Chapter 493: The Eagle Over Wuhan (9)

Just when the 26th Squadron of the Air Force was defeated in a fierce battle and the bombers were raging, reinforcements from the Chinese Air Force arrived.

The first to rush to the battlefield was the Fourth Brigade of the Air Force of the Republic of China, led by Captain Mao Yingchu.

The Fourth Brigade of the Air Force of the Republic of China, also known as the "Playing Card Squadron", has three squadrons, including the 21st, 22nd and 23rd. This is the main team of the Chinese Air Force, and it is also a glorious team. Since the beginning of the war, the Fourth Brigade has not fought with each other and has made many achievements. The three martyrs of the famous Air Force Four King Kongs, Gao Zhihang, Le Yiqin, and Li Guidan, all came from this brigade. Since the start of the war, the three captains Gao Zhihang, Wang Tianxiang, and Li Guidan have been martyred. Gao Zhihang is also known as the "god of heaven" and "the spirit of the air force", and even said that when the pilot gambled, he said, "If I do something wrong, I will meet Gao Zhihang when I go out." After Gao Zhihang was martyred, Chiang Kai-shek presided over a memorial service in Hankou, and later the Kuomintang was posthumously awarded the rank of major general of the Air Force, and the Fourth Brigade was also renamed the "Zhihang Brigade".

Mao Yingchu and Mao Bangchu are brothers, both are the nephews of Chiang Kai-shek's wife Mao, he was originally the squadron leader of the Fourth Brigade, and was promoted to the captain of the Fourth Brigade after the martyrdom of the brigade leader Li Guidan.

The officers and men of the Fourth Brigade who arrived at the battlefield saw that the bombers of the Chinese army were raging frantically, and the fighters of the Chinese army were encircling and annihilating the fighters of our 26th squadron.

Mao Yingchu's eyes erupted with fire, and he immediately ordered the first formation to attack the bombers of the Yue Army, and he led the main force to meet the fighter group of the Yue Army.

The first formation of the 4th Brigade was led by Dong Mingde, the leader of the 23rd Squadron. This Dong Mingde is also a famous air force martyr in history, with outstanding military achievements.

Dong Mingde is a native of Haicheng, Liaoning Province, graduated from the ninth phase of the Central Aviation School, although he is short, he is very brave in battle. At the time of the fall of Nanjing, the Chinese Air Force had only 36 aircraft of various types, and only two Hawk fighters could actually take to the skies. At that time, he believed that the Chinese Air Force had been completely annihilated, and there was no longer any threat from the air. But they couldn't imagine that the fighting spirit of the Chinese Air Force was more powerful than their bushido, and the two air force heroes Le Yiqin and Dong Mingde rushed into the blue sky with the only two Hawker fighters to meet a squadron of planes. As a result, nine fighters of the army attacked two of our fighters, but two of them were shot down and one was damaged. This battle can also be regarded as a tragic elegy for the Chinese Air Force in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, because the young air force hero Le Yiqin died because the parachute was not opened when he parachuted, and his life was forever fixed in the blue sky of the motherland.

Legends always happen under circumstances that people don't expect. After Dong Mingde returned to the flight, he replaced the oil lubricator, and the next day he drove the plane back into the blue sky alone with a determined heart. As a result, between Xuancheng and Guangde, Dong Mingde found a motorized unit of the Yue Army, which was the Xuancheng detachment of the Yue Army that was responsible for the roundabout attack on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The little devil was moving forward quickly and proudly, and Dong Mingde fell from the sky like an eagle and opened fire on the marching ranks of the Xuancheng detachment.

The devils, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese, could not have imagined that the killing god would come at this time, and they were immediately beaten to the point that people were overturned on their backs, cars, motorcycles, and armored vehicles were tumbling to the ground, and the soldiers were holding their heads and scurrying around, full of ugliness. Dong Mingde's rise to fight, driving the plane to chase the little devil and shoot wildly, and he had a hearty fight. As a result, a fighter blocked the footsteps of the Xuancheng detachment, and Dong Mingde blocked the Xuancheng detachment for a whole day with one person and one plane.

