The 7.92 mm caliber tracer bullets sprayed down like a column of water leaking from a fire faucet, and one Chinese fighter plane hit five or six British planes in the first round of head-on raids, and the remaining "Seal Cub" fighters guarding the British attack plane group immediately turned their noses and chased after them, and the surviving British attack planes took the opportunity to continue to pursue the Chinese aircraft carriers, and more than a dozen Chinese fighters roared out from both sides of the cold and unguarded aircraft group, and in the blink of an eye it was a round of pincer attacks, and six or seven "cuckoos" instantly turned into smoky game, and then turned around. Another round, another round......

Relying on its numerical superiority, the huge British attack aircraft group continued to advance regardless of its losses while returning fire with machine guns mounted on rotating mounts, and when it was close to being six or seven kilometers away from the Chinese aircraft carrier formation, it crashed head-on into an irregular barrage woven by dozens of 1-mm flat-height dual-purpose guns and 7-mm anti-aircraft guns, and the flashes and black smoke of air-burst shells bloomed in clusters in the dense group of aircraft: on the one hand, it was a long-barreled high-speed cannon equipped with a high-precision anti-aircraft rangefinder and a rapid calculation device for firing all elements. On the one hand, due to the lack of reliable communication equipment -- only one of the 1 "Cuckoos" of each attack aircraft squadron was equipped with a radio station without torpedoes......

When the "Cuckoo" group that forced its way through the shrapnel that exploded from the sky was approaching a range of one or two kilometers from the target, it suddenly crashed into an even more dazzling barrage: a wall of iron and fire constructed by a long-barreled high-speed machine gun of more than 37 mm caliber with a total rate of fire of more than 30,000 rounds per minute!

The British aircraft group in the squadron was under such blazing fire - whether it was 37 or millimeter shells. \ Just one or two direct hits are enough to destroy an entire wooden and canvas "cuckoo" - like dead leaves in the wind!

In a panic, most of the British attack planes had just entered the effective range of 18-inch aerial torpedoes - 1 yard (914 m) - and surrendered, and only a few dozen or so risked their lives to close to within yards to drop mines, even so. When thirty or forty torpedoes dragged a straight white track and approached in a huge wheel-shaped formation composed of three ships with incomplete fans, the three ship tracks that had been neatly extended in a north-south direction suddenly twisted and scattered—

Most of the trails swept through the chaotic tracks. They suddenly disappeared at the end of the voyage, but there were only a handful of them—four, to be exact—that lucky torpedoes slammed into the steel hull and succeeded in detonating more than 100 kilograms of high explosives in the head of the mine at a weak point two or three meters below the target waterline.

Located at the upper left end of the parallelogram formation with a 4-degree acute angle, the starboard and stern parts of the "Dapeng" were connected with two mines, and the boiler room of the "Dapeng" was immediately flooded, and the speed was suddenly reduced to less than one knot. Subsequently, it was reported that the left rudder was stuck, and it was difficult to maneuver the ship, and it was impossible to follow the formation to move.

On the other hand, the wingman "Yunpeng" on the right rear side of the "Dapeng" and the "Qingyang" destroyer, intentionally or unintentionally, blocked a torpedo for the aircraft carrier it was escorting. =First Novel==When the huge column of water several times higher than the mainmast of the "Qingyang" dissipated, I saw that the hull of more than 1,000 tons tilted sharply to the right, and it sank completely half an hour later, although it was rescued by friendly ships. Among the 143 crew members of the ship, there are still 74 people below the captain of the ship, Major Guo Lei, who have not been rescued.

Located at the lower right end of the formation, the starboard bow of the "Saker" was hit by a lightning bolt, causing water to enter the food store.

At the same time as achieving this limited success, the climb accelerated after the mine was thrown. Attempting to break away from the range of fire of the Chinese aircraft carrier formation as soon as possible, the British attack planes were bombarded even more frantically. The intertwined and densely packed fire nets constantly broke and lit the "cuckoo" that was shaking its wings and desperately avoiding it. Detonation ...... To be exact, when Colonel Ram led his team back to the sea, only 3 of the 9 "Cuckoos" (including the guide planes) that had been put into attack were left, and half of them were seriously wounded and could not hold on to the return ship at all!

However, before the officers and men in the anti-aircraft gun positions of the Chinese ships could breathe a sigh of relief, the piercing sirens suddenly resounded - 63 fighters of the Royal Indian Flying Corps that had taken off from Visakhapatnam followed closely behind.

After nearly two hours of flying and changing direction twice, four "Camel" fighters and three "Dujuan" attack planes had fallen behind or returned ahead of schedule, and the remaining 63 planes were divided into two parts -- a lightning strike team composed of 14 "Camels" and three "Dujuans" and a horizontal bombing team composed of 19 Handlipati "V1" heavy bombers -- entered from west to east from the starboard side of the Chinese aircraft carrier formation and launched attacks at the same time.

The Chinese escort fighters, which had already suffered some losses in the battle that had just intercepted the British carrier-based aircraft, rushed forward desperately - seven of the high-altitude team pursued the horizontal bombardment team, and one of the low-altitude team met the lightning strike team.

The four-engine heavy bombers that climbed to an altitude of 3 meters were really not easy to intercept, and the Chinese fighters only had time to shoot down one of these behemoths before they could drop bombs, but the more than 100 pounds (113 kilograms) of bombs dropped by the remaining 18 bombers only stirred up an astonishing column of water in the Chinese aircraft carrier formation......

Although they were intercepted by the Chinese fighters with all their might, the British lightning strike team, which was covered by 14 "Camel" land-based fighters with slightly better performance than the carrier-based "Seal Packs," forcibly broke into the anti-aircraft fire circle of the Chinese aircraft carrier formation after paying the price of two attack planes and several fighters being shot down. Lieutenant Colonel Madley soon discovered that his lightning strike team had hit the big luck: due to the thunder of the flagship "Dapeng", the entire Chinese aircraft carrier formation had slowed down to one knot, which greatly reduced the difficulty of the British planes in throwing mines.

Lieutenant Colonel Madley was impressed by the oncoming anti-aircraft artillery fire, which prompted him to give a decisive order: the squadrons were evacuated and attacked by individual aircraft.

The dispersed formation, coupled with the large column of water caused by the high-altitude bombing of the V1 group and the loss of shrapnel in close proximity, seriously affected the firing of the Chinese anti-aircraft artillery, and the "Cuckoo" under the command of Madley approached within 1 yard of the target with a small loss - 7 out of 8 planes, and successfully dropped 19 torpedoes, but only one hit, but this also decided the fate of the "Dapeng......

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