Chapter 946 Aircraft Carrier Battle
The loss of Malacca shocked the Japanese army. Their hands have reached into the Indian Ocean, they have landed in South Africa, and they have taken control of almost all of South Africa, while advancing towards the tribal sites of those inside, expanding the area they occupy.
This would be the loss of Malacca, which would mean that South Africa's troops would lose contact with the country, and the only way to connect would be with Australia. From there, transfer back to the mainland.
But at the moment when Malacca was lost, the reinforcements from Luzon arrived, and contact was lost in less than two hours, a fierce battle broke out in Australia.
The Australian garrison has two divisions, all of which add up to only 50,000 or 60,000 men. The outbreak of the Great War was sudden and violent, and they were not concentrated in the first place, but maintained local law and order in one town after another.
They were no more than a squadron, or simply a small squadron, and only Melbourne, Sydney and other large places were garrisoned by a wing.
But in any case, the number of troops of tens of thousands is still too small. As for those puppet troops, their combat effectiveness is just scum, they are not used at all, it is okay to scare civilians, and it will be finished to deal with those with guns.
The war quickly spread to the whole of Australia, and in the chaos, those Chinese civilians organized an anti-Japanese team and launched a brave attack on the Japanese army.
The war in Australia made the Japanese even more panicked. The current location is too important. The advance army occupied Malacca, and the chances of them retaking it were almost zero. And once Australia is lost, then the hundreds of thousands of troops here in Africa will lose contact with the mainland, and they will lose contact with the mainland completely.
So, Yamamoto Isoroku set out with a fleet and swooped straight towards Australia. Attempts were made to assist the defenders there in crushing the rebellious populace and re-stabilizing the situation with warships.
Dong Ku wanted this effect, and what he was waiting for was the combined fleet of the Japanese army.
"Command the fierce son to carry out the plan!"
Following Dong Ku's order, the long-awaited fierce son ordered the fleet to set off. From the Solomon Islands, directly bypassing Australia, to meet the Japanese troops coming from the direction of South Africa.
It would be a far-reaching naval battle and would be an excellent opportunity for the advance force to destroy the main forces of the Japanese fleet. It is also the time to test the killer of aircraft carriers.
The Japanese did not know that they would have a combined fleet far superior to them waiting for them, as long as they were close to the waters near Australia. If you want to leave, there is no way.
The submarines here are already densely packed, just waiting for the arrival of enemy ships. Although they do not do the main attack, it is enough to gather intelligence and make up for the shortcomings of the radar that cannot fully cover the sea area.
Yamamoto didn't feel too much pressure, and he knew that the mission here was complete after the army defeated the combined British forces, occupied all of South Africa, and assisted the army in taking the island of Madagascar. He wants to go back and stabilize the coastal countries or islands that he has occupied. The most important thing is to assist the army to take Malacca, otherwise, their passage will not be smooth.
Little did he know that his detour was not all smooth sailing, and that it was a difficult situation to survive.
At the moment when Mengzi's navy moved, Sun Tao also began to cross the sea. All usable sea-crossing tools are used and pretended. Actually, they have thousands of helicopters. You don't need to cross the sea at all, just for everyone to see. The advance army was about to cross the sea and then continue the pursuit.
His actions relieved the British, although they were not allies with the advance army, but the enemy was in common, South Africa was captured by the Japanese in a month, which was a shame and the losses were quite large.
The advance army fought with the Japanese army. It's better than them fighting with the Japanese army, after all, the dead are the advance army, although the place is controlled by the advance army, but there is still a reason to follow, and they can still come back. After all, the advance army is not an invasion, but the battlefield is only on their territory.
Because of this, Churchill chose to retreat, letting the advance army fight the Japanese first, and as for the land, we will talk about it later.
Without mentioning this, the fleet of the fierce son arrived at the predetermined place after a day's secret voyage and when the whole of Australia was in a pot of porridge.
This will be the day, it is already dawn, and the sight is good.
Japanese fleet submarines sailed underwater, and planes circled the skies, searching for suspicious surroundings. Yamamoto Fifty-six fought with the British Royal Navy, and the British fled quickly, which made him puzzled and did not dare to pursue, but he always felt that it was not the fleet that had fought with them before, and he was worried that the other side would set up an ambush.
