Chapter 434: The First Sacrifice of Naval Aviation

After hearing the gunshots, Vice Takeshi Toyota was immediately frightened, although he was arrogant, but not brainless, now the situation is obviously not in his favor, the other party has cruisers similar to his own, and aircraft carriers to help, his main fleet will take two hours to rush over, at this time he is obviously in a weak position, and he is not looking for death by firing without authorization.

And this time it was also based on confrontation, and he was not ready for war at all, but all his plans were ruined by this reckless machine gunner, this is the uncertain factor on the battlefield, no one can completely control it, and as soon as Japan shoots, the Chinese side will not let itself be beaten, and suddenly six carrier-based aircraft rushed towards the Furutaka.

After the Battle of Qingdao, the Japanese warships paid great attention to air defense, and after the first machine gun sounded, all the Japanese knew that war was inevitable, so they all opened fire together.

The entire warship continued to spit out tongues of fire into the air, which looked very spectacular, and the Ancient Eagle used anti-aircraft fire to deal with the carrier-based aircraft, while hurriedly making evasive actions, hoping to avoid the attack of the carrier-based aircraft.

However, the Furutaka was in an extremely disadvantageous situation at this time, the Chinese planes were too close to it, and although the pilots had been trained for a long time, it was the first time that they had gone to the battlefield in person, and they were all extremely nervous, and the opponent was a fierce Japanese warship, which was different from those targets in the past.

However, these young pilots did not have any fear, on the contrary, they all had a faint longing, and from the first day they joined the navy, they saw with their own eyes the relics left by the heroic martyrs in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, and heard the speeches of naval veterans like Sa Zhenbing.

They are the hope of China, they want to avenge the heroic soul who died 30 years ago, they want to rebuild the majesty of the Central Empire, and they want to let the Quartet come to the court!

For this kind of hatred, pilot Cheng Hailiang is obviously much more unforgettable than others, others just see and hear, but he has been in this hatred since he was a child, his father turned out to be an ordinary sailor of the Beiyang Navy, and served on the Zhiyuan ship during the First Sino-Japanese Naval War.

Whenever I hear others talk about Deng Shichang's command of the Zhiyuan ship to crash into the Japanese Yoshino ship at full speed. Cheng Hai had a voice shouting in his conscience. His father was also on the Zhiyuan ship, and he was also martyred with Deng Shichang, how many loyal souls were buried under the vast blue sea!

He was only three years old that year, and since then he can only rely on his mother, who has been telling him how his father died and how those Beiyang soldiers died tragically at the hands of Japan. This kind of unforgettable hatred has been with Cheng Hailiang for more than 20 years, from an ignorant naughty boy to the first batch of carrier-based aircraft pilots in China today, Cheng Hailiang has buried this hatred deep in his heart.

However, he did not forget for a moment, joining the Wehrmacht in order to be able to fulfill his desire for revenge, and he originally imagined that he would be called a naval soldier like his father. One day, he piloted a Chinese warship to compete with the Japanese on the sea again, and sent these evil little devils to the bottom of the sea to comfort the heroic souls who had not gone away.

However, by mistake, Cheng Hailiang was not selected by the navy, but because his physical fitness was very suitable, he became a pilot of the air force, perhaps because of the force of fate, Cheng Hailiang still entered the navy. However, it is the identity of naval aviation.

No matter what the identity. As long as he can deal with the Japanese, it is enough, and this time he went to the battlefield as the pilot of the Chaoyong. The Chaoyong is another evocative name, which was originally the name of a cruiser, which was ordered by the Beiyang Fleet from the British, a total of two, and the other was named Yangwei.

The two warships were the earliest main warships in the Beiyang, it was Deng Shichang and others who brought the two warships back from Britain, and by the time of the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the two warships were already old, and even a large amount of rust fell off the hull with every shot fired by the Chaoyong.

But even so, this old ship still participated in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, in this life-and-death contest, the Chaoyong fought hard, facing the siege of new warships such as Takachiho, Akitsuzu, Yoshino, etc., fearlessly, bravely responded, and damaged the enemy ship many times, but in the end the Chaoyong was sunk by the Japanese warship and sank in the Yellow Sea.

It is clear that China has not forgotten the shame of the First Sino-Japanese War, let alone the martyrs who fought bravely, and now the Chinese Navy has rebuilt these warships to use them to defeat the Japanese again and regain China's maritime supremacy.

As Cheng Hailiang piloted his plane from the Chaoyong, he had a very peculiar feeling, as if he felt that there were countless people watching him in the dark, waiting to see the swaggering Japanese being sent into the icy waters, just as they had done to China decades ago.

From the time he flew to the Guying, Cheng Hailiang firmly believed that there would be a conflict this time, even if the Chinese side had given the order not to fire the first shot, he was not as frustrated as his companions, and the pilots in the same company also complained that the government was too conservative, and it was over directly sinking the Japanese, why couldn't they fire the first shot first, there was no such rule in the Yellow Sea naval battle back then, and the Japanese did not know how to be polite at all.

