Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 685 The Akagi Sinks

(It’s [-] in [-] again, are you guys satisfied?!)
Yu Jian and Zhang Heigou's suicide attack achieved fruitful results.Not only did two bombers blow up at that time, but it 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 a tone for the "Sink It" air strike.This made many Xuebing Army pilots who were worried that they would not be able to complete the bombing mission due to being shot down in advance have such a firm idea: Even if they are hit, so what, as long as I don’t kill Lao Tzu all at once, I can drive like Yu Jian. Rush down the plane and die with the little devil!

One after another, the fighter planes with the logo of the Xuebing Army painted on their fuselages appeared in front of the little devils almost close to the sea. When they were about 200 meters away from the ship, they pulled up sharply, and then roared down.

"Go to the front of the 'Akagi'! The flagship must be protected!" The voices of the elders were exasperated.The importance of the flagship to a fleet is self-evident, but the enemy chose to make a surprise attack from behind, which made the "Akagi" almost face the attack of more than [-] enemy planes.

Under the command of captain Tanaka Kikumatsu, the "Kumano" reversed rapidly, and then turned the hull sideways, directly blocking the stern of the "Akagi" with a 200-meter-long hull.

The fierce anti-aircraft firepower of the enemy ship did have a blocking effect. The Hawk III piloted by Yu Jian was hit just after breaking into the anti-aircraft firepower net.

The heroic feat of the friendly planes inspired the bomber formation of the Second Air Division, and after all the fighters climbed to the predetermined altitude, they immediately dived down to the "Akagi" regardless of their care.

Amidst the sound of rumbling guns, the bombers belonging to the Second Air Division were beaten to pieces in the air from time to time, but no one flinched, and the remaining fighters still roared down, and even those who were hit and injured went straight to the nearest " The Kumano rushed forward, and the devils on the "Kumano" screamed strangely in fright.

The two flying brigades under the Second Air Division are equipped with a large number of outdated models such as Hawker II and I-5. These fighters are relatively backward in terms of protection ability and flight speed.What's more, the Japanese ships maintained a relatively dense formation at this time, which caused heavy losses for the Second Air Division in the first round of attacks. Of the more than 56 fighters, less than half completed the bombing mission, and there were more than a dozen fighters. The wounded ones were directly integrated into giant bombs, which hit Japanese ships such as "Kumano", "Nagato" and "Akagi". The sound of "rumbling" violent explosions sounded successively on several Japanese ships. The bridge of the "Akagi" where Yamamoto 5 was located was first hit by several bombs, which ignited a fire by the explosion, and then was shot by a wounded Yi-56 The entire bridge was torn into two pieces after a series of explosions, and Yamamoto [-] was almost killed.

Several officers on the "Akagi" protected Yamamoto and escaped from the fireworks. Seeing that Yamamoto's body was covered in white and turned into brown-gray, and his face was smoked like a coal digger who just came out of a coal mine, he hurriedly asked : "Your Excellency, Deputy Chief! Are you all right?!"

"I'm fine!" Yamamoto 56 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 bombers parked were Burned into rotten copper and scrap iron in the raging fire, some soldiers were yelling and organizing to put out the fire, but how can such a violent fire be extinguished by water——"Akagi", the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy , Are you going to be buried here today?
Several officers looked at each other cautiously, and then a senior officer made a decision, stepped forward and bent down and said, "Your Excellency, please move quickly!"

Yamamoto turned his head to look at him, his eyes were surprisingly calm, he said calmly: "No! I am the captain of the 'Akagi' now, the ship is alive, the ship is dead - why are you still standing here , Is the battle over already?"

"Yes, the battle is not over yet!" Several assistant officers didn't know if they were affected by his calm expression, their eyes lit up after hearing these words, and their whole body became energetic.They only left one person and a few soldiers, and the others rushed to various parts of the ship, organizing manpower for fire fighting and air defense...

Not far away, the "Flying Dragon", "Cangryu" and "Kaga" each quickly turned around and scattered away under the escort of several ships. The "Mogami" followed behind the "Kaga", and all the weapons on the ship were firing desperately. At a porthole on the third floor of the bridge covered by gunpowder smoke and flames, he could vaguely see several men in white uniforms. People are watching him.

Yamamoto glanced silently, then turned around and looked up at the sky, muttering silently in his heart: "Your Excellency Yonei, please rest assured, as long as I am here, the 'Akagi' will never sink."

