1825 My New Daming

Chapter 361 Can an aircraft carrier be considered a Japanese devil if it does not engage in sneak attacks? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Atlantic Ocean, near the Malvinas Islands.The night has gradually fallen, and a fleet of more than 30 various warships and transport ships are plowing white waves on the sea.

In this fleet, there are frigates with inclined decks and a full load displacement of 2.5 tons, destroyers with a full load displacement of three thousand to several hundred tons, and 210mm main guns, and a full row of 2.5 tons. Floating hotels such as "Yamato", "Musashi" and "Shinano" with 155mm guns, 75mm guns and 20mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and even more than a dozen large and small "mixed boats" with sails Power" motor sailboat.

Dozens of black smoke went straight up to the sky, and the setting sun sprinkled down from the west, reflecting on the sea surface, sparkling, and between the sea and the sky, there was a faint color of blood.

Every ship in this fleet is flying the clover flag that symbolizes the Tokugawa shogunate and the Tokugawa state!
Now the main force of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force in Texas has bypassed the Drake Passage in the south of South America and entered the Atlantic Ocean!

On board the "Akagi", the flagship of the United Fleet of the Seas, Takeki Enomoto, the first general of the Seas, and Takamori Saigo, the first generals of the Lands, were walking together on the empty air deck of the Akagi. The two of them probably had been sitting on the boat for a long time, and their muscles and bones were a bit stiff, so they did a few stretching exercises while walking.

别看现在“赤城”号的甲板上什么都没有，但是甲板下面的机库里面可塞满了舰载机，足足有48架之多！包括42架“海飞龙1型”（6架备用）、6架“双龙型”（2架备用）。

Among them, the "Sea Dragon 1" single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter-bomber-you can tell by its name that it is a very powerful aircraft.Specifically, there are four super awesome features of this aircraft. One is a five-cylinder radial piston engine with a maximum power of 175 horsepower and a maximum speed of 188 km/h.

Moreover, this engine is relatively fuel-efficient, allowing the "Haifeilong 1" to fly continuously at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour for one and a half hours while carrying a 150-kilogram armor-piercing bomb, thus obtaining a "super-large" speed of 1 kilometers. voyage.Taking into account the additional consumption of carrier-based aircraft when taking off and forming a team, as well as the increase in voyage when returning empty-loaded.The combat radius of this "Sea Dragon 225" in actual combat must be more than 1 kilometers!

In addition, in the case of dropping the bomb and asking the pilot to wear more clothes and put on an oxygen mask, the practical ceiling of the "Sea Dragon 1" can reach an "astonishing" 5000 meters!
Being able to fly such a "high" aircraft is simply terrible for British and American airships!That kind of "man-guided glide bomb" can no longer be played.

The second great thing about "Sea Dragon 1" is that it has two synchronized machine guns called "black technology"!This kind of machine gun can be coordinated with the propeller when shooting, so that the bullets will not hit the propeller, but pass through the gap between the propellers.Therefore, this machine gun can be installed in front of the cockpit and behind the propeller.The pilot can aim and shoot!
And the third awesome thing is that a large bomb weighing 100 kilograms can be hung on the belly pylon of this plane!Moreover, this biplane can also dive and drop bombs at a small angle of no more than 3000 degrees from an altitude of two to 40 meters.

Although the accuracy provided by the dive bombing at a 40-degree angle is not as accurate as that of a vertical dive-bombing at an angle close to 90 degrees, it is still much better than the previous Ssangyong aircraft!
And the fourth awesome thing is that the "Haifeilong-[-]" is a real carrier-based aircraft, which can not only take off on the aircraft carrier, but also land on the aircraft carrier.Therefore, in a sea-air battle, they can take off repeatedly to strike the enemy.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Zhuge Weidao's first aviation battle in the Battle of Great Strait a few months ago could be equipped with "Haifeilong I", then the British's 12 Victory Levels might be blown to the ground. All destroyed!
Of course, where there is a spear, there must be a shield.While Ming's aircraft spears are becoming more and more powerful, the British and American air defense shields are also becoming thicker. According to intelligence, the British and Americans are now busy installing various anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery on their warships!

