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914 Steel rain pours, violent sniping!

"Jesus Christ is coming again! What exactly did we encounter!"

Major Edward Baker, the captain of the destroyer of the Phelps, screamed, feeling that he seemed to have fallen into a boundless nightmare, and his head buzzed. He didn't know what language to describe his own experience, so he had to habitually call their omnipotent but unable to help at all!

His ship was at the outermost periphery and rushed to the front, and was naturally given priority care. The tandem armor-breaking warheads of the two subsonic anti-ship missiles may not be sufficient for battleships, but his weak hull was a trumpet-shaped hole with a narrow outside and wide inside. The high-explosive warheads squeezed into it blasted through the hull, causing a fierce explosion!

It was an explosion that erupted violently from the core part of the warship towards the weak top like a volcanic eruption! It almost tore the warship into two pieces, destroying all its power and force. Unless it can be dragged back for repair immediately, there is only the fate of sinking!

But in such a tense battle, any warship that lost power, even if she was intact, had only one end - she was beaten into the water!

Major Baker screamed because of this. If his friends around him were intact, there was still some hope. Now, the damage to those warships was not much worse than that of him. Seeing countless people jumping down on each ship, they were completely helpless.

"Abandon the ship! Everyone left the battleship immediately! Damn it, the next wave of attacks from the Chinese guys is coming soon!"

At this time, no matter whether the morale of the army was shaken. Major Baker screamed at the top of his voice, and he rushed down the bridge with the remaining commanders as fast as possible, and rushed into the lifeboat without hesitation, leaving the range of the ship with both hands and feet.

It’s not that he is cowardly, but the situation really does not allow any hesitation!

The two heavy cruisers surrounding the middle were a little stunned! They never expected that they would cause such an attack!

Colonel Howard Goode has always believed that they would most likely be bombed by submarines, broken destroyers, or main guns of battleships, but they were all sixty or seventy kilometers away from the main battleship, and they should be very safe.

But I didn't expect that the other party's formation method was completely different! The core of the entire formation was not an aircraft carrier or a battleship at all. The real attack power was instead two missile cruisers that were fooled by the front and back!

Yes! The giant scorpion array of hundreds of kilometers long, Wake Island is the body. A missile cruiser acts as the scorpion tail lurking behind, while the other is in the middle of two major aircraft carrier formations. It is also a very sinister trap, waiting for the enemy to attack. Whether it is a fighter jet or a ship!

In the entire ocean-going fleet, in terms of stealth ability and comprehensive combat performance, the best one is actually the "Yingzhou-class" missile cruiser! Their size is moderate, and the hull has been optimized for visual stealth to the greatest extent. Just the painting of the sea and sky, even professional naval watchers may not be able to be discovered at a distance at a distance!

And attack ability, not to mention, a huge hull of 20,000 tons, a universal vertical launch system with a total of 128 pits, and an electromagnetically accelerated double-barrel main gun, can be said to be omniscient and omnipotent.

The two major aircraft carrier formations have a total distance of more than 100 kilometers. The huge gap in the middle is very complete from a high altitude. They are also easy to penetrate. A mere warship inside is easily overlooked. However, if anyone really takes a look at it, it is the beginning of the tragedy!

Obviously, the US military special fleet is one of the protagonists of the tragedy.

All their intelligence gains so far cannot accurately judge the true combat power of the Ocean Fleet. Even what kind of military equipment a modified destroyer is or what it looks like, there is no clear photo.

As for tactics, there is no need to mention it. Therefore, based on all the blurry photos of air reconnaissance, we roughly know the opponent's arrangement. The staff of the Pacific Fleet Command unanimously agreed that the reason why the opponent was divided into two aircraft carrier formations was that we knew that we were going to fight two powerful special mixed fleets. The US troops attacked in two groups, and they also met in two groups. This was a very arrogant and arrogant approach!

If it were the US military, it would be necessary to give full play to its numerical advantage and concentrate all efforts to fight the Yilu Special Mixed Fleet first, and then attack the second one after the defeat!

If you want to strike together, don’t you know that the real tactics of the two special mixed fleets are split and combined attacks? The final approach is to launch a strike against one target from both wings!

Such judgment was issued by the US military, so the warships worked according to similar orders. Colonel Alexander Erley, the 1st Squadron of the 16.4th Destroyer Detachment, was really under great pressure at this time! After being beaten up inexplicably, I didn't find out where the enemy was!

"Damn it! What kind of information did we miss?! Why did there be fierce attacks coming from the right wing? Could it be that there are more warships lurking there?!"

He screamed and fled from the ship, and finally did not forget to issue a questioning call to Major General Thomas Kincaid.

In fact, Major General Jinkaid is even more depressed than him! You should know that from the beginning, he did not agree with the tactics of the division of soldiers' raids. Taking the various tactics of the Chinese Navy over the past few years, the first thing he is to accidentally defeat the strong with the weak, hide the real combat power, lure the enemy into depth, open the door and let people in, and then close the door and fight the dog... In short, anyone underestimates them, and there is only one outcome, just like the Japanese Combined Fleet, it turns into a steel ruin under the ocean!

