In the first wave of strikes by the aircraft carrier formation against the Japanese army, the United States and Tang forces dispatched a total of 173 fighters. The Freedom Dragon of the Maritime Resistance Force could only dispatch more than 20 fighters, and before the war, flight commander Yuan Zi and captain Huang Zhonghua expected that a single strike would destroy an aircraft carrier, which would be a great result.

But at this moment, the 12 dive bombers, the main force of the Naval Resistance Army's striking force, have not yet been dispatched, and the Kaga aircraft carrier in front of them has been scrapped.

Looking at the Kaga that was still exploding in front of him, Liu Gensheng quickly made a judgment that there was really no need to continue to strike.

No one will refuse more feats, and Liu Gensheng is a young man with a flexible mind.

Time is pressing, there is no time to pick and choose at the moment, and the Japanese fighters will arrive soon. The aircraft carrier Shozuru, which was closest to the Kaga, immediately became another target of the Naval Resistance Force.

Twelve dreadnought dive bombers, immediately went around in circles and adjusted the formation again.

At this time, Tadaichi Hara's aircraft carrier Shozuru had just dodged a torpedo dropped by a US torpedo plane that came out of nowhere. Looking at the torpedo that staggered by, he just breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Before Yuan Zhong's hand wiping his sweat was put down, he heard a terrible scream in the air, and the anti-aircraft guns on the Xianghe immediately rang out.

The Zuihe had just driven away an American torpedo plane, and all the gunners were still in combat condition, so the anti-aircraft guns opened fire very timely, and the dense fire hit the black clouds in the sky.

The devil could see the fighters flying in the air, but he couldn't see the bombers flying out of the sunlight.

Twelve bombers of the Naval Resistance Army, divided into six waves and two in groups, swooped down from a high altitude. It was close to noon and the sun was not strong. But the angle is also close to vertical, and the angle chosen by the naval resistance army for anti-aircraft artillery is tricky.

Hara had been on the battlefield for a long time, but it was the first time he had seen such a dive tactic. It's not that the Japanese army can't do such a cooperation, but that no one has made such a dive action against the Japanese army. When he saw the dive bombers of the Naval Resistance Army striking almost vertically from the sky, he immediately shuddered.

As the commander of the Fifth Air Force, Major General Tadaichi Hara was a knowledgeable man, and he understood that it was all the elite who dared to dive and bomb at such a large angle.

There were four means of air defense of the Japanese aircraft carriers, the first fighter drove away. Anti-aircraft guns on the second aircraft carrier plus anti-aircraft artillery fire from frigates. The third frigate shelled the sea with its main guns. The fourth aircraft carrier maneuvered to evade.

At this moment, there was no Zero fighter escort around the Xianghe aircraft carrier, and most of the Zero fighters had just landed. Therefore, this first and most effective means cannot be used. Unless you can wait a few minutes. The Zero fighters, which were chasing the US fighters in the distance, returned home.

The third method is mainly to rely on the shells of naval guns to blow up water columns on both sides of the aircraft carrier to block the view of the torpedo planes. Originally, the air defense effect of such means was poor. And the Naval Resistance Army is all dive bombers. Hara Tadaichi's air defense means are not used at all.

The fourth means is to maneuver the aircraft carrier to evade. Torpedoes against torpedo bombers are quite useful. But an aircraft carrier moving at a speed of twenty or thirty knots wanted to dodge a dive bomber ten or twenty times higher than its speed. It worked.

In fact, at this time, Hara Tadaichi could only rely on the anti-aircraft artillery on his aircraft carrier. Although the Shozuru was not as large as the Akagi and Kaga, it was a thoroughbred aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy, not a converted battleship like the Akagi. ITS ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIREPOWER IS STILL QUITE GOOD, WITH 127MM (5 INCHES) FLAT-HEIGHT DUAL-PURPOSE GUNS 16. 45 45 25mm guns, 22 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

But in the face of bombers with fast dives. The bulky bodies of the sixteen large-caliber anti-aircraft guns simply did not have time to adjust. IT MAINLY RELIED ON FORTY-FIVE 25MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AS WELL AS ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS.

These guns are not very high at all, and there is no threat at all to an altitude of more than a thousand meters, when the fighters dive into less than a thousand meters. It only takes two or three seconds to drop the bomb.

Therefore, anti-aircraft artillery air defense, not only the Japanese army, but also the US naval resistance army, the hit rate is extremely low. In the original Battle of Ceylon, Zheng Xuechang fired tens of thousands of shells worth millions of dollars in an hour for air defense, and only shot down more than a dozen Japanese fighters.

