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

Whenever an aerial bomb falls on the main turret, the consequences will be serious. With the explosive power of a 700KG aerial bomb, even if it cannot completely blow up the main turret on the spot, it will be destroyed.

However, the terrifying shock wave generated by the explosion was enough to kill or knock out all the gunners inside the main turret. Without the gunners, the main turret under attack had actually lost the power to fight back.

Although the backup gun crew members can quickly enter the main turret, lift out the previously injured gunners, and take over the main turret again, it will also take more time. With this time, the battleship's firepower has long been weakened. Cut off

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom"

In contrast, the warships of the Chinese fleet fought quite happily. Although the distance between the two sides was far, the pilots in the sky acted as eyes to guide the bombardment. The hit rate was still very impressive.

As for the British fleet's The counterattack seems so weak, and will be intermittent under the attack of the carrier-based aircraft group in the sky. Even if some light and heavy cruisers launch torpedo attacks, the distance of nearly 10 kilometers makes it easier for the lookouts on the battleships to detect the underwater The torpedo wakes of high-speed sailing provided timely warning and allowed the warships to avoid them.

Constantly enduring double attacks from the air and the water, the remaining warships of the British fleet were more and more seriously damaged, but their own counterattacks were so weak that they simply could not It did not cause much hindrance to the Chinese fleet's attack.

The 4th destroyer, which had already damaged its hull and did not have much armor value, could not hold on at first. Under the continuous attacks, its armor value was quickly exhausted. sank into the sea.

Without 4 destroyers, the remaining 12 battleships of the British fleet were even fewer. There were only 3 light cruisers, 2 heavy cruisers and 2 battlecruisers left, and the 2 heavy cruisers were The cruiser had already lost power in the previous attack.

Not to mention moving and turning, even the rotation of the turret did not have enough power, so the counterattack firepower was extremely weak. This situation was naturally regarded as a soft persimmon. pinch

"boom"、"boom"、"Boom."

The two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers focused all their firepower on the two Prestige-class battlecruisers. Therefore, the task of bombarding these two heavy cruisers naturally had to be handed over to the three Brooklyn-class light cruisers.

More The firepower that the 15 MK16 47-caliber 152mm cannons can exert at this moment is simply terrifying. In terms of caliber, although it is not as good as the 203mm cannon equipped on the New Orleans-class heavy cruiser, it cannot hold up the large number. Ah.

What's more important is that the special combat rules of the great maritime world make it impossible to fail to break the defense in naval battles. No matter how thick the opponent's armor is, there will always be losses in the face of artillery fire. Part of the armor value is just a matter of more or less.

A warship with thick armor and enough armor value can only withstand more shell hits, and some subsystems cannot be easily destroyed. Other aspects are not that big. The difference.

The fierce bombardment still continued, and the British fleet, which was subjected to double attacks from the air and the surface, had to be distracted from fighting, which seriously affected the fleet's counterattack ability. Whether it was anti-aircraft firepower or naval gun attacks, as time went by It has become even weaker.

In such an unequal fierce battle, the British fleet is completely at a disadvantage. With the 4 remaining destroyers sunk, several Fletcher-class destroyers have been freed up to concentrate their firepower. A fierce bombardment of the remaining three light cruisers completely contained their firepower.

As a result, these three light cruisers could no longer provide any fire support to the two heavy cruisers, leaving the three Brooklyn-class besieged ships The light cruiser can use all its firepower to launch a series of salvos against the two heavy cruisers without any worries.

If the Brooklyn-class light cruiser did not have torpedo equipment at the time of design, Lin Luzhong and others would probably be eager to There is no way to launch all the torpedoes. They have lost all their power and are floating on the sea unable to move. The two heavy cruisers are the best targets for torpedo attacks.

Although there is no assistance from torpedoes, the three Brooklyns A total of 45 152mm guns of the light cruiser launched salvo attacks on the two heavy cruisers again and again, beating them to pieces and severely damaging them.

Among the warships in the world of navigation, due to differences in design tonnage and armor protection, There is also a certain gap in the armor value, but as a heavy cruiser, its armor value is only more than 20,000 points, and it will never exceed 30,000 points. Even some treaty-type heavy cruisers have an armor value of just over 20,000 points. That's it.

More than 20,000 points of armor value may seem like a lot, but after a real fight, it is not necessarily that powerful, especially after the explosion of a 700KG-level aerial bomb and a 907KG-level aerial torpedo. The damage will be as high as more than 00 or even 00 points.

