All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

In this kind of war at sea, if one party really tries its best to close the distance between each other, unless the performance of the warship or the command ability of the fleet commander is particularly outstanding, it will be difficult to stop it.

Faced with the fierce and precise counterattacks of the escort fleet, the pirate fleet continued to shorten the fighting distance between the two sides. After paying a certain price, it was shortened to a few kilometers.

At this distance, the escort fleet's bombardment hit rate has obviously increased again, causing greater damage to the pirate warships. However, similarly, the pirate fleet's bombardment hit rate has also improved, which has almost completely failed. The battleships of the convoy also caused damage.

In terms of battleship performance, there is not much difference between the escort fleet and the pirate fleet. However, unlike the pirate fleet that relies on the experience and technology of the gun crew members for visual targeting, the battleships in the escort fleet are all equipped with fire control radars.

With the assistance of fire control radar, the escort fleet's artillery hit rate is much higher than that of the pirate fleet. It is obviously in a weak position in terms of the number of warships, but its performance on the battlefield is much better than that of the pirate fleet.

It was precisely by relying on more precise bombardment that the escort fleet firmly contained the pirate fleet, which was more than twice the number of our own, making it impossible for them to break through the defense line of the escort fleet, let alone divide their forces to attack transportation far away from the battlefield. The fleet is gone.

Moreover, even if the pirate fleet really detached a small fleet to attack the transport fleet, the problem would not be big. The 4 aircraft carriers and more than 10 escort warships equipped in the escort fleet were operating together with the transport fleet. The ability to resist.

The performance of the escort fleet was indeed not bad. In the battle with the larger number of pirate fleets, they also fought vigorously and even took the lead in sinking several pirate warships. However, the situation on the battlefield was actually for the escort fleet. is extremely disadvantageous.

After all, the number is far inferior to that of humans, and the number of main warships is only half that of the opponent. Therefore, each warship in the escort fleet will face the artillery attack of 2 or even 3 pirate warships of the same level.

The bombardment of pirate battleships is indeed not accurate enough and the hit rate is not high, but if one more shells are fired, there will always be a few shells that can hit the battleships in the escort fleet. As the battle lasts longer, there will be multiple battleships in the escort fleet. He was beaten until he burst into flames.

If there is no reinforcement to provide support, in a few hours, most of the warships in the escort fleet will sink to the bottom of the sea under the fierce fire of the pirate fleet.

From this it can be seen that the naval officer who serves as the commander of the escort fleet is still qualified in terms of ability. At least he is quite accurate in predicting the development of the war and analyzing the strength of both the enemy and ourselves. Before the war, he gave No. 308 The Kojima Guard Fleet Headquarters sent a rescue telegram, requesting support.

Just as the damage to the warships in the escort fleet was gradually increasing, a huge attack aircraft group flew in the sky.

This large fleet of aircraft took off from the No. 308 Island Ground Airport. Although it took a lot of time to load ammunition and refuel the fighters, due to their speed advantage, they arrived as fast as Not slow.

As soon as the huge attack aircraft group flew over the battlefield, it immediately divided into multiple attack formations, and first launched an attack on the large main battleships in the pirate fleet.

The P-38 Lightning fighter jets escorting the attack fleet were at the forefront. Their mission was to break through the air defense network of the pirate fleet, conduct low-altitude strafing, suppress the anti-aircraft firepower on the pirate warships, and open up bombing routes for the bombers and torpedo planes behind them..

It's just that the F6F Hellcat carrier-based fighters that took off from the 4 aircraft carriers in the escort fleet did a great job and have shot down a large number of Fulmar carrier-based fighters in air battles.

Nowadays, there are not many Fulmar carrier-based fighter jets left on the pirate fleet's seven aircraft carriers, which cannot provide effective air defense for the fleet.

Facing the huge fleet of aircraft flying from the island No. 308, the pirate fleet also became ruthless and released all the Fulmar fighter jets and Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers equipped on the seven aircraft carriers in order to intercept this aircraft. An attack fleet.

Abacus is a good idea, but all seven of the Pirates' aircraft carriers are light aircraft carriers, and can only be equipped with a total of more than 300 carrier-based aircraft, of which only more than 200 are Fulmar carrier-based fighter jets and Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers..

In the previous air battle with the carrier-based aircraft group of the escort fleet, more than 100 carrier-based aircraft released by the pirate fleet suffered heavy losses, and only a few of the 10 or so carrier-based aircraft returned to the mothership with injuries.

Today, there are only more than 200 carrier-based aircraft remaining on these seven light aircraft carriers, including about 50 Swordfish torpedo attack aircraft that are not suitable for air combat. Only more than 150 can actually take off to intercept.

