Zhang Meng remembered that when the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, it was also because the water depth of Pearl Harbor was shallow, and the torpedoes would sink into the mud after being dropped. To this end, the Japanese army installed a wooden cross plate at the tail of the torpedo to slow down the sinking speed of the torpedo after entering the water and increase buoyancy.

Zhang Meng called the weapons engineer and ordered them to modify the torpedo tail according to this principle.

Due to the rush of time, the time for the attack has come. In order not to give the Japanese army time to prepare, Li Jianhui decided to set off immediately. Without torpedoes, he believed that he could sink Japanese battleships with aerial bombs alone.

Zhang Meng agreed to Li Jianhui's request, so all the Hellfires were loaded with aerial bombs and took off. The several Hellfire fighters that had been lost before had been replenished from the spare planes in the hangar at this time, and the backup pilots came to fly them, so that the bomber formation and the fighter formation were restored to full strength.

The engineers continued to hurry up and modify the torpedo tail, and finally half an hour after the departure of the group, the engineers modified a dozen torpedo tails to be installed with wooden cross tails. Although it was a little rough, Zhang Meng was still determined to give it a try, and ordered eight torpedo reconnaissance planes to carry these torpedoes to fly to Laolao Bay to participate in the operation.

When eight torpedo reconnaissance planes flew over Laulau Bay, the battle was still raging.

In addition to the two super battleships, the Nagato and the Mutsu, the other four battleships and escort destroyers of the Japanese battleship detachment were all sunk.

The fire in the bay is raging, and the smoke of gunpowder is billowing out, covering the sky and the sun, as if the end of the world is coming.

When many Japanese warships sank, fuel continued to leak out. Two-thirds of the entire sea surface of the Bay of Laulau was soaked in fuel and ignited by the flames of war.

The sea was burning, and the thousands of Japanese survivors who had fallen into the water felt as if they were in purgatory. Burned by the flames, choking on the poisonous smoke and coughing up blood, he dived into the water to avoid it, and was soon forced to suffer from suffocation.

They swam desperately to the shore, even at the cost of breaking into the fire zone, but they still didn't get what they wanted. Most of the aerial bombs of the Tang bombers fell on the sea around the Japanese ships, and each time they exploded. It will set off huge waves hundreds of meters high, pushing these surviving Japanese soldiers farther into the sea, and some of the diving Japanese soldiers were suddenly stunned. Sink directly to the bottom of the sea and drown.

The lucky few were pushed to the coast with the help of the blast wave, but right on the beach, several Tang Army raptor ships flew over the sea and were strafed by a burst of machine gunfire. All these Japanese sailors were slaughtered. Blood stained the beach red.

No one could escape alive, and the Tang Army did not allow it, especially the Northeast pilots of the Raptor Squadron, who stared at the beach and immediately flew over to kill them whenever Japanese sailors came ashore.

"Boom!"

The battleship Nagato was hit again by multiple aerial bombs, as if several huge craters had been opened on the ship, and flames erupted from the craters hundreds of meters high. A huge mushroom cloud rises into the sky.

The anti-aircraft artillery on the Nagato had long been muted, and most of them were destroyed by the aerial bombs of the Don Army. Even if there are a few that can continue to be used, no one is doing it anymore. The Japanese troops responsible for operating the anti-aircraft guns had already been wiped out under the suppression of the fire of the Tang Army's Raptor ships, and occasionally a few Japanese soldiers climbed up to play heroes, but they could not hit the Tang Army's planes, and soon the Tang Army's planes turned around and flew in, and they were also slaughtered.

Shinozuka stood inside the command tower, the only place of safety. As the pride of the Japanese Navy, the battleship Nagato has been beaten to the point that it is not even recognizable at this moment, the entire ship island has been razed to the ground, two of the four 40-centimeter giant gun turrets have been blown away, and the two huge barrels of the other turret that are more than ten meters long and as thick as two people have been twisted into a twisted shape by the terrifying explosion of the Tang Army's aerial bombs, which is quite terrifying.

Only one of the main gun turrets was still firing, and they could no longer see the target, firing only to prove that they were still fighting.

"Boom!"

The No. 4 gun barrel of the No. 2 gun position of the Nagato opened fire again, and at the same time as the cannon was discharged, the entire battleship trembled violently, and many parts that had been loosely damaged by the bombs suddenly became in an uproar, and screws and rivets fell to the ground.

It was pitch black around the Nagato, shrouded in thick smoke, and the Japanese gunners didn't know where the shot had just gone, but a Tang Army fighter in the sky could see it clearly.

"Little devil, this is playing self-harm! The Nagato actually gave the Mutsu a shot! ”

Through the radio intercom, all the pilots of the Tang Army knew about it, and they immediately burst into laughter.

In order to confirm it, several Tang Army fighters specially turned over a few heels and penetrated into the black smoke, approached the Mutsu to take a look, and sure enough, a huge black hole more than two meters wide had opened on the port side of the Mutsu, which was billowing black smoke.

It was 305 mm thick special steel armor that could withstand a direct hit from a 410 mm shell at a distance of 20 km. Now it has been opened a hole more than two meters wide, apparently the result of the direct fire of the Nagato's main gun just now.

"Sure enough, it was self-harm!"

The battleship Mutsu was originally relatively strong, but it was bombarded by the Tang army with more than a dozen 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and the entire superstructure had been razed to the ground, leaving only one battleship hull, but it was not yet sunk, because of its strong armor protection, it had not been completely penetrated.

