Chapter 174: Lu Bu in the ship
The battlefleet under the command of the commander of the Combined Fleet, Yamamoto, consisted of four battleships and four heavy cruisers, which, according to Japanese custom, could be called a four-four fleet. The four battleships were Nagato, Mutsu, Yamashiro, and Fuso, and the four heavy cruisers were Takao, Chokai, Nachi, and Ashigara. In terms of the firepower of the ships alone, this should be an invincible fleet in the Asia-Pacific region, and several battleships of the Royal Navy are simply the product of Zhong Yi's deception of other countries, otherwise with the production capacity and scientific research strength of the base, the outdated 380 mm main gun will not be made. As for the large-caliber main guns, in His Majesty's mind, they are all outdated things, even if the Yamato, which is still in the shipyard, what about the 460-mm main guns that claim to be able to shoot twenty kilometers away? Can you fly farther than an airplane? Or can it hit farther than a missile?
At this point, Yamamoto Fifty-six and Zhong Yi have a common language, although the two will never have the opportunity to meet. Yamamoto was a staunch supporter of the theory of the victory of naval aviation, but in the wave of the "giant ship cannon theory" around the world, Yamamoto was not exempt from vulgarity, at least for now, he firmly believed that as long as he caught up with the Northern Fleet, the giant cannons on the eight capital ships could bombard those hateful Han Chinese into the Yellow Sea and let them go to the company of the Beiyang Naval Division's discerning army.
But the Han Royal Navy aviation ruthlessly shattered Yamamoto's dream, and the Pterodactyl bomber group commanded by Lao Han lost the fat Hyuga in his mouth, returned with all his might, rescued the mothership, and happened to discover the Japanese battlefleet. Although the Pterodactyls could only hold out for another thirty minutes of fuel, although there were few aerial bombs left in the ammunition bay, and the Pterodactyls loaded with torpedoes had only one albacorein tuna. Lao Han still firmly issued the order to attack, there were no other small ships, the capital ship of Yishui, which was obviously the main attack fleet of the United Fleet. The Japanese planes attacking the mothership were dealt with by sea dragons and poisonous dragons, and the threat of their own fleet would be greatly reduced if this battlefleet was severely damaged.
"Brothers, lower the altitude and aim, we have no spare ammunition and fuel to squander. The tuna found its own chance, released the torpedo and immediately returned home! ”
Pressure is power, and at the critical moment when the mothership was attacked, the pilots played at the highest level, and the few bombs actually hit much higher than the hit rate during the battle in the Great Black Mountain Islands. The Japanese fleet lacked the protection of destroyers, and the Nagato-class and Fuso-class battleships were built with only armor and main guns and ignored the design of anti-aircraft firepower, so the Pterodactyl pilots could boldly lower the altitude and drop 500 and a half kilograms of armor-piercing aerial bombs at an altitude of 1,000 meters or even less. The battleships Nagato, Yamashiro and Nachi were hit by bombs, and the heavy cruiser Nachi was hit twice, and one bomb that hit the foredeck detonated the shell box of the front main gun, causing a series of casualties and threatening the main ammunition depot, forcing the ship to abandon the ship. But the last albacore tuna before the return of the 12 torpedo planes were all empty, and there was no harvest, which made Lao Han very regretful, there were too few bombs, only torpedoes could bring a threat to the thick battleship, and then look at the fuel, if they did not withdraw, they would have to land on the sea, and they were just about to give the order to return to the sea, and the sudden loud noise from the sea made Lao Han also startled. Turning his head through the transparent window on the side of the engine room, he looked out at a battleship on the sea not far away, and from time to time it was mixed with violent explosions, which made the huge hull twitch like a swinging patient.
"What's going on? The little devil went crazy and set fire to his own ammunition depot? Old Han muttered to himself, but forgot that the microphone at the corner of his mouth had been turned on.
"Haha, Captain, it's our submarine!" The voice of the bombardier on another Pterodactyl came from the team's channel, he had just finished dropping the bomb, and he could see more clearly, when the devil's warship was focused on dodging the airdropped albacore, a Tornado-class submarine launched three submarine-launched blue-eyed tuna at a distance of five hundred meters from the battleship Fuso, and the Fuso did not dodge, and ...... It seems that the hapless Fuso was hit in the boiler room.
