The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Now that things have happened, Nimitz finally has the consciousness that he must die.The previous defeats and escapes have become his heart disease. As an admiral, it is a shame not to be able to face death with thousands of soldiers in fierce battles.

This time, he can no longer be a deserter!

The four battleships, stripped of their coats, braved the billowing smoke, turned right and turned around to cut across the peak of Zhu Bin's fleet. The scattered array of two-by-two interlaced looked so resolutely heroic.

At a distance of more than [-] nautical miles, even the armor-piercing power of the concave extended-range bomb is only limited. Even if a few rounds are hit, no matter if it is an Iowa class or a Montana class, it can only hurt the skin, not the skin. It would cause serious damage, so Nimitz simply let the four warships fight hard, and then rushed towards the enemy ships at full speed!

There is no way, if you want to kill the opponent with your own naval gun, you must launch a hit within 30 kilometers, so that the 50mm gun with 406 times the barrel can penetrate the weak armor, and if you want to break the main armor and bridge armor, then At least you have to get closer to within 18 kilometers. The premise is that the other party doesn't make any fools.

The hatchback is hedged, and the approach speed is extremely fast!

Zhu Bin welcomed the Americans who dared to turn back and fight decisively. He cheerfully directed the four battleships to concentrate their firepower, aimed at one of the battleships, and refused to relax at all.Do you think that by turning around, I can wait steadily to enter the lore distance?There are no doors!

The concave extended-range projectiles of the Kunlun-class battleships have a long range and good storage speed. The effect of cleaning and striking the superstructure of the US warships is very obvious!

Different from the contemporary naval artillery technology, with the assistance of multiple calibration technologies such as early warning aircraft, drones and ship radar, the smart fire cannonballs can be fired almost ten seconds after a round of artillery shells have just flown for more than ten kilometers. The control system predicts the ballistic arc and landing point.Whether it hits or not, there is no need to wait for the shell to explode and set off a column of flames and water to use optical instruments and radar to measure the distance sideways, but the distance can be fed back with an accuracy of one meter.

With such a quick response, after the assembly of the propellant for the next round of shells is completed, the calibration and aiming has been automatically completed.The shells fired will further enhance the accuracy, and the landing point will be completed in the prediction of the attitude of the enemy ship and the simulation calculation of the distance area. The high accuracy is by no means what the Navy can imagine these days!

After a few rounds of shooting, the firing error of the own artillery, the judgment of the maneuvering attitude and speed of the enemy ship, the influence of air resistance, wind direction and humidity, etc. are all calibrated.The next thing to enter is the stage of precision strikes. Every salvo must have a considerable percentage of hits, instead of hitting like a blind cat hitting a mouse to death, so that a hit from 24 kilometers away is a rare miracle.

That kind of thing doesn't exist in Zhu's army fleet!

Four U.S. battleships trying to maneuver around.Almost every 1 minute, they will be baptized by a round of shells.Each round of shells fall.The degree of density and the small spread of distances are all jaw-dropping!

Clusters of shells kept falling on the battleship and its surroundings. Amid the sound of explosions, large clusters of flames burst out from the superstructure each time.Tons of steel, lots of anti-aircraft guns, secondary turrets, antennas, radars.Chimneys, seaplanes, and other structures are blown to pieces at every turn, and they fly into the sky!

Staying in the last armored bridge, witnessing the mess on the deck of the ship below, the flames sweeping across, but being powerless, that kind of suffering is really not something ordinary people can bear!

Nearly lost bullets fell into the water next to the battleship. Amidst the loud rumbling noise, thick water columns rushed up to 200 meters, and hundreds of tons of sea water hit the ship fiercely. There was a bang and bang under the waterline, and the shaking people on the boat kept shaking, as if they had entered an unprecedented and terrifying storm!

After the distance between the two sides gradually reached 40 kilometers, the four Kunlun-class warships began to fight independently, aiming at an enemy ship for concentrated fire bombardment. After more than ten rounds of salvo corrections, the coordination performance of the artillery and the hull entered a better stage , Just a salvo of a battleship can also guarantee a considerable hit rate, so that the four US ships are always submerged in the constant explosions. Every minute, every kilometer forward, they must accept the baptism of artillery fire!

