(It's two in one again, are the brothers still satisfied?!) Yu Jian and Zhang Heigou's suicidal attacks were fruitful. Not only did they blow up two crit planes at that time, but they also paralyzed the entire flight deck, making it impossible for other Japanese planes stranded on the deck or in the cabin to take off. More importantly, it set the tone for the "Sink it" air raid operation. This made many Cadet Army pilots who were originally worried that they would not be able to complete the bombing mission because they were shot down ahead of schedule: Even if they were hit, as long as they didn't kill Lao Tzu all at once, Lao Tzu would be like Yu Jian, driving the plane down and dying with the little devil!

One after another, fighter planes with the insignia of the Cadet Army painted on their fuselages appeared in front of the little devils almost against the surface of the sea, and when they were about one or two hundred meters away from the ship, they pulled up sharply, and then swooped down with a roar.

"Get in front of the Akagi! The flagship must be guarded! "Rush over at full speed! Fire, fire! ”…… On all the Japanese ships, after the terrible air defense sirens stopped, the voices of the captains were heard over the loudspeakers. The importance of the flagship to a fleet is self-evident, but the enemy chose to surprise from behind, so that the "Akagi" almost directly faced the attack of more than 200 enemy planes.

Under the command of Captain Tanaka Kikumatsu Daisa, the "Kumano" quickly reversed, and then turned the hull horizontally, directly blocking the stern of the "Akagi" with a hull up to 200 meters long.

The fierce anti-aircraft fire of the enemy ships did have a deterrent effect, and the Hawker III piloted by Yu Jian was hit as soon as it broke through the anti-aircraft fire network, and then directed an earth-shattering scene that turned the flight deck of the "Akagi" into a sea of fire.

The feat of the friendly planes in spite of their lives inspired the bomber formation of the 2nd Air Division that followed closely behind, and after all the fighters climbed to a predetermined altitude, they immediately dived down to the "Akagi" without hesitation.

In the rumbling gunfire, the bombers belonging to the 2nd Air Division were beaten and disintegrated from time to time, but no one flinched, and the remaining fighters still roared and pounced, and some of them were hit and injured, and they rushed directly towards the nearest "Kumano", which frightened the devils on the "Kumano" and screamed.

The two flight groups under the jurisdiction of the Second Air Division are heavily equipped with outdated models such as the Hawker II and the I-5, and these fighters are relatively backward in terms of protection capability and flight speed. Moreover, at this time, the Japanese ships maintained a relatively dense formation, which caused heavy losses in the first hit, the 2nd Air Division, more than 60 fighters, only less than half completed the bombing mission, and more than a dozen wounded directly turned into giant bombs and smashed on the "Kumano", "Nagato" and "Akagi" Japanese ships. The "boom" of violent explosions sounded one after another on several Japanese ships, and the bridge of the "Akagi" where Yamamoto 56 was located was first hit by several bombs, which ignited a large fire by the explosion, and then was hit by a wounded I-5 plane with bombs in its entirety, and the entire bridge was torn into two pieces after a series of explosions, and Yamamoto 56 was almost killed.

Several adjutants on the "Akagi" escorted Yamamoto to escape from the fireworks, and when they saw Yamamoto's white surrender turned brownish-gray, and his face was smoked like a coal digger who had just come out of the coal kiln, he hurriedly asked: "Your Excellency, Second Chief!" You're fine, are you?! ”

"I'm fine!" Yamamoto Fifty-six broke away from their hands, and stood a little stubbornly on the edge of the burning bridge, looking at the second and third decks that were still exploding not far away, where the critters parked were being burned into rotten copper and scrap metal in the blazing fire, and some soldiers were shouting and organizing to extinguish the fire, but how could water extinguish such a fierce fire - the "Akagi", the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was buried here today?

