A huge column of water rose like a forest around the Russian ship, and the Russian ship was obviously familiar with evading the attack of the airship, while the cumbersome "Qiangyun" airship, which was longer than the warship, was obviously powerless against the Russian ship in a violent maneuver, and almost all the dozens of tons of bombs missed.

Witnessing the defeat of the "Qiangyun" fleet, Rear Admiral Guo Zhifei on the No. 101 command boat suddenly turned very unsightly.

"In my opinion, airships are still more appropriate to attack cities."

Brigadier General Wang Shengping, who was on the sidelines, did not intend to consider the feelings of others.

The discouraged "Qiangyun" convoy retreated to the northwest, and a large group of "Qingfengkai" bombers, nicknamed "medium-sized pig skeletons," buzzed past the huge and friendless "Qiangyun" in a pitifully small manner.

The sailors on the Russian ships opened fire on the Chinese planes with all the weapons they could use -- carrier-based machine guns with the firing angle turned up, small-caliber rapid-fire guns, rifles, and pistols -- and even angry cooks threw potatoes into the sky; of course the potatoes could not hit the planes, but the bullets and shells in the sky posed a great threat to the "Qingfeng Gai" which was loaded with bombs at a speed of less than 100 kilometers per hour, and four of the 27 "Qingfeng Gai" of the Second Bombing Group crashed into the sea during the first attack, and another three crashed when returning home wounded.

Despite this, the pilots of the Second Bombardment Group, who had undergone seven weeks of special training in naval attack, managed the "Clear Wind Change," which was much more flexible than the "strong clouds," and still achieved the first result of the "swarm" operation.

At about 9 o'clock, Captain Cai Yi, squadron leader of the 10th Bombing Squadron, led the A squad of his squadron to enter from the starboard rear of the Russian ship "Dawn", and each plane descended to an altitude of less than 30 meters, almost flying over the top of the mast of the "Dawn", and the three "Qingfeng Gai" each dropped two 250-kilogram bombs, and one bomb directly hit the top of the main boiler room of the "Dawn". Another 1 shell hit the bridge, killing the captain of the ship, Colonel Vasilyev, who was on the bridge and commanded, on the spot; One shell exploded below the starboard armor belt, causing the starboard officer's cabin to be flooded. The No. 2101 squadron leader was hit by a lot of bullets, the fuel tank leaked, and it almost crashed when landing, the crew was killed and two were injured, and the squadron leader Captain Cai Yi suffered a fracture in his right arm.

A few minutes later, the C team of the 12th Bombardment Squadron launched an attack from the starboard side of the "Dawn" in the same way, dropping 5 bombs, directly hitting 1, and collapsing the mainmast, nearly missing 2, causing the engine room to be flooded.

The 181-meter-long No. 207 "Ziyun" airship moved its huge body, risked being hit by artillery fire and descended to a height of less than 400 meters, dropping 12 250-kilogram bombs on the "Dawn", at least one of which hit directly, and another one or two misses closely. The huge column of water and waves that were stirred up by the explosion of the bombs that fell near the battleship caused many sailors who abandoned their ships to drown.

The "Dawn" was still breathing, until half past ten, it only tilted 15 degrees to the starboard side, at this time, the 302nd "Purple Cloud" boat of the 3rd Floating Attack Group of the Chinese Army arrived belatedly, the captain of the boat, Captain Han Anchen, obviously despised the Russians' so-called anti-aircraft fire to the extreme, and commanded the boat to approach the "Dawn" at an altitude of 100 meters, and the Russian sailors who held their positions in the battle position operated machine guns and machine guns to fire a burst of fierce fire, and the pod of the 302nd boat was already beaten like a honeycomb before approaching the Dawn, and the two engines failedCaptain Han Anchen was shot in three places, but he still personally drove the airship to insist on following the predetermined course, and personally turned the bombardier handwheel to drop 12 250-kilogram bombs in one go, and the three bombs directly hit and detonated the ammunition depot of the front main gun of the "Dawn", and the strong smoke cloud rising during the explosion shook the unloaded No. 302 boat upwards several hundred meters at once. With this earth-shaking explosion, the bow of the "Dawn" with a standard displacement of 12,674 tons plunged forward into the sea, and soon revealed the huge butt of the propeller that had already stopped......

The "Dawn" had a strength of 778 people, of which 581 went to sea with the ship and 527 were martyred with the ship.

The No. 302 "Ziyun" boat, which ended the "Dawn" after the last end, struggled to continue flying for more than an hour, and finally landed at Artyom, 35 kilometers away, and after the count, more than 200 bullet holes were punched on the surface of the airship pod, and the hull was covered with thousands of holes of all sizes from head to tail, and 8 of the 9 airbags of the whole boat were pierced, and one of the deflated airbags was actually wrapped in a bloody arm......

Witnessing the tragedy of the "Dawn", the fleet commander on the flagship "Letvizhan", Rear Admiral Wittgeft, lost patience.