At this time, Dong Mingde had already been transferred from the Fifth Brigade to the Fourth Brigade, and he had been tempered by the flames of war, and his air combat skills had also been perfected. After receiving the order to attack the bombers, he directly took the 10 Il-15 fighters of the whole squadron and pounced on the devil bomber group.

The first group of bombers of the devils did not take much light in the competition with the four fighters of the 26th squadron, after all, they were not as agile as the fighters, and they had a large turning range, so they were easy to hit. As a result, after a few rounds, he was beaten down three by the 26 squadron. After the second batch of reinforcements came up, the bombers of the Japanese army joined forces with the fighter group and shot down and damaged four fighters of the 26th Squadron. Rampantly proud, the Japanese bombers began to bomb all the targets they thought were valuable.

The target that excites the devil pilots, navigators, bombardiers, and shooters the most is the people of Wuhan who are being evacuated. Those who stood in the streets watching the battle, and those who were running to the bomb shelters, became the targets of the little devils, and a bomb fell into a piece, and a shuttle machine gun hit a string. The flying blood and helpless cries fueled the arrogance of the little devils, and a devil bomber even dropped bombs on the church hospital with the Red Cross flag. This aroused the murderous name of the little devil even more, and immediately several bombers surrounded it, dropping bombs and strafing in turn, until the church hospital with the Red Cross flag was razed to the ground.

At this time, Dong Mingde and the brothers pounced, and the fighters were in a group of two, one group aimed at a Japanese bomber, chasing, rolling, and strangling the aircraft.

The machine guns spewed flames of revenge, the bullets swirled and flew, and a shuttle and a shuttle were fired at the plane, and the arrogant and proud bombers immediately exploded in the air one after another.

At this moment, the planes went crazy, and not only the bombers surrounded them, but even the fighters pounced.

Facing the devil fighters were the 21st Squadron of Liu Zonghan and the 22nd Squadron of Liu Zhihan of the 4th Brigade that followed Mao Yingchu's actions. The two squadrons were equipped with Il-16 and Il-15, which happened to be paired up to fight with the fighters of the Japanese army.

Zheng Shaoyu, the leader of the 22nd Squadron, is a native of Xiandu, Qu County, Dazhou, Sichuan, and is also a legendary hero. He was first admitted to the eighth phase of the Central Military Academy, and when he visited Hangzhou during the school, he clashed with the military police and was expelled from the school, so he had to return to Sichuan to study in the Suiding Union High School in Dazhou, and was admitted to the Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation School the following year, which began his air combat legend.

During the Battle of Songhu, Zheng Shaoyu went out with the four brigades, and since the battle, he has been promoted to deputy squadron leader. During the battle, Zheng Shaoyu transformed the "Confrontation Attack Technique" and promoted it in his own detachment.

The Air Force is different from other branches of the armed forces in that it is a matter of victory or defeat in that it is a matter of moments to determine success and success. In particular, in air warfare between China and China, our army strikes the strong with the weak and fights more with less, and this requires every pilot to be extremely brave and brave and regard death as if he were at home. It is in this situation that the "head-to-head attack" is produced, and to put it bluntly, it is a desperate collision.

Zheng Shaoyu transformed the passive and desperate factor of "attacking head-to-head" and changed the passive to the active, which was used in the regular operations of the Air Force. The specific method of action in actual combat is to aim the plane at the nose of the enemy's plane and violently crash through it. When he hit the appropriate distance, he pressed the nose of his plane down slightly, and immediately pulled it up, forming a wave-like forward attack line, drilling into the belly of the plane and firing. In this way, the hit rate is greatly improved, and it also effectively protects itself.

