Looking at the "Lexington" aircraft carrier, which had been wrapped in flames and had seriously tilted to the left, the "Wasp" aircraft carrier, which was struggling to be rescued by a large number of crew members with thick smoke rising from the flight deck, and the whirlpool left on the sea surface by the three escort warships that had been blown up, Lieutenant Commander Qiu Gengbo sneered.

"Captain, the Yankees are finished!"

The navigator in the back seat has been excited for several minutes.

"Damn, it's close, if only there were a few more bombs!"

Qiu Gengbo wiped the sweat off his face, "Squads, who still has bombs and torpedoes?" ”

"Captain, we've lost all our bombs."

The squad leader of a nearby "Kingfisher" was also looking at the two aircraft carriers that had not sunk on the sea, "The 'Osprey' group has just finished dropping torpedoes, and we still have machine gun bullets, do you want to ......?"

"Get a head and get ready to sail back!"

Qiu Gengbo didn't think that the machine-gun bullets could sink the two aircraft carriers immediately, and now those fighter jets were strafing the American officers and soldiers on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and it didn't play a big role. "Damn, that's it, damn it! Come with me, and if we have time, maybe we'll be able to bring a bunch of bombs. Prepare to report the results of the battle to the fleet, request the second wave ......"

"Old Qiu, we have plenty of ammunition!"

Hearing the sound coming from the headphones, Qiu Gengbo was startled and didn't react for a while.

"It's the three captains, it's Lieutenant Colonel Yang Qinkai!"

The navigator in the back seat immediately shouted.

Only then did Qiu Gengbo react. "Lao Yang, you kid is late!"

"Better late than never!"

Yang Qinkai had already seen the U.S. fleet in front, "I have two squads of 'Kingfishers' here, if you're in the mood, just watch our performance!" ”

"Damn, don't get too complacent, you kid, let's go back and transport the bomb right away, and see who moves fast!"

As soon as Qiu Gengbo heard that there were two squads of dive bombers, he immediately laughed, "Brothers. Let's hurry back! ”

The two teams of bombers staggered by, and when Yang Qinkai and Qiu Gengbo's landlines flew by, the two waved their hands. In the past, Qiu Gengbo was Deng Zi's subordinate, and Yang Qinkai was Zhang Naiding's subordinate, but since Deng Zi and Zhang Naiding went to the Second Air Wing, both of them have become captains, and their relationship has been much better (Deng Zi and Zhang Naiding have been competing for who is the No. 1 bombing ace of the Imperial HNA Empire. There are also a lot of small contradictions among their subordinates) The time for Qiu Gengbo's return voyage was 12:00, and this wave of bombers hovered over the US fleet for 35 minutes (this is much longer than the ordinary bombing time, mainly because many novices need to exercise, and the bombers have enough spare fuel on them, so they don't need to worry about things at the return place) Yang Qinkai's group left the 1st Task Force at 11:05 a.m., and arrived at 12:11 a.m. when it arrived over the 17th Task Force. In other words, there was no interval between the two waves of bombing, and as soon as the Qiu Gengbo group left, Yang Qinkai's group arrived.

Yang Qinkai was indeed late, but it was indeed better than not arriving. At the time of his arrival. The aircraft carrier "Lexington" has already received eight bombs. The water intake of the two torpedoes (both hit the port side) reached 25oo tons, and the battleship leaned twelve degrees to the left. Six of the eight aerial bombs exploded after they had penetrated into the hull of the ship (the aviation armor-piercing shells at that time were all flawed in the design of the fuse, and not all of them were able to penetrate the flight deck of the aircraft carrier), and the damage caused by these six bombs was extremely serious. One of the bombs exploded near the heavy fuel tank, and the leaked heavy fuel burned several adjacent compartments, killing a large number of sailors (many of them loss control members) and one exploded about 15 meters from the ammunition depot. Another bomb landed on the rear deck where the anti-aircraft shells were stacked, and as a result, hundreds of shells of different calibers were all destroyed, hundreds of sailors and gunners in the vicinity were killed, and several turrets were blown away.

