Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 571
Facing the roaring attack planes, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Beiyang battleship began to get busy. The huge Zhonghua No. 1 began to turn the rudder to perform a Z-shaped maneuver, and the anti-aircraft guns on the ship spit fire dragons into the sky together.The 150mm dual-purpose guns, 88mm machine guns, and 40mm machine guns on the ship formed an impenetrable fire net.Faced with this kind of almost abnormal firepower, the torpedo plane that became a monk was obviously not used to it.After all, traditional biplanes cannot dive at large angles.When hundreds of shells exploded in the air at the same time, the two torpedo planes that were diving at a small angle were immediately torn to pieces, but two planes were lucky enough to break through the firepower net and rushed down.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns of the Yangtian and several destroyers who were in charge of defending next to it also joined in. Layers of black clouds exploded in the blue sky, and the intensive artillery fire immediately shredded a torpedo plane, and Although one was hit on the flank, it still dragged a long black smoke and rushed towards Zhonghua 1, desperately dropping a bomb, but was immediately smashed into pieces by the intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire. After 10 minutes, the remaining planes saw that they could not gain any advantage, so they flew away from the battlefield.According to subsequent statistics, less than 80 enemy planes flew away from the battlefield in total, and only the Zhonghua 1 was hit by a bomb in the Beiyang Fleet. Although there was a lot of damage, the people around the impact point suffered heavy casualties. 32 people were killed and 27 were injured.

But the calm didn't last long.At 9:20, a larger fleet appeared on the radar screen of the Chinese warship, and the people came again!
"It's coming again?" Lin Tai once felt a bit of a headache looking at the shining bright spots on the radar screen. It was probably already late at night when the real battle took place.In naval battles with low visibility, the chances of winning will be greatly reduced.

"Order all the fighter jets to take off to meet the enemy immediately, and prepare for combat within 10 minutes. All warships must immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and the opponent must not be allowed to break through our defensive circle." Lin Taizeng issued a combat order firmly.

The ground crew of the Beiyang Fleet began to get busy again. They put the damaged aircraft into the hangar through the elevator, and added fuel and ammunition to the fighter jets parked on the deck, while the backup pilots came to the waiting room to wait. board the plane.The fighter pilots of the first wave seized the time to rest.

Everything is ready.The Imperial Warhawks take off again.This time, the Chinese fighter jets were not as hasty as before. In order to deal with this desperate group, Lin Tai used most of his existing aviation strength this time. Cluster collision.The location of the collision was above the sea area fifteen kilometers away from the Beiyang Fleet.

"Attention all teams, start climbing!"

"Attention all teams, the direction is 270 degrees! Quick!"

"Attention all teams. Four-finger tactics, direction 270 angle."

The pilots began to change their formation. The formation changed from twelve planes to a group of four planes. In fact, in the battle, the four-plane team was composed of two two-plane formations, one long and one wing, one in front and one behind.

Five minutes later, each combat formation climbed to an altitude of 5 meters, and quickly flew to the area marked by the warship guide in advance. Ten minutes later, the radio of the leader in the front row suddenly yelled loudly: "Enemy, direction 5000, angle 10, distance 85."

At the same time, several black spots appeared in the northeast direction, and the black spots gradually enlarged against the background of the blue sky.

"Only three planes?" Lin Jiannan, the commander of this flight operation, felt strange, and immediately searched downwards. Sure enough, at 2000 feet to the lower right of him, he saw at least 200 planes lined up in a neat line towards this place. side fly.Lin Jiannan's adrenaline began to rise rapidly, and the attacking position he was in was really good, both in distance and height.He slammed the nose down, and the plane's engine roared intermittently, rushing down at a 45-degree angle.His target was a torpedo plane.

At this time, the plane was in the middle of a large formation. Obviously, they didn't notice the threat from above. The moment the crosslight circled the opponent's fuselage, Lin Jiannan pressed the 20mm cannon firing button. He knew clearly Suddenly seeing a huge and bright flame burst out from that torpedo plane, the whole plane dragged thick black smoke and fell into the sea.Lin Jiannan took the opportunity to pass through the opponent's gap at high speed, and then made a dexterous roll to the left, avoiding the entanglement of another torpedo plane, and then pulled the nose of the plane up again and rushed to the sky.

Just as he was climbing, two enemy planes appeared in front of him. These planes were slowly flying towards the main force of the Beiyang Fleet in a loose formation.

Lin Jiannan immediately opened the accelerator, and the plane shot straight over like an arrow off the string. After contacting the opponent, he slammed the joystick, and the plane turned at a large angle and maneuvered to the rear and lower of the opponent. This is the direction of the fighter plane. The weak point is that the opponent's quadruple turrets at the back cannot shoot down.

