readx; However, the damage suffered by the Yamato was far less serious than that of the Yamato, and the main horizontal armor on the Yamato successfully blocked the penetration of this aerial bomb, so that the aerial bomb could only explode externally, even though such a violent explosion caused some of the external equipment of the Yamato and the members of the anti-aircraft artillery crew to suffer great damage, but it was nothing to the Yamato, far from the point of breaking the bones. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although it is already 1944 today, it is very difficult for carrier-based aircraft to sink a battleship, unless it is the kind of old battleships of the First World War that may be sunk relatively easily, other cutting-edge battleships, such as the four Yamato-class high-speed battleships of the Ben and the American battleships of the South and North Carolina and the battleship of Iowa, under normal circumstances, it will take a huge price to sink them, unless the luck value is off the charts, it is difficult to sink them with one or two hits, It's hard to even hit hard.

After all, these battleships were designed with the defense against heavy aerial bombs in mind, and they also needed to defend against the enemy's large-caliber naval guns, and those sixteen-inch caliber main gun shells were not so easy to defend against.

The Yamato was hit, but still sent out heavy anti-aircraft fire, trying to share the air defense pressure faced by the Taiho and Shozuru.

However, this was an extremely passive air attack for the fleet, although their anti-aircraft firepower was strong, although they also had more than 20 fighters for air defense operations, but these fighters were entangled by the escorting Chinese Navy F8G fighters before, thus avoiding allowing these fighters to intercept the Chinese bomber group to launch an attack.

Of course, in this process, it is inevitable that some of the fighters will break through the interception of the Chinese escort fighters, and then rush into the Chinese bomber group to intercept them, and whenever this happens, the Chinese bombers will be shot down or forced to lose the offensive position, and they will have to change direction and choose the offensive route again.

However, this situation is still relatively small overall, China escorts more F8G fighters, and as the latest generation of F8 series carrier-based fighters of the Chinese Navy, the surname can be much more advanced than the F8 early surname in the 1940 state, and it is not much worse than the F4U and F6F fighters of the US Navy. The Navy's carrier-based fighter force is nowhere near its peak in 1941.

He said: 'This navy cannot resist the attack of the US Navy in the South Pacific, and they are also unable to resist the attack of the Chinese navy!'

As the chaotic air battle progressed, one fighter plane after another was hit and dropped, some of which were carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy, and some of which were escort fighters called 'Ben'.

In fact, in the chaotic air battle between the two sides, it was said that "the results of this escort fighter were not great, and most of the bombers shot down in the second wave of China's aircraft group were the result of the anti-aircraft fire of surface ships."

There are countless planes flying in the sky, and from the water to the edge of the sky is a network of fire composed of anti-aircraft guns, and from time to time in the sky, the planes that are hit are shot down, dragging black smoke and falling into the sea. On the surface of the sea, the warships were hit one after another, the Dafeng and Xianghe had already ignited a fire, and the Yamato was already scarred at this time, and an armor-piercing aerial bomb of up to 1,000 kilograms successfully penetrated the rear horizontal armor of the Yamato, and then exploded deep inside, although this explosion did not ignite the explosion of the ammunition depot and the damage to the core compartments such as the power compartment, but still caused serious damage to the Yamato.

Even if this Yamato can still maintain most of its combat effectiveness, it can be regarded as a serious injury!

Speaking of which, the Yamato was lucky, because the dive bombers in the second wave of attack aircraft sent by the 21st Squadron of the Chinese Navy put the main targets on the two aircraft carriers, and did not invest too much force in the escort ships! At the same time, in order to concentrate firepower and strive for a single attack, the two aircraft carriers called Ben were sunk or severely damaged.

However, the Yamato was unlucky, because the Yamato was on the periphery of the main fleet, and at first it was used as an avant-garde fleet, but during the air defense operation, the high-speed formation where the Yamato was located was equivalent to breaking away from the core air defense network position of the main fleet, and this was a great opportunity for the torpedo bombers of the Chinese Navy.

The number of torpedo planes in the second wave was not large, and because the two aircraft carriers were located at the core of the fleet, it was difficult for the torpedo planes to break through the interception of the many escort ships on the periphery, and they could not smoothly break into the core position of the fleet and drop torpedoes on the two aircraft carriers.

After all, in order to maintain accuracy, torpedo planes often do not have a high speed, and they need a relatively low flight altitude, and torpedo planes in this state are faced with anti-aircraft fire strikes from many peripheral interceptor ships, and it is difficult to effectively break through.

