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This three-seat biplane torpedo bomber is larger, reaching a length of 11 meters. Due to the limitation of the head space, they did not use the best 880 horsepower engine, but a V-burning 3 type 9 with the same concept. Cylinder radial piston engine, but only 775 horsepower.

Of course, this does not mean that this engine is not as good as the one of the dive bomber, just because the focus is different.The dive bomber needs a very high dive speed to increase the penetration of the bomb, so the focus of the V-burning 2 engine is the high horsepower, but the fuel consumption is relatively high, which also caused the Haibo 1 dive bomber to be fast The ceiling is high, but the range is only 855 kilometers.

Unlike the Haibo-1, the V-1 engine of the Haiyu-3 torpedo bomber focuses on range and low-altitude performance.Because the torpedo plane does not require much maneuvering action and speed, this engine with a slightly smaller horsepower is used.Although this engine allows the Haiyu 1 torpedo aircraft to have a top speed of only 224 kilometers per hour and a flight altitude of only 3780 meters, it has a super-large range of 1668 kilometers, and can also carry a 750mm caliber torpedo weighing 533 kilograms, or 700 kg bomb.

It is precisely because of the large range and low speed of the Haiyu 1 that they set off early and approach the United Fleet of the Japanese Kingdom by flying at low altitude.Ten minutes later, two dive bombers also took off one after another. More than [-] planes lined up in a neat formation and flew towards the coordinates reported by the reconnaissance plane.

The Japanese United Fleet without radar didn't know that there was a large fleet of aircraft coming head-on, and they were still moving forward at a leisurely pace.The troop transport fleet has already moved up, driving closely behind the battleship fleet. In order to protect these slow troop transport ships, the fleet had to reduce its speed to twelve knots again.This speed also happened to be the speed at which the listener could be used to its maximum effect. At this speed, the sound of the ship's propeller was very small, and it hardly interfered with the work of the sonar soldiers.The entire fleet moved slowly in an anti-submarine formation, heading in the direction of Guanghai City.

The captain of the battleship Ise, Hannaxian, and the Colonel rubbed their dry eyes, and said to the navigation staff behind them, "How far are we from Guanghai City now?"

The nautical staff fiddled with the nautical chart with protractors, compasses, and triangles, and then raised his head and said, "Report to the captain, there are still [-] nautical miles, and we should have entered the attack range of the opponent's offshore submarine."

Hanna Xianhe nodded and did not make another sound. He knew that it would be at least three hours before the attack was launched.It is already four o'clock in the afternoon, and it will be dark when the fleet arrives outside Guanghai City.

"I found the situation at two o'clock ahead. It seems to be..." A staff officer who was observing the surroundings with a telescope suddenly shouted, and then he exclaimed: "My God, that's an airplane, a large fleet."

Everyone moved suddenly, even Lieutenant General Tsuchiya Jinguang who was sleeping was awakened. Everyone in the bridge raised their binoculars one after another and looked at the large fleet approaching like black clouds in the sky. "Sound the battle alarm, and everyone enters the battle position." Tsuchiya Jinguang issued an order calmly, and soon all the Japanese warships sounded the battle alarm, and the sailors who had seemed very leisurely immediately took action. He rushed to the deck and quickly entered his battle position.

Chapter 955 Dive Bombing

The warships of the Japanese United Fleet began to draw closer so that the few small-caliber artillery could interweave into a fire net to prevent the threat from the air.The speed of warships is as slow as a snail compared to aircraft, not to mention that for anti-submarine, those destroyers are too far apart, so when the aircraft fleet is in the air, Japanese destroyers are still on the way, and only those battleships can form an air defense firepower network and cruisers.

Lieutenant Admiral Tsuchiya Jin Guang stood on the bridge with a calm posture and sharp eyesight. Seeing that the staff officers were a little nervous, he said in a low voice: "Don't panic, this is just the other party's harassment. Without the protection of the navy, they really can't do anything." We have no more troops to use, so we have to use planes to demonstrate, have you ever heard that planes can sink warships?"

Lieutenant General Tuwu Jinguang's words made everyone laugh, and the tense atmosphere before the battle was swept away.He was right. In previous naval battles, there had never been an example of an aircraft sinking a warship.In the consciousness of today's mainstream navy, the only role of aircraft at sea is to conduct reconnaissance and naval gun calibration, and it is useless.

