The sound of artillery rumbled, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed out.

The entire Laolao Bay was filled with black smoke, and suddenly lost the light of the morning sun, like a black cloud pressing the field.

A buzzing sound streaked across the sky, and six Don Raptor ships formed a diamond-shaped battle formation and approached the port side of the battleship Ise at high speed, with the onboard 20 mm caliber cannons firing fiercely, and rows of shells were fired.

"Click! Click! ”

When the Japanese artillery in the port side gun position of the Ise heard the sound, their bodies had been beaten into flesh by the shells that were shooting from the sky, and their flesh and blood were flying.

In the fierce attack, it was very difficult for the anti-aircraft guns on the Japanese ships to hit the Tang planes moving at high speed, and on the other hand, the anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese ships were all open-air, and they were easily strafed by the Tang guns, and heavy casualties were inevitable.

The Ise had only four 80-millimeter anti-aircraft guns that stopped intermittently, and the Tang fighters kept an eye on it, and once a Japanese soldier came forward to try to manipulate the anti-aircraft guns, it would immediately be swept away by the fire of the Tang fighters.

Slaughtered again and again, the Japanese army suffered countless casualties, and shouting Amaterasu Obasan's blessing didn't seem to work.

The four 80-mm anti-aircraft guns were the only weapons that could pose a lethal threat to the Tang Army's aircraft, and as for the Type 89 machine guns, even if the 7.7-mm bullets hit the Tang Army's plane, as long as they did not hit the pilot in the cabin, they would be useless at all.

As the Ise's anti-aircraft fire was suppressed again, the three Tang Army Hellfire carrier-based bombers quickly flipped a few times to drop altitude, and then quickly dived down.

"Babble-babble-babble-"

The sky screamed, and aerial bombs weighing 500 kilograms fell down like meteors.

"Boom-boom—boom-"

The sea is boiling. Huge water columns rose into the sky, huge waves were surging, and the water splashed hundreds of meters away.

Two aerial bombs fell between the 1st bridge and the 2nd main gun turret of the Ise. There was only one 55 mm armor and 30 mm armor protection, which could not block the kinetic energy impact of the 500-kilogram bomb, and it was smashed through two large holes in an instant.

"Boom! Boom! ”

Two bombs exploded like a volcanic eruption, two flaming flames rose into the sky, the No. 2 main gun turret of several hundred tons was lifted off, and the first bridge was razed to the ground. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers were swept into the air hundreds of meters by the air waves, screaming and doing free fall.

At the same time, the battleships Hyuga and Yamashiro were respectively besieged by more than 30 Raptor ships and more than 20 Hellfire ships of the Tang Army. Among them, the Hyuga suffered four 500-kilogram aerial bombs. The Yamashiro was lucky to have only one bomb.

In addition, of the 11 destroyers that served as escorts for the Japanese battleship detachment, two Blast-class destroyers and four Fengfeng-class destroyers were sunk.

These destroyers are really vulnerable, and a 500-kilogram aerial bomb is enough to blow a destroyer of one or two thousand tons to pieces. Transformed into a huge, fiery red mushroom cloud.

Meanwhile. Although the Tang Army focused on bombing four old Japanese battleships, it did not let up on the Japanese flagship Nagato and its sister ship, the Mutsu.

Nine Hellfire ships bombarded under the cover of the battle of the twelve Raptor ships, tentatively attacking the Nagato and Mutsu, and finally paid the price of two Raptors and one Hellfire being shot down, two 500-kilogram bombs hit the front deck of the Nagato, and one 500-kilogram bomb hit the second bridge of the Mutsu.

The Nagato-class battleships were the most powerful and up-to-date battleships of the Japanese army, and as the pride of the Japanese Navy, the armor of the Nagato-class battleships was very strong. Not only does it have 305 mm rear broadside armor, but it also has 127 mm of horizontal armor protection. The horizontal armor was intended to be used by the Japanese to fend off shells from battleships at high horizontal elevation angles. However, the ship's horizontal protection against bombers was improved by mistake.

However, the 127 mm horizontal armor still could not block the bombardment of 500 kg of aerial bombs, but it could unload most of the impact of the explosion and reduce the huge destructive force of the explosion on the internal structure.

Two 500-kilogram bombs set the foredeck of the battleship Nagato in flames, and thick smoke billowed out of the sky.

