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Chapter 23 The Sinking of the Akagi

(It's two-in-one again, are you satisfied with me,)

Yu Jian and Zhang Hei Gou's suicide attack achieved fruitful results. Not only did they blow up two critical strike planes at that time, they also paralyzed the entire flight deck, making it impossible for other Japanese aircraft stranded on the deck or in the cabin to take off. More importantly, it set a tone for "Sink" this air strike, which made many pilots of the academic army who were worried that they could not complete the bombing mission because they were shot down in advance had such a firm idea: Even if they were hit, as long as they didn't kill me in one go, I could fly the plane like Yu Jian and die with the Japanese.

One fighter jet after another with the symbol of the student army appeared in front of the Japanese almost against the sea. When it was about one or two hundred meters away from the ship, it suddenly pulled up and then whistled down.

"Go ahead to the Akagi, you must guard the flagship." "Run over at full speed, open fire, and open fire."... On all Japanese ships, after the shrill air defense alarm stopped, the captains' anger came from the tweeter. The importance of the flagship to a fleet is self-evident. However, the enemy chose to raid from behind, which actually caused the Akagi to face the attack of more than 200 enemy aircraft.

Under the command of Captain Kikumatsu Tanaka, the Kumano reversed rapidly, then pushed the hull across, and directly blocked the stern of the Akagi ship with a 200-meter-long hull.

The fierce anti-aircraft firepower of the enemy ships did have an interception effect. The Hawk III driven by Yu Jian was hit as soon as he broke into the anti-aircraft fire network. Then he directed a shocking scene, turning the flight deck of the "Akagi" into a sea of ​​fire.

The feat of the friend aircraft was desperate to inspire the bomber formation of the Second Air Division that followed. After all the fighter aircraft climbed to the predetermined height, they immediately dived towards the "Akagi" regardless of concern.

Amid the rumbling guns, the bombers belonging to the Second Air Division were occasionally beaten to disintegrate in the air, but no one retreated. The remaining fighter planes still roared and pounced down, and some were hit and injured, and rushed directly to the nearest Kumano, which scared the Japanese on the Kumano, so much so that they screamed strangely.

The two flight brigades under the Second Air Division were equipped with old models such as Hawk II and I-5. These fighters were relatively backward in terms of protection capabilities and flight speed. Moreover, the Japanese ships maintained a relatively dense formation at this time, which caused the second Air Division to suffer heavy losses in the first round of attacks. More than half of them completed the bomb drop mission, and more than a dozen injured ones were directly integrated into giants. The bomb hit the Kumano, Nagamon and Akagi, and other Japanese ships. The violent explosion sounded on several Japanese ships one after another. Yamamoto Izuru's bridge was first hit by several bombs, which was ignited by the explosion. Then it was hit by a wounded I-5 and bombed as a whole. The entire bridge was torn into two pieces after a series of explosions. Yamamoto Izuru was almost killed.

Several assistants on the "Akagi" protected Yamamoto from the fireworks. Seeing Yamamoto's white subjugation turned brown gray, and his face was smoked like a coal miner who had just left the coal mine, he quickly asked, "Second Minister, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Yamamoto Iroku broke away from their hands and stood stubbornly on the side of the burning bridge, looking at the second and third decks that were still exploding not far away. The critical strike planes parked there were burning into broken copper and scrap iron in the flames. Some soldiers were shouting and organizing the extinguishing of the fire. However, such a fierce fire could not be extinguished by water. "Akagi", the pride of this great Japanese imperial navy, is going to be destroyed here today?

Several assistant officials looked at each other carefully, and then a colonel made a decision, stepped forward and bent down and said, "Your Excellency, please transfer 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 there, the ship is dead, why are you still standing here? Is the battle over?"

"Yes, the battle is not over yet." The several assistant officials were not sure if they were affected by his calm expression. After hearing this, their eyes lit up and their whole body became energetic. They only left one person and a few soldiers. The others rushed to the ships and organized people to put out fires and air defense...

Not far away, the "Flying Dragon", "Aolong" and "Kaga" each quickly turned around under the escort of several ships. The "Super" followed the "Kaga". All the weapons on the ship were shooting desperately. A port window on the third floor of the bridge covered by gunpowder and fire. He vaguely saw several people wearing white general uniforms staring at him.

Yamamoto looked at him silently, turned around and looked up at the sky, muttering silently in his heart: "Please rest assured that as long as I am here, the 'Akagi' number will never sink."

