Chapter 464: Sino-US Atlantic Battle (13)

The US bomber group was divided into more than 20 units, breaking through the blockade of gunpowder smoke and clouds, diving from high altitude, looking for the Chinese Empire naval warships and waiting for an opportunity to launch an attack.

The fighter jets of the Imperial Navy Air Force continued to shoot down US bombers, but the number of the opponent was too large, and more than 2,000 US fighter jets provided cover. After paying the heavy price of more than 500 bombers, the remaining more than 500 bombers successfully dropped to an altitude of 800 to 1,000 meters and discovered the surface combat ships of the Imperial Navy.

At this time, the ASCHEUN air defense cruisers and air defense destroyers of the Imperial Chinese Navy were ready, and the ship-based air defense vacancies, anti-aircraft guns and other weapons were already in place.

With a "swish", the commander of the Imperial Chinese Navy, who was standing next to the air defense weapon, drew out his command knife and pointed the blade at enemy fighters and bombers entering the range.

"shooting!"

With the commander's order, the fleet of the Chinese Empire Navy's fleet opened up its air defense fire, and countless shells shot into the dim sky, emitting dense streams of light.

"Bang bang bang!"

Anti-aircraft shells exploded at a set altitude, blooming red and white fireworks. Even if the US military aircraft was not hit by the shells, the explosion shock wave made the US military aircraft sway left and right, and the shell fragments were wrapped in high-speed kinetic energy to penetrate the shells of nearby US military aircraft, killing pilots and destroying the aircraft structure, causing the aircraft to malfunction.

Faced with the attack on air defense artillery by the Imperial Chinese Navy, the US pilots were mentally prepared because they had seen the US Navy's air defense artillery.

However, when they went through endless hardships to avoid the attack of anti-aircraft guns and further lowered their altitude, they encountered an air defense weapon that made them even more frightened.

"Dududu!"

The Vulcan dense arrays on the ASUS air defense cruiser of the Chinese Empire Navy opened fire violently. Since the Vulcan dense array used the multi-barrel structure of the Gatling machine gun, the high-speed rotating barrel changed the firing sound of small-caliber shells. They did not want anti-aircraft guns or were like heavy machine guns, but had a unique long list of "beeps".

In an instant, more dense small-caliber anti-aircraft shells shot into the sky. As long as they are locked in the area locked by the Vulcan dense array, both US fighters and bombers are unavoidable. At the same time, due to the slow speed of the US O-100 bomber, it is difficult to avoid the dense rain-like air defense fire strikes, and the losses are heavy.

"Boom boom boom boom!" A large number of US fighter jets, bombers, went through a lot of hardships to avoid the attack of anti-aircraft guns, were hit by the powerful firepower of the Vulcan dense array, dragging long flames and black smoke from the sky and falling to the sea.

In just a few minutes, the US bombers of each team lost more than 300, and more than 400 US fighter jets escorted them.

In order to cover bombers to dive to attack the surface warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the U.S. fighter jet group dives down, sieges close to the surface combat ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and shoot at the Imperial Chinese Navy air defense forces above, suppressing the air defense firepower of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns on the light cruisers and destroyers of the Imperial Navy are both open-air, with only one shield protection, which can only provide limited protection for anti-aircraft artillery. After paying a certain price, the US fighter jets opened fire near the fire, causing a large number of casualties in the Imperial Navy officers and soldiers. For this reason, the air defense force of the Imperial Navy had to distribute part of the air firepower to deal with the approaching US fighter jets that were plundering the sea. In this way, the air defense firepower used to deal with the US bombers at high altitudes was correspondingly weakened.

The US military used a large number of fighter jets to attract the air defense firepower of the Imperial Navy, and finally provided cover for the US bomber group, allowing it to fly over the Imperial Navy combat ships to drop bombs.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, after the US military suffered huge losses, more than 100 bombers from seven air fleets achieved bomb drops, but due to the low power of the aviation bombs carried, it failed to cause a fatal attack on the surface combat ships of the Imperial Navy.

More than 100 US bombers were immediately hit by the dense air defense array of the Imperial Navy and exploded and fell into the sea. Seeing that the US military had not achieved the expected results at such a high price, more than half of the remaining 50 bombers from the remaining three air fleets immediately chose to escape.

At 6:04, seventeen US bombers suddenly climbed to a height of 3,000 meters and then dived vertically. These seventeen bombers were all composed of the group of American pilots who were not afraid of death. They were the last killer weapon of Operation Death, preparing to die with the Chinese Empire naval warships.

