589 The first shot of the western attack (II)

Five** First shot of the western attack (below)

"It's time to go home, old man. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)"

The latter sun sank to the bottom of the sea, and False Bay fell into the coldness for a moment, and old Jericho shook the fishing rod that had been used for more than ten years, and carried a bucket of fish much lighter than usual, ready to return to the barracks.

Nearly sixty years old, he is the custodian of the British Royal Navy's South African base, to put it bluntly, he is a person raised by the Navy to eat, drink, and do chores in the special base, this kind of person is very common in British naval bases all over the world, because they not only have many years of experience in the local service and are familiar with the local environment, but mainly they themselves are immigrants who came to settle in the footsteps of the Royal Navy.

The war outside did not seem to affect old Jericho's routine, and it was his great hobby to come to the bay every evening to fish, and he liked this bay, and even thought it was more beautiful than Portsmouth Harbour in England.

Merely.......

When old Jericho got up, he glanced at the fleet and warships in the depths of the bay that had already turned on the deck lights and lit up the harbor, and still felt that it was too crowded, so many big guys stopped here, no wonder they were all small fish today.

As soon as he had taken a few steps to pack up everything, old Jericho suddenly felt a buzzing in his ears, like countless bees making noise, and this sound surprised him incomparably, how could there be bees at such a late hour?

When he turned his head in confusion, and finally locked his ears in the direction where the sound came, the fish bucket in his hand fell to the ground suddenly, and more than a dozen sea fish followed the sea water and splashed on the ground, perhaps seeing that there was a chance to escape, the fish flapped its tail desperately, as if it was about to jump into the blue a few meters away.

A monoplane that had never been seen before, ghostly as it crossed overhead, so close to the distance that old Jericho wondered if he could poke it off with a fishing rod.

One after another, flying low in front of them, the large mouth of a shark with open fangs on the side of the nose in the faint light was dazzling, and at the same time, it also made old Jericho wonder who would paint such a thing on an airplane.

But the thought only flashed through him, and he saw an image that he would never forget in his life, only to see three of them rush towards several battleships in the bay like lightning, and then jerk up into the sky, and then three bright and blinding white clouds of light slowly fell from behind their butts.

The blinding flares, like bright stars falling from the sky, lit up the whole of False Bay, and when the shouting began to be heard from the six battleships lying quietly on the berth, old Jericho's body was already stiff.

This time, it was a biplane similar to the Army's Camel Plane that had just arrived in South Africa, but as they skimmed by, the long black object under the belly almost suffocated him, it was ....... β€»β€»β€»β€»β€» I β€» I β€» β€»

Torpedo!

"God!" Old Jericho threw away his fishing rod and covered his mouth with both hands, watching in disbelief as the Grim Reaper rushed into the harbor.

Under the light of the flares, Jin Wei, who led the 1st Attack Aircraft Group, had already aimed at the large, tricolor-hoisting Guba-class (also translated as Colbel-class) battleship in China!

The Guba class is the first type of French battleship with a normal displacement of 22,189 tons and a full load of 26,000 tons! Due to the late construction, the advantages of the knapsack turret were absorbed, and two more main guns were arranged on both sides of the hull, and when firing on one side, it was possible to have five twin 305 mm / L45 naval guns, and the firepower was already very strong in the first generation of battleships.

This class of battleships is very recognizable because it has three chimneys, and the foremast is arranged behind the first two chimneys, near the amidships, and has 22 138 mm/L55 rapid-fire secondary guns, four 47 mm rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns, and four 450 mm torpedo tubes in addition to the 12 main guns.

It's a big guy!

Jin Wei swallowed his saliva, since he decided that he would lead the team before departure, he regarded this Guba-class battleship as his only goal.

At a height of 10 meters, the powerful engine drives the three-bladed propeller to blow the sea water under the fuselage into ripples, and the low-altitude performance of the Seahawk is absolutely commendable, and it is a good aircraft second only to the "dragon's teeth" that is losing weight among all Chinese aircraft, which is also a characteristic that a torpedo attack aircraft must have.

"Follow me!"

Jin Wei steadied the flight control stick with his right hand, turned on the radio with his left hand, and brought the microphone to his mouth.

On the lonely-class battleship US-France, countless figures began to run under the light of flares, some panicked to pull their gun jackets, some yawned, and others held 47mm anti-aircraft shells and waited for the gunner to take position.

The scale on the front windshield was shortening slightly, the hull of the ship was dramatically dilated in the pupils, and the fingers snapped onto the launch knob.

"From now on!"

Jin Wei shouted: "We, sweep away thousands of troops!" ”

"Kill!"

