bookpower Chapter 657
Chapter 657
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: 0.038s Scan: 0.026sThe combat method of small ships such as torpedo boats and high-speed gunboats is to rely on their own fast speed. When large warships are not prepared, they quickly approach the enemy, close the distance, launch torpedoes and run away.
This combat method gives them a very fast speed. The maximum speed of British torpedo boats generally exceeds 40 knots, which is about 75 kilometers per hour. This speed is very fast at sea, especially for relatively bulky targets such as landing ships.
The maximum speed of German tank landing ships is generally below 22 knots, which is only about half the speed of torpedo boats. At this time, the distance between the two sides is less than five kilometers, and the effective range of torpedoes is within one kilometer. In three minutes, the British torpedo boats can enter the launch position and launch an attack on the German landing ships!
While their destroyers were dragging the enemy’s escort fleet, the remaining nearly 30 torpedo boats and gunboats were running at full speed and sprinting at full speed, rushing towards the German landing fleet!
5 kilometers!
4!
3 km!
In a blink of an eye, they entered the 2 km area. It only takes 40 seconds for them to launch an attack on the enemy!
The British army was ready to attack at this time. Their attack formation had been fully deployed, and they rushed towards the German landing fleet in a fan-shaped shape.
In their eyes, these German landing ships were already cooked ducks and could not fly!
Just as the British army was complacently preparing to attack the German landing fleet with little resistance, suddenly, a series of strange sounds came from the sky.
Many British soldiers looked up at the starry sky in a daze and found that the German landing fleet sent some unknown things into the surrounding air!
Just as they were concentrating on those things that slowly rose to the highest point and were no longer able to continue flying, curiously guessing what these things were, these things that flew into the air suddenly exploded, and instantly a stream of white light pierced the clouds and sprinkled into the sea!
“Ah, my eyes!”
“Damn Hans, it’s a flare!”
“Keep your heads down, don’t look up at the sky!”
In the dark night, the flares that lit up instantly caught the British soldiers off guard. Many of them were blinded by the instantaneous light, and they covered their eyes in pain and wailed!
“”Listen, what’s that sound?”
Just as the British soldiers were in a panic, a series of strange sounds came from the air.
This sound was completely different from the sound of the flares fired by the German army just now. This sound seemed to sound like the sound of an airplane?
Many soldiers looked up blankly, and found a group of black figures in the air. These things were extremely fast, flying at high speed close to the sea surface, leading the direction of the flares and rushing towards his position!
“Enemy attack!”
“Sound the air raid alarm!”
“”Enemy planes are coming!”
The British soldiers were terrified. They didn’t expect that German fighter planes could be dispatched at night. Generally speaking, the air forces of various countries have no combat capability at night. Even the Germans themselves had never heard of them dispatching fighter planes to attack British positions when they launched the landing. So when they attacked before, they never thought that they would be attacked by the Germans!
Because there was no prior preparation, when the German fighter planes swooped down, the officers and soldiers on the British torpedo boats and gunboats were in a panic.
Some people ran around on the deck, trying to find cover, some rushed to the gun positions on the ships, ready to use their main guns to deal with the enemies in the air, and some hurriedly pressed the launch button and fired the torpedoes on the torpedo boats at a distance of 2 kilometers!
At this distance, the torpedoes traveled at a speed of 45 knots, and it would take at least half a minute to hit the enemy, and the German warships were not fixed.
Half a minute was enough for them to run several hundred meters, so it was basically impossible for a torpedo to hit the enemy at a distance of two kilometers.
Moreover, the torpedo technology of this era was relatively simple, and most torpedoes had a short range and were not guided, so they could only move in a straight line.
As long as the enemy discovered the track of the torpedo, it would be easy to evade it.
Therefore, the torpedo boats and even destroyers of this era generally had to rush to the enemy, and then launch torpedoes within 1,000 meters or even 500 meters, so as to increase the hit rate!
After receiving the alarm, the German landing fleet immediately began to evade according to the anti-torpedo navigation mode. These torpedoes were fired without any accident and failed to hit the target!
However, the British soldiers at this time had no time to care whether the torpedoes they launched in a hurry could hit the target, because there was a more fatal problem waiting for them-the German fighter planes began to attack!
“So few warships? And they are all small ones weighing hundreds of tons?”
The German pilot who led the flight frowned immediately after seeing the number and types of British warships on the sea.
Ambushing the British sneak attack fleet was originally one of the combat plans formulated by the Air Force. However, in their original plan, the fleet they wanted to ambush should be composed of large battleships. Unexpectedly, when they arrived, they did not see any large warships, but saw a lot of small warships! Such small ships, even if they were sunk, there would be no sense of accomplishment, so the German pilots were immediately disappointed.
Although they were disappointed because they did not catch the big fish, the German pilots did not forget their mission.
Their mission was to protect the safety of the landing fleet, and attacking and annihilating the enemy’s fleet was secondary. At this time, these small warships undoubtedly threatened the bulky landing fleet with little self-protection ability, so they would definitely not let these small warships go!
“Two planes in a formation, attack freely, don’t let a single enemy ship go!”
After the captain gave the order, he immediately led his wingman to rush towards a British torpedo boat that had begun to turn around and was fleeing in a hurry.
This torpedo boat is at least a hundred tons, and a mosquito is still meat, so let’s sink it first to get a good start!
The air fleet dispatched by the German army included dive bombers, torpedo bombers and ground attack aircraft. The main attack method of dive bombers is to drop the bombs hanging under their wings while diving at high speed. They do not carry machine guns, only two machine guns, so at this time they all increase their altitude and then rush towards their respective targets on the sea.
The attack method of torpedo attack aircraft is even simpler. They stick to the Flying over the sea, the wings of the planes almost brushed the waves as they rushed towards the British warships, then dropped torpedoes at a distance of less than 500 meters, and then quickly increased their altitude to fly over the British warships.
Ground attack aircraft have the most diverse attack methods. They are equipped with a small 50-kilogram bomb that can be used for mid-air bombing. There are also two rocket launch nests under the wings that can be used for long-range attacks with rockets.
Therefore, under the successive attacks of more than 200 aircraft, this small fleet immediately faced a catastrophe, with almost no ability to fight back. In less than ten minutes, the entire army was wiped out! The
British army’s sneak attack plan was declared bankrupt, and the German landing operation is still continuing!