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Yan Chesan tapped the fuel gauge, and the pointer did not respond, which made him very worried. The fighter had been flying for more than two hours, and the drop fuel tank had been thrown away an hour earlier, and according to his experience, it should be able to fly for another two and a half hours. In other words, the attack must be launched within an hour before there is a chance to fly back to Naha. He looked left and right, 68 97 ships attacked, 70 99 ships exploded, and 82 zero battles, divided into three large formations to maintain a fuel-saving altitude of 4,000 meters. The 220 warplanes account for 70 percent of the total aircraft carrying capacity of the four aircraft carriers of the First Air Fleet, and with the exception of the Shuanghe (Zuihe and Xianghe) in Rabaul and the Longxiang and Xiangfeng in Truk, this is already the strongest air attack lineup that the Japanese Navy can concentrate at present, and it can be described as fighting with all its might.

But no one regretted it, because everyone had already heard on the radio how serious the situation was. The defeat of six battleships and two aircraft carriers made the Japanese navy's dream of blockading the island chain come to naught, and also brought about a fundamental change in the naval forces of China and Japan. Although the Zuiho and Fengxiang are two light aircraft carriers, and the latter is converted from a diving carrier, it is really not a good sign for the Japanese Navy to lose two aircraft carriers just after the start of the war. As for the two battleships Matsushima and Itsukushima, they were the fifth and sixth battleships lost by the Japanese Navy in just a dozen hours. The number of battleships that were leading by 12 to 8 before the start of the war instantly became 6 to 8 behind! To make matters worse, two French Dunkirk-class battleships on lease will be converted to join the Chinese Navy early next year, while the first two Shandong-class battleships will be delivered at the end of this year and early next year, respectively.

This means that even if the Yamato can be commissioned by the end of the year, Japan will go from leading by four ships to falling behind by five.

The only chance to recover is to destroy the attacking China fleet. It is known that there are two battleships and two large aircraft carriers in the fleet, as long as they can be sunk. It will be able to narrow the gap between the two navies again. So he took a deep breath and stretched his finger to the radio station to take the initiative to ask his friend, Captain Mitsuyoshi Taruii, who led the last forces of Okinawa to attack, could hold out until he arrived? How strong is that kind of lightning fighter that is strictly kept secret by China? But he hesitated, then lowered his hand. Breaking the radio silence early is obviously not a wise move for the Republic of China, which can create electric detectors (radars).

"Forty minutes to go." Yan Che San looked at his watch. There were still forty minutes to go before the distance he calculated for the target, which meant that he would be able to enter the outer airspace in half an hour at most. So he decided to forget about his worries for a while. Shake the wings according to the regulations, and notify the formation to start preparations.

At this time, the sky over the southwest sea of Yaeyama was still fierce, and all the attention of the escort fighters was attracted by the incoming Japanese planes, and the fleet was also retreating at high speed in the direction of Keelung Port, so no one noticed that the danger was rapidly approaching. "Stop those two Zeros!" Zhang Peng had just passed under the belly of a 96 land attack (Mitsubishi Type 96 Army bomber) that he had shot into a fireball. I saw that the two Zeros tacitly cooperated and hit the wing fuel tanks of their comrades. In the billowing black smoke, the lightning of his comrades let out a terrible scream and planted into the sea. Although the Lightning is thicker than the Zero's armor, has more horsepower, and has an all-round advantage, it is good for a pilot who encounters the Zero for the first time to deal with this rate of climb. Agility, especially fighters with a very small turning radius, is still a chore, so Zhang Peng has lost three fighters so far from the war.

Seeing the only zero on the battlefield of these two planes, he realized that this might be the landline of the leading officer. So he hurriedly shouted to the wingman to block it, and then rolled three times in a row to avoid the oncoming 96 ship battle, and chased away. "Be careful, be careful!" Inside the cockpit. Captain Mitsuyoshi Tarui had just shot down the lightning, and before he could feel the pleasure, it was as if he was being targeted by something. Wait for him to look behind him. I saw a lightning plane use continuous rolling to avoid a 96 ship battle, and rushed in his direction. He was all too familiar with the 511 fighter jet, with the golden light on the outer wall of the cockpit (the downdown logo outside the cockpit was gold, and the sunlight reflected the golden light). Because in just fifteen minutes, he saw with his own eyes that three (in fact, four had already been shot down) friendly planes were shot down by this lightning. "Sang Beijun, cover me." So immediately shouted for cover, quickly turned and rushed straight head-on.

