Chapter 168: The Battle of the Sea and the Air (5)

The raptor bomber has excellent maneuverability during diving, and the dive channel is almost vertical, which can effectively ensure the hit rate of bomb dropping. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is also Zhang Cheng's primary consideration when designing this dive bomber, the hit rate.

However, any dive bomber is very difficult to control when diving. During high-speed dives, the tremendous pressure makes the pilots feel as if they have been pressed against the lever in their hands. And the violent tremor of the fuselage will make people worry that they will fall apart without knowing when. The pilots who were able to fly dive bombers were all elite people of the arts and daring.

The Poyang Lake aircraft carrier entered service early, and the carrier-based aircraft formation underwent a long and arduous training. Each of these elites was selected by thousands of people, and their abilities were not weaker than those of the pilots of the Japan Navy, and they were also full of the spirit of courage and sacrifice.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty far surpassed the Japanese Navy in terms of pilots, and even the navies of all countries in the world. After all, the strong population base and the number of people with high-quality education far exceed those of other countries in the world.

Captain Wu Hao is one of the elite pilots of Daming Hainan Airlines. He originally applied for the Army Aviation Force, but because of his excellent performance in the flight school, he was actively recommended to the Hainan Airlines by the Army Airlines. This kind of thing sounds incredible. The Army, which has never dealt with it, will give its own elite to HNA?

However, when the commander of the army aviation is Zhang Cheng, this kind of thing is not so unacceptable. After all, in Zhang Cheng's eyes, even a Rudel-like figure is not as important in the army as sinking important local warships in the navy!

Therefore, he has been resisting the pressure of the army and constantly sending excellent pilots to the HNNA. Fortunately, before the war, the army aviation was actually not very valued by the army bosses, and Zhang Cheng was the commander of the army aviation, so it was able to proceed smoothly.

Captain Wu Hao was immediately promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant after coming to HNA, which was an agreement between Zhang Cheng and HNA. The transfer of outstanding pilots to the military branch should at least be expressed. Later, because of his outstanding performance in training and exercises, he was soon promoted to the rank of captain and transferred to the Poyang Lake aircraft carrier as a team leader. At this moment, he led his flying team from the sky to swoop down towards the Akagi, which was swinging its huge body like a giant whale. This battleship has the fleet commander's flag on it!

The huge roaring sound made Nan Yunzhong clench his hands tightly, and his finger joints were faintly white from excessive force. At this moment, he regretted his previous carelessness and contempt for the Ming Navy. I didn't expect that the 11th Task Force really had the courage to attack, and it still took the lead.

He regretted even more that he should not have focused on supporting the Bali landing force. Not only did they send a large number of fighters, but they also sent the Kongo-class battle cruisers, which had a powerful air defense force, which directly led to a significant weakening of the fleet's air defense forces. Those army red deer died when they died, how could they compare to the importance of naval warships?

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world. Nagumo Tadaichi is already destined to become a tragic figure today, making a background for the glory of the 11th Task Force of the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, the captain of the Akagi, Kusaka Ryunosuke Osa, had already pushed away the helmsman and steered it himself. The captain with a cold gaze and a calm expression constantly controlled this giant battleship of tens of thousands of tons, dodging several torpedoes dropped by low-altitude sea-skimming approaching torpedo planes.

There were even several deck planes thrown into the sea. After miraculously flashing all the torpedoes, before Kusaka Ryunosuke Daisa had time to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, a heartbreaking, hissing howl came from the air defense lookout position, "Dive bomber!" ”

Captain Wu Hao looked at the Akagi, which had exposed itself to the dive bombers because of dodging torpedoes. The corners of his mouth hooked into a smile, recalling the usual training scenes, trying his best to control his bomber to keep falling, until he was less than six hundred meters above the sea before he pressed the bomb button.

Then a huge reaction force was generated on the operating lever, and the safety bolt ejected the bomb and pushed the fighter in the opposite direction. Captain Wu Hao quickly pulled the operating lever to the limit position.

The three dive bombers that followed behind Captain Wu Hao also dropped their own bombs. According to the combat manual given by Zhang Cheng, the minimum attack altitude of a dive bomber should be 800 meters, and any lower it will become.

However, elite pilots like Captain Wu Hao found in their daily training that the hit rate would be greatly improved if the altitude was lowered. As a result, the brave pilots will forget the combat manual and choose to implement it according to their own ideas.

Captain Wu Hao's plane escaped from the range of the anti-aircraft artillery, while two of the three planes behind him did not rush out after dropping the bomb and were torn to pieces by the anti-aircraft fire. However, they achieved amazing results.

Captain Wu Hao's bomb landed at the back of the Akagi's flight deck, which was filled with planes that didn't have time to take off. The armor-piercing projectile gouged through the wooden flight deck and then fell into the hangar below deck, triggering a fuse explosion.

