The Combined Fleet lost two aircraft carriers in the Battle of Shanghai, but now they still have eight aircraft carriers and more than ten battleships and dozens of heavy cruisers, along with a large number of destroyers to follow.

The Japanese aircraft carriers carried much more aircraft than the German aircraft carriers. For example, the aircraft carrier Longxiang is equipped with 36 common aircraft and 12 reserve aircraft, with a total of 48 fighters.

The aircraft carrier Canglong directly increased the number of regular fighters to 57, and the reserve fighters to 16. In total, there are 73 fighters on the Canglong.

Therefore, the eight aircraft carriers have a total of at least 400 fighters. However, most of these fighters are old Type 97 carrier-based fighters, and only a few are new Type Zero and Type 1 fighters.

And this kind of quantity, even if it encounters the US fleet head-on, it is not afraid. But instead of the U.S. fleet, they encountered the entire Wehrmacht Air Force from land.

All the fighters of the three major military regions of East China, North China, and South China were concentrated, and the total number of fighters exceeded 1,000. They split into three waves and swooped directly at the Japanese fleet.

And these fighters had apparently received orders not to attack the ships below in the first place. Instead, they fought directly with those Japanese fighters who took to the skies.

It was only when the second wave of troops caught up that they gradually attacked the civilian ships and freighters below. By the time the third wave came, the Japanese were already in despair.

The sky was densely packed with Wehrmacht fighters, and in the first wave, Gao Zhihang took into account the problem of the large number of fighters in the Japanese air fleet, and in order to give the air force an advantage, he dispatched a total of 400 fighters.

In the second wave of fighters, Gao Zhihang sent 200 planes. Then, according to the battle situation transmitted back by the fighters' communications, the bombs and rockets of the third wave of fighters were adjusted.

The first wave of Wehrmacht Air Force fighters were all Tiger Shark A interceptors. This kind of fighter is equipped with four large-caliber machine guns, each with 300 rounds of ammunition, and it is almost a nightmare for Japanese fighters.

And the Tiger Shark Type A even the front windshield glass is made of multi-layer superimposed 60mm thickness bulletproof glass. This glass is even able to defend against machine-gun shells for a short time.

And now most of the Japanese fighters are equipped with two machine guns, which is almost impossible to take the Tiger Shark B. If it weren't for the fact that the fighter was also equipped with some 20mm cannons, the Japanese army would really have to stare at the tiger shark.

But even so, the damage caused by the Japanese fighters to the Tiger Shark was extremely limited. On the contrary, a large number of Tiger Sharks shot down at least eighty Japanese fighters in the first wave of attacks. Most of these fighters are Zero and One.

Who called this fighter the most threatening tiger shark?! When the second wave of fighters entered the battlefield, there were less than 300 Japanese fighters left in this airspace.

By the time the third wave of fighters arrived, the number of Japanese fighters had been reduced to about two hundred.

Of course, the Wehrmacht also paid the price for this with almost fifty warplanes. The most serious thing is that there is no search and rescue at the root of the sea. And now the Japanese army is only concerned about fleeing for their lives. There was also no way to shoot the Wehrmacht pilots.

As a result, the battle continued, with the Japanese on the run and the air force chasing.

"Whoosh...... Boom Boom Boom Boom ......" Another fishing boat was blown to pieces on the surface of the sea by raging rockets, and the Japanese soldiers on the warship could do nothing but look helplessly and desperately at the corpses of the soldiers floating on the sea.

They didn't even remember how many ships they were, and the huge fleet that had retreated with the fleet was now only a few sporadic attempts to get closer to the destroyers.

This is their only hope. The destroyer was armed with a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery. They hoped that at least this would be able to withstand the Wehrmacht's onslaught.

But this obviously did not have much effect, and the Wehrmacht fighter base would dive down from a high altitude. After firing rockets, it was extremely difficult for the anti-aircraft fire on the warship to damage these fighters.

