Patton never thought that he would become the last big ship in the world, a witness of the fire of giant cannons, and he boarded the bridge of the escort aircraft carrier of the Admeralti Islands he was on.

"General, we encountered an attack from the enemy fleet, probably an Italian shelling fleet, including four Italian battleships, and a large number of cruisers and destroyers. I believe that if our fleet cannot come, it will be a big trouble!"

The entire landing group of warships are almost all American warships, including a large number of transport ships, 2 battleships, several simple aircraft carriers, some destroyers, and cruisers.

These are two Nevada-class battleships. Their manufacturing year was after 1916 and were modernized in 1930. It uses the concept of "key protection" as the basis for the arrangement of equipment belts. The two Nevada-class battleships are the "Nevada" and the "Oklahoma". They are equipped with 10 356mm/45 caliber main guns, 21 127mm secondary guns; 8 dual-equipped 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns, and 40 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and 45 20 mm anti-aircraft guns were installed in the Pacific War.

Like the Italian "Cafour"-class battleships, they are all battleships with old bottles of new wines. According to Patton, they are.

"It's these bastard bureaucrats who used to fool our garbage ship!"

Of course, Patton, who has been paying attention to the equipment of the Chinese Federal Defense Forces, knows that such warships may be a one-time shot in front of the Himalayan-class battleships of the Chinese Federation. The Himalayan-class battleship, the world's most powerful and latest warship, has a displacement of about 50,000 tons, which is heavier than the last Iahua-class battleship in the United States.

Since 1934, the Chinese Federation has modernized the powerful navy. For example, the Chinese-class amphibious assault ship named after ancient patriotic generals, the Himalayan-class battleship named after the mountains of the Chinese Federation, the Chinese-class cruiser named with the abbreviation of ancient countries, and the destroyer named with the abbreviation of various provinces.

In addition, the small warships of the Chinese Federal Navy use heavy, medium and light catamaran hulls, superstructures of different application channels to build different ship types such as escort, anti-tide, missile attack, etc.

Equipped with 9 triple-mounted 406mm/50-caliber main guns; 4 dual-mounted 152mm secondary guns; 40 medium-range 35mm 6-tube rotating anti-aircraft guns, which use radar, infrared, laser composite guided anti-aircraft guns, plus directional laser blinding systems, and vertical missile launch systems.

In fact, these things are not magical things, so don't think too much about them. For example, the "vertical missile launch system" was almost used by German submarines at the end of World War II. Other things had appeared in the world around 1945, or were about to be developed. The difference is that these things are now in the Chinese Federation, which was established by technology.

What's even more ridiculous is that some people in the book review questioned the time when computers appeared. Isn't it the world's first computer that appeared in the United States in 1945 in the history of computer development? The Chinese Federation, with Einstein and other top scholars in the world, would be stupider than Americans. Those who think so may have discrimination against Chinese people, let alone any country he loves!

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————————————————————————————————————————————— Facing the upcoming Italian fleet, Patton was worried. Such a fleet could not be an opponent of the Italian Navy Battleship.

In contrast, their opponents include two "Cafour-class battleships with a ship of nearly 20 years and have been modernized and modified. They also include two newly built Vittorio and Veneto-class battleships "Veneto" and the "Litrio" built by Genoa Shipyard. These battleships are made with the main opponents of the Italians and the French battleships.

No matter what their capabilities are for the battleships of the main opponents, the British and French navy, or they are powerful enough, but they are too powerful to deal with this small escort fleet.

"What if they can't come?"

The commander of the transport fleet knew that if the battleship detachment of the British and French joint fleet could not arrive in time, the entire transport fleet would have to go into the seabed to feed the fish.

"Surrender is a way to release it. Compared to feeding all the young people with fish, it should be said to be a good way! But before that, I think our cruisers, destroyers and fighter jets on the escort aircraft carriers will do their best!"

