On October 7, 1938, the last fleet of the Japanese army with battleships as the core left Nagasaki. It did not stop on the way and headed straight for Qingdao. With an average speed of 15 knots, it had already arrived in the afternoon of the next day.
Weihaiwei
Outside the port, some people suggested that the fleet could "recover" Weihaiwei first, but Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, the former commander of the combined fleet and task force commander, waved his hand and rejected it. "There is no need to waste time, as long as Qingdao and Weihaiwei are captured,
It’s at your fingertips!”
At this time, the fleet was less than 200 kilometers away from Qingdao. Vice Admiral Yoshida Zengo ordered all ships to prepare for air defense operations. In his opinion, this was the only force that the Chinese could threaten their fleet. Although
Those warships in Qingdao should have also fallen into the hands of the Chinese, but Ji
Tian Shanwu believed that due to the backwardness of the Chinese navy, it would not be able to use those two large warships that posed a certain threat to the fleet for a long time. Even those destroyers would take at least a month or two to get familiar with. You must know that before the Anti-Japanese War
The ships owned by the Chinese Navy are not even up to the level of World War I
Yoshida Zengo's worries soon became a reality, but within a few minutes, more than 400 planes appeared in the sky in darkness. Because he had deciphered the Japanese communication code, Hu Weidong knew in advance the route chosen by the Japanese fleet, so
No more
Some reconnaissance planes were dispatched to avoid warning the Japanese in advance. Instead, they directly sent out all the planes in order to catch the Japanese by surprise. Unexpectedly, the enemy general had been in the army for a long time and did not give the North China Aviation Corps a chance to take advantage of the loophole.
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But even so, more than 400 aircraft came out in full force. It really shocked many Japanese recruits who had not experienced the war. Yoshida Zengo was keenly aware that the atmosphere among the fleet officers and soldiers was not right, and could not help but secretly curse the Navy Ministry.
Those in power are shameless, "Except for us old guys, all they send are new recruits!"
But after all, Yoshida Zengo was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and he immediately ordered, "Each ship gives priority to bombers. Fighters are not a threat. You can ignore it for the time being." This sentence immediately dispelled the panic in everyone's hearts, because even if it was
The Japanese recruits all know the difference between bombers and fighter jets.
When I went there, I saw that more than two-thirds of the enemy's fleet were fighter jets. Everyone immediately felt at ease. Fighters could not pose any threat to warships. Although bombers were a great threat, there were only more than a hundred of them after all. For this force,
For a huge fleet with more than 50 ships, it is actually not that scary.
m anti-ground aviation rocket launcher
M aviation rockets are difficult to cause substantial damage to heavily armored battleships, but they are more than enough to deal with auxiliary ships such as destroyers, light cruisers, and supply ships. Moreover, the North China Aviation Corps has more than 300 fighter jets, each of which
The frame carries a 4-tube shooter, which is more than 1,200 rounds. As the saying goes, "An elephant dies if it is eaten by ants."
"There are only 4 rounds, which is too few. It's not enough. I fired them all. Well, after the war, I have to report this problem to the commander. When performing this kind of mission, it is best to equip me with a heavy bomber equipped with rockets.
, bring 24 rounds, it should be 36 rounds, it will blast like this
It’s so cool,” Zhong Ming complained, having fired all four rockets in a short time. Even so, this guy known as the “air sniper” did not waste even a single rocket. Not only did they all hit the enemy ship, but also
The hair is hit within one meter of the waterline
m caliber, even if the charge is small, there is no problem in opening a breach with a diameter of more than one meter. If it is on the water, even a light warship like a destroyer will not care about this damage, but if it is near the waterline,
The speed at which water enters
One of the destroyers hit by it failed to escape the fate of sinking, perhaps because there were too many new recruits, and the damage control was not timely enough. The other light cruiser and a destroyer blocked the breach in time, but at that time
Zhong Ming, who had already knocked out three rockets, didn't know what his psychology was, so he shot a carbine and fired another one at the destroyer that was already tilting obviously. Now no one could save it.
Although other fighter pilots did not have Zhong Ming's miraculous skills of being able to hit every target with perfect accuracy, there were quite a few who were superb. In less than ten minutes, one light cruiser and five destroyers were sunk, and three more were sunk.
light cruisers and 11 destroyers
They were damaged to varying degrees. More importantly, these light warships were busy protecting themselves and had no time to protect those large warships. However, more than 150 bombers of the North China Air Force seized this opportunity to attack the six ships.
The battleships launched wave after wave of attacks