The first naval battle of 1070 carrier-based aircraft
"Fire! Fire! Shoot them down! Shoot them down!" The Mirage Navy commander standing on the deck shouted crazily, waving his command knife.
Beside him, an anti-aircraft machine gun was firing continuously at targets in the air. The shells fell one after another to the deck at his feet, making a clanking sound.
The sky was full of enemy planes circling everywhere, and the commanders of the Mirage Navy almost bit their back teeth: the air cover they expected did not come, but other planes arrived first.
"Those damn Army bastards! You can't believe what they say! Where's the promised air support? Where's the support?" Standing on the bridge, Mirage shouted angrily: "They're all bastards! bastards!"
The battleship under his feet was built by the Mirage Emperor and the Mirage Kingdom through frugality and money. Losing one would be heartbreaking!
In order to build so many warships, the Mirage Emperor only had one meal a day, ministers donated their property one after another, and how many Mirage mercenaries died in Fengjiang?
How many years of hard work did the whole country spend to build a navy of this size? Those bastards in the army dare not send fighter jets for their own selfish interests!
In fact, it's not that Mirage Wuzhong is unwilling to send his own fighter jets to cover the navy brothers, but that he really can't send them out: this morning, the Datang Imperial Air Force dispatched new jet bombers and once again sent greetings to Nandao
The mirage troops above.
These nearly impossible-to-intercept jet bombers came and went freely, destroying another Mirage airport runway with the kind of cluster bombs the Mirage had never seen before.
This bombing made it worse for the Mirage Army, which had already lost a large number of airports. The airport where planes were expected to take off to support naval operations... happened to be the one that was bombed.
Mirage Wu Zhong had already urgently ordered the remaining airports to take off aircraft to support the cruiser fleet heading south. But in fact, his order was still thirty minutes late, a full thirty minutes.
"Continue to maintain the serpentine maneuver!" Mirage Haiang cursed those guys in the Army for not being human, while commanding his warships to avoid possible attacks from the enemy.
The snake maneuver is also a tactic summed up by the Mirage Navy's many years of experience. It is very effective for avoiding enemy attacks.
Just when the Mirage fleet turned for the third time, a cheer suddenly came from the deck. It turned out that their anti-aircraft gun had hit a Tang Army carrier-based aircraft.
The sailors on the deck saw the Stuka escaping into the distance dragging a long plume of black smoke. Everyone raised their arms and cheered hysterically: "Long live the Mirage Emperor! Long live!"
At this time, a Stuka carrying aerial bombs in the sky began to dive. It avoided the oncoming shells, closed the distance, and pressed its bomb sight on the front deck of a cruiser.
His plane was bumping in the airflow, and it seemed that the only sound left in his ears was the sound of his own heartbeat. The dense oncoming tracer bullets made the world in his eyes become dazzling.
"Asshole! Go to hell!" At a very close distance, he pressed the bomb release button, and the entire aircraft fuselage trembled.
The huge aerial bomb broke away from the pylon, was pushed away from the fuselage by the push rod, and rushed straight towards the target on the sea.
The cruiser was turning rapidly, and its sharp bow cut through the oncoming waves. The cannons on the battleship were pointed at the sky, and some goblins at the gun positions had already seen the aerial bombs that had escaped from the aircraft and rushed toward them.
"Aerial bomb! Aerial bomb!" They seemed to be on an isolated island with no place to hide. They could only point at the falling black spots in the sky and scream loudly.
Now, the fate of both sides can only be left to God. On the bridge of the cruiser, the helmsman has turned the steering wheel to the limit.
The bomb that fell from the sky finally hit the side of the cruiser and crashed into the sea. Then a huge explosion raised a column of water that reached into the sky, which was much higher than the battleship's conning tower and chimney.
"Hahahaha!" The sailors of the Mirage Kingdom who were splashed with water burst out into cheerful laughter. They were celebrating their narrow escape in the most hysterical way.
In the sky, inside the dive bomber that had begun to climb, the pilot of the Tang Army cursed depressedly: He had missed an excellent opportunity, and this battle was destined to be in vain.
Some other Stukas took advantage of these mirage cruisers to avoid attacks from dive bombers appearing in the sky, skimmed the sea at low altitude, and dropped their own aviation torpedoes in the distance.
White tracks appeared on the sea, rushing straight towards the Mirage cruiser not far away. Before the anti-aircraft guns could fire over them, the carrier-based aircraft that dropped the torpedoes scattered and flew into the distance.
"Torpedo! Torpedo!" Before they had time to take a breath, the Mirage sailors who were responsible for observing the Tang Army's aircraft started shouting nervously again.
