Xiong Zian took a fancy to Kirishima, one of the most powerful battleships outside Tianjin..

He opened the plane's flap, then slowly lowered the nose, and quickly dived towards the Kirishima.

The air defense firepower below kept firing out a series of tracer bullets, and several of them almost flew past his fuselage.

This made him feel extremely nervous, but what surprised him was that the enemy's machine guns were indeed intermittent, and they were always gone after a few shots. These made him feel much more at ease.

He aimed the nose of the aircraft at the middle of Kirishima. As the dive speed became faster and faster, the Kirishima's bridge became larger and larger in his field of view.

Finally, he confirmed his target, set the bomb dropping rod, then he retracted his flap, took a deep breath, pushed the throttle valve full, and quickly dropped the 1,600-pound bomb (about 725 kilograms) under the belly of the machine.

Out of the intuition of a bomber pilot, he knew that this time it had it.

"boom!"

A thick stream of black smoke rushed into the sky dozens of meters. The 1,600-pound bomb hit Kirishima accurately, and then a huge explosion occurred near the No. 3 turret 3's electric deck was torn in half. All the nearby shooting command posts and No. 3 turret were severely damaged.

The reason why the Fearless Diving Bomber was called a very deadly bomber in World War II was, on the one hand, because its hit rate was very high, and on the other hand, it was inseparable from its 1,600-pound bomb. It is a very deadly bomb. Compared with the 500-kilogram bomb of the Stuka bomber and the 250-kilogram bomb that was later exploded by the Japanese Type 99 ship, it is much more powerful.

After confirming his results, Xiong Zian felt extremely excited. This was a good start.

At a 25mm mechanism turret on Kirishima, Totaro Ono felt the entire Kirishima ship shaking violently, which almost made him throw it out of the bridge.

"Bagaya Road!"

Ono Totaro cursed viciously.

At this time, he found that an enemy bomb had a big hole on the deck below the bridge, and even the bridge was greatly damaged.

Maybe he will die this time.

I don't know why this thought suddenly popped up in his mind.

He shook his head hard and drove the thought out.

Now is the time of war, so you must not think of these terrible questions.

So he said loudly to Keisuke Kimura.

"Kimura! Reload quickly!"

"Ono...you're injured."

Kimura said in a panic.

Only then did Totaro Ono notice that a large amount of blood was flowing down his forehead.

In order to save water displacement, Kirishima's 25mm machine gun does not have any armor protection.

Maybe a shrapnel was rubbed over his forehead, and when he thought of this, Totaro Ono felt extremely scared. Maybe if the shrapnel was one centimeter away, his life would be to meet Amaterasu.

He wiped the blood from his forehead hard to prevent them from flowing into his eyes, and then said to Kimura: "Don't worry about this, load the magazine!"

"I see!"

"It's so hateful!"

Ono Totaro's face became very ugly. He was almost hit by the bomber just now, but the bullets were exhausted at the critical moment. How could this make him feel extremely angry?

Soon another fearless dive bomber rushed down, and he quickly set off his machine gun and shot it at the dive bomber.

Just 5 seconds later, his bullets were exhausted again.

But he didn't even touch the enemy's side, which made him feel shocked and angry. Such a damn machine cannon was really bad.

At this time, he did not notice that a Mustang fighter dived from the side, and six fierce tongues of flames ejected from the plane, shooting a series of Mars on the warship.

Ono only felt his chest numb. He lowered his head and looked at his chest, but was extremely frightened to find that a large amount of blood was flowing out of his chest.

"Ono...Ono!"

In the haze, he seemed to hear Kimura's anxious shouts, and then the whole world became dark.

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Li Liqian did not participate in the battle, but took the overall situation in the sky.

The Japanese warships kept firing shells into the sky, and strings of tracer shells were quickly hit by them.

Although the scene seems very spectacular, their role is very limited, because few bullets can hit the 98th Army aircraft.

The amount of air defense firepower of Kirishima and King Kong is good, but their firepower is too bad. They are always intermittent in fighting and cannot pose an effective threat to the 98th Army's aircraft.

The air defense firepower of the remaining four cruisers and six destroyers was not very good, especially some of the destroyers. Their anti-aircraft machine guns were actually 6.5mm and 7.7mm machine guns. This machine gun hit the 98th Army's aircraft, which was like tickling them.

If nothing unexpected happens, they should win a brilliant victory this time.

It’s just that the fleet that unexpectedly appeared in the distance is a variable, but their warships are not large, with only a small number of destroyers and a cruiser, which cannot affect the overall situation at all.

As for those transport ships, in his eyes, they were extremely delicious fat.

As the battle progressed, more and more Japanese warships were hit by bombers from the 98th Army.

The bombers dropped round after round of bombs on the Japanese ships, and at least one-third of them hit the target.

The first to be hit were the four aircraft carriers and two King Kong-class battleships, which were the key targets of the bomber this time.

Two of the aircraft carriers and the King Kong have begun to slowly sink, and the other two aircraft carriers and the Kirishima have also suffered varying degrees of damage, especially the Kirishima, which has begun to infiltrate a large amount of water on one side of the hull.

The four cruisers and six destroyers were not much better. Almost each of them had been hit with more than two bombs. One of the cruisers was hit by the ammunition warehouse, and the entire warship had been blown into two pieces.

Three other destroyers and two cruisers had water inflows to varying degrees and began to gradually sink.

After the fearless dive bombers dropped the 725-kilogram bomb under the belly of the aircraft, they dropped a small bomb under the wings on the transport ship not far away under the orders of Li Liqian.

Although the power of these bombs is far less than the 1,600-pound bomb under the belly of the aircraft, the hulls of those transport ships are not much stronger. Moreover, due to the urgent time, Japan's political axe even recruited some civilian ships to participate in the operation.

Coupled with the strafing of fighter jets and bombers, some transport ships began to slowly sink.

A large number of Japanese devils screamed and dived to survive. They never thought they would encounter such a situation.

The pilots of the 98th Army were not rude people. They drove planes to dive and strafuse the Japanese on the sea.

Especially those naval soldiers, they were the key targets of their shooting.

For a moment, the sea water on the entire sea was almost stained with the blood of the Japanese, and the corpses and blood of the Japanese were everywhere, and the blood also attracted a large number of sharks.

When the pilots of the 98th Army found that their ammunition was almost the same, they began to retreat under the order of Li Liqian.

But they did not intend to let go of the remaining warships. They would quickly replenish ammunition and then come here for a second round of dive bombing.
Chapter completed!