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Volume 2: Growth Chapter 757: Inherent Strength

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    The wake surged and the water waves flew. On the vast deep blue sea, a large number of warships flying the black vulture cross flag broke through the waves and sailed rapidly forward.  ¡ÜViewed from the air, those heavy aircraft carriers with a total length of more than 270 meters and a flight deck width of nearly 40 meters are like floating islands in the sea. Although they do not have the towering and wide bridges and majestic main guns of battleships, they have a special charm.  The majestic charm that stirs people's hearts is contained in it.  And the angled deck protruding to the left front at an angle of 7 degrees would give people an unreal feeling of traveling into the future: if it weren't for the single-engine propeller fighters tied to the deck and the densely packed aircraft on both sides of the flight deck.  The small-caliber anti-aircraft gun betrays its age. This scene is exactly the same as the aircraft carrier 30 years later!  As the core of the German Navy in the post-treaty era, the Hindenburg-class heavy aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of 35,000 tons incorporates the latest technology developed by Germany during the 20-year holiday and all the experience accumulated in the field of aviation application.  The powerful power of 180,000 horsepower, assisted by the fluid drag reduction of the bulbous bow and exquisite tail plate, pushed the top speed of this class of warships to an astonishing level: According to the sea trials of each ship of the same class that has been in service  In this case, it still has a high speed of more than 33 knots with a full load displacement of 46,000 tons. If it is overloaded to 200,000 horsepower, the full load speed can reach as much as 34 knots.  For aircraft carriers, speed is not as meaningless as battleships: in addition to providing sufficient deck wind for carrier-based aircraft to take off and effectively reducing their sliding distance, high speed can also make the aircraft carrier more effective when avoiding attacks.  , and still retains enough power to evacuate the scene or continue fighting after being damaged.  In the crucial offensive and defensive fields, this type of aircraft carrier also completely surpassed all opponents of the same period.  The huge double-layer hangar with a total area of ??more than 7,000 square meters brings a terrifying carrying capacity of 120 aircraft.  One-third more than the 91 American Essex-class aircraft.  The 125mm armored flight deck is even more powerful than the naked opponent in the hangar.  And even in terms of total deck thickness.  The Hindenburg-class also has a strong protection of 230 mm, which is far superior to the opponent's 114 mm. There is almost no case of the core compartment being pierced by armor-piercing bombs.  After all, the German aircraft carrier has a huge displacement advantage of nearly 8,000 tons, which is enough to make every aspect perfect.  Because of this, when Admiral Karls was ordered to lead an air fleet with seven Hindenburg-class aircraft carriers as the core to attack the ocean, his heart was filled with eagerness to try, and he was not afraid of the possibility of losing all his troops.  The American fleet was dispatched.  With these excellent aircraft carriers, he is already confident enough to deal a thunderous blow to the opponent.  Seeing fighter jets flying one after another from the wide deck into the blue sky, Karls's heart was filled with anticipation: the naval battle half a year ago.  It was all because of the fast running of the Americans that they did not end up with the same fate as the British fleet. If he could effectively find the enemy in the early stage this time and launch a preemptive and violent strike, then the shining marshal's scepter would be useless to him.  No more unreachable fantasy!  However, Karls¡¯ road to realizing this dream is not destined to be smooth sailing.  When the first batch of take-off fighter jets returned to the aircraft carrier one after another, there was still no movement from the radio room of the Hindenburg.  Regarding this situation, Karls did not show any anxiety, but waited behind the scope like a seasoned hunter, quietly waiting for the opponent to appear in front of his shotgun.  Three days ago, the U-558 submarine performing a patrol mission on the east coast of the United States used its radar to detect a group of targets suspected to be the US fleet: not only were they moving on a zigzag anti-submarine route, their speeds also reached 15 knots.  quick.  According to the intelligence transmitted earlier by spies lurking in the United States.  It also showed that the U.S. fleet would launch a major operation in the near future; comparing the two, the German command was very confident that the U.S. fleet had entered the Atlantic Ocean.  The main force of the German navy, which was preparing to attack at the San Juan base, immediately attacked.  Together with the ships of the satellite countries, they launched a large-scale search for the enemy; now, in addition to the fleet commanded by Admiral Karls, there are two other battle groups also looking for enemies in the Atlantic Ocean. The number of aircraft carriers dispatched by the Allied fleet  A staggering 20 ships were reached.  In addition to the chaos caused by too many aircraft carriers in the same sea area, another reason for the Allied fleets to divide their forces is to increase the scope of reconnaissance. The North Atlantic is vast and vast, and it is not enough to conduct reconnaissance with just one fleet.  In order to lure the American fleet to appear in the vast ocean, the German Navy also deliberately leaked part of the intelligence on several transport fleets that were about to set off in the near future, in order to drag them out of the fog of the battlefield and bring them under their own reconnaissance control.  .  