No, as soon as Zheng Shaoyu came up, he launched a "head-to-head attack" tactic against a Type 97 fighter. When the military pilot on the opposite side saw that the Chinese plane was going to fight hard with him, he panicked and hurriedly pulled up to avoid it. said that it was too late, and Zheng Shaoyu pressed the nose of the machine and drilled under the belly of the machine, and a string of bullets shot over, hitting the machine. It may have been that the bullet hit the fuel tank in the wings of the plane, and after about six or seven seconds, the plane caught fire and exploded.

Zheng Shaoyue didn't bother to look back at the magnificent scene of the explosion of the plane, because after he finished shooting, as soon as he looked up, the wingman of the plane was about to float over his head. This is really a rare opportunity, Zheng Shaoyu didn't think about it, as soon as he pulled the nose of the plane, another string of bullets hit, seeing that the belly of the machine was full of fire, Zheng Shaoyu showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and then he pulled up, ready to regain his advantageous position.

Without waiting for the plane to climb to the ideal height, Zheng Shaoyue clearly felt that the front windshield was shattered, and when he hurriedly lowered his head, a string of bullets flew and hit the steel plate of the back chair, clanging and clanging.

Zheng Shaoyu knew that he was being targeted by the little devil, so he hurriedly pressed the nose of the machine and made tactical evasion moves. Finally feeling as if he had gotten rid of the devil, Zheng Shaoyu hurriedly turned and climbed, but as soon as he turned around, he found that two planes were viciously pounced on the left rear above his head, and the nose of the plane sprayed tongues of fire, and even the hideous faces of the military pilots could be seen clearly.

Zheng Shaoyue was shocked, grandma's, she couldn't imagine that she would be pecked by a goose today. From this angle, one's own fighter plane is the target of the plane, and it is impossible to collide with the plane. Zheng Shaoyu closed his eyes, pulled the longitudinal pole, and stepped on the right rudder again, trying to make the fighter jump past from the right front of the plane. As a result, before the action was completed, Zheng Shaoyu felt a feeling of being torn in his shoulder, and then the aircraft engine turned off.

Zheng Shaoyu knew that he had been shot, and the plane was about to lose control, so he took a breath and abandoned the plane and parachuted.

In addition to being shot down and damaged, planes on both sides are constantly running out of fuel and quitting the battle, and new reinforcements are constantly joining. Reinforcements arrived one after another, and the Third and Fifth Brigades of the Chinese Air Force and the Soviet Air Force volunteers also rushed to the battlefield. The two sides fought repeatedly in the skies over Wuhan, with planes constantly being shot down and injured, and pilots constantly parachuting.

The fierce battle lasted for an hour and a half, and in the end, due to the heavy casualties, the fighters turned around and fled after covering the retreat of the bombers. The Chinese Air Force also suffered heavy casualties and had to move to concealment.

In this air battle, to be serious, both sides are basically losing both. Our army shot down and damaged 37 fighters, shot down and damaged 18 bombers, and captured 4 parachutists. Of course, there are far more parachutists in the army, but most of them have been found by the common people and solved them with hoes, sticks, and broadswords. Our side lost 45 fighters, lost 32 fighter pilots, and only 13 pilots successfully parachuted.

Our army discovered the sneak attack of the Japanese army in advance, and formulated a relatively complete combat plan in advance. It was said that the army was prepared, and the reinforcements were continuous, which was able to cover the withdrawal of aircraft that were short of fuel from the battle. However, although in terms of the number of aircraft lost, our army is less than the Chinese army, but the Chinese army has a strong ability to replenish the army, and basically every large air base has dismantled and driven planes from the Japanese army, which can be put into use as long as they are assembled. And the replenishment planes of our army can now only fly from the Soviet Union, and it is difficult to replenish them, and the number is small. At the same time, it is impossible to calculate that the planes bombed Wuhan indiscriminately and inflicted heavy casualties.