The situation of the "Wasp" is not much better than that of the "Lexington". The aircraft carrier received four bombs, only two of which exploded inside the hull. One of them exploded in the hangar. Fortunately, the "Wasp" dodged the eight torpedoes that were fired, otherwise it would have been doomed (one of the missed torpedoes hit a nearby destroyer, which sank in less than ten minutes) The "Wasp" suffered the greatest trauma was the bomb that exploded near the ship island, and all the people in the bridge were killed and wounded, Fletcher was carried down and then transferred to a heavy cruiser nearby, and most of the fleet staff officers were killed, and there were very few survivors.

In addition to two aircraft carriers. Two more cruisers (one of them was a heavy cruiser equipped with radar to the left of the fleet, the other was a light cruiser) and one destroyer was sunk. In addition, two cruisers and three destroyers were heavily damaged and left the waters near the aircraft carrier (they did not return to Guam immediately because they were not given any order to retreat first) Originally, there were not many escort warships of the 17th Task Force (in fact, before entering the war, the US Navy did not have many suitable escort warships, and most of those battleships were too slow to be used as escort warships for aircraft carriers) and even fewer now.

Yang Qinkai is interested in the two aircraft carriers that are still struggling. The Lexington had completely lost its degree and was floating on the surface of the sea like a dead fish. The "Wasp" is still sailing north at a degree of about 2o knots. Yang Qinkai immediately led seven other "Kingfishers" to chase after them.

The bombers of the Tang Empire came again, and the officers and men on the American battleships were also shocked, at first they thought that this was the group of bombers that had begun to leave, and they were coming back to strafe, and they did not pay much attention to it at first, and many officers and soldiers who were busy repairing on the flight deck began to look for hidden places, or simply slipped below the deck. But soon there were people who showed that these bombers had bombs hanging in their bellies, and the bombers all entered from high altitudes, which was definitely not strafing, but dive-dropping. When the screams of the "Kingfisher" during its dive sounded again, the nerves of all the American officers and men on the "Wasp" tensed.

Unlike Qiu Gengbo, Yang Qinkai was the first to start diving this time. The "Wasp" is already crumbling, maybe the next bomb will completely destroy the aircraft carrier, and he does not want to give the credit for sinking the aircraft carrier to others.

The "Kingfisher", which entered the vertical dive stage (the starting height is between 15oo meters and 12oo meters), rushed like a meteor to the "Wasp" aircraft carrier on the sea surface that was trying its best to avoid. Yang Qinkai was also highly nervous, and he even saw that when the aircraft carrier made a sharp turn, several US officers and men who had been rushing to repair the aircraft carrier on the flight deck were thrown out and fell into the sea. And all that was not secured on the deck rolled into the sea. A turret that had been blown loose was also turned over and hung on the side of the aircraft carrier.

The remaining anti-aircraft guns on the aircraft carrier were desperately firing shells to knock down the bombers that were diving. The height of the "Kingfisher" is also decreasing sharply, and Yang Qinkai is paying attention to the change of the altimeter pointer while looking at the aircraft carrier on the sea. At a height of about 55o meters, Yang Qinkai let go of the bomb throwing twist, and then pulled back the lever hard. The moment the bomb was ejected by the explosive bolt, the "Kingfisher", which had reached 25o knots, pulled up like a shuttle dart. Less than 15o meters above the aircraft carrier, it was changed to level flight, and then, the 5oo kg aviation armor-piercing projectile landed on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.

A few seconds after Yang Qinkai dropped the bomb, three other "kingfishers" following him also dropped bombs, and then these bombers scattered like heavenly maidens scattering flowers and quickly left the danger zone. The fact that the four bombs fell to the ground almost simultaneously was an effective way to increase the hit rate, and of course, the prerequisite was that the pilot had to master the bomber proficiently. Otherwise, they may collide with each other when they change to dive (with the expansion of the scale of HNA later. More and more novices are joining, and this tactic is only the ace bomber pilot dares to use) The bomb dropped by Yang Qinkai drilled directly into the elevator in the middle of the aircraft carrier, and penetrated the main deck of the hangar (the flight deck is the deck above the main deck of the aircraft carrier. The main deck of the aircraft carrier is generally the hangar deck, which can effectively reduce the center of gravity of the aircraft carrier, increase stability, and effectively protect the key parts of the ship's body) before exploding. In fact, this bomb alone was enough, and the bomb that then hit the head of the "Wasp" was not fatal.

