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Chapter 268: Flying Dragon Riding Face Lost!  (three)

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    18 Type 99 dive bombers swooped down from the clouds like eagles hunting for prey. The huge aerial bombs mounted on the belly of the aircraft shone coldly under the sunlight, which made people daunting.

    At this time, the U.S. fleet's air defense weapons were all shooting flat, so the officers and soldiers were all focused on the sea. When they spotted the Japanese planes in the sky, those air killers were less than 800 meters away from the Yorktown.

    Such a distance is only a matter of a few breaths for the diving Type 99. Before the officers and soldiers of the US fleet came to make any response, the Japanese bomber fleet had already roared.

    When the Japanese aircraft leading the team reached the position 300 meters above the Yorktown, it leveled off like a falcon, and after dropping the aerial bomb, it climbed rapidly again.  When it fell, it hit the York City below, and suddenly a ball of orange flames rose from the deck. Seen from the sky, it looked like a flower that suddenly bloomed, and it was really delicate and beautiful.

    The subsequent Japanese aircraft made the same actions one after another, and the huge aerial bombs fell like dots, and a dozen white or orange flowers bloomed on the Yorktown and the surrounding sea.

    Although visually speaking, these flowers are indeed very pleasing to the eye, but for those US military officers and soldiers who are among the flowers, it is a disaster.

    Although six aerial bombs hit the deck of the Yorktown and immediately caused a fire, this was still within an acceptable range for the rough-skinned Yorktown.

    The real fatal blow of the Japanese army came from the last nine-nine dive bomber flying.  The pilot of this bomber may not have grasped the distance well, or it may be a bold person with high skills.  He did not dive down at a 75-degree angle like the pilots in front of him, and leveled the fuselage at an altitude of 300 meters.

    Instead, it rushed straight down at an angle of more than 90 degrees, and did not pull the nose suddenly and drop the bomb until it was only 200 meters away from the Yorktown. Although this action almost caused the Japanese plane to fall into the sea,  But this also happened to allow the aerial bomb with huge inertia to smash through the flight deck smoothly, fall into the hangar and explode.

    ?  The explosion caused the explosion of bombs and torpedoes piled up in the hangar.  The scale of this bombing was much larger than that on the Japanese aircraft carrier.  The continuous violent explosions even shook the 26,000-ton Yorktown, and the entire rear deck was lifted up.

    The continuous explosions also accelerated the spread of the fire. Soon, the aviation fuel depot located under the chimney of the aircraft carrier was ignited by the fire, and the explosion sounded like thunder again.  In addition to tearing out a large hole 7 meters long and nearly 5 meters high, the entire chimney was blown up, causing the flue of 3 boilers to rupture, 2 boilers to fail to work, and the fire in 5 boilers to be extinguished  , all boiler rooms were filled with smoke and fire.

    The Yorktown then slowed down and soon came to a complete stop.  It looks very slow, but in fact all this happened in just two or three minutes.

    Just when the Yorktown was attacked, the officers and soldiers on other warships had already raised the launch ports of the anti-aircraft weapons again, and when the Type 99 dive bombers finished dropping bombs and climbed up, just in time for the U.S. anti-aircraft weapons to fire again, those  The slow-moving Type 99 all became targets, and all the angry American shooters gnashed their teeth and manipulated the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft aircraft into fireballs.

    However, this allowed the two Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft that had just completed a U-turn to find a chance to launch an attack.  Taking advantage of the opportunity of the U.S. anti-aircraft artillery team to shoot at the air, the two planes quickly lowered their fuselages, circled to the other side of the U.S. fleet at a height almost close to the sea surface, and then suddenly accelerated towards the Yorktown.  go.  At a distance of only 500 meters from it, fish were dropped.

    The two torpedoes drew two water marks on the sea surface at a high speed of 50 knots, and then hit the Yorktown with one end. The torpedoes weighing 200 kilograms immediately exploded two huge gaps in the ship's wall, and the sea water immediately  Swarms poured into the ship, and the Yorktown, which had lost power, poured rapidly.

    Although the two Type 97 torpedo attack aircraft were quickly discovered and destroyed by the escorting f4f Wildcat fighter jets.  But the capsizing of the Yorktown was unavoidable.

    The fierce fire and the influx of sea water made it impossible for the damage control team to plug the gap. In desperation, Rear Admiral Fletcher, the commander of the 17th Task Force, could only order the entire crew to evacuate the flagship of the fleet.  Transferred his headquarters to the Astoria heavy cruiser.  And let the rest of the ships quickly approach the 16th Task Force 20 nautical miles away, leaving only two destroyers to monitor the sinking of the Yorktown.

    One hour later, due to the excessive water intake, the Yorktown completely capsized??U.S. fighter jets, even if the Type Zero can fight, they are hard to beat with two fists. These war hawks over the Pacific Ocean have all become "flying lighters", and they were all shot down after only five minutes.

    Next it is the turn of those ninety-nine and ninety-seven styles.  Although the performance of the F4F Wildcat fighter is a little worse than that of the Zero, it is the absolute king of air combat against those dive bombers and torpedo planes.  After a while, the 22 planes were strangled to death.

    While the f4f Wildcat fighters were beating Japanese bombers and torpedo planes, the US bomber formation continued to fly towards the Japanese fleet.

    Half an hour later, there was a roar over the Japanese fleet, and the US attack fleet arrived.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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