The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

After a few minutes of silence, Lukins suddenly asked Mountbatten, "Is this also the result of your previous air battles with the Chinese?"

Mountbatten's cheeks twitched for a while, and he said stiffly: "The Americans have launched more than one attack with more than a thousand planes, and more than [-]% of them were killed every time! In the war against China, they lost no less than [-] planes in total. That's the number they announced! Yes, General, in the face of an absolute technological gap, a temporary advantage in numbers is meaningless!"

"Understood!"

Lukins could imagine that the truth might be crueler than what he heard.Just imagine, a powerful United States with an annual production of more than [-] fighter planes can't even win air supremacy. One can imagine how big the gap must be.And as far as he knows, that is the result of the overwhelming majority of Chinese passive counterattacks.

Unexpectedly, after only ten years, the Chinese have developed to such a point. I don’t know what miracles they can create in the future. At least for now, they have become a serious problem for Germany!This battle is becoming more and more pessimistic!

Ordering the fleet to suspend the attack, and only hovering around the fleet for vigilance, Lukins took a deep breath, resolutely ordered the fleet to advance towards the direction with the most enemy aircraft, and ordered the fleet on both wings to start outflanking the target sea area.

Even fighter jets can't fight... This battle is really getting harder and harder to fight!

Admiral Lukins thought that in this battle, Zhu Bin would adopt a late-strike tactic again, wait for his own side to make a move before calmly responding, use black hands, hit key points, and win without bloodshed or at the lowest cost—— ―He does it all the time.

Not surprisingly, weak and small countries have limited comprehensive strength and heritage after all, and use good steel wisely.The best choice is to maximize the combat power of the equipment.The German navy has come here in the past few years, and he can understand Zhu Bin.

But this time, he guessed wrong!

In the south, the troops were divided into two groups and inserted into the ocean-going fleet between the two formations of the German army. The situation changed again!The fighter planes that finished shooting missiles and shells in the air returned to the aircraft carrier in shifts to replenish ammunition.Groups of attack planes roared into the sky in the light of dawn, slashing at the Italian battleship group approaching in a large encirclement posture on the right!

Due to the clearing of the field in advance, the detection distance of the formation on the right was abysmal. No matter how wise and powerful General Cunningham was, he could not match the performance of his teammates.In order to take care of the old battleships and cruisers, their slow movement and speed of change seriously hindered their legs. At this moment, the formation is scattered, and the opponents are not expected to start playing cards according to common sense!

Looking down from a high altitude, the mighty black sea surface.A large area of ​​at least 200 large and small warships scattered into a sprinkling of bright colors, five extraordinarily majestic "Veneto" class battleships, mixed with a few battleships that the British tried to preserve, looked like a housewife The thrown out mud ideas are scattered in the core position in a radial pattern.

A large number of heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers are scattered around in layers, and the furthest distance can be about a hundred kilometers, all because of the large power gap.The speed can't keep up, and there has never been such a large-scale swarm operation.The scumbag Italian navy has completely exposed its true qualities as an inland sea fleet, making the British anxious and helpless!

At this juncture, a large piece of sharp whistling suddenly came from the sky!

A total of 24 "Skyhawk" attack aircraft were loaded with 96 light supersonic anti-ship missiles, which were suddenly released from a maximum distance of 80 kilometers and a minimum distance of 30 kilometers.In an instant, patches of white trails covered the sky, rushing towards the surrounding ships at a speed close to Mach 2!

All attacking on the outermost opening and defending light warships, without seeking to kill the capital ships in the core position at all, caught the British and Italians by surprise!In the midst of changing formation.Unable to use the radio, they can only use high-power microwave communication and flags to transmit orders, which are not effective at all times, and they are issued layer by layer. They respond in waves. The wreckage of the fighter planes that stayed on guard in the outer airspace of 100 kilometers and were shot down by air-to-air combat bombs has not yet landed on the sea!

quick!It's too fast to keep up with!

