Chapter five hundred and sixty-eight heavy damage to Kirishima
The Japanese anti-aircraft troops on the twelve Japanese ships had already been in their positions. They were originally vigilant in the front, but now they received new orders. They shook the handles or directly turned the platforms and gunshots. Soon, they were ready to attack.
Prepare. The twelve Japanese ships are all equipped with heavy anti-aircraft guns that can shoot up to 8,000 meters. These anti-aircraft guns were the first to attack Xu Mengyong’s troops. The guns roared, and flames spewed out from the twelve Japanese ships one after another.
All around Xu Mengyong's headquarters, clouds of smoke suddenly exploded, or shells roared past. The Tiger Shark was a dive bomber, each equipped with two 500-kilogram heavy aerial bombs. Twenty-four Tiger Sharks,
They will also be the first to launch an attack. They form a formation of two aircraft. Under the leadership of their respective leader aircraft, they are divided into three small groups in an orderly manner and attack the three battleships. As the distance gets closer, the Japanese ship launches
There are more anti-aircraft weapons. From Xu Mengyong's perspective, on the sea surface with streaks of water, on the front and right side of them, twelve Japanese ships are arranged in a Z-shaped formation, with three destroyers rushing forward, and then three
Behind the battleships, there are three heavy cruisers, and between the battleships and the heavy cruisers, there are three destroyers. The gunfire on the battleships is the most intense. From a bird's eye view, all you can see is tongues of flames, and there are tracer bullets that make obvious bullet marks.
Flying over at a high altitude, it seems that the vehicle can be hit in the next moment; the scale of the artillery fire on the heavy cruiser is slightly smaller, but perhaps because it is equipped with more machine guns, the firing frequency is the highest; compared with battleships and heavy cruisers
The gunfire on the destroyer was much weaker than that on the destroyer, but it covered the flanks of the battleship very well and did not give our own side a chance to make a surprise attack.
"Steady, let me reiterate, target, main gun emplacement!" Xu Mengyong shouted on the intercom, then controlled the fighter plane, made a sharp left turn, and turned the throttle when the wing was at an angle of about 180 degrees with the sea.
Increase it to the maximum. Turning the fuselage sideways and sweeping quickly can reduce the bomb-receiving surface. This is often a common method for fighter planes to break through ground (sea surface) anti-aircraft firepower.
As soon as Xu Mengyong made this action, his wingman pilot immediately deflected the fuselage and flew down after a distance of about three hundred meters. After them, the other three two-plane formations of the cluster followed.
They followed suit, and immediately, like eight swifts, the eight Tiger Sharks turned around quickly and rushed towards the battleship Hyuga.
Takasu Shiro was looking up in the captain's room of the battleship Hyuga. He saw that although the artillery fire from his side was strong, there was no way to hit the enemy aircraft. He was quite dissatisfied with the performance of the air defense force. He was very dissatisfied with the performance of the air defense force and was angry with the captain of the Hyuga on the side, Colonel Chiaki Matsuda.
He said sternly: "Matsuda-kun, how do you usually train? Why can't you stop the Chinese?!"
In a contest between fighter planes and battleships, no matter how fierce the battleship's anti-aircraft firepower is, it still belongs to the shield side. In the contest between spears and shields, spears have an inherent advantage. The Hyuga battleship and three frigates have dense air defense firepower.
Yes, but it is impossible to completely cover the entire airspace. Moreover, the fighter planes of the Xuebing Army are already good at speed, and those who launched a surprise attack on them at this moment were obviously the elite of the Xuebing Army's Pacific Aviation Force. They failed to complete the long-range interception.
It is normal. Of course, there is a strict hierarchy between superiors and subordinates in the Japanese army. Matsuda dared to think this in his heart, but he did not dare to say it with his mouth. He bowed repeatedly to express his respect, then said that he would personally take command, and then exited the captain's room.
Go to the anti-aircraft battery next to the captain's room to take command.
The eight-machine group led by Xu Mengyong took the lead in launching the attack. However, it was the Zhang Jinyun group responsible for attacking the Kirishima that made the first achievements. After Zhang Jinyun's unit broke through the Japanese ship's long-range air defense firepower, he was concerned about the enemy ship's short-range air defense.
