New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

The Americans on the escort aircraft carrier didn't care too much about the approach of the Zero fighter.The Zero fighter is just a light fighter, and the weapons it can carry to attack ships are quite limited. It can only carry two 60 kg small bombs. (The kamikaze version of Zero War can hang a 250kg bomb) Such a small bomb is somewhat threatening to little guys like destroyers, but it is not a fatal threat to a [-]-ton escort aircraft carrier .Moreover, there is enough anti-aircraft firepower on the escort aircraft carrier to expel them.

卡萨布兰卡级护航航母上面有一门127毫米高平两用炮，还有12门20毫米炮。原本曾有人提出将这12门20毫米炮更换成大毒蛇的6管20毫米加特林炮。不过考虑到加特林炮要重不少，价格也要贵出很多，所以海军觉得在像护航航母这种不用上第一线的军舰上面，普通的20毫米炮也就够了。

The 20mm gun has a good killing effect on Japanese fighter jets under normal circumstances, but it is not enough to deal with suicide aircraft.This is not because suicide planes are stronger than ordinary planes. In fact, in terms of the structural strength of the body, the "Kamikaze" version of the Zero Fighter is indistinguishable from the ordinary Zero Fighter. The aircraft survivability stuff was also removed.Therefore, just like the general zero battle, as long as one or two 20mm guns are hit, it is basically guaranteed that the plane will not be able to fly back.

However, Zero War of the "Kamikaze" category didn't plan to fly back. As long as they didn't explode instantly after being hit, they might still hit directly.Therefore, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns that are sufficient to fight against ordinary-type aircraft will appear to have insufficient firepower when fighting against "Kamikaze"-type aircraft.To deal with the "Kamikaze" type aircraft, it is necessary to be able to ensure that it can immediately make it bloom in the air as soon as it hits a shot.

The Zero fighters who were in charge of escorting Guan Xingnan and them had already joined forces with those from the escorting aircraft carrier.

Take off f4f melee together.It has been a long time since Zero Zhan had to contend with fighters whose performance far surpassed his own, but this time, the rare Zero Zhan finally encountered a fighter whose performance was not as good as his own. Some improvements, although the effect of the improvement is not particularly significant, unlike the improved models of the Spitfire or the bf-109, which have almost made reborn progress, compared with the original version, there is still more or less progress.The American f4f fighter jets have retired to the second line early. If it were not for their huge inventory, the Americans would have completely retired it long ago.Now, when they are used on escort aircraft carriers, they are more often used as attack aircraft for ground support.In this way, of course they are not willing to spend money to improve it.So the f4fs encountered by the Zero Fighters now have not changed much from the f4fs at the beginning of the war, they are just a little older.However, the one-sided victory at the beginning of the war was not repeated. This is because the US military aircraft are overwhelmingly superior in number, which makes up for the gap in performance, and the second is because the level of Japanese pilots is different from that of the guys at the beginning of the war. far away.

However, among these low-level pilots, there is still a super expert.That is Hiroyoshi Nishizawa.As the ace of the Japanese Navy, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa is said to have shot down hundreds of enemy planes.This number is much higher than the highest shot down record of a U.S. military pilot.Of course, the statistics of the Japanese may not be reliable, but in any case, this number also shows what a terrible air devil Nishizawa is.If you consider that since the middle and late stages of the war, he had to constantly contend with fighters whose performance was obviously better than that of the Zero Fighter, and he was able to continue to obtain results, which made him even more terrifying.

An f4f has been set into the halo of the shooting sight by Hiroyoshi Nishizawa.The plane moved too violently when it tried to attack Hiroyoshi Nishizawa from the 8 o'clock direction. Hiroyoshi Nishizawa just pulled the nose lightly, avoided his attack, and let him rush to the front.Then Hiroyoshi Nishizawa just stepped on the rudder lightly, and he bit the f4f.Moreover, relying on the better acceleration performance of the Zero War 52, he quickly approached the opponent. Then, he did not even test the machine gun, but directly fired a burst with the 20mm gun.The gun accurately hit the f4f and ignited it, causing the f4f to fall towards the sea with thick smoke.

But now Hiroyoshi Nishizawa can't care less about admiring the crash of the enemy plane, because several enemy planes are also staring at him at this moment, including two f4u pirates who don't know where they came from. [

Nishizawa's escort fleet was trying to attract the enemy's attention as much as possible, while Guan Xingnan led the "Kamikaze" special attack team's 6 Zero Fighters to approach several US escort aircraft carriers.

"According to the plan, we will divide into two teams and attack the two aircraft carriers closest to us." Guan Xingnan gave the order.Then his earphones were immediately filled with screams: "The Emperor is onboard!"Guan Xingnan knew that this was the result of the combined effect of those children whose voices had not yet finished changing and the large amount of methamphetamine taken.

The 127mm guns on the US escort aircraft carrier and the destroyer next to it began to fire at them.

