The Yokosuka Military Port was obviously well prepared at this time. After the Ming Army's West Route Air Force attacked Atsugi Airport, they just flew close to the Yokosuka Port area. Before they were completely above the ground, large black clouds began to explode in the air ahead.
A muffled sound of "bang bang" was transmitted into the cockpit. At the same time, continuous lines of fire rose up from below. Tracer bullets pulled clear tongues of flames, fluttering in the air like whips, trying to hit the Ming army aircraft. That was an anti-aircraft machine gun.
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It was obvious that the anti-aircraft guns at the military port below were stronger than those at Atsugi Airport. The captain of the left group had to make a choice, whether to attack the warship directly or sacrifice a batch of bombs and focus on bombing the anti-aircraft gun positions first. Most of the bombs had been consumed in the bombing of Atsugi Airport just now.
Now if we focus on destroying the anti-aircraft gun positions, I am afraid that there will only be a few missiles left in the group.
Bombs. Then either they have to wait for the right group of aircraft to arrive from Yachiyo Airport and use their bombs to bomb the warships - to be honest, they may not have many bombs left - or they can only let the torpedo bombers attack the warships alone. The torpedo bombers fly
It is low and slow, and looks like a target compared with dive bombers, which will inevitably cause a lot of casualties to the torpedo planes.
He glanced down and saw in the harbor in the distance, a long and narrow behemoth moored next to the slipway, with the flag of the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet hanging on it, and all its cannons were spitting out tongues of fire, and every line of fire was directed towards it.
A group of planes rushed over. In front of and around the group, large black clouds kept exploding. The shock wave made the plane bump, and occasional shrapnel hit the plane.
Obviously, that is the main target today: the Nagato battleship. This behemoth has not been in battle since it was built. The first time it went into battle today was actually at the door of my home or above my head. It seems that it
He is really going to show off his power.
There can be no delay. At this time, Nagoya Airport and Niigatasan Airport must have received the alert. Maybe they have already taken off and rushed here. We must act quickly.
The captain was cruel and ordered:
"There are no enemy planes. The fighter formation will dive and strafe with me to suppress the enemy's anti-aircraft guns! The bomber formation will directly attack the Nagato!"
At the command, more than 30 fighter jets rolled down from high altitudes, dispersed, each aimed at a gun group on the ground, dived and strafed at it. At the same time, the dive bombers continued to climb to high altitudes, then lined up, and volleyed downwards one by one.
Pounce.
The attack on the Yokosuka naval port begins.
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This is destined to be a battle of unprecedented pressure for both sides. In the previous sea and air battles at the airport, the Ming army had never attacked a target with such strong anti-aircraft fire with such a weak force. For the Japanese army in Yokosuka Port,
He said that he had never seen such an air raid before. This generation of young Japanese soldiers had never experienced a war before and had no actual combat experience at all.
Most of the senior officers had experienced the Russo-Japanese War, and some had also experienced the Sino-Japanese War. But they were all senior officers in their fifties and sixties, sitting in their offices. At this time, the young soldiers operating the anti-aircraft guns were
It was the first time they tasted the taste of war. Even those veteran officers who had experienced the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War also encountered a new thing like "air raid" for the first time.
Although the Ming army now only has one bomber brigade and one fighter brigade, which is much weaker than the previous attacks on warships, there are no enemy planes now, only our planes are attacking local anti-aircraft guns. This is already in an extremely unstable situation.
On an equal scale. High cumshot
When a gun wants to hit a high-speed moving aircraft, it can be said that it is normal to miss, but it is a coincidence that it hits. That is, when the Ming army aircraft dives towards the Japanese gun emplacement, the horizontal movement is relatively small, and the Japanese anti-aircraft gun hit rate
It's only slightly higher, and it's limited to rapid-fire cannons.
But without bombs, just strafing, the damage to the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery crew members was much smaller. In addition, the Japanese machine guns had baffles in front of them, and they often dived down in one round, and the machine gun baffles jingled and bursts of sparks flew out.
No one was killed. In some cases, at most one person was killed. After several rounds of dive and strafing, the casualties of each anti-aircraft gun were not that big, and the anti-aircraft firepower was not reduced much.
