Looking at the enemy planes that were killing from the east, Tan Renhao sneered, now he was no longer able to interfere in the combat operations of the fleet. The air defense fighters were commanded by Hao Dongjue, and when the air defense guns in the fleet opened fire, the command of the battleship was directly in the hands of the captain, and he, the chief of staff of the fleet, could not easily interfere with the commander's command work.

The quality of the Japanese bomber pilots was not bad, even a little better than the naval pilots of the Tang Empire, before the war, the Japanese naval pilots underwent extremely rigorous training, and in the battle of the sneak attack on the port of Naha, they performed very well, and then they were trained in the naval battle of Jeju Island. The quality of this group of Japanese pilots, represented by Mishio Fuchizu, is probably the best in the world.

Eight "99 ship explosions" directly killed the "Taizu", and the leader of the team was Mishio Fuchizu. Almost at the same time, eight "97 Ship Attackers" flying close to the sea also touched over and prepared to carry out a torpedo attack on the "Taizu." Dozens of anti-aircraft guns on the "Li Jing" on the starboard side of the "Taizu" frantically sprayed shells at the Japanese planes. The anti-aircraft guns on the starboard side of the "Taizu" also opened fire at the same time. Four "97 Ship Attackers" were shot down before they could drop their torpedoes. However, the anti-aircraft gunners on both battleships ignored the "99 ship explosion" overhead.

When the dive bomber roared and began to dive towards the "Taizu", Tan Renhao rushed to the porthole of the left book. The first batch of 4 "99 Shipblasts" rushed down from a height of 3000 meters at a dive angle close to 90 degrees. The aircraft carrier still maintains a maximum speed of 33 knots. At the same time, the machine guns deployed on both sides of the aircraft carrier also aimed their guns at the dive bombers overhead. At this time, the newly installed anti-aircraft guns on the battleship played a decisive role. Before the bombs could be dropped, the two "99 Ship Explosions" were hit by shells, and then tilted their heads and deviated from the dive course very reluctantly. However, Mishio Fuchizu and his wingman still dropped bombs at an altitude of 700 meters.

The "Taizu" suddenly tilted sharply to the left, and the aircraft carrier began to turn to the left to the maximum extent, and at the same time, the anti-aircraft artillery again shot down a "99 ship explosion" that changed its dive course, and finally only Mishio Futotsu's plane escaped. And just when the two 250-kilogram bombs had not yet fallen, four other "99 ship explosions" also dived down from a high altitude. At this time, it was already difficult for the anti-aircraft artillery on the aircraft carrier to aim at the enemy aircraft overhead.

At the same time that the two bombs landed in the sea 50 meters away from the starboard side of the "Taizu" and exploded, the other four "99 ship explosions" also completed the bomb dropping work. The "Taizu" was like a clumsy big bear, and immediately made a sharp turn to the right, and the aircraft carrier leaned sharply to the right, and Tan Renhao immediately grabbed the handrail next to it. The captain's operation was very timely, and if it had been two seconds late, then at least one bomb would have hit the aircraft carrier. As a result, all four bombs fell into the sea on the port side of the aircraft carrier, and the latest one was only 10 meters away from the "Taizu". The shock wave from the explosion threw more than a dozen gunners from the two anti-aircraft gun emplacements in the middle of the port side of the aircraft carrier, and the shells flying sideways under the surface of the sea also left several small holes in the amidships of the aircraft carrier. The damage management personnel quickly plugged the loophole, and this small injury was nothing at all.

The "Taizu" has not yet been leveled, and the six "97 ship attackers" approaching from the sea have already dropped torpedoes. Six torpedoes left a white trail on the sea, like six spears piercing the huge body of the "Taizu". At this time, if the aircraft carrier turns left and aims the bow at the torpedo, it will be too late, and the captain does not hesitate to give the order to fill the rudder on the right, and the aircraft carrier continues to turn right and aims the stern at the direction of the torpedo, so as to reduce the bombed area of the aircraft carrier and avoid the attack of the torpedo.

The two torpedoes almost brushed the huge hull of the aircraft carrier, Tan Renhao silently calculated the time in his heart, and when he was sure that the torpedo had missed the aircraft carrier, he breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he also felt that the "Taizu" had simply become a magnet for attracting bombs, and that every time there was a naval battle, the Japanese bombers would first "take care" of this aircraft carrier. Of course, this is not the case, in fact, the main reason why the "Taizu" attracted the siege of Japanese bombers was that the flag of the chief of staff of the fleet was flying on this aircraft carrier, and later, the Tang Imperial Navy ordered the flagship not to raise the commander's flag and other obvious flags in wartime, that is, to avoid the flagship being attacked by the enemy first, resulting in the loss of unified command of the fleet.

Tan Renhao just breathed a sigh of relief, when suddenly a violent explosion came, and he was shocked, a battleship was hit.

"It's 'Li Jing', the flagship was hit by a torpedo!"

Tan Renhao was startled and immediately rushed to the porthole on the right. A torpedo that missed the "Taizu" hit the port side stern of the "Li Jing" exactly, and the violent explosion blew away all four anti-aircraft guns on the port side stern, and none of the officers and men there survived. It was as if a monster had bitten off a piece of the battleship's buttocks. At the same time, the speed of the "Li Jing" also slowed down and began to deviate to the left, apparently, the propeller on the left side of the battleship, as well as the propulsion shaft, were also damaged.

Tan Renhao immediately called a staff officer over: "Immediately ask how Commander Ji Xiaobin is doing, whether he is injured!" ”

Two minutes later, the "Li Jing" sent a telegram saying that Ji Xiaobin was safe and sound, that the explosion did not affect the flagship headquarters, and that only a few staff officers were slightly injured. However, the speed of the "Li Jing" could barely reach 14 knots, and it was no longer able to fight with the fleet.

Almost at the same time, the two aircraft carriers "Taizong" and "Xuanzong" were also attacked by Japanese bombers, but the Japanese bombers besieging the two aircraft carriers were much smaller than the "Taizu", and both aircraft carriers successfully dodged bombs and torpedoes without any damage. When the Japanese planes left the skies over the fleet, the "Sparrowhawks," who had been in a hurry outside the air defense fire network, immediately surrounded them again, and beat the returning Japanese bombers violently, "leaving behind" more than 10 Japanese planes, and only then did the other Japanese planes escape the pursuit of the "Sparrowhawks."

In the course of the entire operation, in addition to the "Li Jing", which was seriously damaged, only one heavy cruiser, located north of the fleet, was hit by a torpedo. However, this torpedo also miraculously did not explode, otherwise the heavy cruiser would have been more than lucky. Of course, Tan Renhao did not forget one more important thing, that is, to immediately dispatch the third wave of bombers to take revenge on the Japanese fleet!

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