Chapter 668: Decisive Battle Atlantic Pressure Second Attack
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"Order the submarine groups of the two oceanic fleets to quickly dispatch troops to reinforcements!"
"Commander, our submarine fleet has already engaged in a war with the enemy fleet. At this time, the www.biquge.info reinforcements were dispatched, and it was impossible to arrive at the speed of the submarine. It is better for the submarine fleet to continue the battle as planned, and quickly end the battle and follow the surface fleet to help. β
Li Dingxin thought about it, although the Song-class submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy were very fast underwater, they could not catch up with the German warships that entered the combat speed. Rather than wasting it on the march, it is better to end the battle over there early and rush here to support.
As for Liu Chuntang's persuasion of him not to let the Guanghua Emperor participate in the war, Li Dingxin finally refused. In his opinion, the High Seas Fleet had lost air supremacy, and the German aircraft capable of threatening the ultimate battleship of the Gwanghua the Great did not exist. And the German Third Reich-class ultimate battleship could not sink the Guanghua Emperor ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire, at least theoretically.
However, Li Dingxin is not without worries in his heart. Another factor that could pose a threat to the Guanghua Emperor was the sudden disappearance of the German submarine force.
"As long as the anti-submarine vigilance is strengthened, there should be no problem!"
Li Dingxin was comforted in his heart, but he was still very calm and confident on his face - the Guanghua Emperor could not be sunk.
By the time the Central Fleet rushed to the aid of the Eastern Front, there was already a fierce exchange of fire on the Western Front.
As the commander of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Bundy, withdrew both the Second and Fourth Squadrons from the main fleet. As a result, only the first and sixth fleets remained in his own fleet, with a total of only two ultimate battleships, seven super battleships, eleven fast battleships, nine cruisers and twenty-two destroyers, as well as two escort aircraft carriers without carrier-based aircraft, and more than thirty tugboats and supply ships.
As a result, the High Seas Fleet was originally on the side of absolute weakness, and after many divisions of forces, the strength of the High Seas Fleet was greatly reduced.
Under the circumstance that the main fleet of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the main fleet of the British Royal Navy were combined, Bundy had no intention of breaking through at all. ββ He knew that he couldn't break through at all.
The only thing that Bundy was happy about at this moment was that he successfully played a golden cicada under Li Dingxin's eyes, making the enemy ships encountered by the Second and Fourth Fleets the weakest and the most promising to break through.
"Enemy planes are coming!"
The rapid siren sounded, and the German officers and men of the fleet looked up at the sky in the distance, and all of them turned gloomy in an instant.
I saw that on the gloomy sky, the sky was full of dark clouds, and a team of Chinese emperor** and British fighters suddenly came out from under the clouds. The humming of thousands of warplanes resounded in the sky and rapidly approached the High Seas Fleet from all directions. The sound even drowned out the roar of the battleship and the roar of the waves. The German officers and soldiers who were directly pressed could not breathe.
"What are you doing? Open fire, soldiers! β
"Y-yes, sir!"
Listening to the roar of the commander, the soldiers seemed to be unable to fight in peacetime, and their answers were also stumbling and stumbling.
A German soldier nervously turned the firing disc under the commander's shout, and the muzzle of the rapid-fire gun was quickly raised and aimed in the direction of the enemy plane.
But the sky was full of enemy planes, densely packed. The black pressure was overwhelming, and the soldier was extremely nervous. I don't know which one to aim at at all.
"Knock knock!"
The rapid-fire cannon next to him suddenly opened fire, and the soldier trembled with fear. There is no way to fire at all.
"What are you doing? Soldier! β
"Pounce!"
When the commander reached out to pull the trembling soldier who couldn't aim and fire, he didn't expect the soldier to turn around and spit on the commander's face. ββ
The commander was about to collapse, and he took out his gun and immediately killed the soldier, and replaced it with another soldier.
This kind of thing does not happen in normal times, but in the desperate situation of the battlefield, even the German soldiers, who are known for their strict training, cannot escape the word fear.
