Chapter 100: The Sinking of the Aircraft Carrier (I)

Rommel's order is still so simple, in fact, Rommel still likes Li Mo very much in his heart, but Rommel is very bad at expressing his emotions, of course Li Mo knows Rommel's personality and character, and he will not complain about his teacher.

After reading Rommel's telegram, Li Mo immediately called back to inform Rommel of his current position and how long he was about to arrive and launch an attack, all of which had been calculated by the division staff officers a long time ago, and the time could be accurate to the minute, and the Germans were so strict with the numbers.

After receiving Limer's telegram, Rommel randomly ordered the 102nd and 103rd Mechanized Infantry Divisions to prepare for an all-out attack, because Rommel wanted to let his entire Flying Eagle Corps' more than 500 cannons start roaring, this is 500 cannons, at least 20 minutes to bombard the Japanese position, you must know that the Japanese Sixth Division has been attacking the Nationalist army's Nanjing outer defense line, they only dug a few simple trenches in the front, can the Japanese army's position withstand the bombardment of so many artillery? It was absolutely impossible, the soft soil in the Nanjing area could not provide much cover for the Japanese army, and heavy casualties were inevitable under such heavy shelling.

At 1 o'clock on June 25th, all the artillery of the Flying Eagle Corps arranged behind the outer defense line of Nanjing began to roar, and the "whooshing" shells flew through the sky with orange light and shadow, and there were countless shells shuttling in the sky, and the countless shells were like a rain of fire, pouring down on the Japanese position, and in an instant there was a shaking of the ground and the mountains, and a few seconds later there was a deafening sound of artillery, and the column of gunpowder smoke produced by the explosion of the Japanese Sixth Division continued to rise into the sky. Various weapon parts were also violently blasted into the air, and the torn limbs of the little devil were also sandwiched between them.

The 6th Division of the Japanese Army was only 10 kilometers away from the farthest troops on the outer defense line of Nanjing, while the 105 and 150 cannons of the German Army could easily hit 20 kilometers, and even the range of the 75mm field guns was 10 kilometers. Of course, with such a large artillery group of the Flying Eagle Regiment, it must protect its airspace, otherwise it will be destroyed by Japanese aircraft, so until now, Rommel has not messed with his aviation units.

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Schmidt, the commander of the Flying Eagle Regiment Aviation Regiment, delegated command to Hartman, and he took a brigade of BF109 and a brigade of JU87, and entered the sea outside Shanghai to search after circling a semicircle, and the combat radius of the Japanese army's 97 and 96 carrier-based aircraft is more than 300 kilometers, and they also need to leave time to fight in the airspace, so the Japanese aircraft carriers will not be more than 200 kilometers away from the outer defense line of Nanjing, and the distance from Shanghai to the outer defense line of Nanjing is more than 150 kilometers, Then the Japanese aircraft carriers will not be more than 50 kilometers away from Shanghai, and the German aviation staff officers will draw a semicircle with a radius of 50 kilometers with Shanghai as the center, and Schmidt only needs to search within this range, and Schmidt can have 80 planes in his hand, and he only needs to line up all the planes, and each plane can search for a distance of 80 kilometers wide by 1,000 meters.

Soon Schmidt found the Japanese fleet on the sea more than 40 kilometers away from Shanghai, Schmidt looked below, and almost had a heart attack at that time, and the dense crowd below was full of Japanese warships, this is the Japanese fleet that Li Mo encountered when they sent munitions, this fleet was the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy that invaded China, with a total of three aircraft carriers, one seaplane carrier, three battleships, five heavy cruisers, five light cruisers, 22 destroyers, and more than 30 gunboats.

"Oh! Oh God!! ”

Schmidt involuntarily took a deep breath secretly, such a huge fleet is below, and it is still an air defense formation, and there are more than a dozen carrier-based aircraft patrolling in the air, in this case, it is impossible to escape immediately, Schmidt can only order the BF109 of the first group to immediately go up to encircle and suppress the Japanese patrol aircraft, and the forty JU87s of the fourth group directly attack the Japanese aircraft carriers.

Nagumo Zhongichi is one of the more cautious among the Japanese admirals, this old devil's ability is not very outstanding, but he is cautious, this time according to the order of the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, two aircraft carrier planes were dispatched, leaving one aircraft carrier's aircraft to provide air cover for his fleet, others thought that Nagumo Nakaichi was doing this too much, but the result was to prove Nagumo Nakaichi's correctness, and the national army planes really came to attack their own fleet.

The Japanese patrol planes rushed towards Schmidt desperately, what kind of formation is Schmidt now, the entire aircraft group is lined up for 80 kilometers, Schmidt can now use the attack aircraft is eight BF109, four JU87, but Schmidt must immediately attack, because the air defense siren of the Japanese fleet below has sounded in the sky, and an aircraft carrier is also preparing to take off carrier-based aircraft.

In this case, Schmidt could only attack immediately after waiting for his planes to form a group, and the Japanese patrol planes and the anti-aircraft guns on it began to fire fiercely, and Schmidt could not escape from the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery, because Schmidt had to cover his four JU87 bombers to carry out the bombing mission.

Schmidt drove the BF109 to meet the Japanese patrol planes that rushed up, Schmidt increased the speed to the maximum, and only six BF109s followed behind him, and the anti-aircraft shells kept exploding around him, and the smoke produced by the explosion of the anti-aircraft shells was of different sizes, mainly because it was thought that the anti-aircraft guns of the ships below were caused by different calibers, Schmidt felt that his fuselage was obviously trembling a few times, and it seemed that the fuselage was hit by shrapnel flying around, Fortunately, the shrapnel did not hit the engine of Schmidt's landline. The sky was filled with a continuous burst of gunsmoke, which was not a beautiful fairy tale, but the sickle of death.

In an instant, the Japanese machine entered the range of Schmidt, the BF109 was equipped with two 20 mm cannons, and the Japanese machine was four 7.62 mm caliber machine guns.

"Dada...... Da Da ......"

Schmidt held the joystick tightly with both hands, kept adjusting the direction of the plane, and after the Japanese plane was put into the shooting circle, Schmidt pressed the red launch button with his thumb.

Two tongues of fire "clicked" out from the muzzle of the BF109's machine gun, and the rapid shells were connected into a long fire whip and swept towards the enemy plane, and the enemy plane quickly swayed left and right when it felt that it was locked in the north, how could Schmidt let the enemy plane get rid of it, and it also swung with it, and the sound of the cannon "click" continued, and the Japanese plane that hit opposite "Bang" and Schmidt was hit and exploded in the air.

"Dada...... Puff puff puff ......"

"Suffered...... Shot. ”

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