Chapter 1498: Shura Field
If that's all there is to it, the ship might have escaped from the ascension with good damage management and good luck. www.biquge.info But unfortunately, the next two bricks made Count Luknal completely abandon his flagship! One of the bombs destroyed the helm compartment, while the other bomb was not secured, but the sturdy body of the bomb knocked through several layers of armor in succession, knocking the aviation gasoline tank open! Flammable and volatile high-grade aviation gasoline is leaking out quickly! That's it, it's hell that this ship with no power, no power, no operation, and a possibility of exploding at any time can go back!
Just as Count Luknall gave the order to abandon the ship, and a shipload of German officers and men was moving to the destroyers on both sides, another group of attack aircraft aimed at the Deflinger in the fleet! And this ship happens to be the preparatory flagship that Lord Count is preparing to transfer! This guy's performance is really good, not only relying on the cover of smoke and electronic interference, he dodged at least 7 guided bombs in a row, but also used the anti-aircraft gun as fierce as a hedgehog to knock down 3 torpedo machines!
But there is a saying that what is called, the rafters that come out are rotten first, and even if your martial arts are invincible with two fists and four hands, the heroes can't stand up to many people! The De Vellinger was a dazzling performer, and he did a good job of pulling the other two teammates into the hate! More than 20 bombers of various types surrounded the battleship that was running wildly on the sea, dropping tons of ammunition and tons of damage at the same time!
The first to make a contribution was a Sky Raider attack plane, which not only hit a torpedo of the opponent, but also tore a 15-meter hole in its side side, and at the same time was cut off half of the wing by a shell, and the multi-ton plane with half a tank of fuel also decisively crashed into it! The explosion of this oversized petrol bomb is absolutely hot, and the effect of the attack is unquestionable! The anti-aircraft gun deck on one side was dismantled directly to the half-pull, and the subsequent fragments, after shattering the hangar sidewalls, set a fire in the hangar!
And while the crew of the Derfflinger was scrambling to put out the fire, all the bombs rained down on it, and the violent explosion spread from the front of the flight deck to the stern, and the four guided bombs almost completely tore off the entire deck! And what finally ended the battleship was an armor-piercing shell that hit the ammunition depot directly. Although the fierce fighting caused a huge consumption of aviation ammunition, the remaining hundreds of various aerial bombs were still enough to send the ship to the bottom of the sea.
I saw that the battleship seemed to jump sharply. Then a crack visible to the naked eye began to extend up and down from the middle of the hull, and with the sound of metal twisting and breaking, the entire battleship began to break from the bottom of the ship, and then quickly spread to the entire section! Half a minute later, with a series of explosions and flames scurrying like fireworks. The battleship quickly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the huge hull formed a vortex as it sank, dragging even a destroyer next to it that rushed to the rescue!
Just when Count Luknar's fleet was killed by two capital aircraft carriers in just half an hour, the fleet of Raeder and Marshal Horthy's Austro-Hungarian fleet were also watched by the opponent! The USS Goeben was the first unlucky one, but this guy died a little more glamorous than his class. Because he is facing another promising weapon - anti-ship missiles!
4 Exocet missiles that looked like trumpets flew over with a roar, don't you say it, Xu Jie's name for it is indeed quite appropriate, a shuttle-shaped missile body has two wings on it, and there is a rocket engine in the back, which can work for about half a minute. But even so, the rocket engine can accelerate this 4.5-meter-long, left-right missile to 900 kilometers per hour! This speed completely exceeded the interception capabilities of German anti-aircraft artillery! And the ultra-high kinetic energy also gives this missile terrifying lethality! With just one missile, the bridge of the aircraft carrier Goeben was almost completely destroyed!
And then a succession of anti-ship missiles allowed the Goburn to successfully experience what happened to another plane, a guy named Atlantic Transporter, on the Falklands! The other two missiles hit the anti-aircraft artillery platform and hangar, respectively, and directly smashed the side of the battleship into a pile of twisted steel. The resulting fire quickly spread to the entire hull under the action of the sea breeze.
