Yuzaburo Kato was shocked by the nine "Huaxia-style" semi-metal biplanes that flew straight into the Second Fleet from high altitudes, he had never imagined that the planes would be able to fly above the clouds, and the huge roar was even more terrifying.

This is the 2nd Flying Group of the 1st Air Force Regiment, which has been searching for the 2nd Fleet three times at sea, and when they found the Falman seaplane of the "Wakamiya Maru", they hid above the clouds and followed it, and sure enough, they were caught. The silver warhawks were divided into three flying squadrons, each with three aircraft scattered to attack.

The battlecruiser "Tsukuba", flying the flag, was of course the primary target, and two squadrons of six aircraft swooped straight at it. The flight altitude was low, almost skimming the mast and chimney, dropping a couple of small five-pound aerial bombs by the way. The stunned sailors on deck were blown to pieces, and the wounded let out a wail of pain.

"Your Royal Highness, go back quickly, it's dangerous here!" Yuzaburo Kato woke up like a dream.

Fushimiya gritted his teeth and viciously brandished his sword towards the sky, as if to slash at the virtual target.

"Your Highness, go back quickly!" Yuzaburo Kato persuaded hard.

Fushimi Miya smiled and said, "The bomb that killed me hasn't been made yet!" With that, he brandished his sword and shouted, "Come on, Zhina, I'm here!" ”

The plane, which had just skimmed the deck, circled around and then turned around and flew over the "Tsukuba" again, this time no longer dropping bombs, and the two air-cooled Makqin opened fire at the same time, sweeping away the Japanese troops on the deck. The bullets ruthlessly tore apart one life after another, and the panicked Navy rushed with his head in his arms, striving to leave this death deck one minute earlier.

"Anchor, retreat!" Yuzaburo Kato gave the order like crazy.

However, it is impossible for the warships to fire and meet the full air pressure without two or three hours, and the current Second Fleet is a live target on the sea, and no matter how the planes of the Jianghuai Army destroy, they will not have the slightest power to fight back, and they will not even be able to escape.

Seeing that the bombing effect was not good, and that the "Huaxia-style" plane, which could only carry two 100-pound bombs, repeatedly ravaged the deck several times with its machine guns, it aimed at the 6,000-ton army transport ship "Hiroshima Maru."

Nine "Huaxia-style" biplanes flew over the "Hiroshima Maru" at the slowest speed possible, and the terrified army blindly fired into the air with its Golden Hook rifles. The plane that swept by more than 30 meters in the first class was more than 100 kilometers at a speed of more than 100 kilometers, and almost in an instant, it swept from the bow of the ship to the stern of the warship, and it was not easy to hit the plane with a rifle! Obviously, the army did not have the level of the North Korean golden fat man, and the result of the rifle hitting the plane was that the plane was safe and sound, and the army on the deck was ushered in machine gun fire that cut the head and covered the face. The deck of the overcrowded Hiroshima Maru became a ghost, and the elite soldiers from Kumamoto Prefecture were frightened by this new attack, and many of them jumped into the sea regardless of their lives, and many more rushed to the cabins below the deck like crazy. The narrow passage was blocked by too many people, and the officers slashed the soldiers with foreign knives and family heirloom knives in an attempt to fight their way out. Ordinary soldiers refused to let go of this only hope of survival, and would rather be cut by a knife than give way, and a few soldiers who had already had a nervous breakdown even pulled out their bayonets and fought with the officers.

All the planes bombed indiscriminately around the weak defense of the "Hiroshima Maru," and the small bombs of five to twenty pounds staggered from the sky to the deck; the planes flew at a very low altitude and at as slow a speed as possible, and the air waves brought by the propellers blew the hats of the Japanese soldiers all over the sky, and most of the bombs fell on the deck, and the flesh and blood on the "Hiroshima Maru" were blurred, and the cry was earth-shattering.

The pilots of the 2nd Flying Group did not have much sympathy, and after the bombing, it was a routine machine-gun fire, and the warships of this era did not have any anti-aircraft weapons, and the rifles in the hands of the soldiers were the only weapons that could be fired into the sky.

In the rough sea, hitting the plane with a rifle was a fool's dream, and even though the plane was as slow as possible, it was still gone in the blink of an eye for the soldiers on the deck.

