Chapter 790 Zero vs. Wildcat

"Boom!"

"Bell!"

The most explosive sound on the surface of the sea is the direct duel between the two steel giants.

Even the Japanese planes were like mosquitoes at this time, so smoked away from the Iowa.

The huge cannonballs of the Yamato-class battleships whistled like locomotives, rolling up the surrounding air and stirring up the wings of nearby planes, and the columns of water that smashed into the sea sometimes grazed the wings of the planes, splashing water droplets all over the windshield.

The cacophony of steel crashing and tearing echoed through the water, piercing far away, scattering the surrounding swarms of fish.

Only those ferocious fish, unable to resist the temptation of blood in the seawater, still leaned in, bared their sharp teeth, and aimed at the floating corpses suspended in the sea first.

From time to time, one or two shells slammed into the sea, and under the twisted light, the speed became slower and slower, and finally sank to the dark bottom of the sea.

"Oh God! Is this still Iowa? On an American SBD-3 dreadnought dive bomber flying high in the air, radio officer Jonathan couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

Smoke was already billowing from the Iowa, and the shelves for the anti-aircraft radar were skewed up on the chimney. From the air, the large holes on the deck and on the port side are still clearly visible. In particular, the large hole on the port side has been submerged more than half of it below sea level.

In order to avoid the increasingly fierce artillery fire on the Hyuga, the Iowa made a sharp right turn, the entire hull was a little tilted, and the huge hole on the port side dragged a string of waterfalls to the whole exposed, which couldn't help but make Jonathan worry about how long the Iowa could hold out.

But a 460-mm armor-piercing bullet still smashed into the stern, directly tearing a large piece of the stern.

The stern transmission system was damaged, the speed of Iowa was suddenly reduced, and the hull of the ship began to tilt about 5 degrees due to the mine hole on the port side.

However, the Iowa still fiercely responded with a salvo of 6 guns, and a 406 shell hit the Hyuga's No. 1 turret.

With a splash of metal fragments, the No. 1 turret finally withstood the shell with the 650 mm armor on the front. However, the turret that had been hit hard was stuck, and except for one barrel, which was somewhat deformed and completely discarded, the other two barrels that were about 30 degrees high were also difficult to move.

But by this time, the Iowa was already half-crippled, especially the transmission system, in addition to the problem, the slow drag speed at sea, more like a stationary target at sea.

"Sink it!" Jizaburo Ozawa's eyes began to gleam with excitement, and he clutched the binoculars and shouted.

If Iowa is really sunk, it will be a supreme feat.

This is not the same as the stationary old battleship that was attacked and sunk in Pearl Harbor, but the latest battleship in service by the Americans, and has stepped into the ranks of super battleships with one foot. Being able to sink him in a battle will undoubtedly become a classic example of warfare in the navies of all countries in the world, and his name will undoubtedly be recorded in the naval history of all countries.

Even at home, Nagumo Tadaichi, who came out of the shadow of the defeat of the Chinese Navy by virtue of the great victory at Pearl Harbor, will be completely overwhelmed.

Following his order, the Hyuga's six remaining main guns were again adjusted to aim at the Iowa, which was dragging its body like an old cow 19 kilometers away. Even the 97 attackers in the air ignored the splash of shrapnel, bypassed the water columns one after another, and once again aimed the primary attack at the Iowa.

"Wildcats, hurry up! If it's late, you'll never see us and the Iowa again! Jonathan shouted into the radio station's microphone as he aimed the twin machine gun in the radioman's seat at a pursuing Zero.

"Here we are!" After a dozen responses, with the roar of the plane's engines, more than 30 Wildcat fighters tore through the clouds and rushed down first, heading straight for the mosquitoes and flies surrounding the Iowa.

And the Japanese Zero and Super Zero fighters unceremoniously rushed towards them.

"Da Da Da!" In the air, after the shriek of the Hyuga shells rubbing the air, the strafing of the machine guns scorched the air again.

Japanese and American fighter planes collided in a hail of bullets.

"-, I got shot!" The characteristic shouting of Americans echoed on the radio. There were 3 wild cats in a row that dragged up black smoke, 1 of them had already begun to fall, and an umbrella flower was already floating in the sky.

This was just the beginning, and Zero's unique agility continued to bite the wildcats, and 2 wildcats lit fireworks again. On the opposite side, the Zero and Super Zero had only one plane dragging the black smoke away and flying back to the aircraft carrier.

Except for the one-sided Pearl Harbor, which was the first American pilot to intercept a torpedo plane in Chapter 790.

apparently

Seven destroyers fell or were seriously injured, but the torpedoes fired were not successful at all. Even though a torpedo hit the Japanese Kumano Shigetsu, it did not explode because of the peculiar instability of American torpedoes. The commander of this group of ravages, Admiral Lance-Marcy, was so grief-stricken that he had already scolded on the radio:

"Shit-shit, either come help us or get us out of this damn place!"