Chapter 249: The Canglong Count

Three more Japanese aircraft were shot down and still lined up to evacuate. The Pioneer Army's planes also suffered heavy losses. After pursuing more than ten miles behind, they retreated.

A total of 44 Japanese fighter jets came, and the Pioneer Army dispatched 62.

With the advantages of performance and quantity, 24 fighter jets were defeated and 3 attack aircraft were killed, which caused the Japanese to suffer a great loss this time. However, the Japanese HNA level was indeed very high, and 17 aircraft of the Pioneer Army were shot down. In addition to the parachuting escape and the lightning and lightning who were rescued, they forced landing four with a thick skin, a total of 6 people were sacrificed.

The soldiers below saw a pilot falling down and ran over to rob it. Their own quickly rescued them, and the enemy wanted to be captured. But no one was captured by the enemy, and no one was captured by the other side. The Pioneer Army committed suicide three people, and the Japanese committed suicide nine people. Their pilots only survived five people. This was enough to hurt their vitality.

Lu Caoren was very annoyed with this air battle. He thought that he would definitely make the vanguard army suffer a loss after dispatching so many aircraft, but he did not expect that the biggest loss was himself. Because the aircraft's performance gap was large, some tactics were not effective. Under the rampage of lightning, the formation was disrupted, so he was suffered such losses.

This is even greater than the loss when it attacked Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport last year. Only 13 were lost at that time, but today a total of 27 aircraft have been lost.

With the ugly planes like the Pioneer Army, the Imperial planes are much worse in terms of attack and defense, and even Style 96 is not good.

"It seems that the Empire needs a better plane!" Lu Cao thought Ren,

"Observe the tracking of invincible aircraft!" After observing that there was no tracking of the vanguard army, the Japanese flew straight to the aircraft carrier.

The cruising capacity of the Type 96 fighter can reach 1,200 kilometers. At this time, there is still plenty of energy. In order to prevent the pursuit of the Pioneer Army aircraft, they still hovered in the air for a while until the other aircraft landed before slowly landing one after another.

At this time, in addition to the eight Type 96, which were alert and defense in the sky, the ship began to urgently replenish ammunition and oil for the landing aircraft.

The harsh air raid sirens suddenly sounded, and Lu Cao jumped up in fear. What the aircraft carrier feared the most was that the carrier-based aircraft had just finished a round and came back to recharge oil or load ammunition. At this time, oil and ammunition were piled up on the deck, and the carrier-based aircraft could not take off smoothly.

After a wave of alarm, the plane that was refueling and replenishing ammunition stopped quickly. The ground crew seized the time to clear the runway and prepared the falling plane for takeoff.

Two vanguard army reconnaissance aircraft flew through the sky, and two Type 96 immediately came to face the enemy. Although Type 96 ship fighter is the world's first carrier-based fighter to surpass land-based fighter jets, its superiority is more prominent in its hovering performance, but its speed is not fast.

It is impossible to catch up with a reconnaissance plane.

The two reconnaissance planes flew from high altitude and did not even have time to prepare the anti-aircraft guns, so they flew away directly. The alarm was lifted.

"They have noticed our location, the planes are replenishing quickly, the fleet sails eastward, ready to fight for half an hour!" Lu Caoren ordered.

He doesn't want to fight with the Pioneer Army anymore. Only six of the 18 ship attack aircraft on the Sorang Dragon came back, and 12 of the 18 ship attack aircraft on the Kaga plus the additional 14 fighters were consumed. Four more were injured on the other two ships and could not continue to participate in the war. Only 22 were able to participate in the war. I don't know how many aircraft the Pioneer Army could come this time.

"Their planes should have lost almost the same amount! It's almost their whole thing to invest more than 60 aircraft at one time, right?" Lu Caoren guessed. As far as he knew, the Pioneer Army had some Stuka fighters, but the fighter jets were almost the same.

They could not come with the Imperial plane, they also needed to replenish ammunition and oil. The bombers came over without the escort of fighters. The eight Type 96 in the sky were enough to cause them to suffer heavy losses.

"Take off four fighter jets again!" He was still a little worried. This was the time when the aircraft carrier was relatively fragile and needed to strengthen protection.

