Naval Warfare for All: From Patrol Boats to Carrier Fleets

In this battle, it was not only Ye Bai who made mistakes, but even Ramsay, a naval colonel who was good at aviation tactical command, also made mistakes.

Ramsey did not know the specific performance of these 12 warships of the Japanese benzene combined fleet, and could only judge according to the verbal report of the reconnaissance aircraft pilot, according to the displacement and the caliber of the main gun, it should be a warship belonging to the class of light cruisers.

But Ramsay did not know that these warships were all quite old-fashioned warships, not conventional warships in the world of exploration, and there was a mistake in judgment, in order to ensure that the first round of attacks would hit the other side hard, 64 Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers were dispatched.

In fact, the 12 warships of the Japan-Ben combined fleet may belong to the cutting-edge warships in this era in the copy space, and they are also equipped with relatively advanced rapid-fire guns, with superior performance, and their actual combat effectiveness is not as good as destroyers.

The armor value is also quite weak, the average is about 5000 points, in the face of 227KG level aerial bomb attacks, up to 7, you can blow up an intact battleship into an Iron King VIII.

Strictly speaking, this is not Ramsey’s mistake, after all, he made a judgment based on his own experience, in the final analysis, it is Ye Bai’s problem, after all, Ramsey does not know, he knows clearly, but he did not tell the actual situation of the Japanese benzene combined fleet to Lütyans and Ramsey, so that both of them had a wrong judgment of the true strength of the Japanese benzene combined fleet.

“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”

The bullets of the 7.7mm diameter aviation machine gun beat the Japanese benzene naval soldiers exposed above the deck into a sieve, and a large amount of blood flowed from the wound stained the deck red, and one after another aerial bombs fell from the sky on the battleship, and after the violent explosion, a huge fireball was raised.

The instantaneous intense high temperature evaporated the scarlet blood, and the bodies of some Japanese benzene naval soldiers were also ignited in the fire, becoming a humanoid torch, and some machine guns and torches in the open air were directly blown out and restored to the state of parts.

Not long after the war began, the Beiyang Naval Division Fleet and the Japanese Ben Combined Fleet were still in a state of equal and equal strength, but the officers and men of the Japanese and Ben Combined Fleet were in a state of excitement, and as a result, this burst of bombardment from the air directly blown them up.

Never experienced, let alone imagined that there would be an attack from the air, almost startled both warring sides, many people ignored the large number of shells flying from the opposite side, stopped their movements, raised their heads and looked at the skua carrier-based fighter-bombers flying and circling in midair.

Because the sudden entry of the carrier-based aircraft group into the battle completely disrupted the rhythm of both sides, the deafening roar of artillery fire that originally resounded throughout the sea area seemed a little weaker.

In the warships of this era, the armor is mainly concentrated in waterlines, side sides, commander towers, turrets and other places, and the horizontal armor is relatively weak, which may play a defensive role for some shells with little explosive power.

But in the face of this unheard of-and never-before-seen aerial bomber empowerment attack, the weak horizontal armor could not stop the explosion of powerful aerial bombs, and large holes were blown out of the deck.

Some cabins below deck were not able to escape, and were affected by the explosive power of aerial bombs, and countless sailors were blown to pieces.

In the explosion of one aerial bomb after another, almost none of the 12 warships of the Japanese-Ben combined fleet could escape, and several large holes were blown open on the ship, but also ignited a raging fire, and many Japanese benzene naval soldiers, running on the edge of the fire, tried to extinguish the fire on the ship in various ways.

I never thought that there would be attacks from the sky, let alone any defense and counterattack, and without anti-aircraft weapons, the warships of the Japanese-Ben combined fleet could only queue up on the sea and wait to be bombed.

To say that the most unlucky thing is the flagship of the combined fleet this time, Matsushima, as a protective cruiser, but also one of the famous three scenic ships, which was specially developed and built by the Japanese Benzene Navy to deal with the two ironclad ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, and the armor and firepower are naturally not weak.

Quasi-displacement 4278 tons, outer armor thickness 125mm turret armor thickness 300mm turret roof armor thickness 100mm armor defense deck thickness 50mm equipped with a 320mm nano gun, 120mm Müstrang rapid-fire guns, 5 47mm Harbes rapid-fire guns, 10 47mm Harbegs rapid-fire guns, 1 8mm 5-barreled Nordenfeld cannon, 460mm thunderbolt tubes.

Such armor and firepower are already quite good in this era, but this time, they are facing the aerial bombardment of the carrier-based bomber group, without the slightest defense and blocking ability, not to mention, the speed of 16 knots makes it impossible for the Matsushima to escape.

As the flagship of Yuhiro Ito, commander of the Japan-Bon Combined Fleet, the flag of the fleet commander hoisted high made the Matsushima stand out in the eyes of the pilots, and a squadron of 16 Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers launched a round of bombing of the Matsushima.

