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A total of 6 Chinese planes participated in the first naval and air battle in human history that took place in Hangzhou Bay on July 9, 92. Two of them were modified from the JU2 airliner designed and manufactured by the German Junkers Aircraft Company in this time and space. The aluminium enclosure, which can carry 0 passengers and a crew member, is equipped with a 450 hp six-cylinder in-line engine from BMW. The maximum speed is up to 20 kilometers per hour. After the modification of the Central First Aircraft Factory, this JU2 was turned into a bomber, and the original cabin became a bomb bay, which could hang 2 armor-piercing bombs weighing 250 kg. However, after all, the ju2 is a product of the early twenties, and it can be used for horizontal bombing, and it has to fall apart to play dive bombing. Considering the accuracy of the horizontal bombing, the two JU2s formed a large formation, penetrating from a height of 1,500 meters, and all 24 bombs were thrown on the head of the injured Kurama.

At the same time as the JU2 penetrated the defense, two Min-2 torpedo attack planes also circled to an ultra-low altitude under the personal leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Yulong, and formed two six-plane formations only 20 or 30 meters from the sea surface, and penetrated the defense from two different directions at the same time. Unlike the high-flying horizontal bombers, the attack methods of the torpedo attack aircraft are a bit of a suicidal attack! Flying horizontally at an altitude of several tens of meters under the anti-aircraft fire of enemy ships, dropping torpedoes less than 000 meters from enemy ships. The probability of being hit in the process is very high! In order to reduce the loss rate of torpedo attack aircraft as much as possible, the naval aviation of various countries in this era adopted the method of joint penetration. That is, to let horizontal bombers, torpedo attack aircraft. There were also fighter planes attacking at the same time in order to maximize the dispersion of the anti-aircraft fire of the enemy's surface ships.

So. The Fokker D, who was on escort duty, also carried a 50-kilogram bomb. They will carry out dive bombing at small angles from an altitude of 000 meters. It's close to a vertical dive, and the plane at the moment is not playable. Even the fighter designed by Anthony Folk, the most outstanding aircraft designer of the era, was no exception!

This Anthony Folk is the Dutch-born aircraft shooter who invented the firing synchronization coordinator in World War I, bringing the "Fokker disaster" to the Allied air forces. After the end of World War I, Anthony Fogk returned to his native Netherlands to continue operating an aircraft factory. However, unlike history, he did not immigrate to the United States, but returned to Germany after the failure of the German Revolution. The Fokker D, which is now copied by China's Central No. 1 Aircraft Factory, is his first work after re-designing fighter jets, and it is not available in history. At present, the main fighter equipped by the Chinese and German air forces is this Fokker D with excellent performance, and the current Soviet-German battlefield and the Sino-Japanese battlefield are basically the world of Fokker D.

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"Sir! Our planes are here to help! ”

Major General Han Da of Zhenhai Fortress had already moved to the top of Waiyou Mountain on the side of the fortress at this time. Inside a very covert artillery observation post. He was using an artillery mirror to observe the movements of the Japanese ships on the sea. Hearing the report of his subordinates, he hurriedly looked up at the sky to the west, and saw that more than 30 planes, large and small, had been divided into three groups and were flying towards the Japanese ship formation.

"It's time!" Han Deqin muttered, stretched out his hand, took the telephone headset handed over by the staff officer, and began to give orders loudly. "Attention all artillerymen. I'm Deloitte Han! Now I order, all artillery fire! Target, Japanese ship formation! Fire! 2 Rapid Fire! ”

