968 Night sorties
Fifty Wyvern fighters pounced on the German fleet, and the commander of the German fleet hurriedly asked the French and Russian fleets for help, but it was too late, and the Russian and French fleets had already opened up some distance from the German fleet.
The German fleet could only use its own anti-aircraft guns to fight against the Wow Dragon fighters, but the German fleet had only eight warships, and the anti-aircraft firepower could not be compared with 22 battleships.
One after another Nine Wyvern fighters hit in the air, the bombs fell on the battleship with the sound of whistling wind, and the huge kinetic energy penetrated through the deck and superstructure of the battleship, fell into the cabin, exploded inside the cabin, the ammunition depot and boiler exploded one after another, and the coal burning in the coal bunker caused a sky-high fire, and the fire spread to the entire battleship, and the battleship gradually sank......
The battleships of the German fleet, like fat pigs with four hooves tied, were wantonly slaughtered by the Wyvern fighters.
The French and Russian fleets saw that the German fleet was besieged by the Wyvern fighters, and instead of coming to the rescue, they turned around and retreated to the north.
Ringo wanted to divide his forces to sink the French fleet and the Russian fleet, but the reality was that it was not easy for fifty Nine Wyvern fighters to sink eight German warships, and the Nine Wyvern fighters did not have the ability to divide their forces and sink the French and Russian fleets.
Lin Gecheng then dispelled the idea of dividing the troops, and ordered his subordinates to sink the German battleship with all their might, and the German fleet fled in all directions under the blow of the Nine Flying Dragon fighters, but the maneuverability of the battleships could not catch up with the planes after all, and an hour later, five of the eight German battleships were sunk, and the remaining three lost power and stopped on the sea.
The sea was calm for a while, and the German warships surrendered to the Huaxia Empire, which immediately sent two Dynasty-class battleships to accept the surrender of the German warships.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the remaining three German warships surrendered to the Chinese Empire, and the battle that took place in the waters of Muscat was all over.
As a result of the battle, three Russian battleships were sunk by Hell-class submarines, two German battleships and three German destroyers were sunk, and three German cruisers surrendered to the Chinese Empire.
After this battle, the German fleet in the Persian Gulf region disappeared.
After the battle, Lin Fei immediately launched a diplomatic offensive, Lin Fei first summoned the German ambassador to condemn the German fleet's attack on the Chinese Imperial Fleet, and ordered the German side to make a commitment not to attack the Chinese Imperial Fleet in the Persian Gulf region again.
At this time, the Chinese Empire and Germany did not declare war, and Lin Fei was also leaving room for both sides to retreat, what Lin Fei meant was that Germany recognized the Muscat Battle as an accident, and promised not to provoke the Chinese Empire in the future, in fact, it recognized the military presence of the Chinese Empire in the Persian Gulf region.
The German side also understood what Lin Fei meant, and when they saw Lin Fei make such a statement, they immediately discussed countermeasures, and as a result, the German top brass unanimously agreed that for a period of time in the future, the air superiority of the Chinese Empire would be very obvious, and Germany would have no chance of winning a naval war with it in the Persian Gulf region.
So the Germans decided not to engage the Chinese Empire at sea, but with the Chinese Empire on land, believing that their artillery chariots had a huge advantage over the Chinese Empire, and that they would be able to win a decisive battle on land.
Germany then signed an agreement with the Chinese Empire, recognizing its military presence in the Persian Gulf.
France and Russia also realized that the air power of the Chinese Empire was difficult to shake, but they believed that if a large number of mines were laid in the Strait of Hormuz, they would still be able to block the fleet of the Chinese Empire, so France and Russia did not recognize the military presence of the Chinese Empire in the Persian Gulf like Germany, and they laid a large number of mines in the Strait of Hormuz to block the Chinese Imperial fleet from entering the Persian Gulf.
The Strait of Hormuz, 97 kilometers at its widest point and 38 kilometers at its narrowest point, any ship that wants to pass through the Strait of Hormuz is under the surveillance of nearby ports, among which the Russian fleet and the French fleet are located, is Bandar Abbas.
Bandar Abbas, one of the important ports in the Persian Gulf region, is the territory of the Kingdom of Persia, the Kingdom of Persia was divided by Britain and Russia at this time, the north was occupied by Russia, the south was occupied by the British, Bandar Abbas was controlled by the British, Britain in order to join forces with France, Germany and Russia to suppress the Chinese Empire, so the port of Bandar Abbas was taken out and used by the fleets of the three countries.
If the Chinese Empire wants to control the Strait of Hormuz, it must take Bandar Abbas, and the way to attack Bandar Abbas is naturally the dispatch of Nine Wyvern fighters and carpet bombing, but Liu Daming is not in a hurry, he hopes that after a while, he will wait until the aircraft carrier No. 3 and Aircraft Carrier No. 4 also arrive at Muscat, and then attack together.
After another fifteen days or so, the carriers III and IV finally arrived in Muscat, during which time the French and Russian fleets laid a large number of mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
On 20 November, Ringocheng commanded 100 Wyvern fighters to launch an air strike on Bandar Abbas.