The only weakness of the Chinese Empire Navy Fleet Air Defense Firepower Network is that it does not have vertical air defense firepower. There is an air defense loophole in the zero-point airspace directly above the ship island. This is mainly because when the propeller aircraft flies vertically downward during this period, the pilot cannot withstand the influence of super gravity, and the brain will have temporary shock. This phenomenon is regarded as a death action by international pilots. Unless they are determined to die, no one will do this action. At the same time, the air defense artillery of this era does not have the ability to shoot vertically to air at 90 degrees, which causes this loophole in the air defense system of the Chinese Empire Navy warships.

The seventeen American bomber pilots are experienced senior personnel. As the command of the entire Death Commando, they have been observing the air defense firepower network of the Imperial Navy on the periphery, and finally discovered this air defense loophole.

With a determined desire to die, these American pilots, led by Captain Colonel Howard, secretly flew over the Chinese Empire naval warships, and then carried out a suicide attack with vertical dive.

However, although the Chinese Navy warships have this air defense loophole, it is still very difficult for US pilots to complete this vertical dive impact. In addition to accurately flying to the air defense fire loophole, they also need to accurately judge the dive time.

Howard sets the time for fifteen seconds. If the brain becomes shocked after this time, the plane will lose control. In this era, the plane has no stable rudder. Once the human control is lost, the steering wheel of the plane will rotate, and the plane will rotate and deviate from the route. In this way, it will not be able to accurately impact the deadly parts of the warship, losing the meaning of suicide attacks.

But Howard formulated a plan based on his own physical ability. The experience and physical ability of other American pilots are of different heights. As a result, he was able to achieve less than three people like Howard. The others either opened the bomb fuse too early during the dive, and exploded before they even hit it. In addition, they fell out of their coma and caused the plane to deviate from their position and failed to hit the critical position of the warship.

Howard personally drove a bomber straight to the flagship of the Imperial Navy Combined Fleet Zhu Yuanzhang. The dense air defense array of the Zhu Yuanzhang battleship opened fire with all its fire, and dense shells formed a dense defense net over the island. However, Howard found the only defense gap and hit the junction of the front bridge and the command tower.

With a loud bang, the bomber carrying 800 kilograms of bombs exploded at the moment of impact. At the beginning of the design of the Ming-class battleship, the front and side protections have always been the strongest in front and side protections, second to the top, and the weakest in the rear because there is a ship island blocking it. Because it is impossible for enemy ships to turn a corner and hit the back of the command tower. But Howard's bomber hit the junction. Li Dingxin and other fleet command officers who were studying tactics in the command tower were caught off guard. Everyone below Li Dingxin was injured by the explosion, and more than a dozen of them were seriously injured, and Li Dingxin fainted. The protection of the front bridge was very weak, and the explosion caused more than 30 officers in the front bridge to be killed and hundreds of people were injured.

The sudden suicide attack immediately scared the Chinese Empire officers and soldiers on the ship who were on air defense missions. Fortunately, the important officers such as Li Dingxin were not in danger of their lives, otherwise the officers and soldiers who were on air defense would be unable to atone for their sins.

Then, several other warships were successively attacked by suicides by US bombers. Among them, the battleships Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin were severely damaged, and the hull was ignited, causing more than hundreds of casualties. Several other warships were slightly injured.

The suicide attack of the US military surprised everyone in the Chinese Navy and Air Force. Unexpectedly, there were some tough guys among the Americans who were afraid of life and death. Fortunately, there were not many people who were desperate for life, otherwise the Chinese Navy would be in trouble this time.

The US Navy and Air Force in the fierce battle also increased some morale, but this was just a flash in the pan and won some praise for the US Navy, but it had little impact on the situation on the entire battlefield. The US Navy's defeat was a foregone conclusion.

At 6:25, the three super battleships of the USS Maine, Missouri and Ohio were severely damaged. Among them, the main guns of the USS Missouri battleship were all destroyed and completely lost their combat effectiveness. If the super battleship had not been heavily armored enough, they would have been sunk long ago. Although they had not sunk, the superstructure of the USS Missouri battleship was almost completely destroyed, and two-thirds of the USS on the ship were killed, becoming a big iron mountain floating on the sea. The USS Maine and Ohio battleships were hit by more than a dozen large-caliber shells in succession, and the hulls of the two ships were flooded with water, and they were forced to withdraw from the battle.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire Navy successively sank battleships such as the USS North Dakota, Florida, Wyoming, and Arkansas, as well as more than a dozen US cruisers and destroyers. The USS Mississippi, Idaho, Tennessee, Nebraska, Georgia, New Jersey, South Carolina, Michigan, and Delaware escaped. On the battlefield, the South Dakota, Montana, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Chilshazhi were all ships left.

