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He stood on the submarine bridge with a serious expression, still muttering "Crazy, really crazy!" More and more smoke columns appeared in the sky, and the tall masts of the battleship also appeared one after another.Wen Qingyun counted, and there are three huge masts that should belong to battleships or battlecruisers, and three smaller masts that should belong to heavy cruisers.Almost all the main force of Japan's first dispatched fleet is here!

Wen Qingyun slid from the submarine bridge and jumped into the cabin, and ordered loudly: "Communication officer! Send power to the Beiyang Fleet Headquarters! One enemy battleship, two battlecruisers, and three heavy cruisers. Azimuth east longitude xxx, North latitude xxx. It appeared on the surface of the Bohai Sea southwest of Huludao at 2:13 a.m. on February 5! The enemy ship was traveling at about 16 knots and heading southwest. The second squadron of my submarine was too far away to launch an attack!" It was a burst of blue veins, I don't know whether it was nervous or excited, and finally cursed fiercely: "Fucking little devil, you really don't even want your life to snatch our Northeast! Hmph, it's a pity that grandpa happened to be If you hit it, you're out of luck!"

The telegram was quickly delivered to the Beiyang Fleet Headquarters in Qingdao. After receiving the news, Zhao Zheng secretly exclaimed in his heart. The Japanese Navy's cruelty was really unexpected, and they dared to fight against them in broad daylight without air cover. Qinhuangdao strikes!However, this trick is really aimed at the Achilles heel of the Northeast Theater.Qinhuangdao has just been taken from the CCP, and the construction of the fortress has not yet started, and a large amount of materials transported from Huludao are piled up in the open space around the port and the airport. If it is bombarded by the Japanese fleet, it will be fun It's big!Maybe the situation of the entire Bohai Bay battle will be reversed by the Japanese!

Concentrated, Zhao Zheng immediately transferred the latest enemy situation to Luo Yaoguo, who was overseeing the battle in Jinan, An Sihua, the commander of the Huludao war zone, and Zhang Zhizhong, the commander of the Qinhuangdao fortress.It also suggested that the air force stationed in Qinhuangdao give priority to attacking the invading Japanese naval fleet, and then immediately issued an order for the naval aviation to immediately dispatch air strikes on the Japanese fleet.

February 25th, [-]:[-] am.At several large military airports such as Longkou, Laizhou, and Penglai, the pilots who had already been on the first level of alert also received orders from their respective commanders, Zhao Zheng, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet: "All naval aviation units set out, the target Japan's First Expeditionary Fleet! Note that the first priority targets are Japanese light cruisers and destroyers."

Sharp sirens roared over the airports, and countless pilots rushed to their beloved fighter planes. As the fighter planes slid to the runway, the first sea-air decisive battle in the history of time and space finally broke out!And the "National Fortune" battle between China and Japan has reached the most critical moment!

Chapter 0565 Iron Storm ([-]) Jade Broken Assault

February 55th, [-]:[-] am.

The sky gradually increased, and the first ray of dawn in the morning finally revealed its majesty, dispelling the night covering the land and sea.The sky has turned light blue, and a red glow on the horizon is slowly expanding its range, emitting orange-red rays of light, which looks like the rising sun flag representing the Imperial Japanese Navy!

Ryunosuke Yokoyama, the watchman of the battleship "Hyuga", came to his post, holding up an eight-power telescope and watching the scene of the rising sun...where the sun rises, there is his family and the motherland, but he I already know I can't go back.Although Commander Yanze would not convey the order of "Jade Broken Assault" to ordinary sailors, everyone still guessed from the direction of the warship!

Perhaps after death, one's soul can return to Japan, to receive the admiration of 8000 million citizens in the "Kudanzaka" that is talked about by military officers?Yokoyama was thinking about the Yasukuni Shrine when suddenly, for some reason, many black spots appeared in his telescope!That's coming from the northeast... Could it be a plane from the Japanese Army?I didn't expect that the animals in the army were quite interesting, and they didn't forget to send planes to cover this naval fleet that was heading to its death.

