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On the Akagi, Lieutenant General Minai Mitsumasa stood up abruptly, grabbed the telegram from the heavy cruiser Myoko from the staff officer, and showed a complex expression of joy and tension on his face.

"I found the China fleet, about 100 planes, passing over our ship from west to east, at XXX east longitude and XXX north latitude."

"The aircraft carrier of the Chinese people is to the west of us!" Minai Mitsumasa walked to the chart platform, and quickly pointed his finger at the location that the Myoko said in the telegram: "It is only 100 kilometers away from us, and the Chinese aircraft carrier will arrive in 10 minutes. The plane will arrive soon, order all the carrier-based planes to take off to meet the enemy!"

"Order Hase Osamu to command the Ashigara and Haguro to bring the two destroyers to the west at full speed! We must catch them before the China aircraft carrier retreats!"

"But your Excellency...if the four warships are separated from the formation, our anti-aircraft firepower may be insufficient." The staff officer hesitated and reminded.

In addition to the two aircraft carriers that are not equipped with many aircraft, the First Air Fleet only has two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and five destroyers. Three light cruisers and three destroyers remained.With these six ships, it is impossible to fully defend the aircraft carrier, and a hundred enemy planes will easily break through the anti-aircraft firepower.

Minai Mitsumasa was taken aback when he heard the words, only then did he discover that there seemed to be a big loophole in the "Special No. 37 Battle Plan"!The troops are too scattered. The [-] warships were dismantled into three, and they performed missions such as feint attack, luring the enemy, and surprise attack.And in the process of implementing the plan, the troops were divided again. First, the Second Fleet was dismantled for use, and now the First Air Fleet is also dismantled...

But this is helpless, because now the Japanese combined fleet must rely on heavy cruisers and battleships to attack aircraft carriers!The speed of an aircraft carrier is much faster than that of a battleship, and its attack range is as high as hundreds of kilometers.There is no good way except to use the high speed of the Miao advanced heavy cruiser to approach the opponent, and then try to fight until the battleship arrives.

As for the two aircraft carriers acting as bait, it seems that they can only resign themselves to their fate!After all, the key to this battle is to sink the Chinese aircraft carrier. As long as they are sunk, the Chinese navy will be inseparable from the protective circle of shore-based aircraft.In this way, there will be no danger along the coast of North Korea and Japan, and the Japanese navy can also use surface ships to block China's external shipping routes, so as to force China to make certain concessions in future peace talks.

Minai Mitsumasa still had a gloomy face, and said in a calm voice: "Understood, let Ashigara and Haguro attack! The Chinese aircraft carrier should be [-] nautical miles away, and they will reach the bombardment range in two and a half hours." ! Tell Master Hase, we will try our best to buy him time, and wish him long luck!"

One hundred nautical miles is 180 kilometers, and Miao's advanced 200mm main gun is deadly enough at a distance of 10000 meters.And those two aircraft carriers couldn't turn around and flee before recovering the planes, otherwise more than 100 of the best pilots would be lost in vain, and their value is not lower than that of an aircraft carrier.Therefore, if Masamitsu Minai delays for one minute longer, the raid commanded by Kiyoshi Hasegawa will be more likely to succeed!

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The distance of 250 kilometers is just a blink of an eye for the F2A and A2A with a cruising speed of 20 kilometers per hour. After more than [-] minutes, the huge fleet has approached the sky above the Japanese aircraft carrier formation.

At this time, the Japanese First Air Fleet has already set up an air defense formation under the order of Minai Masamitsu, with two aircraft carriers in the middle, three light cruisers and three destroyers around, dozens of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers Pointing his mouth obliquely at the sky, he was waiting in full force.

Seeing the arrival of Chinese aircraft, 24 Type 92 warships were the first to rush forward. These aircraft are also all carrier-based aircraft carried by the two Japanese aircraft carriers.To Zhao Zheng's surprise, in order to preserve the "seeds" of the aviation force in order to make a comeback in the future, Japan only carried some fighter jets on the two decoy aircraft carriers.

"Fighters fight, blow up those damn Type 92s for me, the torpedo planes go around the back, the dive bombers follow me, the first squadron targets the Akagi! The second squadron targets the Kaga!"

