Chapter 676: The Almighty Killer Hans Rudel (2)
"Started ······" Lieutenant Schneider said, looking at the sky in the distance.
"Started ······" Skhanowski followed.
Captain Rudel stared at the distant sky and saw black smoke curls of various sizes explode from the blue sky.
As a veteran pilot, he was all too familiar with the smoke screen, the effect of an anti-aircraft artillery shell exploding in the air.
Countless fighters deftly shuttled through the gray-black smoke screen, and the three HE-100T1 fighter squadrons escorting the escort took advantage of their speed to step into the battlefield first, mixing with the Zero fighters escorting the Japanese fleet.
While fighting, the fighter squadron did not forget to provide information to the torpedo and dive bomber squadrons, and the Japanese fleet was heading north-west and was doing evasive sailing.
Receiving information from the fighter squadron, Captain Rudel withdrew his gaze from the distance and turned to the sea.
"Gentlemen, the battle begins. Follow me, we'll take a back-entry attack. ”
After three squadrons of fighters broke away from the group to join the battle, the group split again, and three squadrons of F-190F1 dive bombers parted ways with two squadrons of F-190F2 torpedo attack aircraft and rushed towards the Japanese fleet from both the rear and the flanks.
At the instigation of a certain commander of Chen's brother-in-law, the torpedo squadron launched an attack from the flank of an enemy ship, and the attack method was named a side-entry attack.
A squadron of dive bombers attacking from behind enemy ships, the mode of attack was logically named a rear-entry attack.
Fifteen F-190F1s of the 1st Dive Bomber Squadron, led by Captain Rudel, went in circles and approached the Japanese fleet from the south.
Captain Rudel looked down on the sea and saw twenty or thirty warships, large and small, speeding on the sea, dragging a long white wake trail behind them, which was spectacular at a glance.
After a brief search, Captain Rudel's eagle-eyed eyes locked onto an aircraft carrier.
"Spot the target, battle formation, follow me."
Fifteen dive bombers split into five three-plane formations and quickly lowered their altitude to pounce on the aircraft carrier.
Skhanowski's voice came over the radio: "I remember what it looked like, as if it were the aircraft carrier Akagi. ”
"For a battleship that is about to sink, the name is no longer important." Lieutenant Schneider shouted.
Lieutenant Schneider had just finished speaking, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw two black shadows rushing out of the sky on the left.
Two dark shadows approached from the left, followed by a deft left turn that circled to the rear of the F-190F1 dive bomber group.
Lieutenant Schneider withdrew his gaze from the two Japanese fighters and said into the radio, "Captain, there are two crows following us. ”
Captain Rudel hurriedly glanced back, followed by the voice of Lieutenant Skhanowski.
"Those two guys are tailgating us, they're forcing us to transform."
"Then attack quickly, and then resume who we are." Captain Rudel said.
Ignoring the two Japanese Zero fighters behind him, the three-plane formation led by Captain Rudel continued to dive towards the aircraft carrier Akagi.
Sensing the danger of approaching, the anti-aircraft fire on the USS Akagi quickly shifted to the group of aircraft led by Captain Rudel.
Strings of anti-aircraft shells flew towards the group, and in the fierce explosion, the air wave of explosives exploded, carrying deadly shrapnel, rushed out of gray-black gunsmoke, slammed into the fuselage of the F-190F1 fighter, making a clanging crashing sound.
Hearing this long-lost voice, Captain Rudel's adrenaline soared, and with it, his anger soared.
Feeling the fuselage tremble slightly under the crash of the explosion, Captain Rudel glanced up at several cobweb-like cracks in the canopy glass, and then locked his gaze on the approaching aircraft carrier Akagi.
Captain Rudel's hand had just been placed on the bombardier when a faint voice suddenly sounded in his ear.
Hans······ Goodbye······"
It was Skhanowski's voice, and Rudel hurriedly turned his head to look behind the right, and saw a few wisps of black smoke dragged out of the fuselage of the plane piloted by Skhanowski, broke away from the three-plane formation, and flew diagonally to the sea below right.
Michelle ······ Michelle ······" Captain Rudel shouted over the radio.
However, there was no response on the radio, and Captain Rudel's gaze slowly followed the slow rotation of the Skhanowski fighter until he saw his old comrade's fighter plane crashing into the sea, splashing high white waves.
The trailing Zero replied with a bullet instead of Skhanowsky, the bullet penetrated the upper right side of the canopy, and the icy air burrowed into the cabin at high speed from the bullet hole, blowing on Captain Rudel's cheek, and a knife-like pain spread from his cheek to Captain Rudel's heart, bringing him back to reality from the pain of losing his old comrades.
A burst of flame burst out of his heart and poured into Captain Rudel's body.
Is this what it feels like to be full of rage? It seems that everything around it has slowed down.
Captain Rudel looked at the flight deck, which was close at hand, and with great skill, he lifted the plane and turned right.
The aircraft dropped a PC-1000 aerial bomb at an altitude of less than 50 meters from the flight deck of the Akagi, then turned right and skimmed directly in front of the Akagi bridge.
As he flew over the bridge of the Akagi, Captain Rudel's icy gaze fell on the bridge, and the panicked faces of the Japanese officers on the bridge were faintly visible.
A violent explosion was heard, and Captain Rudel's gaze turned to the flight deck behind him.
Black smoke and fire erupted from the back of the middle deck, followed by shards of steel of various shapes.
"That's what crushed eggs taste like····· Michelle, I've avenged you. Captain Rudel muttered, retracting his gaze, and he shouted over the radio, "Lieutenant Schneider, are you alright?" ”
"I hit it and threw a bunch of demon eggs on it."
"Where are those two crows?" Rudel asked.
"Our fighter jets are coming, and those two crows are busy fighting our fighter dogs."
Captain Rudel glanced at the chaotic sky where the fighter planes were flying and drove the plane around the sea on the right side of the aircraft carrier Akagi, trying to find the place where Lieutenant Skhanowsky crashed, but was interrupted by anti-aircraft shells flying from all directions.
As a last resort, Captain Rudel had no choice but to fly the plane back up to avoid anti-aircraft shells.
"The latecomer attack was successful, and now it's time for the Japanese Miscellaneous to know who we really are."
Lieutenant Schneider said: "In the words of General Rosen, bomber piloting is only our secondary profession, and fighter piloting is our main profession. ”
"What are you waiting for below, let's go." Captain Rudel said.
The two F-190F1 bombers, which had successfully dropped bombs, were transformed into fighters and returned to the battlefield.