A 227KG aerial bomb fell, almost destroying the entire superstructure of the Matsushima, and the commander tower was the key target and withstood the most attacks.

Under the first round of bombardment by 4 Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers, the tall commander’s tower was directly blown into ruins, and almost all the officers in the bridge, including Ito Yuhyun, commander of the Japanese-Bun Combined Fleet, and Kajimoto, captain of the Matsushima Navigator, were all turned into dust under the explosive power of aerial bombs, and even complete corpses could not be found.

It is equivalent to the fact that at the beginning of the aerial bombardment, not only did the Matsushima lose its command, but also the entire Japanese-Bon Combined Fleet was knocked out of the command system, and the Beiyang Navy Fleet on the opposite side fell into the same situation.

Not long after the start of the war, the Japanese combined fleet’s evaluation of the superiority of rapid-fire artillery achieved results, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Fleet, Ding Ruchang, was wounded and could not command the fleet to fight, and then the handsome flag hanging on the Dingyuan was shot down, the signal rigging was also destroyed, and the flag command could not be issued through the signal flag, and the fleet lost command and contact.

Now the Japan-Bon combined fleet has also fallen into this situation, and the skua carrier-based fighter-bombers in the sky are still attacking, although the Matsushima is the flagship of the Japan-Bon-B combined fleet, but in the face of aerial bomb attacks, it has not shown more powerful capabilities.

Just two squads of 8 Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers dropped aerial bombs, which blew up the Matsushima and became the first battleship to be sunk in this naval battle.

The target was so weak that it was quickly sunk that the eight Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers who were preparing to attack had to adjust their direction and launch an attack on the two warships Chiyoda and Itsukushima closest to Matsushima.

At this moment, on the Dingyuan, because the watchtower was hit by a shell fired by the Japanese benzene combined fleet, Ding Ruchang, who commanded the watchtower, was injured and finally bandaged urgently, sat on the deck, regardless of the injuries on his body, his eyes widened angrily, and he roared loudly: “‘Emperor Hong Fu Qi Tian, his own divine soldiers descended from the sky, passed on my orders, opened artillery with all his strength, and hit me hard~

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This Lord Governor of the Beiyang Navy who switched from the army to the navy did not know that at this moment, the Dingyuan did not want to say that he had conveyed his orders to the entire fleet, and even the contact with the outside world had been lost.

However, the Japanese-Bon-Bon Combined Fleet suffered a surprise attack, and the officers and men on the other warships of the Beiyang Naval Division were not blind, they had already made up their minds, fought tenaciously and were not afraid of sacrifice, and now their morale was even higher, and they fired artillery in succession and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese-Ban Combined Fleet. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

In particular, the old battleships Chaoyong and Yang Wei, although they were hit by multiple shells and a fire broke out on the ship, but the officers and men did not lose their will to fight, and while extinguishing the fire, they continued to fire and attack.

Deng Shichang, the pipe of the Zhiyuan ship, even ordered the battleship to go forward, blocking the flagship Dingyuan, staring at the Yoshino, the fastest in the Japanese-Bon combined fleet, ready to fight hard.

“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”

In a series of violent explosions, the two warships Chiyoda and Itsukushima that had been hit by several aerial bombs were blown up by aerial bombs dropped by eight Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers who did not have a chance to bomb the Matsushima.

So many 227KG-class aerial bombs fell on the two warships, accompanied by the raging fire and thick gunsmoke on the ships, and in less than 5 minutes after the Matsushima sank, it followed in the footsteps of the (Wang Zhao) Matsushima and exploded into several knots and soon sank into the sea.

The indiscriminate bombing of the 64 Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers caused heavy damage to the combined fleet of Japan and Ben after all the aerial bombs were dropped.

The flagship Matsushima sank, and the Chiyoda and Itsukushima closest to the flagship also sank one after another, and the remaining 9 warships, although they did not sink, were all wounded, and the main guns equipped by some battleships were blown up, and their firepower was much weaker.

Although the carrier-based bomber group that completed the bombing mission left the belligerent sea area satisfied, the hearts of all the officers and men of the Japan-Bon combined fleet sank, and the unexpected attack caused a huge reversal of strength between the Beiyang Naval Division and the Japanese Bon combined fleet in an instant.

The flagship of the fleet was bombed and sunk, and the combined fleet, which had lost the commander of the fleet, was now in a state of separate battle, although there were no iron birds in the air, but the Beiyang naval division, which was inspired by morale, did not let them go, and one battleship after another leaned over, and there was a fierce bombardment against the remaining warships of the seriously damaged Japanese benzene combined fleet.

Especially the two ironclad ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, no matter how backward the main guns they are equipped with, but the 305mm diameter cannot be fake, full of 8 large-caliber heavy guns of fierce shelling, any warship of the Japanese benzene combined fleet is hit, will be knocked off half a life.