Several adjutants looked at each other cautiously, and then one of the adjutants made a decision, stepped forward and bent down and said, "Your Excellency, please hurry up and transfer!" ”

Yamamoto turned his head to look at him, his eyes were surprisingly calm, and he said calmly, "No! I'm the captain of the Akagi now, the ship is there, the ship is dead—why are you still standing here, is the battle over? ”

"Yes, the battle is not over yet!" Several adjutants didn't know if Lu Dao was affected by his calm and calm expression, but when they heard this, their eyes lit up, and the whole person became energetic. They left only one person and a few soldiers, and the others rushed to all parts of the ship, organizing manpower to carry out firefighting and air defense......

Not far away, the "Flying Dragon", the "Soryu", and the "Kaga" each quickly turned around and scattered under the escort of several ships. The "Mogami" followed the "Kaga", all the weapons on the ship were firing desperately, and in a porthole on the third floor of the bridge under the cover of gunsmoke and firelight, he vaguely saw several men in white general's uniforms staring at him.

Yamamoto looked at it silently, turned to look up at the sky, and silently muttered in his heart: "Your Excellency Minai, please rest assured, as long as I am here, the 'Akagi' will never sink." ”

After the fighters of the 2nd Air Division dropped bombs and escaped from the Japanese ship's air defense fire network, they began to return home under the leadership of division commander Xia Quanyong. Tie Linfei saw the whole process of the battle between the two sides just now, and he had a certain number in his heart. He calculated that there was enough time, turned back all the bombers that were bombing everywhere, began to regroup, and divided the remaining fighters into four teams, one team was responsible for intercepting the Japanese planes in the air, and the remaining three teams bypassed the "Akagi" and pursued the other three aircraft carriers.

In the battle just now, except for the 2nd Air Division, which went all out to bomb the "Akagi," the other two divisions and the two squadrons directly under the Air Force Command were only on the verge of the Japanese ship's strong air defense firepower and served as the task of dispersing the Japanese ship's air defense fire, so the losses were not large. Among them, the LZ-I and LZ-19 piloted by Tie Linfei and others did not even participate in the battle.

This "sunken" air raid by the Cadet Army was not well prepared. The most obvious thing is that none of the fighters were equipped with torpedoes designed to destroy large ships. It was precisely because of the congenital deficiencies in the weapons that Ouyang Yun had to adopt this tactic of swarming ants biting elephants after discussing with them.

When the specific operational plan was first formulated, the original idea was that once the enemy fleet was discovered, all the bombers would be organized to bomb one of the aircraft carriers violently until it was sunk. Then try the ability to bomb other aircraft carriers.

The reason why such a tactic is formulated is because, on the one hand, Ouyang Yun's definition of the "sunken" operation is: it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its five fingers, and since it is fought, it is necessary to completely open up the little devils and give them an indelible lesson. There is another reason, but I thought that the little devil would definitely leave some attack aircraft just in case.

But he didn't expect that this Minai Guangzheng would be so bold and radical that he would release all the hungry attack planes.

Tie Linfei was still a little worried when he saw fighter planes taking off on several aircraft carriers, and he didn't know how many attack planes the little devil left behind to protect his family, and when he found that it was a crit plane that took off, he was first incredulous, and then he was ecstatic. Immediately afterwards, Yu Jian's suicide attack brought such a big effect, and even the Japanese ships reacted abnormally, instead of hugging tightly, they began to alienate the entire fleet, which made him greedy, and felt that this battle might have an unexpected gain, so he was not in a hurry to blow up and sink the "Akagi" that had lost its combat strength first.

The Air Force of the Academy Army was menacing, and Mitsumasa Yonechi and the others did not know its strength, and they were shocked by the momentum set off by Yu Jian's suicidal attack, so Yamamoto Isoroku proposed the idea of alienating the fleet to distract the enemy, sacrificing a few ships to save most of the ships.

Yamamoto didn't expect that he would overestimate the strength of this attacking group, and after the first round of fighting, he didn't see a single enemy plane carrying a torpedo, a large ship's killing weapon, and immediately realized that his previous proposal was very wrong.