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble!! "A Type 97 carrier-based fighter was blown up by the Tiger Shark in the volley, and the pilot in the fighter plane didn't even have time to parachute, so it turned into a ball of fireworks in the air along with his fighter.

The green tendons on Shan Fifty-six's hands burst out, and he trembled in distress when he looked at this scene, but he was helpless. It was too far away from Japan and Turkey, and it was impossible for the Japanese fighters to have time to support it.

Even the best fighter among the Japanese fighters now. The speed is only 500 kilometers per hour, and it takes more than an hour to take off from the nearest Satsuma to the sea off Zhoushan, which is the battlefield.

By the time they felt it, the battle was probably over. The Type 1 fighter has a endurance of less than 2,000 kilometers even if it is attached to the auxiliary fuel tank, and there is no way to fight for long when it arrives at the battlefield.

The navy's own fighters are running out, and all they can do now is to rush to Japan as soon as possible.

"Tell me to go down. All ships immediately sailed back to earth at full speed! All the fighters were recovered and put into the hangar. All of them do not stay on deck, withdraw to the ship. Damage management ready to rescue ......"

After being silent for a long time, Shan Fifty-six began to give orders to the adjutant one by one. And his adjutant was shaking his hands to record these orders.

"Your Excellency, Commander. If you do, you'll be condemned endlessly when you return to the Empire! Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro, commander of the First Fleet, looked at the first order, and his heart trembled.

Burn the wind. This would mean that all Army soldiers on freighters, tankers, and civilian vessels would be abandoned by the Navy. Whoever could imagine what would happen to these defenseless ships, who were hunted down by the Wehrmacht without the protection of the Japanese fleet.

"We can't take care of that much now, let's take care of our navy's own affairs first." Yama Fifty-six was worthy of being a famous general of the Japanese Navy, and soon after the battle began, he saw the plans of the Wehrmacht.

"If we don't break our wrists now, then what awaits us is most likely the result of heavy losses for the entire fleet. Don't look at the fact that now the Wehrmacht is only sending fighters that do not carry heavy bombs, but their purpose is clearly to destroy our counterattack forces. ”

Shan Fifty-six paused, stood up and said, "Once all our fighters are lost, then it is clear what awaits us. They will send bombers against us with their kind of bombs capable of sinking aircraft carriers. When the time comes. Our fleet will be in danger of being massively sunk. And without the protection of fighters, how many of our warships do you think will be able to survive in such a situation ?! ”

Takasu Shiro stopped talking, and Yamagoroku said it to this extent, if he didn't understand it, he would really be this commander for nothing.

Obviously, what the Wehrmacht wanted was to wear down the Japanese Navy's air counterattack capability. Then he called in his own bombers to deliver the final blow to the entire Japanese fleet.

If it weren't for the fear of the Japanese Navy's carrier-based aircraft, perhaps their bombers would have appeared a long time ago. Now, although these fighters are also capable of inflicting some damage on the battleship, it is completely impossible to sink them.

The Combined Fleet had no other strength to resist except to send out its fighters. You can't even run away. A large number of civilian ships and those transport fleets on the sea. It greatly hindered the pace of the Japanese retreat.

Unless a ruthless strong man breaks his wrist and directly abandons these fleets and retreats at full speed. Otherwise, the Japanese Navy would have suffered a devastating blow to the Wehrmacht. When they lost the carrier-based aircraft, there was no doubt that the bombers would come with heavy bombs that could sink the carriers.

At that time, this sea area will be the burial place of the Japanese navy.

"As long as we are out of their combat radius. They would never dare to chase after them again. Yama Fifty-six said to Takasu Shiro, "But as long as we are within their combat radius, then we are facing their endless blows." How long do you think we, with less than 300 fighters left, will be able to stop the Wehrmacht?! ”

Takasu Shiro was silent. And the adjutant, after giving a military salute, passed the order on. The Japanese fighters in the air received signals to retreat one after another.