"Spread out!" Guan Xingnan ordered.Japanese pilots who have experienced the Mariana naval battle all remember the horror of the VT gun used by the US military's 127mm high-level dual-purpose gun.This kind of gun that can automatically explode when it is close to an enemy plane has brought painful memories to the Japanese. Guan Xingnan even saw it with his own eyes. A 127 gun exploded in a dense fleet and knocked out 3 planes at once.Making the formation a little looser is the only way for the Japanese to deal with this kind of gun now.

When passing through the curtain of the 127mm anti-aircraft gun, two "Kamikaze" Zero Fighters were hit by American artillery fire, and suddenly turned into gorgeous fireworks.For a long time, the attack effect of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on small aircraft is quite poor.But the emergence of VT has changed this situation. In many cases, their attack efficiency against small aircraft is even higher than that of small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

Now there are only 4 planes left in Guan Xingnan's fleet, and they rushed towards the predetermined target in groups of two.

The 20mm anti-aircraft guns on the US escort aircraft carrier fired.The dense rain was intertwined, forming a big net, covering Guan Xingnan.Guan Xingnan worked hard to control the plane, avoiding the enemy's firepower as much as possible, and at the same time slammed into the enemy.

Since all places with space are stuffed with explosives, the whole aircraft weighs hundreds of kilograms compared to the ordinary Zero Fighter, and a 250kg bomb is hung under the wing, which makes the "Kamikaze" ” version of the Zero Fighter, whose flight performance dropped drastically and became much clumsier.Therefore, although Guan Xingnan tried his best to avoid it, several rounds of 20mm shells hit his plane.

The right wing of his fighter plane was knocked out in half, and the plane began to roll uncontrollably to the right. At this time, another shell hit the root of the left wing, knocking out the entire left wing.Then the plane rolled uncontrollably to the left again.At the same time, flames and thick smoke rose from Guan Xingnan's plane, but these could no longer stop his attack because the distance was too close.Now the flight deck of the enemy's aircraft carrier has filled his field of vision, and the distance between them is no more than a hundred meters.He saw that right on his route, the enemy anti-aircraft gunners threw down their anti-aircraft guns in a panic and fled in other directions. He saw...

Just like in the original history, Guan Xingnan's fighter plane slammed into the USS Clinning Gulf escort aircraft carrier. The difference is that in the original history, for unknown reasons, Guan Xingnan's fighter plane just crashed into the On the deck, there was no explosion until another suicide plane that followed him hit it, causing a huge explosion.But this time, Guan Xingnan's plane exploded normally, and a big hole was blown on the unarmored flight deck of the escort aircraft carrier Clinning Bay.Immediately afterwards, another kamikaze plane hit the hapless aircraft carrier again, and a fire began to ignite on the aircraft carrier.

On the other side, a kamikaze plane crashed into the sea when it was about to hit the escort aircraft carrier of the San Lo. Come up, so thick smoke rose from the escort aircraft carrier.

Just five suicide planes, one attack severely damaged two escort aircraft carriers.This kind of combat efficiency is hard to match even the Japanese aviation in the early days of the war.In the original history, the escort aircraft carrier Saint Lo was sunk under the attack of the Japanese kamikaze, while the escort aircraft carrier Klinin Bay was severely damaged.But in this space, the damage to the escort aircraft carrier Clinning Bay, which suffered two impacts, was significantly more serious.The fire has spread to an aviation fuel depot and triggered a series of explosions.So, an hour after being hit by a kamikaze plane, the captain gave the order to abandon the ship.At this time, the air defense siren sounded again...

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The sky above the Ozawa fleet was empty, and there were almost no fighter jets used for air defense.In fact, there are only 108 aircraft on the four aircraft carriers of the Ozawa fleet acting as bait.With such a small number of aircraft, and the pilots are all rookies, the result is that these aircraft are simply not enough for the 8 fleet aircraft carriers in Halsey's main fleet.The ones who went there three times and five times were wiped out.Now looking at the empty decks of the four aircraft carriers of the Ozawa fleet, everyone knows that this guy is really focused on being a bait.But even if it's bait, it can't let it run away.Anyway, now that I don't have any worries, I can eat boldly with confidence.

However, Ron, who borrowed an F4U pirate from Halsey, saw two super strange warships in Ozawa's fleet-the Ise and Hyuga aviation battleships.The so-called aviation battleships are after the Japanese realized the great power of aircraft carriers, and because of insufficient shipbuilding capabilities, it was difficult to quickly build new aircraft carriers, so they came up with the idea of ​​refitting.So the older battleships Ise and Hyuga became the targets of modification.Due to time constraints, the Japanese didn't even have time to change them into aircraft carriers with full decks. They just removed the rear turrets and built a 70-meter-long flight deck.A flight deck of such length can only be used for maintenance and take-off operations and cannot provide the gliding distance required for landing. Therefore, once their carrier-based aircraft take off, when they land, they must transfer to other regular aircraft carriers, and then go back to the aircraft carrier. Shipped on other ships. [

Such a landing process can be described as tragic, and taking off on this kind of aviation battleship is also not an easy task.Although there is a launcher, the most Japanese-style tower in front of it is as tall as a castle tower, which completely blocks the wind on the deck, and in order not to affect the shooting of the front main gun , The launcher is also installed obliquely, which makes the deck wind blow from the side instead of the front when the plane takes off, which greatly increases the difficulty of take-off.