On the battleship Montana, Nimitz couldn't remember how many times he was bombarded. Those heavy shells that fell suddenly and hit the hull hard, even if they failed to penetrate the armor and shatter the turret, every explosion , The shock formed made him tremble violently, his cheeks trembled, and his fingers turned white!

Under Zhu Bin's command, the strike method was very sinister.After one round falls, the fire caused by the explosion will rage for a while. The U.S. military can't wait for the second time, so they can only quickly dispatch damage control to extinguish it.

This way of doing things can neither make people clean up quickly, nor make people numb to the habit of fighting all the time, so that the dispatched damage control personnel and the soldiers who operate the turret are always frightened. The nervousness of imminent disaster is too tormenting!

Colonel Blair, the captain of the Montana, yelled at this angrily, threw his hat on the ground, and yelled in front of Nimitz: "You Chinese who deserve to go to hell! What a disgrace to the Navy! Coward!" You bastard! How shameless you are to use such despicable means to fight!"

Either you quickly kill Lao Tzu, or you just get lost, what kind of game is this?There are no anti-ship missiles, and I plan to play cat and mouse together. Do you really think that we have nothing to do?

Blair stared at Nimitz angrily, that means Mr. Commander, don't you have something to say?It's all here, it's better to put what everyone has in the open.At the very least, we must share the same hatred!

Nimitz saw what he meant, and smiled slightly: "Colonel! Now that you understand our situation, you can accept it calmly! The Chinese want to use naval guns for a classic confrontation. Of course, we can't retreat. Command with peace of mind and prepare for the battle." !"

"Yes! General!"

Blair could only agree depressedly, he wasn't timid, he was just angry!

Thanks to the arrogance of the other party, they let the warships scatter their shots. Otherwise, if they concentrated their strikes with their precision, the superstructure of one of the ships would have been cleaned up by this time!

a battleship.If the upper deck structure is leveled, the turret alone will not be able to fight. There will be no radar, no optical ranging, no firing command, and no communication.The enemy can't see where they are, and I don't know what else to do besides being a target.

The U.S. military's cross-cutting battle for the T-head had long been under Zhu Bin's watchful eye, and when it seemed that it was about to succeed, the four Kunlun-class ships suddenly split into two groups, with two right-handed rudders along the way paralleling the enemy ship in a figure-eight formation; The two ships turned left and cut across the tail of the US ship to seize the thead position. After the power was fully turned on, they entered each other about [-] kilometers away.It has successfully let the last two warships of the U.S. military pass by, and the short-lived double turrets struck several times, and soon returned to the angle of three turret salvos.

35 kilometers!It is already the range of the mk7 main gun!Although it was basically impossible to hit at this distance, the fireworks on the four US ships were all rising and falling, and they could be seen as indistinct, and they were shaken by the continuous falling shells, making it difficult to aim.Nimitz still ordered, fire!

There was silence all the way.The artillery, which has only been tested a few times after it was built, finally started to explode!Two Montana-class ships, each with 12 main guns locked on an area, and a group of six rounds gathered together to strike, not afraid of mutual interference in the middle, but afraid of being too large to hit an enemy ship.Rumble and roar!

They were four battleships firing at one target! With the attack density of 42 guns, the explosion range caused by a single salvo is enough to cover two square kilometers. Even if the head is not accurate, the front and back are 35 kilometers away.The furthest ones can run for three or four kilometers, but it does not prevent them from having a certain degree of impact on enemy ships---in theory, yes!

Zhu Bin didn't even bother to open the protective cover. He calmly looked at the ballistic trajectory calculated by the defense officer. They were scattered around like twine. There was no chance of hitting his own battleship or even flying the waves up. He couldn't help shaking his head. The artillery battles these days are really not good!