After the fighter planes of the Second Air Division dropped the bombs and escaped from the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft firepower network, they began to return under the leadership of the division commander Xia Quanyong.Tie Linfei saw the whole process of the battle between the two sides just now, and he had a decision in his mind.He calculated that there was still enough time, turned back all the bombers that were bombing around, and began to regroup, and divided the remaining fighters into four teams, one team was responsible for intercepting the Japanese plane that was launched into the sky, and the other three teams bypassed the "Akagi" and pursued the other fighters. Three aircraft carriers.

In the battle just now, except that the Second Air Division was going all out to bomb the "Akagi", the other two divisions and the two squadrons directly under the Air Force Command were only on the edge of the Japanese ship's air defense firepower, acting as a dispersal of the Japanese ship's air defense. The task of firepower, so the loss is not large.Among them, the LZ-I and LZ-19 driven by Tie Linfei and others did not even participate in the battle.

The Xuebing Army was not fully prepared for the "sink it" air strike this time.The most obvious thing is that none of the fighters are equipped with torpedoes specially designed to destroy large ships.It was precisely because of the inherent inadequacy of weapons that Ouyang Yun had to adopt this tactic of swarming ants and biting elephants after discussing with them.

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

The reason for formulating such a tactic, on the one hand, is because Ouyang Yun's definition of the "Sink It" action is: it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt five fingers. An indelible lesson.Another reason is that the little devil will definitely leave some attack planes just in case.

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

Tielin Fei was a little worried when he saw fighter planes taking off from several aircraft carriers one after another. He wondered how many attack planes the little devil had left behind to protect his home. When he found out that the ones taking off were blasters, he couldn’t believe it at first, and then he was ecstatic up.Immediately afterwards, Yu Jian's suicide attack brought about such a big effect that the Japanese ships reacted abnormally. Instead of huddling together tightly, they began to alienate the entire fleet. This made him greedy and felt that this There may be unexpected gains in the battle, so there is no rush to sink the "Akagi" that has lost its combat power.

The Air Force of the Xuebing Army was approaching menacingly. Minai Mitsumasa and others were not aware of its strength, and were shocked by the momentum of Yu Jian's suicide attack. That's why Yamamoto 56 proposed to separate the fleet to distract the enemy's attention and sacrifice a few Ships with the idea of ​​preserving most ships.

Yamamoto 56 did not expect that he would overestimate the strength of this attacking aircraft group. After the first round of confrontation, he did not see an enemy aircraft carrying a torpedo as a killer weapon for a large ship, so he immediately realized that he had previously The proposal was very wrong.

In the first round of the confrontation between the two sides, it seemed that the aircraft carrier "Akagi" and the heavy cruiser "Kumano" and the battleship "Nagato" that escorted it suffered heavy damage. In fact, the insider Yamamoto 56 knew , these blows did not damage the fundamentals of these ships.As long as they can survive the next bombing and safely drive back to the mainland, after a few months or a little longer, these ships can be repaired one by one and returned to service.

This is also the reason why he was able to behave so calmly in front of his subordinates.But what he didn't know was that this time, his judgment was completely wrong.

The incoming enemy plane did not carry attack torpedoes, a weapon designed to destroy large ships, but it carried a large number of heavy bombs. These bombs were used properly, and they would definitely be able to sink the "Akagi".Moreover, although the number of bombers under the jurisdiction of the Second Air Division accounted for more than half of the entire cluster, they were not the main force of this air strike.

The real main force hasn't played yet!

The United Fleet has a total of nearly a hundred large and small ships, and this time only some main battleships were dispatched.If all its fleets come out together, then the Xuebing Army will have twice as many bombers, and it may not be impossible to please.The reason why the United Fleet made such a common-sense mistake was because the Chinese navy had been completely defeated after the Battle of Songhu. Except for a very small number of ships that hid in the Yangtze River, the remaining small gunboats and torpedo boats were basically against It is not a threat.Moreover, when fighting in open seas, ships with too small a tonnage can even go to sea, so there is no possibility of threatening these giants of the United Fleet.It is precisely because of the existence of this objective fact that in order to pursue speed, Minai Mitsumasa discarded the slower old ships and led these main fleets into battle alone, but he did not expect that it was not a negligent negligence. The future of the United Fleet was ruined.

This contest between spear and shield reached its climax when the three flight decks of the "Akagi" were blown out of shape and turned into a burning graveyard of bombers.

Each of the remaining three aircraft carriers was visited by more than ten bombers, including at least one L-19 or LZ-I.The bomb load of an L-19 has reached an astonishing ten tons, and the destructive power it can cause can be imagined.

Since the fuselages of the four LZ-Is and two L-19s are too large, they can easily become the targets of the gunboats of the United Fleet, so Tielin Fei did not let them fly close to the sea surface, but approached the enemy ships. It is time to climb to an altitude of more than 3000 meters, and then descend to an altitude of [-] meters after the air strike begins, waiting for the opportunity to carry out the bombing mission.