"Airplanes were found in the northeast direction. The number is about [-]. The identity and model are unknown. Over." Hengshan hurriedly hung up the phone on the bridge, and then raised the binoculars and began to observe carefully.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the lookout post reported that about [-] planes were found in the northeast direction, and I don't know who they belong to." A staff officer put down the phone and reported loudly.

"What?" Fleet Chief of Staff Yoshida Zengo was taken aback when he heard the words, a trace of joy slid across his face, but it was replaced by solemnity in an instant.Although the fleet had sent power to the Kwantung Army Command before, asking them to send fighter jets to cover... But everyone knows that the army's fighter planes are now mainly deployed at Lushunkou to protect this important port from being bombed by Chinese planes. There are not many planes.

"It belongs to the Chinese people." Yanzawa Yuichi shook his head, his face darkened: "They came so fast! It seems... They built two airports in Huludao to generate electricity for the United Fleet, and informed the fleet of encounters from Air strike in the direction of Huludao! Also, sound the air defense siren!"

"Hay!" Major General Yoshida Zengo turned around and ordered the staff behind him: "Sound the air defense alarm and form an air defense formation!"

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Yanze's analysis was good. The huge fleet in the sky really belonged to the Kuomintang Air Force.It was the 82 A1B light dive bombers and 26 F1B fighter jets that took off from Qinhuangdao in the early hours of this morning before dawn.They just flew over Huludao, and before they started bombing the Japanese artillery positions, they suddenly received an order from Qinhuangdao through the short-wave spot station just installed on A1B: "The Japanese fleet is found about [-] kilometers south of Huludao. Order to bomb!"

The commander in chief of the air fleet, Major General Ye Qiu, deputy commander of the Second Aviation Division, drove an A1B light dive bomber, commanding the huge fleet to gallop southwest in the sky.It didn't take long to fly and found more than 20 Japanese warships sliding out of the sea with white waves.At this time, the Japanese fleet seemed to have discovered the fleet that was approaching rapidly, and they were writhing on the sea surface in a mess, as if they were following the S-type route to avoid bombs.

Major General Ye Qiu ordered loudly: "Attention all bombers, our target is a Japanese destroyer! The target is a Japanese destroyer! The Fourth Squadron will deal with the leading two, and the Fifth Squadron will follow me..."

"Yes!"

Suddenly, a voice sounded in Ye Qiu's headset: "Report, report [-], the Japanese fleet has opened fire on our group, the enemy fleet is fiercely firing, and it is difficult for our group to approach!"

"Understood, all planes are at an altitude of [-], ready to dive."

As the order was issued, the fleet dispersed into three formations, one squadron of fighter jets guarded the periphery, and the dive bombers of the two brigades climbed to an altitude of 4000 meters.

"Report [-], an enemy destroyer on the lower left is within the range of my dive attack."

"15 knows!" Ye Qiu finished answering, and opened another channel: "No.[-] Bomber Squadron, immediately attack the destroyer on the lower left."

After receiving the order from the air commander, Major Chen Huaishan, the squadron leader of the No. 15 Bomber Squadron, hurriedly said: "The 4000th Bomber Squadron will follow me at an altitude of [-] meters."

Twelve A1B dive bombers were divided into four groups in the air and began to bomb in turn.The three dive bombers in each group began to dive from three directions at a 58-degree angle at the same time, as if three swooping goshawks were rushing towards their prey!Squadron leader Chen Huaishan was in the first group, and while the other three groups were still looking for positions, he had already piloted the plane and began to pounce on the enemy ship.At this time, all his attention has been transferred to the various instruments of the plane.Angle 55 degrees, height 4000, 3500, 3000... 1000!When the altimeter pointed to 1000 meters, Chen Huaishan decisively pulled down the red handle on his right hand.Soon he felt his plane jolted violently, and then the whole plane became much lighter.The bomb has been dropped!Chen Huaishan immediately pulled up the nose of the plane subconsciously.The clumsy biplane immediately climbed in a beautiful arc upward at high speed.While climbing, Chen Huaishan looked down. There were no huge splashes around the warship, so it should have been a direct hit!

rumbling...

With a loud noise, a huge red mushroom cloud appeared near the starboard side of the destroyer.