Now that Guanghai City doesn't have fleet protection, no matter how many planes the other side sends, it won't help.Everyone in the bridge relaxed, only Lieutenant General Tsuchiya Jinguang still had a gloomy face.Although he said it lightly just now, it was just to keep everyone from getting nervous. He knew that the West Army would not do wasted effort. They must have a plan for sending so many planes, even if he has not yet seen it through.

"Order all the artillery to prepare for air-to-air shooting. Be sure to shoot down all the opponents. Now that they have come, don't think about going back." Tsuchiya Jinguang can only take precautions in advance, although he doesn't seem to care.There was a burst of laughter in the bridge, and then the order was conveyed.

Most people disapproved of Tsuchiya Jinguang's order.But the military order was like a mountain, they still raised the muzzle according to the order, and fired at the plane in the air.There are not many small-caliber artillery on each battleship, with an average of only six on each battleship, most of which are 52mm caliber artillery for torpedoes and small warships.The small-caliber artillery on the cruiser is relatively complete, ranging from [-] mm to [-] mm, but they are also used to fight small boats. On average, the number is about ten at most.

Even the main gun is added to the air defense, but the chance of hitting an aircraft with a large-caliber shell without an air-burst fuze is no different from buying a lottery ticket.The fleet is still more than ten nautical miles away from the United Fleet of the Japanese Kingdom, and the Japanese Navy can't wait to start shooting.

Seeing shells soaring into the sky, and the entire Japanese United Fleet shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the four division commanders issued orders to disperse and prepare to attack almost at the same time.Yang Wenxie, the commander of the Second Division of the Navy, led his escort squadron to an altitude of more than 7000 meters, and then he pushed the steering column, and the dive bomber, like a falling aerial bomb, swooped towards the United Fleet of Japan at a large angle of 75 degrees. Down.

The speed of the plane was getting faster and faster, and the wings hissed through the air. The Japanese battleship that was originally as big as a matchbox quickly enlarged in Yang Wenxie's eyes.This was Yang Wenxie's first actual combat with a Haibo-1 dive bomber, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Wenxi concentrated all his energy on the middle of the battleship's huge funnel, and his right hand was already on the bomb's launch button.The Japanese sailors quickly discovered this crazy enemy. Several artillery pieces turned around and fired at Yang Wenxie desperately. The huge shells passed by the plane with a howling sound, but Yang Wenxie remained unmoved.

As the top pilot of the Naval Air Force, Yang Wenxie is a bold man. He drove the plane to a dangerous dive of about 400 meters before pressing the bomb button hard.A huge 450 kg aerial bomb rushed to the battleship deck with huge kinetic energy.Taking advantage of the sudden lightening of the plane, Yang Wenxie suddenly pulled the lever and lowered the flaps on both sides at the same time.The plane trembled violently, the flaps came into play, and the nose of the plane quickly raised, and Yang Wenxie's plane touched the battleship's mast and flew into the sky again.

As the plane climbed straight up, Yang Wenxie turned his head and saw that the aerial bomb he had thrown went right into the battleship's chimney and exploded.A huge explosion flame sprayed out from the mouth of the chimney, and then the chimney collapsed at a visible speed, smashing to pieces on the battleship's deck.

"Kirishima was shot, it seems that the engine compartment was destroyed." A staff officer put down his binoculars and reported loudly in surprise.

Tsuchiya's golden face changed and he shouted: "This is impossible." He turned around suddenly and looked in the direction of the battleship Kirishima. In the light of the fire, only one of the two huge chimneys remained.

"How did they do it?" Tsuchiya Jinguang exclaimed, but soon the Seat Naval Air Force gave him the answer.The second dive bomber following Yang Wenxie also began to dive rapidly. The pilot was not so sure, and he dropped the aerial bomb at an altitude of more than 600 meters.The aerial bomb that had left the plane fell straight down and rushed towards the starboard side of the Kirishima.

The commander of the Kirishima, who had just been hit hard, remained calm in the face of danger and directed the sailors to turn the rudder immediately. As a result, the bomb rushed into the water close to the starboard side of the battleship, exploding a huge water column.

"My God, how could the West Army's plane carry such a big bomb, how could it dive at such a large angle, are they all dying?" Tsuchiya Jin Guang was dumbfounded.At this time, dive bombers lined up and dived desperately towards the Japanese warships. Facing such a sharp attack, the Japanese navy suddenly panicked.They never knew that planes can also effectively attack warships, even if the opponent is a giant battleship that represents the strongest naval power in the world today.