Ming pilots now have a general understanding that the Japanese army and the Qing army are really different. In the past, air raids on the Qing army's airports only required a few dives and strafing rounds. Basically, no one operated the Qing army's anti-aircraft guns, and the artillerymen held their heads and looked for places to hide.
. And no one of the Qing pilots would try hard to fly the plane. As long as the Ming military planes flew over the airport, the Qing pilots below were all running for their lives. A large number of planes were neatly placed on the lawn, no matter what.
No one cares about bombing.
But the current Japanese army is completely different. Even if the ones in front trying to take off are all killed in flames, the pilots behind them still get into the plane and try to fly it as if they haven't seen it. Even if the artillery around them is being hit by shock waves and strafing
Even if they are all dead, the remaining artilleryman will still have blood on his face, trying to control the steering angle alone, load the magazine alone, and then fire into the air alone. Although it is of no use anymore.
This kind of "As long as I don't die, I will fight with you to the end" energy, which made the Ming army pilots full of emotions afterwards. But now on this battlefield filled with artillery fire, no one can care about the emotion. The Ming army pilots were nervous
, I just complained secretly: It’s really hard to face such a group of opponents. - It was so easy to defeat the Qing army in the past, and you could win in just two hits.
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At this time, the Nagato was facing repeated bombings from more than a dozen dive bombers, and water columns were rising and falling around it. At this time, a bomb had been hit on the rear deck of the Nagato, and smoke was billowing. Other warships in the surrounding harbor - light
Cruisers, heavy cruisers, destroyers, etc., all in one
They started to fire at the Ming army bombers in the sky. The balance of power between the two sides at this time was somewhat unfavorable to the Ming army. In addition to the Nagato, there were ten warships of different sizes in the harbor. At this time, they were all approaching the Nagato, forming a
Ring-shaped anti-aircraft formation. In addition, there are anti-aircraft guns on the surrounding coast.
At this time, the Ming bombers had very few bombs left. Only four bombers still had one bomb each. At this time, they did not dare to throw them randomly. They just circled repeatedly over the Nagato and dived and strafed. On the one hand, there was no complete
We dare not drop bombs if we are sure, but on the other hand, we have to use these bombs to coordinate the actions of torpedo bombers.
At this time, two torpedo bomber squadrons - in fact, after several battles, only one squadron was left - began to enter the battlefield from a distance, lowered the flying altitude, tried to get as close to the sea as possible, and flew over slowly and levelly, preparing to arrive.
The torpedo is dropped from a distance of several hundred meters.
But Yokosuka Port and Naha Port are very different. Apart from the Hiei, there are few warships in Naha Port. Because the Japanese army wants to establish a "blockade island chain" in the Ryukyu Islands, they always use the power of the Okinawa base to spread
The warships were spread out to patrol, monitor, and guard, but very few warships actually stayed in the port. Therefore, although Naha Port is not large, the sea is very wide.
And here is Yokosuka, one of Japan's top domestic military ports. In addition to battleships, light and heavy cruisers and destroyers usually gather there. The Japanese ships in the port just now have surrounded the Nagato, forming a ring formation suitable for air defense, and the efficiency of anti-aircraft guns has been greatly enhanced.
.And now seeing that the Ming army's torpedo planes were approaching and about to launch torpedoes, the warships on the periphery immediately retracted further. On the one hand, they concentrated their firepower to shoot at the torpedo planes flying over in the distance. On the other hand, they were in front of the Nagato.
Form a "firewall".
The Japanese army's intention is very obvious. Once the Ming army's torpedo planes break through the fire net and the torpedoes are difficult to avoid, they will use the bodies of other warships to block the torpedoes for the Nagato. They must sacrifice one or two secondary warships to save Nagato.
Nagato is not only the most powerful warship in the Japanese Navy, but also the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet. It is a symbol of the Japanese Navy and a totem admired by the Japanese people.
Now, there are two destroyers and a cruiser blocking the front of the Nagato, while several Ming army torpedoes have already been launched and are heading straight towards it.