They were really too nervous. From their perspective, there were Tang Army planes everywhere, and there were dangerous bombs and torpedoes everywhere.
"Keep turning! Don't stop!" Rushing to the side with the torpedoes, Mirage raised his telescope, looked at the white tracks on the sea, and ordered loudly.
This time he did not need to make a snake maneuver, but was forced to continue turning in circles: although he was very confident in his battleship, he still did not think that he could withstand a torpedo attack.
With the rapid turn, this giant ship with a tonnage of over 10,000 tons even began to tilt violently. A white trace followed the bow of the turning battleship and crossed the battleship's route.
Mirage Haiang let out a sigh of relief. This time he escaped another fatal attack. It seems that the experience of the carrier-based aircraft pilots of the Tang Empire was not very good, leaving many opportunities for the Mirage Navy to escape.
"Bang! Bah! Bah!" On the side of the battleship, densely packed anti-aircraft guns were firing at the sky. It was a spectacular sight.
It is a pity that although the Mirage Navy has certain air defense experience and certain air defense preparations, they still do not do their best at the technical level.
One of them is: Under normal circumstances, anti-aircraft artillery interception operations require unified command. It is obviously not feasible to rely on individual anti-aircraft guns to run and attack themselves.
On the one hand, we must consider that each anti-aircraft gun position requires ammunition supply and loading time, and on the other hand, we must also consider the issue of target coordination.
In short, air defense operations without unified command and fire control coordination are just fun and useless.
Most of the time, the main function of the seemingly densely packed anti-aircraft guns on the battleship is not to shoot down the invading enemy planes, but to interfere with the enemy planes and close the most comfortable bombing zone for the enemy planes.
In other words, it is to force the enemy aircraft to drop bombs in advance or miss the opportunity to drop bombs, so as to ensure that one's own warships can avoid attacks and escape.
But the Mirage Navy's anti-aircraft guns cannot do this. They fire randomly, choose their own targets to attack, and most of the time they fight independently.
It is not that there are no air command equipment on the Mirage warships, but the level of coordination in this area is limited, far from being able to accurately dispatch each anti-aircraft gun.
Therefore, the seemingly intensive firepower did not have the desired effect. The carrier-based aircraft of the Tang Empire also gradually found their own feeling in the melee.
In fact...it was the second batch of attack aircraft groups from the Tang Army that arrived!
More carrier-based aircraft appeared on the battlefield, suddenly causing the already chaotic Mirage cruiser squadron to be completely confused.
The formation of the fleet began to disperse due to the need to avoid torpedoes, and the pattern of mutual cover was broken. Whether it was dive bombers or torpedo attack aircraft, the number of attack opportunities began to increase.
"Torpedo! Torpedo!" When the sailor observing the sea shouted again, Mirage felt that his head was going to explode.
He grabbed the guardrail and looked at the distant scene, where two more deadly white tracks appeared. Two torpedoes were heading straight towards the stern of his battleship. It seemed that he could avoid one of them if he kept the course.
"Full starboard rudder! Full starboard rudder!" He turned around and shouted crazily at his helmsman. In the process, a bright light suddenly appeared on the side of a turning cruiser in the distance.
of flame.
Immediately afterwards, a deafening loud noise was heard amidst the blasts of anti-aircraft guns.
"The Baiye has been hit! The Baiye has been hit!" the lookout shouted loudly, pointing to the sea in the distance. Following the direction pointed by his finger, the battleship that had just exploded on its side,
The hull began to tilt rapidly.
The cruiser, which had very average defense capabilities, had obviously lost the strength to struggle after being hit by a torpedo.
It was like a dead fish, gradually turning over, and the tall buildings and chimneys in the middle of the ship began to fall toward the sea.
Immediately afterwards, the cruiser named Baiye began to break in the middle of the hull, and one of the three chimneys eventually broke and overturned into the sea due to tilt and structural collapse.
Even at such a distance, you can still clearly see people on the battleship starting to jump into the sea, and the red draft paint on the other side of the battleship is gradually revealed...
This is the first warship lost by the Mirage Navy today, but it looks like it is definitely not the last one...
Finally, six Mirage Zero fighters appeared over the battlefield: due to lack of ground guidance, they actually flew to the wrong place.
They first saw the Tang Empire's destroyer squadron in the distance, and then found their own fleet. As soon as they arrived, they saw one of their own cruisers explode and then roll over.
Before they could react, the Tang Empire pirate fighter jets that had been patrolling high in the sky swooped down like circling vultures.
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Long Ling saw everyone's messages... I'm ashamed... There will be an update anyway today, but it will be very late, so everyone should get up and read it tomorrow morning.