Yuan Zhongyi's judgment was very correct, the pilot who led the bombing team was indeed the elite of the Naval Resistance Army. The long plane was a dreadnought dive bomber piloted by the first-echelon pilot Sha Jin.

With the accumulation of experience, the dive bombing technology of the Naval Resistance Force slowly explored a new technical requirement--- it was not allowed to evade. Only then will the hit rate of the bomb be higher.

This is a cruel tactical regulation, which does not dodge or dodge in the face of oncoming artillery fire, and requires extremely high psychological quality of pilots, and also requires pilots to have a desperate spirit.

"The national strength is inferior to the people, the weapons and equipment are not as good as the people, the troops are not as good as the people, the training is not as good as the people, and only the flesh and blood can fight."

Sha Jin is a teenager sent overseas by Xu Zhan, and he once experienced the tragic Battle of Zaoyi. In this battle, General Zhang Zizhong, a famous general of the Chinese army, was killed. General Zhang left the above famous words before his death, and this iron-blooded sentence has been engraved in his heart. Sha Jin was an orphan whose father and brother were killed in brutal battles with the Japanese army.

Before boarding the plane, he had already divided an eight-treasure ginseng pill into two halves, and handed half to the bombardier in the back seat--- Chen Zhujiang from Nanyang. Chen Zhujiang's ancestral home is Guangdong, and his ancestors have moved to Nanyang for three generations, Chen Zhujiang, as the eldest son in the family, studied in the United States, and more than a year ago, he signed up for the Naval Resistance Army at Su Zizi's concert.

Chinese are not afraid of death. Sha Jin roared, and all the pilots in the public channel could hear his shout.

Before diving, Sha Jin put the Eight Treasure Ginseng Pill in his mouth, and the brother Chen Zhujiang in the back seat cooperated with him skillfully, and also threw the Eight Treasure Ginseng Pill into the air. smiled: "Let's also taste the emperor's elixir." Be an emperor once. ”

The two laughed, and Sha Jin shouted: "Brother, fight." ”

Chen Zhujiang, the bombardier in the back seat, said, "Fight." ”

The dreadnought dive bomber began to slide down from an altitude of 5,000 meters, and large-caliber antiaircraft artillery shells continued to explode around the fighter, and the bomber was shaken by the shock of tens or even hundreds of meters.

Sha Jin was already very experienced and dismissive of the threat of Japanese anti-aircraft artillery. Engrossed in watching the Japanese aircraft carrier maneuver in a serpentine shape, he was also adjusting the course of the fighter with great ease. When the SBD dreadnought bomber was at an altitude of about three thousand meters, Sha Jinyi lowered the nose of the plane, and the fighter began to accelerate and dive.

The bomber's airbrake made a sharp whistling sound under the rapid air current. This kind of whistling sound is like a cry of death for Japanese devils. And for the brothers of the Naval Resistance Army, it is like a clarion call to inspire the morale of the army.

The dense artillery shells of the Japanese army came from the surface, and Sha Jin clenched the rudder with both hands, not dodging or dodging. The oncoming shells were like flying locusts, dense and terrifying.

Two kilometers.

One kilometer.

With a bang. The dreadnought's sturdy fuselage slammed. The fighter plane immediately lost control.

Chen Zhujiang, who was in the back seat, was hit by a shell flying from the side, and blood burst out, immediately staining the cabin red.

In my heart, Sha Jin knows, brother. His brothers, who were dearer than his own brothers, had been killed. There are no tears, only hatred. Sha Jin's eyes widened. stared at the red rising sun on the deck of the Xianghe with a diameter of more than ten meters.

The value of a cannonball is the property of the entire village of Shajin's hometown. And the value of a fighter is the sum of the wealth of the people in the township where Shajin is located. Most of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army are the children of poor families, and they attach great importance to this, and no one will waste a bomb.

Death is valuable, and it cannot be lost. The last thought that flashed through Sha Jin's mind turned out to be so poignant. China is so poor that these poor heroes would rather pay with their lives than waste a bomb. An airplane.

Yuan Tadashi saw clearly that the dreadnought bomber smashed into the starboard deck in front of the bridge at a very positive angle.

The fighter plane that rushed down at high speed immediately burst into a dazzling fire.

If it is only the explosion of the fighter itself, it will not cause much harm to the aircraft carrier. In particular, the five-inch gun emplacements on the starboard side had at least four inches of armor protection.

But the dive bomber carried 800 kilograms of armor-piercing shells. At the moment when the fighter plane crashed into the aircraft carrier. The steel frame on which the bullets are hung cannot restrain the heavy armor-piercing shells at all. Huge inertia made this bomb, even with the upper armor in the bow, hangar armor and ammunition depot. An earth-shattering explosion erupted.

