The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

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West Korean Gulf.Fletcher's mixed fleet ran desperately, crossed the Datong River Estuary, and finally avoided the attack radius of the super electromagnetic gun. Seeing that there were no longer rising water columns and sudden explosions beside all the ships, Commander Fletcher was reluctantly relieved. Immediately afterwards a call was made to the Air Force to stop sacrificing huge cover and return to normal alert.

In just a few hours, in order to ensure the safe arrival of his fleet, nearly [-] fighters of various types have been lost, with an average speed of one shot down every minute, which shows how fierce the battle is.

At the same time, it also reflected that the strength of the opponent's air force is by no means empty words, and it is not easy to try to fight for air supremacy!

The fleet re-arranged the battle formation, with two "South Dakota" class battleships as the main attackers, arranged on the periphery of the array, accompanied by two repaired North Carolina-class battleships, forming a huge naval gun attack group, this is also because In order to meet the needs of the mission and ensure the speed of the entire fleet at 27 knots, the slow battleships were not sent to die. [

The remaining Japanese heavy cruisers and light cruisers protected the front, rear and left sides, forming an arc-shaped cordon with a width of [-] nautical miles. The front end directly opened to the Yalu River port.

The two aircraft carriers are close to the innermost layer of the land and are protected by layers of protection. The land-based aviation unit protects them all the way to ensure that the sky above will not be attacked and drop terrible bombs.

After exchanging information with the coalition command, it was confirmed that the enemy's attack firepower on the shore had been greatly reduced, and there was no trace of the battleship's heavy artillery. Fletcher was very happy. This was obviously because his arrival played a key role.

Then he asked about the enemy's North Sea Fleet.Aerial reconnaissance showed that they actually split into two groups and all retreated south!

All the way is part of the ocean-going fleet headed by two Kunlun-class battleships. After a short actual combat attack experiment, they directly withdrew to the Guzhenkou base.Didn't stop all the way.

On the other side, the main force of the North Sea Fleet, the aircraft carrier directly returned to the Dalian military port for supplies and rest. The heavy ships are now at the junction of the Bohai Bay. It seems that they do not want to fight head-on with the Fletcher mixed fleet. Go back to rest and replenish?or what?Judging for now.

But anyway.The theater environment in the lower reaches of the Yalu River has been greatly improved. Without the terrible artillery strikes at sea, the pressure on the Japanese troops crossing the river has dropped tenfold.

Even though it was already known that the attack of the 3 army in front was directly defeated, the casualties were heavy.The Japanese army had no other choice, either to watch the remaining [-] or [-] people die slowly, or to continue to increase troops to kill them desperately, and never withdraw their troops until they broke the face-to-face defense!

Obviously, they chose the latter.

Fletcher's mixed fleet successfully pushed into the north bank without even being harassed.The carrier-based aircraft took off nearby to join the battle for air supremacy, while the cruisers and battleships used their maximum range to launch fierce bombardments towards the mountainous area where the enemy army was located on the opposite bank.

The mk6 406mm 45-caliber heavy guns on the four battleships have a range of more than 30 kilometers, and their power is already considerable. When they penetrate into the mountains, the pillars of fireworks that explode are higher than the mountains, which is spectacular!All of a sudden, the No.12 Army artillery's limelight was suppressed.

The shelling, which lasted less than two hours, provided valuable cover for the Japanese troops crossing the river.Let them successfully send over 2 people for the first time, but at night, Fletcher had to order the fleet to leave the coastline urgently and head towards the middle of the Yellow Sea!Because he got the news that the North Sea Fleet seemed to be retreating.It has not been completely withdrawn and repaired. Its battleships, heavy cruisers and other main maritime attack forces have quietly come from the northern sea area of ​​​​Shandong Peninsula, across the [-]-kilometer-wide narrow area. Obviously, it is necessary to close the door and fight dogs!

"Huh?! The Chinese don't even send out the East China Sea Fleet to encircle us, are they just trying to kill us with this force?"

