The anti-submarine aircraft chased for about 90 minutes, and unfortunately saw that it was two troop carriers, which were heading for Calcutta, escorted only by a very small destroyer. The pilot observed that the enemy's three ships were very open, and gave them a chance to break through.

The Japanese destroyer's anti-aircraft firepower is weak, there may only be a few anti-aircraft machine guns on the cargo ship, the firepower of the Sunderland seaplane is quite strong, there are a total of 12 machine guns, but you can try your luck, and it has 20 deep water in its magazine*, although it is not an anti-ship weapon, but it is huge, and it can be used when approaching, and if it hits, of course, it can also blow up and sink enemy ships. The captain ordered that the bomb magazine should be immediately given contact insurance, and the shallowest depth should be set.

Li Chenyi, commander of Wang's puppet Capital Guard Division, was at the bow of the boat, teasing the seagulls with his nest head.

From afar, I saw something chasing me in the sky. After all, he had seen the world, recognized it as a big plane, knew that the situation was not good, hurriedly ran to the wheelhouse, and asked the first mate on duty to speed up past the troop carrier in front and catch up with the Japanese destroyer in front, he estimated that the Allied planes would attack the troop carrier that was far away from the destroyer and more isolated, so ...... I had to hug the Japanese thighs quickly.

The Japanese destroyers in front also saw the seaplanes, after all, began to accelerate forward, and there was no intention of turning around the rescue transport. For a time, there was a big mess on the two troop carriers. Everyone began to rescue life jackets and lifebuoys, and no one went to the 13-mm anti-aircraft machine gun in the bow and stern to resist according to the post assignment during the exercise.

Sandra's plane slowly caught up from behind, and it had a lot of firepower to slowly maneuver its prey, but it looked like the anti-aircraft machine gun positions were empty.

The 12.7 mm machine gun in the turret was the first to fire, damaging the anti-aircraft machine gun at the stern of the Japanese troop carrier. The plane then flew slowly parallel to the transport ship, and all the machine gun towers on the plane fired at the cargo ship together, the bullets swept into the thin wheelhouse, and the captain and first mate who were operating the ship were shot. The plane made a large circle around the cargo ship, and the whole process was constantly firing, and the machine gun bullets flew sideways, and the anti-aircraft machine gun in the bow of the ship was damaged.

It seemed that there would be no resistance, and the seaplane opened the magazine.

The soldiers in the magazine, braving strong winds, set the depth one by one, which is actually a timing. The plane opens its flaps and flies over the cargo ship at the slowest speed and lowest altitude it can reach, and falls in turn. Rao is that this plane flies very slowly and very low, and the horizontal bombing accuracy is excellent.

Two deep-water* fell to the side of the board and exploded, and two more fell directly on the deck, blasting people and equipment tied to the back. When the plane threw out* and turned away, it could be seen that the troop carrier was in flames, had tilted badly to one side, and was undoubtedly about to sink. The soldiers who were still alive on the boat jumped into the sea one after another, but the two ships in front of them were speeding up to escape, and they had no intention of returning to save people.

The Sunderland planes did not attack the other ship, and it had to leave quickly, because the telegraph room had intercepted telegrams between a Japanese destroyer and a suspected aircraft carrier, and the destroyer appeared to be in position with enemy fighters indicating the direction of pursuit.

The pilot increased its speed to the maximum and clinged to the surface of the water, trying to hide out into the sea using the blue camouflage of the airframe, and it flew all the way west towards the east coast of India. After 35 minutes of fearful flight, the rear machine-gun tower shooter saw 2 slow fighters flying in the clouds, obviously not Army planes flying from Burma, which would not be so fast and would not have penetrated that far. It looked like two Type 94 water reconnaissance planes with pontoons. It seems that a seaplane carrier is hidden not far away.

Two Type 94 reconnaissance planes swooped down, they were probably a little dizzy, and wanted to use a 7.7 machine gun in the nose to challenge this sea monster covered in thorns and particularly sturdy.

The two reconnaissance planes launched a series of attacks around the four seaplanes, and the self-defense machine guns easily shot down one and the other fled. The Sunderland plane also suffered some minor injuries and had a few holes punched in its skin, but knowing that it was only a seaplane carrier, it still circled the sea and caught up with the Japanese pilot who was lying on the lifeboat after parachuting. The pilot shot the Sunderland plane with a pistol and was quickly killed. The plane drove to the lifeboat and found the map from the leaking lifeboat. It indicates the size and current location of the Japanese fleet. It looks like a small fleet of the USS Mizuho and two battleships. However, the battleship was already very close to Calcutta.

When the news arrived at the Vivier headquarters, the British didn't take it too seriously, because their troops were definitely out of range, and as for the location of the Chinese troops, Vivier has not yet figured it out. Therefore, no one sent a warning to Chu Tingchang, asking his attacking troops to retreat quickly.

Here, Zhou Youfu's offensive has ended, and 160 prisoners of war have been captured. It is still a great thing for the officers and men of the 200th Division to find people who speak Chinese in a foreign country. Chief Chu Ting is short of manpower, and most of these people are estimated to be soldiers who eat and drink, and they have not resisted desperately and caused casualties in the 200th Division, so they can be considered to be incorporated in. Of course, it had to be transported to the back first, and handed over to the military commander for interrogation to see if there was any information. However, Zhou Youfu has already been tried first, and there is no need to be punished, these puppet Manchu soldiers confessed very actively, for fear that their companions would say it first. He figured out a few things, first of all, there are not many Japanese in the city at present, except for the gendarmes and engineers, the puppet Manchurian army has two battalions, and the 1st battalion of the Praetorian Guard is here, with a total of 450 people. 3 companies of 140 people, and a battalion headquarters of 30 people. The commander was the younger brother of the Puppet Manchu Emperor. There was also a 500-man cavalry battalion of the Isono Force in the back. The captured Pu Jie orderly reported that Pu Jie should have fled behind the defense line of the Japanese Nanhai detachment, but he was a person with strong self-esteem and should have participated in the counteroffensive of the Isono troops. So at this point, it is likely to be observed behind the defensive line.

