Chapter 975: The End of Nagumo Tadaichi
"No matter how many aircraft carriers the Chinaites have, they always have a fatal shortcoming!" After Yamamoto Fifty-six issued more than a dozen orders in a row, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to his old friend Inoue Narumi next to him.
"Are they not manpowered?" Inoue Narumi, who was driven to the naval academy, was deeply impressed by the lack of talents in the Japanese navy during this period of time, and couldn't help but smile.
"Hmm!" Yamamoto nodded, "If it is said that the people of China can get more than 10 aircraft carriers through external forces, it is still possible, but it is impossible for them to have so many aircraft carrier talents at once, and they are the elite of the HNA Navy." Outside support is also impossible. ”
Although it is said that there is still an international air column active in China, the possibility of these rabble being used for naval navigation is extremely low.
Without systematic training, it is difficult to take off and land on an aircraft carrier. And those countries that do not have aircraft carriers can receive training in aircraft carrier systems, and the chance of being looted by China is even smaller. And those countries with aircraft carriers, except for Germany and Italy, those who seem to be allies who are constrained by the country, will not come to support China.
Even Germany and Italy, now fully engaged in their own defense, simply do not have extra energy to support Huaxia.
"Therefore, among the aircraft carriers that appeared in China, there must be several under the guise of this." Yamamoto raised an eyebrow and said, "They always leave a little defense in the empire mainland and near Southeast Asia. In this way, there must be problems with the two ships near Keelung, as well as the two or three ships that are attacking in the rear. And judging by the intensity of the attack on the rear, it is obvious that only the two aircraft carriers loitering near Keelung are the most suspicious. ”
"So, you chose to continue attacking your intended target?" Inoue Narumi said with a smile.
"The naval forces there are the weakest, and it's not too late to go back and clean up those aircraft carriers behind you!" Yamamoto glanced sideways at the back of the fleet, and finally said, "I hope Nagumo-kun can hold on!" ”
Yamamoto 56 determined that the two aircraft carriers in front were like goods, so that the two battleships there and many other Huaxia warships showed their air weakness to the Japanese navy, and the goal of the Huaxia fleet, which was gradually approaching the Diaoyu Islands, was already clear. It is far more convenient than searching for aircraft carriers in the rear, and the target value is also greater.
So, in his series of orders, in addition to sending a few reconnaissance planes to help search for the location of the aircraft carrier that was raiding in the rear. The fighters that took off from the Shinano and Taiho rushed to the front.
However, there was a larger group of fighters in front of him.
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"I said that we had a navy train troops, but why did so many air forces emerge?" Yu Guanglei looked at the group of air force fighters that swept over the fleet and said dissatisfied.
"This is war, not a drill. Victory is our ultimate goal! Ma Guolian, the captain who was holding an unlit cigar next to him, said lazily.
As the trump card of the Air Force, he also turned to HNA at this time, and he also hoped to win three more enemy planes in this battle and complete his breakthrough of both sea and land trump cards. Just like his companion Huang Mixyang.
Different from the name of the Americans, Huaxia's double trump card is not a double trump card, but only when the army and HNA meet the standard of the trump card, so they have such an honorary title.
In order to build the echelon of Hainan Airlines, many pilots of Hainan Airlines are transferred from the Army Airlines, and it is normal for such a title to appear.
But after all, the Navy and the Air Force have separated and have their own unique sense of honor. Just when he was about to add new feats to his trump card, some people were naturally unhappy when they saw the Air Force coming to grab food. Even Yu Guanglei, an honest boy, complained. There are still 2 planes left to be able to go to the ace standard, and he wants to take the ace medal home next time he takes a vacation.
"Don't worry, isn't the little devil still cleaned up? Besides, there are 2 aircraft carriers over there, which are big fat! Ma Guolian, who was lazily persuading, remembered his old friend Huang Caiyang, who had led a team to kill a Japanese aircraft carrier, and couldn't help but salivate.
There are quite a few aces who shoot down planes, but there are very few fighter pilots who can sink the enemy's main battleship. With the entry into service of carrier-based fighters such as pirates and hellcats carrying a large number of bombs, the chances of fighter pilots blowing up and sinking battleships are increasing. Especially the new Banshee fighters, which carry more bombs. Although it is unrealistic to deal with battleships, it is still possible to paralyze aircraft carriers, blow up and sink destroyers, and even light cruisers.
"Although our warplanes can also carry bombs. But after all, it is not as powerful as torpedoes, and it is troublesome to deal with those two armored aircraft carriers after all. Yu Guanglei said regretfully.
Those staff officers of the Navy Staff naturally did not know the deeds of the paper tigers of the Shinano and Taiho in their previous lives. Therefore, when they were formulating the attack plan, they thought that the cost of effectively paralyzing these two aircraft carriers in a one-time raid was too great.
