Chapter Twenty-Three: The First Battle
Patrolling can be a very boring task, but luckily it is a team of two. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoOne person is responsible for piloting the aircraft, and the other person can be responsible for searching the sea surface. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Ocean was so vast that it was not easy to find the British convoy.
After more than ten hours of patrol and reconnaissance, the 3rd group of flight formations finally had a harvest! They spotted a medium-sized escort formation. The formation consisted of two destroyers and 10 large transport ships, and after discovering the target, the German fighter pilots quickly reported the enemy's position.
At this time, Major Dylan received a report from a front-line reconnaissance patrol plane and immediately gave the order to attack. The air carrier Adeline immediately accelerated towards this medium-sized transport fleet, and the other 2 groups of fighters all converted bombs immediately took off to attack!
Zhang Fan, who received the news at the same time, pondered for a moment and said: "Order Major Dylan to keep the battle plan unchanged, and ask the patrol plane pilot in charge of reconnaissance on the front line to immediately serve as an observer of the ship's artillery fire, we need to test our secret weapon in real combat!" ”
Soon the order reached the patrol pilots of the front line!
The pilots who received the order looked puzzled! "The commander of the fleet asked us to be artillery fire observers, this is not a joke, now the mothership is at least 300 kilometers away from here, and no artillery can hit so far!"
These pilots did not yet know the secret weapons carried on board the new Prince Eugen at this time, the super range of the electromagnetic railgun, or the contents of extreme secrecy. The average crew member had no idea that the new Prinz Eugen was also equipped with such a big killing weapon! But an order is an order, and the German soldiers have always been unconditionally obedient to orders! So the pilot, named Egbert, quickly took on the task of being an observer of artillery fire, ready to help the Prince of New Eugen check the trajectory of the guns!
Soon, a very piercing sound of high-speed breaking through the sky came.
"Oh my God! What is that? "Egbert first noticed that there was a huge beam of light in the sky, and then it was flying towards this side, and the speed was so amazing, like an extraterrestrial meteorite, with a huge streamer like a thunderbolt, it slammed into the sea area where the British medium-sized transport ship was located!
This is the electromagnetic railgun that has just been launched on the new Prince Eugen, and the speed of sound is up to 7 times, so that the front part of this cannonball is constantly vaporized and brings out a huge streamer, which is as amazing as a meteorite falling!
Unfortunately, the first attack did not hit the British ships, but the shell hit the water and raised a 30-meter-high column of water! And the ships within a radius of 100 meters around are like small sailboats, which are tossed up and down by huge waves!
"What was that, was it a meteorite?" At this time, Ted, the captain of the destroyer of the British escort mission, said in horror.
The British were completely stunned by this sudden attack just now, and they couldn't even confirm whether it was a meteorite or a cannonball, because the power just now was so amazing that even the largest caliber of the British main gun at this time would not have such great power!
Just when Ted was still hesitating, the signalman suddenly shouted: "Captain, we have been discovered by the Germans, and the Germans have ordered us to surrender immediately by a telegram, otherwise the attack just now will fall on our heads!"
"What! German! This can't be, this is the Atlantic, it's the waters of our British, how did the Germans' fleet sail through the lines of British warships and go deep into the Atlantic! Ted questioned.
"Captain, I heard that a German fleet known as the Valkyrie broke through the blockade of the Imperial Royal Fleet and entered the Atlantic! But this is already a month ago, this fleet entered the Atlantic and mysteriously disappeared, and there has been no news! Could it be that we just bumped into them! The deputy captain whispered in the captain's ear.
"It's possible, but we are the glorious Royal Navy, how can we surrender to the Germans before we have received the enemy, send my order, call back to the Germans, our British fleet will not surrender, advise them to leave quickly, saying that we have informed the British Royal Fleet in the nearby seas, if they dare to continue the attack, they will definitely be surrounded and suppressed by our Imperial Navy!"
And Zhang Fan, who was far away on the new Prince Eugen, couldn't help but smile when he saw the other party's callback, the British are still so proud, so let's give them some color to see, so that they can know who is the real king of the sea!
"Order the main artillery to continue firing, and if the British don't surrender, give me a hard shot!"
With Zhang Fan's order, the huge electromagnetic railgun began to roar continuously!
Electromagnetic guns after electromagnetic guns hit the British fleet one after another, and now the British are stupid, this time they have understood that this is definitely not a meteorite, this is a damn German shelling, but what they don't understand is that they did not find any German warships on their side at all, and according to ballistic calculations, these shells came from the sea 300 kilometers away, which is simply impossible.
At this time, Captain Ted had begun to fidget, but he still insisted on not saying a word of surrender, in his heart, such a long-distance shooting, the shooting accuracy must be super poor. It's a pity that he didn't know that there was an eye in the sky to help the new Prince Eugen shoot!
After 3 shells in a row, the 4th grazed a British destroyer. It was just a rub, not a direct hit, but the ultra-high temperature jet brought by the huge speed directly dug a huge gap in the entire hull! The entire hull was like being bitten by a deep-sea beast, and part of the hull was directly evaporated and disappeared, and then there was a huge explosion inside the hull, and in just 20 seconds, the destroyer was blown into the sky!
This really frightened these British, they didn't even see the face of the enemy, just the ultra-long-range artillery sent a destroyer into the sky with one shot, and even the personnel on board didn't react! The whole ship was buried with them!
The British were really frightened and stupid, and they didn't react for a long time, until the Germans sent another telegram demanding surrender, and everyone immediately surrendered unconditionally. There is no way that the British are so practical, and when they saw such a big gap in combat power between the two sides, the British surrendered very happily! Zhang Fan, who was watching, also shook his head! There is really no chivalry in these descendants of the knight kingdom! It's just too easy!
After accepting the surrender of these British fleets, Zhang Fan ordered them to abandon all the cargo ships, and then ordered the destroyer detachment to take over the ships at once, but still evened out a transport ship and asked all the crew to return to the United States on this transport ship! What Zhang Fan wants to do is only cut off British supplies, not a massacre! After all, the massacre will not solve any problems, and it will also tarnish your own image! That's why he let the crew go.