Although the Chinese army lost only 55 planes, it already accounted for a large proportion of the total number of planes of the air force that invaded China. Because the number of aircraft in China at this time is not very large. Historically, up to the Battle of Wuhan, there were only more than 300 planes used by the Chinese army to invade China. It was not until the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War that it increased to more than 800 planes. This figure does not include the planes of the Kwantung Army, because the planes of the Kwantung Army are basically the planes of the captured Northeast Air Force of Zhang Xueliang. At that time, there were 260 planes of various types of the Northeast Air Force parked at Shenyang Dongta Airport, and there were 10 planes imported from the Czech Republic that had not had time to assemble. These became trophies of the Japanese army, and the Kwantung Army established a flying group. In addition, the military also used the aircraft manufacturing factories in northeast China to build the Manchurian Aircraft Manufacturing Company to manufacture various types of aircraft to meet the operational needs of the army.

Now, due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, who instigated the butterfly wings, the airfield of the Kwantung Army was attacked by the Eighth Route Army Air Force, and the losses were heavy, and most of the planes captured from the Northeast Army were blown up. Only a small part of the current planes of the Kwantung Army are still planes of the former Northeast Army, and most of the planes are supplemented from the country, and second, they are produced by the Northeast Manchuria Aircraft Manufacturing Company in accordance with the drawings provided by the planes, which are naturally much more advanced than those of the former Northeast Army.

Aside from the number of planes of the Eastern Army, the flight group of the North China Front Army was destroyed and attacked by the Eighth Route Army's air force on several occasions and had to be replenished frequently, and the number of planes lost had already far exceeded 300. Although the Central China Dispatch Army Flying Group was not dealt such a heavy blow by the North China Front, from the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan to the Battle of Wuhan, the Chinese Air Force suffered heavy losses, and the number of military aircraft was also very large, especially after the Soviet Air Force Volunteer Corps entered the war, the losses of the Syrian Army's fighters were even greater, to say the least, more than 200 planes. In addition to the number of aircraft lost by the Kwantung Army, plus the sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army Air Force on the Shanxi and Henan airfields the day before yesterday, and in addition to this air battle, since the start of the war, Xiao Yueben has lost nearly 1,000 planes in the Chinese battlefield, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the total number of 5,000 planes of the army at this time. No matter how developed the industry is and how complete the industrial system is, it can't afford such a loss! Therefore, the army retreated in a hurry after losing 55 aircraft.

Although our army only lost 45 fighters, it was the main fighter of the Chinese Air Force, all of which were Il-series fighters supported by the Soviet Union. Fight like this two more times, and the Chinese Air Force will once again consume all its fighters. Therefore, Zhou Zhirou and Mao Bangchu stopped the pursuit and withdrew from the battle under Chiang Kai-shek's strict orders.

After this battle, there was no need for large-scale air battles during the entire Battle of Wuhan.

Of course, if we add the results of the Eighth Route Army Air Force this morning, then the Chinese Air Force will have won a great victory.

At 9 a.m., four and a half hours after the flight, Feng Dafei led the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to the skies over Dajiyang at the confluence of the Yangtze River estuary and Hangzhou Bay east of Shanghai.

Feng Dafei began to judge that the Chinese fleet must be patrolling the waters off Shanghai on a very simple basis: First, he found that the navy's carrier-based aircraft were flying to Wuhan, and as soon as he calculated the distance, he knew that the military carrier could only be between Hangzhou Bay and Shanghai. Second, in connection with the story of the three fighters of the [***] Air Force that damaged the aircraft carrier "Longxiang" in Dajiyang in November last year, Feng Dafei intuitively felt that the army had healed the scars and forgot the pain, and had come to the sea outside Shanghai again. This judgment has basically been confirmed in the vicinity of Shanghai.

