Chapter 22 The Great Choice
From a distance from the sky, the battleships in the war looked like fish. The battleships were naturally sharks, and the cruisers could probably be considered dolphins. As for destroyers, frigates were other small fish.
But now I really don’t know what to call the fleet that rushed forward to fight against the sharks. If I had to keep my word, it could only be considered a loach. But no matter what, this is a tragic naval battle.
From "Hawkeye" - reconnaissance/command airships, we can clearly see that before the warships launched an attack on the opponent's shelling fleet, the lifeboats on the warship sailed out of the lower space of the ship. Everyone should still remember that the lifeboats of the simple aircraft carrier were on the abdomen of the warship, like fish marks. Perhaps except for those who were necessary and volunteers, they were thrown into the lifeboat and left.
Obviously, this is a mortal impact. It can be seen from their actions that these warships that acted without authorization were just for the safety of the entire army. Perhaps life and death were already out of their way when they acted.
"These idiots, they are dying!"
"Hawkeye" - A girl on the reconnaissance/command airship cursed. Because of the interference of radio, most of the guides had nothing to do. At this time, they were all looking at the cruel side of the "Hawkeye" - the reconnaissance/command airship.
And this sentence just now immediately attracted an angry retaliation.
"You stupid stupid woman..."
The woman immediately started crying, and her friends around her explained to others.
"Her husband is the captain of that rocket attack ship!"
Women are always emotional animals, especially when they watch this tragic scene, especially when they hear the crying of the women beside them. Their tears cannot be stopped, and they pray for the soldiers who are dying in their hearts.
At the same time, as the "Hawkeye" of the US military - members of the reconnaissance/command airship, they are also proud of the soldiers of their country.
The officer who had been watching all this by her side couldn't help but shed tears. With red eyes, she said to the girls under her, deciding to the so-called "stupid" behavior.
“This is a great choice!”
On the sea, the decisive attack officially unfolded. The cruisers and destroyers that had been severely damaged seemed to have already rushed to death and began to counterattack the Italian artillery fleet in a crazy manner.
The Italian artillery fleet was not worried about these severely damaged cruisers and destroyers. They were not worried about the messy super miscellaneous fleet in front of them, which was simply a mixed naval and army-blended super brand fleet. The main guns of the battleships began to roar, because they did not repel those cruisers and destroyers that had desperately impacted, they would not have the opportunity to attack the US transport fleet.
With the rumbling of cannons, a few US cruisers and destroyers soon lost their combat capabilities. They either sank slowly with thick smoke, or dragged huge vortexes, dragging their remains and the bodies of the sailors into the depths of the ocean.
"Look at that, those bastards ran away!"
At this time, the US military's transport fleet was quickly leaving the war and washing water area. Including simple aircraft carriers, these fast transport ships were all transformed by the two-body simple aircraft carriers.
As mentioned earlier, the shipyard opened in the United States by Vincent Prince is mass-producing such warships. Even due to the use of production lines, the time for the first and the next warships to enter the sea was only as short as 15 minutes.
Therefore, at this moment, the Allies or the Axis powers have a large number of these three-fast warships with fast manufacturing speed, fast navigation speed and fast modification speed. Their characteristics of being easy to modify at low cost make it easier to manufacture and cheaper than other merchant ships, and it is also easier to supplement everyone's losses at sea. It is precisely because of this that if the entire transport fleet escapes, it is probably difficult for other warships to catch up with them except for the destroyer team.
Just as the commander of the Italian Navy fleet, General Iakino, muttered, the "loach" fleet that was facing them head-on was a fast catamaran, and was getting closer and closer to the battlefield, and was even about to reach the range of their attacks.
Rocket attack ships are not new. After the South Asian Military Alliance was used in the landing operations of the Pacific Navy, the new U.S. Navy, which did not use human-taught, naturally immediately took out equipment of the same nature but better performance.
