ebookland Chapter 554: Aircraft Carrier Hit
Chapter 554: Aircraft Carrier Hit
The Japanese officers and soldiers experienced the most complicated orders in their lives. One moment one officer asked them to do this, and the next moment another officer asked them to do that. They were busy and confused, but they could not escape the fate of being bombed.
When the lights on the entire warship were turned off, they were no longer of any use, because at this moment the aircraft carrier had been hit by four bombs, and there were bright lights of fire everywhere in front and behind. Was lights still needed?
Commander Kamimura directed people to put out the fire while ordering the fleet to retreat quickly to the east. The other warships were not damaged. At this moment, the roar of planes in the sky made all the warships feel unsafe.
Just when all the warships were preparing to turn around, several torpedoes were already heading this way on the sea at dawn. At that time, the submarine on the sea finally found an opportunity to attack. If the aircraft bombing had not been successful, the submarine would have had to launch torpedoes at the aircraft carrier even at the risk of being sunk.
A total of four torpedoes were fired, three of which missed the target, but the last one hit a heavy cruiser directly in the middle of the warship, leaving a hole more than one meter in size, with seawater rushing in.
Under normal circumstances, the fleet would definitely not abandon a heavy cruiser, but at this moment, they could no longer care about that. The warships had received orders to get out of the attack range of the aircraft as quickly as possible.
However, calculations have shown that it is impossible for the fastest destroyer among the warships to escape. In another twenty minutes, the sea surface will be ripe for attack. Do we really expect to run hundreds of kilometers in twenty minutes?
Everyone was worried at this time, not knowing how to curse Commander Kamimura. The news of the failure of the first phase of the spy operation had also spread. If it weren't for the commander's persistence, how could he have put us in such danger?
When they heard that the warships at sea began to flee, the morale of the Marines fighting on the shore collapsed, and many of them had lost their combat effectiveness.
In a farmland on the southeast side of the airport, most of the Japanese troops were surrounded here. Li Shaoyi did not let his troops attack fiercely. There were no civilians around anyway, so he just let them stay here. As long as the surrounding area was surrounded, the people inside would surrender sooner or later.
We are still short of a large labor force in the north. If we kill them all, will you go to the north to work in the temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius?
As for the bombers at the airport, more than a hundred planes were already ready in the sky, waiting for more than twenty minutes.
Some bombers dropped bombs in the sky. They knew they would not hit the target at this altitude, but they dropped the bombs at this time to prevent the Japanese warships from maintaining a complete air defense formation.
As for Commander Kamimura, he had already come to his lounge, changed into a traditional kimono, and was wiping his sword. The tilt angle of the entire warship had reached 45 degrees. It was estimated that there was only half an hour left, and he might fall silent.
For this commander, he no longer has the face to return to Japan. The failure of this operation has made him a sinner of the Japanese Navy. The sinking of an aircraft carrier is an irreversible fact. As for the other Japanese warships that are fleeing, their fate can only be left to Amaterasu. However, according to Commander Kamimura's speculation, if the island city had enough planes, perhaps only one in ten could escape.
At this moment, dozens of planes were circling above the island city airport. However, these planes were not bombers from the island city itself, but were transferred from Peiping. After receiving the landing order, they all landed one after another at the other end of the runway.
After landing, these planes were immediately refueled and loaded with bombs. There were not so many bombers in the island city, and they might not be enough to deal with the fleeing Japanese fleet. So Li Shaoyi transferred three batches of bombers from other places, with a total of about 120 planes. In this way, the total number of bombers in the island city reached 260.
With such frequent battles, the Japanese Navy should forget about escaping.
The extremely agonizing twenty minutes finally passed, and the bombers could see everything on the sea clearly. However, they were not busy attacking. The commander had already said that we had plenty of time to waste with them, and there was no need to risk bombing in an unclear state.
Ten minutes later, it was already bright. That was the time for us to really start the attack. Without the aircraft carrier in the center of the fleet, the warships spread out to the periphery. Although they still maintained the original air defense formation, because the bombers dropped bombs from time to time, some warships had deviated from their original direction, and the complete air defense network also had loopholes.
Some bombers deliberately made some dives to lure the warships on the sea into firing anti-aircraft shells, but in fact, they could not hit the ships at all from their position.
The Japanese soldiers fired for a while and found that the enemy did not dive down, so they could only curse. As for the Marines on the shore, they could no longer care about so much.
Ten minutes later, it was already bright on the sea. More than a hundred bombers formed thirty attack formations and began to greet the warships on the sea.
Fireballs continued to rise one after another. Without air cover, the air defense capabilities of the warships alone were unable to withstand the surrounding bombers.
The Japanese Navy had already tried their best, but the gap in strength between them and the enemy was too great, and they could only watch one warship after another catch fire.
Of course, our plane also paid a heavy price, but this was near the coast, and if the pilot fell into the water, as long as he held on a little, a speedboat would come and pick him up.
The submarine was also helping out from the periphery. When it found any pilots parachuting, it tried its best to pick them up. Under normal circumstances, the submarine would have been sunk long ago, but now all the warships were busy dealing with more than a hundred planes in the sky, and no one cared what the submarine was doing, and it actually picked up three pilots.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the people were asking around, "What happened during the night when the Japanese fleet was going to capture the island city?"
However, a blockade has been set up on the south side of the city, which leads to where the Marines are surrounded...