Chapter 310: The Great War
Just when the air battle between the fighters is going on, the group of dive bombers that have been left behind will not wait, the Skyhawk using an Allison water-cooled engine, after hanging a 500-kilogram bomb, can barely reach 500 kilometers of combat radius, and the twin demons that can reach more than 900 without auxiliary fuel tanks and the Thunder with a combat radius of more than 800 after hanging auxiliary fuel tanks are incomparable, they must hurry to complete any of their own, 400 dive bombers directly hit the Japanese fleet at sea.
The Zero type, which was in a bitter battle, was powerless to stop them at all, so he could only watch this huge group of planes fly by from a distance, and even at this time, many of the fighters fighting with them in the air were leaving the battlefield to chase after the dive bombers to escort them, and now the number of Chinese planes on the battlefield was almost twice that of the Japanese army, and it was easy to divide a hundred.
At this time, Vice Admiral Kondo, who was at sea, had already begun to order the fleet to retreat in the direction of the mainland, from here to Japan, a straight-line distance of more than 700 kilometers, and it was necessary to sail as far southeast as possible, only in this way could he hide in the protective circle of land-based fighters, although he knew that this would make himself a joke, but in order to prevent this huge fleet from being wiped out, he could not care about it now, and at the same time as retreating, he had already sent a telegram to the base camp asking for help.
His telegram frightened the Japanese Admiralty into spoof, you must know that more than half of the main forces of the Japanese Navy are in the hands of Kondo, if there is really some accident and then it will be a fart in the future, even if the Americans are timid, they will not look at the meat in their mouths at that time, and this is indeed not the time to consider the contradictions between the sea and the land, even the Japanese War Department knows this, and in the face of such a critical situation, it is rare for the Japanese navy and army to work together.
One order after another was issued as quickly as possible, and first of all, the Kwantung Army's Ryokara Takashi Division must immediately attack with all its air power. If you dare to hesitate, you can simply apologize!
Second, whether it is a navy or an army airline, fighters on Kyushu Island and southern Honshu take off immediately, and even if they exceed the combat radius, they must attack, and as long as they can get to the skies over Kondo's fleet, even if they do not participate in the war and just have to come back with a shot in the past, then they must also shoot this shot.
The third includes fighters defending Tokyo. All the fighters that can be used in the northern airfields are all transferred to the south, and the Kondo fleet must be rescued no matter what, of course, the most important thing is that the Japanese know very well that if Yang Feng does not bomb Japan next, then he will not be called Yang Feng.
But at this time, the sea and air war has begun, and the Skyhawk, which combines the design of dozens of dive bombers, is very similar to the dive bombing version of the Mustang, that is, the earliest A36, and the speed can also exceed 500 kilometers, in fact, it can be used as a fighter.
These aerial demons painted black. Hanging 500 kilograms of aerial bombs, one by one with a high-speed dive roar, with a large angle of more than 80 degrees almost perpendicular to the sea of the Japanese warships, because they have never encountered a real air attack, at this time the density of the Japanese warships' anti-aircraft firepower is far from the late stage of the Pacific War, facing 400 Skyhawks that swooped down at the same time, and more than 100 fighters escorting them. The entire fleet immediately went into disarray, and anti-aircraft guns of various calibers shot into the air like crazy. At the same time, all the battleships were dodging in a zigzag line at high speed on the sea.
Because Boss Yang had an order to sink at least two aircraft carriers, these Skyhawks almost all went to the six aircraft carriers, and Vice Admiral Kondo, who was on the Kaga, looked at the Skyhawks in the sky that were almost vertically smashed down like a fool, and his mind was blank.
The roar of the plane as it dives. The screaming of the bomb when it fell, the explosion of anti-aircraft artillery shells of various calibers, made the entire sea surface boil, an air raid of this scale, not to mention those ordinary soldiers. Even Kondo can say that he has never imagined, looking at this scene, he suddenly felt that his huge fleet was so fragile, at this moment he felt a violent shock under his feet, this was the impact of the bomb, but the expected explosion did not come, Vice Admiral Kondo was stunned for a moment, and then roared like a nervous: "Delay fuse!"
As soon as he finished saying this, he saw the flight deck in front of him suddenly rise, and in an instant, with the flames that erupted, the steel deck suddenly turned into countless fragments and flew into the sky, and with this explosion that resounded across the sea, a bomber's gluttonous feast began.
The Kaga was shot, so that the surrounding escort destroyers, cruisers all leaned over like crazy, all the weapons that could be used were aimed at the sky, and even some soldiers ran out with rifles to shoot in the air, dense bullets and shells weaved into a dense network of fire in the sky, guarding their flagship, but the Skyhawk that dived at a large angle was not so easy to stop, and the Japanese army did not have radio proximity, and the time fuse was also not easy to use, basically relying on density, it was better to say that it was better to hit the target than to wait for the target to hit the shell.
At the same time that the Kaga was shot, the oldest Fengxiang in the fleet was hit by two bombs at once, this old aircraft carrier itself has countless design flaws, how can it withstand such a devastation, with the loud sound of two explosions, flames erupted directly from the starboard side, and then the whole ship immediately began to tilt.
