The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The "Suruga" was probably doomed to a tragic fate since its birth, and today it is even more directly reflected!Originally, as a cutting-edge capital ship, it should accept the supreme glory, but because it is a product of hastily built to fill the destroyed "Nagato-class" series of battleships and the unbuilt "Yamato-class" super battleship, it is not up to the point. As a result, at the critical moment, it must become the back!

Nagumo Tadaichi, who had suffered a great loss, instilled the navy of the entire fleet from the very beginning. The most important thing was to carry those strange fire-breathing weapons behind his buttocks. The flashes of continuous supersonic heavy anti-ship missiles made him ignore them. The highest alarm was issued, and the "Suruga" was duty-bound to provide protection for a truly powerful warship. Therefore, all the large-caliber anti-aircraft weapons on it, without exception, first provided fire support to the nearby "Musashi"!

All the intact 127mm anti-aircraft guns and 76mm anti-aircraft guns tilted towards the sky above the "Musashi", successfully helping it prevent the two missiles from attacking and killing, but it was completely exposed, so two successful hits were aimed at it. !

A missile penetrated almost vertically into the horizontal deck from the bow. The two-ton multi-ton reinforced projectile successfully penetrated the three layers of armor at a terminal speed of Mach 2.5. The explosion was sprayed downward from the rear of the bow, almost punching a transparent hole in the bottom of the battleship!

The huge explosive force recoiled upwards, and the ultra-high temperature flames rushing out of the breach were hundreds of meters high, almost tearing the bow keel and armor box off the hull!

The other missile landed too far and exploded after rubbing against the water on the port side. The 70 kilograms of high-explosive mixed explosives instantly produced the power equivalent to two conventional torpedoes. The ultra-high water pressure slanted upward from a depth of 300 meters. , Pushing the battleship upwards from the side for a full seven or eight meters, the huge force twisted and deformed the bottom keel.Not to mention the crazily pouring of water into the breach, a main oil depot and two boiler rooms were damaged by the impact, and boiling steam raged inside, causing one-third of the power to die on the spot, killing and injuring two to [-] people!

Thanks to the design of the "Kii-class" battleship, it fully absorbed the lessons of the previous bridges that were too high and the center of gravity was unstable, and it was re-strengthened and repaired during the three-month maintenance.Otherwise, with just one blow, the entire "Suruga" could be flipped over!

Even so, the damage caused is still huge!Not to mention the close-by explosion caused a total of nearly 400 casualties, the structure of the entire battleship was severely damaged, especially the severe flooding caused the hull to tilt and sink rapidly. Chances of sinking!

Zhu Bin was very dissatisfied with the faithful feedback of the attack results to the "Yingzhou" command center.After all, it is a rudimentary supersonic anti-ship missile, which is of course very powerful.However, the flaws are extremely obvious. The terminal speed is too fast to change the orbit, and the traces of short-distance launch are too obvious, so it is easy to be found and released. Without suddenness, the hit rate for moving targets that are constantly cruising is relatively low.

As for a giant like a battleship, if it can't directly hit the vital parts, it wants to sink all of a sudden.The difficulty is relatively high, unless it suddenly hits the central power compartment or the ammunition depot like last time.Otherwise, it's really hard to do!

The construction index of the "Kiyi-class" battleship is to be able to resist the direct attack of 320 kilograms of charged fish and the long-range damage of the 410mm main gun.Even the precise hits of the above-mentioned weapons cannot be killed in one or two shots.For conventional armor-piercing projectiles, it may take dozens of rounds to cause complete sinking, and they want to blow up directly.That's basically impossible, it's too difficult!

"It seems that we need to further update powerful weapons! Otherwise, this rough-skinned and thick-skinned steel monster is really hard to deal with!" After making up his mind, Zhu Bin ordered, "Give him two more shots! Kill him completely! "

The rear deck drop box cover slides open.Two hd-1 "Harpoon" subsonic anti-ship missiles were launched with a bang, rising about 300 meters, then falling suddenly, and accelerating rapidly by about 30 meters close to the sea level!The power of the turbojet engine at the tail was fully turned on, accelerating to Mach 0.9 in just a dozen seconds, and heading straight for the "Suruga"!

