Chapter 1088: 1089 is less than 30 kilometers away
Chapter 1088 1089 The distance is less than 30 kilometers
This is the Tang Army’s third salvo! Why is it so accurate? The commander on the battleship Nandao felt that there must be a traitor on his battleship, and he was using some device to send guidance signals to the enemy!
But he knew this was impossible. He had never heard of such a device, and even if it existed, it would be stupid, okay? How can anyone lead others to shoot at themselves?
But why are enemy bombardments so accurate? He really wanted to know this question.
Just when his mind was filled with random thoughts, a Styx anti-ship missile was rushing towards the battleship he was on. In the gray dawn, just as the sky was about to light up, this anti-ship missile was like this. It hit the bridge of the battleship Nandao!
That’s right! It’s so accurate, there’s no deflection at all! The anti-ship missile directly penetrated the command tower of the Nandao, leaving a hole in it larger than a washbasin.
The explosive jets washed away the entire interior of the bridge, and the flames burned every charred corpse inside. It only took a tenth of a second for the senior officers on the Nandao to be fully prepared. The explosion even spread to several surrounding cabins, scrapping a lot of important equipment at once.
Standing on the bridge of the battleship Mirage, Mirage Haifeng saw with his own eyes the fireball lighting up in the dark night. He saw the bridge of the Nandao being hit, and also saw the flames rising from the Nandao.
A few seconds later, a bright light appeared on the sea level, and the sun was about to rise, but it seemed that the battleship USS Nandao would not be able to see the sunrise.
The shells fired by the Tang Army's fourth bombardment had already begun to fall, falling from the sky with a whistling sound, and hit the deck of the battleship Nandao!
This time... Mirage's luck was really a little worse: two shells hit the Nandao almost at the same time. Because the impact points were too dense, it was not even possible to determine whether the two shells came from the East Bay No. 1 battleship or the East Bay battleship. Bay 2 battleship.
In later records, the two battleships of the Tang Dynasty were very humble, and the final outcome was also happy: investigation showed that the two battleships each hit a shell, and together they sank the seriously damaged battleship Nandao.
The two shells hit two very important areas respectively: the front shell penetrated directly into the battleship from the base of No. 2 turret, tore the horizontal armor of the battleship Nandao from the top, and directly detonated the main battleship in front. Artillery magazine.
A subsequent shell hit the middle of the hull of the Nandao, directly destroying the boiler room of the battleship Nandao and affecting the battleship's power generation equipment.
In short, one of the two shells caused an explosion and a large amount of flooding, and the other cut off the power of the battleship, causing the entire battleship to lose power.
As a result, the battleship Nandao quickly stopped and was left behind by other Mirage battleships. It caught fire in the middle, and the front part was still exploding. Even a message was not sent, and the bow part of the ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
“Call from the cruiser May...Battleship Nandao...the bow submerged into the sea level.” The staff officer reported the message he had just received to Mirage Haifeng in a low tone.
"The battleship Great South Bay sent a message... The South Island is sinking..." Soon, another officer came to send a message.
Almost all the battleships passing by the battleship Nandao witnessed the sinking of the battleship Nandao. It exploded while burning. The thick steel plates disintegrated and shattered in the explosion. A large amount of seawater poured in, swallowing up the remaining islands and chimneys on the sea.
A large amount of fuel leaked out, dyeing the sea surface a strange color of colorful black. As the sky began to light up little by little, the miserable Mirage Navy could see their own appearance more and more clearly.
There was thick smoke billowing from many battleships, and fires were still burning on many battleships. The Tang Dynasty destroyers can be vaguely seen on the horizon in the distance. The enemy battleships on the starboard side are still hiding in the darkness in the west, but if there are any, you can always see a vague outline.
There were almost all Tang Army warships around. The front, starboard side, and rear of the Mirage Fleet were full of Tang Army warships, and there was even a Tang Army seaplane with a pontoon overhead.
At this time, Mirage Feng realized that his fleet had been circulating in other people's pockets. Only now did he realize how huge the gap between the two sides was.
"Right rudder 15 degrees!" Mirage Haifeng didn't care about anything else. He knew that what he should do most was to close the distance with the opponent's main fleet before the enemy planes arrived.
As long as he can defeat the enemy's battleship fleet, there is still a glimmer of hope! Now he no longer hopes that his fleet can be saved. He now places all his hopes on rushing into the enemy's landing site.
However, this seemingly not far distance may not be covered by him in his lifetime: just when the Mirage fleet turned again, trying to close the distance with the Tang Army's battleships, Tang's anti-ship missiles struck again. Come, hit the Great South Bay, which was just catching up at the end of the team.
