Chapter 217: Air Attack on the Task Force

"Nonsense, there is no shadow at all, China has always been a country of etiquette, unlike a certain country who likes to go to war without declaring it, the Chinese government has absolutely not sent troops to India." Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui was stern in his words, and the Japanese minister could only walk away in a gloomy manner. This should be placed in the former Beiyang period, the Japanese minister Matsuoka has long been furious, and there is no word to refute, it must be a slap on the table and shouting to start a war, to drive a warship, are you afraid? In this time and space, this trick doesn't dare to use to kill Songgang.

Japan's intelligence department quickly moved, and the intelligence department established specifically against China was also called the Mei Agency. However, the head was replaced by Shizhong Bufen, and Kagezo Zhenzhao was Shizhong's assistant. This organization was also established by Shi Zhong without any force, and he served as the first person in charge, the director of the Mei organ.

At this time, the most unfortunate thing was the task force adrift in the Indian Ocean, which did not dare to advance, could not retreat, and wasted time waiting. The Japanese Navy is up and down, saying that it is not afraid of the Chinese Navy, that is false, especially at this time, what is most afraid is that China will suddenly turn its face, and the elite troops scattered outside will not be able to collect it.

A group of people were in a daze in Konoe Fumi's office, noisy and dry-mouthed, and a lot of energy was consumed, so they would take a break and wait for news. It was enough to wait until it was dark, and Shi Zhong, the director of the Mei Agency, pushed open the door, and everyone's eyes looked at it together.

Kikuko's feedback that China has no intention of fighting against Japan, and their main force is attacking the Tashkent fortress in Central Asia. Their great president has been studying the situation in Central Asia all day long, and there is absolutely no possibility of sending troops to India. "If you don't distinguish between the stones, it's like a judge pronouncing a sentence. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that India's affairs have little to do with China, and it should be the new fighter planes that Britain bought from China. This was undoubtedly directed at the Indian raiders of the empire, and the Chinese wanted to borrow the hands of the British. Let the warriors of the empire bleed more. Fumiro Konoe seems to have the foresight to characterize this matter, but in fact he wishes that this matter would pass quickly, otherwise the Ministry of the Navy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be able to quarrel for a few days without stopping.

At this time, there was constant feedback from various places, and fishing boats and submarines scattered in various places to spy on China reported one after another, and the Chinese naval fleet was still quietly staying in the harbor, and some destroyers patrolling outside. Well, Chinese and keen on destroyers. Nearly 100 ships have been built, and they claim that their naval strategy is coastal defense. The question is, what are you doing with so many aircraft carriers? So the so-called offshore defense strategy. The Japanese didn't see it in front of them.

In any case, as long as it is not the Chinese Navy to fight, it is not too much of a problem, isn't it that the Chinese sold the fighters to the British? Isn't it 12 or more? Where do they know? President Fang Da directly threw a wing of fighter jets to India. A whole ten brigades of 120 aircraft. The second son of President Fangda's family went into battle in person, and concurrently served as the captain of the first brigade as the captain of the wing, and Gao Xiaoqiang was actually the vice captain.

When the final information reached Nagumo, he also breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the fleet to move on. Anyway, attacking India does not expect to hide from the British, sooner or later it will always have to be fought.

The British camp in Calcutta was filled with singing and laughter, and the Chinese Air Force won the first battle, shooting down eight Japanese planes. And the situation of the Japanese task force was ascertained. Alexander personally attended the dinner and thanked the Chinese for their friendship. Because of this thing. Alexander has already called the country to purchase the latest Chinese fighter jets to replenish the Indian side.

Churchill is now a poor jingle, how can he afford to buy something so expensive as a new fighter. However, he had his own way, he sent a telegram to Roosevelt, saying that the Chinese' new fighter was far more powerful than the Japanese Zero, and asked the United States to also produce this Mustang fighter and provide assistance to Britain. What is called aid, that is to give for free. Churchill had no intention of reviving the Victorian glory of the British Empire now, and was content to preserve most of Britain's interests overseas.

It is not to blame Churchill for not having ambitions, there is really nothing he can do. India is a bit too late, Africa's problems are even more troublesome, and Rommel doesn't know when the next attack will be launched. At present, in Egypt, the main force is actually two armored divisions and ten infantry divisions of the American army, and the British army is less than 30,000 combined, and the battle in Greece caused Churchill to lose another armored brigade. Churchill, who doesn't have much money in total, can only rely on people now, and he is not as good as the Chinese side.

Roosevelt still attached great importance to Churchill's telegram, saying that the US Navy had suffered a terrible defeat at Midway, and according to the Navy, the main reason for the defeat was that the fighters were much inferior in performance to their opponents. The Japanese Zero can easily climb to 10,000 meters and then turn around and dive to take out the US Navy's F4F carrier-based aircraft.

