The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Wake Island itself is very small, and it was changed to a supply docking base because of the rise of China's shipping demand, and the deployment of fighter jets has only happened in recent years, and it is limited by space. The total number is only twenty or thirty, and one dispatch will not exceed 24 frames.

After discovering that the patrol plane of the "Yingzhou" sent out the coordinate information at the first time, 24 f4f "Wildcat" fighter jets immediately took off from the airport and rushed over in two groups!

"Lieutenant! Our fighter plane is here! Look, shall we try the guy down there first?"

At an altitude of less than 5000 meters from about 800 meters away, a pilot was found in the pby "Catalina" seaplane of "Yingzhou", staring at the strange warship sailing gracefully ahead, eager to try.

The captain, Lieutenant Henry, shook his head seriously: "You'd better get rid of that idea! Sergeant! A guy who can make a newest cruiser helpless is definitely not something that a slow patrol plane like ours can deal with casually! I I still want to go home alive to see my little baby!"

"But...," the sergeant insisted unwillingly, "Look! You can't see a single turret facing the sky on it, and there are no threatening weapons except for the weird bridge, balls, and masts! We have three 12.7" mm heavy machine gun! Enough to pose a threat to him?"

Lieutenant Henry glared at him fiercely: "I would rather believe the judgment of the bureaucrats above! Alright! Everyone who is doing serious work is here, we just hide away and watch the excitement!"

He is not stupid!Since the higher-ups didn't issue a lore order, especially if they didn't expect these slow guys with a huge voyage and a speed of only [-] kilometers to deal with a seemingly harmless [-]-ton warship, they would be courting death!

Besides, the ships operating in this waters, whether they are Chinese or others.Most of them are armed, and the weirder the ship type, the more cautious it is. As a patrol aircraft, it is enough to do its own job well, and it is easy to look for trouble, and it will last if you are full!In case that guy is really a Chinese warship.It's even harder to explain if you do it yourself. God knows when those big shots will repair their relationship with them?

This has nothing to do with bravery, it is purely a matter of personal likes and dislikes and order execution.

Listening to the approaching calls of the companions on the radio, the pby patrol plane pulled up the nose without hesitation and turned slowly in a large radius, and flew towards a farther and higher airspace. Next, there will be a good show !

The first wave of 12 F4Fs with fat and sturdy bodies galloped from a distance, climbed from 6000 meters to 6 meters, and stabilized their formation to determine the target.Then, while speeding up and diving, aiming, as many as six 12.7mm heavy machine guns are waiting in full force, and the pilots have excited smiles on their faces, ready to strike at any time!

The captain at the head looked left and right to see that everything was ready, pushed the joystick down to lower the nose, accelerated to the near-limit speed of 510 kilometers, and quickly dived towards the "Yingzhou" like a heavy shell, while not forgetting to operate on the public frequency band. Shouting: "We are the U.S. Naval Flying Corps! We are going to conduct a routine inspection on you now. Please stop advancing immediately and give up resistance!"

Shout out twice.He has already rushed to the low altitude of the battleship less than 1000 meters, but has not received any response.The captain was really looking forward to such a reaction, and immediately shot a short point at the water surface on the right side of the battleship with a "chug chug" and shot down. The thick bullets splashed a long series of snake-like water splashes, and then the fighter plane stuck to the main mast of the battleship. Less than 50 meters passed by!

At the moment of the leap, the captain watched carefully with wide-eyed eyes.But he didn't find any figure on the ship, neither the turret nor the chimney, and the whole angular and delicate painting looked full of mechanical beauty, which completely subverted his usual knowledge of the navy.

"How strange!" The captain was about to turn around and try again.Suddenly, a voice cut directly into their radio, and said stiffly, "Listen, U.S. warplanes! Your attack has been judged as a provocation to our ship, and has been locked by our artillery. You have ten seconds to parachute to escape, and the countdown counts down. start!"

