Under the blue sky, two water reconnaissance planes returning from patrolling the northern waters of the Ryukyu Islands were flying at a low altitude, and the two pilots on board were leisurely looking down at the beautiful sea below.

In the wingman's cockpit two, observers seemed to hear something.

"Hey! Do you hear anything? ”

"What sound? Can you hear your daughter-in-law moaning from so far away? ”

"You go to die!"

In the midst of a burst of laughter, the observer's unusual voice was shamelessly interrupted by the driver.

If the two of them could look up at their sky, they would see six Imperial Chinese Navy Cat Demon carrier-based fighters approaching.

The first to spot these two naval water reconnaissance planes was Lieutenant Lin Weixiong, a pilot of the No. 223 fighter of the No. 4 Squadron of the Third Aircraft Carrier Wing of the Naval Air Force, who was also the captain of the other five planes of the squadron.

"It has been determined again that the targets are two carrier-based water reconnaissance planes of the Navy, which are the Jian-1C foreign trade export type, and it is over."

The wingman of the fourth squad reported the confirmation message to the captain of the plane, Lin Weixiong, and waited for the next order.

"Start attacking!"

Lin Weixiong gave an order, and slammed the longitudinal rod, and the fuselage rolled to the lower left. Then Lin Weixiong stepped on the accelerator violently and rushed straight to the two planes below. Then the wingman led the other four fighters to do the same, following the long plane.

The fighter plane made a piercing humming sound as it accelerated, and the four pilots on both planes heard the sound and looked up in shock.

In a daze, the six Cat Demon fighters were already approaching less than 400 meters, and Lin Weixiong, who was at the forefront, aimed at one of the planes through the optical sight on the nose in front of the windshield, and suddenly pulled the trigger.

"Dada! Click! ”

Lin Weixiong first used two short bursts of one second, and the bullet streamer was generally fired at the plane, although it did not hit the opponent, but by judging the trajectory of the bullet, Lin Weixiong quickly controlled the plane to modify the firing direction.

After a few quick shots, Lim quickly corrected his trajectory.

"Dada-da-da!"

This was followed by a long burst of fire, and although it was only three seconds, the machine gun, which had a rate of fire of up to 800 rounds per minute, fired more than 40 rounds at once, most of which were fired at the machine. I saw a row of bullet holes in the belly of the fuselage of this plane, and the observer was shot in the head on the spot, and blood splattered.

The pilot of the machine was already frightened, so he reacted, and when he was about to evade, Lin Weixiong flicked the longitudinal rod slightly, and the muzzle of the machine gun in the nose was aimed at the pilot.

"Dada-da-da!"

Another three seconds of long point firing, more than a dozen bullets instantly turned the pilot into a hornet's nest. The plane, which had lost its pilot, was not assisted by a pilot stabilizer (all by manpower), and the plane suddenly spun out of control and fell headlong into the sea.

With a bang, Lin Weixiong's plane passed over the side of another plane. The two frightened pilots on the plane were secretly sighing that they had escaped a catastrophe and were about to escape, when Lin Weixiong was only followed by five cat demon fighters that flew in, forming a tactical formation of "soldiers," and suddenly opened fire on the plane.

"Dada-da-da!"

These five Cat Demon fighters did not shoot short bursts, all of them shot long bursts. If it is a fighter, then it will definitely be difficult for his bullets to hit the opponent, but the formation of five fighters in a tactical firing formation of the word "soldier" makes up for the shortcomings in this regard.

In an instant, there were dozens of scattered bullet holes on the fuselage. In the screams, the two pilots were beaten into a sieve, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.

There was a loud bang, and the exposed fuel tank of the machine was blown up, causing an explosion. The plane disintegrated in the air and turned into a fiery red.

Five Cat Demon fighters pierced through the fire clouds, and whistles rang out.

"Captain, it's really enjoyable!"

The cheers of the team members came from the radio intercom, but Lin Weixiong lowered his face and scolded: "How many times have I told you, point shot, point shot, why can't you listen to it?" Holding down the trigger is a momentary pleasure, what should I do if the bullet runs out? What should I do if an enemy plane appears next to you? ”

Listening to Lin Weixiong's anger, several team members suddenly wilted like frosted eggplants.

