On the morning of August 16, 1914, the sky over the Gulf of Oman was cloudless, and the largest fleet in history was advancing rapidly from south to north on the sea surface of the Gulf of Oman, about to enter the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Indian fleet of the British Navy and the main fleet of the Ottoman Turkish Navy have joined the main force of the European Union Fleet of the League of Nations from all the way from Europe in the Arabian Sea, bringing the number of the main warships of the European Union Fleet of the League of Nations to 271, in addition to more than 3,000 other all-steel battleships, large fast armored cruisers, fast protection cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines, and thousands of transport ships to follow.

Inside the bridge of the British Navy's Queen Elizabeth-class superbattleship HMS Elizabeth, the commander-in-chief of the United European Fleet of the League of Nations, British Admiral John Brown, was in charge of the British Navy. Jericho, frowning at the captain of the Queen Elizabeth, Mark? Miligan asked, "Hasn't the radar found any trace of the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire?" ”

Captain Mark of the Queen Elizabeth? Miligan shook his head and said: "Commander, among the European Combined Fleets of the League of Nations, our British Navy and German Navy have the most advanced radars and the largest search range, but the radars equipped on the warships of our two countries have not found that there are other large-scale fleets nearby. ”

John? Jericho frowned tighter and said: "Our European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations is about to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, you must know that after the Strait of Hormuz is the Persian Gulf, logically speaking, if the main force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire wants to have a decisive battle at sea with our European Combined Fleet of the International Alliance, the Strait of Hormuz, the only waterway into the Persian Gulf, is definitely an ideal battlefield, why did the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire not appear?" ”

Mark? Miligan shrugged his shoulders and said: "Maybe the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire knows that even if the main force is exhausted, it is not the opponent of our League of Nations European Combined Fleet, so it gave up the sea control in the Kuwait region and took the initiative to withdraw from the waters of the Persian Gulf. ”

Just in Mark? As soon as Milligan finished speaking, a British lieutenant commander in charge of communications in the bridge suddenly shouted: "Commander, captain, the battlecruiser HMS Princess at the front has sent a telegram, the watchtower of the HMS Princess Royal has found that a fleet has appeared about 20 nautical miles away, the size of which cannot be determined for the time being, but it is likely to be the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire." ”

John? Jerricho was taken aback and asked, "What?" The Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire appeared 20 nautical miles away? Are there any aircraft carriers? Why didn't our radar detect it? ”

The British radar crew in the bridge of the Queen Elizabeth exclaimed incredulously: "God! Our radar doesn't show it at all, what's going on? ”

It turned out that the warships that Lin Daxin stole from the Blue Water Planet Cass Kingdom were equipped with anti-radar jamming devices, so that the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations not only did not discover the Second Task Force and the Third Task Force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire in the Strait of Hormuz, but even the other four main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire and the Kuwaiti garrison fleet were not discovered.

Now discovered by the British warships are the 6 missile battleships, 6 missile cruisers, 12 missile cruisers, 20 missile destroyers, and 20 missile frigates in the 2nd and 3rd task force aircraft carrier formations, all of which are armed with medium-range anti-ship missiles, and will be responsible for the first round of strikes against the coalition of Nations European fleets.

John? At this time, Jericho didn't care why the radar didn't show any trace of the main force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and he immediately ordered: "Notify the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carriers of the navies of various countries to immediately take off and launch an attack on the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire!" Let the navies of various countries deploy air defense formations to guard against air attacks by carrier-based aircraft of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire! Order the First Battle Column of the Royal Navy to accelerate towards the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire that appeared, and the battleships and battle cruisers of the First Battle Column formed a battle line to meet the enemy! ”

The voyage sequence of the entire coalition of nations combined fleet in Europe is arranged according to the navies of various countries, with the British Navy at the forefront of the navies, and the first battle column at the front of the British Navy includes 6 Tiger-class battlecruisers and 5 Orion-class super-class dreadnought battleships, as well as nearly 100 other types of British Navy warships.

