Commanding the first wave of bombing was Major Deng Zichao. He drew lots with Zhang Naiding, but he won, and Zhang Naiding could only fall behind and command the second wave of bombing.

When the group was still 100 kilometers away from Ryukyu Island, all of them descended to an altitude of less than 200 meters above the sea. The 12 escorted Sparrowhawks rose to an altitude of 5,000 meters. Soon, the two "Zeros" patrolling this airspace were shot down by the "Sparrowhawks" that swooped down. Presumably, the pilots of these two "Zero Battles" are rookies, and when facing the "Sparrowhawk" that is diving, they even make a dive, instead of avoiding it by turning horizontally.

Next, the escorting "Sparrowhawk" did not find the Japanese air defense fighters again. Even Deng Zichao was a little surprised that the Japanese army had deployed hundreds of air defense fighters on Ryukyu Island and the surrounding islands, most of which were "Zero Battles", but none of those fighters appeared. However, this is definitely a good thing, and it is much happier than being frantically intercepted by hundreds of Japanese fighters.

The bomber group led by Deng Zichao had 40 "Kingfishers" and 44 "Ospreys". Each "Kingfisher" hangs one 500-kilogram aviation armor-piercing shell, while the "Osprey" hangs four 250-kilogram high-explosive shells. The missions of these two types of fighters are different, the "Kingfisher" is responsible for diving and bombing those warships in the harbor, while the "Osprey" is responsible for bombing docks, docks and other port facilities. Therefore, the ammunition carried by the two fighters is also different. Having determined the breakthrough of the inner line of defense of the Japanese fighters, 40 "Kingfishers" immediately began to rise, while 44 "Ospreys" remained flying at low altitudes.

When he arrived over the port, Deng Zichao was also shocked, and he was surprised by the dense craters left on the port. It seems that the army aviation has also concentrated its efforts on bombing the port of Naha in the past few days, and the targets of the bombing are the warships that capsized in the port, as well as the Japanese warships. However, the bombs dropped by the Army's medium bombers from high altitudes were severely inaccurate, and many of the bombs were thrown in the wrong places, making it difficult to threaten the warships in the harbor. However, what surprised Deng Zichao even more was that the anti-aircraft guns deployed by the Japanese army in the harbor did not fire at them!

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery regarded those "Kingfishers" and "Ospreys" as their own fighters, because in the previous few days, they had come to bomb and strafe twin-engine fighters, but now they were single-engine fighters that appeared above their heads, and they were not bombers of the Tang Empire's army aviation at all. However, soon the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery discovered the problem, and the wings of those fighters were painted not with plaster flags, but with the pattern of the Tang Empire's five-star Zhenhai flag!

By the time the anti-aircraft artillery began firing, Deng Zichao had already entered the bombing channel with seven other "Ospreys", and they were going to deal with the dock north of the port. Originally, there were two large dockyards in the port of Naha, which could repair a total of 50,000-ton warships (there were no construction facilities, so it was impossible to build warships). In the previous bombing, the Army concentrated its efforts on blowing up one of the docks, and a Japanese heavy cruiser repairing in the dock also suffered a bad job. This time, Deng Zichao was going to attack another dock that had not yet been destroyed.

Deng Zichao, who flew at the front, dropped four bombs first, and then the seven "Ospreys" behind basically dropped bombs in the same airspace. When the 32 bombs roared and fell, eight "Ospreys" jumped up. Deng Zichao did not rush to withdraw from the battle, but took these "Ospreys" and divided them into four two-plane formations, and began to use the machine guns on the bombers to strafe the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions, suppress the anti-aircraft artillery, and provide cover and support for other bombers.

The 40 "Kingfishers" arrived a little later, and these dive bombers needed to increase their altitude (the minimum dive entry point of the "Kingfishers" was 2,500 meters, and in order to ensure the accuracy of bomb dropping, they would generally enter around 3,500 meters), so the speed would be much lower, and the arrival time over the port would be a little later. At this time, all 44 "Ospreys" had already dropped bombs, and the land in the port had become a sea of fire, and Deng Zichao was taking these bombers to suppress the anti-aircraft fire in the port, and even the fighters escorting the escort had participated in the ground strafing operation, opening the way for the backward "Kingfishers."

Leading the "Kingfisher" group was Captain Yang Qinkai. In the Battle of Jeju Island, he had an outstanding performance, and he has always cooperated with Deng Zichao. Seeing that Deng Zichao had already succeeded, Yang Qinkai dared to hesitate at all, he was the first to enter the diving channel.

In the harbor, more than a dozen Japanese cruisers and destroyers had already anchored, and they were using the anti-aircraft guns on the battleships to deal with the bombers in the sky. Yang Qinkai abandoned a Japanese heavy cruiser, which was not the primary target he wanted to bomb, the primary target he had to deal with was the battleship "Dignity", which had already been salvaged.

"Kingfisher" roared down from the air, Yang Qinkai gritted his teeth, tightly held the operating lever in his hand, in the initial stage of the dive, the overload of the "Kingfisher" reached 7 G, and it was difficult to control, only after entering the smooth dive channel, it could be controlled, which is why the minimum dive entry point was set at 2500 meters. On the sea, the projection of the "Dignity" is getting bigger and bigger, and Yang Qinkai is 100 percent sure that he will drop the bomb on the battleship to deal with such fixed targets. However, this is the proudest warship of the Imperial Navy. In order to prevent the battleship from falling into the hands of the Japanese, it had to be sunk again!

"Captain, it's time to drop the bomb!" The navigator in the back seat screamed.

At this time, the "Kingfisher" was less than 600 meters away from the sea, Yang Qinkai was startled, and immediately pressed the bomb button, and after feeling the bomb in the belly of the fighter plane being bounced out, he used all his strength to pull the operating stick to the rearmost position. The fighter shook violently, as if it was about to fall apart.

Deng Zichao also noticed the squadron leader's landline piloted by Yang Qinkai. Seeing Yang Qinkai drop the bomb at an altitude of nearly 450 meters, Deng Zichao was also shocked. The minimum altitude of the "Kingfisher" is 500 meters, and then it must change to a dive, otherwise it will plunge headlong into the sea.

"Damn, is Yang Qinkai crazy?" Deng Zichao scolded in a low voice.

The bomb got into the chimney of the "Dignity" and then exploded inside the hull. Just when Deng Zichao was worried that Yang Qinkai had gone to the sea to feed the fish, the "Kingfisher" came out of the black smoke, and Yang Qinkai pulled the "Kingfisher" up at the last moment!

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