Although the torpedo is deadly enough, there is no way to break through and hit it.

Therefore, at the beginning of the offensive, only fighters and dive bombers were engaged in battle, and the torpedo group was on standby at first, but then it was impossible to find an opportunity to temporarily target the two battleships called Ben.

In order to cooperate with the torpedo group to launch an attack on the Yamato, some dive bombers in the second wave of the group also supported the torpedo group, and carried out a dive attack on the formation where the Yamato was located, their goal was not to sink the Yamato, but to weaken the anti-aircraft fire of the formation where the Yamato was located, and this support was very successful, after connecting multiple aerial bombs to hit the Yamato, although the Yamato could not lose its main combat effectiveness and could not sink it, but it greatly hit the Yamato's anti-aircraft firepower. And this created favorable offensive conditions for the offensive of the torpedo group.

After the six torpedoes entered the water, they slowly floated up and sailed towards the Yamato at a high speed of more than 40 knots, and this attack was not in a single direction, these six torpedoes were speeding towards the Yamato in a fan, in order to ensure that at least one torpedo hit the target.

On the Yamato, shrouded in fire and smoke, a lookout looked at the rapidly approaching torpedoes in the sea and immediately shouted: "Torpedo, two o'clock direction!" ”

"There are torpedoes again, in the direction of three o'clock!" The lookout looked at the six torpedo tracks on the sea, and his heart was already desperate, this kind of dense torpedo fan attack doomed the Yamato to no matter how much it dodged and maneuvered, it could not escape.

"Sharp turn to the right!" The Yamato made a sharp turn at its highest speed in an attempt to avoid the first two torpedoes, and the Yamato even tilted as high as 30 degrees under the sharp turn, making many crew members unable to stand still and fall.

At the same time, several aerial bombs fell on both sides of the Yamato, although they did not hit, but the huge water pressure caused by the near miss still caused the Yamato to shake violently, and the crew inside the Yamato seemed to be able to hear the squeak of the steel deformation.

The Yamato drew a turning trajectory of more than 60 degrees on the sea, and two torpedoes passed by only a distance of more than 20 meters from the Yamato, but the hearts of the lookout on the Yamato were still tense, because another torpedo came at high speed from the right front of the Yamato.

Yi Xinyun looked at the remaining four torpedoes in the distant sea, and he knew that he could no longer dodge all the torpedoes, and what he could do now was to reduce the number of torpedoes hit.

"Make a sharp turn to the left and order all units to prepare for the impact!" At this point, Ishin could only pray that the Yamato's underwater defenses would withstand the torpedo's attack.

The Yamato made an S-shaped maneuver in a short period of time and dodged four torpedoes in a row, but the last two torpedoes were already very close to the Yamato, and the Yamato did not have enough time to maneuver to dodge.

Yi Xinyun looked at the torpedo that was getting closer and closer, sighed, and closed his eyes!

In the next moment, there was a violent vibration from the Yamato, and a huge drop of water was set off on its starboard side, and the huge force of the torpedo hit not only caused a violent vibration to the Yamato, but also directly tore a huge crack in the underwater part of the Yamato, and the sea water poured into it instantly.

"Immediately pump the water, close the watertight compartment and fill the port side with water!!" Yi Shinyun immediately ordered that even though it had been hit by a torpedo, it did not mean that the Yamato would sink.

The huge tonnage of the Yamato gives the Yamato an excellent defense system, and hitting a fish will not sink the Yamato, as long as the damage is controlled, the Yamato can still maintain balance.

Of course, a significant drop in speed was inevitable under such circumstances, and the large amount of seawater that poured in and the port side seawater that was actively injected to maintain balance caused up to 2,000 tons of seawater to pour into the Yamato, and in this case, the speed of the ship would also be greatly slowed down.

And the drop in speed will be even more difficult for the next air defense operation!

After the Yamato was hit by a torpedo, coupled with several aerial bombs that had been hit before, the Yamato had been hit hard, and the situation was much more tragic than that of the Musashi on the other side, and such a Yamato was like an open flame in the night, which attracted the attention of the Chinese attack aircraft group even more.

