The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"Jesus Christ is coming again! What happened to us!"

Major Edward Baker, the captain of the Phelps destroyer, let out a scream, feeling as if he had fallen into a boundless nightmare, his head was buzzing, he didn't know what words to use to describe what happened to him, so he had to get used to it Calling out to their omnipotent, yet helpless God!

His ship is at the outermost edge, rushing to the forefront, and it should be given priority. The series armor-piercing warheads of two subsonic anti-ship missiles may not be powerful enough for battleships, but his weak hull The first blast was a large trumpet-shaped hole that was narrow on the outside and wide on the inside. The high-explosive warhead squeezed in ruthlessly blasted through the hull, causing a violent explosion!

It was an explosion erupting violently from the core of the battleship toward the weak upper part like a volcanic eruption!It almost tore the battleship in two, and destroyed all its power and force. Unless it can be towed back for repair immediately, otherwise, it will only sink!

But in such a tense battle, any battleship that loses its power, even if it is intact as a whole, has only one end--being beaten into the water!

Major Baker screamed because of this. If the companions around him are all intact, there is still some hope. Now, the damage of those battleships is not much worse than his. Looking at each ship, there are countless people rushing down. Jump, there is no way to save it.

"Abandon ship! Everyone leave the battleship immediately! Damn it, the next wave of Chinese attack is coming soon!"

At this time, regardless of whether the morale of the army was shaken, Major Baker yelled at the top of his voice, and he rushed down the bridge with the rest of the command staff at the fastest speed, and threw himself into the lifeboat without hesitation. And use your best efforts to get out of the range of the ship.

It's not that he's cowardly, it's just that the situation doesn't allow for any hesitation!

The two heavy cruisers in the middle were a little dumbfounded!They didn't even think about it.It will provoke such an attack!

Colonel Howard Goode always thought that when they attacked the weak area behind the left-wing Yue Fei aircraft carrier formation, they were most likely to encounter long-range bombing from submarines, destroyed destroyers, or battleship main guns. Kilometers away, it should be very safe.

But I didn't expect it.The opponent's formation method is completely different!The core of the entire formation is not an aircraft carrier or a battleship at all. The real attacking force is instead two guided missile cruisers flickering forward and backward!

Yes!The [-]-kilometer-long giant scorpion array, Wake Island is the body, a guided missile cruiser is lurking behind it as the tail of the scorpion, and the other is in the middle of the two aircraft carrier formations. It is also a very insidious trap, waiting to attack enemy.Whether it's a fighter plane or a ship!

In the entire ocean-going fleet, in terms of stealth capability and comprehensive combat performance, the best is actually the "Yingzhou-class" guided missile cruiser!Their body size is moderate, and the hull has been optimized for visual stealth to the greatest extent. Just because of the uniform painting of sea and sky, even professional naval watchmen may not be able to spot them from a distance!

And attack ability.Not to mention.Huge hull of 128 tons, full [-] pits of general-purpose vertical launching system.The double-tube main gun with electromagnetic acceleration can be described as omniscient and omnipotent.

The two aircraft carrier formations are more than a hundred kilometers apart from each other, and the huge gap in the middle can be seen from a high altitude.It is also very easy to penetrate, and there is only a warship inside, so it is easy to be ignored.However, if anyone really misses it, that is the beginning of the tragedy!

obviously.The US military task force is one of the protagonists of the tragedy.

All the information they have obtained so far cannot accurately judge the real combat power of the ocean-going fleet. Even if it is a modified destroyer, there is no clear picture of what it is equipped with or what it looks like.

Not to mention the tactics, so with all the fuzzy photos of the aerial reconnaissance, I roughly know the formation of the opponent's troops. What we are facing is two powerful task force fleets. The U.S. soldiers are attacking in two ways, and they are also coming in two ways. This is a very arrogant and arrogant approach!

If it were the U.S. military, it would have to give full play to its numerical advantage, concentrate on fighting the task force of the first line, and then attack the second line after defeating it!

If you want to strike at the same time, don't you know that the real tactic of the two task force fleets is to attack separately?The final approach is to attack a target from both wings!

The results of such judgments were communicated in the U.S. military, so all warships followed similar orders to work. Colonel Alexander Earley of the 16.4st Squadron of the 1th Destroyer Squadron was really under great pressure at this time!After receiving such a beating for no reason, I didn't even find out where the enemy was!

"Damn! What information did we miss?! Why is there a violent attack coming from the right wing! Could it be that the Chinese are over there, and there are more warships lurking?!"

Howling, he also fled from the ship, and in the end he did not forget to issue a questioning call to Rear Admiral Thomas Kincaid.

In fact, Major General Kincaid was even more depressed than him!You know, from the very beginning, he did not approve of the tactics of splitting troops and raiding.Based on the various tactics of the Chinese navy in the past few years, firstly, what it is best at is surprise, defeating the strong with the weak, hiding the real combat power, luring the enemy deep, opening the door to let people in, and then closing the door to beat the dog... In short, any People underestimate them, and there is only one end, just like the Japanese United Fleet, turning into iron ruins under the ocean!

