Only 46 of the 54 "Haiyanlei" of the 101st Wing that took off from the Linyuan Air Station successfully arrived over Lingjiayan Bay, and the other 8 returned early or fell behind due to various breakdowns, and the 102nd Wing that took off from Pingtung was even more unlucky, due to a large area of rain clouds encountered on the way, 15 planes were separated from the group. In other words, a total of 85 "Haiyan mines" entered Lingayen Bay to launch attacks on the enemy's combined fleet, and excluding the four command planes and spare command planes that were not equipped with torpedoes, the attack teams participating in the battle carried a total of 81 450-mm torpedoes.

The 101st Wing was divided into six squadrons, and first launched an attack on the enemy's main column, and the huge shadow of the "Malaya" made it the number one target of the attacking force, and a total of 23 planes from three squadrons launched an assault from three directions, and the other three squadrons each selected a battleship after the "Malaya" and simultaneously advanced from the enemy's port side.

In addition to the "Malaya", the "Giant" and the "Hercules" each were equipped with six three-inch anti-aircraft guns and several anti-aircraft machine guns, the "Dandong" was equipped with four 75-mm anti-aircraft guns, the "Java" was equipped with one 65-mm anti-aircraft gun, and the "Nelson", "African" and "Britannia" were each equipped with two three-inch anti-aircraft guns, a total of 33 anti-aircraft guns (the number of anti-aircraft guns available on one side was 23)- At this time, these anti-aircraft guns had to face 44 Chinese planes attacking at the same time.

Firing at a flying aircraft from a ship at sea is much more difficult than shelling a torpedo boat on the surface with an anti-aircraft gun -- in addition to calculating the distance and relative speed, it is also necessary to calculate the height of the enemy aircraft in real time, and the combat object is transformed from two to three dimensions, which is a leap in itself.

From the perspective of a certain era, the anti-aircraft guns on these warships can really be called rudimentary, in fact, they are almost directly modified from the original anti-lightning anti-aircraft guns or the long-standing army anti-balloon guns, and the sighting device is quite primitive, basically made up of the original equipment slightly modified and pieced together, using artificially timed airburst shells - the ammunition hand temporarily sets the airburst altitude according to the calculated height of the enemy aircraft. In addition, these anti-aircraft guns were completely exposed on the decks of each level, without any specialized protection.

It's just that the adversaries of these rudimentary things are obviously lackluster: bulky bodies have difficulty turning, they have to take a fixed course to attack, and the airspeed of more than a hundred kilometers is not much faster than that of the fastest lightning strikers - everyone is each other.

For a time, I saw a group of eagles dancing around the four largest battleships, the "Malaya", the "Giant", the "Hercules" and the "Dandong", and the black smoke clouds disappeared one after another, densely polluting the blue sky of the originally clear and clean Lingayan......

"Hit!"

"The yellow monkey has fed the fish!"

A cheer erupted from the anti-aircraft gun position in the middle of the port side of the "Malaya", and a few hundred yards in front of them, a huge four-engine plane dragged long black smoke and flew large and small debris into the sea, splashing a large and gorgeous splash.

"Torpedo! The torpedo is coming! ”

One of the sailors exclaimed, only to be slapped on the head by an officer next to him.

"Continue your duty and bring the shells over!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a string of bullets swept across the gun emplacement, and happened to smash the officer's head into a cloud of red liquid splattered watermelon......

Originally, three 13-millimeter heavy machine guns were fixed in the huge nose of the "Haiyan Thunder", which could be strafed by the pilot with tracer shells from a distance of several hundred to thousands of yards through a special sight that could be bounced up in front of the pilot. Of course, this kind of strafing at close range also comes with a big risk - the anti-aircraft machine guns that are densely packed on the battleship are not vegetarian either.

The tracer bullets that interact with each other on the battleship and the plane weave a mysterious web of light that appears in a dream: on the other side of the light net, from time to time, one or two of the giant birds with two wings spit out fireworks, or turn into a ball of scattered fires in the air, or drag a long black belt for funeral to rush to the sea; On this side of the light web, the steel plates of the battleship shimmered with beautiful sparks of metal collision, and those unprotected gun emplacements bloomed from time to time with bright blood bursts of flesh and bones......

