"General······ General ······"

On the bridge of the USS Akagi, the adjutant's voice reached Nagumo Tadaichi's ears, pulling Nagumo back from fantasy to reality.

Nagumo saw the German dive bomber make a sharp turn after dropping its bomb, passing directly in front of the bridge, and the sharp gaze of the unknown German pilot in the engine room pierced through the space and collided with Nagumo's gaze.

The moment his eyes collided, Nan Yun seemed to see a grim reaper in a black robe and a death scythe in his hand sneering at him, his cold gaze was full of the breath of death.

"Your life belongs to me······"

It was not the first time Nagumo had seen that kind of gaze, on the contrary, he had seen it too many times in the eyes of the pilots of the Japanese Naval Aviation, and every time this gaze appeared on the faces of the pilots of the Navy, there would be killing and death on the enemy.

Americans, British, Australians, New Zealanders, Italians······ They have all been stared at by such gazes of imperial soldiers.

Locked by an enemy with this death gaze for the first time, Nagumo felt that he had a hard time adapting to it.

Shaking his shiny bald head, Nagumo dispelled the German pilot's gaze from his mind, and said without looking back: "Let the damage management department report the injury······"

After saying that, Nagumo glanced at the torn hole and billowing black smoke on the flight deck, and based on experience, he prejudged that the Akagi should still be able to hold up, provided that it would not be hit hard.

However, it backfired, and the rear attack of the German dive bomber unit was not completely over, and the side attack from the torpedo machine force came at the same time.

Four F-190F2 torpedo planes successively aimed at the aircraft carrier Akagi, which was shrouded in black smoke, and fanned towards the port side of the Akagi.

During the attack, two torpedo planes were shot down by the Zero fighters guarding the Akagi and crashed into the sea, splashing two tall white sprays.

The other two torpedo planes successfully dropped their bombs, but one of the torpedoes was successfully evaded by the Akagi and glided over the sea behind the stern of the Akagi.

"Port torpedo, collision ready ······"

Frightened shouts echoed from inside the bridge, Nagumo grabbed the railing to stabilize his body, looked at the sea to the left, and clearly saw a silvery-white trajectory on the sea approaching the Akagi at high speed, burrowing headlong into his blind spot.

"Boom ······"

A violent explosion was heard, followed by a violent tremor beneath his feet.

White spray rose from the sea below the bridge and then fell.

Nagumo grabbed the railing in his hand, stabilized his swaying body, and watched as the waves crashed against the bulletproof glass of the bridge, and then rushed down the glass.

Captain Taiichiro Aoki, who was standing on the side, frowned and said: "General, the damage control department just reported that the bomb dropped by the enemy plane penetrated the deck and hit the hangar, and the torpedo just now should have hit the hull directly below the bridge, the Akagi is now seriously injured, and has become a key target for the Germans, it is dangerous for you to stay here." For the sake of the bigger picture, I recommend that you transfer. ”

Nagumo's adjutant Nagagawa Shaosa followed and said, "General, you better transfer, it's too dangerous here." ”

Nagumo quickly glanced at the sky and sea covered by the flames of war, pondered for more than ten seconds with a straight face, and said in a deep voice: "Call a destroyer to come and pick it up, and we will transfer to the Musashi." ”

Hearing Nagumo's order, Aoki Daisa and Hasegawa Shaosa invariably breathed a sigh of relief.

Aoki Osa hurriedly gave an order: "Immediately call the destroyer Arashi to come and answer it, and prepare a lifeboat for the general to transfer." ”

On the sea, Nagumo was busy moving, and in the sky, Captain Rudel and his partner Lieutenant Schneider piloted the fighter plane to bite a Zero fighter directly in front of it, and the two MG131 13mm large-caliber machine guns in front of the fuselage fired rhythmically one after another.

During the chase, the Zero fighter flying directly in front of him made an emergency left turn to dodge, and Captain Rudel drove the lever to follow and turn to the left, only to find his fighter jet thrown out like a droplet on a high-speed rotating umbrella.

Captain Rudel glanced back and saw that the Zero drew a 360-degree circle in the air and circled behind him, instantly turning the tide from a hunted person to a hunter.

"Damn, its turning radius is too small, we can't turn it, don't fight him, use sine wave tactics." Captain Rudel shouted over the radio.

"I feel like we're driving an Opel Lightning heavy-duty truck, they're driving a Volkswagen Beetle, they're so nimble." Lieutenant Schneider shouted.

"He's right behind us, pull it up, the higher the better." Captain Rudel shouted anxiously.

The two F-190F1 fighters raised their noses and climbed one after the other into the air, but soon Captain Rudel heard Lieutenant Schneider's frightened shouts over the radio.

"He's approaching me, he's approaching me, he's climbing faster than us, he's climbing faster than us······ Ah······h

A long scream came over the radio, and Captain Rudel looked anxiously to the rear, and saw a fighter plane with a broken left wing in the left rear, dragging black smoke and tumbling into the sea.

Captain Rudel didn't have time to mourn his fallen comrades, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the Zero fighter approaching him.

He climbs faster than we do!

