Chapter 49: Aircraft dominate the battlefield skies
At the beginning of the new year, the imperial capital is lively inside and outside, a festive scene, every household is decorating their houses, pasting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, some surplus money families, children can have new clothes to wear, candy and firecrackers are the children's annual expectation.
The same is true of the Tang Mansion, this year because of the return of the baby daughter and the return of dozens of people, the Tang Mansion is the first time in ten years that it is so lively.
With labor, Li Ruonan took Hei Yan and Hai Xiaofei to renovate the Tang Mansion inside and out, and at the same time, Tang Wan'er's mother and daughter went to the street to buy New Year's goods, because they were a little late in buying New Year's goods, so they didn't buy any good things.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of food and drink on Baochuan Island, so what Tang Wan'er brought back this time is enough for everyone to celebrate the New Year.
"I don't know what happened to the front now..." After eating and drinking, Tang Lingyun began to worry about the imperial soldiers on his warship island.
At this time, it is usually the time when the enemy country launches an attack on Gunkanjima, and Gunkanjima is a military fortress, and almost all of it is military facilities, because of the crazy exclusion of the current captain, although the garrison on Gunkanjima has been increased in disguise, but it has also brought more pressure to Gunkanjima.
It was only in the past few years that Zhang Weilong led his soldiers to start cultivating land and raising fish in the sea.
Even so, tens of thousands of soldiers still can't eat enough all the time, and the sea area where the warship island is located is a deep-sea area, with a depth of tens of thousands of meters, and the environment and climate are extremely harsh, and any tsunamis, typhoons, and the like have to be visited every few months.
However, Warship Island is located on the only safe shipping route to the mainland of the Great Qin Empire, and the rest of the shipping routes are not untried by enemy countries, but after being wiped out by hordes of giant sea beasts several times, they have all learned to behave.
Since then, they have begun to calculate the time when the supplies on the warship island are the most scarce, and regularly launch attacks in order to break through the warship island one day, so as to go straight to the Qin Empire through this only channel, and among them, the time of the New Year is the time when the enemy country will focus on the offensive.
"Hehehehe, mother don't worry, I don't dare to say victory, but this year, Uncle Zhang, they have the wine and food sent by our Baochuan Island, and they are guaranteed to be full when they go to the battlefield!"
"Moreover, there have been three batches of pilots of forty-five squads to the front line, and I think they will give the enemy a big surprise!"
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Gunkan Island, above the fortress city.
"Come on,!"
"!"
"Hahaha, on this cold day, it's really exciting to have a bowl of good wine to drink!"
While he was drinking, an officer in charge of the radar system trotted up the tower.
"General, the enemy is coming!"
"Yo, it's late! Who are your acquaintances? Zhang Weilong was tasting the grain and wine produced by Baochuan Island with his subordinates, and after listening to the officer's words, he asked with interest.
"It's the Ming Kingdom and the Han Kingdom, both of which have a large fleet." The officer took a bowl of wine from his colleague, tasted it gently, and replied while intoxicated.
"Hahaha, there are only two large fleets in total, this time, they may not be happy!"
"General, give the order!"
"Okay, all the soldiers, go to battle with Ben!"
"Command!"
The establishment of the warship fleet is usually divided into three levels: large, medium and small, which is the world's common establishment, and the standard for small fleets is one hundred warships, as long as it can have a standard formation (three) of gold-class attack ships, it can become a small fleet that meets the standards.
For a medium fleet, there need to be at least 300 warships, and it is not mandatory to have a bastion ship, but the fleet needs to have at least one dreadnought-class warship to be a medium fleet that meets the standards.
In a large fleet, the number of warships is a thousand, and the fortress ship is a must, and it cannot be lower than the silver class, in the large fleet, the three medium fleets under its jurisdiction need to have a fortress ship, and the number of gold-class attack ships shall not be less than five standard formations.
On the main island of Gunkanjima, there is a large fleet of standard formations stationed for a long time, and there are five medium fleets stationed on the surrounding islands, so the defense force here is greater than that of two large fleets.
"Little family gas!" Standing on the fortress ship, looking at the dense battleships on the opposite side, maybe only Zhang Weilong could say such a thing at this time, but if you look back at the offensive strength of the opponent in the past, plus the support he has received now for a comprehensive analysis, he has the confidence to despise the opponent.
"I ordered all the flying teams to attack, carry out air strikes, and tell them to use everything they have learned for me!" With a roar in his voice, Zhang Weilong was very looking forward to seeing these magical flying machines show their might on the battlefield.
"Yes!"
Soon, the pilots stationed on the flagships of the various fleets received orders and took off one after another.
"Boom..."
"Woohoo..."
"The first and second squadrons will go to the left battlefield, the third and fourth squadrons will go to the right battlefield, and the fifth squadron will be on standby in the air to flexibly reinforce our fleet!"
"Yes! Captain! ”
There are three people in a team, three squads are a squadron, and there are a total of 45 battleship builders who have come back from Baochuan Island after taking the pilot license, a total of five squadron personnel, and their captain is an elite-level battleship builder, and he is also a student of Tang Lingyun, surnamed Zhang!