In the first round of confrontation between the two sides, it appeared that the aircraft carrier "Akagi" and the heavy cruiser "Kumano" and the battleship "Nagato" that were guarding it suffered heavy losses, but in fact, insider Isoroku Yamamoto knew that these blows did not damage the fundamental cause of these ships. As long as they can survive the next bombardment and sail back home safely, after a few months or more, the ships will be repaired and returned to service.

That's why he's so calm in front of his men. But what he didn't know was that this time, his judgment was completely wrong.

It is true that the incoming enemy planes did not carry attack torpedoes, which are special weapons for destroying large ships, but they did carry a large number of heavy bombs, and these bombs, if used properly, were absolutely capable of blowing up and sinking the "Akagi." Moreover, although the number of bombers under the command of the 2nd Air Division accounted for more than half of the entire cluster, they were not the main force of this air attack.

The real main force hasn't played yet!

The Combined Fleet has a total of nearly 100 large and small ships, and this time only some of the main warships were dispatched. If all its fleets are brought out together, then the Cadet Army is twice as many bombers, and it may not be able to please them. The reason why the Combined Fleet made such a common-sense mistake was that after the First Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Navy had been completely crushed, and except for a very small number of ships that had taken refuge in the Yangtze River, the remaining small gunboats and torpedo boats did not pose a threat to it at all. Moreover, in the open sea operation, it is a problem for ships with too small tonnage to even go to sea, where is it possible to threaten these giants of the combined fleet. It is precisely because of the existence of this objective fact that in order to pursue speed, Mitsumasa Yonechi left off those slower old ships and led these main fleets to battle, but he did not expect that an oversight that was not an oversight almost buried the future of the combined fleet.

This spear and shield battle reached its climax when the three flight decks of the "Akagi" were blown up and deformed, turning into a burning crit graveyard.

Each of the remaining three carriers is frequented by more than ten bombers, including at least one L-19 or LZ-I. The bomb load of one L-19 reached a staggering ten tons, and the destructive power of it can be imagined.

Because the fuselages of the four LZ-I and two L-19s were too large to be easily targeted by the gunboats of the Combined Fleet, Tie Linfei did not let them fly close to the sea, but climbed to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters when approaching the enemy ship group, and then descended to an altitude of 3,000 meters after the air raid began, waiting for the opportunity to carry out a bombing mission.

When these six long-range bombers slowly lowered to a visible height through the clouds, Yamamoto Isoroku and Mitsumasa Yoneuchi, Inoue Narumi and other devils who found their huge figures were dumbfounded.

This is not the first time that the L-19 has appeared in front of the Japanese Navy, just a few months ago in the Battle of Nanjing, the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet was destroyed by two L-19s nearly 100 small ships. Therefore, senior officials of the Ministry of the Navy, including Mitsumasa Yonechi, could not but be impressed. Even the devils with good deeds privately gave it an evil nickname: the sea monster!

These six "sea monsters" were hidden too deeply, and they didn't show their bodies until this moment, and as soon as they appeared, they were six, how could this not cause the horror of the little devils.

Yamamoto Fifty-six jumped to his feet with regret: "Eight grids!" I regret that I shouldn't have scattered the fleet! If all the frigates were gathered together, with the huge size of the sea monster, they would not dare to perform a dive bomb at all! ”

Tie Linfei still did not participate in this air raid operation, he steadily controlled the fighter planes to hover over the combined fleet under the escort of a white-sided dolphin and an I-6, condescendingly saw through the defensive formation of the Japanese ships, and commanded three fighter formations to bomb the "Soryu", "Flying Dragon", and "Kaga" respectively - "Sink it!" He cursed fiercely, and the next moment, three fighter formations that had just formed swooped down from a few kilometers behind him, and flew against the water towards the three fleeing aircraft carrier formations.

