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Text Chapter 564: The End of the Task Force

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    "woo woo woo woo¡­¡­"

    Sounds mixed with wails and curses filled the sky. The originally calm sea was now shrouded in smoke. More than a dozen various destroyers, cruisers and even anti-aircraft guns on the aircraft carrier were firing at  As anti-aircraft gun shells poured from the sky, black and white fireworks bloomed one after another in the sky.

    At an altitude of more than three thousand meters, Chinese and Japanese fighter planes were also fighting desperately. From time to time, smoking fighter planes fell from the sky into the sea.

    Facing the overwhelming incoming aircraft, in addition to those attack aircraft and bombers without air combat capabilities, all other fighter aircraft on the Japanese aircraft carrier that had air combat capabilities had taken off to meet the enemy. At the height of the fight, Endo Kiichi even had an armed  Reconnaissance planes were also released, and hundreds of fighter planes covered the entire sea area.

    The fierce battle in the air lasted for more than forty minutes. By this time, the number of fighter planes in the sky had slowly begun to become sparse. Although the sea breeze in June brought the area to a very warm temperature, Endo Kiichi's heart felt as if it was frozen.  generally.  He was observing the sky intently just now. He could see clearly from below. Although fighter planes kept falling from the sky, he could clearly see that most of these fallen fighters were Japanese Zero fighters. On the other hand, China  Although some fighter planes on one side were shot down, the number was much smaller.

    "It is estimated that the Chinese bombers will come over in a while." Endo Kiichi murmured to himself. At this moment, he was standing in the control tower in the middle of the cabin. He could see what had happened without a telescope.  There were many torpedo planes and dive bombers approaching the fleet.

    Soon, two dive bombers suddenly roared down from the high altitude in the east. The heavy bombs under the wings shone with a cold light in the sunset.

    Seeing this scene, Endo Kiichi immediately shouted: "Quick, order the peripheral warships to organize firepower to knock down those two bombers immediately!"

    In fact, without Kiichi Endo's command, the anti-aircraft firepower of the nearly twenty destroyers, cruisers and other warships guarding the aircraft carrier had already been aimed at them. Dense anti-aircraft shells exploded around the two aircraft, and the thick black smoke almost threatened to blow them away.  surrounded.

    "Boom"

    Two SBD-5 dive bombers flying side by side flew to a low altitude of more than 300 meters.  It was hit by dozens of 25mm anti-aircraft artillery shells almost at the same time. One of them immediately exploded in the air and turned into a ball of hot flash. The other one instantly emitted thick black smoke. It was instantly destroyed.  Lost direction and fell toward the sea.

    "Yoshi, that's it, keep shooting!" Kiichi Endo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the downed bomber hit a column of water rising from the sea.  I praised him very happily.

    Suddenly, an officer nearby pointed to the west and shouted in fear, "No, another Chinese plane is coming from the west again!"

    Endo Kiichi's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately turned his head and looked to the right. From his perspective, in the west direction, two small black dots were flying towards them quickly against the sea.

    "No. It's China's torpedo planes, shoot them down shoot them down immediately!"

    "Quick, turn the muzzle and shoot them down!"

    "We must not let them get close to the fleet! Fire quickly!"

    ¡°Dong dong dong¡­¡±

    The two aircraft flying at low altitude from the west were two TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft. This is a rare three-seater attack aircraft, consisting of a pilot, a rear gunner and a bombardier and belly  Composed of machine gunners.

    At this time, all the machine guns on the west side of the fleet that had time to react turned their muzzles and fired towards the sea.  Since the Japanese Navy implements an elite system, most of the sailors on Japanese warships are veterans with more than three years of military service.  Therefore, both officers and gunners understand that the reason why there are only a few sporadic attacks in the current wave of attacks is that they must be used by the other party to test their own side and find loopholes in their own defense circle. If they succeed, the subsequent attacks  The attacks will come like a flood.

    At this time, all the air defense officers of the Japanese warships became excited. They drew out their command knives and desperately drove the gunners to shoot towards the sea. One shining shell after another flew towards the sea.  Many shells fell into the sea and exploded, sending up jets of water.

    Even though the artillery fire was so fierce, the two torpedo planes did not show any fear and still rushed towards the fleet without hesitation. When they rushed to a distance of about two hundred meters from the outer edge of the fleet, two flashing torpedo planes  Hanguang's mk13 torpedoes each fell into the sea from their cabins. Then the motor at the tail of the torpedo started working, and the torpedo rushed towards the fleet at a high speed of forty knots.

    And after releasing the torpedo.  Those two torpedo planes turned their bodiesOne side wanted to fly to the side, but due to the strong inertia, they had already rushed over the fleet.  Kiichi Endo could even see the young face of the pilot in front of the cockpit of one of the torpedo planes and the hateful look in his eyes. Kiichi Endo estimated that the pilot would never be over twenty-two years old.