Commander-in-Chief of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, John? As soon as Jericho's order was conveyed, dozens of warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy in front of them launched a large number of medium-range anti-ship missiles at the sea area where the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations was located.

"Oh God! What are those warships launching? ”

"Look! It's like a shooting star, it's so fast! ”

"Oh no, it's coming at us!"

In the astonished eyes of the officers and men of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, one after another medium-range anti-ship missiles hit their respective targets, and the explosions on the sea surface suddenly became one, and most of the areas where the medium-range anti-ship missiles fell were the locations of the British Navy, and in particular, the first column of the British Navy became the focus of attack of medium-range anti-ship missiles, because these medium-range anti-ship missiles were equipped with radar guidance devices, so the hit rate was very high.

At the forefront of the first battle column of the British Navy, the Tiger-class battlecruiser Royal Princess, was hit by four medium-range anti-ship missiles one after another, the warheads of these four medium-range anti-ship missiles are all semi-armor-piercing warheads, the front end is made of blunt high-hardness steel, using a time-delay fuse, after the missile hits the target, the blunt steel in front of the warhead can tear the hull, waiting for the warhead of the missile to completely enter the hull, and the time-delay fuse detonates.

This semi-armor-piercing warhead has a very good effect on the inside of the hull, and the huge air pressure generated by the explosion will cause serious damage to the hull structure, and even if the hit ship will not sink immediately, it will be possible to restore combat effectiveness after a long and tedious repair work.

The Tiger-class battlecruiser Royal Princess can be said to be very unlucky, one of the medium-range anti-ship missiles penetrated the 63 mm deck armor, and directly drilled into the ammunition compartment of one of the main guns of the Royal Princess before exploding, instantly detonating more than 200 400 mm main gun shells in the ammunition compartment, after an earth-shattering explosion, the Royal Princess battlecruiser with a full load displacement of 29,680 tons suddenly broke into two pieces and soon sank into the sea. None of the 1,150 British naval officers and sailors on the battlecruiser Princess Royal escaped, even those who jumped into the sea to escape, and were also sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool created by the rapid sinking of the battlecruiser Princess Royal.

In the first battle column of the British Navy, there are several main battleships that are as unlucky as the battlecruiser Royal Princess, and the other 1 Tiger-class battlecruiser Queen Mary was also 4 medium-range anti-ship missiles, and it didn't last long before it disappeared into the sea, the only thing that is stronger than the battlecruiser Princess Royal is that hundreds of British naval officers and sailors on the battlecruiser Queen Mary escaped and floated on the sea waiting for rescue.

In addition, the Orion-class super-class dreadnought battleship Thunder in the first battle column of the British Navy was detonated by at least 6 or 7 medium-range anti-ship missiles, and the ammunition compartment was detonated again, and it also slowly sank to the sea surface in the earth-shattering explosion.

Although the remaining four Tiger-class battlecruisers and four Orion-class super-class dreadnought battleships of the British Navy's First Battle Column were not sunk, they were all hit by more than two medium-range anti-ship missiles and suffered injuries of varying degrees, and several of them had basically lost their combat effectiveness.

In addition to the first battle column, the British Navy was also divided into the second battle column, the third battle column, the fourth battle column, and the aircraft carrier group, and the aircraft carrier group, which also suffered heavy losses under the attack of a large number of medium-range anti-ship missiles.

The medium-range anti-ship missiles equipped with these warships of the Blue Water Planet Cass Kingdom are more than 200 kilograms in ********the warhead warhead, and the power of the explosion is amazing, but for the dreadnought battleships with rough skin and thick flesh, unless they can hit the vital point, it is difficult to be sunk, except for the super dreadnought battleship Thunder of the first battle column of the British Navy was sunk, under the blow of medium-range anti-ship missiles, only the Neptune-rated dreadnought battleship Michele of the third battle column of the British Navy was sunk by medium-range anti-ship missiles.