The artillery of the Zhenhai fortress except for 2 7-inch cannons that had been bombarded by the Japanese for half a night. There are also 2 55mm howitzers, 2 05mm howitzers and 2 75mm field guns, although these cannons are not placed in the fortress near the sea. Instead, it was placed on the artillery position behind the Waiyou Mountain, due to the obstruction of the Waiyou Mountain. The Japanese guns couldn't hit them, so they were all safe and sound until now. But artillery of this caliber was not used against battleships, but against the landing force. However, this time the army, navy, and air force jointly carried out the attack, according to the plan, all the artillery of the army's Zhenhai fortress first opened fire to bombard the Japanese ship formation, and of course did not expect to sink or severely damage the Japanese ships with 55mm, 05mm, and 75mm howitzers. Rather, it is to cause confusion in the formation of Japanese ships, so as to create an opportunity for aircraft air strikes. The Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou Garrison General Headquarters estimated. If this "joint anti-ship operation by land, sea, and air" is successful, then the main Japanese fleet on the other side of the Yangtze River estuary can also use the same method to deal with it, and then the chances of winning the Shanghai operation will be greatly enhanced!

Six Japanese light cruisers and destroyers had already joined up with two Kurama-class battle cruisers and were forming an air defense formation. The shells of the Chinese army suddenly hit the head and face, and the firepower was several times more fierce than before! Columns of water suddenly stirred up on the surface of the sea! And a couple of howitzer shells actually hit the Japanese warship! One of them, I don't know if it was 05mm or 75mm, smashed right on the bridge of the Kurama! Although it was impossible to penetrate the armor of the bridge, the huge explosion still shook everyone inside the bridge. The falling fragments of shells knocked down a large number of Japanese sailors on the deck below the bridge, and the screams immediately rang out on the battlecruiser.

The sudden and fierce shelling of the Chinese army and the rapidly approaching Chinese planes in the air plunged the Japanese ship formation into confusion. Moreover, the air defense operations of the navy in this era have just started, and there is no discipline in the allocation and use of firepower. The sailors on the warship who operated the anti-aircraft guns only knew how to aim at the aircraft and fire. And now the Chinese planes are attacking from three directions, and the shells fired from their shore batteries are raining down like drops. The anti-aircraft gunners on the Japanese ships panicked for a while, and only knew how to fire frantically, not thinking at all that they should concentrate their limited anti-aircraft fire on the Chinese torpedo bomber group, which posed the greatest threat!

Clusters of smoke bloomed haphazardly in the air, but most of them did not explode around the Chinese military planes. It's not that the accuracy of the anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese ships is too poor. It is that the quality of the fixed height fuze they are equipped with is not up to par, and it is simply not able to explode at the specified height. Actually, it didn't take long for this thing to be invented. The Japanese have just come out of the copycat, and they simply do not meet the requirements of actual combat.

"Their anti-aircraft guns are all rack goods! Leave the artillery alone, rush with me! ”

Zhang Yulong, who led the torpedo bombers to break through the defense, also discovered the problem of the Japanese antiaircraft artillery, and excitedly shouted that he would set up the plane and rush forward. Although the pilots on the rest of the torpedo bombers couldn't hear him at all, he liked the feeling.

"Follow me! Kill! ”

Two torpedo bombers formed two formations, swept the sea, and slowly rushed towards the smoking Japanese battlecruiser thousands of meters away. And the anti-aircraft guns on the Kurama, I don't know how to arrange it at this time. There is no one to deal with these low-flying killers! Only one Japanese destroyer near the Kurama was chasing the Chinese planes with two 76mm anti-aircraft guns. However, their fixed altitude fuses are basically useless, so they must hit directly to destroy the Chinese military aircraft.

So in the first sea and air war in human history, there was such a funny scene. On one side were ultra-slow torpedo bombers, and on the other side were anti-aircraft guns with an equally slow rate of fire and extremely poor accuracy. It's like two old men with bad eyes and slow movements fighting with crutches.

"Eight squares! Chinese torpedo machine! The Chinese torpedo plane flew over...... What about the anti-aircraft artillery! What about our anti-aircraft guns! Nakajima Shinya, who was commanding the battle on the Kurama, arrived at this scene and immediately screamed urgently. 2 torpedo attack aircraft are no joke. An old battlecruiser like the Kurama will be sunk with two or three torpedoes!

