Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 572 The End of the Yamato (1)
The defeat against the battleships did not dispel people's will to fight. This time they began to focus on the battleships that seemed easier to deal with.Under the second wave of dive attacks by enemy planes, the destroyers Minjiang and Zhanjiang were sunk by 250-jin bombs and torpedoes.More than 300 people were killed and injured on the two ships. The bomb also caused the boiler room of the Minjiang to explode, causing the hull to break in two.Encouraged by this victory, people began to shift their targets, and about ten or so planes began to attack what they thought was the second weak target, the formation command ship Yuntian located at the forefront of the fleet.

Seeing the enemy planes swooping over, the fighter jets on the battleship immediately set sail, and the anti-aircraft guns installed on the warship also started to speak, and cloud after cloud of black smoke appeared around the enemy planes.However, this helped people instead, because the anti-aircraft guns prevented the interceptor planes on the Yuntian from climbing to the necessary altitude.

"Hurry up! Fill up the gas!" Lin Jiannan, who had just landed, urged the ground crew on the deck loudly.At this moment, his damaged wing leader had already been dragged off the deck by a trailer, and beside him was a brand new spare.The air above the entire aircraft carrier has turned into a huge battlefield. Debris from the anti-aircraft guns mixed with silver-white aluminum pieces and burning canvas kept falling on the deck. The ground crew is struggling to clear those messy things for the runway .After working for a long time, the fuel was finally filled up.Lin Jiannan was also ready for the final battle. In front of him was a plane that was being refueled.Through the tactical symbols on the side of the plane, he knew that this was the lead plane of the 5th Wing. The propeller was still turning continuously, and the ground crew on the side were replenishing ammunition for the plane.

Lin Jiannan knew that the pilot of the lead plane was Zhuang Cheng, the captain of the 5th Wing. There was a little friction.This friction did not stop until they transferred from the Air Force to Naval Aviation.See your competitors' planes getting ready to take off.Lin Jiannan here immediately felt the pressure, because he knew that the opponent might surpass him in record, so he immediately urged his ground crew loudly, asking them to let him take off immediately.

Just at this time.Suddenly the alarm on the warship sounded, and the huge hull of the Yuntian began to turn.Not far away, several torpedo planes are rushing towards this side. Under the thick fuselage, the torpedoes mounted one after another are very conspicuous.

The anti-aircraft guns on the side of the ship, which were in charge of air defense, immediately spun and sprayed out flames at the same time.However, the enemy aircraft group did not slow down, and flew to a place only about 5000 meters away from the warship, and successfully dropped the torpedo.Accompanied by slight splashes of water, three torpedoes fell into the gray ocean one after the other, and three long white marks appeared under the sea surface, rushing towards the Yuntian from three sides.

Faced with this situation, the soldiers on the Yuntian seemed very flustered.Torpedo attacks are often fatal, and the opponent is obviously very experienced. The three planes use three different directions to attack, and the huge warship has no way to maneuver and evade.Just when everyone was preparing for the fatal blow of the opponent's torpedo, Lin Jiannan suddenly heard the roar of the engine, and he saw that the Falcon aircraft in front began to accelerate slowly.

"Things that didn't grow!" Looking at the other party's action, Lin Jiannan thought that Zhuang Cheng was going to escape from the deck by flying a plane, so he spat hard.

Unexpectedly, the Falcon fighter flew away from the wide flight deck, made a beautiful spin in the air, and suddenly swooped down!

"What is he going to do?" Seeing this situation, Lin Jiannan suddenly understood, and Zhuang Cheng was going to use his plane to block the torpedoes fired by the opponent. "Zhuang Cheng! Are you crazy, kid?" Lin Jiannan yelled involuntarily.

But it was too late, Zhuang Cheng's fighter plane plunged into the sea, and then a huge water column rose, "Boom!"

Three torpedoes concentrated on the fuselage of the Falcon fighter at the same time, and Zhuang Cheng and his plane were instantly torn to pieces. At the last moment, Zhuang Cheng saved the lives of Yuntian and more than 1000 sailors with his own life.Lin Jiannan stomped his feet anxiously, slowly closed his eyes, and two tears welled up in his eyes.

The heroic behavior of Major Zhuang Cheng not only saved the entire warship, but also made the momentum of all the soldiers and Chinese people reach the highest point.Of course, it also made people's morale drop to freezing point.Seeing this, the fleet dropped a few bombs indiscriminately and left in a hurry.After all, they have done their best.

This intense air battle lasted about 10 minutes.People lost about 42 combat aircraft.

