Judging from the historical experience of naval warfare, it is absolutely necessary to search for known or unknown enemy fleets in order to know the location and movements of the enemy fleet, so the Chinese naval aviation dispatched all 42 "Skua" maritime reconnaissance planes to search for and add information provided by submarines and spy ships camouflaged as merchant ships, so as to maintain a distance from the First Fleet while still obtaining sufficient information.

The submarines were able to annihilate the Third Fleet in just two hours, much to the disappointment of the pilots of the Standard Air Force stationed on the Jiaodong Peninsula. Quickly transfer some of the B4 bombers to Yancheng Airport, and fill up the tarmac with fuel and stand ready for sortie.

At 4:20 a.m. on 7 November, Yang Shihai, as acting commander of the HNA Air Force, again dispatched all 42 maritime reconnaissance planes to clearly grasp the movements of the First Fleet. At this time, Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro still did not know the location of the Chinese naval fleet, and Yang Shihai not only knew where the Japanese army was, but also knew that the Japanese army had entered the attack radius of most naval aviation and standard air forces, but the coastal areas had not yet entered the range of Japanese warships. Since Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro failed to grasp the position of the Chinese fleet, he first ordered to go to Shanghai to destroy the "Chinese battleship" on the slipway, and in his concept, the 10,000-ton cruiser may be regarded as a miso soup, and those destroyers, old armored ships, and other Chinese naval ships are not even a plate of pickled green plums, and will not be considered by the Japanese Combined Fleet at all. However, he could not have imagined that disaster would fall from the sky, and the Chinese Navy had no shadow, but the Chinese air force had already begun to poop above his head.

"Enemy aircraft, eleven o'clock direction, altitude 1500, shooting."

"Torpedo machine, seven o'clock direction, horizontal altitude, shoot, shoot."

At noon, there was a tumult in the East China Sea, and at 11:48 on November 7, the first 250-kilogram bomb fell from the bomb rack and, with a sharp whistle, swooped down on the foredeck of the target "Ise" under the stabilization of the gyroscope. Finally, amid the frantic shouts of the Japanese commanders, the anti-aircraft guns and machine guns on the Japanese fleet were firing at the aircraft group to the west. The locust bullets didn't do much, but at least the swarms of planes scattered like swarms of sardines that had touched sharks.

The Japanese officers and men were not happy for long, they found the scattered enemy aircraft even more difficult to deal with, because the anti-aircraft fire of the fleet was already weak and pitiful, and this time, to the north. There were enemy planes in the south and even directly above the sky, and the enemy planes with single wings, two wings, single engines, and two engines did not scatter and flee for their lives, but divided into large and small formations and began their attack process in a certain order.

In addition to a large conformal fuel tank, HNA's F4 Seahawk also carries four 50-kilogram small aerial bombs, so while washing the deck in groups, they did not forget to send a few iron pineapples to quench the thirst of the guests who came from afar. 12.7mm machine gun shells may not do much harm to the armor of the capital ship, but they can be a flesh harvester against the anti-aircraft gun emplacements and machine gunners exposed on the deck and bridge. After leaving a mess of cups and plates, the hundreds of 50-kilogram aerial bombs that were thrown in a mess also hit more than a dozen, one of which was the most bizarre, and it was actually thrown into the command platform from the open hatch of the command tower of the armored cruiser Longtian and exploded, and in the small space, the shrapnel flying sideways turned the command platform from the captain Gao Xu Naoto to the deputy captain and the chief of navigation, and the staff group was stirred into a mess, and the entire command system of the Longtian was wiped out at once, and probably the anti-ship missiles of later generations did not have this kind of hit accuracy.

Looking at the First Fleet in front of him, Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro felt a burst of blackness in front of him, how could it be? Obviously it is a harmless aircraft like a kite (his impression is still at the level of a water calibrator), how can it have such great power. Fortunately, although the bullets of the enemy planes clanged the armor plates, like rain hitting plantains, and on the deck outside the window, the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were scattered and scattered, and the casualties were left behind, but the losses of the entire warship were negligible, and there was no problem with the main guns and secondary guns; although the shells did not pose a threat to the enemy planes, some angry gunners still adjusted the elevation angle of the secondary guns to the maximum, and from time to time a shot came, purely to vent and frighten the opponent.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency the Admiral, the losses of the fleet are not large, the opponent's fighters are no longer out of ammunition, they are retreating, please..." In Konosuke Ekusa's opinion, Chinese planes are nothing more than this, against heavily armored capital ships, this little bomb is useless (he doesn't know the unbelievable encounter of the unlucky child Longtian), continue to move forward, can destroy the Shanghai shipyard, it is better to force the Chinese Navy to fight a decisive battle, and return home with the record of burying the Chinese Navy, maybe this loss is nothing at all, he can still be called a national hero, and in the future, the position of the third chief of the Navy must also have his own share.

