"If the Japanese super battleships don't come out, forget it, and this aircraft carrier won't come out either, but it's a bit unreasonable." Chu Yangwei looked at the smoke-filled shore in the distance, and his brows gradually furrowed.

"Maybe they're trying to use Nagasaki as a bait to get all of our planes to bomb us, so they can launch a surprise attack on us." Zhang Enming said.

"Then the price for them is a bit big." Chu Yangwei said thoughtfully.

"We have been fighting Nagasaki for two days and two nights, and judging from the photos taken by the reconnaissance plane, the destruction of the port is almost complete, and it will take some time and effort for the Japanese to take a rest." Zhang Enming said, "Let's take it when we see it." A decisive battle with the enemy's aircraft carriers does not necessarily have to be rushed this time. ”

"Two more rounds." Chu Yangwei said, "Make sure to destroy all the factories and oil depots before leaving." ”

"It's okay to save the tail." Zhang Enming nodded and said.

"Report! Reconnaissance aircraft spotted the enemy fleet! ”

Hearing the communications officer's report, Chu Yangwei's eyes were full of excitement.

"Your uncle! It's finally out! ”

Chu Yangwei took the report and looked at it carefully, while walking quickly to the command tower.

Chu Yangwei and Zhang Enming came to the chart table, and the mapping officer checked the position of the enemy fleet according to the report and marked it on the chart.

"The USS Qiulong is the closest," Mr. Zhang said, "and they should be allowed to attack immediately." ”

The "Qiulong" aircraft carrier belongs to the "Dragon King" class large fleet aircraft carrier, and at this time, together with the two "Jingwei" class light aircraft carriers, is located on the right flank of the main fleet.

"Cheap Tang Haisheng, this kid." Chu Yangwei snorted from his nose. Rear Admiral Tang Haisheng is the youngest son of the founding father, Marshal Tang Jing, and the commander of this aircraft carrier detachment.

"He's not cheap, don't forget that the report says that there are two super battleships in the Japanese fleet, most likely 'Yamato' and 'Musashi'." Zhang Enming smiled, "If we don't help him, he will fight very hard." ”

"Those two monsters can be dealt with directly with a plane." Chu Yangwei also laughed. "Before we support him, let it be a test for him!"

Rear Admiral Tang Haisheng, commander of the 2nd Detachment of the 1st Task Force of the Chinese Navy, stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier "Qiulong" and looked out.

The "Qiulong" aircraft carrier is the pride of the Chinese Navy, and it is a large aircraft carrier designed and built by China itself. The ship was launched in 1940 at the Dalian Naval Shipyard. With a displacement of 59,800 tons, a waterline of 281 meters long and 37 meters wide, it can carry 140 combat, attack, bombing and reconnaissance aircraft of various types (up to 168 aircraft). Back at the end of World War I. China began to design and build its first aircraft carrier on its own. Since then, about every two to three years, China has an aircraft carrier built and put into active service. By the time the Pacific War broke out, China had 22 large aircraft carriers and the capacity to build 800,000 tons of ships per year.

Now, the behemoth, which floats on the surface of the sea and is about a dozen stories high, is heading south at full speed. On both sides of it, there were more than 20 warships, including the light aircraft carriers "Baifeng" and "Qingfeng", the light cruiser "Jiaomujiao", and the destroyers "Chunlan", "Xiazhu", "Qiuju", and "Dongmei". There is no doubt that this is a formidable aircraft carrier assault group. The 2nd Detachment was originally on a cruising mission in the Bohai Bay, but with the arrival of three other Chinese aircraft carriers and the beginning of a full-scale attack by the Chinese Navy on the port of Nagasaki, Rear Admiral Tang Haisheng was ordered to lead his detachment to carry out combat missions in the waters on the right flank of the main fleet.

I have just received information that a large fleet of the Japanese Navy is heading here. …,

Tang Haisheng looked down on the Japanese Grand Fleet in his heart.

It's not like he hasn't seen those huge steel monsters built by the Japanese. In his early years in the army. He once accompanied his father, Marshal Tang Jing, on a visit to Japan. The place he visited the most was the Japanese naval base.

