The four aerial bombs that were dropped in the sea water jumped up violently the moment they touched the water, rushed forward several dozen meters under the strong inertia, and then bounced up again after falling, three of them hit their heads above the waterline of the Haruna, and the other rushed past the stern of the Haruna.

I saw a flash of red light, followed by three deafening and violent explosions, and the huge hull of the battleship Haruna slammed down.

After the smoke cleared, three holes with a diameter of more than one meter appeared in the heavily armored hull of the Hazuna one meter above the waterline.

At the same time, other Japanese warships suffered a similar fate.

The battleship Hyuga was hit near the waterline by a ricocheting missile, and the sea water had begun to pour into the ship along the hole where smoke was still emitting.

The three heavy cruisers Furutaka, Nachi, and Haguro and the destroyer Akikaze were each hit by a ricochet, and only the cruiser Hakaze was lucky enough to escape.

Of the four warships, the three heavy cruisers Furutaka, Nachi, and Haguro and the destroyer Akikaze, the heavy cruiser Furutaka and the destroyer Akikaze were the most damaged.

The Furutaka Heavy Cruiser was one of the two 7,000-ton cruisers approved by Japan before the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. According to the displacement, the 7000-ton cruiser should be classified in the category of light cruisers.

However, in order to achieve the goal of surpassing the light cruisers of the navies of the great powers at that time, the Japanese even equipped the Furutaka with six 203mm main guns, which reached the maximum limit stipulated in the Washington Naval Treaty that the caliber of naval guns for non-capital ships should not exceed eight inches (203 mm). Anglo-American who feels deceived. Japan strongly demanded that the Furutaka dismantle the large-caliber main gun. After some quarrels and bargaining, the Japanese had to classify the Furutaka as a heavy cruiser and reduce the amount of a heavy cruiser to be built.

The Furutaka class has a flat-deck boat type. In order to achieve the high speed required by the Japanese Navy, the Furutaka-class hull is relatively large in length and width, with the Furutaka being 185.17m long and only 15.77m wide. This somewhat disproportionate aspect ratio allowed it to reach an astonishing speed of 34.5 knots.

In the design of the Fortaka class, in order to reduce the displacement, fool the powers. For the first time, the Japanese Navy also designed the side armor as part of the Furutaka's hull structure as a way to reduce weight.

The Japanese tricks have greatly reduced the Furutaka's defensive capability. A ricocheting bomb exploded a large hole with a diameter of nearly two meters on the side of the ship, and the turbulent sea water rushed into the hold in large quantities, and if measures were not taken in time, it was estimated that the Furutaka would never return to Japan.

Even worse than the Furutaka was the Autumn Wind Destroyer, which suffered greatly from its thinner armor, and the large openings in the side that had been blown open all the way to below the waterline, not only did billowing smoke rise from the hull. The entire hull has even begun to tilt.

Magical ricocheting approximate torpedo. It is almost impossible for the effect to be good, which makes Gao Zhihang, who is watching the battle in the eyes of the eagle, can't help but shout loudly.

It seems to be a magical ricochet, but the principle is actually very simple.

When I was a child, probably every boy played "playing water rafting". "Drifting" must first choose the flat and thin stone. Lean down and throw the stone out diagonally so that it flies close to the water. So, the pebble jumps on the water like a jumping frog, splashing a series of slightly arc-shaped splashes, if it is laid, the pebble can jump on the water surface seven or eight times or even a dozen times "water drifter"!

The ricochet makes use of this principle. At low altitudes, when aerial bombs fall to the surface. The projectile body is still in a horizontal state, at high speed inertia. It will be like a stone drifting in the water, producing a drifting effect.

As early as the end of the Northern Mongolian Campaign, Song Zhewu gave the Air Force Corps a task and asked the Air Force Corps to conduct a drill to attack large surface warships.

For this task, the well-informed Mike and Gao Zhihang both expressed difficulties. They believe that in order to attack large surface targets, the effectiveness of the attack will be very limited with the current aerial bombs alone. Without torpedoes, it is difficult to achieve operational objectives. And to drop torpedoes, it is necessary to have a special torpedo machine. At present, although Taiyuan is able to manufacture aircraft, its production is seriously insufficient, and if the limited production capacity is used on torpedo planes that are of no help to North Mongolia to resist the Soviet Union, it will be very detrimental to North Mongolia's defense. …,

Song Zhewu, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately proposed the method of using existing planes to attack warships with ricochets. This made both Mike and Gao Zhihang very surprised, and with the attitude of trying it out, Gao Zhihang and Mike led the Air Force Corps to start training at Hara Lake in the west of Northern Mongolia.

After trying it, the effect was very good, which made Mike and Gao Zhihang extremely excited. After some more exploration, the ricochet tactics were finally settled.

As a matter of fact, the use of ordinary aerial bombs to attack large surface ships using ricochet tactics was not Song Zhewu's first initiative, but there was a precedent.

