1825 My New Daming

Chapter 305 Oh my god, Yingyi has a suicide plane! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

The flagship of the "First Air War", the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shuzhongwang.

"Junmen, the Hongwu Emperor sent an urgent message, and found the battleship formation and airship formation of Yingyi in the Great Strait. Among them, the battleship formation consisted of 10 new battleships with five turrets, which should be often mentioned in the Yingyi equipment bulletin. Victory level. Close the military gate to remind us to be careful"

Inside the bridge, Guo Xiaobao, the chief staff officer of the First Air War, was holding the telegram he had just received, and was reporting to Zhuge Weidao.Zhuge Weidao, on the other hand, held up a large pair of binoculars and looked at the fat and big airship in the sky with the eye-catching "cross red stripe" logo on its tail.

This airship flew a bit high, and it couldn't hit it with anti-aircraft guns or 20mm anti-aircraft cannons.The 75mm guns and 155mm guns on the ship are enough, but there are no radio proximity fuzes and fixed-altitude fuzes, and they have to be hit directly to shoot down.It's not easy!

As for using a plane to fight, it seems that it is a bit out of reach.It seems that the next step is to increase the practical ceiling of the aircraft and develop the fixed altitude fuze.

Zhuge Weidao was thinking about his own thoughts, and after listening to Guo Xiaobao's report, he didn't seem to pay much attention to the warships and airships that appeared in the Treg Strait. He just put down his binoculars and asked, "How far are we from the Great Strait?" ?”

"About 50 nautical miles." The navigator of the fleet replied.

Ma Xuchen, Chief of Staff of the First Aviation War, asked: "Junmen, do you want to send a battle patrol team to test it out?"

"No need." Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "They have 10 cutting-edge battleships, mostly with 12-inch cannons, a total of 100! The battlecruiser team is 8x4, a total of 32 300mm cannons, and only the opponent's cannons 3%, can't beat it."

其实胜利级最多只能向一个侧舷投入8门12英寸炮，而忠王级的4座炮台都能指向一侧，也是8门300毫米炮。所以两者的火力几乎是相等的但是4比10，优势还是在敌人一边。

Although the Zhongwang class is very fast, with a rated speed of 24 knots, it is no problem to run at 26 knots with forced ventilation.But the cutting-edge battleships of the British will not be too slow. There must be a rating of 20 knots, and there should be no problem with the forced ventilation of 2 knots.The speed advantage of a mere three quarters is of little use when fighting in formation, and it cannot reverse the huge disadvantage in numbers.

And the British still have at least 10 battleships, so I don't know where they are?If it escapes after being beaten halfway, it will be a big trouble.

Zhuge Weidao thought about it and said: "Now the enemy is strong and we are weak. We can't rush to a decisive battle. But everything has advantages and disadvantages. It is also good for us to meet the main force of the British and Indian fleet west of the Strait of Malacca. This shows that the Persian Gulf fleet is now safe. !
As long as we can maintain our existence west of the Strait of Malacca with high speed and not be driven or defeated by the British and Yi, the large fleet of the British and Yi will not dare to easily enter the Strait of Malacca and fight at the Guanjun Gate.And we can also use planes to bomb the logistics supply fleet of the British and Indian fleet. Their huge fleet must carry a large number of ammunition ships, coal ships, and supply ships.And Yingyi hasn't invested too much in high-speed transport ships in the past two years, so most of those ships are slow. We can linger with the British while looking for opportunities to attack them by air.

And we don't need to stay in this area for too long, as long as we drag it on for a few days, we can block off the narrow middle section of the Strait of Malacca with shallow water heavy gunboats and mines. It's broken, and the British and Indian troops in Malaya will still be attacked!
In this way, it will take another two months at most, and the Nanyang Army will be able to win the entire Malay Peninsula.As soon as the Malay Peninsula is won, we will be alive! "

Hearing Zhuge Weidao's analysis, Ma Xuchen, Guo Xiaobao, and Wang Wen all frowned slightly.