The arrival of a large number of aircraft from the Imperial Chinese Air Force caused great psychological fear among the officers and men of the German Navy, making it impossible for them to exert their training level in peacetime, and even to reach 50 percent of their combat strength.
The strength of both sides is declining, and the outcome of the battle is self-evident.
But for the pilots of the Chinese Imperial Army, it was inevitable to destroy the German fleet in front of them, because the other side had no escort fighters at all, and could only fire into the air. Wang Jian, commander-in-chief of the aircraft carrier battle group of the Imperial Chinese Navy, formulated a new set of tactics -- the second attack tactic, that is, under the condition of occupying absolute air supremacy and the absolute superiority of one's own air power, in order not to give the enemy time to breathe, he ordered all fighters to form a multi-batch and multi-echelon battle formation, control the time interval, and launch attacks on the enemy ships without interruption, so that the enemy's anti-aircraft fire has no time to reload the shells. It even made it impossible for enemy personnel to open their eyes at any time in order to avoid the blast wave of the explosion.
According to Wang Jiancheng's order, the Chinese Imperial Naval Aviation and the British Royal Naval Aviation launched attacks from the left and right flanks of the High Seas Fleet, respectively. More than 200 aircraft carriers on both sides took off a total of more than 8,000 warplanes, but the target of attack was only the dozens of warships of the high seas fleet, so they were divided into eight offensive waves, one at 20-minute intervals. Each attack wave is divided into ten attack echelons, and each attack attack attack has only two minutes of dive attack time. 100 dive bombers and torpedo attack planes carried out dive attacks on various targets, removing flight time and evasive action time, and the bomb dropping time was only a dozen seconds or even a few seconds.
The Ultimate Battleship, the flagship of the Sixth Fleet, on the left flank of the High Seas Fleet, was the first battleship to be attacked by the Imperial Chinese Air Force's second-pressing tactics.
The seventh ship as the ultimate battleship of the Third Reich class. ββThe Berlin was given high hope by Hitler. With a displacement of nearly 80,000 tons, this ultimate battleship was the most equipped with anti-aircraft guns in the German Navy. In the air-sea combat exercises, the air force that once defeated Goering was praised by the German Navy as the ultimate battleship that would never be sunk by fighters.
But at this moment, the battleship Berlin is a different story. In just a few minutes, the battleship Berlin was hit by the fighter groups of the Chinese Emperor in many batches.
The formidable battleship anti-aircraft guns opened heavy fire, weaving a powerful fire and anti-aircraft network in the vicinity. The first attack echelon of the Chinese Emperor, which attacked the battleship Berlin, lost more than two dozen fighters in a row, and only three aerial bombs hit. For the rough-skinned battleship Berlin. It's nothing.
However, under the attack of the Chinese Emperor's second-pressing tactics, the fighters kept diving and attacking, which did not give the German officers and soldiers time to breathe at all.
The previous fighter plane was shot down, and in a matter of seconds, another one appeared. From the first fighter at a distance of more than 1,500 meters, the second fighter could intercept at a distance of 1,000 meters at the earliest, and the third fighter barely intercepted at a distance of about 600 meters from the Berlin. At this time, it was time for the German anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns in this direction to replace the chain of ammunition. The fourth fighter of the Chinese Emperor ** broke through the smoke cloud generated by the explosion of the previous fighter plane in a few seconds, and the machine gun fired at the German officers and soldiers a few hundred meters away. Caused a large number of casualties among the Germans. At the same time dropped aerial bombs. The aerial bomb flew down to the position of the German ship's rapid-fire gun and exploded, destroying the German rapid-fire gun.
This is just a small microcosm. At the same time, the approaching German anti-aircraft artillery could not support each other at all, because their fronts were simultaneously attacked by the Chinese Emperor ** fighters. Either the anti-aircraft artillery was blown up, or the German officers and men who controlled the anti-aircraft artillery were killed and wounded, and as a result, they all lost their combat effectiveness.
