aircannonsinc Chapter 2904: Sea Showdown
Chapter 2904: Sea Showdown
Chapter 2904: Sea Showdown
In the bar.
Zhao Qingyu, who had figured out the situation, mixed in with them, drinking and chatting there, just like an ordinary soldier.
He had long forgotten what happened before.
After all, it's war, and it's normal for people to die.
The young lieutenant died. It was his bad luck.
He kicked the god and died. This was the effect of God. Zhao Qingyu then generously pardoned the other party.
At this time, someone else said, "I heard that there will be a second game soon."
"Yeah, the people from Company A won't let this place go."
"Damn it, they are just occupying the toilet... This place is obviously close to us, but they won't let us develop it!"
"It's all because of our ancestors' inability to conquer the islands in time during the Age of Discovery. Now the islands right next to our home have been taken away by outsiders!"
"Yeah, so we have to fight back!"
Zhao Qingyu noticed that the morale of the sailors of Company C was still relatively high.
It may have something to do with the fact that the war has just begun.
If the fight lasts for three or four years, they probably won't have such morale.
Zhao Qingyu set his goal, which was to keep climbing up, as high as he could.
You have to climb high to get the gaming experience.
It's really tiring to carry the shells.
Also, his divine power needs to be accumulated.
Then he looked at the glass ball and was suddenly surprised.
Because he found that after not watching it for a while, it was almost full again!
Obviously, it was the Divine Power Dynasty that sent the divine power to him across the world.
How is this going?
But here’s the good news.
This means he can do whatever he wants.
At this moment, Zhao Qingyu's heart was suddenly filled with excitement.
This gave him a rare sense of refreshment.
He didn't think about why it worked this time but not last time.
He felt that the world must be different.
He then pretended to be drunk, but was actually testing how to use the divine power.
As a result, he discovered that this divine power could only be used within a hundred meters around him.
It's quite limited, but not bad.
At least he didn't have to worry about being killed for no apparent reason.
Although this is just an incarnation of a soul and it doesn't matter if it dies, who would want to die at the beginning of a game?
Zhao Qingyu is very excited now.
He decided to have a good time.
Three days later.
The ship Zhao Qingyu was on had been sunk.
He was then officially assigned to the Snow Mountain and served as an anti-aircraft gunner.
Because there was a serious shortage of anti-aircraft gunners.
When the planes arrived, the first targets they attacked were the anti-aircraft artillery positions.
When he arrived at the anti-aircraft gun position, he was very disappointed after taking a look.
Company C is really not that good.
The anti-aircraft gun they designed is very disappointing.
why?
First, there are many people who need it.
At least four people are required to operate it.
One person directs, one person steers, one person shoots, and one person loads ammunition.
Boy, he's seen some real movies too.
Other people’s anti-aircraft guns can be turned and shot by one person.
It is about commanding and loading ammunition. Several anti-aircraft guns are gathered together to command and fire in one direction.
The interval between reloading is very long.
Because the other side used ammunition chains, and one ammunition chain contained thousands of rounds.
In this way, only one person is needed to complete the air defense mission.
The biggest problem with the anti-aircraft artillery position here is that it has too little ammunition.
It uses a magazine to feed ammunition.
It can hold 3 magazines.
It sounds good, but there are only 45 anti-aircraft bullets in a magazine.
Isn't this cheating?
45 rounds of bullets, what can they be used for?
Fire a few shots and it's gone immediately.
I just aimed at the opponent and was about to hit him, but the bullet was gone.
Isn't this annoying?
Although three magazines can be inserted at a time, which means more than 100 rounds.
However, this also increases the workload of the ammunition handlers.
This is fatal in a tense battle.
Once one or two people are killed or injured, the entire air defense node will be in trouble.
Zhao Qingyu couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.
He understood it immediately from this detail.
This must be due to poverty.
From what I remember, the two CD companies have strong fighting power and willpower, but they are short of resources and are desperately trying to expand.
Companies AB are the ones that have eaten their fill in advance.
So when Company C was designing its weapons, it was reluctant to load too much ammunition at one time.
I was afraid that the shooter would get too excited and shoot out all the precious bullets in one breath.
This kind of thing is not surprising.
In those highly tense minutes when death could happen at any moment, who would think about saving ammunition?
