flstandardbreds Chapter 121 The Burning Fleet 3
Chapter 121 The Burning Fleet 3
After the fleet turned, a destroyer was in the front. At this moment, the captain, Lieutenant Commander Ryokichi Sugama, clearly saw through the telescope that there were several familiar figures flying towards the Yukikaze under his feet! (That is the Auspicious Yukikaze)
"There are two enemy planes in the airspace to the right! At an altitude of 400, there are three enemy planes in the airspace to the left! There are three dive bombers in the airspace to the left at an altitude of 3000!"
The observer kept reporting the situation on the battlefield. At this time, the Yukikaze had experienced several naval battles and encountered several air raids.
The ship now has eight 8mm single-barreled anti-aircraft guns, which is much better than the original design with only two anti-aircraft guns.
Of course, compared with the crazy anti-aircraft firepower after 1944, when the entire ship was filled with more than 20 anti-aircraft guns and 8 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns were installed, it was still much inferior.
By now, the Yukikaze is already somewhat famous in the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet, but has not yet reached the "auspicious" level of the later period.
"Boom boom boom!" The 25mm anti-aircraft gun blocked the advance routes of the three incoming Hellcat fighters.
The fast-moving Yukikaze has now distanced itself from the main fleet, as destroyers are fast to begin with!
In addition, with the large number of fighter planes attacking, it is also necessary to keep a distance from the ship to facilitate maneuvering and avoid the incoming bombs and torpedoes.
The Yukikaze and its two sister ships, Hayashio and Yushio, were guarding the battleship in the middle of the fleet from both the front and rear directions.
Gu Chunsheng was flying a Hellcat, and his flight path was right within the range of the Yukikaze's anti-aircraft firepower.
Before the outbreak of the war, Gu Chunsheng was still a student at a national high school. The outbreak of the war caused him to lose both his parents within just two years.
He was left with only an 8-year-old sister to depend on. In the end, he sold his property and sent his sister back to his grandfather's home in Sichuan Province to ask them to help take care of her.
At the same time, he gave all his money to the two elders, and went to the Central Aviation School which had just established a branch in the southwest.
It was there that he became a pilot of the Chinese Air Force, but as the war continued, many of his classmates and seniors from the same period or previous periods died in the sky.
But he himself survived because he was the only son in the family, so the captain would take care of him as much as possible in every battle.
He usually didn't get to take on those dangerous missions, and he just watched his comrades die on the battlefield one after another until it was finally his turn.
There are less than 30 aircraft capable of taking off in the entire Chinese Air Force, most of which are trainer aircraft used to train pilots.
Watching the Japanese fighter planes flying across the Chinese sky, as a pilot I could only watch the enemy showing off their might from the ground.
In fact, Gu Chunsheng knew that the Air Force was not short of funds, and the funds in the Air Force’s account could even purchase thousands of fighter jets.
However, China was sanctioned by the whole world, and they had money but could not buy it. Later, these funds, most of which came from donations from overseas Chinese, began to be coveted.
Soon, this huge sum of money disappeared, and no one could tell where it went.
The 78th Army that suddenly appeared last year announced the return of the Chinese army with its horrific combat record that shocked all Chinese people.
These air force athletes who had not flown in the blue sky for a long time saw hope again. He still remembers that day when there were hundreds of pilots in their group.
When he arrived at Guancenshan Air Force Base on a transport plane of the 78th Army Air Force, he was deeply attracted by the situation there.
Hundreds of aircraft of various types were parked neatly on the runway and in the hangars beside the airport, with one or two flying across the sky from time to time.
It was there that Gu Chunsheng saw the hope for the revival of the Chinese Air Force, and later he joined the 78th Army Aviation Brigade without hesitation.
The Nationalist government only used one hundred fighter planes and gave them all to the 78th Army. Of course, this was what they wanted in their hearts.
In the following period, he flew several models of advanced fighter planes in the skies of northwest Shanxi and North China, defeating the Japanese Army Air Force that once showed off their power over him.
Later, he had the honor to participate in the bombing of Tokyo, which he personally felt was the most glorious moment of his life. He flew a B29 and dropped bombs on the Japanese Imperial Palace. He felt that at that moment his parents' souls were comforted and liberated!
They defeated the proud and arrogant Japanese Army Air Force. Today, the Chinese Air Force will announce to the world that Japan's most proud Combined Fleet will also burn and sink under the mighty power of the Chinese Air Force!
顾春生驾驶的这架地狱猫，F6F战斗机机翼中装有4挺12.7毫米勃朗宁M-2机枪，配弹2400发，同时还配备了两门20毫米机炮。
The fighter jet is also equipped with six rockets under its belly, and of course it can also carry an aerial bomb with a maximum weight of 6 kilograms.
At this moment, the Hellcat fighter was close to the sea surface, and it was planning to launch a side attack on the Japanese light cruiser on the right.
As for the Kagero-class destroyer Yukikaze that was now firing shells at him, he chose to ignore it.
Gu Chunsheng did not want to waste ammunition on this destroyer weighing more than 1,000 tons. In fact, his target was the behemoth weighing more than 30,000 tons.
But this guy is escorted in the middle, and now he can only target this light cruiser with a tonnage of about 5000.
"Boom boom boom" the 20mm anti-aircraft gun on the Yukikaze destroyer kept spitting out shells, but the fighter plane was tightly attached to the sea surface, at a very low altitude.
It was as if a wave would be swallowed by the sea, and its target did not seem to be itself. Lieutenant Colonel Ryokichi Sugama observed the flight trajectory of the fighter plane through a telescope and judged that its target should not be itself.
Moreover, it will soon enter the blind spot of most of its own anti-aircraft guns, and only the 20mm single-barreled anti-aircraft gun at the rear of the ship can continue to fire.
As his eyes followed the silhouette of the Chinese fighter plane flying close to the sea, Ryokichi Suga saw the Tama light cruiser less than a nautical mile behind it on the left.
The Tama was a second generation Japanese Kuma-class light cruiser.
The Kuma-class light cruiser was the first 5-ton light cruiser built by the Japanese Navy after the Tenryu-class light cruiser. It was one of the five ships in the nine light cruisers planned for construction in the sixth year of the Taisho era.
其标准排水量从天龙级的3千吨跃升到5千吨，最大航速由33节提升到36节，是日本后续建造5千吨级轻型巡洋舰的标准样板。
At this moment, due to the problem of line of sight and observation angle, the Tama did not notice the Hellcat fighter flying close to the sea.
At this moment, dozens of anti-aircraft guns on the ship were firing at the dive bombers in the sky. Those guys and the torpedo bombers flying close to the sea in the distance were the most deadly.
Basically, all large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are used to deal with such guys. As for those fighter jets flying around, they have the choice to give up. After all, their threat is not great.
But they didn't see the six rockets mounted under the belly of this Hellcat.
Even if these six rockets hit a 5000-ton battleship, they would not cause fatal damage, because the Hellcat has never aimed to sink or severely damage these large battleships.
Their role is to use rockets and machine guns to destroy the anti-aircraft firepower points on the ship. When their anti-aircraft firepower points are destroyed, these big guys become living targets for bombers and torpedo planes.