Within ten seconds, Lin Jiannan successfully locked on to one of the opponent's planes, and the 20mm cannon immediately burst into flames, and the unlucky plane turned into a gigantic fireball and fell rapidly.At this time, another plane also spotted Lin Jiannan, and the gunner was struggling to adjust the angle.However, Lin Jiannan did not give the opponent a chance. When the distance between the two sides was only about 200 meters, he decisively pressed the button, fired a burst, and at the same time raised the nose suddenly.The plane passed the opponent's fuselage, and the opponent's plane was shot and lost its balance and fell down. When it fell, Lin Jiannan could even see the tail gunner waving his fist non-stop.

"Another fucking lunatic who doesn't even open a parachute." Lin Jiannan spat hard.

At this time, Lin Jiannan's record of the day also increased to 6, making him the pilot with the highest record of the day.

In addition, Bluebird No. 2 Lieutenant and No. 6 Flight Major, they each shot down 4 aircraft ranked second.

In less than 20 minutes of peripheral air battles, at least 50 planes were shot down, while China lost only two planes.The remaining fighter jets desperately broke through the opponent's defense line and rushed towards the Chinese warship, while the Chinese warhawks surrounded the large aircraft group like shepherd dogs, monitoring each other at all times. Once the opponent's aircraft tried to leave the large formation to attack, the Chinese side The fighter plane rushed to destroy it immediately.However, the fighter planes' reckless fighting style made the entire fleet step by step, and the air combat also fought from the periphery to the sky above the Beiyang Fleet.At this time, the anti-aircraft firepower on the Chinese warships was also fully prepared.Now for the sailors on those battleships, their test is coming again.

"Lanxiang No. 7, don't let Heiyun's plane rush down, you must find a way to block the opponent's torpedo route." Lin Jiannan ordered the squadron leader of the fourth squadron through the walkie-talkie.Before he could finish speaking, the fuselage of the plane suddenly vibrated violently.Then a jet of black oil arrows sprayed onto the engine compartment cover of the plane, covering Lin Jiannan's entire front windshield glass.

"Grass!" Lin Jiannan yelled, and slammed his right hand heavily on the windshield glass. He knew that his plane had been hit.Now the field of vision is completely sealed by black oil, and he has to choose to land.So he quickly gave the order, and then flew to the mothership Zhonghua 1.

Due to the loss of the commander, there was a little confusion in the aircraft formation. The cunning people immediately noticed this and immediately divided into two groups. Some torpedo planes slid down, and they wanted to enter the mine-throwing route for torpedo attacks.The other part of the bombers began to disperse, ready to switch to the bombing route, and the target was the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, Zhonghua 1!
"Port side, surface target!" The Zhonghua No. 1 battleship observer shouted loudly.The huge naval gun slowly rotated, and the muzzle was directly facing the direction of the opposing plane on the port side. "Boom! Boom!" After two loud noises, the shells of two 17-inch cannons flew into the distance wrapped in black fireworks.

"What are the Chinese doing? Are they trying to hit us with battleship shells? Is there something wrong with them?"

The torpedo fleet entered ultra-low altitude flight, ready to release deadly torpedoes on the opposing warship.At this time, it is impossible for the Chinese fighter jets in the high altitude position to dive and attack them at high speed.Except for the anti-aircraft guns and machine guns on the warships, there is nothing that can stop the enemy planes, and now, the Chinese are actually using the main guns to fight back, which is almost the same as suicide.However, the Chinese navy did not have so many scruples. More and more shells swarmed in, and huge water columns flew up from the already rough sea level. These water columns formed an airtight water wall on the sea.It turns out that this is the unique skill of the Beiyang Fleet to deal with torpedo bombers. "Water curtain shooting" is to use large-caliber artillery to fire on the mine-throwing route of the incoming enemy plane, and engulf the enemy plane by the water column raised from the impact point.

Sure enough, in the face of the ever-rising monstrous waves, the torpedo plane had to make curved sails on the sea again and again to avoid the rising water column. "Damn it, run away."

At this time, a huge shell fell into the water again.This time his landing point was very precise, just below the two enemy planes in the very center of the fleet.A huge water column swallowed those two unlucky planes in an instant.

The Japanese commander Inoue Chuanizumi felt very angry and immediately ordered his troops to climb quickly to avoid these terrible water jets.However, their trick just hit the trick of the Chinese.Because behind this water wall, there are 150mm and 88mm anti-aircraft guns equipped with advanced fire control systems and dozens of Gatling revolver anti-aircraft machine guns.These weapons prepare the fighter for an impenetrable crossfire web.Immediately afterwards, the torpedo planes, including the lead plane driven by Inoue Chuanquan, all hit the muzzle of the gun one after another, and were ruthlessly torn into pieces by shrapnel.Even if some aircraft were lucky enough to escape the high-density fire counterattack, it was impossible for them to launch a powerful attack again because the optimal attack distance had been missed.

(End of this chapter)