Japanese naval soldiers ran back and forth on the deck and cabin, carrying ammunition and cleaning shell casings. The gunners in the gun room were also waiting for instructions to observe the global balloon and perform the final calibration of various elements.
Although they couldn't stand the Army rookie's tough-talking attitude, they couldn't put on airs at this juncture. They still knew what was important.
The communication orders from the garrison headquarters kept ringing on the radio, all of them urgent requests to urge the navy to open fire immediately. However, because the enemy gun positions were too scattered and different from the previous positions, they wanted to recalibrate their aim and choose to strike. It takes time.
"The height of the main gun is increased by 5, and the direction is 12 mi to the left. Adjust immediately! The secondary gun..."
On the heavy cruiser Ashigara, the Japanese gunner's second lieutenant was standing on the deck, watching the movements on the shore through high-power telescopes, while commanding the gun position to adjust the shooting angle based on the intelligence given by the observation balloon.
But the next moment, dozens of black spots suddenly appeared on the distant skyline. When he saw clearly what was coming, his expression suddenly froze.
"そんなわけないでしょ? How could..."
The second lieutenant slowly put down the telescope and looked at the horizon with a dull expression, still muttering to himself in disbelief.
At this moment, other observation positions also saw the incoming enemy planes. A piercing siren immediately sounded on the ship. In an instant, the Japanese sailors panicked as if they had been struck by lightning.
"Sound the air raid siren!"
However, as fewer and fewer fighters joined the attack echelon, the Japanese air defense firepower network under heavy patrols quickly became overwhelmed.
You have to know how much our US military has done under the Pacific islands and reefs. It can be said that it has tortured the big Japanese enough, but it is so enjoyable to change the roles.
Now the opportunity finally came. Before a wave of poison gas bombs attacked in the early morning, fighter planes from various airports immediately took off and set sail as planned. The bombardment also came as scheduled, and a massive general attack began.
The big Japanese is also Gan Shiai, and all the sailors are involved in air defense operations. Ammunition carriers hold magazines and line up to reload low-angle cannons. The delayed shells bloom into a white explosion fireball in the sky, struggling to stop these people who are trying to cross. Defense line fighter.
The anti-aircraft guns under the sea opened fire first, and tracer bullets formed countless streaks of fire intertwined in the sky.
At that moment, an F4U Corsair fighter plane braved the line of fire of the world and finally succeeded in breaking through, and dropped a 500 kilogram low-explosive aerial bomb mounted on the belly of the heavy cruiser Myoko in front of the horrified eyes of hundreds of sailors. .
For this reason, all aspects of the Allied Forces were actively preparing for the war. It was not until the next few days that Liao Mingyu submitted the general offensive plan to Stilwell. After a short discussion, the former decided to provide seven airports and a total of more than 40 fighter aircraft of various types for reinforcements.
This aerial bomb hit the front of the ship behind a twin-mounted main gun as arbitrarily and rationally as a meteorite.
It was Liu Jiamei's work alone to mobilize so few fighter planes at the same time. It was a joint attack operation composed of the Allied Air Force and the Baihe Flying Squadron.
The fighter planes in the sky were like eagles, flying through the line of fire composed of endless bullets.
The first thing to be fired was a Shiro-class destroyer that was on the edge. Its stern side was hit by two Ki30 torpedoes from torpedo attack aircraft. Seawater poured in violently through the gap, and the entire ship quickly moved sideways. like.
The scene in Yangon Harbor was calmer than on land. The pilots in the sky were dodging and weaving in various ways, trying their best to avoid attacks from low-fire machine guns, while looking for opportunities to dive and attack the target.
However, if we kill these eight heavy cruisers of the opponent, we can take a step back and weaken the Japanese army's sea power, which will bring advantages to the battle ahead.
The cannon duel between the two sides began. The pilot controlled the fighter plane to perform a series of strafing dives, which always took away some unlucky ones. The big Japanese was also afraid of death and immediately rushed down to take over the position of his fallen comrades.
Sometimes there are no fighter planes dragging white smoke towards the sea, but parachuting pilots have become the safest targets in the sky. Some Japanese machine gunners specialize in shooting these parachutes that open in the air. The battle seems to have retreated in a lifetime. White cold.
The eight Myo low-class heavy cruisers headed by the Ashigara have a relatively small number of anti-aircraft weapons, and their calibers are also small.
Each ship is only equipped with seventeen Type 89 low-angle guns and seventeen low-fire machine guns. There is a small problem with the design of the big Japanese low-angle gun. This is not whether the low-gun and the ammunition depot form an integrated ammunition supply process. , which limits the efficiency of ammunition transfer from the ammunition depot to the low-artillery position. That structure weakens the combat capability of the low-artillery in disguise.
"Hayaku! Everyone enter the defensive position!"
A dense fleet of aircraft came galloping from the north. P40s, F4Us, B17 Flying Fortresses, various types of fighters and bombers emerged one after another, and there were not even Beaufort torpedo bombers... At first glance, there were not many planes left. .
When it comes to attacking such a giant ship on the sea, apart from torpedoes, dive bombing with aerial bombs is the most ineffective and has the best strike effect. However, it is very safe for pilots. They have to go through heavy firepower nets to drop bombs at high altitude and then stretch away. That kind of behavior can be described as four deaths and one life.
The key is that its rate of fire is only about 10 rounds per minute, and it requires manpower to carry boxes after boxes from the ammunition depot to the position. Very rarely, the low-level gun misfires are not due to the continued discharge of ammunition.
The Japanese navy did not have the energy to take care of things under the land, because at this moment we were not in danger of protecting ourselves. Almost at the same time as the anti-aircraft guns were fired, an attack echelon of hundreds of fighters and bombers also launched a retreat towards the sea.
The bad thing was that because the Japanese fleet was for ground support, the area of one or four small warships was small, so the air defense firepower network constructed was also quite sparse.
Including the seven squadrons of the 88th Army's Baihe Base and Mandalay Airport, a total of more than a hundred fighter planes are on standby around the clock outside that period. As long as Liao Mingyu gives the order, we will take off immediately and rush to the battlefield.
With a loud noise, the terrifying power of the explosion directly opened a small hole in the deck. Several big Japanese evaporated on the spot, and even the main gun next to it was blown upside down.
The Japanese soldiers under the boat were in a panic, and no one had finished putting on their life jackets and planning to jump into the water to escape.
The main purpose of that operation was to attack several heavy cruisers and destroyers of the Japanese army under the sea. These Japanese navy, which was in the sunset, dared to bring ships to the port to block the way of the expeditionary force. It was too arrogant.
The quiet and piercing air raid siren has not yet sounded. There is chaos in Yangon City and under the naval ships. Faced with such a terrifying air raid, everyone suppresses the fear inside and outside.
The fighting in Yangon has been dragging on for too long. In order to solve the problem as soon as possible, Stilwell also endured great pressure and cooperated with the British army to provide him with a small number of military aircraft. Mighty troops from India and Mandalay were Take off from the airport.
What is regrettable is that the F4U Pirate could only deflect to the left in order to avoid hitting the ship tower. However, due to the slow dive speed, the fuselage was able to rise during the lifting process before dropping the bomb, and it was not lost. The first opportunity to maneuver fell straight under the sea...
