Chapter 1069: The first naval battle of 1070 carrier-based aircraft
Chapter 1069 The first naval battle of 1070 carrier-based aircraft
"Fire! Fire! Shoot them down! Shoot them down!" The mirage naval commander standing on the deck shouted crazily, waving his command knife.
Beside him, an anti-aircraft machine gun was firing continuously at targets in the air. The shells fell one after another to the deck at his feet, making a clanking sound.
The sky was full of circling enemy planes, and the commanders of the Mirage Navy almost bit their back teeth: the air cover they expected did not come, but other planes arrived first.
"Those **** Army bastards! You can't believe what they say! Where's the air support that was promised? Where's the support?" Standing on the bridge, Mirage shouted angrily: "They're all bastards! bastards!"
The battleships under his feet were built by the Mirage Emperor and the Mirage Kingdom through frugality and money from their own mouths. Losing one would be heartbreaking!
In order to build so many warships, the Mirage Emperor only had one meal a day, ministers donated their property one after another, and how many Mirage mercenaries died in Fengjiang?
How many years of hard work did it take for the whole country to build a navy of this size? Those Army **** dare not send fighter jets for support for their own selfish interests!
In fact, it's not that Mirage Wuzhong is unwilling to send his own fighter jets to cover his naval brothers, but that he really can't send them out: this morning, the Datang Imperial Air Force dispatched new jet bombers and once again sent greetings to Nandao The mirage troops on.
These jet bombers, which are almost impossible to intercept, came and went freely, using cluster bombs that the Phantom Army had never seen before, destroying another Mirage airport runway.
This bombing made it even worse for the Mirage Army, which had already lost a large number of airports. The airport where planes were expected to take off to support naval operations... happened to be the one that was bombed.
Mirage Taketada has urgently ordered aircraft from the remaining airports to take off to support the cruiser fleet heading south. But in fact, his order was still thirty minutes late, a full thirty minutes.
"Continue to maintain the serpentine maneuver!" Mirage Haiang cursed those guys in the army as not human beings, while commanding his warships to avoid possible attacks from the enemy.
Snake maneuver is also a tactic summed up by the Mirage Navy's many years of experience. It is very effective for avoiding enemy attacks.
Just when the Mirage fleet turned for the third time, a cheer suddenly came from the deck. It turned out that their anti-aircraft guns hit a Tang Army carrier-based aircraft.
The sailors on the deck saw the Stuka escaping into the distance dragging a long plume of black smoke. Everyone raised their arms and cheered hysterically: "Long live the Mirage Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
At this time, a Stuka carrying aerial bombs in the sky began to dive. It avoided the oncoming shells, closed the distance, and pressed its bomb sight on the front deck of a cruiser.
His plane was bumping in the air, and the only sound in his ears seemed to be his own heartbeat. The dense oncoming tracer bullets made the world in his eyes become dazzling.
“Asshole! Go to hell!” At a very close distance, he pressed the bomb release button, and the entire aircraft fuselage trembled.
The huge aerial bomb broke away from the pylon, was pushed away from the fuselage by the push rod, and rushed straight towards the target on the sea.
The cruiser was turning rapidly, its sharp bow cutting through the oncoming waves. The artillery on the battleship was pointed at the sky, and some goblins at the gun positions had already seen the aerial bombs that had escaped from the aircraft and rushed towards them.
"Aerial bomb! Aerial bomb!" They seemed to be on an isolated island, with no place to hide. They could only point at the falling black dots in the sky and scream loudly.
Now, the fate of both parties can only be left to God. In the bridge of this cruiser, the helmsman has turned the steering wheel to the limit.
The bomb that fell from the sky finally hit the side of the cruiser and crashed into the sea. Then a huge explosion raised a column of water that reached into the sky, which was much higher than the battleship's conning tower and chimney.
“Hahahaha!” The sailors of the Mirage Kingdom who were splashed with water laughed happily. They were celebrating their escape from death in the most hysterical way.
In the sky, in the dive bomber that had begun to climb, the pilot of the Tang Army cursed depressedly: He missed an excellent opportunity, and this battle was destined to be in vain.
Other Stukas took advantage of these mirage cruisers to avoid attacks from dive bombers appearing in the sky, skimmed the sea at low altitude, and dropped their own aviation torpedoes in the distance.
A white track appeared on the sea, rushing straight towards the Mirage cruiser not far away. Before the anti-aircraft guns could fire over them, the carrier-based aircraft that dropped the torpedoes scattered and flew into the distance.
"Torpedo! Torpedo!" Before they had time to take a breath, the Mirage sailors who were responsible for observing the Tang Army's aircraft shouted nervously again.