In addition to the Fengxiang, the other four aircraft carriers were not spared, towering columns of smoke were rising among these majestic giant ships, not only aircraft carriers, but more than 400 planes could not all be crowded together, battleships, heavy cruisers, these relatively high value warships, were also the main targets of the Skyhawk, for a time the entire sea was full of explosions, steel and human body fragments splashed all over the sky.
Especially the four battleships, at this time, in the concept, still regard these steel mountains as the overlord of the sea, so more than one hundred and ten Skyhawks all pounced on them, Ise, Hinata, Yamashiro, and Fuso were shot one after another in the intensive attack, and the worst was the Hyuga, a 500-kilogram aerial bomb directly lifted its No. 1 main gun away, which scared Kondo's legs and couldn't help but tremble, but he knew that the Hyuga was only a line away from death this time.
As for the cruisers, they were a little too vulnerable to these high-explosive bombs filled with passivated hei sorkin and thermite, and they were not so tightly protected, so they quickly became targets for the more cunning Chinese pilots, and it was not long before the Aoba was hit by two bombs at the same time, one in front of the other, and the bombs in front fell into the ammunition depot after penetrating the horizontal deck. With a deafening explosion, the 10,000-ton giant ship was directly blown to pieces.
Watching his battleships being shot one by one, Vice Admiral Kondo's heart was dripping blood, but at this time he had no other way but to hold on, and now he definitely can't count on it in the air. To tell the truth, those Zeros have been crossed out of the combat sequence by him, their mission is to fight until the last moment, how long can it be delayed, how many excellent pilots, after this battle, the Imperial Navy will not be able to recover to its original combat effectiveness for at least a year.
As soon as he thought of this result, he couldn't help but hate Ryokari Takashi so much that his teeth itched, in his opinion, his fleet had come to this point entirely because this old fox was greedy for life and afraid of death, if the Kwantung Army could attack as planned from the beginning. It was impossible for Yang Feng to gather such a huge amount of air power to deal with him.
What he didn't know was that at this time, under the strict orders of the base camp, Ling Karlong had already attacked, and four hundred planes attacked the airports in Jinzhou, Chifeng, Duolun and other places in one form. Now there are only one hundred twin demons and two hundred thunders left in his hands, and one hundred of them are still in Yantai. Stay to monitor the direction of North Korea.
Although he does not have an advantage in numbers, this does not mean that he is easy to bully at this time, because except for the one sent to Yantai, the remaining forty Liuye are now all at Duolun Airport, and the Kwantung Army pilots, who did not have much will to fight a decisive battle, were stunned the moment these jet fighters appeared. At this time, the news that the Korean Army Air Force had been completely annihilated, and that the ace pilot Matsumoto Daisato hated the Yellow Sea had already spread, and the result of the 120-0 battle had automatically formed in their minds the impression that the jet fighters could not be defeated, and as a result, more than 30 planes were lost in a slight battle. The pilots of the Kwantung Army immediately chose to flee.
They wanted to run Yang Feng was not happy at this time, since he had to leave something behind, the double demon and the sixth master chased the Japanese plane all the way to the sky above Shenyang, because the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire was too dense, so they had to let go of these guys.
Now Ziling Katalong has no courage to fight, he now relies on his turtle shell to be strong enough, so he can firmly hold the northeast, even if the combined fleet fails miserably at sea, it will not get to the point of losing land, but if his losses are too great, at that time, the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops in Rehe Liaoxi will never let go of the opportunity to take Shenyang, so in his opinion, avoiding war is the best choice, in fact, it is true.
And at this time, the battle at sea is still going on, there are less than fifty of them left in the air battlefield, and they are still struggling to support, they know very well that if these fighters all pounce on the head of the fleet, and then provide sufficient cover for the dive bombers, then the entire fleet will be finished, but the end of these zeros is already doomed, and even those pilots themselves know very well that today is the day when they are broken.
In the siege of the Japanese fleet by the Sea Eagle, the Kaga has been hit by four 500-kilogram bombs, and the fire has burned the entire aircraft carrier into a torch, and the most unlucky thing is not it, the most unlucky is the Xiangfeng transformed from the submarine carrier, this light aircraft carrier of more than 10,000 tons, was completely blown into a pile of scrap iron by more than a dozen bombs, although it has not yet begun to sink, but it can be crossed out of the combat sequence, such a serious injury is not possible to repair at all, and even the capital of the ship was blown up.
The other four aircraft carriers were all miserable, and even if those Zeros returned, they would not be able to land again, and their remaining fuel would not be able to fly to the mainland, not even North Korea, and to be honest, it would be no wonder that those pilots would rather die than retreat.
The Japanese fleet, which was struggling in the sea of fire, rushed to the direction of the mainland at the fastest speed they could achieve, and at this time, hundreds of fighters taking off from Kyushu were also rushing towards them, and all the Japanese airfields in the Kanto region were mobilized, even the old planes of the second line were used, with only one goal, to save them before the Kondo fleet was heavily damaged.