A large number of destroyers are constantly moving closer to the aircraft carrier, covering the descent of those fighters.

Shan Fifty-six's decision was quickly passed on to Gao Zhihang, and Gao Zhihang, who got the movement of the Japanese army, smiled: "It seems that the naval commander is really a master!" We want to finish our work in one battle, and we can't do it. ”

This set of tactics. It was made by Gao Zhihang and Chen Shaokuan of the Navy after studying together. In order to kill as much as possible the living forces of the Japanese navy on the surface of the sea.

For this reason, Gao Zhihang even deliberately asked the fighters not to alarm those warships. This gave the illusion that the Wehrmacht Air Force was simply trying to strike at the retreating fleet.

But apparently, Shan Fifty-six still saw the flaw. And he chose the strong man to break his wrist and leave those troop convoys directly behind. Evacuate the sea at full speed.

Shan Fifty-six was not wrong, once he withdrew from the combat radius of the Wehrmacht Air Force, then the Air Force really did not dare to chase down. The Tiger Shark has a limited range, reaching only 750 kilometers without an external fuel tank.

The combat radius is 300 kilometers, and once it exceeds this range, even if the fighters arrive, it will not be able to conduct long-term operations. At that time, it will really be the same 109-minute fighter as the BF-15 over the UK.

"Be content! Don't be too greedy. That's pretty much it. Chen Haihua said with a smile on the side: "As the main promoter and commander of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, it is normal for Shan Fifty-six to see through your thoughts. ”

Gao Zhihang laughed dumbly. He and those battlefield veterans are really more than a step behind. He and Chen Shaokuan, Chen Haihua and others planned for a long time, but they were seen through at the beginning.

This really made Gao Zhihang very unwilling.

"Send the bombers over! It just so happens that we will also see how effective these bombers are, and if there are more, we will not need them. Just send the new bombers. Chen Haihua nodded his head without a match, after all, Lao Chen couldn't keep up with young people when he was old.

"Anyway, those are made of all steel, and they can't fall off after being beaten twice by the Japanese. Let them test the water, and if they do, send the tiger moth. ”

Gao Zhihang nodded and gave a military salute to his commander. At this moment, he really felt that he was still lacking in the opportunity to change.

A change in Shan Fifty-six made him a little at a loss. However, Chen Haihua, as the commander of the Air Force, can change with the change of the battle situation when the other party implements changes.

And Chen Haihua has made the most appropriate arrangement in the shortest possible time. The new Kunpeng bomber uses the all-metal skin technology provided by the United States, and this kind of bomber has thick skin and thick flesh, even if Xiao Ri's cannon hits, as long as it does not hit the vital point, he can escape back.

And Chen Haihua sent this kind of bomber to test the waters. There are also obvious security concerns. As long as the Japanese did not directly destroy the fighters, then it was always possible to test whether the Japanese could resist the bombing.

Once the Japanese showed that they had lost their ability to resist the bombardment, there was no doubt that a large number of tiger moths would pounce directly on that airspace and beat the Japanese fleet on the sea.

There's still a lot to learn on your own! Gao Zhihang thought silently, and then recorded Chen Haihua's order and ordered it to continue.

A large number of Kunpeng bombers were already waiting for orders in the hangar of the airport, and as soon as Gao Zhihang's order came, they drove the fighters directly to the runway.

Ground crews began to busily assemble ammunition for the Kunpeng 1 bomber and mount heavy rocket-booster bombs. This was the first batch of Kunpeng bombers produced by the Wehrmacht itself, with a total of 12 in exactly one formation.

The ground crew's hands and feet were quick, and with the help of machinery, the ammunition and bombs were loaded. Then all of them withdrew, and with the sound of the tower, one after another Kunpeng rose to the sky! Roaring towards the sea where the Japanese army is located.

