tkworld Chapter 2907 Becoming a Pilot
Chapter 2907 Becoming a Pilot
Chapter 2907 Becoming a Pilot
In fact, the commander of Company C's decisive battle fleet did not know that the submarine from Country A had not sent the telegram.
Because sending a telegram requires coming to the surface.
At least a surface buoy is required.
However, it was discovered too early and was found by Zhao Qingyu in advance, which resulted in it having no time to generate electricity and was sunk.
But the fleet commander didn't know this, and his current decision was based on the assumption that he had already been discovered.
So for the convenience of command and some other considerations, he lifted the radio silence and began to issue instructions directly to the ships using the radio channels.
After all, since they have been exposed, continuing to maintain radio silence would limit their combat effectiveness.
Once the enemy attacks, it will be very inconvenient to command.
In this way, this fleet was still exposed.
It was only 20 minutes later than the time it should have been exposed.
"Take off 30 fighter jets immediately to provide air escort," said the commander.
Then, 30 fighter jets took off from an aircraft carrier and circled in the air.
Sure enough, not long after, 50 planes appeared in the distant sky.
"Air strike!"
Alarms soon sounded on all the warships.
The soldiers who were taking turns to rest quickly rushed to their posts.
And 30 fighter jets had already rushed towards the enemy's aircraft formation in advance.
50 aircraft, including 20 escort fighters, 10 torpedo attack aircraft, 10 dive bombers, and 10 ordinary bombers.
The fighters immediately became entangled.
The anti-aircraft firepower on the destroyers, battleships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers was immediately opened, forming a dense firepower network.
Zhao Qingyu listened to the sonar while observing the movements outside.
In this situation, destroyers are actually safe - no fool would leave battleships and aircraft carriers alone and specifically bomb them.
This is also the reason why when a destroyer escorts a battleship, the battleship sinks instead.
Just don't be unlucky enough to be hit head-on by a damaged enemy plane.
Soon, the anti-aircraft guns started to show their power.
The first thing was to lower the altitude, and the torpedo attack aircraft preparing to drop torpedoes suffered.
The 10 torpedo attack planes lasted less than half an hour before they were all lost.
Only two torpedo attack planes successfully dropped torpedoes.
But none of them hit.
War is so cruel, blood is shed, flames are burning, but in the end it is all in vain.
However, there were too few torpedo attack aircraft and they failed to fully attract the attention of the anti-aircraft firepower.
Their targets soon turned to dive bombers in the air.
This is the biggest threat.
Apart from anything else, if the opponent dives down, it may turn into a suicide attack if things go wrong.
For a skilled pilot, his dive-bombing hit rate is very high.
If the enemy could break through the anti-aircraft firepower network and dive vertically towards the deck, it would be like shooting them in the head.
Soon, an aircraft carrier was targeted by 10 dive bombers.
One after another swooped down.
The surrounding destroyers, battleships, and cruisers also tried their best to cover it.
Soon, a bomb landed around the aircraft carrier's propeller, splashing huge waves of water.
The huge water pressure directly damaged the propeller on one side of the aircraft carrier, which immediately reduced its maneuvering speed from the original 34 knots to 19 knots.
"A bullet was nearly lost!"
Other dive bombers continued to attack in turns.
However, they also suffered heavy losses.
In just five minutes, seven bombers were hit by anti-aircraft fire and crashed.
In the end, only one dive bomber successfully dropped its bombs and returned.
It was a narrow escape.
Ordinary bombers dropped their bombs from high altitude and then retreated at high speed, with only two being lost.
The final results were counted.
Of the 50 enemy fighters, 28 were shot down and 22 escaped.
Our side lost 5 planes and one aircraft carrier was damaged.
This seemed like a victory, but the commander was not happy and even thought of retreating.
The reason is simple, the opponent has the home advantage and can keep replenishing.
The enemy seemed to have lost 28 aircraft, but they were able to replenish them quickly and their combat effectiveness was still full.
If he loses a little now, his fighting power will be lost forever in this battle.
But he couldn't just go back.
After all, this battle has just begun.
When he returns, he will be responsible.
So he had no choice but to move on.
……
On the Snow Mountain.
As Zhao Qingyu had just made a contribution, he was commended and temporarily promoted to captain, a promotion of two levels in one go.
