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

Of course, these NPC pirate warships randomly refreshed by the system are not static. As the technological level of the entire maritime world improves, the performance of these NPC pirate warships will also change, and they will always remain slightly below the average technological level..

This pirate force was born not long ago. Even before the system intervened, it already had a huge fleet of more than 20 large capital ships, but its resources were limited.

Perhaps during this period of time, this pirate force attacked some player warships or the island chamber of commerce's transport fleet and obtained some captures, but the harvest would certainly not be too much.

If you really want to obtain a large amount of raw materials, you still have to attack the transport fleet on Island No. 308, but neither Ye Bai nor Langsdorf received such a telegram for help yesterday.

Based on this calculation, the resources in the hands of this pirate force are definitely limited and cannot take into account the development speed of all aspects.

After building a ground airport on the island and attaching it to hundreds of carrier-based aircraft, it is estimated that the raw material resources in their hands have been almost exhausted. It is somewhat unrealistic to build a coastal artillery defense system.

This is probably why these"nine hundred" pirate forces chose to attack the transport fleet at this time, and dispatched most of the main fleet in one go. To put it bluntly, it was all caused by the lack of raw material resources.

Fortunately, when he first formed the escort fleet, Ye Bai was wealthy and equipped with several aircraft carriers and battlecruisers. Moreover, the attack location chosen by the pirate fleet was not too far from the island No. 308.

Otherwise, these pirates will succeed. If the transport fleet carrying a large amount of raw materials is robbed by them, not only will they be able to build a coastal defense artillery defense system, but they will also recruit or build more warships. , by then this pirate force will be even more difficult to eradicate.

Ye Bai couldn't help but think, no wonder Shen Deyi specifically emphasized that pirate warships operating in the sea area must be eliminated as much as possible, and they must not be allowed to develop unscrupulously.

At this moment, Ye Bai secretly made a decision in his heart. In the future, the strength of the guard fleet must be fully guaranteed on each island, even if it affects the expansion of the main fleet.

The topic is a bit far off topic. There is no coastal defense artillery fortress built on the pirate base island, and even the ground airport was destroyed by the attack aircraft group that took off from the Yanhuang.

Except for the carrier-based aircraft that was blown up on the ground, the remaining carrier-based aircraft have all taken off and are currently fighting in the sky.

In other words, there are no important military targets worth bombing on the pirate base islands at this moment. Therefore, the second wave of attack aircraft sent by Nimitz simply gave up the mission of continuing to bomb the pirate base islands. Instead, they launched a bombing campaign against the pirate fleet on the sea.

In a pure competition of fleet strength, whether it is the overall number of warships or the number of large main warships, there is actually no difference between the Chinese fleet and the pirate fleet.

The pirate fleet had three light aircraft carriers, which were stationed in the base island port, and about 10 warships were assigned to protect them. The Yanhuang and a dozen escort warships were also located in the rear and did not participate in the fleet artillery battle.

The pirate fleet has 5 large battleships including battleships, and the Chinese fleet also has 6 large battleships, and among them are 2 Dunkirk-class battlecruisers. However, in Ye Bai's idea, Entered the battlecruiser.

But among the pirate fleets, they are serious battleships. Therefore, the Chinese fleet not only has more capital ships than the pirate fleet, but the battle power of the capital ships is also stronger than that of the pirate fleet.

What's more, these battleships in the Chinese fleet are all equipped with more advanced radar systems and are equipped with fire control radars, which greatly increases the accuracy of artillery strikes.

In such a naval and artillery battle, in the end, the winner will definitely be the Chinese fleet. It just depends on the final fleet losses.

After the fleet artillery battle broke out, the two sides were quite inseparable at the beginning. All warships were at their peak. Because of the advantage of being equipped with fire control radars, the Chinese fleet's artillery hit rate was higher. , every round of salvo attacks has shells falling on the hull of the pirate warship.

But the battle had just begun. The shells that landed on the ship and exploded did not cause too serious damage to the armor value of the battleship. They could withstand it without losing its combat effectiveness.

Therefore, although the Chinese fleet's bombardment was much more accurate, the pirate fleet's counterattack did not stop. Shells were fired continuously, causing certain damage to the Chinese fleet.

It was not until the second wave of attack aircraft changed their attack targets that the situation changed.

Hundreds of bombers withstood the pirate fleet's fleet air defense firepower, constantly pulling up and diving, throwing out aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes, causing great damage to the pirate fleet that was engaged in a fierce artillery battle with the Chinese fleet. Trouble.