Tie Linfei pulled up the fighter plane, swept over the four aircraft carrier formations one by one, then turned around, and issued a specific combat order through the walkie-talkie: "What we have is time, don't rush to a success, try it out first and find a breakthrough!" ”

"Zuo Anzhao! Not over there! In a different direction! ”

"Gao Jian, opportunity! Toutou—"

……

The Shina fighters left the "Akagi" and began to bomb the other three aircraft carriers frantically. Yamamoto 56 ordered to approach the nearest "Flying Dragon", and at the same time asked the signal soldiers to wave flags frantically, and let the "Kumano" and other ships follow him to support the "Flying Dragon". While the "Akagi" was dragging the smoke at high speed, Yamamoto carefully recalled this strange attack, and couldn't help but wonder: "Eight grids!" How did the people of China discover us, there is no shadow of enemy ships in the nearby waters at all! Could it be that there are spies in our combined fleet? No, even if a spy did get involved, it would be impossible to find an opportunity to notify the Shina people. So, how did the people accurately determine the position of our military and then carry out targeted air strikes? Could it be that its hidden airport is actually off the coast of Fujian? Oh, my God! If so, we're too underestimated! ”

Half an hour passed, and the "Akagi" finally joined forces with the scarred "Flying Dragon". The Combined Fleet finally suffered solid losses, with a Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser "Atago" and a Tenryu-class light cruiser "Tatsuda" being blown up, and a sister ship of the "Kumano" being shipped, the "Mikuma" heavy cruiser, lost its ability to maneuver because the engine room was blown up.

Although this round of air raids and counter-air raids took a long time, the losses on the part of the cadet army were extremely small, and only 13 fighters were destroyed. It is worth mentioning that among the thirteen fighters, except for eight that were directly hit and disintegrated in the air, all five of the fighters that were hit chose to use their residual heat to launch suicide attacks, although only three of them hit the target as they wished. But it was precisely one of the Hawker IIIs that crashed into the engine room of the "Mikuma" and caused a violent explosion that the top heavy cruiser was incapacitated.

Gradually, the number of bombers above the Combined Fleet became smaller and smaller, and in the end, there were less than 30 fighters left, including a Type 96 crit plane.

I don't know if Lu Dao was inspired by Yu Jian, and the Japanese planes that were lucky enough to take off, in addition to some of them flying somewhere, and most of them were shot down, there were about ten Type 90, Type 95, and Type 96 crits that chose to commit suicide attacks. What is a great wonder is that two of the Japanese planes were actually hit by their own anti-aircraft fire because they were in too much trouble forcing the fighters of the Cadet Army, and one of them even smashed headlong on the bridge of the "Flying Dragon" after completely losing control, almost taking the captain of the ship directly away, and completing a super "oolong ball."

The reason why Tie Linfei kept a large number of fighter formations even though the "Akagi" was almost completely destroyed was to draw a successful conclusion to this "let's sink" operation.

The fact that the "Akagi" is the flagship of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet is not a secret in the high-level circles of the Cadet Army. Since the first wave of air raids found it and destroyed it to the point that it could not be formed, Tie Linfei naturally wanted to do good things to the end and completely make it disappear from the roster of the Japanese Navy.

Seeing the last batch of bomb-dropping fighters leave, Tie Linfei took a deep breath, exhaled suddenly, and shouted: "Brothers, let the 'Akagi' sink forever!" Attack! ”

"Woo-" The roar of the plane's engine suddenly increased, and Tie Linfei took the lead in afterburner, pushed the lever, and controlled the fighter plane to pounce towards the "Akagi". The nose of the plane had just been lowered, and suddenly, he noticed that there were nearly twenty small black dots in the northeast direction, and the outline of the fighter plane was instantly displayed, and he immediately realized that this was the first wave of fighters sent out by the Combined Fleet this morning.