"This is the first battle we have officially entered the battlefield, don't disgrace the fleet, don't disgrace Treasure Boat Island, and don't disgrace your instructor Tang Ling!"
Tang Lingyun, Qin Huang and Zhang Weilong only admired Tang Ling more, but only these pilots who had been to Baochuan Island and were personally taught by Tang Ling knew how terrifying Tang Ling was, so they had a kind of respect and even worship for Tang Ling.
Zhang Lang, Zhang Weilong's younger brother, is only in his early thirties, as a descendant of the Zhang family, he did not discredit his ancestors, and the elite-level warship builder is a sweet and sweet everywhere.
But such a person grew up with a golden key, and at the same time was extremely talented, after the careful training of the Imperial Academy and Tang Lingyun, he is now a battleship builder in his own right, but he has a reverence for a six or seven-year-old child that even surpasses Tang Lingyun.
As a warship fan, Tang Ling's knowledge of warships in his head is definitely the strongest among amateurs, and at the same time, he is also a model enthusiast, for various reasons, he can be said to be like a fish in water in the war world.
Let's ask, how can Zhang Lang match such a person with the crystallization of a whole civilization in his head in terms of theoretical knowledge? Tang Lingyun is not enough to see!
commanding the fifth squadron on standby, Zhang Lang was recalling several confrontation exercises with Tang Ling in his mind...
That child's future is the future of the empire! I don't know when this thought came to mind, but it has lingered.
On the battlefield, there are not many people who can be as idle and cranky as Zhang Lang, and the four squadrons launched attacks on the two fleets at the same time in two ways, unlike the lack of talents on Baochuan Island, the people who can be qualified to be sent to Baochuan Island for training in the first few batches are at least intermediate founders.
This is only the level of ordinary team members, and the squadron leaders are all at the level of senior builders.
Under this level configuration, the attack power of the Gunkanjima Flying Group can be imagined, controlling the aircraft, the team members are constantly hovering in the air, and even occasionally in order to avoid the shells encountered when flying at low altitudes, they will also do some difficult maneuvers.
And this is why Tang Ling requires the pilot to be a person with mental power, because only mental power can ensure the best control of the aircraft at all times, so as to ensure that they can be more flexible in the air and free their hands to attack.
"Take the squad as a unit, destroy the main guns of the attack ship first, and hand over the rest to the fleet!" The Squadron Leader of the First Squadron and the Squadron Leader of the Second Squadron looked at each other and ordered.
"Yes!"
"Whew... Whoosh...
Immediately, the two squadrons of 18 pilots dispersed and swooped like falcons on their respective prey.
"Hull, attack!"
"Boom, boom..."
Unlike Tang Ling, because there is still a fleet behind them, the pilots of Warship Island only need to scrap the opponent's main gun, so that the number of attacks of each ordinary team member is as high as 10, and the two squadrons can attack 200 times, and even a large fleet cannot have hundreds of gold-class attack ships!
If a wolf enters a flock, there is no means of anti-air, although the cannon can be estimated to the sky a few kilometers away, but in the time when the shells fly, it is enough for the members of the flying group to do at least five evasive actions, so there is nothing to do with them.
Seeing that their main warships were scrapped one by one, the commanders of the enemy countries were stupid and anxious.
The appearance of flying machines at this time was still too rare, and when Tang Ling used it before, he had always completely annihilated the opponent, and there would not be much news leaked out at all, so this time the opponent could be said to have been caught off guard and completely unable to parry.
The flying machines whistling in the sky have become a nightmare for the enemy, and it is simply cheating to let the battleship builder go up, watching the captains all face purple and black when they take them out, become larger, and then smash into the hull of the battleship's main gun.
For the captains, the battleship is both home and wife, so wantonly ravaged but without any ability to fight back, the home is ruined, the wife is ***, at this time the mood of the captains of these attack ships can be imagined.
The sky, a field that has not yet been touched by mankind, has become a winning factor for the warship island side today, hovering and flying over the enemy warship unscrupulously, and every dive means that the main gun of a main battleship will be cut off, and after that, the warship island battleship in the rear will carry out a concentrated fire attack on this battleship, instantly reducing its durability to zero, and then sinking.
On the battlefield, the most fierce battleships often become the main targets of the flying group, and the two battleships can be taken away in an instant, so clean and neat that people are frightening.
When? When did the main battleship that dominate the sea become so vulnerable!
The attackers felt full of malice from the sky, and the roar that whistled from time to time was like the sound of death, once it appeared, it meant that death was near, no matter how strong the defense of a capital warship was, it would not have any power to parry in the face of the cluster bombardment of the fleet.
"Ah!!h
Such an almost torturous battle was more like waiting for the judgment of death, and soon, the first person to collapse under the crush of the fear of death appeared.
The captain of a capital battleship suddenly roared, his hands kept scratching on his face, his head was scratching, blood was flowing down his face, but he didn't realize it, and after roaring, he rushed out of the control room and threw himself into the arms of the sea!
All this happened to be seen by Zhang Lang, who was patrolling everywhere, he knew that now was an opportunity, and he had to be the last straw that broke the camel's back!
