It is the most advanced reconnaissance and command unit.

The S-10ZC large patrol aircraft is usually equipped with four sets of wireless motors and three sets of surveillance and photography devices, and needs to cruise at low speeds above. Generally, there will be 12-14 people, including the captain, crew and pilot, and five people are responsible for taking turns.

Observing the sea surface, reconnaissance ships and floating submarines, as submarines today usually do not have long-term submarine capabilities, this large patrol aircraft is almost an invincible submarine killer.

It gradually came to afternoon. Due to the long sailing, the crew members were already very tired and no abnormalities were found. No one thought that the Japanese Navy would go south on a large scale in such a short time.

Guo Haiqing carefully checked all the sea maps in the cabin. He felt that the sea areas where the Japanese Navy could go south were already very narrow, but he could only walk the Sailan Sea route.

If the Japanese Navy wants to further attack the Dutch Navy, whether it is really going to attack the opponent or threaten, it always needs to approach the waters of Jakarta. However, the Japanese Navy has only five roads to enter this area. The first road is to go south directly from the Strait of Malacca.

The possibility is not high, because neither China, the United States, Britain and Japan will indulge the Japanese navy to pass; the second route is the Makassar Strait, which is even more impossible. The reason why the empire wanted to control Kalimantan and Sulawesi at the beginning was the goal.

It is to control the Makassar Strait; the third road is in the western part of the Selang Sea, which is close to the Imperial Siouxun Naval Base, which is less likely; the fourth road is to bypass the Moluca Islands from the eastern part of the Selang Sea, from Ban

Enter the southern sea area of ​​the Hainan region and bypass the Chinese Navy's aviation reconnaissance area; the fifth route is to directly bypass the entire New Guinea and detour from the Timor Sea to Indonesia.

Overall, Guo Haiqing believes that the Japanese Navy is more likely to adopt the fourth route, which is also the only reasonable route. On this sea route, the Imperial Navy can only detect opponents by submarines and large patrol aircraft, and a large number of seaplanes cannot

Sailing so far.

There is still a big difference between the large patrol aircraft at this stage and the later electronic reconnaissance aircraft. A large number of calculations require the commander to be responsible for themselves on the front line. Each captain needs extremely rich experience. The patrol aircraft does not have radar installed.

Although the Empire already has the first generation of large-scale carrier-based and roadbed radars, since the current radar technology is mainly based on vacuum tubes and electronic tubes, the volume and operating power are huge, and the development of miniaturized airborne radars is carried out simultaneously with the S-15.

He just served in the Air Force at the beginning of the year, and the Navy has not yet been installed.

The surveillance system of the S-10ZC large patrol aircraft is an optical instrument with a focus adjustment capability of 2.5 to 10 times. It can observe the sea area on a large scale, but can only work normally during the day.

At 2.34 pm, the SNY40315 patrol plane arrived at the designated area of ​​Casivi Island and continued to head south to the Taninbar Islands. It was shortly after leaving the waters of Casivi Island, at 2.41 pm, at 132 degrees east longitude and 5.5 degrees south latitude

Observers found two suspicious ships in the sea area.

After the observer reported, all the members of the aircraft were nervous and seemed to be excited.

Guo Haiqing went to the telescope to observe and set the focal length farther. Based on his understanding of Japanese naval ships, he can basically confirm that these are two Japanese Nagano-class heavy cruisers, which is the process of Japan competing with Fushun-class heavy armored cruisers.

The heavy cruiser built in China is also the most powerful class among Japanese naval cruisers.

Nagano-class heavy cruisers, like Fushun-class, are basically small-caliber main gun pocket-scarce battleships, with a standard displacement of 9,730 British tons. There is also information to prove that the design displacement of this class of cruisers exceeds 10,500 British tons, just to meet the Washington

According to the Navy Treaty, it claimed that it had a standard displacement of only 9,730 tons. The four ships in active service, Nagano, Nagaoka, Maebashi and Kashizaki, confronted four Fushun-class heavy armored cruisers of the Chinese Navy.

The two cruisers are advancing southwest at a high speed of about 20 nautical miles per hour. According to this direction, Guo Haiqing believes that the two heavy cruisers of the Japanese army are going to break through the warning network of China's naval aviation forces, detour near the sea and enter the Dutch navy line, and oppose the Dutch navy.

Implement warnings and provoke larger conflicts.

Guo Haiqing quickly reported this situation to the Sucheng Naval Base and asked the naval base to send a patrol aircraft to replace SNY40315.

Although the large transport aircraft was flying at an altitude of 1,200 meters in the sky, the rumbling sound was still astonishing. It was not difficult to find that the two Japanese Navy ships also discovered the SNY40315 patrol aircraft.

In more than ten minutes, the naval base sent a designated address to the SNY40315 patrol aircraft, and SNY40315 organized an interception and warning nearby, so that the Japanese Navy could not be allowed to cross the Banda Sea to face the Dutch Navy directly.

Faced with such a reckless order, Guo Haiqing had no choice but to accept it. After radio contact in the surrounding area, he could soon confirm that there were two submarines and a destroyer in the surrounding waters, and he could reach this waters in about two hours.

At the Sioux City Naval Base, a spare S-10ZC large patrol aircraft is taking off, and another light cruiser that is closest to will arrive.

Guo Haiqing ordered the crew to lower the flight altitude, warns of circumferential low-altitude flights in an altitude of 800 meters, requiring the other side's fleet to stop sailing or return.

At this moment, the two heavy cruisers of the Japanese Navy accelerated at the same time and rushed southwest at the maximum speed. In order to stop the Japanese Navy, Guo Haiqing was forced to continue to lower the flight altitude and disturb the other side with a more dangerous low-altitude navigation.

