Chapter 54: The Scuffle (5)
At the same time that the bomber group dropped explosive bombs in the air, causing confusion in the Japanese fleet, the fighter formation led by Merkel herself had to take the opportunity to use air-to-ground rockets to eliminate the anti-aircraft fire facilities on the Japanese warships. Every step of the entire attack plan has been taken into account by Merkel www.biquge.info but no one can know the outcome before the operation begins, and Merkel is actually worried all the time.
When the group of planes commanded by Merkel made a big circle on the sea, lowered their altitude and turned around and flew towards the Japanese fleet, their position was already on the east side of the Japanese South China Sea Fleet. Preempting the backlit position, this is Zhuo Fei's idea to Merkel, since it is determined that to attack the Japanese fleet at dawn, it is necessary to learn to use natural conditions. Compared with Merkel, who flew backlit, the Japanese South China Sea Fleet in the face of the rising sun had already suffered a big loss visually, and once they began to attack, even a little advantage was crucial for Merkel.
"Whew... Whew..."Inada Fukuyama, who was covered in cold sweat, woke up from a nightmare, and the shirt that had been wet with cold sweat made Inada Fukuyama very uncomfortable, and he got up and changed into a clean shirt, but Inada Fukuyama was no longer sleepy. Since joining the army at the age of 20, this is the first time that Inada Fukuyama has been awakened by a nightmare, and Inada Fukuyama himself does not know why this happened. The nightmare for no reason made Inada Fukuyama's original good mood disappear, and he grabbed a cigarette and a lighter, and Inada Fukuyama, dressed in a military uniform, stepped out of the cabin and onto the deck.
Looking at the familiar side of the ship in front of him, Fukuyama Inada couldn't help but think about it, a few months ago, when he had just been appointed commander of the South China Sea Fleet, Fukuyama Inada, who was excited and couldn't sleep, had stood in this position and smoked all night. The star adjutant who rushed to hear the news waved his hand, and Fukuyama, who was standing alone on the side of the ship, lit a cigarette in the rice field, and then fell into deep thought at the sound of the sea lapping against the hull.
At this time, the thoughts in Inada Fukuyama's mind were actually very chaotic, and after half a cigarette was smoking, Inada Fukuyama remembered the telegram sent by the Hangzhou garrison about an hour ago. The Hangzhou garrison sent a telegram to inform the South China Sea Fleet that a small group of enemy troops had infiltrated Hangzhou Bay to carry out sabotage, and in addition to destroying the radar station on Zhoushan Island, it also destroyed many military installations. Inada Fukuyama, who received this telegram, did not actually take it seriously, and even if the radar station placed by the Japanese army on Zhoushan Island was destroyed, it would not affect his own fleet, because the Chinese army did not have a real navy at all.
Thinking of this, Inada Fukuyama suddenly laughed silently, the Chinese army does not have a navy, which can indeed be regarded as good news for himself and the fleet under his command. Inada Fukuyama was already thinking about the afternoon operational meeting, during which an officer had already proposed that the fleet should immediately enter a combat state and that the fleet should be ready to attack at any time, regardless of when the military headquarters gave the order to attack.
Inada Fukuyama, who can also be regarded as a young Zhuang faction, also supports this argument, and the South China Sea Fleet is transferred to China, and it will definitely not just go through the motions and be used as a troop transport fleet, but he will bring the entire fleet to make a name for himself. The Chinese army does not have a navy, and its own South China Sea Fleet is invincible, as long as it is willing, maybe the South China Sea Fleet can go all the way down the Yangtze River to Chongqing. As soon as he thought of this, Inada Fukuyama's breathing gradually became heavier, maybe as long as Chongqing was captured, it was possible for the people of China to take the initiative to lay down their arms and surrender to the empire.
"Commander, the radar detected a large number of moving targets approaching our eastern flank." When the first rays of light rose from the sea, the star deacon, who had been silently watching the rice field Fukuyama, quickly ran to the rice field Fukuyama standing on the side of the ship. Inada Fukuyama, who had not yet fully recovered from his reverie, only subconsciously looked towards the east side of the flagship, and saw only a golden sea reflected by the rising sun, but the moving target that the star officer said was nowhere to be seen.
After a short while, Inada Fukuyama suddenly came to his senses, and immediately shouted to the star officer, "Sound the alarm and order the fleet to raise anchor and prepare for battle." A large number of officers and men of the navy, who had not yet dressed quickly, rushed out of the cabin, and some small ships that had been guarding around the fleet were already patrolling around the fleet according to Inada Fukuyama's orders.
The sudden smoke over the Japanese fleet did not escape the eyes of the high-altitude reconnaissance planes, which immediately relayed this discovery to the attack aircraft group that was approaching the South China Sea Fleet at high speed, and Merkel immediately raised the nose of the aircraft and ordered the attack to begin. The group of planes that had been flying close to the surface of the sea immediately pulled up their noses to raise the flight altitude, and at this time they were only a few dozen nautical miles away from the South China Sea Fleet, which was really nothing for a fighter with high speed.
