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 this way in his heart, and asked Huaimai: "Liang Chao, what's going on? Do you need me to personally take 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!"
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While the two were talking, Liang Chao's previously deployed tactics had already taken effect. The high-power searchlights equipped by the Japanese ships were indeed 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 anti-aircraft soldiers on the Japanese ships had already become 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 look 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, which made Yamaguchi and Ozawa breathe a sigh of relief and feel reassured. As they thought, the Chinese fighter planes had not been able to make any further achievements, so naturally it was the fleet's air defense force that defended them.
The reason for its effectiveness. Now that the fleet's defense system is on track, if the Chinese don't have any new tricks, it means that they will definitely be able to withstand this surprise attack.
"Should we send more fighter planes? I thought this was an opportunity to weaken the strength of China's aviation force." Thinking that the fleet had 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, which will actually affect the performance of the air defense forces. Looking at the current situation, we can definitely withdraw to Palau safely and wait for the Americans to come up. We still worry about not being able to defeat the Chinese."
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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 him, a Zero
He was being completely disintegrated in the fire. Involuntarily, he cursed: "Ba Ge!"
In order to cope with the generally high protection situation of Chinese fighter planes, the combat weapons equipped by Japan, 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, the fighters of both sides have
They are in an equal position. In Ozawa's opinion, although our own side does not have an advantage in the number of fighter jets taking off, because it is a home battle and is covered by ground anti-aircraft firepower, it will face China, which has 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! China's 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 the fact that 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 resulted in the searchlight lights that should have been firmly on their side.
Instead, it became their "enemy". It 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 naval officers and soldiers, as early as during the naval battle in the Timor Sea. In that battle, China's missile speedboats taught the little devils a lesson, letting them know what a small boat is a big killer. Now the Japanese alliance
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. Moreover, because Koizumi had vaccinated him long ago and asked 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 smaller 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.