862 Armageddon by sea and air
Liu Daming saw that Lin Gecheng was full of confidence, so he asked: "Have you been specially trained to deal with anti-aircraft artillery?" ”
Lin Gecheng said with a smile: "Specialized training to deal with anti-aircraft artillery? There is no way to train this, but the maneuverability of the aircraft is strong, far more than the battleship, and the battleship is not an opponent at all. ”
According to Liu Jingkong's reconnaissance, the British fleet had eight warships, four final-class battleships, and four large cruisers, and Lin Gecheng decided to use four Nine Dragons fighters to attack one battleship, and these four Nine Dragons fighters were organized into an air strike group, two equipped with cannons and a large number of shells, and two carried torpedoes, and each could carry two large-caliber torpedoes with the carrying capacity of the Nine Dragons fighters.
When the attack was launched, the Nine Flying Dragon fighters carrying artillery shells suppressed the anti-aircraft fire of the British fleet, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighters carrying torpedoes carried a fatal blow in the back, and Ringo Cheng did not let the Nine Dragons fighters carry bombs, because Ringo Cheng felt that the destructive power of bombs to ships was not as good as torpedoes, and the suppression ability of anti-aircraft fire was not as good as machine gun shells, so he did not need to use them for the time being.
There are a total of 100 Nine Wyvern fighters on the four aircraft carriers (the two Nine Wyvern fighters lost in the Battle of Guam have been replenished), and 96 of these 100 are sorted, forming three strike waves, and the three strike waves are completed, and all the Nine Wyvern fighters immediately return to the aircraft carrier, replenish ammunition, and the pilots rest and wait for a while to launch an attack.
At 10 o'clock in the morning of 25 April, the first Flying Dragon fighter to strike waves took off from the aircraft carrier and flew towards the British fleet.
The weather was sunny and sunny on this day, and there was only a faint breeze between the sea and the sky, which was the most suitable weather for launching an air strike.
Liu Jingkong was piloting a Nine Flying Dragon fighter carrying machine guns and artillery shells, and in this battle, the Nine Flying Dragon fighter with the task of suppressing anti-aircraft fire was the most dangerous, and Liu Jingkong naturally had to keep the most dangerous task to himself.
When the Nine Dragons fighter group approached the British fleet, the British fleet was also approaching the Huaxia Fleet, and the British fleet was mainly naval guns, and if it wanted to attack the Huaxia Fleet, it had to close the distance with the Huaxia Fleet.
Twenty-five minutes later, the British fleet appeared in front of Liu Jingkong's eyes, the final battleships were particularly eye-catching, and the huge posture aroused the desire of all the pilots to conquer, Liu Jingkong picked up the communicator, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Attention to all units, the target has appeared, and all units are free to attack according to the predetermined plan." ”
The British fleet was lined up in a long snake formation on the sea, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighters happened to be on the side of the long snake formation, and the thirty-two Nine Flying Dragon fighters were scattered into eight strike groups and approached the British fleet.
Liu Jingkong took the lead and flew at the front, his target was a final-level battleship, he used the sight to estimate the distance from himself to the final-level battleship, when Qin Hui visited the final-level battleship, Qin Hui estimated the size data of the final-level battleship, Liu Jingkong calculated the distance from himself to the final-level battleship after a simple scale calculation, about eight thousand meters, almost within the cannon firing range of the Nine Flying Dragon fighters.
Liu Jingkong turned the shooting handle and adjusted the muzzle pointing, there are mechanical parts connected between the sight and the barrel, so the muzzle is adjusted, and the sight is also adjusted, Liu Jingkong looked at the sight and aimed at the final-level battleship, and then moved his fingers and pulled the cannon button, and the four cannons were fired together, and four red rays of light shot straight at the target.
Although the accuracy of a single shell is not high, but the number of shells is large, the probability of hitting the target is naturally large, some shells splash around the target, and some shells hit the target, these shells want to sink the final class battleship is impossible, can only kill and injure the personnel on the deck, destroy the cabins on the deck.
Liu Jingkong's shells killed more than a dozen British sailors who were manipulating the secondary guns on the deck, and the shells hit the guard plate of the secondary guns, penetrating the guard plate of one of the secondary guns, and the shells exploded behind the guard plates, killing four gunners on the spot.
When the British fleet saw the attack of the planes of the Huaxia Fleet, it immediately sounded the alarm, and the entire fleet entered a combat state, and all the anti-aircraft guns were raised high, raining down bullets on the Nine Flying Dragon fighters in the sky.
Thirty-two Nine Wyvern fighters and eight warships launched the largest and fiercest naval and air battle in human history.
As soon as the battle began, Admiral Stanleys, the commander of the British fleet, realized that the British had been completely deceived by Lin Fei, and before the war, Lin Fei kept saying that the plane could not be used as the main battle weapon, and the plane could only be used for reconnaissance, but now that it looks at it, Lin Fei's plane is completely the main battle weapon, and the combat effectiveness is outrageous.
Lin Fei's planes shuttled back and forth in the sky, shooting shells at the British fleet, and the British fleet could only reluctantly turn the anti-aircraft guns, chasing their buttocks and strafing, the effect was extremely poor, every dive and every shot of the planes of the Huaxia fleet would add a few dead bodies to the British fleet, and the shooting of the British fleet could not damage the planes of the Huaxia fleet.
Admiral Stanley was shocked and angry when he saw that the planes of the Huaxia Fleet were so powerful, and urged the warships to shoot down the planes of the Huaxia Fleet, and the anti-aircraft fire of the final battleships was not a paper shelf, as the battle progressed, the three Nine Wyvern fighters were hit by anti-aircraft guns, dragging black smoke and withdrawing from the battle, fortunately, the pilot controlled the plane to make a forced landing at sea, and the pilot was then rescued by the rescue fleet of the Huaxia Fleet.
The repulsion of the three Nine Wyvern fighters gave Admiral Stanley more confidence, and he saw that the shells of the Nine Wyverns could only kill and injure the deck personnel, destroy the cabin, and could not cause further damage to the battleship, and the shells of the Nine Wyvern fighters could not even penetrate the main gun turret, so the British fleet had a great chance of winning if it continued to fight.
Admiral Stanleys' belief in victory was rekindled, and he ordered his troops to fire their guns as soon as a huge wave suddenly rose from the port side of the Expedition, a deafening sound was heard, and it turned out that a torpedo fired by the Wyvern fighter had hit the Expedition.
If it was another battleship, if it was hit by such a torpedo, it would definitely sink, but the final-class battleship was different from other battleships, and the British fleet suffered the loss of the submarines of the Huaxia fleet, so a large number of anti-torpedo structures were used on the final-class battleship, so although the expedition suffered a torpedo, the speed of sinking was not as fast as before.
When the Expedition was slowly sinking and the crew was desperately trying to save themselves, three torpedoes crossed the stern of the Expedition, and the difficulty of launching torpedoes in the air was much greater than that launched by submarines and ships, so the accuracy was not high, and one of them was able to hit, and it was already very lucky.
The Nine Wyverns that attacked the Expedition fired torpedoes, and other Nine Wyvern fighters also fired torpedoes, which shocked the British fleet, especially Admiral Stanleys, who had just recovered from the shock of the Nine Dragons' powerful attack power, and now found that the Nine Dragons could launch torpedoes, and fell into deep surprise again.
Admiral Stanley immediately ordered the fleet to retreat westward to distance itself from the Chinese fleet, and the British fleet began to reverse course, during which time a cruiser was torpedoed and sank.
The British fleet was just halfway through the process of turning course, when it suddenly found that the Nine Flying Dragon fighters in the sky had turned around and began to retreat.
Admiral Stanleys did not know that this was the end of the first wave of strikes, and that all the Nine Wyvern fighters were withdrawn, reloaded with shells and torpedoes, and thought that the aircraft attack of the Chinese fleet was over, so he ordered the British fleet to stop turning and attack the Chinese fleet according to the previous course.
In the process, the Expedition was unable to continue the battle due to a torpedo, left the fleet and retreated to a temporary anchorage.
As soon as the Huaxia fleet turned course, the second wave of Nine Wyvern fighters arrived, which caught the British fleet by surprise, and Admiral Stanley did not want to continue to fight with the Nine Wyvern fighters, so he ordered the fleet to continue to retreat, and in the process, a final battleship was damaged and a cruiser was sunk.
The second wave of the Nine Flying Dragons fighter attack ended, and the third wave came in a flash, and the battleship was too slow compared to the aircraft, and it was impossible to avoid the hunting of the aircraft, but at this moment, the wind and clouds on the sea suddenly changed, and a dark cloud floated from the northeast, and the cloud layer was very low, which seemed to be cumulonimbus clouds.
Clouds are the enemy of the aircraft to fly safely, dense clouds will block the pilot's vision, so that the pilot feels that he is flying at a high place, when the pilot flies out of the clouds, he suddenly finds himself at a low altitude, and the danger comes from this.
In the Air Force of the Huaxia Fleet, such a thing has become a bloody lesson; during a training exercise, a Nine Flying Dragon fighter flew into the clouds, and when the line of sight was blocked, it flew at a low altitude of less than 100 meters, and when it flew out of the clouds, it was found that there was a high mountain in front of it, and the pilot had no time to change it, and the plane happened to crash into the high mountain, and the plane was destroyed and killed.
The commander in the sky saw that there were clouds coming, and ordered a retreat, in the process of retreating, a Nine Wyvern fighter suddenly lowered its altitude and flew directly to the sea, without waiting for everyone to react, the Nine Wyvern fighter had crashed on the sea, it turned out that the pilot of the Nine Wyvern fighter had a space obstacle, and regarded the blue sea as the sky, and by the time it was discovered, it was too late.