Lieutenant Schneider's final shout echoed in Captain Rudel's ears, this is the intelligence that Lieutenant Schneider exchanged for his life.

It's better than climbing, but what about diving?

Before he had time to think about it, Captain Rudel turned the nose of his plane and dived down at an angle almost perpendicular to the surface of the sea.

The Zero fighter behind him did not heed Captain Rudel's emergency dive, still maintaining a climbing position, and was immediately thrown out of the way for some distance, and then turned around and rushed towards Captain Rudel again.

Sensing the threat from behind, Captain Rudel turned on the afterburner and continued to rush towards the surface of the sea until he was about to fall into the sea at a critical distance, then turned around and switched to level flight.

Looking back behind him, and then at the sky to the left and right, Captain Rudel did not see the Zero fighter.

Finally got rid of him!

Captain Rudel let out a long sigh and looked down at the sea, surprised to find that after some chase, he seemed to be flying directly in front of the Japanese fleet, and was approaching the Japanese fleet.

Having just escaped the pursuit of the Japanese fighters, Captain Rudel did not want to be caught in the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese fleet again, and hurriedly increased his altitude until the battleships and other fighters flying in the air on the sea were the size of flies.

Piercing his gaze on a fighter plane flying below, which was fighting, Captain Rudel, with its nimble size and minimal turning radius, decided that it was a Zero, and then began to launch a dive attack to test the feasibility of sine wave tactics.

Sine wave tactics originated in the Soviet-German battlefield and was invented to deal with the Il-2 fighter-bombers, which flew close to the treetops and were famous for scraping the ground, as well as those Soviet fighters that escorted the Il-2 and attached importance to low- and medium-altitude combat.

As soon as the pilots of the German ME-109 fighter spotted the presence of Soviet fighters, they quickly seized the altitude and then launched a dive attack.

Regardless of whether the attack was successful or not, the ME-109 fighter would quickly increase its altitude and then launch another dive attack, absolutely not fighting with Soviet fighters in a low-altitude circle.

Captain Rudel had heard from a friend who served in the fighter unit about this tactic and remembered it by heart.

While training on the F-190F1 dive bomber, he also underwent training in air combat.

The combat of naval aviation is also dominated by medium and low altitudes, which is highly similar to the air combat on the Eastern Front, so the sine wave tactics should theoretically also be applied to battles between naval aviation.

When the time came for this theory to be put to the test, Captain Rudel piloted the plane, risking his own life and putting it to the test.

With the bonus of gravitational acceleration, Captain Rudel quickly approached the Zero from a high altitude, lassoed the Zero with the crosshair of the sight, and the two 13mm large-mouth machine guns immediately opened fire, and the bullets flew out like water, carving countless bullet holes in the cockpit canopy of the Zero.

The two planes were misaligned, and Captain Rudel could clearly see that the cockpit cover of the Zero fighter was stained with crimson blood.

No sooner had the plane switched to level flight than a Zero fighter appeared behind Captain Rudel's right.

Sensing that he had been bitten by the enemy, Captain Rudel immediately began a second test, piloting the plane to accelerate and dive to the surface of the sea at a high angle.

After switching to level flight again at critical altitude, Captain Rudel found himself successfully throwing off the Zero fighter behind him.

Great, now it is certain that the Japanese aircraft are not good at diving, and they can take advantage of this weakness of the other side to throw off the other side.

As for the sine wave tactic, it seems to be usable, but it needs more actual combat to verify.

Before Captain Rudel could rejoice in his experience, he suddenly saw a battleship on the sea out of the corner of his eye.

The Japanese aircraft carrier has not even sunk yet!

The Akagi aircraft carrier on the sea, its hull tilted slightly to the left, and its hull was shrouded in black smoke, but it was still sailing firmly on the sea.

As he skimmed through the air, Captain Rudel saw two escape boats moving away from the aircraft carrier on the left side of the ship.

The Japanese are going to abandon ship? But there are only two escape boats, and it doesn't look like abandoned ships, so ····· these two escape boats?

In order to avoid the anti-aircraft shells flying in all directions, Captain Rudel did not have time to think about it, so he lowered his altitude and flew past the port side of the Akagi, and launched a strafing fire on the escape boat on the sea.

On the sea, on the escape boat far away from the Akagi, Hasegawa saw a German fighter coming menacingly, and hurriedly shouted: "Danger, protect the general." ”

After speaking, Hasegawa Shaozo leaned on Nanyun beside him, pressed Nanyun under him, and then felt his body sink, and was pressed down by a staff officer.

The dense bullets first splashed two rows of tiny waves on the surface of the sea, then extended to the escape boats, and finally landed on the human body.

Flesh and blood flew on the escape boat in an instant, and screams followed.

When the killer from the air left, the surviving officer on the escape boat moved away from the staff officer, who was almost waist-length and broken in two, and moved Hasegawa Shaosa, whose chest was broken, and saw Nagumo lying on the boat, with a large hole in his left back and blood dripping.

One of Nakasa tested Nagumo's snort and shouted, "The general is still alive, hurry up and send him to the doctor." ”