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At half past three in the morning on April 24, 1941, off the coast of the Bass Strait. Nagumo, who joined up with Narumi Inoue, ordered a shift to the southwest, and the fleet began to sail in 2 knots against the wind in preparation for the early morning takeoff.

After several losses, the quality of the naval aviation unit has plummeted, and there are very few outstanding air crew members left. At this time, there was an accident on the flagship Flying Eagle, due to a mistake, when the elevator sent a Zero to the deck, the tail of the aircraft was stuck between the aviation deck and the elevator, resulting in damage to the aircraft and had to be pushed into the sea. But Nagumo didn't seem to see the accident, and stood quietly on the platform next to the ship's island, pricking up his ears and holding his head high in vigilance.

In the hot flashes of air, the faint sound of propellers made him uneasy. Listening to the sound, it seems to be a reconnaissance plane, but the problem is that for a whole hour, this reconnaissance plane has been hovering over the sky from time to time. That is, the fleet is actually exposed. This surprised him and the officer, and they couldn't figure out how the reconnaissance planes could appear in a fleet with all lights turned off and radio silence in the midst of the black lights and blind fire. But whatever it was, his fleet was already in danger. To make matters worse, he has no way to get rid of this pesky reconnaissance plane now, because the aircraft carrier does not have the ability to take off and land at night. And if you fire a gun or turn on a searchlight, you may even attract bombers that have already taken off.

He hated the feeling of being powerless.

"General!" At this time, Ryunosuke Kusaka walked out of the bridge. After following Ozawa to suffer defeat in the Marianas, he relied on the backstage of the aircraft carrier faction to come to Nagumo as a staff officer. "It's Inoue-kun's telegram, they're leaving." Nanyun didn't look back, and nodded slightly. In the Jet-1 plan, the task of the Nagumo Fleet is to feign an attack on the Bass Strait to attract the 21st Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Chinese Navy to attack. Among them, after a brief rendezvous between Inoue Narumi and Nagumo, she needs to use the radio frequency of Nagumo's fleet to turn around and return to Leyte Gulf to continue to confuse her opponent.

The plan is very complicated, and this is also related to the staff officers of the Navy, because the staff officers of Ryunosuke Kusaka believe that the more complex the battle plan, the better the plan.

Seeing that Nagumo paid special attention to the reconnaissance plane overhead, Kusaka Ryunosuke comforted: "Shina must have used radio signals to appear to us, as long as Inoue-kun leaves with the signal, they will definitely be attracted to it." ”

"Then ask him to hurry." Nagumo didn't want to wait for death here, and Yamamoto told him to protect the fleet and try to rush back to participate in the more important Ryukyu offensive and defensive battles. So he waved his hand impatiently and motioned for Inoue Narumi to leave and "take" the reconnaissance plane on his head.

As soon as the Fourth Fleet left, the buzzing above their heads was really getting farther and farther away, which made Nagumo and Officer Yumoto breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that the reconnaissance plane had been diverted by Inoue Narumi. They knew that in fact, the No. 9 reconnaissance plane above the fleet was not led away by the Fourth Fleet, but received a telegram from the arrival of the 41 Bomber Squadron of the Penghu Navy.

The No. 9 is a kind of high-altitude and long-range reconnaissance plane modified from the four-transport-nine transport plane, and unlike other reconnaissance planes, it mainly relies on long-range warning radars on both sides of the fuselage. Originally, the ninth electronic reconnaissance project was an air force project, and the reason was that Yang Qiu hoped to develop a radar early warning aircraft, so the technicians installed a warning radar for it, and also used transistor computer assistance for the second time. However, it was only after the test flight that under the current technology, radar and computers could not distinguish between ground clutter at all, and only on the sea with weak clutter could a relatively ideal reconnaissance and early warning capability be obtained. But the Air Force can't go to sea every day to carry out missions, right? In the end, under the protest of the navy, the air force had no choice but to transfer the three modified electric reconnaissance 9 to the navy.

"Nighthawk Three, Nighthawk Three, please answer when you hear it."

"Nighthawk III received."

"Turn right 11 degrees, go up to 8 meters, turn off all electronics. Repeat! Turn right 11 degrees and go up to 8 meters. ”

"Understand, the airspace has been cleared and bombs can be dropped at any time."

"Sir, Nighthawk III is gone." Gao Xiaolei took off his headphones and shouted at Pang Song, the captain of the 41st Squadron in front. "Very good, contact the planes, descend to 55 meters. Turn on the radar to search the sea surface, and report back to me when the target is present. ”

"Prepare to drop bombs, pay attention to guidance." Under Pang Song's order, the 12 Hai H-7 began to descend in altitude, and he also turned his head to look at the 'Echowave' guided rockets hanging under the wings.

The 'Echowave' rocket-guided bomb has been developed since 1938 and began to be equipped in small batches in March this year. To put it more colloquially, it is an air-to-ship missile, but because there is no word for a missile at the moment, the Navy Technical Department calls it a guided rocket. Whether it is a guided rocket or an air-to-ship missile, in fact, China's development is not very fast, because Germany has also successfully test-fired the HS293 'aerial torpedo' at the end of last year. However, because the key solid rocket motor did not make a breakthrough, it has not yet entered real combat.

