After ten minutes of fierce battle between the Yanjing Air Force of the Tang Dynasty and the fleet of the Japanese Imperial Navy Ono Shisanidi, the Japanese fleet's air defense firepower was basically suppressed. Occasionally, there were sporadic anti-aircraft artillery of Japanese ships fighting back, but it was no longer possible to stop the subsequent large-scale bombing of the Tang Dynasty Air Force.

Since it was the first actual combat of the Royal Air Force of the Tang Empire, there were still some shortcomings in overall command. For example, the fighters of the Yanjing Air Force did not maintain close cooperation with the bomber group of the Jinling Air Force, so when the Yanjing Air Force's fighters frantically shot people on the Japanese ship, the Jinling Air Force was worried that dive bombing would hurt its planes, so it kept ordering 200 FC-1 dive bombers to hover over the Japanese fleet.

However, the other 100 seal and torpedo reconnaissance aircraft of the Jinling Air Force were not affected. After the Yanjing Air Force's fighter jets attracted the Japanese ship's air defense fire, they immediately found a favorable safe position to lower the altitude until it fell to sea level, and then swept the sea along the sea level to launch an attack on the Japanese ships locked in.

Since it was the first time to participate in actual combat, although I had practiced many attacks on ships before, the torpedo aircraft commander allocated their respective targets when they were in the air. However, when each torpedo aircraft team descended to sea level to execute orders, some errors were inevitable.

Thirty seal and torpedo reconnaissance aircraft of the First Torpedo Squadron were responsible for attacking the flagship of the Japanese fleet, the King Kong battlecruiser. Although the anti-aircraft firepower of the King Kong battlecruiser was strengthened to a certain extent after modification, it was basically suppressed by the Tang army fighter jets. However, for sea level, the direct-fired artillery of the King Kong battlecruiser has turret protection and is not suppressed by the firepower of the Tang army fighter jets.

When the 8 356mm main guns, 14 152mm secondary guns and 12 76mm rapid-fire guns on the battleship of the King Kong battleship suddenly fired, especially the moment the main gun fired, huge waves hundreds of meters high suddenly started to rise on the sea surface. The explosion shock wave and the air waves generated by the muzzle formed a circle of strong water wave force fields and air wave force fields on the sea surface around the King Kong, causing the Tang army's torpedo reconnaissance aircraft to tremble and sway violently. Several torpedo aircraft were shot down by the shock wave, which immediately caused some torpedo pilots with weak psychological qualities to have many concerns and fears. Their subconscious dodging actions often made them more nervous and unable to achieve the level of training in daily life, and finally pressed the thunder-throwing button in a hurry.

Click! Click! Click!

The suspension device releases the torpedo and puts it into the sea at a speed of 300 meters per second. The pilot then pulls the plane urgently to avoid being hit by the Japanese ship's artillery fire, and quickly hides into the safe area after a few rotations.

Since it is an airdrop torpedo, the torpedo has an initial speed like a torpedo machine after being dropped. This speed is very fast, which will cause the torpedo to plunge directly into the sea for more than ten meters deep, and will make parabolic movements under the sea and travel more than 100 meters in a straight line before floating onto the sea.

It is difficult to grasp the best distance for the torpedo dropped in a hurry. After all, if the torpedo floats to the sea too early, the Japanese ship will have enough time to turn, accelerate, reverse, etc. to avoid it. If the torpedo is too close, the torpedo will pass through the Japanese ship before it even surfaces.

Since the distance under the sea of ​​the Japanese ship is only seven or eight meters deep and ten meters wide, the inclined area can make the torpedo directly hit the vital point, so for torpedo pilots, they may not hit the enemy ship with a slight deviation.

In the end, thirty torpedoes from the First Torpedo Squadron fired 27 torpedoes, but only two were able to accurately hit the Battlecruiser of the King Kong.

"Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by two loud bangs, both torpedoes hit the port side of the Battleship of the King Kong battleship. The violent explosion tore the waterline and armor of the port side of the Battleship of the King Kong battleship, which opened a huge three-meter-long hole. The strong explosion shock wave was almost equivalent to a magnitude 7 earthquake, and it shocked the entire Japanese army on the ship at that moment.

After the high-pressure flames and black smoke produced by the explosion ejected from the gap, the sea water poured violently backwards. In less than a minute, 3,000 tons of sea water filled the King Kong seriously tilted leftward.

In order not to let the King Kong sink, Captain Keikosuke Ikeda ordered the emergency sealing of the watertight compartment and pouring water into the starboard side to maintain balance. The cruel Japanese sailors who were not in time to retreat were sealed in the leaking area, causing at least 300 Japanese sailors to be drowned alive.

