The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire gradually thinned out, and the dive bombers of the Naval Resistance Army started to move.

Dive bombers took the opportunity to roar down and dropped bombs one after another. The fighters did not withdraw from the battlefield, but galloped and strafed the bridge with machine guns.

The "Nagato" flickered left and right, saying that it was a high skill in handling the ship, but it was better to say that it was lucky. The huge hull of more than 40,000 tons skillfully dodged one bomb after another, and a few of them almost passed by, exploding huge waves around the battleship.

The attack of the Naval Resistance Army's aircraft group was ferocious and abnormal, and the Nagato dodged a few but couldn't dodge more.

At 10:00 a.m., the "Nagato" was shot in the front section of the left ship. A thousand-pound bomb hit the armor above the waterline of the ship's side. For a battleship with rough skin and thick flesh, an armor-piercing bomb with a charge of more than 100 kilograms may be powerless against the waterline armor more than a foot thick, but the armor more than 100 millimeters thick above the waterline cannot stop this kind of big killer.

The bomb broke through the wall of the ship and exploded inside the battleship. The shrapnel and the shock wave raged instantly, killing hundreds of people in an instant.

There is a little devil who is a little lucky, this person is dignified, less than thirty years old, and has the rank of Shaozuo. When he woke up from his coma, he found himself almost in a garbage heap with a severed arm. He moved his body and miraculously found that he was not dead, and he was not seriously injured.

The clever guy deduced that the reason why he did not die was because several corpses blocked the shrapnel and blocked the shock wave. So, he pulled a few corpses and covered himself again. Hiding under the corpse and shivering.

After the war, this person was very famous, and Li Guang also knew the name of this person - Yasuhiro Nakasone. At this time, he served as the chief compgetant on the battleship Nagato. (Similar to an accountant, in charge of logistics, he counts as a civilian officer.) This man served as Japan's prime minister for three terms after the war.

Hayakawa Mikio, who was anxious, ordered the Nagato's 410-mm main gun to speed up its anti-air fire. I knew it worked. But it can only be so. Corpses piled up on the Japanese army's bare leaking anti-aircraft gun positions, and the fire network was no longer tight.

The Nagato's four eight large-caliber main guns were not useless at all, and they were quite tightly shielded from the air attack on one side. If there were sixteen main guns, it might be possible to shield the air attacks on both sides. But the Nagato did not. Therefore, the other side became the focus of air strikes.

And the steering speed of the main gun is far from keeping up with the transposition of the fighter. Disperse firepower, but do not form a firepower network. After a few rounds, the devil was honest, so he had to use the main gun to try his best to look in one direction.

Nine-eleven.

The Nagato was hit by two shots almost at the same time. A bomb pierced the bridge armor of the Nagato, blasting the top of the sturdy bridge nearly ten meters high. The stern tower is more than 30 meters high. Suddenly, it was a section shorter.

Another 1,000-pound bomb was fired by the pilot with the technique of hitting the water, and the angle was not very good, and the floating bomb was slightly higher. The bomb that jumped from the surface of the water hit the front main gun turret of the battleship Nagato.

The bomb failed to blow up the thick main gun turret. However, the shock wave of the explosion directly swept away all the Japanese anti-aircraft gunners in the front of the battleship like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. A third of the anti-aircraft guns of the Nagato immediately fell silent. It's not that air defense is not tight. Instead, there are huge holes.

The pilots of the Naval Resistance Army got a chance. Naturally, they would not be relentless, and launched an attack in front of the battleship Nagato.

Several people were killed in the bridge of the "Nagato" by the bomb just now, and as for how many died in the superstructure, Hayakawa did not care about the statistics at all.

Mikio Hayakawa had an expressionless face and let the body be carried away.

In just a minute or two, a certain pilot of the Maritime Resistance Army came to point out and attack the west. It was supposed to be aimed at the front of the hull to bomb, but when the bomb was dropped by a dive, it was hit by an anti-aircraft gun in the wing. The fighter plane was slightly damaged, and the bomb was slightly skewed.

However, the bomb was almost a hundred meters away from the target. However, it still hit the rear of the Nagato, and the damage was not weak: the tail radar room, which was thickly armored and known as a steel fortress, was split in half, and all kinds of precision instruments were destroyed; The radar soldiers were all killed, except for a few corpses that were faintly recognizable, the rest were a blur of flesh and blood, and their eyes were covered with stumps.

