readx; The first group of bombers rushed forward under heavy artillery fire, and under the coordination of the long planes, the group of planes remained in a tight formation, and it was forbidden to drop bombs individually, and after the loss of two planes, the enemy planes finally rushed over the fleet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lie down!" Cao Jin looked at the countless small black dots in the sky that were gradually getting bigger, shouted hoarsely, and quickly fell on the deck. Immediately afterwards, I saw a red light rushing in front of me, and then there was an explosion like the sky was cracking, and the thick black smoke and water splashed onto the deck together, and there was a raging fire near the bow of the ship, and the warship jumped upwards violently, almost overturning Cao Jin, he had just struggled to get up, wanting to check the damage to the fort, but there were several more violent explosions, and a hot wind swept across his cheeks, bringing a strong smell of burning.

Cao Jin hurriedly grabbed the anti-aircraft machine gun beside him, barely steadying his body on the shaky deck. He was also surprised that the fort was intact, except that the reinforced cement layer had been cut off in a few thick pieces, and the part above the waterline on the side of the ship was recessed.

Cao Jin, who had survived the disaster, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly dispatched some soldiers to the deck to extinguish the fire, and then commanded the rest of the soldiers to continue firing in the air, making every effort to suppress another round of offensive by enemy aircraft.

Just as the officers and men of the battery regained their consciousness and threw themselves back into their gun positions to prepare for a decisive battle with the Japanese army, the second group of bombers rushed over and dropped bombs horizontally again. More than 20 bombs fell on the water and the hull between several batteries, and the two anti-aircraft machine guns on the Cao Jin battery were blown up, and the two machine gunners were blown to pieces! Since the bombs dropped by the Japanese army were all 80 kilograms and did not cause relatively much damage to the hull and antiaircraft guns, the anti-aircraft batteries continued to return fire with rapid firepower.

The army soon discovered the problem and immediately changed their tactics, dropping bombs on the batteries as much as possible, so as to greatly kill and injure the opponent's personnel.

The commanders of the batteries invariably changed the original precision shooting to barrage shooting, weaving a dense network of fire in the air with continuous shells and machine-gun bullets, completely enveloping the sky over the three batteries. Although this method of fighting consumes ammunition quite quickly, it succeeds in disrupting the formation of enemy planes and driving them all above the clouds. Unable to accurately distinguish the target, the enemy aircraft could only bomb at high altitudes, and as a result, until all the bombs they carried were dropped, they did not cause further damage to the anti-aircraft batteries, and in the end, they had to fly back in disgrace.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the bombers returned again, and having learned the lesson of the failure of the attack in the morning, they themselves replaced all the bombs on the planes with 250-kilogram bombshells to deal with the solid anti-aircraft batteries.

Inspired by the spirit of bushido, the pilots gave up the tactic of charging in a dense formation, and relied entirely on their own skillful flying skills to penetrate the forts from all directions, dropping bombs even if they were hit by the enemy's artillery fire. In an instant, huge columns of water rose from the surface of the water, and shrapnel from the explosion of the bombshell flew everywhere, causing great losses to the Chinese soldiers and countless holes in the hull.

However, as expected, the reinforced steel and cement layers neutralized most of the impact, and the battered anti-aircraft batteries stubbornly held out under the enemy's indiscriminate bombardment, and retaliated against the attack with more heavy fire.

After half an hour of air raids, the Chinese army lost three more bombers, and although the squadron also suffered nearly 100 soldiers, the three batteries still stood on the sea frontier, silently laughing at the incompetence of the Japanese army.

After the enemy planes returned home, the port of Fuzhou immediately dispatched speedboats and a large number of medical and technical personnel to the fort to rescue personnel and equipment, and replenish ammunition.

After receiving the report, the commander of the aircraft carrier pondered for several hours and finally found the best way to deal with the anti-aircraft battery, thus setting off another round of fighting.

At half past five o'clock in the morning of April 6th, Cao Jin walked out of the warehouse and slowly came to the side of the ship smeared with a thick cement layer, the morning breeze blew in his face, with a little coolness, and a pale red morning glow was revealed in the middle of the clouds in the eastern sky. A few faint floating clouds, scattered sparsely in the clear blue sky, wandering leisurely in the breeze; A sudden morning breeze blew on the sea with a cold air, which completely dispersed the water mist, revealing dozens of military planes.

With the terrible sound of air defense sirens, the artillerymen drilled out of the cabin one after another, rushed to the deck, and quietly waited for the arrival of enemy aircraft; Twenty anti-aircraft guns and several anti-aircraft machine guns stood tall with their heads held high, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed diagonally forward; The electric bomb feeder continuously delivered shells and explosives packs to the gun positions, and the artillerymen who were waiting for the battle had already put on heavy protective suits and stared solemnly and silently in the direction of the attacking army.

"Twenty-seven enemy planes, due east, two thousand at a height and four thousand five at a distance!" The lookouts loudly reported the location of the enemy aircraft.

Cao Jin raised his binoculars and carefully observed the situation of the enemy plane: the roar of the motor became louder and louder as the distance gradually decreased, and the figure of the enemy plane became clearer and clearer, and the huge torpedo hanging under the belly of the plane suddenly appeared in his field of vision, which surprised him!

