Chapter 587: Restrain the Dragon
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor two months ago, which gave the Americans a taste of hell, and now the Chinese bombing of Japanese oil refineries has also made the Japanese feel unforgettable pain, and the Japanese are horrified by the sheer power of napalm.
Once burned, there is almost no way to extinguish, the traditional fire extinguishing method has no effect, it will only make the fire more and more intense, as long as the personnel are contaminated with a little, it is almost difficult to survive, and the napalm will produce a large amount of toxic gas when burning, and the nearby personnel will be poisoned and suffocated, and then burned to death by the fire.
It can be said that this is a very murderous weapon, but it is very good to use it against these Japanese beasts, the first round of bombing caused the three oil refineries to be completely destroyed, and the Japanese side was finally shaken, if it comes again like this, the oil refineries that Japan has managed to snatch from the British will be reduced to nothing, which Japan does not want to see in any case.
Japan has been a resource-hungry country for many years, and Japan has no energy and minerals needed for industrialization, and in the past, it relied on plundering from China, and later after losing China, it occupied the South Seas, so that Japan could be regarded as having a stable supply of oil, and now it wants to fight with the two big countries of China and the United States, how can it be done without enough oil!
Therefore, Japan had no choice but to send the Canglong and Feilong to stop the Chinese aircraft carrier, and the telegram sent by Japan was immediately cracked by the Chinese intelligence department, and the news was informed to Shen Honglie.
China is the country that attaches great importance to intelligence work in the world, in addition to planting spies, it cannot let go of technical means, intercepting local secrets, and deciphering them, this is a very effective way to obtain intelligence, in history Britain sank the battleship Bismarck. The United States won the Battle of Midway. are inseparable from the detection of intelligence.
Japan has been in a weak position in this regard. At the time of the Washington Conference, the United States cracked Japan's intelligence and knew Japan's bottom line, and after that, the United States often cracked Japan's diplomatic cables, which aroused strong protests from Japan.
In fact, this is the reason why this happens. In fact, all codes have their own rules, which means that as long as they find this law, they can be deciphered, so this is a battlefield between mathematicians from all over the world. There is nothing surprising that Japan lags behind the United States in basic science, and the code is deciphered by the Americans.
In this time and space, not only the United States can decipher the Japanese code, but even China is the same, Qiao Yu once organized China's most outstanding mathematicians to study the laws of the Japanese code, and finally basically achieved easy decipherment of the Japanese code, and no matter how Japan replaces, China can decipher.
After the alliance between Japan and Germany, Japan hoped to solve the problem of cryptography with the help of Germany, which has some of the best mathematicians in the world. Hitler was also a big bag at that time, and Germany handed over the newly developed cipher machine to Japan.
The Japanese are very happy. Thinking that with the German cipher machine, it can be foolproof, and the Japanese still have an unforgettable worship for whites from the bottom of their hearts. However, it can be said that it is providence to make people, the Germans' own cipher machine is not omnipotent, in fact, the British have already deciphered the German cipher.
After China passed the Lend-Lease Act, its relations with Britain became closer and closer, and British intelligence shared the results of their research with China, and with the ideas provided by Britain, China quickly figured out the Japanese telegram secretly, but this time China did not startle the snake, but pretended not to know.
The Japanese thought they had a plan, but who knew that the news that they ordered the Canglong and the Flying Dragon to attack had been cracked by the Chinese side, Shen Honglie was also very happy at this time, he hurriedly commanded the fleet to sail to the northwest, opened the battlefield, and then sent planes to search.
Shen Honglie knew very well that Japan only had six large aircraft carriers, but it had to support operations in two directions, and as long as it could sink one, the combat capability of the Japanese combined fleet would be seriously weakened.
The Chinese aircraft carrier did not search for the Japanese aircraft carrier, but got a report of a submarine, in the northeast, an aircraft carrier formation was found off the coast of the Philippines, which was speeding towards Borneo.
According to China's intelligence, Japan's large aircraft carriers are concentrated near the Java Sea, and it is impossible for them to appear from the northeast.
If Japan's main force is really in the direction of the Philippines, it means that China's previous intelligence is wrong, and now the aircraft carrier group is also in a position of being extremely vulnerable, but if the intelligence of the submarine is wrong, China is likely to lose a good opportunity to destroy the main force of the Japanese Navy.
However, there is another possibility, that is, the two intelligence is not wrong, the aircraft carrier from the direction of the Philippines is only a partial division, and the real main force is still in the south, think about it carefully, Shen Honglie strengthened his judgment, he immediately ordered the Ningyuan aircraft carrier to break away from the formation and sail to the northeast to find out the reality of the Japanese army.
