Chapter VI Rescue at Sea
Ling Xiao felt that the helicopter was spinning violently, and his years of flying experience made him understand that the tail rotor of the helicopter had been blown up, but he couldn't figure it out, how could this group of people who had never even seen an airplane shoot down their helicopter?
There was no time for him to think about it, he tried to control the helicopter, he knew that the only thing he could do was to make the helicopter fall a little slower. Fortunately, the rotors of helicopters have inertia and will not fall down in free fall like fixed-wing aircraft, so fixed-wing aircraft will land more slowly than fixed-wing aircraft. However, the helicopter is not for the pilot to parachute escape equipment, in the development of the Z-20, the relevant units have considered the installation of ejection escape equipment, but the rotor above the pilot's head is like a huge meat grinder, if you don't get rid of it before ejection, then the pilot will be cut into meat paste by the high-speed rotating iron piece! Therefore, the design department referred to the Russian design idea and installed explosive equipment, that is, before the ejection seat was started, to blow up the rotor, but due to the difficulty of the technique, the design department followed the American design idea, that is, to install a buffer device at the bottom of the fuselage, hoping to protect the pilot when the helicopter fell.
The helicopter quickly tilted and fell to the water, and the huge impact knocked Ling Xiao unconscious, compared to Wang Rui on the other side, who remained awake for a moment like water. He hurriedly unbuckled his seat belt, and while the sea water had not yet filled the cabin, he leaned over to Ling Xiao's side, trying to unbuckle his seat belt and take him out of the cabin.
Wang Rui soon found that it was not so easy to untie his seat belt, because the impact just now deformed the fixing point of the seat belt, and the seat belt was stuck, so he could only cut the seat belt with a knife, but Wang Rui didn't have a knife at all! Seeing the sea water filling the cabin at a rapid pace, and Ling Xiao was still unconscious, if this continues, Ling Xiao must die!
Lin Yuan saw that the signal of the helicopter on the command screen disappeared, and he immediately thought that this plane must have had an accident! However, none of Lin Yuan and the staff officers present could believe this, and in their subconscious, they did not believe that the group of Japanese soldiers who lived in the 19th century and had never even seen an airplane could shoot down a helicopter.
At this time, the voices of the Z-25 planes responsible for the rescue mission sounded in the communicator, and the voice of the captain He Di sounded extremely anxious: "Captain, I am Rescue No. 1, the attacker has fallen and is rushing to the rescue!" ”
Lin Yuan suddenly thought of something, he picked up the communicator and asked calmly, "What combat equipment do you have on your plane?" ”
He Di paused, and then said: "The only combat equipment is a 12.7mm machine gun. ”
Lin Yuan frowned, and said categorically: "Don't get too close, this is an order!" ”
The people present were also taken aback, they didn't understand why Lin Yuan wanted to give such an order, Lin Yuan immediately issued an even more strange order, "Take off another rescue helicopter, and the best snipers should be equipped on board!" ”
In order to cope with all possible situations, the "Beijing" aircraft carrier was equipped with a marine company, which was composed of outstanding soldiers selected by the marine brigade of the military region.
The reason why Lin Yuan gave these two orders was because he suddenly figured out one thing, from the moment he learned that the aircraft carrier had returned to the past, he had an illusion in his heart that this battle would be won no matter how it was fought. The reason for this feeling is that he feels that he comes from the future and has mastered the most cutting-edge military science and technology of mankind, so he despises his opponent. The fall of the straight-20 was like a wake-up call that pulled him out of this unjustified self-confidence. Only then did he realize that the opponent on the other side was the best navy soldier of this era, and they might not have seen an airplane or a missile, but this did not mean that they did not know how to hit an airplane.
After the J-20 launched a missile to hit the "Fuso" ship, everyone, including Vice Admiral Ito Yuhiro, commander of the Japanese fleet, did not believe that the "Fuso" ship was hit by the enemy, and they even believed that the "Fuso" ship's own boiler accident caused the explosion. However, there is one person who is very sober, and he is the captain of the ship "Lang Su", the Navy Daisa, Heihachiro Togo.
In 1905, more than ten years after the Sino-Japanese War, Togo Heihachiro, then the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, led his fleet to defeat the invincible Russian Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet, and was worshiped as the "god of war" by later generations of Japanese soldiers.