Moreover, these pilots have now changed their style of play, turning a blind eye to the five large capital ships with obvious targets in the pirate fleet, and instead giving priority to attacking destroyers and light cruisers with weak armor.

For small battleships such as destroyers and light cruisers, due to their small tonnage and insufficient main gun caliber, they do not play a big role in the frontal artillery battle of the fleet. They are more responsible for peripheral security and The mission of outer air defense.

But what are the destroyers and light cruisers equipped by this pirate force? The Benson-class destroyers and Linxian-class light cruisers are all old-fashioned warships. They do not pay attention to air defense operations at all, and their anti-aircraft firepower is also quite weak.

Facing the successive bombings of SBD Dauntless dive bombers and TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft, these small and medium-sized warships with weak air defenses were simply unable to stop them and could only shoot in the air in vain.

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom" accompanied by bursts of violent explosions, the limited armor value was quickly completely emptied under the attack of heavy aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes, and quickly sank with unextinguished fire and thick black smoke. In the sea. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

The sinking of these small and medium-sized warships does not seem to have much impact on the artillery battle situation between the fleets, but in fact it is not the case.

When subordinate After most of the large number of destroyers and light cruisers belonging to the pirate fleet sank under the indiscriminate bombardment of the second wave of attack aircraft, Halsey waved his hand, and the destroyers and light cruisers belonging to the Chinese fleet that lost their opponents disappeared. At full power, they charged towards the pirate fleet 0.

The caliber of the artillery of these small and medium-sized warships is indeed very small, and the shells fired have limited threat capabilities to the large and thickly armored main battleships, but don't forget , these small and medium-sized battleships are also equipped with a big killer - torpedo tubes.

Even battleships with thick armor cannot withstand the attack of heavy ship-borne torpedoes, let alone heavy cruisers and battlecruisers.

Therefore. A large number of light cruisers and destroyers rushed in from all directions, which also shocked the pirates who were fighting fiercely. Just looking at the situation, they knew that these small and medium-sized warships were going to approach and release torpedoes at close range.

The power of ship-based torpedoes is not small, and the speed of sailing in the water is also very fast, but the range is a bit stretched, and once the range becomes longer, the hit rate will become even worse. Therefore, these torpedo launch tubes are equipped with If small and medium-sized warships want to really launch a torpedo attack, they must close the distance with the enemy ship. Generally speaking, the best attack distance is about 5 kilometers. At such a short distance, the pirates are not fools. Of course, all kinds of artillery must be fired with all their strength to intercept the light cruisers and destroyers that are approaching quickly.

Halsey is of course very confident if he dares to launch such tactics. With one more main battleship, he It has completely suppressed the firepower of the pirate fleet's capital ship formation, causing the pirate capital ships to catch fire one after another.

Facing the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chinese fleet's main battleships, it is difficult for the capital ships in the pirate fleet to free up their hands, shift their targets, and attack with all their strength. He is telling the approaching small and medium-sized battleships.

Another point is that this is the world of navigation, not the real world. Even a battleship cannot sink a destroyer with one shot. The hit destroyer was seriously damaged.

Calculated based on the rate of loss of armor value, let alone one battleship main gun shell, even if there are a few more, the destroyer can still withstand 5.7.

Facing dozens of ships The light cruisers and destroyers approaching quickly, and the five large main warships in the pirate fleet, even if they tried their best, could not completely rely on their own gunfire to stop so many warships. What's more,

Halsey was not watching. He even increased the attack firepower. With the assistance of fire control radar, the main gun attack became more and more accurate, and the entire superstructure of the five pirate large battleships that could not cope with the artillery battle was completely destroyed. Plowed it again.

A large number of armor fragments were flying everywhere, the wooden deck had been ignited, and the battleship was blazing with flames, seriously disrupting the battle of the pirate crew.

Withstanding the gunfire from the battleships and heavy cruisers of the pirate fleet, they quickly closed the distance, and the light cruisers with thicker armor rushed to the front. Although they were hit by more shells, none of them sank, covering behind them. A large number of destroyers successfully arrived at the best attack position.

As soon as the attack position was reached, light cruisers and destroyers swept the ship horizontally one after another. Under the captain's order, torpedoes flew out of the torpedo tubes and flew in a fan shape on the sea toward the remaining pirate warships..