Chapter 2728： Breakthrough two

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Hundreds of various air defense weapons on the Arizona produced a funnel-shaped barrage, and countless shells flew in the air like a big hand to protect the USS Independence aircraft carrier not far away. The Japanese are still preparing to deal with the destroyer. The way to deal with battleships, but this time they are destined to smash their heads!

Several long-range fighters in charge of cover tried to use their own machine guns and machine guns to suppress the anti-aircraft artillery arrays on American battleships. However, this is no different from an egg hitting a rock. The Americans provided each dual 40MM antiaircraft gun with a thick enough guard. The shield and the rotating motor, sensitive response and strong protection make these gun positions not afraid of Japanese large-caliber machine guns and machine guns. Countless bullets shuttle between the aircraft and the gun positions, between the electric light and the flint, the outcome has been divided! Two Japanese twin-engine planes were hit successively. The first cabin position was hit by at least 4 40MM cannons. Before the plane crashed, the pilot hung up, while the other plane was hit by hundreds of rounds. Kind of ammunition volleyed and dismembered!

Hundreds of U.S. Navy officers and soldiers were busy on the deck. They transported ammunition, operated antiaircraft artillery, and frantically poured firepower on the Japanese fleet in the air. They disperse wave after wave of planes, and the Japanese bombers that have lost their formation can only temporarily give up their attack and choose to regroup before launching an attack.

For a time, the entire sea surface was full of guns and guns, and the air was full of black smoke after the explosion of anti-aircraft artillery. The roar of guns and the explosion of bombs made it difficult to hear the words close at hand. Americans could only use gestures to pass them. command. In an instant, even the offensive side was shaken.

But what does one say? Shoulong will lose! There has never been a fortress that cannot be breached in this world. It is only because the strength is not enough or the duration is not long enough! By the same token, the firepower of the Arizona is not sustainable. Anti-aircraft gun barrels will overheat due to continuous firing. Personnel will become tired from intense battles and ammunition will be consumed. After the first ten minutes of strict defense, the US fleet's air defense firepower began to become sparse.

Piles of shells are stacked on the deck, and the personnel responsible for transporting ammunition continue to use carts to lift boxes of shells and shells out of the magazine and then send them to the deck or the main gun turret. The Japanese strafing also brought casualties and fear to those exposed on the deck. The mutilated body, the blood-stained deck, as well as the busy medical staff and fire-fighting team, all told everyone about the **** battle. . Their defense against the Japanese is not without price! The air defense efficiency of the Americans has been declining, and some artillery has been forced to stop firing because of the long firing time. In many places, unprotected machine gun positions were swept away, and the replacement personnel cleaned up the corpses while reassembling machine guns. At this time the Americans are already showing signs of fatigue. The Japanese may be close to opening the American air defense net!

This moment has finally come! A twin-engine Japanese bomber made the most aggressive attack! It crossed from an altitude of 3000 meters, and then entered the dive bombing course, directly dived down at an angle of up to 65 degrees. The aircraft quickly reached its safety limit speed, but it still rushed towards the target firmly. In this case, the plane is destined to be unable to pull up! When descending to a height of 1200 meters, the bomber dropped a 500KG bomb in the belly of the body!

This high-explosive bomb slammed straight to the left side of the Arizona, where, more than 30 anti-aircraft guns and machine guns were resisting the attack of Japanese aircraft, but ten seconds later, was this bomb? More than 280 kg of explosives made all this disappear!

boom! A huge pillar of fire leaped into the air. This bomb exploded as it penetrated the uppermost deck. The shock waves and flames produced by hundreds of kilograms of picric acid explosives instantly swallowed the entire array of antiaircraft artillery! Hundreds of U.S. Navy officers and soldiers who had not reacted were torn to pieces by the shock wave and flames! And the antiaircraft artillery that was still majestic and spitting artillery like a Hydra was also blasted to pieces by the shock wave. In an instant, the surface of the left middle side of the Arizona was blasted to pieces!

Such trauma is still tolerable for this battleship, but it is completely unrecoverable for air defense firepower. The loss of a large number of personnel and weapons in a short period of time caused the Arizona air defense firepower to appear neutral, and after a while, another After a dive bomber once again threw a 500KG bomb at the USS Arizona, the battleship has lost the ability to provide fire cover for the aircraft carrier! The original dense air defense net was torn open by a huge hole, and then a dozen bombers ignored the USS Arizona, which was extinguishing the fire, and rushed towards the USS Independence at the core!

"Independence is over!" Watching the Japanese bomber group that pounced on Independence like a hungry wolf, Mitchell was ashamed! Because countless actual combat simulations told him that the hope of Independence is very small!

This is indeed the case. To be honest, for the aircraft carrier Independence, which has a displacement of less than 20,000 tons, its life is less than half an hour!

The first to get a hit is still the dive bomber! The air defense firepower of an aircraft carrier is not as fierce as a battleship and its gun positions are more fragile! The huge flight deck tells the Japanese where to throw bombs. In order to prevent the bombing caused by bombs, all aircraft that have completed refueling and loading have either been released or pushed into the sea, leaving only an empty deck and scattered antiaircraft guns on both sides. In this era, the aircraft carrier's own air defense firepower is not very strong, which also leads to the fact that when the outer defense is breached, the aircraft carrier is really just a lamb to be slaughtered.

The first dive bomber whizzed down and successfully smashed a 500KG bomb on the center of the Independence deck at an altitude of 900 meters. This was a 500KG semi-armor-piercing bomb. The millimeter-thick structural steel couldn't stop the bomb carrying huge inertia. The bomb easily penetrated the flight deck and hit the hangar deck.

If it’s an Essex-class aircraft carrier from World War II in history, the thickness of the hangar deck is enough to withstand 500KG bombs under a 45-degree corner, but unfortunately, the hangar deck as a protective deck also failed to block. This bomb It broke through the horizontal protection again, and then fell into the operating boiler cabin at the lower part of Independence!

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