Ringecheng learned in the pre-war reconnaissance that Britain had deployed a large number of anti-aircraft guns in Bandar Abbas, and the Nine Flying Dragon fighters wanted to bomb and might suffer huge losses, so Ringo Cheng decided to change the attack time to the early hours of the morning, when the sky was the darkest, this time to attack, the anti-aircraft artillery could not see anything, neither Britain, France nor Russia thought that the Nine Dragons fighters would attack at night, so they were not equipped with searchlights at all.
This cannot be blamed on the short-sightedness of Britain and other countries, because the Wyvern fighter has never been dispatched at night before, and the plane does not operate at night, which is almost the consensus of the world aviation community, because there is no light at night, the pilot's vision is limited, and the plane is prone to collision accidents.
Aircraft fight at night, in addition to the collision accident, there may be more trouble, so in the era of Lin Fei, countries have produced special night fighters, and in this era, Lin Fei did not develop special night fighters.
Lin Gecheng's decision to launch an attack at night was also a great risk, so he selected ten of the most experienced pilots to go out at night to bomb the anti-aircraft artillery positions in Bandar Abbas, and waited until the air defense capability of Bandar Abbas was weakened, and then the planes bombed again.
If the Nine Flying Dragon fighters took off from the aircraft carrier at night, it would also be very dangerous, so Lin Gecheng made a change and took off from the land, and the take-off process was thrilling, and all ten Nine Dragon fighters took off smoothly.
After arriving in the air, formation and coordination is also a big difficulty, you can't see the companion's plane at night, you can only determine the location of your companion according to the faint night flight lights on the fuselage, in this regard, Lin Gecheng adopts the form of a two-plane formation to minimize the difficulty of formation coordination.
The problem of formation was solved, the problem of finding targets followed, during the day, the pilots could look for targets through the terrain, visually, and at night, the terrain features of the ground were completely overshadowed by night, and it was impossible for the pilots to see anything.
If Lin Gecheng wants to find Bandar Abbas, he can only rely on the on-board gyroscope navigation system, which provides Lin Gecheng with a range calculation, informs Lin Gecheng of the distance to Bandar Abbas, and waits until Lin Gecheng feels that it is almost there, and then searches according to the ground lights.
It is worth mentioning that because Russia, France and Britain did not expect the Wyverns to attack at night, there was no lighting control for Bandar Abbas, which was still brightly lit at night.
As for how Ringocheng found the anti-aircraft artillery position from Bandar Abbas, it depends on feeling and luck, during the pre-war reconnaissance, Ringocheng recorded the position of the anti-aircraft position in Bandar Abbas, and when attacking, he threw bombs by feeling and used machine gun fire.
In order to increase the lethality, the bomb carried by Lin Gecheng this time was a fire rat incendiary bomb that made a name for himself during the air raid on Japan.
Ten Nine Wyvern fighters flew towards Bandar Abbas, and after a while, a sparkling light appeared in front of Lin Gecheng's eyes, which was particularly conspicuous in the darkness of ink, and this piece of light was Bandar Abbas.
There are two anti-aircraft artillery positions in Bandar Abbas, located on the east and west sides of Bandar Abbas, and the firing range covers the entire Bandar Band, as long as there are aircraft coming in, they will enter the range of anti-aircraft guns.
Lin Gecheng roughly looked at the shape of Bandar Abbas, flew to the east, roughly calculated the direction of the anti-aircraft artillery position, and dropped fire rat incendiary bombs, Lin Gecheng did not throw flares, because under the light of flares, it is not easy for the sky to see the ground, on the contrary, it is very easy for the ground to see the sky, once Lin Gecheng throws flares, it is equivalent to illuminating the enemy.
Lin Gecheng saw that the distance was almost over, and threw a fire rat incendiary bomb, which exploded on the ground, raising a large piece of fire, Lin Gecheng looked at the ground by the firelight, and saw that an anti-aircraft gun was wrapped in the firelight, Lin Gecheng's heart was shocked, but he didn't expect it to really explode.
Lin Gecheng's luck was good, the incendiary bomb he dropped happened to fall in the anti-aircraft artillery position, and the explosion instantly destroyed three anti-aircraft guns, and the other anti-aircraft guns were surrounded by flames.
The Nine Flying Dragons fighter behind saw that Lin Gecheng hit the anti-aircraft artillery position, followed by throwing bombs, and the anti-aircraft artillery position was overwhelmed by flames for a while.
Ringocheng was lucky, the bombs he threw hit the target, and the anti-aircraft fire of Bandar Abbas was greatly weakened, and the British, French and Russian were shocked, they could not have imagined that the Chinese fighters could come to attack at night.
Early the next morning, before the British, French, and Russians could come to their senses, a large number of Wyvern fighters arrived. (Nanyang overlord is coming to an end, the new book solicits everyone's opinions, please tell Canghai your opinions, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, opinions on the new book, you can leave a message directly on the platform.) )