Chapter 231: Great Victory

Before departure, every pilot received an order personally issued by President Fang Jianxiong: If the plane is irreparable, it is necessary to parachute to survive, and talent comes first. There are still wars to fight, and we will keep them useful for the future.

This order not only did not hit the morale, but brought the morale of all the pilots to a peak.

A total of 120 Swift-5 fighters, 160 Osprey torpedo planes, and 156 Stuka dive bombers poured out of the nest on the four aircraft carriers. When all the fighters took off, the Second Fleet began to accelerate in the direction of Taizhou, and at this time 120 Mustang fighters were on their way to escort the escort, and they would arrive in half an hour at most.

The attack aircraft group of the Japanese Combined Fleet was much smaller, 102 Zeros, 88 torpedo planes, and 87 dive bombers. Horizontal bombers are no longer used by everyone, and the accuracy of this thing is too problematic, especially when it comes to blowing up moving warships at sea. The fighters on both sides took off at the same time, and each deliberately made a circle, both trying to avoid the frontal interception of the other party's carrier-based aircraft.

At 8:05 a.m., the attack aircraft group of the Second Fleet caught up with the Japanese Combined Fleet and should have crashed into 80 escort Zeros flying from the two islands of Miyako and Ishigaki. Seeing the dense group of planes in the sky, Yamamoto Fifty-six couldn't calm down at that time. Yamamoto knew that the other party had already poured out of the nest regardless of a qiē, which completely violated the combat laws of the aircraft carrier. The problem is that Yamamoto did the same, and it is conceivable that the actual commanders of both fleets are crazy gamblers. One is that it is necessary to gamble, and if you don't bet on the victory of the Japanese Navy, Nozomi will not see it at all. One is that he is unwilling to let the Second Fleet play the role of soy sauce and block his own future and the fate of the fleet. What black tiger pulls out his heart, he can't take care of it now.

She Zhenxing's courage came from the first encounter. At that time, the navies of the two countries attacked with carrier-based aircraft could be said to be indistinguishable, and the Chinese navy even took advantage of a little advantage. A feeling of the Japanese Navy was born. So I decided to open up the battle and fight it out! Interestingly, this plan was actually approved by the Navy Command, that is to say, by Marshal Fang.

Is the Japanese Navy strong? Strong! But in Fang Jianxiong's view, a duel at sea made the strength of the Japanese Navy a thing of the past, and whether it was Yamato or Mutsu, there was no use at all. In the face of advanced radar, battleships basically did not have the opportunity to show their firepower in naval battles. If it is compared to a battleship, Fang Jianxiong is unconfident. But compared with aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, President Fang Da's confidence has already been played.

At 8:10 a.m., the Japanese Navy's attack aircraft group discovered the main force of our Second Fleet, and the Mustang fighter group, which had already arrived one step ahead, immediately pounced on it to intercept it. A sea and air battle is the prelude.

In the face of the Chinese fleet that poured out of the nest. Yamamoto knew something was wrong. At this scale, it is difficult to be good today. One can only hope that the attacking attack aircraft group will make some gains. The 80 escorted Zeros, let alone blocking, in the face of the superior number of Swift-5s, can only go out and attack dive bombers regardless of it. The last time the Japanese Zero fought it, it was too risky to fight the torpedo machine, because the torpedo machine put out a dense box formation, and when it defended itself with its own four 12.7 machine guns, the Zero skin was too thin. It's not resistant to beating at all. And it is difficult to break up the torpedo machine fleet.

There was an inexplicable scene in the sky, and Zero had no regard for his own safety. Chasing dive bombers, Swifts were chasing Zero, and some planes were constantly shot, some pulled black smoke and whined down, and some were disintegrated directly in the air.

The Zero's fragile body was in front of the Mustang's six 12.7 heavy machine guns, and nine out of ten hits exploded and disintegrated in the air. And after being hit, the black smoke fell down, mostly the Stuka dive bomber, this Sino-German cooperation bomber, when facing the Zero, the spirit of resistance is more than enough and its own ability is slightly worse.

The torpedo group was completely left unattended, and they were allowed to fly over the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the only thing they could count on was the anti-aircraft fire of the Combined Fleet. This kind of desperate dismissal, to be honest, is too unscientific, that is, the East China Sea is a little smaller, and whoever dares to play like this in the Pacific Ocean will definitely die ugly.

