readx; Although the tonnage of Maya and Bird Sea is not large, and the combat displacement is about 16,700 tons, the speed is very high, so in the sequence of navies of various countries, it is a standard light aircraft carrier, and the U.S. Navy in the early stage of World War II urgently modified the Read-class light aircraft carrier is a similar model. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to their high speed, although these two light aircraft carriers do not carry many aircraft, they have always belonged to the formation of this mobile aircraft carrier, whether it is the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the two Battle of the Coral Sea or the Battle of the Indian Ocean, they have participated in it, and together with the two cranes, they formed the most important high-speed mobile aviation force in the early days of the Navy.

When the Ruihe was violently attacked, the two light aircraft carriers were also attacked by the third wave of attack aircraft of the Chinese Navy, but the attack firepower they faced was obviously not as good as the firepower faced by the Ruihe, although the Maya was also hit by an aerial bomb, but it was very fatal, the 500 kg aerial bomb hit the front deck of the Maya, and unfortunately it belonged to the kind of semi-armor-piercing bomb, so this aerial bomb did not have time to explode, It pierced directly through the bow of the Maya, and then pierced through the other end!

In this way, the Maya escaped without danger, and then when Fu Changpeng adjusted the focus of the attack, the pressure on the Maya and the Bird Sea rose rapidly.

"Team B is attacking the Maya now!" Fu Changpeng knew that more than half of Team A's attack aircraft had already dropped bombs before, and now with Team A's existing strength, it was no longer enough to attack at the same time, and at this time he had to put in a second wave of attacks!

The attack of a huge group of more than 200 planes is definitely not a swarm of bombs thrown over the enemy's fleet, otherwise the chaotic situation will greatly reduce the attack efficiency, so Fu Changpeng first let the bomber group of Team A launch the first wave of attacks, and then put into the bomber group of Team B after an interval of time, and adjust the attack target according to the situation.

Of course, this interval is very short, in my opinion, the Chinese planes in the sky are constantly diving and attacking from all angles, and then dropping bombs, one after another, as if there is no end, of course, this is my delusion, in fact, the continuous attack is not long, just now when the Ruihe was violently attacked, the time before and after is at most less than ten minutes.

However, the attack density is very high, and it will give people the illusion that there is no end to the attack.

A squadron of B18 dive bombers of Team B had been waiting for a long time to hover overhead, and now they had finally received the order to attack, and then they had dived towards the Maya without hesitation.

This squadron was the 314th Squadron, which belonged to the 6th Carrier-based Wing, and was deployed on the Taishan, and this time they flew 16 dive bombers. The reason why so many dive bombers were able to be sent out was that the Taishan did not dispatch torpedo planes when it dispatched fighters again, and the torpedo squadron of Team B was in charge of the Songshan. The Songshan did not use dive bombers in this wave of attacks, but flew twelve torpedo planes.

The purpose of this separation is to simplify the maintenance process and speed up the maintenance time. When the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aviation launches an attack, it is generally a two-aircraft carrier or a three-aircraft carrier formation, and when time is tight, one aircraft carrier usually dispatches dive bombers, while the other aircraft carrier dispatches torpedo aircraft, and each side dispatches a certain number of fighters to form an attack wave, while the next attack wave is the opposite.

When the sixteen B18 dive bombers attacked the Maya one after another, some of the dive bombers of A's team also launched an attack on the Chokai on the other side.

In this attack wave, the most priority targets are the three aircraft carriers called "Ben", as for those battleships and escort ships are only secondary targets, it is enough to suppress their anti-aircraft fire in the early stage. If the task of attacking aircraft carriers can be successfully completed, then the target will be transferred to them.

However, to Fu Changpeng's surprise, their priority targets at the beginning, the Dafeng and Xianghe were not here.

Fu Changpeng did not know that after the Dafeng and Xianghe were severely damaged in the second wave of attacks by the 21st Squadron, they were unable to take off and land planes because the decks and hangars of the two ships were severely damaged. And the aircraft carriers without carrier-based aircraft naturally lost all combat effectiveness, so as soon as the battle ended, the two heavily damaged aircraft carriers were already returning due north under the escort of several destroyers and cruisers, trying to avoid the blows of Chinese carrier-based aircraft.

Although they were badly damaged, their injuries were far less severe than those of the Zuihe just now, and they were able to regain their combat effectiveness after returning to port for repairs.

