The morning sun was kind, and the six Raptor heavy ships fought close to the six battleships of the Japanese fleet.

"Knock knock!"

Thunderous cannon sounded, but it was the battleship Fuso that opened fire first. Its 12 356-mm main guns and eight 152-mm secondary guns spat out tongues of fire, and one after another large-caliber shells roared into the sky, and finally exploded on the sea dozens of kilometers away, stirring up huge water columns one after another.

Immediately after, the three battleships Yamashiro, Hyuga, and Ise, as well as the main guns of a dozen destroyers near them, also opened fire.

For a while, the cannon roared, shaking the heavens and the earth, and the birds on Saipan Island soared and flew into the distance in flocks.

"Bastard, who made them fire?"

Shinozuka was suddenly furious, and the six Tang Army fighters coming in front of him were obviously coming to test their firepower. They obviously knew that the Japanese fleet was prepared, so they did not directly attack in large groups, but first sent six fighters to test the defensive firepower of the Japanese ships first, and found the blind spot of the air defense so that they could launch an attack more quickly.

"General, the Fusang and Yamashiro ships were transferred to participate in the war before completing the air defense modification, and they did not have large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, so they could only bombard them from a distance with their main guns, hoping to deter enemy aircraft."

The Fuso and Yamashiro are the oldest battleships in service in the main fleet of the Japanese Navy, which were originally modernized and refitted in April 1930, but the outbreak of the Tang-Japanese War and the annihilation of Ono Samurai's fleet caused the Japanese Navy to lose four Kongo-class battlecruisers and a number of light and heavy cruisers, considering the tense situation. The Japanese military department stopped the conversion of battleships.

As a result, the two battleships Fuso and Yamashiro did not have anti-aircraft guns on them, except for the main and secondary guns. At the same time, two battleships, the Ise and the Hyuga, were also discontinued. However, these two battleships were built later than the Fuso class, and at the beginning of the construction, they were equipped with 4 80-mm single-mounted anti-aircraft guns, although the modification was abandoned, but they were also stronger than the Fuso and Yamashiro.

Shinozuka temporarily transferred machine gunners from the defenders of Saipan and assigned more than 20 Type 89 whirlwind heavy machine guns to each of the four battleships to prepare for air defense, but for the admirals, it was really faceless to let the army go to the ship to assist in air defense.

"Idiot. Do you think this will deter the Tang Army? ”

Shinozuka scolded, but he didn't blame it anymore, and he also knew that those generals were holding their stomachs. The big war was imminent, and he didn't want to reprimand the commanders of the ships first, after all, he was also an agent.

"Knock knock!"

Seeing that Shinozuka did not blame, the battleship Mutsuku also opened fire. Eight 410-mm cannons emitted a terrifying cannon sound. The sky was cracked.

Artillery roared. Smoke fills the air.

This level of terrorist artillery bombardment is a huge threat to any surface fleet, but for the pilots of the Tang Army, except for the first time they saw a volley of the main guns of a powerful battleship, they were taken aback by this kind of terrifying artillery bombardment, but they quickly calmed down.

The six Don Raptor ships continued to approach the Japanese fleet, and soon the main guns of the Japanese battleships stopped shelling because the elevation angle was not enough and the fire height was insufficient.

Not long after, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery opened fire. At an altitude of three or four thousand meters, a fierce network of firepower was formed.

The Don Army's Raptor fighters judged the firing height of the Japanese ship's artillery fire based on the explosion point in the air, and at the same time constantly circled in the air. Attract the Japanese gunfire from all angles, judge the range of the Japanese gunfire, and look for their air defense blind spots.

As the Tang Army's Raptor ship battle continued to approach tentatively, more anti-aircraft fire on the Japanese ships began to attack, including small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and Japanese machine gunners transferred from Saipan, who attacked with Type 89 whirlwind heavy machine guns, but they were directly ignored by the Tang Army, only 7.7 mm caliber, and the threat to the Tang Army fighters was not great.

After testing the firepower of the ships of the Japanese fleet, the six Raptor ships quickly climbed to a high altitude and then returned to their respective formations and reported the situation to the commander.

"This Kobayashi is really powerful, I didn't expect that a powerful anti-aircraft fire network was arranged in a short period of time, and the blind spots were almost invisible."

Li Jianhui didn't know that the commander of the Japanese army had been replaced, and thought that it was Kobayashi Tazao commanding.

"The Fuso and Shancheng do not have anti-aircraft guns, and some of the temporarily deployed machine-gun firepower is difficult to pose a threat to our warplanes, so we can deal with these two ships first."

"In addition, the Ise and Hyuga only have a few 80mm anti-aircraft guns, and their firepower is not strong."

"First simple and then difficult, let's focus on Liliang to deal with the four battleships Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise and Hyuga, and leave the Nagato and Mutsu two ships to Zuihou, anyway, they are now being targeted by us, and they can't run away at all, we can take our time."

"That's right! Do what Brother Zhao wants! ”

After Li Jianhui and Zhao Changzhi discussed, they immediately took action.

The 108 Raptor ships were the first to dive down from the clouds, and they were divided into 18 squads to attack the gunners and commanders on the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft gun emplacement, attracting and suppressing the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft fire, and providing cover for the subsequent Hellfire ship bombardment.

The Japanese ships also hid a lot of anti-aircraft firepower, especially the battleship Nagato, where Shinozuka was located, and its sister ship Mutsu battleship, these two ships had strong anti-aircraft firepower, and they were not fully opened before, because they knew that it was the Tang Army's firepower test.