After the Second Air Division dropped the bomb, it fled out of the Japanese air defense fire network and 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, and had a certainty in his mind. He calculated that it was enough time to turn back all the bombers bombing everywhere, and began to re-form, dividing the remaining fighter into four teams, one team was responsible for intercepting the Japanese planes, and the other three teams bypassed the "Akagi" and chased the other three aircraft carriers.

In the battle just now, except for the Second Air Division who was going all out to bomb the "Akagi", the other two divisions and two squadrons directly under the Air Force Command were just off the edge of the strong air defense firepower of the Japanese ships, acting as a task to disperse the air defense firepower of the Japanese ships, so the loss was not large. Among them, the LZ-I and LZ-19 driven by Tie Linfei and others did not even participate in the battle.

The "Sink" air raid of the Xuebing Army was not fully prepared. The most obvious thing is that none of the fighter jets were equipped with torpedoes specially used to destroy large ships. Because of the inherent shortcomings in the weapons, Ouyang Yun had to use this tactic of group of ants biting elephants after discussing with them.

When a specific combat plan was formulated, the original idea was that once an enemy fleet was discovered, all bombers would be organized to bomb one of the aircraft carriers violently until the bombing sank, and then the ability to bomb other aircraft carriers was tested.

The reason for formulating such a tactic is, on the one hand, because Ouyang Yun defined the "Sinking" action as: it is better to cut off one of the fingers than to hurt his five fingers. Since he has been hit, he must completely open up the Japanese devils, giving them an indelible lesson. Another reason is that he thought the Japanese devils would definitely leave some attack aircraft just in case,

But unexpectedly, Mi Nei Hiromasa would be so bold and radical, and he actually released all the attack aircraft.

Tie Linfei was still worried when he saw several aircraft carriers taking off. He didn't know how many attack aircraft left by the Japanese to protect his home. When he found that the one that took off was a critical strike aircraft, he was disbelief at first, and then he was ecstatic. Then, Yu Jian's suicide attack brought such a big effect, and even the Japanese ship reacted abnormally. Not only did he not hug him tightly, but he began to alienate the entire fleet, which made him greedy, and felt that this battle might have unexpected gains, so he was not in a hurry to sank the "Achiro City" that had lost its combat power.

The Air Force of the Scholar Army was coming in full force, Minuchi Mitsumasa and others were not sure of their strength, and were shocked by Yu Jian's suicide attack. Therefore, Yamamoto Iroku proposed to alienate the fleet to distract the enemy's attention and sacrifice a few ships to preserve most of the ships.

Yamamoto Iroru didn't expect that he would overestimate the strength of this incoming aircraft fleet. After the first round of the fight, he did not see an enemy aircraft carrying a killing weapon like a large ship such as torpedo. He immediately realized that his previous proposal was very wrong.

The first round of battle between the two sides seemed to be on the surface, and the heavy cruiser of the USS Akagi and the heavy cruiser of the USS Kumano, the battleship Nagato, and other ships suffered heavy damage. In fact, insider Iroku Yamamoto knew that these strikes did not damage the root of these ships. As long as they could survive the subsequent bombing and safely drive back to the local area, after a few months or longer, these ships could be repaired and re-instated.

This is also the reason why he was so calm in front of his hands, but what he didn't know was that this time, his judgment was completely wrong.

The incoming enemy aircraft did not carry attack torpedoes, such as attacking torpedoes, which specialize in destroying large ships, but they carried a large number of bombs. These bombs were used properly and could definitely sank the Akagi. Moreover, although the number of bombers under the Second Air Division occupied 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 Combined Fleet has a total of nearly 100 ships of large and small ships. This time it is only dispatched some main warships. If all its fleets are released, the scholar army may not be able to get twice as many bombers as it will be. The reason why the Combined Fleet makes this common sense mistake is that after the Battle of Songhu, the Chinese Navy has been completely defeated. Except for a very small ship that hides in the Yangtze River, the remaining small gunboats and torpedo boats are not threatening them at all. Moreover, in combat offshore, ships with too small tonnage are even problematic to go to sea. How could it threaten these giants of the Combined Fleet? It is precisely because of the existence of this objective fact that Mine Hiromasaki left out the old ships with slower speed in order to pursue speed and led these main fleets to fight. However, it was not considered a negligence that almost ruined the future of the Combined Fleet.

This battle between spear and shield reached its climax when the third floor flight deck of the Akagi was blown into shape and turned into a burning critical strike cemetery.

Each of the remaining three aircraft carriers has more than ten bombers patronized, including at least one L-19 or LZ-I. The load capacity of one L-19 reaches an astonishing ten tons. The destructive power it causes can be imagined.

