The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

It was the first time that Lukins saw the ferocity and irresistibility of modern warfare. However, he was already numb after being hit repeatedly. The battleship went all out to push forward.

Mountbatten could no longer relax.No matter how much he looked down on the Germans, after all, everyone was in the same boat now, and he had no choice but to help these poor guys out of their predicament and try to achieve certain results in this naval battle.

To be honest, these admirals from Britain, the United States and other countries hate the Germans no matter how much they hate the Germans. In their hearts, they hate the Chinese and even all people of color even more, and their camp is very clear.They need the Germans to be the first to stimulate the Chinese, and use Zhu Bin's black hands to weaken the Germans' power, so as to win a respite for their own country and prevent the Germans from fully dominating, but they don't want to see that Germany It is also not in their interest to be slapped down by a real slap and completely unable to turn over!

Lukins made up his mind and showed his wisdom and determination as a general. Mountbatten is considered a rising star, and he no longer hides his ability. He dutifully gave the correct advice: "General! It should be our attack that stimulated the Chinese. , or our offensive direction is not wrong, but their defensive judgment is still insufficient. Now it seems that our own strength alone is not enough to exhaust their strength. We should take the initiative to move closer to the left wing and seek a joint attack , and asked the right road to speed up the speed, in order to complete the complete encirclement!"

"Okay! Pass the order according to your judgment!"

Admiral Lukins was kind.He agreed very simply.In fact, he has no good solution. The original plan was to delay the main German fleet a little bit.It is to wait for the strength of the two wings to meet the enemy, and then rush up to play the role of a heavy fist. It should never be the first choice for the opponent to score. The current loss is definitely not what he wants to see.

The plan has been disrupted, so we can only try to get back on the right track according to the rhythm of the chaos.

Zhu Bin's ultra-long-range anti-ship missile attack was determined early in the plan.Therefore, many escort ships, such as destroyers and light cruisers, only retain the minimum number of manpower to operate the ships.In addition to the anti-aircraft firepower and torpedo launch team, even the naval guns are semi-automatically launched as much as possible, in order to prevent them from being attacked by missiles and not escaping in time --- to put it bluntly, these are already ready to be used as cannon fodder.

Germans are not stupid.Of course they don't want to use their precious power as bait.The Italians were regarded as the first choice, but unfortunately, Zhu Bin was not fooled, his reading was too accurate, and his attack was too dark!

Lukins didn't know that the main attack formation of battleships on the left wing had been hit hard, and the number of losses was not much smaller than theirs, and the reconnaissance plane sent out did not wait for the news.The high-level information over there was handed over, and several planes broke through the obstruction desperately.Pass the news that they have been hit by heavy air strikes to the core fleet.

Hearing that such a large group of battleships had been lost, Lukins was stunned on the spot!In other words, the opponent is attacking two targets at the same time, instead of concentrating on one of them!

"How dare they...how dare they?!" Lukins' first reaction was disbelief. The power of the Chinese navy has been clearly investigated before. The number of its warships can only serve as one direction based on the size of the formation of the world's navy today. Its attack power is not bad, how dare you divide your troops? !

Mountbatten frowned, and said depressedly: "Perhaps, our previous judgment has been biased! The strength of the Chinese is stronger than we imagined! There must be some new changes that we have not figured out before! Well, maybe it is Harassing our special attack gunboats along the way?"

Lukins really wanted to spray him with saliva, your uncle, what is bias in judgment!It's basically because you guys didn't do a good job in intelligence work!Don't you guys who have suffered a lot know how difficult the Chinese are?

A ridiculous idea suddenly flashed in his mind: "Could it be that these English-speaking bastards deliberately ignored the changes in the Chinese, allowing Germany to suffer a big loss, and weakening our strength along the way?"

It's just that these years have disappeared in a flash, and the top priority is not to pursue the so-called truth, he has to try to get out of this terrible situation and turn the tide of the battle!

Admiral Lukins categorically ordered: "Tell General Cunningham, no matter how much they lose, they must immediately move closer to us and form a new joint combat formation to outflank forward! We have paid such a high price, we must not just let it go give up halfway!"

"Yes!"

Mountbatten acted as a faithful megaphone, meticulously conveying the orders of the admiral, and then calmly and quietly figured out how to deal with a worse situation.

He didn't tell the Germans, don't expect to consume the Chinese missiles so quickly. It seems that the missiles are expensive, but the Chinese have more than expected!The reason why the plan of concentrating the entire navy and accomplishing its merits in one battle is not because of arrogance, but because of being forced to make the worst plan out of desperation!

In private, the British and American navies can confirm that, in fact, even if the world's sea power is concentrated, it is best to fight with the Chinese and lose both sides.After that, there is no better way to deal with the remaining three fleets of China---the gap in weapons is enough to level everything!

They didn't even tell the Germans that in fact, in previous battles, the Chinese didn't seem to give their best. Their fighting methods were eclectic and changed repeatedly, making it impossible to guess where the bottom line was.Such an opponent is a headache to think about. If they hadn't lost their fighting spirit after being beaten, why would they succumb to the Germans!

