Chapter 462: The Atlantic Battle between China and the United States (11)

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Looking at the whistling air bombs in the sky, General Eberly, the commander of the US Ocean Fleet, was stunned. "" No / pop-up / full text of the advertisement t x t.

Originally, his fleet was attacked by torpedoes from the Imperial Naval Aviation Army, and more than one-third of the warships were injured, which made him very confused. Now, the bomber group of the Imperial Naval Aviation Army dropped bombs in the air, and in the blink of an eye, one by one, aerial bombs weighing one ton fell on the sea around the US ship and exploded.

In an instant, huge water columns hundreds of meters high were stirred up on the sea surface, the waves rolled violently, the sea water splashed, and in the blink of an eye, the mist filled the sky, and the breathing was full of heavy water vapor.

A series of explosions sounded loudly, like thunder and lightning. As the bomber of the Chinese Emperor** continued to adjust its position, the blasting point gradually moved from the sea to the US warship.

After a brief adjustment, the bomber group accurately dropped the aviation bomb on the US warship. The one-ton aviation bomb weighing slammed through the horizontal deck of the US warship with the aid of gravity acceleration. As the delayed fuze rotates rapidly to the end, the bomb detonated instantly.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A violent explosion sounded on the US ship, and its destructive power was no weaker than the 17-inch shells fired by the naval gun.

Among them, Texas and Nevada were directly sank. These two early super-god bow battleships were hit by high-speed aviation bombs due to their weak horizontal armor protection capabilities, and their armor was immediately penetrated. After Texas was hit by eleven aviation bombs, the entire battleship was blown into pieces and immediately disintegrated and sank. Although Nevada had four aviation bombs, the most deadly thing was that an aviation bomb penetrated the oil depot guard wall, causing a super big explosion of 100 times the equivalent. One-third of the hull was blown to pieces and capsized immediately.

The five-minute bombing caused more than 20 US warships to be severely damaged, more than half of the warships ignited fires and thick smoke rolled.

All ships of Eberly's super battleship detachment were severely damaged, and the original route was also changed by the torpedoes and bombs of the Emperor of China, and the scheduled combat plan was forced to be interrupted.

Eberly never expected Li Dingxin to play this trick with him. At this moment, he regretted it very much, and really underestimated the strength of the Chinese Empire's Navy.

But he did not regret taking the medicine. When the main fleet of the US military was raided by the Imperial Naval Air Force, Li Dingxin on the opposite side was commanding the main force of the joint fleet to approach quickly.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, after tactical maneuvers, the Imperial Navy formed a shooting position that was favorable to the main force of the US fleet.

Ten battlecruisers of the U.S. Navy rushed forward and got in the position, trying to block for a while before the Imperial Chinese Navy attacked the Eberle fleet.

However, the backward thinking of the US Navy paid a heavy price. Before the ten battlecruisers arrived at the interception position, they were fired by fire from the battle group of three battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Especially the first team commanded by Li Dingxin himself, the speed of four Ming-class battleships reached 30 knots, and the US Navy's battlecruisers no longer have any advantage in speed. On the contrary, because the armor protection is too thin, as long as it is hit by a shell of Ming-class battleship, it will be disastrous.

At 4:03, the US battlecruiser fired at fire. The three battleships, Zhu Yuanzhang, Genghis Khan and Zhao Kuangyin, were hit by a large-caliber shell, respectively, but the armor of the three ships offset most of the destructive power and did not cause fatal injuries.

On the contrary, a firepower volley of three battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy hit three battleships, Frankfurt, Sacramento and Hartford. Among them, the commander tower of the USS Frankfurt, the flagship of the USS Frankfurt Fleet, the flagship of the USS Frankfurt Fleet, was hit by an 18-inch shell from the USS Zhu Di battleship. The commander tower with only 280 mm protection was instantly blown up, and the commander of the USS Frankfurt Fleet was killed. Fortunately, the commander tower is the strongest protection place for the USS Frankfurt Fleet. After being hit by the 18-inch shell, although it failed to save the commander tower, it removed most of the explosive power, allowing the Frankfurt Fleet to save its life.w w w.