They were really too nervous. From their perspective, there were Tang Army planes everywhere, as well as dangerous bombs and torpedoes.
"Keep turning! Don't stop!" Rushing to the side with the torpedoes, Mirage raised his telescope, looked at the white tracks on the sea, and ordered loudly.
This time he did not need to make a serpentine maneuver, but was forced to continue turning in circles: although he was very confident in his battleship, he still did not think that he could withstand a torpedo attack.
With the rapid turn, this giant ship with a tonnage of more than 10,000 tons even began to tilt violently. A white trace followed the bow of the turning battleship and passed through the battleship's route. Mirage Haiang let out a sigh of relief, and this time he escaped another fatal attack. It seems that the experience of the carrier-based aircraft pilots of the Tang Empire is not very good, leaving many opportunities for their mirage navy to escape.
"Bang! Bah! Bah!" On the side of the battleship, densely packed anti-aircraft guns fired at the sky. It was a spectacular sight.
It is a pity that although the Mirage Navy has certain air defense experience and certain air defense preparations, they still do not do their best at the technical level.
One of them is: Under normal circumstances, anti-aircraft artillery interception operations require unified command. It is obviously not possible to rely on individual anti-aircraft guns to fight against themselves.
On the one hand, it is necessary to consider that each anti-aircraft gun position requires ammunition supply and loading time, and on the other hand, the issue of target coordination must also be considered.
In short, air defense operations without unified command and fire control coordination are just fun and useless.
Most of the time, the main function of the seemingly densely packed anti-aircraft guns on the battleships is not to shoot down the invading enemy planes, but to interfere with the enemy planes and close the most comfortable bombing zone for the enemy planes.
In other words, it is to force the enemy aircraft to drop bombs in advance or miss the opportunity to drop bombs, so as to ensure that one's own warships can avoid attacks and escape.
But the Mirage Navy's anti-aircraft guns cannot do this. They fire randomly, select their own targets to attack, and most of the time they fight independently.
It is not that there are no air command equipment on the Mirage warships, but the level of coordination in this area is limited, and it is far from being able to accurately dispatch each anti-aircraft gun.
So, the seemingly intensive firepower did not actually have the desired effect. The Tang Empire's carrier-based aircraft also gradually found their own feelings in the melee.
Actually...it was the second batch of attack aircraft groups from the Tang Army that arrived!
More carrier-based aircraft appeared on the battlefield, suddenly causing the already chaotic Mirage cruiser squadron to be completely confused.
The formation of the fleet began to disperse due to the need to avoid torpedoes, and the pattern of mutual cover was broken. Whether it was dive bombers or torpedo attack aircraft, the number of attack opportunities began to increase.
"Torpedo! Torpedo!" When the sailor observing the sea shouted again, Mirage felt that his head was going to explode.
He grabbed the guardrail and looked at the distant scene, where two more deadly white tracks appeared. Two torpedoes were heading straight for the stern of his battleship, and it seemed that he could avoid one of them if he stayed on course.
“Full right rudder! Full right rudder!” He turned around and shouted crazily at his helmsman. During this process, a bright flame suddenly appeared on the side of a turning cruiser in the distance.
Immediately afterwards, amidst the continuous blasting of anti-aircraft guns, there was a deafening loud noise.
"The Baiye has been hit! The Baiye has been hit!" the lookout pointed at the sea in the distance and shouted loudly. Following the direction that his finger pointed, the hull of the warship that had just exploded on its side began to tilt rapidly.
The cruiser, which had very average defense capabilities, had obviously lost the strength to struggle after being hit by a torpedo.
It was like a dead fish, gradually turning over, and the tall buildings and chimneys in the middle of the ship began to fall toward the sea.
Immediately afterwards, the middle part of the hull of the cruiser named Baiye began to break, and one of the three chimneys eventually broke and overturned into the sea due to tilt and structural collapse.
Even at such a distance, you can still clearly see people on the battleship starting to jump into the sea, and the red draft paint on the other side of the battleship is gradually revealed...
This is the first warship lost by the Mirage Navy today, but it looks like it is definitely not the last one...
Finally, six Mirage Zero fighters appeared over the battlefield: due to lack of ground guidance, they actually flew to the wrong place.
They first saw the Tang Empire destroyer squadron in the distance, and then found their own fleet. As a result, as soon as they arrived, they saw one of their own cruisers explode and then roll over.
Before they could react, the Tang Empire pirate fighter jets that had been patrolling high in the sky swooped down like circling vultures.
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Long Ling saw everyone’s comments... I’m ashamed... There will be an update anyway today, but it will be very late, so everyone should get up and read it tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)