Looking at Asia, only the navy has so many aircraft carriers and such a huge fleet of ships, and it is a fleet of aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, cruisers, submarines, landing ships, minesweepers, patrol boats, and so on. There are not only huge carrier-based aircraft groups, but also seaplanes, and this kind of strength, even if you look at the whole world, it is also one of the few and few opponents.

Originally, the navy's carrier-based aircraft were all imported from Europe and the United States, but since the development of the Type 96 carrier-based attack aircraft and fighter planes, the navy no longer needs to import fighters from Europe and the United States. It is ridiculous that European and American countries do not pay attention to the study of the surname of the machine, and they still do not know that the Type 96 of the Navy's is already leading the world. As long as war breaks out, Britain and the United States will have to suffer great losses.

Feng Dafei originally thought that it would be very difficult to find the Yue army fleet after arriving in Shanghai, and planned to send the second squadron and the third squadron to search for the location of the Yue army fleet and attack with the first squadron. Due to the participation of carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy, the radio communications of the Japanese army were very busy. Feng Dafei and his comrades-in-arms were forced by Liu Yimin to learn Chinese as early as the Red Army, and along the way, they listened to the words spoken by the pilots of the Chinese army with throat intercoms, and it was even better when they arrived near Shanghai. The Eighth Route Army disguised itself as a formation of fighter planes of the Yue Army, and they were flying at high altitude, and the members of the team were strictly forbidden to speak, they could see the patrol planes of the Yue Army, but the Yue Army could not see them, so naturally they could not find anything abnormal. It can be said that it was the radio communications and patrol planes of the Eighth Route Army that led the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to the skies over the fleet of the Chinese army.

The predecessor of the Chinese fleet of the Navy, which was the Third Fleet of the Navy. After the "128" Incident in Shanghai in 1932, the Third Fleet of the Yueben Navy was organized on the basis of the First Foreign Fleet and the Shanghai Marine Corps that invaded Shanghai. Subsequently, the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy was stationed in Shanghai, Qingdao, and other places. After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to meet the needs of the war of aggression against China, the Fourth Fleet was formed on October 20, 1937, based on part of the forces drawn from the Third Fleet, and the Chinese fleet was formed with the Third Fleet and the Fourth Fleet, with Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa as the commander and the flagship "Izumo". By February this year, the Chinese Navy had formed the Fifth Fleet and incorporated it into the Chinese fleet. At this point, the Chinese fleet of the navy has completed its basic structure, and with the expansion of the war in the future, the Chinese fleet will continue to expand its forces and expand its scale.

Of course, due to the arrival of Liu Yimin, the Eighth Route Army achieved great success, and in order to eliminate the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, the Yue Army sent the combined fleet to China twice to cover the Yue Army's recapture of Tianjin and Qingdao, and to cover the Yue Army's encirclement and suppression operations against the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, due to the fact that the Chinese army was attempting to launch the Canton Campaign, and the Combined Fleet had been in the vicinity of Qingdao for too long and returned to China to replenish, the task of escorting the landing force of the army fell to the Chinese fleet. Its Fourth Fleet sailed to Lianyungang to stand by, waiting to transport the Fifth Division south; The Fifth Fleet arrived in the waters near Taiwan and prepared to escort the 18th Division, the 104th Division, and the troops directly under the 21st Army to participate in the landing operation of a sneak attack on Guangzhou. Only the Third Fleet was responsible for surface operations on the Yangtze River and covering the Army's Wuhan Raid.

Feng Dafei's target was not the ordinary ships of the Yue Army, and if it were those ordinary ships, he would not have taken such a big risk and led the First Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to the ocean near Shanghai. His goal was naturally to accompany the aircraft carrier squadron under the command of the Chinese fleet of the Chinese side of the Chinese army.