    ¡°Boom¡­boom¡­¡±

    Because the two torpedo planes just flew too low.  It was flying almost flat against the sea. Even after throwing the torpedoes, even if it climbed desperately, it could only pass over the head of the Kaga aircraft carrier. Then it was hit by the 96 Type 2 of more than ten doors on the aircraft carrier that had been waiting for it.  The 15mm anti-aircraft gun hit and exploded in the air on the spot.

    ¡°Boom¡­boom¡­¡±

    Before the gunners who hit the two torpedo planes had time to be happy, there were two huge explosions nearby. It turned out that the two bright torpedoes released by the two torpedo planes hit a nearby destroyer and a nearby destroyer respectively.  The torpedo weighing 800 kilograms of the heavy cruiser crashed into the interior of the warship under the impact of inertia. Two hundred kilograms of high explosives immediately exploded inside the warship. The two warships soon emitted black smoke, thick  The smoke soon shot straight into the sky.

    Seeing this situation, Endo Kiichi's heart suddenly sank, and he murmured: "No, that person is going to have to fight hard now!"

    Next to Endo Kiichi, Yu Huanmao's face also turned a little pale. He understood very well that when the two torpedoes hit the imperial warship, the large number of bombers and torpedo planes still hovering in the clouds were affected by that.  Stimulated by the two torpedo planes, they would soon turn into sharks smelling blood and pounce down.

    Things did not go as they expected. After seeing two torpedo planes severely damaging two warships at the cost of their own lives, the dozens of bombers and torpedo planes that were originally hovering in the sky collectively moved towards the sea as if they were stimulated.  The fleet on board pounced down.

    "Asshole, Lao Tuo, follow me and rush down to open a bombing channel for the bombers!"

    Seeing such a situation, Zhang Yang, who was still entangled with the Japanese planes in the sky, immediately became red-eyed. He immediately made a beautiful reversal, turned around and shot down a Zero fighter that was about to sneak attack on him.  He led his wingmen to dive towards the Japanese fleet. At a low altitude of more than 300 meters away from the Japanese fleet, the six Browning machine guns on the wings fired downwards.

    ¡°Woo¡­ da da da da¡­¡±

    The flexibility of the Mustang fighter cannot be compared with that of the SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber and the TBF Avenger torpedo attack aircraft carrying heavy bombs. The two war eagles shuttled flexibly in the firelight, and the firelight under the wings also  Flashing continuously, metal bullets with a caliber of 12.7 mm hit and beat on the metal decks and buildings of the Japanese army from time to time.

    "ah¡­¡­"

    A gunner who was holding a Type 96 anti-aircraft gun while shooting was hit by a 12.7-caliber bullet. His entire waist was torn off and even his blue-grey intestines were exposed. The gunner  He immediately lay down on the deck and started wailing.

    Under Zhang Yang's demonstration, the fighters behind them also began to follow suit. Soon dozens of P-51 Mustangs, F6F Vixens, F4U Corsairs and other fighters also swarmed down, and countless bullets rained down on the Japanese army.  Going up the deck of a warship.

    The 12.7-caliber machine guns on the fighter planes were not even a scratch for the thick-skinned battleships, but the Japanese gunners on the deck suffered.  One characteristic of Japanese warships is that the gun positions of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns rarely have protective steel plates. Therefore, after being strafed by fighter planes, many gunners were ruthlessly strafed by machine guns due to lack of protection. Many warships appeared on the deck.  There was a strong smell of blood, and the hot blood quickly stained the deck red.

    The large number of gunners killed directly affected the density of anti-aircraft artillery, and soon the anti-aircraft firepower on the Japanese fleet weakened.  The bombers and torpedo planes that had been surrounding the Japanese warships for a long time were not polite when they saw this.  At the command of the commander, vultures with red eyes swarmed down from high altitude and rushed down towards the Japanese warship.

    At this time, the pilots only heard the commander's decisive voice coming from the earphones: "Torpedo attack, torpedo attack"

    "Attack the belly of the enemy ship, attack the belly of the enemy ship!"

    "Line up and attack!"

    No matter what the sentence is, it all means the same thing: drop bombs and torpedoes!

    As the target in the sight zoomed in, the torpedo operators sitting in the back pressed the buttons around them one after another.

    ¡°Swish, brush, brush¡­¡±

    The torpedoes detached from the aircraft body and rushed towards the target, and soon there were explosions one after another.

    Looking at the thick smoke and loud noises coming from the fleet from time to time, Kiichi Endo on the Kaga aircraft carrier closed his eyes in pain.Eyes closed, it was clear to him at this moment that the rescue mission had completely failed, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions still waiting for rescue in Fuzhou were hopeless

    PS: Thank you cjj71 for the tip!
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