6160,000 miles of iron tongs (9)

"Ten minutes of disappearance. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network) Hui-Wei Library"

Later, many scholars of naval warfare used such a sentence to describe the large-scale naval battle after the start of the Pacific theater.

Strictly speaking, at a speed of 20 knots, it takes only nine and a half minutes to cover 6,000 meters.

Why? Because the two powerful New York-class battleships of the US Pacific Fleet at that time were equipped with 356 mm 8 naval guns, although the large firing range on paper reached 28,530 meters, the error at such a distance was simply miserable, and it had to be shortened to at least 23,000 meters if it wanted to hit, which meant that the Idaho only needed to sail for another ten minutes to hit the 11th fleet that was slaughtering the N fleet.

But the next ten minutes were now incomparably long, and when the terrible sirens were heard, Lieutenant General Andrew realized that he had lost, both tactically and mentally.

He guessed that Ji Weishan would never bring an aircraft carrier, so he thought of using superior forces to fight attrition and fight night battles to offset the opponent's aviation superiority, but in the end, because of Mayo's clumsiness, he lost the whole plan.

On the other hand, the opponent is frighteningly calm.

He didn't know if it was Ji Weishan himself who led the four Hebei-class battleships, but in the overwhelming territory of his own troops, occupying an absolute numerical advantage, and reaching out in time, they were still calmly shelling the N fleet, which had completely lost the power to fight back, and it could be seen that the commander in front of him had a coarse nerve that ordinary people could not imagine.

In the retina, a cloud of gunpowder smoke took off the Nevada as a base, soaring into the sky, hundreds of meters high could not hide from anyone, when this scene fell on the eyes of the sailors who could rescue their partners in only ten minutes, the blow to morale was indescribable.

The only remaining light cruiser in the N fleet, the Puerto Rico, scrupulously fulfilled its duty, avoided the entanglement of the Chinese cruisers, and rushed from the middle of the two fleets to the black-pressed group in the distance, 6 single-mounted 127-mm large anti-aircraft guns, and 8 single-mounted 40-mm rapid-fire guns fired at the same time.

But its naval guns have just begun to work, and the four Chinese Navy's Weiqing-class destroyers that have been waiting for it to leave the fire circle of the capital ships of the N Fleet are like seeing a fighting dog that smells the smell, like a hurricane sweeping across the sea, and it is rushing at 37 knots, when Captain Carson's 12 152-mm guns of the USS Puerto Rico work three rounds, and 40 Spear-3 torpedoes are lightning fired at a distance of 8,000 meters!

8000 meters, 40 pieces!

Even if the distance is too far, even if the Puerto Rico has a speed of 27 knots, it will not be able to escape this wide open net, not to mention that the lookout cannot see the track at all, and cannot notify the bridge to avoid it.

When the water column rose from the Idaho to 15,000 meters away, the unique hum of fighter planes was already sounding next to the bridge, and a monoplane metal plane with a beige bumblebee pattern painted on the nose roared from the sky above the fleet, rushing towards the American aircraft group that had already been dodged by the dense anti-aircraft guns of the four Chinese cruisers, and almost instantly, Andrew saw several fireballs falling from the sky.

The gap in morale and technology can be bridged by tactics, but when the two are completely suppressed and cannot be used, technology becomes a heavy weight that determines the outcome of the war.

"The left is full of rudders, the capital ship is in the middle, and the cruiser protects the wings."

"Concentrate all machine guns and artillery capable of firing at the air!"

"Karl, you're in charge of specialized air defense."

"Jefferson, speed up, let's rush over!"

The plane that fell like a meteor woke up Lieutenant General Andrew and made him regain his spirits, because he had not completely lost, only two hours before nightfall, and it was only 97 nautical miles to the bottom of Panama Bay, as long as he could survive this time and enter the Gulf of Panama, he could enter the canal overnight and return to the Atlantic, where would there be enough anti-aircraft artillery to support him!

Vice Admiral Andrew glanced at the group of planes that were attacking him at high speed, and then looked at the remaining three capital ships of the N fleet, which could approach in a few minutes, and his red and brown eyes saw the weakness of the other party!

"They don't have enough planes and torpedoes!"

Yes, only 52 dragon teeth, facing 23 battleships, the charge of aviation torpedoes determines that at least four or five are needed to ensure the sinking of the capital ship, and their own fleet is at 20, and no matter how powerful the opponent is, the hit rate will not exceed 7 percent!

"Fire!"

The anti-aircraft guns that had been temporarily installed for months began to neigh, many machine guns joined the chorus, and the sky in the distance seemed to explode, flashing countless black smoke clouds.

Shells loaded with delayed fuses whistled out, and the shells exploded at a specific distance, and the scattered fragments could kill tens of meters of space.

Facing the cannonballs that filled the sky in an instant, Xi Zhiyong in the cockpit smiled coldly, he knew his weakness, but that Vice Admiral Andrew obviously overestimated the air defense capability of his own fleet, or underestimated the ability of Long Yi too much! shouted, excitedly flying: "Don't look at those shells, it's useless than fireworks shells, it can't hit us!" ”

"Two by two, number 03 followed me ....... Return-Taste Library"

"Pay attention to the angle of cut, hold the joystick, we ...... It's Dragon Wing! ”

"Kill it."

"Kill!"

The reflection of the golden sunlight swept under the belly of the aircraft, compared with the sea eagle, although the horsepower of the dragon's tooth is much stronger, but the bulkiness of the aircraft is equivalent to offsetting, but its particularly enhanced low-altitude sea-skimming performance is really fantastic, when skimming the sea at a height of fifty meters, it feels almost as smooth as in a speeding train

"Four thousand meters, ready." Xi Zhiyong turned his head to look at the No. 03 wingman who was following the assault beside him, and his comrades who had fallen off the windshield goggles in the cockpit nodded at him.

In the distance, the Mississippi, which was in the first place, was frantically twisting the 27,000-ton hull, and the chirping of machine gun bullets shuttling past his ears was endless, Xi Zhiyong gritted his teeth, as the captain, he knew the importance of hitting.

There was a double click, and the left wing seemed to have been hit twice by something, but he still didn't react, holding the joystick tightly, and only the larger and larger shadow of the ship remained in his eyes.

“20,19,18……。 ※※※※※I ※ I ※ ※

At a distance of 2,000 meters, the "Fishbone" takes a minute and a half, which is fine for the ships that do not move in the harbor, but for the maneuvering Mississippi, and for the captain who must make sure to hit and inspire everyone, it must be closer.

When he could see the nervous faces of the American sailors, the number in his heart finally reached 10, and he suddenly shouted, "It's now!" At the same time, the finger pulled the trigger hard.

The two "fish bones" that were fired almost at the same time, like a sharp cold suddenly pierced from a street corner, only took 50 seconds at a distance of 1,000 meters, and even if they changed to a 37-knot Weiqing-class destroyer, they couldn't dodge it.

Boom .......

The explosion, suddenly exploding from underwater, almost obscured the steel behemoth from two huge clouds of mist, and when the fuselage swept past the mast and pulled it up, only cheers and shouts of excitement remained in the ears.

"Follow up, follow up!"

"A small squad continues to attack the USS Mississippi."

"Team 2 Idaho."

"Three Squad Florida."

“……。”

Shouts, filled the channel, and before the Mississippi could come out of the wounds of two torpedoes, two more "fish bones" hit the injured starboard side again, and from the sky, the 27,000-ton hull trembled in the explosion.

But just as the third wave of Dragon's Tooth was about to drop torpedoes, the USS Denver's protective cruiser had already inserted diagonally into the injured starboard side of the Mississippi, blocking the Dragon's Tooth's assault line.

After entering the low-altitude sea-skimming channel, pilots were rarely willing to climb with heavy torpedoes, because the speed of climbing was too slow, and the fragile belly would be exposed, and once the torpedo was hit by dense machine-gun shells, the plane would be destroyed and killed, so the two dragon wings could only regretfully hit the "fish bones" at the Denver.

It is impossible to block the "fish bones" of the old-fashioned protective cruisers, and if it were not for the lack of cruisers in the US Navy, they would have been retired long ago, so just two minutes after the explosion broke off from the side of the USS Denver, the 3,200-ton cruiser disappeared into the sea with 300 sailors.

But it was precisely because of the two-minute delay that the Mississippi completed the filling of water to port, and the deck regained its balance, although the speed dropped a lot, but at least the battleship was saved.

"32, 33, kill it!"

Seeing that the Mississippi survived, Xi Zhiyong's teeth were about to be broken, the "fish bone" was not a spear, and in the face of the rough-skinned and thick-skinned battleships, the power was still too small, according to the calculation of two of each warship, it was not enough for the first attack wave, so he had already decided to target the important six battleships and two Pensacola-class heavy cruisers, especially the Mississippi and the Idaho, the two New York-class battleships that could cause damage to the Hebei class, but he didn't expect the Yankees to play this hand and use the old cruisers to block the eye-catching!

Vice Admiral Andrew also gritted his teeth, he knew that he still had an advantage, because the opponent had too few planes, but what annoyed him was that although some machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were added, because of the lack of unified command, the fleet could not even play a third of the air defense effectiveness, and when he thought about how to improve the fire net, the shouting made him suddenly frightened.

"Three, four!"

As soon as he turned his head, four dragon tooth torpedoes roared on the starboard side, and the machine gun spat out tongues of fire, but these little things were too much, when the fuselage gradually enlarged in his eyes, he saw two black dots falling from the belly of the plane, forming two white tracks on the sea surface,

Fighter planes, speeding past the porthole, these unscrupulous bastards drove him crazy, and when he couldn't set up the machine gun himself, two more white tracks appeared on the sea. Reminiscent of the library

"Knock knock knock....... "On the Idaho, everyone felt the huge hull under their feet tremble three times in a row, and the exploding waves flooded the bow, and after the Mississippi running in front was seriously injured, the Idaho, which was closely behind, was also hit by three torpedoes, and the speed dropped to 10 knots in an instant.

The port side began to be filled with water, and the sailors struggled to maintain the balance of the deck, and Andrew walked out of the command tower despite the obstacles and turned his head to look, only to see that the sea was already in chaos, and there were explosions of smoke and water everywhere, and small and fast enemy planes were formed in groups of twos and twos, constantly shuttling between the ships, and the fire and water columns were constantly rising from the middle of the ships.

In the distance, the decks of the hapless Pensacola and Salt Lake City tilted violently, and it seemed that the opponent was focusing on the two fast heavy cruisers, and the heavy cruisers, or battle cruisers, were indeed too vulnerable.

After a while, the sound of explosions began to fade away, and Lieutenant General Andrew raised his head, and the warplanes in the sky that began to return gave him hope: "How long will it take?" ”

"Seven-point ......, boom!" The staff officer was just about to answer after calculating the speed of entering the water, and another flame rose into the sky in the distance, Andrew suddenly pinched the handrail with his big hand, and the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out, and after the Wisconsin waterline was hit continuously, the ammunition depot also exploded!

You don't have to look to know that not a single battleship survived the explosion of the ammunition depot.

"Seven minutes, we have seven minutes left!"

"Order the uninjured battleship to speed up!"

"Must ......." When Andrew was about to say that he had to rescue the remaining two capital ships of the N fleet, he glanced at the sky out of the corner of his eye, but it was this glance that made his whole person completely petrified!

The second wave of the swarm!

"God!" ——

Flagship.

In the Xiqin communication center, several radio stations used to monitor the channels of the attack aircraft were crowded with people, although it was impossible for Long Yi to shout with a microphone when attacking, but because no wires were turned on at this time, any sound in the cabin would be transmitted into the microphone, plus Long Yi also liked to shout and communicate, so they could be heard very clearly.

Ji Weishan stood quietly in the distance, and saw that the two phonographs in the recording room were engrave the recorded sound into the disc, and suddenly pulled the staff officer and muttered a few times.

Lin Taizeng, who was next to him, was also smoking a cigarette with an anxious face, and asked loudly: "When will the Second Attack Brigade attack?" ”

"The enemy has been seen, it is expected in three minutes!"

"What about the First Brigade?"

"The first batch of 18 bombs has begun to return home, and it is confirmed that the two heavy cruisers of the first target, the USS Pensacola and the USS Salt Lake City, are seriously damaged, the USS Idaho and the USS Mississippi are injured and slowed down, and the USS Florida is slowed down, sinking three Denver-class protective cruisers, and losing one of itself."

"52 torpedoes, in the face of the fleet under sail, even if you are lucky, you can only guarantee to hit about 30, they have done a good job!" After listening to the staff officer's report, Ji Weishan raised his hand: "It's dark in an hour and a half, so our key is the third wave, and whether we can launch the third wave before sunset is the key!" ”

"Yes! I was so anxious to eat no meat that I panicked, there was too much meat at once, and my mother was choking! Lin Taizeng also smiled bitterly, he didn't know that his side hadn't fully grasped the odds yet, because it was only an hour and a half before nightfall.

Although now the fleet is closing the distance at 30, and in order to save time, the air crew even moved the torpedoes to the deck, but it takes thirty minutes for the first group to come back, at least thirty minutes to refuel and hang torpedoes, and thirty minutes to take off and reach the target, which means that only a wave can be launched before sunset!

"How long will the 11 fleet take?" Ji Weishan looked at his watch.

"The USS Nevada and the USS Mississippi have been confirmed to be sunk, and the 11th Fleet will be able to complete the maneuver in ten more minutes, and the 12th Fleet and the Dongmon will be 45 nautical miles away from the battlefield and will be there in thirty minutes."

"Great!"

"Six battleships, as long as they drag on for thirty minutes, Andrew will have to feed Wang Ba no matter how capable he is!" "Huh." Ji Weishan smiled slightly and breathed a long sigh of relief: "He lost a little wrongly." ”

"Wronged?" Lin Tai was surprised, and the communications staff officer walked up to Ji Weishan and saluted, "Yes, sir." ”

"Then let's get started, and let everyone hear how the Dragonwings fight."

"Yes." ——

"......."

The sound of arcing suddenly sounded from the wide hangar, and the aircrews and sailors who were busy raised their heads in surprise, what are you going to broadcast at this time?

On the convoy of transport ships a hundred kilometers away, more than 50,000 pairs of ears were also erected at the same time, and on the cruisers and destroyers, everyone stared at the horns and whispered to ask what was going on.

Just when everyone was surprised, a scream tore the world apart, ignited the blood, and made everyone stand up violently.

"Hit, I hit!"

"37, 37 pull up, you're too low, pull up!"

"Boom......."

"Xiao Chang ......! Mom, Yankee, old you! ‘

"Four squads, stop the USS Utah!"

"Report, the Wyoming is turning ......!"

"The Arkansas is on the run, and there are no torpedoes! Who still has torpedoes?! ”

"Confirm, fifteen more ships have not been hit, confirm ......!"

The sudden noise of the broadcast made everyone hold their breath, a series of explosions, wrapped in screams and roars, so that tens of thousands of soldiers seemed to be in the middle of the battlefield and could not extricate themselves, when they heard that there were still fifteen ships that did not hit, but the attack group did not have torpedoes, everyone's hearts pounded, and they all clenched their fists, no one expected the size of the enemy fleet to be so large.

"Don't worry, old Xi, the old ammunition is sufficient!"

"I've got it too, baby, try Grandpa's fish bones!"

"It's Captain Yang, I can hear him." In the Dongqi hangar, a small air crew soldier shouted, and the second team arrived in time.

Cheers burst into the sky: "The second brigade is coming!" ”

"Group up in twos and attack freely!" Captain Yang continued to roar.

"Idaho is mine, I love Idaho!"

"Blocked, I'm blocked, it's the cruiser! The torpedo left, the torpedo left, did not hit the target, two groups, help me fight back. ”

"Mother, my torpedo didn't get up, it sank, sank!"

In the hangar, the young air crew sailor slammed the bulkhead with his fist, and his voice was already crying: "How can this be, I checked the gyroscope and horizontal rudder three times!" ”

"It's okay, it's a common occurrence of torpedoes falling overboard." His companions patted him on the shoulder and continued to look up at the horn.

"Machine guns, avoid machine guns!"

"Old five, your belly is smoking, skydiving, skydiving!"

"Hemp, be careful......."

"Leave, Ma, your belly is burning, hold your ......, boom!" At the sound of the explosion, the eyes of several bumblebee pilots who had no mission were red, and they grabbed their helmets violently and shouted, "Push out the spare dragon teeth!" ”

The three spare dragon teeth were quickly pushed onto the deck, and in an instant six black dots rose again on the two motherships, and when they went to support their comrades with the hope of sailors, a dark cloud had already appeared in the distance.

"The First Brigade is back!"

The shouts shattered the peace of the two carriers, and in order to save time and speed up the launch of the third wave of aircraft, Fang Lan ordered the first group to divert and land on the two aircraft carriers at the same time.

As soon as the tail hook hooked the blocking cable, the air crews and sailors who had been on standby for a long time rushed forward.

"Oil gun!"

"Torpedo, push it!"

"Don't bullet, you don't need a machine gun!"

The hustle and bustle was crowding every inch of the deck, hundreds of soldiers were busy, running, and the radio just now had already made it clear to them that more torpedoes and planes were needed ahead!

Stimulated by the broadcast, the sailors burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm, and in just twenty minutes, the first wave of eight dragon teeth had already taken off, this speed even Fang Lan didn't dare to imagine, and couldn't help but secretly admire Commander Ji's mind when he turned on the radio-

"Damn, how many planes do they have!"

Seeing that another six dragon teeth were flying at low altitude, the blood on Andrew's face completely disappeared, and he shouted: "Battle line, prepare to fire!" ”

"General, at this time, the battle line will only become a ......." The staff officer glanced at the approaching enemy plane outside the porthole, and said emphatically: "Target!" ”

"But......" Andrew pointed to the N fleet in the distance, which was only one left, and pointed to the two Hebei-class battleships in the distance that had lined up and raised their gun barrels, but when he saw the officers with earthy faces around him, he couldn't say anything more when it came to his lips.

An hour!

His fleet didn't finish this journey, whether it was a burst of bombardment as long as it broke forward, or a crazy cannonball opened by a Hebei-class battleship, and then it either sank or turned into a turtle circling the sea!

"General, we have already lost half of our combat effectiveness, and all the warships are flooding, we ......." Although the staff officer's words were not finished, the meaning was already very clear, and it was pointless to continue fighting.

Andrew sat down dejectedly, and an explosion made the Idaho vibrate again, as if it had completely woken him up, and waved his hand: "Order, disband the formation, everyone ...... their own ." ”

"Boom, boom, boom......."

Before the words could be completely spoken, the sound of a torpedo explosion sounded around him, and the gunnery officer pointed to two black dots on the sea in the distance and shouted: "General, battleship, two Guam-class!" ”

Andrew suddenly felt cold in his hands and feet, and the main force of the enemy was indeed coming!

Little by little, the golden wheel descended and spread on the surface of the sea, as red as blood.

When the Idaho with 577 sailors exploded in the crushing roar of the 18 380mm guns of the Idaho and the Dongmon, the third wave of 46 dragon teeth entered the battlefield again.

The 11th fleet of the N Fleet was regrouped, the shipping channel to the Gulf of Panama was jammed, two Guam-class ships blocked the open sea, and 48 third-wave dragon teeth began to kill frantically again under the nose of an American Camel F1 fighter in the distance.

At this moment, no one paid any attention to the lone camel, the pilot's hands in the cockpit trembled uncontrollably, and the killing made him almost want to close his eyes.

In the explosion, the Mississippi finally couldn't hold on any longer, revealing its huge bottom and crushing nearly a thousand sailors underneath, two dragon teeth whistling past its broad belly and aimed at the already tilted Arkansas.

The six twin 305mm guns, once considered proud, were now a burden, and the heavy turret accelerated the ship's tilt and sinking, and when the two dragon's teeth unhindered the torpedoes re-launched the Arkansas, the 26,000-ton beast quickly sank at the entrance to the bay at a depth of several hundred meters.

The USS Florida and the USS Utah exploded one after another, followed by the slaughter of the five old Virginia-class ships.

Even the four Huachangjiang-class cruisers raised their butcher knives and joined in the feast of blood, and three torpedoes struck the capsized USS Mississippi, and the skyrocketing explosion sent it to the icy bottom of the sea in an instant after opening three large holes in the ship's belly.

Blood stained the sea, smoke soaked every breath of air, and the sea was full of sailors calling for help, torpedoes passing past them, with white tracks, crashing again and again against the fleet, which was already defenseless.

The pilot couldn't look any further, because he found that no matter which direction he looked, in addition to explosions and explosions, the flames even overshadowed the sunset, but when he was about to leave, the corner of his eye was stabbed, and he saw that the four Chinese destroyers that had been swimming on the edge had actually tied two Nevada-class battleships Oklahoma and Washington, which had not completely sunk with their bellies, with steel cables.

They even wanted to take prisoners!

In peacetime, this would not have been possible, but now both battleships have capsized, only their bellies are exposed, the sea valve has failed, and there is enough air in the hull seal to ensure that it will not continue to sink.

The pilot's eyes were red, if it weren't for the absence of torpedoes, he would definitely learn from the Yangtze River-class light cruiser just now, and make a hole in the belly of the two battleships so that they could avoid being insulted!

Yes, insults!

For any country, the capital ship has become someone else's toy, even if it is towed back to the dock as scrap metal, it is an insult!

The pilot was tempted to crash headlong, but several dragon fangs that had nothing to do after dropping torpedoes were already closing in on him, forcing him to speed away from the battlefield.

"Report ......."

"Confirmed, USS Mississippi sank, USS Idaho sank, USS Wyoming sank, USS Arkansas sank ,......。"

Every time a staff officer says a name, there will be a dazzling horizontal post on the blackboard, and the cigarette butt of Ji Weishan standing on the platform of the ship island will also light up.

On deck, a returning dragon's teeth dragged bullet holes to hook the barrage, and as soon as the pilot stepped out of the cabin, he was surrounded by cheering sailors and thrown into the sky in the crowd.

31 warships, 71 aircraft, all sunk or destroyed, 26,547 American soldiers killed/captured, at the cost of only two Hebei-class seriously injured, two lightly damaged, the loss of 6 Dragontooth torpedo planes, and the death of 267 soldiers and pilots, the cost is simply insignificant compared to the scale.

As the take-off and landing lights on the deck went out one by one, the stars hung in the sky, Ji Weishan and everyone raised their heads, the Pacific Ocean has never been so charming!

"Send a report."

When he turned around and raised his head high, there was silence in the bridge, and the communications staff officer quickly pulled it out, and the corners of Lin Taizeng's mouth were cracked to the root of his ears, and everyone was preparing to record this exciting moment.

"The Battle of the Gulf of Panama, a complete victory!" ——

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