At 7:40, the carrier-based planes of the Beiyang Fleet began to land on the mothership one after another. The ground crew was busy again lifting heavy bombs and torpedoes to the deck through the elevator leading to the ammunition depot, and then carefully Installed under the pylon under the cabin of the aircraft.Others began overhauling machinery and refueling planes. After 10 minutes, all aircraft were ready for combat.Just wait for the order of the Gust, and all the fighters can attack.

Lin Tai was deeply saddened by Zhuang Cheng's death, and his several air raids failed to take advantage of them. Now is the time when their defenses are weakest, so he ordered: "All combat aircraft groups attack!" For the Beiyang Fleet, now is the time to show their true strength.

At 8:20 p.m., the first attack wave was guided by three Falcon fighter jets to the sky over the United Fleet.Immediately, a harsh siren sounded on the warship, and then began to fire back.The black clouds blasted by the anti-aircraft artillery pointed out the direction for other Chinese fighter planes. More and more Chinese carrier-based planes flew here, densely gathered in the sky above the combined fleet.

Although the United Fleet suffered heavy losses in the previous air battle, Yamamoto still cobbled together 34 planes to meet it.The Falcon fighter jets swooped over from a high altitude immediately, and fierce tail-biting battles and air defense battles broke out over the various ship formations.Although the United Fleet Aviation has tried its best, it is really powerless to face the Chinese carrier-based aircraft that are higher in quantity and quality than their own.

The battle in the air lasted only a short 10 minutes, and the battle showed an overwhelming situation.After another 3 minutes, the Falcon fighter force had effectively curbed the interception of the enemy plane. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Chinese torpedo attack aircraft force also launched an attack immediately.

"Falcon 5! Did you see the big guy at three o'clock on the right?" Lin Jiannan, the captain of the First Wing, said to the wingman next to him through the intercom.Only then did the Falcon 5 pilot realize that a huge island was turning right, and the slightly downward deck extending from the bow could be seen very clearly from high altitude.

"I see, Captain, according to the arrangement characteristics, it should be the flagship of the United Fleet, the Yamato."

"Order. All troops, spread out and target the Yamato at three o'clock! Attack!" Hearing this order, the Falcon 5 immediately pushed down the joystick, and the fighter plane rushed down at a small angle.

"Sir, the enemy seems to be swooping down. Are they going to drop bombs on us?" Looking at the swooping plane, a soldier said loudly to Yamamoto 56.

"Don't worry, my second lieutenant, we have prepared a powerful fire defense network, and those toy planes can't hurt us at all." Yamamoto waved his hand and said very confidently.

"But why are these fighter jets swooping down on us now?"

"They may be planning to use machine guns to suppress our anti-aircraft guns, or to correct the dive route for the dive bombers." But now Yamamoto is also a little strange, because the opponent's fighter jets formed a strange diamond-shaped formation.So he raised the binoculars again and looked at it. It didn't matter if he didn't look at it, he was surprised immediately.Because the so-called auxiliary fuel tanks are not mounted under the belly of those fighter jets, but a long, big torpedo. Is this the latest Chinese Swordfish fighter?

"Bastard!" Seeing this situation, Yamamoto shouted: "Attention! Attention! The target is at 9 o'clock. The enemy's torpedo plane formation is coming." He knocked on the helmet of the officer next to him, "Why are you in a daze? ? The enemy is attacking!"

But it was too late by this time, the formation of Swordfish fighter jets had quickly passed through the best air defense area, and the formation of four aircraft disintegrated over the Yamato, divided into several attack waves and approached the Yamato from four angles.Then these planes adjusted their altitude again. At this time, they were only less than 20 meters away from the sea level. This would not only make the torpedo attack of their own planes more stable, but also be a dead spot for the opponent's anti-aircraft guns, and people would not be like the Beiyang Fleet. Play water curtain attack like that.

At a distance of 500 meters from the target, Lin Jiannan took the lead in pulling down the red handle next to the joystick, and then he felt the plane fall heavily, and then threw it high, the whole plane felt much easier in an instant.He started to steer to the left, and at the same time gradually raised the nose of the aircraft, looked down through the isolation glass, and saw a thin white line in the lower right corner rushing towards the Yamato at high speed.

"Zhuang Cheng, my brother will avenge you soon!" Lin Jiannan prayed secretly.

"Torpedo! Torpedo attack!" Seeing a white western line rushing here from not far away, the lookout post on the Yamato shouted hoarsely. According to his visual inspection, the torpedo was about 450 meters away from here. , According to the speed, it is estimated that it will hit its own warship in 12 seconds.So he was thinking silently: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

12!Fortunately, he didn't hear the explosion. "The torpedo has passed!" Unexpectedly, as soon as the sentinel's voice fell, a huge explosion threw his whole body off the watchtower, and soon there was a second and third sound. At the moment when the sentinel's body was about to fall on the deck, a thought flashed through his mind: he was counting fast.

(End of this chapter)