Both warships were wounded, and there was a threat of oxygen torpedoes, so Shen Honglie had to order a retreat, but "the house leak happened to rain overnight", hundreds of Japanese planes from Inchon and Seoul arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time, the former were all fighters, and there was no direct threat to the two Chinese warships, but the planes from Seoul were not only more numerous, but also nearly 100 army bombers, which made the Chinese naval officers and soldiers on the two warships Dingyuan and Zhiyuan change color. But at this moment, a group of black-pressed planes also appeared in the northwest sky, and some nimble naval officers and men were the first to react and said in surprise, "It's our plane!" ”

With the help of radar, the devil's dispatch of such a large-scale aircraft group will inevitably alarm the former enemy command of the first theater in Qingdao, which the devil also expected, in fact, they dispatched so many planes at once, of course, to destroy those captured Japanese ships, but also to lure the main force of the North China Air Corps to annihilate it, otherwise the devil would not have sent so many fighters. But to their great surprise, "why are there so many enemy aircraft?" ”

Although the pilots of the Japanese army knew that their own battle reports had always been exaggerated, no matter what, there was always a limit, but now the number of enemy planes that were visually inspected exceeded 500, which was almost twice as much as the intelligence said. They didn't know that the 150 planes and corresponding pilots of the second batch of Soviet-aided air forces had just flown to Jinan not long ago, and now that the situation was urgent, Hu Weidong had sent them all out to make a strong noise, if they really wanted to fight to the death with the devils. Although these Soviet pilots are much better than the first batch of Soviet aid air forces, they still lack actual combat experience after all, and they are afraid that it will be difficult for them to perform too well. However, it is not only the fighter jets that can threaten the Devil Fleet

"Afraid of hair! Hit me hard! The more enemy planes, the greater our results! It's harder to miss than to hit, and there aren't many opportunities like that! Tang Jun, director of the political department of the Zhiyuan, who was born in the air defense brigade of the 15 th Army, although he was handsome and white, kept swearing in his mouth. But perhaps it was his composure and optimism that the 24 large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the Zhiyuan, which had not suffered any losses because the main turret had diverted and blocked the enemy's artillery fire, were the first to roar at the enemy aircraft group that almost obscured the eastern sky

The combination of "gunsight radar + proximity fuse" that did not appear until the middle and late stages of World War II in history was really useful, and the first salvo shot down two Japanese fighters who rushed in front to cover the bombers. A number of other enemy planes were injured to varying degrees, and Tang Jun slapped his thigh and shouted, "Good fight!" Let's do a few more fights! ”

The pilots of the devils were a little suspicious of the sudden appearance of so many planes by the enemy. But after all, they did not lose the courage to attack, and more than a dozen dive bombers took the lead in rushing out of the queue and desperately pounced on the Zhiyuan, which was still some distance away from the Dingyuan and could not form a crossfire. As the distance closes, the threat of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of enemy ships grows, but the bomber pilots of the devil believe that as long as they successfully break through the barrage, the heavy cruiser with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons will be left to its own hands like a beautiful woman stripped of her clothes. However, before the Japanese Army dive bombers descended to an altitude where they could start diving, the close defense system on the Zhiyuan began to wield, although the corresponding rapid-response gunsight radar had not yet been developed. However, when the gyroscopic sight, known as a miracle in history, is widely equipped, it can also increase its accuracy and reaction speed by several times

"Suddenly", the four twin-mounted 37 anti-aircraft guns first spewed out angry tongues of fire, and the enemy planes that had dropped to an altitude of less than 300 meters were immediately hit head-on, in addition to direct hits. The 37 shells fired by these anti-aircraft guns will also self-detonate after 8 seconds, although the killing efficiency can not be compared with the proximity fuse, but the barrage formed by it is also a threat that cannot be ignored for dive bombers, it must be known that the current dive bombers have no armor protection

After losing a few more planes, the Japanese dive bombers finally got into a position where they could dive. But the real main force of the close defense system on the Zhiyuan also officially appeared from this time. Eight twin-mounted 25 anti-aircraft guns rained out hundreds of shells almost instantly (a single cannon rate of fire was 600 rounds per minute), forming an impermeable fire net, and the Japanese bombers that were the first to dive were the first to bear the brunt and were directly scattered. And the 12 6-barreled "Phalanx" anti-aircraft machine guns have become a nightmare for these Japanese pilots, although the caliber is not too big, but it is more than enough to destroy the devil's thin-skinned plane, and more importantly, its terrifying rate of fire of thousands of rounds per second far exceeds the devil's imagination, and they are even crushed together with their determination to die, and the entire twelve bombers did not cause any trauma to the Zhiyuan

"All annihilated? Annihilation! All the devil pilots who saw this scene were stunned, they had seen such terrible anti-aircraft fire for the first time in their lives, no, it could even be said that they had never heard of it. Some well-intentioned people secretly made a rough comparison between the anti-aircraft firepower of the heavy cruiser of the Imperial Navy and the conclusion, but the conclusion made them unbelievable, "Compared with the Tsukuma of the same class, this warship has at least 10 times more anti-aircraft firepower, no, 20 times, 20 times!" How exactly do the Chinese do it? It's only been so much time! ”

Although they were generally shocked, these devil pilots still would not let go of the Zhiyuan, but as soon as the failed dive bombing just now was delayed, the distance between the Zhiyuan and the Dingyuan was much closer, and at least the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the two warships could support each other. What is even worse is that the devil's airborne radio station is very difficult to use, and in most cases the communication between the planes relies on sign language and drawing boards, which not only makes the Japanese planes have to keep a close distance, but also increases the hit rate of the enemy's anti-aircraft fire in disguise, and seriously affects the coordination and command of the Japanese planes, and the larger the size of the plane, the more so. This is evidenced by the fact that there have never been thousands of aircraft operating together in a unified war, even though the peak annual production of Japanese aircraft during World War II exceeded 16,000 units

At present, the most direct manifestation of this is that after having already touched the wall once, the devil's dive bombers unconsciously divided into two teams, but as a result, they dispersed their forces, so that more than 30 bombers were shot down in vain in a single dive bombing (most of the Japanese planes pounced on the Dingyuan, which had a larger target), but they did not sink even a single enemy ship......)

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