During the period of Xi'an Resistance to the University, Liu Yimin paid great attention to transmitting the military intelligence of the military to the students of the aviation department. At that time, the army was holding back the aftermath of the 918 Incident, and did not see the [***] team at all, but kept showing off its force. A lot of military information can be found in newspapers in Northeast China, and some military personnel and other students studying abroad often publish articles in newspapers to introduce the military system and military strength of the country. These newspapers were easy for the underground party to come by. A lot of Kang Da's military information about the Chinese army, such as the army's aircraft manufacturing capacity and aircraft carrier information, was obtained from these newspapers. Of course, as a traverser, Liu Yimin studied the history of the war before the crossing, and he was very familiar with this information, although he could not be a magic stick, but these newspapers came into his hands, and after he further sorted out and analyzed, the new information formed was more detailed and reliable than that in the newspapers. Feng Dafei is Liu Yimin's favorite general, and he is also the director of the aviation department of Kang University, so he is naturally very familiar with this information.

In order to cooperate with the army's operations, the army has been sending aircraft carrier warships to China's coastal waters since the Battle of Songhu and supporting the army's operations with carrier-based aircraft. Under normal circumstances, the Chinese military has always maintained four aircraft carriers operating in China's coastal waters, which are under the command of the Chinese fleet. The famous heavy aircraft carriers Kaga and Akagi have always participated in the war of aggression against China and have incurred a lot of blood debts. Even the light aircraft carrier Longxiang, which was attacked by the [***] Air Force last time, was full of crimes.

After drilling out of the clouds, Feng Dafei couldn't help but roar excitedly: on the calm sea of the Daji Ocean, the blue sea water supporting a fleet of aircraft carriers was sailing against the wind. Judging by the morphology of the warships, there are two aircraft carriers, two cruisers, and four destroyers.

It may be that it is necessary to release the plane and prepare to accept the plane, and the speed of the military fleet is basically the same as the speed on the training outline. There are not too many aircraft on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one with twenty on one and twelve on one. Fighters may be ready to take off at any time, and aerial bombs are stacked on the deck.

Feng Dafei sighed in his heart, the military carrier-based planes that went to participate in the bombing of Wuhan have not yet returned, and if they rush back, it will be a bumper harvest.

At this time, I can't care about picking fat and thin, complaining that the number of planes on the aircraft carriers of the Yue army is too small, and this is not bad, think about it, when I was on the Long March four years ago, who would have thought that one day I would fly fighter planes to bomb the aircraft carriers of the Yue army?

Feng Dafei pushed the throat intercom and ordered loudly: "I am Feng Dafei, all of them, ready to attack, target: the aircraft carrier warfleet." One squadron attacked the aircraft carrier No. 1 with twenty aircraft. The second squadron attacked the aircraft carrier No. 2, which had 12 aircraft. The 3rd Squadron served as an air guard and was responsible for taking out the patrol planes. After the completion of the first wave of attacks, the whole attacked cruisers and destroyers. Repeat: One squadron attacked the No. 1 aircraft carrier with twenty aircraft. The second squadron attacked the aircraft carrier No. 2, which had 12 aircraft. The 3rd Squadron served as air guard and was responsible for taking out two patrol planes of the Japanese army. After the completion of the first wave of attacks, the whole attacked cruisers and destroyers. All of them, drop in height, and start attacking. ”

This aircraft carrier squadron is composed of Fengxiang, the world's first real aircraft carrier and the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, and the light aircraft carrier Longxiang.

Construction of the Hosho began again in 1920 at the Asano Shipyard and was completed and commissioned in December 1922. The ship has a total length of 168 meters, a displacement of 7,470 tons to 10,000 tons, a speed of 26.5 knots, a cruising range of 8,000 nautical miles / 18 knots, a power of 30,000 horsepower, 4 artillery 5.5 inches, 30 25mm, 13.2mm 10 seats, 26 carrier-based aircraft, and a staff of 550 people.