The Japanese sailors who shot in the air could no longer maintain their previous ease. They moved quickly, shooting in the air at the fastest speed, desperately trying to prevent the gods of death from swooping down one by one.A bomber that was diving was unlucky and was hit directly by a 150mm caliber shell. The diving plane turned into a dazzling fireball and fell on the sea not far from the warship.

Three Japanese battleships were seriously injured, but taking advantage of this opportunity, more than 40 destroyers surrounded them again.Although there are not many small-caliber artillery on each destroyer, and the total number is less than ten, but because of the large number of warships, the firepower is still very fierce.

Chapter 956 Three-Dimensional Attack

With more than 40 destroyers assisting in the battle, the Japanese navy's anti-aircraft firepower has doubled, and the casualties of the Seat Naval Air Force are increasing rapidly.A dive bomber was beaten into flames, but the remaining planes still swooped down persistently, throwing deadly bombs on the deck of the warship.

The battle between the two sides was fierce, and the combined Japanese fleet's attention was all on the sky. No one noticed that a large fleet no smaller than the dive bomber fleet was flying towards this side close to the sea.When the battle situation was at its most stalemate, the Navy's torpedo aircraft unit arrived.

Because the flight speed was too slow, although the torpedo fleet took off more than ten minutes earlier, it arrived over the United Fleet of Japan nearly 10 minutes later. At this time, half of the dive bombers had completed bombing or were shot down.

Seeing the lively fighting ahead, the two division commanders Wang Yongzhi and Cao Chongjun who commanded the torpedo planes were not far behind. They immediately ordered the troops to disperse and attack in echelon formation.

The combat methods of torpedo planes and dive bombers are different. In order to prevent mutual interference, dive bombers usually dive alone and attack one after another.In order to increase the density of torpedo launches, four torpedo planes in a squadron fired side by side, fired at the same time and separated, and then added the second squadron.

Before the Japanese sailors were aware of it, the four torpedo trails had already rushed straight to the port side of the fleet.The Urakaze-class No. 2 ship that was decelerating, the destroyer Ekaze had just slid over the side of the battleship Haruna when it encountered a torpedo that was coming fast.

This Hongying-1 thermal power torpedo, jointly developed by Baitou Torpedo Company and Gwanghae Torpedo Research Institute, uses hydrogen peroxide as the oxidant, and its underwater navigation speed is extremely fast.Its warhead with more than 300 kilograms of TNT explosives is amazingly powerful.Such a torpedo hitting a battleship will also cause serious injuries, not to mention the destroyer Jiangfeng with a displacement of only more than 800 tons.

The Jiangfeng is lucky, if this torpedo really hits the Jiangfeng, all the more than 100 Japanese sailors will not survive.Fortunately, the torpedo depth setting of the naval aviation was designed for battleships. As a result, the torpedo passed under the destroyer and hit the battleship Haruna behind.

Violent explosions sounded one after another, and two of the four torpedoes advancing in parallel hit the giant battleship of more than 7000 tons.Two huge flames exploded on the port side of the Haruna, and the shock wave turned the sailors working on the side gun positions upside down, and then the Haruna began to tilt slowly.

"There is an enemy plane launching a torpedo attack." The Japanese staff finally woke up. It turned out that the opponent's attack was an all-round three-dimensional combat method.Tsuchiya Jinguang gasped. At this moment, his face was ashen, and he already had a bad premonition in his heart.

After discovering that the torpedo plane launched a horizontal attack, Japan's not-so-dense air defense firepower network was weakened again.The Japanese navy couldn't just sit back and watch those torpedo planes throw torpedoes comfortably, so they had to turn the side artillery around and aim at the torpedo planes flying horizontally at low altitude.

Lieutenant General Tsuchiya Jinguang suddenly remembered that cruisers and battleships have seaplanes. Although these SHORT184 seaplanes that rely on catapult takeoff are still obsolete products during World War I, and their weapons are only a Lewis machine gun in the rear cabin, as long as they fly into the sky, they will always fly. It can cause confusion to the other party.Even if it is to make the opponent miss the bomb, it is better than being beaten for doing so.

Under the order of Lieutenant General Tsuchiya Jinguang, a total of 27 seaplanes on the battleships and cruisers took off one after another, quickly raising the altitude.Guan Wenhai discovered this situation at the first time, and he immediately ordered: "Those with bombs continue to drop bombs, and those without bombs follow me to seize the altitude and prepare for air combat."

The pilots of the First Division of the Navy agreed in unison, and the dive bombers that dropped empty bombs quickly raised their altitude and rushed towards the Japanese seaplane.