The "Suruga", which was boiling and burning, looked like a super big torch. In the eyes of the infrared guidance equipment of the "Harpoon" anti-ship missile, it was as bright as a lighthouse. , the sharp tandem armor-piercing warhead slanted at a large angle and drilled into the root of the bridge!

The protective armor and sandbags piled up on the surface of the bridge of the "Suruga" have long been blown away by continuous bombardment. The bare main body of the bridge is exposed, and the armor-piercing warhead of the missile penetrates more than 200 millimeters of holes. After the outer layer, 75 kilograms of high explosives inside burst out!

The explosion angle of the cohesive charge is forward, and the instantaneous high-temperature jet and super-strong explosion impact completely shattered the armor, and the cabin wrapped in thick armor and liners was swept away on the spot, and all the staff inside were burned. Ashes, the distance between the two consecutive hits was less than five meters, forming a combined destructive effect, blowing up a third of its unique tower bridge from the middle!

The majestic battleship was ignited, and the boiling fire spread from the bow to the rear. The front turret and front auxiliary guns were all finished, and the forward and right tilt seriously affected the maneuverability and combat ability of the battleship. Crying, jumping into the sea while desperately putting out the fire, anyone could have imagined that this mighty warship might not have a long life!

Zhu Bin, on the other hand, sighed in admiration: "It's really tenacious! None of them will die! It seems that group fights are more powerful! The efficiency of one-on-one attacks is too low!"

Two more supersonic anti-ship missiles were released, locking onto the burning bridge, which meant that they would never die!

Almost at the same time the "Suruga" was hit, Nagumo Chuichi gritted his molars and gave the order to retreat!His eyes were burning with anger and hatred like will-o'-the-wisps, but he ordered helplessly: "Go back with all your strength! Make sure to keep the capital ship safe!"

There is nothing they can do about that strange battleship!Or, if you can't find any traces, if you find them, you can't hit them, if you hit them, you can't destroy them, the three battleships fought in groups for a long time without any damage, and your own side was beaten one-sidedly, even the most powerful "Yamato class" couldn't bear it The weird armor-piercing projectiles and the rockets flying across the sky are so powerful that they are hard to defend against.There is no way to fight this battle!

Could it be that the glory of the battleship has become a thing of the past?It is doomed that the classic navy will become a thing of the past, and we can only watch the rise of new weapons, and establish their prestige as a stepping stone? !

"Yamato" and "Musashi" turned around and fled at the fastest speed, and all the escort ships that were left behind swarmed up.Naval guns and torpedoes were fired at the "Yingzhou" one after another. It can be stopped for a while, but it cannot be given a chance to show its power again!

In this short period of time, two supersonic heavy anti-ship missiles hit the "Suruga" one after another. One directly penetrated the front of the bridge from a high altitude, and pierced the 140mm auxiliary turret from the sky cover to the middle ammunition bay. The super power of the explosion broke through the compartment and rushed directly into the ammunition depot of the 410mm turret in front, causing a violent explosion!

The other pierced the deck from the stern and brushed the side of the side, penetrating three layers of horizontal armor continuously.Rushing into the power cabin, the huge explosion directly destroyed four boilers, blowing up the transmission system and causing complete power failure. Together with the successive explosions, the entire 5-ton warship was abruptly pulled up from the sea. It was thrown upwards, and then smashed fiercely into the waves. Thousands of tons of steel were shattered with a loud noise, and were thrown several kilometers away.The upper deck of the majestic battleship was blasted into two basketball court-like holes, and the cracks spread from front to back like cracks after an earthquake!

The explosion of the ammunition depot made the "Suruga" completely hopeless.Thousands of people were killed or injured on the spot, the bow and front of the hull were completely destroyed, tens of thousands of tons of sea water poured in from the gap, and thousands of tons of fuel oil loaded poured out and ignited, forming a flame hundreds of meters wide, turning the skewed The bridge of the ship was wrapped in and burned into a big torch.The raging flames soared hundreds of meters into the air, and countless Japanese soldiers were covered in flames, screaming and stumbling into the sea, not knowing whether they were dead or alive!

