Chapter 285: Air Attack on Japan's First Air Fleet
The First Air Fleet is known as a mobile force, and Nagumo Tadaichi is currently leading four aircraft carriers, the Longxiang, the Chun Maru, the Xianghe, and the Zuihe, with nearly 500 carrier-based aircraft, which is definitely the strongest maritime force in East Asia.
Nanyun Zhongyi hurriedly walked out of the cabin of the flagship Longxiang, glanced at the sky with a telescope, and broke out in a cold sweat: "My obedient, the black pressure is one, no less than five hundred planes."
"Prepare for battle", Nanyun Zhong roared violently, this was the first time that the navy had faced the [***] team in a direct battle, and he didn't want to be left behind.
The carrier-based planes of the Yue Army were also in strict formation, and quickly rushed up, entangled with the fighters of the Yan and Huang Army, and prevented them from approaching their fleet.
More than 520 planes of the Yan and Huang Army attacked the First Air Fleet, including dive bombers, torpedo planes, and planes carrying aerial bombs.
"The fighters are out of the queue, to meet the planes, the second, third and fourth echelons are out of the queue, and they are divided into the east, south, and north to outflank the enemy ships, and then carpet bomb them in echelons...... Zhuo Yihang calmly gave orders on his seat.
All the Yan and Huang troops immediately scattered in all directions with a purpose, some to meet the Yue army, and some rushed towards the enemy fleet regardless of the entanglement of the machine.
"Bang ......"
"Da ......"
The sound of airborne heavy machine guns and aviation guns suddenly erupted and was incessant.
"Buzz ......" one after another planes caught fire and fell into the sea, although some pilots parachuted in time, but in this rushing ocean, the chance of survival is not very large.
Several torpedo planes of the Yanhuang Army got rid of the entanglement of the planes and quickly pulled them up to a suitable height, and the pilot's horn pressed the launch button, and the two torpedoes mounted on both sides of the fuselage immediately fell down, plunging headlong into the seawater, and then, like two great white sharks that killed them, rushed towards the warship with an obvious wave mark.
"Quick, dodge", the knife was already next to the neck, and the army on the ship was panicked, quickly controlling the hull to adjust the angle to avoid the torpedo attack. But there were too many torpedoes, and one or two of them were bitten by others, and suddenly there were several boats with mines on both sides, and the better ones were harmless, and they could continue to escape, and the unlucky ones were directly bombed into a big crater on the side side, and the sea water poured in, and the hull began to tilt slowly, almost unsaved.
"Buzzing ......" Suddenly, a buzzing sound came from far to near, and Nanyun Zhongyi, who was on the flagship Longxiang aircraft carrier, looked shocked, "Stop them......"
Suddenly, several escort cruisers violently fired their naval guns in an attempt to stop the dive bombers of the Yan and Huang Army. The fighters of the Yan and Huang Army did not care about the air blockade of the Japanese army, even if it was to exchange a few planes for an aircraft carrier of the Japanese army, it was also very cost-effective, they disregarded their own safety, except for evasive actions from time to time, they did not raise the altitude and escape, and still made a dive action and rushed towards the Japanese ship.
One of the Yanhuang Army planes was hit by a bullet and caught fire, and the pilot roared angrily, and continued to drive the fighter plane towards the Longxiang fiercely, hoping to fight the last bit of strength to die with the enemy.
"Quick, stop him", Nanyun Zhongyi seemed to see a grim reaper's hand stretched out towards him, full of horror, and suddenly said that the warship guns were firing wildly, and the Yanhuang Army plane was hit twice again, completely exploded in the air, and fell into the sea less than 100 meters away from the Longxiang, and burst into flames.
Nan Yunzhong wiped the cold sweat on his head, scolded a madman in his heart, and then commanded another ship battle.
Although the action of the pilot of the Yan and Huang Army was not successful, his actions attracted a lot of firepower from the Japanese ships, and played a good cover for his comrades.
