Chapter 788 Crying Apennine 5

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"Open the way, I'm going to take off."

"Tower, Sparrow 9 is ready, please take off."

The sudden enemy made the two aircraft carriers mess up. The dive bombers and torpedo planes that were going to take off to help Li Xiuyan were pushed to both sides of the deck one after another in order to make room for the fighters to take off first. The two aircraft carriers and four elevators kept holding the fighters in the hangar that did not need to be dispatched. Come up.

Nervous, busy and have many mistakes, and even a little messy.

It is undeniable that such a large-scale invading enemy does make everyone a little confused, but it is also full of excitement in the chaos, because this is the first time that a fighter jet has set out quickly to carry out a long-range interception mission since the aircraft carrier was put into service, and everyone believes that this interception battle can definitely summarize a lot for the future aircraft carrier application. New experience, so those low-browed fighter pilots are as fast as chicken blood.

Only Jiang Sihai in the flight control tower frowned secretly. To be honest, maybe the war was too smooth. He really didn't expect Italy to be so determined. You know, from the nearest Italian land to arrive here, it will fly at the speed of Caproni Ca36 and the export version of Falcon for at least an hour, which shows that this wave The enemy took off in the dark in the early morning.

Jiang Sihai looked at the injured Yin Shang. He knew very well how difficult it was to find the enemy in the vast sea in the darkness before dawn, so from the time, the enemy may have landed in the 21st Squadron and found the fleet, but the bomber had actually set out at that time.

It can use bombers before the enemy is found, and it is so generous that it can be seen that there is another capable person in the Italian army who is proficient and very good at taking advantage of aviation! Now an aircraft carrier is temporarily unable to go to war, and there are only 40 bumblebees left in its hand. No matter how strong the ability is in the face of more than 200 enemy aircraft, it is not enough. The enemy has a more than 50% chance to approach the fleet. So should the Longya torpedo aircraft also join the air defense?

"Four Seas, how's the situation?"

Just as he was about to send an attack aircraft as a temporary anti-aircraft force, there was an inquiry behind him, and he turned his head to see that Commander Gu had come in with several officers.

"I report to the commander that the Sparrow Squad has stopped the enemy aircraft so far, but the number of enemy aircraft is very large, and I'm afraid our number of fighters is insufficient." Jiang Sihai hesitated for a moment and said again, "So we plan to let the attack aircraft temporarily act as an anti-aircraft fighter, but then we can't support the battleship squadron."

"That won't work." A staff officer next to him shook his head and said, "Mr. Li will call. At present, he has merged with the Austro-Hungarian battleships to attack the remaining Italian fleet. We urgently need to stop David Betty's three Queen Elizabeth-class battleships. These three are absolutely the main forces of the British navy. I'm afraid if we let them go back to the mountain."

"But our anti-aircraft fighters are not enough, and it is observed that Caproni Ca36 is carrying torpedoes, which will cause some damage to the fleet, so I think." Seeing that Jiang Sihai and the staff couldn't argue, Gu Junhuo also made difficulties. According to the tactical manual, the aircraft carrier was attacked by an aircraft must first solve its own defense, but the opportunity is rare. Three Queen Elizabeth are 200 kilometers away. If you miss this opportunity, you don't know how much effort it will take to kill Betty, so he He still decided to take a risk and wait for the attack squadron to take off to attack Betty's fleet immediately after the fighter departed.

Even if Jiang Sihai does not agree with this plan, since the commander has decided, he must faithfully implement it. What's more, he still has an advantage. Even if the Italian aircraft breaks through the air interception by speed, the anti-aircraft firepower of the fleet itself is enough to deal with these old slow ones. It's a biplane.

After a while, all 32 Bumblebees left the aircraft carrier and flew to the Italian bombers, and the fleet immediately sailed to the northeast at full speed. Although this may not necessarily get rid of the Italian bombers, it can at least provide enough time for the fleet's air defense preparation

..“ Here we are."

"Free hunting, don't let them get close to the fleet."