As soon as he finished speaking, another sharp air defense alarm sounded.

"It's those annoying flying insects again!" he cursed, and the sound of the aviation alarm was upset for the sake of these or two reconnaissance planes.

"Enemy attack!" The alarm continued, followed by loud shouts.

Lu Caoren hurriedly looked out, but saw a dark cloud-like group of aircraft rushing towards this side.

"Why did they come so quickly?" Lu Caorenyi didn't know that the radar station had locked their approximate location. After confirming it through the reconnaissance plane, he rushed over directly.

Time was urgent and he couldn't let him think about it carefully. The ground crew on the Kaga began to tidy up the things on the runway and let the four prepared Type 96 planes take off first.

The personnel of the 12 double-connected 120mm anti-aircraft guns on the ship also quickly took their seats and began to shoot in the sky. The six 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns on the Canglong not far away also opened fire.

The personnel of the small-caliber anti-aircraft gun are also preparing to take their seats.

"The Japanese reacted very quickly!" Zhou Zhikai couldn't help but sigh, but what he didn't know was that because the Pioneer Army came too suddenly, the artillery bombardment just now was not in place, and the threat to the Pioneer Army was not great.

The eight 96-styles first met, but eight thunder and lightning flew out of the vanguard's fleet quickly and dived from a high altitude, facing the Japanese 96-styles one-on-one.

Eight other lightnings also came out first to block the Type 96 that the Japanese had just flew up, and the other 36 Stuka D aircraft began to prepare for dive bombardment.

"The wind speed and target speed measurement and adjustment!" Feng San directed calmly.

"The east wind is 6.9 meters per second, and the target speed is 18 knots." The investigators reported the rough data, and the specific values ​​also require individuals to adjust themselves based on the instruments on the plane and the actual situation.

"Attack!" Feng San finished speaking, Feng Wu took the lead in rushing down.

At this time, more than 100 cloned soldiers among the pilots of the Pioneer Army still occupied half of the territory.

Each cloning pilot experienced 300 hours of simulated flight in the second-level training base. After rapid running-in in reality, he quickly became familiar with him and became a skilled pilot. His combat level is not worse than that of the Japanese, and their cooperation is even more stringent than the Japanese, so most of the pilots who suffered damage to the war are ordinary people. Even if the Pioneer Army has opened up time and planes for training, it is difficult to accumulate 300 hours of flight in a short period of time.

This time, in order to deal with the Japanese, Meng Xiang sent most of the pilots at hand over, which led to another group of bombers behind the 62 fighter jets in Linyi.

After the Japanese aircraft carrier was destroyed, the air supremacy around the SAR will be temporarily controlled by the Pioneer Army. The heavy losses will not be able to draw too many people to deal with the Pioneer Army for a while. When they come again, the Pioneer Army's air force will climb to another new height.

The first target of attack was Kaga, with the most carrier-based aircraft on it. At this time, the deck was busy, which was a good opportunity for attack.

As soon as the Japanese's second Type 96 flew away from the deck, Feng Wu's plane passed through the smoke of the large-caliber anti-aircraft gun and dived towards the Type 96. With the help of the Type 96 cover, it avoided the attack of the 25mm anti-aircraft gun on the Kaga. The attack of the Type 96 7.7mm machine gun had little impact on the Stuka D-type armor. When it passed by the Type 96, Feng Wu did not forget to give it two rows of 7.92 machine gun bullets.

The Feng80 behind quickly dropped a 500-kilogram bomb when approaching the Kaga. Although the 1800-kilogram bomb can be carried under the Stuka fuselage, considering the range and flexibility, only two 500-kilograms were selected in the end.

The attack was very sudden. Before the Japanese could report it, Feng Wu's plane had already broken through the air defense network that had not yet been set up and threw the bomb on their heads.

The bomb landed in the front of the Kaga and immediately smashed a big hole in the deck and exploded inside.

Since the oil and power system are not in this position, although the Kaga has been severely damaged, it is not fatal. Anti-aircraft artillery personnel from all over the place have been in place, constantly attacking lightning diving channels in the sky.