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However, the battle cruisers of the Sacramento and Hartford were not so lucky. The Sacramento Gate was hit by two 17-inch shells on the port side of the port waterline. The violent explosion instantly tore open a crack of 7 meters. The Sacramento Gate battle cruiser immediately leaned left and sank at a speed of sight. The Hartford battle cruiser was hit by a 16-inch shell, but was hit by the critical ammunition depot. As a result, with a loud "bang", the 204-meter-long battleship instantly broke into two pieces from the explosion point in the middle. The sea water poured back into the bow and stern of the bow and stern at both ends. The weight of the two ends was broken faster. More than 2,000 American officers and soldiers on it fell to the sea from the bow and stern at both ends. During this period, more than half of the people hit hard objects and died before falling into the sea.

The commander of the US military combat patrol squadron was killed, and the two combat patrols were sunk gorgeously in the first round. This was a huge blow to the morale of all the officers and soldiers of the US military combat patrol squadron.

At 4:17, the Indianapoli battlecruiser was hit by an 18-inch shell fired by the battleship Zhu Yuanzhang. Two-thirds of the island, which was as high as 28 meters, was blown up. Fire and thick smoke gushed out, and hundreds of people were killed and injured on it.

One minute later, the four most powerful super battlecruisers of the US military battle patrol, the USS Frankfurt, Honolulu, St. Paul and Helena, were all severely damaged. Because its hull was equipped with a 17-inch cannon and its turret was strong, it provided protection to the entire warship to a certain extent. However, its waterline armor was still weak and could not withstand any shots of more than 13-inch shells. The USS Frankfurt, Honolulu and St. Paul were hit on the side of the ship.

The body was flooded with water, but fortunately its hull was huge and watertight cabins were numerous. After emergency damage to the pipe, it was able to avoid sinking on the spot. However, it was impossible to continue fighting, so the three ships turned around and evacuated. The Helena battlecruiser continued to fight, but soon the rudder of the stern was broken and lost its mobility. The US military above saw that the Chinese Empire Navy battleship team was entering the fire volley position and was worried that they would not have a burial place to die, so they forced the captain to raise the white flag and surrender.

At the same time, the US military and other US military tours saw the four most powerful battlecruisers either fleeing or surrendering. They also saw that the speed of the battleships of the Imperial Navy had reached the speed of the battleships. They knew that there was no hope of winning the battle, so they turned around and fled.

At 4:20, the US battlecruiser squadron was defeated by the Imperial Chinese Navy. Li Dingxin continued to lead five battleship fleets to approach Eberly's battleship group.

At this time, Eberly's battleship group had been disrupted by torpedoes and aviation bombs dropped by the Imperial Naval Air Force, and each was injured. The US Navy officers and soldiers were panicked and were full of pessimism about the previous scene of the naval battle. In addition to radio communication failure, Eberly's orders could not be conveyed in time, causing the US fleet to be basically in chaos.

The five teams of the Imperial Navy Navy battleship battle group have locked their respective targets at this time. According to Li Dingxin's combat deployment, each team will concentrate firepower to attack the injured, left alone, and fell behind, in order to severely damage the US Navy as soon as possible.

At 4:25, the first team, four Ming-class battleships, the first team, approached the third team of the US fleet, and formed a volley-firing position on the US ship New York battleship. Li Dingxin's goal was very clear, which was to concentrate the powerful firepower of the four Ming-class battleships and destroy the weaker ships in the US Navy fleet first. Because the US fleet was in chaos and the flagship's command system failed, he avoided the important and concentrated his superior firepower to attack the weaker US warships first, which was in line with Tian Ji's horse racing tactics.

"fire!!"

After the order was issued, the 18-inch main guns of the four ships, the Hongwu Emperor, the Yongle Emperor, the Xuande Emperor and the Chongzhen Emperor opened fire almost at the same time, smashing the angry shells at the enemy ship.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

The 1.8-ton super shell burst out from the muzzle, penetrated the smoke above the sea, and roared at the battleship New York, which was left alone in the US third squad.