After successfully luring out the Cadet Air Force and losing more than half of its planes, this wave of fighters has now returned. As for how they appeared in the northwest direction, it was because the Combined Fleet had shifted its position, and they had guessed the wrong direction of the fleet's transfer, and this flight actually flew for more than an hour, until they encountered a Type 90 crit plane that had successfully escaped from the "Canglong", and then they knew what had happened in the road.

Tie Linfei didn't know that several of the attack planes in this batch of Japanese planes had not much fuel at this time, and the engines could stop at any time due to lack of fuel. What he thought was that once these Japanese planes rushed back, it would be difficult to blow up and sink the "Akagi" again, so he took it for granted and gave the order for a quick victory.

Yamamoto Isoroku was facing the incoming enemy plane at this time, and did not notice the anomaly in the distant sky behind him. Seeing the remaining Shina fighters rushing down violently, he immediately understood that a crucial test for the future of the "Akagi" had finally come - the Shina people were really not satisfied with just damaging the "Akagi", they still wanted to blow it up! At stake in the survival of the "Akagi", he could no longer maintain his previous composure, took out his pistol and shot it in the air, and at the same time hissed and shouted: "Shoot, shoot!" Don't let that guy come! ”

Not long after Tie Linfei gave the order for a quick victory, the other cadet pilots all saw the group of Japanese planes that was rapidly approaching. After watching the battle for an hour, they had already understood that so far, the key to the smooth execution of the "sunken" operation so far was that the little devil did not have an attack aircraft to launch a sniper. If all those Japanese planes were attack planes, then even if they all dared to learn from Yu Jian and bravely launch a suicidal attack, they would have to rush before these fighters arrived on the battlefield. You must know that although the "Akagi" was bombed to the point that it could not be shipped, there were still a lot of anti-aircraft weapons on it, and there were many ships around it to escort it - sometimes, once some beliefs are generated, a kind of force will be generated, and this force will support people to tenaciously and stubbornly complete a certain task or complete a certain thing.

For example, at this moment, Zhang Zhiyuan, who was piloting the L-19 with the number 005, was thinking in his heart that he would blow up and sink the "Akagi" before the enemy plane arrived, even if he did not hesitate to break his bones!

Zhang Zhiyuan's decision was unfair to the other four crew members on 002, perhaps because of this, Ouyang Yun later issued a decree to prevent suicide attacks!

Twenty-nine fighters, including two from the L-19 series, and three White-sided Dolphins. Each of the three white-sided dolphins had a 150-pound bomb hanging from underbelly. Twenty-nine fighters directly ignored the fierce anti-aircraft fire and pounced on the "Akagi" without hesitation, and in the end, only 15 planes successfully returned home. Of the remaining fourteen, three were directly disintegrated before the bombs were dropped; One was left wing off before the bomb was dropped, and it spun and crashed into the sea; Two more were hit during the dropping of the bombs, as the detonation of the ammunition deprived the pilots of the opportunity to carry out a suicide attack; Of the remaining eight, three of them were wounded and pounced on the Japanese ship with their men and planes and bombs, and one of them smashed on the bridge of the "Kumano," causing a martyrdom and directly killing the captain of the ship, Kikumatsu Tanaka. There are five more, and the pilots of three of them have made up their minds to learn from Yu Jian from the beginning, so they pounced on the left side of the "Akagi" with a clear purpose, and successfully blew up three large holes in the hull of the "Akagi", which became the main reason for the sinking of the "Akagi"; The other two, including the L-19 piloted by Zhang Zhiyuan, carried out a suicide attack, it was purely an accident - the two people pounced too hard, and even failed to pull the fighter up, one of which was the Hawk III directly crashed headlong into the stern of the "Akagi", where it caused a fire again, and Zhang Zhiyuan, with the help of his comrades, successfully dropped the bomb and crossed the "Akagi" that had been blown up three large holes and began to tilt, pulled up the lever, and took advantage of the situation to directly hit the fighter headlong on the left hull of the "Flying Dragon" not far away, and blew up a huge hole there - this also directly led to the sinking of the "Flying Dragon".