Chapter One Hundred and Twelfth Death Contest
Over the Yellow Sea, hundreds of fighter jets of the Tang and Japanese armies fought fiercely.
Although the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group used radar to discover the hidden Japanese sneak attack aircraft group and intercepted it with all their might, the Tang Army never expected that this batch of Japanese fighter jets was the Kanfeng Special Attack Team commanded by Takijiro Oshiki. They did not intend to go back alive, but just wanted to die with the Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group.
This kind of enemy is terrifying. For the Tang army pilots, they grew up with the Tang Empire and had limited experience. For the first time, they encountered such a suicide attack enemy and lacked a response strategy for a while.
The Japanese pilots did not fight against the Tang army fighter jets at all, but instead drove the fighter jets with maximum horsepower to fly towards the Tang army aircraft carrier battle group on the sea.
The Japanese Type 96 fighter was hung with a 700-kilogram equivalent aviation torpedo underneath. The Tang army pilots could see it very clearly. They knew that the Japanese army needed to drop to a level close to the sea to launch a torpedo attack on the Tang army warships, so they kept biting the Japanese plane and chasing them, so they did not have the chance to drop to sea level.
However, what the Tang army pilots never expected was that after several Japanese fighter jets could not escape the entangled attacks of the Tang army fighter jets, their pilots immediately looked for a Tang army destroyer nearby, and actually played diving action like the pilots of the Tang army Hellfire Bomber.
At first, the Tang army pilots thought that the Japanese pilots were doing evasion actions to avoid being shot down. However, when these Japanese fighter jets were not pulled up for a long time and directly hit the nearest Tang army Fengshen-class destroyer, the several Tang army pilots chasing were stunned.
"Southeast direction. 75 degrees shooting angle, fire!"
On the Tang Army Fengshen-class destroyer below. Next to a scattered Vulcan formation on the rear bridge, a Tang Army second lieutenant pointed at a dive-born Japanese Type 96 fighter jet with a command knife and issued a fire order.
"In the southeast direction, at 75 degrees of shooting angle, find enemy planes and fire!" In the driver's seat of the Vulcan dense array, five Tang army shooters shouted and repeated the commander's orders, while each performing their duties to quickly manipulate the Vulcan dense array's steering, aiming at one of the Japanese planes and pulling the trigger.
"Dou...dou..."
The seven-barrel Gatling machine gun of the Vulcan dense array rotated and fired at high speed. In an instant, a flame that reached several meters long was fired, firing 50 30mm caliber shells per second, forming a dense firepower net in an instant, covering the diving Japanese fighter jets. Advanced optical sights locked the diving trajectory of the Japanese aircraft. In just a few seconds, hundreds of shells exploded around the Japanese aircraft, and more than a dozen of them immediately hit the Japanese aircraft, causing them to explode in the air.
At the same time, this Tang army Fengshen-class destroyer also had many other dense arrays of Vulcan, and they shot down Japanese fighter jets in their respective airspaces.
For a time, Vulcan intensively exerted his power, causing the suicide attacks of these Japanese fighter jets to fail and all were shot down.
The several Tang army planes above naturally dared not follow them. Because they knew that the attack of the Vulcan dense array was an area-type indiscriminate attack and was easily injured by accident.
Seeing that several Japanese planes were shot down, several Tang army pilots immediately breathed a sigh of relief, suspected the behavior of the Japanese pilots in their minds, thinking that the other party was very strange.
"Look at that side!" One of the pilots shouted immediately. Several other pilots in the same group hurriedly looked over.
I saw five Japanese Type 96 fighter jets dived down with torpedoes not far away from the sky above another Tang army destroyer. Four of them were hit by the intensive formation of the Tang army's destroyer's Vulcan formation and exploded. However, one of the Japanese troops successfully avoided the Tang army's ship-based air defense fire strike. After breaking through the air defense, they did not pull up but directly hit the warship.
"Bang!"
A ball of flames hundreds of meters high soared into the sky, and a deafening explosion sound came a few seconds later. The 700-kilogram aerial torpedo on the Japanese plane was activated by the Japanese pilot at that moment, and detonated on the Tang army destroyer, and died together.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
A series of dying explosions came from the Tang army destroyer, causing the warship of more than 2,000 tons to explode and disintegrate in an instant. Debris scattered on the sea hundreds of meters away, with flames soaring into the sky and smoke rolling on the gunpowder.
While the Tang army destroyer was crashed by Japanese planes, many warships in the entire Tang army aircraft carrier battle group also faced suicide impacts from Japanese planes. Soon, many Tang army light cruisers were attacked. The destroyers were too thin armored and were instantly blown to pieces. Although the light cruisers were slightly thick in armor, they could not withstand the big explosions and were severely damaged and faced the danger of sinking.
"The Windgao destroyer sinks!"
"The Wind Crush destroyer sinks!"
"The Wind Flag Destroyer Sinks!"
"The Haiqi light cruiser was severely damaged and withdraws from the battle sequence!"
