readx; On the Yamato, Rear Admiral Ishinyun looked at those planes in the sky and his face turned a little dark!

The vast majority of these fighters in the sky are not planes of his own, and Yi Xinyun can recognize these planes at a glance as planes of the Chinese Navy, and among these large number of Chinese planes, a small number of air defense fighters are moving up and down, trying to attack those Chinese bombers, and the Chinese F8G fighters escorting the aircraft are also using all means to entangle those air defense fighters and create an offensive window for their own bomber groups. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this moment, on the Yamato, many anti-aircraft guns have been fired one after another, and the dense anti-aircraft shells have formed layers of barrages in the sky, but although the Yamato's anti-aircraft fire is intensive, it has not shot down even a single fighter, because the main target of the Chinese Navy's aircraft group is not the Yamato, but the main target is placed on the two aircraft carriers behind the Yamato.

Yi Xinyun knew in the morning when the forward escort fleet and transport fleet were attacked by the first aircraft that the main aircraft carrier fleet of the Chinese was in a certain area in the southeast direction, but so far he only knew a general direction, and the reconnaissance planes sent by the two aircraft carriers and the seaplanes sent by several capital ships have so far failed to find the specific direction of the Chinese main fleet, and did not find the position, so naturally they could not launch an attack on the enemy's main fleet.

In order to remedy this disadvantage, as soon as the escort fleet was attacked by air in the morning, it was said: "This main fleet is to send a fast fleet to the sea area of engagement, destroy the enemy's sub-fleet, and at the same time reconnoiter and find out the location of the enemy's main fleet." At the same time, several light formations were dispatched to bypass the engaged sea area and go directly to the southeast sea to reconnoiter the specific position of the enemy's main fleet.

However, it was very difficult to find the enemy's main fleet by surface ships during the day, and today in 1944, the only way to find the enemy's main fleet during the day was to reconnoiter by airplanes.

However, before they could find the location of China's main fleet, the Chinese attack aircraft group had already arrived in the airspace above the main fleet and launched an air attack on the main fleet.

Even though he said that he also has an anti-aircraft radar, the search range is limited, and the early warning time given is very limited. In addition, due to the large number of anti-aircraft search radars of various countries, high-altitude breakthroughs in the past have become detected by the enemy very early, and in order to cope with the radar search, the air forces of various countries have also begun to choose low-altitude flights when conducting air raids. In the air battle in the English Channel, especially when the German army launched an air attack on the British mainland, Britain and Germany often chose to fly at low altitude to shorten the warning time of the British air defense radar.

Therefore, today in 1944, especially after the large-scale use of radars in various countries, the air attack mode of the Chinese Navy and Air Force is also constantly changing, from maintaining high-altitude cruising in the past to cruising at medium and low altitudes. Of course, this situation is only limited to the cruise, and when it is about to arrive, the fighters and dive bombers in the air attack group will climb rapidly, the fighters need to occupy a high altitude to deal with the air battle, the dive bombers also need a dive altitude of about 3,000 meters, and the torpedo bombers will change the attack direction according to the position of the interceptor ships of the enemy fleet in front, but they will always maintain a medium and low altitude, because the torpedo bombers throw torpedoes not at high altitude but at low altitude, In addition, if you penetrate at low altitude, as long as you are not unlucky enough to crash into the air above or near the enemy's air defense ships, then it will be more difficult for the enemy to detect them in advance.

Although it will be discovered by the enemy's air defense radar, it will not leave too much warning time for the enemy, and in addition to the fighters on duty who took off before, those fighters who take off urgently need to climb for a long time to gain sufficient altitude.

However, the large-scale equipment of radar has caused the altitude of the attack on the ship to drop again and again, and most of them are kept at medium and low altitudes below 3,000 meters, and it is rarely said that there will be air battles above 3,000 meters.

As a result, the carrier-based aircraft of various countries attach great importance to the ability of medium and low altitudes, such as the F4U and F6F of the United States and the F8 series of fighters of China.

Of course, in addition to the zero-combat of the "Ben", the high-altitude surname of several other carrier-based aircraft is not bad, but it cannot be compared with the kind of fighter aircraft of the Air Force that pays attention to high-altitude surname ability.

For example, the F5 series fighters of the Chinese Air Force are fighters that attach great importance to high-altitude surnames, and because of the prominence of high-altitude surnames, they can accompany the bomber group to maintain an altitude of more than 8,000 meters when performing escort missions. When enemy planes want to intercept bomber groups, they can't climb up to a high altitude of more than 8,000 meters, and even if they climb to an altitude of more than 8,000 meters, they are still in a state of being beaten in the face of the excellent high-altitude fighters of the F5 series fighters.

When the second wave of attack aircraft of the 21st Squadron of the Chinese Navy carried out a low- and medium-altitude cruise, the fighter and dive bomber groups climbed rapidly when they were about to approach the main fleet, and as a result, the air defense warning time left for the fleet was very limited.

