Chapter 113: Annihilation of the Japanese Fleet
The sudden attack of the Japanese kamikaze special attack force caused heavy losses to the Tang army without psychological preparation, and the first aircraft carrier battle group lost more than a dozen warships, which was the largest loss since the establishment of the Tang Navy.
As a result, the second wave of attacks by the First Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Army was canceled and the Second Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Army launched the attack instead.
At this time, the 2nd Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Tang Army had cut off the retreat of the Japanese fleet, and more than 400 fighters and 300 bombers took off and went to attack the Japanese fleet.
On the other side, on the aircraft carrier Shimoo of the Japanese fleet, Itsunori Onodera had already received a report from Zuihou of Onishi Takijiro, and the two hundred kamikaze special attack teams played a role, severely damaging more than a dozen warships of the Tang Army's aircraft carrier battle group.
But this was not the result that Onodera Itsunori wanted, he wanted to destroy all the Don Army aircraft carriers, and not some other escort warships.
"Get ready for a Zuihou fight!"
For a long time, Onodera Wunori sighed, he knew that this time the kamikaze attack team failed to achieve the purpose of the battle, then what was waiting for them would be the Tang Army's crazy retaliatory counterattack.
Sure enough, before he finished speaking, there was a roar in the east of the sky, and a large area of black pressure, like a black cloud pressing area, would be a storm.
The only remaining 50-odd Japanese Type 96 fighters took to the air to meet the battle, but in less than 20 minutes, a series of fire meteors slipped down from the sky, and all the Japanese fighters were shot down.
The gap in the number of fighters between the two sides was too great, so these 50 Japanese fighters had just locked onto the cockpit of the Tang Army pilots on the opposite side, and before they could open fire and shoot them down, countless shells were fired down from the top and bottom of them. Dense as rain. Eight or nine Raptor fighters of the Tang Army besieged a Japanese Type 96 fighter, which was obviously a one-sided massacre.
In the sky, Japanese fighters fell into the sea like turkeys lit with tails lit. The Tang Army fighter group roared. Then he dived down and began to attack the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft artillery in the face of the fierce blows of the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft fire.
This was to clear the threat for the ensuing Tang bomber group, and at the worst of all, it also served as the target of the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft fire, so as to reduce the pressure of the air defense attack on the bombers when they dived and dropped bombs.
The pilots of the Tang Army piloted one after another Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers, skillfully found the blind spot of the Japanese ship's air defense, and dived down at high speed in a vertical direction close to 90 degrees. Aerial bombs were dropped one after another.
The Japanese anti-aircraft fire opened fiercely, and the Japanese troops above had already fallen into a frenzy, and they knew that once they were hit by the aerial bombs of the Tang Army, the battleship was hit. The consequences will be dire.
Some Tang bombers were hit by the dense anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese ships and exploded in the air, but many more Tang bombers broke through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Japanese ships and accurately dropped aerial bombs on the Japanese ships.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
One after another, there were loud explosions. In the Japanese fleet, warships were constantly hit by bullets and large explosions occurred. Huge clouds of fiery red mushrooms rose into the sky.
"Zefeng is sinking!"
"The Beach Wind is sinking!"
"The Yakaze is sinking!"
"The heavy cruiser Fuso has been hit and caught fire!"
"The aircraft carrier Kunto was also shot, and the hull began to tilt!"
"The USS Worthy is under siege by enemy aircraft! Request a fighter to intercept it! ”
"All our fighters are gone!"
"More than 30 enemy planes are on the starboard side, coming towards our aircraft carrier Xiawei!"
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Onodera Gonori heard various reports in his ears, and his whole body was paralyzed. Although he had been mentally prepared before he came, knowing that it would be difficult for the Japanese fleet to return alive this time, he had fantasies that he could win by chance, just like the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle decades ago. But this time is different, Aunt Amaterasu's temple has already been blown up by the Tang Army. There is no god to bless the Japanese Navy.
Suddenly, a loud bang came, and the entire Shimoo aircraft carrier shook violently, and one of Onodera Itsunori fell down without standing firmly, kowtowing and bleeding.
"Shot in the starboard 3rd zone!"
"Shot in the starboard 2nd zone!"
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The aircraft carrier Shimoo was shot one after another, and the 25,000-ton giant ship swayed from side to side on the sea, and the Japanese troops on the deck rolled to the port side for a while, and then rolled in the direction of Xiangyou's side, and fell dizzy.
Not only did the Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers of the Tang Army carry aerial bombs, but more than 50 Hellfires this time replaced aerial bombs with aerial torpedoes.
When the Japanese ship was hit by an aerial bomb, the Japanese troops above would suddenly fall into confusion, and this was the time for the torpedo bombers to take advantage of the opportunity to approach and show their might.
After all, ten aerial bombs falling from a high altitude and hitting a Japanese ship are not as effective as an aerial torpedo directly opening a big hole in the Japanese ship from the side of the ship, because that big hole will directly introduce sea water, causing the Japanese ship to tilt and start sinking in an instant, which will bring the fear of death to the Japanese troops above.
The three Hellfires flew close to the sea level and dropped torpedoes less than 600 meters from the Japanese carrier Shimoo.
"Torpedo! On the port side! ”
Several Japanese soldiers immediately shouted, their faces were bloodless with fright, and they ran out desperately.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
Three aviation torpedoes hit the port side of the tail number one after another and exploded, setting off a huge wave 100 meters high and overturning some behemoths of more than 20,000 tons. The violent explosion instantly tore apart the waterline of the Shimoo with armor protection, exploded three black holes ranging from two to three meters each, and the fire and smoke erupted from the hole, and then the sea water poured violently into it, and in less than a minute, more than 3,000 tons of seawater poured in, causing the Shimoo aircraft carrier to tilt seriously to the left, and thousands of Japanese troops on it hurriedly wanted to escape, and as a result, they rolled down the deck into the sea.
The sound of steel breaking came out, and the Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the sea looked at them in shock, and the aircraft carrier Shimoo turned over and shot at them. Thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers swam out frantically, but most of them were directly shot to death by the capsized aircraft carrier, and with the rapid sinking of the aircraft carrier Shimoo, a huge whirlpool sucked all the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers back and swept to the bottom of the sea together.
Onodera Itsunori failed to escape, and was buried with Shimoo.
In the following half hour, the Tang bomber group sank the remnants of the Japanese ships one after another. The Tang Army was very angry, and the souls of the thousands of officers and men who died in the suicide attack of the First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group were to be memorialized, and the entire Japanese naval fleet and more than 30,000 Japanese officers and men would be used as burial objects.
The Tang army did not ask for any Japanese prisoners, and the fighter groups flew back and forth across the sea, shooting at the Japanese survivors on the sea, over and over again, until there were no more Japanese troops alive.
The Battle of the Yellow Sea ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, but the gunfire on the battlefield continued until dark, and the Tang army searched for any captured Japanese soldier as much as possible, and then killed it until dark. (To be continued......)