Chapter 255 Submarine Confrontation

In order to ensure the maximum bombing intensity, the fighter jets driven by Zuo Yunfeng only carried more than a dozen machine gun bullets for air combat, and the rest carried bombs and torpedoes. Due to the heavy fog and the strike accuracy were very limited, the J-2 fighter jets carried mostly small bombs this time, with weights ranging from fifty kilograms to one hundred kilograms.

In addition to bombs, dive bombers all have two 250-kilogram torpedoes. Although the hit accuracy of this torpedo is much higher than that of the bomb, the weight of the torpedo warhead only accounts for about one-fifth of the total weight of the torpedo. Therefore, a 250-kilogram torpedo actually has only 50 kilograms of explosives. The damage ability after hitting the target is very limited. It is difficult to damage a heavy tonnage armored warship. [bsp;    While a 500-mm caliber torpedo is more than one ton, the warhead weighs only more than 200 kilograms, and a carrier-based aircraft can only hang at most one ton, which is obviously not cost-effective.

Although the power of small bombs is limited, the advantage of quantity can make up for the lack of visibility. A fighter can carry ten fifty kilogram bombs, and a bomber can carry ten fifty kilogram bombs and two torpedoes.

More than forty planes began to hover over the sky, each looking for targets. The anti-aircraft guns below were fired randomly into the sky, almost useless.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the bomb drop, the aircraft began to fly to the rear of the fleet and then dropped bombs in the direction of the fleet navigation, because the shells would have inertia to fly forward when they landed, and the ships were also sailing forward. In this way, after the degree of the two was offset, the relative degree would be smaller. Therefore, all pilots then began to choose this bombing method, fly to the back, and then dropped bombs in the front while flying.

"Boom boom boom boom boom..." A huge explosion sounded on the sea around the Japanese ship, causing huge splashes of water.

"Boom" a shell finally landed on the deck of a battleship.

"Ah" The bodies of several Japanese soldiers flew out and fell into the sea. A turret was blown apart, and debris were scattered on the deck, and a Japanese soldier was lying on the deck holding his bleeding thighs and screaming.

"Damn it, I don't know if it hits." The pilots could not see the target, and could only bomb according to the target position, movement direction and degree indicated by the radar. Most aircraft will start to reduce the flight altitude to increase the bombing hit rate.

After the subsequent bombing lasted for about twenty minutes, all the pilots' shells were dropped and they began to climb in formation and gradually left the airspace.

"What is the loss?" Yoshimatsu Shigetaro was not attacked on the command ship in the rear. When the group of Zhenzhao's planes left, he immediately asked.

"After receiving the reward, one destroyer was sunk, and another seriously injured a heavy cruiser, one destroyer, and the other slightly injured five warships." The statistics soon came out. Eight warships in the joint fleet were hit, and three warships that had lost their combat effectiveness were mostly small and medium-sized warships. Only one large warship was severely damaged, and the losses were not too great.

"The Chinese people hit the bombs with such a huge fog, and how they saw our warships was incredible," Yoshimatsu Shigetaro was very puzzled and frowned and exclaimed.

"Does the Chinese have other detection methods?" the adjutant was also speechless and immediately asked.

"Dropping bombs without seeing the opponent is like looking for a needle in a haystack. The Chinese must have other detection methods, otherwise such losses will never be caused." Yoshimatsu Shigetaro's face was pale, and he vaguely felt the danger of the Japanese fleet.

"Order the fleet to advance, and go through the fog area to pursue the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet." Shigetaro Yoshimatsu immediately ordered the fleet to pass through the fastest.

He knew that each bombing of the carrier-based aircraft of Jinzhao must be more than two hours apart, because in addition to flight time, the aircraft also needs to land and take off on the deck, and with the addition of ammunition and fuel, the time must be more than two hours. The Japanese fleet is advancing at a 50-kilometer magnitude, which takes about three hours to exit the fog area, which means it is likely to be bombed again and have no power to fight back.

The Japanese army immediately abandoned the seriously injured ships, and the rest of the ships continued to advance. When Ijiyuan Goro and Osbezov learned the news, they were also shocked and had to order six columns to keep up and pass through the fog area quickly to reduce casualties.

Then something happened that surprised the Japanese army again. After the bombing of the Shenzhou Flight Brigade was over and returned, about half an hour later, another flight brigade appeared, and the Japanese fleet suffered an inexplicable blow again. The loss this time was equivalent to the last time. The Japanese army lost two warships again, but none of them were the main warships. The losses of the two bombings were not too great to the Japanese army, less than one-tenth of the total number of ships in the joint fleet.

After two flight squadrons bombed two rounds in turn, the joint fleet dropped eight battleships, one of which was hit by a 10,000-ton battleship, lost its combat effectiveness, and the rest were small and medium-sized battleships.

