Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

It can be said that from the beginning, both Daxia and the Australian Dominion had their own agendas and plans.

The Australian Dominion wanted to use the excuse of patrol to get close to Daxia's fleet, and then launch a sudden attack.

And Daxia even wants to trick the Australian fleet into fighting.

Therefore, while Gao Bo asked someone to reply to the Australian fleet, saying that he was on patrol, he asked the plane to fly higher to prevent the Australian fleet from discovering it.

After receiving the order, the fighter group immediately began to climb and hid directly above the clouds.

Under this premise, the two fleets quickly approached.

Two hours later, the Third Combined Fleet took the lead in discovering the Australian fleet.

At this time, Gao Bo had already decided not to pretend. The opponent had already entered the visual range. Although his naval guns could not hit the opponent yet, the carrier-based aircraft had already entered the attack range.

Therefore, Gao Bo did not wait for the opponent to take action and directly ordered the carrier-based aircraft group in the sky to launch an attack.

At the same time, battleships and cruisers were ordered to quickly approach from both sides and seize the T-head.

After receiving the order, the Daxia fleet immediately launched at full speed and rushed towards the Australian Alliance.

And when he saw Lieutenant General Arthur taking action as soon as the Daxia fleet met, he knew that Daxia had the same calculation as him.

He understood that he had been fooled. When he was plotting against Daxia, Daxia was also plotting against him.

At this time, he knew that even if he wanted to run, it would be too late.

Not to mention that the performance of the battleships on our side cannot match that of Daxia, and the cannons cannot escape.

Daxia's warships are generally several knots faster than those in Australia. If I blindly want to escape, the result will be that I will be caught up by Daxia.

What's more, he also saw the plane swooping down from the sky.

Under such conditions, escape has become a luxury.

Therefore, Arthur ordered the entire ship to speed up and counterattack Daxia's T position.

In a naval battle, whoever grabs the T position first will be able to use the warship's firepower to a greater extent.

At this time, in comparison, Australia has more advantages in grabbing the T position. Therefore, the Australian fleet successfully counterattacked the T position.

As soon as they grabbed the T-position, Australia started to fire at the Daxia fleet that wanted to grab the T-position from them.

The volley fired just now did not cause any damage to Daxia.

At this time, the Daxia fleet began to stagger their positions, confront the enemy in a diagonal line, and use the main gun on the bow to start bombarding the Australian fleet.

At the same time, the carrier-based aircraft entered the attack range, and the fighters and dive bombers began to dive and accelerate.

Fighters want to rely on their own agility to help dive bombers spread anti-aircraft firepower.

The Australian fleet's anti-aircraft firepower all uses winch steering instead of hydraulic steering like Daxia's.

Seeing Daxia's planes quickly approaching them, the sailors on the Australian side quickly turned their winches, trying to lock on to those planes.

The soldier in charge of firing slammed the firing pedal, and the anti-aircraft gun made a crisp sound, but the muzzle of the anti-aircraft gun was always one step slower and could not catch up with Daxia's aircraft.

The Daxia pilots were not polite and launched a dive directly from high altitude. After entering the range, they fired a burst of fire at the anti-aircraft firepower points, and then quickly climbed up.

After the fighters opened up space, the dive bombers saw the opportunity and immediately began to dive and accelerate.

Still three to four hundred meters away from the sea, the bombardier released the hook holding the bomb.

Hundreds of kilograms of bombs, accelerated by such a dive, fell towards the battleship below.

The dead weight of several hundred kilograms, coupled with the acceleration of gravity, allows these aerial bombs to easily penetrate the relatively weak deck of a warship.

Of course, the prerequisite for penetrating the deck is to be able to hit.

The biggest difficulty in launching an attack from high altitude is actually the hit rate.

Because the closer to the battleship, the stronger the battleship's anti-aircraft firepower is, the shorter the time left for the pilot to react.

Normally speaking, even if there are dive bombers, if they want to quickly approach the warship, or in a hail of bullets, the pilot needs to bear tremendous pressure, and the bomb hit rate of more than 30% is considered very good.

Therefore, in this round of bombing, dozens of dive bombers dropped bombs, but only a dozen bombs hit.

However, these dozen bombs alone made the Australian fleet extremely uncomfortable.

The explosion ignited the wooden deck and ignited a raging fire. The specially treated wooden deck in Australia produced thick smoke when burning, blocking the view of the surrounding air defense soldiers.

The sailors responsible for damage control began to use fire hoses to put out the fire.

The fire on the deck had not yet been extinguished, and Daxia's second wave of attacks arrived.

This time, Daxia did not use aerial bombs.

After all, the power of aerial bombs is too small, and the hit rate is not high.

This time, the dive bombers responsible for dropping the second wave of bombs carried 630 mm torpedoes.

As for torpedoes, as long as the advance is accurately calculated, the hit rate will actually increase.

This is especially true when using aircraft to deliver torpedoes.

Generally, warships can launch torpedoes within one or two nautical miles at least.

At such a long distance, as long as you react quickly, the battleship can actually avoid it.

But torpedoes dropped by aircraft are different.

These aircraft can fly to a distance of only a few hundred meters from the fighter jets and launch torpedoes.

And this kind of projection method only leaves a dozen or a few seconds for the battleship.

It can be said that there is no time for the other party to escape at all.

As long as you calculate well in advance, the torpedo can basically hit.

Therefore, in the second wave of attacks, more than half of the warships in the outermost circle of the Australian fleet were hit by torpedoes.

The hulls of those ships were broken and holes were opened, and a large amount of sea water poured in, causing the warships to tilt.

At this time, it was less than half an hour before the war started.

The main battleship of the Daxia people is still ten nautical miles away.

With the interference of aircraft, the Australian fleet needs to be distracted to deal with the threat of aircraft, which results in a very small threat to the Daxia fleet.

Daxia's battleships can be targeted more carefully.

If the biggest role of dive bombers' aerial bombs is interference, then the shells fired by Ming-class battleships are deadly.

A big guy weighing several tons can cripple a battleship with just one shot.

Looking at the approaching Daxia fleet, Arthur's face turned gray. He knew that they had lost this naval battle.

He had thought that he would fail, but he did not expect that he would fail so miserably.

Looking at the unscathed Daxia fleet, he then looked at his own side. There were more than thirty warships in total, and more than half of them were already emitting black smoke.

The sailors on those ships were working hard to put out the fire.

But under such conditions, the enemy is still attacking. How can it be so easy to put out the fire?

Moreover, until this moment, Daxia's attacks have not stopped. The planes in the sky are dropping bombs one after another, and the fleet in the distance is also firing cannonballs.

Facing such an opponent, can the Australian fleet really defeat it?

Is this proactive attack too hasty?