Counting the dead bodies on the battlefield, Zhou Youfu judged that there were about 100 people who fled from the enemy. If you attack forward a little more, a few kilometers deeper, the enemy on both flanks will either retreat or be isolated, and it is worth fighting again.

Chu Tingchang found him on the radio, first affirmed his positive spirit, and then asked him to retreat quickly. Zhou Youfu wondered, what do you mean by fighting for a while, and withdrawing for a while? He stressed that if he attacked again, he might be able to capture the prince of Manchukuo, so that he might be able to get back to the newspapers. Chief Chu told him that there were demons in the Qing room to help him, and the number of qi was not exhausted.

Zhou Youfu was not convinced, because looking at the Manchurian Praetorian Guards, he couldn't help fighting, and it didn't look like he could turn back to the sky, and his troops only had 6 minor injuries when they took the position. However, the master has always expected things to be accurate, and since he said it, he can only do it. However, he saw that the enemy was weak, and his actions were somewhat delayed.

At the same time, Rear Admiral Roo, who had just returned to the headquarters of the 4th Army in Ranchi, learned that the general direction of the enemy's fleet had been discovered, but Vivier suppressed the information and did not hand it over to China and the United States. He was secretly surprised, as soon as the 200th Division hit Calcutta, the situation of the hidden enemy fleet would be the same as what Chu Tingchang expected, but Chu Tingchang was still attacking at the moment, less than 30 kilometers from the coast, wouldn't he have to suffer?

Zhou Youfu's troops dragged and dragged to clean up the battlefield, and when they retreated, it was already dusk, and they saw Japanese reconnaissance planes buzzing on their heads approaching, which were very different from army reconnaissance planes, these planes used white paint and had pontoons. Some people recognize it as a three-seater Zero water observation plane.

When the troops were massing, a shell fell not far away, and the explosion was of limited power, but there was smoke coming out of the sky. It seems to be ammunition that indicates the point of impact.

Lao Zhou gasped, he knew artillery, and knew that it was the enemy artillery who was going to shoot, so he quickly ordered the troops to retreat. Fortunately, what he left at the end was a half-track car, which could be dispersed from the farmland without crowding on the road, where the two King Kong-class 16 356mm cannons waited for correction and continued to adjust the firing boundary, and then fired a salvo.

The shells flew dozens of kilometers and landed on the edge of the woods where the cars had just assembled, less than 300 meters away from the last half-track.

The explosion was striking, the most spectacular artillery bombardment ever seen by any soldier here, far more powerful than the British 183 mm* guns, and the impact points were so dense that they flattened the entire woods in an instant, indicating that the enemy was not one or two guns but a group of guns.

Inside the battleship Hiei, Arima Dasa was overwhelmed by the deafening shelling. He couldn't wait for the observers to report the results of the battle, and during this time he had been carrying out raids along the East Indies, shelling the military ports of Chennai and Odisha in Tamil Nadu, but the results were mediocre, because the Royal Navy had already slipped away and had no targets left, and he had heard that there was a fierce battle in Calcutta, and he was looking forward to doing the army a favor and annihilating the enemy's tank clusters. Whether it is the enemy or its own army, seeing such artillery bombardment, you should know how small the army is in front of the navy.

The news came that the shells hit the designated area, but the enemy ran away a few minutes ahead of schedule and did not hit the main forces of the enemy. It sounded like he didn't hit the main force, it seemed like he hit a secondary target, of course, but the pilot deliberately vaguely said something so as not to make the captain ugly. In fact, not a single one hit. The observer reported that the enemy had dispersed and retreated, and there was no need for further shelling.

No. 419 had been following behind the enemy's fleet. Through sonar, all 21 targets were monitored, including distant troop carriers and minesweepers, two battleships and an aircraft carrier hiding far away, as well as a number of small warships in the harbor. The shelling of the battleships was naturally recorded by 419, but then two battleships went south, trying to hide in the twilight.

They were also a little afraid of the Royal Air Force and British submarines, so they did not dare to stay offshore for too long. Not having a night always gives them peace of mind. At least submarines are not very easy to detect them.

419 surfaced, using radar to detect the air, it can be found that the British army dispatched in a timely manner, a formation of 8 aircraft, is rushing over, but the pursuit of the battleship is 10 degrees away, the night is narrow, I am afraid it will be difficult to find the target.

The drone uses a simulated voice to ask the group to change course and go to the mouth of the Ganges River.

419 gave them a different mission, because the Mizuho aircraft carrier was hiding nearby. It did not escape into the Bay of Bengal because it was also responsible for recovering three Zero observers. If you run too far, you are afraid that the plane will not be found. Of course, there are 3 destroyers around one side, beware of the possibility of British submarines at the mouth of the river. For British aircraft, the Mizuho can't worry too much, but there are more than a dozen Type II water fighters on the nearby river beach, and they can also fight if necessary.

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Sorry sorry, 51 days off, leave.