At the same time that the Datang officials had just received the loss of their merchant ships in the United States, a naval battle between the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy also broke out. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Royal Navy also has a relatively strong fleet in Canada, with a total of 23 warships. However, compared to the U.S. Navy, these 23 warships are all older, and the strongest warships are only cruisers, not battleships like the U.S. Navy.

After the outbreak of war, the US Navy adopted a relatively correct tactic, using both breaking the engagement and blockading the port to limit Canada's war capability. The Royal Navy's largest naval base in Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, is home to the vast majority of the Royal Navy's Canadian fleet.

The U.S. Navy also gathered its main fleet to stay outside Halifax, seeking a decisive battle with the British Royal Navy. On the side of the American task force, six battleships arrived. They are the 12,000-ton Chishaji-class Chishaji and the Kentucky; the 16,720-ton Maine-class Maine and Massachusetts; 19,500 tons of Connecticut-class USS Connecticut and USS Vermont.

Among the six battleships, the Qishazhi-class was built in 1791, and the real body is actually an ironclad ship, and both ships were all purchased from Datang. The Maine, the lead ship of the Maine class, was also built at the Olleans shipyard on the east coast of Datang, and the second ship, the Massachusetts, was built at the Philadelphia shipyard with the help of Datang technology transfer. As for the latest Connecticut-class, it is designed by Datang and built locally, using a 360 mm caliber naval gun imported from Datang, which is actually a monkey version of the 360 mm naval gun on the Datang Australia-class battleship, with a range, rate of fire and power that is only half to two-thirds of the original. But this kind of strength is also quite strong for the navies of other countries. With the exception of Britain's newest Bellerophon-class, none of the navies of European countries can suppress such a dreadnought as the Connecticut-class.

The British Royal Navy had a total of 5 cruisers in Halifax, which was not even as numerous as the American battleships. The largest tonnage is only 7,350 tons, and it is not even a heavy cruiser, and the maximum naval gun caliber is only 6 inches, which is 152mm.

In the report made by the Datang Ministry of Defense, relevant experts analyzed that the US Navy has an advantage in terms of equipment. Compared with the British, who were repeatedly defeated by the Tang Navy in these years and repeatedly caught up in naval battles in Europe, the British lost many capital ships in the last war. The U.S. Navy has continued to develop for more than 20 years without any loss of combat power. On the other hand, the United States has received more technology transplants than the United Kingdom because of its closer relationship with Datang. The United States is the first country in the world to equip all warships except for Datang. At least before the European War, the United States acquired Datang technology to build new warships earlier than European countries.

Stable economic growth and a secure environment are also the reasons for the growing US Navy, so when everyone has not yet reacted, the US Navy has quietly become a presence that has to be faced.

The U.S. Navy closed the harbor, and the Royal Navy could not avoid the battle, and it was obviously impossible for the U.S. Navy warships to sail into the harbor to fight the British. But the Americans absolutely did not want the British to be safe and secure. The innovative U.S. Navy mobilized only 20 bombers to take off from an airfield in Maine and fly 500 kilometers to bomb the Royal Navy ships in the harbor.

The bomber used by the U.S. military is naturally also a Datang product, which is the foreign trade biplane bomber "Rainbow Trout" from McDonnell Douglas Company. The only support for this bomber was the U.S. military, with a total production of 21 aircraft, and yes, in addition to the 20 sold to the Americans, McDonnell Douglas built a prototype himself.

In fact, Datang has a large number of such original designs for foreign trade that are simply made for money, and several designers find a copycat prototype from the database of the traversal, and then knock and knock to make a prototype, and as soon as the customer comes to show them, you will take it away if you are happy.

The rainbow trout is also the first foreign trade bomber exported by Datang, with a maximum take-off weight of 5.8 tons, a total bomb load of 780 kilograms, and a range of 1,000 kilometers. In fact, the original design of the rainbow trout was 1250 kg of bomb load, but the range was only more than 500 kilometers, and the US military required an increase in the range, so the bomb load was reduced and the fuel tank was increased.

Because of this improvement, the Rainbow Trout Bomber could take off from Maine and bomb the Port of Halifax.

The bombs carried by the 20 bombers totaled more than a dozen tons, and the weight was not small. It's just that the agility of the rainbow trout is extremely poor, and it is impossible to dive and drop bombs, and the hit rate of horizontal bombs is very low, but their attacks are very sudden, and the British Royal Navy does not have much experience in dealing with air raids, although there are certain anti-aircraft guns in the port, but when the bombers really fly over, the British are still a little flustered.

More than a dozen British battleships in the harbor could not dodge at all, and even if the bombers were poorly accurate, many bombs hit the target and then caused losses. There are only two specifications of aerial bombs used by rainbow trout, 50kg and 100kg, and there are no armor-piercing bombs, so the power is actually not great. However, the ships in the British Royal Navy harbor did not have thick deck armor, and even nearly half of them were previously built ironclad ships, with only one layer of iron sheets, and the inside was all wood, and the defense was emphasized on the hull, not the deck.

Three battleships suffered huge losses in the bombardment, one of the frigates was sunk, and two were incapacitated, respectively, with a damaged conning tower and an explosion of boilers. In such a situation, the commander of the British Royal Navy knew that it was no longer possible to avoid the war in the harbor, and if the Americans continued to bomb, they would gradually be consumed.

In this way, the US Navy forced the British Royal Navy out of the port of Halifax. The outcome of the British fleet was obvious, as the U.S. Navy surrounded the British even though they had used smoke grenades in a large area after leaving the port in an attempt to escape in the chaos.

Six capital ships showed great firepower, sinking a number of British battleships, and only four British battleships, including one cruiser, managed to escape. After this battle, the British Royal Navy's fleet in Canada was almost completely wiped out and the entire combat capability was lost, while the US Navy won the sea supremacy in the western Atlantic with a hearty victory.

The impact of this naval battle is also obvious, the world's navy was shocked by the effect of the Americans' use of bombers, and Datang was also a little worried that countries would vigorously develop naval aviation forces as a result. And Britain suffered a rout no less than the Battle of the English Sea, and there was a lot of criticism at home, and the British Royal Navy was even more angry, organized a huge fleet, and prepared to regain the initiative. (To be continued.) )