At 8:22, eight torpedo planes that had successfully broken through the anti-aircraft fire network set their sights on the Wyvern, dropping eight torpedoes one after another. The Wyvern tried her best to avoid it, but she dodged six torpedoes for him, and the remaining two were blocked by a destroyer, which was really lucky. Luck is a thing that has a number of times, and when one less time appears, when Stuka who gets rid of Zero appears in the sky, the good luck of the Wyvern ends. At 8:33, three bombs hit the Wyvern, causing it to slow down. Seeing this, the group of attack planes immediately concentrated a force to attack the Wyvern. At 8:40 a.m., the Wyvern, whose luck had come to an end, was hit by two torpedoes, and after a loud explosion, the Wyvern began to stop and spin at sea, and began to slowly sink at an audible speed. Yamamoto Fifty-six gave the order to abandon the ship, and after Yamaguchi heard the order, he asked the others to leave, sat in the command cabin himself, and said to the adjutant: According to the tradition of the navy, as the captain of the ship, his duty is to not dare to leave.

Yamamoto will more or less become the first general of the Japanese Navy to be martyred since the outbreak of World War II.

After sinking the Wyvern, the attack cleared the Zero attack aircraft group, and began to attack the other aircraft carrier Kaga regardless of one qiē, although at this time the Second Fleet torpedo attack aircraft group had lost more than half, but there were still more than 30 torpedo planes did not find the opportunity to drop bombs, and at this time the dive bomber group also entered the battle group, the two types of aircraft combined nearly a hundred, staring at the Kaga is a fierce beating. The escorting Swift fighters were not lonely, and half of them were divided into dive machine gun fire to reduce the pressure on the torpedo planes and dive bombers as much as possible.

At 9:10, the Kaga was hit by a torpedo, its speed decreased, and dive bombers swarmed and dropped more than 40 bombs one after another, including eight direct hits. Then the two torpedo planes found an opportunity to drop bombs, and the two torpedoes hit, and the Kaga could not avoid the fate of being sunk.

When the attack aircraft group of the Chinese Navy frantically attacked the Japanese Combined Fleet, the attack aircraft group of the Japanese Combined Fleet also frantically attacked the main force of the Second Fleet of the Chinese Navy. Proximity fuse shells are a nightmare for enemy aircraft, though. But not a panacea.

The Japanese pilots, with plasters tied to their heads, came to fight hard. Seeing the fleet, he began to attack at 8:30 a.m. The Guangdong aircraft carrier was hit by a 500-kilogram bomb on the foredeck, causing a large hole, and after emergency treatment, it slowly and slowly left outside the battle group, but luck seemed to take care of the Japanese navy, and a torpedo plane broke through the anti-aircraft fire network and fired a torpedo at the Guangdong aircraft carrier. The dog's day actually hit, and it rang. Forget it, this torpedo actually led two boilers to explode. Not counting the more than 20 casualties, the entire Guangzhou is basically crawling in a barely stable state.

Of course, the Japanese attack aircraft group would not let go of this opportunity, and regardless of the pursuit of all kinds of pursuits, it would launch an attack on the aircraft carrier Guangzhou. Until the end of the battle. In total, the Canton was hit by three 500-kilogram bombs and two torpedoes. In the end, it could not be saved, and She Zhenxing ordered to abandon the cheap and escape.

Compared with the fierceness of the Chinese escort fighters, the Japanese attack aircraft group is more miserable, and the Mustang fighters against the Zero type, whether it is performance or tactics, the full explosion of the zero type. The entire Japanese Navy's attack aircraft group, after more than an hour and a half of fierce fighting, returned with only 26 Zeros. The rest of the planes were shot down.

When the battle on the side of the Chinese Second Fleet ended, the battle on the side of the Japanese Combined Fleet continued. The Nagato was called the target of attack, and more than 30 torpedo planes and dive bombers surrounded the Nagato. It's a pity that today's god of luck is really standing beside Yamamoto Isoroku, and after half an hour of fighting, although the Nagato was hit by a bullet, the hull is still basically fine. On the contrary, a heavy cruiser was sunk in order to hold off the torpedoes of the flagship.

The naval and air battle lasted for two hours and ten minutes, and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy lost two aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, and three destroyers. A total of 182 Zeros took part in the battle, 100 were lost, all 88 torpedo planes were shot down, and all 87 dive bombers were shot down.

The Second Fleet of the Chinese Navy lost one aircraft carrier, one light cruiser and two destroyers to block torpedoes, 15 Swifts, 20 Mustangs, 64 torpedo planes, and 55 dive bombers. The pilots parachuted according to the order, and as many as 135 people were rescued. And the vast majority of Japanese pilots did not have the opportunity to parachute.

