In December of the twenty-eighth year of Qian Sheng, the wind was biting in the Port of Bari in the depth of winter, and there were still snow residues on the ground from the snowfall of the previous few days.
Bali Port is located in the northeastern area of Kingdom Island. It is precisely because it is located in the northeastern area of Kingdom Island that it was far away from the front line in the early stages of the war and therefore did not suffer any attacks. It is operated by the Krull Kingdom Navy as the most important naval base.
A large number of anti-aircraft artillery, coastal defense artillery, and even a large number of ground troops were deployed as a precaution to prevent Hengmanzi from risking a landing attack.
The tight defense allowed this military base to effectively block the approach of the Daheng Empire's main fleet and the air strikes of carrier-based aircraft even in the later stages of the war, when the Daheng Empire's navy began to launch attacks in the eastern waters of Kingdom Island.
After all, there are more than 20 coastal defense guns with a caliber of more than 300 millimeters in this place, and most of them are deployed in specially reinforced fortress forts. They not only have thick frontal defense, but also thick Top defense, the top is enough to defend against the bombing of 500 kilograms of aerial bombs!
This does not include the larger number of coastal defense guns with calibers of 250 mm, 200 mm, and 150 mm.
After summarizing various intelligence and making inferences, the staff of the Daheng Empire Navy concluded that to destroy this type of shore defense artillery, a large number of battleships would be needed.
To destroy a 300mm coastal defense gun with complete fortification protection, it may cost three battleships to be damaged!
This is just their shore defense firepower!
At the same time, they also have a large number of offshore torpedo boats to protect the port. These offshore torpedo boats are generally very small, but their speed is very high. If the Daheng battleship formation wants to travel within ten or twenty kilometers to bombard the coastal defense batteries in the Port of Barry, , if these torpedo boats attack, many battleships will be destroyed.
In addition, they have deployed powerful air power. The air force base in the Port of Bari alone has more than 300 aircraft deployed, and there are many airports around the Port of Bari that can provide support at any time. All of these can participate in the siege of Bari. The aircraft in Hong Kong include more than 500 fighter planes and thousands of other types of torpedo planes and bombers.
In addition, they have deployed a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower here, and they have deployed densely packed anti-aircraft guns of various calibers. Any aircraft that dares to fly in will have to face a dense firepower network.
Without the protection of these anti-aircraft firepower and fighter jets, the dozen remaining battleships in the Port of Bali would have been killed by the Daheng Empire Navy's carrier-based aircraft directly attacking the port.
In the past, there was nothing the Daheng Empire Navy could do about such a coastal fortress.
If you want to take it down, you probably have to send a large number of ground troops to land and capture it.
But it’s different now!
Today, the carrier-based aircraft force of the Daheng Empire Navy has been completely replaced with various types of all-metal monoplanes, and the Jing-27 dive bombers have been upgraded to have more powerful combat performance.
The Nan-28 fighter also has extremely superior performance.
The torpedo planes have also been replaced with Tian-3 type torpedo planes. They are still the Tian-series torpedo planes produced by Sky Aircraft Company. They have an all-metal single-wing structure, high speed and advanced performance.
These three all-metal monoplanes are already ahead of all types of fighter planes in the Kingdom of Krul in terms of performance.
Especially the Nan-28 fighter, which is crucial to the fight for air supremacy, the overall combat effectiveness of this fighter is several times stronger than the Beijing-26 fighter, the navy's previous generation main carrier-based fighter.
During the training, a small group of four Nan 28 fighter jets appeared to fight against 16 Beijing 26 fighter jets. As a result, the 28 fighter jets shot down thirteen 26 fighter jets at the cost of losing one.
Throughout the training process, the Nan 28 fighter jets showed their overwhelming advantage!
It's faster, climbs faster, is more flexible, and even has better controllability, so novices can quickly adapt.
After the Nan-28 fighter jets entered the battle over Kingdom Island, their performance was indeed very good. Their own loss rate was very low, but they were able to shoot down a large number of enemy aircraft and limitedly cover various types of bombers of our own side in carrying out their missions.
The air battles over Kingdom Island basically revolve around the bomber forces of the Daheng Empire. Various bombers of the Daheng Empire have to perform missions and bomb various targets.
As for the Kru, they wanted to intercept these bombers.
The fighter force of the Daheng Empire covered these bombers, and then engaged in combat with the Kruer fighter jets.
In this series of cover missions, the Nan 28 fighter jets performed very well b.
The excellent performance of the Nan 28 fighter jets, coupled with the Navy's upgrade of the 27 dive bombers, replaced them with new engines, enhanced their anti-strike capability, and equipped them with new metal torpedo aircraft.
Therefore, the Navy decided to bomb the Port of Bari in an effort to destroy the remaining battleships of the Krul Kingdom Navy hiding in the Port of Bari, so as to add chips to the ongoing peace talks.
In order to bomb the Port of Bari, the Navy concentrated a total of twelve aircraft carriers and more than a thousand carrier-based aircraft. This did not include the seaplanes carried on each warship for reconnaissance and shooting.
However, even with the concentration of twelve aircraft carriers and more than a thousand carrier-based aircraft, they still do not have much numerical advantage compared to the air power in the Port of Bari and the surrounding areas.
There are more than a thousand aircraft of various types in that poor place and surrounding areas.
Therefore, it is necessary to choose a more suitable time, and at the same time, the combat time needs to be controlled, and the battle must be decided quickly. After the air attack on Bari Port, the fleet must be withdrawn to avoid being entangled by the opponent's reinforced fighter jets.
At the same time, in order to avoid ground anti-aircraft firepower, attacks cannot be carried out in broad daylight, but night attacks cannot be carried out at night, because the hit rate will be too low, and the best time is at dawn.
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b In order to successfully attack, the navy also dispatched multiple fleets to carry out attacks in nearby waters. The purpose was actually to attract aircraft units near the Port of Barry to conduct reconnaissance, interception, etc., so as to reduce the pressure on the carrier-based aircraft units.
On the night of December 4th, after everything was ready, two battleship fleets and three aviation fleets from the Third Mobile Fleet arrived at the predetermined sea area.
In the second half of the night, final preparations were made on the aircraft carrier. Planes began to take off from Lingcheng around five o'clock. Soon after, the first wave of about 300 planes pounced on the Port of Bari, which is more than 200 kilometers away.
Soon after, a second wave of more than 300 planes descended on the Port of Barry.
Then came the third wave of more than two hundred planes!
Except for the fifty or sixty direct guard fighters left behind, other carrier-based aircraft were basically sent out to form Sanbo's ultra-large-scale attack fleet.
b Around 6:40, when it was still just dawning at the Port of Bari, the first wave of aircraft had already arrived at the Port of Bari!
A large number of soldiers who were still sleeping were awakened by the air defense siren, and then ran around in a panic. Some anti-aircraft artillery also began to bombard the sky.
But at this time, there were already many dive bombers swooping down in the sky. They attacked the warships parked in the port, and at the same time bombed obvious open-air anti-aircraft firepower, warehouses, oil depots, airports and other targets!
The torpedo planes went straight to the battleships in the port and dropped special aviation torpedoes specially developed for attacking the port. Although this torpedo was slightly less powerful, it did not penetrate the water as deeply as ordinary torpedoes after being dropped, so it would not
After going down, it fell directly into the mud on the seabed and couldn't float anymore...
The fighter jets on the side were also entangled with the Krull fighter jets that scrambled to take off to fight.
It didn't take long for the Port of Bari to burst into flames and explode with rumbling sounds!