The iron arm of the pylon was suddenly released, and the "fish bones" without restraint were like the short sword hidden in the belly of the fish in the ancient legend, and the edge flashed in an instant.

The white track, closely following behind the Sea Hawk, with an extremely high speed of 42 knots, even a task force at full speed at a distance of 1,500 meters could not be avoided, not to mention a stationary, full deck chaotic and sluggish battleship in front of him.

If the sea eagle is an assassin who runs rampant with a sword and does not stay for thousands of miles, then the "fish bone" under the control of the gyroscope is the sword star at the next moment!

Jin Wei used all his strength to pull the operating lever to the bottom, and when his sea eagle grazed the battleship's mast and drilled into the sky, a huge fireball had risen from the amidships of the French hull, and 150 kilograms of n** converged into a water mass tens of meters high, penetrating the thin anti-torpedo wall and opening a big hole of three meters underwater!

The huge shock wave shook the French sailors on the deck, and several people standing on the side of the ship were swallowed up by the waves of water raised by the explosion, and disappeared from everyone's field of vision without even shouting.

The sound of beeping sirens sounded throughout the bay, countless sailors rushed to the damaged parts, the team hurriedly closed the hatch, and the pumping machines were connected to the power supply and ready to start work.

But it was too late!

Jin Wei's words completely ignited the pilots who followed closely behind, and the communication channel was filled with all kinds of strange screams, and the sharp "fish bones" stuck the shouts of False Bay under the rotation of the propeller.

The next five white tracks, illuminated by the second wave of flashbangs dropped by the bumblebee, slammed into the hull of the France, and the violent explosion spread from the bow to the stern, and in an instant the unprepared beast began to tilt and overturn.

The second unfortunate are the two Edward VII-class battleships, as the old generation of capital ships built before and after the British battleships, with a 16,600-ton hull, two twin 305 naval guns, and four 233 mm naval guns, which were outstanding at the time, but today, it will eventually grow old in front of the naval combat mode.

Once the pride of the Royal Navy and representing the dominance of the empire in Africa, the Africa was hit by three consecutive torpedoes almost simultaneously under the bow turret and amidships, and the violent underwater explosion even detonated the ammunition depot that was not well protected, and the fire that rose up to 100 meters in the air made the bumblebee who was about to drop the third wave of flares decide not to waste it again.

The huge bow seemed to be smashed directly by Hercules' hammer, and a large amount of water ingress caused the stern to be a little too high, and dramatically, when the rudder and propeller were just out of the water, a fishbone actually slipped through the bottom of the air defense and hit a small cruiser behind it.

Its stern remained like a sword on the bottom of the sea, and it remained so many years later that it became a war museum.

Its partner Britannia, although the ammunition depot was not detonated, but it was attacked by four "fish bones", such an attack, not to mention an old battleship, even the Guam class could not resist, a total of 600 kilograms of n** exploded under water, the power produced was extremely terrifying, and the water mass directly lifted it up several times, until the keel could no longer bear the weight and broke open.

The sailors on the old French battleship Carnot trembled and could hardly believe what they saw, when they tore their hair vigorously and rushed into all the gun emplacements, they suddenly found .......

There are no anti-aircraft guns themselves!

When the battleship, which was slightly better positioned and was not selected in the first round, capsized under the attack of four "fishbones", it did not fire a single shell.

The Carnot quickly exposed the huge bottom of the ship, taking 525 sailors with it, and the two aging Sovereign-class battleships sank neatly, and the Dreadsome sank to the bottom of the sea with 756 sailors in just three minutes, and the exposed mast lights were even flickering.

The Royal Oak was also hit by four torpedoes, and the rapidly tilting hull even sank the two torpedo ships moored next to it!

Looking at the burning bay, old Jericho could no longer move, his throat seemed to be stuck by something, he wanted to shout, he wanted to charge, he wanted to be the Don Quixote who charged the windmill with a spear, but found that the enemy's feet were not on the ground at all.

He even saw the excited but hideous faces in the cockpit as the first wave of planes roared back in front of him, but tonight was destined to be a weeping night in False Bay, as the second wave of warhawks, also loaded with torpedoes, roared into the harbor again.

The anti-aircraft shells of the chat drilled into the sky from the batteries on both sides, but they simply could not hit the eagles that were as nimble as elves, and wave after wave of torpedoes drilled into the water again.

The resentment that the 1st Brigade had destroyed all six battleships, without even leaving a mouthful of soup, was sprinkled on a handful of cruisers and on the powerless cargo ships, which were unprotected and could be completely destroyed with just one torpedo!

The explosions, the smoke of gunpowder, the red faces of everyone, and the staring blankly at the hellish bay, Cape Town was destined to be unable to sleep tonight.

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