Behind The Scenes: From A Blind Date To The Peak

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Wu Chen thought of the sea battle on Samar Island. When he talked about it, he could not imagine that all the nine groups of team members knew about it.

Everyone also talked about this history.

The Tauri Fleet of Country R attacked first, followed by the Shui Lei Squadron led by the light cruiser.

In order to be able to eat each other in one bite, the R nation’s fleet was filled with a kind of excitement and impatience, and the ships did not even care about the formation change.

Due to the fact that they had been fighting with the aircraft of the M country before, the Tauri fleet at that time used an air defense wheel formation, which was not conducive to surface warfare.

This fleet almost rushed towards the third team of Taffy in the M country.

Just when the R country’s fleet was frantically bombarding and advancing, the third team of the M country’s Taffy squadron was still facing Tian Li.

The six escort aircraft carriers are in the center, and the destroyers and escort destroyers form a ring guarding curtain on the periphery.

When R country’s heavy artillery bombed the water column around this small fleet, M country people reacted, and they clearly realized that they had encountered a strong enemy.

Rear Admiral Sprague immediately ordered the fleet to sound the battle alarm and turn east to take shelter in the Nimbus Zone.

At the same time, he urgently called the other two M national teams to take off carrier aircraft for support.

But because the speed of the escort aircraft carrier of M country is too slow, only eighteen to twenty one.

The slowest battleship Nagato in the main force of the R country’s fleet reached a speed of 25 knots.

It is conceivable that simply escaping cannot avoid the fate of being slaughtered.

At this time, the USS Johnston, a small destroyer with a displacement of only more than two tons, took the hook under the command of the captain, Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Evans.

Start firing the first shot of Taffy’s 3rd Squad.

Although at the start of the battle it was the closest to the B fleet, but the Johnston’s guns were only five inches in caliber, and the R fleet was far out of range.

For the captain, the only tactic was to release a white smoke screen to cover the escort aircraft carrier of the team, while approaching through the zigzag mobile fleet.

This single-handedly weak destroyer still rushed to the R-country fleet, which had an absolute advantage in firepower and numbers.

After nearly twenty minutes of difficult sailing, the Johnston, dragging a smoke screen, finally brought the National Fleet into the maximum range of its main guns, and immediately opened fire on the enemy cruiser closest to her.

In just five minutes, the Johnston fired more than 200 5-inch shells in one breath, killing the flagship of China’s Seventh Squadron, the heavy cruiser Kumano.

The distance soon shrank to within ten miles, and the Johnston fired ten more Mk 15 torpedoes.

Kumano was hit in the middle by a fish lei, the entire ship was blown up, the speed dropped sharply to fourteen knots, and it slanted out of the battle line, and the flagship was abandoned like this.

Immediately afterwards, the destroyer turned sharply and drove into the smoke screen that had been drawn earlier.

Subsequently, all the destroyers of the third squadron of M country launched a fish lei attack.

The destroyers Hoell and Hillman immediately charged in full force.

At this time, the Johnston was devastated and exhausted. Only one engine was left, and the speed was only seventeen knots, so it was impossible to keep up.

But the Johnston still launched a new charge, relying on zigzag maneuvers to evade the artillery fire, and approached the R country battleship step by step.

In the chaos, the Johnston was surrounded by a dense smoke screen, unable to accurately grasp the position of the friendly ship, and almost collided with the Hillman while traveling.

Fortunately, the two ships were evaded in time, and in the end there was no danger.

Then, a 30,000-ton giant, the R country battleship King Kong, rushed out of the smoke screen on the port side of the Johnston. At this time, the distance between the two ships was only seven difficult yards.

The Johnston fired thirty rounds at once, hitting the King Kong’s bridge several times.

The people of R country were stunned, and the counterattack of the King Kong was obviously much inferior, and none of the shelling hits.

The USS Johnston then discovered that a state cruiser and four destroyers were preparing for a fish-lei attack on the escort carrier USS Gambier Bay.

At this time, Johnston had lost most of his power and most of his weapons, and could no longer attack multiple targets at the same time.

Can only shell the flagship of country B to attract artillery fire and buy time for friendly ships.

Johnston fired more than ten rounds of artillery at the other side in one go, causing chaos in the formation of the R-country fleet, and was forced to hurriedly fire the fish, but none of them were hit.

The Johnston did its last bit of strength to make the M-country escort aircraft carrier formation successfully escape once again!

During the heavy firefight, Johnston lost one of her two forward main guns, and the other was damaged.

Although the warship has been covered in bruises, everyone has made up their minds to fight to the death.

The communication system in the ship has been completely destroyed, Lieutenant Colonel Evans can only transmit orders by shouting, and the rudder can only be controlled by manpower.

The Johnston was then under close siege by the R-nation fleet.

Gun after gun dan razed the ship’s superstructure to the ground.

The destroyer USS Johnston eventually capsized and began to sink.

So far, the destroyer has been fighting for more than three hours, gaining time for the escort aircraft carrier group behind to retreat and organize a counterattack.

After this battle, among the escort aircraft carrier formations that M country is dedicated to guarding, except for Gambier Bay, which was abandoned, only one aircraft carrier, Saint Lo, was sunk by the aircraft of country B (good Zhao’s), which can be called human beings. A miracle in the history of naval warfare.

The Tianli fleet of country B was worried that it would be encircled by the main fleet of country M, and finally decided to stop, leaving the three sunk heavy cruisers behind, and taking the rest of the battleships to retreat.

The landing fleet of the M country was preserved, and the combat operations to land in the Philippines were successfully launched!

Wu Chen and everyone were immersed in the discussion of the sea battle on Samar Island. In this way, time passed quickly.

Until the end, Xu Fanchang reminded him next to him.

“Mr. Wu”!

Cabaro “Gan City.

“Here!”

The big image continued to look up.

Saw the city buildings not far away!

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