Chapter 461: Sino-American Atlantic Naval Battle X

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Li Dingxin shouted hello, hurriedly picked up the walkie-talkie, and shouted: "I am Li Dingxin, and now I order all teams to implement the No. 2 battle plan." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"The second battlefield understands!"

"Team 3 understands!"

"Fourth Sentai understands!"

"Fifth Sentai understands!"

Then Li Dingxin turned on the radio channel and shouted: "The victory or defeat of the imperial navy is in one fell swoop, and I hope that all the officers and soldiers will unite and fight bravely to kill the enemy." ā€

Then shouts of "Long live the Empire" and other shouts rang out over the ships, and for a time the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy were full of blood and morale.

Li Dingxin personally commanded the first team and shouted: "The first team listens to the order and follows the flagship." Left full rudder, combat speed. ā€

The order was given, and the flagship battleship Zhu Yuanzhang quickly turned to the left, and the huge flying scissor bow split the huge waves several meters high and made a sharp turn. The other three Ming-class battleships followed closely behind the flagship.

On the battleship North Carolina, the flagship of the U.S. Ocean Fleet opposite, when Eberly saw the Chinese Imperial Navy making a big turn, he was stunned at first, and then said with a fluttering eyebrow: "I heard that Li Dingxin, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, is just in his early forties, and he is really young, so he can't hold his breath so quickly. ā€

Adjutant Teber said with a smile: "Obviously, Li Dingxin is shooting at the T-shaped position, but he doesn't know your killer weapon general, you are the best expert at seizing the T-shaped position, and he is really a class in front of you." ā€

Eberly smiled proudly: "What I'm best at is not grabbing the T-shaped horizontal position, but letting the other party take the initiative to give me the T-shaped horizontal position." ā€

Teber nodded: "The T-formation itself is a 50% chance for each side, and unless the first side is absolutely sure, the slightest difference will create a fighter for the other side." ā€

Ebury nodded and said, "Li Dingxin wanted to use his speed advantage to seize the T-shaped horizontal position, but he forgot the most important one. That's the distance. Now we are more than 15 kilometers apart, and we can't hold a position at all unless they are 10 knots faster than us on average. ā€

"But you can see that the speed of the other party seems to be really fast, and if you compare it with the speed of our Divine Bow battleship, it is indeed more than 10 knots." ā€

Eberly laughed, "That's right! That is true! ā€

Teber asked, suspicious, "So what are you going to do?" ā€

Eberly said: "The ten Divine Bow battleships commanded by Kesai are just bait, and they will earn us a golden ten minutes of shooting time. ā€

Teber suddenly realized and said, "Sacrifice ten old battleships in exchange for heavy damage to the main force of the enemy fleet. Perhaps, at best, we and the Kessai fleet will flank the enemy fleet on the left and right, and the victory may be immediately decided. ā€

Eberly nodded, "That's exactly what I was looking forward to." ā€

Then, Eberly ordered Rang Kesai to lead ten Divine Bow battleships to act as a bait fleet to attract the firepower of the Imperial Chinese Navy, while Eberly led 25 Divine Bow battleships to quickly accelerate to the top speed to intervene at a 45-degree angle to the direction of the Imperial Chinese fleet. As long as Li Dingxin dares to attack the Kesai fleet, then the rear of the Flank must be violent, the Eberly fleet can flexibly rotate to the left or right, and the turret with a 360-degree rotation can lock on to the Chinese Imperial Fleet at any time.

At the same time, Eberly ordered Milan to lead 10 battle cruisers to maneuver around the perimeter to contain the naval firepower of the Chinese Empire.

It can be said that if Eberly's tactics had been placed ten years ago, Li Dingxin's fleet would have suffered heavy losses and would have been completely annihilated at any time. Of course, Li Dingxin knew what he was doing, and if it wasn't for Wang Jiancheng's guarantee, he would never dare to do it.

As Eberly said, the horizontal and vertical positions of the T-prefix will swap positions if you are not careful, and it is difficult for the dominant side to become the beaten side in an instant. Eberly's tactics were tricky, and he slid in at a 45-degree angle, which made it difficult for Li Dingxin to tell whether he was turning left or right. If you can't judge, then you will be beaten by the Eberly fleet.

Li Dingxin relied on the air attack force sent by Wang Jiancheng, and as long as this attack force could drop bombs or torpedoes on either side of the Eberly fleet, it could force it to turn first, so that Li Dingxin would regain the opportunity and calmly deal with the next battle.

Of course, at this time, the key to victory or defeat has been transferred to the air raid force sent by Wang Jiancheng.

At 3:30 p.m., three hundred Hellfire fighters and 192 H2N1 bombers suddenly appeared on the clouds at a height of 5,000 meters to the northwest.

This attack aircraft group was Wang Jiancheng's killer weapon for the US fleet, and it was personally led by Rear Admiral Peng Dunxun of the Second Aircraft Carrier Battle Group.

At this time, the US Air Force had less than 300 combat planes over the US fleet, and the other planes were either pinned down in the air 60 kilometers away to fight the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force, or they returned home because they ran out of ammunition. Due to the complexity of the US military's fighter planes, as many as more than a dozen types, the Xingxing capabilities of various aircraft are uneven, and the time spent in the air is different. Mass-produced fighters generally did not have enough time in the air, so they were forced to return after a few circles with the Imperial Chinese Naval Aviation.

