Chapter 305 Oh my god, the British and the Yi have suicide planes! (Please subscribe, please vote)

The flagship of the "First Air War", the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shu Zhongwang.

"Junmen, the Hongwu Emperor sent an urgent call and discovered the Yingyi battleship formation and airship formation in the Great Strait. The battleship formation consisted of 10 new battleships with five turrets, which should be the ones often mentioned in the Yingyi equipment report.

Victory level. Guan Junmen reminds us to be extremely careful."

Within the bridge, Guo Xiaobao, the chief staff officer of the First Air War, was reporting to Zhuge Weidao with the telegram he had just received. Zhuge Weidao was holding up a large binoculars to look at the bird in the sky.

It is a big, fat airship with an eye-catching "cross red stripe" logo on its tail.

This airship flew a little too high, and even the 20mm anti-aircraft cannon couldn't hit it with the anti-aircraft gun. As for the ship's 75mm cannon, the 155mm can reach it, but now it doesn't have a radio proximity fuze or a fixed-altitude fuze.

It takes a direct hit to knock it down. This is not easy!

As for using an airplane to hit it, it seems a bit out of reach. It seems that the next step is to increase the practical ceiling of the airplane and develop a height-fixing fuse.

Zhuge Weidao was thinking about his own thoughts and listened to Guo Xiaobao's report. He didn't seem to pay much attention to the warships and airships that appeared in the Tregg Strait. He just put down the telescope and asked: "How far are we from the Tregg Strait?"

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"About 50 nautical miles." The fleet captain replied.

Ma Xuchen, Chief of Staff of the First Air Warfare, asked: "Junmen, do you want to send a battle patrol detachment to test it out?"

"No need." Zhuge Weidao shook his head, "They have 10 new battleships, most of which use 12-inch cannons, a total of 100! The battle patrol detachment is 8 by 4, with a total of 32 300mm cannons. Only the opponent's cannons

30%, can’t be beaten.”

In fact, the Victory-class can only put up to eight 12-inch guns on one side, while the Chungoh-class's four turrets can all point to one side, and they also have eight 300mm guns. So the firepower of the two is almost equal, but the ratio is 4

10. The advantage is still on the enemy's side.

Although the Chungoh-class is very fast, with a rated speed of 24 knots and 26 knots with forced ventilation, there is no problem. But the British new battleships will not be too slow. They are definitely rated at 20 knots, and they can run 2 knots with forced ventilation.

There should be no problem. The speed advantage of only three quarters is of little use when fighting in formation, and it cannot reverse the huge disadvantage in numbers.

Moreover, the British have at least 10 battleships, who knows where they are? If they escape, they will be in big trouble.

Zhuge Weidao thought about it and said: "Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, we cannot rush to a decisive battle. However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. We met the main force of the British and Indian fleets west of the Strait of Malacca. There is also a good side. This shows that the Persian Gulf Fleet is now safe.

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As long as we can maintain our presence to the west of the Strait of Malacca with high speed and are not driven away or defeated by the British and barbarians, the British and barbarian fleets will not dare to easily enter the Strait of Malacca and have a decisive battle at Guanjunmen. Moreover, we can also use aircraft to bomb the British and Indian ships.

The fleet's logistics supply fleet. Such a huge fleet must have carried a large number of ammunition ships, coal ships, and supply ships. However, the Yingyi have not invested much in high-speed transport ships in the past two years, so most of those ships are slow-speed

Yes, we can circle around the British while looking for opportunities to attack them with air strikes.

And we don’t need to stay in this area for too long. As long as we delay it for a few days, Guanjunmen will be able to use shallow-water heavy artillery ships and mines to block the relatively narrow middle section of the Malacca Strait. At that time, the waterway transportation between Temasek Island, Malacca City and the outside world will be reduced.

If it is broken, the British and Indian troops in Malaya will still be attacked from both sides!

If we fight for another two months at most, the Nanyang Army will be able to take over the entire Malay Peninsula. Once we take over the Malay Peninsula, we will all be alive!"

After hearing Zhuge Weidao's analysis, Ma Xuchen, Guo Xiaobao, and Wang Wen all frowned slightly.

The First Air Battle has high speeds and aircraft. It is no problem to deal with the British fleet east of the Strait of Malacca and wait for opportunities to send aircraft to attack their supply fleet. Isn't that what the First Air Battle is for?

