Chapter 229: Fate! Rat!

She Zhen on the flagship "Hunan" broke out in a cold sweat, don't look at the violent explosion of the bomb at a hundred meters seems to have a certain distance, in fact, it is not the case at all. The dive bomber dropped a bomb of 500 kilograms, and the explosion at such a close distance shows that there was a slight deviation in the moment when the bomb was dropped, which is good luck, and the bomb almost had to fall on the aircraft carrier, 500 kilograms. Just an explosion from a hundred meters away would be enough to inflict considerable damage on the battleship, and if it really landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier, it would be a big hole, and the dive bombers and torpedo planes on the deck that were waiting to attack would have to be doomed.

Even if there were swift fighters in the sky to block the attack, it would not be able to stop the Japanese fighters from dropping bombs regardless of a single qiē, and only then did it show the power of proximity fuse bombs, normal bombs need 2,000 bombs to concentrate an aircraft, and only 56 proximity fuse bombs can kill an aircraft. The Second Fleet is not the unlucky bastard of the US Pacific Fleet, which was equipped with proximity fuse bombs more than a year earlier than in history, and also gave the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aircraft a bitter taste. At the beginning of the design of Chinese warships, the emphasis on anti-aircraft firepower can be regarded as shining in actual combat, and there is no need to wait until they suffer losses to carry out modernization and modification.

Whether it's the Second Fleet or the Japanese Combined Fleet, it doesn't seem to be very good luck today. The first attack wave that flew over the Japanese Combined Fleet pounced on the Zero fighter group before it could get close to it, and it was also the first to hit torpedo planes and dive bombers. The Chinese Osprey torpedo machine is not the kind of Japanese goods that cannot be beaten, with rough skin and rough flesh and four machine guns as self-defense weapons.

The escorted Swifts could only entangle some of the Zeros, but there were still more than 30 Zeros that got rid of the entanglement of the Swifts and habitually pounced on the clumsy looking torpedo machines first. As a result, it was hit by a head-on rain of bullets, and one Zero, which rushed too hard, was taken care of by the sixteen 12 and 7 heavy machine guns of four torpedo machines. Unfortunately, he was hit and caught fire.

The torpedo group struggled to maintain a complete formation at high altitude, which was the experience of many years, and the best way to deal with the Zero fighters was to gather together. When I spread out, I was chased by Zero-type just like that. The torpedo group defended itself with its own machine guns, and the dive bombers were subjected to relatively little pressure. After the cross-zero blockade, 2 of the 48 dive bombers were lost, and the rest managed to come to a suitable range.

Waiting for the dive bomber group was dense anti-aircraft fire, and a group of fighters who had received nationalism and nationalism education since childhood, without the slightest hesitation, began to dive one after another, and the bombers gave a sharp roar. Battleships at sea intercepted with the most frantic firepower.

One, two, three,......。 A dozen dive bombers were hit in succession and turned into fragments before they could even make any movement in the air, but many more dive bombers dropped their bombs.

Yamamoto stood calmly in the command position, holding his katana with both hands, but he was actually highly nervous. A bomb fell fifty meters near the flagship Nagato. The huge momentum made Yamamoto's body shake a few times.

"Zuihe reported that a bomb fell thirty meters away, and the hull of the ship was hit by a severe impact."

"The Wyvern reported that three bombs exploded one after another at about 60 meters......

"The Yamato report ......."

All kinds of news kept coming, and Yamamoto Fifty-six never changed his face. In fact, there were huge waves in my heart, and the courage of the carrier-based aircraft pilots of the Chinese Navy was not in the slightest below that of the Japanese pilots, and it was really lucky that so many bombs were missed.

"The Mutsu reported that a bullet was hit on the foredeck, causing a fire, with more than 20 casualties and is being repaired."

Yamamoto's heart suddenly tugged, and finally there was a battleship that was hit by a bomber, and it was also one of the hearts and minds of the Japanese Navy, the Mutsu. If the bomb falls on the gun position, then you have to cry.

"Torpedo machine!" A sharp shout sounded, Yamamoto Fifty-six trembled in his heart again, the Chinese torpedo machine broke through the zero blockade and began to reduce the altitude, compared to the dive bomber, the torpedo machine is the most deadly thing.

The anti-aircraft fire on the ships reached the craziest level, and the whole navy knew what it meant to be torpedoed. The bloodstains of the Bay of Bengal tragedy have not yet dried, and who dares to forget the pain of the sinking of the two aircraft carriers? With only a hundred torpedo planes, the Chinese inflicted heavy losses on the task force and basically lost its combat effectiveness. You can see the power of their torpedo machines and torpedoes.

