"They turned! They are escaping into the distance..." In the cockpit of a Stuka dive bomber that had run out of bombs, the pilot stared at the enemy ship at his feet and said.
In the earphones, the voice of the pilot from another plane came: "It was easier than expected, they did not perform evasive maneuvers!"
"I just said that the instructors thought they were too smart! They have never seen an airplane, how could they practice evasive maneuvers in advance?" At the same time, some pilots also complained.
In fact, in the era of sailing battleships, the navies of various countries still had some corresponding tactics. However, the upgrading of battleships made such tactics disappear.
The Datang Group developed the ironclad warship, which was so far ahead in terms of speed, defense and firepower that it turned naval warfare into a chase game.
After various countries upgraded to new types of ironclad ships, they actually did not fully understand the tactics corresponding to this new type of warships.
To put it bluntly, they are not very good at using this new type of warship, and they have not fully adapted to the new type of naval battle. Including the naval battle between the Poplar Kingdom and the Pinewood Kingdom, the losses on both sides remained high because their tactics were basically rigid.
Everyone will just go up to each other and deal direct damage to each other, pouring firepower on each other at a very close distance, which is no different from the fighting method in the sailing era.
In such an environment, all kinds of naval warfare tactics have actually degenerated. In a very short period of time, everyone seems to have forgotten what naval warfare was like before.
Another warship was hit by a bomb and caught fire, and was paralyzed in place, waiting to sink. After it exploded, the entire hull was tilting to one side, and the warship's roll had reached an irreversible point.
Soon, the mast of the battleship fell sideways into the sea water. The corpses and debris on the deck slid into the sea water along the deck. The hull below was exposed out of the water. There were not many barnacles on the hull.
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Cyric has always been producing warships at full capacity. The most produced by their shipyard is the Cyric destroyer built to compete with Datang Industrial's simple destroyers.
These warships are favored by various countries because of their stronger firepower. Everyone is purchasing them like crazy, and the number used exceeds the simple destroyers of the Datang Group.
The new warship had just been built, and it was bombed and sunk here before even the barnacles had time to overflow. It is really regrettable and heartbreaking.
If these steels can be given to the Tang State, then dozens of tanks can be produced, and it seems that they can arm an armored regiment.
Not far from the capsized battleship, another larger cruiser was slowly sinking.
Compared with Cyric's destroyer, Cyric's cruiser seemed to be a little stronger. It did not capsize or break, it was just sinking slowly, that's all.
Unlike those scenes of tragic explosions and distortions and fractures, this battleship was quite lucky. Its ammunition depot was not exploded, and its power compartment was relatively intact.
Only a hole was blown out of the side, and sea water was pouring in. No one could stop this from happening, because everyone on the ship had already abandoned the ship and jumped into the sea.
There were fallen soldiers floating everywhere on the sea. Some of these sailors were gathered together, and some were scattered around.
Fortunately, when today's battleships sink, there won't be a lot of oil stains leaked out, and it won't be so disgusting that you can spit out your overnight meal after taking a sip of sea water.
A Butcher fighter jet began to dive, and the sailors floating on the sea could finally clearly hear the roar of the aircraft's engine and the sound of the aircraft splitting the airflow as it dived.
Even if the howling device is not installed, the plane's dive actually makes a sound. It's just not as harsh or scary.
This butcher fighter pointed its nose at a battleship, and then began to fire wildly. The cannon shells it fired extended from the tail end of the battleship to the bow of the battleship.
A group of poor soldiers holding rifles and cocking bolts on the deck were shrouded in fire from these two strings of machine gun bullets, and they were immediately thrown off their feet.
The soldier who was lucky enough to survive was so frightened that his legs trembled, and he watched helplessly as his comrade whose arm was blown off by a machine gun bullet fell to the deck and howled loudly.
The machine gun bullets hit the deck and splashed wood chips with astonishing lethality. A soldier with a piece of wood stuck in his face was wailing and groping on the deck. His face was covered in blood, and he looked extremely scary.
The body hanging on the railing of the ship was swept away by the waves. There was still someone desperately calling for help. It was not known whether he was injured or whether his comrades were hit.
The frightened Cyric sailor stumbled to his feet, hurriedly picked up the Cyric Type 1 rifle that had been dropped beside him, and then regardless of the seawater on his face, he pulled the bolt and raised the rifle to target.