As for Guan Tianpei commanding the main force of the Nanyang Fleet to blockade the middle section of the Malacca Strait, the waters near Luba Island, where the Nanyang Fleet severely attacked the British armored cruiser formation a few days ago, are not open and are only 37 kilometers wide. There is no problem in blocking them with mines, shallow water gunboats, and torpedo boats.

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But can the army take over the Malay Peninsula within 2 months?

The blockade established by the Nanyang Fleet on Luba Island can at most cut off the waterway traffic between Malacca City and Temasek Island, but it cannot cut off the entire logistics line of the Malay, British and Indian forces. They can still use Penang, Klang, Parit Buntar, Dagang, and Wan

Ports such as Tianjin provide logistical supplies for Malaya’s hundreds of thousands of troops!

This battle is a bit difficult!

"Order the Royal Navy Air Force to attack!"

On the Victory, Lieutenant General James Hood read the telegram sent by George Elliot and immediately made the decision to launch an air strike!

"Is the attack detected now?"

"Lieutenant General, the distance is still too far. Even if we send a destroyer to rush over immediately, it will take an hour and a half to arrive. I'm afraid our pilot will have to soak in the sea for an hour or two before he can be rescued."

In fact, the person who said this knows very well how low the probability of "falling into the sea and being rescued" is. Unless it flies next to one's own ship and falls into the sea, then the people on the ship will come to rescue it quickly, and there will be no big problem.

Otherwise, after soaking in the water for an hour or two, not to mention feeding the sharks, even if the sharks in the Indian Ocean have no appetite today, it will be difficult for the destroyers that arrive later to find the flying warriors soaking in the water in the vast ocean.

So. Hood actually sent his men on a suicide mission!

"Then stay there for an hour or two!" James Hood said very firmly, "We can't wait any longer. The enemy has already discovered us, and they probably know that we have discovered them. So they will speed up their escape at any time! The Chinese

Steam engines and steam turbines have always been better than ours! So their cutting-edge battleships must be very fast and we can't catch up. If we can't use man-operated gliding bombs to damage them to slow down their speed, the next one will be based on high-speed battleships.

The main fleet will become a nightmare for our rear and front lines!"

Hood glanced at the surrounding staff and said: "Give the order. Also, tell the boys in the airship unit that the British Empire needs them to defend it!"

"Yes, sir!"

Hood's order was quickly sent via radio waves to George Elliot and the 15 airships in the sky filled with "suicide glide bombs"!

The "bombing pilots" on the airships were all good guys recruited from Ireland with high salaries. Although they didn't have much education, they all loved the British Empire and Emperor William. Even though they were all Catholics and Irish.

, but are still determined to defend their motherland with their lives!

Of course, the British Empire would not let them defend their military pay in vain, and the additional rewards given by the Emperor of the Indian Empire were sufficient. If they could return to Ireland alive, it would be enough to spend their lives as country gentlemen.

In addition, these good guys don't know how difficult it is to fish people out of the sea. In previous trainings, very few of them have gone missing. The salvage team sent by the airship mothership will almost 100% fish them out of the warm sea, and

Never seen a shark either

Therefore, these good guys are all very motivated, and they are all a little eager to try when they see the "one-ship battle" in formation sailing on the sea thirty nautical miles away.

The officers of the airship force were all Northern Irish Protestants who "liked" the Irish the most. At this time, they told these "good guys" in an encouraging tone, "His Majesty the Emperor has prepared a bonus of 1,000 pounds for each of you."

! Anyone who successfully hits an enemy battleship will be given another 3,000 pounds! Major General Yilu is watching from the sky. Do your best! God bless you, set off now!"

"Yes, sir!"

The "bomb operators" with high morale were fooled into getting into the "magazine compartment" of the deployed "glide bomb", and then one after another they were pushed out of the cabin by the airship soldiers and began to soar in the air.

It also scared the airship soldiers of the Ming army who were following these airships to conduct reconnaissance!

"Oh my God! Then, what is that? There seems to be a bomb under the hang glider! There is someone piloting it!"

"It's a suicide glide bomb. Send a telegram quickly, the British are crazy! They have suicide planes!"
Chapter completed!