There were too many weapons, so each formation was ordered to move freely, and then they and their wingmen performed continuous roll maneuvers, lowering the fighter planes to a height of only a few dozen meters above the sea. At this time, they were only a thousand meters away from the stern of the Kirishima.
The distance immediately attracted indiscriminate fire from multiple anti-aircraft batteries at the rear of the ship. At the most dangerous time, bullets even hit the cockpit, almost penetrating the cockpit armor. I heard the sound in front of the fuselage.
Zhang Jinyun broke into a cold sweat at the harsh sound of metal collision. He immediately pulled up the fighter plane, climbed sharply, and passed by the Kirishima under the "farewell" of nearly ten anti-aircraft machine guns.
During the process, the shadow of the Kirishima's main gun would appear in the bombsight's crosshairs. He pressed the throw button and then pulled the fuselage sideways to be perpendicular to the sea level.
Separated by a distance of about two hundred meters, two heavy bombs roared down. One hit the Kirishima's No. 3 main gun turret located at the stern, and the other hit the sea less than two meters away from the stern.
The two bombs exploded one after another, the former with the most astonishing force. Not counting the dismemberment of the bombed main gun and the Japanese inside, it also created a bomb with a diameter of more than thirty meters and a height of more than fifty meters.
The mushroom cloud. The latter, while raising a huge lang that was tens of meters high, tore a large gap in the Kirishima's stern, directly exposing the propeller below that had been deformed by the impact.
The violent explosion caused the Kirishima to shake violently. Many Japanese were unable to stand and fell to the ground. The more unlucky ones even bumped into the deck or bulkhead, causing their heads to bleed. This also caused the ship to succumb.
The anti-aircraft firepower of Zhang Jinyun was stagnant. The time for the anti-aircraft firepower to stagnate was not long, only two or three seconds at best, but it was enough for other students in Zhang Jinyun's cluster who were always looking for a breakthrough. Zhang Jinyun's
Wingman Bao Lingquan took the lead to seize the opportunity and dropped the bomb. However, I don't know if it was affected by the shaking of the Kirishima, or if the height of the bomb he dropped was too high. Although he aimed at the No. 4 main gun of the Kirishima
The bombs were dropped by the fort, but they accidentally missed the target. None of the two bombs hit the hull, and they only exploded on the sea surface on the left wing within ten meters of the Kirishima.
The Island suffered a big turbulence.
After Bao Lingquan dropped the bomb, he didn't forget to look back when he pulled up the fighter plane. He didn't see a new mushroom cloud, only two slugs. He was very angry and cursed: "*, the missile missed!"
Zhang Jinyun had already raised the fighter plane to a certain height at this time. When he turned around, he saw the Kirishima experiencing violent turbulence. The Japanese anti-aircraft soldiers on the ship stood up and fell down. Many people collided with each other. Hearing this, he encouraged: "It's okay, it works."
Not bad!”
The effect is of course good. Zhang Jinyun just stopped the anti-aircraft firepower on the Kirishima. Now, the Japanese soldiers are unable to get up despite the violent bumps. The anti-aircraft firepower has almost stopped completely. In this way,
But this gave the remaining six Tiger Sharks a great opportunity to perform. Just when Zhang Jinyun encouraged Bao Lingquan, four Tiger Sharks dived down. Although one of them was hit by anti-aircraft artillery fire during the dive,
The fuselage exploded and caught fire, but all four Tiger Sharks successfully completed the bombing. Of the eight heavy bombs, five hit Kirishima, and four of them hit the front of Kirishima. Kirishima's four main turrets
, No. 1 and No. 2, located in the front, were closely adjacent to each other and were hit by two bombs one after another. The violent explosions were completely torn into pieces. Not only that, the bridge was also hit by one bomb, including the bridge and the main engine chimney.
Flying. At this point, the Kirishima has actually lost its combat effectiveness. In other words, the Zhang Jinyun cluster has completed its mission.
(Old Poisoner: I’m back from Xuzhou, but I have to make up for my colleagues’ shifts first, so I’ll try to resume three days and six updates from the day after tomorrow)