Over the Yellow Sea, hundreds of fighters of the Tang and Japanese armies fought fiercely.

Although the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group used radar to discover the hidden Japanese sneak attack group and made every effort to intercept it, what the Tang Army never expected was that these Japanese fighters were the kamikaze special attack team commanded by Onishi Takijiro, and they did not plan to return alive, but only wanted to die with the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group.

This kind of enemy is terrifying, for the pilots of the Tang Army, they grew up with the Tang Empire, and their experience is limited, and it is the first time they have encountered such a suicide attack enemy, and they lack a coping strategy for a while.

The Japanese pilots did not engage the Tang fighters at all, but drove the fighters with maximum horsepower and flew towards the Tang aircraft carrier battle group on the sea.

The Japanese Type 96 fighter was hung with a 700-kilogram equivalent aviation torpedo, and the Tang pilots could see it very clearly, and knew that the Japanese troops needed to drop the torpedo to a horizontal height very close to the sea surface before they could launch a torpedo attack on the Tang warship, so they kept biting the Japanese planes and chasing them to prevent them from having a chance to drop to sea level.

However, what the pilots of the Tang Army never expected was that after several Japanese fighters saw that they could not shake off the entanglement attack of the Tang fighters, their pilots immediately looked for a nearby Tang destroyer, and actually played a dive maneuver like the pilots of the Tang Army's Hellfire bombers.

At first, the Tang pilots thought that the Japanese pilots were doing evasive maneuvers to avoid being shot down. However, when these Japanese fighters did not pull up for a long time and directly collided with the nearest Tang Army Fengshen-class destroyer, several Tang Army pilots in pursuit were stunned.

"Southeast. 75 degree angle of fire, fire! ”

On the Tang Army's Fengshen-class destroyer below, next to a Vulcan dense array on the rear bridge. A second lieutenant officer of the Tang Army, holding a command knife, pointed at a Japanese Type 96 fighter plane that was diving, and gave the order to open fire.

"Southeast, 75-degree angle of fire, detect enemy aircraft, open fire!" In the driver's seat of the Vulcan Phalanx, five Tang Army archers shouted and repeated the commander's order, while each performing its own responsibilities quickly maneuvered the Vulcan Phalanx to turn, aimed at one of the Japanese planes and pulled the trigger.

"Dut...... Toot ......"

Vulcan's seven-barreled Gatling cannon rotated and fired at high speed. In an instant, a flame of several meters long was spitted out, and 50 shells of 30 mm caliber were fired every second, forming a dense network of fire in an instant. Cover the Japanese fighters that swooped down. The advanced optical sight locked onto the dive trajectory of the Japanese plane, and in just a few seconds, hundreds of shells exploded around the Japanese plane, and more than a dozen of them hit the Japanese plane at once. Make it explode in the air.

Meanwhile. This Tang Army's Fengshen-class destroyer, as well as a number of other Vulcan dense formations, shot down invading Japanese fighters in their respective airspace.

For a time, Vulcan was in a dense array, causing the suicide attack of these Japanese fighters to come to naught, and all of them were shot down.

The several Tang Army planes above naturally did not dare to follow and chase down, because they knew that the attack of the Vulcan Dense Array was an area-type indiscriminate attack, and it was easy to be injured by mistake.

Seeing that several Japanese planes were all shot down, several Tang Army pilots immediately breathed a sigh of relief. I was suspicious of the behavior of the Japanese pilots and thought that the other party was weird.

"Look over there!" One of the pilots shouted. Several other pilots in the same group hurriedly looked over.

I saw that in the sky above another Tang destroyer not far away, five Japanese Type 96 fighters actually dived with torpedoes. Four of the Japanese planes were hit by the Volcan dense array of the Tang destroyer and exploded in the air, but one Japanese successfully avoided the carrier-based anti-aircraft fire of the Tang army, and after breaking through the air defense, it did not pull up but directly rammed into the battleship.

"Boom!"

A ball of flames hundreds of meters high rose into the sky, and it was only seconds later that a deafening explosion was heard. At that moment, the 700-kilogram aviation torpedo on the Japanese plane was activated by the Japanese pilot, and the fuse was detonated on the Tang destroyer, and it died with it.

"Boom!"

A series of explosions came from the Tang destroyer, causing the battleship of more than 2,000 tons to explode and disintegrate in an instant, and the debris was scattered on the sea hundreds of meters away, with flames rising to the sky and gunpowder smoke billowing out.

At the same time that the Tang destroyer was destroyed by Japanese planes, many warships in the entire Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group were also facing the suicide impact of Japanese planes, and soon a number of Tang Army light cruisers and destroyers were attacked, among which the destroyers' armor was too thin and was blown to pieces in an instant, and although the light cruisers were slightly thicker, they could not withstand the big explosion, and they were severely damaged one after another, facing the danger of sinking.

"The destroyer Wind High sank!"

"The destroyer Fried-Crow sank!"

"The destroyer Fengjing has sunk!"

"The light cruiser Haiqi was heavily damaged and withdrew from the battle sequence!"

"The light cruiser Haiyue was badly damaged, the crew was ready to abandon the ship, and asked the command center to send a ship to rescue the survivors!"