Seeing Zero Fight rushing head-on uncharacteristically (under normal circumstances, fighter jets will try to avoid head-on shooting), the pupils behind Zhang Peng's sunglasses shrank into a little cold star. Those who are familiar with it know that this is the reaction that only occurs when he is ruthless and enters the state. Seeing that the lightning did not change course, Mitsuyoshi Tarui sneered in his heart, thinking that his opponent had been fooled. He wasn't stupid enough to use four 77mm machine guns to fight six 127mm machine guns, so when he got close to the range, suddenly a negative G action rolled to the lower left! This is a common dodge maneuver when attacked head-on, allowing the aircraft to avoid blind spots under the headset of the opposing phone. Of course, even if other fighters knew this tactic, they would not be able to do it as light as Zero Battle. Before the maneuver was over, he nudged the joystick again, preparing to make a detour behind the lightning bolt over his head.

But just when he was halfway through the second action, he suddenly found that Zhang Peng had pulled diagonally to the right side, climbing up with a large inclination, and opened up the distance so that he could no longer bite his tail. "It can't be! How can such a heavy fighter be more flexible than the Zero Battle? "Mitsuyoshi Tarui has already felt the general performance of Lightning, and understands that the armor and weight of this fighter far exceed that of Zero. So he couldn't imagine that lightning could make such a light movement, and he subconsciously began to panic in his heart. By the time he reconsidered the pursuit, Zhang Peng on the opposite side had already turned his back down and swooped towards him with a big roll of high G.

"No matter how you play, you're still a rookie!" Zhang Peng snorted coldly. The speed of more than seven hundred helped him bite Zero Battle very quickly, and the six black-red flames only flashed twice, and they shattered Mitsuyoshi Taruii's tail and right wing. Poor Mitsuyoshi Tarui didn't know until he parachuted and was captured that his opponent was not an ordinary Chinese HNA pilot, but a year of experience in the northwest, and the total number of shootdowns had exceeded forty, and he was a real butcher of the sky!

At the same time that Zhang Peng shot down Hirai Mitsuyoshi, the fleet in the distance had already spewed out hundreds of fireballs. Although the Lightning fighters were superior and the pilots' skills and actual combat experience were not bad, after all, there were 67 Japanese planes attacking the planes this time, so quite a number of bombers still managed to avoid interception and rush into the fleet's air defense circle. Once the air defense fire circle of the fleet is fired, it is a disapproval of the six relatives. Therefore, he didn't want to be shot down by his own shells, so he had to give up Mitsuyoshi Taruii's wingman who rushed into the circle of fire, and attack a 97 ship that broke through at a low altitude of 500 meters, and continue to be a butcher.

Thanks to Yang Guochang's caution and the speculation of the electronic communications officer, the 23 fleet has already deployed the air defense network. Six destroyers were in the outermost circle, guarding submarines while serving as the outermost air defense barrier, four light cruisers with four destroyers in the middle circle, "Dinghai" and "Ninghai" with the remaining three destroyers as personal guards, and the two aircraft carriers in the innermost circle themselves had a total of 16 twin 80-mm, 24 four-link 40-mm guns, and 40 single-barreled 25-mm antiaircraft guns to support the firepower network.