Although this will be back to the area under your control, it is still necessary to be safe.
Fierce already knew the location of the Japanese Combined Fleet 100 kilometers away, and he did not prepare for a decisive battle, but only let the aircraft carrier's helicopter take off, and first fought with the Japanese planes, and after shooting down most of the attack planes, their plan could be implemented safely.
The four aircraft carriers were all helicopters, the propellers of these helicopters were folded, and they were opened before takeoff, and one by one they were lifted into the air, and after formation, they went straight to the Japanese fleet in the clouds.
The Japanese would not know what was going on in front of them, and their seaplane patrols within a radius of 150 kilometers, and when they found enemy planes or part-time jobs, the battle group had enough time to react.
Luo Hao, who led the team, was the captain of the attack group, and in the clouds, he had already seen the battle group of the enemy ships from the radar, no more than twenty kilometers away from them.
"Prepare for battle!"
Luo Hao ordered while lowering the nose of the machine to drill out of the clouds.
Hundreds of helicopters whizzed after him out of the clouds and suddenly appeared in front of a seaplane.
The moment the pilot of the seaplane saw the planes emerging from the clouds and appearing in front of him, his soul flew away, and he screamed and made a sharp turn, trying to leave.
The co-pilot in the back was stunned, and then reacted, calling out and discovering a group of enemy planes.
Luo Hao looked at the water reconnaissance plane that had finished turning in front of him, and said with a smile: "Don't fire, wait for him to send the news back." ”
The plane turned most of its body, but the other party had not yet fired, fortunately it was possible to escape, ignoring the pressure caused by the sharp turn, and turned its head to look at the group of planes in the distance that was green in the sun.
Just as he turned his head, he suddenly saw a little fire flashing, and then the fire quickly approached.
"What's that?!!"
He exclaimed.
The co-pilot also saw the fire flying rapidly in the air, and before his eyes could focus, the plane was blown up with a big hole, and then the flames filled the air.
"Ahh
The two let out screams of horror and despair. It was then engulfed in flames, and with another explosion, the plane shattered into pieces and fell into the air with flames into the sea below......
Waste......
Luo Hao muttered, but did not blame the wingman who fired. For the first time, new weapons were used in real combat. It's inevitable that the new root cat will scratch the same, but he understands.
"Wait for the enemy plane to approach!!"
Luo Hao ordered loudly.
At the moment when the group of planes on this side was stagnant, Sanmoto Fifty-six received the news that the group of enemy planes was approaching. This made him extremely excited. This is the deep sea, at least six or seven hundred kilometers from the coast, and the aircraft group is definitely not inherited to take off, it must be an aircraft carrier.
"Find the position of the opposing aircraft carrier and prepare for battle!!"
He calmly ordered.
With that, the Japanese battleship sounded a piercing battle alarm, and the figures on the deck ran. One by one rushed to the combat position. The fighters took off urgently, and the planes on the flight deck roared into the air, quickly assembled, and pounced on the location where the enemy planes were discovered, the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were raised one after another, and the battleships slowly approached the aircraft carrier. The fast battleships changed formations and surrounded the perimeter of the battleship. Beware of submarines approaching.
In just a few minutes, more than a dozen planes pounced in the direction from which the enemy plane came, and at the same time, the mecha high-speed reconnaissance plane drilled straight into the clouds and searched in the direction of the possible ground aircraft carrier.
"It's coming! Don't let go, don't use new weapons. These are not enough to stuff your teeth. ”
Luo Hao saw the enemy plane displayed by the radar, although it was a little less, he still gave the order to meet the enemy
With the order, the helicopter took up a position and hovered in mid-air. They didn't dodge, they didn't dodge, they didn't maneuver, and when the group of planes in the distance showed their figures, the machine guns opened fire one after another.
The tom shells roared towards the enemy plane, like a large net, firmly covering the direction from which the enemy plane came.
"So much!!"
The Japanese pilots also saw the group of planes in the distance, and in shock, they quickly maneuvered left and right to avoid the oncoming attack.
But they seem to have forgotten that this is exactly the way the advance army's helicopters fight, long-range blocking, rotating the fuselage to shoot, or simply starting the Vulcan cannon on the side, weaving a chain of interceptor missiles, waiting for the Japanese planes to collide.
