Li Guang has a question: Why hasn't the B17 led by Liu Kejin launched an attack yet? Even the news did not come back.

The B17 was equipped with not only radio, but also telegraphs.

After the war, Liu Kejin's explanation for this was: During this period of time, he was taken to the turnip field by American pilots. The only B17 of the Naval Resistance Force took off with a B17 squadron of the U.S. Army at Midway. Liu Kejin originally thought that the US military pilots were familiar with the ground, and it was not easy for the bomber of the Naval Resistance Army to get lost with the US troops. How did he know that the level of these American pilots was not very good, and they actually flew lost, so that after flying for three hours, they still did not find the Japanese aircraft carrier.

In the waters off Midway Island on June 4, the weather was cloudy, although it was not rainy, and the direction determined by the navigator with a compass was not accurate. The navigators and communicators searched for the location of several radio stations, because the battle had already begun, and the radio waves in the air were extremely complicated, but they did not know which was the Japanese and which was Midway.

However, the endurance of the B17 is strong, and for today's battle, Liu Kejin also specially added two 250-gallon auxiliary fuel tanks, which are enough to fly in the air for 12 hours.

After flying the second wave of fighters, Li Guang gave another order at 9:08 a.m. He was concerned about the strength of the Second Air Force, which was attacking Yamaguchi.

Even if the land-based fleet attacking Nagumo Tadaichi did not count the land-based aircraft group at Midway, the US-Tang coalition sent a total of 56 fighters on the Enterprise, 60 fighters on the Hornet, 22 on the Liberty Dragon, and 35 on the Yorktown. A total of one hundred and seventy-three.

As for the two aircraft carriers of Yamaguchi Tawen, only 20 fighters from the Naval Resistance Force and 16 from the US military were dispatched, totaling 36 fighters. Li Guang was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army, but there were too few fighters. Whether it will work or not, no one dares to say for sure.

At 9:08, Li Guang ordered the B17 bombers led by Liu Kejin to look for the Second Air Force of Yamaguchi. Although it was only this bomber, under the condition that the Naval Resistance Force had exhausted all its strength, Li Guang could only do that.

Li Guang gave the order, and it was just the right time. At 9:08, Liu Kejin and eight B17 bombers of the US military just found the main force of the Japanese aircraft carrier.

Liu Kejin's crew received Li Guang's order, and he looked at the Japanese aircraft carrier on the sea, and he was very greedy. But a military order is a military order, and Liu Kejin ordered the bombers to search north. He knows. Li Guang will not easily change the order.

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Liu Kejin left, but the eight bombers of the US army easily caught the Japanese aircraft carrier formation. Immediately began to bombard indiscriminately.

The U.S. B17 bombers carried 1,000 pounds of aerial bombs, which were quite powerful. The bomb fell from a great height at a very fast speed, smashing into the sea like an iron fist. Then there was the column of water that was stirred up by the explosion dozens of meters high.

Eight B17s carried a full hundred bombs, along with the intensive dropping of bombs. Columns of water rose from the surface of the sea. The previous column of water has not yet dissipated. And there were more columns of water rising in the sea.

The Japanese warships were like shuttling through the jungle of water columns, which was extremely thrilling. The bombing of the B17 was basically at an altitude of about 5,000 meters, and dozens of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese aircraft carriers and frigates continued to spray meteor-like shells, blowing up black clouds in the air.

The explosion of American bombs, and the intensive fire of Japanese anti-aircraft artillery. Between the sea and the air, the sound is heard for tens of kilometers. The explosion at a dense distance finally pointed the way for Liu Gensheng's group.

Liu Gensheng led 22 fighters all the way unimpeded. There are no detours. There was no miscarriage either, and they arrived at the designated sea area at once, but that sea area was empty, and there was no Japanese fleet at all.

The fleet of the Naval Resistance Force has a stunt--- one-word search. Long-term training allows pilots to practice sufficiently proficiently. Liu Gensheng believed that the Japanese army should withdraw to the east, so the fleet of the Naval Resistance Army began to move north.

Twelve dreadnought bombers, escorted by fighters, searched the sea surface very carefully, but it took nearly 20 minutes and ran a full 60 kilometers without finding anything.

Twelve fighters lined up for a full thirty kilometers, and the Japanese fleet was not found on such a wide horizontal plane. Liu Gensheng intuitively realized that he was afraid that the search was in the wrong direction.

Therefore, Liu Gensheng immediately ordered the group to turn. When the group turned, Liu Gensheng's order was to turn right, which means that the group of the Naval Resistance Army was parallel to the route just now, but it was located in the north of the route just now.