When the second attack of the dive bomber group is victorious, the torpedo attack group of the Chinese Emperor ** can safely reduce the altitude. Calmly dropped torpedoes within a kilometer of the perimeter of the battleship Berlin.
When one torpedo after another crashed into the Berlin at high speed, the officers and men on it were immediately frightened. They shouted and ran wildly. For a while, it was extremely chaotic.
With a loud bang, a red-headed torpedo hit the port side waterline of the Berlin. ββThe huge explosion instantly stirred up hundreds of meters high waves, and the battleship Berlin, which had 450 mm thick armor protection, suddenly trembled violently, and the waterline armor was blown off four-fifths of the thickness of the circular black crater, and caused a number of huge cracks on the port side of the battleship.
"We're fine! Enemy torpedoes could not penetrate the armor of the Berlin! β
The German officers and soldiers who were knocked to the deck cheered, but the next moment their smiles froze.
A German second lieutenant got up and looked at the sea, only to see a dozen torpedoes approaching the edge of the battleship.
"Fikoni! (German: Oh grass)"
"Boom! Boom! β
At the moment when the German second lieutenant was scolding, more than a dozen torpedoes hit the Berlin at the same time. The violent explosion instantly stirred up a rain of fire and smoke in the sky, engulfing the battleship Berlin in an instant. The violent blast wave tore the 450 mm thick armor apart, and the sea water poured violently into it through seven or eight huge openings, and in just half a minute, more than 5,000 tons of seawater poured into the port side of the Berlin, causing the battleship Berlin to tilt seriously to the left and sink quickly at the speed that was seen.
Although the battleship Berlin began to sink, a number of torpedoes were attracted by the huge electromagnetic pulse waves of the battleship Berlin and continued to attack it. This was also a disadvantage of the magnetic alien self-guided torpedo, which was not improved until the post-war Chinese Emperor.
It took only five minutes for the battleship Berlin to be attacked and incapacitated and sunk. The German naval officers and men were amazed by the formidable attack power of the Imperial Chinese naval aviation, and it was only at that moment that they really realized that the era of battleships had passed.
The blitzkrieg sinking of the battleship Berlin dealt a heavy blow to the hearts of the German officers and men on the other ships of the High Seas Fleet.
But they didn't have time to mourn their comrades on the Berlin, because at the same time they were being attacked with a second-pressing tactic.
If it weren't for the middle of the High Seas Fleet, the Chinese Emperor's fighter planes would need to break through layers of anti-aircraft fire to reach the Deutsche battleship, then the Deutsche battleship would be the first to be sunk. ββ Just because he is the flagship of the High Seas Fleet.
Although Li Dingxin had already transferred most of his jet fighters to the Eastern Front, most of the Western Front's battlefields were propeller fighters. The anti-aircraft fire network of the High Seas Fleet played an effective role, and hundreds of fighters were shot down in just a few minutes, but there were too many fighters of the Chinese Emperor, and the British Royal Naval Aviation was also transferred here to participate in the war, which made the air defense of the High Seas Fleet extremely insufficient, and it was soon broken through.
An overwhelming array of attack aircraft, coupled with a new type of second-pressed attack tactics. The anti-aircraft fire of the ships of the High Seas Fleet was soon paralyzed.
At 5:37 p.m., with a loud bang, a large explosion occurred at the No. 3 main gun ammunition depot of the flagship of the High Seas Fleet, the ultimate battleship, causing a tragic explosion of the entire battleship. The ultimate battleship was bombarded by 45 torpedoes and 433 aerial bombs in five minutes, and 3,422 people, including Admiral Bundy, commander of the High Seas Fleet, were spared.
Other battleships, light cruisers, destroyers, light escort aircraft carriers, tugboats, etc., were also sunk and heavily damaged in the following half hour. Although the German destroyers were fast, they only needed to be hit by one torpedo or two aerial bombs. Basically, it will be blown to pieces.
Since the Chinese Emperor focused on attacking the main battleships of the High Seas Fleet, these auxiliary warships avoided being destroyed in the first place. In the ensuing battle. With the high seas fleet flagship sunk. Commander-in-Chief Bundy was killed, and the other German warships were not so stubborn in their resistance and fled in all directions.
