Chapter 635: The War of Resistance Songhu War of Resistance The Magical Ricochet (1)
Although the Japanese carrier-based planes were quickly replenished with fuel bombs by the ground crews of the Japanese ships after they landed, the work of replenishing the oil bombs of more than 100 planes was not successfully completed in a short period of time. (_&book&bar)
Although the ground crew on the Japanese warship had been busy nervously, at this time, only the 30 or so Nakajima fighters that had just landed on the ship had just finished replenishing their fuel bombs. And, because there was still some time before the next flight, the pilots had already returned to their cabins and had time to rest.
In addition, there are still planes on the flight decks of the three aircraft carriers that have not had time to be towed, and even if the pilots are still on the planes, they need to be towed onto the flight deck after these planes are taken away, and then the trailers will drag the fighters that are about to take off to meet the flight deck. What's more, at this time, the six Type 13 attack planes that were in a hurry to land on the ship had already begun to rush to the ship.
After the officer on duty on the Japanese aircraft carrier raised the air raid siren, some of the ground crews on the aircraft carrier, who had reacted quickly, ran around in confusion, shouting hoarsely to their companions who were still at a loss, while trying to gather personnel and vehicles to tow the plane that was still parked on the flight deck. Because this was the first time that such a large fleet of the Japanese army had been subjected to an air raid, officers who had no experience in air raids even hurried to report the situation and ask for instructions from their superiors.
Because the Japanese navy, and even the navies of the world at this time, had never heard of any large fleet in the world being heavily damaged by enemy aircraft, let alone a record of a warship being sunk by an aircraft. Therefore, the Japanese navy's awareness of the air defense of the fleet was very weak.
Now, inside the Japanese Navy. Only a handful of young and strong aviation officers, headed by Yamamoto Isoroku, director of the Technical Division of the Naval Aviation Department, who was still in the rank of Osa, were clamoring that the naval aviation unit would be the decisive force in future naval warfare. And the senior admirals of the Navy, for the most part, scoffed at this, and they still think that in naval warfare. The cannon of the giant ship is the key to the final victory or defeat of the sea.
In view of this, although the Japanese aircraft carriers, including the escort warships, were also equipped with anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, they were generally unmanned. At this time, there was no one on duty at the gun emplacements of the aircraft carrier and the warships. Moreover, not only did there be only two 23-mm anti-aircraft guns with a very slow rate of fire on the carrier. Except for the battleships, there were no large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the other warships, only two anti-aircraft machine guns.
After discovering that the plane was coming, some of the personnel ran and rushed to the gun position. Prepare for anti-aircraft shooting.
In the midst of the chaos, two Type 13 attack planes that were in a hurry to land on the Chicheng aircraft carrier even collided with each other, which added to the confusion on the Chicheng aircraft carrier.
When the Jian-2 roared and swooped down, only one of the anti-aircraft guns on the Chicheng had time to fire into the air. The accuracy of the hastily launched anti-aircraft shooting can be imagined.
The twelve J-2s that swooped down were divided into three groups, using two 20-mm machine guns in front of their noses. Focus on firing at the Japanese Type 13 attack planes that had just landed on the ship. When a large-caliber bullet from a machine gun hits the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, it is like two flickers, like two fire plows. From the bow to the stern, everywhere you go. Personnel and vehicles were smashed to pieces.
When the 12 Jian-2 aircraft swept over the aircraft carrier at low altitude, one Type 13 attack plane each of the attack planes that had just landed on the Fengxiang and Kaga aircraft carriers was destroyed. A flame ignited. The Jian-2 attacking the Chicheng aircraft carrier was affected by the anti-aircraft guns, and the firing effect was very unsatisfactory, but it only knocked out the propeller of one of the two Type 13 aircraft that had just landed, and killed and wounded more than a dozen Japanese aircraft carrier ground crews who rushed up to tow the planes.
It was only then that the commander of the Japanese aircraft carrier had time to give the order to anchor. A giant ship that does not move is a typical target, and such a common-sense thing does not require any experience in air strikes. …,
When the huge anchor chains of the four Japanese aircraft carriers were still slowly rising, the Jian-2, which attacked the aircraft carriers, had already flexibly turned around in the air and pounced on the three aircraft carriers again.
The Japanese Nakajima-type fighters, who were struggling with Jian-2 at high altitude, also discovered that their own aircraft carrier was attacked at this time, and the eight Nakajima-type fighters desperately rushed out of the battle group and swooped down to try to drive away the aircraft that interfered with these Chinese to attack their aircraft carriers.
The two squadrons of Japanese Nakajima-type fighters, which were far inferior to Jian-2 in terms of speed, firepower, agility and other major technical and tactical indicators, and were also at a disadvantage in the formation of the combat formation, were already passive everywhere in air combat, and they had already been disrupted in formation, and they were shot down and damaged one after only two rounds of fighting.
The damaged Japanese Nakajima-type could not land on the ship at this time, so he could only abandon the plane and parachute, which was equivalent to being shot down.