In the imaginable future, the scene of a small wooden plane diving and dropping bombs against the enemy's dense anti-aircraft firepower will appear on the ocean.

Waiting for the two generals, Takeki Enomoto and Takamori Saigo, to finish their walk, an adjutant was already waiting beside him, and reported in a low voice and respectful voice: "Your Excellency, the radio station has just received a report from the Pacific Fleet Command from the communication ship. Telegram."

After speaking, the adjutant handed the translated telegram to Enomoto Takeki with both hands.Enomoto is a vassal at the first level of Banner. Although his family status is not high, he is deeply trusted by Tokugawa Ieaki and Tokugawa Narimaki. He once studied in England to study the navy.After Qiliang Shimadzu's army collapsed, he acted as a naval staff officer, and later served as the Texas transportation officer, leading the fleet to run back and forth in the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean for several years. Even if there is no credit, hard work is enough. up.However, his experience in naval battles and sea-air battles cannot be compared with Xixiang Takamori, who served as the general of the Texas Army.

Xixiang is the "father of air combat". In the airship battle above Juying Island, he once threw ribs and attacked the airship of the Ming army. Although he could not shoot down the opponent's airship, it did cause damage.During the post-war damage inspection, the airship ground crew of the Ming army found a mysterious short knife inserted into the shell of an airship!

This short knife is still being used in the kitchen of the Jueying Island base, and it is very useful!
Although attacking airships with flying knives is just a joke, Xixiang did participate in organizing the air raid on Jueying Island and has accumulated rich experience.

However, this Xixiang was born in the Satsuma clan after all, and he was a samurai in the north. Even if he joined the shogunate and became a shogunate, he is still the "Kaizhou hero" of the "Tokugawa Prefecture", but after all, he cannot compare with a genealogy generation like Enomoto. Qiben, so Tokugawa Jiaqi was not at ease to hand over Haizi to him, but let him be the head of Dezhou Luzi-although Dezhou is known as the "Tokugawa State", but tens of thousands of miles across the ocean to settle in Dezhou Most of them are rogues, and many of them are the old part of the Satsuma clan, that is, Xixiang's background can settle them down.Therefore, the chief general of Dezhou Luzi was given to Xixiang, but his interest is actually in the sea.
Seeing the interested expression on the big man's face, Enomoto smiled and said to Saigo after reading the telegram: "Saigo-kun, the Pacific Fleet Command ordered us to prepare for a decisive battle with the main force of the US Navy near the Yucatan Strait. Commander Let us make full use of our aviation superiority to carry out bombing at long distances to force the enemy's battleships out of battle."

"that's it?"

After hearing this, Xixiang Longsheng was puzzled.Enomoto looked at him and asked, "Xigo-kun, is there a question?"

"Yes!" Xixiang nodded and said, "We have 2 aircraft-based frigates and 72 carrier-based fighter-bombers that can be dispatched. With such a powerful force, why not carry out a sneak attack, but to fight in the Yucatan Peninsula?" What about the array?"

Enomoto looked at Xixiang: "Xixiang-kun, if you were General Haizi, where would you like to attack?"

"A sneak attack on the Norfolk Naval Base!" Takamori Saigo said without hesitation, "It is the home port of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet, only 30 kilometers away from the coastline. Our aircraft-carrying frigate can release carrier-based aircraft at sea 60 kilometers from the coast , so that it will not be discovered at all, and there is no risk."

"But the capital ships of the U.S. Navy have already entered the Gulf of Mexico, and there are no big ships to bomb in the Norfolk base!"

Xixiang Takamori said: "There are no big ships, there are small ships, there are no warships, and there are transport ships. Even if there is nothing, there are still port facilities that can be bombed. Moreover, the bombing of the Norfolk base means that the bombs fell on the On American soil! We can bomb Norfolk, New York, and Boston! In this way, do the Americans dare to place their main fleet in the Gulf of Mexico?"

(End of this chapter)