After all, the Germans are too simple, far inferior to the shameless and bottomless veteran hooligans. Lukins thought he would be able to persist until the arrival of the US aircraft carrier formation on the right, but he didn't know that, in fact, he knew that the battle had already begun. At the beginning, when the German army was attacked first, Spruance immediately ordered that the fleet continue to speed up and sail straight ahead.The Germans who monitored them had been confused for a long time, and lost the orders that came one after another-the order plane could not find the fleet at all.

So, when Admiral Lukins needed help the most.They were a thousand kilometers away from the main battlefield. Unless the battleship could fly, it would be too late!

On the contrary, it was General Cunningham on the left wing who led the fleet to maneuver to the right with all its strength. The already existing crescent-shaped large arc array, because a large piece was deducted in the middle, looked extremely thin.Still with his best efforts, he tried to shrink back with the help of Zhu Bin not throwing them away, and gathered the cruising power on the left side.In the front of the battleship again, a strong outer arc was formed, which was thickened by two layers, barely connecting with the Lukins fleet to form an encirclement circle with a width of 200 kilometers in the middle!

look.It seems that Zhu Bin's fleet has been surrounded.But everyone knows that this encirclement is like a thin net enclosing a whale shark. Its strength and toughness are completely unreliable. It only needs a slight shake of that terrible guy, and the net will definitely be torn apart!

But after all, it was caught. Cunningham and Lukins did not hesitate to order all the ships to give up the detour.Charge inward with all your strength, as long as you can get to the opponent in the first place.Don't worry about not having a chance to attack.This is the strategy they formulated at the beginning!

This kind of offensive strategy is costly enough to make the predecessors of the navy all over the world feel ashamed, and it will even make future generations lament it!

Looking at the holographic screen, on the vast Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of enemy multinational ships surrounded each other, turning destroyers of thousands of tons to battleships of [-] tons at least a hundred meters long, and turning them into world warships. The largest arrow, splitting the cold waves at full speed, pointed directly at the fleet in the core area. Zhu Bin did not feel nervous at all, and even beamed with excitement: "This is true! The Germans are really bold, I like it!"

The moment he had been looking forward to for a long time finally arrived!Ten years of hard work was unusual, and now it finally came to the moment of the epic battle of the battle of thousands of ships, and the spectacular scene that he had been planning for a long time and most hoped to see turned into reality!

Chen Shaokuan and others couldn't understand his strange thinking, but were shocked by the opponent's crazy approach!The densely packed giant steel ships that almost covered the sea surface with a total of millions of tons lined up in front of them like fishing boats going out to sea collectively. In terms of quantity, the ocean-going fleet is much worse than its opponents!

The so-called ants kill elephants, no matter how bad the enemy ship is, it can still release deadly torpedoes. Hundreds of thousands gather together, even if the ocean-going fleet is covered with hands, how many killing moves can it catch?

Questions were quickly answered by Zhu Bin's actual actions!

On the right side, four "Kunlun ships" and one "Xuanzhou" missile destroyer suddenly accelerated and left the formation, leaving the escort ships behind, driven by nuclear power, and the sharp bow fiercely split the surging waves, which resembled The sharp sword pierced straight to the top of the arc of the enemy ship formation!

When the distance of 100 kilometers was reached, the five warships released a wave of cruise missiles at the same time, calling the enemy destroyers and light cruisers charging ahead one by one. They did not expect to be completely sunk, but as long as they were damaged, they would be destroyed within ten minutes. Forty or fifty iconic units emitting billowing smoke were released.

Immediately afterwards, the 36 heavy guns of the four ships all slanted horizontally, and all of them were replaced with bottom-row extended-range bombs. When they approached 70 kilometers, they fired first. A chaotic group of escort ships lined up above their heads, forming an astonishingly dense strike formation, and slammed into the formation of the battleships behind!

quick!allow!ruthless!

Under the unprecedented advanced technology, the effect of the main gun of the Kunlun ship is absolutely unimaginable for the navy of this era. After aiming for a long time, the fastest combined bombardment suddenly broke out. Only three rounds of more than 100 shells caused a hit. How long ago the battleship "Empire" was the first to bear the brunt, and was hit by an armor-piercing projectile on the deck, which kicked off the prelude to destruction!

The Italians were completely stunned!

Never before have they engaged in such explosive, vicious, and violent naval battles!Even the "Veneto-class" battleship---the most powerful sea force, with a battery life of less than 5000 nautical miles, was designed to dominate the Mediterranean Sea. It was thought that it would fight against the strongest enemy in history in the Atlantic Ocean. Face to face pk ah!

Overwhelming 420mm shells, intensive explosions produced water columns like skyscrapers, and the turbulent waves were pushed to become more violent, wave after wave, slamming on the battleship.The rumbling explosions and impacts made their soldiers who were used to a peaceful life mistakenly think that the end of the world was coming.Not to mention the will to fight, those who can stand on the job without shaking their hands are considered strong!

counterattack?The enemy doesn't even know where it is!