"Full rudder on the left, do torpedo evasion maneuvers." The first mate of the Kurama came to be a little more realistic,

He knew that a couple of anti-aircraft guns on this battlecruiser would simply not be able to deal with 2 torpedo bombers. It's better to order the helmsman to do evasive actions, if you can dodge one is one!

And at this moment, there was a loud bang, and a huge column of water suddenly rose into the air next to the Kurama! It turns out that the JU2 bombers of the Chinese army have already begun to drop bombs! 24 armor-piercing bombs weighing 250 kg fell from the sky with a scream! Huge columns of water rose on both sides of the Kurama, though not a single bomb hit. But it made the already chaotic scene even more chaotic. While the Japanese sailors were glad they had escaped, three Fokker D fighters swooped down from three directions, each dropping a small bomb, well, weighing 50 kilograms! This time, the Chinese's air raids finally paid off. A bomb hit the port side of the Kurama, although it did not penetrate the 76mm thick deck of the Kurama. However, a 76mm anti-aircraft gun was reimbursed, and a number of anti-aircraft gun shells were detonated, and the fire quickly spread on the port side of the Kurama.

However, the disaster of the Kurama had only just begun, and six biplanes made of wood and steel pipes flew slowly against the surface of the sea among the waves and water columns for a long time, and finally flew less than 500 meters away from the Kurama battlecruiser!

The six black dots suddenly fell into the water, stirring up a wave, dragging a long white track, like six deadly javelins, so that the Japanese officers and soldiers on the Kurama felt the killing intent that penetrated the bone marrow.

The huge Kurama was still desperately turning, but with a top speed of only 20 knots, it was too inflexible. Just a few tens of seconds later, four torpedoes crashed into the majestic hull of the Kurama, and the explosion began to spread from the stern, and the four huge breaches suddenly made the Kurama lose any hope of escape!

The hull of more than 4,000 tons began to tilt at an unimaginable speed, and the influx of thousands of tons of sea water made this battlecruiser lose its balance in an extremely fast time! Nakajima Jin's naval dasa didn't even have time to give the order of the flagship, and the battle cruiser had already flipped and sank into the sea! Of the 44 officers and men on the ship, none of them survived!

This scene stunned everyone on the entire battlefield! A battle cruiser covered in steel was sunk by several small planes made of wood and iron pipes! How can there be such a ridiculous thing in this world?

The captain of the battlecruiser Tsukuba, Nagano Shufu Daisa, also witnessed this qiē, his teeth were about to crush, and in the binoculars, the Kurama was turning and sinking on its side! It is unforgivable that the dozen or so Chinese wooden planes that caused the accident are still triumphantly circling over the sinking Kurama!

"Dazuo! Let's retreat! "First mate of the Tsukuba. A Nakasa named Yamamoto Isoroku seemed to be frightened by the scene in front of him, and actually made a request to retreat!

"Eight grids!" Nagano scolded. "Now is not the time to retreat. We haven't completed the task of shelling Zhenhai yet! He gritted his teeth. Order all the main guns to aim at Zhenhai City! Be sure to wipe Jinhae off the map and avenge the Kurama and Nakajima Daisa! ”

"Enemy planes are coming at us!" Nagano's words fell, and I don't know who shouted in the bridge, startling everyone into a cold sweat. It turned out that just now there were six Chinese torpedo bombers and nine Fokker D fighters that did not finish dropping torpedoes and bombs. Now these dozen planes are coming towards the Tsukuba!

Yamamoto 56 Nakasa was the first to react, rushed to the side of the steering wheel, pushed the helmsman away, and began to steer himself. All the Japanese warships on the sea also reacted, and the real killers were these clumsy torpedo bombers! All the anti-aircraft firepower, as long as you can get these six torpedo planes. All of them throw ammunition as fast as they can!

