"Look, our bomber is here!" A reconnaissance pilot said, looking at the aircraft group entering the battlefield at an altitude of 3,000 meters in the distance. Two hours after the two sides discovered each other, that is, around 10 o'clock in the morning, the attack cluster of Constellations finally flew over the target!

"Prepare to launch an attack!" At this time, the 28 various carrier-based aircraft of the German Navy Air Force had discovered Japanese warships sailing on the sea. In addition to 4 aircraft preparing to deal with possible Japanese seaplanes, the remaining 24 bombers were divided into two pairs, one team of 16 rushed towards the Takachiho and two Japanese destroyers, while the other team of 8 rushed towards the Tianlong light cruiser.

"Damn it! What's the situation?" When Saburo Yukio saw the black dots moving at high speed in the air in the distance, he suddenly felt dizzy. He never dreamed that when he was ready to fight with the Germans with bayonets, he saw that the first wave of attacks of the Germans would fall from the sky!

To be honest, it is not a rare thing to attack warships, but in the depths of this ocean where there is no village in front of the village and no shop behind the shop, it is a world news! He really didn't expect that these planes really did not fly over. Judging from this number, if you rely on seaplane motherships, there must be at least 4 ships stacked! When did the Germans deploy so many seaplane motherships in the Indian Ocean?

"The fleet is ready to defend air defense!" Baiwu Saburo ordered, however, as an old quasi-dreadnought, let alone the complex air shooting control system, the Japanese did not even install a few anti-aircraft guns on it! Although the Tianlong next to it was smaller, the elevation angle of the 140mm cannon on it was quite large. Although the firing rate was not very good and the spiral speed was worse, it could at least strengthen the courage to the air.

While the two Japanese ships were terrified to prepare for the air strike, the Germans' first stick directly hit Takachiho and the two destroyers!

The 16 bombers were directly divided into 4 groups to launch air strikes. The 7,000-ton seaplane carrier became the first directory to be attacked in a concentrated manner. There were not many rapid-fire guns and machine guns on it, sprinkling loose barrage into the air. The two destroyers also provided cover on the left and right, forming a crossfire.

However, without effective fire control and air shooting is almost automatically estimated by the operator, such a not-intensive barrage has indeed been very limited. A series of shells and machine gun bullets are flying in the air, but there is no threat to the bomber that dives from the air.

The Germans' bombing accuracy was still very high. For this seaplane with a speed of only 15 knots at this time, the Germans chose to enter the battlefield from the rear of the warship. The experienced pilots controlled the aircraft's speed to about 90 kilometers per hour, and tried to make the flight path coincide with the Japanese hull.

As the pilot pulled down the bomb drop handle, two 300kg bombs roared from the 200-meter sky, almost covering the hull of Takachiho into the water. The sensitive fuse was detonated while the warhead was in contact with the sea. Hundreds of kilograms of explosives detonated 5 meters after the bomb entered the water. Huge columns of water soared into the sky, even covering most of the pulling hull of Takachiho.

The energy generated by the explosion quickly spread around the sea water. One of them exploded 25 meters away from the stern of the Kaochihoe. The huge shock wave easily tore off a rudder on the stern and the propeller on one side. The high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor and debris also hit the area where the stern was almost unprepared. The Japanese at the stern felt a sudden jump from the rear of the hull. Then, the entire hull plate was knocked into pieces by the shock wave. Along with a series of tooth-inspiring metal twisting and collision sounds, a crack of more than 4 meters was torn open at the tail of the hull. In a very short time, hundreds of tons of sea water poured into it, and the stern sank immediately sank.

Another bomb was even more deadly, detonating in the seawater 15 meters outside the power cabin in the middle of the hull of the Japanese warship! If the explosion energy generated by the first bomb made the warship feel kicked hard in the back, then after the bomb went down, it would be like a person stabbed in the abdomen! The powerful shock wave cut the hull in the middle of the hull. With a sound of collapse and collapse, countless fragments pierced the compartment outside the power cabin. Then, hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the boiler cabin, and the steaming boiler and pipeline exploded instantly when it came into contact with the cold sea water! A large amount of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor was sprayed out from the constraints of the pipeline, and they pushed the debris to scatter the boiler cabin without any dead ends!

Soon, explosions could be heard on the entire ship, and flames and thick smoke spread from the middle and lower part of the hull. About 60% of the cabins of the entire warship began to be engulfed by flames, water vapor and smoke. Even in the air, German bombers could see the flames and thick smoke from the broken hull.

"This guy is finished." A German pilot who had just finished throwing the bomb said with great satisfaction as he looked at his masterpiece. "Let's make some trouble for those boats!" The German pilots after completing the air strike did not intend to retreat. They targeted two Japanese destroyers.

When the second round of bombers continued to attack the Takachiho seaplane mothership, the first wave of German fighters who had dropped the bomb began to use machine guns and machine guns to strait Japanese destroyers that were hiding wildly on the sea! It has to be said that the shallow dive bombing in this era was indeed difficult to deal with destroyers. The two destroyers accelerated their speed to more than 27 knots, fleeing wildly on the sea like two flying fish. From time to time, a bunch of shells and bullets were flying in the air, driving away the god of death from the sky.

"Get closer! Press the distance to 200 meters before firing! Don't be afraid of the young man!" An old bird said loudly to the wingman beside him, and then the plane rolled gently and rushed towards the destroyer on the sea with a whistling sound of wind. At this moment, he once again found the feeling of shooting Russian ground troops on the Eastern Front.

Facing the predator coming from the air, the Japanese destroyer targeted constantly made high-speed S-move on the sea. The irregular dodge had already allowed it to dodge at least 2 bombs and 3 rounds of strafing. However, this time, it encountered an old bird.

The pilot steadily controlled the flight posture of the plane. The bullets fired from the destroyer formed two fire snakes flying up and down around the plane. However, this did not make him feel threatened, like an assassin dancing on the tip of a knife. The j-3s fighter finally approached the target almost close to the sea. When the German pilot could even see the frightened expression of the Japanese on the deck, a 20mm machine gun and two 12.7mm machine guns roared!
Chapter completed!