Keinosuke Ikeda took extraordinary measures to save the battlecruiser of the King Kong temporarily stopped sinking, but it caused serious losses in the speed of the warship and could only sail at a snail speed of seven knots.

While the King Kong was severely damaged, another seventy seal torpedo reconnaissance aircraft launched fierce attacks on three battlecruisers, Hiei, Haruna and Kirishima.

Like the first torpedo squadron, they specifically targeted the largest battle cruiser in the Japanese fleet. Among them, the twenty-five torpedo aircraft that attacked the Hiei were lucky. They successfully dropped twenty-one torpedoes, and as a result, six torpedoes hit the port side waterline belt of the Hiei.

Accompanied by a series of violent explosions, it was like the earth shaking.

The Hiei was terminated due to restrictions on the London Naval Treaty and the plan to be converted into a battleship was terminated. The Japanese made a clever idea that it was a training ship, but in fact she was still a battleship cruiser.

Because Hiei is still a battlecruiser with very thin armor, her port side protection ability is far lower than that of the King Kong. When it was hit by six torpedoes, the entire port side was completely blown to pieces in an instant, and the sea water poured back unscrupulously, like a sea beast with a bloody mouth swallowed the entire port side in one bite.

The Hiei immediately overturned into the sea. Thousands of Japanese sailors on the ship performed free fall movements. The lucky ones grabbed their deputy and swayed in the air. The unfortunate ones rolled and fell along the tilted deck. When they hit any protruding object at a drop height of more than 20 meters, they would either die or be disabled.

For a moment, the sound of ghosts and wolves howling on the Hiei account rose from all sides.

The Hiei was too heavy. With a violent explosion on the starboard side, the smoke flames ejected hundreds of meters high, and the last reserve buoyancy of the Hiei disappeared. The nearly 30,000 tons battle cruiser sank into the sea in less than a minute. The Japanese sailors who had not fallen also sank into the sea with the Hiei. They didn't even have time to escape, and they were all swept into the sea by the huge suction force sinking from the Hiei.

As the other two of the King Kong-class battlecruisers, the fate of the Kirishima is the same as that of the Kirishima. After the two ships were attacked by the remaining forty-five torpedoes, the Harishima was hit by three torpedoes, one of which caused a fatal piercing explosion, forcing the captain of the Harishima to order the abandonment of the ship. The Kirishima was hit by two torpedoes, one of which caused a fatal piercing explosion, and it was about to sink.

In comparison, the more than 3,000 Japanese troops on the Hiei had no chance to escape, and they were all killed in one minute. The sinking speed of the Hazel and Kirishima was much slower, so the thousands of Japanese officers and soldiers on the second ship had to jump into the sea to survive in time.

While one hundred torpedo planes achieved results, the Yanjing Aviation Fleet's fighter fleet also retreated to high altitudes one after another. If they hadn't exhausted all the bullets, they would probably have stopped easily.

They seemed obsessed with the feeling of shooting at the Japanese army, and they were still feeling unsatisfied.

The 200 FC-1 dive bombers of the Jinling Air Force that had been hovering in the air for more than ten minutes finally had room to move their muscles. As the Yanjing Air Force retreated one after another, the bomber groups of the Jinling Air Force began to dive towards the Japanese ships one after another.

The 200 FC-1 dive bombers of the Jinling Air Force are divided into forty combat groups, each of which is composed of one group, and the attack targets are allocated according to the tonnage of the Japanese ship.

Although there are still many anti-aircraft guns on the Japanese ships, their firing world cannot hit bombers that dive down at an angle of ninety degrees. They can only watch Tang army bombers line up and rush towards them.

“Yi…Yi…Yi…Yi…Yi…”

The unique whistle sound of the FC-1 dive bomber sounded in the sky.

At first, the officers and soldiers on the Japanese ship had no impression of this sound. When the first group of five FC-1 bombers dived about four or five hundred meters above the island of the Kawanet light cruiser, the Tang army pilot calmly pressed the projection button and accurately dropped the 300-kilogram aviation bomb on the Kawanet island.

"Bang!"

There was a loud noise, but a huge cloud of flames and mushrooms suddenly rose from the island of the light cruiser Kawanet. In the blink of an eye, two-thirds of the island was destroyed.

Immediately afterwards, four other 300 kilograms of aviation bombs landed on the Kawaui, and exploded on the front and rear ship islands and decks respectively.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

In an instant, the Kawanet light cruiser, which lacked horizontal armor protection, was blown into pieces, and the main gun turret weighing hundreds of tons was actually blown to a height of dozens of meters. The smoke produced by the explosion soared into the sky, and thick smoke covered the sky and the sea.