As the sun sets, the Imperial Navy air force returned to the flight one after another. After half an hour of harassing the Imperial Navy, the US fighter fleet saw that it was impossible to get a good deal, and then retreated after paying the price of hundreds of fighter jets being shot down.

At around 7:20 pm, the USS Oregon battleship was beaten by the Chinese Empire Navy, and the hull was hit with more than 20 large-caliber shells. The entire warship was swallowed by fire and smoke. More than 2,700 American officers and soldiers on the ship were sunk along with the warship in the tragic tragedy.

At this time of the battle, there were less than five remaining US main ships, and they were covered with scars. The battlefield was full of wreckage of US warships and the bodies of US soldiers everywhere. The defeat of the US Navy was decided.

At around 7:30, the remaining US warships were preparing to escape, but were surrounded by the Chinese Empire Navy and could not escape even if they wanted to. As the US ship South Dakota surrendered, several other US warships also raised white flags to surrender one after another.

At this point, the Atlantic Battle between China and the United States came to an end. In the end, the main oceanic fleet of the US Navy was severely damaged and the Imperial Navy won a complete victory.

In this battle, the Chinese Empire Navy lost only one battlecruiser, six cruisers and nine hunting ships, as well as 1,211 fighter jets and bombers, paying the price of more than 3,000 casualties. The US Navy lost twenty-two battleships, eleven battlecruisers, twenty-one cruisers and more than forty destroyers, as well as more than 4,230 fighter jets and bombers, and more than 33,000 American troops were killed, which was a huge price.

After this battle, the entire US Navy's main fleet was severely damaged. Although the Imperial Navy failed to completely wipe out the main force of the US Navy, the remaining US Navy ships could no longer fight. The Imperial Navy obtained the sea control power, and the east coast of the United States would be bullied by the Imperial U.S. from then on.

At the same time as the decisive battle between the Chinese and American navies, on the Caribbean Sea in the northeast of the Gulf of Mexico, an aircraft carrier fleet of the Chinese Empire unexpectedly encountered the US aircraft carrier fleet, which exposed the route of the Chinese Empire's Navy's secret transportation aircraft from San Juan to Bermuda.

The Chinese Empire's aircraft carrier fleet consists of a batch of transport aircraft carriers, responsible for transporting a batch of combat aircraft from the San Juan base to Bermuda, to supplement the fighter consumption of Wang Jiancheng's aircraft carrier battle group.

The US aircraft carrier fleet went north to support the decisive battle of the Eberle fleet. On the way, it was attacked by a cruiser team of the Imperial Navy. However, the US navy commander sacrificed an escort destroyer fleet and successfully escaped the attack. Not only that, the US aircraft carrier fleet unexpectedly entered a secret route from San Juan to Bermuda, and discovered the route of the Imperial China transport aircraft. The US military commander believed that the Chinese Empire must have gathered a large number of aircraft in San Juan, but because the Bermuda airport had not been repaired, it could not be directly airlifted. In order to reduce the combat pressure of the US Air Force on the front line, the US military commander decided to boldly attack the Chinese Empire's San Juan Air Force base in Puerto Rico, intending to eliminate the fighter fleet of the Imperial China Air Force on the ground.

At noon on July 5, after discovering the route of the secret transport aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier fleet dispatched the first attack wave group 108 fighter jets at 12:17, and carried small aviation bombs to start taking off from five aircraft carriers at the same time. The 108 carrier-based aircraft set out to attack San Juan under the leadership of Captain George. Lieutenant General Sheffield ordered the reconnaissance aircraft to search the waters in the east and south directions, for fear of being attacked by the Imperial Chinese Navy when launching an attack.

Raid. At the same time, the second attack wave aircraft was mentioned on the flight deck to attack the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet in the San Juan base. However, two US reconnaissance aircraft suddenly malfunctioned and took off for half an hour. Among the two reconnaissance aircraft that had already taken off, one of the two reconnaissance aircraft that had already taken off again had an engine failure and returned halfway. This aircraft should have just searched the sky above the 17th escort aircraft carrier fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was used for the protection of the route, and laid the root of the disaster for the US fleet.

At the same time, after the Imperial Chinese Navy lost the target of the US aircraft carrier fleet, it also dared to be nervous and sent a large number of reconnaissance aircraft and submarines to search.

