Chapter 1498: Shura Field

If this is the case, the battleship may still have the possibility of escaping from the ascension if it is well managed and lucky. But alas, the next two bricks made Count Luknall completely abandon his flagship! One of the bombs destroyed the helm compartment, while the other bomb was not secured, but the sturdy body of the bomb knocked through several layers of armor in succession, knocking the aviation gasoline tank open! Flammable and volatile high-grade aviation gasoline is leaking out quickly! That's it, it's hell that this ship with no power, no power, no operation, and a possibility of exploding at any time can go back!

Just as Count Luknall gave the order to abandon the ship, and a shipload of German officers and men was moving to the destroyers on both sides, another group of attack aircraft aimed at the Deflinger in the fleet! And this ship happens to be the preparatory flagship that Lord Count is preparing to transfer! This guy's performance is really good, not only relying on the cover of smoke and electronic interference, he dodged at least 7 guided bombs in a row, but also used the anti-aircraft gun as fierce as a hedgehog to knock down 3 torpedo machines!

But there is a saying that what is called, the rafters that come out are rotten first, and even if your martial arts are invincible with two fists and four hands, the heroes can't stand up to many people! The De Vellinger was a dazzling performer, and he did a good job of pulling the other two teammates into the hate! More than 20 bombers of various types surrounded the battleship that was running wildly on the sea, dropping tons of ammunition and tons of damage at the same time!

The first to make a contribution was a Sky Raider attack plane, which not only hit a torpedo of the opponent, but also tore a 15-meter hole in its side side, and at the same time was cut off half of the wing by a shell, and the multi-ton plane with half a tank of fuel also decisively crashed into it! The scene of this oversized petrol bomb exploding is absolutely hot. And the effect of the attack is undoubted! The anti-aircraft gun deck on one side was dismantled directly to the half-pull, while the subsequent fragments were after shattering the hangar sidewalls. Another fire in the hangar!

And while the crew of the Deflinger was scrambling to put out the fire, all the bombs rained down on it. The violent explosion spread from the front of the flight deck to the stern, and 4 guided bombs almost completely tore off the entire deck! And what finally ended the battleship was an armor-piercing shell that hit the ammunition depot directly. Although the fierce fighting caused a huge consumption of aviation ammunition, the remaining hundreds of various aerial bombs were still enough to send the ship to the bottom of the sea.

I saw that the battleship seemed to jump violently, and then a crack visible to the naked eye began to extend up and down from the middle of the hull, accompanied by the sound of metal twisting and breaking, the entire battleship began to break from the bottom of the ship and then quickly spread to the entire section! Half a minute later, with a series of explosions and fireworks-like flames, the battleship quickly sank to the bottom of the sea, forming a vortex as the massive hull sank. Even dragged down a destroyer that came to the rescue next to it!

Just when Count Luknar's fleet was killed by two capital aircraft carriers in just half an hour, the fleet of Raeder and Marshal Horthy's Austro-Hungarian fleet were also watched by the opponent! The USS Goeben was the first to be the unlucky, but this guy died a better than his class, because he was faced with another promising weapon - anti-ship missiles!

4 Exocet missiles that looked like trumpets flew over with a roar, don't you say it, Xu Jie's name for it is indeed quite appropriate, a shuttle-shaped missile body has two wings on it, and there is a rocket engine in the back, which can work for about half a minute. But even so. THE ROCKET ENGINE CAN ALSO ACCELERATE THIS 4.5 METERS LONG AND WEIGHING ABOUT 1400 KG TO 900 KILOMETERS PER HOUR! This speed completely exceeded the interception capabilities of German anti-aircraft artillery! And the ultra-high kinetic energy also gives this missile terrifying lethality! With just one missile, the bridge of the aircraft carrier Goeben was almost completely destroyed!

And then a succession of anti-ship missiles allowed the Goburn to successfully experience what happened to another plane, a guy named Atlantic Transporter, on the Falklands! The other two missiles hit the anti-aircraft artillery platform and hangar, respectively, and directly smashed the side of the battleship into a pile of twisted steel. The resulting fire quickly spread to the entire hull under the action of the sea breeze.

