There was almost no interval, and two rounds of air strikes came in succession, destroying not only the steel battleship and flesh and blood, but also the last trace of hope and obsession for victory.

Two fleets, a total of less than 70 carrier-based aircraft!

More than twenty days ago, in the Yanhai Sea, the mobile fleet withstood two attacks of this magnitude. But today, I couldn't even carry it once.

The point is the lack of air defense fighters!

More than 70 carrier-based aircraft, which were killed in two batches, launched the attack as if they were teaching and training without being disturbed and without worrying about being attacked by fighters. If there is any difference, it is just that you have to pay attention to anti-aircraft guns when diving bombs and low-altitude mines.

Facts have once again proved that the anti-aircraft guns of the narrow navy are not very good, such as 25 mm machine guns, in the face of dive-down bombers and rapidly approaching torpedo planes, because of the slow rate of fire and the low power of the shells, it is difficult to form a dense and deadly enough barrage.

As for large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, there was also the problem of an excessively slow rate of fire.

In addition, the Navy lacked medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns such as the 40 mm, which were powerful and had a relatively fast rate of fire.

This battle in disguise proved that the set advocated by the Narrow Navy before the war was all bragging, and it was impossible to win on the battlefield.

Let the gunner of an anti-aircraft gun turn into a sharpshooter and kill an enemy plane with one shell?

No matter how much you train, you can't do it, because it's not a difficulty that training can overcome.

In the heat of battle, the gunners simply could not keep their composure, did not even have time to aim at the enemy aircraft, and often opened fire as soon as they knew the direction of the enemy aircraft. In other words, after roughly aiming at the enemy aircraft, they open fire and use the barrage against the enemy aircraft.

In this regard, Liang Xia Navy has long had a clear understanding.

It is precisely for this reason that the Liangxia Empire took the lead in equipping fast battleships and aircraft carriers with quadruple 40mm guns to increase the rate of fire by increasing the number of parallel guns. In addition, the 25mm cannon was equipped with a high-capacity drum and an electric motor to speed up the rotation and pitch.

All in all, anti-aircraft guns must have a fast enough rate of fire and a large enough amount of ammunition.

It also has to be powerful enough, preferably with one hit to shoot down enemy planes.

The problem is equally prominent.

The deck area occupied by the quadruple 40-mm guns, as well as the curb weight, were about the same as those of the 130-mm naval guns, and even the battleships could not be equipped much.

As for the price, that's even more painful.

The cost of use, not to mention.

It's just a 25-mm shell, and the military procurement price is fifty times that of a 13-mm machine gun bullet! In battle, a single short shot can knock out hundreds of shots.

The family foundation is not thick enough, and even if you can afford it, you can't afford it.

It was precisely because the cost of procurement and possession was too high that before the war, only the Liang Xia navy was generally equipped with 40 mm and 25 mm machine guns. Not to mention the narrow imperial state with poor resources and a reputation for being stingy, even the Nuland Federation did not purchase many machine guns for the navy.

On the aircraft carriers of the Nuland Navy, there are still a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns that are not useful.

The poor performance of the Narrow Battleship in the air defense battle must have alerted the Nuland Navy, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the battleship will be equipped with machine guns.

In the first round of bombing, the four "Golden Steel" class ships were given special care and were all severely damaged.

Although the blow came very suddenly, which caught the officers and men of the four battleships by surprise, the desire to survive quickly overcame the fear of the enemy.

After the beating, the four battleships repeated their old trick of lighting fuel drums on the deck, creating a large amount of smoke and dust, disguised as if they had been badly damaged.

It was indeed hit hard, but not to the point where it would inevitably sink.

Fortunately, this is the hinterland of the Guia Ocean, which has a typical maritime climate, which is completely different from the Guia Ocean where the north winds are raging.

In the afternoon, there is basically no wind on the sea!

The black smoke from burning rubber and other items gathered in the sky above the battleship, producing the same or even better effect as releasing a smoke screen.

When the second group arrived, seven heavy cruisers became scapegoats.

It's just that heavy cruisers are definitely not as resistant to battleships as battleships.

Worse still, the bombs and torpedoes used by enemy planes were all set against battleships, which were more lethal against heavy cruisers.

Especially those aviation torpedoes with a fixed depth of 6 meters.

This fixed depth, when dealing with battleships, is actually detonated on the bottom side of the battleship, that is, it directly hits the hull of the battleship.

Against a heavy cruiser, that was an explosion at the bottom of the ship.

All seven heavy cruisers had a draft of just over six meters!

When the second wave of attacks began, Lan Yun was inside the bridge of the commander of the "Golden Gang". Although the inside and outside of the cabin were covered with black smoke from the burning of rubber and asphalt, the heavy cruisers that had been covering the battleships in the vicinity were now being heavily bombed.

In just over ten minutes, Lan Yun witnessed the seven heavy cruisers being sunk one by one.

That's right, all of them were directly sunk!

At least four heavy cruisers exploded after being shot or mined, and three of them broke in two and sank within minutes. The other, even more simply, sank before the smoke from the explosion had dispersed, leaving not even the last shadow behind.

There were three heavy cruisers left, a little luckier.

At the time of the bombardment, the three "most shang" class opened the way in front, a little further away from the battleship, so they were attacked last.

All three of the "Most Shang" class were not spared, capsizing and sinking shortly after being bombed.

To say that only because they did not sink quickly after being attacked, more than a thousand officers and men on the three heavy cruisers were given a chance to escape.

It was around four o'clock that the battle was over.

When the staff officer sent the report, Lan Yun had already left the commander's bridge and returned to the commander's cabin.

Although more than 20 enemy planes were shot down in the battle, and some pilots were certainly killed, this result was nothing compared to the losses.

Lan Yun had already thought about it, and he must not miss the fourth opportunity to repay the country with death.

Alive?

First the mobile fleet, now the permanent fleet, where is the face alive!?

Report to the Military Command Department?

After him, whoever took over the command would report the battle to the Military Command Department.

In fact, Lan Yun had already been prepared.

Not a pistol, not a short knife, but a vial of cyanide.

This is still after arriving at the Tuke Fortress, I asked for an intelligence officer, and it was specially used by intelligence officers, and if I obeyed it, I would definitely die.

There was a vial, enough to poison a hundred people.

In fact, it is usually made into capsules, which are hidden in the dentures by spy personnel, so that they can directly bite the dentures and take poison to commit suicide in an emergency.

Taking out the glass bottle, Lan Yun hobbled to the porthole and looked into the distance outside the porthole.

That's the north side?

Maybe!

It is the direction of the motherland, the direction of the hometown, the direction of the relatives, and the place where the dead rest.

Anyway, I have done my best, at least with a clear conscience!

Uncorked the bottle, and as Lan Yun was about to tilt his head and take the poison inside, several straight lines on the sea caught his attention.

It is indeed straight, and it is stretching towards the "Golden Steel".

Torpedo!?

It's a torpedo, or a heavy torpedo fired from a submarine!

Please remember that the first domain name of this book is .. Mobile version reading URL: m.