"What?! Are you kidding me!" The captain was dumbfounded!It was the first time he had heard of such a thing. Someone dared to say such a thing to an American fighter plane. Don't they know that the US Navy is the irreversible overlord in the Pacific Ocean?

The other party spoke English more fluently and authentically than him, which made Mr. Captain even more unbearable. He shouted angrily: "Hi! Listen, no matter where you come from, you have nowhere to go, obediently!" Surrender is the only way out...."

Before he could finish speaking, the cold voice cut into the radio again: "Five! Four! Three! Two! One! Time is up!"

At the same time, the other eleven fighter planes and the PBY patrol plane all heard their conversation, and then saw the original wedge-shaped protruding building on the front deck of the battleship, which was extremely simple in structure, slide away suddenly, and a twin-mounted turret suddenly rose. Get up, turn around at an astonishing speed, and aim at the f4f that has just turned back to dive and shoot "boom"!

The shell exploded suddenly when it was about ten meters away from the fighter plane. Thousands of prefabricated fragments made holes in the thick-skinned f4f. Billowing thick smoke plunged into the sea!

On the pby, Lieutenant Henry patted the seat excitedly and shouted: "I knew it! I knew it was not good! See? Don't mess with those weird guys!"

The sergeant who was yelling to attack just now was already stunned!One is because of the sudden appearance of the opponent's artillery and the amazingly accurate design, and the other is, how dare he open fire on the US military aircraft?Don't you know how serious the consequences of doing this are? !

As grassroots soldiers, they know too little, and they don't know what kind of humiliation and psychological trauma the "Yingzhou" caused to the three ships last night, and the orders from above are relatively vague. Before the ship, they are not easy to mess around.

Now there is no problem at all, it must be the guy who must be killed in the order, but everything in front of them also wakes them up, this trouble is not easy to provoke!

In mid-air, a cloud of fireworks and a white parachute fluttered down. The eleven f4fs were stunned for a while, and suddenly they all became furious!No one dared to be so rude to them. Now that they have done something, they are sworn enemies!Even without the above command.According to their habits, they can only talk about it after killing the other party first!

The neat formation broke up in a rush, and they were divided into twos and threes to speed up the dive. The loose formation ensured the reduction of anti-aircraft firepower and the maneuverability of their fighters. <In the center, Zhu Bin whistled and teased: "I can't see it. The Yankees are still full of fighting spirit! But this plane seems to be a bit too bad, anyway, I have given them such a good start , it still only has such performance!"

It's not intentional to look down on people. Now the world's main fighters generally have a speed of more than 650 kilometers. The status of an aviation power does not match.Especially the navy, which occupies an absolute position, is equipped with such poor fighters.How to fight?

Tesla shook his head and said, "If there is no need for war, there will be no corresponding development! However, with the capabilities of the United States, the best propeller aircraft can be produced at any time. In addition, are you sure you want to kill?"

Zhu Bin shrugged: "Didn't I remind them to skydive?"

Tesla was speechless. This reason was very good and powerful. It was obvious that he would not give the other party a chance to compromise!Anyone with a little bit of shame would not listen to his yelling.Not to mention, Zhu Bin never clarified his identity to the outside world!

Eleven F4Fs swarmed in a loose formation about one kilometer across.After rushing to a distance of several thousand meters in a blink of an eye, it is estimated that the precise and terrifying main gun.They cleverly dodged to the side and rear and planned to attack their buttocks, but just after rushing to a distance of 3000 meters, they saw the close-in defense guns on the side and rear of the battleship spinning and raised from the protective cover, and the 30mm seven-barreled guns swished. Turn, the stream of bullets fired in short bursts will kill immediately!

The muzzle velocity of the near-anti-gun is close to 1000 meters per second!The shooting speed reaches 6000 rounds per minute!A short burst of more than a dozen shells will produce a straight line, and two hedges will collide in less than two seconds. f4f didn't have time to dodge at all, in the blink of an eye, dense shells blasted towards him one after another!