The terrifying explosion not only blew several anti-aircraft guns away, but also opened a large hole in the waterline on the side of the Xianghe, and the sea water immediately rushed in.

Sha Jin was killed, and since then there has been no seedling in the Sha family, but the incense will not break. Chen Zhujiang was killed in battle, and his parents lost their beloved son, but China has one more heroic soul. The sacrifice of the sons and daughters of China will not be extinguished from generation to generation, and the heroic spirit will live forever.

Sha Jin and Chen Zhujiang were killed, but the Japanese Xianghe had already suffered heavy losses under a blow.

The pilots of the dive bombers led by the Naval Resistance Army were all elite masters. One is to strike at the enemy at the first time, and the other is to demonstrate for the follow-up pilots. Elite pilots are in the air, when to adjust their attitude, when to adjust their direction, when to drop bombs. This knowledge and experience has been honed through a long period of time. With the demonstration of elite pilots, the hit rate of the fighters that followed them increased significantly.

Sha Jin and another bomber finished dropping bombs, and then here the two Naval Resistance Army bombers swooped down from the sky without hesitation along the dive route that the warriors had figured out.

"You're ruthless, I'm even more ruthless." The blood of the warriors burned the hearts of their successors, and the pilots swooped down again and again in the face of artillery fire.

The second bomb hit by the Naval Resistance Force not only penetrated the flight deck, but also the hangar deck. With a shattering explosion, flames erupted in all directions.

But this catastrophe is far from over. As long as a battleship hits one of these bombs, its function must be damaged. As long as it is damaged, the maneuverability and air defense capabilities of the warship will be affected.

The explosion of an 800-kilogram bomb was extremely terrifying, and within a radius of tens of meters, as long as there were no lives protected by armor, they would be killed instantly at this moment. And the shock wave will kill and injure all lives within 100 meters, and the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions are in the open air, and in the raging shock wave, dozens of people will immediately bleed. The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire was affected, and in an instant, the artillery fire was chaotic and could no longer form a firepower network. As a result, the dive bombing of the Naval Resistance Force was less affected and the hit rate was higher.

Not only that, the Zuihe turbine was shocked, and the power was immediately difficult to maintain, and the speed was rapidly reduced, which made the bomber's dive accuracy higher.

The dive bombers of the Naval Resistance Army continued to emerge from the clouds one after another. The two heavy cruisers escorted by the devil were also firing desperately, and hundreds of anti-aircraft guns fired a barrage. All bombers had to rush through this line of death.

In the black smoke of the explosion, the pilots of the Navy's resistance army steadily controlled the fighters, and dived down one after another, and the fighters of the brothers were beaten into fireballs around them, but no one was timid, still charging against the shells.

In five or six minutes, all the bombers had finished the battle.

Ten dive bombers, a total of five hits. Although the hit rate was not high, the power of five 800-kilogram bombs was definitely not comparable to that of five 250-pound bombs of fighter jets. In addition, the Xianghe's own ammunition is stacked on the deck, which is even more terrifying.

At this moment, the aircraft carrier Xianghe has been billowing in wolf smoke and rushing straight to Xiaohan. The crackling sound of the flames burning can be heard clearly at an altitude of one or two thousand meters.

Liu Gensheng saw clearly from a high altitude that this aircraft carrier was definitely finished. Although it was not like the original bombing of the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier in the Coral Sea, there were more than a dozen bombs at that time, and the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier that was directly bombed disintegrated on the sea surface. But this kind of damage, the Zuihe aircraft carrier will definitely be finished.

At the location where Shajin and Chen Zhujiang collided with the Xianghe, it was no longer a hole at this time, but the hull of the ship began to crack, more seawater began to pour in, and the Xianghe aircraft carrier had begun to tilt.

The bomb carried by Sha Jin exploded from the inside of the Xianghe, and the bomb on the side armor exploded from the inside, and its power was greater than that of a torpedo.

Torpedoes can destroy the armor of the aircraft carrier from the outside. But the watertight compartments inside the aircraft carrier could not destroy a few. One or two torpedoes can hardly inflict fatal damage on a regular aircraft carrier. All warships are designed to protect against external strikes, and this bomb, which exploded from the inside, directly blew through the two compartments of the Xianghe. Dozens of watertight silos immediately began to be filled with water.

The continuous explosions caused the huge battleship to be constantly shaken, and the hull structure was broken. A few minutes of blow made it difficult for the aircraft carrier, which cost tens of millions of dollars, to sink.

The firelight and smoke on the Xianghe have already covered the sky and the sun in just a few minutes.

The Naval Resistance Army completely destroyed the huge aircraft carrier at the cost of four warplanes destroyed, two wounded, and nine killed. (To be continued......)