"Captain, we were wrong!"

Lin Weixiong was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and scolded with a smile: "Damn, it's quite quick to admit your mistakes, but his mother doesn't remember her surname for a long time!" ”

The team members laughed secretly, and then the wingman suddenly said: "Captain, look, there is also a plane back from the east." ”

Lin Weixiong suddenly forgot to reprimand his subordinates, and hurriedly said, "Let's go, don't let the other brothers take the lead!" ”

As he spoke, Lin Weixiong pulled the longitudinal pole, and the fighter quickly turned around and flew to the east. The other five fighters also immediately followed the movements of the long plane and quickly flew towards the one that flew to the east.

At the same time, there were as many as seven planes flying back from all directions, and it turned out that these planes were all foreign trade Jian-1C type water reconnaissance planes from the Chinese Empire as soon as possible, and their range was very low, but only about 30 nautical miles.

Since the East China Sea was the territory of the Chinese Empire on all sides, the Combined Fleet of the Chinese Navy, which had to release several reconnaissance planes at a time, in order to grasp whether there was the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy nearby.

At this time, it was just in time for the reconnaissance planes of the Navy's navy to return one after another, so they were blocked by the naval aviation of the Chinese Empire.

In less than 10 minutes, all 9 reconnaissance planes of the Navy's navy were shot down.

Subsequently, the 100 Cat Demon carrier-based fighters began to hover over the ships of the Combined Fleet, occasionally swooping down and firing machine-gun fire at the personnel on the deck and bridge of the ship.

Dive, shoot, pull up, dive again, shoot again.

A hundred Cat Demon carrier-based fighters were like entering a no-man's land, wreaking havoc in the skies above the ship, slaughtering the officers and men of the Navy. In less than 10 minutes, the ships of the Combined Fleet were fired at by machine-gun fire from fighter planes, killing and wounding hundreds of people.

On the bridge of the flagship Fuso, Admiral Heihachiro Togo, commander of the Combined Fleet, was furious at the Chinese Imperial fighter planes in the air.

"How is that possible? It's a few hundred kilometers from land, how did these planes get here? ”

Togo Heihachiro had one question mark after another in his mind, he knew the fighters of the Chinese Empire, but he knew the range of these light planes, so he chose to sail near the middle line of the East China Sea, in order to avoid the detection and harassment of planes from the mainland of the Chinese Empire and the Ryukyu Islands.

However, at this moment, when he saw the sky full of planes of the Chinese Empire, he was immediately surprised.

Just when Togo Heihachiro was stunned, two two-plane formations of four cat demon ships rushed straight to the observation platform at the top of the Fuso ship island, and more than a dozen of the observation soldiers of the Japanese army on it were shot and killed. One of the soldiers was dodging down the stairs, but he was too panicked, and a bullet from the Cat Demon hit his left shoulder, and the huge impact of the bullet instantly sent it flying, and he fell from the 18-meter-high ship island.

"Autumn Yumena!!"

One second he was still shouting for help, and the next second he was smashing on the bridge platform on the 4th floor.

"Bang!!"

This soldier fell to his death in front of Togo Heihachiro and the officers of the first command, and blood splattered everyone, which really frightened everyone.

"Bagaya Road!"

Togo Heihachiro screamed, in the face of the fighter jets of the Chinese Empire, he was full of explosive power, but there was nowhere to release it, facing the air, he felt helpless for the first time.

"Your Excellency, what are we going to do?"

"Yes, our battleships do not have anti-aircraft weapons and cannot shoot down these enemy aircraft."

Everyone immediately looked at Heihachiro Togo, which really annoyed him even more.

Heihachiro Togo was furious and said angrily: "No air defense weapons? What are so many guns for? Shoot me, shoot me! ”

There was no other way, so the ships of the Combined Fleet had no choice but to adjust all the main guns, secondary guns, third-level and fourth-level rapid-fire guns to the maximum elevation angle and start firing at the air.

"Knock knock!"

