Chapter 1101 Missiles in the Atlantic Ocean XIV

Sunset, blue sea, blue sky.

The Atlantic Ocean at dusk in summer is particularly calm and peaceful, and you can hardly feel the atmosphere of war at all.

Four Fokker 636 fighter jets suddenly passed through the sunset, and the roar of their motors broke the peace. The four pilots in the cabin all widened their eyes and carefully searched the sky below their right side.

suddenly.

Countless tiny, almost invisible black dots appeared between the sea and the sky. They moved at extremely fast speeds, from far to near, from small to large. In just a few minutes, they changed from small black dots to black dots. It has become a fighter plane of different sizes!

"Captain, 3 o'clock direction! Enemy planes were spotted at 3 o'clock direction! The number... there are hundreds of them!"

The voice of wingman pilot Sergeant Hoffman came from the earphones of Prince Egmund Lipp-Wiesenfeld, commander of the 2nd Fighter Squadron on the aircraft carrier Prussia. In fact, without his reminding, Prince Lipp Weisenfeld had already discovered the overwhelming swarm of American bombers coming.

In fact, the 4-plane formation led by Prince Lip-Wiesenfeld was not the first to detect the enemy plane's arrival. The first to notice the enemy plane's arrival was a Bv138D seaplane performing a radar warning mission in the air. The aircraft equipped with S-band radar discovered the huge incoming aircraft group 10 minutes ago, and then reported the discovery to the "Zeppelin" aircraft carrier responsible for commanding all EC fighters in the air.

The flight control station of the "Zeppelin" aircraft carrier immediately dispatched four Fokker 636s to conduct close reconnaissance.

"No twin-engine planes were found." Prince Lipp Weisenfeld scanned the sky with a very sharp look. "Have you seen the planes on both sides?"

"I did not see it."

"not found."

"They are all single-shot, mostly F4U and F6F. There is no threat."

It turns out that the team led by Prince Lip Weisenfeld came to find the F7F. In this sea battle in the Bermuda Islands, what surprised the Germans the most was this kind of double-engine bombardment with amazing speed and bomb load. .

Therefore, on the night of September 5th, the aviation staff officer of the 21st Task Force Hersman Jr. formulated a combat plan to use the "Zeppelin" flight console to uniformly deploy air combat forces and block the US double-engine war bombers at all levels.

In this plan, four Bv138Ds will hover around the German fleet to provide aerial radar warning. After discovering the enemy aircraft group, four Fokker 636s will be dispatched for close reconnaissance.

After determining that the invading enemy aircraft is a "double-engine combat bomber", the "Zeppelin" flight console will immediately mobilize seven Fw190 squadrons to conduct multi-level interception operations - the Fw190 was chosen to perform the interception mission because of the F7F As a dual-engine heavy battle, the maneuverability is not good. There is no need for the ultra-high maneuverability Fokker 636. Just let the Fw190 mount aviation rockets and then use high-altitude dive tactics to deal with it.

"Rudolf, it's not the F7F that's attacking." On the Zeppelin, the flight commander Major DeWolf von der Leyen said to Little Hersmann, who was sitting with him at the flight control, after receiving the report, " But there are a lot of them, maybe hundreds of them, so give up on the Seidlitz and Sekt..."

Little Hersmann thought for a while, shook his head and said: "It's not enough. Now we can only protect the Zeppelin, Hindenburg, Gneisenau, Wilhelm II, Bismarck and Tirpitz."

"The two Prussian-class ships don't need to be protected?" Major Delaine was startled.

Young Hessmann shook his head and said: "We don't have enough troops. There are only 8 squadrons of Fokker 636s. It is safer to use 6 to guard the Zeppelin, Hindenburg, Gneisenau and Wilhelm II." ... These six ships cannot be in trouble." He paused, "As for the two Prussian-class ships, we can just leave it to fate. Anyway, we can win the war without them. In the worst case, we will use the Kesselring class."

Major Delaine nodded. He also knew that many cheap "Kesselrings" were being outfitted now - this type of ship between fleet aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers can be regarded as an economical aircraft carrier.

The maximum speed of 26 knots is enough to meet the needs of a fleet decisive battle, and the number of 48 carrier-based aircraft is not too few. Although the armor is insufficient and there is no bulletproof armored flight deck, the hull structure is still strong, as long as it does not take too many hits. The bomb is not easy to sink even if the damage control is successful.

Moreover, this kind of aircraft carrier using diesel engines and wooden decks is very easy to produce. It can be mass-produced to compete with the American Essex-class aircraft carriers, and it will not hurt if it sinks a little.

Seeing that Major Delaine did not raise any objections, Little Hersman added: "As for the remaining two squadrons, they can conduct an assault and then disperse to fight. This way, we can shoot down more enemy planes."

