Chapter 1,688 The Battle of the Southern Indian Ocean 3

Chapter 1688 Battle of the Southern Indian Ocean 3

With the roar of the cannon, a series of brass bullet casings flew out from the ejection port. Bullets as densely packed as locusts flew towards the target instantly. The oval impact area moved quickly from the ship like a sharp blade as the aircraft moved. The destroyer passed by.

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

Just like a lion chasing its prey through a continuous relay, at least 6 German planes caught the poor destroyer and attacked it continuously. When a fighter jet cut off the destroyer's chimney with a dense bullet, the waste poured back into it instantly destroyed it. After destroying the destroyer's boiler, the Japanese battleship's end has finally arrived! With a 300KG bomb falling directly on the destroyer, the violent force blew the destroyer, which was only a few hundred tons into pieces, and a water column hundreds of meters high surrounded the wreckage of the destroyer and lifted the fragments into the sky.

At the same time, the other destroyer did not last long. A 300KG bomb exploded in the seawater 20 meters from the side of the destroyer. The destroyer seemed to have been hit by a mine. The entire hull was hit by the bomb in an instant. A gash of more than 5 meters was torn open. The impact of the seawater caused by the destroyer's huge speed further aggravated the damage to the battleship. After just a few minutes, the destroyer rolled directly onto its side and fell into the seawater.

As for the Takachiho that was attacked first? Its end has long since arrived. After being injured by two near-misses, the speed had been reduced by 6 knots. The third bomb directly hit the middle of the hull of the poor warship. The bomb with red and yellow rings on the warhead roared and hit it. In the middle of the Takachiho's hull, the explosive inside the bomb exploded and detonated the incendiary agent also filled inside the bomb body. The violent explosion and burning flames quickly formed a firestorm that swept across the entire middle of the hull. The chimneys, cranes, and slide rails for parking the seaplanes in the middle of the hull were all turned into pieces of burning wreckage in this violent explosion.

Flames and debris rolled back into the boiler room along the damaged flue. A few minutes later, bursts of dull explosions came from inside the hull. Amidst the baptism of flames and debris, Takachiho instantly lost half of his power, and at this point , it was time for the final execution. Two bombers carrying torpedoes entered the battlefield from the left side of Takachiho's ship at the same time. Two torpedoes were thrown into the water from an altitude of 50 meters. At a distance of less than 600 meters, two torpedoes were fired. The torpedo drew a white line and rushed towards the half-disabled Japanese seaplane carrier like a lifeline.

One minute later, two loud noises came from the sea. This Japanese Navy seaplane carrier was buried in the sea just one month after it was put into service. It is known as the shortest surviving warship in the entire Japanese Navy! When the three targets on the sea disappeared, there were still 4 aircraft in the entire fleet that had not used their own bombs or torpedoes. Later, these 4 aircraft joined the attack of the Tianlong light cruiser.

The Tianlong cruiser used its high speed and the seven 5.5-inch guns and 2-pound guns on the hull to fight back hard.

Dense shells intertwined into a fire net over the battleship. Looking at the shells constantly exploding in the air and the flying red snakes, the German pilots were indeed a little nervous at the beginning. The Tianlong relied on its own firepower to successfully retreat. Several waves of attacks. But soon, the Germans discovered the Japanese's problem.

The Japanese anti-aircraft fire response speed is too slow and lacks unified command. The weight of the 5.5-inch gun itself is a bit large. Although it can barely be used for anti-aircraft shooting because of its relatively large elevation angle, the rotation problem of the artillery cannot be solved. The speed is too high. It is slow, and all the artillery works independently without coordination with each other. If the German carrier-based aircraft rush in one direction, the concentrated anti-aircraft firepower will still be the same thing, but if the Japanese aircraft disperse their attacks If so, then the shared 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 ones to rush forward were naturally the fighter jets after throwing away the bombs. Four fighter jets approached the Tianlong from two directions at the same time, and at a distance of 400 meters away began to shoot wildly at the deck.

The roar of machine guns from both sides resounded throughout the battlefield. Countless light spots danced on the sea. The dense artillery shells created walls of water on the water. The German machine gun bullets also killed people on the open deck of the Tianlong. A river of blood! Mutilated corpses hit by large-caliber machine guns and 20MM shells were everywhere. Blood, minced meat, and burning flames turned the entire fighting side into a Shura field.

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

Then the flames that erupted like a volcano instantly spread to the deck of the Tianlong. The sudden cessation of the fire storm caught everyone off guard. The damage control team members who had just rushed to the deck were blown to pieces by a subsequent explosion before they could put out the fire. This just gave the attacking fleet a chance. Four torpedo planes quickly entered the scene and dropped mines crosswise from the left and right sides. At a distance of 400 to 700 meters, four torpedoes passed by each other. The Tianlong, which was in chaos, was ultimately unable to escape this fatal blow. The middle part of the port side hull and the starboard bow were hit by one torpedo each.

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. The buoyancy reserve, which was not much in the first place, was quickly destroyed. exhausted. In just two minutes, this new Japanese light cruiser sank into the sea.

At this time, after the first round of attacking the target, there were still 4 aircraft with remaining ammunition, 2 of which were torpedo aircraft and the other 2 were bombers. Therefore, the remaining aircraft set their sights on the last remaining aircraft. On board the Japanese battleship Katori.

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