When 32 F4C Hornet fighters arrived in the belligerent airspace, everyone was shocked by the size of the Italian cluster. In the overwhelming fleet of imitation Falcon and Caproni Ca36, 8 previous take-off partners rushed left and right, and in the hissing of machine guns, one Italian bomber after another. He was hit and fell into the sea.

Without any hesitation, 32 Hornets immediately rushed to the bomber group. Even if there was no opponent, these fighter pilots knew very well that as a barrier to the fleet's air defense, the first target was a Caproni Ca36 bomber with aerial torpedoes in the fleet.

A series of shells burst out of the nose, and the Caproni Ca36 bitten by Rowe fell apart without any fight at all. The torpedo under the abdomen was also swept by machine gun bullets, turning into a fireball to erase the last hope of the Italian pilot in the cockpit.

After completing the attack, Rowe pulled up the fuselage again to find the next target, but the Italian pilots seemed to know that they could not beat the opponent, so they suddenly dispersed with the advantage of quantity. Although the 40 bumblebees tried to intercept, some of them still began to fly to the fleet 30 kilometers away.

Just as Rowe locked a Caponi Ca36 rushing to the front, a scene from the corner of his eyes almost made him hold the pole. He saw that the brother who had just shot down a bomber had not been pulled up, and five imitation Falcon fighters were sneaked behind him.

Falcon is the first generation fighter of the Xinhua Air Force, and the Dragon Wing has also prepared a small number of naval models. Although this fighter is outdated in China and does not even want the National Guard Air Defense Regiment to be formed, it is a good plane comparable to a camel or a Red Baron in Europe.

And compared with single-wing aircraft, the biplane is not bad in terms of flexibility and steering ability, so if Luo Jun pulls the distance, he is not worried at all, but the problem is that he just shot down a Caproni Ca36 at this time. In order to avoid the fragments of the bomber, he also evaded to the left, so that the distance is not only The distance is getting closer.

"Brother, be careful!"

Seeing that Luo Jun was surrounded, Luo Wei was so anxious that he didn't care about intercepting the bomber. He suddenly pushed the oil rod to the end, and the bumblebee who sat down quickly rushed there after a hiss.

"You son of a bitch, you want to hit me!"

"Dog said, come on!"

"Five me, you really come!"

The Luo army was surrounded by five falcons and could not get rid of it for a while. He was anxious and cursed while looking for a way to get out. But he seemed to see the situation here, and two Italian imitation falcons flew this way. In the sound of machine guns, Luo Jun rushed left and right to try to get rid of these guys as soon as possible.

Just as he found a gap and was ready to pull up at speed, a series of pops suddenly sounded from his ear. He only saw that the left wing was bitten a few times by bullets. When the black smoke began to come out of there, the fuselage began to shake gradually. "Brother!" Seeing the smoke of Luo Jun's fighter plane, Luo Wei's anxious eyes turned red. He gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger and tore the nearest falcon into pieces.

Luo Wei's sudden relief made Luo Jun, but the trauma of the wings made him unable to fight anymore, so he could only fly to a destroyer in the distance. A moment later, a white umbrella flower appeared between the sea and the sky

.. Although the fighters intercepted like crazy, due to the large number and the discovery that the distance was too close to get enough air interception time, many Italian bombers broke through the fighter air defense circle and approached the fleet.

Looking at these approaching Caproni Ca36 bombers, Jiang Sihai showed a ferocious smile on the corners of his mouth. As a fleet aircraft carrier flight officer, he will automatically become the air defense commander of the whole fleet when he encounters the enemy's air attack. This is because no one is better at using and understanding aircraft than him.

"Fire."

The Xi'an-class large cruiser, the core of the fleet's air defense, took the lead in firing. As a large-scale cruiser that regarded air defense and protection and accompanying aircraft carriers as the first goal at the beginning of its design, the Xi'an-class is the first warship to set up two air defense command towers, equipped with special air defense observation and command equipment, and in the anti-aircraft gun. The layout has also been re-optimized.