The development of the dive bomber is mainly for dive bombing, and its design philosophy does not pay much attention to air combat.However, Japan still used aircraft from World War I, and it was a seaplane that was slow and could not retract the landing gear, and its performance was quite low.Because of Zhao Shouhong's attention, the western special zone invested heavily in the research and development of air force weapons, which also caused the western special zone air force's weapons and equipment to be superior to most air forces in the world.Under the ebb and flow, the fate of the Japanese aircraft can be imagined.

The maximum level flight speed of the Japanese seaplane is only 142 kilometers per hour, but their opponent is nearly twice as fast as him.A dive bomber without heavy load rushed up nimbly and quickly gained the advantage.Guan Wenhai manipulated the plane and bit the tail of a Japanese military seaplane, and the other party noticed it immediately.

The SHORT184 seaplane is a two-seater shooting, in which the machine gunner in the back seat is backward, so that he can easily see the rear view.When he saw a plane approaching, he hurriedly operated the Lewis machine gun and fired at Guan Wenhai.

When the 7.7mm machine gun bullets were raging around, Guan Wenhai immediately realized that tail biting attacks were not worthwhile.In order not to be hit, Guan Wenhai immediately swung the joystick and got out of the tail-biting attack. He shouted on the radio: "Everyone pay attention, the machine guns of the opponent's aircraft are placed in the rear, and all adopt the head-on attack mode."

A head-on attack is a charge against the opponent's nose. At this time, the relative speed is equal to the sum of the speeds of both sides. Such combat is very dangerous.But in this era, the speed of aircraft is generally not fast, and head-on attacks are still barely feasible.

Although less trained in aerial combat, these pilots were not untrained.In addition, after reading the report of the Japanese massacre some time ago, all the pilots were filled with anger. Although it was a dangerous head-on attack, no one hesitated.

One after another, the dive bombers turned their noses and rushed towards each other.The Japanese pilots were a little stupid, they were not mentally prepared for such a deadly head-on attack by the enemy.Before the Japanese pilot could react, the No.1 Hualan pilot first pressed the fire button.Flames were ejected from two Air-[-] machine guns, and two jets of bullets plowed directly through the fuselage, killing the Japanese pilot and machine gunner on the spot.

The Japanese army plane that was hit tilted its head and rushed towards the sea with black smoke.Seeing that someone had successfully carried out a head-on attack, the pilots were full of confidence and rushed towards the Japanese army plane one after another.The seaplanes of the Japanese army only have machine guns in the rear and no weapons in the front.Facing the enemy's head-on attack, their planes were clumsy and unable to dodge, and they were shot down one after another.

Chapter 957

Tsuchiya Jinguang looked at the sky in astonishment, those blue-gray planes representing the Japanese country fell one after another, and even one of the opponent's planes was not shot down.The combat capabilities of the dive bombers exceeded Tsuchiya Jinguang's expectations. As a result, their planes could only deliver food. After just ten minutes, all 1 Japanese planes crashed without any decent results.Only one dive bomber was seized by the opponent while turning. A Lewis machine gun bullet pierced the upper wing, but it had little effect on the flight.

While Guan Wenhai was leading the team in air combat, Wang Yongzhi, the commander of the [-]th Torpedo Bomber Division, had discovered the problem of torpedo depth determination. He quickly got in touch with Guan Wenhai, and the two discussed a new strategy immediately.

The dive bombers with ammunition turned their targets to destroyers and cruisers, while the battleships were all handed over to torpedo planes.This decision was quickly supported by Yang Wenxie and Cao Chongjun.The four division commanders issued orders in the division's channel and immediately changed their offensive tactics.

A dive bomber began to turn its head and dive towards the light ships, while the torpedo planes continued to release torpedoes hundreds of meters away in batches in squadrons.For a while, the torpedo tracks criss-crossed like a chessboard.

The torpedoes were too dense, and those heavy battleships could not completely avoid them. The first unlucky one was the Haruna on the outside.The port side was hit by two torpedoes just now, causing more than 3000 tons of seawater to pour into the cabin.If it weren't for the desperate rescue of the damage control personnel, and the timely order of the captain to inject water on the starboard side to balance, it is estimated that the battleship would have sunk long ago.

Even so, nearly [-] tons of seawater had already been filled into the body of the Haruna, not only was the sailing speed as slow as a snail, but the deck was almost touching the surface of the water.The current Haruna is barely afloat on the water, and unless it enters the dock for overhaul, it may sink even if the sea wind is strong.