A light supersonic missile with a self-weight of only 350 kilograms is loaded with 60 kilograms of high-explosive tandem armor-piercing projectiles. The sharp swords usually rush down in pairs from a height of 1500 meters. Gorgeous explosions exploded from the hulls of the weakly armored destroyers and light cruisers!

High-speed kinetic energy, sharp armor-piercing penetration, violent shattering damage, and a blow that is many times more powerful than a 406mm battleship grenade. For a ship with only a thousand tons or a few thousand tons, it is simply devastating. strike!

When one missile hits, the whole battleship will jump up and burst into flames, and the hull will collapse. If two missiles go down, it will be torn apart directly, and there is no chance of rescue!

In less than a minute, thirty or forty warships erupted with earth-shattering bangs. Groups of dazzling fireballs expanded rapidly, devouring the slender hull, and spraying tons of steel garbage into the sea. The battleship even disintegrated from the blasted volley, tearing up people and steel, and throwing them into the sea!

The entire surface of the sea is like a burning crater!The series of explosions caught everyone off guard!The already messy formation was suddenly torn open with a huge opening with a width of [-] kilometers, exposing the battleships and heavy cruisers at the core, without any obstructions!

At this moment, 24 attack planes turned on their horsepower and swooped down from a high altitude at a speed of nearly 800 kilometers. Wiping the tip of the boiling gunpowder column, they swept over the broken ship like thunder, and drove straight to kill it. With a shock, he dropped the last two laser-guided bombs!

These big guys, with a self-weight of nearly 450 kilograms, are equipped with a full 200 kilograms of TNT and [-]% thermite mixed high-explosives. The streamlined projectiles are three meters long. After gliding, hit the chaotic enemy ships with great precision!

Their targets are mostly heavy cruisers and old British battlecruisers, which are bulky.Slow, even if the anti-aircraft firepower is modernized, it can still only effectively kill conventional propeller fighters. In the face of sudden jet-type high-subsonic attack aircraft, it will basically not have much effect, let alone.They are not prepared at all!

The heavy laser-guided bombs that fell chaotically fell too fast. The height of more than [-] meters was just a blink of an eye.

boom!

More than 200 kilograms of explosives exploded around the hull, set off a circular impact zone of 300 meters, and instantly released thousands of degrees of high-temperature thermite, rendering the fireball into white inside and orange-red light outside. Colors, wrapped in countless destructive wreckage, rushing straight to the skyline hundreds of meters away!

This strike is different from light anti-ship missiles!

Pure low-speed impact.Without the ability to penetrate the side armor of the battleship, the main gun, and the face-to-face armor of the bridge, even if it is only 150mm, it is enough, but its explosive power is too great!Even if it penetrates even a little bit, a full 100 kilograms of mixed explosives will completely wrap more than [-] meters around the impact point of the entire battleship, and everything it touches will be torn apart one after another!

Even if it falls into the water on the side of the battleship, the shock water pressure formed by the explosion.It is also enough to crush the side armor of the ship, forming a large amount of breach irrigation.The shattered fragments swept across the building above, and people were turned on their backs wherever they went. It was a tragedy!

The power of the explosion on the surface can push or lift or forcefully press the armored heavy cruiser of more than 1 tons into the water surface. The violent fire swept across the deck buildings, and the main turret and auxiliary guns and anti-aircraft guns were completely damaged.The casualties are countless!

The worst thing is the doped [-]% thermite, which not only forms an instant killing high temperature, but even more terrible is the arson after the explosion, which burns wherever it is sprayed. No one can resist the deadly high temperature.The damage control personnel who had been swept away could not replenish, and by the time they rushed out, the fire had already started to spread throughout the ship!

This series of attacks blew up nearly [-] enemy ships to smoke and scattered. After throwing away the loaded ammunition, the relaxed attack aircraft cheerfully swooped down and swept out the explosive ammunition at the fastest speed. After that, he turned sharply and took off into the air, without giving the battleships and battlecruisers at the core a chance to fire their antiaircraft guns.