Even if this all-metal fighter has rough skin and thick flesh, it can't stand up to the sharp close-in defense bombardment that can disembowel a destroyer!A single shell hit would directly shatter a large piece, and the four fighter planes rushing to the front exploded continuously in the air.Three pilots followed and died!

The rest of the fighters turned and maneuvered like frightened pigeons, trying to avoid it from a distance, but the super-high-speed close-in defense guns did not shoot directly to waste ammunition. The figure leisurely made a big loop in the air and then directly hit the two fighter planes, blowing them to pieces!

The icy call sounded again from the radio station of the remaining five fighters: "Skydive now! Count down in five seconds!"

"God! What kind of monster is this!" The pilots of the two f4fs screamed in despair and jumped out, abandoned the fighter planes and ran for their lives, while the other three cursed "coward" loudly, turned around and continued to dive. With full firepower, I tried to use the abnormal range of the 12.7mm heavy machine gun to give the opponent two ruthless shots first!

The effort of turning the head to aim, the two close-in defense guns in the shooting range aimed at them, and fired several times in a row, three fighters were reimbursed in the air, and one did not run away!

The pby patrol plane that just climbed to a height of 1500 meters was stunned!Twelve main fighters, which they thought were very powerful, were all killed by the opponent without even holding on for 5 minutes. It was crazy!Could it be that the battleship they saw was a devil lance from hell? !

A cold command sounded from its radio: "PBY crew, all skydive! This is the last order!"

"Damn it! Even we won't let it go!" Lieutenant Henry rolled his eyes and cursed fiercely, then shouted back, "Did you hear that?! Dance with me if you don't want to die!"

He grabbed an inflatable vest and hung it around his neck, opened the hatch and jumped out decisively.He is not worried about what crimes he will bear. Americans have the responsibility to defend their homes and the country, but they also have the right to surrender to save their lives when there is no hope of resistance. This is not contradictory.

Today's light, twelve fighter planes can't survive for a few minutes, let alone their slow patrol plane, so obeying the other party's orders is not a big problem.

All the members dived into the water, pby lost control and immediately headed down and descended slowly.Lieutenant Henry actually kept an eye out, and before leaving, he pinned the joystick with a wrench to keep the course.If you can glide far away and land slowly, then maybe you can save the fighter plane, the communication system on it, the photos taken by reconnaissance, and so on.

However, it was clear that the other party's intention was to kill them all. The last pilot had just left for less than five seconds when a flash of fire flashed in front of the battleship, and an anti-aircraft missile circled around with a long tail flame and hit the plane directly.When the sky is blown to pieces, or a flaming fireball crashes into the sea!

Lieutenant Henry clutched his parachute and muttered to himself, "Poor baby! Damn bastard!"

But after all, he passed on the news that the fleet was completely wiped out as soon as possible. I believe that the guys who will come later will be more careful?

Scattered white umbrella flowers all fell on the surface of the sea, and the surviving pilots fluttered and waited for rescue. They were not worried about being left alone. There were at least a dozen ships in this area of ​​water, and there were also a large number of patrol planes.Someone will come over in ten minutes.The premise is, don't be killed by the shells exchanged between the two sides, or by the debris falling from the sky.

Is this a crow's mouth?

There was another buzzing sound in the sky. Lieutenant Henry looked up and saw that the second batch of fighter planes rushed from the direction of Wake Island. They probably had received their warning and did not rush forward. Five circles at a low altitude of 6000 meters away.Looking from the sea, only a group of black spots bigger than petrels can be seen hovering evenly and neatly.

Word of the same quickly spread across the Pacific.In the fast fleet, Lieutenant General Halsey frowned and asked again: "Are you sure that warship fired and shot down our plane without revealing its identity?! Twelve planes are gone?!"