Sure enough, the Japanese planes were hit again, and in the process of turning, they were covered by a rain of bullets, and they didn't even have a chance to fight back.
More than a dozen planes were wiped out one by one, but the message was sent back, so that the aircraft carrier knew the location of the enemy plane's lock and began to maneuver to dodge.
At the same time, the assembled group of planes roared and flew straight to this side, wanting to take the first step in an air battle.
After shooting down these planes, Luo Hao ordered the aircraft group to disperse and began to prepare to meet the enemy, approaching the enemy's warships, and forcing the aircraft carrier to take off to intercept the aircraft when the air defense could not reach them.
He believed in the commander's judgment that the enemy's aircraft carriers would not allow the aircraft group to get close, otherwise, they would not be able to defend against hundreds of aircraft.
The battle broke out at this moment. The Japanese fleet flew out not far before they saw the enemy aircraft, and a battle broke out.
The flying skills of the Japanese army are not covered, and the circling and fighting of aircraft is also considered to be the upper reaches of this country. However, the combat effectiveness of the helicopter group they faced was beyond their imagination, and as soon as they looked at their faces, in the light of fire, the fighters exploded directly in the air, and they didn't see what weapon hit them.
This is one of the new weapons of the advance army, which is an airborne rocket, an unguided rocket. Against planes whose speed has not yet reached the speed of sound, it is a dozen and one accurate, as long as it is locked, it does not run. Moreover, the caliber of the rocket is larger than that of the machine gun, and one piece is enough to blow up the plane, and there is no possibility of being injured at all. With the speed of Mach 2, how can this fighter be able to dodge at close range? It's too late to react.
The Japanese took off 85 fighters, and in a short air battle of more than a dozen minutes, only two helicopters were shot down, and in the fierce battle, one failed to return and all were shot down.
"Help! Keep getting closer to the enemy ship!! ”
Although the victory was resounding, Luo Hao did not have the slightest carelessness, and ordered to continue to approach the enemy ship, attack and harass the enemy ship outside the range of the enemy's artillery, and force it to take off the fighter.
Yamamoto fifty-six: This will make the scalp tingle. Eighty-five planes, in less than half an hour, did not return, the result of the battle is not a matter of course, except for the frightened and desperate shouts of the pilots, they got nothing.
How dare the observer let the enemy aircraft approach the aircraft carrier at the moment when he saw that it was already approaching? That's a one-shot bomb.
"Strike aircraft take off!! Fast ships approach support !! ”
With the command. On the aircraft carriers traveling at high speed, flamingos took off one after another. These zeros were the last trump card, and he had to use them carefully.
Those destroyers and frigates also broke away from the formation and moved towards the concentration of enemy aircraft, and the anti-aircraft guns were even more tom-tom.
How could Luo Hao wait for the enemy ship to arrive? Their targets are enemy aircraft, as long as they are disturbed. If you don't have the energy to bomb, the show will be on the verge of begins.
At the moment when the enemy ship was dispatched, the helicopters immediately separated, and in groups of ten, they avoided the enemy ship from a distance, waiting for the arrival of the enemy plane.
They are all transport aircraft, with enough fuel to fly three thousand kilometers, and they do not worry about fuel consumption in air combat at all. And there is no emergency hovering, and the fuel consumption is not large.
And those flamingos. Relying on the speed, the whistling came, trying to use the speed to defeat the agility of the opponent.
Thus, with the enemy warship visible, a tragic air battle began.
More than 50 Zeros chased and flipped in the air for more than 20 minutes, and all of them were shot down without shooting down an enemy plane. One by one, they burned into huge fireballs, under the gaze of the Japanese army. Falling into the sea.
Enemy planes are so powerful......
All the Japanese soldiers on the battleships who saw the air battle were stunned, this is not something they can contend with. The opponent's firepower, the opponent's fire-breathing shells, and the middle one, rarely missed.
With the rangefinder watching, they finally figured out where the fireball came from, spewing from a beehive at each end of the plane. It seems to be a multi-barreled artillery.
They have new weapons......
This is the judgment that rises in Yamamoto's fifty-six heart.