Along with the terrible alarm sounded by the fleet, dozens of black dots suddenly appeared over the sea on the east side of the fleet, as if they were cooperating with the air raid sirens sounded in the Japanese fleet, and these larger and larger black dots followed the lifting of the nose of the aircraft to increase the flight altitude. Inada Fukuyama's personality can be regarded as cautious, but it is precisely his caution that allows the South China Sea Fleet to prepare for battle in advance, at least he does not treat Merkel and them as his own and is not wary.
Inada's caution greatly increased the speed of the South China Sea Fleet's counterattack, but it did not save the South China Sea Fleet's tragic fate, because Merkel's determination to crush the Japanese fleet was extremely resolute. The bulky bombers were the first to dive down on the Japanese fleet below, and Merkel had to temporarily change the attack steps without detecting any fighters from the Japanese fleet.
The anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese fleet opened fire on the bombers that were diving down, and before the bomber group could drop bombs, two bombers had already disintegrated into the air with the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, while the remaining bombers continued to dive down against the Japanese anti-aircraft fire. The Japanese fleet became busy, the decks of the two aircraft carriers were cleared, and the ground crew was doing the final checks for the fighters that were about to take off, when the sirens sounded again in the fleet.
"Air raid siren, air raid siren, there are enemy planes coming towards us." The ground crews on the deck of the aircraft carrier immediately quickened their movements, and the first fighter plane ready for take-off was already slowly taxiing on the deck, and it only took more than ten seconds for this fighter plane to take off smoothly. The two aircraft carriers in the Japanese fleet were the main targets of the attack, and one of the bombers that first dived down threw a rapidly falling black dot on the aircraft carrier, and then dragged the injured wings away.
The officers and men of the South China Sea Fleet had never seen the low-altitude and high-explosive bombs equipped by the parachute flight team, and they had no way of knowing that this kind of bomb did not rely on explosive fragments to cause damage. The air explosion bomb upgraded by the weapons laboratory is more powerful than before, but all living creatures within 100 meters of the center of the explosion cannot escape the appearance of the explosion shock wave and temporary dizziness and then incapacitation.
The Japanese fighter plane on the "boom" flight deck, which had already slid up, was also within the range of being affected by the shock wave, and the pilots who were stunned by the explosion were no longer able to control the fighter, and the Japanese fighter plane, which had already taxied to the end of the deck, immediately plunged headlong into the sea crookedly, and many ground crews on the deck preparing for the fighter plane to take off had already staggered to the ground. The bombers roared past, leaving the South China Sea Fleet with a large number of low-altitude and high-explosive bombs that fell sharply, and with the loud explosion of the roaring explosion, almost all the naval officers and men on the decks of the Japanese ships were within the range of the shock wave.
Fukuyama Inada, who was in the flagship control tower, was not spared, and the 80 mm thick armor of the tower could not block the sonic attack after the explosion of low-altitude high-explosive bombs, and like most other naval officers and men, Fukuyama Inada was also in a dizziness at this time. With the loss of 6 bombers, the bomber group participating in the attack successfully dropped more than 1,000 low-altitude and high-explosive bombs, and successfully paralyzed the main warships of the Japanese South China Sea Fleet.
"Guys, it's our turn, let's go." Merkel's voice was heard in the communication channel, and the fighter plane, which had been hovering in the air, immediately pressed down the nose and pounced on the paralyzed Japanese fleet. For the next ten seconds, the sky was filled with smoke trails from the launch of air-to-ground rockets, and then a series of fireworks and thick smoke rose in the Japanese fleet. Just like hitting a fixed target, Merkel led his fighters to clear all the anti-aircraft fire facilities in the Japanese fleet from air-to-ground rockets.
The third-echelon fighters, which had already raised their flight altitude, finally waited for Merkel's attack order, and dozens of attack planes that dived down let out a crushing scream, and at the same time fired all the air-to-ground rockets they brought at the Japanese ships. The rumbling explosions were heard one after another, and the weapons and facilities on the Japanese ships were destroyed little by little, and Merkel's pilots refused to leave even though they had already shot all the rockets, and they shot all the machine gun bullets carried by the planes at the Japanese ships.
Inada-Fukuyama's flagship conning tower was also deliberately cared for by the parachute pilots, and two rockets with white smoke trailing their tails hit the conning tower one after the other, causing the other Japanese ship commanders to become even more panicked. The voice of the pilot of the high-altitude reconnaissance plane was heard in the communication channel, and Merkel then ordered the fighters to return to Wuhu in formation, and the victorious group gradually moved away, leaving the Japanese fleet in place and shrouded in thick smoke.