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Chapter 1390 Hunters Over Hampton (Second Change, Please Subscribe)
Eastern Time, April 21 at 39:10, about [-] minutes after the declaration of war.

The torpedo attack team skimmed the calm anchorage of Hampton anchorage at low altitude, and the six dreadnought battleships were parked from the berth in the middle of the berth. As for the old pre-dreadnought battleships... they simply ignored them.

The sailors lying on the bow deck of the "Virginia" who were cleaning the deck with talc, after hearing the roar from a distance, all looked up in the direction of the sound with some doubts.

"What it is?"

With surprised eyes, people watched a group of weird-looking things with two wings flying towards the warship almost touching the sea, and the American sailors on board couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"What's flying in the sky?"

Before the sailors figured out what was going on, they saw something suddenly dropped under the belly of the leading plane.After the torpedo stirred up large waves on the sea surface, it dragged its wake and headed towards the "Virginia" at high speed.At the same time, the aircraft that completed the bombing quickly pulled up.

One, two, three!
The American sailors who haven't figured out what's going on just watched those "monsters" drop torpedoes in front of their eyes.

"Boom..." When the rapidly climbing plane passed the "Virginia", the strong air current blew off the hats of the sailors and woke them up at the same time.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack..."

I don't know who yelled first. Although the American sailors who came back from their souls were a little dazed, they still rushed towards their respective posts.The extremely rigorous training they had received on the voyage around the world was immediately apparent at this time.

However, even if they rush to their posts, what can they do?
At this moment, the torpedo accurately hit the warship with a "boom", accompanied by a loud noise,
The warship shook violently.

Then there was another loud noise, and the American officers and soldiers who were knocked to the ground in the violent shaking looked at each other in blank dismay. What's wrong?
The ammunition depot on that warship exploded?
Almost no one thought it would be an enemy attack.

Enemy attack?

How is this possible?
"Quick! Enemy attack!"

Major General Robin shouted excitedly. Following the officer's shout, the officers who had reacted got up and ran towards the outside desperately. At this time, two consecutive loud noises accompanied by violent shaking shook them Once again fell to the ground.

Four of the torpedoes dropped by the six torpedo attack planes at a distance of less than 300 meters hit the starboard side of the "Virginia" in less than 3 minutes. But sooner or later.

Compared with the "Virginia" and the "Kentucky" which was moored next to it, it was no luck. The [-]th Squadron responsible for attacking him found that it was moored on the left side of the "Virginia" and there was not enough space on the starboard side to drop bombs. Pounced on other targets, leaving it to the bomber force for the second round of attack.

In the restaurant of the "Kentucky", the sailors who were dining and were stunned by the explosion all stood there in a daze, as if they were waiting for the orders of the officers.Just then a sailor rushed in.

"Quick, quick! We're bombed! Quick! Quick!"

The sailors who reacted rushed towards the outside of the restaurant, and the harsh siren sounded.

"Tom, tom, tom..."

The U.S. sailors of the "Kentucky" responded and manipulated the 30mm anti-airship gun to shoot at the target in the air. Although the anti-airship gun had a fast rate of fire, its trajectory was very curved.Those shells dragging the fire dragon to the sky are not only difficult to hit the fast-flying aircraft, but also its gun mount rotates slowly, making it difficult to adjust the firing range in a hurry. It only shoots the fire dragon that spreads out, but it cannot cause substantial damage to the aircraft. threat.

In contrast, the machine gunner's strafing on the plane was even more deadly. Under the machine gunner's strafing, dead and wounded sailors were everywhere on the deck, and blood flowed along the gaps in the deck.

The strange way of warfare is something they have never seen before, even the plane... They have never seen it before today.

In just a few minutes, the US Navy fleet moored at Hampton anchorage suffered unprecedented losses.

