After ten minutes of fierce battle between the Yenching Air Force of the Tang Royal Air Force and the fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy Ono Sasanori, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Japanese fleet was basically suppressed, and occasionally the sporadic anti-aircraft artillery of the Japanese ships counterattacked, but it was impossible to stop the next large-scale bombing of the Datang Air Force.

Since it was the first actual combat of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, there were still some deficiencies in the overall command. For example, the fighters of the Yanjing Air Force did not maintain close cooperation with the bomber group of the Jinling Air Force, so that when the fighters of the Yanjing Air Force frantically strafed the personnel on the Japanese ships, the Jinling Air Force kept ordering 200 FC-1 dive bombers to hover over the Japanese fleet because it was worried that the dive bombing would damage its own planes.

However, the other 100 seal torpedo reconnaissance planes of the Jinling Air Force were not affected, and they took advantage of the fact that the fighters of the Yanjing Air Force attracted the anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese ships, and immediately found a favorable and safe position to descend to the sea level until they fell to sea level, and then skimmed the sea along the sea level to attack the Japanese ships that they had locked.

Since it was the first time to participate in actual combat, although he had practiced many attacks on ships before, and the commander of the torpedo planes assigned all the targets when he was in the air, it was inevitable that some mistakes would occur when the torpedo squadrons descended to sea level to carry out orders.

Thirty seal torpedo reconnaissance planes of the 1st Torpedo Squadron were responsible for attacking the battlecruiser Kongo, the flagship of the Japanese fleet. Although the anti-aircraft firepower of the battlecruiser Kongo has been strengthened to a certain extent after the modification, it has basically been suppressed by the Tang fighters, but for the sea level, the direct-fire guns of the battlecruiser Kongo have turret protection and are not suppressed by the firepower of the Tang fighters.

When the 8 356-mm main guns, 14 152-mm secondary guns, and 12 76-mm rapid-fire guns on the battleship King Kong suddenly opened fire, especially the moment when the main guns fired, huge waves hundreds of meters high suddenly set off on the sea surface, and the blast wave and the air waves generated by the muzzles formed a circle of strong water wave force field and air wave force field on the sea surface around the King Kong, causing the fuselage of the Tang Army's torpedo reconnaissance plane to shake violently, and several torpedo planes were shot down by the shock wave. Some torpedo pilots with weak psychological quality suddenly had a lot of worries and fears, and their subconscious dodging actions often made them more nervous and unable to achieve the level of training on weekdays, and finally they hurriedly pressed the thunder button.

Click! Click! Click!

The hanger released the torpedo and threw it into the sea at a speed of 300 meters per second. Then the pilot urgently pulled up the plane to avoid being hit by the Japanese ship's artillery fire, and after a few spins, quickly took refuge in a safe area.

Because it is an air-dropped torpedo, the torpedo has the same initial velocity as the torpedo machine after dropping, which is very fast, which will make the torpedo directly penetrate into the sea more than ten meters deep, and make an upward parabolic motion under the sea surface and travel in a straight line more than 100 meters before floating to the sea surface.

It is difficult to grasp the best distance for dropping a torpedo dropped in a hurry, after all, if the torpedo is dropped too early, it is too early for the Japanese ship to evade by turning, accelerating, reversing, and so on. If it was thrown too late, the torpedo passed under the Japanese ship before it was too close.

Since the distance under the sea surface of the Japanese ship is only seven or eight meters deep and more than ten meters wide, the chance of a torpedo directly hitting the vital point is not very large, so for the torpedo pilots, they may not be able to hit the enemy ship if they deviate slightly.

In the end, thirty torpedo planes of the 1st Torpedo Squadron fired 27 torpedoes, but only two torpedoes managed to accurately hit the battlecruiser Kongo.

"Boom! Boom! ”

With two loud bangs, both torpedoes hit the port side of the battleship Kongo. The violent explosion tore a three-meter-long hole in the waterline armor of the port side of the battlecruiser Kongo, and the powerful blast wave was almost equivalent to a magnitude 7 earthquake, and the Japanese troops on the ship were instantly knocked down.

After the high-pressure flames and black smoke from the explosion erupted from the gap, the sea water poured into it violently, filling it with 3,000 tons of seawater in less than a minute, causing the King Kong to tilt badly to the left.

In order to prevent the Kongo from sinking, Captain Keinosuke Ikeda ordered the watertight compartment to be urgently sealed and filled with water to maintain balance. And cruelly sealed the Japanese sailors who retreated in the leaky area, causing at least 300 Japanese sailors to be drowned alive.