Under this gorgeous web of light, there are gray torpedo tracks intertwined - look! At the end of one of the tracks, behind the huge column of water that went straight into the sky was ...... "Malaya"! That's right! Hit! The first hit of the third ship! The work of the Navy's land-based aviation!

Colonel Liang Tian, the commander of the 101st Wing, who was hovering over the battlefield, wrote excitedly in the record book: "At 13:45, one shot hit the port side of the enemy's flagship. The enemy column was moving at low speed, which was extremely advantageous for the attack of our troops. ”

Two minutes later, the French ship "Danton" was hit by a mine, and immediately after that, the "Malaya" was hit by a mine again.

The squadrons of the 101st Wing had not yet finished throwing torpedoes, and the 102nd Wing had already rushed to the battlefield, only to see the signal flares on the command plane, and the five squadrons aimed at the five dreadnought battleships in the front of the enemy's main column and killed them.

At the same time that more than 80 heavy bombers of the Third Fleet were frantically tearing and killing the enemy battleships, the first lightning wave consisting of 30 torpedo boats from the three mine-boat squadrons of the DPRK army and 23 destroyers from the five destroyer squadrons of the DPRK and Japanese forces also engaged in a melee with the bayonets of the enemy's destroyer units......

In the fierce battle, the Japanese destroyer "Asashio" was hit with flames, the steering gear lost control, and in the confusion it actually crashed into the British ship "Morris" at full speed, and the "Morris" broke into two on the spot, and the "Asashio" instantly lost the front half of the ship, including the bridge, and in just two or three minutes, the two ships disappeared from the sea almost simultaneously.

As the Franco-Dutch destroyer fleet and the US destroyers and torpedo boats of the rear guard of the enemy's vanguard rushed to support, the first lightning wave of our army, which was mainly composed of old-fashioned mine-striking ships, gradually became weaker, and the hope of breaking close to the enemy's main column to carry out lightning strikes became more and more faint......

"A large number of small ships have been spotted on the starboard side of the Bansylan Peninsula! Approaching at high speed! ”

Eating three torpedoes in 20 minutes, and at this time on the "Malaya", which had already tilted 5 degrees to the left, Bernie heard the panicked shouts of the lookout in the sound tube, his heart trembled, and he let go of the telescope in his hand, and the strap attached to the telescope dangled on Bernie's chest, indicating an even more ominous future-

Sure enough, as soon as Bernie came back to his senses, a four-engine plane that was close at hand and breathing fire everywhere suddenly passed outside the porthole, and in the blink of an eye, the bridge shook violently, and Bernie, who was supported by the staff officers in time, saw a large dazzling flame rising from the porthole, covering the entire porthole on the left in an instant......

At about 2:05 p.m., the No. 4 plane of the 7th Marine Attack Squadron of the 102nd Wing resolutely rushed to the "Malaya" after being hit by a bullet and caught fire, and crashed into the No. 1 anti-aircraft gun position in the lower left side of the bridge.

While Bernie was still suffering from the smoke and fire on the "Malaya", fifty or sixty torpedo boats from Banchland nimbly dodged the blazing artillery fire from the battleships of the Four-Nation Alliance, and flew like fish towards the floating castles that towered over the sea—

It turned out that this was the most difficult trap in Lingayen Bay - the second lightning wave composed of 58 small torpedo boats composed of 3 of the most elite mineboat teams of the Chinese army and 4 mineboat teams of the Japanese army. These small, fast, and agile minecraft had been concealed and on standby in several harbors under the control of our troops on the east coast of the Banchland Peninsula, and had been fully camouflaged. According to the plan of the fleet headquarters of the front, after the joint attack of our cruiser's blocking line, the first lightning wave, and the air attack force completely attracted the attention of the other side, the second lightning wave suddenly attacked from the other side of the enemy fleet, taking the enemy by surprise.

The timing of the second lightning wave attack is just right!

