Chapter 2727 Breakthrough 1
Chapter 2727 Breakthrough 1
"The air defense network will not last long. Our fighter jet defenses have been saturated. Order the fleet to prepare for air defense!" Mitchell looked at the Japanese bomber group that had already passed the defense line. All battleships have already taken action. Three aircraft carriers and battleships are at the core, and on the periphery are wheel-shaped air defense arrays composed of a large number of destroyers. Artillery is aimed at the Japanese bombers in the sky. They want to re-attack. Here are the night air defense results of Sims Fleet last night.
However, in the face of fleet air defense, both the Germans and the British actually had their own methods, but the British did not have time to use them in the war. However, in the distant Pacific region, the British got a chance. In the end, this A wave of more than 70 aircraft of various types successfully passed through the interception of fighter jets. The long-hidden Japanese land-based aviation elite finally showed its sharp fangs!
"They are coming to us!" The outermost destroyer No. DD221 became the first breakwater facing the Japanese bomber force! Unlike in the past, when Japanese bombers chose to directly attack the battleship by bypassing the frigate's anti-aircraft fire network, this time the Japanese were preparing to carve a way out from the outermost layer!
"These guys are so crazy!" Looking at the Japanese attack planes flying close to the sea in the distance, all the artillery and machine guns on the side of the destroyer DD221 fired crazily, and countless shells made large or small lines on the sea. Water jets, sometimes the densely falling cannonballs even formed a wall of water!
boom! With a loud noise, the Japanese twin-engine bomber at the front was hit by a 5-inch shell. The shell weighing more than 20 kilograms hit the left wing root of the Japanese bomber like a heavy hammer. , accompanied by the explosion of several kilograms of explosives, the huge power directly removed the entire wing from the fuselage. Subsequently, the plane hit the sea water, and the huge impact shattered the plane into pieces. However, before the Americans could celebrate their victory, more and more new enemy planes were approaching!
Click, click, click. Accompanied by the roar of large-caliber machine guns and machine guns, two twin-engine bombers wildly strafed the deck of the destroyer DD221 with crossfire less than 400 meters away. More than double-digit machine guns and machine guns fired each time. Hundreds of rounds of various artillery shells and gun shells can be fired in one second. The dense rain of bullets swept across the deck. A group of U.S. Navy soldiers who could not escape were swept away in an instant, and various colors of internal organs and blood were splashed on them. On the deck and deck, the originally tidy deck turned into a slaughterhouse.
As the distance got closer, the Japanese attacked even more crazily. In just ten seconds, thousands of rounds of ammunition fell on the small boat, which was only a few dozen meters in length. Large-caliber bullets and artillery shells engulfed the entire ship. The superstructure, gun emplacements, and chimneys formed a honeycomb, and even the incendiary bombs from the machine guns set a fairly small fire on the surface of the hull.
The originally relatively intensive anti-aircraft firepower suffered heavy losses in this fierce exchange of fire. The thin shield was shattered, followed by incomplete weapons and corpses scattered everywhere. Although the hull structure is still intact, the ship's anti-aircraft firepower is considered useless.
However, even so, since the Japanese did not intend to let go of the destroyer, after the aircraft responsible for air defense suppression ended the attack, a bomber carrying a 100KG bomb dived from the sky and dropped 2 bombs at an altitude of 800 meters. 100KG bomb.
Ten seconds later, a bomb landed near the chimney of the destroyer DD221. The bomb with a charge of more than 50KG directly blew up the chimney and the lower boiler room completely! Although DD221 is still floating on the water, it is just a dead fish. However, this destroyer was not the first American destroyer to be sunk in this battle. The destroyer DD112 next to it was hit by a 250KG high-explosive bomb a few minutes ago. The violent explosion directly blew the destroyer into two pieces. . With the sinking of the two destroyers, a gap was opened in the US fleet's peripheral air defense network! The remaining Japanese aircraft groups filed in through the gap and rushed towards the innermost American aircraft carrier and battleship!
"Give an order to all aircraft carriers, telling them to disband and act alone when necessary, and order all frigates and battleships to follow their respective aircraft carriers to provide fire cover!" Old Fletcher looked at the murderous Japanese bomber detachment and ordered hurriedly. A few minutes later, the Japanese bomber group hit the United States' most powerful anti-aircraft battleship - an improved battleship!
"Fire!" The battleship Arizona stood between the Japanese fleet and the aircraft carrier Independence. In order to resist the Japanese air attack, the Americans on the Arizona all suffered from a lack of energy phobia. Not only did they stand in the most open space in the middle of the hull, At least two anti-aircraft gun arrays were unfamiliar, and a large number of gun emplacements were even placed at the bow and stern of the battleship. For example, in front of the A turret, the Americans have deployed four twin 28MM machine gun emplacements. At the end of the D turret, the Americans also temporarily placed more than 2 digits of machine guns where the seaplanes were parked! Even on the turret, the Americans even arranged machine guns in every possible way!
In the middle part of the hull, which has the largest space, there is a mixed array of 28MM and 40MM machine guns on the open deck. On the superstructure are a large number of 20MM machine guns and large-caliber machine guns. In order to improve the fire control effect as much as possible, the Americans also installed some artillery mirrors on the deck to assist in anti-aircraft shooting. On a battleship, the total number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers even exceeds three digits!
Regardless of what these weapons can hit under poor fire control, the thought of flying a plane through this moving "active volcano" can scare more than 70% of pilots! However, in fact, in this naval battle, the American battleships did play a mainstay role in the anti-aircraft firepower of the inner circle of the fleet! Successfully blocked the Japanese attack for more than 20 minutes!
"The American air defense system is very efficient. The fragile aircraft carrier is in the middle. On the left is a battleship or other main battleship. On the right is about 3 destroyers. About 5 battleships form a small formation. The distance is very close. , so that the 40MM cannons can support each other. In this case, if we rashly attack the US aircraft carrier in the core position, we will be attacked by air defense firepower from all directions. Therefore, the result of our previous research is, We had to break a certain side of the turtle shell in order to attack the aircraft carrier at the core." A Japanese naval officer recalled after the war.
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