At half past eleven, a cat demon reconnaissance plane sent back a report of "discovering the US aircraft carrier". The San Juan Base Command was very nervous and immediately ordered Major General Ye Zai-chan, who was serving as an escort nearby, to respond immediately and prepare to attack the US aircraft carrier fleet.

Surprisingly, the Chinese Empire Navy's electronic warship Pipa Jing in the Caribbean Sea was originally responsible for listening to US military communications along the Gulf Coast, but unexpectedly searched for radio communications of the US fleet and quickly deciphered the "pnp-5" communication password of the US Navy aircraft carrier fleet, knowing the plans of the US aircraft carrier fleet very well.

At around half past one, the US carrier-based aircraft launched a fierce attack on San Juan. All the Imperial Chinese Air Force fighters stationed in San Juan also took off to meet the invading US fighter jets.

Faced with the interception of the Imperial Air Force fighter fleet several times, the US attack aircraft fleet saw that the Chinese Empire had prepared for a long time and failed to attack the plan. So after paying the price of more than a dozen fighter jets being shot down, the US attack aircraft fleet fled in panic.

The defense was defended by the Air Force of the San Juan Base of the Chinese Empire. Seeing that the US attack aircraft group suddenly ran away and after only chasing for a while, she was worried that it was the US military's tactic of luring the tiger away from the mountain, so she stopped pursuing, causing the US attack aircraft group to successfully escape.

At 2 p.m., the first attacking wave fleet of the US military returned.

At the same time, Major General Ye Zai-chan ordered the aircraft carrier Nushan and Yaoshan to take off and rush to the Sheffield fleet 150 nautical miles away. On the route, the USS Funiu-shan aircraft carrier, which was responsible for transportation, also took off 40 cat demon ships and carried torpedoes to attack the US fleet. At the same time, 60 H1n1 bombers taken off from the San Juan base appeared above the Sheffield fleet. The bomber groups of the Chinese Empire lined up in a row to attack the US aircraft carrier and rushed towards the US aircraft carrier.

The US fighter jets intercepted and killed them wildly. The US ships and anti-aircraft artillery fired violently, and quickly shot down seven bombers. But soon the first wave of fighter jets in the Imperial Navy Air Force arrived and fought fiercely with the US fighter jets to cover the bomber to drop a large number of aviation bombs, which immediately damaged the USS Assaulter and the USS Lexington aircraft carriers, and the USS Assaulter aircraft carriers were blown to sink on the spot.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, the US Navy Air Force paid a heavy price and finally drove away the attack aircraft group of the Chinese Empire. Of course, it was actually the attack aircraft group of the Chinese Empire that had completed the bombing mission and returned voluntarily.

Lieutenant General Sheffield believed that there were aircraft carriers from the Chinese Empire nearby, so he decided to devote his energy to dealing with the nearby aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire, but he still did not discover the location of the Chinese Empire Navy aircraft carrier. So he had to change the route first, searching and evading.

Sheffield ordered the Victory and Franklin to send aircraft loaded with aviation bombs on the deck out of the hangar, unload the aviation bombs and replace them with torpedoes that attack the ship.

At this time, Sheffield received a telegram from a reconnaissance aircraft that delayed takeoff. Ten Chinese Imperial ships were found 140 nautical miles from the US fleet. Sheffield ordered the reconnaissance aircraft to continue to find out whether the enemy fleet owns an aircraft carrier. Just as Sheffield was waiting for the reconnaissance results of the reconnaissance aircraft, an alarm sounded again in the air.

More than 40 Imperial Chinese naval fighters that took off from the USS Funiushan aircraft carrier carried torpedoes and rushed towards Sheffield's fleet. Since the USS Funiushan aircraft carrier was far away from the US fleet, it was only after the first round of battle that it was searched.

Sheffield ordered all ships to stop loading torpedoes and unload them and take them out for combat. The deck of the US aircraft carrier was in chaos. In order to gain time, the unloaded torpedoes were piled on the deck.

The original US fighter jets needed to refuel, and Sheffield was in a dilemma. However, luckily, because the US fleet left the original route, the forty fighters of the Chinese Emperor** spent a lot of time searching, and the time of stagnation at air stagnation had reached the critical point. In order not to fall into the sea when returning, the forty Chinese Empire Cat Demon fighters quickly dropped torpedoes, and did not fight with the US fighter jets, and immediately turned around and returned. As a result, the torpedoes dropped in haste were either too far away or intercepted by the US escort destroyer, which failed to cause damage to the US military.

