The air defense network will not last long. Our fighter defense has been saturated. Order the fleet to prepare for air defense!" Mitchell looked at the Japanese bomber group that had already spread across the defense line. All warships have taken action, three aircraft carriers and battleships are at the core position, and the periphery is a wheeled air defense array composed of a large number of destroyers. One cannon is aimed at the Japanese bomber group that was hiding from the sky. They want to reproduce 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 had their own methods, but the British did not have time to perform in the war. However, in the distant Pacific region, the British got the opportunity. In the end, more than 70 various aircraft successfully crossed the interception of fighter jets. The Japanese land-based aviation elite who had been hiding for a long time finally showed their sharp fangs!

"They are coming to us!" The DD221 destroyer, which is on the outermost side, has become the first breakwater facing the Japanese bomber troops! Unlike the previous methods of Japanese bombers choosing to cross the air defense firepower network of frigates to directly attack the main battleship, the Japanese are preparing to start from the outermost layer and make a way out!

"These guys are so crazy!" Looking at the Japanese attack plane flying up against the sea in the distance, all the artillery and machine guns on the side of the destroyer dd221 opened fire frantically. Countless shells fired a series of water columns, large or small, on the sea surface. Sometimes the densely falling shells even formed a water wall!

Boom! With a loud bang, a Japanese twin-engine bomber in the front was hit by a 5-inch shell. The shell weighing more than 20 kilograms hit the base of the left wing of the Japanese bomber like a heavy hammer. With the explosion of several kilograms of explosives, the huge power directly removed the entire wing from the body. Then, the plane hit the sea water head-on, and the huge impact made the plane smash to pieces. However, before the Americans could celebrate their achievements, more and more new enemy planes were approaching!

Dada, accompanied by the roar of large-caliber machine guns and machine guns, two twin-engine bombers frantically straited the deck of the DD221 destroyer with crossfire power less than 400 meters. Machine guns and machine guns with more than double-digit numbers can fire hundreds of various shells and guns every second. A dense rain of bullets swept across the deck. A team of unavoidable American Navy soldiers were instantly swept the way, and various colors of internal organs and blood splattered onto the deck and deck, turning the originally neat deck like a slaughterhouse.

As the distance narrowed, the Japanese attacks became even more crazier. In just a dozen seconds, thousands of rounds of ammunition landed on the small boat that was only a few dozen meters long. Large-caliber bullets and artillery shells formed honeycombs, gun positions and chimneys, and even the incendiary bombs of the machine guns set a small fire on the surface of the hull.

The originally dense air defense firepower suffered heavy losses in this tragic attack. The thin shield was broken, and behind it were incomplete weapons and corpses. Although the hull structure was still complete, the air defense firepower of the ship was considered useless.

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

More than ten seconds later, a bomb landed near the chimney of the destroyer dd221. The bomb with more than 50kg of charge directly completely destroyed the chimney and the boiler warehouse in the lower part! Although the dd221 was still floating on the water, it was just a dead fish. However, this destroyer was not the first American destroyer to sink in this battle. The Dd112 destroyer next to it was hit by a 250kg high-explosion bomb a few minutes ago. The violent explosion directly blew the destroyer into two pieces. With the battle sinking of the two destroyers, the outer air defense net of the US fleet was opened! The remaining Japanese aircraft group entered the gap and rushed towards the innermost American aircraft carriers and battleships!

"Give orders to all aircraft carriers, telling them to disband the formation and act alone 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 team and hurriedly ordered. A few minutes later, the Japanese bomber group collided with the strongest air defense warship in the United States - the improved battleship!

"Fire!" The battleship Arizona blocked the Japanese aircraft group and the Independent aircraft carrier. In order to resist the Japanese air strikes, the Americans on the Arizona suffered from phobia of insufficient vitality. Not only did they not familiar with at least two anti-aircraft gun arrays in the open space in the middle of the hull, they even placed a large number of gun positions at the beginning and end of the battleship. For example, in front of the turret A, the Americans arranged four dual-mounted 28mm machine shooting gun positions. At the end of the turret d, the Americans also temporarily placed more than two-digit machine guns in the place where the seaplanes were parked! Even on the turret, the Americans arranged machine guns at any time!

In the middle of the largest hull space, the open-air deck is a mixed gun array of 28mm and 40mm machine guns. 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 some artillery mirrors on the deck to assist in air shooting. On a battleship, anti-aircraft guns of various calibers and anti-aircraft machine guns of various calibers even exceeded 3 digits!

No matter what these weapons can hit under bad fire control, think about the fact that you want to fly an airplane through this moving "active volcano" can make more than 70% of the pilots feel scared! However, in fact, in this naval battle, the American battleships did play a mainstay in the air defense firepower of the inner circle of the fleet! They successfully blocked the Japanese's attack for more than 20 minutes!

"The American air defense system is very efficient, with fragile aircraft carriers protecting the middle. On the left is a battleship or other main warships, on the right are about 3 destroyers, and on the right are about 5 warships forming a small team, which is very close, so that 40mm machine guns can support each other. In this case, if we rashly attack the American aircraft carrier in the core position, we will be attacked by air defense firepower from all directions. Therefore, our previous research result is that we must break a certain side of the turtle shell to attack the aircraft carrier in the core position." A Japanese naval officer recalled this after the war.
Chapter completed!