Ron's fighter jets had no bombs or rockets, and the enemy's fighter jets had been cleared long ago, so now he can only go around in circles outside the range of the enemy's anti-aircraft guns.From time to time, I took out my camera and took some photos for future bragging.But after the battle, when Ron developed the photos and took a look, he found that the photos were taken in a mess.In Scott's words, it was a waste of the Leica camera he lent Ron and the latest color film in it.

In just one round of attack, all four Japanese aircraft carriers smoked.The other warships were also damaged to some extent.

Based on the principle of eating everything up and leaving nothing left, Halsey organized several rounds of air strikes until the last ship of the Ozawa fleet was sent into the sea. The troops began to sail back.

"Guys! Let's hurry up! Just now Willis Lee said that they encountered the enemy's battleship force, let's rush back and have another big meal!" Halsey, who had just eaten the bait, obviously hadn't eaten yet. full.However, it was not so easy to catch Kurita. Almost immediately after spotting the enemy's battleship, Kurita said, "Ozawa is screwing me!"Run away with the fleet.Willis Lee wanted to ensure the safety of the landing site, but he didn't dare to chase him.It was just that the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier launched two rounds of pursuit, and finally left behind the head of the battleship King Kong.

That's when Halsey got another report about the suicide plane.

When receiving this report, Halsey, who was busy rushing back to deal with the Kurita fleet, didn't pay much attention.It was not until nightfall that Halsey, who had already determined that he could not catch up with Kurita, read the report seriously.

"Go and call General Ron. I have something to look for him." Putting down the report, Halsey said to his adjutant.

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"General, do you need me?" Ron walked into Halsey's office and saw Halsey grinding his teeth staring at a report.

"Oh, Ron, have you had enough time with me these days?" Halsey said, "Little Japan has come up with a new trick again. Come and see." He handed the report in his hand to ron.

Ron took the report and looked at it:

"At about 9 o'clock in the morning, more than [-] Japanese planes attacked...the escort aircraft carrier Clinning Bay sank, and the escort aircraft carrier Saint Lo was seriously injured and lost combat effectiveness. An hour later, Japanese aircraft attacked again, two destroyers sank, and one A light cruiser was badly damaged."

"Damn it! Isn't this Kamikaze?" Ron was taken aback. "Didn't this thing come out after the Battle of Okinawa? Why did it come out now?"

This was Ron's misremembering.The Battle of Okinawa was the pinnacle of the kamikaze team's activities. The Japanese invested the most kamikaze aircraft in this battle. Therefore, in the impression of ordinary people, when talking about the kamikaze team, the first thing that comes to mind is always the Battle of Okinawa.But in fact, in the original history, the special attack started from Wright Gulf.

"What a bunch of lunatics!" said Halsey. "Is there anything you can do about it?"

Ron thought for a while and replied: "General, there is actually a reason why the Japanese's attack efficiency is so high this time. First of all, our air defense force, especially the carrier air force, is dangerous to targets such as enemy fighter jets." Sexuality is insufficiently understood. Fighter jets have never been the first target to be shot down. Therefore, we have relaxed the first round of interception of such targets. Secondly, the f4f on our escort aircraft carrier is too slow and has too much firepower Weak, it is no longer suitable for interception missions today. Finally, the small-caliber antiaircraft guns on our warships have insufficient lethality, and even if they hit an enemy plane, it is difficult to prevent the enemy plane from hitting it. The best targeted arrangement is: first increase the proportion of fighter jets, and expand the patrol range of fighter jets. Once encountering enemy planes, attack those planes whose movement performance has deteriorated first. If the enemy’s suicide plane is modified with fighter jets, then install additional After shooting a lot of bombs, the performance of the movement will definitely drop significantly. Any such aircraft may be a suicide aircraft. Secondly, it is best to replace the fighter jets on the escorting aircraft carrier with f4u, and the anti-aircraft guns should be replaced with 25mm Gatling or It is a 40mm anti-aircraft gun. Only in this way can the effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire be guaranteed."

"That's right." Halsey nodded, "Your brain is indeed fast enough! It's a pity that you went to the army. This will inevitably increase the number of fighter jets, which will weaken our attack power."

"General, how many ships in Japan do you think you can attack after today?" Ron said, "Actually, I just thought of it again. There is a better solution."

"What way?" Halsey was a little surprised. In such a short period of time, in addition to analyzing the problem clearly and proposing a solution to the problem, Ron actually came up with another plan. ?

"That is, you grab an airport for us as soon as possible, and then we throw a team of p-81s on it. I can guarantee that, in terms of the scope of care and the efficiency of intercepting enemy aircraft, compared with carrier-based aircraft, our heavy fighter jets Both will be much better." Ron laughed.

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