Lieutenant Colonel Long Yuhui, who was in charge of directing the air strike, glanced at those clumsy Type 92 warships with disdain, and decisively issued an attack order, and then took the lead in pulling up his A2A dive bomber and climbing up.

"Attention all dive bombers, altitude [-], dive bombing formation, target Akagi."

As the order was issued, 24 dive bombers climbed up with him, gasped, and occupied positions to prepare for the dive attack.At the same time, 48 Martin T4M torpedo bombers also circled and lowered their altitude to 1000 meters, opening up their attack formation.

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"Full left rudder, aircraft carrier in the center, cruisers and destroyers protecting the wings."

"Concentrate all the firepower that can shoot into the air and hit me hard!"

"All speed up, let's rush east!"

Seeing his mere 24 Type [-] battleships falling down with thick smoke, Minai Mitsumasa gritted his teeth, cheered up and began to direct the battle.Because he knows that this war has reached the most critical moment, and now it depends on whether his two aircraft carriers will be finished first or whether the heavy cruiser commanded by Kiyoshi Hasegawa will find the China aircraft carrier first.

Minai Mitsumasa glanced at the fleet of planes rushing towards him at high speed, and then at the anti-aircraft artillery that was firing crazily, a gleam of light flashed in his bloodshot eyes.

"They don't have enough dive bombers!"

Right now there are only 24 A2A dive bombers here. The A2A dive bomber can only carry a 200kg bomb, which is enough to penetrate the wooden aviation deck, but there are empty hangars and ammunition depots under the aviation deck, which will not give these bombs any chance to kill the ammunition.The solid hulls of battlecruisers and battleships may not be severely damaged even if they are hit by a few 200 kg bombs.So the dive bomber is not a problem, now we just need to concentrate on avoiding the attack of the torpedo plane.

The 48 aviation torpedoes mounted on 4 Martin T48Ms are the key to this battle. Minai Mitsumasa estimates that the hulls of Akagi and Kaga will be hit with four to five aviation torpedoes to ensure the sinking. However, according to intelligence, China The training time of the torpedo attack aircraft is relatively short, and the hit rate should not be so high.And as long as he survives this round, his heavy cruiser will definitely be able to find the China aircraft carrier!

"Fire!"

Dozens of anti-aircraft guns began to hiss, and more machine guns frantically sprayed chains of fire into the air.Clouds of black smoke continued to explode in the sky.

Facing the constantly exploding shells, Long Yuhui in the cockpit smiled coldly. These 120mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns are not used to fight dive bombers at all, but those 25mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns are a bit threatening.However, the rate of fire and quantity are not enough to form a tight barrage to prevent the breakthrough of dive bombers.

Long Yuhui shouted loudly: "Don't look at those shells, they can't hit us! Three-machine formation, follow me..."

"Pay attention to the dive angle, aim at the aircraft carrier deck, hold the joystick tightly, let's kill them!"

"Rush in."

"rush!"

While the dive bombers were launching a desperate assault, the 48 Martin T4M torpedo planes were doing almost suicide attacks!

The large-angle high-speed dive of the dive bomber brings great difficulty to the aiming of the anti-aircraft gun, while the clumsy and heavy fuselage of the torpedo plane coupled with the flat and stable low-altitude sea-skimming flight is simply allowing the anti-aircraft gun to aim at ease!

"Brothers, follow me!" Major Li Yong, the squadron leader of the second torpedo aircraft squadron, shouted this sentence, feeling as if he was a platoon leader or squad leader of the army, leading his soldiers to bomb the enemy's bombs. Like a bunker!In fact, the attack of the torpedo plane is really a bit like bombing a bunker.The chirping sound of machine gun bullets passing by could be heard endlessly, Li Yong gritted his teeth, widened his eyes, and rushed against all kinds of bullets and shells of the enemy, he simply didn't take his own life seriously.

He didn't know how many times the enemy's bullets hit the torpedo bomber he was driving.

"20, 19, 18..."

Li Yong's plane had rushed within 2000 meters of the Akagi, but in order to ensure that it hit the target, he still did not drop the torpedo.Because he knew that the air attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier this time was a one-shot deal, and if it couldn't be sunk, there would be no chance again!As the elite of the naval elite, the First Torpedo Squadron must win the first battle no matter what.

