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

However, among the players who entered the dungeon space this time, there were not those players who had upgraded their ships to the escort aircraft carrier level, so the only light aircraft carrier in the player fleet was Wu Yichun.

However, in cooperation with the three light aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet, the first batch still took off about 100 carrier-based aircraft, most of which were bombers and torpedo attack aircraft, and the number of fighter jets was only more than 20.

After three consecutive rounds of large-scale aerial bombing, all air defense fighters in the entire mixed fleet have been shot down. The subsequent attack fleet no longer needs too many carrier-based fighters to provide escort.

The larger purpose of these small numbers of carrier-based fighter jets taking off is just to attract and contain the anti-aircraft firepower on the battleships, and to open up bombing routes for the bombers and torpedo attack aircraft following behind.

It’s no wonder that these players thought they were doomed. Faced with the close-range bombardment of nearly a hundred warships from the Third Fleet personally commanded by Halsey and the player fleet, the fleets of these alien players were already suffering a lot of pain.

After all, in the previous bombing, all the battleships had been sunk. Even the heavy cruiser-level battleships had received special attention. Many were sunk, and the rest - almost all were injured.

In the entire mixed fleet, there are still more than 200 warships, regardless of the number of warships still floating on the sea, but there are no large warships in it, and most of them are small and medium-sized cruisers and destroyers.

Not to mention Halsey's third fleet, in this kind of naval artillery battle, all the capital ships and the mixed fleet of most large battleships have been lost, and even the player fleets, all of which are heavy cruisers or above, have been defeated. but.

After more than ten rounds of naval gun fire, more than a dozen alien players were sunk in the artillery battle. These warships themselves had withstood the bombardment of more than one aerial bomb, and their armor value was no longer full. Value status.

Now in the bombardment, the shells fired by the third fleet and the player fleet are the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

In particular, the two Nelson-class battleships in the Third Fleet are equipped with three triple 406mm guns and have a full load displacement of more than 43,000 tons. They dominate the entire battlefield in terms of firepower and armor value.

Halsey liked to fight this kind of maritime assault battle the most, commanding two Nelson-class battleships and three Dunkirk-class battlecruisers to continuously focus fire attacks on the battlefield.

Any warship he targets cannot escape at all. Even if the hit rate of the bombardment is not very high, it cannot withstand the intensive artillery fire. Basically, under every salvo attack, there will be at least one alien. The player's ship was sunk.

While the fierce artillery battle was going on, the 4th aircraft carrier, which was still some distance away from the battlefield, finally released more than 100 carrier-based aircraft from the first wave of attack aircraft groups and rushed to the battlefield.

In fact, there is no need for the leading carrier-based fighter jets to attract and contain the anti-aircraft firepower on the alien player warships. After all, the firepower of the third fleet and the player fleet is too fierce.

Cannonballs of different calibers continued to fall down and exploded on the Alien player's battleship. Many anti-aircraft guns installed on the sides were blown up into the sky together with the man and the cannon, greatly weakening the Alien player. Battleship's anti-aircraft firepower.

The attack aircraft groups flying in at high speed were not blocked at all. The air defense formations of these alien player warships had long been disrupted during the shooting at the sea. The entire fleet had no air defense system.

They can only rely on a single warship to fight alone, and the air defense firepower network is sparse. For the pilots of the Third Fleet, it is as simple and easy as training.

As soon as he stepped on the accelerator, he flashed around in the air, dodging rounds of anti-aircraft artillery shells and anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, flying towards the alien players' heads, and then taking a slight aim, he fired the mounted aerial bombs. Throw it down

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom"

With these 100 carrier-based aircraft joining the battlefield, the explosions became more dense and terrifying. The alien player warships suffered a huge blow, and the battleships sank faster. By the time these more than 100 carrier-based aircrafts arrived After firing up all the ammunition, shaking their wings, raising the flight altitude, and roaring back, the outermost fleets of alien players had been completely wiped out. Under the integrated sea-air strike mode of the third fleet, , all sank into the sea.

Halsey, who had won the victory, did not even order the fleet to make slight adjustments. He once again closed the distance and launched an indiscriminate bombardment on the remaining warships of the mixed fleet..In the air at this moment, more than 100 carrier-based aircraft taking off from the three Ark Royal-class light aircraft carriers in the First Fleet of the Chinese Fleet have already flown over the mixed fleet, roaring and began a dive attack, cooperating with the Third Fleet's maritime Artillery operations.

Three large-scale attack aircraft groups were dispatched in succession. The fighters in the small space that had prepared for combat in advance had already dispatched once. Although the remaining fighters that had not been dispatched still numbered more than 1,000, Nimitz did not let it go. The fighter planes on the Yanhuang continued to dispatch.

After three rounds of large-scale bombing, the mixed fleet had suffered heavy losses, and Halsey's third fleet had also engaged in a close-range artillery battle with the opponent. Victory would be sooner or later.