At this time, the separation of eight more protection aircraft carriers will undoubtedly make the originally passive situation more difficult, and it is only a matter of time before the 14 Nakajima-type aircraft that are still struggling to support at high altitude are annihilated.
At the same time that the eight Nakajima planes that broke out of the battle group swooped down, behind them, eight Jian-2 aircraft immediately followed.
Due to the swooping down of the Japanese Nakajima-style, eager to rescue the three aircraft carriers that were being attacked, they had little time to do any evasive actions during the dive, which also gave the faster J-2 a chance behind. They were soon bitten tightly by the tail of J-2, who was catching up from behind. After a rain of shells, two Nakajima planes never had a chance to pull up, but puffed black smoke and plunged headlong into the sea.
The remaining six Nakajima rushed down despite the danger, and the Jian-2, who had just finished the second round of strafing, was a burst of machine-gun bullets.
Although the performance of the Jian-2 was far superior to that of the Japanese army's Nakajima-type, it was impossible not to be afraid of the machine gun bullets of the Japanese aircraft, so they had to quickly climb high, temporarily abandon the attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier, and then converge and track the Jian-2 to besiege these six Japanese planes together.
The only purpose they can achieve is to interfere with and stop these J-2s and strafe the planes and personnel on the flight decks of the three aircraft carriers.
These Nakajima-style, who can't beat each other and have nowhere to run if they want to, it's impossible to bite each other in the grappling. On the contrary, as long as they are bitten by their opponents, they never want to break away. All these Japanese Nakajima-style pilots could do was to do everything they could, and even exert all their strength to feed, and try to make all kinds of evasive maneuvers to delay the time when they were shot down as much as possible.
Jian-2 almost became a super trainer for the Japanese army's Nakajima-style pilots, and under their pursuit and persecution, he made many difficult maneuvers that Japanese pilots could not do at all, and they frequently appeared. In the face of life-threatening situations, the potential of these six Nakajima-style pilots was greatly developed, and they all became masters of air combat.
However, air combat is more about the performance and quantity of aircraft, and only when the performance of the two planes is not much different, is it more about technology and tactics. Or, although one side has advanced aircraft, the pilot is a rookie, and the other side is a skilled veteran, then there will be a chance of victory.
And now, the Japanese Nakajima and their pilots do not occupy either side, and the balance of victory and defeat cannot be tilted in favor of the Japanese army.
In just over ten minutes, all six Nakajima were shot down. Even the Nakajima type, which was stubbornly resisting at high altitude, only four were left at this time.
Although the Nakajima-style losses provided air cover for the fleet were exhausted, it also bought time for the Japanese aircraft carriers, and the four Japanese aircraft carriers, including the Wakamiya Maru seaplane carrier, had already finished their anchor chains and began to turn. …,
More than a dozen battleships, cruisers, and destroyers around the Japanese aircraft carriers have also surrounded the sides of the four aircraft carriers, and while escorting the aircraft carriers to the south, they have begun to use their anti-aircraft guns and machine guns to shoot frantically into the air to provide air defense cover for the four aircraft carriers that are large in size and obviously the targets of Chinese aircraft.
Due to the interference of the Japanese Nakajima-type fighters, at this time, on the aircraft carrier Kaga, which had a wide flight deck, there were even two Nakajima aircraft carriers that had been dragged onto the runway of the flight deck and were preparing to take off.
More than 20 Jian-2 planes, once again braving the intensive anti-aircraft fire of the Japanese army, began to strafe the flight decks of the three aircraft carriers and prevent the Japanese planes from taking off.
Although the Japanese warships had only two antiaircraft guns or antiaircraft machine guns, there were more than 30 antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns on more than 10 Japanese warships. After a round of strafing, two Jian-2 planes were injured and had to withdraw from the battlefield ahead of schedule and fly towards the mainland.
At this tense moment, the thirty-six strong two finally arrived.
After Gao Zhihang gave the order to attack in advance, Jian-2 accelerated to the battlefield. Ke Qianger has been lagging behind because of his slow speed, and it was only at this time that the first echelon finally arrived in time.
Sacrificing speed and agility, the strong two, which has strong armor protection, simply does not care about the attack of small-caliber anti-aircraft weapons. These 36 Qiang 21 rushed to the battlefield and, under the command of Gao Zhihang, went straight to the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese army.
There were already two Nakajima fighters on the flight deck of the Kaga that had begun to taxi, and there were also Nakajima fighters preparing to take off on Chicheng and Fengxiang.
The strong two are based on squadrons, and each squadron is responsible for one aircraft carrier, which is immediately engaged in an attack on the aircraft carrier. When they roared and dived into the sky above the aircraft carrier, they were only less than 100 meters away from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier, and a group of strong two strafed and dropped bombs along the flight deck to attack the Japanese fighters who were about to take off. The other group lined up along the side of the deck of the aircraft carrier from north to south, dropping 50-kilogram bombs one after another.
As the bombs continued to explode, large groups of flames continued to rush into the ranks of Japanese carrier-based aircraft, and broken wings and fragments of the broken airframe scattered in all directions in the chaotic crowd of Japanese troops.
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