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! ......The Japanese fighters were gradually retracted from the aircraft carrier, and the Tiger Sharks, who did not have heavy bombs, would not risk being shot down by the destroyers.

For a time, the two sides reached a stalemate. But tiger sharks aren't fools. If you can't deal with the warships, can't you still take those transport ships?! With the roar of the cannons, the troop carriers burst into fireworks on the sea.

The sound of screams, explosions and burning flames was heard on the surface of the sea. The rest of the Japanese warships, except for the air defense and damage control, were withdrawn into the ship.

And those troop carriers seemed to know something when they looked at the warships that were speeding away, and kept begging the fleet not to abandon them with flags and lights. But this is clearly useless.

The warships of the Combined Fleet had already received orders, and none of them had the intention of stopping. They moved closer to the aircraft carrier. Then in formation, try to evacuate this sea area as quickly as possible.

"We are abandoned! We have been abandoned by the Empire......" a terrible cry resounded on the ships on the sea, and the Japanese troops who had withdrawn from China finally collapsed, and they wailed and wept on the ships.

This kind of abandonment has broken their last defense. Everyone felt the slightest sadness from the bottom of their hearts.

The Combined Fleet abandoned them, abandoned them without hesitation. Now they don't even have the strength to resist those fighters in the air. The only thing that awaits them is slaughter.

But it seemed that for a moment the Wehrmacht's warhawks seemed to have lost interest in this untechnical slaughter, and they were merely chasing the warships of the Combined Fleet. And on the periphery, they constantly used machine guns to clean up those anti-aircraft fire machine gun shells, and the stray bullets formed by the rebound on the ship also made many United Fleet sailors scream and lose their hands and feet and even their lives. The blood stained the battleship red, and even the blood continued to flow down from the ship into the sea.

Shan Fifty-six did not expect the Wehrmacht to suddenly change tactics, but his reaction was extremely fast. He said to the adjutant beside him: "Contact the imperial camp immediately." Let them send some long-range fighters to take off from the nearest airfield to come to the rescue. All ships were in full anti-aircraft fire, forming a barrage to cover the fleet. Smoke grenades were fired to cover the evacuation of the fleet ......"

In one breath, Shan Fifty-six issued seven or eight orders. Then, the Japanese warships on the sea began to emit smoke continuously. For a time the entire fleet was obscured by smoke.

The Wehrmacht warhawks were helpless against the Japanese warships in this situation. Even in order to avoid the anti-aircraft fire fired by the Japanese from the warships, they had to constantly turn around.

"Hey, hey! Terrible. Awesome! Chen Haihua was in good spirits when he received the report, he didn't expect that Shan Wuliu would think of a way to deal with the air force so quickly.

Indeed, he really couldn't determine his location as a fighter fighter. And in order to avoid anti-aircraft fire, the fighters also had to stay away from the smoke.

When the fleet can see it, you can also roughly judge the direction of the Japanese anti-aircraft fire. But now you can't see anything in a cloud of smoke, and if you go any further, you're going to make up bullets and shells.

"Tell the cubs that some of them will withdraw first. Let people come with leaflets and tell the men on the sea to bring the boat back so that we don't sink them. Otherwise, they will all go to the sea and feed the king. Chen Haihua smiled hesitantly and said, "If they agree, let them raise the white flag and drive the boat back." The cubs keep an eye on it, don't let them play tricks. ”

By the time Chen Haihua gave the order, the Wehrmacht troops had already rushed into the port defended by the Japanese army. The rattling tracks of the tanks Kerala directly crushed the Japanese fortifications, and those Japanese troops defending in the port were bombarded into a sky of minced flesh and mutilated corpses by heavy artillery in just three or two strokes.

Large forces of the Wehrmacht have stormed the last Japanese stronghold and begun to sweep away the remaining Japanese troops here. New positions were then erected to receive the Japanese prisoners who had been escorted back from the sea.

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