The "Yingzhou" could not hear any movement here, and sailed lightly and at high speed towards the sea on the east side.The shells and torpedoes fired by the rest of the Japanese ships could not even hurt a single fur. Under the full blackout, the dark night before dawn provided the best protection for it.

Only 10 minutes later, the first batch of fighter planes that took off from the Japanese mainland flew over the battlefield!In the lead, there are three "Ultimate Zero Battle" squadrons, flying over the sea at low altitude in a search formation ten kilometers apart from each other. They can only see the "Yamato" and other battleships trying to gather below, all of which are covered in smoke, and there are even The fire that was not completely extinguished, the original [-] or [-] battleships of the first sea trial formation were only two or three big cats and kittens, and there were many holes in the "Musashi".

As for the "Suruga", only the stern filled with water remained above the water, and it only took a few minutes to completely sink.Around it, the surface of the sea with a radius of one kilometer is full of oil stains and broken boards. Thousands of naval soldiers are floating on it, and it is not clear whether they are dead or alive. It is a miserable scene!

Chuichi Nanyun connected to the radio of the commander of the flight team, and roared in a different tone: "Start a search with a radius of [-] kilometers immediately! Be sure to find the hateful enemy ship, and sink him at all costs!"

Being able to take advantage of the darkness and challenge almost the entire imperial navy with one such powerful warship is really terrifying!Its existence will seriously damage the balance of sea power. If it is combined with other warships, I am afraid that the Japanese navy will have no future!

One squadron was left to escort the formation, and the other two squadrons spread out in groups of three planes, moving around in all directions at cruising speed.

Only 5 minutes later, the second batch of fighters came, and the total number was two groups!The search was spread out in the same way, and the third batch of the same number was accompanied by a large group of dive bombers. So far, the total number has reached more than 100. From the rear, more fighters are coming continuously!

The air-to-air radar screen of the "Yingzhou" was filled with shining light spots, and it could not run very far in just 10 minutes, and it was almost a blink of an eye to be found.

Zhu Bin shrugged helplessly at the number that quickly exceeded one hundred, ordered to activate the full electromagnetic shielding, and called the nearby submarine to immediately float up and join the escort!

In just a few minutes, including the fleeing Japanese fleet and over a hundred Japanese planes that had just arrived, they all fell into the radio blind spot. Nagumo Tadashi was not surprised but pleased, which showed that their target was within the search range. Inside!

Not long after, two submarines with a displacement of 2 tons surfaced from [-] kilometers away. An anti-air antenna was raised inside the bridge to launch electromagnetic jamming signals with all their strength, and they were connected with the output of the "Yingzhou" to form a radius of three. A shielded area of ​​[-] kilometers!

Airplanes in the propeller era flew on the vast sea, if there was no radio navigation.It's easy to get lost by relying on the sun alone, which is one of the reasons why their combat radius is not large. It's okay to protect their own naval ships. Finding a ship with stealth design is a good way to find a needle in a haystack!

The painting of "Yingzhou" not only absorbs radar waves, but also has a considerable visual stealth effect when floating on the sea during the day.It's easy to ignore it from a high altitude, but the low-altitude and low-speed search of the Japanese army determined to find and kill him was very effective. About 10 minutes later, a three-aircraft formation first found the trace!

Looking at it from a height of less than 500 meters from five kilometers away, the "Yingzhou", which is much wider than warships of the same class, is shockingly simple. There is no cannon in the whole body, only sliding hatches one by one. , and the obvious helicopter platform at the stern looks more eye-catching, and the three Japanese aircraft have done a lot of homework.One look at this shape and you can tell that there must be no one else, it must be a monster made in China!

The lead plane greeted the two wingmen with hand gestures, and took the lead to speed up and plunge down. The "Yingzhou" command center, the gunner was about to activate the 30mm close-in anti-aircraft gun to kill him, Zhu Bin suddenly reminded: "Try the main gun!"

The double-mounted 127mm main gun on the bow is developed from the old American 38-fold high-level dual-purpose gun, and it has the ability to attack air.After arriving at this model, the ability of accurate shooting has been greatly enhanced.In the high-speed launch mode, there is more hunting function.