"Yes! General! Although I don't know if it is an exaggeration, I believe that the reconnaissance plane will not lie indiscriminately in this regard."

That's tantamount to saying that the other party really did something wrong!General Halsey's cold light flashed across his eyes, and those who are familiar with him must have guessed it.He is angry!

The chief of staff reminded: "General! Although we have ordered an attack on this warship, it seems that it is not so easy to kill him! We have too few fighters deployed around Wake Island, and we rely on them alone to fight. I'm afraid it's not optimistic! I think it's better to keep an eye on it and wait for the arrival of our fleet!"

Twelve were killed in a few minutes, and it was the same for another twelve. Wake Island is such a big place, it is impossible to form a fleet of hundreds of aircraft, and the rest are carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, and the speed is slower than one. , It's all delivery to death!The battleship couldn't catch that guy's trace, so it was clear at a glance which one was more important!

General Halsey nodded cautiously: "I understand! Let all the fighters continue to attack, if it still doesn't work, just keep an eye on it! Now, I can probably judge that the warship must belong to the Chinese!"

This is not a wild guess. Based on his knowledge of the world's navies, only the Chinese have ever demonstrated such a sharp and terrifying air defense force. Other than that, other countries are not so good, including the US military and the Japanese military.In fact, the air defense of warships has become a fatal problem as fighters get faster and faster, and he has never thought of a good solution.But obviously, the Chinese must have some magical means.

Chief of Staff Mills flashed his eyes and reminded: "Perhaps we can directly contact the Chinese side and ask them to admit and stop the threatening behavior of this warship? After all, there is no direct hostile relationship between China and the United States. Some things can be discussed!"

Halsey hesitated for a moment, and waved his hand decisively: "No! America will not compromise with those yellow-skinned dwarves at any time! The navy relies on its strength and determination. I think it is more convincing to use cannons and planes to talk force!"

Mills shrugged his shoulders and stopped advising. He also knew that the proprietor's temper was stubborn, and he was so stubborn and arrogant that he would never compromise with someone he despised, even if the opponent had made amazing achievements. , This kind of pride that comes from the bones cannot be changed.

That is to say, the main fleet is too far away from the target. Otherwise, Halsey will definitely send all the planes to kill that guy directly. As for the above-mentioned saying of capturing alive and discovering Chinese technology from it, don't worry about it.

Ordered to cross the sea through radio waves, the second wave of twelve fighters swooped down without fear. What greeted them was still the precise and outrageous close-in artillery and main artillery shells. The joint 127mm artillery can almost be used as a sniper rifle. It hits a target within a few kilometers with almost [-] hits. It killed all twelve fighters with three strikes, five and two, and none of them escaped and survived!

The turbulent sea was quickly messed up by the broken metal body, dotted with fireworks, a dozen pilots struggled with hands and feet and waited for rescue, but the perpetrator "Yingzhou" turned around gracefully and continued to travel east , as if doing something insignificant.

A pby patrol plane arrived here 10 minutes later, followed by another seaplane to rescue them. It didn't take long before the two destroyers were chasing them at full speed of 35 knots. If you can kill the opponent, you must first entangle him before talking!

Several other cruisers that had cast their nets since yesterday shrank their radius to chase and intercept them. Two of the heavy cruisers, relying on their rough skin and thick flesh, ignored the warning of the "Helena" and blocked the way carelessly!

Under the radar scan of the "Yingzhou", the two warships were advancing side by side at a distance of five kilometers, rushing forward in a scissors posture, with the 203mm main turrets all raised, and with the assistance of the aerial reconnaissance aircraft to lock the direction, they were ready to aim and fire at any time.

"Sir! Shall we just charge there? Don't engage them?" asked the navigator.

Zhu Bin gritted his teeth: "No! Since we have already started, let's do it to the end! Attention all departments! Enter the range of the main gun and fire the camera! Let's talk after shooting!" (To be continued...)