The ships opened fire one after another, but because the maximum elevation angle was insufficient, they could only shoot into the sky in the distance, which was of no use to the carrier-based fighters of the Imperial Chinese Navy in near space.

However, some of the capital ships were equipped with a small number of machine guns on the island, and since there was no concept of air defense, the number of these machine guns was very small, but at this time, the officers and men of the Navy immediately attached great importance to them, and they used them to shoot at enemy planes in the air.

In addition, the officers and men who were forced to rush quickly dismantled the rapid-fire guns on the deck and raised them at a certain angle so that they could fire at a certain angle in the air. However, the effect is not good.

After more than 40 minutes of fighting with the combined fleet, the 100 Cat Demon carrier-based fighters of the Chinese Empire had to return due to fuel consumption problems.

However, half an hour ago, after Ye Zugui obtained the exact location of the Combined Fleet, he immediately commanded the 27 aircraft carriers of the Sixth Fleet, and all the fighters began to hang torpedoes and aerial bombs, and 30 H1N1 avian flu bombers had been loaded and took off one after another to fly to the target.

At the same time, the remaining Cat Demon carrier-based fighters all took off with torpedoes, and the Jian-3 fighters and Jian-5 fighters carried one to two 200-kilogram bombs, and they also took off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier one after another, formed an attack aircraft group formation in the air, and then flew to their destinations.

When the last fighter plane took off, the first batch of 100 Catdemon carrier-based fighters also returned one after another, and various aircraft carriers began to recover these aircraft. After the recovery was completed, the torpedo was re-attached and took off as a second wave of bombers.

Among them, the aircraft carriers Huangshan and Lushan at this moment show the superiority of the polygonal aircraft carrier design. Because the flight decks of other straight-through aircraft carriers can only wait until all the planes have landed before they can re-attach bombs and take off. As polygonal aircraft carriers, the Huangshan and Lushan aircraft carriers have the ability to take off and land at the same time, which allows the aircraft carriers of this class to recover aircraft on one side, and directly refuel and take off with bombs on the other side, which is very fast. Of the 100 Cat Demon ship battles, 50 were completed on these two aircraft carriers, which shows its high efficiency.

On the hexagonal tower of the Huangshan bridge, Ye Zugui and his officers were in a very good mood, that is, they were satisfied with the attack on the combined fleet and the operational efficiency of the aircraft carrier platform.

Chief of Staff Feng Luxin exclaimed: "It seems that we will have to build more aircraft carriers similar to the Huangshan class in the future, and this kind of polygonal aircraft carrier flight deck is much more efficient than the straight-through deck." ”

Ye Zugui nodded, and said approvingly: "These are all ideas put forward by our wise and martial emperor, compared with the emperor, he is a god-like existence, and we are ordinary mortals." ”

Feng Luxin said with empathy: "Yes, to be able to change China, the sick man of East Asia, into a strong man in 20 years, Your Majesty's merits are comparable to Yao Shunyu soup, and my generation is very fortunate, the country is very fortunate, and the Chinese nation is very fortunate." ”

Ye Zugui said: "I hope we can achieve gratifying results this time, otherwise I will really be sorry for Your Majesty's expectations of our aircraft carrier fleet!" ”

Feng Luxin nodded and said, "Wait!" In another hour, we'll know the results. ”

At 4:15 a.m., the first wave of bombers of the Imperial Chinese Aircraft Carrier Battle Group appeared in the line of sight of the Combined Fleet. A total of 30 avian flu (H1N1) bombers carrying two 500-kilogram aerial bombs, 260 Mao-demon (Jian-IV) fighters with an 18-inch red-headed torpedo attached to them, 140 Flying Eagle (Jian-III) fighters with two 200-kilogram aerial bombs, and 280 Pterodactyl (Jian-5) fighters with one 300-kilogram aerial bomb attached to them.

The combined fleet on the sea sounded the battle alarm again, and Heihachiro Togo once again boarded the bridge of the battleship Fuso.

"What a huge fleet!"

Seeing a large number of planes of various types and types appearing in the sky, Heihachiro Togo couldn't help but gasp.