And while the Germans were busy fighting fires. The biggest and most dangerous attack is finally here! Six torpedo planes threw down 12 torpedoes in one go, and looking at the torpedo array that fanned out from a distance of 1000 to 700 meters, the officers and men on the Goeben couldn't even cry!
"At that time the left side of the Goeben should have been hit with 4 torpedoes, well, it should be this number, because at that time I could feel the hull shake badly 4 times! Less than half a minute after the last explosion, the inclination of the hull reached about 30 degrees, and everyone knew that Goeben was finished! We began to prepare for evacuation, and the cruiser next to us also rushed to meet us. A surviving German officer later recalled.
At the time of the sinking of the Goeben, Horthy's fleet also lost an armored aircraft carrier. The No. 4 ship of the Lord Loudon-class aircraft carrier was the only battleship sunk by ordinary bombs and torpedoes in this battle, and the other lost carriers were all named by guided weapons, but this battleship was sunk by more than 20 attack aircraft with ordinary bombs and torpedoes.
In this battle, the Chinese navy destroyed it with a typical fundamentalist air strike. Four Skua fighters rushed forward first in the face of deadly artillery fire. At a distance of 700 meters, 16 Sispano guns and 40 5-inch rockets were fired at the German anti-aircraft gun deck, destroying more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns of various calibers with a blow like a wall of flames.
The three remaining planes climbed and fled, while four other Sky Raiders armed with small bombs and rockets once again cleared anti-aircraft fire and attacked the deck. At the same time, there was an attack plane with a lot of ammunition to dispose of a destroyer next to it. This is good for catching scorpions, first pluck out the scorpion's stinger, and then concoct it well.
After clearing the anti-aircraft fire, the aircraft carrier became a complete lamb to the slaughter. Under the repeated blows of more than a dozen bombs and 8 torpedoes, this last armored aircraft carrier in service in Austria-Hungary hated the battlefield! With endless resentment and thousands of lives, he sank into the vast sea!
In less than an hour, the Allied fleet had already lost 4 armored aircraft carriers, but this wave of attacks had not yet passed, and a large group of Huaxia carrier-based aircraft rushed to the Spee's fleet located in the rear! There are 7 whole large and super-large aircraft carriers waiting for them to harvest!
"Well, what luck for the Germans!" I have to say that this time God his old man is still very worthy of the Germans, a tropical cyclone is passing from the edge of the battlefield, and the direct fleet commanded by Count Spey happened to get into the storm zone brought by this tropical cyclone, facing dark clouds and storms. It's really useless for the gods to come!
Although before the German fleet hid in, the Huaxia Air Force knocked out 2 cruisers and 1 battleship with fierce firepower, and also hit the battleship Caesar 2 times and the battleship Empress 3 times. And blew up the latter's two elevators, causing a hangar fire at the same time, but it didn't hit the core area! These injuries are not too serious for a warship with a full load tonnage of more than 50,000.
"I'll go, what should I do?" The Chinese Navy specially prepared a large strike formation for the fleet directly under Count Spee, even if it was intercepted by the Germans several times. But there are also more than 70 attack aircraft of various types rushing here! At this time, the Huaxia pilot's heart was depressed, watching the prey run away from his eyes like this, that was called an unwillingness! But it was clear that they couldn't stand on the stakes and wait! Your own fuel is not allowed, and neither are the FW190D fighters that have been killed! "According to the original plan, let's pick the big one!" Major General Zhu Ziming, who was in charge of leading the team, ordered!
And this order is obviously ambiguous, at least at that time the Huaxia attack group behaved like this, because next to Count Spee's fleet there were two fleets, and their size seemed to be about the same! One fleet was the Spanish-Turkish fleet, which the Germans jokingly called the Bunker, and the other was a transport fleet and some special service ships for the entire Allied Powers!
The commanders of the individual squadrons immediately carried out this order as they understood it. Part of it pounced on the Spaniards and Turks, while the other pounced on the convoy! As the two formations with the lowest defense power in the entire fleet, the Chinese naval aviation finally experienced the feeling of being strong and weak!