The tail turret of the battleship Great South Bay, which was hit first, caught fire again, and the damage control troops were desperately trying to save their battleship. But the problem is that the temperature in the turret of the battleship Great South Bay, which has been loaded and ready to fire, keeps rising and has exceeded the safe range.
The turret could not be entered, the temperature could not be lowered, and the gunners inside had been vaporized by the jets. Therefore, the hit turret was finally overwhelmed and was blown up into the sky by a shot of propellant from its own gun barrel.
Following the sinking of the battleship USS South Island, the battleship USS Great South Bay also emitted billowing smoke and was completely unable to move forward: Somehow, it seemed that the battleships related to South Island were not having very good luck today.
Behind the Tang Empire landing site, on the quiet sea, the Tang Army's aircraft carriers were turning. They needed to go against the wind so that their carrier-based aircraft could take off smoothly.
Dozens of Stukas have already mounted torpedoes, unfolded their folded wings, and pointed their noses directly in front of the aircraft carrier deck.
The ground crew helped start the engine, because the sky was not completely bright yet, so the deck was full of lights, illuminating the aircraft and the deck as if it were daytime.
Bernard, who was a little worried about the battleship squadron, did not leave everything to his men. He ordered the troops to seize time and take off the carrier-based aircraft in advance.
Amidst the noise of the motors, the carrier-based aircraft of the Tang Empire rushed out of the deck one after another, carrying heavy torpedoes and flying unsteadily toward the already lit sky in the distance.
The South Island was not peaceful last night. Feng Kezhi’s troops received a warning from the air force after the counterattack. Xiao Yun took off a total of 290 Flying Fortress bombers and carried out carpet bombing of the central and northern parts of the South Island.
There is no so-called accuracy in this kind of bombing, and it is impossible to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. Therefore, in order to avoid accidental damage, the Air Force can only assign the dangerous range of bombing to the Army and ask the Army not to get close.
Although Feng Kezhi's 9th Army did not get close to the area drawn by the Air Force, because the high-altitude bombs were scattered so widely, he could only ask his troops to stop the attack and watch the defeated Mirage troops retreat.
But soon the troops of the Mirage Kingdom knew why the Tang Army did not pursue them: nearly 1,000 tons of bombs fell from the sky, covering almost the entire South Island like raindrops.
Countless bombs hit the heads of the Mirage troops, washing out all the other cities in the South Island except the Great South Bay.
The entire South Island was on fire, and the air defense siren sounded all night without stopping. The Mirage Army suffered countless losses. Even the 3rd Corps, which had just landed on the island, was implicated and a lot of weapons and equipment were damaged.
The 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions, which had already suffered heavy losses, fought hard all night. When they were defeated, they were bombed by the Tang Air Force. Less than 30% of the troops were left.
No matter from which angle you look at it, these two elite armored forces of the Mirage Kingdom can no longer continue fighting. Their situation also reflects the situation of many troops deployed by the Mirage Kingdom on the South Island: these troops have fought hard all day and night. , suffered heavy losses and were unable to fight anymore...
Although the airport in the northern part of the South Island is still intact, and although the airport continues to take off planes according to the plan, preparing to support the main fleet of the Mirage Army heading south, with the arrival of dawn, the Mirage Army still falls into an irreversible passive state. middle.
Feng Kezhi was busy in the middle of the night. He designated an area for the air force that could be bombed: Feng Kezhi did not intend to capture these areas immediately. He planned to turn around first and surround the Great South Bay!
Just like Mirage Wuzhong thought, Feng Kezhi was also preparing to take over the port first to ensure that the troops' follow-up supplies would arrive ashore!
But he was not as anxious as Mirage Wuzhong thought, because there were actually several floating docks under construction behind him. Theoretically, in just a few days, the 9th Army's subsequent heavy equipment will be successfully ashore.
He is very patient, but this does not mean that Feng Kezhi thinks Great South Bay is unimportant. He planned to let the troops ashore take a rest, and then cross the Danan River from the flank and rush to Danan Bay, the most important and largest port in the southern part of the Mirage Kingdom!
At this moment, all the attention of Mirage Wu Zhong was on the sea: he prayed that the plane he took off could protect his naval fleet and cut into the battlefield, cutting off the Tang Army's retreat behind the Tang Army.
He has no other choice! Because his troops had been defeated, it was obviously impossible to stop the Tang army's attack by relying on his 2nd Corps and Mirage Takejiro's 3rd Corps.
"Report! Just got the news! The flagship of General Mirage Haifeng is less than 30 kilometers away from the Tang Army's landing site on the southern beach!" The staff officer excitedly sent the telegram, shouting to Mirage Wuzhong, whose eyes were red like ghosts. road.
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Sorry, I fell asleep on the table in the middle of writing... I posted this late, sorry.
(End of this chapter)