Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 615 Chapter 615 The Mighty Aviation Bomb

If it is bombing destroyers or cruisers during World War II, the hit rate of dive bombing is not as high as imagined.

It was not easy for aircraft to deal with ships in World War II. Facing the dense anti-aircraft firepower on warships, it is generally difficult for aircraft to obtain a very good attack window.

The anti-aircraft guns on the battleship are not used to shoot down the plane, but to force the plane to shoot at a less than good attack distance or attack angle as much as possible, so as to give the battleship a chance to avoid torpedoes or bombs.

But if there is no such intensive and continuous anti-aircraft firepower, the battleship will not have much chance when facing the aircraft.

As long as there is an angle that is not covered by the barrage, the aircraft can cut in at this angle, causing battle damage to the battleship at close range, and at the same time causing the entire battleship to lose more anti-aircraft artillery positions, causing the battleship to fall into a vicious circle.

In addition, in the era of World War II, both battleships and cruisers and destroyers had relatively high speeds.

After encountering an enemy plane, they will quickly perform an S-shaped maneuver to avoid torpedoes and bombs that the plane may drop.

The minimum speed of these warships is more than 25 knots, and the highest speed is even 35 knots. In fact, it takes a lot of experience and luck to hit a warship that is desperately maneuvering.

It's a pity that the Cyric fleet in front of them doesn't have these conditions for resistance: they don't have special anti-aircraft weapons, let alone anti-aircraft barrage, they don't even have anti-aircraft guns.

In addition, the general speed of these warships is only a dozen knots after conversion. It is a bit of a dream to rely on this "battle-damaged speed" to avoid bomb attacks.

The first aerial bomb hit the sea directly, and then exploded with huge waves.The water column soaring into the sky is even higher than the pulled up Stuka plane.

The destructive power of the 500kg aerial bomb is quite astonishing. Even if it didn't directly hit the battleship, it still caused the entire battleship to shake.

Cyric's soldiers standing on the deck turned pale with fright, and grabbed what they could grab around them to prevent themselves from being thrown into the sea.

Some of the unlucky ones even lost their rifles trying to stand still, because they had never seen such a large jet of water in their lives!

Before those sparked water splashes had time to fall, a new aerial bomb swooped down, directly crashing into the slender deck of the warship.

Although in order to make themselves stronger, the horizontal armor of these warships is more or less tens of millimeters, but it is a joke to say how useful these armors can be.

They were originally designed to fight against naval guns with a caliber of tens of millimeters to a caliber of about [-] millimeters at a long distance.

And it is a 500 kg aerial bomb that penetrates this layer of armor!Its speed and weight are simply not something that a thin layer of armor can resist.

The aerial bomb pierced the deck in one fell swoop, shattering the wood laid on it, smashing the steel plate and leaving a twisted section around the hole.

Then it went all the way down, smashing through the second deck of the ship, followed by the third deck... Finally, it stopped in the engine room almost near the bottom of the ship, next to the large propeller shaft that was constantly spinning.

The time-delay fuze finally stopped rotating, and the detonator fired the charge inside the aerial bomb. The instantly expanding flames destroyed the compartment, and in an instant, all the surrounding partitions were inflated.

The extremely strong shaft broke in the explosion, and the flames engulfed the engine compartment, shocking everyone inside to their jobs.

The fragments that were sharper than flying swords cut through everything that blocked their way, pierced through the walls made of steel, pierced through personnel and equipment, and at the same time pierced through the ammunition stored in the ammunition depot.

The propellant of the cannonball was ignited by these hot shrapnel, and then exploded immediately. The power of the explosive ammunition was ten times and a hundred times that of the aerial bomb, and the more presumptuous shock wave spread throughout the entire battleship in an instant.

The shell of the battleship swelled instantly due to the explosion inside, and the deck at the stern was even lifted high by the explosion.

The bridge of this Cyric warship collapsed due to the shock of the explosion, and the entire hull disintegrated and fractured during the explosion.

It was instantly broken by the influx of sea water. Half of the soldiers on the deck were killed by the explosion and fell to the deck. Before the other half had time to get up, they found that the battleship under their feet was beginning to tilt rapidly.

It only took about 1 minutes before and after, and the battleship had completely lost its ability to move under the billowing smoke.