"Boom" a Stuka D exploded in the air, and a 120mm anti-aircraft shell exploded beside it, and Stuka D's armor still couldn't resist it.

Another Stukad was loaded into the sea, and the pilot parachuted to escape, but in the sea, relying solely on that little life-saving equipment is not enough.

"That's our pilot!" Liu Zhihan shouted.

"Continue to lurk!" Jiang Dacheng shouted calmly. His Yaoli had already been ambushed in place and was preparing for a fatal blow.

Huang Bayang dived and before he could throw out the bomb under the aircraft, he was hit by the 25mm anti-aircraft gun. In a hurry, he threw out the four 50-kilogram bombs on the wing and quickly pulled up the nose.

Two small bombs fell directly into the sea water, but the other two fell on the deck and exploded immediately. The explosion detonated a Type 96 land attack aircraft parked there. The bombs and oil were added to fly around in the flames, causing a larger fire.

The thick smoke soared into the sky, blocking the plane's view and also blocking the anti-aircraft gunner's view.

The Kaga continued to sail forward with thick smoke. It now adjusted its direction and began to drive towards Qingdao in the north. The Longxiong there had been notifications and was coming to pick it up here.

At the same time, there were also eight Stukas on the Canglong side harassed and bombarded, and the main forces of the attack were concentrated on the Kaga.

"Maintain a speed of 200 knots, dive at 50 degrees, reach a height of 670 meters in 4.5 seconds, release the bomb at a height of 579 meters in 6.3 seconds, and then hit the target." Luo Hai murmured quietly, and followed the manual to execute it step by step. When he encountered such a battle on the battlefield for the first time, he couldn't help but feel nervous, but the bomb still dropped according to his usual training. Then he leveled and pulled out in a 4g overload.

Due to the strict anti-aircraft artillery of the Japanese, it is difficult to dive directly. Feng San ordered the novice to increase the height of the grenades to reduce casualties.

"Boom" Unexpectedly, the bomb in Luohai hit the target and hit the deck of the Canglong and exploded near the power bay. Immediately afterwards, a series of explosions broke out inside the Canglong, and the explosion waves penetrated out of the deck, directly lifting several planes on the deck into the sea. The flames soared into the sky, and Captain Colonel Teraoka Jinhei was shouting loudly to put out the fire, but the explosion caused by the oil near the power bay drowned his voice.

The Canglong, which had lost its power, just glided in the sea with inertia. The deck burned inside was untenable, and the rolling smoke slowed down with the speed of the Canglong.

The Jing Ke, who was wandering nearby, saw the cheaper ones and rushed over first.

"No. 1 and 2 torpedo volley!" Zhong Shuqian ordered excitedly.

Two 553mm torpedoes drew two white lines and rushed straight towards the slower and slower Canglong.

"Boom!" Two loud bangs, all hit, tearing open two huge holes on the thin armor of the Canglong, and a large amount of sea water poured in.

The Canglong, which had already begun to enter water due to an internal explosion, could no longer support it. With the sound of creaking steel deforming, it tilted to this side. The plane on the deck slid into the sea along the tilted deck. The oil was poured into the sea and continued to burn. The fire on the deck became increasingly large, but the Japanese sailors still grabbed anything that could be grasped to stabilize their bodies and not fall into the water. However, some Japanese who were caught off guard screamed and fell into the sea water, and were caught in the waves that were splashed by the plane.

"It's over!" Lu Cao said sadly, but he didn't expect the Canglong to be destroyed by a bomb.

The soldiers on the Anzhai and Wuyu gunboats who were accompanying the escort rushed over to rescue, but immediately four Stukads rushed over.

As the flagship of Team 11, Anzhai has only a displacement of about 800 tons. The two single-mounted three-year 76mm anti-aircraft guns above are powerless to the Stuka in the sky.

These two anti-aircraft guns obviously could not block Stuka's attack on it. They were directly hit by the 500-kilogram bomb thrown by Gao Changhe's Stuka d. They bounced a little in the explosion and sank directly.

The Wuyu on the other side could not escape the same fate. After avoiding an attack, he still sank into the sea with a 500-kilogram bomb.
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