With these more than 150 carrier-based aircraft, it is necessary to release all the Skua carrier-based fighter-bombers to make up this number. Otherwise, the entire pirate fleet will only have dozens of Fulmar carrier-based fighter jets that can be used for air combat.

There are a lot of attack aircraft taking off from the No. 308 island ground airport, nearly 500 of them. Most of them are IL-4 bombers carrying heavy aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes. The rest are responsible for Attack the P-38 Lightning fighter escorted by the fleet.

The reconnaissance plane sent by Langsdorff had already figured out the general situation of this pirate fleet until the opponent equipped seven aircraft carriers, so when the attack group was released, sufficient protection was prepared.

A total of 200 P-38 Lightning fighter jets faced more than 150 pirate interceptor fighters. Without any fancy tactics, they fired all the mounted air-launched rockets as soon as they approached.

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom!"

Huge fireballs exploded in the air. These pirate carrier-based fighter pilots originally thought they had to face intensive machine gun firepower, but in the end they turned out to be such a weird attack method. They had never experienced it before. The attack method that they had never encountered before caught these pirate carrier-based aircraft pilots off guard. A large number of rockets flew into the dense fighter formation, and collided head-on with the pirate carrier-based aircraft that had no time to dodge.

In Amidst the loud explosions, these pirate carrier-based fighter jets that were hit by air-launched rockets were blown to pieces in the air without firing a single bullet. The fighter jets exploded in the air, and their bodies instantly disintegrated. The pirate pilot had no time to parachute to escape, and was swallowed up by the flames. He could not die any more, and not even his whole body was left. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!) After experiencing a round of missile firing After the attack, the entire pirate interceptor fleet was completely dispersed, and many carrier-based aircraft were directly shot down. The remaining ones had to adjust their flying attitude and dodge in order to avoid the rockets flying everywhere. The flying attitude was After adjustment, the originally dense and neat flight formation was completely broken up and fell into a state of fighting on its own. Many pirate pilots who were fleeing in panic did not even notice that there were no comrades around them. The pirate ship- based The panic of the fleet provided an excellent attack opportunity for the pilots of the escorting P-38 Lightning fighter jets. They also spread out and organized themselves into small teams to target the pirate carrier-based fighter jets.

"Da da da"、"Da da da"、""Da da da da" chains of fire are flying in the air. If you are hit by these fire whips, the ending will be quite miserable. Even if it does not explode directly in the air and no bones are left, it will still be riddled with bullet holes. It fell headlong into the billowing smoke.

Almost every pirate carrier-based fighter jet faced attacks from more than two P-38 fighter jets. Its own performance and firepower were inferior to others. Now even the gap in numbers has become Even bigger.

From the moment this air battle broke out, the pirate interceptor group was at a disadvantage. There was no way for the carrier-based fighter jets to struggle in the air for much longer. In addition to being shot down, they were still shot down.

Although the pilots The pirate pilots of these carrier-based fighter jets tried their best, but in the face of the P-38 Lightning fighter jets that surpassed them in performance, firepower, armor, speed and even numbers, their struggles seemed so futile. Not to mention intercepting the attack fleet. , at this moment, these pirate pilots even have limited interference and containment.

After shooting down most of the pirate carrier-based fighters, the P-38 Lightning fighter group instantly split into two, and about half of them were still chasing those pirate carrier-based fighters in the air. The fighter jets were ready to shoot them all down.

The remaining half had already lowered their flying altitude and launched dive and strafing attacks on the pirate warships below.

"Da da da"、"Da da da"、""Click, click, click."

These low-altitude strafing P-38 Lightning fighter jets hit the pirate warships with strings of 12.7mm empty machine gun bullets.

The gunners on the anti-aircraft gun positions were either interrupted or interrupted by this firepower. With hands and feet broken off, or simply beaten into a pile of meat, the anti-aircraft weapons that were still spitting out flames stopped, leaving a gap in firepower.

After a round of low-altitude strafing, take advantage of the anti-aircraft firepower of the pirate warships below. During the short pause, the Il bomber loaded with ammunition followed the channel opened by the 38 Lightning fighter and entered the bombing route.[]

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom!"

Heavy aerial bombs detached from the pylons of the IL-4 bomber and fell on the deck of the pirate warship. Amidst violent explosions, flames shot into the sky, and large pieces of armor plates were blown up. It flew away.

Without the protection of the armor plate, the wooden deck below was also ignited by the flames caused by the aerial bomb explosion, and a fire broke out on the deck.

Countless pirates ran around on the battleship, dragging long Water pipe, I want to put out the fire on the battleship in a short time and avoid causing secondary damage to the battleship.