Depressed, depressed, Yamaguchi's much-smelling depression has to continue.

The Zero fighters on the aircraft carrier Wyvern had just gone to pursue the five remnants of the British Athletic, and the wounded Sorry was still in a busy mess.

At 8:45 a.m., all the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were dispatched and rushed to the sky over the Canglong aircraft carrier.

It's the Canglong again.

Why is it the Dragon again? The reason for this is that although the dreadnought dive bombers of the Naval Resistance Force do not have radars, they have Yagi antennas as navigation equipment. And the Canglong was attacked one after another, so it also sent out telegrams one after another, and the radio waves did not stop for a moment. Like fireflies illuminating the darkness, the Canglong is so eye-catching, it is simply a crime if the fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army does not find him, so the Canglong "deservedly" became the target of the Maritime Resistance Army.

Why did the airfield of the Naval Resistance Army arrive closer to the battlefield, but later than the British land-based bombers?

The reason is that at about six o'clock, the fighter plane group of the Naval Resistance Army was still in the air preparing to attack the Japanese planes attacking Tanggang again.

It took more than an hour to receive the news, landing, refueling, and reloading.

Therefore, when they arrived on the battlefield, they were later than the British land-based aircraft group.

At this time, the Japanese troops on the aircraft carrier Canglong were urgently refueling the fighters and cleaning up several bombers that had been fired by the British fighters and machine guns. And the three vigilant fighters in the air went to pick up the British bombers again.

If the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were a few minutes late, the Japanese fighters would have taken off. At this time, the Japanese fighters were almost ready, and when the first P40 fighter of the Naval Resistance Army began to dive, a Japanese fighter on the deck of the Canglong had already started its engine.

It was too late, and the Naval Resistance Army took out all the fighters at once.

What's more. Among these thirty fighters, there are several first-echelon pilots left behind by the Liberty Dragon. The number of pilots in the first three echelons accounted for about twenty. There are not many rookie pilots who have flown less than two hundred hours, only a few people.

It can be said that this wave of air raids showed a combat level above the average level of the naval resistance air force. Compared with the original Liberty Dragon, although it is inferior, it is not much worse than the combat effectiveness level on the Liberty Dragon.

In this attack, Yuan Yin's battle plan was very well formulated, and it was also very suitable for the actual situation of this fighter formation.

There were several Japanese reconnaissance planes and fighters desperately intercepting them, but under the huge gap in numbers, the Japanese fighters were not able to play much role, and they were not even able to disrupt the formation of fighters in the sea resistance army.

And the Canglong was under the desperate attack of the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army. The ills of insufficient anti-aircraft firepower began to appear.

The attack launched by the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army was no worse than that of the Japanese pilots. With three of the most elite first-echelon pilots taking the lead, the three fighters swooped down from a height of 3,000 meters together.

Two P40 fighters were on the wings, and a dreadnought dive bomber was in the middle.

The three fighters raided together, dispersing the already not very powerful anti-aircraft firepower of the Canglong. And dive bombing is compared to horizontal-projection torpedo bombing. With an innate advantage, speed is not a concept at all.

High-speed diving. This gave the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery a very short time to aim. When the first wave of bombing began. Only a small fraction of the Japanese anti-aircraft gunners had time to adjust the direction of the muzzles.

Most of the Japanese gunners were still staring at the sea, fearing that a torpedo machine would emerge.

At 8:50, the first bomb hit the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier Soryu.

Due to the injury, the speed of the Canglong has dropped to twenty-five or six knots at this moment, and its ability to evade bombs from the air has rapidly weakened.

It only took ten minutes, and it was nine o'clock. Thirty warplanes completed the bomb drop. The process was much cleaner than that of the British army.

Thirty fighters, a full fourteen hits. The hit rate reached 46 percent.

Rookie pilots plus elite pilots, achieving this kind of result is already extraordinary. If it was only the two hundred and fifty kg bombs carried by the P40, the result would be difficult to say. But five of the fourteen bombs hit were heavy armor-piercing shells of 800 kilograms.

These five bombs were modified from the armor-piercing bombs on the battleship Pacific, and their power was definitely not inferior to the British aviation torpedoes (730 kg), and their powerful power not only blew up the deck of the Soryu, but also blew up the inside of the Soryu. There was even a bombshell that penetrated from the side side of the Canglong and exploded inside the Canglong. The huge chemical energy tore a hole five or six meters in the side of the Soryu, and at least two sections of the Soryu's internal watertight compartments were blown through, and the sea water rushed in.

Within the Navy, there was a controversy. In the end, it was the torpedo that caused more damage to the battleship, or the heavy armor-piercing bombs that damaged the battleship.

Compared with torpedo planes, dive bombers have stronger survivability and a much higher hit rate, which has been fully confirmed after many exercises. But no matter how strong the survivability is, no matter how high the hit rate is, it is useless to not be able to sink the opponent's ship.

In the end, an uncertain conclusion was reached, and dive bombers were perfectly sufficient against aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers. Against battleships, torpedo machines are more lethal. After all, torpedoes could hit the side of the battleship, and as soon as the battleship entered the water, it was not far from the sunken ship.