However, these forty fighter jets made Sheffield very nervous. He knew that there must be an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Chinese Navy in another direction.

After a false alarm, all the US aircraft were completed. Sheffield ordered the fleet to sail north at a speed of 26 knots to avoid the Chinese Imperial Aircraft that was attacking again and prepare to attack the aircraft carrier of the Imperial Navy with all its strength.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a formation of 10 small bomb-mounted cat demon fighters taken off from San Juan base discovered the Sheffield fleet. Unfortunately, their fuel was about to run out and there were no fighter escorts.

At around 3:40, 28 Chinese Empire fighters that took off from Yaoshan and York City followed one after another and attacked Franklin and Ticonderoga. However, they were severely damaged and lost 20 of them were lost. None of the torpedoes dropped by the Chinese Empire fighter jets hit.

Just as the US fighter jets were busy driving away the Chinese Emperor's fighter jets at a low altitude, 33 Cat Demon fighters that took off from the Yaoshan appeared above the Sheffield fleet. At this time, the US warship was turning around in the direction of the wind, in an extremely vulnerable situation, with only a few Newport fighters parked.

When the first US air defense fighter jet that changed shifts flew away from the flight deck, the 33 "Cat Demon" fighters of the Yaoshan were divided into two squadrons to attack the USS Franklin aircraft carrier and the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier. Following this were 17 "Thunderbolt" fighters that took off from the USS Funiushan aircraft carrier, specifically attacking the Franklin aircraft carrier. The two US aircraft carriers instantly turned into two balls of fireballs, and the planes stacked in the hangar, as well as fuel and ammunition, caused a big explosion, and the flames soared into the sky. In just 5 minutes, the two US aircraft carriers were completely blown up.

On the other hand, the US bomber group that had taken off had previously found a group of Imperial China naval fighters returning on their way to the Imperial China aircraft carrier, and quietly followed. Because of this, the US bomber group successfully found the Funiushan and immediately launched an attack. Six bombs hit the Funiushan, causing serious damage. However, although the Funiushan was damaged, the navigation function was restored with the efforts of the crew of the Imperial China crew.

Lieutenant General Sheffield and his staff moved to the cruiser Newport and began to assemble the remaining fleets and organize planes to avenge their revenge.

At 4:00, 60 US Newport 17 fighter jets unloaded the aviation bomb and took off from Ticonderoga with torpedoes, launching a second attack on the injured Funiushan. Funiushan was not so lucky this time, and was hit by two torpedoes, lifted two large holes near the port side, and crushed the rudder.

Major General Ye Zai-chan was seriously injured and the command of the aircraft carrier fleet was once interrupted.

At 4:45, the Chinese Emperor's reconnaissance plane discovered the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier. Ye Zai-qi immediately ordered the 30 "Cat Demon" fighters of the USS Nushan aircraft carrier to take off with torpedoes to attack the USS Ticonderoga.

At 5:27, the Chinese Emperor had planned to abandon the Funiushan aircraft carrier, but it did not sink. So Major General Ye Zai-chan ordered all the officers and soldiers to return to the ship and try to tow the port of San Juan by the tugboat.

At half past five, the attack aircraft group of the USS Yaoshan aircraft carrier successfully attacked the remaining USS Ticonderoga. Ticonderoga was immediately hit with four 300 kilogram aviation bombs, and the ship was filled with fire. More than 2,000 US officers and soldiers were buried in the sea with the ship.

By six o'clock in the evening, the destroyed USS Striker, Lexington and Franklin aircraft carriers sank one after another.

At night, the US military was forced to abandon the destroyed USS Victorious aircraft carrier. In order to prevent the aircraft carrier from falling into the opponent, Sheffield ordered the US destroyer to launch torpedoes to sink it.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, the irrescue USS Ticonderoga was sunk by a torpedo launched by a US destroyer.

At dawn the next day, the Chinese Emperor's plane bombed the injured USS Newport cruiser and four destroyers escorted. Newport was buried under the sea. Only one US destroyer escaped the disaster and struggled to return to the US base in the Gulf of Mexico.

At nine o'clock the next morning, the US submarine No. 168 accidentally discovered the Funiushan and then fired 4 torpedoes, 2 hit the Funiushan, 1 hit the escort of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and another hit the tugboat, and three ships sank one after another.

The Imperial Chinese Navy once again paid the price of an aircraft carrier and eventually completely eliminated the US aircraft carrier fleet.
Chapter completed!