While Fletcher was shocked, a sense of shame of being underestimated welled up in his heart.Sure enough, the other party didn't take them too seriously at all!Even the two terrifying super battleships were directly withdrawn and did not participate in the battle. Could it be that, in their eyes, the majestic US Navy is so vulnerable?

This is not good news!Originally, his plan was to mobilize the main forces of at least two opposing fleets to encircle them. At that time, hundreds of warships would be crowded in the northern part of the Yellow Sea, and they would not be able to move away from each other. They would have to fight at close range to offset each other's forces to the greatest extent. Terrifying the lethality of long-range attack weapons, and using the power of large-caliber naval guns and torpedoes on their side, they can kill multiple things in one fell swoop.

Obviously, people are not fooled!

"Okay! Since this is the case, we have no choice, so let's fight it out!"

The task force switched formations without hesitation, with battleships and heavy cruisers as the attack tip, turned from the north side to the south to guard, and formed a face-to-face formation.

In the narrow northern part of the Yellow Sea, there is only such a large space for maneuvering. With a little movement, the two sides can meet together.At ten o'clock in the evening, a thick fog gradually rose on the sea, and the vision condition dropped sharply. Fletcher was pleasantly surprised, and decisively ordered the fast destroyers in front to push in, release torpedoes, and launch the first attack! [

In the entire task force, there are a small number of destroyers with more than 30 ships, all of them are guys with a speed of 32 knots or more, each maneuvering forward along an irregular curved route, interspersed with a few light cruisers, rushing out several times in one breath. After ten nautical miles, no matter whether they can aim at the target or not, they all move towards the sea ahead and release the torpedoes together!

The number of torpedo tubes on board the ship is all in bundles. A dozen destroyers and light cruisers launched together, and there were as many as forty or fifty torpedoes thrown out at the same time!

In particular, most of them are 610mm [-] acid torpedoes of the Japanese army. They are powerful, have a long range and speed, and can threaten targets within [-] nautical miles.

This is a very right tactic!Narrow waters, crowded ships, and torpedo strikes can often achieve good results.

The heavy torpedo plopped into the water, and the propeller rolled up a series of sprays and rushed away, forming a strong signal that immediately filled the entire sea area.

Under the sea.The scattered sonar array responded immediately, and the screens of the Beihai Fleet Command Center and flagship center were immediately filled with flashing dots. On the grid-shaped coordinate map, the position of every torpedo and every warship was clearly visible.Vividly!

Xie Gangzhe stayed on the flagship without the slightest shock, and without him even giving an order, the destroyers and cruisers in front had already moved in response.

Compared with the Joint Task Force, the number of North Sea Fleet left here is pitifully small, only a dozen warships.The aircraft carrier and a large number of destroyers returned to the Dalian and Weihaiwei military ports, leaving the attack group headed by two battleships scattered on the sea.

Facing the rapidly approaching torpedo group, the outermost light cruiser immediately used the rocket interception system to launch three consecutive rows, and the explosion resounded from the water surface more than ten kilometers away, accurately detonating and destroying more than a dozen torpedoes.

Immediately afterwards, four or five destroyers fired jointly.The high-level dual-purpose main gun blocked the bombardment of the sea and destroyed more than a dozen torpedoes again. The huge water column and explosion flame column generated by the detonation were hundreds of meters high in the air, shining brightly on the sea, just like the scene in the evening!

Another twenty or thirty torpedoes rushed past the interception border sparsely, before hitting the target ship.Attracted by the baits launched by various battleships, they exploded one after another!

From a distance, the scene of the explosion seemed intense!However, Fletcher knew that he probably didn't hurt the opponent's fur, and he had nothing to be happy about, so he ordered to shoot at the position of the enemy ship he found when he opened fire!

The black lights are blind, and the radars installed on US warships are not very reliable, not as reliable as eyes.

The main guns of the four battleships fired at a distance of [-] kilometers, so there was no need to consider the hit rate.All he wanted was a deterrent.Of course it's good to be fooled.

