At 16:40 on the afternoon of the 9th, the Tianshu aircraft carrier formation arrived at the scheduled attack position - Point A after six hours of high-speed sailing.
At this time, the sun was already very far to the west. And the tropical July afternoon sun was extremely fierce and piercing the eyes. The Ming army's planes flew from west to east from here to Okinawa, just flying along the sunshine. And Okinawa's
Be it warships or anti-aircraft guns, if you want to shoot Ming army aircraft, you have to raise your head and stare in the direction of the sun, which is very difficult to shoot. Moreover, Ming army aircraft groups can also take advantage of the dazzling sunlight to cover up, and only emerge from the strong light at the last moment to shoot.
The figure was hidden until the last moment.
Moreover, after the Ming army bombed Okinawa, it would soon get dark. Even if the Japanese aircraft carriers arrived in the nearby waters a few hours later, it would already be dark and it would be impossible to use aircraft to find the Ming army fleet. The Ming army fleet had all night
Move covertly and go wherever you want. And by dawn tomorrow, the Ming fleet may have already been out of the Japanese aircraft carrier search range.
The time and location were very favorable to the Ming army, as if they had been calculated in advance.
The Tianshu squadron sailed against the wind, and the three large aircraft carriers began to release aircraft. It was still divided into two attack waves. The main targets of the first attack wave were Japanese aircraft at the Okinawa Airport, various anti-aircraft gun positions, oil depots, and barracks.
.Because there should be no fighter jets on the island, the target is the Japanese bombers. Not only are these bombers worth bombing, they are also necessary to bomb. Because if they take off and search for Ming aircraft carriers on the sea, it will still be very dangerous.
The purpose of bombing the Japanese barracks was to kill as many Japanese troops as possible defending the island and give Tokyo the feeling that "the Ming army was preparing to land on Okinawa."
The main task of the second attack wave is to bomb the military port. Although Okinawa is not big, it is definitely a center of good ports. From south to north, the bay is winding, and many places can be used as ports. There are two military ports, the one on the west coast of the southern part of the island.
Bajun Port, and Kinmu Bay Port on the east coast of the central part of the island. The others are fishing ports, which are used by the Okinawan people (formerly Ryukyu nationals) on the island to make a living.
The first attack wave will fly over the two military ports, but it will not attack. The main purpose is to see if the Hiei is in the port and if there are any other warships in the port. Then the information will be transmitted to the second attack wave aircraft group.
.If the Hiei is in the harbor, then the second attack wave will focus on bombing the Hiei.
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A group of dive bombers and a group of fighter jets lined up in a dense formation and flew towards Okinawa, 190 kilometers away to the east. They were expected to fly over Naha Airport in 35 minutes. However, after flying for just 20 minutes, the plane below
A Japanese patrol ship appeared on the sea
The patrol boat was very small, only about one or two hundred tons, and it was very fast, dragging a long white mark. It obviously found the large aircraft group above its head, and immediately changed its course, and the white mark below turned a big
Turning around, almost speeding along the sea in the same direction as the fleet of aircraft at the highest speed.
Of course, no matter how fast the speedboat is, it is only about one-fifth of the speed of the fleet. Soon, the speedboat is left far behind.
The Ming army aircraft group wasted no time in swooping down to attack the small boat. Secondly, they continued flying in the predetermined direction, but at a faster speed. They knew that the Japanese small boat had reported its position to the Okinawa base. It
The purpose of following myself is to try my best to judge the heading, speed, number, and type of aircraft in the fleet. Right now, the sirens must be blaring loudly at the airport at the Okinawa base.
The Japanese army was on high alert near Okinawa. In the next ten minutes of flight, the Ming army aircraft group encountered a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft and a Japanese destroyer. This should be the alert force deployed by the Okinawa base in this direction.
When the Ming army aircraft group flew over the destroyers, the Japanese destroyers below fired at the Ming army aircraft group, trying to shoot down one or two aircraft. However, the Ming army aircraft group ignored them and just accelerated towards Okinawa.
