China's naval aviation is one of the most rigorously trained of all arms, and as early as before the launch of the starting point, it began to select the best pilots everywhere, and after the launching of the starting point, the training increased exponentially, and in the Beibu Gulf, China specially set aside several islands, on which the target of the construction of Japanese battleships and aircraft carriers was simulated, and then all pilots were trained to attack in various environments.

Moreover, it simulated the return fire of the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower, and also included the participation of Japanese carrier-based aircraft in the battle, and so on, so it can be said that the starting point was aimed at the Japanese warship from the moment it was launched.

Fourteen fighters, eighteen bombers, and twenty torpedo bombers took off in the first wave, and the huge group of planes quickly pounced on the Japanese battleships, and at this time the Mutsu was completely unaware of the danger, and they were getting closer and closer to the Chongqing, and had already entered the range of the artillery.

The huge muzzle of the Mutsu was aimed at the Chongqing and began to shoot, but because the distance was still too far, it could only set off a column of water around the Chongqing, but the violent explosion sound had already demonstrated the power of the world's most powerful warship, the sea seemed to be shaken, and the Japanese side was also quickly calibrating, preparing to give the Chinese warship a more fatal blow.

At this time, a dark cloud suddenly appeared in the northeast sky, and it was rushing towards the landing at an extraordinary speed, and the sailors on the Mutsu finally discovered the Chinese aircraft group at this time, and most of the Japanese sailors did not know the situation of the Qingdao Battle, but only dimly knew that it was the Chinese aircraft that sank the Japanese battleship, which was also a means for Japan to engage in propaganda to fool the people.

However, it is a bit self-deceptive, the sailors do not know the problem of aircraft, and how can they cope with air raids well, of course, the average officer is still relatively clear about this, and they also know that the reason why the Japanese warships are desperately increasing their air defense is that they are afraid of the Chinese.

And this time, the Chinese plane appeared in the sky again, and many people felt a chill from the bottom of their hearts. Especially the captain of the Mutsu, Nobunari Yamane. He was about to show his might and send the Chinese warship to the bottom of the sea, but he didn't know that the sudden appearance of the Chinese plane completely disrupted his plan.

Yamane Nobunari knew very well in his heart that this place was still several hundred kilometers away from China's coast, and China's land-based planes could not catch up, and most of the planes that appeared here were Chinese carrier-based aircraft, which could dispatch so many carrier-based aircraft. That means that all three of China's aircraft carriers are very likely to appear here!

Instead of bailing out the coastal areas, the Chinese navy appeared in the South China Sea, and Yamane immediately guessed the Chinese's plan to sink his Mutsu first, but Yamane did not believe that those small and delicate carrier-based aircraft could sink such a behemoth as the Mutsu.

However, he still ordered the shelling of Chinese warships to stop, and all anti-aircraft fire on the Mutsu was ready for battle. In addition, he ordered the rest of the warships to come over as soon as possible to form an encirclement and block the Mutsu in the middle.

But these preparations were a little late, China's first batch of bombers soon rushed towards the landing ao, and the anti-aircraft fire on the mutsu also immediately opened fire, and the huge battleship turned into a fire hedgehog, frantically intertwined with a dense network of firepower, but in the eyes of the well-trained Chinese naval aviation. These nets of fire are constantly being densed. They were driving their warhawks to evade Japanese fire as they approached quickly.

The first to drop the bomb was Wu Kaijie. The two 200-kilogram bombs all fell on the foredeck of the Mutsu, and the violent explosion set off two huge fires, but the Mutsu was rough and thick-skinned, except for blowing up a secondary cannon and killing more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, there was not much success.

However, the successful hit of the Mutsu was still a huge encouragement to the Chinese air force, and the explosion caused black smoke billowing from the bow of the Mutsu, severely restricting the line of sight, and weakening the anti-aircraft firepower, so that the rest of the Chinese bombers could attack as they wanted.

In an instant, the Mutsu received five or six bombs, and the main turret in the bow of the ship was successfully destroyed, and the deterrent power of this sea behemoth suddenly weakened a lot, and a more deadly threat followed, and the Chinese bombers were not the protagonists of this round of attacks, their mission was to attract the attention of the Japanese.

The real killer move is the torpedo machine that follows behind, attacking the battleship this kind of rough-skinned guy, the best weapon is still torpedoes, ten Chinese torpedo planes swayed and approached the Mutsu on the water, it seems that the Japanese also felt the threat of these guys, and soon several anti-aircraft fires came over, and the two leading torpedo planes were shot down.

However, the other torpedo planes were all intact and desperately approached the Mutsu under artillery fire, because the current torpedo planes were relatively primitive along the coast and could only be effective if they were launched within a distance of nearly a thousand meters, so the pilots of these torpedo planes all risked great danger to approach the Muchinoku.

However, Japan does not seem to know much about the horror of torpedo planes, and after paying the price of five torpedo planes, China finally succeeded in getting into the bomb delivery range, and a total of five torpedoes were dropped.

