Just as Yamaguchi hoped, his "righteous" dialogue with Masao Hirano produced a huge chemical effect in the hearts of his subordinates. Suddenly, even Xia Quanyong outside the battlefield felt that it seemed that the air defense on the Japanese ship was The firepower intensified by another three points.
Xia Quanyong knew very well that the reason why Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi took the risk of launching this night attack was to create a time difference so that they could attack the US and Japanese fleets separately. Therefore, for the raiding fleet, they not only had to win, but also had to Fight quickly to gain as much time difference as possible for the fleet.
It was time to put some pressure on the brothers. He felt like this in his heart, and asked Hua Mai: "Liang Chao, what's going on? Do you need me to take personal command?"
Liang Chao was already feeling unhappy at this moment. When he choked out such a sentence, a surge of anger suddenly arose in his heart. He responded in a deep voice: "Master, we haven't exerted our strength yet."
"Pay attention to your tactics and don't act recklessly. Remember, we are cats now and the Japanese are mice."
"yes."
While the two were talking, Liang Chao's previous tactics had already taken effect. The high-power searchlights equipped by the Japanese ships were really powerful and could basically lock on every Chinese fighter plane. Therefore, when the Chinese fighter planes began to disperse, the Japanese ships were equipped with high-power searchlights. The searchlight light also began to disperse, so "blind spots" in the field of vision that could not be illuminated by the searchlights appeared. The Japanese air defense soldiers on the Japanese ships were already accustomed to the brightness of the searchlights. At this time, let them see the "blind spots" , its visual sensitivity is almost zero. Compared with the moving speed of Japanese searchlights, the Chinese sturgeon is of course faster. It is precisely by taking advantage of this "faster speed" that Chinese fighter planes began to obtain valuable fighter planes.
The first person to notice this was a pilot named Zhang Xiaogui under Wang Guanhua. By chance, he hid in the "blind spot" and flew for about a minute without interference from anti-aircraft fire. Report your experience to Wang Guanhua.
Wang Guanhua immediately advertised it on the public channel, so under Liang Chao's dispatch, their mixed formation began to divide the work independently. Some people were responsible for attracting enemy air defense firepower and containing enemy aircraft, while the rest waited for opportunities to enter the blind spot. And began to search for fighters. At this time, nearly eight minutes had passed since Li Hao bombed the Takejiu island.
Within eight minutes, the Takeku was not attacked again. This made Yamaguchi and Ozawa breathe a sigh of relief in unison. They were convinced that as they thought, the Chinese fighter planes had not made any achievements for a long time. Naturally, it was the fleet air defense force that defended them. The reason for this success is that now that the fleet's defense system is on track, if the Chinese don't have any new tricks up their sleeves, it means that they will definitely be able to withstand this surprise attack.
"Should we send more fighter planes? I think this is an opportunity to weaken the strength of China's aviation force." Thinking that the fleet has been defended, Ozawa's mind was filled with ambition.
Yamaguchi had a different view on this, saying: "There is no need to do anything unnecessary. This will actually affect the performance of the air defense forces. Looking at the current situation, we can definitely withdraw to Palau safely. When the Americans come up, we still worry about not being able to defeat the Chinese." ?”
Ozawa nodded and was about to say something when he heard a violent explosion coming from the upper left. He looked up and frowned. In an aperture about three thousand meters above and left of him, a Zero Being completely disintegrated in the light of the fire, he couldn't help but cursed: "Ba Ge."
In order to cope with the generally high-protection situation of Chinese fighter planes, Japan's combat weapons, whether it is the old Zero or the new Harrier, have been changed from aviation machine guns to cannons. In other words, in terms of weapons, both fighters In a reciprocal position, Ozawa thought that although his own side did not have an advantage in the number of fighter jets taking off, because it was a home battle and was covered by ground anti-aircraft firepower, it would face China, which had reduced flexibility due to the loading of bombs. Fighters can definitely gain the upper hand in a duel.
As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Ozawa immediately lost his composure when he witnessed his own fighter planes being blown up.
Ozawa was yelling loudly when another Zero fighter plane was hit in the sky, only two minutes apart, and his face immediately turned green.
Compared to Ozawa, perhaps because he thought the overall situation was settled, Yamaguchi seemed very calm. He comforted Ozawa: "It doesn't matter. Our pilots are not good at night combat and they are not numerically superior. It doesn't matter if we lose to the Chinese. "
It had only been five minutes since he finished speaking. As a scream fell from the sky, getting louder as the distance got closer, his expression suddenly changed.
"Missiles, Chinese missiles." Beside him, a major staff officer shouted.
Xia Quanyong knew the importance of morale very well, so after he stimulated Liang Chao with his words, he did not place all his hopes on the heroic fighting of Liang Chao's troops. Instead, he immediately dispatched three Chinese sturgeons loaded with air-to-ship missiles. , let them help Liang Chao's troops open up the situation.
Ozawa did not know that the culprit for the poor performance or even abnormal behavior of his pilots was none other than himself.
Because of his urging, and because most of the Japanese pilots who went into battle did not have this knowledge, most of them who went out to fight urgently did not wear tactical sunglasses. This caused the searchlights that should have been firmly on their side to be illuminated. Instead, it became their "enemy", which also caused them to perform abnormally in the confrontation with their Chinese counterparts and had no power to fight back.
Missiles have become a nightmare for Japanese navy officers and soldiers. During the first naval battle in the Timor Sea, China's missile speedboats taught the little devils a lesson and let them know what a small boat is a big killer. Now Japan's joint There are still many Japanese in the fleet who have experienced the naval battle in the Timor Sea, so they are particularly impressed by the threat of missiles.
Their searchlights did not illuminate any enemy planes approaching the battleship, nor did they even notice any enemy planes dropping bombs. However, the bombs appeared out of thin air. This was exactly one of the attack characteristics of the missiles that they understood, and once they thought that they would face this This attack was carried out without end, and the morale of the Japanese army was immediately devastated.
Of course, it was impossible for Yamaguchi to be unaware of the threat of missiles, and because Koizumi had already vaccinated him before, asking him to be careful that the Chinese might have anti-ship missiles that could be launched by fighter planes. He suddenly realized that this should be Chen Ce and Bai Chongxi relied on him the most.
This missile was launched by a Chinese sturgeon almost five thousand meters away from the Wujiu. At this distance, for this kind of missile, the maximum range is 30 kilometers, and the error at a distance of 30 kilometers is no more than 20 meters. For the "Tianlei" air-to-ship missile, the probability of missing the target is even less than the probability of hitting the target. So, just when Yamaguchi's face changed drastically and he was anxiously thinking about countermeasures, the missile had already hit the target it wanted to destroy. , hit the bottom hangar of the aircraft carrier Takejiu's island, and shot through the steel plate of the hangar, directly penetrating in.
"Boom." A more violent explosion sounded. Even though they were almost thirty meters apart, Yamaguchi and Ozawa were immediately affected by the shock wave generated by the explosion. The two of them didn't even have time to hum. Several other Japanese who were standing in front of them were knocked away.