Without any plan, Wittgeft ordered the whole fleet to sail out to the open sea, and he first said to the chief of staff, Colonel La Peroouse: "I have decided, the transport ships will return to port, and the other ships will follow the flagship to break through to the Strait of La Perouse (i.e., the Soya Strait)!" ”

La Perouse was taken aback: "Shouldn't we assist the Army in holding the fort and waiting for reinforcements from the Second Pacific Fleet?" ”

Wittgeft sneered: "Do you believe they can drive here?" If they can get here this year, then we can break out of here last year, and what we can't do, they can't do. ”

"But if we break through now, we can only end up in a dead end, we have just lost the 'Dawn', and now the Chinese fleet blocking here has an absolute superiority in strength......"

'Don't you understand?' The end of the Dawning is the end of our entire fleet in a few hours, the enemy has learned how to use their aerial weapons to destroy our fleet, we must now stay away from land, away from their attack range, and circling around the harbor is an absolute dead end! ”

"But the enemy's fleet ......"

"Damn the fleet! The Russian fleet was designed to fight the enemy's fleet, not the enemy's air weapons! ”

So, at 10:45 a.m., shortly after the sinking of the "Dawn," the flag of the Russian Pacific Fleet's "Retvizhan" was raised: "The whole ship moves with the flagship." ”

At around 11 o'clock, the transport ships "Angara River" and "Lena River" were successively sunk by the "Qingfeng Gai" of the First Bombardment Group of the Chinese Army, and most of the personnel on board were rescued.

Previously, the boats of the "Purple Cloud" medium-sized attack airships of the 2nd and 3rd Floating Attack Groups of the Chinese Army scattered and attacked the maneuvering Russian ships, and almost missed a single bomb, but a large area of fish belly white appeared on the sea surface as a result-the poor innocent braised with the smell of the sea must have been very fragrant The author has not eaten it for a long time...... Fish.

Rear Admiral Guo Zhifei on the No. 101 command boat had an even worse complexion, and as the leader of the Airship Party, he was eager to personally drive a "strong cloud" full of bombs to rush down and destroy an enemy ship of 10,000 tons at once with 24 250-kilogram bombs at an altitude of 50 meters with a fearless spirit...... Although it is quite cost-effective to exchange a 130,000-pound airship for a warship of more than 1 million pounds, if the premise of destroying the enemy is to destroy oneself at the same time, this is tantamount to blaspheming modern military civilization and advanced technology, and it is not ridiculous to have more advanced weapons and superior forces than the enemy to carry out a suicidal attack?

"If the airship is equipped with a machine gun or even a medium-caliber gun......"

"What?" Brigadier General Wang Shengping, who is the leader of the Airship Party, is trying to take the opportunity to extinguish the momentum of the Airship Party.

"It's nothing, I'm thinking, if the airship pod is equipped with artillery, and the pod itself is equipped with armor, it can suppress the anti-aircraft fire of the enemy ship while pressing the enemy ship at an ultra-low altitude to drop bombs, even if our airship is broken by more than half of the airbags, it will definitely be able to insist on returning to the forward base dozens of kilometers away, right! With such armored artillery to attack the airship...... No, with such air battleships, all surface warships on the planet are going to go to the garbage dump......"

Wang Shengping was speechless for a while, he didn't have nothing to say, he just had to admire the fanaticism and terror of the airship party.

"Air battleship vs. surface battleship ......"

Wang Shengping was a little dizzy, although he never got airsick, let alone airship.

"Report, at four o'clock, the enemy ship group turned to the southeast as a whole!"

Hearing the observer's report, Guo Zhifei immediately leaned in front of the high-powered telescope behind the starboard side: The Russian fleet was like a mole coming out of its nest, with the big ship in front and the small ship behind, with the head and tail and tail head, pulling out waves of clear slotted ship marks on the sea.

"If you stop avoiding the reorganization team, you should want to escape to the open sea as a team."

Wang Shengping grabbed another high-powered telescope and said.

"Good opportunity! Observer, see the 3rd Bombardment Group? ”

Guo Zhifei also had to pin his hopes on those "medium-sized pig skeletons" this time.

"Not yet!"

"Keep watching!"

"Report, eight o'clock, find my fleet!"

Guo Zhifei hurriedly ran to the telescope behind the port side, several steel dragons were breaking out of the light sea fog, and if you looked closely, it turned out that each long dragon was a warship column, and around the five columns that were advancing in unison, more than ten vigilant ships were like shrimp soldiers and crabs serving the dragon.

"Cut, the Navy has come to take credit."

Wang Shengping didn't care about the door at this time, after all, both of them were among the army's aviation floating troops.

"What is the 3rd Bombardment Group doing!" Guo Zhifei was anxious.

"yes, I don't know what kind of plane they're doing!" Wang Shengping was also anxious.

According to research, the popular saying "what kind of airplane do you have" comes from this.