Zumwalter did not care about sorting out the formation and ordered the fleet to escape at full speed. He didn't even look at the injured warships that were slowed down. Because the torpedoes were exhausted, the swordfish attack aircraft had to return to the aircraft carrier, and the albatross was then on the field.
The dive bomber did not intend to let the other party go.
Carrying a one-ton aviation bomb, albatross dive bombers rushed towards Boston warships at a high angle of more than 70 degrees. They braved the dense anti-aircraft artillery fire to release bombs at dangerous low altitudes.
The pound bomb accurately landed on the large warships of the Boston Empire, and blew up scary holes. In an instant, several battleships were severely damaged. The suffering suffered by the St. Martin fleet just now finally came to the Boston fleet.
Admiral Roms saw the opportunity and ordered the battleships that could still attack quickly approached the injured Boston warship. Heavy shells were fired out densely, and terrifying water columns were blown around the Bostonian warships. Due to the tragic consequences, he was also in danger.
After serious injuries, these abandoned Boston warships slowed down very seriously and were easily locked by the fire-controlled radar of the St. Martin Navy. With a tight sound of cannons, Bostonian warships were blasted and caught fire, and began to sink one after another.
After the carrier-based aircraft arrived on the battlefield, the St. Martin Navy finally successfully turned the tables at the last moment and barely defeated the Bostonians.
"What's going on? What happened to the plane?" The pilots of the b17 bomber who had just returned to the air have discovered a serious problem, and all the engines have stopped. A mechanic went down to the bottom pole. After a rough inspection, he asked
The pilot reported a bad news that the oil meter had been changed. Although half of the fuel was left on the oil meter, the fuel tank was actually empty.
The aircraft that lost power can only glide forward by inertia, and their altitude continues to fall. Bombers that originally flew at an altitude of 8,000 meters fell one after another, and the speed of altitude decline was still increasing. Faced with this, bombers that were originally flying at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and the speed of altitude decline was still increasing.
In the dangerous situation, the bomber crew had no time to react, so they had to choose to jump immediately.
Umbrella flowers bloomed quickly in the air, while those b17 bombers that had lost control plunged into the sea obliquely, and were transformed into pieces by the powerful tearing force of the sea water. They worked hard to inflate the life jacket, and the navigator Jimmy slid.
With both hands, he tried hard to keep himself stable in the sea. Not far from him was a machine gunner Carter on the plane.
"Hi, Carter, are you okay?" Jimmy asked loudly while swimming to her companions.
Carter also tried to maintain his body balance. He wiped the sea water from his face, turned his head and looked in the direction where the sound came, and found that Jimmy was only more than thirty meters away from him.
When you can't see the land, you will feel panic. When you see a companion, your mood is indescribable. Seeing Jimmy swimming, Carter also swam to his companion.
The two of them came together soon.
"Are you okay?" Carter asked quickly when he knew Jimmy couldn't swim.
Jimmy smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid of drowning, so I opened the inflatable valve of my life jacket in the air, making me look like a stupid duck when I fell into the water." At this time, he didn't forget to joke.
Carter said: "When is it, and you're still kidding. Have you noticed other companions?"
Jimmy shook her head: "I didn't see it, I only saw you, but I saw a few parachutes falling to the east. I believe everyone will meet soon."
Carter looked at the few parachutes that were still falling in the air, and then looked at the waves that had calmed down in the distance. He sighed and said, "Those bastards in the military have actually changed our fuel gauge. No wonder I think this time the plane's voyage
It's very long."
Jimmy sighed: "The military headquarters is increasingly not treating us as human beings. I think they want to sacrifice us to defeat the fleet of the St. Martin Empire. In order to avoid us not daring to carry out this suicide attack,
We were too careless and believed in the display of the oil meter, but forgot to calculate the flight time, otherwise we would have discovered it long ago."
Carter comforted, "This is not the pilot's fault, nor is it the navigator's fault. The mistake is that we trust the bastards in the military too much. Now that we are in the sea, what should we do?"
Jimmy said: "What else can I do? In addition to waiting for a passing boat to rescue us, I also found a small island and settled for the time being. However, the chances of these two are very small, no higher than buying three sixes by betting on dice.
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At this time, another parachute fell beside them, and the two looked and found that it was their pilot, Ruke. "Hi, Ruke, we are here." Carter waved his hand and shouted, his shouting quickly attracted
Ruk's attention. Ruk's water quality was good. He didn't turn on the lifeguard and swam directly over. The three of them quickly gathered together. Ruk had an inflatable rubber boat specially equipped for the pilots. He unscrewed the air tank.