Under the rain of bombs and torpedoes, the opponent almost didn't have the strength to jump. The Spanish light guard was decisively blown to pieces by 2 bombs and 3 torpedoes, and another Turkish aircraft carrier, the Suleiman Sultan, was also hit by 5 guided bombs, leaving no good place on the entire deck and the three upper cabins. The other two aircraft carriers survived with better armor and luck.
As for the transport fleet? The 15 transport ships with a total of 270,000 tons of ships and the supplies on board sank into the rolling waves of the Indian Ocean with the ferocious firepower of China. So far, the attack of the Huaxia Navy has almost come to an end, and the group of planes after the breakthrough has either run out of ammunition or been destroyed by the German fighters that have tracked it, and the huge fleet of nearly 1,000 planes at the time of departure. At the time of returning, only about 570 planes remained, and almost half of them were lost! And the rest of these planes also have a lot of injuries, and whether they can land safely is a question!
However, compared with the losses of the Chinese naval aviation, the losses of the Germans were even heavier. In this nearly one-and-a-half-hour air raid, the Germans lost one 35,000-ton aircraft carrier Europa, three 30,000-ton armored aircraft carriers, and two 20,000-ton medium light protection aircraft carriers. The Germans lost 170,000 tons of warship tonnage on aircraft carriers alone.
And in fact, the Germans also sank 1 battleship, 4 cruisers and 12 destroyers. The total tonnage of these warships combined is almost 280,000 tons! It can be said that the damage caused by the First World War of China to the Allied fleet was greater than the total losses of the Allied navy before! From the debris remaining on the surface of the sea and the German search and rescue personnel who had been busy, it was clear what a heavy price the Allied fleet had paid in this engagement!
And at the same time that the Chinese naval aviation paid a heavy price to beat the Allied fleet. The Germans' strike aircraft group also launched an attack on the Huaxia Navy, and compared with the Huaxia wave of nearly 1,000 aircraft, the Germans' attack aircraft group was much smaller, only about 600 aircraft, and the attack aircraft formation of the attack aircraft was only about 200 twin-engine attack aircraft. A large part of this was due to the fact that the Germans' single-engine aircraft simply could not reach the Chinese fleet.
The Germans' attack was still sharp, and the cruising speed of the entire fleet was as high as 480 kilometers per hour, but in an hour and a half, when the Germans flew over the Huaxia fleet, they encountered a group of more than 600 Huaxia interceptors waiting for them!
The combat effectiveness of the German escort formation, which was replaced with FW190D fighters, was indeed higher, but the relative gap did not decrease much. With the assistance of an efficient air defense guidance system, the Skua 3 fighter that can be called a low-altitude bug completely suppressed the opponent, and used the continuous impact to break up the attack aircraft group of the Germans.
The early warning and command of this era are too crude, and in fact, it is necessary for the front-line fighter pilots to intercept by themselves, and when looking at the attack of the opponent's group divided into a dozen or even dozens of units, the defending side will definitely have different degrees of negligence, and this omission is enough to make one or several raid aircraft groups have time to drill! In the historical battle of Okinawa, the kamikaze special forces have successful cases of single aircraft penetrating defenses, and in the face of attack aircraft with a sprint speed of more than 500 kilometers in the defense depth of less than 130 kilometers, no one can guarantee that they will be stopped!
This time unfortunate was an Italian light protection aircraft carrier Sicily and a Chinese armored aircraft carrier Heilongjiang, the former was hit by 3 bombs and 2 torpedoes, an 800 kg bomb destroyed the power compartment of the Sicily, and the other bomb destroyed the aviation gasoline depot, coupled with the serious water ingress caused by the mine on the same side, the battleship died decisively.
The other Huaxia aircraft carrier was hit by 3 torpedoes, although it was close to about 3,000 tons of water, but the good design allowed it to continue to float on the water, and it could also sail at low speed, originally this wave of attack withstands, but was accidentally ambushed by German submarines during the evacuation process! The salvo of 6 electric torpedoes made this aircraft carrier with 4 radars on one side finally hate the ocean! Of course, this submarine and two other submarines that were nearby were also blown to pieces by the enraged Huaxia destroyer! And this also drew an end to this big war!
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