The Japanese fire brigade above quickly dispatched to extinguish the fire, but was subjected to volley fire from the Tang Army's Raptor battle, killing and wounding countless people, and once frightened the Japanese army from coming forward to put out the fire.

The Mutsu was hit by a 500-kilogram bomb, and its second bridge was instantly flattened, with blazing flames and thick smoke, and hundreds of Japanese commanders and staff were killed.

"Is this the Liliang of the Aviation?"

Shinozuka's eyes were glazed, he didn't expect this outcome at all. Regretting not carrying out Kobayashi's order to continue to retreat, it now seems that the fierce offensive of the Tang army aircraft is enough to destroy this battleship detachment of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

This is the only six battleships in active service in the Japanese Navy, and if all of them are damaged here, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the entire Japanese Navy, and its vitality will be greatly damaged. For the entire Japanese Empire, the hegemonic capital they were so proud of would be completely lost.

Apologize for your sins!

The Japanese generals around Shinozuka were no longer in the mood to echo, and their eyes were already full of anger when they looked at Shinozuka, and they wanted to rush up and bite him to death.

Kobayashi Tatsuzo, who was on a drip in the lounge, was suddenly woken up by a violent explosion, and called the adjutant to ask about what happened.

"Shinozuka, you bastard, you're going to ruin the Japanese Empire...... Poof......"

"General! General ......"

Xiao Lin spurted several liters of blood, and suddenly raised his neck and braided.

He was to death!

Kobayashi's death suddenly cast a shadow on the hearts of the Japanese army, and their morale was extremely low.

"Their fire is suppressed by us, the smoke is blowing to the east, you can use the cover of smoke to carry out a torpedo attack, send them to the western sky!"

"Understood!"

Twelve Hellfire carrier-based bombers had been circling nearby, and instead of an aerial bomb under their belly, they had a nine-hundred-kilogram aerial torpedo.

They've been hovering in the air, waiting for an opportunity to present themselves.

Today, the Japanese fleet has suffered heavy losses, and most of the Japanese ships have weak anti-aircraft firepower. As a result, the twelve Hellfires quickly descended in height under the cover of smoke.

The twelve Hellfires had only one target, and that was the battleship Nagato, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

At this moment, the bow of the battleship Nagato was on fire, and thick smoke billowed out, almost covering most of the ship's hull, and even the huge ship island was almost swallowed up by the thick smoke, and the sight of the Japanese observers on it was greatly affected, and there were constantly raptor warships strafing them, so that they could not notice the torpedo group of the Tang army at all.

The twelve Hellfires easily descended to sea level and quickly dropped torpedoes less than 3 kilometers from Nagato.

However, to the surprise of the Don Army, not a single one of their torpedoes surfaced.

"What's going on?"

Li Jianhui kept staring at the Nagato, seeing that the twelve Hellfires easily dropped all the torpedoes, and he was happily waiting to see the Nagato being blown into the sky, but unexpectedly, not a single torpedo surfaced.

"I don't know, maybe the water is too shallow, and the torpedoes are all stuck in the mud!"

"Damn it! Let's go back first, think long-term! ”

"Understood!"

Li Jianhui immediately complained, said hello to Zhao Changzhi, and all the Tang Army fighters flew out of Laolaowan one after another.

Half an hour later, one hundred and five Raptors and sixty-nine Hellfires returned to the aircraft carrier, while three more Hellfires and three Raptors were shot down by Japanese guns, and the pilots died before they could parachute. In addition, a number of planes were seriously damaged by the Japanese air defense group, and several pilots were slightly injured.

This was the first time since the engagement that the naval aviation of the Tang Army suffered combat casualties and losses, but the results were considerable. Destroyed the battleship Fuso, severely damaged five battleships Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, Hyuga, and Yamashiro, and sank six Japanese destroyers.

"The ground crew immediately began to overhaul the fighters and prepare for the flight, and the pilots seized the time to rest, and the second wave of attacks was carried out half an hour later!"

In the conference room of the bridge of the Zhiguo Tianwang, Zhang Meng listened to the battle briefings of Li Jianhui and Zhao Changzhi, and naturally praised and encouraged them for their outstanding performance, and asked them to sum up their experience after the war to avoid the same mistakes from happening again.

When Li Jianhui mentioned that the torpedo attack on the Japanese ship was ineffective because the water depth of Laolao Bay was too shallow, Zhang Meng suddenly showed a mysterious smile.

"I have a way!" (To be continued......)