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At 9:15, the battleship Nagato was shot again on the side of the ship.

This time was different, the battleship was thickly armored, but it could not be more than a foot thick everywhere. Waterline armor is a key point of protection, but it's not all more than a foot thick.

A powerful bomb that blew a big hole in front of the port side. Immediately, several compartments on the port side were flooded, and the hull quickly tilted to the left.

Originally, the balance of the "Nagato" could be controlled by the huge injection and drainage system on the ship. But two minutes later, another armor-piercing bullet hit the injection and drainage control room directly, blowing up all the regulating valves.

The dewatering pump was powerless, and the only way for the devil was to control the symmetrical water injection into the starboard compartment.

The starboard main engine room and the main boiler room are the largest compartments on the ground floor, filled with 3,000 tons of seawater. After they enter the water, they can righte the "Nagato".

Hayakawa Mikio Daisa did not wait to withdraw the engineer and boiler soldiers, and ruthlessly gave the order to inject water. He couldn't wait, maybe the battleship would capsize later.

In the bilge, the devil engineer and boiler crew faintly heard the rumbling of the cannon on the deck. They were cut off from communication and had no idea what was going on.

Coupled with power outages, damaged exhaust fan smoke and steam leaks, smoke billows in the cabin. The cabin was pitch black, and these engineers had no consciousness at all, and they suffered a catastrophe. The sea water suddenly rushed in, and it rose to one or two meters at once. In addition, all the watertight hatches during the war were closed, and the devils had nowhere to escape, and the sea water soon drowned all the hundreds of people present.

Although the tilt of the Nagato was corrected, it lost more than half of its power (the engines were not one cabin, but usually four, or even more), and the speed of the battleship was sharply reduced.

The fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army continued to attack, and the Nagato was no longer able to make any maneuvers to evade, or in other words, the maneuver evasion that could be made was no longer a concern in the eyes of the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army.

At this time, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army rushed to enter at a low altitude, and as if they were training, the bombs accurately dropped tore a big hole in the port side of the "Nagato" again.

The dive bombers also showed no weakness and roared down. Almost a single hit.

The bullets fired by the fighter group were so crazy that they killed most of the devils on the outside of the ship on the spot.

By this time the battle had progressed, the air defense network of the battleship Nagato had completely collapsed.

The end of Hayakawa Mikio came suddenly, and a 20-mm cannon shell was fired into the bridge from the observation hole, and the explosion was not very powerful, directly shattering his head.

As it happened, as soon as Hayakawa Mikio died, the attack of the Naval Resistance Army was stopped. The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army flew away.

For such a result, Shao Fuxuan was resentful.

Although he knew. Where there is fighting, there will be casualties. However, in this battle, the naval resistance army lost a total of 10 fighters, and more than 10 pilots were killed. Another four or five fighters were injured, and it is not yet known whether they will be able to fly back to the aircraft carrier. In other words, in this battle, the second wave of strike aircraft suffered one-third casualties. The casualties were too high.

What made Shao Fuxuan grit his teeth even more was that the battleship Nagato was floating on the sea. Despite the wolf smoke, he was able to move slowly.

The battleship was enough to resist the beating. Not to mention small bombs and bullets. Fourteen were hit by just a thousand pound bombs. But it still did not count as a fatal blow to the battleship.

The shortcomings of the Naval Resistance Force were revealed. Without torpedo machines, the ability of bombshells to damage battleships was insufficient.

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In fact, the shortcomings of the Naval Resistance Force are not limited to this.

Li Guang was also a little uneasy in the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Indian Ocean. The Naval Resistance Forces are now facing an even greater difficulty - a lack of ammunition. If you pay a heavy price and can't sink the Nagato, you will feel aggrieved no matter how you think about it.

The normal reserve of the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean is two and a half parts. That is to say, it can bear the full deck of fighters to attack 2.5 times. This time, due to the expected high intensity of the battle and the long duration, three parts of ammunition were carried.

The bomb load of the aircraft carrier is not really unable to hold more ammunition. But no matter how fierce a battle is, it is basically impossible to consume three parts of ammunition. Coupled with the fact that too much ammunition is a great threat to the aircraft carrier itself. Therefore. The Indian Ocean aircraft carrier carried three parts of ammunition, which in fact could not be considered less.

