Chapter 1024 Iowa-class battleship, first battle 1!
Major General Mitchell's blood seemed to be burning, and the rolling heat began to boil from the mouth of his heart. As the heart pumped vigorously, it instantly spread throughout his body, so that the thin summer military uniform felt like it had become a burden, and a stream of heat was released through the pores!
He has been waiting for this day for a long time!
The US Navy has never had great military achievements or a magnificent reputation worldwide.
When the Spanish Invincible Armada stormed the Atlantic Ocean, the United States had not yet been born. When the global armed forces of the British Empire fought the title of Sun-Downwardness for three hundred years, the United States had just moved towards unification from the civil war.
When the world's first-tier powers fought to the death from the European battlefield and the Battle of Jutland completely reversed its strategic situation, the US Navy had just a huge skeleton body, but drew its sword and looked at it in a daze, and could not find a target to let go!
It can be said that the US Navy has not deserved its reputation for the past century. On the contrary, at its most powerful time, a backward and corrupt nation in the East that was despised by the capitals of all countries hastily established an emerging navy that has not been beaten to death for less than ten years, and was beaten to the point of bruising and swollen faces and teeth all over the ground, and almost doomed!
Mitchell missed such a shameful battle just because he served as the assistant director of the Naval Aviation Administration, but it does not mean that he cannot empathize with it. A large number of shining generals such as Kimmel, Hart, Nimitz, Fletcher, Spruins, etc. all failed and were ruthlessly humiliated. This account was severely engraved in his heart, and he dreamed that he must find the place and take revenge!
Today, the opportunity finally comes!
He, Major General Mark Mitchell, will lead an unprecedentedly powerful US Navy aircraft carrier formation and use the flames of revenge to completely annihilate the fleet in front of him that represents China's powerful maritime power!
action!
The entire 19th Fleet suddenly broke the radio silence and issued an attack order with a pre-designed secret code.
In an instant, on the turbulent dark sea, it seemed that a huge volcano was recovering. More than 100 American ships were fully powered, and all the muzzles were lifted. The group of destroyers who were marching in disguise in circles gave them a terrible speed of 35 knots and a maximum of nearly 40 knots. They were completely rushing up, and like crazy sharks, they rushed to the sea where the heavy cruiser was releasing the "fireworks"!
Not only here, the remaining fleet on the right side had already met with the branch fleet that went to Yangon to reinforce. They also acted according to the opportunity and formed another huge fleet to drive towards the northern part of the Bay of Bengal and the rear of the South China Sea Fleet, and encircled at full speed!
One mistake can lead to wisdom. In order to prevent being intercepted and deciphered radio signals, the US military worked hard to fabricate a large amount of code. It just sent it out in a short time and continued to be silent. What will happen next? All ships are clear about!
The seemingly chaotic US formation quickly changed its appearance. The destroyers running in the front gathered a total of thirty in one breath, and shot them in the middle with the fastest speed. After more than 20 kilometers, they released the torpedoes together. In just a few minutes, there were more than 200 different types of torpedoes, which were released at the water surface and shallow water areas, and unscrupulously shot them out!
They don’t even see the target clearly, or simply don’t care about whether they are targeted or not. There is only one way to do this. As long as you are in that area, just wait to eat torpedoes!
More than 200! From beginning to end, there is a huge cross section of 50 kilometers. It is siege towards the center, and at the end of the voyage, there are almost three or five kilometers of convergence. After that, it will cross and cross each other, forming an X-shaped continuous scattering, not hitting the target, or running out of fuel and sinking to the bottom, and never give up!
Such an approach is actually very dangerous, because if you don’t pay attention, you may accidentally hurt your own people, but the US military did not hesitate at all. Compared to the probability of none in thousands, what they value more is the opportunity to give the hidden enemies a heavy blow. Even if they only hit ten points, they will make a lot of money!
More than two hundred target light spots suddenly popped up on the radar screen that scanned the sea. The radar officer screamed strangely, almost thinking that he had read it wrong, but he knew that it was impossible, so there was only one, and the Americans went crazy!
When Chen Ce heard the report, he laughed furiously and hummed, "Okay! OK! Good! Americans have a set! Relying on the money and more ships, there is no fear of wasting ammunition. He wants to use this method to drown me. Hehe, that's a dream! I want to see if you have too many torpedoes or have too many shells! Intercept!"
The destroyers and cruisers escorting the left side responded together! Faced with the rapid acceleration of more than forty knots of water surface signal sources, a large number of induced rockets were first launched. At a distance of about 5 to 7,000 meters, rumbling explosions formed endless fire nets, creating countless noise sources, tempting the torpedoes loaded with audio seekers and plunged their heads by accident.
These are just some of them. The crazy Americans released them all at once, including the most primitive unguided collision torpedo, talented and successfully developed audio torpedo, and there is also a very dangerous magnetic permeable torpedo that may kill themselves!