The rear of the Akagi hangar, near the elevator, was littered with planes with folding wings waiting to be brought onto the flight deck. The planes were fully loaded, with bombs and torpedoes on them, and high-explosive shells that had not had time to be unloaded and sent to the ammunition depot. There are even tanker trucks that refuel fighters!

The explosion of the armor-piercing bomb ignited the fuel in the aircraft and the tanker, and the violent shock wave and the high temperature of the fire soon detonated a large number of bombs and torpedoes with the fuses.

So many bombs and torpedoes were detonated one after another, even if the Akagi was converted from a sturdy battleship, it was impossible to withstand it, and soon the entire back half of the battleship was torn to pieces, and the flames were burning hundreds of meters high! Viewed from the sky, the Akagi's ass felt as if it had been bitten hard by an unknown beast.

The three bombs dropped by Captain Wu Hao all landed on the sea dozens of meters away from the side of the Akagi. Although the shock wave generated by the explosion had a certain destructive effect on the hull of the aircraft carrier, the effect was not significant. It was Captain Wu Hao's bomb that really killed the Akagi. In the post-war battlefield summary, Captain Wu Hao was awarded the first meritorious service and won a medal for outstanding contribution and the Baoding Medal.

In fact, the Akagi, which was converted from a capital ship, is considered very strong among aircraft carriers. Under normal circumstances, even a 500-kilogram armor-piercing bullet could not cause fatal damage. However, the position of this armor-piercing shell was very good, as if a lighter lit a firecracker fuse, so that the bombs, torpedoes, and fuel that the Japanese themselves had accumulated were detonated and ignited. This was the main reason for the destruction of the Akagi.

The violent explosion and billowing black smoke on the Akagi were visible to everyone on the battlefield, and the hearts of the Japanese sank. That's their flagship.

"Your Excellency!" Ryunosuke Kusaka swooped down on Nagumo Tadaichi, who fell to the ground due to the shaking of the ship's hull caused by the violent explosion, and reached out to cover the commander's forehead, which was injured by the collision, "The Akagi is broken, and it can't continue to fight anymore." Ask the commander to leave the ship. ”

"Ah!!h The grief-stricken Nanyun Zhongyi roared angrily. His mood at the moment was simply the same as that of Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was raided in the Battle of Barrel Sagama, and he wanted to cry out loud with grief and indignation. For the Japanese, every battleship is an incomparably valuable national resource, not to mention a giant warship of tens of thousands of tons!

Ryunosuke Kusaka called in the Marines and helped Nagumo Tadaichi to leave the bridge and take a traffic boat to the nearby cruiser Naka, which had come to the rescue. And Kusaka Ryunosuke Osa, who stayed on the ship, commanded the crew to rescue his own battleship.

The oil burned at high temperatures could even melt steel, and the wooden flight deck used by the Japanese was completely dry wood in the face of raging flames. The rapidly spreading fire soon enveloped the entire battleship in thick black smoke. The occasional glimmer of fire already foreshadowed the ship's fate.

The team members in asbestos fireproof suits rushed into the fire and all of them were lost in a few tens of seconds, and the Akagi's own fire-fighting facilities and the water cannons that had been brought to the warship around it could not bring any useful help to its ferocious fire and violent explosions. Eventually, more than an hour after being hit, the Akagi had lost hope of salvage. Captain Ryunosuke Kusaka ordered the ship to be abandoned, and at the same time demanded that Nagumo Tadada, who had been transferred to the Naka, order the sinking of the Akagi at once, and that the battleship not fall into the hands of Hua Guo under any circumstances.

Subsequently, Kusaka Ryunosuke Osa rejected the staff's request for a transfer, tied himself to the sailing rudder, and sang the warship march and sank with the ship. Eventually, the destroyers Nobu and Fukiyuki fired multiple torpedoes at their carriers and sent their battleships to the bottom of the sea with their own hands.

While the smoke of the Akagi was billowing in the air, the Kaga and the Wyvern were also attacked. Colonel Yang Jing also wanted to sink all the Japanese aircraft carriers at once, but the power in his hand couldn't do it at all.

The Japanese fleet is not a target ship parked on the sea, whatever you want to bomb. The dozens of bombers and torpedo planes in his hands can attack three aircraft carriers at the same time, which is already beyond the limit, and the Wyvern farther away can only be reserved for the next attack wave.

The Kaga, which is as large as the Akagi, is like a huge magnet on the sea, deeply attracting Daming naval aviation fighters from all directions. In order to protect their aircraft carriers, the zero-combat pilots of the Japanese Navy rushed into the coverage of their own anti-aircraft fire regardless of the danger and launched a fierce attack on the fighters of the Daming Navy Airlines.

The four Raptors were shot down by the Zero and anti-aircraft artillery as soon as they entered the bombing lane, and one more fighter plane was shot down when it was re-deployed. Both bombs were dropped in the sea. And several Sea Eagle torpedo planes on the port side of the Kaga were also smashed into the sea by the concentrated attack of the rushing Zero and anti-aircraft fire.

The Kaga is safe for the time being. (To be continued.) )