The Japanese officers and soldiers on other Japanese ships realized the seriousness of the problem. The explosive power of the aviation bombs dropped by the dive bombers is no less than that of the torpedo. In particular, the horizontal armor protection of the Japanese ships is almost very thin and cannot withstand the bombing of such aviation bombs at all.

In the blink of an eye, the light cruiser of Kawauchi was invisible. She was completely covered by fire and thick smoke. But the Japanese officers and soldiers with a little practical experience knew that the Kawauchi must have been finished.

“Yi…Yi…Yi…Yi…Yi…”

At this time, when the Japanese officers and soldiers heard the roar of the Tang army's FC-1 dive bomber again, they suddenly became creepy. They remembered this sound and would never forget the soul locking sound in their lifetime.

"Bang! Bang bang!"

Thunderous explosions sounded from each Japanese warship, accompanied by fiery red mushroom clouds, and each aviation bomb severely damaged the Japanese ship.

For the Japanese light cruisers, three to five 300 kilograms of aviation bombs hit directly is enough to cause a heavy blow to them. If an aviation bomb hits the key point, the light cruiser will be sank instantly.

All six light cruisers of the Japanese fleet were sunk in less than ten minutes. Among them, the two light cruisers, Abukuma and Naka, were hit by two 300 kilogram aviation bombs, causing a fatal explosion to directly detonate the ammunition depot and cause a tragic death explosion. Both ships sank within forty seconds.

Next were the six heavy cruisers, the Ancient Eagle, Jiagu, Aoye, Yiga, Miaoga and Nazhi, who were successively sunk. Although their horizontal armor was a little thicker than the light cruiser, they still could not stop the huge penetration and explosion destructive power of the 300 kilograms of aviation bombs dropped at high speed. Among them, the Myogao was hit by two fatal penetration bombs and exploded and sank within three minutes. The other five heavy cruisers lasted for more than twenty minutes before they sank one after another.

Since the four King Kong-class battlecruisers had been attacked by one hundred torpedo planes, the hulls of the three battlecruisers, Hiei, Hatsune and Kirishima, had been seriously tilted and it was a matter of time to sink. Therefore, in order to save ammunition, Colonel Zhang Keqiang, the captain of the Jinling Air Force, ordered the abandonment of bombing these three battlecruisers, and instead concentrated its efforts to bomb the flagship King Kong battlecruisers of the Japanese fleet.

Seeing the Japanese ships sinking one after another, Major General Ono Shisano was in tears. He never thought that this would be the result.

He regrets it very much, but there is no medicine for regret in this world.

He tried to escape, but Tang Jun did not give him the chance or time to escape.

When thirty FC-1 dive bombers made a screaming dive sound over the battleship of the King Kong battleship, Shi Sandian Ono could only hope that the horizontal armor of the modified King Kong battleship could withstand the penetrating explosive power of the Tang army's 300-kilogram aviation bomb.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Accompanied by violent explosions, Shi Sanno Ono held the handrail tightly to prevent it from being shaken down.

"Report to the general, our armor successfully blocked the Tang army's bomb!"

The ship servant said a report, and Ono Shisanon hurriedly looked out, and saw big holes blown up on the deck, with flames and thick smoke rising. The 169mm thick steel plate was blown up and rolled into twisted flowers, but the facilities below were kept.

Shi Sandian Ono immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The modified Battleship of the King Kong battleship increased its horizontal armor to 169 mm thick, which was just able to block the bombing of the Tang army's 300-kilogram-class aviation bomb.

But Ono Shi Sannen was not happy for a few minutes and suddenly received a report that the watertight cabin of the King Kong failed to block the huge water pressure and directly exploded.

It turned out that the King Kong was planned to complete the final modification and test before it could be delivered to the Japanese Navy. However, the Japanese Navy was going to attack the expedition to the Tang Empire at this time. The King Kong was cancelled because its speed was faster than other battleships.

Now, the watertight door of the modified No. 7 watertight chamber was not modified properly, and the huge water pressure exploded in fifteen minutes, causing the boiler cabin and turbine chamber of the King Kong to be completely submerged with seawater. Since there was no isolation watertight door there, it could not stop the seawater from pouring back, causing the King Kong to begin to sink rapidly.

This news suddenly knocked Ono Shi Sandian's mood to the bottom. He knew that the King Kong was over and his fleet was over and he could not go back.

Thinking of this, Ono Shi Sanno sighed and slowly pulled out his short caesarean section knife, his eyes were so sad and helpless.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chapter completed!