"Okay! Accurate hit! Guys, let's see!" Chen Huaishan shouted excitedly when he hit the warship for the first time.

Seeing that their boss directly hit the enemy ship, the pilots who were still circling in the sky also followed the order stipulated in the training, and began to dive and drop bombs on the unlucky "Minekaze" class destroyer.Unlike the Navy's A2A dive bombers, these Air Force's A1Bs have a lower ammunition load and only have a 130kg bomb attached, so one bomb is not enough to blow the destroyer into two sections.However, twelve dive bombers, driven by Air Force pilots with more experience than HNA pilots (the Air Force/Army Aviation has been established longer than HNA, so the pilots generally have more experience), against a destroyer with little armor It is still fatal enough!A total of twelve 130 kg bombs were dropped in this round of bombing, six of which hit!It is almost equivalent to being hit by six 203mm naval guns of a heavy cruiser. If it does not sink...it would be unreasonable!

Three minutes after Major Chen Huaishan dropped the bomb, the destroyer "Mine Kaze" of the Japanese First Expeditionary Fleet sank.A 3-kilogram bomb hit accurately, the bomb penetrated its weak armor, and then detonated the ammunition depot below the deck, instantly turning the 130-ton destroyer into a fiercely burning torch. All 1345 officers and men on the ship Killed!

Then the unlucky one was the "Zawakaze", which was also a "Minekaze" class destroyer. This destroyer, which was built in 1920, was also attacked by twelve A1B light dive bombers, and was destroyed in just 6 minutes. Five bombs were hit.One of them hit its number two turret, piercing the armor on the top of the turret and blowing it away.The other bomb concentrated a Taisho six-year-style double-mounted 533mm torpedo tube located in front of the bridge, and directly detonated the two 533mm torpedoes kept inside!The entire battleship was directly blown into two sections, and none of the officers and men on the ship survived!

Completed in 1911, the almost obsolete destroyer Yamakaze became the third casualty of these dive bombers.This 1030-ton small warship suffered a total of four 130-kilogram bombs. Almost all the buildings on the ship were destroyed, and a raging fire was also ignited.After the entire ship's officers and men struggled to rescue the ship for 10 minutes, they had no choice but to abandon the ship.

The entire bombing lasted about 10 minutes. The 82 dive bombers were divided into seven teams and attacked four destroyers, two minesweepers and a larger light cruiser "Tatsuta" of the Japanese First Expeditionary Fleet.In the end, except for the "Longtian" which survived the death because it was strong after all, the other six warships were all sunk!The loss of the Chinese Air Force is only five dive bombers.

And the six sturdy battleships in the Japanese fleet did not suffer any loss until the Chinese planes flew away with their wings flapping.However, the officers and soldiers on these battleships and heavy cruisers have fallen into deep despair after witnessing the tragic encounter of these six destroyers and minesweepers.Not despair for my own life, but despair for this war.

"Your Excellency, the destroyers 'Minekaze', 'Zawakaze', 'Yamakaze', 'Numakaze', No. [-] minesweeper, and No. [-] minesweeper have all sunk!" Dragon The light cruiser Tian' was sunk."

On the battleship "Hyuga", the combat staff reported the loss of the fleet with a mournful face.The commander of the fleet, Yuki Shiozawa, was silent for a while before replying: "Order all ships to increase their air defense firepower, and we must not allow China's fighter planes to easily break through our army's air defense firepower network!"

"Hay!"

Looking at the back of the staff officer leaving, Koichi Shiozawa let out a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the capital ship was not lost..."

Yoshida Zengo nodded slightly: "The planes of the Chinese are still unable to carry heavy bombs and torpedoes that can sink the battleship...so they are very smart to choose to attack destroyers and light cruisers, and wait until all our auxiliary ships are sunk. Use submarines or torpedo boats to attack..."

Yan Zexing smiled: "It doesn't matter." He pointed to the faintly visible coastline in the north: "As long as we can help the empire win this battle and get Manchuria, we are willing to be smashed to pieces! Mr. Yoshida, as long as we destroy Qinhuangdao's Ports and airports...the logistical supplies of the 30 Chinese Nationalist Army in Manchuria will be reduced by at least [-]%? By then, the army will be able to win, right?"

