Chapter VI Air Raids
Macbeth lay on the railing of the USS Obama, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, and watched with a blank face as the two ships, the San Francisco and the USS Alaska, gradually sank to the bottom of the sea. Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and there was no damage to any people, except for the sinking of the ship. As for the Manhattan, it was tied to a tugboat with a thick cable, and the ship could only be repaired after returning to the shipyard, so it had to be towed by tugboats for the rest of the battle.
Fortunately, the other battleships were not very badly damaged, and the torpedoes were not hit by the vital parts, and after blocking the cabin, it was only necessary to weld the holes outside with water, and then drain the water in the cabin, and this process took less than 3 hours to complete.
One after another, US fighter planes that had just gone to meet the battle began to land on the aircraft carrier, and it was these fighters that were most seriously damaged this time. The Pacific Fleet has a total of 3 aircraft carriers, a total of about 320 fighters, but I didn't expect that it was just the first battle, and it lost more than one-fifth of its fighters without even touching the Chinese mainland.
Macbeth looked at the busy soldiers in the fleet and sighed softly. At this time, the adjutant who had been standing behind him sighed: "I have long heard that the Huaxia air force is ruthless enough and is good at using suicide attacks. I always thought it was just a rumor, but today, when I saw the ruthlessness of the Huaxia Air Force, I realized that it was not a rumor, it turned out to be true, the Huaxia Air Force was really ruthless. ”
Macbeth smiled faintly: "Huaxia is also a superpower, don't underestimate them, underestimating their strength is to joke with our own lives." Especially soldiers, when any soldier is invaded in his own country, he will burst out with the courage to make you frightened, for this air raid in China, I have long expected it, but I didn't expect it to cause us such a big loss. ”
The adjutant sighed with some fear: "Yes, if it weren't for our advanced radar, the large number of missiles, and the courageous interception of the air force, they would have been able to get some of the links missing." The most important thing is that the scale of this air raid in China is a little smaller, and if it were on the same scale as the original air raid on the Japanese country, then we would really be in trouble. As long as 100 fighters burst in, we will have to obediently go home. ”
Macbeth breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Yes, there are so many ifs, the consequences of one less are unimaginable, we are too lucky to win this time." If there were more fighters in Huaxia...... Wait a minute...... What did you say? A little more? How many fighters did China come to attack this time? ”
The adjutant looked at Macbeth's suddenly extremely ugly face and stern tone, and the adjutant, who had been following Macbeth for a long time, instantly guessed Macbeth's conjecture, and his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly replied: "About ...... 2…… About 200 units. ”
Listening to the figures reported by the adjutant, Macbeth's face became more and more gloomy, he lowered his head and muttered to himself: "Huaxia is not that kind of small country, it is impossible to dispatch only 200 fighters in an air raid, their staff will definitely compare our strength with their strength to penetrate the defense, and then come up with a number of fighters that they can lose and can ensure a certain base penetration." 200 fighters are just enough to break through the defense, and the staff officers of Huaxia are not stupid, so it is impossible to send only such a small number of fighters to appear. As soon as they flew out of China, we searched for them, and the light point was very large at that time, and then it suddenly became more than half smaller, and I thought it was because the radar was far away and the sensitivity was not enough. Now it seems that they must have divided their forces in two ways, and this one was just to attract our attention...... Damn, we were fooled. ”
Thinking of this, Macbeth hurriedly took out the walkie-talkie pinned to his waist and shouted loudly inside: "All pay attention, there is an enemy attack, prepare to meet ......"
However, before he could finish his words, a piercing air defense siren filled the entire fleet. Hearing the sound of the alarm, Macbeth only felt that his eyes were black, and he almost picked his head to the ground. If it weren't for his adjutant who helped him up in time, the veteran would probably have been glorified in advance.
Macbeth is not in a hurry, he has just launched 3 waves of anti-aircraft missiles, and now the missile launch bay is empty, and if you want to launch, you need to reload the bomb, and it will take 5 minutes to reload the bomb at the earliest. The close defense gun is similar, although the close defense gun is huge, but it also consumes very many shells, and the interception just now, even if there are still shells left in the close defense artillery, it is not much.
And their fighters, who have just returned to the aircraft carrier, have just been transported to the hangar below deck for overhaul, a lot of parts have been taken apart, and the ammunition needs to be replenished, and it will take at least 10 to 15 minutes to get to the deck again and take off. This is still the number of single takeoffs, the aircraft carrier has only two runways, two catapult devices, and it is impossible to send all the planes into the sky without 15 minutes.