"The Haiyue light cruiser was seriously damaged, and the crew was ready to abandon the ship and asked the command center to send a ship to rescue the survivors!"
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The communication room of the Fleet Command was noisy, and various wars were sunk, damaged, and severe damage was heard, which made Li Haichen frown and couldn't help but swear: "It's paralyzed, the Japanese are going to die together with me!"
"Report to the commander, dozens of Japanese aircraft are quickly approaching our aircraft carrier formation!"
"Order Liu Feiyun to stop these madmen at all costs and defeat them all!"
In the sky, Lieutenant Colonel Liu Feiyun, who was the captain of the escort air wing, was already sweating profusely at this moment. It was not that he was afraid of death, but that he was worried that he could not protect the aircraft carrier battle group in the face of these crazy Japanese suicide squads. After all, the speed of the fighter jets on both sides was comparable, and the Japanese fighter jets did not fight with the Tang army fighter jets at all, but hit the Tang army warships below with all their might. In this case, the Tang army pilots seemed very passive.
"All formations have noticed that it is the critical moment for the survival of our aircraft carrier battle group. It depends on whether we can stop these crazy Japanese devils. Now listen to my order. When the Japanese planes dive, in order to ensure that the direction of the Japanese warships below will not change, I ordered everyone to bite the Japanese plane tightly and dive with them. Be sure to shoot down the other party before they hit our warships!"
"But in this way, our Vulcan dense array will be killed with us!" Someone immediately raised concerns.
"I know, this is a life-and-death death for everyone. But have you ever thought about it? If the Japanese plane crashes into our warship below, it will not only be a warship, but also thousands of brothers on it. If our aircraft carrier is destroyed, we will not be able to fall down. Therefore, it is time to carry forward the sacrifice of the ego and save all living beings. Take out your courage, I will take the lead, I will die, and the deputy captain will be replaced, the deputy captain will be commanded by the squadron leader, and so on, fight to the last man and one aircraft, and you will also kill the Japanese devils!"
"Fight to the last man and one aircraft, kill the Japanese devils!" The public channel of the aviation team came from the union of shouts from the pilots of the Tang army. Since those who are in charge are not afraid of death, what else do they have to say? For the fleet and for the empire, they are all men with their heads on their belts. In terms of courage, they are no worse than the Japanese devils' Kamikaze Death Squad.
With Liu Feiyun's order, all the Tang army pilots pushed the throttle forward, causing the Raptor to increase its combat force to the maximum, and the speed soared to the limit. They bit the Japanese fighter jets in front and dived as usual.
Tatta! Tattata!
The Tang army pilots screamed one by one, pulled the trigger and fired violently at the Japanese plane ahead, completely ignoring everything around them. Regardless of whether they would be hit by their own air defense firepower, they had only one thought in their minds, that is, they would kill the Japanese planes and prevent them from hitting the Tang army warships below.
At this time, the Tang army ships on the sea had received orders, and all air defense firepower shot down Japanese fighter jets, which would inevitably affect their own fighter jets, but this was also impossible. From a military perspective, such sacrifice was worth it.
However, the Vulcan dense array is not automatic and requires manual operation by personnel. There is no dedicated computer system and radar fire control system installed on it, so all invading Japanese planes cannot be shot down.
Similarly, the Tang army fighter jets were biting the Japanese planes tightly, but it was not realistic to shoot down the Japanese planes in just over a dozen seconds.
In the end, more than 20 Japanese fighter jets hit the Tang army warships below, including the Tang army's main aircraft carriers, escort aircraft carriers, escort cruisers, destroyers, etc., causing huge losses and casualties to the Tang army.
Among them, four main aircraft carriers of the King of Heaven were the key targets of the Japanese army. The King of Heaven of Heaven was hit by six Japanese aircraft, most of the island was destroyed, and the flight deck was severely damaged. If it had not been built at the beginning, the armor protection and sunk resistance were increased, it would have exploded and sunk immediately. Even if it had not been sunk and the hull had been seriously tilted into the water, Li Haichen had to order the ship to abandon and all the personnel were transferred to a nearby destroyer.
The other three king-class aircraft carriers were also injured to varying degrees. Some islands were destroyed, and some decks were blown up with huge holes, but they were only injured.
The escort aircraft carriers are more miserable. These escort aircraft carriers are converted from ordinary ships and transport ships. Without armor protection, a Japanese fighter jet will cause devastating explosions and major damage when it hits. Four of the escort aircraft carriers explode and sink, and three other escort aircraft carriers explode and caught fire. Although they did not sink at the first time, they could not last long.
Although the losses caused by the 200 Japanese Kamikaze Special Attack Team to the Tang Army's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group were greatly damaged, the huge combat effectiveness shown by the Tang Army at a critical moment and the indomitable courage of the pilots to sacrifice greatly reduced the success rate of the Japanese suicide attack. Otherwise, at least two-thirds of the Japanese aircraft would hit the Tang Army's warships, which might destroy the Tang Army's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group.
Chapter completed!