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The communication room of the fleet headquarters was noisy, and all kinds of reports of battle sinking, damage, and heavy damage came out, which made Li Haichen frown, and couldn't help but scold: "Paralyzed, the little devil is going to play with Lao Tzu and end up!" ”

"Report to the commander, dozens of Japanese planes are rapidly approaching our aircraft carrier formation!"

"Order Liu Feiyun to stop this group of crazy people for me at all costs and beat them all down!"

In the sky, Lieutenant Colonel Liu Feiyun, who served as the captain of the escort alert aviation wing, was already sweating at the moment, not because he was afraid of death, but because he was worried that in the face of these crazy Japanese death squads, he would not be able to protect the integrity of the aircraft carrier battle group. After all, the speed of the fighters on both sides was comparable, and the Japanese fighters did not engage the Tang fighters at all, but rushed into the Tang warships below with all their might, and in this case, the Tang pilots appeared very passive.

"Attention all formations, now is the critical moment for the survival of my aircraft carrier battle group, and it depends on whether we can stop this group of crazy Japanese devils. Now listen to my orders, in order to ensure that the direction of the Japanese planes will not change when they dive into our warships below, I order everyone to bite the Japanese planes to the death, dive down with them, and be sure to shoot them down before the other side hits our warships! ”

"But in this case, our Vulcan Dense Array will be killed with us!" Concerns were raised.

"I know it's a dead death for everybody. But have you ever thought about it, if the Japanese plane crashes into our warship below, the loss will not only be one battleship, but also thousands of brothers on it, and if our aircraft carrier is destroyed, we will not be able to fall. So, now is the time to carry forward the sacrifice of the ego to save sentient beings. Take out your courage, I take the lead, I die, the deputy captain takes over the command, the deputy captain is dead, the squadron leader commands, and so on, fight to zuihou one person and one machine, and also kill the little devil of the dog day! ”

"Fight to zuihou one person and one machine, kill the little devil of the dog days!" In the public channel of the air force, there was a chorus of shouts from the pilots of the Tang Army, since they are not afraid of death, then what else do they have to say, for the fleet, for the empire, they are all men with their heads pinned to their belts, and their courage is no worse than the kamikaze death squad of the little devils.

Liu Feiyun gave an order, and all the Tang Army pilots pushed the throttle valve forward one after another, causing the Raptor ship battle to be strengthened to the maximum, and the speed soared to the limit, biting the Japanese fighters in front of them, and following the dive as always.

Click! Click!

The pilots of the Tang Army roared one by one, pulled the trigger and fired fiercely at the Japanese planes in front, completely ignoring everything around them, regardless of whether they would be hit by their own anti-aircraft fire, they had only one thought in their hearts, that is, they were desperate to kill the Japanese fighters and prevent them from ramming the Tang warships below.

At this time, the ships of the Tang Army on the sea have received an order, and all anti-aircraft fire salvos will shoot down one Japanese fighter after another, and it will inevitably affect their own fighters, but this is also a matter of no choice, from a military perspective, such a sacrifice is worth it.

However, the Vulcan Phalanx is not yet automatic, it needs to be operated manually, and there is no special computer system and radar fire control system installed on it, so it cannot shoot down all the intruders.

Similarly, the fighters of the Tang Army were biting the Japanese planes to the death, but it was unrealistic to shoot down the Japanese planes in just a dozen seconds.

In the end, more than 20 Japanese fighters crashed into the Tang warships below, including the main aircraft carriers, escort aircraft carriers, escort cruisers, destroyers, etc., causing huge losses and casualties to the Tang Army.

Among them, the four main aircraft carriers of the Tianwang-class are the key targets of the Japanese army. The aircraft carrier Tenwang was hit by six Japanese planes, most of the island was destroyed, and the flight deck was seriously damaged. Even if it had not sunk yet, the hull of the ship had been seriously tilted into the water, and Li Haichen had to give the order to abandon the ship and move all the crew to a nearby destroyer.

The other three Tianwang-class aircraft carriers were also injured to varying degrees, some of the islands were destroyed, and some of the decks were blasted into huge holes, but they were only injured.

The escort aircraft carriers are more miserable, these escort aircraft carriers are rebuilt from ordinary ships and transport ships, there is no armor protection, a Japanese fighter plane will cause devastating explosion and damage when it hits it, four of the escort aircraft carriers exploded and sank, and the other three escort aircraft carriers exploded and caught fire, although they did not sink at the first time, but they could not last long.

Although the losses inflicted on the Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group by 200 Japanese kamikaze planes were very large, the Tang Army's tremendous combat effectiveness displayed at the critical moment and the indomitable sacrifice courage of the pilots greatly reduced the success rate of the Japanese army's suicide attack, otherwise at least two-thirds of the Japanese planes would have crashed into the Tang Army's battleships, and it was possible that the Tang Army's No. 1 Aircraft Carrier Battle Group would have been completely destroyed.

For the Japanese army, this was a blow from the Japanese army, but unfortunately it failed to achieve the established strategic goals, and instead ushered in the frenzied retaliatory actions of the Tang army. (To be continued......)