The loss of most of the attack aircraft made him dare not take off the planes to meet the enemy, so he had to shrink the fleet and defend against air attacks.
After an hour of fierce fighting, Luo Hao saw that the fleet in the distance was once again in a circle, so he ordered to return.
At this time. The Japanese reconnaissance planes that took off had been left behind by the anti-aircraft guns on Mengzi's side, and none of them could escape, although the Japanese army learned the location of the fleet, but it is believed that the specific situation has not had time to give feedback.
Hearing that Luo Hao's fighter group had returned and lost only two aircraft, Mengzi ordered the fleet to detour, avoid the enemy fleet, and send a cruiser to follow the enemy ships and wait for the attack to begin.
An aircraft carrier battle ended in a short air battle, and the Japanese bombers, after obtaining the coordinates, after careful deliberation, still took off, trying to take advantage of the chaos when the enemy planes landed to attack the opponent's aircraft carriers.
Mengzi had already calculated that the enemy would attack the fleet, so the aircraft carrier was in the middle, dozens of battleships were guarded, and anti-aircraft guns were erected, waiting for the arrival of enemy aircraft.
Luo Hao and the others landed quickly, and one by one they were dragged to the edge, replenishing fuel and adding weapons. They were about to launch an attack on the Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships.
During the helicopter landing, enemy planes pounced. The moment the radar crew locked onto the group of enemy planes, the 127 antiaircraft guns roared one after another, and one after another close-explosive shells flew up and flew towards the enemy planes.
When the Japanese planes had not yet spotted the enemy ship in the clouds, the surrounding air suddenly expanded violently, and a loud bang sounded their death knell.
The close-up shells exploded twenty or thirty meters away from their planes, and they could not dodge them at all, and in the loud roar, those torpedo bombers and dive bombers were torn apart one after another before they could start attacking, and debris flew all over the sky, and one after another ignited a fire, or broke off their wings, and fell to the sea.
"Kill all enemy planes!!"
The fierce man shouted in the midst of the artillery fire.
On the aircraft carrier, attack planes take off quickly, these are different from transport planes, they have a short range, but their ability to progress is more powerful than that of transport planes.
In just a few minutes, they lifted off when the Japanese group of planes dispersed and tried to break through in all directions.
Balls of flame erupted from the nose of the helicopter, and the rockets opened fire a few hundred meters away. One rocket after another dragged the tail fin, and in the blink of an eye, they rushed to the enemy plane, and before the other side could understand the situation, they were blown up one after another.
Those escort attack planes also have no ability to fight back, and their 7.62 machine guns can't hit the opponent at all from a distance of a few hundred meters, so they can only be beaten.
It's not that the Japanese pilots can't do it, but in fact, the advance team in terms of weapons is at the crushing level, and the speed and accuracy of the rockets are not something they can avoid at all. Whether they dive or climb is not able to jump from the cannon and rockets.
The sky was a one-sided slaughter, and Japanese planes were shot down three or four thousand meters away from the battleships.
They only need one chance, as long as they get close, even if they collide, the Japanese will sink these aircraft carriers. Unfortunately, they didn't get closer. The firepower of these enemy planes was so heavy that they were not given a chance to get close at all.
Nearly 100 bombers and attack planes fell one after another in the smoke of gunpowder, making the Japanese army crazy one by one, but there was no hope of approaching. They were ready to hit the enemy ship with heavy damage even if they collided with the plane. Unfortunately, everything was in vain, they desperately showed their flying skills, but could not escape the on-board fire lock.
Their flying skills were admired by the pilots of the advance team, but they still could not escape the fate of being shot down. Although they also hit several enemy planes, due to their weapons, they were unable to penetrate the armor of the key parts of the gunship, except for some pits, they did not catch anything, and the moment they all crashed, not a single plane was shot down.
When an enemy plane disappeared on the radar, the fierce man looked at the parachutes falling in the sky with disdain, and ordered: "The destroyer is out of line, kill all the parachutes, the frigate is ready, we are going to attack!" ”
Today, he wants to show the Japanese army what a naval battle is, although the opponent has dozens of warships, but all of them are sunk, it will not take a few days, a few hours is enough! (To be continued......)