Its stern has sunk below sea level, while its bow is still stubbornly floating on the water.However, due to the drag of the heavy body, the remaining part of the bow has already started to rise, exposing the part painted red underwater.

"..." Seeing the sunken battleship not far away, Cyric's commander couldn't believe his eyes.

If it's a serious naval battle, the warship that just sank can at least last for a long time, right?But the two planes swooped down just now, and it took only a few tens of seconds to sink it!

"Damn it..." The commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom's navy was also frightened by the sight at this moment, and he had never seen such a naval battle.

Even if the naval battles in the past were extremely tragic, this kind of scene would not appear: the explosion just now and the water column soaring to the sky before, for a veteran like him, it was like a nightmare.

The commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom's navy has never fought such a battle, and he doesn't have any experience in air defense.He didn't know how to deal with threats from the air, so he couldn't give any combat orders.

The standard S-type air defense maneuvers and standard air defense formations of later generations have not yet become popular.So the commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom wanted to do something, but found that he couldn't do anything.

Another Stuka dive bomber soared into the sky and swooped towards the outer battleship deck.After several attempts, Datang's pilots also found some patterns.

The targets in the core area of ​​the fleet will be covered by the firepower of the warships on both sides. Although this kind of cover is almost useless, it will still cause some troubles and increase the risk of some attacks.

Therefore, it is relatively easier and more cost-effective to attack warships on the periphery of the fleet.Obviously, these warships can only rely on their own firepower for air defense.

Like peeling an onion, attacking the outermost battleship has a high chance of success, and can weaken the fleet's defense.

"Boom!" Because of inexperience, the bomb dropped by this dive-dropping Stuka bomber did not hit the target. To be honest, it is still difficult to hit a moving target.

However, more planes began to dive down, and the pilots aimed their sights at the sailing battleship as much as possible in the turbulent cockpit.

Occasionally, a bullet will fly head-on, but it won't do much damage.At the lowest point close to the battleships, the pilots pressed the bomb button and continued to drop bombs near these battleships.

Some of the bombs fell into the water, stirring up the water column.Some bombs hit the battleship directly, replicating previous explosions.

For these not-so-advanced warships, the power of a 500-kilogram aerial bomb is a bit too terrifying.

Basically any hit, whether it's a bomb hitting an ammunition depot, or hitting a boiler near a boiler, will cause devastating damage.

Datang Group has never sold high-end warships, especially battleships with innovative armor designs.Cyric is completely groping his own way in terms of battleship design, taking the wild path of donkey dung and eggs with a smooth surface.

This kind of clumsy copying and imitation relies on the technical support of the power system and artillery sold by the Datang Group.

Inexperienced armor design, unscientific compartment design, armor protection in important areas sacrificed for speed, and even a non-existent fire emergency repair system...

Everything made today's extraordinary naval battle bloody.Tang Jun's planes dived and dropped bombs one after another. In order not to interfere with each other, they were all far away from each other.

As for Cyric's sneak attack fleet floating on the sea, there is nothing left but despair.In a blink of an eye, they had already sunk three warships, and they only had 45 warships in total.

"Do you want to let the fleet disperse?" Cyric's commander had the idea of ​​going his own way and fleeing for his own life.

"After dispersing, without mutual cover, wouldn't they die faster?" The commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom glanced at the other party, denying the other party's opinion.

Then, the general from Goblin put forward his own thoughts: "We have only one choice now, surrender! Let the troops hang the white flag, and then pray that they will treat the prisoners preferentially."

"This is impossible! Absolutely impossible!" Cyric's commander stared angrily at the commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom's navy, and his tone was full of hostility: "Surrender is never allowed! Even if these warships sink, they cannot be handed over." To the enemy!"

No matter how bad the battleship is, it is still a battleship!If these warships are handed over to the Datang Kingdom, then the strength of the naval fleet of the Datang Kingdom will be even stronger.

Therefore, for the commander of Cyric, even if all the warships here are wiped out, it is more acceptable than surrender.

"Then we have no choice but to speed up and leave here." The commander-in-chief of the Goblin Kingdom also knew that the other party would definitely not agree, so he could only speak with a wry smile.

He has no way to disobey Cyric's order, his country has been tied to Cyric's chariot, his whole family, his everything, is no longer his own: "Keep on Let's see if we die first, or their planes run out of ammunition first."

(End of this chapter)