Target the sky.
He had been really fired up by the strafing just now, and now his anger had overcome his fear. He had forgotten his fear, and he desperately wanted to shoot down an enemy plane and let out a good sigh of relief.
Unfortunately, when he pointed his weapon at the sky again, the Butcher fighter jet that dived and strafed him had drifted away and started to climb.
"Bang!" He pulled the trigger at the target that was getting smaller in the distance, trying to hit a plane that had gone away purely by feel on the swaying deck of the battleship.
Unfortunately, all this was in vain. He did not see his bullet, nor did he see anything wrong with the departing plane.
Just when he was observing intently, trying to confirm whether the shot he just fired had any effect, behind him, another Butcher fighter jet had already started its second round of strafing.
Continuous machine gun shells hit the deck, splashing a piece of wood chips. Hearing the sound, Cyric's soldiers turned around and saw two rows of bullet holes on the deck extending towards his feet.
The soldier, who had no time to react, just stood there, being sieved by the flying pieces of wood.
His body fell straight down, and together with the other bodies around him, they were piled on the deck full of blood.
Facts have proved that it is really not a good idea for soldiers to go to the deck with single-shot rifles to fight the aircraft. Although occasionally a bullet hole can be left in the aircraft through luck, it is completely meaningless to the entire war situation.
But you still have to struggle. The soldiers standing on the deck now are not thinking about shooting down all the planes to win this victory, but to make the warship they are on look more difficult to mess with and make those planes give up attacking.
My own plan is to bomb other ships.
This is just like when you meet a cheetah, you don't have to run faster than the cheetah, you just need to outrun your companions...
"Boom!" Another Stuka swooped down and dropped the bomb on the deck, which was full of blood and corpses.
Two seconds later, a huge explosion blew away most of the bridge, and the battleship's chimney also collapsed to one side. Another battleship just broke away from the fleet, gradually slowed down, and finally became motionless, lying on the sea and sinking little by little.
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Compared with the bombs that hit the battleships, more bombs were actually thrown into the sea. After all, training is training and actual combat is actual combat. In fact, the two are not the same concept at all.
The pilots who had only experienced bombing training were able to achieve such brilliant results in their first sea attack. It was not actually how powerful they were, it was just that their opponents were worse.
What's the saying? It all depends on the support of peers: When naval commanders have not yet learned the S-shaped maneuver, a high hit rate in bombing is nothing new.
However, there are still some smart people, and soon one of Cyric's destroyers began to turn. It was not known whether it was to escape from the fleet, or simply to confuse the opponent in the sky.
The destroyer turned to avoid a bomb that hit it. After the bomb hit the water, the Cyric destroyer turned again and changed its course!
You couldn't tell when it turned for the first time, but the two consecutive turns gave the pilots who dropped the bombs a clue: the opponent was self-taught and improvised a way to avoid the bombs.
Although the speed is low and there are not many anti-aircraft machine guns to provide protection, these two consecutive maneuvers still reflect the strong desire for survival of the captain and commander on this destroyer.
However, this Cyric destroyer's sudden inspiration is not a common phenomenon. Most of the warships in the Cyric attack fleet are still dull and look like idiots who are passively beaten.
As a result, the follow-up Stuka bombers, which cared about efficiency, abandoned the snake-skinned destroyer and rushed towards the dumbfounded targets.
Soon, another warship caught fire and exploded, and the blown parts even fell on the deck of another nearby warship.
This is the first air-to-sea battle in the history of the world, and it is obviously a complete victory for the air force: so far, not a single plane has been shot down, but seven or eight warships have been sunk!
The soldiers who fell into the water looked up at the sky and watched the vulture-like enemy planes chasing after their own warships, feeling indescribable in their hearts.
Their own future is even more uncertain, because they don't even know if a ship will come to fish them out.
If you float on the sea for a long time, even if you can swim, you will be finished sooner or later - they do not have enough life-saving equipment, and the small boats on the battleship have long since sunk to the bottom of the sea with the ship.
Soon the sharks will arrive and bite the corpses floating on the sea. Then they will be attracted by the living people floating in the water and try to improve their meals.
"Help! Help me! I don't want to die!" Finally, someone couldn't bear the pressure and began to cry. They waved their hands to the sky, hoping that someone would notice them in the water.
Although the chance is slim, they can at least... have a one-in-a-million chance of survival.