"It's now!" When Li Yong counted to 10, his torpedo plane full of bullet holes was only 1000 meters away from the Akagi aircraft carrier.

A 450-kilogram aviation torpedo was like a dagger thrown hard, and it reached the Akagi in just 1000 seconds at a distance of only 50 meters.

"boom……"

The sound of the explosion suddenly exploded from the water, and a huge cloud of water mist almost covered the mountain-like giant ship. The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi was accurately hit!

"Follow up, follow up!"

"The second team continues to attack the Akagi! Kill it, kill it..."

"The third and fourth teams attack the Kaga..."

"Dive bombers attack! Target Kaga..."

All kinds of shouts filled the pilots' earphones. Before the Akagi woke up from the shock of being hit by a torpedo, two 200kg bombs penetrated its wooden aviation deck. The inside of the hangar exploded. Looking from the sky, the 30000-ton hull seemed to be opened up, and then another aviation torpedo hit the starboard side of the Akagi, and the huge hull exploded one after another. Trembling in the voice.

However, the aircraft carrier Akagi, which suffered two torpedoes and two bombs, did not intend to sink at all. On the contrary, a light cruiser full of Bushido spirit was hit by two aviation torpedoes after blocking the hole for Akagi. The fire broke out, and it lost its power, floating desperately on the sea.

"No. 42, No. 43, kill it! Kill Chicheng!"

Seeing the Akagi, he refused to sink. Long Yuhui, who directed the air strike, almost gritted his teeth. After all, aviation torpedoes are not heavy torpedoes used by submarines. Facing the Akagi, which uses the hull of a battlecruiser, its power is still too small.In history, this unlucky aircraft carrier was destroyed after the bomb dropped by the American dive bomber detonated the ammunition on the deck and the fully fueled carrier aircraft in the Battle of Midway Island!Note that it is destroyed, not sunk!It was four heavy torpedoes launched by four Japanese destroyers that actually sank Akagi.

Minai Mitsumasa was breathing the coldest air at the moment. In just ten minutes, his flagship Akagi had been hit by two torpedoes and two bombs!The wooden decks were burning, and the starboard side of the flooded hull was heeling.What annoyed him even more was that the Akagi's anti-aircraft firepower did not seem to have played its due role.Since the opponent's hundreds of planes (including fighter jets) are besieging their two motherships, and the planes and fighter jets that have dropped bombs and torpedoes do not leave early, but keep rolling up and down to attract anti-aircraft fire, making those who really have The threatening target does not have much anti-aircraft firepower to take care of it!It seems that the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower is still lacking in organization.

"Two at three o'clock!" Two shrill shouts suddenly sounded in Miner's ears.

Just as he turned his head, two formations of torpedo bombers appeared on the starboard side, and the anti-aircraft guns continued to spit out flames. Suddenly, one of them was hit by a 25mm shell and exploded on the spot, but the other bombarded a black The point was dropped from the belly of the aircraft, forming a white track on the sea.

"Boom..." There was another muffled sound. Everyone on the Akagi felt the huge hull trembling under their feet. The water waves from the explosion flooded the stern of the ship. A hole was opened on the outer wall of the cabin, and tons of seawater rushed in suddenly, and the speed of the Akagi dropped below 10 knots in an instant.

At this time, the port side has started to inject water, and the damage control team members are trying to rescue this precious aircraft carrier like crazy. Minai Mitsumasa walked out of the command tower regardless of the obstruction, stood on the high place of the ship island and looked around, only seeing the sea. It has become a mess, with flames and water jets everywhere. The dive bombers of the Chinese are in a formation of three planes, constantly diving and dropping bombs, while the torpedo planes are in two formations, constantly shuttling between ships, dropping black torpedoes one by one. in the water.

Beside the Akagi, the Kaga aircraft carrier was also trembling violently amidst the sound of the explosion. The hull was obviously tilted, and it seemed that it had been hit by a lot of torpedoes and bombs, but there should be no danger of sinking for the time being.

"Your Excellency! Another China plane is coming!" Someone shouted.Minai raised his head suddenly, and saw another 24 biplanes flying from the northwest!It turned out that they were 24 A2As sent to bomb the heavy cruiser Nachi, but they rushed over immediately after receiving the information that the Japanese aircraft carrier had been discovered.