"Listen to me, fighting and dying are two different concepts!"

Panetta grabbed Miller by the collar and roared viciously. Just like all the admirals understand a truth, using the fleet to fight the fortress battery is an absolute idiotic behavior, because the artillery hit rate of the two sides is not at the same level, it is almost ten times the difference.

But now the Chinese Navy has stranded the wounded capital ship and continued to shell, which is equivalent to a fortress battery with unprecedented ferocity. A fortress turret may only have one or two huge guns on it, but if the capital ship has four twin turrets, that is eight giant guns, and if it is a battleship with five turrets, it is equal to ten giant guns, what a terrible thing?

It is undeniable that the grounding of the damaged capital ship of the Chinese side and the fact that it has become an immobile target will greatly increase the hit rate of the combined fleet's artillery bombardment, but after all, their shelling is still affected by the fluctuations of the waves, where is it possible to have a high hit rate with the Chinese side stranded like a fortress battery?

Miller roared with a hideous face: "If the rescue fails because of your decision, you will be fully responsible!" ”

Panetta's face was extremely ugly, he could never afford this responsibility, but he still roared angrily in his heart: "It is not your British main fleet that is losing here. If this is the main British fleet, can you also make the decision to attack at all costs? ”

"Of course!" Miller replied without hesitation. Although he replied like this, in fact, he knew in his heart that it was absolutely impossible, that the British Royal Navy was a sharp weapon for the British world interests to be safeguarded, and it was absolutely impossible for Britain to allow the British Royal Navy to die like this at any time.

"Shit!" Panetta scolded.

At this time. When a shell hits the outside of the command module, the violent explosion deforms the entire command module's armor, and the powerful impact throws both Panetta and Miller, who are arguing, into the air.

Miller stumbled up with Venus in his eyes, and was very glad in his heart, this was not the main gun of the Chinese battleship, nor was it the secondary gun, because if the main gun of the capital ship hit, I was afraid that the entire command cabin would be terminated, and the secondary gun did not have this power, and it should hit the 203 mm main gun of the 10,000-ton armored heavy cruiser.

After he got up. I saw several staff officers shouting around Panetta. Hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, only to find that Panetta's whole body was stained red with blood, and a piece of shrapnel cut a huge hole in his chest that was almost half a foot long, although he was not dead for a while. But it's definitely hopeless.

Present. Miller shouted, "Immediately carry the commander down to the rescue." As Chief of Staff of the Combined Fleet. Now it's up to me to take over the command of the fleet. Soon a medic carried Panetta down, and he looked at the staff officers around him and said sharply, "Listen to me." Tell all the warships that we will concentrate our firepower on destroying the enemy's stranded warships first. If you don't want to die, do as I say! At the same time, the order to die fleet was on standby. ”

Under Miller's command, the artillery fire on the left and right of the coalition forces was aimed at the stranded Chinese warship.

The stranded warship could not move, let alone evade, and the only thing that could be done was to desperately carry out artillery counterattacks.

When Li Haijun saw this scene, he immediately shouted: "Pocket battleship formation assault forward!" ”

The reason why the three pocket battleships were not allowed to surprise before was because the opponent's artillery fire was fierce, and they might not be able to rush forward. And now the opponent's artillery fire is almost all concentrated on the stranded warship, which forms a fire gap and becomes the best time for a surprise attack.

When Miller saw this scene, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I've been waiting for you for a long time." Then he shouted the order: "Dare to die fleet formation ready!" ”

Sure enough, the three pocket battleships of the opposing side approached ten kilometers, and a huge torpedo was raised in front and behind the three warships, one of which was vacant in the rear, and that was because the Chinese side had only five "radio-guided torpedoes" left. Torpedoes fueled by tail rockets slammed into the five capital ships of the Combined Fleet like arrows.

Miller sneered: "Dare to die fleet! Above! "When he boarded, six warships quickly rushed out from the rear of the capital ship and met the oncoming torpedoes. These are six high-speed destroyers, and in order to deal with the "super torpedoes" of the Chinese Navy, they can only come up with this stupid solution. The officers and sailors of these six destroyers are all death row criminals of the British Navy, and they are all dead on both sides and left, so that they can drive the warships to detonate torpedoes, not only to clear their charges, but also to return to the British Royal Navy and become heroes, and at the same time, their families will also receive several times the pension.

"Boom" one by one torpedoes were detonated, and the destroyers that rushed up to ram the torpedoes were shattered into pieces in the explosion of the power of the huge torpedoes of 750 mm caliber.

This scene made Li Haijun and Sa Zhenbing turn blue with anger, but they didn't expect the high-hoped-high killing weapon to be cracked by the other party like this.

Miller sneered and yelled: "Leave the opponent's mobile fleet alone, continue to concentrate firepower to destroy the enemy's stranded warships." ”

Artillery fire roared, stranded warships were constantly blown to pieces in heavy shelling, and warships of the Combined Fleet were sunk.