Nanjing, the scale of the air battle in the north stunned the bald guys, but he also saw that now seems to be a good time to pick up cheap, judging from the battle situation, Yang Feng is undoubtedly victorious, since this is the case, then you might as well join in the fun, not only can you show favor to Yang Feng, but also can put gold on your face, in this case, why not?
So with his order, all 150 twin demons and 200 Thunderbolts of the air force took off, a total of less than 500 kilometers from Nanjing to the war zone, and it was almost the end of rushing over.
This sea and air war has been fought until now. Even Yang Feng himself was dumbfounded, to be honest, he really didn't expect it to be so big.
"Ma, I accidentally made it to the battle level." The creature stroked the red panda and said with a smug expression.
After nearly an hour of air fighting, the decisive battle in the sky finally came to an end, none of the 310 Zero fighters of the Japanese army were spared, and the Chinese Air Force lost 60 Double Demons and 70 Thunder. And at the end of the air battle, the first Sky Eagle at sea also began to return, at this time the Fengxiang had already disappeared on the sea, and the Xiangfeng was completely destroyed and was waiting for its destined fate in the continuous explosions.
One other battleship was heavily damaged, three heavy cruisers and four light cruisers, six destroyers were sunk, and at least forty remaining warships were wounded to varying degrees, and the combined fleet can be said to have suffered the heaviest losses since the beginning of the war. And their result was only to shoot down forty Skyhawks.
At this time, the group of planes flying from the Japanese mainland finally arrived, but unfortunately, the attacking Skyhawk had long since disappeared, leaving only the warships burning all over the sea and the wreckage rippling with the waves.
"General, what about the Xiangfeng?" Look at the Xiangfeng burning on the sea. The chief of staff cautiously asked Lieutenant General Kondo, who was weakly sitting in a chair.
"Drag it back, even if it can't be repaired. That's also tens of thousands of tons of steel. Lieutenant General Kondo said gloomily, he knew that his career was over, and if he couldn't go back, he would have to cut his stomach, so how could he be in the mood to care about anything else now.
The chief of staff gave him a sympathetic look and got up just about to go out, just then. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion, and Lieutenant General Kondo stood up, but then sat down again, it was the poor Xiangfeng, I don't know if the fuel or ammunition exploded. The explosion completely freed it, and it began to sink slowly before the tug could get up.
After walking for a while, the escorting army fighters were not interested in accompanying them anymore, these one-type combat radius was not far away, and it was already the limit to be able to get here, so it was still by hanging auxiliary fuel tanks, and the return had to go to the North Korean airfield close to 400 kilometers away, and now that the enemy had left, it was estimated that there would be no second round of attacks, and it would be enough to show the existence a little, and if it dragged on, it would not be able to fly to the airfield.
Lieutenant General Kondo is now in a daze, don't care about them, just go, anyway, this is almost out of the Aquila's attack radius, so more than 400 planes in the sky began to prepare to return to the airfield in North Korea.
"Enemy planes!" At this moment, a pilot suddenly let out a hoarse roar, and the Japanese major general who led the team raised his head in shock, and then his face turned green, and in the southwest sky, dense fighter jets were flying, and the figure of the twin demon was particularly eye-catching, and it was not much less than his own in terms of quantity.
But now, if you throw off the auxiliary fuel tank, the remaining fuel is just enough to fly to the airport and then line up to land, how can there be any extra air combat, but if you don't throw the auxiliary fuel tank to fight, it will really be suicide.
"Retreat, drop the fuel tanks, and retreat immediately!" He roared without hesitation, this decision finally made him regret it for life, and after getting the order, all the ones immediately threw down the auxiliary fuel tank and accelerated, and ran for their lives in the direction of the nearest North Korea, but unfortunately the thunder may not be able to catch up with them, but the twin demons have no problem, and the twin demons with a speed of nearly seven hundred per hour pursued more than five hundred of them, and the result was naturally nothing to say.
Gao Zhihang, who led the team, also guessed what was going on, this guy was not a good bird, and immediately understood what he should do at this time, one hundred and fifty twin demons did not have to fight with the Japanese army at all, as long as they kept harassing them, they aimed at the target and fired a few shots, the purpose was not to shoot down at all, but to force the Japanese aircraft to avoid wasting fuel, anyway, the combat radius of more than 900 kilometers was no problem to play until Japan.
These poor ones are unlucky, they can't get rid of it, they can only watch their fuel run out little by little, even if they go back and go out and end up with these nasty enemies, they can't catch up with each other at all, so they have been flying for almost two hundred kilometers, and these twin demons that have not been shot down by a plane have returned.
Of the 400 Japanese army planes that went out to rescue the Combined Fleet, less than 100 of them landed in the end, and 100 of them fell down before they even flew to land, and the remaining 200 planes all landed in the middle of the road.
At this moment, the bald guy picked up a big bargain and confidently announced that the Zhongyang Air Force, under the leadership of Lieutenant General Gao Zhihang, shot down 300 Japanese fighters in one fell swoop in the battle to reinforce the Air Force of the First Theater, winning the largest air victory in the Sino-Japanese War, and publicizing this battle as a great victory in the Yellow Sea. (To be continued......)
PS: Well, I have to accompany my wife to check it tomorrow