As the first person in China to come into contact with airplanes. His father had an instinctive preference for airplanes, and this instinct was passed on to him. When he was a child, his room was filled with all kinds of model airplanes, and when he was a little older, his father took him for a ride.

When he grew up, he wanted to join the Air Force. But his father followed the advice of that Uncle Yang and let him enter the navy.

in Japan. Tang Haisheng was most impressed by the Japanese battlefleet.

If it is said that after World War I, the strength of the fleets of China and Japan was still evenly matched. Ten years later, there was a world of difference in the strength of the Chinese and Japanese navies: the Japanese fleet had more than 200 large surface combat ships of various types, with a total tonnage of 2 million tons, ranking third among the world's navies, but most of them were battleships with strong armor and huge guns; At that time, the Chinese Navy had more than 170 large combat ships of various types, including less than 20 battleships and battle cruisers, with a total tonnage of less than 1.6 million tons. But the Chinese Navy is more of an aircraft carrier.

As a naval officer, Tang Haisheng has not seen the power of the battleship's main gun roaring salvo, it is the product of the development of naval ships with artillery as the main weapon to the extreme, reflecting the highest power of naval warfare, but Tang Haisheng knows that battleships are not the whole of the navy, nor are they the masters of the sea.

Aircraft carriers are the direction of future naval warfare.

Although there were people of insight in Japan who later realized the role of aircraft carriers, at that time China was already ahead of Japan in terms of aircraft carriers.

In order to calm down the controversy, there are two "Fuxi" class super battleships today, although his father was quite dissatisfied with the Admiralty's agreement to spend a huge amount of money to build these two giant ships, but Tang Haisheng understood the real intention of Uncle Yang of the Ministry of Finance.

And today, he will have the opportunity to prove that he and Uncle Yang are right.

Rear Admiral Tang Haisheng stood on the bridge and slowly moved the telescope. He saw that the sea was calm and the waves were vast, and the Sea of Japan was twice as big as the Sea of Japan, and at this time he could not even see the shadow of a fishing boat.

After Japanese planes taking off from Japanese aircraft carriers bombed Beijing, Admiral Shen Honglie, commander-in-chief of the navy, on behalf of the Chinese government, ordered an all-out attack on the Japanese coastline, and all Japanese ships were destroyed or sunk. In just one week, he led the 2nd Detachment to resolutely sweep Japan's southern coast from north to south, sinking and destroying countless Japanese merchant ships, cargo ships, and fishing boats, and bombing Japanese coastal cities and ports with carrier-based planes all the way. However, as a glorious commander of the fleet of the Chinese Navy. His ambition was not only to turn the Chinese coast into a no-man's land, but also to seize those despicable sneak attacks of the Japanese aircraft carriers with his own hands and beat the Japanese fleet into smoke. Watch them fall apart and sink into the sea to feed the fish.

The seaborne reconnaissance aircraft returned to report that the enemy fleet had appeared in the sea area ahead. Tang Haisheng was very happy when he heard the news, and he personally gave the order for the carrier-based aircraft to attack, so the "Qiulong" aircraft carrier quickly turned around and faced the wind. In the first attack wave, 52 carrier-based attack aircraft took off from the deck one after another. Half an hour later, 64 carrier-based planes of the second attack wave took off again and flew towards the bombing airspace after completing the formation over the aircraft carrier.

For Tang Haisheng, when he sees the enemy, there is no reason not to fight.

Meanwhile. Tang Haisheng ordered the light cruiser "Jiaomujiao" to lead the destroyer battle group to deploy an air defense formation to prevent enemy aircraft from attacking. …,

As he had predicted, shortly after the attack group had taken off, Japanese planes appeared over their fleet.

The Chinese "Wind and Thunder" carrier-based fighters, which had been waiting in the skies over the fleet for a long time, immediately pounced on the incoming Japanese planes like hungry tigers and sheep, and the antiaircraft guns of the Chinese cruisers and destroyers on the sea also opened fire one after another, weaving a dense net of death fire.

Despite the superb combat skills of the Japanese pilots, they were fiercely intercepted by Chinese fighters. One after another, the planes of the Japanese attack aircraft group were hit, fell into the sea and crashed.

