The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The gliding bomb is not a new technology. The Germans invented it as early as World War I, but the war ended before it was used.Although the countries did not take it seriously at the time, as the Sino-Japanese war entered a fierce stage, Zhu Jiajun used it several times, which made the Japanese completely open the meat. This kind of fast and powerful bomb with an aerodynamic shape of an aircraft and elders with long wings His reputation spread like wildfire.

With the Japanese intelligence, combined with the fact that Germany has researched it and used it to bomb Britain, the Americans quickly figured out what it was, and relied on their strong technological capabilities to create their own version of the special bomb.

Compared with the Germans, the Americans have great advantages in aircraft and aerodynamics. The first gliding bomb broke the rigidity of the Germans, made the main wing longer, and the shape of the bomb was similar to that of a fighter plane. The ship shape was modified, so on the basis of the original precision control, the advantages of gliding distance and trajectory control were greatly increased, so that the bombs that could only be dropped at a large angle in the near sky could be thrown out at distances of more than ten kilometers. epoch-making products.

Although it can't reach the advanced gadgets in Zhu Bin's hands that can glide for 50 kilometers, it has completely drawn a clear line with the air-dropped weapons of the old era!

When the Doolittle Air Force got the glide bombs, the Pacific War had already started. When they moved to Mukro Air Force Base, Zhu Bin's bombing destroyed San Francisco and Los Angeles, and knocked out the Pacific Fleet.After Nimitz retreated decisively, they were able to land on the aircraft carrier.

So, today, it is the first time since the birth of the glide bomb.

It has to be said that Doolittle's tactical quality is extraordinary, bold and cautious, full of imagination.This is also the key factor for him to be able to assume the command and command of the frontal attack --- if you want to rise from the talented U.S. Navy and gain the favor and trust of Nimitz, you can't do without two brushes!

The 32 glider bombs on the front foot were detached from the pylon, and then the other two fakes that looked the same in appearance but were just empty shells were thrown out, so 64 identical bombs suddenly appeared in the sky. The goal.It caused a lot of interference to the radar signal of the intelligent defense system of the sea ring base.

It's not over yet!

Just as the bombers started to drop bombs, the low-altitude fighters hovering cautiously on the 15-kilometer border line also started to move. Some high-speed fighters, such as F4U, threw all the small bombs mounted on them. Not far away, but successfully involved in a part of the radar scan.

The other part of the torpedo attack aircraft simply threw the mounted torpedo close to the water surface.

Those airborne torpedoes with a range of only 3 kilometers are also specially modified for the enemy they are facing. The warhead has been greatly reduced, and only dozens of kilograms of high explosives are loaded inside.extra space.But they are all designed as propellant fuel compartments, thus extending the range by more than 10 kilometers, barely reaching the target.After all, it is a dead target that cannot move. As long as the torpedo floats along the current, it will always reach the end.

In this way, the total number of U.S. fighter planes, flying objects, and surface attack objects in the sky more than doubled!The number suddenly increased from less than one hundred to more than 200, a mixture of true and false.The high, medium and low airspace plus the surface and underwater are equal to five layers of attack arrays.The complexity is dizzying!

On the radar screen of the control center of the intelligent defense system around the island, all kinds of shining light spots, large and small, appeared one after another. The twelve electromagnetic turrets suddenly seemed a little stretched, and the shore-based turrets that had been silent all the time were activated in an emergency. The twin guns were raised immediately.First hit the bomber with the largest target and hit it hard!

The three-kilometer-diameter roundabout is divided into six continuous surfaces, and each surface has at least six dual-link rapid-fire guns as the main firepower, all wireless proximity fuzes plus intelligent fire control, radar correction and wireless guidance, 25 rounds per minute rate of fire.The shells fired in a blink of an eye can easily lock a target every 4-8 rounds. Under the continuous explosion, even the rough-skinned b-25 can't hold it for a few hits!

The four bombers who bravely leaned forward as targets to attract firepower were caught off guard, and were swallowed by dense explosions in an instant. When they emerged from the smoke cloud, they were riddled with holes and covered with burning and smoking holes, their wings were broken, and their engines Damaged, the cabin ruptured, the pilot was soaked in blood, and crashed crookedly towards the sea!

Doolittle's landline was a little behind. He stared at the scattered white umbrella flowers in front of him with wide eyes, and gave a military salute expressionlessly.Among the four planes, less than a third of the people survived, and the rest were all killed on the spot!This is all a heavy price to pay for the completion of his bold plan!

However, the sacrifice of these people is obviously worth it, and it is by no means the only one.

In the low altitude, after dropping the bomb, the f4u fighter jet with its load suddenly lightened decisively and quickly maneuvered to break through the blockade, acting as a bait without fear, attracting the ubiquitous and untraceable terrifying air defense weapons of the opponent.

On the surface of the water, the attack plane that dropped the torpedo clumsily raised its belly upwards, while climbing slowly, it also bravely crossed the sideline and tried hard to publicize its existence!

