"Dragonfly Three, pull it up, pull it up!"

"Keep the course you were on, don't steer!"

"Keep up with the third squad, don't fall behind!"

"Watch out for that fighter, turn right."

"On the upper left, at ten o'clock, is a Zero."

"Pay attention to the anti-aircraft guns and accelerate into the barrage zone."

"Squadron Leader, leave us alone, leave us alone. Long live the Navy and live forever the Empire! ”

……

The inside of the headphones has long been noisy, and the whole world has become dark.

Zhu Huasheng was not injured, it was the lubricating oil sprayed from a gun hole on the nose, which was coated all over the cockpit windshield and blocked the view.

In order to see outside, Zhu Huasheng opened the upper cover of the cockpit.

The wind was blowing, but you could see the huge ship ahead.

There are still almost ten kilometers left, and it will take at least two minutes to reduce the distance to less than two kilometers, and this is the maximum range that an aviation torpedo can reach. In order to improve the hit rate, it is best to shorten the bomb delivery distance to less than 1,000 meters, and about 800 meters is the best.

Can you hold on for two minutes?

On the sea ahead, two parallel splashes appeared.

A sharp whistling sound followed.

In the air, a Zero swooped down and fired head-on at the "Exocet" flying close to the sea, and aimed at the cockpit.

Zhu Huasheng looked up and quickly closed the cockpit cover.

The cockpit canopy was jammed with a dozen machine-gun bullets, and the thick glass was only cracked and not penetrated, indicating the ability to block 7.7 mm machine gun bullets. Because in the face of anti-aircraft guns, the frontal windshield is the thickest, so it will definitely be able to block the bullets fired by the Zero Battle.

Actually, it's the engine that needs to be worried.

There is already a lubricant leak and the engine will soon overheat. If you get hit by a bullet again, you can't tell when it will go off.

"Dangdangdang—"

The sound of bullets hitting the windshield came, and Zhu Huasheng involuntarily shivered a few times.

It's an instinctive reaction, and it has nothing to do with training experience.

It's just that, immediately after, that is, in the blink of an eye, the torpedo machine jolted violently a few times, and black smoke came out of the engine compartment in front at the same time.

Finished!

When the joystick suddenly shook violently, Zhu Huasheng knew that something was wrong.

It happened so quickly that even if Zhu Huasheng had already understood what was happening, he didn't have time to react.

At this time, five thousand meters in the air.

In the cockpit of the "Wasp" dive bomber painted with the squadron leader's logo, Captain Jiang Haiyang clearly saw that under the strafing fire of a zero-battle plane, Major Zhu Huasheng's plane plunged headlong into the sea. Before the splash could dissipate, the bulky torpedo machine was submerged in the sea.

The fate of the other torpedo machines was similar.

In just three minutes, more than a dozen "Exocet" torpedo planes that had penetrated the defense from an ultra-low altitude were all shot down, and all of them were shot down by zero combat at a distance of 10,000 enemy ships.

Because the distance was so far, not a single Exocet managed to drop an aviation torpedo.

At such a distance, there is no point in throwing torpedoes.

Probably because they were too far away and did not feel threatened at all, the nearby enemy ships did not fire at the torpedo planes, and they watched the battle almost the whole time.

A squadron, half a detachment of twelve torpedo planes to be exact, was wiped out.

It's just that the battle is far from over.

"A small team followed me into the starboard side of the enemy ship, and the second team made a detour to the port side of the enemy ship at fifteen-second intervals, maintaining an angle of thirty degrees with the enemy's course."

"Second team received!"

"The three squads are acting at an opportune point."

"Three squads received."

After the arrangement was completed, Jiang Haiyang turned off the intercom radio.

For Zhu Huasheng, he has never been too cold. The reason is very simple, Jiang Haiyang followed Li Yunxiang to the navy, and was a fighter pilot in the army aviation before. Although he did not become an ace, he shot down three enemy planes during the Great War, and he can be regarded as the elite of the army aviation. However, after coming to the navy, he not only flew bombers for his command post, but also had to listen to the command of a naval officer who had left home halfway.

Jiang Haiyang has always felt that Zhu Huasheng climbed up by relying on relationships.

It's no secret that Zhu Huasheng is Bai Zhizhan's classmate and a good buddy in the same dormitory.

The moment he saw Zhu Huasheng rushing towards the enemy ship without hesitation despite the ferocious firepower of the enemy plane, and was shot down, Jiang Haiyang's eyes moistened.

At the moment of righteousness, what are personal gains and losses, honor and disgrace!?

It's just that now is not the time to mourn for my brothers and comrades.

Zhu Huasheng and the others did not sacrifice in vain, it was the brave assault of more than a dozen torpedo planes that led all the nearby Zero Battles to a low altitude.

It takes at least eight minutes to climb from sea level to an altitude of 5,000 meters, even for an agile fighter.

The maximum climb rate of Zero Battle is only thirteen meters per second, which will definitely not be reached in actual combat, and it is very good to be able to have ten meters per second.

A dozen dive bombers caught up with the enemy ship that was fleeing in a hurry, and it would take three minutes at most.

Actually, two minutes is enough.

Dive bombers are inherently faster than torpedo attack aircraft, and flying at high altitudes with low drag, sprint at full speed is even faster.

"Bang-bang-bang......"

With a crisp explosion, clouds of black smoke appeared all around, which were fixed shells fired from the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of enemy ships.

Anti-aircraft shells use delay-time fuses to control the height of detonation to improve combat efficiency.

It's just that the effect won't be too ideal.

At this time, Jiang Haiyang had also seen that a huge warship was turning behind the aircraft carrier, trying to go around to the left side of the aircraft carrier and block the enemy planes from the west.

The point, that's a capital ship.

Judging by the distance between the two tail main gun turrets, it must be an upgraded "Golden Steel"-class fast battleship.

In addition, the speed of that battleship is about the same as that of an aircraft carrier, and it must be a fast battleship.

I really didn't expect to be able to encounter such a big fish!

In fact, Jiang Haiyang had already seen the battleship before, but it was too far away, and he had been paying attention to the torpedo group that was attacking from a low altitude, so Jiang Haiyang did not observe it carefully, thinking that it was a heavy cruiser that provided close air defense cover for the aircraft carrier.

Crucially, the information obtained earlier did not mention the use of fast battleships by the Sagai Navy to escort aircraft carriers.

Looking at the whole world, only the Imperial Navy is doing this, and only when it is conducting fleet exercises.

For the sake of secrecy, fast battleships are usually subordinate to the combat fleet, have nothing to do with the air task force directly under the naval command, and rarely conduct joint training.

The Navy must have gotten some information on fleet maneuvers, and was secretly emulating the Imperial Navy.

In terms of equipment construction, hasn't the Narrow Navy always taken the Imperial Navy as a model?

It's just that since you have encountered it, you can let it go.

To talk about value, fast battleships are not under aircraft carriers.

The Navy had six fleet carriers and three small carriers, but the fast battleships had only four measly four.

Besides, Jiang Haiyang also saved a hand for unexpected situations.

"Three squads, take out that capital ship!"

"Three squads received!"

"The first and second squads spread out, bypassing the capital ships and attacking the aircraft carriers from both sides."

"Team 2 received."

Jiang Haiyang looked back, and the four dive bombers of the first squad were all following behind, and the five dive bombers of the third squad led by the deputy squadron leader were speeding up to catch up.