"The Shina people are pigs, we can treat them however we want," Yoshida Qingfeng said with a cruel smile as he looked at the burning wreckage floating on the sea, listening to the faint cry for help in the sea breeze.

"Just now, the gunboats of the China Navy have been sending radio distress signals in clear code, and the China fleet may be coming soon." The staff officer no longer mentioned the atrocity presided over by the vice admiral, but changed the topic, "I heard that the battleship of the Chinese people was built with the help of the Mi people, and it is very powerful, if it is ......"

"The battleships of the Shina have gone to the north, and now they are likely to be the targets of the Imperial Navy battlefleet" Yoshida Kiyokaze waved his hand and interrupted the staff officer with some impatience, "They won't appear here"

After listening to the vice admiral's words, several staff officers were slanderous, but out of the awe of the strict rank of the Japanese Navy, they could only swallow those words into their stomachs.

And the staff officer just now originally planned to remind the fleet commander that the Chinese battleships would not come, which did not mean that there would be no warships.

What happened later showed that the staff officer's fears were quite justified.

Soon, there were no more targets on the sea for "night combat drills", and Yoshida Kiyokaze looked at the fire on the sea and ordered the battleship "Iwami" to turn around, and at the same time signaled to the other ships to prepare to leave the sea area where they had just committed their crimes.

Probably due to the length of the ship, the hull of the "Iwami" tilted when it turned, and although it quickly stabilized, it still startled Yoshida Kiyokaze.

The battleship "Iwami" was originally the battleship "Eagle" of the second Russian Pacific Fleet. With a displacement of 15,300 tons, a maximum speed of 18 knots, and two twin Armstrong 305 mm 40 times diameter guns, it is a battleship of the "Borodino" class. The Borodino-class battleships were designed in the same way as French ships, with sharply inverted hulls and narrow upper decks, with side guns positioned slightly above the waterline. The first four ships of this class joined the Second Russian Pacific Fleet after commissioning, and the Suvorov also served as the flagship of the fleet. After a long voyage, the four ships took part in the famous Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War. During the naval battle, all three ships of the same class were sunk. The only surviving "Eagle" surrendered the next day and was subsequently towed to Kure Harbor for repairs. On June 6, it was named "Iwami", and the ship was classified as a first-class battleship. On July 29, the Kure Naval Yard began to be renovated and refurbished with all 152-mm guns and 203-mm guns. In 1907 the ship was returned to service. It was refitted again in 1910 at the Uraga dockyard. On August 28, 1912, the ship was changed to a first-class coastal defense ship. During World War I, he was assigned to the 2nd Sentai to participate in the attack on Qingdao, China, and was later sent to Taiwan as the flagship of the 5th Sentai of the 3rd Fleet.

Although in the eyes of the navies of Western countries, the "Iwami" can be regarded as a warship that should be eliminated, in the eyes of the Japanese, the navy of the Western powers may not be able to deal with it, and it is still enough to deal with the weak Chinese navy.

Yoshida Qingfeng looked down on the Chinese fleet in his heart, and in his impression, the Chinese navy was just some tattered gadgets floating on the water. Although he had also heard of the "help" given by the Americans to the Chinese Navy and the achievements of the Chinese Navy in the European theater, he always believed that it was the merits of the Americans and the British that the Chinese would not have fought such a battle.

Isn't the fact that the Chinese navy can't even protect their fishing boats now the most obvious example?

And Yoshida Kiyokaze did not understand that after the end of the war in Europe, the strength of the Chinese navy was already very different from before.

And as a stubborn and conservative emperor, he will soon taste the bitter fruits he has planted.

The wind gradually rose on the sea, and the sea fog became thicker, and the Japanese fleet rearranged its formation because of the "night battle drill", which was somewhat scattered, and was about to leave, when suddenly, a violent explosion came, and Yoshida Qingfeng saw that in the darkness, the shells dragging the flames fell one after another, setting off a column of water around the Japanese warship.