Patton was silent in the face of the fleet commander's words. Compared with land war, he knew almost nothing about naval warfare. He even looked at the Italian fleet running from the telescope. He began to wonder whether the landing fleet carrying a large number of US troops could survive.

"I think the only thing we can do is procrastinate. If we can delay it until time, otherwise... Otherwise, I'd have to taste the food in the Italian prisoner-of-war camp!"

When Patton said something, his tone was cold and sad. As an army commander, naval combat was not his consideration, but just a combat environment that he had to endure.

"Okay, I'll leave all the rest to you!"

At this time, all the fighter jets of the escort fleet took off. Except for about 36 fighters, the remaining ones were about 72 "Thunder Eagle" torpedo bombers. These are the only air power of the navy's escort formation, and as future support for landing, there was no torpedo on these simple aircraft carriers.

In addition, we cannot expect to destroy the battleships, and the "razor-z" rotor attack aircraft mainly used to attack the ground. But now, in order to survive, about 154 "razor-z" rotor attack aircraft, namely four squadrons, have flew into the sky.

At the same time, the escort ships, with 2 battleships, 8 cruisers and 16 destroyers as the main force have also turned around. They probably used their shells to let the Italians taste the stubbornness of the US Navy rather than surrender. This is definitely a different feeling from the legendary young master soldier. Some people intentionally distort and mislead history will make people think that the Americans are winning the war and rely solely on weapons and equipment. If so, look at the US military on the Pacific battlefield, such battle examples will be understood.

Then this naval battle shows that it is an absolutely wrong view. Because if we only talk about the professionalism of the army, I am afraid that among the countries in World War II, the worst army would be Italy, and the worst-equipped one was naturally the so-called national army.

This proves that in the previous chapter, Buxiaosheng has no mistake in the evaluation of the so-called elites. It is only one question, why the so-called "golden 10 years" of national industry at that time was not built into an industrial system that provided aircraft carriers, tanks and aircraft in the War of Resistance. Even if there was only one aircraft, the War of Resistance would not last for 8 years.

It only proves that the political group created based on skills, mainly consumed by internal fighting, will never lead the Chinese nation to a strong country that is powerful and prosperous.

At this moment, the battleship formations of British and French were approaching quickly. In the sky, the Italian and Spanish fighters were intercepting the fighters of the British and French joint fleets, trying not to pose a threat to those Italian battleships.

As the main battlefield of the Italian battleship is the Mediterranean, it has the characteristics of fast speed but poor endurance. However, the Vittorio Veneto-class battleship "Veneto" and the 343mm main gun equipped by the Litrio. The 320mm main gun equipped by the Cafur-class battleships "Cafur" and "Caesar". Such firepower intensity is really a very powerful force to deal with the US Navy escort fleet.

Not to mention more battlecruisers, cruisers and destroyers, I believe everyone is very clear that the composition of a fleet with artillery strike as the main means of attack was already mature in World War I. Here, the Italians used it again, but it shows that the combat philosophy of the Italian naval fleet is quite outdated.

"Uncle Sam is trying his best!"

Admiral Iakino of the Italian fleet looked at the charts, and according to the information obtained from reconnaissance, the model of the corresponding ships of the American warships was a very bad method for the command mode. But for the smuggling navy, Benito Mussolini was stingy. It seemed that he would rather spend money on the army and the air force.

However, General Iakino also had a good estimate of the outcome of this battle. After all, compared with the US escort fleet, the Italian Navy's artillery fleet is much stronger. He also knew in his heart that if he was defeated in this battle, the Italian Navy would not have to hang out in the Mediterranean in the future.

The most important thing is that Benito Mussolini, who originally did not attach much importance to the navy, would despise the important force of the Italian Navy even more. If this is the case, not only the Italian Navy, but also the General Iakino himself, would not have a good future.

"Appoint to form a shelling formation. Once it reaches the effective range, it will start shelling under the command of the school launcher. Everyone..."

Speaking of this, Admiral Iakino paused for a moment, then heaviered his tone.
Chapter completed!