Because the fuselage of four LZ-I and two L-19s are too large and can easily become targets of joint fleet gunboats, Tielinfei did not let them fly close to the sea, but climbed to an altitude of more than 10,000 meters when approaching the enemy ship group. Then, after the air strike began, it dropped to an altitude of three thousand meters, waiting for the opportunity to carry out the bombing mission.

When these six long-range bombers passed through the clouds and slowly lowered to visible heights, they found their huge figures, and Minuchi Mitsumasa, and other Japanese devils were stunned.

This is not the first time that the L-19 has appeared in front of the Japanese Navy. Just a few months ago, the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet was destroyed by two L-19s. Therefore, senior officials from the Navy, including Minuchi Mitsumasa, were deeply impressed by it. Even the Japanese who had good things even gave it a villain privately nickname: the sea monster,

These six "sea monsters" were hidden too deeply. They only appeared in this moment, and they were six of them as soon as they appeared. How could this not cause the Japanese to be frightened?

Yamamoto Izuru was so regretful that he jumped straight: "Eight squares, I regret not dispersing the fleet. If all the frigates gathered together, with such a huge size as the sea monster, he would not dare to perform diving bomb drops at all."

Tie Linfei still did not participate in this air strike. He steadily controlled the fighter planes to hover over the joint fleet under the escort of a white-fin dolphin and an I-6. He saw through the defensive formation of the Japanese ship from a high point and directed three fighter formations to bomb the "Canglong", "Flying Dragon" and "Kaga". "Sink." He cursed fiercely. The next moment, the three fighter formations that had just been combined dived from a few kilometers behind him, flew towards the three escaped aircraft carrier formations under the water.

Tielinfei pulled the fighter plane up, flew over the four aircraft carrier formations one by one, then turned around, and issued specific combat orders through walkie-talkies: "We have time, don't rush to succeed in one go, test it first and find a breakthrough."

"Zuo Anzhao, it won't work there, change the direction."

“Gaojian, opportunity, investment,.”

...

The Chinese fighter plane left the Akagi and began to bomb the other three aircraft carriers frantically. Yamamoto Irosaki ordered to approach the nearest "Flying Dragon", and at the same time, the signal soldiers were slogging frantically, and asked the Kumano and other ships to follow him to support the "Flying Dragon". The "Akagi" dragged the thick smoke and was in a high-speed movement. Yamamoto recalled this strange attack carefully and couldn't help but wonder: "Eight grids, how did the Chinese people discover us? There was no shadow of enemy ships in the nearby waters. Could it be that there were their spies in our joint fleet? No, even if there were really spies in it, it would be impossible to find a chance to notify the Chinese people? Then, how did the Chinese people accurately judge the position of our army and then carry out targeted air strikes? Could it be that its hidden airport was actually on the coast of Fujian? Oh my God, if so, we really underestimate the enemy."

Half an hour later, the "Akagi" finally met with the scarred "Flying Dragon", and the joint fleet finally suffered real losses. A Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser "Atgo" and a Tianlong-class light cruiser "Ryuta" were sunk. In addition, a sister ship of the "Mukuno" lost its maneuverability because the computer room was blown up,

Although this round of air strikes and anti-aircraft attacks took a long time, the losses of the academic army were extremely minor. Only thirteen fighters were destroyed. It is worth mentioning that among these thirteen fighters, except for eight of them that were directly defeated, five other fighters that were hit all chose to use their residual heat to launch suicide attacks. Although only three of them hit the target as they wished, it was precisely because one of the Hawk III crashed into the computer room of the Mikuma and caused a violent explosion that the highest-level heavy cruiser lost its ability to move.

As bombs gradually lost bombs left in formation under the escort of fighter jets, gradually, the number of fighter jets over the joint fleet was getting smaller and smaller, and in the end there were less than thirty fighters, including a Type 96 critical strike aircraft.

I don't know if it was inspired by the sword, but the Japanese planes that were lucky enough to take off the air were not only some of which flew away, but also most of them were shot down, there were about ten Type 90, Type 95, and Type 96 critical strike planes that chose suicide attacks. What's amazing is that two of them were hit by their own air defense firepower because they forced the fighter jets of the Scholars to be too anxious. One of them fell on the bridge of the "Flying Dragon" after completely losing control, and almost took the captain of the ship away directly, completing a super "obsolete goal".

The reason why Tielinfei had to retain a large number of fighter jets while blowing the "Chengcheng" to almost devastated is to put a perfect end to this "Sinking" operation.

The "Akagi" is the flagship of the Japanese Navy Joint Fleet in the high-level circle of the academic army. Since the first wave of air strikes came to it and destroyed it into a ship shape, Tie Linfei naturally had to do good things to the end and completely let it disappear from the Japanese Navy's roster.

