On the bridge of the aircraft carrier Osumi, Onodera Itsunori looked at the sea in the distance with a blue face. Before the two planes fought, their own destroyer Waseda was sunk first, you must know that it was the most advanced destroyer of the Japanese army, and it was once praised as enough to shoot down any incoming aircraft, and at this moment it was undoubtedly a slap in the face, which had a huge impact on the morale of the Japanese army.

However, Onodera Itsunori is not discouraged, he still has dozens of warships to escort him, and he should be able to share a lot of attack pressure.

At this time, small formations in the Tang attack aircraft group successively lowered their altitude and swooped to attack the battleships on the periphery of the Japanese fleet, obviously they did not let go of any Japanese battleship and wanted to kill the entire Japanese fleet.

Five or six minutes later, all the Japanese carrier-based fighters had already taken off, and they immediately formed a formation to join up with the fighters that had taken off before, and met the invading Tang army plane group head-on in a defensive posture.

In an instant, hundreds of fighter planes from the Tang and Japanese sides were strangled together, and a fierce air battle broke out.

The Tang Army's Raptor naval warfare had the advantage of armor protection and powerful firepower against the Japanese Army's Type 96 ship battles, and the 7.7 mm caliber machine guns carried by the thinly armored Type 96 naval battles would be difficult to cause damage to the key parts of the Tang Army planes even if they hit them, and in turn, the 20 mm caliber machine guns carried by the Tang Army's Raptor naval battles would immediately cause fatal damage to the opponent once they hit the Japanese planes.

At the first exchange of fire, more than a dozen Japanese planes were shot down, and they either exploded in the air or fell into the sea with their long flaming tails in tow.

But soon several Don planes were also shot down, and their only weak point was the cockpit glass. The Japanese army had discovered this for many years of warfare with the Tang Army, so the Japanese pilots fired at the cockpit of the Tang Army as much as possible, penetrating the windshield and killing the Tang Army pilot. So as to achieve the goal of shooting down the opponent's aircraft.

However, in order to achieve this attack effect, it was often necessary for two Japanese planes to cooperate, one of which sacrificed itself to attract Tang fighters to fire at it, and the other Japanese plane dived and fired from above the side to shoot down the Tang plane. However, the Tang Army planes were also in a two-plane formation or a three-plane formation, and at this time, another or two Tang Army fighters would take the opportunity to shoot down the second Japanese plane.

In this way, the Japanese planes often had to pay two fighters to shoot down a Tang Army plane. Moreover, there is a certain probability, if it is not possible to hit the Tang pilots in the first place, it will be difficult to shoot down the Tang plane.

This loss was a big loss for the Japanese army, but they had no way to do it about the gap in aircraft performance. Only tactics can win opportunities.

The two military aircraft groups of Tang and Japan were strangled together. A scuffle broke out, and soon the clever Japanese fighters began to give up on engaging the Tang fighters head-on, and they began to go around in circles, looking for the Tang Hellfire ships with aerial bombs and aerial torpedoes to bomb them.

Because the Type 96 ship battle is equipped with French-made aircraft engines. Not weaker than the Raptor in speed. So this tactical maneuver can be carried out.

However, the Hellfire ship bombardment of the Tang Army was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it was also heavily armored and not weak, so it was difficult for Japanese fighters to shoot it down.

As a result, there was a dramatic scene on the battlefield, the Japanese Type 96 fighters fiercely pursued the Tang Army's Hellfire ships, and the Tang Army's Raptor ship battles fiercely pursued the Japanese Type 96 ships in the rear, and the two sides circled around the ships of the Japanese aircraft carrier battle group.

The Tang Army's Hellfire ship bombardment naturally wanted to bomb Japanese aircraft carriers or other warships. It was not easy to get started by the Japanese planes. I can only keep going around in circles looking for opportunities.

At the same time, the Japanese warships on the sea did not stop firing their guns, and they opened heavy fire on one Tang fighter plane after another, occasionally shooting down one or two Tang military planes.

After this kind of melee lasted for about 20 minutes, Colonel Zhao Wenyi, an air officer of the Tang Army, quickly made a judgment on the spot after some observation, and ordered the Tang Army fighter formation to give up chasing and killing the Japanese fighters, but to block and dismantle the Japanese fighters following the Tang bombers, so that the Tang bombers could get rid of the entanglement and carry out dive bombing or horizontal projection torpedoes on the Japanese ships.

The pilots of the Tang Army are well-trained and experienced in combat, and Zhao Wenyi only needs a little mention to let the pilots of the various flight squadrons, squadrons, and groups know what to do.

Subsequently, they divided a part of their wingmen to abandon the enemy planes that had been chasing after them, and went around to the Tang Army bombers and the Japanese fighters directly, and suddenly intercepted the Japanese fighters by blocking and dismantling them, so that the Tang Army bombers in front broke away from the tail pursuit of the Japanese planes and got the opportunity to attack the Japanese ships.

In the sky above the Japanese aircraft carrier Osumi, three Tang Army Hellfire carrier-based bombers were given the opportunity to dive down and let out a sharp whistling sound.

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery on the aircraft carrier Osumi suddenly opened fire on the three Tang bombers with all their might, intertwining into a dense anti-aircraft fire network.

The three Tang Army bombers marched forward bravely, and from time to time shells exploded in the vicinity, causing the fighters to tremble, but the Tang Army pilots were still resolute and fearless.

The long plane in front attracted the most Japanese artillery fire, and was suddenly hit, the pilot was killed on the spot, and the bomber dragged a long flame and swirled down, because it was a near-vertical dive bombing at the beginning, so even if the bomber of the Tang Army was hit, it would fall to the Osumi.

Rumble!

The Tang Army bomber crashed on the flight deck of the Osumi, and the two 500 attack-class aerial bombs carried on board were detonated as a result, instantly penetrating the flight deck armor of the Osumi, exploding a black hole more than two meters wide, affecting the area of the three floors below, and causing heavy damage to the Osumi in an instant.

At this time, the other two Tang Army bombers had already dived to an altitude of about 500 meters above the Osumi, dropped two aerial bombs under the belly of the plane, and then urgently pulled them up.

Four 500-kilogram aerial bombs fell, and the Japanese troops below were dumbfounded and hurriedly fled in all directions, and even the Japanese troops on several anti-aircraft gun positions forgot to fire, so that the two Tang bombers could take the opportunity to escape.

"Boom! Boom! ”

The two aerial bombs hit the starboard bridge, penetrated all the way to the underground floor and exploded, and the huge explosion force instantly shattered most of the bridge above, and a flame erupted like ground fire, shooting into the sky hundreds of meters high, turning into a huge cloud of black smoke.

At the same time, two other aerial bombs hit the carrier's anti-aircraft gun position on the port side, and four 120-mm anti-aircraft guns were instantly blown up, and the gun mount and gun barrel were separated, flying into the sea a few hundred meters away and falling.

This was followed by a series of large explosions, surrounded by twelve parallel gun emplacements, which were full of anti-aircraft shells, which exploded at this time, and suddenly there was a sea of fire, hundreds of Japanese soldiers died on the spot, and the more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were smart before did not run out of a distance of 20 meters, and they were also swept away by the blast wave, and their noses and faces were swollen, and they were seriously injured.

Onodera Itsunori was on the front bridge and was almost killed, but most of the bridge behind was blown up, and the front bridge was also affected, and the fire and smoke billowed out, making him scorched and embarrassed. (To be continued......)