Sure enough, when we saw the rolling mountains of Okinawa in the distance ahead, we could also see a large number of anti-aircraft balloons rising from the harbor below the hillside. Obviously, within such a short period of time after receiving the warning, the Japanese troops on the island were ready.
The Ming army aircraft group continued to approach at high speed, and when they reached about 10,000 meters, layers of explosion smoke began to appear in the sky ahead, and large black clouds appeared around the Ming army aircraft group. Of course, the artillery at this distance was not very dense. But the distance
When we reached a few kilometers, the density of the black clouds suddenly increased, and many Ming army aircraft felt the turbulence caused by the shock wave, as well as the "ding-dong" sound of shrapnel occasionally grazing the fuselage.
The Ming army aircraft fleet passed over the Naha Military Port and saw almost ten thousand guns firing below. There was a big man parked in the port, with tongues of fire spitting out from all over his body, like a hedgehog.
Hiei battleship, yes. The main target of the Ming army's attack was in the port. It wisely did not go anywhere, relying on the anti-aircraft guns around the port to add anti-aircraft firepower to it.
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But the port is not the target of the first attack wave. The primary target of the first attack wave is the airport, and the Japanese bombers on the airport. Everything in the port is dead and will not run away. Even if the warships in the port run away, they will not be able to escape in a short time.
It can't run very far. But once the bomber at the airport escapes, it will be difficult to find it.
What they were worried about happened. When the Ming military aircraft group was divided into two groups and headed towards Naha Airport (Naha City in the south) and Okinawa Airport (Okinawa City in the center), they could already see some aircraft scattered in the northern sky in the distance.
There seemed to be more than a dozen of them. At least some of the bombers on the island had already taken off and were preparing to flee.
A squadron of Ming fighter jets pulled up the throttle and chased after them at high speed. At the same time, the remaining bombers of a group and three squadrons of fighter jets also spread out to search Naha Airport and Okinawa Airport to see if there were any that had not yet taken off.
The straight-line distance between the two airports is 20 kilometers. On the ground, it is a long way around the mountain road and around the bay, but for aircraft in the sky, it is a blink of an eye. The Ming army aircraft group searching for Naha Airport flew low over Naha Airport.
However, except for being bombarded by anti-aircraft guns, no aircraft was found on the runway. This fleet did not delay, and immediately pulled up to join the fleet to the north and search the Okinawa Airport.
There were bursts of explosions from the Okinawa Airport in the north, which were the sounds of bombs being dropped. It seemed like there was something at the Okinawa Airport.
Sure enough, when the previous fleet arrived at the Okinawa Airport, they saw that the airport had been bombed into thick smoke. There were about twenty Japanese bombers lying beside the runway, some were already burning, and some were burning.
Still trying hard to climb to the middle of the runway. But
The Ming fighter jets were also shot down by the Ming fighter jets that were swooping and strafing. Once one or two plane wreckage were burning on the runway, other planes could not take off. Twenty or so bombers were repeatedly strafed by the Ming military fleet, and all burned and exploded.
, turned into a pile of debris.
A group of dive bombers was divided into two groups. Two squadrons bombed the Okinawa airport, mainly bombing anti-aircraft guns, control towers, airport oil depots, etc., while the other two squadrons went to bomb the Japanese Marine Corps barracks. Soon, in the distance,
Billowing black smoke also rose from several Japanese military stations.
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Previously, there was a Ming fighter squadron, with a total of 16 fighter jets, chasing a dozen fleeing Japanese bombers. Now there are no Japanese fighter jets to protect those bombers. The Ming fighter jets do not need to face an air battle. They are equally numerous and faster than the bombers.
Much more. Just like an eagle catching a chicken, it caught up with those bombers playfully, and shot down all of them in three strikes, five divided by two.
Watching Japanese bombers dragging black smoke into the sea one after another, the Ming fighter jets of this squadron returned to join the fleet of aircraft that were "raging" over Okinawa, and continued to bomb the Japanese military camps and anti-aircraft gun positions on the island.
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After about forty minutes of bombing, the leader ordered to return. At the same time, he called the flagship to send a second attack wave to sink the Hiei battleship.