Due to the strong armor of the Chinese "Wind Thunder" carrier-based fighters. Moreover, the Chinese pilots completely ignored the interception of the Japanese escort fighters and single-mindedly attacked the Japanese dive bombers and torpedo attack planes; although they were repeatedly hit by the escorting Japanese "Gale" fighters, the Chinese fighters suffered very few losses, so the Japanese attack planes suffered a terrible blow, and the Japanese pilots were allowed to be extremely skilled. At this time, in the face of this style of play of a strong enemy, there is no place for it.

Finally. In the web of fire woven by Chinese aircraft and warships, two Japanese dive bombers bravely attacked and hit the Chinese aircraft carrier. A bomb fell on the right deck of the aircraft carrier "Qiu Long" and exploded, but the Japanese bomb was not powerful enough and only damaged a few planes that were refueling. Under the intensive anti-aircraft fire of the escort fleet, both Japanese planes were hit and crashed into the sea, while the Japanese torpedo bombers that rushed to the front hurriedly dropped their torpedoes and fled. Only one Japanese "Gale" fighter plane, which was hit by the Chinese "Wind Thunder" fighter, pulled a thick black smoke and tried to ram the "Qiulong", but it passed over the deck of the "Qiulong" and accidentally hit a Chinese destroyer and exploded.

Compared with the heroic actions of this Japanese fighter, the results achieved by Second Lieutenant Okuda, the pilot of the fighter squadron escorting the escort, were much inferior.

During this sortie, 12 "Gale" fighters of the escort squadron were ordered to carry out escort and cover attacks, and the "Gale" fighters piloted by Second Lieutenant Okuda were unfortunately hit by artillery fire fired from Chinese destroyers, and he was forced to abandon the plane and parachute.

An even more unfortunate chance factor was that his parachute was blown crookedly in the direction of the artillery fire when the sky was blowing about a southeast wind of about three levels, and then landed impartially on the deck of a Chinese light aircraft carrier ("Baifeng").

When the unlucky Japanese pilots fell from the sky, the Chinese sailors, of course, would not let go of this "heaven-send" gift. A group of Chinese sailors in steel helmets rushed over with submachine guns, and the cats surrounded them in a skirmish line.

Second Lieutenant Okuda heard his own heartbeat.

The pace of the Chinese sailors was getting closer and closer, and he could judge that there were at least a dozen enemies without waiting and seeing. The sad Japanese pilot still felt a chill down his spine, and his heart was like ashes. The Chinese sailors who came up could not know exactly how the Japanese naval lieutenant felt about the war and life at this time, but it is said that he was seen lying motionless on his back on the deck at that time, his eyes were full of tears, and his fingers were pressed on a small ****.

Under the blue clear sky of the Sea of Japan, the bright sun scorched the faces of the Japanese pilots, and the Chinese sailors finally approached, and the heroic and unyielding Japanese pilot Second Lieutenant Okuda sat up from the ground, and just aimed the **** at the enemy and pulled the trigger, a series of submachine gun bullets drilled into his body.

Ensign Okuda saw that his eyes were red, and the sun seemed to have dimmed......

At that time, Japanese newspapers publicized the deeds of Second Lieutenant Okuda to the fullest, and he became a household name. Japan's Osaka "Mainichi Shimbun" published the news that had just come from the front in a reverent tone, and it was only later that Japan was defeated and the deeds of Ensign Okuda fell into a slump and no one mentioned it. …,

And the courage of the Japanese pilots who preferred to die rather than be captured also won the admiration of the martial Chinese. Afterwards, the Chinese sailors also displayed in the window of the ship's shop the flight suit, parachute, ****, bullet casing, and other physical objects used by the "Japanese flying warrior" Second Lieutenant Okuda. A few years later. The Chinese sailors on the "White Phoenix" handed over the above-mentioned objects to the Chinese History and Military Museum, so that later Japanese could know the deeds of the second lieutenants Okuda.

The attack of the Japanese aircraft was quickly repulsed, and calm returned to the sky. But Commander Tang Haisheng felt a little annoyed.