But I had no choice but to go up to Admiral Kimmel and down to half of the ship officers, most of them were very dissatisfied. They felt that they were crowded and they were fighting at their doorsteps. They were full of confidence. Why couldn't they kill the enemies from afar in the vast sea?

Wake Island is the center of the Pacific Ocean. The US military has Hawaii as a transit station, and it is easy to advance and retreat, but the other party has to travel four or five thousand kilometers long. The long supply line can kill them, right?

What's more, the Chinese must not gain a foothold. That was a resolution issued from the President and cannot be changed!

Seeing a group of warships being bombed, Major General Jinkaid could only sigh and shake his head. He had long expected that although the Chinese Navy was young, he suffered too many losses in history, and his evil deeds even killed the Japanese Navy. How could he not make up his own rear dishes?

So, there are actually quite a lot of calm people in the US Navy. Whether it is Nimitz or Kincaid, even Fletcher and others may not be as arrogant as the Japanese. They just have no choice.

The heavy cruiser of the New Orleans was bombarded by missiles and sprayed iron slag out. With the experience of Jinkaid or Captain Good, he immediately confirmed that he had been accurately locked by the other party, and the subsequent attack would be even more fierce and brutal!

Kinkaid made a quick decision and ordered all warships: "Take off all carrier-based aircraft and search for the airspace of the right wing for 50 kilometers. When the target was found, it immediately attacked at a low altitude to win time for the warships! Each ship immediately released smoke cover, contact the air escort army to search for high altitudes. The Chinese must have ambushed the bomber and waited for us to move!"

I have to say that his series of commands are very suitable and particularly applicable to the current difficulties!

All warships respond immediately. Even if they are seriously injured destroyers, they must eject the seaplane or simply throw it into the sea. Anyway, they cannot sink. They can still fly if they accelerate.

Rolling smoke was shot out from hundreds of large and small artillery guns, forming a dense smoke belt covering dozens of kilometers of the sea surface, making all the warships appear faintly. This is one of the most effective means of avoiding against precise attack weapons. The disadvantage is that the entire fleet cannot be invisible.

When fighting on the vast ocean, the first thing to do is to find the enemy ships. The Japanese Navy has never attached importance to reconnaissance, but just thinks that the ocean is so damn big. Even if it is a huge warship floating inside, it is like a tiny particle of dust in a bathtub, and it is difficult to find.

Moreover, because the rise of the two previous naval battles was a bet on the national destiny. After careful calculation and preparation in advance, the goal was very clear during the battle, and temporary reconnaissance was useless. It was just the same whether it was to look at it or not. The enemy would definitely wait for them in the predetermined place...

It doesn’t need to say what a strange theory this is. In short, the result is that the entire fleet will be compensated!

Americans should be relatively rigorous and their reconnaissance forces have never been relaxed. After gaining the experience of the Japanese, the Admiralty unanimously agreed that they should not hope that the Chinese cannot find themselves, and that they should not be lucky in any battle. Just like before their eyes, since they have been attacked, they will be completely exposed, and no matter how big the smoke is, it will not become worse!

Kincaid's order was fast enough, and he was very glad to make a decision, because at the next moment, all radio communications on the entire sea surface were interrupted!

Jin Kaide complained helplessly: "Oh! Hell! This is another one! Can't the Chinese fight head-on?!"

How is that possible! Since the aircraft carrier was confirmed to be the main force of naval battles, the aircraft's combat radius exceeded the main gun of the battleship, reaching two or three hundred kilometers away, head-on combat is almost impossible. More attack methods are natural, who the hell will play a Knight showdown with you!

Fortunately, the order went down. In the sky, dozens of fighter jets rushed to search tens of thousands of meters and found a group of giants - six heavy bombers were eyeing forty or fifty kilometers ahead!

The carrier-based aircraft, seaplanes, and escort fighters released by each ship also found the thick smoke generated by the "Yingzhou" when it released the missile from the right wing, and then discovered the target. However, it also glanced at it from twenty kilometers away, but did not dare to rush up and attack with condescending force, which was seeking death!

Dozens of various fighter jets immediately dived from high altitude to ultra-low altitude, leaning against the sea, facing the increasingly frantic airflow, and then they had a fierce collision with the "Yingzhou" air defense missiles, exploding chaotic fireworks!

Kincaid led the scarred ship to continue to rush to the northwest side of Wake Island. Not long after, he heard a rumbling explosion in the sky. Balls of fighter plane wreckage fell down in a raging fire, penetrated the smoke of different thicknesses, smashed hard on the sea or scattered on the warships. No need to see, it must be from the United States, and it was obviously intercepted by a tough person!

While setting off smoke bombs, the clumsy snake-like maneuvering was awkward. The attack was so difficult, it was really helpless. Jin Kaide had a calm face and silently calculated the mileage forward. It seemed that every minute was so long!