It is very common to use up thousands of bullets when excited.
However, this would greatly increase ammunition consumption.
In his memory, Company C had steel helmets but rarely used them, and had a large number of artillery shells but rarely used them.
Even though they had automatic weapons, they still used bolt-action rifles, firing one shot and pulling the trigger.
This greatly reduces the defensive power.
Obviously, others also saw this problem.
That's why they made more magazines to make up for it.
Typical flawed thinking: wanting both.
Soon, the Snow Mountain began to set sail.
The mission this time is to follow a transport fleet, acting as the escort party.
This is to prevent enemy aircraft attacks and to carry out anti-submarine operations at the same time.
The naval power of country A and country B is very strong.
Especially in terms of submarines, it is also very powerful.
The strengths of countries C and D are in their army and air force.
The sea scallops are not very strong.
At the same time, they also strengthened submarine construction. However, due to the emphasis on submarines, the number of submarines has always been small, but the tactics have been updated as much as possible.
When Zhao Qingyu learned about this, based on his past experience, he felt that Company C and Company D might not be able to defeat each other.
Because your navy is not good, and now the battles are mainly fought at sea.
As a result, they would definitely be at a disadvantage when seizing islands at sea.
Zhao Qingyu couldn't understand why Company C and Company D had the courage to challenge Company A and Company B.
Soon the transport fleet set off.
The transport ship was carrying a lot of damaged equipment and many wounded soldiers.
In short, it needs to be transported to the rear for repair.
This made Zhao Qingyu even more speechless.
The wounded must be transported.
However, the damaged equipment will just have to be written off on the spot, which will waste precious cabin space.
This means that the productivity in the rear is insufficient.
In the industrial age, the biggest worry is not insufficient production, but insufficient market.
There is far too much overproduction.
So industry loves war.
A major war can consume several months of production capacity.
It makes them very happy.
Of course, overall resources are still being wasted.
Only some people benefit.
After returning, this transport team will bring artillery shells, bullets, and new troops from the rear.
This will be a very important escort mission.
However, they only dispatched three heavy cruisers and eight destroyers.
It can be seen that Company C's strength at sea is stretched to its limits. This escort mission is already very important.
They only sent out such a small number of escort ships.
You know, there are no aircraft carriers in it.
This made Zhao Qingyu very angry.
"Damn it, are all the people above me stupid?"
"Knowing clearly that the planes are very scary, why don't they send aircraft carriers to escort them?"
He grumbled privately.
At this time, his anti-aircraft squad leader said to him: "Okay, kid, stop complaining."
"We don't have many aircraft carriers, and they are mainly used to protect more important targets."
"For example, ports are also used as maritime mobile forces for offensive and deterrent operations."
"They can't be used to protect a convoy like ours."
Zhao Qingyu said dissatisfiedly: "Then at least give us an escort aircraft carrier, right?"
"There must be dozens of fighter jets escorting us, right?"
He was talking about the configuration of the Macanese during World War II, when they built a large number of escort aircraft carriers, which were quickly converted from cruisers and were completed and put into battle within a year.
"Okay, we can choose to bypass the dangerous waters at night and sail in safe waters during the day." The squad leader said,
"This way, we can avoid being attacked by enemy submarines and aircraft."
After hearing this, Zhao Qingyu couldn't help but feel that the other party was deceiving himself.
Fortunately, the other party did not beat him up.
This made him feel that the atmosphere on the ship was quite good.
Perhaps it is because we are weak that we need unity even more.
It's probably like this when people are employed forward.
Zhao Qingyu's worries are justified.
The fleet they were escorting had only traveled for two days, and was still 3000 kilometers away from the southern land where Company C was located when it was discovered by the enemy's reconnaissance aircraft.
"Attack, attack!"
The squad leader immediately ordered.
With the help of his greatly enhanced eyesight, Zhao Qingyu had already seen the enemy reconnaissance plane in advance.
He had made preparations long ago and calculated the advance time.
Of course he didn't remind anyone else.
After all, it was impossible for him to explain why he could see farther than the lookout.
As soon as he received the order, he immediately attacked with anti-aircraft guns.
It must be said that because of his influence, their attacks were quite effective.
Soon, a cloud of smoke emerged from the enemy reconnaissance plane.
They easily shot down the enemy's reconnaissance plane.
