Chapter 224: Bloody Oahu
Looking down at Pearl Harbor between the two mountains from the air, it's like a bird's claw stretching inland. The only waterway leads to the sea, and the three paws are the inland sea of Pearl Harbor. With a water area of 32 square kilometers and an average water depth of about 14 meters, Pearl Harbor is the largest and best safe port in the Pacific Ocean with a capacity of up to 500 ships.
In the middle of Pearl Harbor, there is an island, which not only has many more berthing spaces, but the U.S. Navy has also built an air station on it, that is, the Ford Island Air Station.
Most of the fury and banshees who fought fiercely with the Sea Dragon Fighters in the air took off on this small island.
However, at this time, compared with the calm and beautiful Honolulu Harbor nearby, the roar of planes and artillery in Pearl Harbor, the shouts of soldiers and the firing of anti-aircraft weapons are intertwined, and the waves that splash high on the water from time to time and the flames burning on the ships compose a sad song of life and death, blood and fire.
The Brute Dragon attack aircraft were not too targeted at the facilities and sailors on the shore, and the battleships Pennsylvania and Maryland on the pier on the south side of Ford Island, as well as a number of relatively large heavy cruisers on opposite sides, were their main targets.
It seemed that these goals were not difficult to achieve, and the sailors on land found that the anti-aircraft machine guns clanged on the Brute Dragon attack plane, and it was difficult to have the expected effect, but the cannon strafing after the Brute Dragon flew low was absolutely fatal to them.
The Hong's Penguin anti-ship missiles on the wings showed their skills for the first official appearance, and the skilled Brute Dragon pilots could even aim at the side chords of the battleships berthed on the pier to launch, so that the missiles flew close to the surface of the water to attack the relatively weak waterline armor of the battleship.
This tactic paid off in a short period of time, and although several of the dragons were hit by the anti-aircraft fire from the battleship, the successive hits of several Hung penguins soon tore a hole in the right chord of the Maryland several meters in diameter, and the sea water pounced into the cabin like a ferocious beast, and the sailors who were about to damage it could not even get close to the hole. As the water continued to pour in, the Maryland tilted rapidly, and what was not fixed on the deck was slid down with the sailors. Launched in 1920, the 33,000-ton Maryland irretrievably capsized on the berth, and from a distance, the bare black bottom of the ship exposed on the surface of the water made it look like a giant whale.
Ten minutes later, the Pennsylvania did not escape the doom of sinking, scarred by a Hong's penguin hit the front main gun magazine compartment, violently detonated half of the six more than ten tons of gun barrels blown away, and then smashed on the battleship, in the ugly creaking sound, the last battleship of the US Pacific Fleet, and also their flagship sank to the bottom of the sea in a way of disintegration and sinking.
The two battleships tend to capsize and one disintegrates, but the dragons don't end their show, and the attack planes, known as the bravest fighters, launch the Hung penguins one by one at a height close to the surface of the water, and of course, the bluefin tuna. Even if there is a U.S. military banshee fighter to get rid of the sea dragon's entanglement and tail, the dragon pilots are not nervous, whether it is a sidewinder missile or a kraken fighter, they can't compete with the dragon in the lowest altitude flight that they are best at, when a kraken pursues the dragon and smashes directly on the sea, the kraken pilots desperately give up the chase game with the dragon at a low altitude below fifty meters.
When the six heavy cruisers sank, tilted, or ignited a fire, all of which promoted their combat effectiveness, the arrogant Brute Dragon attack aircraft group finally began to withdraw, and even the Pterodactyl aircraft group, which had been bombing horizontally, accelerated to drop the remaining bombs and began to return home.
The Krakens did not pursue, they had to use the little fuel they had left to find a suitable airfield to land - the runways of the two naval air stations in Pearl Harbor had been destroyed, and the two army airfields on the island would not be much better, and it was impossible for the Han army to attack such a premeditated attack without focusing on the Wheeler Fighter Airfield and the Hickam Bomber Airfield.
More than a dozen Krakens and Fury that survived the air battle barely formed a formation and flew towards the island of Hawaii! It can only be hoped that the Han army did not attack the big island at the same time, otherwise they would have to make a forced landing on the beach!
The first wave of attack planes and bombers began to return, and the air superiority group led by Ji Youqian also began to gather, compared with the time of departure, there were 17 fewer Sea Dragons in the formation, and the battle loss rate was 35 percent, which means that one out of every three Sea Dragons was shot down. Although they also shot down more than 30 U.S. military Fury and Banshee, the one-to-two record is quite reasonable. But on the way back, each pilot seemed depressed.
The other two groups of sea dragon formations responsible for bombarding the army airfield also all returned, except for the sea dragon formation on the Zhongda aircraft carrier, because the Hikem airfield, which was in charge, was the station of the US B26 bombers, so they did not encounter much challenge, and the pterodactyls easily dropped their bombs into the airfield, and after the brute dragon broke in at a low altitude, it destroyed the latest four-engine jet heavy bomber of the US military that was hesitating whether to take off.