The good thing is that standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, and he doesn't even think about it, what kind of equipment do people rely on to fight?The original radar is powerless to the target 40 kilometers away, and it can only be a vague shadow for the non-stealth design battleship at a distance of 30 kilometers. In the maneuvering posture, the data speed changes, and the calculation result cannot even catch up with the visual inspection. Except for a long time Focus on a certain target with obvious maneuvering rules, don't expect to lock the command design all at once, that's just a matter of imagination!

It is still necessary to rely on the sharp-eyed commander to ensure the calibration of the shooting elements through the optical rangefinder. You must wait for the flash of the shell after it falls, the rising water column, and the figure of the battleship to determine what kind of attack the next attack should take. Data adjustments.

What's more annoying is that Zhu Bin's four warships are designed to be stealth hulls, and they are painted with the same color of sea and sky, which is difficult to find. Don't expect to see smoke with nuclear power propulsion. With a considerable degree of optical camouflage, it is quite remarkable to be able to spot a little shadow when viewed from 35 kilometers away!

At this time, the four US ships were hit by at least seven or eight rounds or even a dozen shells. The explosion shattered the superstructure. Under the smoke and fire, it was difficult to aim with the optical instruments on the bridge. !Not to mention hitting the target, if you can ensure that you can see the target clearly every time, it is considered awesome!

Zhu Bin also replaced all the shells of the four warships with conventional armor-piercing shells. Anyway, the range of the 420mm gun is sufficient, and the muzzle velocity is high, the trajectory is stable, the warhead is heavy, and the hardness is high. The armor-piercing ability is obviously better than the opponent. , the result is self-evident.

Nimitz probably really had the realization that he must die. He put his hat on straight, his eyes were piercing, and his face was unusually calm. He stood firmly in the dangerous bridge command room and personally commanded the four battleships to move forward bravely. Charge, and the enemy ship has been constantly grabbing the superior position, while gradually closing the distance, fire and launch at the maximum speed!

At the same time, he did not forget to boost morale, and shouted to all the ships: "This is a battle that is related to the life and death of the United States. We have no retreat, and the coastline is behind us! There is no other way out except to entangle the enemy with our lives! Fight with all your strength!"

"God bless America, we will win!"

The fanatical shouts of tens of thousands of people even overwhelmed the explosion of shells. Everyone struggled at their posts and put their lives into battle. This is really the last burning blood!

30 kilometers!The 420mm main gun of the Kunlun class began to exert terrible penetration!Reinforced artillery shells capable of penetrating more than 400mm of vertical armor, dropped from a high angle, have amazing speed and powerful kinetic energy. They hit hard on the horizontal armor of the US ship, tearing off two consecutive layers of steel plates with ease. poured into the lower compartment!

Crazy explosions reveal amazing destructive power.The flames and steel fragments raging horizontally can clear the structure in an area with a radius of more than ten meters or even larger at one time. The broken steel plates of the compartments will shatter and kill people, and people will die if they touch it!

In just a few minutes, after the Illinois hit eight consecutive shells, one finally shattered the bottom of the chimney.The explosion that got in caused the damage of a boiler, raging fire, billowing thick smoke, submerging the towering bridge, basically paralyzing the optical aiming and radar systems, and the enemy ship could not be seen even when the guns were fired!

Not long after, the Ohio was hit at close range and fired three consecutive shells with low-stretching ballistics.At a distance of 26 kilometers, they were smashed in from the bow, the midship and the root of the bridge respectively. The bow was directly penetrated, and the cracks caused by the explosion recoil extended to the waterline, causing water to pour and the bow to skew.

The midship hit the shell three meters below the armor belt, and the explosion caused the physical deformation of the waterline armor steel, which could not withstand the kinetic energy and collapsed. The inward impact fragments not only blasted the inner lining.Going further and almost destroying the second layer of compartment armor!

A shot that hit the root of the bridge almost wiped out a double battery of secondary guns.The protruding outer armor of the cabin resisted the penetration, but the power of the explosion could not be completely eliminated. On the contrary, it caused dozens of casualties to the shocking force. It's all messed up!