There are four or five kinds of waiting, mixed together, rushing out one after another, one catches the other, in short, they want to make the other party suffer, and at the same time, they waste their blocking firepower and cannot free up! Intercept their other tricks!
It is not just destroyers that act together. Major General Mitchell is a commanding aircraft carrier. He is one of the most masters in the US Navy’s level and experience of using naval aviation!
The torpedo of the forefoot destroyer was launched, and the ship followed the siege at full speed. After foot, groups of carrier-based aircraft flocked to the air, forming night attack formations and attacked in the same direction. In just a few minutes, a rare trinity-in-one attack posture was formed!
At this moment, there were more than 300 units that launched an attack on the South China Sea Fleet, only a few more! Without firing naval guns, the number of supersaturated attacks has been reached!
Compared with the South China Sea Fleet, which only has dozens of warships, their attacks are really intensive.
And not only that, the second wave of two Iowa-class battleships and four heavy cruisers, advanced forward at the same speed, and all the turrets were placed horizontally as the hull turned, staring at the waters thirty kilometers away.
The destroyers of the South China Sea Fleet, heavy cruisers and light cruisers, all interception and defense systems are operating with all their strength! One is the thirty-six-tube anti-submarine rocket nest, erupting twice as many as torpedoes. The twenty or thirty audio torpedoes that rushed to the front were first lured to explode, and the rumbling explosion fireballs rose in a row, like small suns blooming in the darkness. The brilliant light shone the water column that soared into the sky for two or three hundred meters, and the smoke was rolling. The rumbling sound drove the tide and the crests surged!
"Suspected audio torpedo was discovered!"
The sea-search radar on the heavy cruiser captured the unusual explosion, and was evaluated based on the established strategy of the database and warned in advance.
Chen Ce's eyes narrowed slightly and nodded thoughtfully: "It's interesting! It seems that the foreigners have not stopped researching weapons. They are chasing them very quickly! It's good that they are just about to see what standard their level can meet! Continue to verify!"
The "Iron Curtain" system of the heavy cruiser and the multi-tube 203mm rocket of the light cruiser quickly replaced the special shells and rockets, and then continued to fire at the arc-accurate line! More than ten seconds later, hundreds of warheads exploded one after another, but were not the previous explosion, but one by one. A small umbrella like a flare inside was exposed, and a long round rolling device was hung, swaying and falling into the water.
These devices are also warm and flat, and they actually have a certain buoyancy, floating on the water surface and sinking with the waves. However, after the electronic equipment loaded inside makes waves of whistle at a very high frequency. It sounds like the small bubbles stirred by cutting sea water, which are quickly and densely bursting under squeezing!
The launch of all warships suddenly stopped, and all the lookouts and observation equipment stared at the places where the signal sources fell. Not long after, dozens of explosion flashes suddenly appeared, followed by a thunderous roar. The huge water column was as dense as a jungle - another batch of torpedoes were detonated!
"That's right! Americans must have successfully studied audio torpedoes! It seems that they cannot be allowed to close to launch in the future, it is too dangerous!"
The decoy was successfully decoyed, but the result was not optimistic! The simulation of those bait bombs was not true after all, and the working time would not be too long, but it actually detonated the torpedo. Then the sensitivity of American electronic equipment is quite amazing!
Chen Ce said calmly without changing his expression: "As expected! The world's largest country is strange without two brushes! Keep cleaning up the remaining guys! Move quickly, don't let their warships surround them!"
The US destroyers, which followed the torpedo, had all entered the radar scanning distance, densely packed, and kept maneuvering at high speed and changing positions. They were obviously prepared for being bombarded or missile bombarded, and they were very smart!
He didn't want to take over the countless torpedoes and take all the strength of the warship and force him into close combat. In that case, both sides will definitely suffer a loss!
The cruisers and destroyers that Zhu Bin personally participated in the design and construction focused on both air defense and anti-submarine capabilities. Only the main guns of heavy cruisers and battleships are the main attackers. Of course, this is a comparison with their own various perverted weapons. Compared with the force of other countries, it seems particularly balanced and fierce.
Until now, destroyers from all countries, including the United States, dare not say they are omnipotent, but most of them are the concept of the older generation, focusing on strengthening the main gun, distribution of multiple turrets, and the equipment of air defense weapons is still not as good as the earliest batch of destroyers in China.
As for anti-submarine technology, they are even more terrible. Not to mention high-end products such as rocket interception systems and sound-induced missiles, even ordinary hedgehog bombs and deep-water bombs, they are not all equipped.
But in the Zhu family army and the Chinese Navy, don’t expect to find such loopholes. As auxiliary escort forces for aircraft carriers and battleships, they are extremely prepared for the most threatening torpedoes and air strikes!
After just a few rounds of launches, the torpedo group had reached less than five kilometers and reached its maximum speed - close to fifty knots! Moreover, because the launch density is too high and it is accumulated from a semi-encircled arc array, it is completely impossible to avoid it with maneuverability!