All preparations take time, but will Huaxia's fighters give you time? The radar of this alarm was swept by the short-range fire control radar, which is the radar that guides the naval guns and close-in defense guns to attack, and the range of the naval guns is 30 km, and the wavelength band irradiated by the fire control radar is slightly longer, almost 50 km. According to the flight speed of the Huaxia fighter, it only takes more than two minutes to reach 50 kilometers.
Macbeth only felt bitter in the corners of his eyes, if he changed his usual words, the fleet would never make such a low-level mistake, and it was common sense to replenish ammunition in time and be in a combat state at any time when he was in a state of war. The bad thing is that just now two ships were sunk, one ship was disabled, countless sailors fell into the water, and all the soldiers were busy saving people, no one would have thought that less than half an hour after the end of the first wave of attacks, the second wave of attacks had already arrived.
However, in any case, the war still has to be fought, after all, it is the well-trained US Pacific Fleet, although they are panicked in such an extremely bad situation, but they are not chaotic. They quickly ran to the designated position, and the missiles at this time must have been too late to be used, so they immediately gave up the missiles, and the soldiers took out the only heavy machine gun from the ammunition depot that could hit the fighter, and then set it up on the deck. There are even soldiers who go to the ammunition depot to load shells with small carts, although it is too late to change ammunition for the close defense artillery, but they still have to take it.
Just as they had set up their heavy machine guns, to the southeast of them, a group of black-pressed planes appeared in their sight almost close to the sea. Looking at such a large-scale aircraft group, all the American soldiers felt that the corners of their mouths were only bitter, and now even fools know that they were ruthlessly put on a show by the Chinese. After seeing the silhouette of the Pacific Fleet, all the fighters began to disperse, and then one by one the torpedoes were thrown into the sea.
At the same time, the close-in defense artillery let out an angry roar, and the ballistics intersected in the air, and one fighter plane after another was blown up in the air. However, the roar of the anti-aircraft artillery lasted less than 10 seconds, and the consumption of ammunition by the anti-aircraft artillery with a rate of fire of 100 shells per second was very terrifying, and after only about 10 seconds, more than half of the anti-aircraft artillery was extinguished. Except for a small number of melee guns with spare ammunition that continue to attack, the other melee guns are basically scrapped.
Fortunately, at this time, the fighter had already broken into the range of the heavy machine gun, and hundreds of heavy machine guns fired frantically into the air, although the armor of the fighter was very thick, and it was difficult for ordinary machine guns to shoot down the fighter if they did not hit the vital point. But they will win in large numbers, there will always be a coincidence, however, despite the fact that one fighter after another is shot down, for a group with a base of 300, the loss of dozens of aircraft does not affect the threat they pose to the entire fleet.
After all the fighters had dropped all the torpedoes they carried, they began to raise their heights, and then all the air-to-ship missiles they were carrying were shot down in one fell swoop, and the missiles were shot empty and then bombarded with machine guns, and they did not return until the last shell was used up. Among them, big guys like aircraft carriers, cruisers, supply ships are their priority targets.
Macbeth was protected by the adjutant and lay on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and an air-to-ship missile exploded on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Although the deck of the aircraft carrier is used as the landing strip of the aircraft, the strength is very high, but it can not withstand such intensive bombing, and soon, the deck will become full of holes, and from time to time explosions will come from the lower deck, which must be which unlucky fighter plane was hit, and then exploded along with the ammunition carried. From time to time, rows of aircraft guns swept over the deck of the aircraft carrier, turning the soldiers who were busy fighting the fire on their backs, and in any case, the aircraft carrier was scrapped.
The bombardment of Huaxia lasted for two minutes, until the close-in defense guns, which had been reloaded with ammunition, began to roar, and the Huaxia fighters, who could not get the slightest advantage, began to retreat. However, the American soldiers did not have time to celebrate the victory, only felt a violent shock to the hull of the ship, and one huge explosion after another came from under the water. The torpedoes dropped by the Huaxia Air Force just now finally began to exert their power, and one warship after another shook violently, and then the hull began to tilt, and finally slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.
Macbeth boarded a frigate under the protection of his lieutenant, and looked at the only 13 battleships left around him, most of which were still emitting black smoke, Macbeth's eyes moistened.