turn the rudder 45 degrees to the right and get out of the shoreline of Guam!"

"Order, the battleships South Carolina and Mindasuni are transferred to the stern of the ships in separate formations!"

"Order the 2nd Destroyer Formation to escort the battleship formation of the USS South Carolina......"

"The battleships North Dakota and the USS Connecticut are suppressing the Chinese fleet!"

Under the crisis, it seemed that this veteran American soldier saw the potential crisis, and without any hesitation, a series of tactical maneuver orders were quickly issued, and there was obviously only one purpose - that is, to immediately leave the place of right and wrong where the Grand Fleet was located, and the Chinese defense fleet under the jurisdiction of the cruiser Ryukyu in the distance, Abel did not hesitate to send a dreadnought, a former dreadnought, to drive the other party away!

He was clearly more aware of another crisis...... The Chinese fighters that appeared in the sky will definitely not be the last! But on the sea, which is only more than 30 kilometers from the coastline of Guam, it is definitely not easy to avoid the attack of the Chinese from the sky! But now he has to prioritize this big problem......

At 7:21, less than 10 minutes after the first wave of attacks, the terrible sirens suddenly sounded again, and the US Grand Fleet, which was staggering, was once again attacked by the second wave of Army fighters from Guam Air Force Base.

This is the second wave of warhawks from the Army Aviation Naval Base in Guam, a fighter formation of the 1st Regiment of the 4th Army Aviation Division, consisting of 12 Eagle dive bombers and 12 early models of Falcon II torpedo aircraft.

The Falcon II torpedo aircraft is a joint Beihang Heavy Industry from the early Falcon fighter derived from the water attack, the performance is not small compared with the new Tianyi torpedo aircraft, the take-off weight is only 2300 kg, and the fighter weight is nearly 1400 kg, after the 630 kg Stinger torpedo is mounted, the aircraft speed is only less than 150 km / h, which is indeed a little slow for the torpedo machine that needs to attack closely!

Originally, the Falcon series was also positioned as a transitional model in the Air Force sequence, and it was more used for daily training after being delivered to the military, and now the main products of Beihang Heavy Industry are Eagle dive bombers and large load aircraft, but at the Guam base, the Falcon torpedo aircraft unexpectedly ushered in its debut.

In the face of the U.S. Grand Fleet, which had already completed the adjustment of the queue, the Chinese group that had just arrived immediately discovered the weakness of the other side, and 12 Falcon II torpedo planes immediately launched a surprise attack on the battleships North Dakota and the battleship Connecticut behind the palace, which were originally tasked with driving away the cruiser formation of the USS Ryukyus.

However, when the two American battleships suppressed the cruiser formation of the USS Ryukyu, they obviously broke away from the American Grand Fleet, and the Falcon II fighter group with poor speed immediately set their eyes on this piece of fat and did not hesitate to bypass the Grand Fleet! The other 12 Eagle dive bombers, which were responsible for guiding them, immediately listed the battleship USS Utah, which was at the top of the U.S. Grand Fleet formation, as their primary target......

The Eagle dive bomber that opened the deceleration grille let out a terrifying and terrifying roar and rushed towards the battleship Utah at a large elevation angle of almost 90 degrees.

What's more, this time, the fighters of the 1st Regiment used 12 Eagle dive bombers to launch a strike in a group, from the initial flight to the Utah battleship to the high-altitude dive, the whole process gave the Americans only one or two minutes to react, even the Utah battleship, which had been installed with an anti-aircraft 20mm machine gun at the beginning of the design, was powerless to counterattack in the face of this kind of attack launched from overhead.

When the first Eagle fighter numbered 0981 smashed down two 280-kilogram bombs on both wings, one of which successfully hit the horizontal armor belt on the right side of the rear of the battleship Utah, the wolf attack of the 4th Army Aviation Division completely destroyed the remaining morale of the American Grand Fleet......

One after another, the explosions rose from the battleship Utah in a dense manner, turning into a cloud of black fire, and the American soldiers on the deck and terrace gun emplacements were completely powerless to resist the tremendous force generated by the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of bombs in this indiscriminate, close-range explosion, and were either torn apart by shrapnel or knocked away by air waves.

In a short attack operation that lasted less than 5 minutes, this most advanced American dreadnought was hit by 10 bullets on the surface, and no less than 4 bombs were missed, but the fatal thing was not the bombed mess of the front and rear decks, after all, the 280-kilogram bomb attack is somewhat thin for a dreadnought with an 11-inch main armor belt, 9-inch watertight cabin armor and 40-100mm horizontal armor!

The 6 aerial bombs that hit the horizontal armor belt, although they easily penetrated the double-layer horizontal armor belt, and the explosion after smashing into the lower cabin, the explosion effect was amazing, because the blasting position was not ideal, and the armor of the watertight compartment compartment of the US ship was as thick as 9 inches, although it caused a serious bilge fire and cabin damage, the result was some surface trauma, and none of them were fatal.

However, during the attack, both of the battleship Utah's towering chimneys were accidentally hit or penetrated by four other bombs at the same time, causing a series of explosions that did not cause serious damage to the hull, but caused the bilge boiler room to immediately reduce heavy fuel oil and exhaust the dense smoke from the bilge.

By the time the microphone had just blasted the terrible news to the conning tower, the 12 Falcon II torpedo planes that had crossed the battleship Utah easily tore through the defenses of the battleships USS Connecticut and USS North Dakota, which were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire, dropping deadly torpedoes at a distance of 400 meters at the cost of minor damage to two torpedo planes.

A series of torpedoes spewed out a terrifying white trajectory and pierced the US ship formation, and the battleship North Dakota saw the opportunity early, coupled with its speed and steering gear were much more sensitive, and it actually escaped death after a panic...... And the battleship Connecticut was a cup, half of the six torpedoes that attacked him directly hit the side rear waterline, and a series of skyrocketing explosions made huge flames from the tail area of the American battleship launched in 1906! (To be continued.) )