Chapter 1465

Captain Cross piloted the bomber, flying smoothly along the sea, and when he swooped down from the clouds, he leveled the plane at an altitude of only a few hundred meters above the surface.

"Attention, prepare to drop bombs." Captain Cross shouted loudly, he felt his heart start to beat faster, the aircraft carrier of the islanders, right in front of them, they need to launch the fiercest attack on the islanders!

Yesterday the B-29 bombers made an attempt, and the results confirmed that they felt bad, and their newly developed guided bombs still had serious flaws and could not be used in real combat at all, so they had to switch to conventional bombs.

Now, they need to throw ordinary aerial bombs on the islanders' aircraft carriers, which is simply a difficult task to complete, only dive bombers can have such high accuracy, but that will bring even more terrible casualties.

They are flying horizontally.

At the same time, the navigator and bombardier in the nose of the plane is also fully focused at this time, and it is up to him whether he can hit the target or not.

He kept tinkering with his sights, constantly calculating, and in his field of vision, the target was getting bigger and bigger.

"Prepare to drop the bomb, start counting down, ten, nine..."

There is more than one ship in the aircraft carrier formation, and now, on the periphery of the remaining two aircraft carriers, there is a circle of escort ships on the outer layer, and at this time, the escort warships have already aimed their anti-aircraft guns in the direction of this side, and for them, they are just waiting to fire!

The operation of anti-aircraft guns was conditional, the diagonal distance was not enough, and it was not possible to fire at the bombers over there, and just when the anti-aircraft gunners were nervously staring at the target, they found that the other side had already dropped bombs!

Yes, the bomb has been dropped, which is simply beyond everyone's expectations, even people without common sense can see that it is impossible for the other side to hit their own side.

It's too far.

Are Americans afraid of the dead? Dropped a bomb and went back to life?

As they watched, the 2,000-pound bomb, with a graceful arc, was dropped from a distance, its huge graceful posture was displayed in the air, and then, in the eyes of everyone, it smashed into the water.

"It's not good, it's a waste!" Someone has already reacted.

Yes, it's just a splash!

When the bomb hit the water, it didn't sink, but it was bounced up by the water again, crossed a graceful arc in the air, and continued to fly forward!

This was not what everyone expected.

If it's a dive bomber, they can shoot bullets desperately, if it's a torpedo, they can observe the slow trajectory and calmly dodge, and now, it's actually a bomb that is coming!

When that bomb fell into the water for the second time and bounced up again, almost right under their noses, it flew up from the water in style, flew over their heads, bypassed the escort ship, they turned their heads and watched the bomb continue to bounce, and when the five fell into the water, it was only a few meters away from the aircraft carrier!

When it bounced again, it smashed just above the waterline of the aircraft carrier, and then a huge explosion rang out.

"Boom!"

The 2,000-pound bomb is definitely a heavyweight, and even if the Kaga aircraft carrier was built with armor protection on the upper part of the waterline to increase the ability to resist strikes, it could not stop the explosion of this terrible bomb!

In the violent explosion, a large hole was blown open in the side of the Kaga, and the sea water poured in.

Standing on the bridge, Nagumo Tadaichi felt the terrible explosion coming from the warship, and his brain had completely gone blank.

Imperial Navy, is it coming to an end?

The hull of the ship was slowly tilting, and on the deck, another Stuka was forcibly taking off, but before it could leave the deck, it slid helplessly to the side, and then fell.

The naval soldiers of the surrounding island countries were still in a state of confusion, looking at the bombs one after another, jumping towards their side in a way of splashing water, and they actually had no means to stop them!

Hundreds of bombers dropped hundreds of large bombs, and not all of them could hit, only less than twenty accurately hit the target, and even so, it brought terrible casualties!

"Boom!" At the same time as the Kaga tilted, a terrible bomb actually jumped onto the deck, and in the middle of the Stuka bombers in the rear, there was a violent explosion!

If it had only been hit, it could have held on, and it could still float against the partition of multiple watertight doors, but now, an explosion on the deck has completely destroyed the battleship.

Huge explosions were heard one after another, the Stuka bomber was burning, the bombs it was carrying were constantly being detonated, a puff of black smoke rose from the deck, and soon, the Kaga rolled into the icy sea.

The dream of the Imperial Navy, on this day, was brutally interrupted, and with the sinking of this aircraft carrier, a large number of carrier-based aircraft pilots disappeared.

The sound of anti-aircraft artillery continued to echo, and when the bomber fleet left, the entire sea seemed to be burning.

If they had enough zero battles, this would not have happened at all!

If it weren't for the fact that the Americans were diverted from the mountain, and all the Zero Battles were to deal with the threat of carrier-based aircraft of the opposing Navy, they would not have sunk the aircraft carrier.

If the Americans did not use jump tactics, but regular dive bombing ...

There are not so many ifs, in short, the Imperial Navy suffered a heavy blow on this day, and with the sinking of the Kaga, Nagumo Tadaichi is also gone.

He didn't leave the ship, he just watched the ship fall into the water, he didn't swim out, he wanted to follow his ship.

Nagumo Tadaichi was afraid of disembowelment, but he still felt that this was more in line with the tradition of a navy, and sank with his own warship!

In the strike just now, only the Akagi survived, it dodged the attack of several jumping bombs, and when it was in shock, the American carrier-based bombers, through the air defense circle of the zero war, flew towards them!

In the face of all this, the remaining battleships could only use anti-aircraft guns to return fire, and in the light of anti-aircraft guns, American dreadnought carrier-based dive bombers, swooping down from the sky with a fearless spirit, for them, the primary target was the last remaining aircraft carrier Akagi!

When the bomber flew away, the deck of the Akagi was blown open by two large craters, but it was still sailing, only now, there was no possibility of recovering the Zero that had just been released.

It was the most terrible day for the island nation, they won the Midway landing battle, but suffered heavy losses due to mistakes in the naval battle, and when the news came back, the pheasant fifty-six was stunned.