The chief of staff, Major General Yuzaburo Kato, exclaimed: "There must be five or six hundred of them!" Didn't the Chinese Empire already export thousands of warplanes in active service to the belligerents in Europe? How could they still have so many planes? ”

"Conspiracy! What a conspiracy! Our intelligence, our political axe, have been deceived! The more Togo Heihachiro thought about it, the more angry he became, many of the actions of the Chinese Empire that he didn't understand before, but now he gradually became clear, and sighed: "We have fallen into the trap of the Chinese Empire from the beginning, we have been led by them, but we are still complacent!" ”

"Your Excellency Commander, the enemy plane is about to enter the air, please give the order to open fire!"

"What fire? Hit? ”

Heihachiro Togo asked rhetorically, and then said: "Regardless of them, bullets can't sink us, let all the ship island staff be careful to dodge, our primary goal now is to reach the Philippines as soon as possible, and we will be safe when we get there." ”

Although Heihachiro Togo sensed some strategic problems about the Chinese Empire, he couldn't guess that the group of planes that appeared in the sky was already loaded with aerial bombs and torpedoes, and he thought that the other side would attack the personnel on the ship with machine guns, so he made this decision.

The ship continued to sail south, indifferent to the group of Chinese Imperial attack planes buzzing and approaching in the sky, of course, even if they knew that it was the other side that wanted to drop bombs, they had nothing to do.

As the only commander of the bomber wing of the Imperial Chinese Naval Aviation, Cai Shijun has extremely high experience in commanding bomber groups, and has practiced many times before bombers taking off and landing on aircraft carrier platforms, and then bombing targets in the target area.

Originally, I thought that there was no future for following the naval aviation, because most of the officers of the Navy only paid attention to the artillery of the giant ships and did not pay attention to them. But today, after he received an order from Ye Zugui, commander of the aircraft carrier battle group, he was very happy when he knew who the aircraft carrier was fighting with.

"The Air Force has already passed the majesty of Jeju Island, we will definitely not lose to them, don't be nervous when dropping bombs later, it is said that the naval warships do not have special air defense weapons, we can easily drop bombs at low altitude and close range, just like the usual training."

Then, Cai Shijun gave the order to attack, and 30 H1N1 bomber groups and 60 Cat Demon torpedo attack aircraft groups went straight to the four super god bow battleships Ise, Yuexiang, Fuso and Yamashiro of the first detachment of the Yueben Combined Fleet, and the other 200 Cat Demon torpedo attack aircraft went to attack the other three battleship detachments of the fleet, one battle cruiser detachment, and one armored cruiser detachment, and each squadron Cai Shijun arranged forty Cat Demon torpedo attack planes for them. Each ship basically had to face the blows of 10 Cat Demon torpedo attack planes. The bombs of the other 140 Flying Eagle (J-3) and Pterodactyl (J-5) fighters could not sink large capital ships, so they targeted the light armored cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers of the Combined Fleet.

"Attack formation!"

Cai Shijun gave the order, and all the bomber groups immediately launched attack formations according to their respective targets. The flight direction of the bomber group is along the direction of the ship's navigation, and the two sides fly in the same direction, so that the bombers can drop the bombs on the horizontal deck of the ship's weak protection. The course of the torpedo bomber should be staggered from the course of the ship, and the speed of the ship should be calculated, and the torpedo can only be released after estimating the amount of advance, so that the torpedo can hit the target more accurately.

Both bomber groups and torpedo groups have been strictly trained; because the ships have no anti-aircraft firepower, and the only shipborne machine guns are not enough to pose a threat to the planes in the air, the psychological pressure on the naval aviation units of the Chinese Imperial Navy is not very great, and most of them can maintain the mentality level of training in peacetime, and there are also a small number of pilots whose psychological quality is not up to the mark, and they are frightened when they encounter actual combat.

"Attack!"

Cai Shijun gave the order, and the various attack aircraft groups immediately launched attack operations.

As the leader of the bomber group, Cai Shijun naturally had to attack first, and he had to hit the first bomb in order to take the lead.

I saw Cai Shijun gently push the longitudinal rod, keep moving in the same direction as the battleship Fusang, and at the same time reduce the altitude to 500 meters, his heart quickly calculated the speed of the Fusang, and compared with his bomber speedometer, after calculating the amount of advance, he suddenly shouted.