The U.S. Air Force did not expect that the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force would play such a trick, and the inexperienced U.S. Air Force realized that the opponent's fighter planes were deliberately reducing their ammunition consumption and deliberately using speed and range to maneuver. But it was too late, the previous BO plane was running out of ammunition and fuel and was returning one after another, and the next BO plane had not yet arrived, taking this opportunity, Peng Tunxun led the assault team to quickly dive down from the high altitude and go straight to the Eberly fleet.

300 Hellfire fighters swooped down at high speed, and the US fighter group that was on guard was caught off guard, and dozens of them were shot down in the blink of an eye.

Other vigilant US fighters hurriedly entered the battle, but they no longer had a numerical advantage, and basically went head-to-head with the Peng Tunxun Aviation Wing. At this time, the powerful firepower of the Hellfire fighter suddenly became a nightmare for US pilots, and more than 100 of them were shot down in less than a minute. Due to the failure of the radio system, the commander of the US military commander who was on alert was unable to call for support, and the 300 alert planes were quickly dispersed.

300 Hellfire fighters continued to dive into the sky nearly three or four hundred meters to the left of the Eberly fleet, and the rocket systems that were originally mounted under the belly of the aircraft had been replaced with torpedoes. When the officers and men of the US fleet looked at the sky in horror, Peng had already ordered the planes to start throwing torpedoes.

One after another, torpedoes fell from the sky into the sea, surfaced a moment later, and then burst into the American fleet from both left and right directions at the same time.

At this time, Eberly was excitedly commanding the fleet to rush towards the Imperial Chinese Navy, as long as his fleet approached within 10 kilometers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, then he would win, because at that time, whether Li Dingxin avoided to the left or right, he could calmly occupy the T-shaped shooting position.

However, his good dreams were ruined by 300 torpedoes falling from the sky. These torpedoes, despite their small caliber and low explosive yield, are also very dangerous if hit. Moreover, the American troops did not think about the caliber and explosive yield of the torpedo at all, and they were afraid that one torpedo was enough to send them to God in their subconscious.

"Circumvent!"

"Circumvent!"

"Evade it now!"

The American warships shouted in a hurry. Although he did not receive an order from Ebury to change course, the American ** people have always been self-preservation, and they don't care about anything else in order to save their lives.

However, the torpedo dropped from the Hellfire fighter had extremely high inertial acceleration, and when it fell from three or four hundred meters away in the air, it was only one or two hundred meters away from the US warship when it fell into the sea, and when the torpedo surfaced, most of them were already within 100 meters.

At this distance, with torpedoes up to 40 knots, the American warships simply did not have time to evade.

"Knock knock!"

The close defense guns on the side of the American battleship opened heavy fire, trying to destroy the torpedoes that rushed towards them. But the effect is very limited, and it is not even time to aim for more than ten seconds.

"Boom!"

Many American warships were torpedoed at the beginning of their turns, and not one, but several. Violent explosions rang out one after another, and the US fleet was immediately severely damaged, and in the blink of an eye, the US ships North Carolina, the USS Maine, the USS Missouri, the USS Ohio, the USS Tennessee, the USS California, the USS Colorado, the USS Maryland, the USS West Virginia, the USS Washington, the USS South Dakota, the USS Mengdana, the USS Indiana, the USS Massachusetts, the USS Oregon, and the USS Chilshach were hit by torpedoes ranging from one to 11 torpedoes.

Among them, the Maryland was struck by 11 torpedoes in 10 seconds, and the super battleship equipped with a 16-inch cannon was instantly sunk, and more than 2,000 US officers and men were sucked into a whirlpool with a radius of more than 100 meters before they even had time to dive into the water, and they were buried at the bottom of the sea.

Also sunk at the same time were the USS Tennessee and the USS California, both of which were Tennessee-class battleships equipped with 14-inch guns.

As the most powerful battleship of the U.S. Navy, the four North Carolina-class battleships that the U.S. Navy had high hopes for were all torpedoed, and the battleship North Carolina, the flagship of Eberly, was torpedoed three times, and the port side armor belt was blown open three times, causing a large amount of water. It is good that the tonnage of this super-battleship is large enough, the watertight compartments are sufficient, and it is designed to be hit by five torpedoes at the same time without sinking. However, the ship's hull was flooded, causing the ship to tilt rapidly, and Eberly had to order water on the starboard side to balance the center of gravity. The other three battleships of this class were each hit by one to two, and the American officers and men on it were in a hurry to rescue them.

However, this is not all the nightmare of the US Navy. Following 300 Hellfire fighters, 192 H2N1 bombers swooped down from a height.

At this time, the anti-aircraft fire of the American warships had time to react, and they opened heavy fire on the air rapid-fire guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and several bombers exploded in volleys after being hit.

However, the anti-aircraft fire of the American fleet was obviously very insufficient, and soon the bomber group fell to an altitude of 1,000 meters, the engine room was opened, and a string of aerial bombs fell with a roar