And the two destroyers that approached, after releasing a round of torpedoes, turned their heads and rushed in without hesitation, one left and one right, like warriors launching a desperate charge, fearlessly facing the sudden density increase several times strike firepower!

This scene was faithfully recorded by the observers behind with film and cameras. The young photographer even burst into tears and his hands trembled slightly.It is their sacrifice that has brought about the longevity and prosperity of the entire country, free people and civilized world!

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The hearts of countless witnesses surged with passion. At that moment, they were simply possessed by the souls of all the great figures in the short history of the United States.

On the opposite side, on the boiling roundabout, no one appreciates or tastes the few brave actions of the Americans. In other words, the Americans are actually winking at the blind. Not many!

When the Pacific War officially broke out.This huge base, which originally only had some technicians and rotating scientific researchers, was evacuated immediately, leaving only a small amphibious elite troop for daily guards, and even the maintenance work is military. Compared with the huge security area with a radius of 150 kilometers, there are very few engineers and technicians.

Now.Due to the relocation of more than 20 peripheral platforms, the outer defense network was temporarily withdrawn, exposing the middle base, and of course they were also ready for battle.When the Nimitz formation crossed the sonar array, only a part of the people on the outer ring defense line simply withdrew into the center. Even if there was a lot of hype outside, they could at most be remote spectators from the heavily guarded security center.

And with the opening of the defensive artillery fire, the smoke and boiling water vapor everywhere made the camera blurry, and only the drone in midair could barely send back some decent scattered pictures.

The denser and more terrifying defensive artillery fire than Americans imagined officially revealed the prototype!

Two destroyers had just crossed the sideline.Immediately triggering the priority judgment of the intelligent defense system, the threat posed by the huge hull of all the attacking units was immediately raised to the highest level, so the six dual-mounted 203mm guns immediately turned around, and the fierce artillery fire was fired at a rate of 8 rounds per minute. The speed was enough to blast a rapid-fire group, and the result was that the two warships couldn't hold on for 3 minutes. After being punched [-] or [-] holes on the spot, they exploded into flames and sank crookedly!

And low-altitude torpedo planes.Together with the torpedoes they release, they are intercepted as secondary threats.In addition to the self-loading anti-submarine rocket deep bombs swarming to intercept, two electromagnetic guns joined the sequence of precise bombardment of the sea, destroying seven torpedoes in a row at a distance of 5000 meters, ensuring that no fish slipped through the net.

As for the fighter planes, they were shot down one by one by the anti-aircraft missiles flying over from the center within a few kilometers.Make sure nothing slips through the cracks.

The scattered small aerial bombs were judged to be non-threatening, so they were simply given up. The 64 real and false glide bombs, as secondary threat targets, were only later identified, but at this time.They have all accelerated to a speed of Mach 0.65, taking advantage of the gap filled with fireworks to fly into the low altitude within 1 minute!

Electromagnetic guns were mobilized as the main defensive weapon, and more than 30 of them were continuously destroyed in rapid-fire mode. Then the six-tube 20mm Phalanx was triggered to dexterously lock on the near-air units and destroy them one at a time in three seconds.

All in all, the density of intercepting firepower was already desperately high, but Zhu Bin's subjective error led to a hundred secrets and one sparse!He seriously underestimated the speed of technological development and learning ability of contemporary people.In the 20s when there were many talented people, even if there was only a little creativity, the rapid development of military technology stimulated by the world war was unimaginable without absolute technological barriers!

Today's attack was presided over by Nimitz, planned and executed by Doolittle himself, an unprecedented air-ground super-saturated attack tactic!Although the Americans do not yet have a clear definition of "supersaturation", they also want to understand that the only way to break Zhu Bin's desperately dense defense line is to concentrate all kinds of weapons and a large number of military units at one point , or do a wave-like impact, or a close call!

The wave-like impact was proved by the Japanese to have too little chance of success except for causing huge casualties.The attack of the Chelsea Task Force last time fully proved that when the enemy's defense capability exceeds the standard, multiple waves of attacks are refueling tactics, just to die.

So Nimitz resolutely agreed with Doolittle's so-called "Storm" attack mode. Although the previous hundreds of fighter planes breakthrough tactics also failed, he believed that the time was different from the target, and the possibility of success was the greatest!

The bold idea actually had an effect here!Although the defensive line around the island was densely packed to a ferocious level, there were still more than a dozen gliding bombs mixed with real and fake ones, and finally successfully blasted on the floating platform with a width of 500 meters!And there were six bombs that were shattered at close range, and finally rolled and fell under the action of inertia. As a result, there were eleven final explosions, which exploded on the platform!

"Boom-boom!"

Eleven super bombs with a charge of more than 500 kilograms were scattered in an area of ​​about 600 meters long and exploded one after another. After each bomb smashed through the composite material and steel plate base of the platform, it fiercely exerted its maximum force from the depths. The destructive power immediately set off eleven terrifying jet flames with a diameter of [-] meters towards the sky!