After the loss of four destroyers and two minesweepers, Japan's First Expeditionary Fleet left nineteen warships of various types, six of which were battleships, battlecruisers and heavy cruisers, and the rest Eleven are auxiliary ships such as light cruisers, destroyers, and minesweepers.However, the Japanese fleet, which suffered heavy losses, did not stop rushing towards Qinhuangdao, and did not even waste time searching for survivors in the icy waters of Bohai Bay.By this time, the entire fleet had already made up their minds to die, and they no longer took any zigzag routes to avoid submarines, but sailed straight to Qinhuangdao, as if they were planning to crash headfirst into the pier of Qinhuangdao!

At 45:[-], with the stern siren sounding on the flagship "Hyuga", the second air strike on the Japanese fleet, which was desperate for death, began!

Compared with the bombing organized by the Air Force two hours ago, this time the large bombing organized by the Naval Aviation of the National Revolutionary Army really made Koichi Shiozawa really worried about the future and destiny of the Japanese Empire.

"My God! There are at least four to five hundred fighter planes there! The Chinese sent so many planes at one time, are they going to put all their eggs in one basket?" Looking at the huge fleet of planes covering the sky and sun outside the window, Koichi Shiozawa murmured : "Bage! Those animals in the army, and His Majesty the Emperor, really should come and see! The Chinese have so many planes... The planes they send out at one time are more than the total number of planes owned by the Imperial Army and Navy ! How should this war be fought!"

This time, all the possessions of the Kuomintang naval aviation were dispatched. A naval division and 150 aircraft on the two aircraft carriers "Zhongshan" and "Guangdong", the total number was as high as 200!Or to be more accurate, it should be four hundred pilots!Because of the plane or something, it is not a problem at all for the current unscrupulous southern China that has risen.At present, more than [-] can be produced every month!What is really valuable is precisely these excellent pilots who have undergone rigorous training.

Unlike the F1 and A1 series aircraft that are still used by the Air Force, which is a bit behind, the naval aviation equipment has all been updated to the more advanced F2A and A2A.The performance indicators of these two aircrafts are also very close. The wingspan is 10.5 meters, the captain is 8.6 meters, and the height is 3.4 meters. The BMW-129B 660-horsepower radial engine manufactured by the company has a maximum speed of 2 km/h for F340A, 2 km/h for A300A, and a range of 750 km. As a dive bomber, A2A can carry up to 200 kg of The bomb is enough to threaten the heavy cruiser!However, it still cannot cause fatal damage to big guys like battleships and battlecruisers.

The more than 240 A2A dive bombers of the battleship, which knew that they were not capable of sinking, also adjusted their altitude to 1 meters like the A4000B just now, and then formed forty six-aircraft squadrons in a dense formation. Launched an attack around their respective targets.

Those A2A dive bombers first started to fly sideways like devils, and then dived at a large angle of 60 degrees, braving the hot artillery fire from the enemy warships, passing through the rain of bullets, and dashing downward, the fuselage of the aircraft also issued a terrifying sound. The sound, the plane soon reached a certain height, dropped the black bomb and then pulled it up rapidly.The roar of explosions was uploaded from the hull of the warship. Although these warships were constantly doing S-shaped movements to avoid bombing, there were too many dive-bombing planes, and the bombs dropped were too dense. The water jets blown up by the bombs on the sea looked like tall towers, and the warships seemed to be submerging in the falling water jets. Soon, several warships were hit by bombs. With a bomb weighing 200 kilograms, a destroyer weighing more than 1000 tons will lose its combat effectiveness as long as it hits one bomb, and the upper and middle bombs are almost hopeless... Even if it is a light cruiser with much stronger armor, hitting one bomb will still cause serious damage. It can only sink if it hits three or four.Soon those dive bombers were eyeing important targets again - the Japanese heavy cruisers "Kago", "Aoba", and "Kinagasa".