When the six long-range bombers slowly descended to the visible height through the clouds, Yamamoto 56, Miumasa Yonei, Narumi Inoue and other ghosts who saw their huge figures were dumbfounded.

This is not the first time that the L-19 has appeared in front of the Japanese navy. In the Battle of Nanjing a few months ago, the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy was wiped out by two L-19s with nearly a hundred small ships.Therefore, senior officials of the Ministry of the Navy, including Minai Mitsumasa, had to be deeply impressed by it.Even the ghosts with good deeds privately gave it an evil nickname: the sea monster!
These six "sea monsters" hid too deeply, they didn't show up until now, and there were six of them when they showed up, how could this not arouse the fear of the little devils.

Yamamoto 56 jumped his feet in regret: "Bage! I regret that the fleet should be dispersed! If all the frigates are gathered together, with the huge size of the sea monster, they will not dare to perform dive bombing at all!"

Tie Linfei still did not participate in this air strike. He steadily controlled the fighter plane and hovered over the United Fleet under the escort of a Baiji and an I-6. A formation of fighter jets bombed the "Cangryu", "Feiryu" and "Kaga" respectively—"Sink it!" He cursed fiercely, and the next moment, three formations of fighter jets that had just been assembled came from behind him It swooped down a few kilometers, and flew past the three escaping aircraft carrier formations close to the water.

Tielin Fei pulled up the fighter plane, flew over the four aircraft carrier formations one by one, then turned around, and issued a specific combat order through the walkie-talkie: "We have plenty of time, don't be in a hurry to succeed once, try it out first, and find a breakthrough! "

"Zuo Anzhao! It won't work over there! Change the direction!"

"Gao Jian, opportunity! Toutou—"

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The Chinese fighter jets put aside the "Akagi" and began to bombard the other three aircraft carriers frantically.Yamamoto 56 ordered to approach the nearest "Flying Dragon", and at the same time let the signalers frantically wave semaphores, and let the "Kumano" and other ships follow him to support the "Flying Dragon". While the "Akagi" was moving at high speed with thick smoke, Yamamoto carefully recalled this strange attack, and couldn't help but be full of doubts: "Bage! How did the Chinese find us? There is no enemy ship in the nearby waters! Could it be? , There are their spies in our joint fleet? No, even if a spy really sneaks in, it is impossible to find a chance to inform the Chinese people. So, how did the Chinese people accurately judge the position of our army, and then carry out targeted air strikes? What about it? Could it be that the hidden airport is located along the coast of Fujian? My God! If so, we really underestimate the enemy!"

Half an hour later, the "Akagi" finally joined forces with the scarred "Flying Dragon".And the United Fleet finally suffered real losses. A Takao-class heavy cruiser "Atago" and a Tenryu-class light cruiser "Tatsuta" were bombed and sunk. In addition, a sister ship of "Kumano" "" The heavy cruiser Mikuma lost its maneuverability because the engine room was blown up.

Although this round of air strikes and counter-air strikes took a long time, the losses on the side of the apprentice army were very slight, only thirteen fighter planes were destroyed.It is worth mentioning that among the thirteen fighters, in addition to eight being directly hit and disintegrated in the air, there were five fighters that were hit that all chose to use their residual heat to launch a suicide attack, although only three hit the plane as expected. target.But it was precisely because one of the Hawker IIIs crashed into the engine room of the "Mikuma" and caused a violent explosion that the top-tier heavy cruiser was incapacitated.

As the bombers that had dropped their bombs gradually left in formation under the escort of fighter jets, the number of fighter jets above the United Fleet gradually decreased, and in the end there were less than [-] fighter jets left, including one A Type [-] bomber.

I don’t know if it was inspired by Yu Jian. Except for some of the Japanese planes that were lucky enough to fly into the air, and most of them were shot down, there were about ten Type [-], Type [-], and Type [-] planes. The bomber chose a suicide attack.What is a spectacle is that two of the Japanese planes were hit by their own anti-aircraft firepower because they were too hasty to force the Xuebing Army's fighter planes, and one of them even fell on the "Flying Dragon" after completely losing control. On the bridge, the captain of the ship was almost taken away, completing a super "own goal".

The reason why Tie Linfei kept a large number of fighter formations even after blowing up the "Chicheng" was almost devastated, was to draw a successful conclusion to this "sink it" operation.

The fact that the "Akagi" is the flagship of the Japanese Navy's joint fleet is no secret among the high-level circles of the Xuebing Army.Now that the first wave of air strikes found it and destroyed it beyond the shape of a ship, Tie Linfei naturally had to do his best to make it disappear from the roster of the Japanese Navy.