"Report, the second wave of enemy aircraft is coming." The operational staff officer, who was observing with a telescope, shouted, and the eyes of several people looked into the distance, and a group of single-winged and twin-engined planes painted in white and light blue painted almost close to the sea. A wave hits, as if it is about to sweep the plane to the bottom of the sea. Other single-wing, single-engine planes with W-shaped wings were pulling up as they approached, and there seemed to be a few more bombs between the two stout landing gears.

"Torpedo aircraft, enemy aircraft are torpedo attack aircraft." The intelligence staff officer Turtle Man had been in contact with the information of the Chinese Air Force and knew that China was developing a wave of attack planes that could carry torpedoes, and when he saw clearly that the round-headed and round-headed guy under the plane on the sea was a torpedo, the Turtle Man couldn't help but scream.

"Quick, send a signal to the ships, the enemy will start a torpedo attack, please quickly turn around and evade." Admiral Tochiuchi Sojiro's reaction was still very fast, but the 30,000-ton battleship was not a Maserati, and it was just a matter of hitting the direction, and the battleship began to make a sharp turn awkwardly, and the sailors who were fighting fires and rescuing on the inclined deck rolled into a ball, and some were thrown into the sea, and they were swallowed up by the trail wake without even taking a head.

"Steady, steady, 1000, 900, 850, 800, 750, 700....600, put." The weapon operator on the B3 Navy torpedo attack aircraft is constantly observing the azimuth distance of the enemy ship with a rangefinder scope, and his mouth is constantly prompting the pilot. Finally, when the optimal distance was reached, the weapon operator dropped a 450 mm aviation torpedo as soon as he pulled the handle, and after entering the water for three meters, the momentum was exhausted, the torpedo floated up, and began to start the engine along the selected course, the propeller rotated rapidly, and the torpedo was like a big mackerel under the observation of the naked eye, rushing towards the target warship like an arrow. The fat hull had not yet been adjusted to 30 degrees, and soon the torpedo kissed affectionately on the hull, and a ball of flame burst out from a depth of two meters under the water, and the mine protection belt of the Japanese warship was not much stronger than a piece of paper for a torpedo using a new nitrogen-based explosive. The violent explosion instantly tore through the underwater armor belt, and tons of sea water rushed in.

400 bombers of the four brigades of the First Wing of the HNA torpedo attack planes dropped 397 torpedoes (one was an observation plane that did not carry torpedoes, and the pylons of the two planes failed to drop torpedoes), and the sea was full of masconedo tracks with slightly white sprays, and for a time the majestic First Fleet was like a stupid bear being chased by a swarm of hornets, dodging left and right on the sea surface regardless of its head, but the torpedoes were almost salvo in several batches, and there were almost no dead ends. At this time, the First Fleet did not have the super auspiciousness of snow, wind and rain, and almost everyone had a share, and everyone was hit. At this moment, Chief of Staff Jiang Cao can no longer say that the Chinese Air Force is just such a big talk, in fact, he is already thinking about whether to cut himself by caesarean section or commit suicide with a gun, and sink the warship to the bottom of the sea, so that his family can be respected by the neighbors around him.

However, the suffering of the Japanese First Fleet was not over, just when the torpedo hit them, so that all the warships were more or less wounded, and the rotation did not work, the A1 "Howling Eagle" dive attack aircraft cluster fell from the sky and began to dive in turn, the bagpipes pulled out a piercing scream, and the dive was nearly 80 degrees or more, so that the Japanese sailors almost forgot to fire, and looked at the larger and larger projection in their eyes stupidly, and finally at 500 meters in the air, each "Howling Eagle" dropped a 250-kilogram armor-piercing high-explosive bomb, under the action of gravity, The bomb either fell into the water, lifted a column of water into the sky, or broke through the barrier of the deck or the top of the turret, and after penetrating three or four floors, it stopped with all its strength, and turned into a huge ball of light and flame in the frightened eyes of a group of Japanese sailors, the battleship may be able to withstand it, but if some destroyers and other warships of three or four thousand tons are hit by a 250 aerial bomb, it is basically the life of disintegration.

"It is reported that the battleship Hyuga and Ise were seriously injured, and they are doing their best to rescue them."

"Report, the cruiser" Chitose "sank, the protective cruiser" Chikuma "sank, and the destroyer" Yukimin "sank."

"It was reported that the battleship Yamashiro was hit by 4 torpedoes and 2 bombs, and it had tilted 34 degrees to the right, and its power was completely lost, so it could not be rescued, and it was requested to abandon the ship."

"Report, the cruiser Kirishima was hit by 3 bullets, 3 bombs were missed, and 1 torpedo was ,...."

"Report, chief engineer report, all boilers No. 1-4 of the Fuso are down, all power is lost, damage management operations cannot be carried out, request, request permission to abandon the ship." The words of the intelligence staff officer made His Excellency the Admiral, who was already almost untenable, sit down in his chair, the battle situation in the past few hours is the deepest nightmare of all the officers and men of the First Fleet, looking at almost every officer and soldier who is floating on the water or is still desperately trying to rescue the battleship, there is a deep puzzlement and confusion in the eyes, how can they, who are as powerful as the Combined Fleet, be almost completely wiped out without sinking a small sampan.