The Longxiang is a relatively new light aircraft carrier, which was built by the Yokohama Shipyard on November 26, 1929 and completed on May 9, 1933. Due to the fact that it was built using the hull of a cruiser, the design was unsuccessful and there were many problems. So as soon as it entered service, it began to be refitted. After the modification, it has a full load displacement of 13,650 tons, the main size is 175.4x20.7x7 meters, the establishment is 924 people, the armament is 4 twin 127mm dual-purpose guns, 4 twin 25mm guns, 24 13mm guns, and 46 aircraft, which are generally used to support landing operations.

When Feng Dafei was at high altitude, he couldn't read the name of the military aircraft carrier clearly, so he had to mark the Longxiang as the No. 1 aircraft carrier and the Fengxiang as the No. 2 aircraft carrier by the number of planes on the deck, so as to facilitate the fighters to attack and distinguish them.

The sudden emergence of a group of planes in the clouds surprised the pilots of the two cruisers patrolling at high altitude. But if you look closely, it turns out that the formation that went to bomb Wuhan has returned, and it is descending in altitude and doing landing flights. But the strange thing is, why didn't the formation come back to the mothership without notification? Take a closer look, the number of planes is not right, there are 26 Longxiang and 14 Fengxiang, a total of 40, why did they come back 24? Could it be that all the other 16 jade were shattered? If you look closely, it is completely wrong, this is not a carrier-based aircraft of the Navy, but a Type 96 attack aircraft of the Army, and there are two types: heavy bombers and light bombers. How did the Army's warplanes fly over the mothership?

The pilot of the patrol plane, who was suspicious of Dou, immediately flew the plane to intercept it, called for identification, and reported his suspicions to the mothership through the intercom.

It's a pity that it's too late to say anything at this time. These two patrol aircraft were water reconnaissance aircraft on the cruiser, armed with anti-submarine bombs, which were mainly used against submarines. It was naturally a dead end for them to intercept the Type 96 bombers of the First Air Group of the Eighth Route Army. Of course, before dying, the pilots of these two patrol planes were addicted to witnessing the magnificent sight of bombers whizzing towards the aircraft carrier. You must know that since the birth of the aircraft carrier, the first air-ship attack was in November last year, when three Hawkers of the [***] Air Force attacked the aircraft carrier Longxiang, but there were only three planes, and the aircraft carrier Longxiang returned to the battlefield two months after repairs. This time it was the second time that the air-ship attack was carried out, and the difference was that thirty bombers attacked the battle team composed of two aircraft carriers, which was extremely magnificent, and not everyone was blessed to see it.

The patrol aircraft pilot is the duty, and the observation is detailed. The general commanders and sailors on the aircraft carrier were not so careful, and they saw from a distance that the fighter plane formation slid down from the sky and flew low towards the mother ship. Only the fleet commander and communications officer flashed a trace of doubt in their hearts, why didn't the fighter formation come back and report in advance?

After the pilot of the patrol plane made a suspicious report, the commander of the aircraft carrier Longxiang first woke up, but he was a person who had been bombed, and he immediately realized that it was the Chinese Air Force that had come to sneak attack under the guise of the imperial army's aircraft group, and shouted "enemy attack, take your place, and open fire" through the ship's radio broadcast.

It's late, it's late, it's too late to say anything. By the time the battle alarm sounded on the aircraft carrier, Feng Dafei's fighter plane had already swept onto the deck of the Longxiang in an ultra-low-altitude flying posture, and two bombs landed on the deck accurately. Behind him, seven Type 96 heavy bombers swept across the deck of the Longxiang in turn.

To say that the Eighth Route Army Air Force has never bombed a warship, the hit rate should be extremely low. However, from the day he was born, the Eighth Route Army Air Force played dive attacks and ultra-low-altitude attacks, and what was needed was accurate hits. This is the same as the method of melee combat of the air defense brigade, which is to use planes, anti-aircraft guns and devils to fight bayonets. The risk is a little bit dangerous, but the hit rate is indeed greatly improved.