Without waiting for the captain's order, the battleship "Iwami" sounded the emergency battle alarm, and the escort fleet began to fire back in all directions.

Before Yoshida could understand what was happening, a hoarse shout came from the lookout.

"Torpedo found on the starboard side of the torpedo"

As soon as the lookout whistle fell, the "Iwami" began to turn violently to avoid the action, Yoshida Kiyokaze didn't care about almost falling, he leaned forward, held the binoculars in both hands to look at the sea, and immediately recognized at least five torpedo tracks.

Seeing the speeding torpedo, Yoshida Kiyokaze's heart was suddenly clenched by fear.

Like many Japanese naval officers and sailors, it was the first time that so many torpedoes had appeared on the sea.

In the thick fog in the distance, there seemed to be a flash of Chinese cruisers

With a loud thunderclap, Yoshida Kiyokaze only felt a sharp tremor under his feet, and then it was as if the whole world began to fall.

Before he could react, he had been thrown straight into the icy water.

Under the cover of darkness and sea fog, the attacking Chinese fleet suddenly sent dozens of torpedoes, and the Japanese fleet was caught off guard, many ships were hit, and the Japanese fleet's flagship "Iwami" was particularly unlucky, and unfortunately was hit by two torpedoes at the same time, resulting in a fire and explosion, and soon capsized and sank.

At this time, Zhang Qifan, who was standing on the bridge of the "Hainan" heavy mine-loaded light cruiser, was looking at the capsized Japanese battleship with anger, and waved his fist fiercely.

The "Hainan," together with several friendly ships, fired all its guns at the Japanese fleet, and several cruisers arrived at the Japanese ship, and all the main guns raised their angry muzzles in unison, and all the guns fired in unison, blowing up the Japanese destroyers on the navy to pieces. Enraged, Chinese naval officers and sailors were determined to make all the Japanese who had committed atrocities on the high seas pay the price. At the same time that a number of Chinese light warships opened heavy fire, all the carrier-based planes of the seaplane carrier "Pinghai" also took off, launched bomb attacks on the Japanese warships on the sea, and swept the Japanese naval officers and men who had already fallen into the water with machine guns.

Seeing the Japanese naval officers and men screaming miserably under this rain of bullets, Zhang Qifan's heart felt a special sense of joy.

That's what happened to robbers

Soon, the "Hainan" and several ships of the same class reloaded their torpedoes, and Zhang Qifan took advantage of the moonlight, looked at the watch on his wrist, and gave the order to attack again.

As the youngest captain of the Chinese Navy and a soldier who participated in the Second Battle of Helgoland Bay, Zhang Qifan can be said to be familiar with such a large-scale torpedo attack.

The Chinese fleet again began to torpedo Qi shè, one after another dragging the white sè track, quickly passing under the Japanese naval officers and men who had fallen into the water.

The Japanese warships that escaped the first round of torpedo attacks were lucky this time, and the armored cruiser "Aso", like the "Iwami", was hit by two torpedoes one after another, and the old armored cruiser, also from Russia, was blown into two pieces and soon disappeared into the sea with more than 600 officers and men on board. And the destroyers "Drizzle", "Yushan" and "Matsu" were also torpedoed and sank with an explosion.

It may be that the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and after discovering that there was no way to escape, a Japanese notification ship actually rushed towards the "Hainan" at full speed regardless of life and death, and wanted to carry out the impact, and just when Zhang Qifan ordered the "Hainan" to turn to evade, there was a sudden sound of a motor in the sky, and then a seaplane swooped down and dropped a bomb, and the bomb just fell on the deck of the Japanese warship impartially, and rose into the air with a ball of fire. The poor Japanese warship broke in two and turned into a fire whirling at sea.

Seeing the unexpected attack of the seaplane, Zhang Qifan nodded in understanding.

At this time, Zhang Qifan did not realize that what he saw was the first successful attack on a warship by an aircraft in the history of Chinese and even human warfare. And it was from this day that the traditional methods of naval warfare changed, announcing the advent of the era of naval aviation.