The ships on the periphery of the Beihai Fleet immediately retreated to give way to the main battleship. Two Taishan-class battleships came up to face the fierce attack of the US battleship salvo and opened their horizontal formation.Expand the naval guns to bombard!

The difference is that their 406mm main gun, which is exactly the same as the US military, has a diameter of 50 times, a long range, and high accuracy.

The appearance of the Taishan-class battleship, roughly speaking, is very similar to the South Dakota-class, the size is a circle larger, the building on the deck is simple, the shape is more beautiful, and the armor is thick!

The 406mm armor-piercing roared between the warships of the two sides. After a few rounds in a blink of an eye, the two Taishan-class ships were not damaged at all, but the light ships caught in the middle were bloody bad luck!

The one-ton armor piercer, whether it hits a destroyer or a cruiser, has only one fate, piercing!Their thin armor is simply vulnerable!The unlucky ones lying in the middle of the battlefield, the cannons that were fired from the sideways tore the hulls and shattered the islands abound. In less than half an hour, six coalition ships were seriously injured or sunk, and the rest were in a panic. Run away from the center line and avoid the engagement zone.

Fletcher was also ruthless, and ordered the four battleships to line up obliquely, arcing towards the southeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula, and the turrets turned to face the southwest side and fired continuously. This will not only maximize the overall strike power, but also ensure that they will not rely on The other party was too close and was attacked by unpredictable other.

But obviously his plan was not ideal, and Xie Gangzhe didn't want them to leave the battlefield at all!

Fletcher probably forgot that just 50 years ago, in this sea area, there was a sea battle that changed the situation in Asia!It was the year of Jiawu, when the Chinese Beiyang Navy and the Japanese joint fleet fought a bloody battle. The Japanese army won, and a large number of Chinese naval pioneers were buried in the depths of the Yellow Sea! [

This blood feud has never been forgotten by the Chinese Navy.Their battle with the Japanese navy was just to recover the interest. The battles that took place in other sea areas, the victory is of course very valuable, but it is nothing compared to the place where the heroes of the previous generation died. They were defeated and suffered half a century in China. In the place of humiliation, it is meaningful to take revenge directly and regain one's dignity!

Not to mention, the Beihai Fleet itself carried the Beiyang Navy back then, who once alone supported the fate of the entire great empire, tragically faced the blow of the powerful enemy's overwhelming power, and faced the overt and covert pressure exerted by the entire Western world!Revenge here, return all the humiliation to the other party with cannons!

This is why Xie Gangzhe let them in!

Right now.Here, at this time, with a big victory, with the flesh and blood of thousands of enemy troops, with the steel of enemy warships.Pay homage to the dead!

The two Taishan-class battleships stood alone, and under the precise control of intelligent fire control, the salvo of the six turrets quickly entered the rhythm of precise strikes after a short warm-up.

In the tenth salvo, two shots hit the island of the USS North Carolina at a distance of [-] kilometers from each other.The huge kinetic energy gave the armor piercing a terrible lethality. A hole was smashed open at the hit point, and a large amount of steel and people stuck inside were blown to pieces and collapsed!

In the No.11 round, a gun successfully penetrated the root of the front turret from the front deck and exploded, directly causing the propellants of the three main guns inside the turret to explode, blasting the entire turret from the root to the bottom of the sea.Form a huge hole and ignite a raging fire!

On the No.12 ship, two guns penetrated the side waterline armor and the stern rudder armor respectively. The two large holes torn by the explosion caused violent water injection, the hull tilted, and the fire became more and more intense.

The North Carolina class was in a hurry to rescue, and the Massachusetts, which was closest to it, was in a hurry to provide cover.As a result, it immediately became the second key target!

The two sides confront each other obliquely in a figure-of-eight shape, the distance shortens at the same speed, but they can both turn the turrets sideways and fire salvos, so that each other can exert their full power, the same tonnage, the same main gun caliber, the same rate of fire, the same distance, twice The discrepancy in numbers seems unfair.But from the very beginning, the situation was one-sided!

