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Chapter 385: The Mediterranean Situation (7)

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At 10:04, all ten armored cruisers of the Italian fleet were destroyed. They were either sinking or sank on the sea and turned into huge torches. The most complete Amafi was like a dead fish, burning across the sea, completely losing its combat effectiveness. The only ones that were placed against the Chinese main ship were the two fearless ships, including Vitorio Emmanuel and Rome, but they were now on fire and could not last long.

"The light ships come out and open the way for the main ships. The main ships implement the hammer plan and go to the rear of the Allied Fleet..." Gao Yujie saw that it was almost done, so she issued a new order to his subordinates. At this time, he began to let someone notify the British and French warships and ordered them to continue to withstand it.

Fortunately, the French were facing the two dreadnoughts and five front dreadnoughts, both of which were also facing the five front dreadnoughts and two dreadnoughts. The combat effectiveness of the two sides was not much different, while the British were in trouble. Their opposite were all dreadnoughts and even super dreadnoughts.

Damn it, I've been cheated by the Chinese people!

The British Mediterranean Fleet Commander General Milne's face turned green. At first he did not react. Well, the formation of the Allied Fleets could not be on the Chinese, so it could only be said that he was unlucky. But now that the Chinese Fleet defeated the other party's patrol, he actually notified himself that they were going to detour, encircle the back of the Yi'ao Fleet, and asked them to withstand. If he could not react at this time, he would have worked for decades in vain.

Under the current situation, there is really no point in criticizing the Chinese tactic. It is the most effective way to kill the other party in one breath. As an old man in the navy, Milne undoubtedly knows this very well, and if he were the ones, he would make the same choice. However, letting him make this "anvil" by himself makes him cry without tears.

I thought I had been cheating my teammates for a thousand years, but I didn't expect that today I would capsize in the gutter and be cheated by my teammates. Damn, fifteen, oh, no, now there are fourteen front dreadnoughts. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is under great pressure to block the opponent's four super dreadnoughts and five dreadnoughts.

"Damn it, you must withstand it! The Royal Navy of the British Empire will definitely retreat! The light ships charge forward, and lightning strikes disrupt the opponent's array..." Milne quickly issued a series of instructions.

Yi'ao's fleet has already rushed up. It's too late for the British to not want to be this "anvil". If the battle line is disbanded, the consequences will definitely be even worse. Even if Yi'ao only wants to break through now and does not have the intention to fight to the death, but if Yi'ao breaks through, it will be very happy to overturn several British ships when breaking through. Once the former dreadnoughts lose their formation, they will lose any resistance when facing the super dreadnoughts.

Besides, even if the British fleet lets the main force of Italy and Austria run away, the most urgent thing will not be China. Whether the Mediterranean route is safe or not has nothing to do with China, and the British themselves are the most active plan. And then the Chinese can completely blame them. By then, Milne, who lost the face of the British Empire and ruined the cabinet strategic plan, may only have the path of unreputable retirement. Therefore, whether for national interests or personal futures, General Milne cannot let go of the water at the moment, nor dare to let go of the water.

So Milne is so angry that he is so angry that he has to jump in. The feeling of knowing it is a pit, which makes him feel bad.

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"Hahaha, order the light ships to take the lead and charge at full speed to disrupt the opponent's formation!" Admiral Yankel, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian fleet, now felt a sense of high spirits.

Although he had received bad news that his three old-style armored patrols were destroyed, he also achieved the results of sinking three front dreadnoughts. Well, the fast-speed was also helped by Italians, but it was mainly based on my Austro-Hungary. It seemed to be a three-to-three draw, but how could those three old-style armored patrols from the last century be compared with the former dreadnoughts that had only been in service this century? Uh, what's the fast-speed class has been downgraded to a front dreadnought? What's the relationship?

Seeing the British light ships rushing towards them, the likes of the Italian-Austrian fleet also rushed up. At the same time, the dreadnought's secondary guns also began to fire at these targets. Although due to the shooting angle, only a few secondary guns played a role, the dreadnought's visual observation system and stability were not comparable to those of light ships, and their hit rate was much higher.