In fact, China's rocket technology was developed very early, and there are a large number of rocket projects in Project 31, plus ready-made drawings, which are stronger than Europe and the United States in this regard. It has not been equipped with ballistic missiles similar to the V2 entirely because of the immaturity of electronic technology. You know, the current gyroscopic guidance is already very sophisticated, so why is the accuracy of the missile not high? The reason lies in motivational control. Today's rocket engines still use mechanical control, and mechanical control has a delay surname. Everyone thinks that in the case of a second-to-second degree calculation, the degree of cutting off the fuel nozzle can be imagined even if it is delayed by one second.

However, the anti-ship missile does not have this problem, because it does not need to close the vent. Moreover, the guidance method used by the 'Echo Wave' is completely different from that of the German HS293, which uses radar active guidance, which is the concept of 'shoot and forget'. The shape of the missile body is also more like the American 'K-9 Bat' missile, but the tail is a cross type instead of the I-shaped Bat type. Made of aluminum, steel and plywood, the 'Echowave' has a total length of 39 meters, a wingspan of 3 meters, a total weight of 95 kilograms, a maximum degree of 48 kilometers per hour, and a maximum attack range of 35 kilometers. A small radar of 'signal soldier' is installed in the head fairing, and behind the radar is a warhead, which is equipped with 45 kg Octok Jinmeng**.

As for accuracy or anything, don't think about it, after all, it's 1941, and electromagnetic clutter alone is not something that current technology can overcome. The navy is equipped with it because it gives the navy the means to strike the enemy outside the range of the opponent's anti-aircraft artillery, and it can also attack targets at night, and it does not need to hover over the target for a long time like the 'rolling thunder' radio bomb.

"Now the target!"

At four o'clock in the morning, after the airborne radar of the 41 Squadron captured the Nagumo fleet, the noisy roar of 48 engines also alarmed the Saimoto sailors who were preparing for takeoff. "How much longer?" With such a loud voice, Nanyun suddenly knew that something was wrong, and asked loudly about the time.

"It's 6 minutes until it comes out!"

The army has no radar, let alone night combat aircraft, and it is impossible to fight at this time. But Nagumo didn't dare to pile the planes on the deck: "The enemy air raid is approaching!" All of them are ready for combat and let the planes take off quickly! "It was time to get up, and many sailors hurried up to the deck to get into battle without even getting dressed. The pilot also hurried into the cockpit and waited for the take-off signal.

When the Nanyun fleet was busy, Gao Xiaolei also had a serious problem. Because the radar can't tell which one is an aircraft carrier and which one is a destroyer. "Whatever, let's talk about it." Pang Song was much more enlightened, anyway, the 'echo wave' was guided by radar autonomously, and immediately ordered the escort fighters to throw flares to provide parameters for ranging.

After a string of large flares fell from the sky, the highly nervous Nagumo fleet immediately spewed out countless lines of fire, and at the same time, the searchlights on the ship were all turned on, aiming at the top of their heads and scanning back and forth. "Haha, look, they're treating us like horizontal bombers." Looking at the angle of the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the Yue Army, Gao Xiaolei suddenly laughed. Because Nagumo regarded the 41st Brigade as an ordinary bombing brigade, each anti-aircraft gun was adjusted to the maximum elevation angle.

"Don't laugh, tell me the distance." Pang Song glared and asked for parameters.

At present, radar ranging is not yet mature, and echo waves have strict combat distance restrictions, so it is necessary to rely on flares to provide line-of-sight parameters at night.

"5 km."

"Turn on the rocket radar, and the firing range is set at 2 km." Unlike future anti-ship missiles, the current 'Echo Wave' is still very primitive, and the guidance radar must be turned on before firing. In order to increase the chance of hitting, Pang Song decided to shoot at 2 km. But even at this distance, most of the army's anti-aircraft artillery is still out of reach, so the aircraft group has enough time to get out of the battle circle.

"Shoot!"

"No. 1 bomb is safely disengaged."

"No. 2 bomb is safely disengaged."

After giving the order to shoot, everyone unconsciously looked at the porthole. I saw that the 'echo wave' under the wing first broke away from the pylon and fell more than 100 meters, and then suddenly spewed out an orange-red tail flame from the tail, and then quickly dived down from a height of 5 meters to the sea.

"Look! What is that? ”

"Yoxi, it's beautiful."

The orange-red rocket tail flame is especially beautiful in the dark. When an 'echo wave' flew overhead of the escorting destroyer Shiyu, the signalman above even made a smack. But when the flames fell suddenly, slammed into the nearby Limbo destroyer, and exploded violently on the deck, the sailors of the Rain trembled with fear.

"Shoot! Shoot! Don't stop! ”

Countless anti-aircraft guns are aimed at the mysterious tail flame, but how can the shells catch the small missiles. The fleet suddenly lit up with fireballs. “1236。” After waiting left and right and waiting for no more fireballs, Pang Song and the pilots all smiled bitterly. Of the 24 radar-guided 'echo waves', only six hit the target, which is really miserable.

But just when everyone was discouraged, Gao Xiaolei, who had been observing, suddenly screamed: "Look! Hit an aircraft carrier! ”

"Aircraft carrier!" …… To be continued. )q，