The 101st round, the second battle between sea and air
After receiving the notice, Wang Li and Li Ce, who had been on standby, immediately boarded the "Bumblebee" parked by the trestle. The plane's fuel has been filled, the ammunition has been prepared, and the military factory has sent several new products for Wang Li to try.
After the plane took off, it flew directly over the Lion Rock and headed for Hong Kong Island, and it only took more than ten minutes to reach the distance of dozens of axioms, and it soon reached the sky above the battlefield. Viewed from an altitude of more than 200 meters, the position after fierce battles has become the surface of the moon, full of craters smashed by artillery shells, the embers ignited by several incendiary bombs are still emitting thick black smoke, and the trenches are like zippers opened on the ground, if ant-like people walk back and forth in them. There was no time to admire this battlefield painting, and the plane flew towards the east of Hong Kong Island according to the guidance of the ground.
More than a dozen transport ships anchored near Liyumen are installing the second batch of rockets, and according to reports from the front, the rocket attacks have achieved certain results, and Spintozi and Hebu decided to increase the intensity of the strike, and make several more saturation attacks on the Chinese positions, killing and injuring as many personnel as possible. But the Liberation Army will never give them such a chance.
When the plane entered the East Water Channel, he saw more than a dozen warships moored there in the distance, and Li Ce pressed the nose of the plane, lowered the altitude to 100 meters, and pounced on the target. Visually there was still a distance of 500 meters, and Li Ce gave a thumbs up to Wang Lishu in the back seat, reminding the other party to enter the attack position immediately. At this time, a flash of fire flashed on one of the outermost warships, and several rockets really rushed over. The sudden attack startled Li Ce, and he instinctively deflected the joystick, and the plane turned sideways to avoid the rocket attack. During this time, two members of the Air Force had been discussing the possible means that the British army might use against the aircraft, and rockets were also a possibility. However, the rocket they are talking about is a kind of firework-like thing, that is, something with a long tail made of a bamboo strip, although it is not powerful, but if there are many of them, it will interfere with the flight of the plane, but Li Ce did not expect that the British would use something similar to "Katyusa" to fight the plane.
After all, it is a rocket, and the accuracy cannot be compared with an anti-aircraft missile, and Li Ce manipulated the plane to deviate slightly, and he avoided these "anti-aircraft missiles" of the 19th century. After a circle, it flew towards the fleet again. Looking at the planes that were getting closer and closer, the British did not use rockets anymore, presumably they also knew that the hit rate of hitting planes with rockets was too low, and after trying it once, they no longer wasted ammunition. The sailors on deck either hid behind the bulwarks or burrowed into the cabin, which was covered with an iron plate. This is the air defense tactic that the British army came up with after the first attack by aircraft, and it is simply impossible to invent an air defense weapon in a short time. The Chinese only have quick dodge muskets on their planes, and if they encounter an attack, they will "hide and seek" with them, and they will only go back when they run out of bullets. It has to be said that this is the most effective method at the moment, provided that the weapons of the "Hornet" are only machine guns.
The planes made their way through the fleet, and Wang Li tried to throw a few shuttles around the warship, but failed to hit any targets. The English were well hidden, and the king could not see anyone exposed. Not wanting to waste any more bullets, Wang Li stopped shooting, took out a military factory test product from the cockpit, patted Li Ce on the shoulder, and shook the things in his hand, the latter nodded clearly, then turned the nose of the plane and flew towards the largest warship.
HMS Red Coral, a three-masted ship with a length of 236 feet, a width of 55 feet, a depth of 21 feet, a displacement of 2,587 tons, six 12-pounder guns, and a crew of 120 sailors, is a transport-oriented low-armed warship and the main launch platform for this rocket attack. Seeing the plane approaching, the sailors secretly observed this magical machine through the cracks in the gun window, and at this time a large number of rockets were stacked on the deck of the warship, which also doomed the "Red Coral" to the tragic fate today.
Wang Li stared intently at the closer and closer target, and the new military products in his hand were also ready. This is an aerial bomb converted from a mortar shell, and it is an epoch-making work personally completed by the director of a military factory, and its appearance represents a new stage in the air-to-ground attack tactics of the Air Force of the Liberation Army. Because it only needs to be thrown from the plane, the propellant at the tail of the shell is removed, and the fuse of the shell is equipped with a safety device, which only needs to be removed before throwing. Li Ce lowered the plane to the level of the mast of the "Red Coral," and then passed between the first and second masts, and just as the plane was about to approach the sky above the warship, Wang Li smashed the "aerial bomb" in his hand at the warship.