For the relatively weakly armored battle cruisers, the British Navy sank two Tiger-class battlecruisers in addition to the first battle column, and one Lion-class battlecruiser in the second battle column was sunk.

However, medium-range anti-ship missiles are a very big disaster for aircraft carriers with weak armor.

The British Navy's aircraft carrier squadron, the Fury-class aircraft carrier Bandit with a full load displacement of 28,000 tons, was hit by two medium-range anti-ship missiles, one of which detonated the fuel tank, and then the Bandit aircraft carrier disappeared into the sea in a continuous violent explosion, and along with the Bandit aircraft carrier sank to the bottom of the sea with 30 British aircraft carrier fighters, 20 British aircraft carrier dive bombers, 20 British aircraft carrier torpedo bombers, 4 reconnaissance planes and hundreds of British naval officers and men.

The Mighty and Fighter, which belong to the same furious class aircraft carriers as the Robber, were also sunk by the attack of medium-range anti-ship missiles, and none of the carrier-based aircraft of the two aircraft carriers could escape.

In addition, the British Navy's aircraft carrier Glory-class aircraft carriers HMS Witch and HMS Crown were also hit by a number of medium-range anti-ship missiles, and it did not take long for each of them to sink to the bottom of the sea with 36 British aircraft carrier fighters, 24 British aircraft carrier dive bombers, 24 British aircraft carrier torpedo bombers, and 4 reconnaissance aircraft.

Dozens of warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Imperial Navy, two task force aircraft carrier formations, after firing a large number of medium-range anti-ship missiles, immediately turned their bows and retreated to the direction of the Persian Gulf.

Inside the bridge of the British Navy's Queen Elizabeth-class superbattleship, the captain of the Queen Elizabeth, Mark ? Miligan breathed a sigh of relief that not a single meteor-like weapon had landed on top of the Queen Elizabeth, Mark? Milligan immediately spoke out to the commander-in-chief of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, British Admiral John Brown. Jericho asked, "Commander, what kind of weapons does the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire use, and how can it attack our warships at such a distance, and also inflict very large losses on our Royal Navy of the British Empire." ”

British Admiral John? Jericho said with a gloomy face: "This is likely to be a ship-to-ship missile that can attack the target at a long distance, our British Imperial Admiralty, someone has already put forward the idea of a ship-to-ship missile, but I never thought that the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire has already used ship-to-ship missiles against our Royal Navy of the British Empire in actual combat." ”

Mark? Miligan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Commander, what are we going to do next?" ”

John? Jericho slammed the table behind the observation window, and then shouted: "Immediately give an order to the aircraft carriers of the navies of all countries to launch an air attack on the fleeing Royal Navy warships of the Chinese Empire in front of you at all costs!" The aircraft carriers immediately dispatched reconnaissance planes to search the nearby waters to find the location of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, especially the specific locations of their aircraft carriers. ”

And then John? Jericho sighed again and said: "Let the navies of various countries count the losses and rescue the people who fell into the water, it seems that in this round of attacks on ship missiles by the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the losses of our Royal Navy of the British Empire should be the worst." ”

In the sea area of more than 100 kilometers north of the European Combined Fleet of the League of Nations, a huge fleet composed of hundreds of warships is heading from north to south, and this huge fleet includes the four main fleets of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the Kuwaiti garrison fleet, and two task force aircraft carrier formations and eight aircraft carriers.

In the bridge of the aircraft carrier Hanwudi, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Jiang Chen, commander of the First Fleet, reported to Vice Minister of Defense Sun Xitao with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, the missile attack of the two task force aircraft carrier formations has been successful, and at least 8 or 9 capital warships of the European United Fleet of the International Alliance have been sunk, or even more, and the number of capital warships damaged is also quite large. (To be continued.) )