After the first wave of bombing was completed, Feng Dafei took the first squadron to pull up the fighters, and after turning around, he saw that the No. 1 aircraft carrier he had bombed had been hit and caught fire, and the bombs stacked on the deck had also begun to explode. Looking at the No. 2 aircraft carrier attacked by the second squadron, the situation was the same as that of the No. 1 aircraft carrier, with shells flying indiscriminately, flames drifting indiscriminately, and planes and sailors throwing them into the sea like dumplings.

The third squadron should have successfully dealt with the two patrol planes of the little devils, and without waiting for their own orders, they had already pounced fiercely on the cruisers and destroyers of the devils.

Feng Dafei saw clearly at this time that he was attacking the light aircraft carrier Longxiang of the Yue Army, and the second squadron was attacking the old aircraft carrier Fengxiang of the Yue Army. Seeing it clearly, Feng Dafei was extremely disappointed, why not the Akagi and Kaga? It stands to reason that these two heavy aircraft carriers should be here! Grandma is a bear, Lao Tzu is just unlucky, really fucking unlucky, this time I have to be laughed to death by him when I see the teacher!

Feng Dafei was annoyed in his heart, but in fact, it was just a flash of thought. The absence of the Akagi and Kaga means that they have another mission, but they will definitely not be too far from here, and perhaps at this time they have already received a telegram that the Longxiang and Fengxiang have been attacked, and the carrier-based aircraft will be released immediately, and they will soon arrive here. There are also devil fighters at the Shanghai airport, maybe they will arrive immediately, and the fighting must be ended as soon as possible.

Feng Dafei led the formation to dive down again, this time towards the little devil's battleships, cruisers and destroyers. As for the two aircraft carriers, Feng Dafei knew that they were finished, and even if his Amaterasu God appeared, he couldn't save them.

At this time, the anti-aircraft artillery fire on the cruisers and destroyers of the Yue Army had already opened fire intensively, but the heroes of the Eighth Route Army were fearless and rushed forward in the face of the devil's artillery fire.

Fighter planes are whistling, bombs are exploding, and eight heavy army bombers and 16 light bombers are wantonly ravaging the nerves of everyone in the aircraft carrier warplane. Seeing that some of the destroyers and cruisers of the Yue Army broke in the middle, some were cocked at one end, and the two aircraft carriers had begun to sink, Feng Dafei still felt that it was not enjoyable, and led a large group to dive and strafe again, this time hitting those machine gunners and anti-aircraft gunners who were still desperately resisting, until the little devils were beaten to the point of blood and the corpses kept falling into the sea, Feng Dafei ordered to return.

Feng Dafei already knew the route of the return voyage, he did not return to Wuhan along the original route, but led the formation to fly north along the sea and fly towards Shandong.

In Feng Dafei's mind, the army did not have radar, and the reconnaissance and search mainly relied on planes and ground observation posts, and it was easy for them to judge that their formation would return to the direction of Wuhan or Nanchang, and there must be reconnaissance planes and observation posts of the army everywhere along the way, waiting for them to show up! As for flying back to Shaanxi, the journey was too far, and it was easy to be intercepted or pursued by military planes along the way, and it was difficult to say whether there would be enough fuel. Only by flying to Shandong can we not be afraid of the pursuit of the planes of the Japanese army, and we must know that the instructors not only have air defense brigades and a relatively complete air defense post system, but also that every unit has undergone air defense shooting training. I am also familiar with the radio station passwords of the instructors' brigades, and it is easy to get in touch. It can be said that it will be safe on the ground in Shandong, and the little devil plane will chase after it.

As for the issue of the plane landing after arriving in Shandong, Feng Dafei knew that the chairman had ordered Liu Yimin to build a concealed airfield more than once, and now that he thought about it, it should have been completed, and it would be impossible to make a forced landing.

As soon as he thought of Shandong, Feng Dafei saw familiar faces in front of him, and his heart was warm.

(To be continued)