Chapter 102 It doesn't feel good to be beaten

The "Yorktown" dive bombers arrived only a few minutes behind their "Enterprise" counterparts.The fleet was led by Major Leslie, a total of 17 "Dreadnought" type. Originally, the Macy and Thatch fleets were supposed to cooperate with the Leslie fleet, but they couldn't get in touch, so they had to fight alone.Leslie didn't know it then, he wasn't fighting alone, the Enterprise's two bombing squadrons had turned the maneuver force upside down, and Nagumo couldn't even find time to meet him—you just let the three Even if two squadrons practice together for a few weeks, they may not be able to cooperate so seamlessly.

Leslie was very unlucky. After departure, the bombing devices of him and the other three planes had problems, and all the bombs fell into the sea. In this way, the number of planes that could drop bombs was reduced from 17 to 13. The reason for returning?Especially when he saw "Canglong", his eyes wouldn't roll. There was no bomb, so I used a machine gun to sweep it, and after two sweeps, something frustrating happened: the machine gun jammed. Leslie stepped back in dismay, and the command was handed over to Lieutenant Holmberg. Holmberg aimed the telescopic sight at the big red circle on the deck of the "Soryu" and implemented a long-distance dive.

The bomb landed on the "Canglong" accurately. After being shot, the aircraft carrier looked like a fireworks display. It looked red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple. It was colorful, but it was quite eye-catching. A cold stove calls for a fire, but a hot stove also needs to add a firewood, otherwise it will not be lively enough. Within 3 minutes, 3 bombs hit the "Canglong" one after another. The second bomb penetrated the elevator, exploded on the hangar deck, and successively detonated the aircraft carrier's bomb bay, torpedo bay, ammunition bay, and oil tank.

3. The series of heart-warming feet almost kicked out the intestines of the aircraft carrier. The fire engulfed the entire hull. The hangar deck was as hot as a frying pan. Even the deck door was melted and curled up. The survivors ran away to the flight deck. The doctors and the Sanitary Corps were running around, busy like robots, and because there were so many wounded, they had to put aside those who obviously couldn't survive, and rescue the survivors first.Those who took a few more breaths were gathered together, but tragedy happened immediately, and a violent induced explosion threw all these people into the sea.

In 3 minutes, the dive bombers completed the task that the previous 7 batches of fleets had not completed in 3 hours. In terms of courage, determination and sacrifice, there was no difference between the pilots. Their success was just one wave after another, perseverance, and it will come naturally. the result of. Of the 33 "Dreadnoughts" of the "Enterprise", 14 were lost, most of which were lost when they were forced to land at sea due to running out of gasoline.When Captain McCluskey landed on the Enterprise, there was only enough fuel on board to wash one tie. Coincidentally, 2 of the 17 "Dreadnought" aircraft in the Leslie fleet also made an forced landing on the water due to exhaustion, but these are insignificant compared with their decisive victory, because 3/4 of the Japanese Navy's elite fleet has been destroyed. wiped out.

Among the three old aircraft carriers attacked by the mobile force, "Canglong" was the most severely damaged in a short period of time, and the tattered hull was burning red like a furnace.In just half an hour, it was completely paralyzed, and the rest was only functioning as a cremator. Captain Yanagmoto Yanasaku of Soryu ordered the abandonment of the ship and oversaw a ceremony to transfer a picture of the Emperor to a destroyer.When people rushed to leave the ship, they found that Liu Ben was not there. Looking up, he was standing on the signal platform, shouting "No one comes near me, long live", obviously wanting to live and die with the ship.

Yanagi was very popular among the sailors. It was said that whenever he assembled the crew for a lecture, everyone would come an hour or even longer in advance so that they could stand in the front row and listen to the lecture. A sergeant was elected to rescue the captain.Sergeant Cao first stepped forward to salute, and asked Liu Ben to leave, but Liu Ben held the saber in his hand and ignored it. He stared straight ahead as if he didn't hear anything. This sergeant had won the naval sumo championship, and when he saw that he couldn't do it softly, he came hard and hugged Liu Ben.

Liu Ben turned around and fixed his eyes on Sergeant Cao.Yanagimoto has absolute authority on the "Canglong" aircraft carrier, and even in this extraordinary period, he still has a deterrent effect on Sergeant Cao.Sergeant Cao was frightened, he put Liu Ben down, saluted, then turned and left with tears in his eyes. Yanagimoto hummed the Japanese national anthem "The Generation of Kings" softly, and died in the bottom of the sea together with this flaming behemoth. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, "Kaga" acting captain Amaya ordered to abandon the ship. Afterwards, the oil storage tank was heated and exploded. Many people had no time to escape and were trapped to death in the engine room.

The fire in "Chicheng" is becoming more and more difficult to control.At 6:00 p.m., Captain Aoki decided to abandon the ship. He came to the mooring deck, which had not been affected by the fire, and asked people to tie himself to the anchor chain, preparing to sink with the ship. It is impossible for the subordinates to just watch the captain die. The navigator of "Akagi" boarded the aircraft carrier, bit his ear with Aoki for a while, and told him that "Akagi" would be sunk by Japanese torpedoes, not by the enemy. torpedo, so the captain does not need to kill himself.Then, a naval officer with a higher rank than Aoki personally boarded the ship and ordered Aoki to leave the ship, and Aoki obeyed.

At midnight, Japanese destroyers torpedoed the carrier.Although it is the flagship of Nagumo, regarded by the Japanese Navy as the queen of aircraft carriers and the symbol of naval aviation, there is no distinction between superiority and inferiority on the battlefield. None of the three aircraft carriers of the Mobile Force escaped the fate of destruction.Once upon a time, they were so majestic, but in less than half a day, they turned into a pile of scrap metal on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The legendary vicissitudes of life are nothing more than this. When Genda escaped from "Akagi" in a lifeboat, he said a sentence, and it was this sentence that made the people around him feel extremely frightened and stunned.