The aircraft gradually lowered its altitude, only 600 meters away from the sea surface. Such an altitude is very dangerous for large transport aircraft. Guo Haiqing temporarily decided to serve as the co-pilot himself and cooperated with the pilot to continue to lower the altitude, trying to force it with this dangerous flight.

The opponent returns the same way.

Guo Haiqing himself is also a very excellent pilot. He was born in the Air Force and received a first-class gold medal in the Sino-Soviet air battle. After reducing the power of the propeller as much as possible, he kept the aircraft at a low speed and sailing at a low altitude.

, but this is only relative to its own speed. Compared with the two cruisers of the Japanese Navy, the speed of the reconnaissance aircraft is still very amazing.

When the Imperial Navy Aviation Regiment's large S-10ZC patrol aircraft roared past the front for the first time, the roaring sound made the Japanese Navy soldiers extremely frightened. For a moment, neither of the crew on these two heavy cruisers did it.

There was no reaction, but the Japanese Navy did not continue to stop moving forward, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Seeing that the warning was invalid, Guo Haiqing, as the captain, also didn't know how to choose for a while. He had two choices. One was to continue tracking until the second patrol aircraft, the destroyer in the nearby waters and the Xilingol-class cruiser.

Arrive; another option to give a higher warning again.

After a brief thought, Guo Haiqing chose to continue to warn him that this time, he would still fly from the front of the two cruisers, with the lowest altitude of about 400 meters.

Guo Haiqing planned very well, and believed that this distance was not enough to make the Japanese Navy misjudgment and lose control, but just as he ordered the driver to turn the direction for a long time, the fuselage suddenly shook violently, and there were several anti-aircraft aircraft continuously.

The shells were shot into the cabin.

Such emergencies shocked the crew on the entire plane. No one expected that the Japanese Navy would use anti-aircraft guns regardless of the risk of being eliminated because of this little thing.

A large hole was penetrated on the left wing of the ship, and the plane lost its balance.

The patrol aircraft was shaking violently in the air. From Guo Haiqing's perspective, the tail of the left wing had been significantly deformed and upturned. The pressure of the wing load was likely to shred the wings. He immediately asked the driver to slow down the speed, but

The fuel tank in the wings also ruptured, and the aviation kerosene was ignited during the leakage, and the fire quickly spread throughout the wings.

As the co-pilot, Guo Haiqing quickly took fire protection measures to throw out all the fuel in the left wing mailbox to prevent the fire from spreading. However, as the anti-aircraft guns of Japanese ships continued to attack, they also had to quickly turn and accelerate to avoid these attacks.

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The early patrol aircraft are far from comparable to the electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the future. A series of measures have been taken in succession, but the aircraft still cannot avoid the misfortune of falling. Guo Haiqing could only order the crew to parachute the skydiving urgently, and he

He turned and circled around the air with the driver.

At this moment, he knew that the plane could not land safely, and there was no suitable emergency landing location in the nearby waters. In a state of hatred, he decided to fly the plane and directly crash into the Japanese warship.

The experience of air combat during the Sino-Soviet War made him very different from the patrol captain of the ordinary naval aviation regiment. He knew very well that his mission was to stop the Japanese Navy from advancing southwest and delay the Japanese Navy's pace until a new patrol aircraft arrived.

At this moment, there is only one way to complete the task, and then directly hit the Japanese warship, although this probability is basically equivalent to hitting a tree ten kilometers away with a shell.

First-class military literacy and calmness cultivated in the war made Guo Haiqing choose the most likely method. He asked the pilot to control the plane and turn left, detour the back of two Nagano-class heavy cruisers, and attack from the stern.

The ship sails forward at a high speed, and the probability of the aircraft rear-end from behind is the highest. If it hits from the side or in front, the high speed of the two is extremely likely to pass by the aircraft, or even a distance of hundreds of meters.

When he turned to the back of the Japanese warship, Guo Haiqing lowered the speed limit of the aircraft and used four aviation cannons to strafuse the Japanese ship at the same time, suppressing the Japanese ship's high-fire firepower as much as possible. He chose the best solution in an instant.

Because the anti-aircraft cannons of Nagano-class heavy cruisers are almost all concentrated on the middle and front side, the anti-aircraft escort ability in the rear side is almost zero.

This was actually a very fast moment, and it was more than 100 meters per second. The two heavy cruisers of the Japanese Navy, one behind quickly realized the intention of the Chinese patrol aircraft and hurriedly tried to turn.

The rudder uses anti-aircraft guns on the flank side to intercept patrol aircraft, but the patrol aircraft is not an ordinary aircraft and cannot be destroyed by several anti-aircraft shells.

This is a military transport aircraft carrying more than 10 tons, which is not even comparable to that of the general large bomber in the late stage of World War I. The performance of the Japanese Navy's 37mm Hatchcas anti-aircraft gun is not very good, a significant

The disadvantage is that the rate of fire is too slow, and the two shots that initially hit the SNY40315 patrol aircraft have a relatively low probability.

The key is that the time is too short.

Just a moment.

The patrol aircraft SNY40315 was lucky enough to hit the chimney of the Nagaoka heavy cruiser and the left side of the boat on the left side. The fuel tank on the right exploded instantly, blowing the chimney and the upper deck of the boiler cabin, causing

The entire boiler suffered heavy damage, the steam pipeline cracked, the scorching hot air roared inside the cabin, and the deck was burning with flames.

The Nagaoka heavy cruiser itself did not suffer a devastating blow, but the power system was accidentally washed away, and the warship slowly stopped on the sea, and the rolling smoke spread out on the sea, leaving with the wind, which was the best.
Chapter completed!