"Okay," Major Delaine nodded, "just report this combat plan to Lieutenant General Bei."

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"Admiral, the air battle has begun!"

After hearing the staff report, Admiral Hoffman in the command tower of the guided missile battleship Gneisenau just turned his head and glanced at the scene of hundreds of fighter planes strangled together in the dusk in the distance. Then, as if this air battle did not exist, he continued to study the upcoming fleet decisive battle with the staff of the 20th Task Force.

Like Hersman Jr., Admiral Leifman does not care about losing a few aircraft carriers or sinking a few battleships. As long as there are no problems with the two missile ships, the decisive battle will be safe.

In Hoffman's opinion, the 80 TV-guided remote-controlled missiles carried by the Gneisenau and Wilhelm II are enough to destroy all nine American super battleships!

In fact, the era when battleships dominated the ocean has ended with the emergence of missile ships. What Hindenburg class, what Iowa class, and the legendary Montana class, as well as the Japanese Yamato and Yamato Kai, are all targets in front of the anti-ship missiles of the Death series. And it is a target as big as a hill, too easy to hit.

The problem now facing Hoffman is how to get his battleship (including missile ships) formation to within 35,000 meters of the American battleship formation.

"Sir, Hawkeye 8 reports that an unidentified group of aircraft was found in the northwest direction, 130 nautical miles away from the Gneisenau, with a number of more than 100 and an altitude of 4,000."

At this time, the fleet staff once again reported the information that the American attack group was approaching.

This time it should be a new twin-engine fighter-bomber!

"Oh? There are still 30 minutes to arrive," Hoffman smiled, "You have a good grasp of time..."

Boom boom boom!

A fierce burst of artillery interrupted Hoffman's words. It turned out that four American F4Us broke through the obstruction of the Fokker 636 and rushed into the anti-aircraft firepower network of the Gneisenau, and immediately attracted a barrage of 128mm and 40mm shells. Two of them were blown up on the spot, and the other two dropped 500-pound bombs, but these two bombs were not accurate and fell into the sea, exploding two water columns tens of meters high.

Admiral Hoffman looked up at the two F4Us that fled in panic under the attack of anti-aircraft fire. Just as he put his mind back on the naval battle that was about to begin, the report of the staff rang again.

"Sir, Hawkeye No. 10 reports that the American fleet has split up."

"What is the distance?" Hoffman asked.

"Less than 90 nautical miles, we can engage in battle in about 2 hours."

Hoffman raised his wrist and looked at the time. It was 4:20 pm now, and the battleships would probably engage in battle around 6:30 pm.

Boom...

A loud noise suddenly came, and Admiral Leifman turned his head and saw thick blue-black smoke coming out of the Hindenburg battleship sailing in front of the Gneisenau on the right.

...

"Sir, good news, a Hindenburg-class battleship was hit by a bomb!"

The commander of the Iowa-class battleship, Tane, cheered immediately.

The Hindenburg-class is the most powerful battleship of the German Navy, and it is also the backbone of the German fleet that will fight with it, and there is only one!

Now the decisive battle of the surface fleet has not yet begun, and this only Hindenburg-class battleship has been hit by a bomb. Even if it is only a minor injury, it has added some weight to the victory of the United States.

However, Admiral Halsey did not show much joy, but asked: "Have you found the German Wilhelm II class?"

"No."

"No?" The answer of the fleet aviation staff surprised Halsey, "How come?"

"What do the Germans have?"

"There are seven battleships, including a Hindenburg class, a Bismarck class, three Veneto classes, a Provence class and an unknown battleship."

"Unknown battleship?" Halsey suddenly became nervous, "Bigger than the Hindenburg class?"

The US intelligence agency has long known that there is a H Type 41 battleship, this class of battleships should be in service in due time...

"Not that big, about 30,000 tons displacement, only 4 main guns." The staff officer replied, "and there are dozens of torpedo tubes installed on both sides of the battleship."

"What? Dozens of torpedo tubes?" Halsey was a little confused, "Is this a heavy torpedo battleship?"

"It's possible!" Rear Admiral Callahan said, "Maybe..."

"What?" Halsey saw a panic expression on his chief of staff's face, and asked hurriedly.

"Maybe it's a remote-controlled guided missile?"

"Dozens of missiles?" Halsey rolled his eyelids, this thing is too cruel, right?

"Admiral, do we still want to fight?" Rear Admiral Callahan hesitated.

"Fight!" Halsey thought for a while, slapped the table, "As long as the distance is controlled, there is nothing to be afraid of, and it's getting dark now. Unless the Germans have radar-guided missiles, victory will definitely belong to America!"