Since it was bombing in the fog area, although the ZONE aircraft had radar to lock the target, the radar range measurement error had certain errors. Moreover, when it was near the target, the pilot could not see the target, and the bombing could only act according to the distance and angle, so the hit rate was much lower than that under normal circumstances. After four rounds of bombing, the effect was not as good as that of the normal round. However, bombing in the fog also protected the pilots, and the anti-aircraft guns of the joint fleet could basically not play a role. So far, only two fighter jets were slightly injured and were not seriously injured, and the rest of the fighter jets returned safely.

After Sa Zhenbing and Li Guoqiang learned that the results of the bombing in the fog were not ideal, they were also a little disappointed. They originally expected to consume more enemy ships, but the results were much worse than they expected. This also reflects that only actual combat can truly test the rationality and tactical effect of a tactic. Their previous expectations for bombing in the fog were obviously too high.

It was already ten:40 noon. At this time, the Japanese fleet forward was about to penetrate the fog area, and the heavy fog on the sea gradually began to dissipate, turning from thick fog to thin fog, with visibility reaching more than two hundred meters. The bombing in the fog was basically over. The subsequent battle must face the enemy's powerful anti-aircraft artillery fire.

In order to deal with the Jinzhan aircraft, the Japanese army installed a large number of anti-aircraft artillery on warships. One of the small ships was temporarily modified by civilian ships, and only equipped with anti-aircraft guns. Most of the other small and medium-sized ships were equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns. More than half of the anti-aircraft guns were installed on the ship in a hurry in recent days. The anti-aircraft guns on some small gunboats were originally used by the army and were moved directly to the ship. There was no fixed structure between them and the deck. They could be moved on the ship. Therefore, the accuracy of these anti-aircraft guns was also affected, but the number of anti-aircraft guns has also been greatly expanded.

The rapid increase in the number of anti-aircraft guns in the Japanese army was also due to the fact that Japan was deliberately trying to deal with China in recent years. Out of fear of China's helicopters, they deliberately launched a large number of anti-aircraft guns. However, they did not expect that the opponent they encountered was not the helicopters of the magnificent helicopters, but the new type of fighter jets. Therefore, these anti-aircraft guns were obviously behind in firing, and they were not good at dealing with slow helicopters, but they could only make up for the quality deficiency in dealing with high-speed fighters.

At this time, the twelve Tang-class submarines had arrived at the forefront of the Japanese fleet, among which four submarines of the Nanjing aircraft carrier formation were located on the left, approaching a column of a Japanese fleet and a column of the Russian Pacific fleet.

"The sonar appears to be a target of ten kilometers away, approaching us." The sonar monitor heard the sound of a Russian warship in the front.

"Judging by volume, this should be a big guy, and it is likely to be a 10,000-ton battleship. Judging from the orientation and navigation, it should be a surface ship." The sonar soldier continued.

"Advance, get close to the enemy ship, and continue to search for the enemy submarine location." Hao Xuanwei received the order to intercept Japanese submarines, and it is necessary to solve the biggest threat to the aircraft carrier, followed by warships.

But in fact, the Japanese submarine troops had already moved forward. A few dozen kilometers away from the front of the fleet, they were all concentrated in the middle of the Tsushima Strait and had already encountered another submarine troops in Zhen**, and the two sides had started fighting.

At this time, the twelve submarines had been used by the Japanese army as suicide attack methods. They knew that the detection methods were behind, and they could not get close to the Tang-class submarine to effectively strike. They could only take the chance to rush into their own torpedo range and shoot in-house torpedo attacks. The main task was to consume the submarine torpedo to reduce the losses of surface ships.

But after the twelve submarines were attacked by the first torpedo, they suddenly turned around and returned, which made the Zhen** submarine at a loss because their main mission was anti-submarines. The headquarters asked them to preserve their strength and try not to attack surface ships. Instead, they waited for the Japanese submarines to block them through the Tsuma Strait. As long as the submarines were eliminated, the greatest threat to the aircraft carrier would be lifted.

Then only one Japanese submarine was sunk, and the remaining eleven were all retreated, which made the submarine troops of Zhenzhang wonder. Although the Japanese ships had already approached one after another, their ammunition could not be consumed on the ship at will, otherwise the torpedo would be consumed, and the Japanese submarine suddenly entered the inner circle of the aircraft carrier's protective protective circuit, which would be difficult to stop.

"Captain, I just received the order and the superiors asked us to return immediately." The correspondent soldier informed Hao Xuanwei of an unexpected news.

"Why?" Hao Xuanwei immediately frowned and asked.

"This is how the above explains that the Japanese submarine force suddenly retreated to avoid our submarine pursuit. If our submarine goes too deep into the Tsuma Strait, it will lose protection for the aircraft carrier, so the headquarters ordered us to retreat with the aircraft carrier." The correspondent explained.
Chapter completed!