And in this war between China and Japan, there will be more and more similar battles.

As the few remaining Japanese destroyers fled, the sea gradually fell silent.

After making sure that the enemy had all been evacuated, the Chinese fleet began to rescue the survivors floating on the surface of the sea—Chinese fishermen and Japanese sailors—and among these survivors was Vice Admiral Kiyokaze Yoshida, the supreme commander of the Japanese fleet.

Lieutenant Yoshida Kiyokaze became the first high-ranking general to be captured by the squadron at the beginning of this war.

Three days later, Fuzhou, Changqing Airport.

The "Handley? Fifty "Peti" bombers were ordered to take off from Changqing Airport and bomb the Japanese fleet through the Taiwan Strait to Keelung.

"Handley? The "Peti" bomber is now one of the main combat aircraft of the Chinese Air Force. Because this kind of bomber has performed like entering a no-man's land in the battle with the Guangdong ** Army, its excellent bomber can be favored by Chinese and foreign people, and of course, its combat effectiveness still needs to be tested in the actual combat of foreign wars. ,

At this time, Second Lieutenant Captain Dong Jintao was engrossed in piloting the bomber through the clouds.

On this day, there was a layer of mist on the sea, islands appeared and disappeared in the clouds below the wings, and the Chinese bomber group began to search in formation, and the rumbling sound of motors made a roar in the air.

According to reconnaissance intelligence, the Japanese battleship "Sagami" was supposed to be anchored in Keelung Harbor and escorted by Japanese cruisers or destroyers. The Chinese bombers were ordered to attack and sink the Sagami and other Japanese warships, completely destroy the enemy fleet, and remove the threat to the Chinese coast from the Japanese navy in Taiwan.

When the bomber group flew to the Taiwan Strait, it did not stop searching in the air, although there was no shadow of the enemy fleet on the sea.

After the incident in which the Japanese fleet shelled Chinese fishing boats on the high seas, the southeastern coastal areas of China raised their vigilance, but since the main fleet of the Chinese Navy was now all assembled in the north and preparing for a decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese Navy, it was impossible to move south. In order to prevent the Japanese naval fleet in Taiwan from committing the same evil act again, the Chinese had to change their combat strategy and make use of the aircraft as a weapon to resist the enemy.

Dong Jintao looked at the sea with sour eyes.

At that time, such large bombers were not equipped with advanced search equipment, and the flight and search of the group mainly relied on the visual observation and cooperation of the pilots. Ten minutes passed, and just when Dong Jintao felt a little disappointed, Deputy Captain Song Wenkai suddenly waved the wings of the plane in front. This signal is a warning that the target is found below and ready to fight.

Seeing Song Wenkai's signal, Dong Jintao couldn't help but feel shocked.

Although this second lieutenant officer of the Chinese Air Force was no longer a recruit, he still felt as if he was fighting for the first time, and the blood in his body rushed straight to his brain. He even felt his teeth tremble, and his hands clenched clenched on the cào rod involuntarily produced a brief spasm similar to that of a malaria attack.

Second Lieutenant Dong Jintao, a native of Heilongjiang, had recently received news that the Japanese army had captured the county town of Bei'an, and that the village where his home was located had been burned down by the Japanese, and that his parents, family, and his wife who had not passed away were thus missing (most likely burned to death). This unfortunate news was like a lightning strike, causing the son of a farmer who grew up in a traditional Chinese family to have his heart and gall broken for several days in a row, and he was in agony.

Revenge is a terrible jīng divine power.

The simple and far-reaching traditional belief of the Oriental nation, "blood for blood, tooth for tooth" and "treating others in the way of others" -- this simple and far-reaching traditional belief of the Oriental nation is like two rows of sharp sawtooth, which constantly gnaw and torture the immature minds and brain nerves of young pilots.

