Chapter 1091: 1092 surge in number
Chapter 10911092 The surge in number
"Report! The Tang Army's battleships have begun to turn!" Amid the roar of the Tang Army's aircraft engines, a Mirage officer walked up to Mirage Haifeng, who had gauze wrapped around his head, stood at attention and saluted, and then reported.
His words were full of sadness because he was reluctant to admit the fact that his opponents no longer regarded them as opponents.
Similarly, Mirage Haifeng also felt the anger of being despised! His fleet is still there! But his opponent turned around!
So you don’t take his fleet seriously? Are you so sure that they can't really rush into the landing site to stir up trouble?
"I am not willing to give in! I am not willing to give in! Order the fleet to right rudder 35! The bow of the ship is facing the enemy! Advance at full speed!" Mirage Haifeng became angry and roared in the bridge.
A few minutes later, the smoke-filled Mirage fleet began to turn. They once again positioned their bows to face the enemy, and began their final sprint toward the Tang Army's fleet.
This sprint has a somewhat tragic flavor, because the third batch of attack aircraft taken off by the Tang Army has arrived. There are more than 140 Tang Army aircraft above the Mirage fleet, but only about 5 Zero fighter jets are from the Mirage. Fleet escort.
Just when the Mirage fleet abandoned the battleship Da Nanwan, which had almost lost its speed, and no longer paid attention to the sunk battleships Xiangyun, Beijiao and Nandao, and turned to the bow to face the enemy, Yufeng The deck on one side of the ship's hull has submerged into the water.
The battleship HMS Windrider, which was hit by two aerial torpedoes, has completely lost its balance. Although the damage control team is working hard to inject water to the other side of the battleship to prevent the battleship from capsizing, the battleship still tilts severely.
The hull on the leaking side has been submerged underwater, and the inclination angle of the entire battleship has reached as high as 30 degrees. The fuel leaked from the battleship Wind Rider on the sea is dark, and it looks like a black abyss, swallowing the Wind Rider. .
It has the honor to become the fourth battleship sunk by the Mirage Navy at this dawn! Immediately after it began to sink, the battleship Niijima was hit by an aerial bomb and three torpedoes!
This battleship is also equipped with four triple-mounted 350mm main guns. Being named after the new island is enough to prove that the Mirage Navy attaches great importance to it.
It is a pity that it only fired two salvos in this naval battle, and was sunk by the Tang naval aviation before even Mao touched the Tang navy.
An aerial bomb destroyed the tail of the battleship, making it unable to continue its flexible serpentine movement, so it was soon targeted by torpedo planes and became a feat of the Tang Navy's carrier aviation force.
The battleship Niijima, which could only move at almost one-third of its speed, took three torpedoes in one minute, which almost caught up with the sinking speed of the battleship HMS Wind Rider.
The Mirage Navy has a total of twelve cutting-edge battleships, namely Beidao, Main Island, New Island, and South Island named after four islands; Shangdong, Shanshuang, and Da Nanwan named after rivers and harbors; and four islands named after them. The three straits between them are named Yufeng, Xiangyun and Qingyu.
The Great South Bay is the most special battleship among them. It was originally supposed to be named the Great South Bay, but Great South Bay, which built it, fought hard for it and finally let it be named the Great South Bay.
At present, the battleship Da Nanwan has been seriously damaged, Beidao, Nandao, and Xindao have all been sunk. In addition, the two battleships Yufeng and Xiangyun have also been sunk.
Just looking at the data on paper, the Mirage Navy's main fleet has lost more than half. If the injured warships are also included, the Mirage Navy is no longer able to fight anymore.
But the Mirage Navy had no intention of retreating at all. They were still rushing forward, as if the sunk warships had nothing to do with them.
In fact, they have no other choice: if it was a naval battle in the past, the losing party could flee immediately to avoid greater losses.
Now they have no option to retreat: if they turn to escape now, they will also be overtaken and sunk by carrier-based aircraft.
The Stukas of the Tang Kingdom have been hovering above the Mirage fleet. The attack planes carrying torpedoes flew lower, while the dive bombers carrying aerial bombs flew high.
Such a high-low combination makes Mirage's anti-aircraft and anti-aircraft gunners very uncomfortable. They often focus on attacking one type of target, but ignore the threat of another type of target.
Anti-aircraft guns that lack unified dispatch and command can hardly pose any threat to Tang's aircraft. Compared with Earth's World War II-level air defense, Mirage's air defense is simply useless.
Except for the battleship Lucky Goblin, all the remaining battleships in the fleet were injured, and even the flagship Mirage was hit by a Styx missile.
