Chapter 114: Ozawa's Death
All actions named by His Majesty are codenamed by Kiba. No one understands why this raid on Taiwan Island was codenamed "Sheep!" Sheep! Sheep! His Majesty didn't give any explanation, and many people speculated that it was because the South China Continent was once known as the continent that rode on the back of a sheep. But everyone knows that this is the order of action.
Groups of H36 Howler and H37-B Cerberus bombers took off from Apari and Laaag airfields in northern Luzon, while groups of J36-C Wyvern swept wing fighters from Santa Ana Field Airfield were the first to appear over the Bass Strait. The target of the medium-range bomber is the Taitung airfield on the east coast of Taiwan Island, while the long-range bomber flies directly over Lanyu Island and cooperates with the carrier-based aircraft of the Northern Fleet to form a second wave of bombing.
Sheng Wencai, the ambassador of the Han Empire to Japan, received the "sheep! Sheep! Sheep! After the telegram, he handed over a declaration of war to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on time, and then left with gentlemanly steps amid the incredulous gaze of the Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita Hachiro, who had just gotten up, and the shouting and scolding of "Yaga".
"What's the noise? If you don't want to maintain the demeanor of a diplomat, Lao Tzu can scold you without dirty words, how can you be like these dwarves with poor vocabulary, who can only 'Baga', and then 'Baga' Yalu', damn, can't you change something fresh? ”
Anyway, war has been declared, and the declaration of war has been submitted, and Ambassador Sheng's mission in Tokyo will be successfully completed, and he will pack some baggage and prepare to go home.
At 7:11 a.m., the first batch of 36 Hailong carrier-based air supremacy fighters arrived over the Zuoying Naval Base, and 16 Type 96 carrier-based fighters hurriedly took off on the opposite side.
Japan's 10,000-ton Soryu-class and 7,000-ton Fengxiang-class aircraft carriers were able to take off 16 fighters in just 10 minutes after receiving a radar warning. After a short air battle, sixteen Type 96 fighters were shot down, and the time for the withdrawal of the propeller fighters, which were completely backward in all technical indicators such as firepower, speed, and climb, has entered the countdown.
Dozens of attack planes of the 22nd Air Wing of the Japanese Navy that took off from Kaohsiung Airport threw away their torpedoes and used machine guns to frantically attack the sea dragons and dragon cannons. Several HH6-A pterosaurs were caught off guard and damaged, one of them was hit by a fuel tank and exploded in the air, and another was a machine gun bullet that pierced the cabin shield, the pilot was shot and died, and the Pterodactyl, which lost control, spun and fell into the sea. However, more 22nd Air Wing Type 96 land-based attack aircraft could not escape, and were shot down one after another under the attack of 36 Sea Dragons and 72 Poison Dragons. When the huge Pterodactyl bomber used its high speed to climb to a higher altitude and get out of the air combat zone, the huge gap in performance suddenly appeared, not to mention the sea dragon, even the universal fighter-bomber poison dragon can easily get rid of the 96-type pursuit behind him in the dog fight, and then use the speed and excellent dive ability to put the opponent into the scope.
At the end of the battle, the Royal Navy pilots, who had an excellent record of 82:4, unanimously admitted that if they were fighters with similar flying performance, they were no match for Japanese pilots.
The greatest respect for an opponent on the battlefield is to defeat him! Specific to the Navy, that is to sink! When there are fewer and fewer Japanese fighters taking off in the sky, and when the Japanese warships in Dagang are setting fire and anchoring and preparing to flee, the first bombing of the poisonous dragons has begun! Small 50-kilogram and 100-kilogram bombs rained down from the sky, and their target was not a Kongo-class battleship, but an aircraft carrier. These Japanese aircraft carriers, whether it is the Fengxiang, which is claimed to be the first in the world to be completed, or the two aircraft carriers of the Canglong class, have poor protection in common, not to mention the Ruifeng, which was converted from a submarine carrier, even if a 50-kilogram small bomb is smashed on the "sea plain," it can blow up a hole, and the small bombs carried by the poisonous dragon fighter bombers are all given to them, not seeking to sink them, but only to destroy the take-off deck of the aircraft carrier and prevent the carrier-based aircraft from continuing to take off. Of course, there are only four aircraft carriers, and there are more wolves and less meat. As many as 70 (two were shot down in the air battle) were half of the poisonous dragons and went straight to the small ships in the small harbor of the left camp.
Zuoying Military Port was originally a small commercial port, but after the Japanese army built it, it was divided into two ports, the south and the north, and the small port could only berth small and medium-sized destroyer-class ships because of the shallow water depth. It was precisely because of the special geographical shape of the Zuoying Military Port that the destroyer fleet with strong air defense could not arrive at Dagang in time after being attacked, which in disguised form reduced the difficulty for bombers to attack the aircraft carrier.
