The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The design indicators of the "Montana-class" battleship are very strong!

As a new-generation battleship that does not compromise on the width of the Panama Canal, its standard displacement rose to 36.9 tons after its width reached 65000 meters in one fell swoop. , still using the mature 50 times diameter 406mm triple-mounted main gun, four seats and 12 guns, which makes the main ammunition release unprecedentedly powerful and dense, and the accuracy, range, and rate of fire have all been significantly improved!

The update of the power system ensures that it can sail at a high speed of 33 knots.The resistance to ocean wind and waves is increased, the stability when shooting is increased, and the aiming speed is restored during salvo, which is far better than the previous models.

What is particularly prominent is that the space of the hull is fully utilized, and the thickness of the key protective armor box is greatly enhanced.The total armor thickness of the side main armor, turret main armor, bridge main armor and waterproof compartment is at least 16 inches, and the largest is 18 inches high!Not only is it at the same level as the Yamato class, but the overall performance has been qualitatively improved!

Because it was built immediately after the Iowa class, the targets were Japan's Yamato and China's Kunlun. With the acceleration of segmented manufacturing technology, it was only less than a year behind, and two ships were launched into service.If it hadn't been for Zhu Bin's continuous bombing for a full year in the middle, which seriously disrupted its construction plan, a total of five ships would have been built by this fall, fully reflecting the high level of American industrial speed!

Now, the Montana-class battleship is put into actual combat for the first time, and it has encountered a full test!The 36 gun-launched missiles launched by Yuanfang's design opponent, the Kunlun class, hit the "Ohio" hard in the first salvo!

In an instant, an earth-shattering violent explosion exploded dozens of brilliant fireballs ferociously up and down, up and down, around the battleship. In the dawn light, it seemed that a round of sun was rising on the Atlantic Ocean.Brilliant and dazzling!

After shelling, the total weight of the missile is only about 500 kilograms. The terminal warhead is only a mere [-] kilograms, and the charge is only a dozen kilograms.The kinetic energy level can't keep up, but the accuracy has increased many times, almost all within the range of hits and near misses, giving this battleship a gorgeous bath!

In an instant, the teak plank laid on the deck shattered into tens of thousands of fragments, igniting brilliant sparks with the rising of the orange flame, and the hula la sprayed with the wind to spread the sea surface; It ruthlessly knocked open the surface layer of the horizontal armor, but it could only gather energy downwards to destroy the second compartment, shooting out a large number of fragments and scattering it in all directions.Sweeping the weak structures inside, billowing thick smoke recoiled out, creating a series of terrifying scenes!

For the rest, when the warheads hit the main armor belt, turret, bridge, etc., the explosion occurred on the surface, and some depressions of different depths were barely formed on the surface of the steel plate, but it was not enough to cause damage to the steel plate structure. Large groups of traces are like splashed ink of naughty children.Only two of the double 127 secondary guns with slightly lower armor thickness were destroyed, and a bunch of anti-aircraft guns densely packed on one side of the forest were blown away.For the rest, almost unscathed!

All crew members were on and off the concealed battleship, only to feel a burst of intense roar, which was so fast that it could not be concealed. The large hull shook slightly, and with the impact of the explosion, some of the outer cabins.The crew members were so shocked that their heads were dazzled, their heads were dizzy, and their feet were almost unsteady, but they were barely able to stick to their posts!

The captain staying in the bridge command room was startled by the explosion in front of him!But after experiencing the strength of the impact, he immediately calmed down.Grasping the handrail and bravely staring ahead, waited until all the fireworks were tumbling upwards, only a small amount of fire was burning, and the smoke drifted away with the wind, and then asked in a steady voice: "All units report the damage immediately!"

"The main armor is intact!"

"The main turret is in good condition! The gun mantlet is normal! It works well and can be fired at any time!"

"The bridge was slightly damaged, one SG41 air search radar was seriously damaged, it is difficult to repair, and the rest are good!"

