Nine hundred and twentieth chapters decisive battle
At the same time, within a few hours, Krull's navy confirmed that the Hengmanzi fleet that appeared behind them was powerful, with at least a dozen battleships and battlecruisers.
At the same time, they also discovered that the main fleet of Hengmanzi in front of them was accelerating!
One look at this scene and you know that Hengmanzi has launched an attack!
what to do?
If this were replaced by the navy of another country, I'm afraid they would be thinking about how to break out and escape.
But the Krul Kingdom Navy was different. Their main fleet began to accelerate towards the fourth mobile fleet!
The reason why they made such a choice is also very simple!
The number of battleships, battleships and other battleships they have in their main fleet here is no less than the battleships of Hengmanzi opposite!
The comparison of strength between the two sides is actually almost the same. Even if there is a difference between one and two battleships, in the decisive battle of dozens of battleships, the difference between one and two battleships is not important.
The capital ships of both sides are almost the same, but Hengmanzi's fleet is divided into one east and one west.
This means that if their Krul Navy is fast, they can defeat the slower Fourth Mobile Fleet and other joint landing fleets first, and then in turn fight against the higher-speed Third Mobile Fleet.
Based on this, they think they can win, and win big!
Unfortunately, the Daheng Empire also thinks it can win!
In the evening of that day, a large-scale battle broke out between the two sides, but it was not between the battle fleets of both sides.
In fact, at this time, the battleship formations of both sides were quite far away from each other, and they would not be able to approach each other in just a few hours. What's more, both sides would continue to maneuver to seize the T prefix.
Therefore, the battle in the early stage was actually between the light formations of both sides.
In the evening of that day, a fierce exchange of fire broke out between a Daheng Empire reconnaissance formation composed of a small cruiser and four destroyers and Krul's vanguard reconnaissance formation.
During the battle, a destroyer of the Imperial Navy was sunk and a small light cruiser was severely damaged.
However, the Kruls were not much better. Two of their destroyers were sunk and several others were damaged.
And won a complete victory in the subsequent battle between the reinforcement fleets.
During the reinforcement process, the Daheng Empire's cruiser formation first used the powerful performance of unified fire control to launch a fierce attack more than ten kilometers away, sinking a large enemy cruiser.
Then night fell, and the light formations from both sides took advantage of the darkness to run around, looking for enemies everywhere to launch torpedoes.
In order to avoid the torpedo night attack, the main fleets of both fleets actually turned to avoid it.
Therefore, although the light formations of both sides were very active that night, many battles broke out between them, and several battleships from each side were sunk.
However, the capital ships of more than 10,000 tons on both sides were not involved and suffered no losses.
At dawn, before it was dark, the lookouts from both sides discovered that after a night of maneuvering and tracking, the distance between the main fleets of both sides had reached less than 30,000 meters.
This has already entered the fighting distance, and it is naturally impossible for both sides to be cowardly!
At seven o'clock in the morning that day, Marshal Chen Fengting, Commander-in-Chief of the Daheng Landing Fleet, ordered the battleships of the Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth Mobile Fleets to form a line formation and began to seize the T prefix to fight!
At the same time, the Third Mobile Fleet was ordered to speed up and attack the enemy's flank and rear.
At this time, after last night's maneuvers, the Third Mobile Fleet was actually not that far away. At the speed of the Third Mobile Fleet, it would be able to engage the Krul Kingdom Navy in a few hours at most.
It didn't take long before the rumble of cannons sounded on the sea!
A super maritime decisive battle involving more than 80 battleships, battlecruisers, and nearly a thousand medium and light battleships of various types officially began about 300 kilometers southwest of Whale Harbor on Dongji Island!
The scene is very similar to the last Andorian naval battle, but the scale is even larger!
But the difference is that this time in the naval battle on Dongji Island, there were many black spots in the sky above the fleets of both sides.
These black spots are the carrier-based aircraft belonging to the Daheng Empire fleet.
Some of them were seaplanes carried by battleships such as battleships, battlecruisers, and heavy cruisers, and some were carrier-based aircraft released by the four aircraft carriers.
These aircraft provide reconnaissance and aerial shooting.
But this is definitely not the purpose of the Daheng Empire's naval aviation force. The Daheng Empire's construction of aircraft carriers has never been to simply obtain aviation reconnaissance, or to obtain the ability to attack warships in the air.
Even if this ability is still very primitive.
But then again, the air defense capabilities of other countries' warships these days are not very good...
The Daheng Empire has always kept its aircraft carriers secret, and the carrier-based torpedo aircraft dedicated to carrier-based aircraft is a top-secret project.
Of course, the navies of various countries are also exploring the application of aircraft on their own, but most of them are still limited to providing maritime reconnaissance, and generally still use seaplanes.
For the time being, apart from the Daheng Empire, no other country has developed carrier-based aircraft specifically designed for aircraft carrier takeoff and landing.
Therefore, the navies of various countries have their own aircraft applications, but they still lack aviation attack capabilities.
In the eyes of many naval generals, even those within the Daheng Empire Navy, these aircraft are just like toys, and how can they possibly cause any actual damage to battleships.
In contemporary times, except for the Daheng Empire Navy, warships of other navies rarely even have anti-aircraft guns specially designed. Even if they are equipped with anti-aircraft fire control, there are only a few.
Even for the Daheng Empire itself, only the new warships in recent years were designed with anti-aircraft artillery from the beginning, and some anti-aircraft artillery were installed on older warships.
It's not that stronger air defense is technically impossible, but simply that countries, even the Daheng Empire itself, don't pay much attention to the issue of battleship air defense.
These anti-aircraft guns are mainly used to drive away enemy seaplanes and other reconnaissance aircraft, rather than actually intercepting various types of enemy bombers.
This is an era in which the carrier-based aircraft are scummy, but the battleships’ air defense capabilities are also scumbag!
Under such circumstances, when a group of more than 20 A-3 torpedo planes taking off and landing from the Fairy aircraft carrier appeared in front of the third battleship fleet of the Krul Kingdom's eighth task force, many people in the third battleship fleet watched.
When they arrived, some people were clamoring to give them a good look with some small-caliber anti-aircraft guns that had been recently modified on the ship.
But no one actually ran to the deck to control those anti-aircraft artillery or heavy machine guns!
Because their battleships were engaging in bombardment with the battleships in the Fourth Mobile Fleet, there was no way for them to conduct air defense operations in time.
When their 350mm main gun fired, the noise was quite loud!
When the main gun fires, if someone is on the deck and there is no special protection, they will basically die or be disabled!
Not to mention, when these warships fire now, they do not fire one or two cannons alone. In order to ensure the hit rate, they all use semi-volley or salvo fire, and the artillery fire will only be separated by a few tenths of a second.
Keep firing in the gap.
In this case, operating anti-aircraft artillery on the deck or even outside the bridge is an act seeking death!
What's more, they didn't know that these planes were coming with torpedoes, and they thought they were Hengmanzi reconnaissance planes, aerial shooters, etc...
If you ask them to stop firing main guns and switch to air defense operations, to be honest, many people will not be happy.
Because the main gun of the battleship of the Daheng people on the opposite side never stopped, and the shells kept flying over!