After all, the damage to the armored deck by the general bomb is limited. And the fighters that need to carry heavy bombs need to face the dense air defense network of the main warships around Japan, and the losses will increase.
On the contrary, first solve the old, weak, sick and disabled in the rear, an ordinary aerial bomb may make the offensive force of the naval aviation on an aircraft carrier lie down, and the air defense force around the aircraft carrier formations that are shrunk behind is much weaker.
In order to resist the air superiority of the Chinese, the newly improved 37-mm and 100-mm carrier-based anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese were mainly concentrated on the main fleet fighting bayonets in the front. The aircraft carrier fleets behind are still dominated by old-fashioned anti-aircraft guns, among which the 25-mm anti-aircraft guns are once again pitfalling, and they can't stop the surprise attack of the Chinese fighters at all.
The Japanese aircraft carrier in the rear was ravaged by another round of Huaxia fighters, and soon paralyzed the Yunlong. The Cloud Eagle barely released nine fighters before being caught in the bombs and torpedoes that fell again and fell into the sea.
Only the Akagi relied on the thick foundation of the battleship, although there were already 3 large holes in the deck, and it could no longer take off fighters, but it was able to crawl slowly on the sea with 5 bombshells and 3 torpedoes with its rough skin and thick flesh.
"This time, the Combined Fleet is finished!" Nagumo Tadaichi, who was commanding the aircraft carrier formation in the rear, stood on the crippled command tower of the Akagi, looking at the sea where the flames and pillars of smoke were scattered everywhere, and he couldn't help but feel sad and sighed.
If it weren't for the credit of Pearl Harbor and Yamamoto's protection, I am afraid that Nagumo would have been used as a scapegoat to explain to the Americans.
Yamamoto 56 arranged for Nagumo Tadaichi to sit in the rear and take advantage of the merits of the decisive victory, but at the beginning, the aircraft carrier formation in the rear was first scrapped by Huaxia fighters.
"Boom!" Another Japanese Gale fighter jet flew headlong into the sea near the Akagi with black smoke.
At this time, the sky was almost full of China's kind of jet fighters without propellers, and only a few poor ace fighters were struggling to support them.
The gap in the generation of aircraft made it useless for the Japanese to show off new fighters such as Gale.
Maybe Gale can still support those jet fighters in World War II or those jet fighters in the early post-war period, but against the banshees who have gradually perfected and escaped from the piston traces, they can only hate. Even the gale piloted by those Japanese aces could not stop the group beating of many Chinese fighters.
"Ahh Toshio Ota, who did not die in the Battle of Kuah Island, who had already had 43 combat records, howled unwillingly, and disappeared into a cloud of flames with an explosion.
"This little devil is still difficult!" Wang Lei couldn't help but sigh out, if it weren't for the response of the wingman and the friendly plane, it would be really difficult to clean up this Japanese trump card.
Although the overall performance of the Japanese fighters is not comparable to that of the jets, in the hands of aces, the agility is more prominent.
"Actually, don't be so troublesome, deal with those trump cards, it's safest to use rockets like that!" Wang Yougen on the wingman said with a smile.
Not far from them, with the explosion of a 70-millimeter "Giant Rat" rocket, which was no less than a 90-millimeter artillery shell, a nearby Japanese ace fighter plane that was constantly making fancy maneuvers to evade the strangulation of the bullet chain was immediately swept by shrapnel with a killing radius of more than 4.5 meters, and exploded directly in the air.
The lethality of the Japanese ace pilots is not small, Meng Xiang this time is for training, not for fighting to the death, in the aircraft formation, there is a banshee equipped with "giant rat" air-to-air rockets, responsible for clearing the field. Although the cost of the giant rat base after the war is higher, it is more cost-effective than the trump card. If it weren't for the training, Meng Xiang wouldn't mind sweeping with a giant rat rocket.
"Only by practicing the actual combat on the edge of life and death can you practice real skills!" Wang Lei just replied lightly.
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"Boom!" With another loud bang, even if there was a mixture of exclamations and howls of Japanese soldiers, Nagumo Tadaichi, who was known as an expert in torpedo warfare, could hear that it was the Akagi who had been hit by a heavy torpedo again.
"Yamamoto-kun, you're wrong!" Nagumo Zhongyi didn't scold the panicked soldiers, but watched the sinking Yunlong in the distance slowly disappear in the sloping porthole of the Akagi hull, before muttering to himself.
After the last Japanese fighter plane he saw from the air was shot down, he concluded from the figure of hundreds of fighters galloping in the air that Huaxia's main force was aimed at them, not the harassment of only two aircraft carriers as Yamamoto 56 had judged before.
"This is by no means the strength of 2 aircraft carriers, at least 3 or even 4!" Nanyun Zhongyi ignored the adjutant's call, still thinking silently in his heart, and mechanically pulled out the pistol he was carrying.
"Boom!" In the sinking Akagi, there was another huge earthquake in the explosion, masking a crisp gunshot in the conning tower.
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