Chapter 1059: Tears in my eyes
There was barely time for Ozawa to react, and a dense group of planes had already appeared in the sky directly ahead, all of them forming a three-plane formation, flying far above the fleet. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Ozawa hurriedly raised the binoculars on his chest and aimed at one of the three-plane formations, in the telescope, he clearly saw a B-24 heavy bomber flying at high altitude, with an escort P-51 Mustang fighter on the left and right, Ozawa immediately realized that the B-24 in the middle must be carrying a giant aerial bomb, otherwise there would be no need for two fighters to escort such a solemn matter.
Soon, Ozawa's inference was confirmed, a bomb was thrown out of the B-24's magazine, Ozawa's heart tightened for no reason, and he glanced at the sea under the plane in a panic, but he didn't see his own ship on the sea, he originally expected to see the bomb set off a huge wave on the sea, but a strange scene happened, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ozawa would never have believed that it was true.
The bomb did not fall directly, but began to fly autonomously at an altitude of about a few dozen meters above the sea surface, and the target direction was directly aimed at the "Akagi" aircraft carrier, which was a few nautical miles away from the Taiho.
The locusts soldiers on the aircraft carrier had apparently also spotted an "uninvited guest" approaching them, and the anti-aircraft cannon had set up a dense net of bullets to fly towards it.
A strange thing happened again, the "giant bomb" suddenly lowered its altitude again, and flew almost close to the surface of the sea, and the air-to-air cannons on the aircraft carrier could no longer hit this kind of firing angle, and everyone could only watch the bombs fly towards the "Akagi."
Just when the giant bomb was about to approach the "Akagi", the "giant bomb" suddenly jumped, quickly dived towards the "Akagi", and easily drilled into the deck of the "Akagi", and then "boomed" to the ground, the deck was on fire, and the shells that had been stacked on the deck were also instantly detonated, and the explosions continued to sound, and the Akagi was suddenly drowned in the firelight, and in the explosion fragments that danced wildly, there were constantly locust soldiers and even fire men jumping to the sea.
But the nightmare didn't end there, just as Ozawa's eyes were fixed on the "Akagi", another "giant bomb" flew in and hit the Akagi again with unmistakable accuracy.
In the violent explosion, Ozawa felt that the "Akagi" had almost been disintegrated, and the hull of the ship was tilted six degrees to the left in an instant, and sinking was inevitable.
The terrifying scene made Ozawa's whole person stunned, and even a little numb, and people kept reporting to him that the "Kaga" aircraft carrier was bombed, the "Soryu" aircraft carrier was bombed, and the "Furutaka" heavy cruiser was sunk, but he turned a deaf ear, and the whole person seemed a little blind.
The sea was already completely shattered, full of exploding ships, burning ships, dense aerial bombs, torpedoes, and even downed planes falling from the sky, and columns of water rushing into the sky in all directions, so frightened that the ships that had survived for the time being were scurrying around like headless flies.
A fierce air battle was also going on in the sky, with hundreds of planes of various types mixing together, and the roaring sound of machines, rumbling machine guns, coherent machine guns, and the screams of aerial bombs resounded in one piece.
In the rain of bullets flying sideways, planes continued to fall into the sea like kites with broken strings, and it is not difficult to see from the sun flag and aircraft type on the fuselage that most of the downed planes belonged to the island army.
Nearly 240 planes from the Seventh Fleet of the United States and four aircraft carriers of the British East India Fleet, more than 50 Hellcat fighters of the Third Fleet, and more than 300 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes flew from Midway, totaling more than 600 planes participating in the battle.
In terms of quantity, the carrier-based aircraft of the ten aircraft carriers of the island army may not be less than that of the Mi army, but the bombers and torpedo planes naturally cannot participate in air combat, and the performance of the Zero fighter, whether it is competing with the P-51 Mustang of the army aviation or the carrier-based aircraft F6F Hellcat, is already too far behind, although the island army occupies the advantage of the pilot's superb quality, but the quality and quantity of the fighters cannot keep up, so the situation was one-sided at the beginning of the war, and the island army has no power to fight back at all.
There is also the reason for the collapse of the pilots of the island army, the aircraft carriers of the two fleets in front have been sunk or damaged to varying degrees, and whether they can land has become their number one worry, and their combat effectiveness will naturally be affected.
On the deck of the aircraft carrier "Taiho" of the island army.
Jizaburo Ozawa finally came to his senses, and hurriedly boarded a small speedboat, surrounded by a group of staff officers and guards.
At this point in the battle, there is no room for maneuver, the locust army will be defeated, and the first and second assault fleets are afraid that their destruction is inevitable.
In fact, from witnessing the sinking of the "Akagi" aircraft carrier, Ozawa expected that this battle could not be fought, the "giant bomb" of the Mi army was too terrifying, and all the large ships of the locust army could not escape its attack, even if he resisted stubbornly, he only lost his life in vain, so he made the most correct decision and fled immediately.
Although the aircraft carrier Dafeng has successfully turned around under the desperate escort of more than a dozen zero-battle planes and is withdrawing from the battlefield at full speed, Ozawa knows that the aircraft carrier will definitely be the target of the Mi army's key attack, and whether it can successfully escape is really full of too many variables, so he decisively chose a small speedboat.
Although there is no shortage of seaplanes on the aircraft carrier, considering that the target of the aircraft is too large, it is difficult to escape the attack of the Mi military fighters with superior performance, but it is not as reliable as the speedboats with small targets.
Facts proved that Ozawa's choice was correct, and just when the speedboat had just crossed the "Dafeng" aircraft carrier less than a nautical mile, the Mi Air Force finally discovered the existence of the Dafeng, and a large number of fighters began to fly into the nearby airspace, encircling and suppressing more than a dozen Zeros over the Daiho, and the Zeros were shot down in an instant.
Ozawa once again saw three three-plane formations quietly approaching the Taiho from the side, and then almost at the same time, three "giant aerial bombs" fell from the sky.
The island troops on the aircraft carrier were obviously on guard this time, and when the "giant bombs" had just begun to fly autonomously, the dense ammunition rained down on them, and they didn't even care about a transport ship of their own.
The dense shells smashed the transport ship to pieces, and the defense seemed to be working, and a "giant bomb" paused in the air and then plunged headlong into the sea, but there was no imaginary explosion.
However, the remaining two bombs still smoothly entered the descent phase and began to fly close to the sea, and then suddenly jumped and quickly dived towards the Dafeng.
"Boom, boom!"
With two loud bangs, two bombs hit the Dafeng one after the other, one exploded on the deck, and the other hit the right side of the hull.
Ozawa obviously saw that the Dafeng trembled for a moment, and then the hull of the ship began to tilt slowly, reaching five degrees of tilt in an instant, the speed was staggering, and the sinking was inevitable, Ozawa closed his eyes in pain, and two lines of turbid tears flowed down.