But Cheng Hailiang kept telling everyone that if they do more injustice, they will kill themselves, and the result is as he expected, the Japanese ghost sent the first shot, of course, Cheng Hailiang also guessed that it was very likely to be a misfire, but he and his companions couldn't wait, they drove their war eagles and quickly approached the Japanese warship.

At this time, the Japanese warship was like a fire hedgehog, constantly spraying flames into the air, forming a dense network of firepower, Cheng Hailiang saw with his own eyes that a Chinese bomber was scattered by anti-aircraft fire because it could not dodge, as if the goddess scattered flowers, and the pilot also spilled blood in the sky.

Without any hesitation, his plane still quickly broke through the Japanese firepower network, getting closer and closer to the Japanese warship, and two 500-kilogram bombs were dropped in an instant.

This kind of bomb can already threaten 30,000-ton battleships and aircraft carriers, and it is completely overkill to deal with the Guying, killing chickens with a knife, but the effect is also very amazing.

One of the two bombs thrown by Cheng Hailiang exploded in the sea only seven meters away from the Guying, the power of this near-miss bomb was much greater than a direct hit, and the bomb exploded, forming a huge water pressure, as if a heavy hammer had hit the Guying, and the monstrous waves raised in the sea made the Guying seem to be a flat boat in the water. Shake up and down.

Outsiders can only see this nearly 10,000-ton big guy shaking incessantly. But the people on the ship were extremely frightened, they had clearly heard the sound of metal cracking, the huge pressure had broken the keel of the Ancient Eagle, and a huge depression appeared on the side of the ship, and then it cracked rapidly under the water pressure, and a large amount of seawater poured into the ship, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

Everyone knew that the warship was finished. The naval air force was victorious, and on the Chinese side, in addition to the air force, there was also a heavy cruiser Baoding, and just after the two sides began to exchange fire, the Baoding quickly rushed towards the destroyer that was monitoring the Chinese passenger liner.

Although there had been a war with Japan, their main task this time was to protect the safety of the expatriates. The Japanese destroyer was already stupid at this time, the Furutaka had been damaged, and it seemed that it couldn't last long, so what could the little destroyer do.

It could only make a sharp turn and escape, but it had lost its chance, and two Chinese bombers had already set their sights on the warship, and the two pilots were frustrated that they had not been able to hit the Ancient Eagle. Sinking this destroyer now can also be used as a snack.

Soon several hundred-kilogram aerial bombs were dropped. However, the destroyer is smaller in tonnage and more flexible. Constantly changing course, quickly dodging bombs, and constantly firing at the same time, attacking planes in the sky, actually allowed the destroyer to dodge all the bombs.

But its luck ended there, just as it was trying its best to dodge the bomb, the Baoding had already caught up with it, and the 203 mm main gun fired at the destroyer mercilessly, and soon a shell hit the middle of the destroyer, and the huge armor-piercing warhead broke through the thin armor and drilled into the ammunition bay, detonating all the ammunition stored together.

The sound of a violent explosion shook the sea, and the destroyer was directly divided into two parts by the violent explosion, and sank rapidly into the sea, and all the Japanese miscellaneous debris on board also sank into the sea.

At this time, the Ancient Eagle also reached the last moment, it was hit by two more bombs, both of which hit the deck, due to the large amount of water at the bottom of the warship, some soldiers had to run to the deck to escape, but it was this decision that made their death worse.

The bomb fell on the deck, and the violent explosion instantly made some people evaporate directly, and a large number of people were injured, with stumps and legs, so it was not miserable, and more people were thrown into the sea by the air wave brought by the explosion, and the ancient eagle finally couldn't support it, and the ship exploded continuously, and the fire had enveloped the warship, and the cruiser that broke into two completely sank to the bottom of the East China Sea.

Along with Vice Takeshi Toyoda, the future Japanese admiral never had the opportunity to serve as admiral again, nor did he have the opportunity to become the commander of the combined fleet, and he had already atoned for his sins in advance.

Another Japanese destroyer was also sunk by a carrier-based aircraft, so that all three Japanese warships were sunk, and only some remaining Japanese soldiers were still struggling on the surface of the sea, waiting for rescue!

The captain of the Baoding, Suffo, hurriedly reported to Chen Shaokuan, and asked for Chen Shaokuan's instructions, Chen Shaokuan saw that it was already late at this time, and it was not conducive to continuing the battle, and the Japanese main force would rush to help at any time, only one Chaoyong was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with many Japanese warships, or retreat as soon as possible, and there were more than 1,000 expatriates to be sent back, and they could not ignore their safety, Chen Shaokuan ordered them to retreat immediately.

When asked if there were any prisoners, Sappho reported that the Japanese soldiers were deeply influenced by bushido, and all of them were willing to die in pieces, resolutely resisted the captives, and all of them had sunk to the bottom of the sea!

But in fact, everyone on the Baoding knows that many Japanese are hoping that the Chinese can rescue them, even if they are prisoners, no one wants to die, but the Chinese warships have retreated, leaving only countless dead bodies! (To be continued.) )