At this time, the enemy destroyer force was completely attracted by our first lightning wave and fell into a dog-eat-dog melee; The enemy's advance guard units are also engaged with the forces on the blocking line of our cruisers, and it is not easy to withdraw; And the colonial-type cruisers of the rearguard units were poorly maneuverable and seemed to be difficult to stop in time.

The enemy's main column, which had suffered from air raids, had to face the wolves that covered almost the entire field of vision by themselves—yes, it was a showdown between the elephants and the wolves, but those lean and thin little wolves had powerful teeth and claws that pierced the elephant's skin and even pierced the elephant's heart!

The anti-lightning guns on the battleships roared wildly, but several of the huge ships were tilted after the thunder, and some of the anti-lightning guns could not be used, so they had to turn the rudder with great difficulty to evade. It's just that here are torpedoes dropped by planes, and over there are torpedoes fired by torpedo boats, how to dodge? In addition to this, it is necessary to constantly keep an eye out for mines and submarines, and to watch for signs of the main forces of the opposing side outside the bay - all this increases the anxiety and nervousness of the captains, making their tongues dry, their fists itching, their eyes dizzy, and hysterical......

The torpedo boat troops, which were arranged in several wedges, were like holy knights on the sea, and although they did not have heavy spears in their hands, they carried their god-given swords at their waists, and drove their thin but fierce mounts to rush through the turquoise grass in front of them—the horse's hooves splashed with blades of grass—and charge valiantly towards the steel-clad moving castle full of cannon barrels!

The cannonballs are coming! Exploding among the knights, a large amount of sea water rushed into the sky and fell down one after another, each explosion was a torrential rain, the rain washed over the knights' armor, but it was powerless to hinder their progress!

More shells are coming! Dense shampling swept across the sea, piercing through the knight's armor, and the knight was bleeding and exhaling, and the blood burned so fiercely! The breath was such choking black smoke! He fell! First the horse's head, then his body and his numerical helmet, and finally the angular buttocks—little by little, like a slow motion in a movie, slowly disappearing into the churning and swaying grass.

One knight fell, but that didn't shake the entire order's determination to die!

The dragon and sun flags on the helmets of several leading knights inspired their will, but they stimulated the nerves of the other party, and the cannon fire on the castle was concentrated on them—no, one of the knights with the dragon banner on his head was injured, and his mount spun in circles! His body is getting more and more crooked, and he is about to fall into the bottomless grass with men and horses, who will save him!

But no one stopped to pay attention to him, sacrifice was his glory, for the sake of greater glory, the brave knights had no distractions, their eyes locked on those towering castles shrouded in the smoke of artillery fire, charge! Charge! You can't stop for a second! It can only accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again - one on the left, another on the right, none of this matters! Ignore it, ignore it, even if the whole army is destroyed, you will complete that sacred goal!

Well, it's time!

The knights drew their swords from their waists—each drawing two or three at the same time, and threw them with all their might at the towering, proud castles a thousand yards away.

After throwing their swords, the knights turned their horses around and retreated in the direction they had come, but in the process, they all stared at the god-given sword they had thrown, hoping that their risking of their lives would be successful.

The sword dragged its white light through the grass towards the chosen castle, and though it was only a little faster than the knights were charging at it, it far outpaced the speed of the clumsy castle crawling - closer, closer and closer, ah, alas, the sword on the left clearly missed the target, no, the one on the right was not saved, oh, look!

The castle in the middle has been tricked! * The divine light flashed under the castle, and suddenly a huge pillar of broken jade rose, and the pillar of destruction that rushed towards the heavens was far higher than the castle, but it quickly dispersed into a torrential rain, pouring down with a bang—

Such pillars suddenly rose and scattered, and while being chased by the cannonballs, the knights patiently counted and counted - a total of ten holy pillars were raised in front and behind! Thy light, O God! Your miracles! Hooray –

Vice Admiral Bernie, who had taken refuge on the starboard flybridge due to the fire on the lower left side of the bridge of the "Malaya", watched a live-action version of this sacred legend with his own eyes, but in his eyes, all this had nothing to do with knights and sacredness.

"Shameless! Despicable and shameless yellow monkey! ”

With veins on his forehead, Bernie let go of his throat and screamed at the "knights" who were slapping their butts and running back.