He knew very well how tense the atmosphere in the entire squadron was, and he might be hit with no countermeasure at any time. It would be disheartening to think about it. What kind of terrible power does the enemy on the opposite side have? It is all unknown! As a raid fleet, they were not even sure whether they could even launch artillery attacks near the target!

"Go forward! Go forward at full speed! Even if only one warship can reach the target near, it will not be a failure!"

Compared to others, the attack from the other route seemed much more iron-blooded and brave. The two other cruisers, the USS Vincent, the USS Northampton, and the 6th Squadron of the destroyer were the forces as the auxiliary. When the communication was interrupted, they were also intercepted by another missile cruiser, "Zuzhou". After several destroyers were seriously injured, Colonel William Chandler and the squadron leader of the destroyer, Colonel Edward Thor, made a quick decision, while releasing a smoke cover to avoid being attacked accurately, and at the same time, they were dispersed and assaulted at full speed!

In comparison, they were even bigger in depth, almost reaching the middle and rear of the two-wing aircraft carrier formation, which was on par with the location of the two aircraft carriers. The two colonels made decisive decisions based on previous reconnaissance information!

In order to offset the opponent's precise strike ability, the US military has taken great pains to find the smoke bombs that have been developed very well, and at the same time, they also asked the accompanying fighter planes to help drop hundreds of pounds of large smoke bombs, and the air and ground cover were integrated, which was quite powerful!

More than a dozen warships were rushing at full speed, holding rolling smoke. It was like monsters traveling in mythological stories. Looking at it from a high altitude is particularly eye-catching. Logically speaking, if this is done, the missile is not very good, right?

But they forgot that Zhu Bin dared not say anything else in his hand, and that the strange weapons needed as much as they wanted!

Directly ahead, two heavy bombers crossed a total of 50 kilometers. Over the Zuzhou, each threw out a giant gliding bomb that was larger than a fighter!

Each one has a pneumatic layout of more than ten meters long and the shape of a boat. After being decoupled, even the bomber weighing dozens of tons naturally rose upwards!

Supported by the bounced wings, the huge bomb quickly accelerated above the smoke like a glider, to Mach 0.7, which was a speed faster than the fighter's dive. It hit from a height of 10,000 meters and dozens of kilometers. In just a few minutes, it reached the sky above the smoke belt, plunged into it, and exploded violently!

"Boom!"

The earth-shaking loud noise was more than ten times more powerful than the torpedo explosion! The sudden flash was even more dazzling than the sun, and the shock waves and fireworks generated actually emptied large swaths of smoke in an instant!

The mother of super bomb with a weight of 10 tons! The power of the explosion is equivalent to the power of seventy or eighty tons of standard explosives! The mother and son warheads are scattered, covering an area of ​​one square kilometer, explode and burn at a low altitude, evacuating all the oxygen, and producing huge mushroom clouds, pumping the sea air and rising rapidly towards a height of 1,000 meters!

Two big mushroom clouds rushed together, one left and one right, almost stirring all the smoke belts in the area with a diameter of ten kilometers. The strong wind raged around, the air rolled up, and tens of thousands of tons of sea water were evaporated. The scene was quite spectacular, and the power was even more amazing!

The two destroyers sailing near the explosion center were hit and squeezed! They were squeezed by dozens of tons of explosive power from the sky, and the entire warship almost broke apart. All the crew members were almost deafened by the loud noise at the same time, and their internal organs almost broke!

This is not the most terrifying thing! In an instant, the oxygen around it was drained and extremely high temperatures above a thousand degrees were generated, which almost suffocated them and roasted them! The entire warship basically lost its combat power and was half dead!

The rapidly rising mushroom cloud is as majestic and brilliant as it can be clearly seen through dozens of kilometers. The strong wind and mist caused by the turbulent mist evaporates, and after all the warships are blown away, all of them are exposed!

At this moment, on Wake Island, 12 305mm tornado rockets fired together. The huge roar was like a giant dragon soaring into the sky, and the rumbling and shocking the entire island trembled!

A total of 72 thick warhead warhead rockets rose from the ground, increasing at a rate of Mach 4.5 in one breath, and hit the area where the fleet was located hundreds of kilometers away like a meteor. In the air, all warheads collapsed and scattered into countless bullets, scattered like hail, rushing towards the warships that were smoking all over!

What does it mean to bombard the warhead with four times the speed of sound? Even if it does not explode, it can easily penetrate the horizontal armor of the battleship! Even if it is the main armor belt, it is not fun to be caught in it all at once, not to mention these heavy patrols of ten thousand tons and one or two thousand tons of destroyers!

Not to mention, each warhead itself has enough power to compete with the large-caliber grenade!

The two heavy cruisers were in the brunt of the brunt, and most of the warheads were taken care of by them. A warship was at least seven or eight, and more than a dozen. In the banging collision, the armor of the hull broke through the hideous holes, almost penetrated from the top to the bottom cabin. The explosion followed and raging everywhere, tearing the keel, exploding the power cabin, detonating the boiler, igniting the ammunition, blowing the steel plates... a complete destruction!
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