Tower of Babel

Huon nodded and said:"Staying away from war is indeed a good idea, but I don't know how many people have this idea?"

Booker said:"If there were fewer people, the British Empire would have agreed long ago, but all the grassroots Military officers and government officials all have this idea. That’s nearly ten thousand people! Not to mention they want gold."

Huon said:"Their gold was lost by themselves! We can’t blame us!"

When they mentioned this, the two laughed. After chatting about gold for a while, Huon said:"But I always feel a little weird. Why doesn't St. Petersburg ask our planes to come close for reconnaissance?"

Booker said:"This is normal, they are afraid of us bombing! Here is After all, it was the capital of the past, and there are so many precious things."

Huen shook his head and said,"I hope so, I'm overthinking it."

Captain Booker felt that he had been outside for a long time and was a little cold, so he wrapped himself up tightly. I took off my military coat and prepared to return to the cabin to rest for a while.

Suddenly, the roar of engines came from the direction of St. Petersburg. The two-tailed lion cut through the clouds and came straight towards the fleet.

Huon exclaimed,"What is that?!"

Booker said calmly,"Plane, that's a plane. Don't worry Huon, our aircraft carrier is here, and there are also planes." However, the words stopped here, and the next scene made Booker's jaw drop. One after another, the sky was covered by planes. Coming, the soldier's instinct immediately realized that something bad was going on!.

Someone has long proposed the concept of air-dropping torpedoes from aircraft. Last year, the United Kingdom even conducted an experiment. Although many key technologies have not been solved, the results were not ideal. The specific method still needs to be studied. But the enemy came fiercely, and Booker immediately rose up with an ominous premonition. Maybe Mao Xiong had some breakthrough. He panicked and said:"Quick! Start the boiler at full speed! Hurry up and make a zigzag movement.""

"yes!"

Booker responded to everything, and the sailors were busy working desperately. The Dreadnought-class battleship adopted the latest boiling boiler technology. The coal was ground into powder, and then brought up by the blower to deflagrate in the powder state. The power came up very quickly. Just need In a few minutes, the speed can be increased, but what are you afraid of? He raised the telescope and found that all the torpedoes were mounted under the plane. Booker's mind buzzed! He thought secretly:"The water in the Baltic Sea is very cold! It’s not comfortable to soak in!"

The warship at this time did not have any anti-aircraft weapons at all. The Double-tailed Lion hit a technical gap and caught the enemy by surprise. As long as there are several anti-aircraft guns on the warship, the Double-tailed Lion would never be so easy. And this The warships at that time did not even have an anti-aircraft machine gun. Whether it was a cruiser or a battleship, they had no power to fight back except maneuvering. An aircraft hitting a warship was no different from a prostitute.

No country's warships would install anti-aircraft artillery, let alone the Russian Air Force. There is no sense of existence at all. Who would have thought that the aircraft assisted by Zhang Cheng were far ahead of this era, and completely solved many problems such as insufficient load capacity, insufficient speed, and unguided torpedoes.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Zhang Cheng even deliberately The pilots were asked to fly to Siberia for training. The Allies knew nothing about Russia's military situation. Now they were completely confused!

Only the Fury, a modified aircraft carrier that came with the army, was still calm and scrambled fighter jets to meet the enemy. Unfortunately, its strength There was a huge disparity, and a large number of planes withdrew from the battlefield due to unknown reasons (blindness). Although a small number of planes still struggled tenaciously, they were no longer relevant to the overall situation. The Twin-tailed

Lion swaggered and dropped bombs. After the dive, at a distance of more than a thousand meters, The torpedoes were dropped almost close to the sea, and then quickly raised up. The heavy naval guns had no time to take aim. The two-tailed lion had already flown high and passed over the warship. Four torpedoes crossed four water lines and rushed towards the warship.

The Dauntless The battleship tried its best to make various maneuvers, speed up, turn around, and dodge desperately, but everything was in vain. Although it was not an advanced torpedo, it was an ordinary magnetic torpedo. However, in this era, warships did not have the concept of degaussing at all. Any maneuvers are useless in front of magnetic torpedoes

"Dauntless! No! Dauntless! Our Dauntless!"There was a loud bang and flames shot up into the sky.

Four aerial torpedoes hit the side of the flagship Wuwei first. Nearly two thousand kilograms of C4 explosives and huge energy brutally tore apart 300 mm of waterline armor! Tens of thousands of tons of The dreadnought was like a small boat in a violent storm. It was shaken by the wind and rain. Armor fragments directly penetrated the second cabin. A hole was made in the main boiler of the dreadnought. Steam spurted out wildly. The fireman was scalded and the cabin tilted due to water intrusion. , damage control personnel, while making repairs, injecting water on the other side, tried to restore balance, but this took time.

However, it rained all night, and then the second plane launched a dive and dropped four more torpedoes. Accompanied by the violent explosion, the dreadnought shook violently, shaking people's internal organs to pieces. However, before people could calm down, the hull tilted at an angle of more than 30 degrees, both in the cabin and on the deck. The man involuntarily rolled to the tilted side. The torpedoes dropped by the third plane followed one after another. The dreadnought, this legendary warship, an epoch-making battleship in human history, was hit by twelve torpedoes, six on the port side. , two shots at the stern and four shots at the starboard side. Due to the serious tilt of the ship, they hit the bottom of the ship. As a result, the ship sank rapidly, and the sinking was irreversible. No aircraft would drop torpedoes on it.

The Dauntless was about to sink, no matter how unwilling the Imperial fleet was, They desperately turned their small-caliber naval guns and fired, hoping to bring down the aircraft. However, these naval guns were designed for small boats such as torpedo submarines. The shooting height was not high enough, the steering gear was not flexible enough, and it did not have a proximity fuse, so it had little effect. The Royal Oak was soon targeted by the Third Aviation Squadron.

Since twelve torpedoes could sink a battleship, the Third Squadron decided to dive together and jointly fire twelve torpedoes to attack the enemy ships. Twelve Two torpedoes entered the water at the same time, and twelve white lines rushed towards the Royal Oak together. The captain was so frightened that he wanted to step on the accelerator into the boiler, and hurriedly turned the rudder to reduce the area facing the mine. There were so many torpedoes that he wanted to avoid. It's impossible! He can only hope to avoid being hit by one. But he was wrong! No matter how hard he tried to hide in the face of the guided torpedo, it was in vain! The torpedo automatically corrected its course, and the explosions came one after another, all hitting one side, the Royal Oak The USS Spirit teetered, rolled over unwillingly, and fell to the sea.

The most unlucky one was the USS Spirit. The Fifth Aviation Squadron decided to change the style of attack, from side-by-side diving to column diving, and the torpedoes were launched in three waves at the same time. Shot on a route, three waves of torpedoes formed a tandem warhead. The first torpedo successfully opened a large hole. The second torpedo drilled through the large hole opened by the first torpedo and penetrated the second layer of the cabin, and then the third torpedo. Another bomb was blasted inside, which directly detonated the ammunition depot and blew the Spirit into two pieces. In the blink of an eye, it sank into the cold Baltic Sea.