The enemy's attack can be said to have been successfully stifled, and the losses were heavy, and such a result was certainly satisfactory. But the problem was that the bomb dropped by the Japanese plane just now exploded less than a few dozen meters away from the bridge, and Tang Haisheng saw with his own eyes that several carrier-based planes were blown up and ignited. As a Chinese naval commander who loves ships like his life, a perfectionist. He simply could not tolerate such damage by the enemy on an aircraft carrier under his command.

And judging by the enemy's weak attack just now, what he is facing may be a fleet with only one aircraft carrier!

In fact, just as Tang Haisheng judged, the Japanese fleet that came to attack him was indeed a small fleet.

His fleet and this Japanese fleet were "bait" for this large-scale naval battle!

At about the same moment, Tang Haisheng sent a group of attack aircraft. He also fought with the Japanese army.

"Wouldn't it? How is there only one aircraft carrier? And...... Still so small? ”

"That's because of the genetics of the Japanese! Hahaha! ”

When I heard the laughter of my comrades coming from the microphone. Captain Xu Liangwei, who was in charge of coordinating the attack, did not smile.

He held a telescope and carefully observed the situation on the sea, and the explanation was that as everyone said, there was only one Japanese light aircraft carrier and its direct escort ship on the sea.

The legendary two Japanese super-battleships "Yamato" and "Musashi", did not appear.

At this time, the Japanese aircraft carriers on the sea had already spotted a large area of Chinese aircraft in the air, and the Japanese destroyer group had formed a defensive formation. Draw arcs on the surface of the sea.

The leader of the captain plane gave the signal to attack, and Captain Xu Liangwei immediately saw the fighters swooping down. Straight to the Japanese warship.

Several Japanese Gale fighters roared in an attempt to intercept the Chinese plane. However, they were immediately blocked by the escorting "Wind Thunder" fighters, and the "Javelin" attack aircraft group carrying high-explosive bombs and torpedoes broke through the defensive artillery fire of the Japanese destroyer group almost undisturbed, and launched a deadly attack on the Japanese aircraft carriers.

The design requirements of the "Javelin" carrier-based attack aircraft particularly emphasize the play of bulletproof armor and attack force, its sturdy fuselage is equipped with a "Dawn" 24WU type 18-cylinder double radiation air-cooled engine, the power can reach 2800 horsepower, the aircraft adopts a lower straight single wing, the left and right leading edges of the main wing are equipped with 4 20 mm cannons, the fuselage and wings have 15 weapon device points, the general weapon carrying capacity is more than 3600 kg, its high battlefield survival rate and strong toughness, Miracles such as being able to return safely even after being hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire to the point of being scarred by bullets were not uncommon in the Pacific War. The ability to stay in the air for up to 10 hours, the low-altitude strafing attack that is only as high as the treetops, and the bomb attack angle that is similar to a sharp descent and dive down with a vertical height of 85 degrees, such superior performance is by no means beyond the reach of Japanese aircraft.

The Japanese aircraft carrier twisted its body, desperately trying to evade, drawing a huge circle on the sea, but the Japanese efforts were in vain, and soon, Xu Liangwei saw clouds of smoke rising from the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier, and on its sideboard, there was a high column of water.

"We hit!"

"I hit it! My torpedo hit it! ”

"Don't rob me! It was my bomb that hit first! ”

"I dropped the bomb!"

Xu Liangwei ignored the shouts coming from the microphone, he was intently observing the Japanese aircraft carrier that had been hit hard, now it had stopped, just now Xu Liangwei observed at least 6 bombs and 4 torpedo hits, for a light aircraft carrier, these attacks are fatal, there is no power to help it avoid the fate of destruction.

"Call an aircraft carrier, call an aircraft carrier! Sink an enemy light aircraft carrier! Sink an enemy light aircraft carrier! After Xu Liangwei confirmed the results of the battle, he sent out a battle report by radio.

"No enemy battleships found! No enemy battleships were found! At the same time as he reported, he did not forget to add such a sentence.

When Tang Haisheng received the battle report, he didn't feel much joy, on the contrary, after learning that no enemy battleship had been found, his brows furrowed. (To be continued......)