The Xi'an class did not install the L52/152mm secondary gun with stronger cross-shore/sea capability, but chose 6 double 47/130mm high-level dual-purpose guns. In addition, it was the first warship in the navy to be equipped with 8 double L55/76mm rapid-fire high-level dual-level guns, plus 1 used at close range. Two quadruple 37mm rapid-fire guns, 12 quadruple 25mm machine guns, and 12 double 12.7mm Viper anti-aircraft machine guns are no different from the Hedgehog. In terms of air defense alone, because the newly equipped 76mm rapid-fire gun is faster than the 130mm high-level dual-purpose gun used by the light cruiser, the air defense capability of a Xi'an-class is equivalent to 3.5 Yangtze-class light cruisers. When all its air defense firepower is turned on, even Xinhua's own ace pilots should be careful. Wings.

It was followed by more than a dozen light cruisers and destroyers. A large number of 37mm multi-loaded machine guns they were equipped with became the main force of air defense. In an instant, the fleet was full of bursting smoke.

"Be careful, torpedo!"

Two cardoni Ca36s finally dropped torpedoes with difficulty. The black 450mm black-headed torpedoes drew two white tails on the sea. Unfortunately, the fleet in front of them was sailing at full speed at this time. Even the three aircraft carriers reached a high speed of 30 knots, and the maximum speed of the blackhead torpedo was less than 3. About 5 knots, although struggling to chase, because the bomb was too far away, it finally ran out of fuel and was destroyed by the rapid-fire machine gun.

The Italian pilot pulled up the plane in frustration and was ready to leave, but the fire tongue suddenly gushed out from all over the aircraft carrier suddenly chilled his back.

"Maria is on top! It turns out that the fucking Chinese aircraft carrier's air defense firepower is no worse than that of that perverted large main ship!"

.. 180 kilometers south of Tarantto, Duhei, who took the lead in arriving at the airport of the Katanzaro Flying Regiment by plane, stood next to the runway like a sculpture, looking at the eastern sky and reluctant to withdraw his eyes.

"Coloe, you have been standing for three hours. It's time to go to rest."

"No, I'm fine. I hope to see them come back as soon as possible." Du Hei pushed away the counselor who persuaded him, and the haze in his heart became more and more. For three hours, no plane has come back so far. Is it true! No, it's impossible. It's 220 bombers and 70 fighters. No matter how strong the Chinese are, there will always be a few escape.

"I'm back, it's our plane! Colonel, they're back!"

Just as the waiting turned into suffering, an officer suddenly shouted. Du Hei hurriedly raised his telescope and saw that there were several small familiar black spots in the sky in the distance, which were Caproni Ca36! He will never mistakenly accept this kind of Italy's best bomber.

However, when he saw the first bomber swaying and began to descend in a very unnatural state, his face suddenly turned pale, and when the first one did not completely fall, the second Caproni Ca36 followed somehow suddenly loaded on the lawn in an almost vertical state.

"What's going on? Come on, go and save people." Just as several trucks rushed to the crash, Du Hei felt that his heart was about to stop beating.

What happened? How could this happen!

The first Caponi Ca36 finally stopped in front of everyone, but everyone's eyes widened like a monster, because this double-winged large bomber, known as Italy's masterpiece, was really miserable. The fuselage was full of bullet holes, the right wing was broken, and the tail was broken. Even the horizontal rudder is missing.

No one spoke, and everyone stood quietly. There were no words to describe the feeling at this moment. It felt as if his son had been beat by seven or eight strong men outside and didn't even know his father! Several Italian women who worked as clerks at the airport cried on the spot when they saw this tragedy!

It's terrible!

Du Hei was also almost suffocated, and his fingers trembled and pointed at it as if he had seen a ghost: "Is this our plane? It, God, is a miracle that it can fly back. But God seemed to feel that the blow was not enough. When the pilot, who was almost unable to move, was lifted out of the cockpit by everyone, the whole airport fell into the ice cellar with one sentence.

"Coloon, they are all dead, they are all dead!"

"Are they all dead? What do you mean? Can it be said that except for a few of you, in the back?

"There's nothing behind. They're all dead." The pilot seemed to see a ghost, crying and shouting, "Devil, they are all yellow-skinned demons!"

"God!" Du Hei shouted miserably and suddenly felt dizzy to death.

(to be continued)