The First Air War has high speed and aircraft, and it is no problem to send planes to attack their supply fleet in the east of the Strait of Malacca to deal with the British fleet. Isn't that what the First Air War is for?
As for Guan Tianpei commanding the main force of the Nanyang Fleet to block the middle section of the Strait of Malacca, it is easy to say that the waters near Luba Island, where the Nanyang Fleet severely attacked the British armored cruiser formation, are not open. It is only 37 kilometers wide. It is no problem to block it with mines, shallow water gunboats, and torpedo boats. .

But can the Army take the Malay Peninsula in 2 months?

The blockade line established by the Nanyang Fleet on Luba Island cut off the waterway traffic between Malacca City and Temasek Island at most, but it could not cut off the entire logistics line of the Malay, British and Indian troops. Ports such as Tianjin provide logistical supplies for the 10,000+ army in Malaya!

This battle is a bit difficult!

"Order the Royal Navy Air Force to attack!"

On the Victory, Lieutenant General James Hood read the telegram sent by George Elliot, and immediately made a decision to launch an air strike!
"Discover the attack now?"

"Lieutenant General, the distance is still too far. Even if we send a destroyer to rush over immediately, it will take an hour and a half to arrive. Our pilot may have to soak in the sea for an hour or two before he can be rescued."

In fact, the person who said this is very aware of how low the probability of "falling into the sea and being rescued" is. Unless it is flying to the side of one's own ship and falling into the sea, then the people on the ship will quickly come to fish, and the problem will not be big.

Otherwise, if you soak in the water for an hour or two and don't mention feeding the sharks, even if the sharks in the Indian Ocean have no appetite today, it will be difficult for the destroyers who arrive later to find the flying warriors soaked in the vast sea.

So. Hood actually sent his men a suicide mission!

"Then soak for an hour or two!" James Hood said very firmly. "We can't wait any longer. The enemy has already found us, and most of them know that we have found them. So they will speed up their escape at any time! The Chinese Steam engines and steam turbines have always been better than ours! So their cutting-edge battleships must be very fast, and we can’t catch up. If we can’t damage them with man-operated glide bombs to slow down their speed, the next high-speed battleship will be The main fleet will become a nightmare for our rear and front lines!"

Hood glanced at the staff around him, and said again: "Order. Also, tell the boys in the airship unit that the British Empire needs them to defend!"

"Yes, sir!"

Hood's order was quickly sent to George Elliot and the 15 airships in the sky filled with "suicide glide bombs" via radio waves!

And the "bomb pilots" on those airships are all good guys recruited from Ireland with high salaries. Although they haven't studied much, they all love the British Empire and Emperor William. Even if they are Catholics and Irish , but still determined to defend their motherland with their lives!

Of course, the British Empire will not let them defend their military pay in vain, and the additional rewards given by the emperor of the Indian Empire are sufficient.If they could get back to Ireland alive, that would be enough to spend their lives as squires.

Plus, these great guys don't know how hard it is to get people out of the sea.In previous training, very few of them were missing.The salvage team sent by the airship mothership will almost [-]% pick them up from the warm sea, and they haven't seen any sharks
So these great guys are all high-spirited, looking at the "first voyage battle" sailing in formation [-] nautical miles away, they are a little eager to try.

And the officers of the airship unit are all Northern Irish Protestants who "like" the Irish the most. At this time, they all told these "great guys" in an encouraging tone, "His Majesty the Emperor has prepared a bonus of 1000 pounds for each of you." !Anyone who successfully hits an enemy battleship will be given another 3000 pounds! Major General Elliot is watching you from the sky, do your best! God bless you, let's go now!"

"Yes, sir!"

The "bomb operators" with high morale were fooled into the "magazine" of the unfolded "gliding bomb", and then pushed out of the cabin by the airship soldiers one by one, and began to soar in the air. It also frightened the airship soldiers of the Ming army who followed these airships to scout!
"My God! So, what is that? There seems to be a bomb under the hang glider! There are people flying!"

"It's a suicide glide bomb. Send a telegram, the British are crazy! They have suicide planes!"

(End of this chapter)