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

"Woo--" The roar of the plane's engine suddenly increased, and Tie Linfei took the lead in boosting the force, pushed the lever, and controlled the fighter plane to pounce on the "Chicheng".Just as the nose of the plane was lowered, suddenly, he found nearly [-] small black spots in the northeast direction, and the silhouette of the fighter plane was displayed in an instant. He was shocked and immediately realized that this was the first wave sent out by the United Fleet this morning. warplane.

This wave of fighter planes is now returning after successfully luring out the Air Force of the Xuebing Army and losing more than half of them.As for why they appeared in the northwest direction, it was because the United Fleet shifted their position, and they guessed the wrong direction of the fleet's shift. The flight actually took more than an hour, until they encountered a successful attack from the "Cangryu". A [-]-type blaster that escaped, and only then did they know what happened.

Tielinfei didn't know that several of the attack planes in this batch of Japanese planes had run out of fuel at this time, and their engines might stop at any time due to lack of fuel.What he thought was that once these Japanese planes came back, it would be difficult to sink the "Akagi", so he took it for granted that he ordered a quick decision.

Yamamoto 56 was facing the incoming enemy plane at this time, and did not notice the vision in the distant sky behind him.Seeing the remaining Chinese fighter planes rushing down aggressively, he immediately understood that the crucial test concerning the future of the "Akagi" had finally come—the Chinese people were really not satisfied with just severely damaging the "Akagi", they also wanted to sink it. it!The life and death of the "Chicheng" was at stake, and he could no longer maintain his composure before. He drew out his pistol and shot into the air, while shouting hissingly, "Shoot, shoot! Don't let the Chinese come over!"

Not long after Tielin Fei gave the order for a quick battle, the other pilots of the Academy Army saw the group of Japanese planes approaching rapidly.After watching the battle for an hour, they already understood that the key reason why the "sink it" operation has been carried out so smoothly this time is that the little devil has no attack aircraft to launch a sniper attack.If that batch of Japanese planes were all attack planes, even if they all dared to learn from Yu Jian and bravely launched a suicide attack, they would have to hurry up before this batch of fighter planes arrived on the battlefield.You must know that although the "Akagi" was blown up to the point of being a ship, there are still a lot of anti-aircraft weapons on it, and there are many ships guarding it around——

Sometimes, once some beliefs are generated, they will generate a kind of power, which will support people to complete a certain task or complete a certain thing tenaciously and stubbornly.

For example, at this moment, Zhang Zhiyuan, who is driving the L-005 numbered 19, thinks in his heart that no matter what, he must sink the "Chicheng" before the enemy plane arrives, even if he will be smashed to pieces!

Zhang Zhiyuan's decision was unfair to the other four crew members on board 002. Perhaps because of this, Ouyang Yun later promulgated the decree to prevent suicide attacks!
29 fighters, including two L-19 series and three Baiji.A 150-pound bomb was slung under the belly of all three Baiji Dolphins. 29 fighters directly ignored the fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire and swooped down on the "Akagi" without hesitation. In the end, only 19 fighters returned smoothly.Of the remaining fourteen, three were directly disintegrated in the air before the bomb was dropped; one had its left wing broken off before the bomb was dropped, and fell into the sea while spinning; Hit, because the ammunition was detonated so that the pilot lost the opportunity to execute a suicide attack; of the remaining eight, three of them rushed to the Japanese ship together with the man, the plane and the bomb after being injured, and one of them hit the "Kumano "On the bridge of the USS, the martyrdom explosion directly killed the captain of the ship, Tanaka Kikumatsu.There were five more, and the pilots of three of them made up their minds to learn from Yujian from the beginning, so they rushed to the bottom of the left side of the "Akagi" with a clear purpose, and successfully landed on the "Akagi". Three large holes were blown out of the hull, which became the main reason for the sinking of the "Chicheng"; the reason why the other two, including the L-[-] piloted by Zhang Zhiyuan, carried out suicide attacks was purely accidental ——The two rushed too hard, and even failed to pull the fighter plane up. Among them, the Hawker III directly hit the stern of the "Chicheng" ship, causing another fire there. With the help of the plane, he successfully dropped the bomb and crossed the "Akagi" that had been bombed with three big holes and began to tilt. After finding that the fighter plane might plunge into the sea, he simply increased his strength to the end, pulled up the lever, and took advantage of the opportunity to directly The fighter plane hit the left hull of the "Feilong" not far away, and a huge hole was blown there-this directly led to the sinking of the "Feilong".

(End of this chapter)