More than 50 poisonous dragons braved the anti-aircraft fire of the destroyer fleet and opened the bomb bomb compartment in their abdomen, and the nine destroyers of the 11th, 12th, and 19th destroyers of the Japanese Southern Fleet were sunk in the first attack, namely the Dawn, the First Snow, and the Buran. But this was not fatal, when the Japanese fighters could no longer be seen in the sky over Zuoying Port, the pterodactyls that had been hovering high in the sky began to reduce their altitude, and the 500 kg or even 1,000 kg giant bombs with a piercing scream, announcing that the real call of hell had arrived. By eight o'clock in the morning, the Kongo-class battleships Kirishima and Hiei exploded one after another, and the fire enveloped the huge hull in it, and the sailors jumped into the sea one after another—it was better to be drowned than to be burned or blown up, right?
The fate of the aircraft carriers was even more tragic than that of the battleships, and the main deck of the Fengxiang, which the Japanese claimed to be the world's first, was directly smashed out of a large hole by a 500-kilogram bomb, and then penetrated the second-story hangar before exploding. The aircraft carrier, which was more than 7,000 tons, was directly broken into two pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea with more than 30 planes that had not yet had time to take off. Counting the British Athletic, both aircraft carriers, both claimed to be the world's first, were destroyed by the hands of the Han Air Force.
Because the Flying Dragon has just entered the ranks, the boilers are all new, the start is relatively fast, and it is the only warship in the big port that sets sail and moves, but it is precisely it that sets sail first, cutting off the escape path of all the warships in the big port, two 500 kg bombs and a 1,000 kg giant bomb, so that the latest aircraft carrier of the Japanese Navy, which is fully loaded with more than 20,000 tons, will completely seal the channel out of the port. By 8:40 a.m., when all the pterosaurs and poisonous dragons had finished dropping their bombs and the formation returned to the mothership, the sea dragons circling and on guard began to fly at low altitudes -- it was also a great pleasure to shoot the dumplings-like little devil sailors on the water with their cannons.
But their joy did not last long, and the commander of the fighter fleet, Colonel Gao Jian, shouted in the call channel, "Pull up the formation, stop playing, continue to be vigilant, the three-headed dogs are coming!" ”
The three-headed dog is the nickname given by the pilots of Hainan Airlines to the long-range heavy bomber H37-B of the Air Force, because the code name of H37-B is Cerberus, and the initiator of this nickname is Gao Jian. When Gao Jian was still in the Air Force, he was the first to fly the H-5, and later because he used bombers to defeat five old biplanes, he became the first ace pilot of the Han Air Force, and was specially approved by His Majesty to fly the J-5, and when the Navy was expanded, he was transferred to the HNA to test fly J37-A, that is, the prototype of the Sea Dragon. Therefore, Gao Jian has always had a special affection for the bomber unit of the Air Force, and from time to time he returned to his "mother's home" gangsters, of course, he was inevitably "beaten" by the pilots of the Air Force.
However, on the battlefield, even if old acquaintances meet, there is no time to be poor, and after communicating with the commander of the Cerberus group, Gao Jian commanded the sea dragons to continue to climb and take on the escort mission, and did not bother to listen to the poor mouths of these fighter pilots, 96 Cerberus pilots turned on the electronic sight, of which 48 Cerberus were responsible for throwing bombs at an altitude of 3,000 meters to drop 500 kilograms of aerial bombs, aiming at the wounded battleships that were smoking, Among them was the Kongo, the lead ship of the Kongo-class battleship of the flagship of the Japanese Southern Fleet. In fact, when Japan originally designed the Kongo-class, it was designed according to the parameters of the battlecruiser, but later because of the "Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments" and other reasons, the four sister ships of the Kongo-class have been upgraded and modernized several times and become high-speed battleships, but because of congenital shortcomings, compared with other famous Japanese battleships such as Nagato, Mutsu, etc., the gap in armor protection and other aspects is still very large.
The commander of the Southern Detachment Fleet, Jizaburo Ozawa, usually wore a neat white naval uniform, which was already like the camouflage uniform of the Han Guards, with a few burnt holes. This almost defenseless battle made Vice Admiral Ozawa almost go berserk, "Hachi, open the cannon, shoot me the cannon, shoot down those pesky planes, the glory of the Imperial Navy cannot be ruined by our hands!" ”
Yes, the Japanese Navy, in the first year of the First Sino-Japanese War, defeated the Beiyang Fleet in a desperate battle, and during the Battle of Tsushima, Togo Heihachiro commanded the Combined Fleet and defeated the Russian fleet, laying the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese Navy, but now it ...... Looking at the fact that half of the main forces of the Imperial Navy in the port of Zuoying had suffered such a crushing defeat, if it weren't for the opportunity to preserve the strength of the Imperial Navy and keep the precious warships, General Ozawa would have disemboweled his stomach to thank the Emperor.
Ozawa has the heart of benevolence, but it is a pity that the Han Air Force did not help him become benevolent. The moving Kongo fired the heaviest artillery fire to stop the humiliation of the Cerberus, but it still hit two more shots, the 382mm two-pack main gun was completely destroyed, and the fire from the foredeck made it impossible for the sailors to get close.
Jizaburo Ozawa, who was in the command room, watched with despair as the Mikuma Heavy Cruiser, who desperately protected the flagship, and the Kawauchi Light Cruiser, the flagship of the Third Mine Team, were sent to the bottom of the sea by heavy aerial bombs...... Which battleship will be next? Lieutenant General Ozawa's eyes were overflowing with tears unconsciously!