449 Decisive Battle 18
The reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Force have been in constant contact with the battleship Nagato since the morning, constantly reporting the position, course, and speed of the "Nagato." The Nagato did everything in its power and even sent the only surviving water reconnaissance plane in a vain attempt to drive away the reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Army.
It should be said that the flight performance of the Japanese water reconnaissance planes surpassed that of the reconnaissance planes of the Maritime Resistance Army. However, the little devil's strength to eat milk was used, but he could not hurt a single hair of the reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Army.
Originally, because of the deployment of the Maritime Resistance Force during wartime, the Maritime Resistance Force had no choice but to arrange an air alert reconnaissance plane. But this last resort came into play.
Airborne radar is better than human eyesight.
The devil fighter was still out of sight, and it was discovered early by a reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Army, and the bright spots jumping on the radar accurately indicated the direction of the enemy plane.
The pilot easily made a detour, and when the fighter plane passed through the clouds, the devil lost his target. When the devil's eyes turned red, it was not easy to find the reconnaissance plane of the Maritime Resistance Army again, and when they tried to chase after them again, they could only catch up with another cloud of air.
The various methods of hide and seek are compulsory subjects for reconnaissance plane pilots, and the incomparably skillful dodge strategy has played a huge role today. Therefore, for several hours, the anti-aircraft reconnaissance plane of the Naval Resistance Army has been haunting and flying around the battleship Nagato.
Under the accurate navigation of the reconnaissance plane, at nine o'clock, the second wave of air strike forces of the Naval Resistance Army did not waste a single moment and found the battleship Nagato, which was running wildly for its life.
The Americans finally arrived (the Japanese army had always thought of it as the American fleet). A large group of bright spots appeared on the radar phosphor screen of the "Nagato". (The performance of the Japanese radar is very suspicious, and it can't even lock the single machine.) )
The devil's radar soldier raised the voice of the male duck and reported to the bridge the direction and distance of the "US plane."
The captain of the Nagato, Mikio Hayakawa, had a gloomy face, and he was simply angry at the performance of his own radar, which most Japanese generals did not pay attention to. He gave the order to prepare for battle with a megaphone, and all went into battle positions.
He already had a hunch. I can't escape the catastrophe, and today I am afraid that I will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.
"Two Wildcats, port side - 25 °, height - 8 °, distance - 4000 meters!" A lookout post shouted. Now, the fighter is in visual range.
"5-10 enemy planes!" The devil was hoarse and continued to shout.
A group of "US planes" emerged from the clouds and circled in a clockwise direction over the battleship.
"Enemy planes are rushing towards our ship, more than 50 of them!" The panic of the Japanese observation post was clearly expressed in the trembling voices.
"Fire!" Hayakawa's endurance has reached the extreme, and it is no longer possible to endure this pressure. The order was given quickly.
On the "Nagato", 24 127-mm anti-aircraft guns and 156 25-mm guns roared in unison. In an instant, a huge cone-shaped network of fire radiated over the battleship, and the main and secondary guns fired in unison, firing into the air with all the anti-aircraft guns. There are even devils leaking naked on the deck. Took a machine gun and fired non-stop bursts into the air.
In the sky, traces of various shells suddenly appeared. Purple, yellow, tan and red. A little farther in the sky, dark clouds of shell explosions.
At the same time as the Japanese guns spit fire. The aircraft fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army has been deployed. The pilots even had time to admire the Japanese anti-aircraft fire. Mikio Hayakawa opened fire early, giving the naval resistance army a chance, and after three or two minutes of artillery fire, some problems could still be seen in the eyes of the commander.
The officer leading the Navy is Shao Fuxuan, the captain of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier, and if it is according to the practice of the US military or the British army, this kind of officer will not be used. They are also not allowed to go to war. Planning tactics, training pilots, and coordinating battles are his main tasks.
However, although the quality of the pilots of the Naval Resistance Force has been greatly improved, few flight commanders can take the role. There are not even enough candidates for battlefield commanders. An ace pilot may be skilled, but he is not necessarily suitable for leadership positions, and the naval resistance army, which lacks talents, can train a group of excellent pilots, but the commander still needs time to train. Therefore, Shao Fuxuan still led the team to participate in the battle.
Shao Fuxuan's tactics are quite exquisite. Looking at the dense artillery fire of the devils, he put the first focus on dealing with battleships on weakening the opponent's air defense. The battleship was so heavy that if the direct bombers pounced, the losses could increase.
In the first wave of strikes, more than two dozen Wildcat fighters took the lead in firing.
Under the leadership of Shao Fuxuan, the young men changed the procedure of the dive bomber striking first and the horizontal bomber following closely, and ravaged the "Nagato" from all angles and heights.
Fighter attacks are extraordinary. They took up various advantageous positions, attacking like Assassins around the Nagato.
The observation crew of the "Nagato" quickly judged the distance and angle, and reported to Hayakawa Mikio one after another. However, the direction of the attack of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army was too chaotic and complicated, and Hayakawa Mikio was soon a little overwhelmed. There were quite a few anti-aircraft guns in the Japanese army, but it seemed that doubling it would not be enough.
Hayakawa Mikio can only see this step, you must know that the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army seem to attack chaotically, but in fact, they have a key target.