Rumble...... A series of explosions sounded, and the two Longxiang frigates were shot and caught fire, and the soldiers above frantically ran to put out the fire, and their combat effectiveness was greatly lost.
After fighting for a long time, Nanyun Zhongyi gradually found that although the fighters were not less than the Yan and Huang Army, but the surname Neng lost a little, the pulling speed and turning arc of the Yan and Huang Army fighters were obviously stronger than those of the aircraft, many of the planes were originally chasing the Yan and Huang Army planes, and they were about to shoot, but they suddenly found that the other party suddenly pulled up sharply, and they couldn't keep up, and the shooting was naturally biased, or chased and chased, the other party suddenly made a sharp turn, and the turning arc was relatively small, but turned back and became the attacking party, It was precisely because of their late reaction that some of the pilots were preemptively killed by the fighters of the Yan and Huang Army.
"All the ships keep the formation and sail away to the open sea", the longer he watched, the more bottomless Nanyun Zhongyi became, and finally he didn't want to pry hard with the Yan and Huang troops in this sky, and sooner or later he would suffer a loss, so he ordered the fleet to fight and retreat.
"The second echelon, at all costs, attack the enemy's aircraft carrier", seeing that the Yue army intends to leave the battlefield, Zhuo Yihang finally gave an order to fight to the death to the second echelon with relatively strong combat effectiveness.
After receiving the order, all the pilots of the second echelon battle group shot a light in their eyes and rushed towards the dangerous prey regardless of the danger. Fighter planes fired their manned guns and heavy machine guns with all their might to fire frantically at the gunners on the deck of the ship, and under such an air strike, as long as they approached a certain distance, it would be difficult for the enemy on the deck to escape the fate of the air strike.
Suddenly, the three Yanhuang Junfu Chong bombers formed a very small combat formation, forming a triangle shape, they flew at a very low altitude, almost skimming the sea level, the artillery of the Yue army could not grasp the angle at all, a frightened Yue army began to strafe the heavy machine guns on the ship, but these three pilots were obviously very skilled, the fuselage slightly turned on its side to avoid the blow of the Yue army, they swept all the way over the Xifeng destroyer, but did not drop bombs, after breaking through its defensive line, directly rushed towards the Longxiang aircraft carrier.
"Their target is the flagship, stop them?" Their actions attracted the attention of the entire First Air Fleet, and the frigates quickly adjusted their guns and began to shoot in a panic.
"Lao Liu, Lao Chen, our heads are almost blocked by Xiao Yueben's firepower, it is very difficult to pull up the bomb, and if we don't say it, we will lose this good opportunity", Lao Zhou, who was suddenly flying on the flank, said to the two comrades.
"What do you mean, Old Zhou?" Lao Chen frowned, and had a bad premonition.
"What I mean is to destroy the enemy's flagship at all costs, the way is to directly hit the ship with the plane, if I don't succeed, you can go on again, I'll go first", Lao Zhou said lightly, and then roared, violently drove the plane to the maximum speed, swept over the sea level and rushed towards the Longxiang.
"Lao Zhou, Lao Zhou......" Lao Liu and Lao Chen, who reacted, shouted, but they were both pilots of the older generation of the Yan and Huang Army, and they knew that they couldn't be rash at this time, otherwise, Lao Zhou would die in vain.
Nagumo Zhongyi saw a Yanhuang Army bomber suddenly rushing towards him in the cockpit of the Longxiang, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he instinctively roared: "Ah......"
There was a loud "......boom", and then a huge fireball rose up in the center of the port side of the Longxiang, and a puff of black smoke rolled up.
The bomb on the "......" plane was also detonated, bringing up a column of water that soared into the sky. Nanyun Zhong felt that the Long Xiang suddenly slammed to the left side, and knew that something big was wrong.
"Report, the flagship was shot on the port side, and the damage was serious, please change ships quickly Your Excellency Commander," an adjutant rushed up and said to Nagumo Zhong worriedly.
(To be continued)