At half past ten in the morning, Nagumo Tadaichi again launched a second wave of air strikes. This is very different from the historical naval battles of Ceylon. The Japanese attack was directed at Tang Harbor.

In Ceylon, there was no shortage of Japanese spies and pro-Japanese indigenous forces, and it was difficult to keep some of the information of the Naval Resistance Army secret.

But the air power of the Japanese army against the naval resistance forces, as well as the air defense forces, were not clear.

In mid-February, after allocating 12 fighters to Su Qing's mixed regiment on the Burmese side, the Navy's resistance forces had 12 P40 fighters and 6 dive bombers, as well as 3 old water reconnaissance planes, in Tang Harbor. But this time, the Liberty Dragon left behind six bombers and six fighters. As a result, the total number of fighters of the Naval Resistance Army reached thirty-three.

To say that a dozen more fighters did not pose much threat to the Japanese army. However, the tactics that the Navy's long-trained tactics have achieved amazing results in the case of prevention.

In today's attack, Nagumo Tadaichi still did not regard the Naval Resistance Army as a key target, knowing that Tang Port was located in the eastern part of the southern tip of Ceylon, much closer to the Japanese fleet than Colombo. The Japanese army attacked Colombo first, which was actually more prepared for the naval resistance army.

One morning, the Maritime Resistance Force was on full alert, and the three water reconnaissance planes were not idle, and they had been training in the surrounding waters. Since these three water reconnaissance planes are all old models and have a short range, they can only patrol within 250 kilometers.

The water reconnaissance planes did not discover the Japanese fleet, but they did find a Japanese submarine, and it was a fierce blow to catch up with them. According to the pilot's report, the bomb did not hit, but the machine gun fire definitely hit, and it is difficult to judge whether it caused fatal injuries to the Japanese submarine or not. This situation, if not for the coming of the Great War. The Japanese submarine is absolutely dead, but it is a pity that there is not a single warship in Tang Port now, not even a merchant ship, so it is impossible to pursue this Japanese submarine. However, the fighters of the Air Force have all been hidden, and it is difficult to change the plan temporarily.

When Bao Gang was still a little regretful in the command. At 12 o'clock, the second strike force of the Japanese army was dispatched, with a total of 123 fighters, and arrived in the sky over Tang Harbor.

More than 100 warplanes flew like a flock of birds, giving people the feeling of covering the sky and the sun. The deterrent effect is enormous. Amid the roar of Japanese fighters, the people hid in the mountains or in the air defense fortifications, and their faces turned pale.

These Japanese pilots were all veterans of the Japanese First Air Force, but they were all Japanese elites, and they did not find the wrong direction, but these elite pilots went to the ground. But the target could not be found.

Light curtains flickered in the sky of Tang Harbor, and the devil pilot was dizzy. The pilot simply did not see what was going on on the ground.

The Japanese soldier in charge of air command was Shosae Grass Takashi. It can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, stained with the blood of Chinese on the battlefields of China, and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and his hands were once again smeared with American blood. At this time, he couldn't figure out what was going on, he had seen those who used searchlights for air defense at night, but also used searchlights during the day. It was the first time he had seen it.

Not only that, the searchlights in the air of Tanggang emitted not pillars of light, but curtains of light.

The air defense tactics of other countries generally use searchlights to track the enemy's fighter planes. The light curtains in Tang Harbor are different, some are fixed, and some are tumbling light walls. What's even more infuriating is that the light curtains of the Naval Resistance Army are actually not all continuous lights, and the rolling light curtains are all lights that flicker continuously at one-fifth of a second interval.

You must know that the visual retention time of the human eye is about one-twelfth of a second, and when you see this kind of light that flickers in a fifth of a second, the eyes can't react at all, and the dazzle is still light, and dizziness is normal.

The devil pilot was dizzy by the light at low altitude, but he could only see the pillar of light at high altitude, so he could only estimate dropping bombs down.

As soon as they were not careful, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Naval Resistance Army began to roll roll in the air.

The Navy's antiaircraft forces have recently acquired a batch of American-made antiaircraft guns, and two pickup-class destroyers have taken down the miscellaneous antiaircraft guns they had acquired from Dunkirk, and all of them have been replaced with American-made antiaircraft guns with better performance.

Although the performance of these antiaircraft guns was not good, the Japanese army was busy for half a day, blowing up several farmlands and killing a few fish in the seawater.

The anti-aircraft artillery shooters of the Naval Resistance Army hid under the cover of the light curtain and sang happily: "Twinkle and twinkle, the sky is full of little stars......

Dozens of anti-aircraft guns were almost invincible, and the accuracy of fixed gun positions was much higher than that of anti-aircraft guns on warships. Most of the area of Tang Port is farmland, only industrial areas and residential areas, and the airfield does not have much area at all, and dozens of anti-aircraft guns can almost do the protection without dead ends.

Shells and tracer shells intertwined into flames in the sky over Tang Harbor, blasting out clouds of black fog in the sky. The sound of explosions was like popping beans or spring thunder, resounding over Tang Harbor.

On the battlefields of Chinese mainland, in Southeast Asia, at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese fleet had never experienced such intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire.

