The United States is a country that attaches more importance to the research and development of torpedoes, and its thermodynamic torpedo technology is the only leading field of the United States Navy in the world, which can be described as a unique skill.

In 1904, the Chinese E· The first thermodynamic torpedo (also known as the steam gas torpedo) was invented by W. Bliss to replace the compressed air engine, which increased the torpedo to about 65 km/h and reached a range of 2,740 meters.

Most of the other torpedoes in the world have a speed of less than 40 kilometers and a range of less than 1.5 kilometers.

Due to the advanced nature of the thermodynamic torpedo, this invention was favored by the Admiralty, which was able to equip a large number of troops, and developed multiple types of mine-strike destroyers, ranging from more than 300 tons to more than 800 tons, with a total of more than 200 ships, with the highest speed reaching 34 knots and the lowest being 26 knots.

In the bay of Ushuaia

The Atlantic Fleet has 9 squadrons of mine-strike destroyers, each squadron is equipped with 10~13 destroyers, and fights in squadrons.

Except for the 1st Lightning Destroyer Squadron, which remained at the Hampton Base, the other eight squadrons all went south to Argentina to assist in the battle, which was one of the important components of the Atlantic Fleet's strength.

Order

The 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th squadrons, a total of four squadrons, like four sharp arrows, took the lead in attacking the enemy ship formation more than 20 kilometers away from different directions.

On the blue sea, more than 40 mine-strike destroyers sped at high speed, quickly crossed their own battle line (consisting of battleships and large cruisers), and crossed the gap between the ships at high speed, killing the enemy all the way.

The Royal Navy's expeditionary strike formation was not slow to respond, and when the US destroyer formation sailed out of the bay one after another, it had already begun to deploy troops.

When the American lightning destroyer formation was speeding at high speed, the cruiser of the Royal Navy also stepped forward at high speed, crossed the distance of 2~3 kilometers of its own battle line, and then made a beautiful tail flick turn, aimed at the enemy with the side of the gunwale, and then opened full fire.

Among the 37 cruisers in the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation, 22 cruisers formed an inner battle line, using 203 mm and 152 mm rapid-fire guns to form a dense fire network to carry out precise hunting of incoming lightning destroyers.

A 305 mm main gun can fire up to one round a minute, while a 152 mm rapid-fire gun can fire six to seven rounds a minute, and the cruisers of various types of the Ocean Empire are equipped with 6~10 guns, and the firepower per unit time is extremely ferocious.

In a split second

Like a volcanic eruption, the fire poured violently, and a large forest of water columns appeared in the direction of the lightning destroyer squadron, and from time to time the lightning destroyer was hit and exploded, followed by an even more violent explosion, blowing up a high mushroom cloud on the sea surface, and the entire lightning destroyer was blown to pieces.

This is because small and medium-sized destroyers basically have no armor protection, and once they are hit and burned, they will quickly detonate a very flammable and explosive gas torpedo, thus blowing up the entire battleship to pieces, and the power is extremely amazing.

In just over 20 minutes of breaking through from a distance of 15 km to 10 km (the ship formation has been moving relative to each other, not stationary), the US lightning destroyers paid a heavy price for 16 sunk destroyers, and only 31 mine destroyers remained advancing at high speed, showing the heroic spirit of treating death as home.

Their aim was to get close to 3 kilometers and empty all the torpedoes on the ship at once.

In order to relieve the pressure on the mine-strike destroyer formation, the main force of the US Atlantic Fleet did not sit idle, and the intensive artillery fire poured round after round on the enemy cruiser formation, which also achieved relatively good lethal results.

In more than 20 minutes, two cruisers of the Royal Navy's expeditionary strike group were sunk and six were damaged.

The capital ships on the battleline of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire were not idle, and after a distance of 16~17 kilometers, they seriously damaged two American battleships, sank one cruiser, and damaged two cruisers after more than a dozen rounds of shelling.

Such an exchange of damage is a situation that the expeditionary strike formation is willing to see.

Vice Admiral Li Jie would rather use the damage of the second-class cruiser to exchange it for the battleships and large capital cruisers of the Atlantic Fleet, so as to ensure the safety of his own capital battleship, and is not willing to suffer even minor damage.

For an ocean-going fleet with ambitions in the four seas, the capital ship is the pillar of the Royal Navy's strength, and the auxiliary cruiser is the wing, and the importance is completely different.

As the lightning destroyers approached within 10 kilometers, the Royal Navy cruiser's precision artillery strikes became more and more deadly, and in just three minutes, five US destroyers were blown up one after another, and the damage had reached an unacceptable level.

In order to avoid the enemy's fierce and deadly artillery fire, the mine-strike destroyer made a zigzag track in the forest of water columns with difficulty, paying the price of his life every 1 kilometer he advanced, and paving a bloody path with a lot of bones.

If this continues, I am afraid that if we do not get within 5 kilometers of the enemy fleet, Vice Admiral Ben Adelaide's first wave of lightning destroyers will be exhausted.

In desperation

Vice Admiral Ben Adelaide's "New Hampshire" battleship could only display the flag of retreat, and some of the squadron of lightning-raiding destroyers immediately turned around and retreated when they saw the signal, while others were still risking the death and attacking, staging a tragic and tragic scene.

"Hit, give me a hard beating......"

Enraged, Vice Admiral Ben Adelaide gave the order to open fire with all his might, and the battleship formation also accelerated to more than 11 knots, although such a high speed would greatly affect the hit rate, but in order to shorten the distance between the enemy battle line, he could not care.

After an hour and a half of fierce naval battles, the situation became more and more unfavorable for the Atlantic Fleet, and there were only 4 wounded battleships (including the three battleships that joined later) and 9 large armored cruisers (including the large cruisers that joined in the later period and the 14,500-ton "West Virginia" and "Colorado" armored cruisers that joined the battle line in a large circle), and all the large cruisers with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons or more were here.

And the other small and medium-sized cruisers shelled each other with the 15 cruisers of the Royal Navy scattered around the 4 weeks, and they became a pot of porridge on the sea.

Chaotic, intense, bloody......

The powerful expeditionary strike formation of the Royal Navy of the Great Ocean Empire not only has accurate artillery bombardment and strong combat effectiveness of the main ships, but also the cruiser fleet to which it belongs is also a hard bone.

In the mutual artillery bombardment with the American cruiser, the superiority was fully displayed, the enemy was smashed into flames, thick smoke billowed from the sea, and the wreckage of the warships belonging to the Atlantic Fleet was scattered everywhere on the sea, like piles of burning garbage......

Witness the scene

On the battlecruiser "Lion".

The expressions of the British officers were solemn, and a certain emotion called "rabbit death and fox sorrow" spontaneously emerged, which made the atmosphere on the ship very solemn.

After a long time

Major General Sherman sighed heavily and said; "The Atlantic Fleet is finished, but I didn't expect them to have the slightest strength to fight back, and they were pressed to the ground by the expeditionary strike formation, it was really ...... It's a one-sided slaughter! It's like an apocalyptic picture, and who can believe it without witnessing it with their own eyes? ”

"I can't fight, I can't escape, President Roosevelt personally buried the future of the United States Navy." Colonel Pete had a kinship.

The situation was now obvious, and the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation of the Ocean Empire arrived at about 4:30 a.m., just after dawn, arriving in the Gulf of Ushuaia to strangle the Atlantic Fleet that was forced to meet it.

Tierra del Fuego has a pleasant climate in February, with up to 20 hours of sunshine.

For the Atlantic Fleet, the battle that began at 4 a.m. was a hell of an end, and it was almost impossible to survive 20 hours.

The average speed of the U.S. capital ships is 18~20 knots, and the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire is generally around 22 knots.

The warships that can really escape are probably those high-speed lightning destroyers.

However, it was useless for these third-line warships to escape, because the last courage in the bottom of my heart had been scattered, the backbone had been broken, and the fighting spirit was lost, and such naval officers and men were completely wasted.

In the ferocious attack of the lightning destroyers just now, a total of 47 lightning destroyers of the four squadrons bravely attacked, and in the end only 14 of them escaped in disarray, and the others were all buried in the dense and deadly fire of the other side, and the distance from the nearest was not close to the range of 5 kilometers, so they had no chance to fire torpedoes at all, but became the biggest factor leading to their own casualties.

Of the 33 mine-striking destroyers sunk in battle, 19 were detonated by enemy artillery fire and blown to pieces, more than half of the proportion, which shows that steam gas torpedoes are extremely dangerous, almost equivalent to rushing towards the enemy with explosives packets.

Accompanying the Royal Navy Expeditionary Strike Formation all the way, Rear Admiral Sherman knew that the battle had actually begun in the early hours of last night, and these cunning Ocean Empire ships used cruisers to clear the way, taking advantage of the night to sneak up on the patrol warships of the Atlantic Fleet.

Five U.S. cruisers were attacked by surprise and sunk by swarming battleships, and finally the distance was far away, the storm was raging, and the Atlantic Fleet anchored in the harbor could not detect the abnormality at all, and was directly caught off guard.

The most critical point in this is the new technology of radio interference.

In the Royal Navy expeditionary strike formation, there are two strangely shaped cruisers, and the hull of the ships is covered with high and low radio signal transmitting antennas, that is, they interfere with radio signals in all directions, and play a vital role in completely destroying the US Atlantic Fleet.

This new technology made Major General Sherman salivate, and he said with envy; "It's nice that our Ocean Kingdom friends are keeping new technology secrets, and before yesterday, I didn't even know there was such a thing as radio interference."

"Your Excellency, we should ask for a share." Colonel Pete said confidently.

"That's a very good point, Pete, I don't think the Ocean Kingdom will refuse the Royal Navy's reasonable request. After the complete destruction of the Atlantic Fleet, Argentina is also finished, and the east coast of the United States has opened its arms to the ocean kingdom, and it is time to carry out an effective international mediation to prevent the war from affecting more innocent people. ”

"It is impossible before February 22 that President Roosevelt will hand over this conundrum to the next president without taking on the title of defeated president, which is a complete curse for a party that relies on voters."

"Somebody has to step up and take responsibility, it's either Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson, and I don't believe the Americans can play for five years."

"Indeed, not only is the performance of the navy of the Ocean Empire astounding, but the Royal Army has also shown a strong combat effectiveness that is not inferior to that of Germany, and a battalion of soldiers can defeat a division of the American army, and a company of soldiers can dare to run away with the rout of the entire division and regiment." Colonel Pete's face was full of incredulity, and he shook his head and said; "I heard that there was an infantry squad that once captured an entire regiment of American troops. The 360,000 troops invested by the Mi people on the west coast were wiped out in just over a month, even faster than the speed at which these troops were formed, who would have thought before the outbreak of the war...... The U.S. military is so vulnerable? ”

"The combat effectiveness of the US military is indeed weak, and they are all militia troops formed in a hurry, so it is not surprising that they lost." Major General Sherman looked solemn and commented quite pertinently;

"If you really want to talk about it;

The early stage of the San Francisco Conference organized by the Chinese people was remarkable, although the battle was a sea of corpses and blood, and there were heavy casualties under the fierce attack of the enemy, but the performance was worthy of recognition, if it were not for the fatal blow of the armored corps from Seattle from behind, which led to the collapse of the entire front, this battle would not have been lost so badly, and with the reinforcements from the east coast of the United States successively invested, there was still a certain chance of winning.

It's a pity, these iron cars are too powerful. ”

Major General Sherman smacked his mouth regretfully, he didn't know much about the iron cars that appeared in the army, but he didn't feel so powerful.

Tin cars are not unusual, Tsarist Russia has equipment in the Far East Vladivostok fortress, Britain, France and Germany have these iron cars, anyway, all kinds of them are modified with cars, and they look strange.

"Your Excellency, that novelty seems to be called a tank, right? A British major officer kindly reminded.

After his reminder, Major General Sherman suddenly remembered the name "tank" and nodded in reply; "That's right, Major Fokk, it's the" tank ", eh...... As far as I know; Our young and unprofessional Admiralty Churchill used the Royal Navy's precious appropriation budget to invest in the development of an armored tank called the Land Cruiser, which seems to be able to carry 8~11 people in battle, and is divided into two models, male and female, which is really a strange hobby that makes people too lazy to complain. ”

"What about the people in the British War Office?"

"They...... Hmph, a group of stubborn old stubborn old stubborn people don't like these strange new things at all, and they are the ones who sneer at Mr. Churchill the most in London, and they don't even want to buy trucks, supposedly because war horses are more spiritual, it's a strange theory. ”

"Forgive me for interjecting, Your Excellency, my uncle is the Colonel of the Royal Beckford Cavalry Regiment, and he cherishes the honor of the Cavalry Regiment for more than 170 years, and the battle friendship between the cavalry and the war horse is like a companion in life and death. It's an emotion that can never be felt in those trucks. Without these, the Beckford Cavalry Regiment lost its soul. ”

"I accept your explanation, sir, and please pay tribute on my behalf to the Royal Beckford Cavalry Regiment." Rear Admiral Sherman turned his gaze back to the battlefield of the fierce naval battle, and said with a long sigh; "Although I had a premonition, I still felt gloomy to see this scene, and the Atlantic Fleet collapsed."