Now the port side of the Mutsu was blasted open by a cannon of the battleship Nagato, and the sea water poured into it violently, and the tens of thousands of tons of steel giant ship finally could not withstand it, and in less than two minutes, more than 6,000 tons of seawater were poured in, and it began to capsize in an instant.

"The Mutsu has finally fallen, and now the Nagato is left."

"Whoever still has a bomb, go give it a few more hits. The Nagato has no ability to resist, so it is safe to approach it and drop bombs. ”

Li Jianhui shouted for a long time, but not a single bomb was gone.

In the past, the bomber pilots were all grabbing credit, and everyone rushed up together at the first time, scrambling to throw all the bombs to the Nagato and Mutsu two ships, but now there is not a single bomb left.

"Do you have to do it again?"

Li Jianhui was considering whether to return to the plane and do it again, when good news came over the radio radio that eight torpedo reconnaissance planes had arrived on the battlefield.

"Okay, let you try it and see if the modified aviation torpedo works. If it works, we will have a way to run into a seaport similar to Laulau Bay in the future. ”

"Understood!"

Eight torpedo reconnaissance planes were carrying modified 900-kilogram aviation torpedoes and slowly descended in altitude, and in order to slow down the torpedo as much as possible in order to slow down the torpedo entering the water, the eight torpedo reconnaissance planes flew as slowly as possible. Fortunately, the Nagato was shrouded in black smoke, and the thousands of Japanese soldiers on it were either killed or wounded, and even if there were still alive, they could only watch the torpedo machine approach.

"Click! Click! Click! ”

Eight torpedo reconnaissance planes dropped aviation torpedoes at the same time, and Li Jianhui in the sky immediately rolled his eyes, he shouldn't have projected them all at once, so he should try them first to see if there is any effect, this is really too wasteful.

"Float up!"

Sure enough, four of the eight torpedoes floated up, and the other four still stuck in the mud on the bottom of the sea, perhaps because the hastily modified torpedo tail was not enough.

"Now the Nagato is dead!"

You must know that the Tang Army's 900-kilogram aviation torpedo has a strong explosive power, far exceeding the current submarine-launched black-headed torpedoes of Shijie countries, reaching 1.5 times its explosive power.

Four torpedoes passed at a depth of two meters below the surface of the sea at a speed of 55 knots, dragging a long bubble tail flame and crashing into the port side waterline of the Nagato at high speed.

"Boom! Boom! ”

Four torpedoes hit the port side waterline of the Nagato one after another, making an unstoppable loud sound that shook the heavens and the earth. The Nagato's 305 mm waterline belt armor was instantly penetrated, stirring up huge waves hundreds of meters high.

Under the waterline was the weakest part of the battleship, where the engines, fuel and ammunition were stored, and the violent explosion spread to the fuel tank and ammunition depot, causing a martyrdom.

"Boom!"

There was another series of loud bangs, and the entire battleship Nagato exploded, and the steel battleship was like the earth cracked in an earthquake, and the fire burst out like magma, rushing into the air thousands of meters in the air.

The flames lit up the sky of the entire Laulau Bay, and the smoke billowed and swallowed the heavens and the earth in the blink of an eye.

The nearby Tang fighters climbed urgently and stayed more than ten kilometers away from the explosion zone, and the battleship was too dangerous to be killed, and the sky more than ten kilometers away was filled with large pieces of dust and fragments after the explosion.

Looking at the Nagato from afar, the tens of thousands of tons of huge hull could be vaguely heard creaking in the smoke, and the straight hull was instantly blown into three pieces, and it was sinking rapidly at the speed that I saw.

Click! Click! Click!

The pilots in the back seat of the torpedo reconnaissance plane hurriedly took pictures of the spectacular scene, and the cameras in their hands were usually used to shoot ground intelligence from the air, but they really couldn't help but take pictures at this time.

One of the photos is taking a formation of dozens of birds of prey and hellfire of the Tang Army flying out of the billowing black smoke of the big explosion, and behind them is the shocking scene of the moment of the martyrdom of the battleship Nagato, this photo has since been cited as a classic, and has become a quoted photo on the front page of Shijie newspapers the next day, becoming ironclad evidence that the Tang Empire showed off its strength and flattened the Japanese Combined Fleet.

"The Nagato has been sunk!"

"We won!"

The sound of the radio was broadcast in the cabins of the ships of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group, and after hearing the news, all the officers and men of the Tang Army immediately shouted loudly in celebration.

On the bridge of the aircraft carrier Zhiguo Tianwang, Zhang Meng and a group of generals personally greeted the warriors of the Tang Army who had returned triumphantly, and celebrated with them the joy of annihilating the Japanese battleship fleet.

"Your Highness, all six active battleships of the Japanese army have been sunk by us, and little Japan is finished this time!"

Li Haichen couldn't help but sigh with emotion, everything seemed to be in a dream, an incomparably powerful Japanese combined fleet was defeated by the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group in this way, and all the battleships that seemed impossible to sink were sunk, which was absolutely unthinkable to him before, but now under the leadership of Zhang Meng, it has come true.

Looking at Zhang Meng, Li Haichen admired him and admired him in his heart, and just like the eyes of other generals and soldiers looking at Zhang Meng, they all spewed out the flames of fanatical worship. (To be continued......)