If Liu Gensheng commanded the aircraft group in this way, if he found a reason, it could be said that it was because of common sense that the Japanese fleet should withdraw to the far side of Midway. But in fact, Liu Gensheng's original words after the war were: "I was used to turning right, and I didn't think too much about it at all." ”

The aircraft group of the Maritime Resistance Army did not think too much about making a turn, and in less than ten minutes, they had already heard the deafening explosion on the battlefield and saw clouds of black smoke floating in the sky ahead.

A few minutes later, Liu Gensheng was overjoyed.

A lot, a lot of warships.

I saw the huge warships on the sea rowing white waves. The Japanese fleet was still maneuvering to evade the bombing of American fighters.

What made Liu Gensheng strange was that the Japanese army did not have Zero fighters to intercept it.

How did he know that there were actually quite a few zero-type battles escorted by the little devils, forty or fifty. However, it has been divided into several waves, some are driving out US reconnaissance planes, some are chasing US torpedo planes, and some are attacking US B17 bombers.

When Liu Gensheng rushed to the sky above the Japanese aircraft carrier formation, the last Zero fighter of the Japanese army had already chased the last B17 that the US military had just finished dropping bombs and flew into the distance.

Therefore, at this moment, the sky over the Japanese aircraft carrier formation turned out to be in a vacuum, and there was no air defense force at all. Nagumo Tadaichi's three aircraft carriers are now like stripped Japanese geisha, waiting for a hungry wolf to ravage.

Liu Gensheng's brain is flexible enough, but he can't analyze these reasons. But whatever the reason, it's the way to go.

At this moment, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Force have not yet formed a formation and are scattered within a range of twenty or thirty kilometers. Liu Gensheng called for fighter planes to move closer to him on the public channel.

Assault, assault. What you want is suddenness. As the earliest pilot of the Naval Resistance Army, Liu Gensheng already had a lot of combat experience.

Without hesitation, he took his wingman and swooped down.

Liu Gensheng also didn't know which Japanese aircraft carrier he was bombing. Anyway, being big is the most valuable target. The Japanese army had three aircraft carriers in this sea area, and the Kaga and Akagi were both huge ships with a full load of more than 42,000 tons, which looked much larger than the aircraft carrier Shozuru of Rear Admiral Tadaichi Hara. At this moment, the Japanese army has three aircraft carriers, Shozuru is in the north, Kaga is in the middle, and Akagi is in the south. The one that was closer to Liu Gensheng was the Kaga, so the Kaga aircraft carrier became the first target of the Naval Resistance Force.

The dive bombing of the Naval Resistance Force is completely different from that of the US military. The US pilots were poorly trained, and both torpedo planes and dive bombers were in a straight column. At the front of the column is a guide plane, if there is no guide plane. Most pilots in the U.S. military don't even know when to press the button to drop the bomb. Therefore, the US fighters are simply not able to adopt the tactics of fighting on their own.

As for the higher-level cooperation between the two planes, the US military should not even think about it. The elite pilots of the highest level of the Maritime Resistance Force can even achieve the cooperation of three aircraft. However, many of the pilots on the Liberty Dragon are pilots of the second and third echelons, and they can't cooperate with the three planes, but there is no problem at all with the two planes cooperating with the attack.

Liu Gensheng leads his wingman. With little adjustment of bearing, it rushed diagonally to the deck of the Kaga aircraft carrier. General. The direction of the bomber's attack on the battleship was launched from the flank. In this case, the battleship has the largest bomb area and is the easiest to hit the target.

But under the control of elite pilots like Liu Gensheng, the P40 can also maneuver and steer at high speeds. The bulky P40 fighter plane was quite light in the air at this time, and when it descended from a height of 5,000 meters to an altitude of 3,000 meters, Liu Gensheng had already adjusted the angle.

When Liu Gensheng began to dive, the devils on the Kaga had just driven away the last U.S. B17 bomber. Just took a breath. Leng Buding looked up and saw that the two fighters had swooped down.

In the first wave of bombing, Liu Gensheng hit one of the two bombs. A 250-pound bomb was nothing for a behemoth like an aircraft carrier, but Liu Gensheng's bomb hit a fuel truck on the flight deck of the Kaga.

The vehicle, which was refueling the warplane, immediately fell apart and exploded into a huge fireball. The burning of tons of gasoline was extremely horrific. The fireball went from a few meters in diameter to tens of meters in diameter in microseconds.