And to So far, the main formation of the Japanese-Benzene joint fleet has not appeared, and the many reconnaissance planes released have not found their shadow. The Yanhuang must maintain sufficient combat effectiveness to deal with the main formation. More than 1,000 fighters must be added Injecting fuel and loading ammunition requires a large number of ground crews to be busy for a long time, especially in the previous rounds of attacks. The large number of fighter planes sent out also require mechanics and ground crews to spend time for maintenance.

There are also pilots, this kind of large aircraft in the air A large-scale bombing consumes a lot of physical strength and energy of the pilots. Without rest, it is easy to make mistakes or even casualties due to fatigue.

Therefore, the fourth attack group, Yanhuang, no longer intervenes and will carry out aerial bombing. The task was assigned to the three Ark Royal-class light aircraft carriers in the First Fleet.

Although in terms of the number of carrier-based aircraft and take-off and landing efficiency, these three Ark Royal-class light aircraft carriers cannot be compared even if they are all added together. A Yanhuang, but today's mixed fleet, large battleships and capital ships have all been bombed and sunk, and the remaining ones are just some small and medium-sized battleships, all of which are injured.

For the remaining mixed fleet, the protection is weak, and the armor value is not Small and medium-sized warships that are not thick, the three light aircraft carriers of the First Fleet and the three light aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet can dispatch about 200 bombers and torpedo attack aircraft in one attack, which is enough to complete aerial bombing.

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Therefore, after Nimitz assigned the task of annihilating the mixed fleet to Halsey, the"brute bull general", and arranged for the three light aircraft carriers of the First Fleet to provide air support to the Third Fleet, he no longer went too far. Pay attention.

Now Nimitz is focusing most of his energy on finding Yamamoto Isoroku's main formation. In order to search the nearby large sea area as soon as possible, he even dispatched more than 50 reconnaissance aircraft at one go machine to perform a dragnet search.

The time has reached noon, just when Nimitz launched a large-scale bombing of the mixed fleet,The Cloud Fleet was also having a hard time. They faced indiscriminate bombing by Spruance's 16th Task Force, Fletcher's 17th Task Force, and bomber groups taking off from Midway.

Many warships in the entire fleet were bombed and sunk. Due to Nagumo Chuichi's command errors, he constantly changed bomb types for the carrier-based aircraft, which caused many torpedoes and aerial bombs to be piled on the flight deck.

This brought great hidden dangers to the aircraft carriers in the Nanyun Fleet. Earlier, 33 SBD Dauntless dive bombers took off from the USS Enterprise of the 16th Task Force, which caused a heavy blow to the Nanyun Fleet. one strike.

They completed the most beautiful bombing in this battle: three 454KG-level aerial bombs hit. The first and third were near-misses with little damage. The second aerial bomb penetrated the flight deck of the Akagi and destroyed it. The aerial bombs piled randomly in the hangar were detonated.

Coincidentally, 17 SBD Dauntless dive bombers that took off from the Yorktown aircraft carrier of Task Force 16 attacked the Soryu aircraft carrier.

The three aircraft carriers of the Nagumo Fleet instantly turned into three balls of fire. The aircraft, fuel and ammunition piled on the deck caused a big explosion, and the flames shot straight into the sky. In just 5 minutes, these three aircraft carriers were completely destroyed..

As the commander of the mobile formation, Chuichi Nagumo lost the fleet flagship and had to transfer to the cruiser Nagara with the officers of the headquarters and began to assemble the remaining fleet.

The aviation combat command of the mobile formation was temporarily transferred to the commander of the 2nd Air Force, Yamaguchi Takan.

An attack formation of 18 consisting of Type 99 dive bombers and 6 Zero fighters took off from the aircraft carrier Hiryu, the last aircraft carrier in the mobile formation, and followed the returning US bomber squadron.

Through this method of quietly following, the Japanese attack formation successfully found the Yorktown of the 17th Task Force, and immediately launched an attack. Three bombs hit the Yorktown, and the power system was damaged. However, under the efforts of the US military crew, After emergency repairs, the Yorktown returned to navigation.

Nagumo Chuichi finally gathered all the remaining battleships of the mobile formation, and contacted Yamamoto Isoroku through the radio, telling Yamamoto Isoroku that the mobile formation had suffered heavy losses and could no longer launch an attack on Midway Island. Request evacuation.

Yamamoto Isoroku's call back directly rejected Nagumo Chuichi's request for evacuation, and instead asked him to continue fighting and send out all carrier-based aircraft that could take off, making sure to find the American task force.

Although Nagumo Chuichi was unwilling to accept it, he had no choice but to do so under the strict orders of Yamamoto Isoroku. He had already transferred to the cruiser Nagara and had to order Yamaguchi Takan to send out all the remaining carrier-based aircraft of Hiryu..