The battleship could only defend itself by dense anti-aircraft guns in the face of the American troops who came to bomb and throw torpedoes at them. www.biquge.info As for the aircraft carriers behind, in addition to anti-aircraft guns, they also used carrier-based fighters to immediately take off to intercept the bombers when the US bombers attacked.

In the eyes of fighters, bombers without cover are completely dishes on their plates, and they can eat whatever they want.

When the US bombers launched an attack on the Japanese warships and aircraft carriers after breaking through the defense, the Japanese carrier-based planes also found the position of the US troops, and when they saw the US fleet, the Japanese pilots' eyes lit up, and their thumbs were placed on the bomb drop button, ready to drop the bomb at any time.

After the US fleet discovered the Japanese planes, the anti-aircraft firepower that had been prepared for a long time swept over the air, and the anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were swaying in the sky.

For the Japanese planes, the most lethal is undoubtedly the fragments of the explosion of the anti-aircraft artillery shells, which pose a great threat to the thin-skinned aircraft of the Japanese army, and can easily be severely damaged.

However, the Japanese planes were light and nimble, and one of the major characteristics of this thing was that they shuttled through the rain of bullets, like swifts in a raging storm.

However, the plane that was hit was miserable, and it fell directly into a fireball, and the pilot on the plane, needless to say, hung up directly.

There are not too many anti-aircraft guns on US warships, unlike in the late stage of World War II, when battleships were full of anti-aircraft guns, just like hedgehogs, shells and not proximity fuses, but also by cutting fuses.

Nimitz, 55 years old, originally served as the commander of the 7th task force, and now is the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, he has been promoted for a full year, his flagship is the heavy cruiser Augusta, and now he is holding a telescope and looking at the planes in the sky, these planes do not pay attention to the battleships on the sea, and continue to fly deep and vertical towards the US fleet, their target is the US aircraft carrier, as long as the aircraft carrier is destroyed, they can guarantee absolute air superiority, and the US fleet is not yet a fish on the board, and they can eat whatever they want.

Nimitz naturally knew the intentions of the Japanese bombers, and immediately ordered the destroyers to come back to help, making sure to stop the Japanese bombers.

In the sky, the Japanese pilots easily discovered the US aircraft carrier, which was parked alone on the sea, taking off spare planes to intercept the Japanese bomber formation.

The anti-aircraft guns on the aircraft carrier were also erected, pointing to the sky, and the gunners nervously watched the bomber formation that was getting closer and closer, and the Hinomaru under the wings was clearly visible.

The buffalo that took off from the aircraft carrier immediately went to intercept the Japanese bomber formation, but in the face of a large number of bombers, the buffalo that went to intercept it seemed a little thin, and there were only a dozen spare planes to intercept nearly 100 bombers, which was really not enough, even if as long as one plane broke through, it could pose a threat to their aircraft carrier, not to mention that there were so many Japanese planes.

When the torpedo plane approached the aircraft carrier, it immediately lowered the fuselage altitude and flew close to the sea level, ready to drop the torpedo.

The U.S. aircraft carrier also urgently turned its bow and tried to erect its body so as not to let itself be sideways at the torpedo plane, and at the same time, the ship's anti-aircraft weapons frantically attacked the torpedo planes that wanted to attack by themselves.

The dive bombers, on the other hand, pull themselves high and prepare to dive bomb the aircraft carrier, but they also have to deal with the fighters behind them, relying only on a rear-mounted machine gun, it is difficult to pose a threat to the thick-skinned buffalo, unless the pilot is killed, but more bullets are blocked by the propeller, even if they pass through the gap in the propeller, they may not necessarily hit the pilot. And the machine gun on the buffalo is not an ornament, the buffalo is equipped with 4 12.7mm machine guns, which is not small, especially the Japanese army, which is a thin-skinned and stuffed aircraft, which can be shot down easily.

The first to drop a torpedo was a torpedo plane that dropped a mile from the sea, and the Type 93 oxygen torpedo fell into the water, drawing white marks on the surface of the water and swimming towards the US aircraft carrier.

The white spray of torpedoes on the surface of the sea is clearly visible.

The US troops on the aircraft carrier are not blind, and the white spray set off by the torpedoes is naturally visible.

The crew wanted to counter the torpedo, and as for how to counter the torpedo, it was nothing more than to strafeze the torpedo with close defense guns and anti-aircraft guns and detonate it, or install a protective net around the battleship to stop the torpedo.

Therefore, after the torpedo was discovered, all the fire on the side of the torpedo on the aircraft carrier was concentrated on the torpedo in an attempt to detonate it. And the plane that threw the torpedo, after dropping the torpedo, was beaten into slag and fell into the water by the anti-aircraft gun.

And this torpedo was successfully detonated under the concentration of firepower, setting off huge waves on the sea.

Japanese torpedo planes continued to follow one after another, scrambling to drop torpedoes on several US aircraft carriers. After climbing to the top, the bomber began to dive and drop bombs.

The bomber dived down vertically at almost 90 degrees, which made people have to worry about whether they would pull up after dropping the bomb, and now the Japanese pilots don't care about this.

The huge screech of the bomber's dive caused a lot of pressure on the crew on the aircraft carrier, a bit of a Stuka feeling.

Because of the angle problem, it is impossible for the anti-aircraft gun to shoot vertically into the air, and the maximum angle is 75 degrees, so in the face of the dive bomber, the aircraft carrier has almost no choice but to rely on the frigate to give force, if the frigate does not give force...

"Whew~~"

A bombshell broke away from the belly of the bomber and fell towards the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the screaming sound of the bomb made the crew feel a lot of pressure.

"Bang!"

The bomb was smashed directly into the deck, and the wooden deck was smashed out of a dozen meters in diameter, and the bomb fell directly into the hangar, and then exploded.

The bomb fell on the bow, and under the bow was the hangar, empty, and all the planes were sent to the sky, so the explosion did not affect the planes, but a huge hole was blown out of the bow deck, and the fire spread.

The idle crew immediately began to extinguish the fire and activated the damage pipe. A large amount of seawater was poured on the flames, emitting bursts of white steam. Spare planks were taken out of storage and ready to repair the deck.

The plane that dropped the bomb should have been too large in the angle of the dive, the height of the bomb was not well controlled, the dive was too low, and when it was pulled up after the bomb, it plunged directly into the water, which could not be said to be unlucky, when the pilot was pulled up, he was subjected to a huge overload force, and his eyes were blackened, and then he was washed by the huge water pressure, and he fainted directly, and then he drowned.

After receiving a bomb, the follow-up attack did not stop, and bombers continued to dive and torpedo planes continued to drop torpedoes.

The bushido spirit of the Japanese army was fully displayed at this time, and these Japanese soldiers did not care about the threat of death. (To be continued.) )