These three cruisers of more than 7000 tons are just small men in the heavy cruiser, but they are classified as heavy cruisers because they carry six 200mm heavy guns, and their armor is compared to those with the light cruiser brand. The "Konigsberg" class is not as good.This time, each of the three heavy cruisers was targeted by more than thirty A2A dive bombers.They first began to dive, and then when they descended to a distance of about 1000 meters, they fired a few bursts of machine guns for calibration, and then dropped bombs at 800 meters.In an instant, the three heavy cruisers were surrounded by several huge water columns.In just 10 minutes, they were each hit by eight to ten 200-kilogram bombs.Among them, the No. 25 turret of the "Jago" was pierced by a bomb. The thin [-] mm armor can only be a joke for the turret of a heavy cruiser. It penetrated the deck again and fell directly into the ammunition depot of the heavy cruiser "Jago" before a center blossomed!A violent explosion sent the heavy cruiser to the bottom of the sea.

After the sinking of the "Kago", the heavy cruiser "Aoba" soon ushered in their end.Among them, the heavy cruiser "Qingye" was hit by eleven 200-kilogram bombs. The deadliest one was dropped by Major Long Yuhui, the captain of the bomber brigade of the "Zhongshan" aircraft carrier. The deck of the "Aoba" exploded in the boiler room and caused a fire. The fire burned down the power system of the entire cruiser. Finally, the captain of the "Aoba" had to order to abandon the ship.

Chapter 0566 Iron Storm ([-]) Jade Broken Assault

The heavy cruiser "Kinagasa" was also unlucky. It was hit by eight bombs, one of which directly hit the bridge.Captain Somekawa Qi Sansa, who was commanding the battle there, was killed in the bombing.Another 200 kg armor-piercing high-explosive round penetrated its gun deck, officers' quarters, junior officer's steerage, and finally exploded in the main telecommunications room.The explosion severely damaged the internal structure of the hull.The hatches of all watertight compartments were destroyed.The entire superstructure and crew quarters were blazing like hell.Countless Japanese officers and soldiers were burned to death on the spot by the sudden fire.The fire then spread to the ammunition depot, detonating the shells inside.This "Aoba"-class heavy cruiser exploded into two pieces on the spot with a bang, and buried 625 officers and soldiers with it in the belly of the fish.

Finally, after half an hour of bombing, those terrible dive bombers finally dropped all the bombs.Then he swung his wings and flew back.And the Bohai Bay ocean behind them was a sea of ​​flames. In this huge air strike, the Japanese First Expeditionary Fleet suffered heavy losses. Three heavy cruisers were sunk, two light cruisers were sunk, and four Destroyers and a minesweeper were sunk.However, the three mighty battleships and battlecruisers still did not encounter air strikes.

It has only been a little over fourteen hours since the light cruiser "Chongqing" fired its first shot at the Bohai Bay Sea Battle at 25:29330 p.m. on February 11th.But the Japanese navy seems to have passed through an entire era!Everyone knows that their era of dominating the East is over.In these short fourteen hours, the Japanese navy suffered its first fiasco since its founding, and it was also its first defeat!As many as [-] warships were sunk!It also includes a battleship "Fuso" with a standard displacement of [-] tons, and four heavy cruisers with a displacement of seven to eight thousand tons.Moreover, a battleship and two battlecruisers were trapped in the Bohai Bay, and they could not escape the fate of being annihilated.Its opponent, the Kuomintang's navy and air force, suffered negligible losses. For every ship sunk, only eleven planes were lost, and eleven pilots were killed.

"Your Excellency, there are still nine battleships left in the main force of the First Expeditionary Fleet. They are the battleship 'Hyuga', the battlecruiser 'Kongo', the battlecruiser 'Kirishima', and the light cruiser 'Tama'. The light cruiser 'Kumo'..."

Yoshida Zengo was reporting the latest results to Shiozawa Koichi almost with a mournful face.Although he had already decided to die, no one expected that he would die so uselessly!After paying such a heavy price, they didn't even see the shadow of the opponent's fleet!This kind of naval battle is really subversive.

Koichi Shiozawa sighed softly and looked up at the blue sky where the smoke had cleared: "Yoshida-kun, write a detailed report on today's battle, and then... I order you to take the fleet's seaplane and send Send this report to Lushun. No, if you want to send it back to Japan, you must personally hand it over to Commander Yamamoto of the United Fleet."