"Bomb dropping!"

With a click, the operator pulled the longitudinal rod violently, and the first 500-kilogram aerial bomb slid out of the cabin along the slide rail.

"Babble~~~~"

As the aerial bomb fell rapidly, a piercing whistling sound was heard. Seconds later, the bomb landed accurately on the stern deck of the battleship Fuso.

With a loud bang, the 500-kilogram bomb exploded. The deck, which was protected only by 64 mm horizontal armor, was instantly shattered, and the violent blast wave destroyed four horizontal decks in a row, almost penetrating the ammunition depot of the No. 4 main gun.

The violent explosion instantly raised gunpowder smoke and flames more than 200 meters high, quickly enveloping the stern of the Fuso, and the flames gushed out from the explosion vent, and the thick smoke covered the sea. At the time of the explosion, the entire 30,000-ton Fusang battleship trembled violently, and all the officers and men were shocked to the ground.

"What's going on?"

"Report to the commander, it's the planes of the Chinese Empire, and they are dropping bombs on our warships."

"What?" Heihachiro Togo, who was shaken to the ground, was taken aback when he heard this, and his keen intuition told him that this time it was dangerous.

Hurriedly stood up, came to the window of the command tower and looked outside, only to see the warplanes of the Chinese Empire hovering over the ship, constantly dropping bombs and torpedoes.

In an instant, the entire Combined Fleet was plunged into unprecedented fear and danger. On the surface of the sea, huge water columns rose into the sky, up to hundreds of meters, several meters high huge waves rose one after another, the waves splashed, the whole sea instantly boiled, and the sea surface within a radius of 120 kilometers was suddenly a bloody storm.

"How so?"

Togo Heihachiro suddenly stood dumbfounded on the spot, this situation was completely unimaginable to him, it was beyond the scope of his current ability, and he had no power to fight back at all.

"Your Excellency, what are we going to do?"

The officers of the headquarters were horrified one by one, and they had also seen this kind of scene for the first time, and it was a completely one-sided situation. Without the power to fight back, this will not make them mad and afraid.

Heihachiro Togo didn't have any strategy, and at the same time there was no time to think, because over his head, the bomber piloted by Cai Shijun was dropping a second 500-kilogram aerial bomb.

With a loud "boom", the second bomb exploded on the deck next to the No. 2 main gun in the bow of the Fuso. This place is very close to the command tower, although the command tower blocked the violent explosion shock wave, but all the personnel in the command tower were out of breath by the impact of the air wave, and even more in the earthquake-like tremor stood unsteady and fell, Togo Heihachiro hit his head on the parapet wall, and passed out on the spot.

As the ace bomber pilot of the Chinese Empire, Cai Shijun's bombing skills can be described as first-class, unmatched. However, the pilots of the other bomber groups were not as skilled as him.

A group of 30 H1N1 bombers, at an altitude of about 600 meters, dropped a total of 60 500-kilogram bombs on four Fuso-class battleships, but only 10 hit the ships. Among them, the Fuso, as the flagship, was regarded as a key target, and a total of 4 were hit, two of which were dropped on the Fuso's ship island, leveling the entire ship island. The other six bombs were dropped on the Ise, the Shoko, and Yamashiro, and although they failed to sink them, the horizontal decks of the three warships were not protected at the end and all of them were severely damaged.

At 4:31 a.m., 10 Cat Demon torpedo attack planes responsible for torpedo attacks on the battleship Fuso dropped 10 torpedoes on the Fuso's scheduled course.

The Fuso-class battleship was majestic, but its design was not good, the main gun layout was excessive, and the six turrets severely cut the protective belt of the main armor, resulting in an unreliable joint. When she was hit by four 18-inch red-headed torpedoes, it caused a large explosion of the ammunition depot under the main gun turret, and the entire hull was broken.

"Bang bang bang!"

In a series of loud noises, the entire 30,000-ton battleship disintegrated in an instant, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the Combined Fleet Command, captain and below did not survive, and all of them died in the sea.

(To be continued)