The Japanese troops in this range were immediately burned to death by the fire, and the fighters that were swept by the fireball were ignited. Even the Japanese fighters, which were a little farther away, were pushed into the sea by the shock wave. The planes on the flight deck of the Kaga that were lined up for takeoff, as well as the excellent pilots of the Japanese naval aviation above, were all engulfed in flames in an instant. On the Kaga, there was a crying father and a mother's crying and screaming.

The violent explosion and burning not only killed and injured a large number of Japanese soldiers, but also seriously affected the aiming and firing of the devil's aviation artillery.

Waiting for Liu Gensheng to drive the fighter plane to pull up rapidly, he once again occupied the high-altitude position. The fleet of aircraft of the Naval Resistance Army has accumulated in the air.

Generally speaking, there are two types of dive attack tactics of the naval resistance army's aircraft group against enemy ships. First, when Japanese fighters intercept it, the fighters will not hesitate to drop their shells and go into air combat lightly. The bombers bypassed the Japanese interception and bombed. Second, if there is no Japanese interception, then the fighters bomb first, and then pull up to a high altitude to be responsible for escorting.

Now Liu Gensheng is encountering the second situation. Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it. Twelve bombers were still in formation in the clouds. The fighter took the lead in the attack, and the fighter was agile and fast, so the attack was very fast-paced.

In just five or six minutes, a total of 10 warplanes had completed their dive bombing. Throughout the bombardment, the Kaga's powerful anti-aircraft artillery fire did little to no avail.

A total of six bombs were hit. The hit rate reached sixty percent.

I saw the explosions on the Kaga rising and falling, and the dazzling explosions flashed continuously, like the covering blow of artillery. The entire aircraft carrier is exploding.

Although separated by more than ten kilometers, Nagumo Zhongyi was also frightened by the situation in front of him. He's not stupid and knows why. Such a series of explosions was definitely caused by the bombs of the Naval Resistance Army, which caused the bombs on the Kaga to explode.

The destruction of the Kaga reminded Nagumo Tadaichi that not only the Kaga, but also the aircraft carriers Akagi and Shozuru were piled up with torpedoes and bombs on both the flight deck and the hangar deck. Without Nagumo Tadada's order, the chief of staff, Ryunosuke Kusaka, also knew how to deal with it, and immediately ordered the bomb to be transferred to the ammunition depot as soon as possible.

Liu Gensheng and his friends were also stunned by the situation in front of them.

"Is this the power of a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound bomb? How powerful is a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound bomb? ”

Originally, a weapon of the class of two hundred and fifty-pound bombs, that is, to blow up destroyers and light cruisers. It is not powerful enough to deal with an aircraft carrier converted from a battleship like the Kaga. At most, it will affect the performance of the aircraft carrier.

But the explosion that unfolded in front of Liu Gensheng's eyes at this moment was simply earth-shattering. The force of the explosion blew hundreds of kilograms of steel, even steel structures weighing several tons, into the air. There were even shrapnel or debris that were blown up thousands of meters in the air.

Liu Gensheng had bombed the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier, but the bombs dropped by the P40 fighter at that time did not have such power, and the final bombing and sinking of the Xiangfeng aircraft carrier still relied on the bomber's 800-kilogram bombs.

But the sight in front of me is truly spectacular. Liu Gensheng had an unreal feeling that in just a few minutes, this aircraft carrier, which was much larger than the Xiangfeng, had entered the end of the world.

The huge battleship was covered in smoke, the hull was blackened by the flames, explosions continued to occur in the cabin, and the entire "Kaga" was enveloped in a sea of fire.

The Kaga was full of evil in the Japanese war of aggression against China, and before the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance, it had repeatedly supported the Japanese army's invasion of Northeast and North China. In 1937, during the Battle of Songhu, the "Kaga" went to Shanghai to support the Japanese army in the open sea. In the following years, the scope of its carrier-based aircraft attacks spread throughout Shanghai, Nanjing, Nanchang, Chengdu and other places, and it owed a lot of blood debts to the Chinese.

The onslaught of the Navy's resistance, coupled with the fuel placement of its own bombs, caused the Kaga to be devastated. The captain of the ship, Jisaku Okada, and the important officers on board were burned to death on the spot, and hundreds of Japanese officers and men were burned to death. And the ten fighters led by Liu Gensheng were neither destroyed, nor even injured, and were unscathed.

And this is only an interest on the Naval Resistance Army's recovery of the Japanese army's blood debt, and the Naval Resistance Army's attack will continue. (To be continued......)