But no one had anything to be happy about.
Because they knew that the other party might have sent out the intelligence before the plane was shot down.
If Zhao Qingyu had launched an attack when he saw it just now, he might have been able to stop the opponent.
After all, it takes some time to send a telegram stating the place, location and time.
At this time, the transport fleet must face a major decision.
Should they continue moving forward or change course immediately?
Fortunately, the commander of the transport fleet is a relatively smart man.
Or rather, he is not rigid.
After he discovered that his position was exposed, he immediately chose to change course.
He was going to take an unfamiliar route.
It is very dangerous to sail on an unfamiliar route in the ocean.
First, it is easy to lose direction.
Don’t underestimate the ocean because it’s connected in all directions and you can travel anywhere you want.
But in fact, that's not how it works.
There is a lack of hydrological data on unfamiliar routes.
Once a storm or the magnetic field of the seabed occurs, positioning problems may easily occur.
Even with World War II-era positioning technology, it's easy to lose your way.
Once you get lost, the problem becomes very serious.
There are also unfamiliar routes and the biggest danger, which is reefs, whirlpools and tropical storms.
These are the greatest dangers.
On familiar routes, these dangers have been marked in advance, so you can prepare in advance, detour or stop.
really.
After they chose the unfamiliar route, three hours later, more than 50 bombers from Company A and more than 10 fighter jets arrived.
But they came up empty-handed.
It can be said that Zhao Qingyu is very lucky.
The other planes continued searching along their original course for a while, but found nothing, so they flew back directly.
This is also a common occurrence on the battlefield.
The reconnaissance plane discovered the location and reported it.
As a result, when the bomber and fighter groups arrived, they could not find the location of the enemy fleet.
This is actually because the plane was flying too slowly at that time.
Only 400 to 500 kilometers per hour.
Moreover, it takes a long time for an aircraft to take off from an aircraft carrier.
Unlike taking off from a land airport, many planes can take off at the same time.
An aircraft carrier has only one or two runways, and for safety reasons, only one aircraft can take off and land at a time.
This is why recovery operations and take-off operations need to be performed in turns.
They need to line up in the air.
Just like that, at least two or three hours passed including takeoff and flying.
During these two or three hours, the warship travels at high speed, covering a distance of more than 100 kilometers.
But now the speed of airplanes is only 400 kilometers per hour.
They need to search within a radius of more than 100 kilometers.
This is very troublesome and difficult.
There may also be clouds and fog blocking the sky.
Searching for targets at sea has always been a big problem.
Even with a clear positioning, the target is often missed.
So Zhao Qingyu and the others escaped the disaster.
This is also due to the fact that the transport ships are relatively new.
It can run at a high speed of between 20 knots and 30 knots.
If it was an old transport ship, it would probably not be able to escape this time.
But their good luck ended there.
Only a few ships have good luck all the time.
That night, as the transport fleet was speeding up its journey, they ventured through the strait between the two islands.
Suddenly, the last transport ship exploded with a "bang"!
Then a raging fire broke out, illuminating half of the sea.
"what!"
"Torpedo, torpedo attack!"
"There's a submarine down there!"
They were shocked.
Surprisingly, when we were almost home, we encountered an enemy submarine.
The enemy submarine actually ventured deep here!
This is the power of the navy of large companies.
The other party takes the initiative and dares to take risks because they can afford the losses.
At this time, the Snow Mountain received the order and immediately began anti-submarine operations.
Sonar operator, listen carefully to the movement underwater.
Unfortunately, there is too much underwater noise.
The transport ships dispersed in haste.
The sound of the engine was too chaotic to distinguish at first.
How easy is it to tell which ship is the attacker hiding underwater?
In the darkness of night, submarines can hit and run, with a high success rate.
Looking at the navy’s combat history, they were able to escape seven out of ten times.
Unfortunately, their radar technology is not up to par yet.
If the radar technology is good, it can be used to detect submarines floating on the sea in advance.
This submarine will not stay submerged.
Generally, they will dive in after discovering a surface submarine.
The radar detection range exceeds 200 kilometers, so it can detect submarines on the surface in advance.
This will make it easier to defeat submarines.
Of course, submarines will also be equipped with radars to use radar wave detectors to identify targets.
(End of this chapter)