The dense explosion of shells made Cunningham seem to have returned to decades ago. At that time, the navy was still orthodox, and the large-caliber main gun was still the protagonist of the show.There was a deafening roar, air waves rising from the air, and gunpowder smoke filling the air.Boiling sea water is the most exciting and brilliant moment in the navy's life!

Every traditional, good admiral in the British admirals would not refuse or be afraid of such a battle, and they would like to lead a strong navy.Ride across the ocean.Sweep your opponents!But I absolutely don't like the wretchedness and shamelessness of killing the enemy with missiles hundreds of kilometers away today!

"What a pity! That's not the fleet of the British Empire!"

Having judged the astonishing range of the enemy ship's main gun, Cunningham sighed infinitely, and issued an order to let all the warships continue to maintain their course, charge and advance towards the enemy!

then.The next half an hour will be a unilateral performance of the Kunlun ship's firepower output!

kindness.In the war between countries, it has never been a favorite word. Zhu Bin, who finally caught the unprecedented opportunity, also resolutely erased its existence from his dictionary!

The four Kunlun warships have entered a cyclical combat mode since the first salvo.Under the joint operation of intelligent fire control, the 36 main guns consistently aim at a single target. According to the maximum rate of fire that the chamber and barrel can withstand, and on the basis of ensuring cooling and cleaning operations, as many shells as possible are directed towards the target. Throwing from a distance!

Every time a salvo is fired, at least a dozen tons of propellant will be used as a driving force to rush out of the muzzle. The heavy hull is enough to offset all the recoil and maintain a constant stability. The tremor of the barrel is not enough to cause excessive damage. The angle of each salvo is changed, and every salvo is under strict control. The first shot that hits becomes the first shot of concentrated fire sniping, and thereafter, there are hundreds of continuous heavy punches!

Rumbling explosions erupted from the core of the Italian formation. Within 10 minutes, the "Empire" was hit with 23 heavy armor-piercing shells in a row!She has the weakest armor among similar warships, and she couldn't withstand the terrible blow with excessive lethality. After a series of big explosions, the body tilted and entered the countdown to sinking!

Followed by "Roman".As the third ship of the "Veneto class", it did not have time to participate in the battle after it was launched. Today is the first time to go out. It represents the history and culture of the Italians, but it cannot stand for thousands of years like their Colosseum. Within 5 minutes after the first shell fell, the 45mm shell that was forced to a distance of 420 kilometers tore off all the steel coats, the bridge was completely smashed, and the main turret was uprooted. The shells that fell even penetrated all the way to the bottom cabin, and after being hit by 18 shells, they fell completely!

At this time, the peripheral destroyer group is less than 20 kilometers away from the Kunlun ship, entering the perfect sea area for torpedo attacks, and may even form a curve from three sides to outflank it!

The squadron commander who rushed to the front was overjoyed, and was about to order to release the torpedoes with all his strength in order to succeed in the group attack, when the Kunlun ship's secondary guns fired!

Their secondary guns are 203mm triple turrets! 4 turrets with 12 guns and 55 times the barrel ensure that the range is far enough and the rate of fire is fast enough. At a distance of 20 kilometers, with extremely high-precision fire control, each turret can deal with a target alone and carry out terrible intensive strikes!The highest delivery capacity of 12 rounds per door per minute ensures that as long as the fire is fired, those who are targeted will have no way out!

Four Kunlun warships, together with an accompanying "Xuanzhou" warship, staggered in columns and approached the reverse arc array of enemy ships, and all the artillery burst out together!

16 triple-mounted auxiliary turrets, plus an electromagnetic reconnection double 127 gun, suddenly turned into an erupting volcano!In the blink of an eye, the vicious armor-piercing projectile enveloped the enemy ship that was struggling to survive the first wave of missile attack!After a cloud of explosion smoke rose, more than a dozen enemy ships were riddled with holes and shattered!

And this did not affect the salvo of the main gun!Their attack has just reached its first peak!

Since its completion, the "Kunlun Ship" has never had the opportunity to fire at full strength.Today is a rare opportunity for them to fully unleash their lethality since they served in the military.Perhaps, during the decades-long service period, there will be no second encounter.Therefore, all the officers and soldiers put almost all their strength into the operation battle without emotion!

On the surface of the sea, it looks like four active volcanoes erupted!Every minute, dozens of tons of steel ammunition were thrown out. After just 1 minutes, each battleship actually reduced the weight of a light destroyer!All the muzzles were burnt red, and along the way, thick smoke gathered over the sea to form a large and spectacular cloud!

Frontally, the group of escort ships that had just opened up was swept away!The third battleship "Tolirio" persisted for less than 10 minutes and was officially disarmed.

However, compared to her previous companions, she has a 50mm gun with a diameter of 381 times. At least she fired two rounds of salvos. At the maximum range, she shot two rounds of explosions that were completely inaccurate, and was smashed seven times by the amazingly accurate salvos. Nothing!

Just at the critical moment when the five Kunlun warships officially entered the 30-kilometer combat distance, and they were about to confront the main force of the enemy head-to-head, they suddenly turned left with amazing maneuverability, and slashed diagonally towards the weak area where the two formations intersected. , Swinging fiercely towards the flanks of the main force of the German army! (to be continued..)