“c2、f1、h1副炮遭到破坏，暂时无法运转！40毫米高炮受损6座，20mm高炮受损三座！”

"One seaplane was blown up, the fire was quickly extinguished, the ejection trajectory was good...."

In just a few minutes, a series of reports were continuously collected in front of the captain. He glanced at them lightly and heaved a sigh of relief. Colonel James smiled and shouted in a convincing and steady voice: "We The armor is the best! Gentlemen, the Chinese shells cannot do us much damage!"

There was a burst of fierce cheers from all over the battleship!

On the flagship "Montana", Commander Nimitz got the report and knew that there was not much damage, so he couldn't help but let out a long breath. The scene of the explosion just now really scared him a lot!If it comes up, a capital ship will be lost first, and he doesn't know how to explain it to others, or keep calm.

However, the worry in my heart should not be revealed no matter what, the morale of the army is bad enough, it cannot be worse!

I continued to ask the reconnaissance planes and peripheral ships, but still no trace of the firing enemy ship was found. I don't know where the shells came from. This is the most terrible thing!

According to the general rule, those guys will not be too far away, and the crisis is just around the corner, but where should we defend ourselves?What a headache!

The scene of the explosion transmitted by the unmanned reconnaissance plane made Zhu Bin excited for a while, and then he found that the guy was just emitting thick smoke and continued to soar on the sea without making a decent hole. He slapped the table and cursed: "Why is this thing so powerful? It's outrageous! If I had known earlier, I would have given her a more powerful charge!"

The flagship gunner looked sideways and complained in his heart: "You old man is satisfied! Being able to use the main gun of a battleship to fire such an expensive special warhead is purely a waste of money! It was originally designed to deal with targets below lightly armored cruisers. Units, it’s a waste to use them to smash rough-skinned and thick-skinned battleships!”

Zhu Bin himself is very aware of this situation, but he just refuses to admit that he is messing around.The second wave of shells has not been fired for a long time. Apart from looking at the effect, I am also wondering whether it is a waste of emotion to do so.Simply observe the hit Ohio from all angles.

I have to admit that the structural shape of the Montana-class battleship is more beautiful and generous than the previous Iowa-class, the upward and outward bow is much more generous, and the four main turrets are evenly distributed.The extremely simple bridge is moderate in size and never bloated. It is like a great white shark swimming across the water. The densely built turrets are in line with Zhu Bin's aesthetic perception. This is what a violent weapon should look like!

The ratio of the 12 main guns is absolutely different from the old-fashioned Fuso class in Japan, which is powerful and stable, and cuts through the waves as fast as a galloping horse. All kinds of guns are suitable!

That's all.It is a worthy target. It must be smashed with a cannonball. It will feel great!

Five minutes later, Zhu Bin ordered the attack again!This time, it was still a salvo of subsonic anti-ship missiles! The 5 slender little guys were sticking to the surface of the sea, nimbly like petrels, skimming over the waves and making a bend.Turn around from the front of the head of the Nimitz fleet and rush to the escort fleet in front of it.

this time.Several reconnaissance planes finally lived up to their mission and found the terrifying figure, and screamed to warn the fleet. All the ships that had stretched their nerves to the limit did not say a word, and all the secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns exploded immediately, following the preset plan. , Thousands of thick and thin gun tubes blasted out shells and bullets in all directions.Splinterly interweaving most of the sea surface on the side into a dense, almost impenetrable death steel mesh wall!

Firenet intercepted!This is a proven tactic!Although the waste of shells is extremely serious and the strike effect is extremely mediocre, it is currently the only possible way for the US military to prevent missile strikes.Catch one is one!

The left side of the incomplete spindle-shaped array is covered with bullet rain, the airspace is as close as one kilometer and as far as 1 meters. The explosion of various shells and prefabricated fragments form a wave of fury that is almost like a steel storm. There are tons of them every second. The steel is flying wantonly in the air, wishing to cut every inch of space into pieces!

However, all these actions are mostly useless!