The starboard side of the "Virginia" was hit by four torpedoes successively. Because the damage control personnel were not in place and the command failed, it tilted seriously in just a few minutes. Before the captain ordered water injection to maintain balance, half of the bottom of the ship was exposed. On the surface of the sea, the warship turned upside down.

The "Pennsylvania" and "Michigan" were hit by three and five torpedoes respectively, but because the officer on duty ordered water injection in time to maintain balance, they slowly sank into the 16-meter-deep harbor after the water injection.

The five battleships USS Maine, USS Massachusetts, USS Minnesota, USS New Jersey, and USS Maryland were hit by one or two torpedoes respectively. In the face of air strikes, these are the world's first-class dreadnoughts There was almost no room for the battleship to fight back. When the sailors fired back with anti-airship guns, they could only desperately save the battleship.

When the torpedo fleet was about to complete its attack mission, the bomber fleet that had finished circling and strafing was about to enter the bombing course. At this time, the anti-airship guns on the ship formed a barrage of barrages in the sky above the fleet.The bomber fleet was full of anti-airship shells trailing flames.

Even so, the bombers were still approaching the target at full speed. Xu Gang, the pilot of the First Attack Team, set his sights on the "Rhode Island". On his port side was the "Virginia" that had turned upside down.After aiming at the target, when he started to dive, he pressed down on the sight, and the "cross" line of sight accurately aimed at the "Rhode Island", and it was already moving slowly.

While the target was constantly zooming in, Xu Gang yanked the bomb release handle, and with a "click!", the moment the bomb was dropped, the heavy fuselage instantly became much lighter.

An armor-piercing aerial bomb weighing 300 kilograms fell on the "Rhode Island"...

Suddenly, an earth-shattering explosion occurred on the "Rhode Island".For a while, thick smoke billowed, and the explosion's smoke column was more than a thousand meters high. This black and red fire column almost made the air fighters feel the impact. Under the impact of the shock wave, the plane swayed violently. The aircraft regained balance from the shake.

Then they all stared at the thousand-meter-high smoke cloud in the sky with their mouths wide open.

"Sir, look, that, that..."

The excited people looked at the smoke column and couldn't even speak, but Lu Deren shouted excitedly.

"Great! It must have hit the ship's ammunition bay! It's that one..."

Although the armor-piercing route can occasionally penetrate the armored deck of tens of millimeters during dive bombing, that's it. After all, even the horizontal armor of warships in this era is almost nonexistent, but the multi-storey cabin is still very large. The armor-piercing power of the armor-piercing aerial bomb has been weakened.

Most of the time, armor-piercing aerial bombs explode in the cabin, causing damage to the warship from the inside.

Only by chance, there is a chance to penetrate near the ammunition depot, and the warship of this era, although the ammunition depot is below the waterline, but the top is not protected by armor plate, the bomb just hit the position between the two turrets , After the explosion, the violent explosion directly detonated the nearby ammunition depot.

"The Rhode Island! It's the Rhode Island!"

The pilots shouted excitedly, but outsiders couldn't hear their shouts.In the era without radio communication equipment, they can only vent their inner excitement by shouting loudly.

In addition to being excited, all of them became more and more frantic.Like a hunter smelling blood.

At this time, for the fledgling Imperial Naval Aviation, what they were engaged in was no longer a battle, but a hunt, and the entire Hampton anchorage was their hunting ground.

Although the anti-airship guns on warships pose a certain threat to them, the pilots are still like hunters, constantly aiming and attacking. Sometimes because there is no suitable timing for bombing, they will fly over the target, and then adjust the angle to start from the beginning. Again, they are like being on the training ground, except that the former targets have become battleships.

During combat, some air formations dropped bombs, and some missed the timing of aiming.Even some of the squadrons entered three or four times successively, but still failed to succeed. This also gave the American gunners on the ship a chance. They seized the opportunity to sway shells at the plane when the plane entered the bombing dive again. , the moment one or two fire dragons hit the plane, the plane dragged black smoke and fell towards the sea...

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