However, two days earlier, when dealing with the Japanese Eighth Fleet, the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean had consumed a share of ammunition. During the bombing of the Palau Islands a day earlier, another ammunition was consumed. And the blow that had just hit the Japanese fleet again consumed a piece of ammunition.

Due to the fact that several fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were damaged in the early stage, there was still a little ammunition left at this moment. However, there are not many bombshells, only six. The rest of the remaining ammunition were bullets and small bombs.

Even if you collect some of the twenty-four 500-pound bombs on the Liberty Dragon, it is estimated that it will be difficult to carry out a devastating blow to the battleship Nagato.

However, you can't let go of this piece of fat for nothing because you are not sure. At 10:25 a.m., the third wave of strike aircraft of the Naval Resistance Army (in fact, the first wave of strike aircraft returning to the sea) took off again.

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Eleven forty-five o'clock.

There was a rumbling sound in the air, like thunder rolling.

Under the clouds, the second wave (in the eyes of the Nagato, the second wave) of the Maritime Resistance Army was rushing straight at an alarming speed. In the blink of an eye, an explosive flash flashed from under the foremast, burning white. Dense machine-gun bullets swept across the steel plates around the bridge, crackling like rain hitting the towers.

In order to make the only six thousand-pound bombs fully powerful. Fighters and other bombers dropped small bombs, all of which were dive bombing, both as cover for the strikes.

The six 1,000-pound bombs were planned to be used in a drifting tactic to strike the side of the battleship Nagato, in the hope that the battleship would enter the water and destroy the ship.

After a short break in the air defense fire network on the battleship Nagato, although there were a lot of personnel replenished, most of them were officers and men from other posts, and they were really not good at air defense, and in addition the captain died in battle, the command system was now in a mess, and it was difficult to intercept fighters coming down from a high altitude.

More than forty fighters and bombers dive-bombed, dive-strafing, and hit the Nagato, the steel monster roared. In just three to five minutes, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire had become sporadic shooting.

The fighter planes of the Naval Resistance Army succeeded in attacking one after another.

The "Nagato" burst out with a strong light, a loud noise, and shards of steel flew wildly in the sky.

The Japanese officers and men were already exhausted, and the corpses were piled up on the anti-aircraft gun positions, and there was no time to clean them up. The Japanese army stepped on the corpse of the devil and resisted desperately. Mikio Hayakawa had already been killed, and the Japanese commander on the bridge had suffered most of the casualties. There is no system at all in command, it is a mess, and the air defense is even more messy.

The attack of the Naval Resistance Force was at a distinct pace, and very quickly, the command center of the "Nagato" and the commanders who had just been assembled were once again swept away, and the air defense did not have the slightest chance to breathe.

A fighter plane of the Naval Resistance Army was hit by naval artillery and dragged thick smoke into the sea.

However, the pilot was calm, resolute, and showed superb attacking skills. The rhythm of the blow is not chaotic at all.

The machine guns on the "Nagato" were blown up one after another, and the anti-aircraft fire became weaker and weaker.

Just in the Japanese army put energy. All the firepower was concentrated on firing at high altitudes, and the naval resistance forces played with the tactics of drifting.

When planes hit and dropped bombs, they had to fly in a straight line, and the pilots called this distance "the road to death." This is the moment when aircraft are vulnerable to interception by enemy aircraft and artillery.

Now, the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army flew the "road of death" for a very short time. Compared with the traditional torpedo machine bombing, the time is shortened by more than half. There are pros and cons to this tactic. On the positive side, the casualty rate of pilots has dropped significantly. The disadvantage is that it is impossible to throw powerful torpedoes.

The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army flew extremely fast. This is not quite the same as the scene when the gunners on the "Nagato" were learning to shoot targets, the devils were originally attracted by the firepower of the high-altitude fighters, and most of the gunners were new, so the Japanese artillery interception was very ineffective at this time.

The first fighter dropped a bomb and hit accurately. However, the impact point is slightly lower, and the middle bullet is the best protected waterline armor. Failed to break the armor.

The second fighter dropped a bomb and hit accurately again. The impact point is slightly higher, and although it breaks the armor, it also kills and injures a lot of devils. But it could not cause the battleship to enter the water.

The third bullet, still hit. It didn't work.

The fourth ejection missed.

