Chapter 1688： Battle of the South Indian Ocean III

Chapter 1688 Battle of the Southern Indian Ocean (3)

Along with the roar of the machine gun, a series of brass shells flew out of the shell ejection port. The bullets densely packed like migratory locusts flew to the target instantly. The oval impact area moved quickly from this ship like a sharp blade as the aircraft moved. Rowed across the destroyer.

The bullets easily shredded the surface teak deck, and the flying fragments and bullets flew around on the deck. The deadly fire snake extended into the superstructure, leaving a series of bullet holes in the low bridge of the destroyer. . In just a few seconds, more than a dozen Japanese naval officers and soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

Like a lion chasing its prey through a continuous relay, at least 6 German planes caught this poor destroyer and kept attacking. When a fighter jet cut the destroyer’s chimney with dense bullets, the backflow and abandonment instantly abolished it. After the destroyer’s boiler, the end of the Japanese warship has finally arrived! With a 300KG bomb directly falling on the destroyer, it was violently guaranteed that the destroyer, which was no more than a few hundred tons, was blown into fragments. On the wreckage of the destroyer, a hundred-meter-high water column engulfed the fragments into the air.

At the same time, the other destroyer didn’t hold on for long. A 300KG bomb exploded in the water 20 meters from the side of the destroyer. The destroyer was hit by a mine, and the entire hull hit the side of the bomb. A hole more than 5 meters long was torn open. The seawater impact caused by the huge speed of the destroyer further aggravated the damage of the warship. In just a few minutes, the destroyer rolled over directly into the sea.

As for the Takachiho that was attacked in the first place? Its deadline has long arrived. After being injured by two near-missing bullets, the speed has been reduced by 6 knots. The third bomb directly hit the middle of the hull of this poor warship. The bomb with red and yellow circles on the warhead roared and hit. In the middle of Takachiho's hull, the explosive inside the bomb exploded and detonated the incendiary agent that was also filled in the bomb. The violent explosion and burning flame quickly formed a fire storm that swept across the entire hull of the ship. The chimneys, cranes and slide rails that parked the seaplane in the middle of the hull were all turned into pieces of burning debris in this violent explosion.

Flames and fragments were rolled back into the boiler cabin along the broken flue. A few minutes later, a dull explosion sounded from the interior of the hull. In the baptism of flames and fragments, Takachiho instantly lost half of his power, and this step was reached. At the time of the final execution, two bombers carrying torpedoes entered the battlefield from the left side of Takachiho at the same time. Two torpedoes were thrown into the water from 50 meters in the air. At a distance of less than 600 meters, two bombers The torpedo drew a white line and rushed towards the half-destructed Japanese seaplane carrier like a lifeline.

A minute later, two loud noises came from the sea. This Japanese navy seaplane carrier was buried in the sea after only one month from its service to now. It is known as the warship with the shortest survival time in the entire Japanese Navy! And when the three targets on the sea disappeared, there were still 4 aircraft in the entire fleet that did not use their own bombs or torpedoes, and then these 4 aircraft joined the attack of the light cruiser of the Tianlong team.

The Tianlong cruiser used its high speed and the 7 5.5-inch guns and 2-pounder guns on the hull to fight back. The dense shells intertwined into a fire net over the battleship. Watching the continuous bombing and flying in the air. Red Fire Serpent, at the beginning, the German pilots were really nervous, and the Tianlong successfully retreated several waves of attacks relying on its own firepower. But soon, the Germans discovered the Japanese problem.

The Japanese anti-aircraft fire response speed is too slow, and lack of unified command, the weight of the 5.5-inch gun itself is somewhat large, although because of the relatively large elevation angle can barely be used for aerial shooting, but the rotation problem of the artillery can not be solved, the speed is too high Slow, and all the artillery is fighting separately, there is no cooperation between each other, if the German carrier planes rush in one direction, then the concentrated anti-aircraft firepower is still very similar, but if the Japanese aircraft disperse their attacks If it does, then the allocated firepower is really nothing.

As a result, the remaining bombers were divided into two groups and attacked from the left and right sides at the same time. The first fighter that rushed up was naturally the fighter after dropping the bomb. The four fighters approached the Tianlong from two directions at the same time, and were 400 meters away. The board began to shoot frantically on the deck.

The roar of the cannons from both sides resounded through the battlefield. Numerous spots of light bounced and danced on the surface of the sea. The dense artillery shells shot a wall of water on the surface of the water. The German machine gun bullets also killed the Tianlong on the open deck. A river of blood! Mutilated corpses hit by large-caliber machine guns and 20MM shells were all over the place. Blood, minced meat and burning flames turned the entire fighting side into a shura field.

The high-explosive shell fired by the Japanese 5.5-inch gun finally achieved a destruction. In a very accidental situation, the wing of a JU5 bomber was cut off by half, but the aircraft still relied on strong inertia to directly hit. At the front deck of the Tianlong, the huge impact directly destroyed the two adjacent gun positions, and the remaining hundreds of kilograms of gasoline and oil on the plane also turned into a large incendiary bomb in the collision!

So the flames ejected like a volcanic eruption instantly spread to the deck of the Tianlong. The fire storm that stopped abruptly caught everyone by surprise The damage management team who had just rushed to the deck was blown to pieces by a subsequent explosion before it had time to put out the fire. This just gave the attacking aircraft a chance. Four torpedo aircraft quickly approached the field and threw mines across from the left and right sides. At a distance of 400 to 700 meters, four torpedoes staggered past. The Tianlong was caught in chaos and failed to escape the deadly lore. The port and starboard bows were hit by one torpedo respectively.

The huge energy released by the 150KG explosive in the torpedo warhead instantly shredded the Tianlong’s fragile underwater protection. Thousands of tons of seawater poured into the hull along the cracks several meters wide, and the original buoyancy reserve was quickly removed. Exhausted. In just two minutes, this new Japanese light cruiser sank into the sea.

At this point, when the first round of attacking targets is over, there are still 4 aircraft with remaining ammunition, 2 of which are torpedo planes, and the other 2 are bombers, so the remaining planes are focusing on the last remaining aircraft. Japanese battleship-the battleship Katori.

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