Shinozuka is worthy of being an excellent commander, but after all, he is also the first time to participate in a real naval and air confrontation, and the Japanese Navy's warships lack anti-aircraft artillery, which is a hard flaw. However, the performance of the Tang Army's fighters is strong, and Shinozuka did not stop the ships from firing just now, but also to see how strong the Tang Army's fighters are.

At a glance, Shinozuka's heart suddenly cooled. The speed of the fighters of the Tang Army was too fast and the firepower was fierce, and it was difficult for the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery to lock on to the opponent and open fire, because the speed of the fighters of the Tang Army was more than twice as fast as the speed of the target planes they usually trained, and the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery was a little uncomfortable for a while.

Obviously, the Tang Army could not give the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery a chance to adapt, and one after another Raptor ships swooped in at high speed, and four 20-mm machine guns opened heavy fire. The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery suffered heavy casualties.

Tang fighters focused on attacking four old battleships, the Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise, and Hyuga, and Shinozuka suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately ordered the artillery support of the Nagato and Mutsunoku. At the same time, the escort destroyers were ordered to support the four battleships as much as possible.

"Knock knock!"

The cannon roared, the streamers staggered, and the dense rain of fire hit the sky and exploded, and the entire sky over Laolao Bay boiled in an instant.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, a Tang Army Raptor ship was hit by an 80-mm anti-aircraft gun, which exploded in an instant volley, turning into a rain of fire.

"Xiao Liu!"

"Dog-day little devils. I'm going to kill you! ”

The wrecked Raptor belonged to Xiao Liu, and his companions' eyes were blood-red, and the anger of losing their companions made them frantically attack the Japanese ship.

The two Raptor ships alternately cover left and right in the air. Like two pendulum clocks, they swooped down from side to side, heading straight for the 80mm anti-aircraft gun.

"Click! Click! ”

Eight 20-mm cannons opened fire alternately, and a rain of bullets poured down, and the five or six Japanese officers and men on the gun emplacements were instantly beaten into a hornet's nest. Flesh and blood flying.

Then. A Hellfire heavy ship swooped down at high speed under the cover of its companions.

"Babble-babble-"

The shrill howling sound pierced the sky, and immediately made the Japanese soldiers frightened.

"Bomb, get out of the way!"

A Japanese commander shouted loudly.

At the same time, two 500-kilogram aerial bombs fell between the 5th and 6th turrets on the rear bridge of the battleship Fuso, and the Japanese officer and a dozen Japanese sailors were instantly knocked to the deck.

The two bombs had a huge kinetic energy penetrating force, instantly chiseled through the 75 mm thick horizontal armor belt, chiseled through three layers of armor in a row, and fell into the rear deck area restaurant.

Inside the restaurant. Several Japanese cooks who were knocked to the ground climbed up, and when they got closer, they were startled.

Those were two huge bombs. The darkness exudes an incomparably murderous aura.

One of the Japanese cooks had a sharp eye, and he noticed that the fuse of the bomb was spinning rapidly.

"Run—"

Before he could shout, two aerial bombs exploded, engulfing them in an instant.

Outside, a group of Japanese sailors lay on the deck and did not dare to get up, shivering at the two black holes that had been smashed open by aerial bombs.

It's terrifying, it smashed down from the sky and before it exploded, it had already smashed out the holes in the horizontal armor of the battleship, if it exploded.

A group of Japanese soldiers did not dare to imagine it, and the more they thought about it, the more frightened they became.

At this moment, they suddenly felt that the deck below them was vibrating violently, and at the same time, the area of more than 200 square meters where the No. 5 and No. 6 main guns in the rear deck area were located was rapidly rising, and the originally flat deck turned into a raised hillside in the blink of an eye.

What kind of liliang is this that can hold up that thick steel plate?

A group of Japanese sailors howled in fear.

"Boom! Boom! ”

With two loud bangs, the aft deck area was like a volcanic crater erupting, and a flame with a diameter of more than ten meters erupted out. This group of Japanese soldiers was immediately knocked into the air hundreds of meters in the air, and their bodies were instantly torn to pieces. Along with them, the battleship's main gun turret, which weighed hundreds of tons, was also lifted into the air, and the barrel of the gun more than ten meters long was twisted into a twisted shape.

Just two 500-kilogram aerial bombs actually blew off the aft deck area of the Fuso, the entire stern of the ship was broken, and two oars weighing more than 100 tons were lifted into the sky, violently rubbing against the twisted hull, braving pieces of sparks.

The battleship Fuso, which was constantly maneuvering to evade, suddenly stopped because it had lost its oars, and a fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the air at the stern, and thick smoke billowed out of the sky, obscuring the sky and the sun.

After all, the Fusang is an old-fashioned battleship, and its displacement of less than 30,000 tons is actually equipped with six twin 356 mm main guns, which will inevitably bring structural defects in armor protection, and being torn apart by two 500-kilogram aerial bombs is the inevitable result.

The sea poured ferociously, and after only two aerial bombs hit, the Fuso inevitably began to sink.

The Japanese officers and men on all the Japanese ships were dumbfounded, and as soon as the battle began, the battleship Fuso hung up, although it was the oldest battleship, but it only took two bombs and began to sink, which was also amazing.

"Bastard!"

Shinozuka's eyes were blood-red, and he almost gritted his steel teeth as he looked at the monstrous fireworks at the stern of the battleship Fuso. (To be continued......)