Although Hu Weidong was already very distressed about the previous losses of the air force, after receiving the telegram sent by Sa Shijun, he immediately ordered a fighter group of the Soviet Aid Air Force to be sent to support, asking them to take out all the enemy's water reconnaissance planes, but they were not allowed to fight with the enemy ships in vain. But then again, none of the fighters on this sortie carried aviation rockets, let alone small aerial bombs, and if those pilots really attacked the warship with their cannons, they would be too two

Without the burden of rocket launchers, the fighters of the Soviet Air Force were obviously much more dexterous, and they did not need to attack the ships, and they did not have to take the initiative to make up for the enemy's anti-aircraft fire; in addition, at this time, the Japanese ships were eager to pursue the Zhiyuan and unconsciously opened the distance, so the efficiency of the Japanese fleet's air defense operations this time was unprecedentedly low, and the officers and men of the ships watched the enemy planes shoot down all the few seaplanes they had, but only one enemy plane was shot down on their side, and they were all indignant. Therefore, many devils want to brutally torture and kill the enemy pilots who parachute to vent their hatred, but because no less than 100 "imperial army" pilots have been captured by the enemy in previous battles, in order to exchange the elites of these empires back, these enemy pilots not only cannot be killed, but also have to be fed and fed well

After the water reconnaissance plane was killed, the Japanese naval guns lost their guidance when they boarded, and the Zhiyuan heavy cruiser continued to retreat under the calm and calm command of the captain Sa Shijun, while aiming at the Japanese ships that rushed in front with 4 rear main guns, and Sa Shijun also deliberately put the distance closer to about 25 kilometers, and the hit rate of the 4 rear main guns of the Zhiyuan suddenly increased greatly, and the two heavy cruisers of the devil Zuihou were all damaged, and the devil could only be beaten in vain. But they didn't retreat, they all went as fast as they could. Trying to close the distance to kill the Zhiyuan, but the maximum speed of the Zhiyuan is as high as 35 knots, and the fastest of the Japanese ships is about the same as it, how can it catch up with it when it is dedicated to "flying kites"?

But at this moment, a group of planes suddenly appeared in the eastern sky, and the devils on the various Japanese ships all shouted "onboard" after seeing it, and it turned out that after the water reconnaissance planes of Zuihou were shot down, they woke up the old devil Yoshida Zengo. In order to break the dilemma that he could only be beaten but unable to fight back, he had no choice but to ask for support from the Japanese Army Air Force in Incheon. Out of fear that the army would not be able to save him, Yoshida Zengo also took the initiative to report the matter to the headquarters of the base camp. As a result, the new commander of the Japanese Navy's First Air Fleet, Yamaguchi Tabun (one of the biggest beneficiaries of the coup d'état within the Japanese Navy), who received the bad news that all four aircraft carriers had been sunk as soon as he took office, strongly advocated that there should be aircraft that could participate in the war. Cooperate with the fleet to destroy the enemy ships and take advantage of the situation to attack Qingdao, and solve the source of this scourge that has caused the empire to suffer heavy losses so far.

Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto (another major beneficiary) was very appreciative of this jihua, and according to the information he now had, the enemy had fewer than 200 fighters (in fact, the Japanese air force had miscalculated the results of the war), while the two major airfields of Incheon and Seoul had more than 300 Japanese army fighters. Combined with the anti-aircraft firepower of those warships, even if the enemy planes poured out, the Japanese side would have a slight upper hand. Under this premise, the Japanese fleet, with the help of aircraft to provide observation data, could easily destroy the heavy cruiser that came to provoke, and at the same time, if the enemy aircraft group came to the rescue, it was a good time to annihilate it in one fell swoop, and Yamamoto Isoroku also added a clause in the Jihua of Yamaguchi, if the number of enemy fighters coming to the aid was less than 100, it would be resolutely destroyed. If enemy planes poured out, then more than 100 Mitsubishi Type 96 land medium attack aircraft deployed in Nagasaki and other places (with a range of 4,000 kilometers, far exceeding the Japanese fighters at that time. Taking advantage of the fact that the main forces of the enemy's fighters are caught in a fierce battle, they will go straight to Qingdao without the escort of fighters and solve all the problems once and for all

It's said to be a jihua, but it's just a simple discussion. With Yamamoto Isoroku's current status, a military operation of this scale can be completely decided by itself, coupled with the speed of the planes, especially the Japanese army aviation units at the Incheon airfield, which have long been ready for battle, and are less than 100 nautical miles away from the place of engagement, so they quickly rushed to the battlefield first, and their arrival immediately turned the tide of the battlefield

Although the devils were the first to arrive at the battlefield with only a dozen reconnaissance planes, and none of them brought bombs or other weapons to attack the ship, but with the observation data they provided, the Japanese naval guns could finally aim at the enemy ships 20 kilometers away for shelling, so suddenly, a high column of water continued to rise near the Zhiyuan, but Sa Shijun was nervous, but found that there were no large-caliber shells that could pose a fatal threat to his own ship

"Great, it must be that the enemy's two heavy cruisers can't keep up, it seems that the previous shelling may have damaged their power system", Sa Shijun couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he even asked his subordinates to slow down and pull the distance a little closer, so as to improve the hit rate of his own naval guns and sink a few more enemy ships. But he didn't ignore the threat of those oxygen torpedoes on the devil's light warship, and ordered his subordinates not to get close to within 20 kilometers of the enemy ship, but as soon as the words came out, Sa Shijun's heart suddenly moved, "No, although the oxygen torpedo is dangerous, but if our ship adopts the current tactics, it has always been far away from the enemy ship, if the devil launches a torpedo at the maximum range, in fact, it will not reach our ship at all."

Thinking of this, Sa Shijun immediately made a rough calculation of a simple equation in his mind, and the result surprised him greatly, "It turns out that under this tactic, assuming that our ship is fighting while retreating at the maximum speed of 35 knots, and only needs to be 6 kilometers away from the enemy ship, their torpedoes will not be able to threaten us." If they are launched at a speed of 50 knots, they will not be able to reach it at all, and if they are launched at a speed of 36 knots, the speed will not be a few knots faster than our Zhiyuan (the maximum speed cannot be maintained for a long time, and it will be impossible to run out of the state of retreating while firing guns, but the warship of the devil is firing forward guns, and the impact is greater than that of the Zhiyuan), and it will be even more impossible to catch up. Although we need to shell enemy ships, it is impossible to fire a maximum speed of 35 knots at the same time, and 6 kilometers is not very safe, but even if we fire at a distance of 10,000 meters, the hit rate is at least much higher than it is now" ......)

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