Whether a dive bomber dropped an armor-piercing bomb could penetrate the battleship's ten-inch or even fifteen-inch horizontal armor has no test results at the moment, so there are still some doubts.

In today's naval battles, the power of the dive bomber is not reflected in the direct damage to the aircraft carrier Canglong, nor in the flooding of the aircraft carrier Canglong by a bombshell that penetrates the side side. Rather, it manifested itself a few minutes after the bombardment.

The Canglong withstood the blows of fourteen bombs, and wolf smoke billowed everywhere, as if it had been brewing emotions for a while. After the Canglong aircraft carrier was shot, there was an eerie silence. A few minutes later, with a muffled sound dozens of miles away, the behemoth of the Canglong aircraft carrier seemed to be built with thin pieces of wood, and the interior itself was wrapped in a ball of flames. When the wood chips shattered, flames erupted from all directions.

The flames that erupted in all directions were hundreds of meters long, and it was spectacular. The jet of flame then contracted rapidly, and a cloud of orange-red mushrooms rose into the air. All the flames on the aircraft carrier began to rise, and in less than ten minutes, the aircraft carrier Canglong immediately became a blazing torch in the Indian Ocean.

The flames and black smoke were unexpectedly high for thousands of meters, and the pilots of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army who had fled on the clouds were able to see the billowing wolf smoke on the clouds.

The power of the explosion of gasoline and crude oil was so wild that the hull and armor of the ship, which could not even be penetrated by artillery shells, were blown to pieces. This huge battleship, after the explosion of the fire, began to sink in just a few minutes.

At 10 o'clock in the night, the fully loaded displacement of nearly 20,000 tons, Japan's first regular aircraft carrier, the Soryu aircraft carrier, completely disappeared into the Indian Ocean. Before sinking, Captain Yanagimoto Ryusaku ordered the crew to abandon the ship, and he stayed on the bridge to sink into the sea with the "Soryu".

This Soryu has a very unique position in the Japanese Navy, regardless of its recent construction age, and its displacement is not far inferior to that of Akagi and Kaga, but Akagi and Kaga are both converted from battleships many times, and the first aircraft carrier of Japanese purebred is actually Soryu. The final finalization of the Kaga and Akagi was the study of the Soryu aircraft carrier.

The losses of the Japanese army, in addition to the aircraft carrier itself, were dozens of well-trained pilots. In the Japanese Navy, pilots of the 1st and 2nd Air Groups have flown more than 1,500 hours, and there are not a few who have more than 2,000 and 3,000 hours. Very few Japanese pilots and officers survived the explosion. For the Japanese Navy, this loss was incomparably enormous.

However, the Japanese army, which has always not taken human life seriously, did not pay attention to it, and the commanders were only distressed by this aircraft carrier with a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons.

Seeing that the Canglong was damaged, the fighters on the Japanese Feilong began to frantically encircle and suppress the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army. Some of these encirclement fighters came from the Soryu, some from the Akagi, and some from the Fifth Air Force, which had no intention of attacking again.

The air force pilots of the Naval Resistance Army were caught in a circle, pursuit, and interception, and the number of Japanese fighters dispatched was simply incalculable. The pilots never imagined that there would be such an encirclement and suppression battle in the sky. Japanese fighters were fortified layer by layer in the air, and groups launched attacks.

Although Nagumo Tadaichi had a lot of opinions about Yamaguchi, a sharp-edged rear admiral, he also broke out when the Second Air Force sank an aircraft carrier. He ordered all the Zero fighters to participate in the encirclement and interception of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army.

This air battle was the most tragic battle encountered by the Naval Resistance Army. Needless to say, the extent of the battle damage alone can be seen.

Thirty fighters, when breaking through the anti-aircraft fire network of the Canglong, only one bomber was lost.

However, under the encirclement and interception of the Japanese aircraft group, only eight planes successfully returned home. Another ten fighters were seriously damaged, and although they struggled to return to Tang Port, the fuselage was full of bullet holes, and it was not far from being scrapped.

A water reconnaissance plane, which was responsible for receiving and rescuing the parachuted pilot, was also shot down.

In this battle, the Navy's resistance lost 13 fighters, 18 pilots were killed and 4 were wounded. Among them is Yuan Yin, chief of staff of the Air Force of the General Staff.

When Yuan Yin was evacuating, he was targeted by a Japanese Zero fighter, and dozens of bullets were hit in the fuselage, not only the wings, but also the bulletproof glass of the cabin was broken. Fortunately, the P40 fighter has rough skin and thick flesh, which can withstand the Japanese army's 7.7mm machine gun bullets.

A machine gun bullet came in from Yuan Yin's back shoulder and pierced through the shoulder socket. Yuan Yin, who was seriously injured, struggled to return to the sky over Tang Gang, and Yuan Yin could only escape by parachuting. The Navy's resistance to the Navy almost lost the newly appointed chief of staff of the Air Force. (To be continued......)

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