Watching the last fighter jets that cast light bombs leave, Tie Linfei took a deep breath, exhaled suddenly, and shouted: "Brothers, let the 'Achi Castle' sink forever, attack."

"Woo,." The roar of the aircraft engine suddenly increased. Tie Linfei took the lead in increasing force, pushed the pull rod, and controlled the fighter to pounce on the "Achihe". The nose of the aircraft had just lowered. Suddenly, he found that nearly twenty small black dots appeared in the northeast direction, and the outline of the fighter was instantly displayed. In amazement, he immediately realized that this was the first wave of fighter jets sent by the Combined Fleet this morning.

After successfully luring out the Air Force of the Student Army and losing more than half of it, it has returned now. As for how they appeared in the northwest, it was because the joint fleet had moved its position, and they guessed the wrong direction of the fleet's transfer. This flight actually took more than an hour, until it encountered a Type 90 critical strike aircraft that successfully escaped from the Canglong, and then they knew what had happened.

Tie Linfei didn't know that several attack aircraft in this batch of Japanese aircraft had no much fuel at this time, and the engine might stop due to lack of oil at any time. What he thought was that once these Japanese aircraft came back, it would be difficult to sank the "Achicheng" again, so he took it for granted the order to quickly fight and decide.

Yamamoto Iroji was facing the enemy plane at this time, and did not notice the vision in the distant sky behind him. Seeing the remaining Chinese fighter planes pounced down fiercely, he immediately understood that the crucial test related to the future of the "Akagi" had finally come. The Chinese were indeed not satisfied and only severely damaged the "Akagi". They also wanted to sank it. It was related to the survival of the "Akagi". He could no longer maintain his calmness and calmness. He took out his pistol and shot it in the air. At the same time, he shouted: "Shoot, shoot, don't let the Chinese people come."

Shortly after Tielinfei issued the order to make a quick battle, other pilots of the academic army saw the Japanese aircraft cluster approaching rapidly. After an hour of watching the battle, they had already understood that so far, the key to the "Sinking" operation was carried out so smoothly is that the Japanese did not have attack aircraft to launch snipers. If all of those Japanese aircraft were attack aircraft, then even if they dared to learn from Yu Jian and launch a suicide attack bravely, they had to hurry before these fighter jets arrived on the battlefield. You must know that although the "Akagi" was bombed like a ship, there were still many air defense weapons on it, and there were many ships guarding them around.

Sometimes, once some beliefs arise, a kind of power will be generated, which will support people to complete a task or do something tenaciously.

For example, at this moment, Zhang Zhiyuan, who was driving the L-19 numbered 005, was thinking that he would sank the "Chengcheng" before the enemy plane arrived, even if he could not help but smash it to pieces.

Zhang Zhiyuan's decision was unfair to the other four passengers on 002. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Ouyang Yun would later issue the law to eliminate suicide attacks.

Twenty-nine fighter jets, including two of the L-19 series, and three white-fin dolphins. There was a one hundred and fifty-pound bomb hanging under the belly of these three white-fin dolphins. Twenty-nine fighter jets directly ignored the fierce anti-aircraft artillery fire and rushed towards the "Achi Castle" without hesitation. In the end, only fifteen returned successfully. The remaining fourteen, three of them were directly hit before dropping the bomb. One was broken on the left wing before dropping the bomb, and fell into the big Hai; Two more were hit during the bomb drop, because the ammunition was detonated, which caused the pilot to lose the opportunity to perform a suicide attack; three of the remaining eight were injured and rushed to the Japanese ship with people and bombs, one of which hit the bridge of the Kumano, causing the death of the explosion to directly kill the captain of the ship, Kikusong Tanaka. There were five more pilots, three of whom had made up their minds to learn from Yu Jian from the beginning, so the purpose was very clear It pounced below the left side of the ship on the Akagi, and successfully exploded three large holes in the hull of the Akagi, which became the main reason for the sinking of the Akagi. The other two, including the L-19 driven by Zhang Zhiyuan, carried out suicide attacks, was purely accidental. The two people rushed too hard and even failed to pull the fighter plane up. Among them, the Hawk III directly hit the stern of the Akagi ship. The fire was once again triggered. With the help of his comrades, Zhang Zhiyuan successfully threw the bomb and crossed three large holes that were blown up. After the tilting "Achiro" was found that the fighter could plunge into the sea. He simply increased his force to the end, pulled up the pull rod, and took advantage of the opportunity to directly hit the fighter head-on-head on the left hull of the "Flying Dragon" not far away, and a huge hole was blown out there, which directly led to the sinking of the "Flying Dragon".
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