This is a wartime promotion, very fast.
He also got some valuable rest time.
I was eating and chopping wood with a group of brothers in the cafeteria.
A gunner said, "I was really scared just now. A bomber was coming towards us. Fortunately, the bomber was not targeting us, otherwise I would have died."
"Gun position No. 5 was not so lucky. It was strafed by a fighter plane and three men were killed on the spot."
"Yeah, we had a similar experience as him, but the result was better. Only two of us died."
Everyone sighed.
This is war.
You never know when an accident might happen.
Even if the ship is fine, there will be casualties.
A lieutenant sighed: "Now we are like people who have eaten a fish bone. We feel uncomfortable all the time and don't know when our throat will be pierced."
When Zhao Qingyu heard this, he immediately looked at the second lieutenant with admiration.
Because the other party's analogy is so appropriate.
He felt the same way at this moment.
This reminded him of a time when he was on a business trip to the hospital.
Eating a fried hairtail in the cafeteria.
He was already full and didn't want to finish the hairtail fish, but he gave up because of his frugal nature over the years.
Out of habit of "not wasting food", he still ate it reluctantly.
As a result, when I took the last bite, there was a piece of hairtail bone stuck in my throat.
He felt uncomfortable all the time, and no matter what he did, he felt like there was something in his throat.
I went to the ENT room, but the doctor couldn't see it even with a mirror.
I could only take some medicine to reduce the swelling.
This card was stuck for four years.
I looked at it three times and they said I couldn't see it, and I couldn't take a picture of it.
Finally, one day, the fish bones became soft and my throat felt relieved from then on.
Now, this war feels like a fish bone to him, and he will not feel relieved until the day the war ends.
This made Zhao Qingyu sigh. It is really difficult for these ordinary people.
In this way, a group of sailors, in anxiety, headed towards an unknown battle.
What is even more distressing is that this kind of battle is destined to happen more than once.
Every time they have to gamble on a varying degree of probability of death to decide whether they will survive.
For the sailors on submarines, the probability is over 75%.
In Zhao Qingyu's eyes, there are indeed people who are truly fanatical and want to win, but they do not exceed 30%.
It's just that they have the loudest voices, and no one else dares to say much, so it seems like everyone wants to fight like crazy.
In fact, most people still want to survive and stop the war.
Zhao Qingyu was thinking deeply, thinking like a god.
This is very strange. It is obvious that most people do not want to fight, but the war has to start. Perhaps this war machine is like a flying high-speed sports car. Once it starts, even if someone wants to stop it, it will be difficult.
While thinking about this, the decisive battle fleet arrived 400 kilometers southeast of Country A's port.
Here they started to fly the planes.
The good news is that the other side did not seem to be well prepared and only launched one round of bombing.
In Zhao Qingyu's opinion, perhaps the other side did not have enough planes.
Soon the first attack wave of 300 planes was dispatched.
Zhao Qingyu and other sailors just stood there watching.
There was nothing they could do at this moment except shouting a few times.
Zhao Qingyu could only look into the distance and wait for the pilots to return.
It was more than four hours later that the first wave of aircraft participating in the attack returned.
He counted carefully and found that more than 200 planes flew back.
This looks okay, but nearly 100 aircraft were lost.
Immediately afterwards, the second wave of planes was dispatched.
A total of 190 aircraft were dispatched this time, and more than 100 returned in the end.
When the two are added together, the loss is very serious.
Why don't you go out together?
The reason is that the formation is difficult to command, and it is also necessary to consume the enemy's ground air defense forces first.
But this time, they were unlucky, as more than a dozen enemy planes were following them.
The situation suddenly became very scary.
Zhao Qingyu had a bad feeling in his heart.
Although the dozen or so enemy planes were quickly shot down.
Zhao Qingyu felt very depressed: "It seems that there is nothing for us destroyers to do."
He was originally wondering whether they would get close to the enemy port and launch a torpedo attack.
But it seems that what we need to do now is to resist the enemy's bombing and retreat smoothly.
Sure enough, after these two bombings, the entire fleet began to retreat while welcoming the landing planes.
Sure enough, a large number of enemies followed soon after.
They sent out more than 100 planes at once, catching the decisive fleet off guard.