Mikio Hayakawa stood in front of the bridge, with an iron face, and kept giving orders. He tried his best to keep the Nagato out of the bombs.
The dignified battleship was bullied by a small fighter, and Hayakawa Mikio was depressed and wanted to vomit blood. However, it is no longer news that a battleship was sunk by warplanes, and no general would consider a battleship immune to air strikes.
What frightened Hayakawa even more was that he had clearly seen the clear blue sky and white sun on the incoming fighter plane.
Naval Resistance Army.
This is a navy that has not been regarded as a major opponent by the Japanese Naval Resistance Force, and it is also very weak compared to the Japanese army. But after several years of war, the Naval Resistance Army became more and more a nightmare existence among Japanese naval generals.
The Japanese Navy simply did not understand why such a small navy could survive and be undefeated in several battles with the Japanese Navy, like a sharp knife, which could cut off a piece of flesh from the body of the Japanese Navy in every battle.
In fact, if the Japanese army knew all the results of the naval resistance army, it would be even more depressed. You must know that the submarine fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army belongs to the kind of people who do good deeds without leaving a name, and the Japanese devils always count the accounts of the bombing and sinking of merchant ships on the heads of the US military. As a matter of fact, from the beginning of the 42nd year, the submarine forces were not allowed to sneak attack Japanese warships until they had to, and they did not participate in battles very much.
In the economics of war, the little devil does not have this concept at all, but Li Guangke has come to the conclusion after many calculations and deductions -- it is more cost-effective for a submarine to sneak attack a merchant ship than to participate in a battle. In the whole four or three years, the US military has lost eight submarines, while the Maritime Resistance Army has not lost a single submarine so far. The main reason for this is that the submarine forces of the Maritime Resistance Army do not fight against Japanese warships at all. The Maritime Resistance Army only has a dozen submarines, but they are professional in their "work", have no distractions, and concentrate on attacking Japanese merchant ships. In fact, the results in the past four or three years are not much worse than the results of the nearly 100 submarines of the US military, and this is the most important reason for this.
Far from it. Let's start with Hayakawa Mikio Osa.
At this time, he saw the intention of the Naval Resistance Force, and the bombs carried by these fighters were not enough to destroy the sturdy hull of the Nagato, and they were not even tickling. However, most of the anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese air defense force were bare and leaky gun positions, and the gunners' flesh could not withstand the ravages of fighter machine guns and small bomblets.
Dead people are nothing in the eyes of Mikio Hayakawa. But another target of the naval resistance fighters made Hayakawa Mikio panic.
The focus of the fighter strike was the Nagato's tall bridge and stern. The bridge of the Nagato was well protected and heavily armored, and perhaps this small bomb could not kill a few officers, but in just a few minutes of attack, the rangefinder, communication antenna, and observation post on the top of the bridge were almost all destroyed.
In order to deal with the elusive fighters, Mikio Hayakawa sacrificed a big weapon - the battleship's main guns and opened fire.
The devil has an anti-aircraft weapon - incendiary bombs. This thing is actually a cannonball with thousands of small incendiary particles in it. The cannonball fires out, explodes at a certain time, and countless incendiary particles can immediately cover a large area of the sky.
It's a powerful thing, a shell explodes, and it can kill and injure a range of half a kilometer.
After the battleship Nagato's main guns were fired into the air, the massive battleship became a monster that breathed fire on all sides, hitting dark clouds and igniting fire everywhere in the air.
It cannot be said that the incendiary bombs are less powerful, but there is almost only one way of fighting the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, dive bomb throwing and dive strafing. The battleship's main guns were powerful enough, but it was impossible to elevate at an angle of sixty or seventy degrees, or more, and for fighters, there was almost no threat at all.
However, the sound of the main cannon is very amazing, which is terrifying, but it can also make the warriors' blood boil. Shao Fu Xuanyan: The ceremonial flowers are very gorgeous.
When the bomb attack of the Wildcat fighter was over, Hayakawa realized that the battleship Nagato had become a solitary presence on the sea. In fact, he was originally alone, but after losing the means of external communication, a sense of loneliness arose.
Mikio Hayakawa is a bit of a literary talent, and occasionally writes crooked poems, and is very popular among Japanese geisha. But at this moment, he could not write a single poem.
The "Nagato" maneuvered at a high angle at a high speed of 22 knots. The hull of the ship vibrated violently like a broken car towed by an old ox. The Nagato had previously been hit by a U.S. torpedo, although the devils had repaired the leak. However, the damage caused by the U.S. torpedoes was not only superficial, the power system of the Nagato was not lightly damaged, many pipes and valves were shaken loose, and when the power was fully opened, steam leaked everywhere in the engine room, and it was impossible to reach its maximum speed of 26 knots.
Seeing that one secondary artillery, one anti-aircraft artillery, and one machine gun were blown into scrap iron by the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, Hayakawa Mikio could not think of an effective means to fight. can only rely on the rough skin and thick flesh of the battleship to carry it to death.
The Japanese army was carrying to the death, and the naval resistance army was not comfortable, and hundreds of Japanese anti-aircraft artillery formed a tight firepower network, like madness. The fighters of the Naval Resistance Army were smashed to pieces from time to time, but the attack never stopped for a moment.
Without iron and blood, there can be no glory. The blood of the warriors is the cornerstone of my Don's rise. (To be continued......)