At this time, the attack aircraft group of the Chinese Navy on the Dafeng and Xianghe at the core of the fleet has entered the end, and the Dafeng and Xianghe are both heavy aerial bombs that have been hit by many people, and the Dafeng is due to the blow of a number of near-misses, the rift is getting bigger and bigger, the speed is getting slower and slower, and even the tilt state can not be changed, no matter from what point of view, the fate of the Dafeng has been doomed, even if it is not sunk, but it is impossible to return intact to the book.

The situation of the Xianghe is not much better, although the two aircraft carriers have not been sunk on the spot, but they have been heavily damaged, and because the attack of the second wave of China's aircraft group has also come to an end, the bombs of the dive bombers have almost been dropped, and only some torpedo planes are left, and the remaining torpedo planes are also difficult to break through, saying, "The core air defense network of this fleet has dealt a fatal blow to these two aircraft carriers, so in the later stage, the Chinese aircraft group has already put the focus of attack on the Yamato, The few remaining dive bombers dropped their limited bombs on the Yamato, and the remaining torpedo planes also gave up the attack on the Musashi in an attempt to deliver a fatal blow to the Yamato.

A few minutes later, four torpedo planes successfully broke through, and again dropped four torpedoes.

By this time, the speed of the Yamato had dropped considerably, and there was no way to evade the four torpedoes with an emergency maneuver, so another torpedo hit.

When this torpedo hit the Yamato, a huge explosion created another huge breach on the starboard side of the Yamato, and seawater began to pour in.

If the gap created by one of the previous torpedoes was barely maintained, then the large amount of water caused by the second torpedo hit was far beyond the Yamato's ability to manage damage.

Within a few minutes, the Yamato had tilted more than 40 degrees to the right, and the steep inclination further increased the inflow of seawater.

Although the Yamato had once again pumped water to the port side to try to keep it balanced, the large amount of water ingress on the starboard side had exceeded the capacity of the Yamato when it was designed, and if it wanted to maintain balance, it would have to inject more than 3,000 tons of water into the port side. The total amount of water intake on the starboard side plus active water injection on the port side will exceed 6,000 tons.

Six thousand tons of seawater poured into it, which already exceeded the reserve buoyancy of the Yamato, and the only result was sinking!

Yi Xinyun was already desperate at this time, and he didn't even give the order to fill the port side with water, because that would be useless at all!

And at this time, the Yamato was hit by a torpedo again, and it was also in the direction of the bow, and after the huge explosion, the bow of the Yamato was directly submerged in the sea, and the Yamato at this time was powerless!

Yi Xinyun finally gave the last order at this time: "Abandon the ship!" ”

A large number of crew members began to escape, but Yi Xinyun did not go together, he was wearing a full set of general's dresses, tied himself to the railing, he wanted to live and die with the ship!

After the second wave of attack aircraft of the 21st Squadron of the Chinese Navy gathered the remnants of the aircraft and retreated, the Yamato had already begun to capsize, and at 9:12, the Yamato, which had struggled a lot on the surface of the sea, sank into the cold water!

Major General Ishin-yun broke the soul of Yamato!

When the Chinese reconnaissance plane, which was left over the fleet to carry out the task of supervising the Yamato, saw the sinking of the Yamato, it immediately transmitted the news back to the Second Mobile Fleet.

Vice Admiral Lu Jian finally smiled when he heard that this attack did not directly sink the two aircraft carriers, but he sank a battleship called "this battleship, and it was also the latest Yamato", and at this time he seemed to have seen the complete victory of this naval battle!

However, at this time, the second wave of attack aircraft that took off from the Dafeng and Xianghe before the fleet had also successfully arrived in the skies above the 21st Chinese Fleet, and the Dafeng and Xianghe were the same as the aircraft carriers of the 21st Squadron of the Chinese Fleet, and the first wave of aircraft groups that took off at dawn was to attack the 24th and 25th fleets of the Chinese Navy, but after discovering the Chinese aircraft carrier formation, the second wave of attack groups took off, although the scale was not large, but it still headed towards the Chinese aircraft carrier formation.

After that, the Dafeng and Xianghe were violently attacked by the second wave of attack aircraft of the Chinese 21st Fleet, and this means that these carrier-based planes that attacked said "Even if the carrier-based aircraft return home, there is no aircraft carrier for them to land!"

This time they had no return, but that didn't affect their determination to fight, because they never wanted to go back, and they launched a suicide attack!

After the 24th and 25th Squadrons were attacked by a combined group of shore-based and carrier-based aircraft, the 21st Squadron was also attacked by a suicide attack by carrier-based aircraft.