Chapter 433: The Dutchman Who Flew Out
In World War II, battleships lost their former glory due to the impressive achievements of aircraft carriers and carrier-based fighters of the warring countries. In particular, the battleship Yamato, which had been hiding the town house for several years, had strengthened its anti-aircraft artillery fire during the Kikusui special attack on Okinawa, and this made the admirals of various countries clearly realize that the era of giant ship artillery is over.
After the Second World War, the navies of all countries no longer built new battleships, and those meritorious battleships in the fleet were also retired from active service; For a while, the battleships almost disappeared, and those naval guns that used to be 300+ and 400+ have also become memories of the past, and only the Iowa-class battleships of the Eagle Sauce family have been modernized and retained in active service. The 406 mm main gun of the Iowa class became the largest caliber main gun among the active warships of that era.
At this time, the Maozi AK-130 multi-purpose double-barreled naval gun became the world's second largest caliber naval gun, this kind of installation of a total weight of 94 tons of artillery can send a 27-kilogram warhead to an area nearly 30 kilometers away, and the double-barreled can reach a maximum rate of 35 rounds per minute when fired at the same time. It is alleged that one such AK-130 naval gun is equivalent to the ground artillery of one artillery battalion when performing ground-to-shore fire support missions.
When Yang Guang ordered the AK-130 guns of the 650 ship to attack the Dutch destroyer, the Dutch felt that he was being set on fire by a fleet, and the splashes from the near misses, the violent explosion caused by the shells hitting the hull, and the crying sailors on the deck made the Dutch captain look like "who is beating me". What about the enemy's fleet, it can't be a small black dot looming on the horizon, right? Those ships are at least a dozen nautical miles away from us. Besides, it is impossible for the Great Song fleet to pass through the sea areas controlled by the British silently, could it be that the British have sold us like the Anglo-Dutch resistance to France did during the period?
With the 114 mm and 76 mm guns of the Duke-class frigate 237 and the Brandenburg-class frigate 217 joining the gunfire game, the Dutch knew that they were suffering from the British this time, and where the hell was a fleet shelling, this kind of firepower density was all Nima caught up with the tragic scene of being surrounded and beaten by a country's naval ships.
And I admit that you have a lot of ships and more guns, but what the hell is this frighteningly high hit rate? It's only been a few minutes since the shelling was underway, do you see if there is still a piece of armor on our ship that is not affected by shrapnel? God, could it be that the legendary giant battleship headed south? Yes, the British must have betrayed us and did not tell us the news that the battleships of the Great Song Dynasty were heading south!
If the traversers knew that the Dutch had such a strange idea, they would definitely laugh at this group of hillbillies, and even if the 406 gun fired a near-miss, it would not be able to withstand a 4,000-ton ironclad destroyer like yours, let alone have so many direct hits. Changed to the sixteen-inch main gun of the BB63 to abuse you, how could it be possible to leave you time to complain and complain, and send you directly to the bottom of the sea.
On a high ground on the shore of East Wanlu Sea, Lu Xiaobei and Sokoya and others were watching the bloody torture of the Dutch with binoculars, and at this time, Lu Xiaobei had already determined that the 38th Task Force was not the rescue that Zhao Yi had moved to Yingjiang. Such a range and such a density of firepower must be something that can only be done by modern warships, did the "director team" have another convulsion, this Nima actually sent the fleet over!?
"Now please enjoy the artillery firing display brought to you by the 38th Task Force of the Great Song Royal Navy, and I hope you have a nice morning, Mr. Sokoya." Lu Xiaobei, who has been aggrieved for many days, can finally pretend to be forced well.
The observation limit of optical instruments at sea level was about 40 kilometers, and the Dutch destroyers were about 10 kilometers away from the coast of East Manlu, and the three ships of the 38th Task Force were more than 20 kilometers away from the Dutch.
However, none of this matters, and the fact that people who can't see the fireworks doesn't stop Sokaya from enjoying the fireworks show at all. It turns out that the Dutch ironclad destroyer, which was arrogantly patrolling the nearby waters a few days ago, is so fragile, bang, the mast is down, bang, the command tower has been drilled into a big hole again, bang, and there is an orange-red fire coming out of the cabin, cut, crispy like paper, don't come out and be embarrassed, Sokoya complained in his heart while looking at the beaten destroyer with his glasses.
Some time ago, the Crossing Crowd had been restrained from the provocations of the Dutch, ahem, well, they had to tolerate the jumping up and down of the Dutch because they didn't have enough coal to drive the boat. This made Sokaya, who came to West Borneo with the expeditionary force, suspicious of the military strength of the Great Song Empire, didn't he say that he would take us to pretend to take us to fly, uh, he took us to rot how to restore the rule of the Chinese regime over this land, how could he be coaxed by the Dutch as soon as he was stuck with supplies.
At this time, Sokaya was very glad that he was just complaining in his heart at that time, when did the Great Song people coax in the face of provocation? Those who did not believe in evil suffered great losses, and the Japanese took in several warships and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, and it was rumored that they even paid a quarter of the Japanese war reparations.
Tsarist Russia also lost troops on land, and even the emperor's own uncle was captured by the Great Song people, and it is estimated that the dragging Pacific Fleet will be finished sooner or later, unless they turn around and return to Europe now.
As for the Dutch, not to mention grabbing territory with the Great Song people in Borneo, I'm afraid they can't even keep Batavia, which is separated by a sea. The 38th Task Force, which was an organization that Sokaya had never heard of in the Far East, was it true that the Great Song people sent a fleet from the mainland to the South Pacific to teach the Dutch a lesson about these three destroyers? Who will believe it!
Of course, the scene of small-caliber naval guns washing the deck is not as spectacular as the rapid sinking of the keel of the ship caused by the large-caliber main gun hitting the armor under the waterline of those battleships, but you don't deny that the continuous shelling is hilarious and beautiful! Wouldn't you be happy to look at the Dutch destroyers that had been blown up and had their parts disposed of, and at the fires that were running around and damaged too late to extinguish them? Anyway, thinking of the Dutchman's face some time ago, Sokoya was very happy to see it. Well, and the arrival of Task Force 38 this time proves once again that we are not mistaken, and this is the most important thing!
After seeing that the Dutch ship had been consumed by uncontrollable fire, Yang Guang, the commander of the 38th Task Force Fleet, ordered the shelling to stop, and the rest of the work was to salvage the Dutch crossers who had abandoned their ships as usual. It took Yang Guang less than an hour to fulfill the promise he made to Lu Xiaobei on the radio last night - to beat the Dutch to the point of flying out.