Chapter 62: The Lion City Suffers
Wars, especially wars at sea, in addition to a hard confrontation against the strength of warships, also need to be a contest of wisdom. Pinshu.com
In particular, this kind of contest is sometimes big and sometimes small, sometimes far and sometimes close, and often elusive. In particular, on the major matters related to "soldiers, the major affairs of the country, and the place of death and life must not be investigated", all kinds of interlocking conspiracies are emerging in an endless stream.
When the British fleet, after several days of arduous navigation in the Java Sea, they reached the vicinity of Batavia. Originally, it was just a parade to scare the Chinese in Batavia and assist the Australian fleet, which was suppressed by the air power of the opposing navy.
But when they got here, they realized that it was not like that at all. Not only did they send "Tomcat" fighters to conduct long-distance reconnaissance at sea, but their warships did not dare to leave the fleet to set out for reconnaissance.
Moreover, their bodies are also in the attack range of the shore-based flight that the other party is "buzzing in their ears" all the time, and they are painfully enduring the torture of hot and humid weather and aerial attacks.
While the British Naval Expeditionary Fleet was staggering through the endless hardships of the Java Sea, a fleet reached the waters off the coast of Singapore. This fleet is a fast fleet from Weihai consisting of five "improvised aircraft carriers", plus cruisers and destroyers.
Known as David by foreign crew members. Kim, the fleet commander known to the Chinese crew as Rear Admiral Kim, plans the action in front of him from the war room.
It is impossible not to mention here the British approach to warfare, and their navy is in a way very active. Of course, because of the tension of the war in Europe, a large number of capital ships of the Far East Fleet had to be transferred back to Europe to fight the war. In their grand strategy, Europe first, the Middle East second, and the East may only be ranked third.
As an important British stronghold in the South Seas, the role of the new slope was not to support the operations of surface ships. Rather, it was to use the construction of heavy artillery batteries that could block the rather busy Strait of Malacca at any time, and at the same time serve as a portplace for British supplies throughout Southeast Asia.
At this time, in the eyes of the Chinese, the new middle slope is slightly better treated than the Indonesian overseas Chinese, although it is far from the day when the Chinese can raise their eyebrows and exhale with the strong motherland as the backing, but today is destined to be a day worthy of recognition in history.
200 planes had already skimmed the sky when the first rays of sunlight began to show in the city of Singapore. The British military base in Singapore now has no aircraft at all. The only anti-aircraft forces, with the exception of the batteries, were the anti-aircraft weapons of the various warships parked in the harbor.
But in the subsequent battle, it was proved that although Jin Dawei did not have his "ghost captain" unique understanding of naval warfare, his methods were even more eye-catching.
The first group of six fighters swept across the harbor, surprisingly did not use their 12.7 mm machine guns and 25 mm machine guns to attack the warships in the harbor, but instead dropped a large number of large smoke canisters of the kind used on the warships.
People who know how to fight in aviation will definitely say that this Jindavia is purely engaged in it, so how can there be a reason to hide Fang in the smoke and expose his own plane to the air?
Of course, there is no reason for this, the problem is that the smoke canisters dropped by these six planes are not simple concealment smoke, and God knows what he asked the mechanic to add to it.
When the smoke came out, it was obviously tinged with some yellow smoke, and when they filled the air, although they did not have the deadly toxicity of suffocating poisonous gas, they could be inhaled in a puff that was almost as hot as a gas bomb. Especially if this kind of smoke is blind, it is like spilling spicy noodles directly on the eyes, and the more you wipe your tears, the more ...... you will be.
"These abominable Chinese, they use gas bombs......"
The British soldiers, who were so hot that they just covered their mouths and noses with their clothes, and hid in everything they could, screamed desperately, but who would have thought that the battleship should be equipped with gas masks perhaps?
As if they were trying to get Singaporeans out of bed, the six planes flew low over the city of Singapore. As they passed, the sky was filled with leaflets like snowflakes.
It was also the first time that Singaporeans under the British Empire had seen flyers flying in the sky, and early risers picked them up in their hands to watch. There are also some racial discrimination in these leaflets, which are only in Chinese and not English and Malay. Even if the latter two people picked it up, they had no choice but to stare at those square words.
But before they could read the contents of the paper, all the panic happened. As the swarms of planes swooped out in the sky, the engines let out a terrible roar, dozens of "sea sabers" lined up in the sky spewed out tongues of fire, and 12.7 mm machine gun bullets and 25 mm shells swept over the batteries in Singapore's harbor like tornadoes.