The deputy captain took the lead in pulling up the nose of the plane and bending left to climb high. This is the signal of action to prepare for dive bombing. The rest of the planes followed closely in formation, one by one climbing into the clouds, ready to attack the enemy ships under the cover of sunlight.

At this time, Dong Jintao desperately pressed the cào longitudinal rod of his plane.

Under his command, the huge bomber resembled a wild horse that did not obey the order to climb but broke away from the formation and went straight into the clouds. The reason for the second lieutenant to do it on his own is very good: the enemy ships must have discovered the Chinese aircraft group, and it is better to concentrate the bombing than to disperse the sneak attack. A strong urge to be the first to blow up and sink the enemy ship gripped the second lieutenant's heart, prompting him to decide to launch a surprise attack on the enemy ship from a low altitude.

The bomber's engine roared deafeningly, the altimeter's hands rapidly receded, the gray-blue sea water suddenly erected clearly in front of him like a high wall of gray mééng, and the second lieutenant of the Air Force heard his heart groan happily in the loud roar of the plane's dive:

…… Swoop down a little lower and a little lower...... Killing the Japanese threw hundreds of bombs on their heads, and sunk their warships into the sea along with the hateful Emperor...... Machine guns are clattering, bombers began to drop bombs one after another, the dirty sun flag burned in the whistling of Chinese planes, death chased the Japanese like a black whirlwind, making the little devils tremble under the angry wings of the Chinese ** people The Chinese will not finally give in to any military conquest

By this time, the well-trained Japanese fleet had also spotted the Chinese bomber group, where it was ready to fight, and the Japanese destroyers and other direct guards followed the example of the British, forming a circle of formations to protect the flagships and large ships. When the Chinese aircraft group flew over the unobstructed sea, a spectacular Sino-Japanese naval and air battle began: the planes roared, the Grim Reaper flew, and the Chinese bombers formed a tactical formation in front of one after the other, diving and dropping bombs with their backs to the sun. The Japanese ships panicked and evaded the bombs, while the ship's high-profile artillery fire formed a sparse net of fire to intercept and shoot down every Chinese bomber that tried to get close to the fleet. The sea boiled, the columns of water from the bombs rose one after another around the Japanese warships, and countless exploding high-speed shells filled the air like festive fireworks. ,

It should be said that Dong Jintao's views are very correct and lucky.

At this time, the attention of the Japanese fleet was really attracted by the rumbling group of aircraft, and at this time, the bomber piloted by Dong Jintao flew quietly like a tiptoeing thief against the sea. As soon as the bombers evaded the interception of sporadic artillery fire, they immediately increased their horsepower and went straight to the flagship of the Japanese fleet, "Sagami".

When the Japanese, who were in a hurry, turned their guns and opened fire on the terrible sneak attackers, the co-pilot, Second Lieutenant Lu Qili, had already firmly slipped the gray and huge metal hull of the enemy ship into the sight. 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters,...... The pilot pressed the bomb drop button, the fuselage shuddered, and the two huge bombs both broke away from the wings. With a heart-pounding, piercing scream of falling bombs rubbing against the air, the Chinese bomber jerked its nose and swept over the bridge of the enemy ship. A few seconds later, two bombs hit the deck of the Japanese warship almost simultaneously, with a deafening explosion. The blow was so terrible that the 10,000-ton behemoth "Sagami" shook like a drunken drunk, and fires broke out everywhere on the deck, and the engine room was badly damaged and began to flood. The Japanese sailors, who were usually extremely arrogant, were blown up like shredded pieces of paper, and the scorching explosion gas threw their severed limbs high into the raging waves dozens of feet away.

Dong Jintao's victorious victory greatly encouraged his other comrades-in-arms, and gave those high-spirited young pilots reason to believe that one or two more fruitful bombings would be able to send this huge enemy ship to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Ba. As a result, the Chinese bombers, who had been discharged from battle formation, began to dive and bomb repeatedly, and the bombs continued to hit the enemy ships and raised many high columns of water in the sea.