Chapter 683 683 Battle of the Solomon Islands (IX)
The new generation of battleship artillery warfare is very different from the World War II period, and the ultra-long range and super-powerful Shirata electromagnetic cannon has always allowed the battleships to fire at NATO allied ships from a distance of 30 nautical miles, and at the same time, the missiles of the rest of the ships have also continuously fired anti-ship missiles at US warships.
The general-class battleships equipped with the Heavenly Disaster combat system have the ability to automatically determine the priority of target attacks, and the U.S. military continues to send ships that want to shell or even ram Chinese battleships, and these ships that are too close will become the priority targets of the Liu Renliang. Almost no shells knocked out the US warships one by one, the ships designed after World War II were all such thin-skinned stuffing, that is, Lao Maozi had engaged in some more difficult things, and even those battleships in World War II were in front of each other, and the terrible kinetic energy of Liu Renliang's naval guns could easily penetrate their armor belts of hundreds of millimeters.
As a result, there were US warships fighting bravely to be the first, but just like the infantry charging on the battlefield, as long as they were shot, they fell directly to the ground, and there was no second result at all. The battleship Liu Renliang was like a god and a demon, making the enemy invincible on the naval battlefield. In a short period of time, more than a dozen ships had already been destroyed and sunk by the heavy artillery of the battleship Liu Renliang.
When Fargo, commander of NATO's Asia-Pacific Theater Command, saw this situation, there was no dawn of victory at all, so he unwillingly ordered: "The 4th detachment of surface ships will entangle and contain the enemy, and the rest of the ships will course 0-3-0 and leave the battlefield!" â
This order can be regarded as a strong man's relief in an unfavorable situation, but the US fleet underestimated one problem, and that is the speed of Chinese ships. For example, the main ships of the previous generation of the Chinese Navy, such as the Type 002 aircraft carrier, the Type 052D destroyer, and the Type 054A frigate, have a speed similar to that of the main ships of the Western Navy, all of which are about 30 knots. However, the new generation of Chinese warships have adopted a new power system, and the speed has been qualitatively improved, even if it is like the general-class battleship, the Type 011 arsenal ship, etc., all have a high speed of 40 knots, which makes it impossible for those ships with a speed of 30 knots to escape their pursuit in the chase battle.
The surface ships left behind by the US forces did not meet with the Chinese battleships at all, because the Tianlong ship formation, which had been besieged by the US forces before, had already rounded the Jilin aircraft carrier battle group, rushed to the sea area of the line of fire, and participated in the final decisive battle against the US forces. The carrier-based planes of the Chinese Naval Air Force launched an air attack on the four detachments of surface ships left behind by the US military, and the Chinese battleships directly bypassed these US surface ships and headed for the two aircraft carriers, the Constellation and the USS Ford.
In such a desperate moment, Fargo and his comrades used any means at their disposal to hinder the approach of the Chinese battleship, the 40-knots monster, with the equally monstrous Aquila arsenal, like a brave and invulnerable knight, invincible in the seas.
"Missiles at them, missiles at them! Can't let them get any closer to a nautical mile! "At this juncture, the captains of all American cruisers and destroyers have realized that their ships must now be pawns capable of sacrificing themselves.
"How many rounds have the guns of those Chinese battleships been bombarded, isn't there a barrel overheating?" Some people still have such doubts as zĂ i in the midst of panic.
"Idiot, to be able to fight so far, it must be an electromagnetic cannon, I can't imagine that the Chinese have developed it successfully, and it is such a powerful electromagnetic cannon." The people of the Naval Society have long predicted that electromagnetic guns can change the mode of naval warfare, but why is it always the Chinese who change the mode, aren't American scientists known as the smartest, why are they always driven ahead by the Chinese?! â
In fact, these officers and men of the US Navy have also somewhat deified China's general-class battleship, this 70,000-ton super warship has been galloping on the ocean at a high speed of 40 knots for several hours, and has been fighting for several hours with the weapon system fully operational, even if the Baitian electromagnetic cannon has fired hundreds of rounds and can continue to operate, but according to the combat manual, the weapons department also needs to inspect the various components of the electromagnetic cannon after stopping the attack, especially the electromagnetic guide rail of the electromagnetic gun.
The captain of the battleship's Red Alert said silently: "We still have 20 minutes of combat time, and in these 20 minutes, let more US ships become artificial reefs on the bottom of the sea!" â
"The course of the U.S. military indicates that they are heading east, possibly back to Hawaii, or south to Australia," the radar division noncommissioned officer reported. â
The captain of the Red Alert judged: "It is too far to return to Hawaii or Guam, and it is very likely that our attack submarines will be ambushed on this journey, and the losses of the US carrier-based air force will be severe, and it will be difficult for them to return to Hawaii or Guam in their entirety with such a crippled fleet." Relatively speaking, it is more likely that we will go south to New Caledonia, or Australia, and the US military will be able to get a short rest and recuperate, and our forces will not be enough to launch any offensive against Australia for the time being, as long as the US military can ease up and transfer more fleets and troops from the mainland, it will still be able to continue to maneuver with us in the southwest Pacific. â
Qi Yiming, who was far away in China, naturally saw this situation clearly, but he was obviously more confident: "If the U.S. military retreats to New Caledonia or Australia, then the battle in the southwest Pacific can basically be declared over, and we will immediately increase our troops to control Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, cut off the Pacific Ocean, Australia and New Zealand, and make Australia and New Zealand as isolated as India, and finally our legions will be able to land on this land and occupy this land." â
Although the Australian continent is larger than India, but a large area is desert, the population and cities are mainly concentrated in the relatively mild and humid areas of the southwest, Australia's population is not large, only about 30 million, and the militarization process is even more insufficient, China's strong army only needs one or two heavy armies to be able to sweep through Australia, and completely knock it out when Australia is not ready to come.
At that time, another important ally of the United States will also be directly put down by China, and the United States is simply powerless against it, just as the United States is powerless against India, which is now about to be completely occupied, and around the world, the United States' allies will question the United States even more intensely, so that some countries will not be able to withstand the pressure and finally choose to withdraw from this war. The more NATO countries choose neutrality, the more powerless the United States will become, and the outcome of its final defeat will become clearer and clearer.