The Daho and Xianghe were not found, but the Zuihe and Maya and the Chokai were frozen, which is even better news for the third wave of attack aircraft of the Chinese Navy, after all, although the Daho and Xianghe escaped, but the two ships have been severely damaged, even if they can still restore their combat effectiveness, but at least it will take several months of repair time. And in the past few months, it means that the Navy has actually lost these two aircraft carriers.

Now, if the third wave of attack groups can sink or severely damage the Zuizuru and Maya and Chokai, then it means that five aircraft carriers of the Navy have been lost.

After all, in the previous few years of successive battles with the US Navy, the Navy had also lost several aircraft carriers one after another, and now this time in order to cover the transport fleet going to the Ryukyu Islands, the Navy has taken out all its belongings.

But they were very unfortunate to encounter the second mobile fleet, the main fleet of the Chinese Navy!

The Maya and the Torikai were performing various evasive maneuvers amid the falling shells, while the surrounding escort ships were approaching and trying to cover them with all their anti-aircraft fire.

Ten minutes later, a 500-kilogram aerial bomb was hit on the middle deck of the Maya, and the explosion hit the Maya without incident!

At this time, the entire air raid had lasted for nearly half an hour, and the huge fleet of aircraft of the Chinese Navy had slowly gathered and began to withdraw in formation.

By 1:50 p.m., the bomber group, which had dropped all the bombs, began to return under the escort of fighter jets!

In this super-large-scale air raid, the fighters of the two sides began to engage at 1:15 p.m., and the bomber formation of the Chinese Navy began to launch a fleet attack at 20 o'clock, and the entire air raid lasted for more than half an hour until 50 o'clock!

During the air raid, the Zuizuru was heavily damaged and abandoned the ship, and there was no difference between being directly sunk, the Maya was heavily damaged and lost its combat effectiveness, and the Torikai was lucky with only minor injuries!

In addition to these three aircraft carriers that were prioritized, the battleship Musashi was also heavily attacked, although it was not sunk but still heavily damaged, the battleship Kirishima (originally a battlecruiser, called a battleship after its large-scale modification by the Navy) was also heavily damaged by a torpedo, and two cruisers were sunk and several destroyers were sunk! As for the injured, there are even more!

It can be said that this air raid can be considered a success!

In addition to the warships, he said: "Most of the fighters faced by this fleet were shot down by the escort fighters of the Chinese Navy, and in addition to the planes that were destroyed or burned on the Zuihe and Maya without taking off, the Navy lost more than 70 planes of all kinds in this air raid."

At the same time as the brilliant results were achieved, China's third-wave attack aircraft group also suffered considerable losses, after all, it is necessary to pay a price for breaking through the air defense network of the fleet itself.

More than 40 fighters of all kinds were lost in the air raids, and basically only four of the five planes that went out were able to come back, some of which were shot down by fighters called "Ben", and some were shot down by the anti-aircraft fire of the "Ben fleet."

However, compared with the losses and gains of our own side, there is no doubt that this is a big victory!

After all, there is no way to compare dozens of carrier-based aircraft with an aircraft carrier, an aircraft carrier is a strategic force, and carrier-based aircraft are actually just consumables, and for an aviation power like China or the United States, the loss of these carrier-based aircraft and pilots is not even a superficial damage, and the number of carrier-based aircraft and pilots in the Chinese Navy has always exceeded the number that can be carried by aircraft carriers.

Otherwise, the Chinese Navy would not have resorted to deck tethering in order to carry more aircraft, desperately cramming more aircraft into the aircraft carrier.

For China or the United States, what they lack is aircraft carriers, and they have more aircraft. As for Ben, there was a shortage of aircraft and a surplus of aircraft carriers in the early stage, but after this war, it was said that "the Navy is short of aircraft and aircraft carriers!"

If it was said that the forces of the Navy and the U.S. Navy were continuously depleted in the course of the battle, it was said that the Navy still retained most of the main forces, and there was no such tragic battle as the Battle of Midway as in history. Nagumo Tadaichi did not bear the infamy of history either.

However, in this battle, although there was not a single aircraft carrier that was directly sunk, four aircraft carriers were severely damaged, and the Zuihe was completely damaged because of the fire and the continuous explosions, and after the battle, the Ruihe actually became a large iron block that was burned and seriously deformed. As soon as the battle ended, it was tearfully sunk by torpedoes fired by Ben's own destroyer. The other three ships, including the Taiho and Xianghe and Maya, were all badly damaged, and they could not recover their combat effectiveness without a few months of repairs, and who knows what the battle would turn out in these months.

There is no doubt that the carrier-based aviation of this navy has suffered heavy losses! In such a situation, it is said: 'The only ones that this navy can use are those battleships!'