But there is nothing to do, from Admiral Kimmel to half of the ship officers, most people are very unconvinced in their hearts. They feel that they have a large number of people on their side, and they are fighting at the door of their house. They are full of confidence. Enemies from afar were killed in the vast sea?

Wake Island is the center of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. military has Hawaii as a transit point and can advance and retreat freely, but the other party has to travel four to five thousand kilometers. The long supply line can consume them alive?

What's more, the Chinese must not be allowed to gain a firm foothold. That is a resolution issued by Mr. President and cannot be changed!

Watching a group of warships being bombarded to pieces.Major General Kincaid could only sigh and shake his head. This result has long been expected. Although the Chinese navy is immature, it has suffered too much in history. Are you ready for rear cooking?

so.In the U.S. Navy, there are actually quite a few calm-headed people. Whether it is Nimitz or Kincaid, even Fletcher and others may not be as arrogant as the Japanese, they just have no choice.

The heavy cruiser New Orleans was bombarded by missiles and sprayed iron slag all over its body. Based on the experience of Kincaid or Captain Goode, it was immediately confirmed.I have been accurately locked by the opponent, and the next attack will be more violent and brutal!

Kincaid made a decisive decision and ordered to all the warships: "Take off all the carrier-based aircraft and search the airspace of [-] kilometers to the right wing. When the target is found, attack at a low altitude immediately to buy time for the warships! All ships immediately release smoke cover and contact the escort air force to search high altitude. .The Chinaman must have ambushed the bomber, waiting for us to be immobilized!"

have to say.His series of orders are very appropriate and especially applicable to the current predicament!

All warships responded immediately, even if it was a seriously injured destroyer, they tried to eject the seaplane as much as possible, or simply threw it into the sea, anyway, it would not sink.Accelerate and fly.

Billowing thick smoke is shot out from hundreds of large and small cannons, forming a thick and uneven smoke belt covering tens of kilometers of the sea surface, making the figures of all warships faintly visible. This is one of the most effective means of evasion against precision attack weapons .The downside is that the entire fleet can no longer be invisible.

When fighting on the vast ocean, the first thing to do is to find the trace of the enemy ship.The Japanese Navy has always paid little attention to reconnaissance. It just feels that the ocean is so damn big that even a huge warship floating in it is like a speck of dust in a bathtub, which is difficult to find.

Moreover, because the rise of the previous two naval battles was a gamble on the fate of the country, after careful calculations and preparations in advance, the target was very clear during the battle, and temporary investigation was useless. A place awaits them....

Needless to say what a weird theory this is, in short, it was the same for several attacks on Zhu Bin. As a result, the entire fleet was paid for!

The Americans are relatively more rigorous, and their investigative power has never been relaxed. After gaining the experience of the Japanese, the entire Ministry of the Navy agreed that they should not hope that the Chinese will not find themselves, and do not take chances in any battle.Just like in front of him, since he has been attacked, he is completely exposed, and no matter how much smoke he makes, it will not make it worse!

Kincaid's order was given quickly enough, and he was very grateful for his quick decision, because at the next moment, all radio communications on the entire sea surface were interrupted!

Kincaid complained helplessly: "Oh! Hell! It's the same trick again! Can't the Chinese guys fight head-on?!"

How can it be!Since the aircraft carrier was confirmed to be the main force of the naval battle, the combat radius of the aircraft exceeded the main gun of the battleship, reaching two to three hundred kilometers away, and it was almost impossible to engage in frontal combat. Showdown!

Fortunately, the order still went down. In the sky, dozens of fighter planes rushed to the altitude of [-] meters to search hard, and they found a group of huge monsters---six heavy bombers were [-] to [-] kilometers ahead, eyeing them!

The carrier-based aircraft, seaplanes, and peripheral escort fighters released by the ships also found the thick smoke produced by the "Yingzhou" from the right wing when the missiles were released, and then found the target, but they also caught a glimpse from [-] kilometers away. , but dare not rush forward to attack condescendingly, that is courting death!

Dozens of various fighter planes immediately dived from high altitude to ultra-low altitude, sticking to the sea surface, facing the increasingly frenzied airflow, risking impact, and immediately collided violently with the anti-aircraft missile of "Yingzhou", causing chaos Fireworks!

Kincaid led the scarred ship to continue to attack the northwest side of Wake Island. It didn't take long before he heard rumbling explosions in the sky, and groups of wreckage of fighter planes fell down with raging fire, penetrating the thick and thin A cloud of smoke hit the sea heavily, or scattered on the battleship, no need to look, it must be from the United States, and it was obviously intercepted by force!

While releasing smoke bombs, while maneuvering in a clumsy snake shape, the attack is so strenuous, it is really helpless.With a sullen face, Kincaid silently counted the mileage he had traveled, seemingly every minute.One day is so long!

He knew very well how tense the atmosphere of the entire squadron was, and could be hit by a completely irresistible attack at any time. It was disheartening to think about it, what kind of terrifying power the enemy on the other side possessed.All unknown!As a raid fleet, they are not even sure whether they can get close to the target and launch an artillery attack!

"Advance! Advance at full speed! Even if only one battleship can reach the target, it is not considered a failure!"