The Second Fleet had more than a dozen warships and countless artillery pieces, but it could only watch the "Hiroshima Maru" being repeatedly ravaged by planes falling from the sky. Finally, an airplane threw away a hundred pounds of heavy aerial bombs on the pylons, and with a loud "bang", the deck of the "Hiroshima Maru" trembled violently, and then a large hole appeared on it, and the alloy cast warhead penetrated the first deck, and entered the cabin of the second floor and exploded violently. The blast caused planes to tremble violently, and their wings made a terrible "rattle" sound. The pilot, drenched in cold sweat, hurriedly pulled the plane up, and his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

Seeing that the first plane hit the target, several others also swarmed and threw away the hundred-pound aerial bomb on the pylon, and by the time the fourth heavy bomb was hit, the bridge part had already been blown away, and the "Hiroshima Maru" tilted to one side very much, and a large amount of sea water poured into the hole in the deck. The coming of the end of the day is crying and climbing up to the highest point, desperately fighting for the last vestiges of survival.

The fantasy is very full, the reality is very skinny, and the "Hiroshima Maru" that rushed down from the bow of the ship sank faster than everyone imagined, and in less than three minutes, only the propeller of this giant ship was still above the water.

Yuzaburo Kato watched in amazement as the 6,000-tonne, mountain-like "Hiroshima Maru" gradually sank below the surface of the sea, and where the ship sank, a sharp whirlpool appeared, and the sea water was like the blood basin of a giant beast, swallowing up the warship and a wing of the Japanese army.

The sea gradually returned to calm, and it seemed that everything had happened, except that Yamagishi Daisa, who was still arguing with Yuzaburo Kato that morning, and one of the army wings under his command, had disappeared forever. There was only one floating flag on the sea, which seemed to be a faint reminder of the massacre that had just taken place.

The 2nd Flying Group, which had risen to the occasion of killing, had exhausted the last machine-gun bullet and dropped the last bomb before reluctantly leaving, and the seaplane carrier "Wakamiya Maru" also became their victim, and two army transport ships transporting baggage, horses, and heavy weapons were sunk at the same time.

In less than 20 minutes from the launch of the attack to the time of withdrawal, the 2nd Flying Group sank three transport ships and a seaplane carrier, and at the same time sent an entire wing of land forces to the depths of the ocean.

The Kumamoto Division was the elite of the army, and the Yamagishi Wing was fully equipped with 3,780 men, and all the officers and men and horses were slaughtered, and none of them were spared.

The Yamagishi Wing will be removed from the Army, a result that makes Yuzaburo Kato so frightened that he can't speak for a long time.

That's not all, at most it's a war of words with the army, and some of them want to be sent to death, and the Kumamoto division can recruit a few thousand more people from southern Kyushu to supplement the losses. What really pained Yuzaburo Kato was the loss of the sunken ships, three transport ships and a seaplane aircraft carrier that Samoto could not bear.

The "Hiroshima Maru" is 6,000 tons, the other two transport ships are 4,000 tons and 5,500 tons respectively, and the "Wakamiya Maru" water carrier is 6,000 tons, adding up to more than 20,000 tons, and the whole country has a capacity of less than 900,000 tons.

"Raise the fire, raise the anchor, and withdraw to Sasebo!" Yuzaburo Kato roared hoarsely with red eyes.

At the moment, he just wants to get as far away from the coastline as possible, as far away from China as possible, and as far away from these terrible air devils as possible.

"No, you can't! Kato-kun, order the fleet to go along the Yangtze River, and punish the people of China severely! Prince Fushimi said coldly.

Yuzaburo Kato's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears.

"Kato-kun, such a defeat cannot be afforded by the navy, nor can the empire, we have to gamble, either lose a lot, or turn defeat into victory??? Otherwise, the navy will be completely finished, and the county and army will not let us go! Prince Fushiminomiya looked gloomy.

"Your Highness, if you take another blow, the navy will be completely finished! The British will not allow us to act rashly on the Yangtze River! And it is impossible for our battleships and battlecruisers to sail into the Yangtze River waterway! "Yuzaburo Kato didn't dare to take this risk.

"Since the Qing War, the empire has been the weaker side every time, but every time it is the empire that wins the big bet! Since we have already been on the gambling table, there is no possibility of leaving before the gambling book is lost, not to mention, the people of China do not have the ability to destroy our warships, they are only striking transport ships without armor protection, we can form all the fast ships, completely destroy the Yangtze River shipping, and let the people of China taste the power of the cannons of giant ships??? As for the British, hum, they will always be on the side of the winners! ”

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Thirty kilometers away from the mouth of Dagu, there is a newly built airstrip, and in addition to the six planes that were sent out to reconnoiter and search, the remaining 24 planes are parked here. A watchtower was set up in the dead end of the airport, and the huge searchlights and black machine guns left no dead ends. Outside is a criss-cross barbed wire, and beyond the fence there are minefields, and the terrifying skull signs are so terrifying that even the illiterate can read.