Rumble! There was a loud bang. A 76mm caliber shell collided with a Min-2 torpedo machine, forming a huge fireball! However, Major Xu Zhengming of the China Navy Airlines, who led the charge, didn't even blink his eyes! There was no anti-aircraft fire in his eyes, only the huge Japanese battlecruiser and the Japanese naval officers and men on it! Now the plane he piloted was less than 5,000 meters away from the Japanese ship, and as long as he got a little closer, he was sure that an empty torpedo would hit the Japanese ship! Even if it doesn't sink, it has to hit hard! There was another huge explosion. Another charging torpedo bomber turned into a huge yellow fireball! After destroying the plane, all the anti-aircraft fire seemed to be concentrated on the plane piloted by Xu Zhengming. And this plane still rushed forward regardless of it! 4000 meters! 000 meters! 2000 meters! OK.

"Torpedo, put!" A password that had been holding in Major Xu Zhengming's chest for an unknown amount of time was finally shouted. An aviation torpedo suddenly fell into the sea! Xu Zhengming only felt that the plane jumped upward, and the flight speed suddenly accelerated. The shells were still flying around, and he didn't care whether the torpedo he fired hit the target or not, so he hurriedly pulled up the nose of the plane and flew high into the air.

Meanwhile. Three more torpedo bombers and nine Fokker Ds also dropped torpedoes and bombs. The first to hit the Tsukuba was a 50-kilogram bomb, one hit the No. 1 turret, one hit the port side, and one landed near the chimney in the amidships. None of them caused much damage. Isoroku Yamamoto, who operated the ship himself, didn't even notice the small bombs, and all his attention was attracted by the four torpedoes that dragged Hakuro close to the Tsukuba. The warship, which is more than 14,000 tons, is under his control, and it is agile to dodge and dodge.

"Dodge! Dodged ...... "Two torpedoes almost grazing the bow and stern of the Tsukuba!" The Japanese sailors who witnessed this scene almost cheered. But they were a little early in their joy.

With a bang, a huge and dazzling ball of fire hit the target almost simultaneously at the starboard side of the Tsukuba. The battlecruiser, which was more than 14,000 tons, shuddered violently in the midst of a huge explosion. Almost several meters of transverse movement in the direction of the port side! Hundreds of tons of seawater also rushed in from the two huge breaches, and the Tsukuba suddenly appeared to tilt by 5 degrees. But the battlecruiser, completed in 909, still stubbornly floats on the surface of the sea, showing no signs of sinking!

"Onboard!"

The officers and men of the Japanese ships were jubilant, as if they had forgotten that their flagship, the Kurama, had sunk into the waters of Hangzhou Bay.

"Order all the ships to aim their cannons at Zhenhai City and open fire! Hit me hard! ”

Nagano Slim Daisa, who had escaped the catastrophe, roared frantically. After this sea and air battle, he already knew that the Japanese Empire had lost the war! There is no possibility of recovery! Under the combined attack of Chinese aircraft, submarines, and ground artillery, the main fleet outside the mouth of the Yangtze River is enough to protect itself, and it is impossible for it to break through to the mouth of the Yangtze River!

Now, the only thing the Japanese Navy can do is kill! Bombard China's coastal towns with their naval guns and slaughter the peaceful inhabitants there! Not to win the war, just to take revenge, just to pull more Chinese to the funeral of the Japanese Empire!

"The report of the battle on the front line has been transmitted, and the air attack on the Japanese ship organized by the Navy and Air Force this morning has achieved an unprecedented victory. Sink a Japanese Kurama-class battlecruiser, and create another Kurama-class ......" Lu Yixuan frowned and said to Chang Ruiqing, who was sitting on the edge of the map table, the good news he had just received. But there was no expression of joy on his face, as if it was the Chinese Navy that sank the battlecruiser.

"What's wrong? Hugh, is there any bad news? Chang Ruiqing also did something wrong, and asked in a low voice.

"It's Zhenhai...... One battle cruiser, two light cruisers, and four destroyers of the Japanese caused a large number of casualties after the departure of our air raid planes, regardless of the bombardment of Zhenhai City, ...... a large number of casualties" (to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )