In the sky, countless fighter planes were flying up and down, and the rain of bullets fired intertwined into a solid grid, like a storm, baptizing the vast space. From time to time, short bullets tilted to the sea surface, blowing up a string of tiny water columns several meters high.

On the sea, five or six destroyers formed a date-shaped formation, protecting the cruiser in a central position. On the ship, all the light and heavy artillery fired violently into the air. The shells fired from hundreds of large and small guns exploded in the sky. The flames bursting into the sky were as bright as clouds, which was spectacular!

On the heavy cruiser of Astoria, Colonel Francis Scanlon looked coldly from the bridge command room at the war eagle that was passing by lightning in the low altitude, cursing the abominable Chinese fighter planes.

However, this approach is obviously useless. No matter how fierce he complains, he cannot change those fast perverted guys who are erratic, unscrupulously walking on his head, beating off the escort fighter planes from time to time, making him arrogant and outrageous!

The splashed shells occasionally exploded more than a dozen fireheads on the warships. The sharp 25mm penetrating bombs may not be able to withstand even the horizontal deck. The fireheads caused by the damage have to risk rushing up to extinguish them. The warships are busy!

"Damn it! How long will it take for us to reach the target location?! Can we only be solely against the Chinese guy's interception and attack?"

Not far away, it was the heavy cruiser Portland. Colonel Lawrence Dubos was even more annoyed than him. He was a man who was already quite crazi, but when he encountered such a frustrated situation, he naturally couldn't help it.

Colonel Scanlon replied unhappily: "Do you have a better way? The Chinese guys' radar is so powerful. I don't know how they discovered it. It seems that all our actions are staring under their noses. This feeling is very bad! I don't like it very much!"

"Hahaha! Then what are you going to do? We are much happier than General Fletcher's unlucky special-mix fleet! At least there are no strange shells flying over and bombarding!"

Colonel Dubos laughed loudly and ordered the ship to fire more fiercely, but obviously the effect was not good, and most of the fighter jets that might be killed were their own.

"But it doesn't matter much! If it's just an ordinary interception, it's not too much impact on our offense, I'm just worried..."

Colonel Scanlon was about to comfort his colleagues, but before he could finish his words, a clear destroyer suddenly exploded about ten kilometers ahead, and the sun in the sky was overshadowed by a dazzling red light. Then, the huge fireworks columns hundreds of meters thick rolled up into the air, forming a dazzling mushroom cloud!

"Boom---!" The earth-shaking explosion followed. The colonel watched helplessly. The destroyer was blown into countless pieces like a ball of steel garbage, burning and thrown into the sky hundreds of meters. It flew away from all directions. The slender ship, the middle part, violently moved upwards, and the whole part was broken into two pieces. It fell into the huge bay formed after the explosion, and was swallowed by huge waves!

"That's... a Chinese bombshell! Damn it! Where did it come out?!"

Scanren roared angrily. He pounded the chart table with his fist, and his lungs were about to explode!

What I hate the most is this situation. I can’t figure out where the enemy is. I didn’t know until I was attacked that I had entered the battle, but it was too late at that time!

Colonel Dubos even shouted angrily: "We can't see any target situation at all! Damn radar, it doesn't work at all! There are no enemy ships ahead, where did they come from? In the sky?!"

There are air-to-air radars, which are similar to the models installed on battleships. Unfortunately, they are all filled with fighter jets flying around both sides. It is impossible to tell whether it is an enemy or a friend.

The current radar is actually completely unreliable! They can only look at the targets appearing in the sky, see the different echoes, and form vague shadows of different sizes. They can know that it is a fighter jet attacking, rather than a group of big birds passing by. This is a very amazing result.

In comparison, the advanced radars under Zhu Bin can clearly determine the different signals of fighter jets and birds, the number of aircraft fleets, the precise coordinates and forward speed, and even the model! Even if the opponent projected hundreds of kilograms of bombs from a distance, they can be clearly determined and intercepted with missiles. This gap is at least thirty or forty years!

Scanlon closed his eyes, took a deep breath, suppressed his inner dissatisfaction, and gritted his teeth and shouted: "Okay! I have to admit that the Chinese are indeed capable of some things that we cannot understand! But this does not mean that we must admit defeat! Keep moving forward, and I don't believe that we cannot succeed!"

Rush! Keep rushing! No matter what, you have to find the other party and kill them!

All ships increase their maneuverability and advance in an irregular snake-shaped route without any relaxation.

In the sky, the escort fighter planes were startled by the explosion on the water and were condescending. Their vision was wide. It was easy to know that there was no enemy ship within forty or fifty kilometers ahead. So the attack could only come from the air?

The group of aircraft flying in front decisively abandoned the interception, ran wildly into the sky for a while, and quickly launched a comprehensive search ahead. They suddenly saw the group of big guys spreading their broad wings and huge bodies casting their majestic figures, and were lightly dropping anti-ship missiles on the sea!

Heavy bomber!

The US pilot was shocked! When did this terrible thing run to such a distant sea? Take off from the aircraft carrier? That is completely impossible! So fly from China's mainland? Ryukyu Island? God, is their voyage that big?!

Very likely!

Just like the b24 heavy bomber they equipped, they can fly more than 5,000 kilometers. If they carry light-load ammunition, increase fuel, and even further away! Calculate the distance, it is really the same.

More importantly, the emergence of large bombers means that all routes from Ryukyu Island to Wake Island are run through, and the infrastructure on Wake Island must have been built a lot to undertake their take-off and landing. Going further, this kind of big guy can travel long distances and directly threaten the United States!

Things are even more serious than expected!

A series of alarm signals were sent to the surface ships in chaos. Fortunately, it seemed that the radio shielded area had not yet entered, and their communication was unimpeded.

A group of heavy bombers stayed at a height of 10,000 meters, sailed gracefully and slowly. Under the belly, they slowly threw out the heavy anti-ship missiles of up to six meters, ignited, launched, sprinted from a high point, and killed!

"Boom!--Boom!"

Two more destroyers exploded one after another! At least two rounds and one set of attack modes ensured that there was no luck to accurately intercept the destroyer. The heavy warhead of each missile. The terrifying guy whose explosion power was not weaker than a torpedo, even the battleship could be blown out one by one, let alone the little guys, they would explode directly into pieces in one explosion!

"What?! Is it a heavy bomber, a precise bomb that is projected? Rockets?!"

Scanlon and Duboschichi exclaimed, their eyes hurriedly looking into the sky--but only could see endless smoke, blurry.

In fact, those bombers are at least fifty or sixty kilometers away from a height of 10,000 meters, which is not something that warships can detect. They are not something that their carrier-based artillery fire can only sigh!

Damn it! How could they fight so accurately at such a distance? If they keep going like this, how can they still conflict? I'm afraid even cruisers can't withstand such giant bombs, right?!

"Download smoke!"

The two majors issued a very decisive order and notified the entire fleet at the same time. They must be wary of such terrible means. Judging from their experience, it is estimated that the aircraft carrier and battleship are coming, and there is no way to do anything about it! The other party’s preparations are too sufficient!

"Bang bang bang---!" Countless smoke bombs were fired out, and the smaller ones were directly bombarded into the water surface more than ten kilometers away with ship guns. The larger ones were thrown out with deep-water bomb ejectors or carrier-based aircraft catapults. Dozens or hundreds of large smoke bombs exploded on the surrounding sea surface. In a short while, a smoky and smoky area spanned more than ten kilometers of the sea surface was formed, which was blurry and could not be seen clearly.

This is really helpless! Otherwise, the chimneys with rolling black smoke from the battleships will be the most conspicuous targets, and they will be targeted purely for the opponent's attack, so they have to be guarded against. Now, it is not a problem of hiding whereabouts, but a problem of avoiding bombing!

Not to mention, this trick is really useful! At least in high altitude, optical aiming cannot work, and infrared or laser cannot be locked. It can only be scanned with high-power radar, and the target accuracy judged is much worse.

The original attack hit rate of anti-ship missiles has certain errors, especially the end maneuver, because the speed is too fast and it is difficult to adjust. It is not as flexible as light cruise missiles. The effect is greatly reduced in the rolling smoke.

The heavy bomber in the high altitude immediately stopped releasing anti-ship missiles. The slewing bomb rack under the belly of the aircraft turned out the heavy gliding bombs, aimed at the target locked by the radar below and gently decoupled. Clusters of big guys weighing a ton fell in pairs, then bounced open the wide and slender main wings and glided gracefully to the low altitude!

The gliding bomb with a maximum attack distance of 50 kilometers also has a targeting system, and its accuracy is worse than that of missiles, but the price is cheap and the weight of the warhead is sufficient!

Determine the possible area of ​​the enemy ship's advance in advance, and accelerate to Mach 0.75 bombs running wildly with the sound of wind like a small boat. When they enter low altitude, the warheads crack, and hundreds of bullets of fists and big sizes spread out, forming a large net-type attack surface, hula-la-shaped covering towards the predetermined target!

The power of each bullet can easily penetrate the armor thickness of 55mm, and it cannot withstand the horizontal deck of both destroyers and cruisers! The power of explosion is by no means weaker than that of 105mm grenades. The joint explosion is unprecedentedly destructive!

Such a net was cast in the sky, and it was an instant hit of thousands of artillery shells. No matter how dense the smoke was, it was impossible to completely invisible. Three minutes later, a large group of explosions suddenly rose in the smoke, and the powerful flame smoke impacted and broke through the obstacles, exposing the ship's figures!

The other destroyers scattered around were targeted to varying degrees! Two bombs were also used to deal with one. Although it was not the entire warhead, it was just a dozen little guys with fists that hit him, and it was still a life-threatening act!

With the rumbling sound, one by one, one warheads hit the deck, the bridge, destroyed the turret, and the machine cannon was blown away. The deck was overturned and the sidewalks were damaged. The light destroyer fell into the east and west amid the surging flames of destruction, igniting a raging fire!

The two heavy cruisers are not much better. The big bullets on your fist will still cause uncontrollable destructive power!

Major Scanlon's bridge was smashed by two warheads, and the explosion destroyed the composite buffer armor belt outside. The sandbag flew across it, the radar on both sides was scrapped, the radio antenna was blown off, and dozens of soldiers were killed and injured!

On the deck, a 203m triple turret was broken by the bombing armor and the cannon was displaced. It was temporarily lost its function. The most brutal one was the front deck, which was exploded with huge holes, which looked particularly ferocious!

"Is it still an attack from heaven?! It's incredible!"

Colonel Scanlon gave a speechless praise, but he could not keep calm. The surrounding escort destroyers were injured and basically couldn't help. The road ahead would become lonely and helpless.

Do you still need to move forward?

Of course! He never thought of retreating. Since he decided to fulfill his glorious mission, all difficulties were unstoppable. Unless he was completely blown up, he could only move forward! Go forward firmly!

The escort fleet did not disappoint. The ultimate zero battle and f4u with certain high-altitude advantages were raised one after another, and parted together to rush towards the ten thousand meters of the sky, attacking and expelling the group of hateful heavy bombers!

But it is really difficult to realize this idea! The fighting group of flying sharks did not follow and snipe. Just as they were about ten kilometers away, a group of silver-gray lightning suddenly rushed out, and the speed was so fast that it was dazzling. A series of dazzling white tracks were dragged up in the sky, like shells coming out of their bodies!

"It's a jet fighter!"

The US military aircraft group exclaimed in the radio! Yes, they read that right! Only jet fighters that can fly supersonically can break through the sound barrier and form shock wave oscillation clouds behind the body. The significant tail that can form a long-term failure in the sky is their symbol!

That was a terrifying guy with a speed of more than 1,200 kilometers per hour! In front of them, the f4u, which seemed to be very fast, was simply a snail!

Just six groups of flying dragon fighters suddenly appeared, which brought despair to the enemy. Then they slowed down and entered the subsonic state. The air combat bombs under the wings were fired without hesitation, and the dozen enemy aircraft that rushed to the front face to face. Then, the rapid-fire machine cannon was harvested at close range, like a lightning sickle, destroying the remaining aircraft group in the air!

This is an insurmountable technical generation gap! No matter how hard you try, it is not a huge gap that can be crossed casually. The blow from high to low is simply an unstoppable crush!

After killing the enemy planes that were advancing assault, the flying slot machine group immediately dived towards the low altitude. At an astonishing terrifying speed, it once again exceeded the speed of sound, turning into a series of laser lights and suddenly pounced into the smoke, roaring past the sea surface at a height of less than 100 meters. The explosion sound produced by breaking through the sound barrier continued to roar below like thunder, shaking the US military on the warship to shaking!

The thick smoke that filled the sea was swept away by the rushing fighter planes. The rushing air current was wrapped in a flash and took the time, revealing the figure of the ship still emitting thick smoke.

Bombers in the sky seized the opportunity to release anti-ship missiles again. Every burning fire and boiling chimney are the best infrared targets, and even more significant signal sources are seducing huge missiles to swarm!

Major Scanlon and Colonel Dubos, had not yet woken up from the detonation caused by the flying dragon fighter jet, and suddenly a blinding flash burst out in front of him. As the warship rumbling violently trembled around him, missiles fell from the sky like arrows, piercing through the weak armor and smashing into the bottom cabin, and exploded fiercely!

The "Astoria" was blown into two pieces from one third in front. Almost all of the more than 900 crew members on the ship were killed and injured. They were shocked and could react and no more than one-quarter of them escaped first!

The "Portland" was exposed to the side of the missile and exploded. The powerful force squeezed and shattered the keel, causing the entire warship to completely deform. The cracks on the sides and bottom were dozens of meters long. The rumbling water made them too late to close the valves of the compartment. Then another missile came over and penetrated the power compartment from the chimney. The explosion caused a fierce explosion. The warship exploded in two diagonally in the water, spraying out thousands of tons of steel fragments, and slowly sinking!

On the other side, the heavy cruiser led by the USS New Orleans and the First Destroyer Squadron passed through the left wing of the Yuefei aircraft carrier formation and rushed to Wick Island from the tail. When they just cut into the intersection, they suddenly flew over a dozen subsonic anti-ship missiles from the side!

The "Yingzhou" nuclear-powered missile cruiser, which was squatting at the back and acting as the tail of the scorpion formation, was shot out! At a level of less than 20 meters, the missile suddenly attacked at Mach 0.8 was fast, hidden, dense, and dazzlingly fast!

The Phelps destroyer, who was walking in the front, was caught off guard and was first smashed into two hard from the side, exploding and tearing half of the ship to pieces, pushing the battleship toward the other side, and tilting a large area of ​​the single turret and anti-aircraft machine gun on the deck were blown away, all the power system was scrapped, and the explosion jet almost penetrated the narrow hull, and one blow was completely scrapped!
Chapter completed!