It is really strange that the Chinese, who obviously have a good enough fighter, would ask the United States to assist the P39, an obsolete aircraft. Roosevelt was puzzled, and could only understand that China's production capacity was insufficient and that it needed US assistance. This understanding is still correct, the biggest limitation of China's aircraft production is the lack of engine production. The main willingness is the shortage of skilled workers, which leads to a limit to the production of Mustang fighters. If the opponent is a Japan, forget it, plus a Soviet Union will die, and a two-front battle must liberate a part of the Mustang fighters from the battlefield against the Soviet Union, and the task of the P39 is to attack on the ground.

Roosevelt could only ask people in the office to contact the Chinese side and ask for the introduction of Mustang fighters. By the time the telegrams were coming, the Japanese Navy's task force was approaching within 50 nautical miles of Calcutta. The British navy in India had been withdrawn to Egypt, and Germany was still a point of importance. Therefore, the Japanese navy never found any trace of the British navy, so it dared to attack.

Alexander's defense plan was to abandon Calcutta, not because he didn't want to defend it, but because the combat effectiveness of the Anglo-Indian division was worrying. The naval guns of the Japanese Navy are all large-caliber, and the Indian soldiers of the Anglo-Indian division will not be able to withstand it. In case the bombing of the camp will be over.

So the defensive line was withdrawn thirty kilometers back to avoid the range of the Japanese naval guns, and at the same time all the aircraft were dispatched to attack the ships of the Japanese Navy. The plan was still very wise, the Japanese began their offensive with Zero fighters to escort them, and then bombarded the selected landing sites with battleship and cruiser fire.

Nagumo carefully released 12 Zeros to monitor possible air raids by the British from all directions. Relying on the ultra-long range, the Zero can hover in the air for a long time. In the Battle of Midway, when the Zero shined, and everyone in Japan thought that the Zero was invincible, Nagumo took a blow to the head. I was silently praying in my heart that there would not be too many Mustang fighters.

The so-called fear of what is coming, is talking about Nagumo Tadaichi's mood now. "Enemy planes have been spotted and are flying towards our fleet, and there are no less than a hundred of them." Minoru Genda exclaimed, dropped the microphone and ran to the deck. Whining alarms sounded, one by one the Zeros took off from the deck, and the well-trained Japanese naval aviation, in a very short time, completed the formation.

Killing is the Chinese Air Force Volunteer Wing, 120 Mustang fighters covering the British Army, 36 Hurricanes and 36 torpedo planes playing the role of attack aircraft. This torpedo machine was left over from the British Indian fleet. Naturally, the leader was the faster Mustang fighter group, and the total number of Zeros in the task force was only 62, and there were originally 72 in total, 8 of which were killed, and 2 were not repaired.

Minoru Genda personally piloted a Zero fighter and bravely attacked the slightly lagging British attack planes and torpedo planes. The Fang Ping Wing, which was in charge of escorting the ship, of course, did not allow the Zero to approach the attack aircraft and torpedo planes that were slower to be loaded with bombs. Although the Mustang can also carry bombs, if you want to fight battleships and aircraft carriers, you have to look at torpedo machines. The 225 kg bomb brought by the Mustang did not cause a little damage to the battleship at most. So I didn't bring bombs at all, I just brought machine gun bullets.

The sky soon became a mess, more than 200 planes circled and flew in the air, and the shrewd Minoru Genda commanded Zero to keep an eye on the torpedo planes. The problem is that such a battle is directly directed by the zero style is constantly bitten and hit! The sacrifice of the Zero fighters was worth it, constantly torpedo planes were hit, and the sky exploded into brilliant fireballs.

After Fang Ping shot down two Zeros in a row, he finally set his sights on Minoru Genda's fighters. At this time, the British hurricanes and torpedo planes had rushed into the sky over the task force in spite of the intensity, braving the dense anti-aircraft artillery work and began to dive regardless of it.

The British pilots were also ruthless enough when they played with their lives, a hurricane was hit by an anti-aircraft gun and smoked, and still rushed to the aircraft carrier Canglong regardless of it, and after dropping two 225-kilogram bombs, the fighter plane was also smashed to pieces by anti-aircraft guns. But it also left two large holes in the deck of the Soryu, and caused a fire. The soldiers on board the aircraft carrier were also killed by several blow-ups.

All the artillery fire of the entire task force was in the air, and the British torpedo planes still had 20 torpedo planes left at this time, and half of them were destroyed when passing through the artillery fire, but in the end 10 torpedo planes still dropped torpedoes.

None of these torpedoes were aimed at faster warships and aircraft carriers, and they were all aimed at ships loaded with soldiers. The British are very shrewd in their calculations, knock out your troop carrier, and I see what you can do to land.

This trick was really ruthless, and despite trying to avoid the torpedoes, some freighters were still hit by torpedoes. One of them was also equipped with tanks and soldiers of armored brigades. Don't look at the Japanese tanks very much, the Japanese army, which is desperately short of steel resources, uses these tanks as treasures.

Minoru Genda had fallen into despair, no matter how he dodged, how he turned and rolled, the enemy plane behind him kept biting him tightly. In order to avoid being shot down, Minoru Genda could only ignore the acceleration dive of a qiē, trying to escape from the rear level flying back. (To be continued......)