In the Japanese Navy's operational philosophy, a destroyer with a light body and a soft waist is regarded as an "elite in night warfare" with the ability to do a lot of things, and this kind of tactical thinking not only leads the Japanese destroyers to ignore air defense capabilities, but also makes the Japanese Navy have no concept of "full-time air defense ships".

In another time and space, this kind of thinking will continue until the Japanese army begins to gradually lose in the Pacific War. But here, Zhao Jian used his own air defense fleet to let the pilots of the IJN Second Air War appreciate the horror of the "barrage" in advance!

When the Japanese Army's Type 97 ships spotted the enemy fleet, they did not wait for their side to throw torpedoes, and several air defense ships on the opposite side poured a dense rain of bullets on them first.

In terms of the density of anti-aircraft firepower alone, one standard Type I air defense destroyer on the Zhao ship's side is enough to top 10 of the Japanese army's latest cutting-edge Yangyan-class (there were only 2 twin-mounted 25mm anti-aircraft guns in the early days), and the proximity fuse further enhances its air defense efficiency.

Caught off guard, the Japanese fighters paid a heavy price as soon as they appeared! Although the giant vine can provide them with some cover, it also limits their space for movement. And the air defense ship is like playing whack-a-mole, as long as you are quick with your eyes and hands, you can make a difference!

"Give me a hard beating, don't spare ammunition, and stop these idiots from approaching Qinghai!"

There is only one task of blocking the fleet, and that is to delay the Japanese army to the death and buy time for the transfer of Star Fort. Therefore, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the air defense fleet put on a posture of fighting to the death! The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) brigade was completely fighting for its "life", and the plane collision incident was frequently staged in Fujihai, which frightened the Japanese pilots into not daring to continue to fight with them.

As for the group of destroyers that followed, when they spotted the figure of the Dellinger, they collectively cowered behind the bunker and did not dare to show their heads.

After a full-scale exchange of fire began, although Yamaguchi Tawen, who was sitting on the aircraft carrier Feilong, did not have as convenient means of communication as the Zhao ship, he could still allow the reconnaissance planes to pass through the guò relay method. Intermittently transmit information from the front line back to the mothership.

And when they learned that the enemy fleet had been "besieged" by their carrier-based aircraft group, Yamaguchi did not show the same joy as the other staff officers.

The soldier's intuition made Yamaguchi Tawen keenly aware that this was not an encirclement battle, but a blocking battle. Their adversaries are trying to prevent them from approaching a "high-value target" that is even on top of a large aircraft carrier.

After a moment's deliberation, Yamaguchi Tabun threw all the reserves he had into battle and ordered the front line to intensify the attack. He wants to use guò to force this way, so that the other party can reveal his defensive center of gravity, and show him the direction of the big boss's withdrawal.

"Interesting! Although this battle can't be compared to the previous battle between us and Tang Guo in terms of scale, our opponent is a guy who likes to use aviation warfare very much! ”

"Commander. What's so interesting about this? Wyvern asked, a little puzzled.

"Because it's a rare opportunity! After all, space fighters are a new thing that has only been out for a long time, and all countries are still exploring new tactical applications. As long as we can bring back these valuable experiences, we will not lose this battle whether we win or lose! ”

With a mentality of "paying tuition", Yamaguchi Tawen sent out all the more than 100 carrier-based aircraft under his command, and several of them were assigned "special tasks" by two-plane teams.

Yamaguchi told them to withdraw from the battle and make a gesture of searching and advancing in all directions after making contact with the enemy plane. If there is a squad that is being pursued by enemy aircraft. Just report it by radio right away.

In this way, more than 200 fighters on both sides engaged in a big melee in the sea of vines, and in the air battle, the Zhao side lost 36 griffons in succession in 20 minutes, while the Japanese lost only 12 planes. The exchange ratio reached 3:1, which means that for every 3 griffons lost on the Zhao ship's side, 1 Japanese army could be killed, and most of them were unusable biplane bombers such as the 96-type ship explosion.

The reason why the results are so ugly is mainly because of the "persistence" of the automatic AI, or the brainlessness. As long as it's the target they're targeting. If you don't fight down, you won't look back at all. As a result, a Japanese 96 ship can often pull 4 or 5 griffons around!

Looking at the poor record of his own air force, Zhao Jian felt very uncomfortable.

"Why are these AIs that he meows so funny!?"

"Let's put out the fire, boy, these AI expressions are actually pretty good. On production man-hours. An AI only takes 17 seconds, and if it were to train human pilots, those rookies might not even have read the first page of the flight manual. They are cannon fodder, very qualified cannon fodder! ”

Chi You's words made Zhao Jian feel a little better, indeed, as the other party said, automatic AI may not have good actual combat ability, but it is extremely cost-effective cannon fodder. It took a few years for the Japanese army to train a qualified pilot, and it was replaced by Zhao Jian with three things with only 17 seconds of production time.

At least for now, Zhao's blocking fleet could hold out for a long time, but it didn't take long for them to intercept radio communications between the Japanese and Italian fleets. Yamaguchi gave the other party a rough regional coordinates and asked them to go over there to catch "big fish". After comparing the map, Zhao Jian was stunned to find that the other party actually wanted to intercept the Star Castle!

And the move of the Italians also made the Don fleet, which had been paying attention to their movements, follow suit. If this trend continues, it will be difficult to make a table of mahjong rhythm.

For this reason, Zhao Jian hurriedly informed the Star Fort side, asking them to change the direction of retreat and divide into two groups.

The group with the Star Castle went directly to the outside from the "underneath" of the vine sea and risked retreating from the open area. The other group kept its course unchanged and deliberately went to meet the Italian fleet.

Zhao Jian didn't understand for a while, how Yamaguchi Duowen found out about Star Castle, but this did not prevent him from planning and throwing a second bait to attract the enemy's attention.

Under Zhao's arrangement, the 2 King Kong-class ships will carry 4 Standard II fleet destroyers to protect the hydrangea as bait. In order to surprise the other party, he asked Thor to stuff a special oversized erosion bomb into the cabin.

This bomb is the product of Zhao Jian's brain hole before, and the overall energy level is equivalent to the sum of 1,000 erosion torpedoes, and Zhao Jian is going to use it as an atomic bomb. But after this thing was built, Thor did a mock test explosion and told Zhao Jian a very unfortunate news, that is, the actual power of this bomb could be very bad!

Because the erosion wave is an energy similar to a virus, it needs to be carried with a torpedo as a carrier to exert the best erosion effect after physical contact with the target. If this energy is emitted directly, it will dissipate at an extremely fast rate.

This means that this bomb will not achieve the "map cannon effect" envisioned by Zhao Jian, and the erosion wave generated after the explosion will be consumed at an extremely fast speed in the process of diffusion, and more than ninety percent of the energy will be dissipated when it reaches a radius of 3,000 meters, so it was complained by Zhao Jian as "the most wasteful bomb".

But since this bomb has already been made, and it is just in time for such an opportunity, Zhao Jian feels that instead of putting it at home and watching the blockage, it is better to take it out and listen to it, and scare people by the way!

However, after this combat order was issued, the unicorn, which had been in charge of opening the Hydrangea, immediately expressed a strong protest. In the past, let her be a high-level ship girl as the captain of the transport team, and she would endure it if she pinched her nose, but now she is let be a self-destructing death squad, and the unicorn who is reluctant to leave the ghost queen will say nothing!

In this regard, Zhao Jian angrily pointed to the unicorn on the opposite side of the communication screen and scolded!

"Did I let you die with the bomb, why don't you abandon the ship!?" (To be continued......)