The other three aircraft carriers continued to search to the southwest, and the Ningyuan, under the protection of the escort ships, quickly headed north, and at the same time sent carrier-based aircraft to search, and soon the Ningyuan's reconnaissance planes discovered a Japanese fleet, including an aircraft carrier, three heavy cruisers, and five destroyers.
Ningyuan immediately sent carrier-based planes to the air to meet the enemy, the pilots skimmed the vast sea, and finally found the Japanese aircraft carrier not far away, at this time the Japanese carrier-based planes also took off, the two sides launched a fierce fight, the Japanese plane only about 20, the number is more than double that of China, although the pilots fought desperately, but the bravery could not make up for the double gap in quantity and quality.
In the sky, Japanese planes continued to fall into the sea, and even exploded in volleys, and the Chinese carrier-based planes broke through the interception and rushed towards the Japanese aircraft carrier at the fastest speed, at which time the Chinese pilots already knew that the Japanese aircraft carrier was the Fengxiang light aircraft carrier.
This aircraft carrier was the first aircraft carrier built in Japan, and it adopted an island structure, but due to the immature design, the Japanese reversed the car and dismantled the island superstructure, leaving a bare deck on it, so it was very easy to identify.
The Fengxiang was originally to assist the Japanese army in attacking the Philippines, but as the fighting on the Philippine island was basically over, the Fengxiang lost its usefulness, and the battle in the direction of Singapore became more and more urgent, so Japan sent the aircraft carrier out and went south from the Philippines to try to attack the Chinese fleet as a surprise force, but it was discovered by China in advance.
Suddenly, the situation of the Fengxiang became extremely dangerous, this kind of light aircraft carrier with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons, not to mention torpedoes, could not even withstand ordinary bombs, as long as a bomb of hundreds of kilograms could easily send it to the bottom of the sea, the Japanese were desperate to shoot into the air, trying to save their own fate.
This was obviously a futile struggle, the three dive bombers had already set their sights on the Fengxiang, the warhawk cut through the sky with the fastest speed, approached the Fengxiang, and then easily dropped the bombs, the action was like the clouds and water of their peers, very smooth, two of the six bombs hit the bow of the Fengxiang.
The Japanese aircraft carriers have a very interesting design, that is, the position of the bow of the ship will be a large red circle on the map, which is the symbol of their plaster flag, and the reason for this is because of the fear that the plane will land incorrectly, which is also possible in the chaos of the battlefield.
With this big red circle, the Japanese planes will be able to find their nest, but the stupid brains of the Japanese have not thought that after such a paint, it will be equivalent to providing bombing instructions to foreign planes and becoming a living target.
These two bombs landed on the bow of the Fengxiang, and the violent explosion instantly tore the deck of the Fengxiang, the Fengxiang is also a veteran of 20 years of service, and was injured during the Sino-Japanese War.
The ability to resist explosions was reduced to a very low limit, and the explosion tore through the deck, causing a fire that soon spread to the interior, and the fuel and bombs exploded together, and the Fengxiang was soon turned into a living coffin.
Seeing that the Fengxiang was completely finished, the Chinese pilots focused their attacks on other ships, and staged a good chase on the sea, and the Japanese warships desperately fled for their lives, but how could the ships on the surface compare with the airplanes, and the Japanese warships were sent to the bottom of the sea one by one.
Just when the Ningyuan discovered the Fengxiang, the Japanese aircraft carrier formation was the first to discover the Chinese fleet, and they sent seventy planes to form the first wave of attack aircraft and flew towards the Chinese aircraft carrier.
At this time, China's carrier-based aircraft have also taken to the air, Japan's Zero fighter and China's Phoenix launched a fierce confrontation, the two aircraft can be said to be the concentrated embodiment of the industrial capabilities of China and Japan, the Zero fighter has excellent low-altitude combat performance, and at the same time the range and firepower are very outstanding.
The attack on Pearl Harbor and the main force that swept across the South Seas were the Zero fighters, and these two months can be said to be the most glorious time for the Zero fighters, but China's Phoenix fighters are also not bad, and it has been proved in the British sky that this aircraft has been able to compete with German aircraft on the battlefield, and can be called one of the world's top fighters.
When the two strong meet, they naturally have to divide a winner and loser, a Zero and a Phoenix are entangled together, the light Zero has the upper hand, just when it is about to shoot at the Phoenix, the Phoenix suddenly flipped to the left, and the Zero suddenly couldn't keep up, after throwing off the Zero fighter, the Phoenix quickly returned fire, and a series of cannons hit out, just hitting the fuselage of the Zero, and suddenly the plane was blown up in the air and turned into a big fireball! (To be continued.) )