And while the Germans were busy fighting fires. The biggest and most dangerous attack is finally here! Six torpedo planes threw down 12 torpedoes in one go, and looking at the torpedo array that fanned out from a distance of 1000 to 700 meters, the officers and men on the Goeben couldn't even cry!

"At that time the left side of the Goeben should have been hit with 4 torpedoes. Well, it should be this number. Because at that time I could feel the hull shake badly 4 times! Less than half a minute after the last explosion, the inclination of the hull reached about 30 degrees. Everyone knows that Goeben is finished! We began to prepare for evacuation, and the cruiser next to us also rushed to meet us. A surviving German officer later recalled.

At the time of the sinking of the Goburn, Horthy's fleet also lost an armored aircraft carrier, and the No. 4 ship of the Lord Loudon-class aircraft carrier was the only battleship sunk by ordinary bombs and torpedoes in this battle, and the other lost aircraft carriers were all named by guided weapons, and this battleship was the only one that was sunk by more than 20 attack aircraft with ordinary 800kG bombs and torpedoes.

In this battle, the Chinese navy destroyed it with a typical fundamentalist air strike. Four Skua fighters rushed forward in the face of deadly artillery fire, firing 16 Sispano guns and 40 5-inch rockets at the German anti-aircraft gun deck at a distance of 700 meters, destroying more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns of various calibers like a wall of flames.

The three remaining planes climbed and fled, while four other Sky Raiders armed with small bombs and rockets once again cleared anti-aircraft fire and attacked the deck. At the same time, there was an attack plane with a lot of ammunition to dispose of a destroyer next to it. This is good for catching scorpions, first pluck out the scorpion's stinger, and then concoct it well.

After clearing the anti-aircraft firepower, the aircraft carrier was completely a lamb to the slaughter, and under the repeated blows of more than a dozen bombs and 8 torpedoes, the last armored aircraft carrier in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to serve on the battlefield! With endless resentment and thousands of lives, he sank into the vast sea!

In less than an hour, the Allied fleet had already lost 4 armored aircraft carriers. But this wave of attacks had not yet passed, and a large group of Huaxia carrier-based aircraft rushed to the Spee's fleet, which was located in the rear! There are 7 whole large and super-large aircraft carriers waiting for them to harvest!

"Ugh. What luck for the Germans! "I have to say that this time God and his old man are still very worthy of the Germans. A tropical cyclone is passing through the edge of the battlefield, and the fleet directly under the command of Count Spee happens to get into the storm area brought by this tropical cyclone, and in the face of dark clouds and storms, it is really useless for the gods to come!

Although before the German fleet hid in, the Chinese air force used fierce fire to knock out 2 cruisers and 1 battleship, and also hit the battleship Caesar 2 times and the battleship Empress 3 times, and blew up the latter's two elevators, and at the same time caused a hangar fire. But it didn't hit the core! These injuries are not too serious for a warship with a full load tonnage of more than 50,000.

"I'll go, what should I do?" The Huaxia Navy specially prepared a large strike formation for the fleet directly under Count Spee, and even though it was intercepted by the Germans many times, there were more than 70 attack aircraft of various kinds rushing here! At this time, the Huaxia pilot's heart was depressed, watching the prey run away from his eyes like this, that was called an unwillingness! But it was clear that they couldn't stand on the stakes and wait! Your own fuel is not allowed, and neither are the FW190D fighters that have been killed! "According to the original plan, let's pick the big one!" Major General Zhu Ziming, who was in charge of leading the team, ordered!

And this order clearly creates ambiguity. At least that's how the Huaxia Attack Group behaved at that time, because there were two fleets next to Count Spee's fleet, and they seemed to be about the same size! One fleet was the Spanish-Turkish fleet, which the Germans jokingly called the Bunker, and the other was a transport fleet and some special service ships for the entire Allied Powers!

The commanders of the individual squadrons immediately carried out this order as they understood it. Part of it pounced on the Spaniards and Turks, while the other pounced on the convoy! As the two formations with the lowest defense power in the entire fleet, the Chinese naval aviation finally experienced the feeling of being strong and weak!