"I had a really good fight just now, but it's a pity that Xiao Yueben ran too fast, and I didn't have time to send a telegram to summon the whole group of fighters to attack together!" The captain of the 2nd Air Brigade was still unfinished.

"Happy what? Sink a capital ship? What is the ability to sink a few transport ships? If you have the ability, sink Yuben's flagship "Tsukuba" and kill the two guys, Yuzaburo Kato and Fushiminomiya, this is enough for you to blow! Chen Zhihang, the commander of the First Air Force Regiment, poured a basin of cold water on him.

Chen Zhihang was originally one of Feng Ru's two students, who returned to China with him from the United States, and later followed Feng Ru to Anqing. When the Jianghuai Army formed the First Air Regiment, Chen Zhihang, a senior pilot and mechanic, became the commander of the regiment. Another student, Zhou Heng, became the captain of the second brigade.

Chen Zhihang and Zhou Heng are inseparable from each other, but they like to lift the bar, and they are nicknamed "Hum Ha Second General" by the officers and soldiers of the Air Force.

Feng Ru listened carefully to their battle reports, sometimes overjoyed and sometimes embarrassed, and finally sighed lightly: "It's a pity that the research and development of torpedoes has not been effective, if you can attack with aviation torpedoes, a torpedo weighing more than a thousand pounds, no matter what kind of copper skin and iron bones it is, it will also blow it up, no matter how big the battleship is, it can't withstand the attack of three or five torpedoes!" ”

Chen Zhihang smiled bitterly: "Master, what is the use of what you say is lively?" For 1,000-pound torpedoes, our planes can be loaded with a maximum of two, bombs and the like cannot be installed, and auxiliary fuel tanks must also be discarded, and the flight range can only be within 100 kilometers at most, and the combat capability will be greatly limited. If you load one, you can fly two or three hundred kilometers, but if you miss a hit, you can only stare dryly! ”

Zhou Heng's small eyes turned and said, "Or, let's try to load the navy's shells on the plane as aerial bombs?" You can use it by transforming the fuse into a time-delay fuse, that guy is amazing, a shell is seven or eight hundred pounds or even a thousand pounds! ”

Chen Zhihang said disdainfully: "Thousands of pounds? How many can it hold? Two at most, right? If the plane flies high, it can't be thrown accurately, the ammunition is wasted, and if it flies low, the shock wave of the explosion alone can disintegrate the plane, you are just blind to the idea! ”

Feng Ru also shook his head and said: "No, if you want to blow up and sink a battleship, hitting the deck on the side of the warship is far better than attacking from above, the torpedo hitting the side armor will cause a breach of several meters, and it is all below the waterline, the influx of sea water will cause the weight of the warship to increase rapidly, and the maneuver of the warship will drop rapidly, if the watertight compartment is not closed in time or the injured area is not repaired, the possibility of the warship sinking is very great." Even if it is a thousand-pound bomb, it is even more difficult to sink a battleship without a dozen or so, but two or three torpedoes are likely to sink a huge ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons???? Moreover, in the future, it will be impossible for warships not to install anti-aircraft weapons, and torpedo attacks can be dropped several kilometers away, dropping torpedoes and running away, thus reducing the possibility of being hit by enemy ships' anti-aircraft fire. ”

Chen Zhihang praised from the bottom of his heart: "The teacher is really thoughtful, the bomb dropped in the air must be accurately calculated, it is difficult to hit the target directly, the torpedo only needs to be projected in a straight line, and it is more effective for the plane to hit the warship or the torpedo." ”

Zhou Hengyi pursed his lips: "It's so lively, the torpedo doesn't work!" Straight line projection, you have the ability to make the torpedo not deviate and not explode early, I call you Dad! ”

Chen Zhihang was stunned: "What's it called?" ”

Zhou Heng said angrily: "Dad! ”

"Hey!" Chen Zhihang smiled slyly: "Good son, call again!" ”

"You're taking advantage of me? Begging! ”

The two of them were chasing each other noisily, and Feng Ru just smiled bitterly and said to himself: "It's all the regiment commander and captain, and it's still not in shape!" ”

Chen Zhihang, who was making trouble, suddenly waved his hand: "Stop, don't make trouble!" ”

"Don't make trouble, unless you call me Dad, we'll be endless!" Where is Zhou Heng willing to suffer this dumb loss.

"Don't make a fuss, let's see who's coming!" Chen Zhihang lowered his voice.

Zhou Heng raised his fist and made a gesture to fight: "It's useless for the Heavenly King Lao Tzu to come, I have to let you ??? Hey, Dudu, why are you? ”

(To be continued)