Keinosuke Ikeda took extraordinary measures to save the battlecruiser Kongo, which temporarily stopped sinking, but caused a serious loss of speed and could only sail at a turtle speed of seven knots.

At the same time as the Kongo was heavily damaged, seventy other seal torpedo reconnaissance planes launched fierce attacks on the three battle cruisers, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima.

Like the 1st Torpedo Squadron, they singled out the largest battle cruisers in the Japanese fleet. Among them, the 25 torpedo planes attacking the Hiei were lucky, they successfully dropped 21 torpedoes, and as a result, six torpedoes directly hit the port side waterline of the Hiei.

Accompanied by a series of violent explosions, it was like the earth shaking.

The Hiei was terminated from conversion into a battleship due to the London Naval Treaty, and the Japanese played a clever trick to advertise that it was a training ship, but in fact she was still a battlecruiser.

Because the Hiei was a thinly armored battlecruiser, her port side protection was much lower than that of the Kongo. When it was hit by six torpedoes, the entire port side was completely blown to pieces in an instant, and the sea water poured into it unscrupulously, like a sea beast with a bloody mouth that swallowed the entire port side in one bite.

The Hiei immediately flipped on its side and fell into the sea, and the thousands of Japanese sailors on board made a free-fall movement, the lucky ones grabbed their deputies and shook them in mid-air, and the unfortunate ones tumbled and fell along the inclined deck, and hitting any protruding object in the drop height of more than 20 meters would kill or cripple them.

For a moment, the sound of ghosts crying and howling on the Hiei was repeated in all directions.

The Hiei was so heavy that with a violent explosion on the starboard side, the smoke and flames erupted several hundred meters high, and the buoyancy of the Hiei's reserve was immediately gone. The nearly 30,000-ton battle cruiser sank into the sea in less than a minute, and the Japanese sailors who did not fall also sank into the sea with the Hiei, and they didn't even have time to escape, they were all swept to the bottom of the sea by the huge suction force of the Hiei's sinking.

As the other two Kongo-class battlecruisers, the Haruna and Kirishima had the same fate as the Hiei, and after the second ship was attacked by the remaining forty-five torpedo planes, the Haruna was hit by three torpedoes, one of which caused a fatal penetrating explosion, so that the captain of the Haruna had to give the order to abandon the ship. The Kirishima was hit by two torpedoes, one of which caused a fatal penetrating explosion and was also about to sink.

In comparison, the more than 3,000 Japanese troops on the Hiei had no chance to escape, and all of them were killed within a minute. The sinking speed of the Haruna and Kirishima was much slower, so the thousands of Japanese officers and men on the second ship were able to jump into the sea in time to survive.

At the same time that the 100 torpedo planes achieved results, the fighter group of the Yanjing Air Force also withdrew to the high altitude one after another, and if they had not run out of bullets, I am afraid they would not have given up easily.

They seem to have become obsessed with the feeling of strafing the Japanese army, and one by one they still look like they can't get enough.

The 200 FC-1 dive bombers of the Jinling Air Force, which had been hovering in the air for more than 10 minutes, finally had room to move their muscles, and when the Yanjing Air Force withdrew one after another, the bomber group of the Jinling Air Force began to dive towards the Japanese ships one after another.

The 200 FC-1 dive bombers of the Jinling Air Force were divided into 40 battle groups, each of which was organized into a group, and the targets were assigned according to the tonnage of the Japanese ships.

Although many of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns were still firing, their firing range could not hit the bombers that were diving down at an angle of almost 90 degrees, and they could only watch as the Tang bombers rushed down in line.

"Bah...... Creak...... Babble......"

The sky resounded with the characteristic screech of the FC-1 dive bomber.

At first, the officers and men on the Japanese ships had little impression of this sound, but when the first group of five FC-1 bombers dived to about 4,500 meters above the island of the light cruiser Kawauchi, the pilots of the Tang Army calmly pressed the projection button and accurately dropped the 300-kilogram aerial bomb on the island of the Kawauchi.

"Boom!"

There was a monstrous bang, but a huge cloud of flames and mushrooms instantly rose from the ship island of the light cruiser Kawauchi, and two-thirds of the ship island was destroyed in the blink of an eye.

Immediately afterwards, four other 300-kilogram aerial bombs fell on the Kawauchi one after another, exploding on the front and rear islands and on the deck.

"Boom!"