Under the rain of bombs and torpedoes. The other party almost didn't even have the strength to jump. THE SPANISH LIGHT GUARD WAS DECISIVELY BLOWN TO PIECES BY TWO 800KG BOMBS AND THREE TORPEDOES, WHILE ANOTHER TURKISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER, THE SULEIMAN SULTAN, WAS HIT BY FIVE GUIDED BOMBS. There is not a good place on the entire deck and in the 3 cabins above. The other two aircraft carriers survived with better armor and luck.

As for the transport fleet? The 15 transport ships with a total of 270,000 tons of ships and the supplies on board sank into the rolling waves of the Indian Ocean with the ferocious firepower of China. And so far. The attack of the Huaxia Navy was almost over, and the group of planes after the breakthrough was either out of ammunition or destroyed by the German fighters that tracked it, and the huge fleet of nearly 1,000 planes at the time of departure was only about 570 planes left when it returned, and nearly half of them were lost! And the rest of these planes also have a lot of injuries, and whether they can land safely is a question!

However, compared with the losses of the Chinese naval aviation, the losses of the Germans were even heavier, in this nearly an hour and a half of air raids, the Germans lost a 35,000-ton Europa aircraft carrier, three 30,000-ton armored aircraft carriers, and two 20,000-ton medium light protection aircraft carriers. The Germans lost 170,000 tons of warship tonnage on aircraft carriers alone.

And in fact, the Germans also sank 1 battleship, 4 cruisers and 12 destroyers. The total tonnage of these warships combined is almost 280,000 tons! It can be said that the damage caused by the First World War of China to the Allied fleet was greater than the total losses of the Allied navy before! From the debris remaining on the surface of the sea and the German search and rescue personnel who had been busy, it was clear what a heavy price the Allied fleet had paid in this engagement!

At the same time that the Huaxia naval aviation paid a heavy price to beat the Allied fleet, the German strike aircraft group also launched an attack on the Huaxia Navy, and compared with the Huaxia wave of nearly 1,000 aircraft, the German attack aircraft group was much smaller, only about 600 aircraft, and the attack aircraft formation only about 200 twin-engine attack aircraft. A large part of this was due to the fact that the Germans' single-engine aircraft simply could not reach the Chinese fleet.

The Germans' attack was still sharp, and the cruising speed of the entire fleet was as high as 480 kilometers per hour, but in an hour and a half, when the Germans flew over the Huaxia fleet, they encountered a group of more than 600 Huaxia interceptors waiting for them!

The combat effectiveness of the German escort formation equipped with FW190D fighters is indeed higher, but the relative gap has not decreased much. With the assistance of the efficient air defense guidance system, the Skua 3 fighter, which can be called a low-altitude BUG, completely suppressed the opponent, and used the continuous impact to break up the German attack aircraft group.

The early warning and command of this era are too crude, and in fact, it is necessary for the front-line fighter pilots to intercept by themselves, and when looking at the attack of the opponent's group divided into a dozen or even dozens of units, the defending side will definitely have different degrees of negligence, and this omission is enough to make one or several raid aircraft groups have time to drill! In the historical battle of Okinawa, the kamikaze special forces have successful cases of single aircraft penetrating defenses, and in the face of attack aircraft with a sprint speed of more than 500 kilometers in the defense depth of less than 130 kilometers, no one can guarantee that they will be stopped!

This time unfortunate was an Italian light protection aircraft carrier Sicily and a Chinese armored aircraft carrier Heilongjiang, the former was hit by 3 bombs and 2 torpedoes, an 800 kg bomb destroyed the power compartment of the Sicily, and the other bomb destroyed the aviation gasoline depot, coupled with the serious water ingress caused by the mine on the same side, the battleship died decisively.

The other Huaxia aircraft carrier was hit by 3 torpedoes, although it was close to about 3,000 tons of water, but the good design allowed it to continue to float on the water, and it could also sail at low speed, originally this wave of attack withstands, but was accidentally ambushed by German submarines during the evacuation process! The salvo of 6 electric torpedoes made this aircraft carrier with 4 radars on one side finally hate the ocean! Of course, this submarine and two other submarines that were nearby were also blown to pieces by the enraged Huaxia destroyer! And this also drew an end to this big war!

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