"Beautiful!" Three torpedoes took over a 30,000-ton battle-dead ship, and Lao Han also applauded it, but he couldn't get nervous anymore, and the fuel was in a hurry, "Brothers, flash people, return to the mothership at cruising speed." ”
Severely damaged the Japanese battlefleet, some complacent old Han, who did not know that he and his Pterodactyl fighters had nowhere to land. After Gao Jian led the mixed formation of Sea Dragon and Poison Dragon fighters to return home, the arrogance of the Japanese fighters was suppressed. 24 Sea Dragons and 41 Poison Dragons joined the battle, joined the 16 Sea Dragons of the Guardian Fleet, and more than 80 Royal Navy fighters were no longer afraid of accidental injury, and bravely slaughtered into the Japanese fleet.
Within ten minutes, the Japanese army's 99 ship explosion and Type 96 water ship attack were shot down one after another, and the pressure on the Gongjin was reduced a lot! Guan Canghai excitedly roared in the communicator: "Gao Jian, you stinky boy, if you come back later, you will have to collect Lao Tzu's body!" ”
It's no wonder that the steady Colonel Guan is a little out of shape, the situation is too dangerous. The left rear chord of the Gongjin was suicidally hit by the Japanese plane, the two Vulcan dense arrays were destroyed, and the tail rudder was damaged, which made it difficult for the Gongjin to turn and even more difficult to cope with the frantic attack of the Japanese army. This will lead to a halving of the speed at which the Gongjin recovers the fighter, which will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier. Although the engineers are in the emergency repair, but on the battlefield where the war is raging, time is life!
Another aircraft carrier in the aircraft carrier battle group, the Zijing, had much worse luck than the Gongjin, and when the Japanese attacked first, a dive bomber threw a 400-kilogram diamond armor bomb onto the flight deck of the Zijing, and the bomb passed through the bridge and penetrated to the second hangar before exploding, although all the planes in the hangar had been released, the explosion caused casualties among more than 30 sailors. When the Japanese seaplanes surrounded them, multiple antiaircraft machine guns wounded a Japanese Type 96 seaplane attacker, and the damaged plane crashed into the ship's island, causing a large number of casualties among the commanders of the Zijing, including Senior Colonel Zhang Dongsheng, the commander of the Zijing. This is the highest-ranking officer of the Han army to die since the beginning of the war.
After a while, another bomb that added fuel to the fire exploded the beveled deck of the Zijing, and the two runways were all reimbursed, and the Zijing lost the ability to recover the fighters. At the same time that the dive bomber hit the Zijing heavily, because a number of destroyers and light cruisers were injured or sunk, the defense circle showed a big flaw, and the Japanese Nakajima torpedo machine also approached the difficult Zijing in different directions, one torpedo hit its engine part, Zijing slowly stopped, and another 99 ship exploded close and purposefully hit the side of the aircraft carrier, causing a fire in the aviation fuel tank, and the fire spread to the signal deck.
With the evacuation of the surviving Japanese planes, the two destroyers and the light cruiser Gongfu (Huang Gai) ventured close to the aircraft carrier and controlled the fire on the Zijing. However, the carrier-based aircraft in the sky only had one Gongjin that could be recovered, and only one take-off and landing aircraft on the Gongjin was available, so the carrier-based aircraft had to continue to hover in the sky, waiting for the beveled runway to recover the sea dragon and the straight runway to recover the poisonous dragon.
Old Han looked at the pointer on the fuel gauge that was a little closer to zero, and he was anxious, he knew very well that the landing recovery of the pterosaur was the slowest, and the fuel carrying capacity of the sea dragon and the poisonous dragon was also less than that of the pterosaur, so it was correct to recover them first. The commander of the Northern Fleet, Long Zhou, has ordered that the pilots and navigators of the Pterodactyl can parachute or make a forced landing on the sea at any time, and the safety of the personnel is the top priority! But Lao Han was reluctant, his landline was a captain's plane equipped with a high-power radar and command function, and since he joined the Royal Navy, he has been piloting this pterodactyl across the South Seas and bombing Zuoying...... He was really reluctant. Old Han wanted to wait a little longer, wait for a miracle, and wait for the order to allow him to land on the communicator.
