Chapter 2727： Breakthrough one

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"The air defense network won't last long. Our fighter defenses are saturated. Order the fleet to prepare for air defense!" Mitchell looked at the Japanese bomber group that had already overrun the defense. All the warships have been put into action. The three aircraft carriers and battleships are at the core position, and the periphery is a wheel-shaped air defense formation composed of a large number of destroyers. Artillery is aimed at the Japanese bomber group that has been concealed in the sky. Now the night air defense record of the Sims fleet last night.

However, in the face of fleet air defense, both the Germans and the British actually have their own methods, but the British did not have time to perform in the war. However, in the far Pacific region, the British got the opportunity. In the end, this A wave of more than 70 various aircraft successfully passed through the interception of fighter jets. The Japanese land-based aviation elites who had been hiding for a long time finally showed their sharp fangs!

"They are coming towards us!" The destroyer DD221, which is at the outermost periphery, became the first breakwater facing the Japanese bomber forces! Different from the previous Japanese bombers choosing to directly attack the capital ship over the air defense firepower net of the frigate, the Japanese are preparing to start abruptly from the outermost layer!

"These guys are crazy!" Looking at the Japanese attack aircraft flying over the sea in the distance, all the artillery and machine guns on the side of the destroyer DD221 opened fire frantically, and countless shells hit the sea, large or small. The water column, sometimes the densely falling shells even formed a wall of water!

boom! With a loud noise, the front Japanese twin-engine bomber was hit by a 5-inch shell. This shell weighing more than 20 kilograms hit the root of the left wing of the Japanese bomber like a heavy hammer. , With the explosion of several kilograms of explosives, the huge power directly unloaded the entire wing from the body. Afterwards, the plane slammed into the sea, and the huge impact left the plane to pieces. However, before the Americans celebrate their achievements, more and more new enemy planes are approaching!

Da Da Da, accompanied by the roar of large-caliber machine guns and machine guns, two twin-engine bombers frantically strafed the deck of destroyer DD221 with cross fire at a distance of less than 400 meters, with more than double-digit machine guns and machine guns each. Hundreds of cannonballs and bullets can be shot in one second. A dense rain of bullets swept across the deck. A group of U.S. Navy soldiers who could not evade were instantly swept away, with various colors of internal organs and blood splashing. On the deck and deck, the originally neat deck becomes like a slaughterhouse.

As the distance narrowed, the Japanese attacks became more frantic. In just a dozen seconds, thousands of ammunition fell on this small boat, which was only a few tens of meters in length, and the large-caliber bullets and artillery shells The superstructure, artillery positions, and chimneys have reached a honeycomb, and even the incendiary bombs of the machine guns have set a not-so-small fire on the surface of the hull.

The originally intensive air defense firepower suffered heavy losses in this tragic confrontation. The thin shield was shattered, and incomplete weapons and corpses were behind. Although the hull structure is still complete, but the ship's air defense firepower is considered useless.

However, even so, since the Japanese did not intend to let go of the destroyer, after the aircraft responsible for air defense suppression ended the attack, a bomber carrying a 100KG bomb dived from the air and dropped 2 rounds at an altitude of 800 meters. 100KG bomb.

Ten seconds later, a bomb fell near the chimney of the destroyer DD221. A bomb with more than 50KG of charge directly destroyed the chimney and the lower boiler chamber! Although DD221 is still floating on the water, it is just a dead fish. However, this destroyer was not the first American destroyer to sink in this battle. The destroyer DD112 next to it was hit by a 250KG high-explosive bomb a few minutes ago. The violent explosion directly exploded the destroyer into two pieces. . With the sinking of the two destroyers, a gap was opened in the outer air defense net of the US fleet! The remaining Japanese fleets filed in along the gap, rushing to the innermost American aircraft carriers and battleships!

"Give orders to all aircraft carriers, tell them to disband their formations when necessary, and order all frigates and battleships to follow their respective aircraft carriers to provide fire cover!" Old Fletcher looked at the murderous Japanese bomber unit and hurriedly ordered. A few minutes later, the Japanese bomber group crashed into America's strongest air defense warship-an improved battleship!

"Fire!" The battleship Arizona was blocked between the Japanese fleet and the Independence aircraft carrier. In order to resist Japanese airstrikes, the Americans on the Arizona suffered from a lack of vitality. They were not only in the most open space in the middle of the hull. I am unfamiliar with at least two anti-aircraft gun arrays, and even have a large number of gun positions on the front and rear of the battleship. For example, in front of the A turret, the Americans arranged 4 double-mounted 28MM gun positions. At the end of the D turret, the Americans also temporarily placed more than two-digit machine guns in the place where the seaplane was parked! Even on the turret, the Americans even laid out machine guns with stitches!

In the middle of the hull with the largest space, on the open deck is an array of 28MM and 40MM cannons. On the superstructure, there are a large number of 20MM machine guns and large-caliber machine guns In order to improve the fire control effect as much as possible, the Americans also assumed part of the artillery team mirrors on the deck to assist in aerial shooting. On a battleship, the total number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns of various calibers even exceeds three digits!

Regardless of what these weapons can hit with poor fire control, but thinking about driving a plane through this moving "active volcano" can scare more than 70% of pilots! In fact, however, in this naval battle, the American battleships did indeed play a main role in the air defense firepower of the inner circle of the fleet! Successfully blocked the Japanese attack for more than 20 minutes!

"The American air defense system is very efficient. The fragile aircraft carrier is guarded in the middle. On the left is a battleship or other main battleship, and on the right is 3 or so destroyers. 5 or so battleships form a small formation, which is very close. , So that the 40MM cannon can support each other. In this case, if we rashly attack the US aircraft carrier at the core, we will be attacked by air defense fire from all directions. Therefore, our previous research results are, We must smash a certain side of the tortoise shell before we can attack the aircraft carrier at the core position.” A Japanese navy officer recalled after the war.

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