Behind them, a large burning sea area with a radius of more than ten kilometers was left. The raging fire engulfed the towering bridge, and the formed smoke column went straight into the sky for a thousand meters, swept by the cold wind, rising like a dragon!

A piece of the huge fleet array was forcibly chewed off, shaped like a broken pie, and formed an unimpeded air corridor, completely exposing the heavily protected battleships!

Just at this time, the "Thunder Dragon" fighter plane, which had been holding back for a long time, finally showed its fangs and sharp teeth!

On the huge belly of the aircraft, the magazine doors were all open, and clusters of supersonic anti-ship missiles, lightweight and heavy, were spilled one after another. There were only four of them. Wave after wave roared from the sky to the sea, aiming directly at the core fleet!

General Cunningham's already tossed head is about to explode!The enemy's attack came so fast, so fierce, and so precise, completely beyond his experience.Seen from the towering bridge, the stretches of fireworks indicate that stretches of warships have been damaged. The efficiency is so high that it is like mowing grass. He has never seen it in half his life. Not only is he heartbroken, he also feels The sky is about to fall!

As for the Italian Augustus, he was completely flustered, and he didn't know what he was talking about.command?pull down!

Just by looking through the binoculars, one can see the purpose of the opponent's one-sided attack like peeling onions. Cunningham ordered loudly that the core ships and two-wing ships should focus their anti-aircraft artillery fire on the gap as much as possible, regardless of whether the attack is a fighter plane or Missiles must be intercepted one step ahead!Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous!

But the radio is jammed, relying on flags alone is too inefficient!Even if they were on alert before, the slowness of communication is worrying when coordinated operations are required!

Time, too late!

The glaring missile trail stretched rapidly from the high-altitude smoke screen, and the supersonic anti-ship missiles, under the watchful eyes of the sharp-eyed observation post, ruthlessly plunged into the battleships!

Two British old-fashioned battlecruisers, their armor was broken, and they were seriously injured in the explosion!

The two Veneto battleships are each taking care of four heavy anti-ship missiles. The terrible tandem armor-piercing warhead ignores the thick protection of the horizontal deck 162.5mm, the main turret 350mm, and the conning tower 260mm, with a total weight of 13545 tons.Wherever they go, they run through in one go!

Afterwards, the frenzied destructive power of the terrifying high-explosive warhead spread freely in all directions from the injection hole, destroying everything it passed.No matter how superb the construction technology of the Italians is, they can't stop the explosion that destroys everything. With the fall of the last missile, the eight capital ships are submerged in the fireworks!

Cunningham's flagship was given priority. Four heavy-duty anti-ship missiles were all over the place, and they were blown up to the point where they couldn't see any good places.

The missile that hit the stern not only shredded all the ejection mechanisms and carrier aircraft.It even disabled the stern rudder and a propeller; the missile that hit the front deck knocked off a main turret by the root, and the other one knocked off the entire steel plate, secondary guns, and anti-aircraft gun installations from the side. By the way, a crack four or five meters deep was opened from the hull!

The last one exploded against the midship on the right side, crushing the armor, pushing the 4-ton warship sideways for several meters, and the terrible force hitting the keel from below caused irreparable damage. The delivery system is greatly affected.The keel is also deformed, and the entire battleship.Immediately became a dead fish that could not move!

The other warships are also basically paralyzed!

A series of air strikes, combined within a few minutes, paralyzed half of the main force of the mighty coalition fleet!

Such high efficiency makes everyone in the contemporary era beyond recognition.I don't know how to comment, but the heavy damage to the flagship completely paralyzed their command system!The menacing fleet has become a wasp without a queen bee, with spikes all over its body.But I don't know how to use it, the role it should play is completely useless!

The group of attack planes that had fired all their ammunition swaggered around in the air for a while, collected the strike effects from multiple angles, and walked away.