In order to aim and shoot and maneuver smoothly, the speed of the four US ships was reduced to below 30 knots.On the other hand, the four Kunlun-class ships were unscrupulously increased to 35 knots. After fiercely pinching the head and tail to outflank, the hit rate and penetration effect of the bombardment launched from the rear increased linearly. The US ships adopted 16-inch armor.I couldn't resist it at all!

At a distance of 24 kilometers, the battleship Kentucky had just fired a near miss. The cheers from the officers and soldiers did not land, and a round of shells hit them head-on, completely blocking their joy!

The 420mm armor-piercing projectile, which exhibited terrifying lethal power, pierced through the root of the A turret from the upper part of the bow. The 500mm armor couldn't resist, and it went in alive, clearing the whole group of people, and the explosion impact raged inside. , resulting in deformation of the turret base, deadlock of the turret rotation mechanism, and almost falling off from the top!

In less than a minute, the next round of salvo blasted into the middle of the bridge from the side, tearing off the external armor with incomparable sharpness, smashing the inner composite armor, and blowing up half of the main mast, resulting in the overall deformation and creaking. Amidst the strange screams, bend down, and it may collapse at any time!

The Kentucky had no way to fight back, and rushed left and right to try to escape, but at this time, they had already entered a completely passive role. What was worse, they saw that another cheap Kunlun ship also turned its guns around and provided two triple guns. The turret was added to the salvo attack. After only two rounds, a shell hit from the side pierced through the 19-degree inclined armor, and two shells were continuously smashed in from the thickest part of the midship. Gorgeous explosion in the cabin!

The slender Kentucky trembled suddenly, and two groups of brilliant flames rushed out tens of meters away from the side. The orange light squeezed out several four-to-five-meter-long cracks from the nozzle, and then expanded rapidly, engulfing half of the ship. , the tilted hull capsized fiercely towards the other side, with an angle of more than 10°, and then turned back, and the gap that fell into the water began to gulp and pour water wildly, and it was crooked in a blink of an eye!

All the turrets on the battleship misfired, but it was the beginning of her disaster!

The two Kunlun warships unceremoniously concentrated their firepower, and poured hundreds of shells from two angles crazily. The barrels of their own guns were all red. Completely useless, the front and rear bridges collapsed, the upper deck building was leveled, the shells poured in from above the deck continuously hit the power cabin, causing a big explosion in the boiler, the hole pierced by the side was intensified, the steering gear was twisted and deadlocked, and the speed dropped to close to zero. , The raging fire is spreading everywhere, and the end is a foregone conclusion!

Nimitz saw it clearly, but there was nothing he could do about it. He tried his best to shorten the distance, but he was always restricted to death at a distance of 20 kilometers. The moving battleship is shaking left and right, restless, aiming and shooting?Stop dreaming!

Blindly being beaten and unable to fight back is the most comforting thing. Seeing that the situation is not good, the Ohio rushed up to serve as a shield to help them gain a short respite, but the price was huge---a dozen consecutive shells hit , in less than 10 minutes, the upper deck was blasted to pieces, the waterline armor was penetrated many times, the water was tilted, the rear c turret was abolished, all the radars were finished, and a part of the optical rangefinder was damaged. , a layer of bridge armor was stripped off.

When she successfully switched positions with the Montana and the Nimitz ship adjusted and resumed aiming salvo, the last Iowa-class battleship behind, the USS Illinois, suddenly made a loud noise, the ammunition depot exploded, and the hull fell from the ground. The water surface jumped up to a height of more than ten meters, and it was over!

In the blocked frequency band of the US military radio station, a communication came in suddenly and forcefully, and Zhu Bin's unscrupulous voice went straight to their heads: "General Nimitz, you have no way to win this war, for the sake of the navy Come on, surrender quickly! That can save a bit of military dignity, I will strictly abide by the Geneva Convention and treat prisoners preferentially!"

Nimitz was taken aback, then frowned, and replied decisively: "America has only soldiers who died in battle, and we will never surrender!"

Zhu Bin sighed regretfully: "Then there is no other way! Open fire with all your might and send them off!" (To be continued...)