Miracle (1) Navy Sortie!

-- Since the day it was born, the navy has been an offensive service. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The navy is an offensive service, and the navy must attack. The navy exists at sea for the purpose of a decisive battle with the enemy navy, not to stay in the harbor as a target. The Treasure Island Republic Naval Fleet was ordered to go all out for a decisive attack, and a naval battle in the mode of death was about to begin.

But at that time, no one on the offensive and defensive sides of that place would have imagined that this naval battle would be a battle that would shine in the annals of history, a battle that completely changed the course of the development of the world's navy.

That very morning, the Treasure Island Republic's Self-Defense Forces launched a decisive attack on the main battlefleet of the superpower Saxony Windsor Empire with only six small warships.

The six warships came from the New World of York Commonwealth, developed and manufactured by the country's ship research department for the country's navy, and later fell into the hands of the Republic of Treasure Island for some special reason......

In B95, the Battle of Cape Roquedel resulted in a crushing defeat for the Tasman Empire Navy. Countries have come to a number of different conclusions when they study the battle, but they are all impressed by the long-range torpedo saturation attack of the Navy of the White Ocean Democratic Federation, and they give it a very high score. After the war, all countries attached great importance to torpedoes, especially long-range torpedoes.

The New World Federal York Navy had always been dissatisfied with the 400mm torpedo capabilities used on the two types of multipurpose cruisers built before the war, and even more so at their range.

The country's navy required that the newly built fleet auxiliary combat ships must be equipped with the world's largest 610mm caliber torpedoes.

In February 96 of the B century, the Naval Armament Department, under the strong leadership of Vice Admiral Thomas Dewey, formally proposed the specific standards for the ideal fleet auxiliary combat ships, and this standard was issued to the engineering teams of various warship manufacturing plants to explore its feasibility. A new class of ships across the era is about to be born, and its significance is no less than the appearance of dreadnoughts, battleships and other iron mountains at sea.

The requirements are as follows: the attack capability must be much stronger than that of the previous two types of ships, and even close to the fleet cruisers, and at the same time, in order to take into account the night combat methods proposed by the Navy and effectively reduce costs, the hull of the ship should be as small as possible. This type of ship should also have a super torpedo attack capability, a maximum speed of 40 knots or closer, and good seaworthiness. The specific refinement requirements are as follows:

Naval guns: 127mm caliber main gun ×6 (45 degrees elevation angle), 76mm caliber anti-aircraft gun ×1; torpedoes: 3 triple 610mm caliber torpedo tubes, 18 mines; Equipped with No. 1 mine, depth projectors, sonar, minesweepers. Displacement: about 1900 tons; Maximum speed: 39 knots when 2/3 of the fuel is kept; Endurance: 14 knots/4500 nautical miles (5000 nautical miles with backup fuel if necessary) at full load.

This seemed like an impossible task at the time, but it was done with engineers, who handed in the drawings in April B96. The Navy exclaimed: "It's just too talented".

In May B96, the construction of this type of ship began, and it was named the Edelweiss-class fast pocket cruiser (in fact, the Japanese Navy's Fukiyuki-class destroyer). The construction of the first batch of 6 warships began at the same time, and it was completed the following year (March B97). The specific performance indicators of this type of ship are as follows:

Displacement: standard 1680 tons, full load 1980 tons

Length: 118.0 m, Width: 10.36 m, Draught: 3.20 m

Engine: ship-based reduced steam turbine ×2, 4 heavy oil boilers, 2 shaft propulsion

Main engine output: 50000 horsepower

Fuel: 475 tons of heavy oil

Maximum speed: 38 knots

Endurance: 4500 nm / 14 knots

Armament: three B-type twin 127mm/50 times caliber guns, rate of fire 10 rounds per minute; 2 12.7mm machine guns; 3 92-year-old triple 610mm caliber torpedoes (spear torpedoes) launch tubes were changed to 1 type, and 18 mines were prepared; minelaying and minesweepers, sonar; The compass bridge is equipped with a shooting director and a 2-meter rangefinder.

Capacity: 205 people.

This class of ships has a two-stage deck and a hull shape that pursues the performance of ayanami and has good seafaring performance, and the bridge that has been commonly used in the past has been changed to a closed type to improve habitability, and it also has a heavy armament relative to the displacement - 3 semi-armored turret 127mm twin guns, 9-ray 610mm torpedoes in the center of the ship and 18 reserve torpedoes, and the design also takes into account the convenience and safety of reloading spare torpedoes.

The naval officer who supervised the construction of the ship commented on the ship: "This class ship is less than 2,000 tons, but in terms of firepower, it is simply a 5,000-ton cruiser, and the speed can catch up with the old torpedo, and the name fast pocket cruiser is very correct." ”

But here comes the problem, the New World Federation Navy refuses to equip such warships. Because the Minister of Armament has been replaced, the original torpedo winning brother Dewey has retired, and the new arrival is a naval gunner, Vice Admiral Tom Hinks, who declared at a meeting of senior naval officers: "The naval battle of Cape Roquedel, the victory of the White Ocean Democratic Federation Army is pure luck, and the Tasman Empire Navy is too scum, so this war has no reference significance." Naval battles still have to rely on big ships and huge guns. In peacetime, the Navy's daily deterrence tasks can only be undertaken by the capital ships of large ships and huge guns. ”

The new Minister Tom Sings commented on this new type of warship: "Those large torpedo boats can't outrun the shells no matter how fast they go, and as for the torpedoes, they are not as powerful as the cannonballs." The survivability and attack capabilities of this new warship are questionable. I am not going to equip the Navy with such ships. This will cause confusion in military thinking and affect the implementation of campaign operations. ”

The Secretary of the Navy did not agree with the design concept of this type of warship, kicked it out of the door, and the six warships that had been built had to wait until a few years later to become a little outdated before being sold on the international market, and they lay quietly in the dock. At the end of B96, the Republic of Treasure Island called to demand the country's port usage fee, which coincided with the end of the year, the federal budget was exhausted, and the only way to offset the bill was to take the form of material payment. In view of the fact that the country is a friendly small country, such warships were boarded on the receivables materiel. That account is just like two or three warships, and if all six of them are wanted, the Republic of Treasure Island will have to pay a large sum of money to the Federation.

A rare opportunity was presented to the Republic of Treasure Island, which decided, "All Wants"; The warships were purchased wholly with loans from international banks, and additional funds were added to carry out customized armament enhancements at the original shipyard. After the arrival of the new warship, the original old warship was put up for sale, and the ship was sold to pay off the debt. This is a low-cost naval armament upgrade. Undoubtedly, this was a deal of luck for "the advanced countries that the backward countries coveted to build new ships for their own use", and the Republic of Treasure Island was lucky. The custom-modified Edelweiss-class high-speed pocket cruiser is equipped with the following weapons:

Three B twin 127mm/50 caliber guns, fully armored turret, rate of fire 10 rounds per minute; 4 35mm broadside high-level dual-purpose machine guns, 6 12.7mm machine guns; 3 92-year-old triple 610mm caliber torpedo tubes were changed to 1 type, and 18 mines were prepared; minelaying and minesweepers, sonar; The compass bridge is equipped with a shooting director and a 2-meter rangefinder. After the refit, the hull was increased by 35 tons, and the key parts were armored and strengthened. The most powerful weapon on the ship is the spear torpedo, which is used here Type 93 Type 3 spear torpedo, diameter (mm): 610, total length (m): 9, weight (kg): 2800, explosive capacity (kg): 780, speed and range (knots/m): 50/15000~36/30000

Also turned away by the conservative New World York's Federal Admiralty Minister was 30 PT torpedo boats, what he saw as "children's toys". The Treasure Island Navy also bought these "toys", the price is not cheap, but it is very useful, even without torpedoes, this small boat is a good traffic boat, and it is usually used as a traffic boat.

The PT boat is a torpedo boat, which is a small, fast, highly maneuverable auxiliary combat ship that can independently perform the task of attacking larger surface ships. The squadron of PT boats in the U.S. Navy was nicknamed the "Mosquito Fleet", while the Japanese called them "Devil Boats". Before the advent of this boat, torpedo boats were designed with a "displacement" hull. They have a maximum displacement of 300 tons and a maximum speed of 25 to 27 knots (29 to 31 miles per hour or 46 to 50 kilometers per hour). PT boats, on the other hand, have a planing hull that was originally designed for competitive boats. They are much smaller (30-75 tons) and faster (35-40 knots). Each boat carried 4 MK-14 torpedoes, with a diameter of 533 mm and a length of 6.2 meters. Compared to the 610mm torpedo, the mine was weakly exploded in range, only 4 km or 8 km (look at the torpedo speed). The warhead is equipped with 350 pounds of explosives, that is, 158 kilograms of explosives, which is naturally not as powerful as a 610mm spear torpedo, after all, the volume is there.

Around June 30, 97 B century, these warships were successively in the hands of the Treasure Island Navy.

On January 1, the first year of the C century, the Treasure Island Navy prepared for the worst - to lose all of these six pocket high-speed cruisers and 30 torpedo boats.

At 7:30 a.m. on January 1, in the bunker conference room of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Treasure Island, an argument had been going on for a full hour.

The topic of the meeting was the issue of specific combat modes. On this issue, the officers present at the meeting were clearly divided into two opposing factions. One faction can be called the war of attrition faction, advocating holding on, fighting for every inch of territory, and using local advantages to wage a war of attrition against the enemy from afar, and finally forcing the enemy to abandon strategic attempts. On the other hand, the annihilation war faction resolutely opposes stubbornly defending positions, saying that "it is defending to the death" and "using human lives to consume the enemy's artillery shells." They advocate adopting flexible and changeable tactics to create or wait for opportunities to inflict annihilating blows on the enemy and force the enemy to give up and thus achieve victory.

The war of attrition faction seems to be some very hot-blooded soldiers, who express their determination at every turn, to fight to the death, and to defend XXX. But what can a pile of dead bodies defend!? These empty words and clichés are really noise pollution. The person who says this is usually either extremely hypocritical, or has a problem with IQ, at least out of a state of emotional out-of-control performance. During the Wenge period, there were many such "madmen" in the mainland. A grassroots performing artist in a certain place shouted "xxx die, I die" to show his loyalty, but xxx died, but he did not die. Not only did he not die, but he was also arrested and imprisoned for 20 years because he cursed xxx in public. An extremely hypocritical psychopath, who deserves this fate. In the same way, a group of manic psychos who are emotionally out of control will never be able to win the war.

In contrast, the Annihilation War faction is much calmer, and its words are more scientific, organized, and logical.

"The cannon fodder soldiers and military supplies of the Saxony-Windsor Empire are all from the colonies, and compared to this small island, the enemy's manpower and material supply is almost unlimited."

"The enemy's supplies and personnel can be replenished from the nearest colony, but our supplies and personnel here are limited, and the war of attrition can only consume ourselves."

"Against a strong enemy army, a reciprocal war of attrition can only be consumed, and the final result can only be defeat; Only by adopting a war of annihilation and annihilating the enemy army in large numbers can we effectively contain the enemy's offensive and finally defeat the enemy. ”

The war of attrition and death faction that had subsided the fever began to side with the outwitting faction of the war of annihilation. A war of annihilation has become a foregone conclusion. But how can this war of annihilation be fought? What types of enemy troops to annihilate? Disagreement arose again on this issue. The officers were divided into naval and marine warfare factions.

Naval Warfare Faction: "The cannon fodder soldiers of the Saxony-Windsor Empire come from the colonies, and where there are countless such cannon fodder, the enemy commander will not hesitate at all, even if all the enemy landing forces are annihilated, there will be more cannon fodder." It can only adopt the mode of naval warfare, sink the enemy's fleet, and without enough warships, the enemy colonial cannon fodder does not even dare to land. ”

Marine: "You're right, we all know the truth, but the question is, do we have the strength to sink the enemy's fleet?" That's the most powerful naval fleet in the world!! ”

Naval warfare: "When the enemy forces land in a big way, and the landing force reaches a certain number, it is simply impossible to conduct a war of annihilation." Victory is possible only in naval battles, with strikes against enemy warships......"

All the officers present at the meeting, and even all the military personnel of this country, understood that in this war of surprise attack mode, victory would be achieved only by sinking the enemy's capital ships, sinking a sufficient number of enemy capital ships. But how do you sink the enemy's capital ship? That's the real problem.

At 7:35, the naval reconnaissance plane reported: "The second wave of the enemy's landing force has departed. It is expected that the beach rush will start in 40 minutes. ”

Inspiration for composers and painters always flashes through their minds, and this is often the case for soldiers who compose music and paint on the battlefield. Inspiration struck, and Admiral Carl Perry, Commander of the Treasure Island Navy and Minister of Defense, came up with a bold plan, or rather a temporary idea......

(The country has traditionally had a naval commander who is also the Minister of Defense, there is no Army Commander, and the Army Ministries are directly under the direct command of the Minister of Defense)

The plan was as follows: send two high-speed cruisers to attack the enemy's landing force and its flotilla in the vicinity, and force the enemy to launch an attack on our warships in the near sea area. Our high-speed cruisers engaged in an exchange of fire with enemy ships, looking for an opportunity to lure large enemy ships into an ambush circle of shore defense fortified guns or torpedo boat units and annihilate them.

Two nearby high-speed cruisers were dispatched to the enemy's landing area, and torpedo boats were looking for suitable standby positions in the island's bay.

It's a bit like the rumored COPPER fishing in a certain country to make money, two edelweiss-class girls "Hatsune Miku" (Hatsune Miku is very PL), and "Lingboree" executes color lure. 30 two-dog temporary PT torpedo boats, as well as a few boss-level real POL shore-based fortress batteries, are waiting in the net.