Seeing the white water vapor suddenly rising from the elevator, and then the white water vapor suddenly changed color, a pillar of fire rose up, and it dissipated violently until it was hundreds of meters in the air, and the explosion sound also came at the same time. Yang Qinkai laughed. The aircraft carrier is finished. Below the bomb hit point is the engine room and boiler room, and there is a heavy oil tank nearby, and there will even be an ammunition room (the design of each aircraft carrier is different, but the hull space of the "Wasp" is too narrow, to ensure that it carries 86 fighters and corresponding equipment, it can only be deployed in these extremely critical cabins, and there is no thick armor plate isolation between the cabins) The water vapor is sprayed out after the boiler is blown up, and the water vapor of hundreds of degrees can quickly kill all the life around. And the pillar of fire that followed must have been ignited in the fuel tank.

Yang Qinkai's judgment was not wrong, only less than two minutes later, the "Wasp" suddenly trembled, and then the entire hull was lifted out of the water by a huge force, and then the first huge explosion, and then dozens and hundreds of small-scale explosions, gunpowder smoke and black smoke quickly enveloped the entire aircraft carrier. By the time the smoke cleared, the carrier had been blown in two, the ship's bow (about a third of the length of the hull) was sinking rapidly, and the bow was raised high and began to slowly sink into the sea. The explosion of the ammunition depot and the suffocating bombing caused by the leakage of aviation gasoline completely destroyed the aircraft carrier.

When Yang Qinkai turned to the "Lexington" with four "Kingfishers" that had not yet had time to drop bombs, twelve of the 16 "Kingfishers" besieging the "Lexington" had already dropped their bombs, and the other four were beginning to dive. The four "Kingfishers" following Yang Qinkai did not hesitate to join the bomb drop, this was the last American warship on the nearby sea, and they did not want to return with the bomb.

"Lexington" is much "stronger" than "Wasp". Like the "Akagi", the "Lexington" was a battle cruiser when construction began, but not long after the construction began, the "Songjiang Treaty" came into force, and the total tonnage of the capital ships of the United States had passed the maximum limit of the treaty, and its construction was forced to be postponed (and canceled halfway) and later redesigned as an aircraft carrier, and was launched in 13O7 of the Tang calendar, and was completed and put into service in O9, and the last overhaul and modernization began in 18. Also thanks to its initial design, its standard displacement reached 43oooo tons, and the full load displacement was nearly 5oooo tons (the United States has been concealing the true displacement of this aircraft carrier, because this passed the restrictions of the treaty, and it was not announced until after the treaty expired, and it was a full load displacement with a light load displacement) The huge displacement has strengthened the defense of the aircraft carrier, but the same problems exist, because the design time was early, and with the continuation of the "Yorktown" class aircraft carrier 6, some of the original modifications were canceled, This poses a great security hazard to the aircraft carrier.

The aircraft carrier that lost power was almost a target ship, and it was also a huge target ship (the target ship used by the HNA bomber pilots for training was 8o meters long), and ten of the bombs dropped by the twelve bombers in front of it hit (but none of them hit the vital point), and then, eight bombers dived again and dropped eight heavy pound bombs, at least six of which hit the target.

"Damn, I'm not dead now!"

Yang Qinkai scolded secretly.

"The head doesn't seem to sink yet!"

When Yang Qinkai saw the aircraft carrier "Lexington" still stubbornly floating on the sea, he was dumbfounded. This aircraft carrier suffered more than 20 bombs and two torpedoes, and it has not sunk yet! He slammed his fist on the dashboard, and the last bomb was used, and it seemed that he had to wait until Qiu Gengbo hung up the bomb to finally understand the sea monster.

The other pilots were also surprised and angry at the same time, and it was just like that when they killed the "Yamato", this aircraft carrier actually took such a big blow and still floated on the sea. Yang Qinkai didn't delay any longer, and immediately beckoned the group to prepare to return, anyway, the bombs have run out, even if they didn't sink the "Lexington", they also killed the "Wasp", and this perverted aircraft carrier has at most one breath left!