It was the first time for Fletcher to personally experience the opponent's terrible blow, and he was so shocked that he was sweating all over his body!

He didn't participate in the last big battle, the last night siege.What others say is not always so intuitive.But now he knows why the United Fleet is so powerful, but lost so badly!The opponent couldn't judge with common sense at all. Thirty kilometers, a distance that was completely impossible to hit, had succeeded frequently, and the impact effect of the cannon's end was obviously beyond their predictions. This battle was not easy to fight!

However, it is because of such difficulties that he has the opportunity to display his ability, isn't it?

Fletcher has a stubborn temperament, and he will never give up easily. Seeing the opponent's madness and terror, he aroused his ferocity and ordered all the capital ships to continue to press forward. Since the opponent took the initiative to bombard him, he certainly wanted it. Look, who is the mighty navy!

Including the injured USS North Carolina, all heavy warships carrying main guns accelerated inward and rushed towards the main waters of the southern Yellow Sea.

The two battleships commanded by Xie Gangzhe successfully blocked the center line, lined up north and south, aimed at the target enemy ship, and fired steadily.

Two consecutive rounds of shelling made two large holes in the body of the rushing USS Massachusetts, and one shot successfully drilled through the frontal armor of the 16-inch turret, completely blowing it up and shattering it!Another shot penetrated from the horizontal deck into the midship cabin, blowing up a boiler, causing the power output to drop by a quarter!

Here, salvos from the task force, including the heavy cruiser, rained down on the two battleships, and the explosions that continued to rise rumbled and shook like thunder. The centers of the two battleships were completely transplanted into the ocean. The predictive system of the battleship of the fleet can accurately and timely judge the trajectory of the guns fired by the opponent, and effectively avoid them. Occasionally, if a gun is hit, the damage caused can be completely ignored---the comprehensive protection of the Taishan-class battleship The thickness of the armor is much larger than that of the opponent!

The rumbling explosion turned the narrow northern part of the Yellow Sea upside down. The large expanse of flames tore through the mist and formed flickering light clusters in the sky, like thunder before a storm. The dull explosion was carried by the mist for dozens of times. Kilometers, there is no tranquility in the vibrating surroundings.

Five minutes later, the USS Massachusetts was hit three times again, and the bridge command room was also hit hard. The unreliable radar system was completely blown up, the communication antenna was destroyed, the main mast was broken, and the command center was almost paralyzed!

Replace the other two battleships and then replace them, giving them time to save themselves, and then became the target of the key attack. Fletcher's Indiana was just exposed, and the bow was smashed by an armor-piercing shot, and an extremely ugly Big hole!

As brave as he is, he couldn't help but be terrified. The level of the opponent's nighttime bombardment was bizarrely accurate. How did they do it?It seems that every shot has its own eyes!

Of course he doesn't know that the radar lock can even be accurate to within a meter. As long as the spread of the gun itself is not outrageous, a volley of [-] rounds will always get a little bit of benefits when it hits it. Salvo, there must be something!

An hour later, the distance between the two sides was shortened to about 26 kilometers, and the power of the US artillery can finally be exerted!

But at this time, the fog on the sea became thicker and thicker, and the observation distance with the naked eye would never exceed three nautical miles. The surviving radar scanned it, and it was full of noise everywhere, making it impossible to see where the other party was.

Even the momentary flash of fire only illuminates a rough area, and it is almost impossible to use this to aim.

The situation is very unfavorable for the task force!

Fletcher guessed the other party's strange behavioral psychology in his heart, and ordered the heavy cruiser to withdraw to the back, not to go out to die. Part of the light cruiser and the destroyer were scattered on the two wings, and they took the initiative to double-team the opponent's head and tail like pincers, and continued to torpedo Attack; then the four broken battleships continued to stick in the middle, turned their heads and turned sideways, turned the intact hull on the other side, turned the turret, and continued to fire!

This time, he will never look back until he completely destroys the other party!To be continued.If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (voting, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m to read.