Chapter 495: Anti-aircraft Iron Bucket Array
"Dodging their anti-aircraft machine guns, passing through the anti-aircraft fire of the battleship group, I'm going to drop the bomb over their heads......" Sakata snorted in his weird singing voice as he watched the group of battleships appear on the surface of the sea.
With a smile on his face, he was already experienced in dealing with these warships whose air defense weapons were not very strong, there were only a few dozen anti-aircraft machine guns on the iron coffins of the Mi army, and their planes were almost constantly bombing, so they sank to the bottom of the sea one by one.
The anti-aircraft firepower of those destroyers in front of them will be higher according to the normal design, and the air defense capabilities on large battleships should not be much, this is the simple idea of this aviation flight captain.
While his thoughts were still swirling in his mind, he suddenly saw the group of fighters that were opening the way in front of him trembling as if they were cramped, and with the continuous volley explosions in the air, he looked closely, and countless tracer streams that could be felt during the day were densely packed in front of him.
"What about the anti-aircraft machine gun area, those fighters are too careless, ready to climb to a height of 3,000 meters, the bombardier prepares, the observer pays attention to aiming, and drops the bomb when they reach the selected target of the battleship group." Sakata said with a smile still on his face.
The group of battleships on the sea was still moving slowly, and the dense anti-aircraft machine gun defense network made the group of fighters who wanted to pick up cheap and skim at a low altitude instantly like they had crashed into a copper wall and exploded in the air;
When the fighters and bombers behind them continued to fly towards the fleet at an altitude of 3,000 meters, suddenly the battleships on the sea surface were densely covered with green smoke, and then clouds of smoke began to burst out in different high air. As the smoke dispersed around, there were countless shrapnel and projectiles.
"Nani, dense anti-aircraft artillery group, Baga." Sakata scolded in a low voice.
He was an ace pilot in the Japanese bomber formation. Unlike the fighter pilot, the Nine-Three Bombardment he piloted was much wider and slower, so he was always cautious, even when he bombed the Huaxia Fleet, which he had thought was extremely easy;
He saw the continuous explosion of anti-aircraft fire in front of him, and he piloted the plane to turn around the front and attack from the flank, and those fighters who thought the same way rushed over, but more than a dozen of them fell in a field of anti-aircraft shells.
Sakata looked in the direction of his wingman and waved. The bomber formation began to circle the group of battleships below, with the idea of consuming the limited ammunition on the ships below and waiting for the anti-aircraft fire to steam out before bombing.
Theoretically, the reserve of anti-aircraft ammunition for a battleship is not very large. However, this statement has long been violated by Xu Fei, and now at least half of the ammunition on the dozens of supply ships is supplied with anti-aircraft weapons.
Ten minutes later, the fleet of aircraft on the HNA and the aircraft carrier was also close to the battlefield. But to see such terrible anti-aircraft fire. Even the devil pilots at this time didn't have the courage to break through, a large group of planes buzzed in a large circle like wasps that wanted to sting, and moved in a large circle following the group of ships below, and from time to time a few fighters tried to pass through the defense net but instantly tore into pieces and fell into the sea as some debris.
The battleship continued to move forward, as if the swarms in the sky had no effect on their speed, the battleship had plenty of fuel to sail ahead, but the planes did not have such a large supply of fuel, and in less than ten minutes, the first fighters had begun to turn around. Only the bombers were fully loaded with fuel and had enough spirit to follow along.
"The enemy ship formation is thirty nautical miles away from our mixed fleet. At a distance of 70 nautical miles from our ship, in the course of radar scanning and imaging, it was determined that the enemy's aircraft carrier formation was located at the same time as the east longitude XXX and the north latitude XXX, and the sailing speed was 25 knots, and it was expected that the enemy warships would shell our mixed fleet in half an hour. Inside the Kunpeng's bridge, the radar crew watched the electronic imager keep reporting.
Xu Fei sneered twice, if he didn't want to leave the main battleships of the Japanese army to fight Southeast Asia, he would have let the two ideal-class battleships fire with all their strength with the Kunpeng at this time, and the Japanese fleet would have to sink to the bottom of the sea.
"The battleship was crossed, the two main guns were loaded with howitzers, aimed at the coordinates XXX and XX, and after confirming the sinking of an aircraft carrier, they began to fire around the enemy ship group." Xu Fei took the tablet that he was watching the blockbuster scene and gave an order in a deep voice.
The 800-caliber cannon produced by the Japanese army itself was different from the giant cannon that Germany had begun to prepare to build, and the German train cannon of the same caliber had a barrel of 40 times the diameter and weighed nearly 1,500 tons, but its range was only 32 kilometers;
Although the Japanese army designed the barrel to be 30 times the diameter for safety, the range of the 800 cannon with only 1,200 tons was more than seven times that of the German cannon;
The main reason for this is the unique air pressurization technique of the Japanese army, which has a range of more than 200 kilometers, a grenade weight of more than four tons, and a super high hit rate, and the 800 giant cannon is simply more lethal than many large missiles.
The barrels of the two giant cannons were moving slowly, and less than a minute later, Xu Fei only felt the battleship tremble slightly, and as two howling sounds of more than 100 decibels came from the muzzles, the whistling giant grenades rushed into the distance like two strange flying machines.
"The effect is good, the sound of the explosion of the cannon's own explosives has been removed by the muffler, and the sound of the cannonball leaving the muzzle is not as loud as the cannonball, but the next step is to design a muzzle silencing method, this sound is also harmful to the human body." Xu Fei didn't care about the cannonballs that had to run for a while, but he studied the problem of noise.
Maybe the large naval guns on other people's battleships are deafening, and looking at the ship artillery with thick ear sheaths, you can know that the loud explosion will hurt the people around them in the form of fluctuations;
Xu Fei has always been people-oriented, he doesn't want his soldiers to become deaf and stupid after more than ten years, and that kind of crime should not be borne by the soldiers, so he is more concerned about the sound of artillery than whether the cannon can hit the enemy's aircraft carrier.
At the same time, Takahashi Iwang on the Soryu was quickly giving the battle order, and they could not see the opponent's battleship from a distance of thirty kilometers, but the rising smoke showed them the way, and there was still half an hour to attack the opponent with naval guns, and he believed that with the excellent ability of the Japanese Navy, he would be able to easily achieve victory.
Takahashi Iwang looked ahead with a full face, being able to serve as the commander of the Combined Fleet of the Dispatch Force for this Southeast Asian Campaign, that was the absolute trust of the Admiralty in him, and he knew that the battle on the sea could not be completely superior with equipment alone. (To be continued......)