On the surface of the sea, a fleet headed by four Kunlun-class battleships swarmed towards this side with full power --- with an absolute superiority in combat power, but also to beat the dog in the water, this despicable style is probably played by Zhu Bin Come out, it's unethical!

However, if he likes it, that's enough.

The core formation, the Germans don't know the tragedy that happened there, and Admiral Lukins can't take care of it, because the attacks on them have suddenly become intensive!

The second wave of cruise missiles swept across the sea and wiped out more than a dozen of the escort light ships in front of the formation, followed by the reactivation of the electromagnetic gun!Only this time, the distance between the two sides has been shortened a lot, gradually approaching, but 300 kilometers, the power demand for output is greatly reduced, and the launch frequency has doubled, and the warhead has also been replaced with a trumpet. The explosive shells of the high-explosive warhead were fired repeatedly by the two ships alternately!

Not only the two of them, but the other two guided missile cruisers also let go of their dual-mounted 127mm electromagnetic reconnection guns, using low rate of fire, high initial velocity, and all pure kinetic energy to kill warheads. After firing, strips of long-rod special bullets shot up into the sky, mixed in the middle, and fell down one after another!

As a result, the density of attacking artillery fire against the Germans suddenly increased several times!But compared to conventional bombardment, it seems sparse and inappropriate, but it can't be prepared to come too fast, hit too far, and the accuracy is too high, so it's hard to guard against!

The same sea-skimming attack is as accurate as the precise bombing of ground artillery. The huge battleship is as towering as a mountain, but it is the best target. When it is gathered together, it is light and heavy.

The explosive-piercing bomb fired by the electromagnetic gun only has a crystalline alkyl charge of about ten kilograms in the warhead, but the explosive power of this thing is too powerful, which is stronger than the 420mm grenade. The convenience of the body, the violent explosion is enough to destroy all the surrounding steel structures, so one after another, after withstood the kinetic energy damage of the initial collision and killing, they couldn't withstand the terrible explosion and fell apart!

"We can't go on like this! Otherwise we're all doomed!"

Seeing that the dizzy Germans couldn't come up with a good idea, Mountbatten didn't care whether it was appropriate for Yuezu to act as his substitute, so he made a decisive decision and issued an order for Admiral Lukins: "Let the carrier-based fighters carry anti-ship missiles, and all fire! Order All those loaded with anti-ship missiles, launch an attack immediately! Can't wait any longer!"

Lukins frowned and did not say a word. The German staff objected: "This is not acceptable! We haven't figured out the exact position of the enemy ship, and firing rashly will only waste precious missiles!"

Mountbatten sneered sarcastically: "Wait any longer, I'm afraid we won't even have a chance to waste! Don't you see clearly that the Chinese just want to use this blunt knife to cut flesh, bit by bit taking advantage of the distance to take us away. Will all the vitality be destroyed? We must take risks and strike with all our strength!"

Lukins finally had a solid foundation of talent and strategy, made a wise choice at the critical moment, and interrupted the dispute with a violent wave of his hand: "Do it! Let all the fighters rush up to attract firepower, and then, if there is any way, let go!"

He also felt that something was wrong.The opponent's style of play doesn't follow common sense at all, they haven't even launched a large-scale air strike, and they don't care about exposing their existence in advance. What does this mean?Have nothing to fear!

The order was issued, and in the rear, several missile ships that had been fearful of being hit, rushed to release all the V2 missiles on the launchers!

Thick missiles, the recoil force of each shot can shake the carrier hull with a displacement of at least [-] tons. Don't count on accuracy. Now they only have one thought, launch it!

The deafening roar and the screaming sound of flying out of the air all rang out in one piece!All liquid-propelled high-range original missiles soared into the sky with thick and shining wakes, bent in mid-air, and rushed towards the sea area where Zhu Bin's left-wing attack group was located. (To be continued..)