Faced with these evil sources that transported large quantities of war supplies to the Americas, the Americans had no choice but to think of sinking and annihilating them.  If the U.S. fleet really appears in the Atlantic, then this is a complete conspiracy for them: either they give up the operation and continue to go home and die, or they wait for opportunities to attack these delicious eggs that are definitely defended by soldiers nearby.Start with the cake.  For the US fleet that has already been dispatched, it is obviously impossible to simply turn back without taking any action. They will definitely show their fighting blades!  In the early morning of May 6, after more than two days of searching, the German pilots finally sent an exciting telegram back to Karls. An enemy carrier-based aircraft encountered him by chance, which meant that the enemy aircraft carrier must be hundreds of kilometers away.  within kilometers.  Karls immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and sent a large number of carrier-based aircraft to the sea area where the incident occurred to conduct a comprehensive search.  For more than two hours after that, reports of air combat continued to come from the radio room. While sending more fighter jets to support, Karls also resolutely issued an order to prepare the first wave of attack aircraft.  Near noon, the German pilots discovered anomalies in the sea below after breaking through the air blockade. With the beeping of the transmitter, the aircraft carrier located more than 300 kilometers away instantly received this precious wireless telegram.  "The Americans only came with five aircraft carriers?" Karls said in disbelief when he saw the white telegraph page with still wet ink in his hand.  There are only two possibilities for this situation. One is that the pilot made a wrong judgment due to various reasons, and the other is that the other party adopts a strategy of dividing its troops like itself, and the specific intention is probably only known to the Americans.  .  After pondering for a moment, Kars made the final decision. No matter what the real situation was, it would never be wrong to conduct a wave of fire reconnaissance first!  Accompanied by the harsh buzzing sound of the engines, all 350 fighter planes that had completed preparations took off in less than half an hour; this average rate of one aircraft taking off in just over 30 seconds fully demonstrates the  The German Navy has devoted many years of hard training in the aviation field and now has a solid foundation!  "Inform the other two fleets of our situation here and let them choose the opportunity to take the next step." When he saw two US military fighter jets appearing in the sky not far away, Karl realized that his position had also been exposed.  Si immediately gave the order to the communications department.  Since each fleet maintained strict radio silence when setting off, and each other was in a cruising state with no rules in terms of course and speed in order to find enemies, he currently only knew the general information about the other two friendly forces.  Prescription position, but it is really difficult to accurately control the distance.  This is also the price one has to pay when fighting against an unknown enemy in the vast North Atlantic.  However, Kars holds an ace in his hand that can remedy his shortcomings of insufficient strength to a considerable extent, and that is the number of 12 anti-aircraft cruisers in the fleet.  Four years ago, with the end of the Washington Naval Treaty, the great powers recovering from their naval holiday also began the process of building cruisers: after all, in the previous 20 years, heavy cruisers were the second largest maritime force after battleships.  Weapons, the Baltimore class built by the United States has a tendency to become a battle cruise due to the stimulation of German heavy patrols.  However, the German Navy's cruiser development has embarked on a path that seems to be a self-destruction of martial arts, and a ship with a displacement less than 40% of its American counterpart and a main gun caliber only equivalent to that of a destroyer has been pushed onto the slipway in batches.  Facts have proved that Qingying's decision was extremely wise.  Compared with large-caliber artillery that rotates slowly and has a slow rate of fire, the twin-mounted 128mm main gun has several times the speed and rate of fire of the former. It has a crushing advantage over bulky large-caliber naval guns in terms of air defense efficiency.  .  Although the 128mm artillery's firing rate of 5 seconds is quite inferior to air defense, and its greatest significance is still limited to dispersing enemy aircraft groups at a distance of 10 kilometers, engineers from the William Royal Institute have already  Before the treaty was invalidated, at the request of Qingying, research on proximity fuze shells that would rejuvenate this artillery in the field of short-range air defense began.  Due to the early establishment of the research direction and the support of a large amount of funds, proximity fuze shells (VT shells) made using the Doppler effect, like V-type missiles and Tiger tanks, were declared mature and entered the market in the 1930s.  the battlefield.  In February 1938, the new 128mm anti-aircraft shells began to be fully installed on German naval ships. Since there was no need to artificially set the explosion time of the shells, its air defense efficiency had a revolutionary leap of four times compared with before.  Combined with up to 20 128mm guns on an anti-aircraft cruiser, this will undoubtedly create an unprecedented steel storm in front of the incoming fleet.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster! ps: Thanks to book friends such as hill2, hugetiger, Silver Moon Ice, The Windy Middle Age, Katyusha and other book friends for their monthly support, and Golden Crab, zhouyu1976, hill2  , I¡¯m so excited to reward you~~~
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