A 122mm rocket launcher can launch rockets to a place 32 kilometers away. Although the accuracy is quite poor, these rockets attack direction. After reaching their maximum shooting distance, when the last cruiser and destroyer of the US military were completely sunk, several rocket attack ships launched a volley attack.
The power of the rocket launcher can be ignored for the time being, but the scenes during the shooting are terrifying. On simple aircraft carriers, a series of 122mm rocket launchers are arranged on the wide deck, each launcher covers an area, including the armor plate behind the flames, a total of 5 square meters, and each launcher includes 15 directioners.
Then, based on the length of 80 meters and the width of 25 meters, the deck of the actual simple aircraft carrier is much larger than this. With the size, it is very easy to calculate the number of rocket launchers on this rocket attack ship, which is a very scary number - 80 gates. If you multiply it by 15, it will be the number of shells in a salvo.
A volley is about 1,200 shells. Don’t 3 more rocket attack ships can fire 3,600 shells at a time. Of course, the accuracy of this kind of bomb is quite poor, but it is too dense, especially when focalizing fire to attack a warship.
"My God, are Americans crazy?"
Yes, the US Navy is indeed crazy. An escort fleet was almost completely wiped out, which has made the already combative American cowboys a little crazy.
The 3,600 shells, the fire net formed in the sky, is as terrible as the precursor to the end of the world. These shells drag the tongue of fire and smoke, and even their density, so that the smoke caused by their tail flames can blur the sunlight.
Admiral Iakino, while amazes, issued an order to his shelling fleet.
"Attack, attack, blow these things up!"
His voice was a bit hysterical, looking at the shock waves made of rocket artillery shells that were getting closer and closer to his fleet, like a sea lang. He was the first to hide under the bridge with armor protection. While avoiding him, he screamed in his voice.
"hidden!"
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This even made the captain of the fleeing transport fleet flagship Admeralti Islands think that if these rocket attack ships were allowed to operate with the warships in the beginning, they might have an unexpected effect.
Although these rocket attack ships used to suppress beaches and clear beach defenses and fortifications have no excessive power. But I dare to imagine that at a distance of 10,000 meters, that is, the relatively accurate rocket launcher shooting distance, it is covered with 3,600 shells. Even if it is not necessary to blow it up, it may have scared the Italian Navy's courage.
Just after all the 122mm rockets left the launching directionalizer, all the launching equipment was upright. At this time, the deck at the bottom of their cracked, and the support plate was then sent up, and the next wave of launching shells was loaded into the directionalizer.
If you look into the cabin below, you will find that there are 15 shell boxes that are fixed like a large barrel of Coke. Just put the shell boxes on the bracket plate, remove the top and four walls, and fix them with slidable clips on the bracket plate, and then you will be ready for the next loading.
According to the entire launch, water mist cooling, reloading, and launch cycle, 30 seconds is a round, and after 5 consecutive rounds of shooting, it takes a period of cooling. But the US military, determined to fight hard, can no longer care about so many.
Just when the warships of the Italian Navy's artillery fleet were about to fire and fight back, the rockets flying in the air finally fell down in groups. Groups of shells, rockets with high-explosive grenade warheads fell down over the sky.
Frankly speaking, this was a desperate attack, but no one expected that this attack would cause such a result. The extremely sensitive fuse of the high-explosive bombardment exploded as soon as it entered the sea water. The sea water immediately seemed to be boiling by huge heat. Although the dense explosion of 3,600 shells would not cause any detonation effect, the water column that had risen dozens of meters immediately submerged the entire Italian artillery fleet.
Moreover, 3,600 shells were not unlucky for each. The Cafur-class battleship "Caesar" led by the Italian artillery fleet was hit by five rounds, and several nearly missing rounds exploded near the water surface under the ship's side.
Of course, these explosions were simply impossible to defend the solid armor of the battleship. The high-explosive bombs exploded on the deck only caused the battleship to suffer a little bit of minor injuries that seemed to be abrasions.
Chapter completed!