The long-range-guided anti-ship missile bypassed the left side, aimed at the bow of the opening ship from the front, pierced sharply from a height of about ten meters parallel to the sea surface, and easily slid into the edge of the intercepting fire net. Only four were hit. Injured, three plunged into the water, and the rest all hit the target!

A total of six US warships burst into astonishing flames scrambling to be the first!In the flash of the explosion, the hulls of thousands of tons and tens of thousands of tons jumped up violently. Tons of fragments disintegrated with the storm, and large pieces of the hull were torn off. Thousands of crew members were caught off guard, crushed and collapsed by the terrifying explosive force, killing them instantly!

"Oh! God!"

On several battleships, the generals who had witnessed all this with their own eyes let out a groan, watching a heavy cruiser being pierced by six missiles from different angles, and the majestic bridge was broken like a toy in the explosion. The flying Martian fireballs are as dazzling as fireworks, and the two seaplanes that were blown out of the catapults, half of their bodies dancing in the wind, are really weird!

Lightly armored units, encountering professional anti-ship missiles, will end in tragedy!The almost miraculous hit accuracy made people feel powerless from the bottom of their hearts.Whether it is the first time to participate in the battle, or a veteran who has suffered heavy blows many times, they all thoroughly understand the truth-in future naval battles, as long as they are discovered, the end may be destruction!

There was no time to pray and mourn for those poor guys, and the firepower net of the remaining ships immediately spread forward, covering the front half, hoping that this could block the killers that might come from behind.

But somehow, I finally figured out the location of the Chinese ships. For a while, hundreds of fighter planes circling in the sky swarmed towards the suspected area. In this way, the sneaky guys who might be hiding in the dark were found out-although they didn't see the exact target in front of them.

Seeing this posture, Zhu Bin couldn't help laughing: "Hey, the reaction speed is not slow! Then add fire to them!"

With a light wave of his hand, another wave of attacks followed.

In the aircraft carrier group far behind, dozens of twin-engine jet attack planes vacated one after another, forming attack formations one after another, roaring into the sky, and after a circle, rushed towards the US formation from behind.

separated by tens of kilometers.From a high altitude, they locked firmly on the battleship below, which was constantly maneuvering and evading, and then smashed dozens of air-sea anti-ship missiles down!

At such a long distance, the position of the jet attack aircraft flying at subsonic speed is too tricky, so that the U.S. fighter planes have no time to intercept them. These insidious guys do not give people a chance to react, and easily drop missiles outside the distance of all artillery strikes.The short-term mid-course guidance assists its autonomous radar to lock the target, and it will leave immediately without delay!

When the U.S. military aircraft found their whereabouts and wanted to rush over to intercept the entanglement, the jet fighter with its twin engines fully turned on just a high-speed climb maneuver, and it left them without a trace, turned around, and immediately bit its tail with its thick cannon. After a slap in the face, more than a dozen of them were killed.Just walk away!

During this period of time, the dozens of anti-ship missiles dropped by Hula La had already accelerated to Mach 0.8, and the condescending attack attacked those US ships under [-] tons that were locked, and turned them upside down.

The warhead is half smaller than the warhead of the carrier-based model, with only about 300 kilograms of high-explosive charge and an armor-piercing high warhead, which can easily tear through the horizontal armor of destroyers, light cruisers, supply ships, etc.The bridge shell, the thick chimney and even the side steel plates.Inside the slender hull came a center bloom, a terrifying guy that could paralyze a 5000-ton battleship, but they all fell down in pairs, and those who were stared at did not run away at all!

Amid the earth-shattering explosions, more than a dozen warships were blown to pieces.Thick smoke billowed out, the hull of the ship broke off, and it swayed towards the Atlantic Ocean. It was only a matter of time before it sank.

The perpetrator's attack plane was still not satisfied, after killing a bunch of enemy planes that rushed up to find fault.Going around in circles to the right, fired the remaining anti-ship missiles at a distance of about [-] kilometers, guided them until they locked on, and then drew back to watch the battle.