Fortunately, the heavy patrol and light patrol of the guards, and half of the destroyers are equipped with hard-kill blocking systems. The transducers arranged along the side of the ship are intertwined with the deep bomb rocket launch nest, and the fan-shaped interlaced. When the torpedoes reach about 2,500 meters, they are launched continuously, covering the front face up to 300 meters wide and the depth of about 120 meters at one time. The impact belt formed by the explosion will destroy all the impact torpedoes!
But at this moment, the first batch of US night fighters also touched them! They were divided into three levels. The highest group of ships far away above 6,000 meters away, projected the simple gliding bombs mounted under their wings toward the ships that were constantly emitting fire, and then paused for a moment and dived!
The second level is below a height of three thousand meters. It is composed of the most mobile night fighter, following closely behind the gliding bomb, maintaining a similar inclined trajectory, accelerating and diving!
The third level, from a height of only a few hundred meters, reaches a nearly maximum low-altitude flat flight speed after long-range acceleration. A series of twin-engine heavy fighters, carrying torpedoes on their abdomen, suddenly swept over the head of their own destroyers, sticking to the sea, chasing the torpedoes that were about to reach the end, accurately aiming at ships, drop bombs, and assaulting!
In an instant, the US military's joint attack power suddenly expanded from the third level to the sixth level!
Even Chen Ce could not have expected this move. He stood up in shock and blurted out: "Good guy! How did you practice the trick? There is a set of tricks! You can go into battle with the order of the battleship! No matter what, you can't let the Americans succeed!"
He originally thought that it would be stressful to complete the battle with the powerful power of cruisers and destroyers. But now it seems that he is too optimistic. How could the Americans easily run out to seek death if they are not sure and prepared?
All the artillery fire of cruisers and destroyers was madly trying to air. For the first time, all the crew felt that there seemed to be insufficient manpower. The powerful intelligent fire control unit had to temporarily borrow the computing redundancy of aircraft carriers and battleships, and handled supersaturated attacks at full speed that exceeded the preset standards.
The fighter with the most obvious target is first shot down continuously. The joint regional anti-aircraft artillery fire under intelligent fire control operation, which can accurately hit the aircraft with a single turret, and the 40mm anti-aircraft cannon at high fire rate is as unambiguous as it is.
But now the threat they face is not just planes! Hidden gliding bombs and torpedoes are all things that will kill you if you hit one!
The vertex cabins of the two battleships burst out of flames for the first time! They are equipped with nuclear-powered missile cruisers, specifically used to deal with high-altitude and high-speed targets, and sent out a total of eight in a row! They rushed to supersonic speed in an instant, and released bullets when they pressed into the peripheral defense chain. The radar array integrated with sea and air immediately scanned the fastest gliding bomb!
The unique attack priority design of Dandelion missiles immediately came into play. The tiny missiles nimblely rushed towards thick gliding bombs with a speed of more than Mach 0.7, colliding one by one, detonating! The shrapnel collapsed and pierced through the shell of the bomb, and even detonated. When it exploded in the air, the terrible rush of air waves caused by hundreds of kilograms of high-explosion explosives rushed into a radius of hundreds of meters, and overturned the plane that followed it!
On the sea, all destroyers fired wildly while maneuvering at high speed, almost exerting their maximum performance since their establishment, with more than half of the number of crew members less than the US military. They were so busy that they didn't touch the ground. The automatic loader was empty in a blink of an eye. The manual conversion in the ammunition depot was too late!
Everyone's attention was attracted to this wide arc front. The US military quickly advanced. The multi-faceted siege formation was compressed and advanced very quickly as all the torpedoes reached the range limit. As the Chinese ships were exposed, the formation of the formation was determined. Two Iowa-class battleships also led the crowd and followed closely and entered the range of the main gun!
"Boom! Boom..."
Another group of torpedoes were detonated! Most of them were direct-fired torpedoes without any guidance, and they collided quickly like blind people, drilling into the intercepting fire net and exploded! And the most complex magnetic torpedoes stuck inside, the most complex technology could not find the target - all the Chinese Navy ships were demagnetized regularly, and the smelted ship steel was not comparable to that of all countries, and they had long considered this kind of situation.
But their mission has been completed, and it has truly occupied and consumed all the manpower, resources of intercepting cruisers and destroyers, and together with the dive fighter jets, it has won valuable close time!
A few gliding bombs that broke through the interception also fell one after another! Most of them were smashing towards the first exposed heavy patrol. Those who were most likely hit were killed by close-defense guns one by one, but the ones that fell nearby exploded and the waves that were rushing to the heavy patrol swayed violently, and people couldn't stand steadily. All the shells were naturally empty, allowing several fighter planes to break through and rush in!
"Stop them!"
The whole ship was nervous! They never thought that there was such a danger today! Such powerful defensive firepower and advanced technology were almost too busy by a group of backward broken things. How could this work! China has never had a main battleship sunk before, and they must never be a precedent!
Chapter completed!