Chapter 175: The Sunken Aggressive Intervention Army
"My dive-bombing skills have been praised by Udet!"
Yu Sheng snorted coldly in his heart, the direction of the Chicheng's avoidance had long been expected by him in advance, and he had made a good advance in advance.
Like yesterday, Yu Sheng swooped down to a dangerous height of 320 meters in one go, and then dropped the bomb, and then leveled the nose with all his might. Before leveling the fuselage, he still did not forget to shoot bullets frantically at the warship for the rest of his life.
Pulling up after dropping the bomb at an altitude of 320 meters is an extremely dangerous altitude for both yourself and the enemy.
The 200-kilogram bomb swirled in the air and smashed into the sea, and the Chicheng, which was 300 meters away, writhed like a giant beast in the sea, but he didn't know that this evasive action instead allowed him to meet the fire that would not have hit the target.
With a loud bang, when the plane of the rest of his life was flattened and swept away, the fire bomb he threw hit the foredeck of the Chicheng unbiasedly, and after penetrating the first deck, the delay fuse exploded on the second deck, and the black smoke rose with the firelight, and the air waves from the explosion swept across the surrounding decks.
In just three minutes, twenty-four FW90s threw twenty-four two-hundred-kilogram fires at the Chicheng. Although Vice Admiral Takasu personally maneuvered the ship to evade and dodged 20 fireshells, four firebolts hit the front, middle, side and rear parts of the warship, and a large fire broke out on the ship, and billowing black smoke could be seen 20 kilometers away.
The Chicheng was not an armored aircraft carrier like a British aircraft carrier, and the first deck was extremely poorly protected, and two of the shells that hit him pierced the top deck and exploded in the middle. The damage caused is greater than what appears to be done. The Chicheng, which had received four shots, was suddenly shattered. Although it did not sink, it completely lost the ability to continue taking off and landing aircraft.
Although the remaining 20 shells did not hit, the water pressure caused by the fire explosion near the fleet still broke through several places in the underwater part of the hull, causing a certain amount of water leakage and seepage.
It can be regarded as the luck of the Chicheng, subject to technical limitations, the upper limit of the FW90's firefire bomb is only 200 kilograms, the power is too small, although it hits four bullets, it is not fatal. And since the plane has just been released. The deck and hangar were empty. The bomb that was dropped for the rest of his life was a fire in an empty hangar, and although the fire killed many ground crews, it did not cause fuel or ammunition to detonate.
The Chicheng escaped, but only more than 7,000 tons of Fengxiang aviation. But in this wave of air raids, it came to the end of its fate.
The bombing of Fengxiang was also twenty planes. It was all Hawker II fighters used as bombers. In terms of hit accuracy, the Hawk is not as good as the FW90. But the Fengxiang, which is only 7,500 tons, is also "thin and crispy" and slow, (the maximum speed is only 24 knots). Less maneuverable at sea. The same number of firebolts dropped by the Hawker also hit only four shots, but one shot successfully hit the hangar and ignited the fuel magazine, causing a fire. In order to prevent the fire from spreading to the ammunition depot, the captain was forced to order the ammunition depot to be filled with water.
However, the Fengxiang, which is only more than 7,000 tons, has a small design margin, and it can withstand the direct attack of four 800-kilogram aerial bombs. One of the shots hit the left side of the deck, penetrating the deck and exploding close to the waterline, causing a large number of watertight compartments on the left side of the hull to burst into the water, tilting 12 degrees to the left and depriving the warship of half of its power.
Although the captain ordered the water to be filled and leveled, the other Hawker IIs in the air saw that the Fengxiang had been severely damaged, and in the spirit of the idea that it was better to break one finger than to hurt its ten fingers, six more Hawker fighters with fire bombs swooped down and hit two of its bombs.
An hour later, due to the failure of damage management, the Fengxiang aircraft carrier finally sank into the East China Sea.
The sinking of the Fengxiang and the heavy damage of the Chicheng were not the greatest losses of the Japanese fleet. The real losses were huge on the four passenger and cargo ships carrying equipment and personnel.
The remaining 50 or so Huo Zhok II fighters threw all the bombs on their bodies to the three ships.
Ordinary passenger ships, where can they withstand such hospitality. Each of the four passenger ships also suffered at least three or more direct hits from aerial bombs, and even more when you count the underwater damage caused by near-miss bombs.
Among the three passenger and cargo ships, one of them was hit directly by the fire on the ammunition depot on the ship, causing a martyrdom, breaking in two on the spot and sinking into the sea, the crew plus the 800 devil soldiers on board, only three survived.
The other three ships were also blown to the ground, and they sank in five minutes without much support on the water. For a ship at sea, five minutes is not enough for all the crew to escape, and the remaining longest-lived ship does not support more than twenty minutes.
When they returned to the base camp of the fleet, the six Japanese Navy planes that had managed to escape the ambush circle in Shanghai were sadly encountered by returning to Shanghai to dock the air force formation after the bombing was completed.
The end of the six planes with wounds against the hundreds of planes was that they were eaten without even making a splash, and there were no bones left.
In the process, Yu Sheng piloted the FW90 and also shot down an injured Japanese plane, completing his first crash.
The two Japanese planes that "flew in the wrong direction" for warning were extremely fortunate to have escaped a head-on collision with the Red Army's planes -- the main thing was that the Japanese Navy's Type 90 biplane fighters were too slow, and the three planes dispatched by the Red Army were all faster than them after the bombs were dropped, and they were able to pursue them.
The last of the two Japanese naval carriers, who were lucky enough to escape because of the "flight route" and speed problems, were sadly found on the way back that there was no place for them to land on the ship.
The aircraft carrier Chicheng, which was majestic before the sortie, had four large holes in its body and was emitting thick smoke. And the aircraft carrier Fengxiang has long been sunk underwater. The small destroyer on the side was busy salvaging the overboard soldiers floating on the sea -- on the four passenger and cargo ships, they only rescued more than 200 people in total. More than 2,500 people, including sailors, were killed in the 10-minute air raid, most of them Army.
Eventually, the pilots of the two surviving planes were forced to abandon their planes and parachute before being salvaged by a nearby destroyer fleet.
When the raid was over and the Red Army planes finished firing bullets and left satisfied, the first batch of invading and intervening troops sent by Japan were directly blown up on the sea without even seeing the shadow of Shanghai.
The price paid by the Red Army was only the loss of two aircraft, the death of two pilots, and the wounding of more than 20 aircraft. (To be continued......)
PS: I'm too sleepy, let's proofread it tomorrow.