"Port side! Ninety-nine ships explode! ”

Three 99 ships exploded. After drilling out between the dense shells, the Dinghai air defense control tower immediately spotted the fish that had slipped through the net and fired a series of 120-mm radio close-fire shells at the enemy aircraft. As an old ship from the European War, the Dinghai has undergone two refits, especially this one before the war. Not only were the nine main guns replaced with powerful 330 mm/L55 naval guns, but the air defense was also upgraded again. Eight twin 120 mm/L56 semi-automatic high-level dual-purpose naval guns were distributed on both sides, and twelve twin 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and 24 single-barreled 25 mm machine guns were scattered throughout the ship. But it's still external, and the internal centralized fire control, new air defense conning towers, and radio proximity shells are the real killer features. For this mission, all 23-mm and 120-mm anti-aircraft guns of the 85 fleet (electronics industry of World War II. It is difficult to achieve proximity fuses below the level of 70 mm) are equipped with radio proximity shells. Radio proximity technology is a new technology developed by the Republic of China 3010 program, and the early 1938 equipment naval trial, for secrecy also prohibited from use on land, all shells are also numbered. The call must be signed by the Supreme Commander of the Fleet.

After the four twin 120-mm semi-automatic antiaircraft guns on the port side of the Dinghai opened fire at a rate of 15 rounds per minute each, the 85-mm antiaircraft guns of the Sichuan and Guizhou also used close-fire shells to bombard the target. Two ship blasters were immediately shot down by fragments, and the remaining one was also shot down by hundreds of 40-mm anti-aircraft guns at the same time. "Commander. The escort fighters are back. In the officer's reminder, Yang Guochang quickly picked up the binoculars. I saw more than 20 lightning bolts escorting the attack aircraft group appear in the southeast.

At this moment, the 23 fleet is more than 500 kilometers away from the inland sea of Hachi, and it will take less than an hour at the speed of lightning. But because of the need to escort the attack aircraft group, it has been flying at cruising speed. After receiving the news of the attack on the fleet, twelve ships were immediately left to continue to protect the attack group, and the remaining twenty-two (five were lost in the attack, and the air force did not follow the Tianquan squadron due to the bombing of the Ryukyus again) all rushed back as fast as possible. However, now they cannot participate in air battles, because high-speed flight consumes a lot of fuel, so most fighters have not much fuel at this time, and must land and refuel first. As soon as the plane landed, the air crew, who had been on standby for a long time, immediately refueled and refueled the fighters, and some people took out small aluminum sheets cut in advance and riveted their guns to fill up the bullet holes one by one. As there were fewer and fewer Japanese planes in the sky, Yang Guochang and everyone were about to breathe a sigh of relief when the destroyers on the perimeter sent very bad news.

"Commander! The Umeng reported that at 79 degrees to the northwest, at a distance of 113 nautical miles and at an altitude of 4,000 meters, a large number of unidentified aircraft were found approaching! ”

"What?!" Yang Guochang jumped up directly from the chair: "What did you say?" Be clear! ”

"The radar of the destroyer Umon is 79 degrees northwest and a large number of unidentified aircraft have been detected at a distance of 130 nautical miles from us, and there are at least 150 of them!"

"Mountain, it must be the main force of Mountain Fifty-Six! This bastard! Yang Guochang only felt that his body was weak, and then sat on the chair. Lin Ruosheng shouted even worse: "Commander, what should I do with the attack aircraft group?" He was already sweating profusely, and even the officers and staff officers changed color! Counting the time, the attack aircraft group will return in half an hour, and that is when the air defense is at its most intense, and it will definitely not be possible to land.

"I don't care so much! Let the seaplanes find a safe place and be ready to guide the attack group to make a forced landing. Yang Guochang slapped the sailing table fiercely, gritted his teeth and jumped up: "Order Zhang Peng to intercept immediately!" When the landed fighters are replenished, one will take off! Order all ships to abandon the ring defense and move closer to the aircraft carrier to change to a central contraction defense formation! Go, send a telegram for help! Notify all the planes in the nearby sea area of how many will come in twenty minutes! Come on! Don't be in a daze, all go back to their posts, all officers must take the lead in guarding the front line! After saying that, he snatched the steel helmet from the guards and was about to run towards the anti-aircraft control tower at the top of the bridge.

Lin Ruosheng hurriedly stopped: "Commander, it's too dangerous up there." ”

"Can there be pilot danger?" Yang Guochang glared at the officer who was blocking, and said angrily: "Tell everyone, I'm on top." Either someone else will up, or they'll die first! ”