In an instant, the light cruiser Kawauchi, which lacked horizontal armor protection, was blown apart, and the main gun turret, which weighed hundreds of tons, was lifted to a height of several tens of meters. The smoke from the explosion soared into the sky, and the smoke covered the sky and the sea.

Only then did the officers and men of the other Japanese ships realize the seriousness of the problem, and the explosive power of the aerial bombs dropped by the bombers that swooped down was in no way inferior to that of torpedoes. In particular, the horizontal armor protection of Japanese ships is almost very thin, and it simply cannot withstand the bombardment of such aerial bombs.

In the blink of an eye, the Kawauchi light cruiser was out of sight, and she was completely covered in flames and smoke. But the Japanese officers and soldiers who had a little experience in actual combat knew that the Kawauchi must be finished.

"Bah...... Creak...... Babble......"

At this time, when the Japanese officers and soldiers heard the scream of the Tang Army's FC-1 dive bomber again, they suddenly became terrified, and they remembered this sound, the sound of locking their souls that they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

"Boom! Boom! ”

A violent explosion rang out from every Japanese battleship, accompanied by a fiery mushroom cloud, and every aerial bomb inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese ship.

For a Japanese light cruiser, a direct hit of three to five 300-kilogram aerial bombs was enough to inflict heavy damage on it, and if one aerial bomb hit the vital point, the light cruiser would be sunk in an instant.

All six light cruisers of the Japanese fleet were sunk in less than 10 minutes, of which two light cruisers, the Abukuma and the Naka, were hit by two 300-kilogram aerial bombs, causing a fatal penetrating explosion that directly detonated the ammunition depot and caused a tragic explosion, and both ships sank within 40 seconds.

Next, six heavy cruisers, the Furutaka, Kako, Aoba, Kinugasa, Myoko, and Nachi, were sunk one after another, and although their horizontal armor was a little thicker than that of the light cruisers, they still could not stop the huge penetration and explosive destructive power of the 300-kilogram aerial bombs dropped by high-speed dive. Among them, the Myoko was hit by two fatal penetrating hits, which exploded and sank within three minutes, and the other five heavy cruisers all held out for more than 20 minutes before sinking one after another.

Since the four Kongo-class battlecruisers had been attacked by a hundred torpedo planes before, and the hulls of the three battlecruisers, Hiei, Haruna and Kirishima, had been seriously tilted, and it was a matter of time before they sank, so in order to save ammunition, Colonel Zhang Keqiang, the wing commander of the Jinling Air Force, ordered to abandon the bombing of these three battlecruisers, and instead concentrated on bombing the Kongo battlecruiser, the flagship of the Japanese fleet.

Seeing the Japanese ships being sunk one after another, Rear Admiral Ono Sannori could be said to be crying without tears, he never thought that this would be the result.

He regretted it very much, but there was no regret medicine on this shijie.

He tried to escape, but the Tang army did not give him the opportunity and time to escape.

When thirty FC-1 dive bombers made a screeching dive sound over the battleship Kongo, Ono could only hope that the horizontal armor of the modified battleship Kongo could withstand the penetrating blast of the Tang Army's 300-kilogram aerial bombs.

"Boom!"

With a burst of violent explosions, Ono Sannori clung to the handrail to prevent him from being knocked down.

"Report to the general, our armor successfully withstood the bombs of the Don Army!"

As soon as the shipmaster reported, Ono Sannori hurriedly looked out, only to see that large holes had been blown up on the deck, and flames and smoke were rising, and the 169 mm thick steel plates had been blown open and rolled into twisted shapes, but the facilities below were saved.

Ono Sannori immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and the horizontal armor of the modified battleship Kongo was increased to 169 mm thick, which was just able to block the bombing of the Tang Army's 300-kilogram aerial bombs.

But Ono Sannori was not happy for a few minutes, and suddenly received a report that the Kongo's watertight cabin failed to block the huge water pressure and exploded directly.

It turned out that the King Kong was completed in September after the final modification test could be delivered to the Japanese Navy, but the Japanese Navy was going to attack the expedition to the Tang Empire at this time, and the King Kong was canceled because it was faster than other battleships.

Now the watertight door of the No. 7 watertight cabin after the modification is not passed, and the huge water pressure bursts after fifteen minutes, causing the boiler room and engine room of the King Kong to be submerged by seawater.

This news suddenly hit Ono Sannori's mood to the bottom, he knew that the King Kong was over, his fleet was over, and he couldn't go back.

Thinking of this, Ono Sannori sighed and slowly pulled out his short knife for disembowelment, his eyes were so sad and helpless. ~~~~~~~~~~~

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