Chapter five hundred and seventy fourth frigate Liwei
No matter what Nagumo Chuichi's motives were, he finally grasped the gist of the Timor Sea battle. Of course, the first goal of a battle between aircraft carrier fleets is to sink the opponent's aircraft carrier. Once an aircraft carrier sinks, it means that the aircraft carrier
The fighters on board will lose the possibility of being recovered. What's more, the party that owns the aircraft carrier will have the ability to launch long-range pursuit and strikes, and can provoke a battle without threatening its own fleet. And without
The aircraft carrier side can only be passively beaten, and if it does not receive reinforcements from the aviation force, its destruction will only be a matter of time. In this regard, Chen Shichang's strategy actually has problems. Of course, because Nagumo Tadashi
He no longer had a mobile fighter group or a mobile fleet group, and even if he realized it, it was already too late. The last series of orders he issued actually became the Yamato aircraft carrier fleet's final struggle to escape the fate of failure.
The frigates of the Xuebing Army currently fall under one category - the "Hengshan class". This type of ship is divided into three types according to displacement. The one with a displacement of 2108 tons is the first model produced, and the one with a displacement of 2686 tons is the latest model. The displacement is
The 2,213-ton frigates are transformed from some old destroyers from the French Far East Fleet. The three categories of frigates have different displacements, but their armaments are almost the same. They are all equipped with 12 Poseidon missiles, plus three more
Rocket turret and several machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns. The Hengshan-class frigate does not have a main battery, which is the biggest difference between this type of ship and ships of the same class in other countries. This is related to the positioning given to it by Ouyang Yun.
To refute the words of Chen Ce and others: The key to frigates is to provide anti-submarine and air defense cover for main battleships, and does not require long-range artillery.
Nagumo Tadashi took a look and realized that the Hengshan-class frigates of the Pacific Fleet were still a type of destroyer. But in Abe Koki's eyes, he didn't take this small ship of about two thousand tons at all. Abe Koki despised the Hengshan-class frigates.
It's not because he has an arrogant personality, but compared to the heavy cruiser he commands, the Hengshan-class frigate is really inconspicuous.
Abe Koki's flagship is the Nachi heavy cruiser. This type of ship is not the best among the heavy cruisers. Its ability to become a flagship depends on the ship's historical honor. Because it participated in the battle in December of the third year of Showa
The Grand Ship Viewing Ceremony held in Yokohama during Emperor Showa's enthronement ceremony was often taken seriously by Japanese naval officers, and was therefore repeatedly designated as the flagship of a certain fleet.
The performance parameters of the Nachi heavy cruiser are not outstanding among the Japanese heavy cruisers, but compared with the Hengshan-class frigates, it is also overwhelming. The displacement is 13,000 tons; the main gun is 203 mm in diameter.
Ten doors - these alone are far beyond the comparison of the Hengshan-class frigates. This is why Abe ignores the Hengshan-class frigates.
However, the first thing to inflict serious damage to Abe was the Hengshan-class frigate that he ignored.
If you take a bird's eye view from the air, you will see that the fleets of both warring parties are showing such a change. The fleets of both sides are gradually divided into two clusters - some giant battleships begin to decrease, while some large battleships and small battleships are rushing towards each other.
, the distance between the giant ship cluster and the mixed cluster composed of large battleships and small battleships became farther and farther. When the mixed clusters of both sides collided, the sea was actually divided into three new clusters. The ships of both sides collided.
In the fierce fighting in the sea, there are clusters of tumbling and entangled fighter planes in the sky. The sound of gunfire on the sea surface, the fireworks caused by the explosion of large artillery shells, the huge lang, coupled with the smoke from the battleship chimney and the fighter engine, the explosion of the fighter planes.
Balls of fire, smoke, and lines of fire formed by tracer bullets intertwined among them. The scene in this area was like hell.
Following the example of the three frigate groups in the Pacific Fleet, the five frigates under the command of Li Zhuoqi took the lead in entering the attack state. The two heavy cruisers located 35 kilometers southeast of them became the first attack target. Li Zhuoqi
Under unified command, as he gave the order: "Fight!" the frigate he was on opened fire first, with a muffled "bang" sound, and then a "pop" sound, and a Poseidon missile flew with an orange tail flame.
Out. Although the Hengshan-class frigate is small in tonnage, it has high technological content. The most outstanding feature is that this type of ship is equipped with a new type of sea defense radar and a supporting fire control system. Through this set of equipment, it is responsible for the learning of missiles and rocket launchers.
Soldiers can easily obtain the coordinates of the target object, and then add weather and other factors into the calculation to obtain a more accurate launch angle.
The flight trajectory of the missile was too obvious, so when the missile was still about fifteen kilometers away from the target enemy ship, it was discovered by the Japanese soldiers. The missile was still a strange object to the Japanese soldiers, and they took it for granted that it was
The shells, shells of such a caliber, scared the Japanese on the target enemy ship. The missile was still about ten kilometers away from them, so they screamed in unison. However, this missile seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on them.
Three thousand meters away from them, they lost power and fell into the sea.
Both Li Zhuoqi and Abe Hongyi used telescopes to monitor the missile. When Li Zhuoqi saw this, he cursed angrily: "Damn it!" while Abe Hongyi breathed softly: "Eight grids!"
"Can a destroyer fire shells of such a caliber?" behind Abe, the captain of the Nachi, Shibuya Shiro, asked.
"It should have been launched by the Chinese heavy cruiser!" Abe replied.
Not far behind Li Zhuoqi's command, there were several heavy patrol ships.
Shibuya Shiro frowned slightly and thought: Am I being blinded? He shook his head as he thought.
After Li Zhuoqi cursed bitterly, he issued another order: "One shot per ship, launch!"
"Yes!" "Received!" "Launch!"...
The five frigates launched at the same time, and the five Poseidon missiles took off one after another, drawing a beautiful arc in the air and rushing past the two heavy cruisers running at the front.
This time, Abe Koki also saw clearly where the "cannonball" came from, and he couldn't help but be startled.
Shibuya Shiro put down the telescope and said loudly: "Sir, it was those destroyers that launched it!"
Abe said in a deep voice: "Order the first heavy patrol to attack them!"
The first heavy patrol team was composed of the two heavy cruisers targeted by Li Zhuoqi and the others. The two Japanese captains received Abe's order and were conveying it to the artillery. A Poseidon roared over and hit the ship on the left wing of the fleet.
A violent explosion occurred on the heavy cruiser's island. A huge mushroom cloud rose up, and with a thunderous explosion, the ship's island, including the Japanese inside, was torn into pieces. Following closely, another
There were two Poseidon targets, one of which hit the main gun mount of another heavy cruiser, directly causing the shells and propellant in the main gun chamber to explode - a rumbling explosion, and the shell was
The main gun and the gun mount were overturned directly into the sea, and the heavy cruiser also burned violently.