The main force of the Chinese Navy and the Western Combined Fleet circled back and forth in this small sea area off Chittagong, constantly shelling and raining bullets. With the destruction of the stranded capital ship, the artillery bombardment of the capital ship of the combined fleet gradually turned to continued shelling of the main force of the Chinese Navy, and once the capital ship of the Chinese Navy was heavily damaged, it quickly continued to find a position to run aground and counterattack

Once again, it turned out that it was absolutely stupid to fight with fleets and fortress batteries.

In less than two hours, the capital ships of the Western Combined Fleet were completely lost, while the Chinese still had three Queen Elizabeth-class battleships and the "Kirishima" and "Hiei" and one British battlecruiser "Nanyang", although these six capital ships were damaged to varying degrees, and four were still grounded.

Miller's desperate flagship got on a cruiser, and he was not very satisfied with this result, but it was acceptable. This naval battle destroyed two Chinese battleships, three battle cruisers, and six 10,000-ton cruisers, and indeed achieved the goal of severely damaging the main force of the Chinese navy. The main forces of the Combined Fleet were lost, but almost all of these capital ships were American, and at the same time, the goal of weakening the US Navy was also achieved.

"Withdraw!" Miller finally gave the order to retreat, and the fleet was already powerless. He really wanted to destroy the two more Chinese capital ships, but the remaining warships no longer had main guns that could threaten the safety of the capital ships, and it would be foolish to keep an eye on the Chinese "fortress battery" firepower like this.

"Chase! They must not be let go! Li Haijun and Sa Zhenbing looked at the retreating Western fleet, and they all gritted their teeth.

There is no doubt that the tactics planned by Li Bufan and Li Haijun were successful, although this tactic of using warships as "fortress batteries" is a bit undignified, but war is inherently all-encompassing, and the method of winning the opponent is a good way. Otherwise, with the current Chinese Navy, which is inferior to the enemy in terms of quantity and quality in terms of hardware, and inferior to the enemy in terms of training and technology in software, how can it win?

It's just that Li Bufan and Li Haijun were wrong, they originally wanted to use this tactic to force back the enemy's navy, and after the air force's plan to "draw wages from the bottom of the kettle" was successful, they would use the air force to cooperate with the total annihilation of the Western combined fleet. However, Li Bufan and Li Haijun did not calculate that Britain was afraid of the US Navy and wanted to consume part of the strength of the main force of the US Navy, but Miller frantically commanded the reckless onslaught of the Combined Fleet, causing heavy losses to the main force of the Chinese Navy.

Li Bufan thought that the Chinese Navy would suffer heavy losses without the cooperation of the Air Force, but this should be within the acceptable range, and the Chinese Navy also needs a tragic naval battle to sharpen its will. At the same time, this made it easier for the Western coalition forces to relax their vigilance against the Chinese navy, which had suffered considerable losses, so that it could carry out its follow-up battle plan. But now there has been such an accident, and the loss of the Chinese Navy is simply nearly half, which greatly exceeds expectations.

This short-lived, but unprecedentedly ferocious naval battle, was fought off the coast of East Bengal, and both sides of the war were clearly visible.

For the Chinese side, the defeat of the enemy's fleet was naturally jubilant and morale was high.

For the Western coalition, however, it was like a bolt from the blue. In particular, the Burmese Front of Xia Fei was sentenced to death, because they had to destroy heavy weapons because of the retreat, but when they came to the defense line of the Chinese side in East Bengal, without heavy weapons, they would not have been able to break through the defense line of the Chinese defense forces, which had heavy weapons, a large number of mortars, and the army was equipped with standard automatic weapons.

However, the disaster did not stop there.

As a result of receiving the news that thousands of aircraft of the coalition forces who quickly withdrew from the battlefield, they suffered heavy losses under the pursuit of the Chinese Air Force. It is even more impossible for them to escape the pursuit of the Chinese air force, and the range of the Chinese fighters far exceeds theirs, and they cannot use the range to force the other side to return home.

Countless coalition planes crashed and fled westward. The available information is getting worse and worse, almost all of their airfields have been bombed, they cannot land, they cannot land at the airfields, they cannot use the anti-aircraft firepower deployed at the airfields to ensure safety.

In desperation, seeing that the fuel supply had bottomed out, a large number of planes had to force a forced landing on open land and on an improvised road. The airframe of the aircraft in this period was far from being so strong, and countless planes disintegrated in forced landings, and even destroyed and killed; Some of them were forced to land, and before they had time to rejoice, the Chinese pursuing fighters launched a dive attack on them

Many enemy planes that had not yet made a forced landing were full of despair when they saw this scene, and a large number of pilots directly abandoned their planes and parachuted. It's a pity that this is not safe, because Li Bufan not only wants to destroy the air force of the coalition forces, but the most important thing is to annihilate the current excellent pilots of the coalition forces.

As a result, a large number of Chinese fighters continued to fire at countless parachutes in the sky, and countless coalition pilots were beaten to the ground (to be continued......