At this time, Nimitz and the others didn't react at all. The continuous strikes in just half an hour made them miserable. The protective layer deployed on the periphery was stripped and destroyed little by little, causing the main ship Exposed on the water, there is no cover at all. Although they are the most powerful guys, they feel as if they are not wearing any clothes!

The switching of the jet attack aircraft was too fast, and the command of the ship's artillery fire was too busy, let alone the tricky attack method. In the blink of an eye, a dozen or so ships on the right exploded and caught fire, paralyzing most of them!

The attack planes flew away, and all the auxiliary ships of the Nimitz fleet had been hit in pieces so far. There were two or three big cats and kittens left. The fireworks of the explosion filled the sea area, and when they came to the new water surface, they looked around at a loss---where is the enemy?

Nimitz didn't know how to describe his mood, it was really mixed, and it was as cold as a wasteland blown by a cold wind, and he couldn't arouse any burning enthusiasm.This battle is impossible to fight, the enemy is always outside his reach, lurking quietly like a pack of wolves, it is a sap to beat him coldly, he has no temper at all, and he wants to fight back, but there is nothing he can do!

What's more vicious is that those fighter planes that took off before the aircraft carrier was destroyed, flew around the sky like headless chickens. Except for occasionally circling with the attack planes, the rest could only watch them run away without a trace, but Without rushing to land, it became impossible to track and attack its aircraft carrier group.

The carrier-based aircraft that took off in a hurry, after all, had limited fuel. In the combat mode, they kept changing altitudes, circling, and had a limited time in the air. After nearly two hours of torment by Zhu Bin, they all entered a dangerous situation of running out of fuel. , want to land, the surrounding radius is [-] kilometers is the sea, want to carry out a suicide attack, do not know where to start!

Zhu Bin didn't want to engage in air entanglement with them. For air defense operations, it was the most sensible way to avoid entanglement with air units.He was very generous in not killing all the aircraft carriers. At this time, how could he give the Americans a chance to succeed in a sneak attack?

It's just using missile attacks every now and then, tossing the Nimitz formation from all angles like cramping and skinning, crippling the escort fleet alive, and the rest of the guys are the hard food for dinner. The main fleet is always in stealth mode, It also quietly advanced to a distance of [-] nautical miles, and lightly passed through from the side and rear, forming an arc-shaped battle line facing its tail!

As the last few fighter planes rushed to the sea helplessly, the pilots parachuted to escape, and the air power of the Nimitz fleet was completely lost!Only the useless seaplane was left, circling in vain.

At this moment, Zhu Bin's four Kunlun-class battleships finally showed their fangs and sharp teeth. After changing to the bottom concave extended-range bombs, they aimed at the enemy ships advancing in two columns and fired a salvo!

Now, no matter what, he can't hide his behavior!After the battleship opened its posture, the smoke of gunfire, the turbulent sea surface, and the rumbling noise all gave clear signals to the reconnaissance planes of the US military around like lights in the dark night. The faint crisis rushing out of the sky, and the rumbling bangs all witnessed their existence. In an instant, the heart-piercing warning sound spread throughout the broken formation!

Nimitz suddenly turned around, it was too late!

The howling shells stretched back and forth an arc-shaped encirclement line that was more than ten kilometers long, and 36 heavy armor-piercing shells shot towards the core point, aiming at the battleship Illinois fiercely, smashing down head-on and face-to-face, super long-distance, Three hits, one sword to seal the throat, and the explosion of boiling fireworks made everyone's hearts feel as if they were tightly clenched by an invisible big hand, pinching them alive!

"All, let's fight!"

With a roar from Nimitz, the four battleships turned in unison, facing the exposed whereabouts of the enemy ship, they boldly and fearlessly turned the rudder to the right to cut across their front, and counterattacked with all their strength!

Running, you can't run away, no matter how long your legs are, it can't compare with missiles and planes. Only by fighting head-on and completing the glorious mission with dignity is the glory that the navy deserves. Fight! (To be continued..)