This was followed by 150 "Benlei-2" attack planes that were dive-rebounding from the sky, and almost instantly 50 tons of aerial bombs were rained down on the bay batteries guarding the harbor.
Loud explosions like landslides could be heard far away in Singapore's otherwise quiet morning, and frightened people scurried around the city.
Only the people who can understand Chinese, hide in their homes, close the door, and write clearly on the leaflets, as long as this is about no problem. Based on the contents of this leaflet, it is not difficult to determine that the other side did not intend to attack their city at all.
The dive-drop bombs of the "Benlei II" attack planes were rapid, and they did not even wait to reassemble their formation after the attack was over, so they flew back to the nearby "improvised aircraft carriers" and quickly refueled and hung up their bombs, and immediately flew the planes again in a rage and rushed into the sky again.
The task given to them by Jindawei was to continue to attack the coastal batteries that protected the harbor of the other side, so that they would not have the slightest respite. Such an order is incomprehensible, and it is said that he has 200 planes, enough to sink all the warships in the harbor with torpedoes. But Jindawei didn't plan to do so, and when he came, the commander's order didn't say that he wanted to make this place as loud as possible.
When the British sailors in the sea, looking at each other with smoked rabbit-like eyes, couldn't help but laugh at each other's oily and red eyes, the sound from the sky made them unable to laugh anymore.
Swarms of small ground-effect aircraft "Swifts" flew over Singapore's harbor, and the "fishnet mines" they dropped completely blocked the sea lane. At this moment, the few British cruisers and destroyers stationed in the harbor were completely turned into turtles in the urn, and there was no place to leave.
As the thick smoke in the harbor cleared, the "rabbit-eyed" soldiers on the warship, pulling the bolts of their machine guns with red eyes, vowed one by one to give the Chinese planes a good look, believing that since at this time, the "Raindrop" air defense system could still achieve good results in the air fight.
However, the sky was not beautiful, because there were no planes there, and the sound of guns from the opposing cruisers was flying in the sky.
Of course, it is unlikely that the fire of naval guns will be more powerful than the torpedoes dropped by aircraft, but the British Navy has sadly found that when they have completely lost air supremacy, there is no way to observe the position of the opponent when they are firing.
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The mountains surrounding the harbor not only shielded the warships from the wind, but also the view of observers on their respective masts. As for the level of the gunners on the opposite side, just imagine how bad the level of their shelling could be under the training of German naval officers?
The salvo of 140-mm guns from the 10 cruisers would have made the British crews who were still alive in the harbor feel extremely frightened. When the two ships engaged in an artillery battle, the side that lost the ability to move, the usually proud, powerful and invincible warship became a living steel coffin.
In addition, the accuracy of the gunners of the Chinese Navy has indeed been passed on by the German Navy, and even in indirect fire under the command of the "Eagle Eye" reconnaissance and command airship in the sky, the hit rate is quite high. Columns of water exploded near the British battleship, and where they were occasionally hit, fireballs erupted, sending up flames into the sky.
As soon as they were beaten, the gunners on the British warships also planned to start firing back, and since the observers on the mast had no way to see the other side, they had to calculate the opponent's gun position according to the reflection of the opponent's gun, even if it was to interfere with some of the opponent's shots.
However, the most infuriating thing happened, if the earliest smoke bombs dropped by the planes made the British Navy happy, they would be angry because of the bad smell. But the fighters who had been idle were now dropping strings of smoke canisters on the edge of the harbor.
Due to the distance, these smoke canisters do not contribute to the density of artillery fire from warships on their own side using indirect targeting. After all, the news they received was that the "Eagle Eye" from an altitude of several thousand meters observed and commanded the airship. But the British fleet, which could not be seen from the mast, could not see anything at all at this time, even if they could put a balloon on it.
Jin Dawei is a battle against the right to evacuate this time, and he has come to learn and use it lively. First, he practiced the shooting of his cruiser gunners, and second, he either damaged or sank the warships in Singapore Harbor. Left and right, they were blocked by mines, and they were not afraid that they would run into the sky.
Some people say that the British fleet in Singapore is dead, and there is not even a patrol fleet? Even if you are sunk by the other party, you can always send a telegram back.
It's a pity that this wishful thinking has asked the "Eagle Eye" with a wireless jamming system? Does it agree? As for patrolling, if it can be faster than the thunder attack planes in the sky, then go for patrolling! To see the first release without ads, please go to Pinshu.com
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