In a desperate battle between the two sides, in the final comparison of results, China had a slight advantage. However, in terms of casualties, Japan obviously has to lose more, especially those excellent pilots, and the training mechanism of the Japanese Navy is obviously not as good as China's investment.

After Fang Jianxiong, who was in Shanghai, got the news, he let out a long breath, and there was basically no suspense in the contest between the Chinese and Japanese navies. Because the Third Fleet of the Chinese Navy at that time, after three days of continuous sailing, had approached Naha less than 600 nautical miles, and it would be able to reach Naha in the early hours of tomorrow morning, Duanyamamoto Fifty-six's lair.

At five o'clock in the morning on April 6, in the tranquility of the Naha Military Port, the observation post soldier Ishihara Saburo, who was on duty at the observation post, was absent-mindedly napping in front of the telescope as usual. The sea breeze was a little strong, and Ishihara, who was holding back too hard, couldn't pay attention to it, and his pants were wet by the wind and peeing, but he didn't care about this at all, the reason was very simple, a thick smoke suddenly appeared on the vast sea.

On this scale, it is simply not possible to build one or two warships, and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy yesterday was still playing with China in the East China Sea, and it was said on the radio that sinking three Chinese aircraft carriers and sinking two aircraft carriers by itself would be greater than the tonnage of China's losses. The Japanese are accustomed to deceiving themselves and others, and deceiving themselves has always been a good hand.

Therefore, the navy has won a great victory, the whole country is celebrating, Tokyo Osaka Nagoya is not among them, everyone is almost gone, there is no napalm threat of artillery, who still has the heart to celebrate, only some people in small and medium-sized cities have not been visited by bombs, and they don't know what hellish fire on earth is.

The fleet that appeared in Naha at this time could definitely not be the fleet of the Japanese Navy, not to mention that the sound of buzzing fighter jets had already appeared overhead. Ishihara Saburo was stunned for three to five minutes before he remembered to return to the small lookout post and sounded the alarm with all his strength.

The creator of the thick smoke billowing on the sea is naturally the Chinese Navy's task force, which is already in attack formation in the morning. The first wave of carrier-based aircraft has already been released, targeting several airfields around Naha.

On the flagship Shanghai aircraft carrier, Chen Ce's face was full of murderous energy, and he said to the staff officers beside him: "Send a telegram to the headquarters, our task force has all arrived at the predetermined position, and the carrier-based aircraft have already flown over Naha, and victory will definitely belong to China!" ”

The gun jacket was pulled open, revealing two or three hundred black barrels, and just waiting for the carrier-based aircraft to take out the Japanese planes on the airfield, the naval guns could begin to play to their heart's content. The rumbling explosions quickly created clouds of smoke and dust into the air, and the three aircraft carriers released 36 Swifts, 50 horizontal bombers, and 72 dive bombers. Considering that there were not many big fish in Naha Port, the torpedo machine did not even bring it out, and most of it was swifts.

The sneak attack of the planes went very smoothly, and more than 100 Type 97 and more than 60 Type Zeros parked at the airport were killed before they could take off, and the dive bombers also focused on taking care of the shells on Naha Island, and after more than an hour of rage, dozens of thick puffs of smoke rose from the entire island.

The carrier-based aircraft returned to the port of Naha, and the fleet was already approaching the port of Naha, and the three main battleships, 18 305 guns and 9 380 guns, took the lead in starting to tilt ammunition towards the port of Naha.

Battleships that cherish warships don't even want to play salvos, they are all three-door rounds. The rest of the warships also began to fire, and more than 100 cannons of more than 200 calibers turned the Naha military port into a sea of fire in just ten minutes. The Black Tiger's heart-digging plan was reached, and at this time, Chen Ce didn't know the outcome of the East China Sea War, he only knew that he was having a good time.

The shelling lasted for two hours, and the Naha military port was in ruins, and that's not all, as soon as the shelling stopped, the fleet and the aircraft carriers sent a second attack wave, and then went to wander around, and dropped bombs when they found valuable targets. This second wave of attack sank two light cruisers and two destroyers in the Naha Naval Harbor. Only then did he leave satisfied, and went to catch up with the main force of the fleet.

When retreating, Chen Ce received a telegram from the headquarters, saying: Our army has won a great victory in the East China Sea War, and your unit can return normally.

This news calmed Chen Ce, and at that time he wanted to simply block the Combined Fleet, thinking about it carefully, the risk was too great, how could the Combined Fleet also have a few large battleships, in case it was not controlled, and someone was asked to hit the cannonballs, it would be troublesome. The U-turn task force turned eastwards and fled in the direction of the Pacific Ocean. (To be continued......)