Compared with the others, the attack on the other side was much more iron-blooded and brave.From the gap between the two aircraft carrier formations, the other two cruisers, Vincennes and Northampton, led by the other two cruisers, supplemented by the 6th destroyer squadron.When the communication was interrupted, they had also been intercepted by another guided missile cruiser "Zuzhou", after being seriously injured by several destroyers.Colonel William Chandler and the captain of the destroyer squadron, Colonel Edward Saul, made a decisive decision. While releasing smoke cover to avoid being hit by precision, they spread out and charged at full speed!

In comparison, they went deeper, almost reaching the middle and rear of the two-wing aircraft carrier formation, on the same level as the two aircraft carriers.The two colonels made a decisive decision based on the previous investigation information!

In order to offset the opponent's precision strike capability.The U.S. military has worked really hard, not to mention the excellent effect of the smoke bombs they have developed. At the same time, they also let the accompanying fighter jets drop hundreds of pounds of large smoke bombs. The air and ground are integrated to cover, and the effect is quite impressive!

More than a dozen warships charged at full speed, with billowing smoke between them.It's like a monster traveling in a fairy tale. If you look at it from a high altitude, it's extraordinarily eye-catching. Logically speaking, it's done like this.Missiles don't work that well?

But they forgot that in Zhu Bin's hand, he dare not say anything else, there are as many weird weapons as there are!

Straight ahead, two heavy bombers were separated by a full [-] kilometers, and each dropped a giant gliding bomb that was a circle larger than a fighter jet in the sky above the "Zuzhou"!

Each one is more than ten meters long, and the aerodynamic layout in the shape of a small boat, after decoupling, even makes the bomber weighing dozens of tons go up naturally!

Supported by the wings that bounced off, the huge bomb accelerated rapidly to Mach 0.7 above the thick smoke like a glider, which was a bit faster than a fighter jet dive, pounced from an altitude of [-] meters, tens of kilometers, but In a few minutes, it reached the sky above the smoke belt, plunged into it, and exploded violently!

"Boom!"

The earth-shattering loud noise was more than ten times more terrifying than a torpedo explosion!The sudden flash of light was more dazzling than the sun, and the shock waves and pyrotechnic waves generated actually emptied the large swaths of smoke in an instant!

The mother of the super bomb with a self-weight of 10 tons!The explosive power is equivalent to the power of seventy or eighty tons of standard explosives!The sub-warheads spread out, covering an area of ​​one square kilometer, exploding and burning at a low altitude, evacuating all the oxygen, and creating a huge mushroom cloud, which sucked the air from the sea surface and rose rapidly to a thousand meters high!

Two large mushroom clouds soared together, one left and one right, almost stirring up the smoke belt in the ten-kilometer-diameter area. The strong wind raged around, the air tumbling and rising, and tens of thousands of tons of sea water were evaporated. The scene was quite The magnificence, power, and even more astonishingly large!

The two destroyers driving near the center of the explosion were hit!They were impacted and squeezed by dozens of tons of explosive force that fell from the sky, and the entire battleship creaked and almost fell apart. The entire crew was deafened by the loud noise almost at the same time, and their internal organs almost ruptured!

It's not the scariest!In an instant, the surrounding oxygen was evacuated, and an extremely high temperature of over a thousand degrees was generated, almost suffocating and roasting them alive!The entire battleship basically lost its combat effectiveness, half dead!

The rapidly rising mushroom cloud is so majestic and brilliant that it can be clearly seen from dozens of kilometers away. The resulting strong wind and waves, and the transpiration of water mist blow away, and the battleship is immediately exposed!

At this moment, on Wake Island, a total of 12 305mm tornado rocket vehicles fired together. The huge roar was like a giant dragon flying into the sky, and the whole island trembled with rumbling shock!

A total of 72 thick warhead warhead rockets rose from the ground, speeding up to Mach 4.5 in one breath, and smashed into the area where the fleet was located a hundred kilometers away like a meteor. Unclear bullets, like a hailstorm, rushed towards the smoking warships!

What is the concept of bombardment by a warhead at four times the speed of sound!Even if it doesn't explode, it can easily penetrate the horizontal armor of the battleship!Even if it is the main armor belt, it is not fun to touch it all at once, let alone these [-]-ton heavy cruisers and one or two thousand-ton destroyers!

Not to mention, the explosive power of each warhead itself is enough to compete with large-caliber grenades!

The two heavy cruisers were the first to bear the brunt, and most of the warheads that fell on their heads and faces were taken care of by them. A battleship suffered at least seven or eight, and at least a dozen. During the booming collision, the hull armor broke a piece A hideous big hole almost pierced through the bottom cabin from the top, and the explosion that followed raged everywhere, tearing the keel, shattering the power cabin, detonating the boiler, igniting the ammunition, blowing away the steel plate... full of destruction!

In an instant, the two heavy cruisers were riddled with holes, as if they had been swept away by thousands of arrows, they turned into rubbish, with smoke everywhere, flames billowing, screams, explosions, and more than a dozen holes. Spit out flames and steel shards, lose the ability to move! (To be continued..)