In Song Zhewu's memory, during World War II, both the British and Americans used ricochet. Moreover, the faster the aircraft, the lighter the bomb, and the farther the dropped aerial bomb will jump.

Song Zhewu remembers that in the original history, in 43 years, in order to blow up several reservoirs protected by lightning nets near the Ruhr industrial area in Germany and cut off the power supply of the Ruhr industrial area, a British man named Balsu? Volisu's aeronautical engineers came up with this ricocheting tactic, and the aerial bomb blew up the dam by jumping over the mine protection nets set up by the Germans. This bomb of the British weighed 4.2 tons.

In addition, in the Battle of Bismarck, more than 30 B25 bombers of the US military also used ricochet tactics to attack the Japanese fleet, and the hit rate was extremely high, and four Japanese destroyers and eight transport ships were sunk one after another. In the entire Battle of Bismarck, the US military only lost 13 killed and 12 wounded, 4 planes were shot down, and 2 were wounded near the US airfield. The blow hit 13 Japanese ships, killing and drowning 4,000 Japanese soldiers.

To sink a large surface ship, the bomb must be powerful enough. It's just that Song Zhewu doesn't have a bomber that can carry several tons of bombs now, so he can only find a way to do it.

At this time, the most powerful explosion was undoubtedly the black sojin invented by the German Henning in 1899. Before the advent of the atomic bomb, it was the most powerful**, also known as the "whirlwind**". It's just that at this time, the manufacturing process of Hesuojin is more complicated, and the cost of Hesuojin is higher, and all teams, including the Western powers, can't afford to use this kind of **.

But this is difficult to help Song Zhewu, a master of chemical engineering, with the application of new technology, the cost of Heisuo will be greatly reduced. Taiyuan's North Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Company already has a ** factory in the secret production of black Suojin.

Moreover, Song Zhewu was not satisfied with Hei Suojin, whose explosion power surpassed that of Tienti, and he had instructed Wang Mingyang to extract from Hei Suojin, an Oktojin whose explosion power was far superior to that of Hesuojin, which had not yet been discovered by people of this era.

It's just that Octoto is more expensive today, and even Song Zhewu, who has deep pockets, can't produce it on a large scale. However, in order to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese fleet, Song Zhewu still gritted his teeth and ordered the production of Octojin, which was enough to equip 500 aerial bombs.

In order to penetrate the armor of the Japanese ships, these aerial bombs not only used Octojin, but also used hollow charge technology. Moreover, these aerial bombs, which are designed to attack large warships, are all 200 kilograms. Because of the change in the size of the bomb, Qiang Er, who could originally carry four aerial bombs of one ton, could only carry four.

Although the 12 Qiang2 that had finished dropping bombs flew over the four Japanese aircraft carriers sandwiched between battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, they did not drop bombs on the aircraft carriers, for the simple reason that they had no room to lower their altitude again.

The twelve Qianger turned their fuselages in the air and flew to the west again. At this time, the second batch of 12 Qianger had also begun to launch a ricocheting attack on the Japanese fleet.

Their target was still the escort fleet on the west side of the Japanese aircraft carriers, and the purpose was to disrupt the escort formation of the Japanese warships and completely expose the four aircraft carriers.

The Haruna battleship was designed and built as a cruiser, i.e., a battlecruiser, and was the third ship of the Kongo class when construction began. There are 4 ships of the same type, namely "Kongo", "Hiei", "Haruna" and "Kirishima". The Kongo-class was Japan's first so-called super-dreadnought. …,

Although it was hit by three ricochets, the rough-skinned and thick-skinned battleship Haruna still maintained its speed and remained in the queue. But the two warships Gu Ying and Qiu Feng were not good, and the two warships that were seriously injured had greatly reduced their speed, and in order not to destroy the escort formation, they had already withdrawn from the queue.

Seeing that the second group of Chinese planes pounced again, the Japanese convoy on the western side of the Japanese army, which had suffered a big loss, did not dare to hold on to it this time, and in the high-speed movement, while continuing to carry out fierce shelling, began to adopt an S-shaped movement method, trying to avoid this strange ricochet. It's just that in this way, their speed can't keep up with the speed of the entire fleet.

At the forefront of the aircraft carrier fleet, the 31.7-knot, Chisei was finally revealed. Seizing this opportunity, six strong two flew straight at the Chicheng, and in order to contain the warships of the aircraft carrier such as Haruna, there were still two strong two flying towards the Haruna.

With a displacement of 29,500 tons, the Chicheng is large and can still be quite agile in fast sailing. It's just that the Red Sincerity didn't dare to move forward in a serpentine shape, otherwise it would block the Kaga that was following closely behind.

Therefore, the aircraft carrier Chicheng could only keep moving at a high speed as much as possible, while constantly bombarding it with the large-caliber guns on the ship. It's just that no matter what the Crimson is, it can't stop the attack on it. The six ricocheting bombs were like spiritual flying fish, and after jumping on the surface of the water a few times, the four ricocheting bombs slammed into the hull of the Chicheng