On the Yamato, Yi Xinyun looked at these Chinese planes that suddenly appeared with a sad expression, when his own fleet hurriedly carried out air defense operations, it was simply impossible to intercept the Chinese planes on the periphery, and soon the Chinese dive planes were diving towards the two aircraft carriers at the core of the fleet.

The 500-kilogram and even 1,000-kilogram bombs on these dive bombers were revealed one after another, and the anti-aircraft fire on the two aircraft carriers was already in full swing, and several escort warships around them were also firing anti-aircraft guns in tandem in an attempt to stop the dive attack of the Chinese dive bomber group.

However, although there are many anti-aircraft guns in China, and the surname of the anti-aircraft guns alone is not bad, in terms of the density and accuracy of anti-aircraft firepower, it is far inferior to the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese and American navies.

A very important factor involved here is that there are no VT anti-aircraft shells, that is, radio proximity fuse bombs.

The 127-millimeter and 100-millimeter anti-aircraft shells fired by the 127-millimeter and 100-millimeter anti-aircraft guns of the United States were all radio-proximity fuse bombs, and although they did not directly hit the enemy plane after being fired, they would explode directly when they got close to the enemy plane.

And he said, "There is no such technology, which leads to a relatively low hit rate of anti-aircraft fire."

Although the anti-aircraft firepower of the Chinese aircraft was greatly improved today in 1944 compared with that of the thirties, the surname of the same carrier-based aircraft was also rapidly improved, which led to the fact that China's dive bomber groups were intercepted by the intensive anti-aircraft fire of the Chinese army, and many dive bomber groups still successfully broke through the defense, and then dropped bombs one by one on the two aircraft carriers.

These bombs are not all heavy aerial bombs, there are also a large number of 50 kg or 250 kg aerial bombs, these aerial bombs are mainly used to hit the surface structure and anti-aircraft fire of enemy ships, and it is the heavy aerial bombs that can really inflict heavy damage on enemy aircraft carriers.

After a 500-kilogram aerial bomb was dropped from a B18 dive bomber, it quickly fell at a super-fast speed, and under the acceleration of the dive speed and gravity, this 500-kilogram semi-armor-piercing bomb accurately hit the front deck of the Taiho at an ultra-high speed.

Although the Dafeng is also known as an armored aircraft carrier in the Navy, its flight deck has no problem dealing with some light aerial bombs, but it is still powerless in the face of heavy aerial bombs, and the 500-kilogram aerial bomb directly penetrates the armor, and then there is a violent explosion in the hangar.

The 500-kilogram aerial bomb charge was much more than the main artillery shells of the naval guns, and the violent explosion almost turned the Daiho's hangar into a living hell, destroying the planes and ground crews inside, and even turning the flight deck up, and then creating a huge gap.

Almost instantly, the Dafeng turned into a sea of fire!

At this time, the attack of China's dive bomber group had not yet ended, and in an instant, a 1,000-kilogram bomb landed near the Dafeng, which was a standard near-miss bomb, although it did not directly hit the Dafeng, but the damage caused to the Dafeng was no less than the direct hit of the 500-kilogram bomb just now. Because the bomb exploded violently after entering the water, the explosion created a huge pressure on the surrounding seawater, and this pressure was transmitted to the nearby Taiho through the seawater.

As a result, the huge water pressure directly caused the underwater armor on the side of the Daho to be squeezed and deformed, and a huge crack appeared.

And once there is a rift, a large amount of seawater will pour into the inside of the Taiho from the rift!

The effect of this aerial bomb is somewhat similar to that of a torpedo attack, although it does not directly hit the underwater mine armor and explode, but it still generates a huge water pressure and causes a deformation of the hull and a crack.

Therefore, in an air raid battle, only a direct hit will cause damage to the enemy ship, and a close miss can also cause damage to the enemy ship. However, this kind of damage can be big or small, and if you are lucky, the hull will shake significantly, and if you are unlucky, there will be a crack in the underwater part, causing seawater to pour in.

The influx of seawater caused the speed of the Taiho to decrease immediately, from more than 30 knots to less than 30 knots, and the large amount of water on the port side caused the Taiho to tilt to a certain extent. Not to mention that there was a large-scale explosion and fire in the hangar of the Dafeng at this time.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the Dafeng has become a hell on earth, on the flight deck, a large number of casualties in the hangar, and a large number of casualties have also reduced the efficiency of the Dafeng's management and damage to a certain extent, resulting in the fire in the Dafeng can not be extinguished.

While these two aerial bombs caused fatal damage to the Yamato, on the other hand, a small group of Chinese attack planes also launched an attack on the Yamato, and successfully hit a 500-kilogram aerial bomb on the Yamato.