932 Battle of Jutland (7)
The German fleet was suddenly attacked by underwater submarines, and they were very nervous, but they did not have much energy to take care of it, the air raids continued, and the German sailors still racked their brains to escape from the nightmare of terrible anti-ship missiles. At this time www.biquge.info, Haier Lansing already had a feeling that he knew the destiny of heaven, and he even pessimistically believed that under the terrible anti-ship missile offensive of the Tang Army, not a single German ship would be able to escape from the battlefield.
It's just that what needs to be done still has to be done, Haier Lansing ordered the frigates in the German fleet to carry out anti-submarine operations, and the frigates of the Germans were armed with depth charges, mainly against submarines. However, there is a huge problem here, that is, the anti-submarine weapons of the German Navy and even the entire European Navy are actually mainly used for the performance of their own submarines. In fact, the submarines of the Europeans should be called surface ships capable of diving, and the diving time is generally not more than 24 hours, and the speed is relatively slow.
However, the submarines of the Datang Navy are completely different things, at high speeds, the speed of the fin whale-class submarines with extremely fast diving is not slower than the German frigates, so it may not be possible for the German frigates to catch up.
However, the most serious problem is that in such a complex underwater acoustic environment, the density of ships is large, and there is a lot of interference, and the Germans' sonar cannot catch any useful information at all, and Datang's submarine is underwater the whole time, and the Germans can only be torpedoed by their own battleship, and then rely on this to roughly determine the direction of the Datang submarine, but how far it is, I don't know at all.
In such a situation, the German frigates could not find the three submarines of Datang. They scurried around the water like headless flies, wanting to see the traces of the Datang submarine. To their left, more than a dozen German ships had been badly damaged or even sunk or completely sunk. It also put a lot of pressure on the German frigates to carry out their missions, because they did not know when they might also become the target of an anti-ship missile flying out of the sky.
At this time, the Fourth Task Force of the Datang Navy was long overdue. It is not so much that it came late, but that the time arranged by Lin Huansheng was just right, and basically all the German main warships had been seriously injured just now and had lost most of their combat capability. Maybe a small number of cruisers and frigates will be able to continue fighting, but for the Datang Navy, these forces are also here to deliver food.
40 nautical miles away from the German fleet, Lin Huansheng issued an order for the entire fleet to fight, and the first to attack was not the ten battleships of the Tang Navy, but the missile cruisers, missile destroyers, and missile frigates among all surface ships. The Datang Navy has very high requirements for anti-ship capabilities, and all ships carry launch boxes for anti-ship missiles, with larger ships carrying 16 rounds and heavy ones, and smaller ones carrying 8 rounds and medium-sized ones.
In fact, similar to the situation of the Air Force and the Navy, the anti-ship missiles used by the Datang Navy ships are also not so sufficient, not that the ships will not be able to carry all the missiles, but basically the supply is very small, and after all the missiles are fired, these ships basically lose their anti-ship capabilities. However, fortunately, these missiles are enough to wipe out the British and German navies, as long as these two navies are eliminated, the shipping route will be completely open to Datang, and then more weapons and ammunition can be transported.
Not all ships fired missiles, and several ships in the north of the fleet's defense circle did not make a move because of their position, in fact, they were mainly to guard against the air enemy coming from the north, although the probability is very low, because outside the strait, there is an aircraft carrier battle group led by a Hubei-class aircraft carrier from Datang, which can provide sufficient airspace protection and alert the enemy on any surface of the water that tries to approach.
And even if less than ten ships fired anti-ship missiles at the same time, there were already thirty or forty anti-ship missiles whizzing towards the German ships. With the guarantee of high hit rate, more German ships were heavily damaged, and the battleship Marnes Leader, which was commanded by Naval Commander Hailelansing, was so damaged that Hailelansing's subordinates had to advise Hailelansing to leave the battleship and go to another warship to continue commanding the battle.
At this time, Haier Lansing had nothing to taboo about, and he said, "What's the use of leaving? The Datang Navy is far more powerful than we imagined, we look at our Datang counterparts with our narrow and ridiculous eyes, and now they have taught us a vivid lesson, none of our ships may survive, and here today, the Datang Navy will blow all of us to pieces with missiles. ”
He already had the heart to die in battle, so he directly gave the command to the captain of a cruiser. Naturally, this will not be of any essential help, and even if he commands the flowers, it is impossible to save the German Navy.
Another wave of ship-to-ship missiles took away four warships, and at this moment there was not a single German battleship that was left unwound. The two light battleships, which were the main force, were completely sunk at this time, and the Germans, who had no time to rescue their comrades who had fallen into the water, were tired of dealing with the incoming missiles, and a large number of German sailors were also drowned in this icy sea. One of the Nassau-class battleships had also sunk. The two most important Marens Leader-class battleships, which had the most missiles, were already crumbling at the moment.
Both ships lost most of their power, and the strategy of maneuvering to evade could not be implemented. And the weapons on it were also very badly damaged, such as the four turrets on the second ship, the Germanic Ambition, because of the explosion, two of them have been lifted, one was blown up directly through the armor, and the last one even had a mechanical failure and could not rotate. Of course, even if the turret still works, it's unlikely that anyone will.
At this moment, the ten Datang Navy battleships brought by Lin Huansheng appeared in the field of vision of the Germans with a finishing attitude. When the officers and men of the German Navy saw the ten Datang battleships that were not even arranged in formation, despair had crawled all over everyone's faces.
The reason why it is not a formation is because the Datang battleship is actually more of a mascot, and the actual role of the battle is very small, because it has not been transformed, and it is still mainly artillery, so the main combat use of this kind of ship is to carry out some finishing work. After all, the 406 mm main guns on the Mexican class and the 460 mm main guns on the Yamato-class are also very terrifying, even if there are ships that are not sunk for a while, but after eating so many rounds, it will basically be completely useless. (To be continued.) )