A miracle is called a miracle because it has a very small chance of happening. Lao Han didn't wait for the order, but waited for the long sound of the fuel gauge, and even pulled up the pterosaur to climb to the height suitable for parachuting, Lao Han's eyes were tearful and clenched the lever, controlling the HH1001 pterosaur to slowly row to the sea, and the splashing waves were the last flowers to give to this meritorious fighter.
Lao Han, who was rescued by the destroyer Zihuang (Quan Cong), stood by the string of the ship and saluted the love machine that gradually sank with the ups and downs of the waves!
The crisis of the fleet was not over, and although the battlefleet with heavy losses on the return journey of the Pterodactyl group lost Fuso and Nachi, there were still three battleships and three heavy cruisers approaching the Northern Fleet. Long Zhou had no intention of feeling sorry for the sunken battleship and the Zijing aircraft carrier that was still emitting black smoke, the Japanese planes suffered a lot of losses, but they did not necessarily have the strength to fight again, the take-off and landing planes of the Gongjin were still not repaired, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, plus the Pterodactyl was completely lost because of the forced landing, and it was no longer realistic to expect carrier-based aircraft to attack Nagato and Mutsu. On the battlefield, the only battleship on our side was the Bongxian, the monarch-class battleship that His Majesty intended to put on a show, and it shot down more than a dozen Japanese planes majestically in the battle just now, I don't know...... Long Zhou shook his head, knowing that there was no hope, but he had to send the Fengxian to drag Yamamoto's battlefleet.
In terms of heavy patrols, the general-level Xingba and Ziyi can barely cope with the battle in terms of tonnage and firepower, but they are ...... In terms of battleships, there is one on our side and three on the Japanese army, is this going to stage a three-British battle against Lu Bu? Did His Majesty have expected such a thing to name this battleship Fengxian?
The cruiser Gongfu was the first to withdraw from the oil-stained sea with the unpowered aircraft carrier Zijing. The two runways on the deck of the Gongjin have already begun to be recovered while ejecting the fighters that have taken off and replenished -- the hangars cannot be placed. Several scarred destroyers guarded the Gongjin like loyal guards.
The battleship Fengxian led the heavy cruisers Xingba and Ziyi to go in the opposite direction with the fleet, and the sailors on the other ships suddenly found that the Fengxian was next to the Royal Navy's golden dragon flag, and raised the blood-colored skull flag with a black background, "What kind of plane, isn't this a pirate flag?" "There are so many unknown sailors who have question marks in their heads.
But the fat commander hammered the bulkhead in the command room hard, and his eyes, which looked small because of his obesity, were clearly full of tears.
Guan Canghai, who was busy, also heard the discussion of the staff officers around him, and raised his head suddenly, "What? Scarlet skeletons? Death Battle Flag! Lao Lu, what are you going to do? ”
Lao Lu, captain of the battleship Fengxian, Captain Lu Ziming of the Royal Navy, nicknamed Lu Xiaobu.
On September 15, 1940, in the final decisive battle between the Royal Navy and the Japanese Combined Fleet, known as the Second Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Bong Xian was ordered to lead two heavy cruisers to meet the Japanese battlefleet. Three hours later, the carrier-based aircraft groups of the Royal Navy's two oceanic fleets, the Royal Air Force's strategic bomber forces, and the Navy's submarine forces launched a general attack on the Japanese Combined Fleet.
Two days later, the entire Combined Fleet was annihilated in the northern Yellow Sea, and the last Combined Fleet Commander, Isoroku Yamamoto, was sunk in the northern Yellow Sea with his flagship battleship Mutsu, which sank 46 nautical miles from the sinking point of the Daidonggou Zhiyuan.
This distance was later known as the Forty-Six Years Snow Shame Road, one nautical mile a year!