It is almost a pipe dream to expect that such a fleet can survive an attack by naval aviation carrier-based aircraft. After completing the turn, on the edge of the lack of cover, the Shangdong, or the battleship Shangdonghe, was hit by a torpedo and damaged.
It was only hit once by a Styx anti-ship missile before, and overall it was in pretty good condition. Just now, it launched two rounds of shelling at Dongwan No. 2, but it was just bad luck and not a single shell hit.
Now that it has been hit by a torpedo, it has been busy from 3 o'clock in the middle of the night to this moment. The damage control officers who have been repairing the warship have to take action again and start to rescue this precious warship. "It's almost blocked! It's almost blocked!" Standing next to the sea water spurting out from the gap, the damage control veteran who had been serving on the battleship finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At least he saved his battleships and stabilized the situation once again. But just as he and a group of damage control soldiers celebrated their efforts with cheers, there was a sudden series of vibrations beneath their feet.
Immediately afterwards, he saw a soldier wading in the water that covered his ankles, and hurriedly ran to him: "Sir! It's over! Another torpedo hit in front! The deputy captain asked you to get up! We can't save everything here! People retreat! Go to the upper deck!"
"What do you mean it can't be saved? If this place can't be saved, this battleship will be doomed!" the veteran damage control officer of the Mirage Country shouted angrily. Beside him, a group of soldiers finally used various tools to plug the leaking gap. Now the deputy captain actually asked them to retreat. Didn't this make them fail?
"It's too late! Sir!" In a blink of an eye, the seawater in the corridor submerged the knees of the soldier who came to deliver the order. The soldier didn't stay long and turned around to find the passage to the upper deck.
The lights overhead flickered, startling all the damage control soldiers blocking the hole here. Before the old damage control officer could give the order, the power suddenly went out.
The already unstable hearts suddenly dispersed, and many people began to walk back through the sea water. Before they reached the stairs, the sea water had already risen to their waists.
When they climbed to a higher level one by one, they turned around and found that almost two-thirds of the level they were on was submerged in the sea.
There are already goblin soldiers crying around, some sailors are discussing abandoning the ship, and some are distributing life jackets and the like.
As a battleship, the Shangdong also has some lifeboats and traffic boats in the middle of the hull. These ships also have lifebuoys and some life jackets copied from Tang Dynasty technology, which are the hope of escape for the sailors on the ship.
Although most of the goblins in the Mirage Kingdom can swim, who can guarantee that they will not die after soaking in the cold sea water for an hour in January?
The battleship Shangdong also began to roll unstoppably. After the torpedo planes began to throw torpedoes one after another at close range to the Mirage's battleships, the speed at which the Mirage's battleships were sunk suddenly increased.
The previous situation of anti-ship missiles with heavy thunder and small raindrops disappeared instantly. The effect of torpedoes on sinking warships is indeed much better than other weapons.
Watching helplessly another one of our own battleships was sunk by the aircraft of the Tang Navy, leaving only one Mirage Zero fighter still struggling in the air. Reported on the battle situation.
He really couldn't bear to see his country's fleet being completely destroyed under the siege of the enemy, so...he chose to close his eyes.
A Corsair fighter flew past him and smashed the Zero fighter's cockpit with its cannon. The fragile Zero disintegrated directly in the air, and the pilot was reduced to parts by shells.
In the distant Great South Bay, the commander of Mirage, holding a walkie-talkie, was still asking about the situation over and over again, but he could no longer wait for his pilot's answer.
He put down the microphone in his hand, walked out of his headquarters, walked through a not-so-long corridor, and walked outside the general headquarters of Mirage Wuzhong.
After tidying up his military uniform, he opened the door and walked in. He came step by step behind Mirage Wuzhong and stood at attention, saluting: "General! The news just came... The navy suffered a tragic defeat and our planes were unable to break through the enemy planes. To intercept, we can only watch...watching the naval warship sink."
"Have the specific losses been calculated?" Mirage Wuzhong's eyes were bloodshot, he was in a trance, and he almost lost his human form.
The officer was a little timid, fearing that such an officer would suddenly bite someone. He lowered his head cautiously and said, "Not yet. What we already know is that the Great South Bay was seriously injured. It seems that the South Island was sunk. All the planes we sent out were all We lost contact, so what’s the specific situation…”
"I know!" Mirage Wuzhong waved his hand. The hope of the navy was shattered. He now knew that everything seemed to have to be done by himself.
So he cast his slightly dull eyes on the map spread on the table: If he could hold on to the Great South River and hold on to the Great South Bay...maybe he could continue to hold on?
He doesn't want to read the telegrams from the island now. He knows that they are all useless nonsense.
(End of this chapter)