The ships of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the British Royal Navy launched fierce attacks on it from all sides, and all the German warships were sunk except for the heavy cruiser Munich and a few tugboats that surrendered.
On the Western Front, the battleship formations of China and Britain, although powerful, were not the protagonists. The tens of thousands of warplanes of hundreds of aircraft carriers of the two countries became a decisive force.
But. On the Eastern Front, the situation was indeed the opposite.
The 2nd and 4th detachments of the German High Seas Fleet, which broke through, after crushing the 6th battleship detachment of the British Royal Navy. Ran into the Central Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.
The aircraft carrier battle group of the German fleet was gone, having lost air supremacy. Although the Imperial Chinese Navy has a powerful aircraft carrier battle group. However, it was miscalculated that only a few dozen fighters participated in the battle in this area, which could only harass the German fleet and could not cause a decisive victory.
"Coming to the war zone! All departments are ready for battle! Repeat! Coming to the war zone ......"
On the walls of the various departments of the ultimate battleship Guanghua Emperor, the announcement of the imminent entry into the war zone was repeated over and over again in the loudspeakers of the fleet channel.
At this time, the officers and men of the whole ship were fully mentally prepared.
In the corridors, spiral ladders, and cabins, the operational staff officers of various departments walked back and forth. Dressed the soldier, tied the soldier's shoelaces, patted the soldiers' chests, and repeated the words of encouragement in their mouths, constantly boosting morale.
"Just play as you normally would!"
"Our ships cannot be sunk!"
"Most of the enemy's main forces have been wiped out, and the main forces of our army are on their way to our aid."
"We are not waiting for reinforcements to arrive, but we are destroying the enemy in front of us before reinforcements arrive."
"We will not allow our allies to rob us of the credit that should have belonged to us!"
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"Radar report! The enemy fleet is moving fast in the direction of 130! β
"Sonar report! No anomalies were found within 20 nautical miles of our fleet! β
"65 km!"
All kinds of reports were gathered in the bridge command room, and Li Dingxin stood with his hands in his hands, just quietly looking at a few plumes of smoke in the distance, which were the smoke coming out of several German warships after they were attacked.
"64 km!"
"Get into the range of missile attacks! Dalian and Lushun asked if they would attack! β
Liu Chuntang turned to Li Dingxin and repeated.
Li Dingxin nodded. Liu Chuntang immediately gave the order to attack.
In the command room of the Dalian missile cruiser, the captain put down the phone and ordered: "Prepare for sea operations!" β
The order was given, and the combat personnel of the various units in the bridge were quickly put into position.
"Ready for combat at sea!"
"Combat at sea, Howling Sky Dog missile attack!"
"Target: the German battleship Empress! Prepare for double shots! β
"Missile One is ready for launch!"
"The No. 2 missile launch is ready!"
"The target position is locked, 3Β°5' west longitude, 58Β°53' north latitude!"
"Howling Dog Missile Attack!"
"Howling Dog No. 1 missile attack, prepare - launch!"
The order was given, and the fighters quickly pressed the launch button.
In an instant, a Roaring Sky Dog ship-to-ship missile burst out from the launch canister, like a sharp sword unsheathed, shining brightly, piercing the sky......
It was already late in the evening, and with a storm approaching, it was already very dark.
The missile drew a long silvery-white arc in the dim sky, shining like a meteor.
"Howling Dog Missile Attack No. 2, Prepare - Launch!"
Immediately after that, the combatants pressed the No. 2 missile launch button again. The second Howling Sky Dog missile also broke out of its shell and flew into the sky with a roar, following the trail of the first missile, drawing a long white trajectory in the sky.
At the same time, the USS Arthur missile cruiser also launched two Howling Sky Dog missiles at the same time. Their target is another German ultimate battleship, the Louitpold Regent.
The moment the four missiles were fired into the sky, the course of human history took a huge step forward, and modern warfare began.
However, this is an asymmetrical modern war. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )