"Major General, the battleplane carriers of the Ming Kingdom are rushing towards us!"

"Major General, the planes of the Ming army are also rushing towards us!"

Inside the bridge of the battleship Marina of the Royal Navy, the voice of the chief staff officer and the chief navigator was already in the second battleship formation commander Thomas. Major General Howe's ears rang.

Thomas. Rear Admiral Howe is also quite an experienced naval commander! As a teenager, he followed his father, Lord Howe, to a naval trainee on a warship, and then, through his own efforts and a letter of recommendation from Admiral Hood (Vice Admiral Hood's father), he managed to enter the Royal Naval Academy in Dartmouth. After graduating from the Naval Academy, he fought in the Napoleonic Wars and spent money to become a captain during the war...... That's Thomas . Howe relied on his own efforts, step by step, and finally struggled to become a rear admiral of the British Royal Navy!

Rao is such an experienced rear admiral, and he is a little blind at this time. Directly in front of him, a warship that I don't know if it was an aircraft carrier or a battleship, led by several third-class cruisers, was rushing towards him - look at it, this means an artillery battle!

And in the sky, dozens (64) of small biplane planes formed 4 formations, and they were already flying over the battleship Marina where they were - look at this plane is about to drop bombs!

On one side, planes threw bombs, and on the other side, battleships, aircraft carriers, and gunners....... How do you deal with this? It had not been taught at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, nor had it been encountered in the Napoleonic Wars, so it can be said that he had never thought that such a situation would happen before today!

Seeing that the rear admiral, who was from a famous family but was a little slow to react, was still in a daze, the chief staff officer of the battleship Malina reminded loudly: "Rear Admiral, the enemy's plane is approaching, we should take the S-shaped evasion route!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... Take the S-shaped circumvention route! "Rear Admiral Hao finally remembered that the S-shaped evasion route is a standard way for ships to avoid airship bombing, and it should also be used to dodge aircraft bombs, right?

He thought for a moment, and then said, "Let the Willisley (another Victory-class) do the same...... We must not allow the Chinese bombs to fall on the Malina and the Willisley! ”

"Yes, Major General!"

"Yes!"

The helmsman and flag officer of the battleship Marina responded loudly. The first mate of the battleship, an elderly gunnery expert, reminded: "Major General, taking the S-shaped evasive route will increase the difficulty of artillery observation and aiming. ”

"It doesn't matter," said Major General Howe, "the enemy doesn't have many bombs to drop, and it'll be over in a moment!" ”

As soon as his voice fell, the bridge observer shouted: "The enemy ship has opened fire......

Major General Hao hurriedly turned his head to look. In the line of sight, several black dots rushed from the sea like lightning, and then flew over the battleship Marina and landed on the sea more than a hundred yards away. Rear Admiral Howe turned his attention to the "battleplane carrier" that had just fired its guns...... It's still more than 10,000 yards away!

It was so accurate at this distance, and the gunnery and ranging level of the Ming Navy were really well deserved!

"Boom ......"

In the distance, the bow of the battleship aircraft carrier flashed again, and several 300 mm caliber shells were once again blasted out of the muzzle! However, it still didn't hit, but the landing point of this shell was twenty or thirty yards closer!

That's too accurate, isn't it?

The chief staff officer of the Malina suddenly reminded: "Airship! It must be the airship hovering above us that is helping them watch! ”

"Damn it!" Major General Hao scolded.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns on the battleship suddenly fired, and the crackling sound became a ball. At the same time, the Malina began to move in an S-shape, writhing around on the surface of the sea to dodge bombs.

It seemed that the small biplane planes in the air were also on the battlefield for the first time, and when they saw two battleships writhing on the surface of the sea and firing dense anti-aircraft ammunition, they were a little unable to talk for a while, so they had to raise their altitude and fly around them, as if they wanted to wait for them to "twist" and get tired before bombing.

However, the Malina and the Willisley seemed to be tireless, writhing endlessly, and all kinds of anti-aircraft ammunition seemed to be inexhaustible, and the air raid seemed to be a little unstoppable.

The writhing Malina and the Willisley also caused problems for the aiming of the four 300mm guns on the opposing battleplane carrier, which was getting closer and closer, and the shells always landed a hundred yards away from the two ships.

Major General Hao also breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "That's it...... The planes can't blow up, and the artillery can't hit, so it's time for you yellow-skinned monkeys to taste the power of the Royal Navy's 12-inch cannon shells! ”

With the order of Major General Howe, the first salvo was finally fired from the 16 12-inch cannons on the Marina and the Willisley as the distance between the two sides had been reduced to about 10,000 yards.

......

"Report, 9000 meters away!"

"Distance, 8500 meters!"

"Distance, 8000 meters ......"

When the 12-inch shells of the British kept falling near the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shuzhongwang, the navigator of the Shuzhongwang was still reporting the distance one after another, and the atmosphere in the bridge became tense. After all, the two battleships in the distance are the latest British battleships, which should be designed with 10 12-inch "full main guns", without the interference of the second-stage main guns, the accuracy of shooting should be improved a lot - in recent years, with the progress of artillery technology and the progress of various observation and aiming means and calculation formulas, the effective firing distance of the main guns of battleships has become farther and farther, and now it is generally more than 5000 meters, and the 12-inch guns of the British cutting-edge battleships should also have a certain accuracy of 8000 meters.

After all, the Shuzhong King is an aircraft-carrying battle cruiser, and it does not have an armored deck, so if the opponent's 12-inch shells are smashed through the flight deck and fall into the hangar below, it is easy to cause a fire.

So Zhuge didn't dare to be too reckless, after all, he was Zhuge a military advisor, not a black-faced Zhang Fei!

"Almost!" Zhuge took a breath for Dao, "It's time to show our real flying killer feature!" ”

"Yes, Junmen."

The chief of staff of the fleet, Ma Xuchen, ordered loudly: "Order all destroyers...... Start charging at full speed! ”

Wang Wen, the aviation staff officer of the fleet, also picked up the radio speaker and said loudly: "So the air units pay attention...... Now start dropping bombs, remember, keep the altitude and avoid being shot down by the enemy! ”

With the order of the two of them, the situation on the sea and in the sky changed suddenly!

First of all, the 64 Ssangyong planes hovering in the sky began to lower their altitude, and then began to line up to drop bombs. The planes had formed 4 teams in the process of circling, and every 2 teams blew up a victory class. It was not a rush of bombing, but a very orderly line of bombing. From an altitude of 2,500 to 3,000 meters, the Ssangyong aircraft flew over the Marina and the Willisley in turn, and flew from the left rear, right rear, right front, and left front of the two ships respectively...... This is a bomb delivery method specifically designed to deal with S-shaped evasion. However, the effect did not seem to be very good, the bombs fell one by one, one by one, the Malina and the Verisley were unharmed, and the huge water column made a lot of splashes.

And the attention of the British and Indian naval officers and men on the Marinar and the Willisley was, of course, attracted by the bombs that could fall on their heads at any moment.

I don't know how long it took to bomb it, but just when Major General Hao doubted that these small planes in the sky were endless, I don't know who roared: "Cruiser...... The cruiser of the Ming Kingdom rushed up! ”

Cruiser?

Rear Admiral Howe was stunned for a moment, and then turned his attention to the surface of the sea, only to find that 6 amazingly fast cruisers (in fact, torpedo destroyers) had rushed to a distance of 3,000 yards!

What is this trying to do?

When Rear Admiral Howe didn't know why, he saw the six destroyers slightly deflect their bows, aim their bows at his battleship, and then fire a bunch of torpedoes each...... It's really a bunch of torpedoes!

He had never seen a cruiser shoot so many torpedoes at once (only six, in fact), let alone a torpedo that far away, and the torpedoes were so fast that they left a terrifying trail on the surface of the sea - at least 30 of them!

30 torpedoes shot a fan, how to dodge this?