The dense anti-aircraft fire is undoubtedly much greater than the blocking threat of the Zero fighter, and the biggest threat to torpedo planes in sea and air combat is anti-aircraft artillery fire; in World War II in parallel time and space, there were tragic tragedies in which dozens of American torpedo planes were not spared, and all of them were shot down by anti-aircraft fire. In the Battle of Midway, 50 American torpedo planes were shot down by the Japanese Navy's air defense in the course of the Battle of Midway, because of their slow and clumsy speed.

The speed of the Osprey is obviously much faster, and the protection capability is also much stronger, but the firepower of the Japanese Combined Fleet is too intensive, and the Japanese Combined Fleet, which also used aircraft to cripple the US Imperial Pacific Fleet in naval battles, certainly knows the importance of anti-aircraft firepower, so after the Battle of Midway, each ship strengthened its anti-aircraft firepower in different ways.

Despite the fact that the Osprey was constantly hit and exploded into the sea with a roar, twenty-three torpedo planes broke through the anti-aircraft fire net, reached a suitable position for dropping bombs, and dropped twenty-three torpedoes. The primary target of the attack was not the Nagato period, but the four aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy. The officers and men of the Japanese Combined Fleet, who are well aware of the importance of aircraft carriers, have shown at this time a spirit of going forward and blocking the eye-catching. The Wyvern was attacked by six torpedoes and dodged four, two of which were blocked by a destroyer and a light cruiser respectively, and after blocking the torpedo with its body, a violent explosion occurred. The Second Fleet's torpedo detachment, which was not very unlucky, had the heaviest result at the last moment of the torpedo attack, when Captain Shen Chonghai's crew, after the torpedo plane was hit, drove the smoking plane without hesitation and rushed towards the Nagato, the flagship of the Japanese Navy.

The Nagato tried its best to avoid it, but in the end it did not escape the disaster, but fortunately it was hit by the torpedo machine at the rear of the hull, and after a loud bang, it overturned three 127 anti-aircraft turrets. The whole battleship shuddered violently. Smoke billowed up. Yamamoto's luck was really good, except for more than 30 people who were killed and wounded, and four 127 anti-aircraft guns were destroyed. A reconnaissance plane was destroyed, and a steam turbine was damaged and stopped working. Some of the buildings were destroyed, but the hull of the Nagato was basically intact. It can be seen how durable the battleship is! The most worrying of the explosions caused by the fires did not occur because of the proper handling of the explosions.

The first round of fierce fighting of more than two hours was temporarily over, and the sunk of the Japanese Combined Fleet was no more than a light cruiser and a destroyer, and the rest were fine. Well, when the Nagato was hit by a torpedo machine. The explosion overturned Yamamoto's calm body in the command room, and at the same time, more than a dozen officers were injured in the head or other places, and Yamamoto himself was hit on the head and bleeding a lot. After the emergency bandaging, he put on the military hat he had retrieved and continued to stand indifferently in the command position.

At this time, the first wave of the Japanese Navy that had attacked returned home, and when they saw the first Zero. Yamamoto's heart tightened suddenly, and one plane after another flew back in the sky, and after counting for a long time, only 14 Zeros returned along the way, and the rest of the fighters were gone.

A tired Fuchida Daisa, the ace pilot of the Battle of Midway, will be helped off the plane. Soon I met the captain of the Wyvern, and Yamaguchi smelled a lot. Fuchida, who looked frustrated, shook his head, and the tearful appearance made Yamaguchi Wenduo feel a headache. There is no doubt that the first attack wave has nothing to boast about.

The news was transmitted to the Nagato, and Yamamoto Fifty-six, who had a calm face, was silent for a long time, and his forehead hit the black island turtle man on the railing, with a bulging bag on his head, came to Yamamoto Fifty-six and said, "Your Excellency, is it to activate the second attack wave?" "Do you want to gamble? That's a problem. There is no doubt that the Chinese are making the same choice at this time.

After listening to Shen Chonghai's affairs, She Zhenxing silently took off his military hat, and put on his military hat for a long time before saying: "Order the fleet to speed up and get rid of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, our task is to drag down the Japanese Combined Fleet." The loss of 22 dive bombers, 28 torpedo planes, and 6 Swifts did not inflict a heavy blow on the Japanese Navy, which made She Zhenxing more and more cautious. This order was questioned by many historians after the war, believing that as long as She Zhenxing mustered up the courage to send a second attack wave, he would inevitably be able to inflict heavy damage on the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, but history cannot be assumed.