The British former dreadnoughts were also desperately helping their own light ships. Speaking of which, their number of secondary guns was greater than that of dreadnoughts, but they were silhouette guns, with a very narrow shooting range and pitch angle. Therefore, although they are now facing the enemy with superior position, their effect is even worse than that of the other party.

"Boom boom boom..." At this time, the Kissilla Strait was filled with continuous gunfire and smoke from the sky. The British and French fleets and the Italian and Austrian fleets were desperately shooting at each other. The total number of ships was fighting fiercely here, and warships were occasionally hit by flying shells. In less than ten minutes of fierce battle, twenty or thirty "torchs" appeared on the sea. As the distance between the two sides approached, the hit rate became higher and higher.

"Stack!" A cheer came from the Duncan. Their volley was accurately hitting the side of the Italian Cayo Duillio super-dreadnought. But they soon discovered that the 12-inch-class shell had no effect at all. It failed to penetrate the thick main armor belt of the Cayo Duillio and exploded directly on the side. It had no damage except blowing the hull out of several pits.

At this time, a heavy shell roared, and the wind and chimed in the air to hit the Duncan, who was still proud just now. The thickest part of the main armor belt of the Duncan was only 178 mm. This fourteen-inch armor-piercing projectile from Andrea Doria broke through without any suspense, and then plunged into the secondary artillery ammunition depot. Then, a loud bang heard, and the Duncan continued to spew out flames and various wreckage like a volcanic eruption.

The Albermar, which is the same class as it, suffered even worse. He suffered two Austro-Hungarian 390mm special meals and took off the entire bridge. The command team inside was finished. In addition, he also used a main gun. The Kewei and Bujue also got one of them, which caused a fire.

Of course, the "Anvils" are not just being beaten, and the situation on the French side is much better. The French and Paris are facing the two front fearless ships of Italy, Queen Margrit and Queen Elena. Although the Lonely Class is nothing in the dreadnought, there is still no problem facing the two front fearless ships.

Both of these front fearless people in Italy have a very fatal weakness, that is, their firepower is too poor. They only have 2 12-inch main guns, two single-mounted turrets, one in front and one behind. That's right, two, not the four main guns commonly used in front dreadnoughts. And they are now against the bow of the ship, so what can one main gun do? It's not a threat at all, but are beaten by two Guba Classes. Guba Classes are now against the enemy sideways, and can exert the firepower of 10 12-inch main guns at the same time. As soon as the two "Queen of Italy" entered the range, they were beaten up in a blush. Less than 15 minutes after the fire exchange, the two Queens changed into new clothes made of flames and smoke.

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At this time, if you look from the sky, the Allies' British and French fleets had already fought with the Italian and Austrian fleet that were trying to break through, and shells of various caliber are constantly drawing arcs in the sky towards the other side. In the north of the relatively calm strait, the main force of the Chinese fleet was galloping behind the Allies' fleet with a diagonal line.

"Hurry, hurry up, we will win if we get to the rear!" Gao Yujie kept urging his subordinates. At this time, the Chinese main ships had already reached a speed of 27 knots. In front of them was a forward composed of a group of cruisers and destroyers, responsible for cleaning up the light ships of the Italian fleet.

"Buzz buzz..." At this moment, a roar of engines came faintly from the sky.

Gao Yujie looked up and saw a group of dense fighter jets flying from the south and entering the battlefield. At this time, the Italian-Austrian fleet also discovered this group of aircraft, and their six temporary aircraft carriers also hurriedly took off the fighter jets to meet the enemy. Yes, most of the temporary aircraft carriers of Yi-Austrian were fighter jets, and there were pitifully few attack aircraft. This is also the reason why they did not let the aircraft participate in the war just now.

This is mainly because the temporary aircraft carriers of Italy and the Ao are relatively small. They are not as luxurious as Britain and the United States. They use luxury cruise ships worth tens of thousands of tons to be modified. They are all cheaper cargo ships of 10,000 to 20,000 tons. Such temporary aircraft carriers can take off and land normally due to their narrow decks, but larger bombers and torpedoes are difficult to take off and land. Therefore, they simply let these temporary aircraft carriers act as bodyguards for the main ships to protect the fleet's sky. If attacks are done, the main ships will do their own things.