As soon as the torpedo entered the water, it was like five sharp swords, and it stabbed at the Mutsu without hesitation, and the people on the Mutsu also felt threatened at this time, but they had no choice but to be bombed.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait too long, and in an instant five torpedoes hit the Michinoku, but two of them did not explode, but three torpedoes also showed amazing power.

As if the Mutsu had been hit by a giant hammer one after another, the whole ship kept shaking, and one of the torpedoes drilled through the armor defenses and successfully damaged one steam turbine, which was driven by a total of four steam turbines, and after being damaged by one, the speed was instantly reduced.

Another torpedo hit the stern of the ship, damaging the steering gear, and both torpedoes hit the power system of the Mutsu, which for the battleship would immediately become a live target if the power system was attacked, and the Mutsu was now in this situation.

The speed was sharply reduced, the steering became extremely inflexible, and a large amount of seawater poured into the ship, which caused the battleship to tilt, and another torpedo also penetrated the fuel tank of the Mutsu, leaving a large amount of fuel behind, and a large black area appeared on the sea.

Moreover, there was a constant cracking sound in the battleship, and all the people on the ship had a sense of foreboding. And at this time, ten more Chinese torpedo planes also attacked. Their chosen line of defense, like the first one, was to attack the port side of the Mutsu, and they lost three planes in the penetration.

The other seven planes all successfully threw torpedoes, but the Michinoku managed to avoid two with difficulty, and one did not explode but the attack of the four torpedoes was enough, and a huge hole was opened on the port side of the Mutsu, and the sea water continued to pour in. The hull is heavily tilted.

After the torpedo plane was successful, the speed of the Japanese warship dropped seriously, and naturally it became a live target for the Chinese planes, and all the bombers unscrupulously threw bombs at this sea bully, although these bombs were not enough to bring any fatal injuries, but they were also able to greatly kill and injure the personnel on the warship. In addition, the main guns of the Mutsu were also destroyed, and now only a twin turret remains.

The firepower of the entire battleship was reduced by three-quarters, and the sighting equipment was also destroyed in the bombardment, so that the Mutsu had an astonishing caliber of main guns, but it was not functional, and the commander Nobunari Yamane was also seriously injured at this time, and his command room was affected by the bomb explosion. He was thrown to the ground alive. The head hit the leg of the table.

The incessant bleeding dyed half of Yamane's head red. The other leg was also in unbearable pain, it was certain that most of this leg had been broken, but the physical pain was far less than the mental torture, and he finally understood what the plane meant to the battleship at this moment!

The sea hegemon in people's minds turned out to be so fragile, no matter how powerful the main gun, there was no way to threaten those dexterous aircraft, no matter how much anti-aircraft firepower was equipped, the aircraft could find the dead end of the attack, in the face of the rise of air power, the battleship was a lamb to the slaughter, and there was no resistance at all.

If you want to deal with planes, I'm afraid there are only better planes, just twenty minutes of bombing, so that Yamane Nobunari's trust in the battleship completely collapsed, it was as if the sky had fallen, and the Japanese Navy may have taken the wrong path!

Although the attack of the naval aviation was successful, the Mutsu was too huge after all, and now it was only seriously wounded, and there was still some distance before it sank, and all the planes flew back to the aircraft carrier, ready to replenish fuel and ammunition, and attack the Mutsu again.

At this time, the other Japanese warships were also frightened stupid, in their hearts, the invincible Mutsu did not have any ability to fight back, and was crippled by the other side, and they also tried to aid the Mutsu, but these cruisers and destroyers under 10,000 tons could not even carry a 200-kilogram bomb, as long as they were hit, they would be easily sent to the bottom of the sea.

Of course, even if the danger was huge, the Japanese did not give up the rescue operation, but it was only to increase the achievements of the Chinese naval aviation, and at this time China's second round of bombing operations also began, in addition to carrier-based aircraft, this time the Guangxi also joined the attack, the superstructure of the Mutsu was almost destroyed, and the main guns naturally had no deterrent.

The Guangxi was even able to reach within 10,000 meters and tilt ammunition towards the Mutsu, in fact, at this time, China sent the Guangxi out, and there was another layer of strategic deception considerations, China was explaining to the world that the battleship has not been eliminated, and the aircraft carrier cannot completely replace the position of the battleship!

Of course, it is up to the other powers to decide how much they can believe, after all, this attack on the Mutsu has thoroughly demonstrated the great advantages of aircraft carriers, and there will definitely be a boom in aircraft carrier development after the war!

The Mutsu was indeed tenacious, suffering dozens of bombs, more than a dozen torpedoes, and cannonballs tilted over by the Guangxi, but it insisted on not sinking, in fact, the warships at this time were like purgatory, explosions and fires continued to shine, most of the sailors had been killed and wounded, countless blood and stumps and broken legs, and the terrible howl of the Japanese before they died, as if hell had come to the world.

In order to speed up the attack, Chen Shaokuan ordered five planes carrying 500 kilograms of bombs to drop on the Mutsu, one of which Wu Kaijie threw entered the Mutsu from a hole in the middle, and finally detonated the ammunition compartment of the Mutsu, and the sea overlord finally split into two sections in the unprecedented violent explosion and sank into the blue waves of the South China Sea! (To be continued.) )