How many attacks can a heavy cruiser withstand such an attack?

In comparison, the naval gun attack of the Brooklyn-class light cruiser appears to be weaker. A cannon shell After the explosion, it only caused more than 300 points of damage to its armor value. If a large number of shells had not successfully hit its hull, it would be difficult to sink it.

But no matter what, the attack of the three Brooklyn-class light cruisers will never fail to break the defense. After a fierce and indiscriminate bombardment, the two heavy cruisers, which had lost all their power, finally could no longer hold on and brought them with them. The fire that had been burning on the hull but had never been extinguished slowly sank into the sea.

The two heavy cruisers were successfully sunk. Under the command of Lin Luzhong, the three Brooklyn-class light cruisers quickly turned their guns and poured all their firepower on the remaining three light cruisers, plus as many as 6 With the assistance of a Fletcher-class destroyer, the hulls of these three light cruisers were continuously hit by artillery shells and burst into flames. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that they could not hold on for much longer.

During the entire naval battle, the light cruisers and destroyers fought relatively easily. Only the two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers fought relatively hard because their opponents were two Prestige-class battlecruisers.

Although the two battlecruisers were seriously damaged by the bombing of the carrier-based aircraft group, the 381mm guns on the ships were not too seriously affected, and the counterattack firepower was quite fierce.

A New Orleans-class heavy cruiser would not be able to withstand a shell of this caliber. The loss of armor value may not be too great, less than 1,000 points. With an armor value of more than 20,000 points, it can still hold on. But the damage to the ship's superstructure after the shell exploded was the most serious.

Fortunately, there are still a large number of carrier-based aircraft flying and circling in the sky. From time to time, aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes will be dropped, seriously interfering with the counterattack firepower of the two Prestige-class battlecruisers. Even after one of the main turrets was destroyed, this The firepower is much weaker.

Also with the support of carrier-based aircraft in the sky, the two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers can single-handedly defeat two battlecruisers without suffering any major losses. Otherwise, look at the five heavy cruisers in the Isijima fleet. You will know the final result of a group challenge against 1 battlecruiser and 4 heavy cruisers in the pirate fleet.

However, the reason why Lütjens dared to allocate attack targets like this was naturally because the armor of the two battlecruisers was too thick, and it would take a lot of time to sink them.

Therefore, he asked two New Orleans-class heavy cruisers to contain it with the support of a large number of carrier-based aircraft, giving the fleet time to sink other warships.

As long as all the other cruisers and destroyers are sunk, all the battleships in the entire fleet can be gathered together to besiege the two battlecruisers. If more are used to attack the less, no matter how thick the armor is, they will not be able to hold on for long.

And if you are lucky enough and these British naval officers are fearful of death enough, they may even choose to fly the white flag and surrender, which will be a profit.

Although he had captured these two Prestige-class battlecruisers, Ye Bai lacked the corresponding battleship construction drawings, and it was not that easy to repair them.

But in the previous transaction with Said, the BJST brother, Ye Bai got a construction drawing of the Lion-class battlecruiser. Both of these battlecruisers were used by the British Royal Navy during World War I. There is not much difference in the technical level of products and various aspects.

As long as the shipyard understands the construction drawings of the Lion-class battlecruiser, by analogy, although it is still unable to build the Prestige-class battlecruiser by itself, there will not be many problems just repairing it.

Now that everything is ready, it just depends on whether these British guys understand each other and whether they choose to fight to the end and be sent into the sea to feed the fish, or whether they choose to surrender with a white flag and save a small life.

As time passed by, under the siege of three Brooklyn-class light cruisers and six Fletcher-class destroyers, the armor value of more than 10,000 points of the three British light cruisers was simply not enough. Soon It was hit by a large number of artillery shells, its armor value was depleted, and it sank to the bottom of the sea.

By this time in the naval battle, the number of ships was close to 20, and only the last two Prestige-class battlecruisers were still struggling to support the large British escort fleet.

The six Fletcher-class destroyers that had ended the battle immediately surrounded them. Without any courtesy at all, they directly fired the torpedoes from the five-unit 533mm diameter torpedo launch tubes.

Withstanding too many attacks, they were unable to detect these ship-borne torpedoes rushing towards them in a fan shape. With bursts of violent explosions, the hulls of the two Prestige-class battlecruisers were blown up. Once it flew, if the ship itself wasn't heavy enough, it would probably have stayed in the air for a while before falling down again..