All the explosion points shattered the surrounding steel structures on the spot, the modular buffer zone above was blown to pieces, and the loosely laid slabs on the top layer were lifted up without resistance, so there was a platform the size of a village. Unexpectedly, the whole thing was thrown away, tens of thousands of tons of steel plates and composite materials.All of them were overturned like shredded paper, hundreds of meters away!

I don't know if it was due to the luck of the Americans. This blow actually blasted a wide gap in the roundabout, and most of the defensive artillery units erected on the edge were affected. They were either destroyed, severely damaged, or destroyed. The link with the Smart Control Center has been disconnected and it will not work.In short, the strike firepower in this area suddenly disappeared!

Of course, the price is also huge!Not to mention the loss of a quarter of Doolittle's bombing brigade, the loss of all bombs, the loss of more than two-thirds of the remaining flying units, and the sinking of three battleships. It can be said that the price he paid for his attack was within an hour. Don't even think about launching a second wave!The power left by Nimitz has also been damaged by one-third!

Look at the other side's platform.That is a monster with a diameter of three kilometers!The gap of a few hundred meters is just an inverted triangle defense belt with a core on both sides. Want to pass through safely?It's not that easy!

Unwilling, Doolittle returned to the aircraft carrier with the rest of the fighters, and the second wave of fighters all took off to take over from them as the main force to guide and explore ahead.

Nimitz also rushed to the vicinity at this time, and after receiving the report from the front, he couldn't help sighing secretly, the target was so powerful.It was even more extreme than he imagined, and he had tried his best.It's just such a result. It seems that it is far from easy to break through the defense and get what you want!

To make matters worse, according to calculations, Wang Wenda's squadron should have moved to a place about [-] kilometers away from him at this time.Based on the opponent's technical weapon capabilities, they should have clearly discovered the situation here, so it is conceivable that the opponent's ultra-long-range shells will be fired in a little over an hour.Or the rocket may fall on the fleet's head!

"We can't wait any longer!" Nimitz made up his mind suddenly, and immediately ordered the rest of the warships, "Stop attacking the targets in front of us. All ships immediately follow the flagship and turn to the northwest. The three platforms that have already been occupied are towed away immediately!"

"Ah?! Stop fighting?"

Not only Doolittle, but other personnel were also taken aback by this order, especially the people from the FBI and scientific research institutions who followed the secret plan, and they were very dissatisfied. One of the representatives couldn't help but objected: " General, you should be clear that what we need to obtain in this combat goal is far from enough! It would be a pity to retreat like this!"

Nimitz responded coldly: "As the commander, I know best what to do is in the best interests of everyone! If you don't want to be surrounded and wiped out by the Chinese here, just do as I say!"

"You're running away!" The representative was furious. As the agents launched by the big consortium, they have always walked sideways around the world. What military generals and the like, don't you have to rely on their faces to make a living after retirement?

Nimitz didn't intend to explain too much to them. In military operations, he was the boss!He didn't even bother to reply, and waved to the soldiers to ask these gentlemen to go down to "rest" immediately, and then broke down further orders.

Originally, his planned action was not only to destroy the sea base, but also to rob all important things. The unmanned platform discovered before, although the wireless transmission was cut off, it had a complete battery system and electric drive system on it. .After the two battleships approached, they would send their own generators through the cable to drive them.The structure of those platforms itself is a hollow hull similar to a catamaran, which can not only provide huge buoyancy and stable anti-wave capability, but also facilitate fast towing or autonomous action.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Bin's well-considered design also brought convenience to the Americans.Nimitz originally planned to drag the whole thing away, but now it seems that there is not enough time, so he had to remove the good things that were dismantled first, and the remaining huge platform couldn't be dragged, so he had to throw it away temporarily.

In addition, after using the winch and the giant anchor to wrap up the swarms of seaweed, forcibly dragged a huge floating culture medium platform off the seabed!Regardless of the fact that this thing is basically hundreds of tons of seaweed, the structure of the base itself, the 2000-meter-long rope underneath, the wrapped sonar, power supply, signal transmission system, etc., are all good things with inestimable value !

I have to say that Nimitz's brain is too easy to use. If he is not an admiral, he will definitely achieve great success when he goes back to do business!

After snatching these things, although it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the things inside the huge platform, it is better than empty hands and nothing!

According to Nimitz's order, the three warships that performed the above missions immediately departed northwestward at full speed without hesitation. It is estimated that they will have to drive at least 500 nautical miles before turning to Mexico.

And the main force of the aircraft carrier he personally led turned around and went straight to the north. If nothing happened, Nimitz firmly believed that he would most likely encounter the blocking force of the enemy --- he never thought that since the opponent planned to outflank him, he would only Send a fleet to intercept from behind!If it were him, if the Halsey formation encountered the enemy, I am afraid that this side would have already pushed into the combat radius!

As if to meet his pre-judgment, the main force of the two battleships led by Wang Wenda did not hide from the north, and rushed straight at them in a menacing manner. After the Nimitz formation was fully assembled, it had just sailed northward to the base circle. When the sonar array and seaweed cultivation belt were nearby, the reconnaissance plane hovering in front saw the enemy who split the waves and attacked boldly from a distance! (To be continued..)