"You guys go support a squadron!"
"Yes!"
"Whew..."
Sending the team members behind him away, Zhang Lang turned on the third gear and rushed towards the behemoth located in the center of the Ming fleet with maximum power, yes, he was going to carry out a decapitation operation, putting the last straw on the already frightened camel.
The two sides had just exchanged fire at this time, so the other side's fortress ships had not yet entered the range of the Qin fleet, and were still far away in the rear of the Chinese army.
The panic had gradually spread, but Zhang Lang's speed was obviously faster, so when he reached the sky above the fortress ship of the Ming fleet, the other party had not reacted much.
Different from ordinary warships, the fortress ship is like a city on the sea, with a more square size, like a plus version of an aircraft carrier, except that there are no carrier-based aircraft on it, a total of three bridges in the front and rear, and dozens of main guns, it is simply a mobile fortress fortress, worthy of its name "fortress ship".
In previous naval battles, there are very few records of bastion ships being sunk, first, before attacking the bastion ship, the weaker side either surrendered or had already run away, and second, the bastion ship was firepower strong enough, unless it was another bastion ship of the same class, it was difficult to take it. However, there are really few people who can do such a stupid thing as taking a fortress ship to fight with the other party, except for a commander surnamed Zhang!
Today, there is no doubt that Zhang Lang will make history, with a spiritual power of up to 3,000 points, it is like playing to smash the main gun with the hull of an ordinary trumpet, what about dozens of main guns? Dozens of hulls will be smashed down and all of them will say goodbye!
"Boom, boom..."
The continuous slight concussions and roars made everyone on the fortress ship at this time have a practical experience of the feelings of the compatriots who are being shelled on the front line, and they know that every time this roar comes, it means that one main gun is scrapped, and dozens of main guns, where can they withstand such a toss from the other side?
"Boom!"
Without waiting for them to make many movements, suddenly there was a loud bang, and a hundred-meter-long hull descended on the bridge in front, and the bridge dozens of meters high was instantly smashed crooked, and many people were pushed out of the bridge by a huge force at the first time, and fell into the sea in a graceful parabola.
After that, the other two bridges were also patronized by Zhang Lang, and from the movement at the bridge after the three attacks, Zhang Lang quickly found the location of the leader.
"Hey, hey... Go! ”
Finding a good angle, Zhang Lang threw out three hundred-meter-level hulls in a row against the bridge in the middle within a minute, and the violent impact force directly knocked the entire bridge out of the ship, and with it, the commander who had not had time to be rescued fell into the sea, and the splash of the sea was like a giant beast's bloody mouth, slowly swallowing the bridge into it.
"Ouch, I'll go... Boring! When Zhang Lang turned around and wanted to go to another fleet to do something, he suddenly found that the other party had withdrawn hundreds of kilometers one after another.
The endurance of the second-generation aircraft is only less than 500 kilometers, and there is no way to add water and change stars in the air, so Zhang Lang is already powerless to catch up at this time.
"It looks like I'll have to take a leave of absence to go back to Treasure Boat Island next time, and the airboat should have been completed..." Yes, as Zhang Lang said, the empty boat is the solution to this drawback.
The airship with endurance is more than ten times that of the aircraft, not only can it be used as a platform to drop bombs on ships on the sea surface in the air, but also can provide a foothold for the aircraft to add water and change stars and sea stones, 10 square meters of manned cabin, as long as some landing plates are installed outside the cabin, under the full supply, the supply of a flight group is enough.
The straw was thrown, the Han fleet retreated, the Ming fleet was crippled, and the debut of the flying group ended in a big victory!
"Oh!"
"Hahaha..."
"Flying Brigade! Group! Group! ”
This is the easiest battle fought since the establishment of the fortress, and although it may not be the biggest victory, if you count the battle damage, it is also worthy of being comparable to any record in history.
For a time, the island, on the ship, was full of howls and cheers. As soon as the members of the flying group landed, they were carried into the sky by the soldiers who swarmed up, and the whole fleet was in jubilation.
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Five days later, the imperial capital.
"Hahaha... This is the best New Year's gift I've ever received in 10 years! "Emperor Qin was holding a secret letter in his hand at this time, and the sign on it was red, which meant that this was a war report.
Five days ago, Zhang Weilong was not satisfied after the victory, and ordered the fleet to attack, and the remnants of the Ming fleet, which were still struggling on the battlefield, were left to several other medium-sized fleets to deal with, while he led the main fleet to pursue the Han fleet first, so it took a day to crush the enemy fleet under the repeated tricks.
In the following four days, Zhang Weilong led the fleet to occupy all the enemy's military facilities within a few thousand miles in front of the warship island, and the defense depth of the warship island was advanced by thousands of miles.
And the bold Zhang Weilong had already sent out this battle report four days ago, so when Emperor Qin saw this battle report, he had actually just finished the battle.
After receiving the opponent's fleet, the second large fleet was immediately formed on the warship island, with Zhang Yuanzhen as the commander and Zhang Lang as the deputy general, and the task of the second fleet was to integrate the newly occupied vast sea area with the cooperation of the flying group, and take on the defense task here.