When Zhang Naiding arrived over the port with a second wave of bombers, there were not many targets left for him to bomb. In the port, the warships of the Tang Empire that were salvaged by the Japanese were hit by several bombs, and even if the Japanese could salvage the warships, they would lose the meaning of repair. The last dock was also bombed, and it is feared that it will not be possible to provide repair services for the battleship for several months. And Deng Zichao and they also blew up several warehouses and oil depots near the port. Anyway, there weren't many bomb-worthy targets left for Zhang Naiding.

44 "Ospreys" immediately turned around and pounced on the Kadena airfield. Now the Japanese fighters are rushing to land, preparing to take to the air again to intercept the naval bombers of the Tang Empire after replenishing fuel and ammunition. According to Tan Renhao's arrangement, if the first wave of bombing completely destroyed the warships in the port, then the "Osprey" would bomb Kadena Airport and destroy the Japanese air defense fighters.

Before the "Osprey" arrived, 12 escorted "Sparrowhawks" had already launched a major "slaughter" over the airport. The fuel tanks of the "Zero Battle" that had just dealt with the long-range bombers of the Tang Imperial Army were basically empty, and the ammunition was basically used up. These 12 "Sparrowhawks" were "ambushed" behind the mountain peaks northeast of the airport, and when the first batch of "Zero Battles" returned home, the "Sparrowhawks" immediately came out and shot down more than 10 "Zero Battles" in three strikes and five divisions by two. Then, the Sparrowhawks split into two teams, one team went to suppress the anti-aircraft artillery on the airfield, and the other team continued to intercept the returning "Zero Battle".

It can be said that the luck of these 12 fighter pilots has come home. The first three batches of "Zero Battles" that returned to the country had already used up their ammunition in the previous air battles, and there was not much fuel left, so they did not dare to engage in air battles with the "ferocious" "Sparrowhawks" at all. Some of the "Zero Fighters" were ready to return to other airfields to land, but the "Sparrowhawks" did not give them a chance at all. Several "Zeros" ran out of fuel and finally landed on the grass outside the airport.

Soon, 44 Ospreys loaded with bombs came to the skies over Kadena Airport. Although there were no fighters parked on the airfield at this time, the "Ospreys" had their own tasks. The 16 "Ospreys" of the two squads bombed the hangar of the airfield, the 8 "Ospreys" of the other squad went directly to the command center of the airfield, and the other "Ospreys" bombed the ammunition depot, oil depot, and runway separately. The entire bombing process took less than 10 minutes, and none of the 44 "Ospreys" were damaged. Although from time to time the "Zero Battle" approached, so frightened that the pilot on the "Osprey" almost wanted to escape. However, these pilots soon discovered that these "Zero Battles" had become "dumb", and the original "Zero Battles" returning home had no ammunition. At this moment, a very strange scene appeared in the sky, the "osprey" actually chased after the "Zero Battle" and beat it violently, causing many "Zero Battles" to have to stay away, and the Japanese soldiers on the airport could not believe what they saw.

The Osprey's show soon came to an end, and when four Ospreys chased a group of Zero Battles fleeing eastward, several Zero Battles swooped down from the eastern sky. These "Zeros" opened fire at a distance of several hundred meters, and four "Ospreys" were hit at once. In the air, the "Osprey" pilots who saw this scene quickly gave up the operation of chasing the "Zero Battle", anyway, they had already completed the bombing mission and it was time to return home, and they did not receive an order to fight the "Zero Battle". The "Sparrowhawk" that escorted it also immediately gave up intercepting the "Zero Battle" that was returning to the sea, and killed the "Zero Battle" flying to the east head-on to cover the retreat of the "Osprey".

In the sky above the port, Major Zhang Naiding and other pilots vented their anger on the Japanese warships that were evading in the harbor. He chose the heavy cruiser "Chokai". This is a third-class heavy cruiser built by Japan in accordance with the treaty after World War I, with a full load displacement of more than 15,000 tons after refitting, but the "Bird Sea" has not been strengthened by air defense at that time, and its anti-aircraft firepower is still four 120 mm anti-aircraft guns and four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.

The shrill whistling sound of the "Kingfisher" during the dive actually announced that the "Bird Sea" was about to be in trouble. The maximum speed of this heavy cruiser exceeded 35 knots, but in a narrow harbor, it was already very fast to run to 15 knots, and there was no room for the "Bird Sea" to maneuver and evade in the harbor. Zhang Naiding was the best dive bomber pilot in the Imperial Navy at that time, and if he couldn't even hit such a battleship, he wouldn't have this title.

By the time he pulled up the fighter, the "Bird Sea" was already shrouded in flames from the explosion. At the beginning of the bombing, the Bird Sea was replenishing fuel and ammunition, some of which were not stored in the ammunition depot at all, but were stacked on the deck. As a result, at the time of the bombardment, the sailors on the battleship simply did not have time to push these exposed shells into the sea.

At the same time, other "kingfishers" also bombed the Japanese warships in the harbor. Behind Zhang Naiding, three "kingfishers" dropped bombs on the "Bird Sea," two of which hit the target, and one bomb exploded under the sea surface less than 10 meters away from the "Bird Sea."

"Major, the 'Osprey' group was intercepted by Japanese fighters, it seems to be the air defense fighters of the Japanese fleet!" The navigator in the back seat was also a pilot at the same time, and when those "Ospreys" retreated, they did not forget to tell Zhang Naiding about the attack.

Zhang Naiding glanced at the Japanese warships in the harbor and said, "Then let's retreat too!" ”

The other "kingfishers" who received the call immediately followed. After dropping the bomb and half of the fuel in the plane was used, these "kingfishers" were much faster. Of course, they also completed the bombing mission.

When the bombers of the Tang Imperial Navy left the sky over Ryukyu Island, the Japanese army came to its senses from the shock. Those "Zero Battles" who were panicking in the sky also landed one after another on several field airfields that had not been bombed. Counting from the bombing of the Imperial Army Air Corps, the entire bombing operation lasted three and a half hours, and in these three and a half hours, the Japanese army experienced the same feeling as when the Tang Imperial Navy was suddenly attacked here. However, at this time, Tan Renhao on the "Taizu" was in a dilemma.

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