Yamamoto, as good as he gambled, didn't make up his mind to take a gamble in the end. Because he knew very well that more than two hours was enough for Mustang fighters to rush from the airfield on the ground to the skies over the Second Fleet, and he didn't dare to say that Yamamoto would jump into the sea by himself without a hundred Mustang fighters.

In fact, Yamamoto's judgment was quite accurate, and in less than half an hour, that is, 28 minutes later, the three Mustang fighter groups that had taken off from the Taizhou aura rushed to the skies above the Second Fleet, and found that there was no work to do, so they took on the task of escorting the ship. The Mustang fighter has a strong endurance, and there is no problem at all until it gets dark. Ten minutes later, another wave of 120 Mustang fighters arrived, and because none of them brought bombs, the two Mustang had no intention of going to trouble the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.

Yamamoto had also ordered the fleet to turn around, distance itself from the Second Fleet, and continue his Taiwan strategy. It was already dusk when he found that the Japanese fleet had actually turned around, and She Zhenxing immediately ordered the fleet to turn around and began to chase the combined fleet in turn. The distance between the two sides has always been about 120 nautical miles, and it is so inseparable.

Yamamoto, of course, knew that the Second Fleet was following behind, and the Chinese reconnaissance planes were fast and had already come over for several circles. And there is more than one, which can only show that the Chinese Second Fleet is not reconciled and has to fight with the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The fire on the Nagato had long since been extinguished, the work of cleaning up the wreckage was almost complete, and the sea was churning with blood-colored waves in the setting sun, and Yamamoto stood in front of the three charred and mutilated bodies, took off his military hat, and stood solemnly in salute. The Japanese army wrapped the three bodies in white cloth and held a funeral for "warriors" together with the Japanese soldiers who died in battle.

In the first wave of battles, the losses of the Japanese Navy were greater than those of the Chinese Navy, especially the losses of excellent pilots, which were far greater than those of the Chinese Navy, and this incident undoubtedly laid the groundwork for future naval battles. The Chinese Air Force started earlier, and the start of the Navy was also before Japan, and the training and replenishment of personnel were all above the Japanese Navy, which the Japanese Navy did not have much awareness. On the contrary, Fang Jianxiong, who was in Shanghai, breathed a sigh of relief after learning the results of the battle, and said to himself: "I made a small profit!" ”

Shen Chonghai's collision incident was immediately published in the Republic of China Times, although there were no pictures of the scene, but the photos of a total of six crew members were published in the newspaper, one by one young faces, and the following attached text had this paragraph: "Our plane was hit by a bullet and caught fire, and all the crew members decided to crash into the Japanese chieftain in order to achieve the ambition of benevolence." This was the last passage that the crew member left in the world, and after Shen Chonghai said this, he turned off the radio and rushed to the Nagato. Only the commander was left on the radio, crying hoarsely: "Captain Shen Chonghai's crew!" I order you to skydive, I order you to skydive! ……”

Three days later, Beijing held a state funeral for the six warriors, and Premier Gu Weijun personally presided over the funeral. President Fang Jianxiong personally wrote a eulogy: sacrifice his life to serve the country, and the warriors will become benevolent. The spirit runs through Changhong, and the heroic soul is immortal.

**On the monument to the people's heroes erected in front of the square, there is an additional black marble inscription, which is engraved with the names of six warriors, and the reporter who watched the ceremony wrote in the "Republic of China Times": This inscription will continue to have names engraved in the future, the reason why the Chinese nation can last for 5,000 years is precisely because every time the nation is in danger, the national heroes emerge in endlessly, forgetting to die! Protecting the soul of the nation continues to this day, taking righteousness and becoming benevolent, and passing on the torch from generation to generation!

Half a month later, the Beijing Grand Theatre staged a drama about the feat of six warriors sacrificing their lives to crash into an enemy ship!

Returning to the sea, the navies of China and Japan have no intention of giving up, but are continuing to look for opportunities to take out their opponents. Yamamoto's refusal to give up is because there is no better choice, and She Zhenxing's refusal to give up is because the Black Tiger Heart-digging Plan has just begun.

The two sides are destined to split one on the sea! This is the fate of the Chinese and Japanese navies! In Asia, there can only be one hegemon, and neither country intends to give up the position of this hegemon, so they can only fight to the death.