The round turret suddenly rotated to point at the Japanese plane at an astonishingly fast speed. The two side-by-side cannons took aim slightly, and a wireless proximity fuze cannon shot out of the chamber with a "boom"!

The initial velocity of the projectile that has not been accelerated by electromagnetic reconnection is less than 1000 meters, and it takes about one second when it is suddenly launched.The "Ultimate Zero Fighter" that swooped down in the middle, blew up the fighter plane on the spot!

Seeing that something was wrong, the other two wingmen were about to turn around and flee when two "booming" shells followed, each exploding in the air within a short distance of 20 meters.The prefabricated fragments swept across the airspace with a radius of 50 meters, smashed them into a sieve, ignited a raging fire, and fell crookedly into the sea!

This is similar to stabbing a hornet's nest!The other Japanese planes searching in the distance keenly observed the smoke and fireballs rising in the sky. How could they not know that they were in trouble?Immediately, three formations rushed forward, and found the "Yingzhou" sailing eastward at full speed from a distance, and dived at full speed from three angles without hesitation---they all saw that it was cheap, this guy only had one main gun, Make it weak against the air!

But it was obviously a bit early to be happy. A formation that was attacking from the front was shot down one by one by the twin 127mm main guns. The cannons spewed out two dense tongues of flame and exploded in the air, and within half a minute before and after, they were all shot down!

In the dawn sky, the sun quickly swept away the shadows from the east, and the explosion flames of different heights seemed to be a signal calling for thousands of troops, attracting other Japanese planes to swarm like bees. Now, the 9 bombers following behind are watching!

The fragments of fighter planes scattered on the sea made them fearful. Although they couldn't see how they fell, they were undoubtedly directly related to the strange warships below. Let them all realize that it must be a great trouble, otherwise they will never make those two powerful warships so miserable!

No clues could be seen from a few kilometers away. After a slight pause, the two formations opened up one after the other and began to do a high-speed dive.

The dual main guns of the "Yingzhou" had a limited shooting angle, Zhu Bin ordered to turn around, and at the same time the rear hanging box slid open, "Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi" fired eight "Dart" air defense missiles in one go!

The missile that rose suddenly exceeded the speed of sound in a blink of an eye. Under the guidance of the fire control radar, it locked the two aircraft groups, outflanked the two wings, and sprinted quickly with an arc-shaped trajectory. Among them, the tail bombardment!

Triggered by the active radar proximity fuze, the 35 kg prefabricated fragmentation warhead exploded, and the four missiles combined to form a four-way joint kill array, killing seven of the nine bombers on the spot!The quick-witted "Ultimate Zero Fighter" knew something was wrong when he saw the smoke from the warships, and he scattered in a hurry, but he couldn't avoid the precise lock-on spike after all, and four were shot down in the air!

The remaining fighters witnessed another spectacle with their own eyes. The nearly 200-meter-long battleship actually made a massive drift on the sea surface, sending out mountains of waves across the hull with a small radius, and the twin guns pointed at the sky. "Tong Tong Tong" a series of precise shooting, evenly spread more than a dozen rounds of proximity fuze shells near, middle and far. The fragments swept in the air and the explosion that directly hit the fighter plane formed a spectacular cloud of smoke, sweeping away the remaining fighter planes in a blink of an eye. Not left!

"Victory is not martial!"

Tesla glanced at it and shook his head, feeling sorry for the Japanese.They didn't know what kind of monster they were facing, and they used scattered formations to attack. Don't they know that the "Yingzhou" can deal with the joint attack of more than 48 fighters?You know, the air-to-air distance of the dual-mounted 127mm dual-purpose guns reaches 15 kilometers!With the precise shooting of the fire control radar, it is enough to block a large fan-shaped airspace, and a small-scale formation attack is simply courting death!

This time the movement was even bigger!Layer after layer of search Japanese aircraft formations seemed to be stirred up by waves, no matter whether they came first or last, they swarmed in, with a total of [-] or [-] planes, and they rushed like a hornet's nest! (To be continued..)