After the explosion of the "Fuso", the observer of the "Lang Su" reported to Heihachiro Togo that he had observed everything: "A flying thing approached the 'Fuso' ship, and two things flew out from under that thing, and at an extremely high speed, it collided with the 'Fuso' ship, and immediately after that, the 'Fuso' exploded. Although Togo Heihachiro has never seen an airplane, but the long military career has given him the ability to think beyond ordinary people, he is a very hard-working, willing to learn new knowledge of the naval officer, he studied in England for eight years, during which he read a large number of military books, in the unremitting study, he realized: human military technology progress, always occur in those seemingly ordinary fields, such as stirrups, such as arquebuses of three-stage shooting, then we live in the era, What progress will there be in military science and technology? Heihachiro Togo naturally thought of the sky, and if someone could make something that could fly, then this would be a leap forward for military art. But he was just a soldier, he wasn't a scientist, he wasn't an engineer, he couldn't turn his seemingly impossible idea into reality.
When Heihachiro Togo listened to the narration of his observers, he vaguely felt that this leap was coming, so he ordered all observers, in addition to monitoring the Beiyang Fleet on the opposite side, to keep an eye on the air.
After a while, the Z-20 flew over the "Lang Su" ship and pounced on the flagship "Matsushima" at the head of the column, and Togo Heihachiro immediately ordered the ship's guns to raise the angle of fire and replace them with shells with timed fuses to prepare for a salvo.
At the same time as the Z-20 hovered in the air to launch torpedoes, Heihachiro Togo ordered, the artillery fired a salvo at the airspace where the helicopter was located, the shells spun and flew out of the chamber, exploded in the air, and the scattered anti-personnel shrapnel rained around the helicopter, because the accuracy of the artillery could not be guaranteed, so Heihachiro Togo ordered a salvo from multiple artillery, and finally a few pieces of shrapnel hit the tail rotor of the helicopter.
Heihachiro Togo then ordered the warship to move towards the downed helicopter, and dispatched two lifeboats to capture alive the person in the belly of the flying thing at all costs!
Just as the lifeboat carrying heavily armed Japanese soldiers approached the downed helicopter, Wang Rui was still struggling with how to untie Ling Xiao's seat belt. He saw the Zhi-25 in charge of the rescue hovering in the distance, although he didn't understand why it couldn't come, but he didn't complain about it, because he knew that even if the Zhi-25 came to his head, it couldn't help him untie his seat belt.
Wang Rui was in a hurry, took out the pistol he was wearing, since he became a pilot, he had not used a gun for a long time, he aimed the muzzle at the seat belt, fired a shot, the bullet broke the seat belt and got into the cushion of the pilot's seat, fortunately the cushion was very soft, otherwise at such a close distance, the bullet hit the hard object and ricocheted, it was enough to kill people.
At this time, the "Lang Su" ship was slowly approaching the fallen helicopter, and the reason why Lin Yuan did not let the rescue plane get too close was that he was worried that the helicopter would also be hit by the enemy ship. The helicopter carrying the sniper behind also rushed to the nearby airspace, and Lin Yuan immediately ordered: "Rescue No. 2, you stop above the enemy ship and attack their observers!" ”
The position of the observer is generally at the height of the ship's tower, and if you want to hit a helicopter in the distant air, you must have the guidance of the observer, and once the observer is knocked out, the whole warship is like being poked blind.
At such a distance, striking an observer on a warship with a sniper rifle sounds really incredible, at least that's what the observer on the ship "Lang Su" thought, and one of the observers was about to report the location of the helicopter when a bullet passed through his eyebrows.
The position of the helicopter is exactly the dead end of the shooting of the guns of warships, and there are no aircraft in this era, and warships naturally do not consider the problem of air defense, so there are no artillery that can strike at the air at this angle. In order to reduce the damage, the observers had to evacuate their observation positions.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the original rescue helicopter flew over the downed helicopter and rescued Ling Xiao and Wang Rui.
Upon hearing the news, the command room burst into thunderous applause. Lin Yuan's tense face finally showed a little smile, and at this time, a piece of news came that made everyone anxious: the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, the "Dingyuan" ship, fired its first shot at a distance of 5,300 meters from the Japanese fleet!
The naval battle in the Yellow Sea, which ended in a crushing defeat of the Beiyang Fleet, was about to break out, and the aircraft carrier "Beijing" could only watch its compatriots being slaughtered!