Many of the planes they launched were in the process of landing.
At this time, two aircraft carriers on alert quickly launched fighter jets to escort the fleet.
The fighter planes went forward to meet the attack.
The destroyer where Zhao Qingyu was also began to maneuver, continuously firing into the air to provide fire support.
As a sonar operator, Zhao Qingyu is now of no use.
He could only wait patiently.
Of course, he can also use his divine power to protect his destroyers.
But there is no point in protecting the destroyer, because the enemy will not bomb the destroyer he is on.
The other side bombed the aircraft carrier.
Don't even bother bombing the battleships.
Moreover, the timing chosen by the opponent was very clever. They waited until their two waves of planes were released before rushing over to attack.
At this time, Zhao Qingyu was very depressed.
Why didn’t they blow up the enemy’s airport?
Obviously, the effect of the two attacks was not very good, allowing the opponent to retain a lot of strength to counterattack.
According to Zhao Qingyu's guess, it should have been intercepted in the air.
The other side has made preparations in advance, and land-based aircraft often have higher indicators than carrier-based aircraft.
Once you are prepared in advance and take off early, you will have certain advantages in the air.
In this way, he watched one bomber after another swooping down from the sky and forcibly bombing his own aircraft carrier.
The aircraft carrier is also maneuvering at high speed.
However, there was an aircraft carrier that was damaged last time, and even after damage control, it was still obviously much slower.
Zhao Qingyu watched with his own eyes as it became the target of concentrated bombing.
Finally, an aerial bomb weighing hundreds of kilograms fell on its deck, penetrated the hangar, and exploded in the lower compartment full of ammunition and fuel.
In just one minute, the entire aircraft carrier exploded and was blown into two pieces.
Then it sank quickly into the sea.
He saw almost no survivors.
It sank too fast.
In this way, three of the six aircraft carriers were on fire and one sank.
The opponent's attack was successful.
And it's not just that.
The enemy's planes came in wave after wave.
The second wave consisted of another hundred aircraft.
This is a continuous counterattack that leaves them no breathing space.
It has to be said that this decisive battle fleet made a fatal mistake.
When a fleet commander discovers that the enemy is on guard, he should retreat decisively rather than fighting by chance.
But this time the opponent adopted the correct tactics and struck back.
First use ground firepower and fighter jets to consume two waves of their aircraft, and then wait until their own fighter jets are damaged to a certain extent before counterattacking.
In this way, the number of fighter jets they use to protect their aircraft carriers is greatly reduced.
It can be said that this time, Company C lost both the wife and the army.
This was really a very failed battle plan.
Zhao Qingyu shook his head in his heart.
This is the reality of war.
There is no protagonist, it all depends on the strength of both sides.
Whoever is stronger will have an easier time winning.
This is even more true in naval and air battles, where there is almost no room for spiritual victory.
The level of ships, aircraft, equipment and training determines victory or defeat.
Only two aircraft carriers were still intact, and they had a hard time taking on the burden of escort.
The enemy also suffered heavy losses after two consecutive bombings.
Of the two hundred planes that came to attack, at least one hundred were lost.
But the results were remarkable, directly destroying the mobile force of Company C.
The entire decisive battle fleet returned in a panic amidst destruction and fire.
It's night time.
Of the three aircraft carriers on fire, two were difficult to rescue.
The Snow Mountain was ordered to sink them.
Zhao Qingyu almost laughed.
Wow, after setting sail, we won three victories, two of which were our own.
The Snow Mountain released two torpedoes, sinking the now empty carrier into the ocean.
Six set out and three returned home.
Tens of thousands of people were killed or injured.
This was the tragic final battle of the naval battle.
This sneak attack can be said to be a complete failure.
The sneak attack failed, as the opponent discovered him and launched a defensive counterattack.
And throughout the whole process, Zhao Qingyu felt very powerless.
He had no way to exert his divine power.
He felt that if he were a pilot, he would be able to withstand the enemy's fire and destroy a lot of anti-aircraft fire.
Unfortunately he is not.
This makes people feel very speechless.
He immediately made up his mind and requested to transfer to an aviation school to become a pilot.
This is possible because many pilots come from sailors.
They knew the sea and ships better, so they had a natural advantage.
(End of this chapter)