In order to launch rockets, all the warships on the sea were anchored, which was also facilitated by Wang Li's bombing. At a height of several tens of meters, it only took a few seconds for a piece of metal of more than ten kilograms to fall, and shortly after the "Hornet" flew over the warship, a pillar of flame rose from the deck. The head of the "aerial bomb" hit the deck, and the collision fuse did its job well, and then detonated the explosives in the weak body, and the weak explosion brought about a chain reaction, and the rocket stacked on the deck was weakly detonated. Fragmentation rockets killed many sailors who were still on deck, while incendiary rockets ignited everything on deck that could burn, decks, masts, ropes, sails, and triggered more rocket detonations. It didn't take long for the "Red Coral" to turn into a huge torch, which could not save its destruction, and the still living sailors jumped into the sea like dumplings and quickly swam away from the huge powder keg that was burning. Ten minutes later, only a loud bang was heard, and the boiler of the "Red Coral" also exploded, and the hull of the ship more than 70 meters long immediately fell apart, and then began to sink slowly, and the sound of the explosion and the light of fire could be seen even from the position of the Liberation Army on the Kowloon Peninsula.
Knowing that the Chinese planes were coming to harass the fleet that launched weak rockets, Heb came to the Chai Wan pier and happened to witness the whole process of the "Red Coral" being attacked, catching fire, exploding, and sinking, which also broke the conclusion that the British "aircraft cannot cause damage to warships". Unable to think of a better response for a while, they had to use the flag to order the ships to stop firing rockets and withdraw all personnel and ammunition to the cabin. It must be said that this was the most correct method that the British army found in a short time.
At the same time that the "Red Coral" was blazing, the "Hornet" also completed its second attack, and the transport ship "Rock" suffered the same fate as the "Red Coral", and the detonated ammunition directly broke the warship in two, and many sailors were directly engulfed in flames before they could jump ship. The screams of these sailors made the sailors on the other warships feel creepy. But even so, the sailors on other warships still stuck to their posts, speeding up the removal of all kinds of flammable and explosive "dangerous goods" off the deck. If it is replaced by the Shui Yong of the Great Qingshui Division, most of them have run away, even the Restoration Army, including the survivors, does not have such a quality, and the Royal Navy's domination of the five oceans is not in vain.
The efforts of the British sailors paid off, and the third and fourth bombs of the king did not achieve the same results as the first two. The third bomb fell on the sea because it was dropped too late, but it only stirred up a column of water; Although the fourth fell on the deck, because the ammunition was removed, it did not achieve the effect of martyrdom, and only blew a large hole in the deck. Such damage really can't do much to a warship. The "Hornet" has a limited load capacity, and the four bombs are already its entire bomb load, although it is small, but it has also achieved considerable results, effectively curbing the rocket attack of the British army. Li Ce drove the plane around the dock in Chai Wan for two more times, and let Wang Li shoot the facilities on the pier with a machine gun before flying away satisfied.
Looking at the burning wreckage on the surface of the sea and the sailors waiting for rescue, the Royal Navy officers who witnessed the whole process had blank expressions. For hundreds of years, only the Royal Navy bullied people at sea, when was it bullied so badly? A small plane not only sank two warships, but also left the Navy powerless, and this sense of powerlessness made the officers of the Navy very frustrated.
Hebu withdrew his gaze from the sea and looked at the dejected officer, "Gentlemen, what's wrong?" Have you lost your courage? Have you lost the faith of a naval officer? Have you lost the good traditions of the Royal Navy? Have you forgotten that since the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy has defeated the Invincible Fleet and braved the waves on the ocean, relying not only on the advanced level of science and technology, the level of developed industry, but also on the courage, tenacity, perseverance and perseverance of the officers and men, and the perseverance inherited from Lord Nelson. Seeing that the faces of the officers slowly regained their confidence, He Bu showed a reassuring smile and continued: "These Chinese have temporarily gained the upper hand with one or two advanced weapons, but they can only be rampant for a while, and we will soon find a way to deal with them." When the time comes, we will surely return to them twice the humiliation we have suffered today. ”
It is easy for an army with fine traditions to regain confidence and courage from the historical heritage, and the officers, under the command of Hebu, have re-mobilized the warships on the sea. The battle just now has shown that as long as there is no ammunition on the deck, the Chinese's bombs are also limited, and the probability of being hit by bombs is much lower as long as the warship moves. However, the rocket attack only stopped, and who knows if the plane will come back.
Throughout the afternoon, there was no more fighting between the two sides, and they were silently dealing with the aftermath. The Liberation Army needs to repair positions and recover bullet casings; The British army needs to rescue the sailors who have fallen into the water and dispose of the corpses of the fallen British soldiers who have been collected back. Before dark, the British troops at the Kowloon beachhead also withdrew to Hong Kong. After the British army withdrew, the Liberation Army also began to clean up the corpses left by the British troops between the two barbed wires. After the British retreated, they still took most of the corpses, and the corpses that were basically thrown down were Indians. The Guangfu Army's collection of the third brother's corpse was not out of any humanitarianism, but it was really afraid of the smell of rotting corpses tomorrow, but fortunately, the survivors had experience in dealing with mutant corpses, and the people who dispatched them all wore gas masks and antibacterial suits. The bodies were collected and stacked directly on the beach, then doused with gasoline and lit on fire. The fire burned for more than two hours, and even the British on the other side could see it clearly, but the smell was too strong to even be stopped by gas masks, which affected the appetite too much.