At this time, after the battleship New York was attacked by an aviation bomb, fires broke out on many places on the island, causing great command inconvenience to the US commander on the bridge, so that he failed to avoid the opponent's firepower strike in time. As a result, he was hit by three 456mm shells from the No. 4 main gun of the Chongzhen battleship. The 1.8 tons of the giant bomb instantly shot through the rear bridge and continuously penetrated the four layers of armored decks with only 30mm, and exploded in the boiler compartment.

The New York battleship is the oldest super-divine bow-type battleship of the US Navy. It is equipped with 8 13-inch main guns, armor or armor of the divine bow-type ship, and its speed is only 20 knots. Due to aging, the actual speed has dropped to 18 knots.

Although for the super battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, four Ming-class battleships beat up a New York-class battleship, which was a bit bullying.

The New York was fired by four Ming-class battleships. Faced with the overwhelming super shells, it was too late for the New York to avoid them. It was immediately bruised and covered with fire from the explosion of shells. Soon, the energy released by the high-explosive armor-piercing bombs swallowed the New York in the black smoke of the sea of ​​fire.

Perhaps many American sailors had been prepared for sacrifice, but the war was cruel and far beyond their imagination. The high-energy fragments splashed everywhere instantly tore the human body to pieces, and the scene of flesh and blood flying suddenly scared many American soldiers who had never experienced the war.

The New York, attacked by three 18-inch shells, suddenly felt like hell on earth, with flames everywhere, broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and heart-wrenching screams made every cell of the living American soldiers feel it.

At 4:22, the second round of firepower volleys of the battleship Yongle Great Emperor, two 456mm shells hit the starboard waterline belt armor directly. The waterline belt covered with 280mm thick armor was immediately penetrated, and the high-explosion delay armor-piercing projectile weighing 1.8 tons exploded after piercing through the external armor.

After a violent explosion, a high temperature of 3,000 degrees was instantly generated. Everything around it had a ignition point below this temperature was ignited, and was torn into pieces by the explosion shock wave and splashed everywhere. As the shock wave quickly rushed to the nearby cabin, causing a raging fire.

The explosion location was very close to the ammunition depot. The sailors inside the New York were afraid of detonating the ammunition depot, so they gave up using traditional fire extinguishing tools and directly opened the water inlet valve to inject water into the fire cabin.

With the continuous infusion of water inside the warship, the fire gradually became controlled, but the warship began to tilt to the right. There was no way, the captain of the "New York" was forced to order the four cabins on the port side to fill water at the same time to balance the warship.

In this way, the New York, which was originally relatively slow, reduced the warship from 18 knots to 12 knots due to water injection.

At 4:24, with a firepower volley from the battleship Chongzhen Emperor, after several rounds of fire, the ship fired 12 18-inch shells hit six. Amid a series of violent explosions, the battleship New York was sunk.

While the four Ming-class battleships of the First Team were severely attacking the "New York", the four Song battleships of the Third Team were attacking the flagship of the US Fourth Detachment of the US Army.

As the US Navy's Colorado-class battleship No. 4, the USS Washington has four dual-mounted 16-inch main guns, with a caliber that is the same as the Song-class battleship, but the Song-class battleship is a triple-mounted with a total of 12 main guns, four more than the USS Washington.

At the same time, the Third Navy of the Imperial Empire occupied an advantageous position under the cover of the Air Force, and formed an L-shaped position on the Fourth Detachment where Washington was located. Although it was not an absolute T-head horizontal position, the Song-class battleships had a speed of 29 knots, which was a full eight knots higher than Washington. This advantage was enough to allow four Song-class battleships to fully enter the T-head horizontal position within the next five minutes.

However, the USS Washington did not suffer a fatal air strike, and the fire on the ship was extinguished. When the Captain of Washington discovered that the Chinese Empire fleet was approaching, he was ready for battle, but what surprised him was that the opponent's speed was as high as 29 knots, which made him think that the opponent was a battle cruiser fleet, causing him to underestimate the enemy.

"Dongdong! Dadongdong!"

The two front main guns of Washington opened fire, attacking the battleship Song Yingzong that was crossing her front. At the same time, the four triple-mounted 16-inch main guns of the battleship Song Yingzong also opened fire. Three times the opponent's shells roared, and two shells hit the Washington 2 turret. Although they failed to destroy it, they damaged the turret hydraulic system, making it unable to turn.

Although the "Washington" was not attacked by deadly shells, one main gun failed, making the original firepower of the enemy's bow even less, leaving only two main guns to fight back.

In just a few minutes, the battleship "Washington" was successively attacked by the Song Shenzong, Song Zhezong and Song Zhengzong, and was hit by more than a dozen 16-inch shells. If the battleship "Washington" had not had the armor protection of 320 mm, greatly reducing the degree of damage, it would have been sunk. Although it withstood the first round of saturation strikes of the Third Navy of the Imperial Empire, the Washington was full of ignited fires, and with the continuous explosions, the superstructure was almost intact.

The Washington sub-aircraft system was still in a single-profile layout, with many shells and launching drugs piled up nearby, and a lot of ammunition was detonated, aggravating the casualties and the expansion of the fire. For a time, the Washington smoke was rolling and the fire was surging.

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"Prepare!...Fire!"

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

Four Song-class battleships fired again, and a large ball of smoke was spit out of the muzzles of 48 16-inch main guns, and then shells burst out from the cannon chamber and roared straight for the "Washington".

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A series of violent explosions, two shells fired by the main gun of the Song Zhezong hit the starboard waterline belt of the "Washington". Suddenly, the 320mm armored waterline belt of the Washington 320mm armored protection was shattered, and the two cracks, which were two meters and three meters long, caused a large amount of sea water to flow back in.

Captain Washington has been holding him, as long as he is not seriously injured, he will have a chance to avoid this fatal attack. But now it seems that hope is always beautiful, but the fact is cruel.

The armor on the starboard waterline was shattered and exploded two long holes. The US sailors were working hard to repair it. The pump motor roared and pulled out the influx of seawater. However, unfortunately, a minute later, a firepower volley from the battleship of the Imperial Navy, the battleship of the Imperial Navy, and a shell directly hit the crack of the starboard side of the Washington.

With a loud "boom", the original two cracks were instantly exploded, turning into a huge gap of more than four meters wide, and rushed in from the sea. More than a dozen US maintenance soldiers were knocked away before they could react and all died.

In a moment, more than 5,000 tons of sea water poured in, and the entire Washington warship leaned right and quickly sinked at a speed of sight.

Knowing that he could no longer survive, the captain of the Washington still gritted his teeth and ordered the warship to directly target the flagship of the Third Navy of the Empire, the Song Zhenzong, with the intention of dying together.

Seeing the suicide attack intention of the "Washington", the Third Navy of the Imperial Chinese Navy quickly sent two escort destroyers to intercept.

In fact, the two sides were more than ten kilometers apart, and the Washington absolutely could not hit the warship of Emperor China. However, the commanders of both sides were quite nervous during the battle, so that Captain Washington was too naive to die together, while Captain Song Zhenzong sent a hunting ship to intercept it too cautiously.

Two destroyers approached Washington at high speed, but before it was approaching, Washington had already sunk.

The First and Third Teams of the Imperial Navy both achieved results at the first time, sinking a US battleship respectively. Similarly, the Second, Fourth and Fifth Teams of the Imperial Navy also quickly found the single and seriously injured warships of the US fleet.

By 4:30, the four US battleships Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Arizona and New Mexico were successively sunk. At the same time, seven US cruisers and 12 destroyers who sacrificed themselves to protect the main battleship. However, most US cruisers and destroyers did not have this spirit of sacrifice, but hid far away.

The Chinese Navy became more and more braver the more it fought, while the US Navy became less and less confident the more it fought, and soon the morale of the army was declining.

With the advantage of speed, the Chinese Empire Navy took advantage of the opportunity of chaos in the US fleet and quickly left the US military alone and sank the injured warships. As the US military's main battleships were sunk one after another, the US military's main fleet was defeated on its entire line.

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Chapter completed!