In fact, their thoughts have not turned around yet. Although Italy was slapped hard by the Japanese carrier-based aircraft last time, many of their upper classes still believe that carrier-based aircraft only poses a great threat to thin-skinned aircraft carriers and light ships, and is still useless to the main ships. Since this is the case, why not just install full fighter jets, just suppress the opponent's attack aircraft, and why spend money to build a large aircraft carrier?

It has to be said that the view of the two countries is not completely unreasonable. The role of aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean bathtub is not as obvious as that in the ocean. Siemens-based aircraft is enough to cover a large range. So why do professional aircraft carriers do? Of course, the main reason is insufficient funds. The top leaders of both countries are large ships and giant gun parties, and they are reluctant to spend too much money on new ships such as aircraft carriers with unknown futures.

"Damn it, there are actually our Hesshulao and Cheng Fei's bastards, all of them are in the money..." Chu Wangyuan, the air commander, looked at the Italian-Austrian fighter jets in front of him and found that there was a squadron of Haishulao in the Austro-Hungarian fleet. He didn't know if it was exported before or they copied it themselves. This made him very unhappy, and he felt like he was hitting his right hand with his left hand.

He quickly threw this unhappiness out of his mind and immediately issued an order to his subordinates: "Fighter aircraft formation, suppress the opponent's fighter aircraft, seize air supremacy..."

A total of 108 J-5 "Skuo" fighters from six squadrons immediately dived and screamed. There were more than 120 fighters on the other side, including three. In addition to the Chinese Hyshrul, there are two similar counterfeit goods, Italy's FiatG.40 and Austro-Hungarian AviatikD.Ⅵ. Although their appearance is somewhat different from Hyshrulul, everyone can see their blood relationship, the same closed cockpit, the same unrecyclable front wheel with fairing, and the same short and fat fuselage.

Although the number of the other party was a little larger, the Chinese pilots were not afraid at all. Now China's Shrike and Hisrike have both retreated to the second line. When they were training in China, they had not played with Hisrike. They knew the performance of this kind of aircraft very well. The performance of the skua is completely better than that of Hisrike.

The Italian-Austrian Hyschurch was extremely counterfeit goods waiting in the air 4,000 meters. To be honest, they were very satisfied with this type of aircraft, both the Allies and the Allies. Even if they got a reduced performance version, it was much better than what they made themselves.

However, the "skuo" had no idea of ​​fighting with enemy aircraft at all. They took advantage of their own speed and climb rate to directly play energy air battles. They dived from an altitude of 8,000 meters, and put their selected targets firmly in the scope. After both sides narrowed to 300 meters, they pressed the launch button. Some pilots who thought they were awesome even pulled the firing distance to within 100 meters.

"Dadada...Dadada..." The two 20mm cannons at the forefront of the "Skuo" and the four 12mm machine guns on the wings immediately opened fire at the same time. The fighter planes of both sides interlaced by. After diving, the Chinese fighter planes immediately left at high speed, then quickly pulled up from a distance and rose to a high altitude, preparing to repeat this tactic.

At this time, dog fighting was still prevalent in the European air battlefield. The Italian-Austrian pilots were extremely uncomfortable with this rogue tactic of breaking away with one blow. After only the first round of fire exchange, they were beaten up more than twenty aircraft, and no Chinese fighter hair was lost. But they had no choice. Others didn't play dog ​​fighting with you at all, and they couldn't catch up. What do you think? But you can't wait stupidly. You have to chase them even if you can't catch up. It's better than being beaten on the spot. So the Italian-Austrian fighter jets immediately divided into several three aircraft formations, each staring at one and chasing them.

With the addition of Chinese fighter jets, war also ignited in the air on the battlefield. Although China's attack aircraft group is still hovering on the periphery and does not dare to come, the Italian-Austrian ships dare not neglect, and their anti-aircraft artillery immediately began to prepare to face attacks from the air.

Just as both sides were attracted by the fierce battles at sea and in the air, several periscopes quietly emerged on the sea behind the Italian-Ao fleet.

They were the Chinese submarines in front of them that were breached in the Aegean Sea. After stopping the harassment, they followed the fleet all the way here. At the beginning, the Italian-Ao fleet was on high alert, and the light ships protected the main ships tightly around them. They did not dare to show up, but followed them through sonar in the sea.
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