"MK14 Type 533mm torpedoes and 280mm/305mm shore-based fortress guns with picric acid explosives welcome you, just come and don't go". I don't know that the hapless battleship or battlecruiser Brother Euphoria will be lured into the abyss of despair by the girls of "Limpoli" and "Hatsune Miku" (renamed Edelweiss).

In addition to these two girls, there are four beauties who are also going into battle at this time. "Aya Ueto", "Akibe Yoshizawa", "Ozawa Yuan", and "Odakei" left before dawn, and they were going to fight in groups and resupply the enemy fleet.

At two o'clock in the morning local time, the four beauties set off to the position where the enemy's supply fleet had the greatest probability of encountering, and they wanted to use torpedoes to educate these children, "Naval battles are risky, and you need to be cautious when participating in war."

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the four beautiful women arrived at the predetermined sea area, but there were no enemy supply ships here, there were still enemy ships, the enemy's Galileo 305 heavy artillery light cruisers, 20, a full 20 Galilean 305mm heavy artillery light cruisers gathered in this sea area, waiting for the order to participate in the battle. Look at 20 enemy cruisers armed with 305mm' heavy guns. Tragedy! There is no transport ship, the battleship is enough to cover you, Nima is too bloody.

(Hey, those in the Navy Staff, that's a gross dereliction of duty!!) Do you want to kill these four beauties? How was this battle plan made?? Shot! Shot! ）

But the bloodier ones are still to come. Four thin big beauties bravely rushed forward!! Look at other people's navy, what kind of spirit is this?!

The Royal Navy of the British Empire will fight in the face of the enemy. The Royal Navy of the British Empire resolutely adheres to this principle - no matter how strong or weak the opponent is, it will fight when the enemy is encountered!!

The climax of the Hollywood blockbuster "Angry Seas" is the broadside battle between the frigate "Marvel" and the French battleship "Inferno", and the captain played by Russell Crowe cries: "For England, for the bounty!" Come on! "The officers and men of the whole ship were like crazy, and they used machetes, axes, pistols, and other murder weapons, and jumped over the side of the ship like a vicious wolf and captured the French ship." The "Marvel" was a sixth-rank ship with only 28 guns, while its prey, the "Hell", was a fourth-rank ship (low-class battleship) with 44 guns. This is a frigate defeating and capturing a battleship. This was not an exceptional case, as the scenes of small Royal Navy warships chasing the French warships and beating them up were common in the oceans of the 16th and 19th centuries.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the British and the French navies fought six major wars, and the Royal Navy won each battle, with a total of 5,749 casualties, 16,313 casualties and 22,657 prisoners. The British lost 166 warships, while their opponents, the French Navy alone, lost 1,201 warships. A navy that can fight well and chase after the enemy is the last word for a strong man to survive at sea.

Using four small warships to tease the opponent's 20 cruisers seems to have a bit of the momentum of the Royal Navy back then. It's 100% bravery, 120% blood, 200% death, 500% shabi, and maybe 1000% despair. This is undoubtedly the rhythm of going to the newspapers, like "Sonic Thunders", that brave Ensign Inoue.

In fact, this is just a bloody miscalculation. The beauties took these 20 cruisers as transport ships Oba. In the face of the unarmed transport ship Oba, how could the four beauties armed with spears and torpedoes not meet him and strip him naked.

The Galileo 305 heavy artillery light cruiser that was mistaken for the transport ship Oba is like this: the American-made LST type landing ship is improved, with a length of 100 meters, a width of 15.3 meters, a draft of 4.2 meters, a standard displacement of 2053 tons, a maximum displacement of 3380 tons, the main engine is 2 GM12-567A48 diesel engines, a total power of 3500 horsepower, a maximum speed of 23 knots, a crew of 220 people, and a 305 mm fleet decisive naval gun. The auxiliary armament consisted of a 40 mm Bofors cannon in the bow and four 20 mm guns evenly spaced on both sides of the middle deck.

This is an ultra-cheap light cruiser, the product of careful planning in the late stage of the arms race, using a simplified structure version of the cruiser rebuilt by the hull of the landing ship to enhance the deterrence of the Navy at low cost. The price was only a quarter of that of a cruiser of the same tonnage. Since the price is cheap, let's build more, a total of 54 ships of this class were built. Of these, 24 are in service, and the remaining 30 are mothballed for war.

The cruiser was improved from a landing ship, and it also had the habit of pigs like a transport ship, tightly huddled together, no wonder the girls were mistaken. But this bloody mistake may bring: a misstep will become a thousand years of hatred, a thousand meters of seabed target ship sinking, target ship sinking.