On the other hand, the air battle near Wheeler Airport was much more severe. The 64 Sea Dragons covered the Pterodactyl and Brute Dragon fleets and broke through to the skies over Wyanai Ridge, that is, they met the 46 F-86 Sabres that took off from Wheeler Airport, and the group did not cross the F-94 Starfire interceptors that had already been deployed, but the battle was still not easy. Although the number of sea dragons far exceeds that of Sabres, the Sidewinder air-to-air missile has proved to be a deadly viper for the Royal Air Force.
At the end of the battle, the 34 Sabres shot down were exchanged for 19 Sea Dragons and 12 Pterodactyls, and the battle loss ratio was basically 1 to 1, which was a humiliating record for the Royal Navy carrier-based pilots who were accustomed to victory.
However, for Commander Long Zhou, the commander-in-chief of Operation "Storm", such a result is still bearable, and in the past few years since the beginning of the war, the United States has developed very rapidly in the aviation industry, and in some respects it has been able to keep pace with the Empire. His Majesty had reminded him of this before he set off.
"The war with the United States is destined to be a dragon and a tiger fight, and two heroes will meet!"
His Majesty used the names of two fashionable movies to describe the war between Han and the United States, which impressed all the senior commanders of the empire.
The first wave of attacks will suffer relatively large losses is also expected in Longzhou, but the performance of the Brute Dragon attack aircraft is eye-catching, whether it is a single-seat A type or a two-seat B type, they have shown extremely strong survivability and attack ability on the battlefield.
"It's all worth it!" As long as the first wave has wiped out the sea and air forces on Oahu, the next step is "time for us to enjoy this sweet steak on Oahu!" ”
Long Zhou confidently believed that the aircraft responsible for the second wave of attacks could deal a greater blow to the resistance of the US military, because there were more bombers and attack planes in the second wave.
On the deck of the aircraft carrier, the ground crew sailors are busy with the first wave of sorties and quickly refuel and hang up the bombs, while the mechanics are stepping up the inspection and maintenance of the fighters, repairing the damaged troops and replacing them with new parts. Some of the more serious injuries had to be returned to the hangar and replaced with a spare machine. The hangar was quite spacious - almost every aircraft carrier had its fighter shot down.
While personally massaging and relaxing the bodies of the pilots with the ground crew, the captains were doing ideological work, what "turn grief into strength and complete the unfinished business of their comrades." It is worth holding high the golden dragon banner and sacrificing for the great national rejuvenation. Defeat U.S. imperialism and build a harmonious new society......"
The last sentence of this guy has obviously been in China for a while, and he hasn't turned the corner yet, if you want to talk about imperialism, it seems to be ...... The Han is the real imperialism, and the United States advocates freedom, democracy, and democracy, at least that's what people say on the surface.
It was rare for the dragon fat man not to eat during the battle, he was waiting, waiting for the report of the commander of the air force of the second attack wave. In this wave, the Pterodactyl bombers targeted other airfields in the vicinity, such as the Big Island, Molokai, Kauai, and even the smaller airfields of Benny and Rabit on Oahu.
After the start of the landing, the appearance of any US military aircraft will bring great damage to the landing force, "with the help of AWACS aircraft, plus the intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Agency, destroy all Hawaiian airfields!" "This mission is not easy for the second nearly 100 pterosaurs, but fortunately, there are 12 Aeolian pterosaurs monitoring every area of Hawaii's eight islands, and the places where US military planes frequently take off and land escape the eyes of the Aeolian pterosaurs -- speaking in terms of early warning radar, the war laboratory still maintains an absolute lead, after all, the computer development level of the base far exceeds that of other countries.
As for the Brute Dragon attack aircraft, their mission is to launch an attack on the beach positions of the US military on Oahu. In order to confuse the American troops, the Brute Dragon group divided into three groups and simultaneously launched attacks on Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, and Cape Caberley Lighthouse, tempting Hawaiian Army Commander Short to split the Marine Force into three parts. However, under the ultra-low-altitude attack of the brutes, both the defenders and the support troops in the fortifications on the beach suffered heavy casualties.
This time, the brute dragons did not carry bulky anti-ship missiles, but replaced them with uncontrolled rockets, and the rocket rain after the dive brought not only casualties to the US soldiers, but also endless fear, the impact of the brute dragon that almost whistled over your head was more terrible than rockets.
The landing fleet was already on standby 50 nautical miles west of Oahu, and General Mao Shiying firmly believed that after two waves of attacks, the US naval and air forces would be wiped out under the blows of carrier-based aircraft, so he boldly approached the landing fleet close to the waters of Hawaii.
But as the anti-submarine helicopter in charge of vigilance found traces of submarines around, Commander Mao could not calm down. Not all of Pearl Harbor's submarines were wiped out in the air raids, and two of the heavy tooth snapper-class submarines escaped early training because they left the port early.
The special nature of the submarine made them feel that they could still fight, especially when they found that the battlefleet on the west side of Honolulu was large-scale, and there were many Yanhuang transport ships unique to the Han Navy, which made the two captains feel that "the time has come for us to save the United States!" ”