The devils should know that there are anti-aircraft artillery in Tanggang, but it is impossible for them to know that there are so many anti-aircraft guns. How many anti-aircraft guns are there in the entire Japanese mainland? At the beginning of the Pacific War, only about 700 anti-aircraft guns were deployed on the Japanese mainland.

In essence, Japan is still a poor country, not to mention its anti-aircraft artillery manufacturing technology. Expensive anti-aircraft artillery and expensive anti-aircraft artillery shells were an unbearable burden on the Japanese economy. And because of speculation in Dunkirk, the Naval Resistance Army got three or four hundred anti-aircraft guns. The number of such anti-aircraft guns has already exceeded the total number of anti-aircraft guns in China at this time. Even for the Japanese army, it was not a small number, and such a dense arrangement of anti-aircraft artillery was so extravagant that even the Americans with deep pockets could not necessarily afford it. This is already far beyond the concept of air defense of the Japanese.

The Japanese pilots were dazed by the lights, and less than 50 percent of their combat effectiveness was exerted, and in addition to the extraordinary rain of antiaircraft shells, the Japanese fighters were shot one after another, and within a short time a full 10 fighters were shot down.

The devil's doom is not over yet.

Suddenly, all the lights of the Naval Resistance Army disappeared.

The group of naval resistance planes that had already risen into the air suddenly swooped down while hiding in the clouds, and before the Japanese pilots could get used to the lights disappearing, the twelve P40 fighters were already raging and firing.

It was a one-sided battle, and in the first round of the battle, nine Japanese fighters were shot down and at least three or four Japanese fighters were wounded.

The fact that such a brilliant result was achieved had a lot to do with the twenty pilots left on the Liberty Dragon. Among them, six Japanese Zero fighters were almost all obtained by the pilots on the Liberty Dragon.

The pilots of the Naval Resistance Army, who succeeded in striking a single blow, followed the skills they had already practiced, dived and fired, flew flat, rolled sideways, and maneuvered in a serpentine manner, and then withdrew from the battlefield.

The pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army and the ground air defense of the Maritime Resistance Force cooperated extremely tacitly, and when the attack was completed, the light curtain began to flicker again over Tang Harbor.

The pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army moved too fast, and when the devil's aviation unit reacted, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army had already run far away.

The performance of the Japanese Zero fighters was superior, far surpassing the P40 fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army, and the Japanese army, which suffered a great loss, naturally refused to give up, and a full twenty Zero fighters began to pursue.

The Zero fighter can be good and fast enough. The Japanese pilots were also elite enough and skilled enough. However, the fighters of the Naval Resistance Force ran for a minute or two, and the fighters flying at high speed were more than 10 kilometers in a minute or two.

If you follow the data on paper, the P40 fighter (modified) has a high speed of 515 km, while the Japanese Zero fighter has a speed of 518 km. It doesn't seem like much of a difference, but the data of the Japanese is an indicator that can be achieved by a real flight for an hour. And the data of the Americans is only a short sprint speed. According to the tests of the pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army, if the P40 can fly 450 kilometers in an hour, it is already in the best condition.

It was also the Naval Resistance Army's fighter Stupid Bird that flew first and opened a distance of 10 kilometers from the Japanese fighters, and it took a few minutes for the devil to find the group of aircraft fleeing from the Naval Resistance Army.

In this way, the little devil's proud Zero Combat chased for more than 30 minutes, but he failed to bite a plane of the Maritime Resistance Army.

The Japanese pilots did not understand at all why the pilots of the Naval Resistance Army flew in an orderly manner when they fled, as if they were afraid that the Japanese fighters would not find their targets.

Soon, the Japanese knew the reason, and twelve P4O fighters swooped down from the clouds again.

The Japanese fighters, who had been paying attention to the front and did not pay attention to the high-altitude situation at all, suffered a big loss again, and four were shot down again in one round.

The pilots of the Naval Resistance Army did not have any fancy moves, all of them were clean and neat dive shots, horizontal detachment, sideways dodging, and serpentine maneuvers. A seemingly simple tactic, but extremely effective.

This time, the Japanese still did not have a single fighter that was able to bite the Naval Resistance Army.

The angry Japanese pilots, after a brief panic, gave chase. The commander-in-chief of the Japanese air raid led the team, Takashi Egusa, still had some brains, and he was not blinded by anger, and when he looked at the fuel gauge, he had to order the fighter plane to return home.

The endurance of the Zero fighter is outstanding, a full 2,100 kilometers. However, the Japanese aircraft carrier was 580 kilometers away from Tang Harbor (a different position from the position discovered by the British reconnaissance plane yesterday), and in addition to bombing over Tang Harbor for half an hour, and chasing at high speed for almost an hour, the remaining fuel at this moment was just enough to return home.

Although the fighters of the Maritime Resistance Army had a short range, they flew north, but they had the British army at Trincomalee Airport to land, and there were no worries at all.

In this battle, the Japanese army lost 24 fighters in the sky over Tang Port, and the naval resistance army did not lose a single one, and the results can be described as brilliant. The airfield of the Naval Resistance Army was intact, only the industrial area was hit by a few bombs, and since the personnel had long been evacuated, although there were houses on fire, there were no casualties. (To be continued......)