Realizing that it was impossible to destroy the floating battery directly from the air, the cunning army dispatched all the "Type 97" carrier-based attack planes, each carrying an 800-kilogram torpedo, to prepare to deal with the battery by attacking large surface ships.

Cao Jin, who had participated in the renovation of the fort throughout the whole process, knew that the part below the waterline of the warship had not been reinforced at all, and it was impossible to resist the attack of the torpedoes. Then he turned around and shouted to the chief engineer: "Lift anchor at once and make a serpentine maneuver!" ”

The 88-mm anti-aircraft guns and the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns roared at the same time, countless shells rushed towards the attack planes, and the anti-aircraft machine guns poured out a more dense rain of bullets.

The nine attack planes of the first echelon were the first to break away from the formation and flew head-on, and the skilled pilots of the Yue army easily and freely rode the planes through the middle of the rain of bullets, and then slammed the nose of the plane, and dived rapidly downward from a high altitude, until the altitude was reduced to less than 100 meters above the water surface, and then resumed horizontal flight, and then approached the battery at high speed.

It was very difficult for the anti-aircraft guns to deal with such ultra-low-flying targets, and the battery could only lower all the dozen anti-aircraft machine guns and fire horizontally to block the approach of enemy planes.

Cao Jin clearly saw rows of machine-gun bullets spraying out from the nose of the machine, and the bullets with the light of fire kept whistling past him, but he fearlessly commanded the four anti-aircraft machine guns to attack with all their might.

At a distance of 1,500 meters, the enemy plane at the front was enveloped by an anti-aircraft machine gun fire net, and the plane, which was not protected by armor, suddenly lost its balance and rushed headlong into the water, but before the Chinese soldiers on the battery could give a celebratory cheer, the enemy plane struggled with a bang, and the nose of the plane was straight up, straight into the blue sky.

Seeing that the enemy plane was about to escape, the 20 antiaircraft guns that had been waiting for a long time opened fire at the same time, and the large and small shells quickly covered the airspace several hundred square meters wide, and the attack plane was like a tiger's den as soon as it came out of Longtan, and was immediately torn to pieces by the dense shells, and a huge fireball exploded in mid-air.

At this time, the remaining eight attack planes had already rushed to a position less than 500 meters in front of the battery, quickly split into three, adjusted their positions, immediately pressed the launch switch, and then sharply pulled the longitudinal rod and climbed sharply, just exposing their bellies to the anti-aircraft artillery. The dense shells struck in an instant, and the two planes could not dodge, and were blown in two in the air, falling straight into the sea with a dazzling firelight.

Eight huge torpedoes weighing 800 kilograms jumped into the water with a "plop" and after diving sharply for 60 meters, they raised their heads, started the motors, and floated upwards with their heads held high.

Cao Jin's huge hull of the floating turret had just twisted at a very small angle when a torpedo hit the middle of the ship's side, and he was so shocked that he jumped a few meters away, and as soon as he stood firm, he felt the hull leaning forward. He hurriedly held on to the side of the ship and looked down, only to see a hole more than a meter wide in the center of the hull, and the raging sea water kept spewing people into the cabin, fortunately, another torpedo slipped less than five meters away from the stern, so that his battery avoided the fate of sinking immediately.

Cao Jin hurriedly shouted: "All the non-combatants are all blocked below, and the others continue to fight!" ”

The chief engineer immediately rushed down with more than 20 soldiers, doing his best to close the gap and restore the balance of the hull, while the artillerymen who held the gun position quickly prepared under the command of Cao Jin to meet the second wave of the attack.

The battery on the right side managed to evade the attack of three torpedoes due to the excellent performance of the captain, but the battery on the left was not so lucky, the exploding torpedo first broke the large shaft of a propeller, and the sea water poured into the cabin from the gap, and before the fighters could enter the cabin, the other two torpedoes hit the side of the ship near the stern, and the hull quickly tilted down, and the artillerymen on the deck had difficulty even standing, let alone continuing the fight, at this critical moment, Eighteen planes on standby in the sky rushed down in one go!

The soldiers on the left turret saw that they were about to overturn, so they simply gave up their useless efforts, and the artillerymen stuck to the gradually sloping gun position, and did their best to shoot shells into the air, and even a few soldiers threw themselves behind the 203-mm main gun, pushed the huge shells, and fired the shells accurately into the middle of the group of planes that were rushing in a dense formation. Unexpectedly, this shell actually caused unprecedented damage to the Yue army - two attack planes hit the shrapnel, disintegrated in the air, and fell into thousands of fragments into the sea.

At the same time, the other two batteries also ushered in a critical moment of life and death, the attack aircraft group dropped torpedoes at a distance of 800 meters, and then divided to the left and right, in an attempt to get rid of the anti-aircraft fire with side flights.

Seeing that it could no longer dodge, Cao Jin's battery gave up evasion and concentrated all its firepower to attack the Japanese planes, and the two enemy planes could not dodge, they were caught by the anti-aircraft fire net, and they were blown to pieces in the air, and the wreckage of the aircraft turned into very small fragments and fell on the deck of the fort. Immediately afterwards, four torpedoes hit the hull of the ship one after another, and in the earth-shattering explosion, huge waves rose on the sea surface around the fort dozens of meters high, and boiling white foam kept gushing on the cusp of the storm. The hull of the ship jumped sharply, then fell sharply, and slammed heavily on the water, and the sea water suddenly rose up, as if it was about to flood the fort at any moment, and just when the hearts of the warriors were like ashes, a miracle appeared:

The hull has been straightened again!

Cao Jin immediately ordered all the personnel to go to the cabin to close the watered cabin, and do their best to stabilize the hull, otherwise how can they be worthy of the opportunity given by God!

The battery on the left side was excited by three more torpedoes, and with several violent explosions, the black smoke rushed into the sky horribly, the hull made a terrible sound of metal breaking, the sloping aft deck was already just over a meter away from the sea, and the inky black heavy oil flowed out to the sea, and the commander of the battery immediately gave the order to abandon the ship.

The right battery was finally hit by a torpedo in the bow of the ship, after dodging three torpedoes in a row, and the cabin began to flood.

After throwing the torpedoes, the attack planes immediately turned around and headed east, and the two batteries on the sea seized the time to close the gap, and then, less than twenty minutes after the first batch of enemy planes left, twenty-two bombers appeared over the batteries!

Faced with the dense anti-aircraft fire network over the forts, the Yue army rushed up without hesitation, repeatedly dived and attacked, dropped bombs one after another, and set off huge waves around the two forts.

A 250-attack bombshell exploded on the water a few meters away from the middle battery, and the longitudinal axis of Cao Jin's anti-aircraft machine gun was completely broken. The huge reaction force made it very difficult for Cao Jin to even hold the body of the gun, and the violent beating of the muzzle of the gun increased his burden, and after shooting hundreds of bullets, the machine gun finally came out of his hand, and he found that his palm had been burned by the scorching body of the gun with several scars, sending out a pain that pierced the heart.

At this time, the starboard side of the hull was severely damaged, the ammunition compartment also began to flood, and the compartments that had just been blocked burst one after another under the horizontal bombardment of enemy planes, and countless holes of different sizes appeared near the waterline, and even the sealing of the cabin had no effect, and what was worse was that the cabins above suddenly burst into flames, burning from below to the deck.

Cao Jin had no choice but to give the order to abandon the ship, so that only the right battery was left to fight alone.

The enemy planes then concentrated all over the battery, forming a circle, and attacked the battery with the tactic of dropping bombs in a hurry.

At this time, the gunners and machine gunners suffered heavy casualties, and the ammunition depot began to be flooded, and the commander immediately ordered all non-combatants to fill the gun positions, and the wounded combatants also held their posts, maintaining the density of fire. At the same time, the fort slowly turned the bow of the ship and galloped towards the shore, hoping to save the more than 10,000 tons of steel.

The two enemy planes were covered by a net of fire and twisted into pieces in the process of diving, and the rest of the planes poured bombs down regardless of it, the hull continued to tremble in the dense sound of explosions, smoke and flames rose from all over the deck and hull, and the crew gradually increased casualties under the attack of a large number of near-miss bombs and direct hits on the hull bombs, and the intensity of anti-aircraft fire gradually decreased, and finally, finally fell completely silent!

The frenzied Japanese bomber group continued to relentlessly drop bombs and strafe until all the bombs were dropped, and the out-of-control battery ran aground on the beach after continuing to advance for several hundred meters, and the soldiers who had already landed looked at the battery in the firelight, their eyes flashing with swooping flames.

After two consecutive days of fighting, the three floating air defense batteries built at great cost were all destroyed by the Yue army, and the troops stationed in the forts also lost more than half, which can be said to be a complete failure, and also proved that relying on simple passive defense could not effectively contain the air raids of the Yue army, and under the stubborn resistance of the defenders of the forts, the Yue army also paid the price of more than 10 aircraft, but for the powerful Yue Ben naval aviation, it was only a drop in the bucket, and it did not seem to affect its continued air raid on Fuzhou to launch more fierce air raids.

After Gao Fei received the report of the defeat of the air defense battery, he immediately felt very nervous: After losing the outermost air defense position, he could only rely on the searchlights and antiaircraft guns arranged on the commanding heights around the city to cooperate with each other to block the Japanese bombers, and there was a danger of being broken through by the enemy planes at any time! Fuzhou is not only the political and economic center of Fujian, but also the location of the training center.

Despite his reluctance, Goofy had to start thinking about sending his air force to deal with the bombers.

By the end of March, Fujian's air force had three fighter squadrons, two of which were stationed in Longyan and one in Fuzhou.

Originally, Gao Fei wanted to wait for the formation of at least five fighter squadrons and one bomber squadron, and the output of the airfield could reach five planes per month, and then he would compete with the Chinese army for air supremacy in the Taiwan Strait, because he knew that with the strength of the several provinces under his control, he would have no chance of winning.

If you rush out without a certain scale, you will definitely end up with an empty shelf like the National Axe Air Force!

(To be continued)