The rubber boat was inflated and the three companions turned up with difficulty.
The rubber boat is not small, enough to sit on five people. At this time, three people are more than enough to sit on it. Although there is no water or food, it is finally more comfortable to get out of the soaking of sea water.
"Have our companions all jumped out?" The long-term sailing and the fear of falling from high altitude exhausted their physical strength. After the three of them rested for a while, Luke had the strength to speak. He immediately asked about his companions' situation.
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Carter shook his head: "I don't know either. I just know that the cabin door at the tail has not been opened. It seems that it is difficult for the two people at the tail to escape. When the bomb was dropped, the machine gunner Bank was also killed. Others
Even if all people jump out, there are only five."
The position on the rubber boat was higher, and the three had a better view. They quickly rescued two other machine gunners on the plane and filled the rubber boat completely. As more and more people were found,
Soon a dozen rubber boats gathered together.
A pilot who used to be a fisherman looked at the position of the sun and sniffed the sea breeze: "We can go towards the sun and we can board the land."
"How did you know? What if we get into the ocean?" Carter questioned.
Ruk stopped him and said, "Listen to him. He used to be a fisherman, and he fished in this area and had quite a lot of experience at sea." Obviously, Ruk was very familiar with the pilot and knew his origins.
The pilot nodded and said, "Yes, I have been here before. Now we are in Moss Bay, at least six or seven hundred kilometers away from the southern coastline of the Boston Empire. If we rely on our rubber raft, we can even take ten days to make it.
It's hard to get there, and now our only chance is to go west and look for the east coast of the Kingdom of Mos, which should be not far away."
Under the guidance of the pilot, everyone rowed the rubber boat and headed west, because according to the pilot who was born as a fisherman, the coastline of the Kingdom of Mos should be only about twenty kilometers away. As long as they are lucky, they should be
I saw traces of the coastline before sunset.
No matter how the crew members of the B17 survived, no matter how Zumwalter's fleet retreated back to the port in a mess. Admiral Roms, who had just won the victory, had already begun to order the fleet to treat the wounded and salvage the fallen people. The various Navy of St. Martin
The warships quickly dispersed and began to clean up the battlefield. Even the Boston sailors who had no time to be rescued were rescued. When they arrived on the shore, these Boston sailors would be sent to the military police and then locked up in the prisoner camp.
Soon even the two aircraft carriers rushed over quickly. The wide hangar on the aircraft carrier became a temporary ward, and they also began to help treat the wounded. Due to the failure of the servo, the hull was also severely damaged, and Roms was not allowed to
Without ordering the destroyer, he sank the USS Cowbons battleship with torpedoes, which is also the world's first sunken Zhili-class battleship.
The naval battle between the St. Martin Empire and the Boston Empire attracted the attention of both sides of the war, and once again everyone saw the influence of air force on naval battle. General Roms, who caused excessive losses to the fleet, announced his resignation due to the lack of attention to air force.
He handed over the command of the St. Martin Empire's two-ocean fleet to Lieutenant General Kachin, who was sent by the aircraft carrier. Of course, he was already General Kachin at this time.
General Roms's sad retreat marked the decline of the Dinant family. The Dinant family, who still insisted on partial independence, lost all power, and left the pro-China Marshal Kaoran family without any constraints. The Chinese Empire
The strength of the St. Martin Empire was quickly strengthened. Relying on years of intermarriage and immigration, the St. Martin Empire was already full of Chinese and their mixed-race descendants, and the entire St. Martin Empire began to consider the possibility of fully joining the Chinese Empire.
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No matter how the domestic political tendencies change, it is in the war after all, everything is mainly stable and everything serves the war. The newly appointed Admiral Kachin knew that when the Boston Navy suffered a heavy blow, he had already grasped it.
The sea control of the south of Storm Ocean.
With complete control of the sea, Admiral Kachin immediately led all the fleets to sail again. This time, under the cover of the aircraft carrier, the Zhili-class battleship showed its power and used its huge artillery to violently bombard various military forces in the Kingdom of Mos.
Facilities. The shells fired by the 406 mm main gun were not resisted by any reinforced and cement fortifications. A large number of coastal fortifications were destroyed and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, which further increased the panic of the Moss government forces.
Lieutenant General Kachin's attack was very sensible. They avoided the attack range of air forces in the Boston Empire and only attacked the coastline of the Kingdom of Mos to avoid being attacked by the opponent's land-based aviation forces. At the same time, he also applied for help from the Imperial Chinese Air Force.
, let them use black feather high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft to monitor at high altitudes, searching for the other party's possible bomber groups.