The fifth bomb, the impact point was high again, hitting the bridge, the bridge of the solid battleship, after this blow, it has become a mess of steel jungle, and it is really hard to say whether there will be anyone in it who will survive.

The sixth bullet, again accurately hit. After the violent explosion, the pilot looked disappointed, as if he still hadn't been able to do much damage.

Actually, no, this pilot was not careful enough. The explosion position of this bomb almost overlapped with the explosion position of the first bombshell, although it did not completely penetrate the heavy armor, but the rivets fell off, and the armor at this time only adhered to the hull and was seriously deformed. Moreover, the watertight compartment inside has already been cracked in many places, and although the sea water is not turbulent, it is pouring into the cabin through the holes.

If it can be blown up again, the ship will sink. The pilot was regretful and shook his head.

The pilots of the Naval Resistance Army were extremely unwilling, but even the machine gun bullets were almost gone, and they were really powerless to deal with this steel monster without bombs.

At this time, twelve Japanese water reconnaissance planes arrived.

This was the only force that Ozawa Jizaburo had to support this crippled fleet, but the arrival time was really unfortunate, and it was the most frustrating moment for the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army. As a result, the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army were given a chance to vent. In less than 10 minutes of air combat, the Naval Resistance Army scored a beautiful 0-11 victory, and only one Japanese reconnaissance plane escaped.

After relieving the depression in his chest a little, the group of naval resistance planes returned.

During this time period, the Maritime Resistance Army made a mistake that was not considered a mistake. Since the reconnaissance plane had been flying for more than three hours and did not have much fuel, it was evacuated ahead of schedule. And the fighter fleet returned quickly.

The pilot of the only remaining water reconnaissance plane of the Japanese army did not return to the voyage, but followed the route of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army.

You must know that the return route of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army is to fly north first, and then turn to the east. This was a strategy formulated before the war to divert the water from the east, hoping that the main force of the Japanese army (the naval resistance force did not know that the Japanese army was now extremely weak) would set its sights on the north, the US fleet. 、

However, no matter how deep the calculation is, it is useless to encounter a devil who is already like a dead father. This Japanese pilot, who was bent on looking for death, actually flew behind the group of planes of the Coastal Resistance Army for more than an hour.

The radar of the Naval Resistance Fleet did not fail, but there was no difference between the Devil fighter and the Naval Resistance Fighter on the radar.

Moreover, due to the damage of several fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army during the battle, the communication response failure was reasonable, and this small anomaly was actually mistakenly missed by the commander who was busy recovering the fighters.

What is even more serious is that the anti-aircraft reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Force appeared in an air defense gap at this time, and the exhaustion of the pilots and the running out of fuel had to be refueled before they could take off.

Many coincidences were discovered by this Japanese reconnaissance plane, and the two aircraft carriers of the Maritime Resistance Army were discovered. Although the Japanese fighter plane was immediately shot down by the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier fighters, the fleet had already been discovered by the Japanese army.

And the appearance of this accident reminded Li Guang of a term: identification of friend and foe, automatic response. After several years, the strangest thing about Li Guang is human memory. He originally knew words like weapon identification system and aircraft automatic response, although he didn't know the principle, but as long as he put forward this concept, a cadre of engineers would try to solve it, or explore it in the direction of solving. It's a pity that Li Guang never thought of it before, but today's accident made Li Guang think about it again.

Will it attract an air strike from the Japanese army? Whether it will be or not, the Naval Resistance Force has already begun to prepare to deal with it.

After all the fighters returned, Li Guang very simply gave up his plan to strike at the battleship Nagato again.

There is no ammunition on board the Indian Ocean carrier, and there is still enough ammunition on the supply cruiser Shock. But stopping on the battlefield and resupplying ammunition is too dangerous. Moreover, it has been discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes, and it is really unwise to stay in this sea area for a long time, waiting for the little devils to retaliate. (Li Guang also doesn't know how much combat power Jizaburo Ozawa still has.) ）

According to the pilot's report, Li Guang's small abacus pulled a little. He thinks that even if the Nagato is not sunk, the repair time of the little devil will not be short, and maybe it will not be repaired before the end of the war. A large amount of supplies were consumed, and there was no chance to participate in the war, which was even more harmful to Japan.

Although there are regrets, it is necessary to stop when it is time to stop, which is the quality that a commander should have. At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the Naval Resistance Army fleet began to sail north, leaving the battlefield. (To be continued......)