Chapter 494: Cannons Fight Mosquitoes

The mixed fleet of the Japanese army had already prepared an iron bucket defense array, and less than forty nautical miles away from them, Xu Fei commanded two battleships like turtle shells to slowly sail parallel to the fleet;

He didn't want to get close to the past for the time being, otherwise as soon as this big guy appeared, it was estimated that the Japanese army would not even have the enthusiasm to come up, and he would want to sink an aircraft carrier first.

"Yo Xi, discover the mixed fleet of China, three hundred and fifty kilometers northwest of the location, the estimated flight distance of one hour, the bomber formation departed, and the fighter formation took off to escort."

With the orders of Lieutenant General Hidera Xiaoice and Lieutenant General Tsukahara 243 in the command tower of the Japanese Army Aviation and Sea-based airfields, more than 500 strange Japanese aircraft of all kinds began to take off;

Type 93 single-engine and double-engine bombers, Type 93 heavy bombers, and Type 96 medium and large attack planes took off from several airfields in hula, assembled in the air to form fighter formations and bomber formations, and flew toward the South China Sea.

With the 92 and 95 fighter groups on the Navy's aircraft carriers, the 92 biplane attack aircraft group, and the 96 crit aircraft group also began to take off from the aircraft carriers;

The chaotic aircraft models did not dampen the passion of the devil pilots, who soon formed countless formations in the sky and covered them forward like a large net.

Xu Fei sat in the bridge of the Kunpeng and poked it with a tablet like a game, when the two military satellites transmitted all the real-time images in his hands, he has been observing the movement of the battlefield, and after the Japanese aircraft group has approached the range of the ideal class main gun, he pressed the walkie-talkie and said:

"The enemy aircraft group is still fifty kilometers away from you. The height is 1,000, the time is touched within ten minutes, and the direction is southeast. You can prepare to attack, remember to test the anti-aircraft capabilities of the main guns, and stop the shelling as soon as you have the results. ”

"Yes!" Zhao Fang, who was on the Dream, replied with a smile.

This German-made radar has long been locked on the devil's fleet, but except for the altitude and distance, he does not have the monitoring effect of over-the-horizon radar and satellites.

"The Dream and Ideal main guns are aimed, thirty kilometers to the southeast, and air-burst shells are used. Height of a thousand, continuous shooting. Zhao Fang gave an order in a deep voice after calculating the flight time of the enemy plane for a while.

"Huhuhu......"

Driven by a large motor, the barrel is constantly rotating and raised. As a burst of shell loading ended, the twelve guns on the two ships roared with a slight delay.

"Boom ......"

As if the sound of a huge cannon burst at the same time, twelve huge airburst shells continued to accelerate in the air, and the initial velocity from the muzzle of the cannon was 680 meters and soon reached the limit of 900 meters per second. Fifty kilometers away from the large target area in less than a minute. These special shells, engraved with KB letters and shining pale gold, rushed into the enemy aircraft group with a huge booming tail.

"Boom ......"

The power of the airburst bomb let the devil see what is the strategy of cannon to fight mosquitoes after twelve loud noises in a row, this special shell brought by Xu Fei to the two warships is a special shell specially researched by the military industry, the warhead shell of nearly 300 kilograms is not thick, but except for half of the black Suojin explosives, the rest are steel balls with a diameter of less than half a centimeter.

Each of the 12 airburst bombs exploded 150 meters away, and each shell contained more than 20,000 steel balls.

"Dangdangdang......"

"Puff ......"

"Ah......h

All kinds of strange sounds suppressed the roar of the planes in front of the entire Japanese fleet in a matter of seconds, and the Japanese fleet used a squad formation and then a squadron formation. At the rear is the formation of the brigade, and the formation of planes in front of it happens to be a fighter escort group. When the airburst bomb exploded, the entire squadron of twenty-four fighters was exactly within the range of steel balls.

Some of the little Japanese planes were alloy wings, but most of them were made of wood, and the Japanese only tried to be fast when they were designed, and these planes did fly much faster than foreign planes of the same stage, and it was only then that they realized what the consequences of this cost saving were;

Countless small steel balls easily penetrated and shredded those wings, some lucky guys were not hit by the steel balls, but because of the damage to the wings of the plane, they spun and fell to the sea at high speed, and they were able to parachute in time, but those pilots who were stunned could only follow the plane to the sea.

The bomber group flying behind saw that the situation was not right, so they quickly increased their altitude, and just as they were out of the first explosion crisis, the second wave of airburst bombs exploded in a series on the other side;

At this time, the dozen or so planes lost from the first wave of explosions had not yet fallen to the bottom, and the fighter group over there was torn apart by the explosion.

"What kind of shell is this?" One of the pilots, who had urgently raised the bomber's altitude, asked himself in a sweaty sweat.

Not only him, but at this time, countless Japanese pilots were startled, the target here is still dozens of kilometers away, how can there be sudden artillery bombardment, not to mention such a strange way of explosion.

They knew that this was a research institute that was specially researched to deal with possible jet aircraft in the future, but the gunpowder propulsion speed of the Ideal-class naval guns was not very fast;

According to the results of the study, if the circulating airbore barrel is used for pressurization, this kind of shell can hit 50 kilometers even on the main gun of a battleship, with a range of 3,000 to 10,000 meters and a maximum speed of 1,200 meters per second.

This time, Xu Fei just took it out for experiments, and the design and manufacturing cost of such special shells was terrifyingly high, and Xu Fei would not take them out and waste them if they were not necessary.

The four rounds of artillery bombardment took three minutes and destroyed nearly 80 low-flying fighters of various Japanese fighters, and as for the bomber group that climbed to an altitude of several thousand meters, the elevation angle of the naval guns could not reach it, so they had no choice but to let them go.

"Yo Xi, there are a lot of warships, this time I must win Hatoda-kun's special female monkey, quack quack...... This female monkey in the Philippines is a little black, but it is very tasteful. The Sakata Daisa, piloting his Type 93 heavy bomber, shouted at the co-pilot next to him and the bombardier behind him.

The Japanese army air fleet was more than 10 minutes earlier than the navy's air group, and although the army air force had just been attacked and destroyed 60 or 70 fighters, not a single bomber had been lost, and after learning that this fleet group did not have a single aircraft carrier and a dozen or so water reconnaissance planes, they were ready to lower their altitude and wantonly ravage the floating iron coffins below. (To be continued......)