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Chapter 214 Bombing Kirishima

214 Bombing Kirishima

The air defense alert sounded on the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

Countless Japanese soldiers rushed out of the cabin and took up their respective high-angle anti-aircraft gun positions.

At the same time, Colonel Miyazaki had already seen eight National Army bombers appearing from the west through his telescope.

The weather is clear and cloudless today, and the visibility is very good.

Even the Japanese ship Kirishima did not have radar installed.

In fact, their soldiers could also see these Kuomintang fighter planes appearing in the western sky through visual observation.

At this time, the Japanese ship Kirishima did not have any radar installed, and their soldiers detected the incoming enemy aircraft by visual inspection.

The Japanese started developing radar technology very late, and currently almost all of their warships have no radar.

It is necessary to detect incoming enemy aircraft through visual observation.

But today, with such clear weather, even the Japanese ship Kirishima doesn’t have radar.

The visual inspection results of their soldiers were also very good.

The reason why the eight Kuomintang bombers flew over at this time chose to come in such good weather.

In fact, it is also for the convenience of dropping bombs.

Good weather is good for both parties.

"Sir, look, our fighter planes."

At the same time, Ye Qingshan, Xiao Wusheng and others, who were on the shore, also saw the eight Kuomintang bombers flying from the west.

Xiao Wusheng and others were all excited.

Ye Qingshan was quite calm.

Although, he knew that it was unlikely that the National Army's bombers would be able to sink the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

However, the National Army Command was able to send its extremely valuable air force fighters to participate in this battle.

This satisfied him.

At least it shows that the top leaders of the National Army attach great importance to this battle.

They also wanted to see the Japanese battleship Kirishima being sunk.

Soon, in the sight of Ye Qingshan and his men, the eight Kuomintang bombers were divided into four batches, two in a group.

After approaching the Japanese battleship Kirishima, they began to accelerate and rush down in an orderly manner in groups.

"Come on, damn Chinese!"

Boom boom boom!

On the battleship Kirishima, the Japanese anti-aircraft high-angle guns began their shooting.

Ye Qingshan and his men saw that the high-angle shells fired over the Japanese battleship Kirishima formed a barrage of bullets.

"Don't get hit."

Xiao Wusheng and other soldiers were all praying.

Boom!

One of the first two Kuomintang bombers that dived was hit by fragments of the Japanese high-angle shells while still in mid-air.

Suddenly, black smoke came out of the tail and the flight path deviated.

Soon it fell towards the west bank of the river.

"Damn it, damn the Japs,"

When Xiao Wusheng and others saw this scene, they gritted their teeth in anger and cursed the Japanese.

Ye Qingshan sighed. This result was within his expectations.

Even so, bombers have certain advantages in attacking these surface warships.

But there are always sacrifices.

In particular, the bombers that dive first will face the most intense artillery fire from the Japanese.

It is normal to have one plane shot down.

Another Kuomintang bomber was much luckier.

It was not hit by the high-angle shell fragments of the Japanese. After diving down, it quickly dropped two aerial bombs.

Then, pull up again and fly away.

Of the two aerial bombs that fell, one landed in the river and missed the target by a little bit.

The other one fell directly onto the front deck of the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

Boom!

The huge explosion directly destroyed the two naval guns on the front deck of the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

There was also a big hole blown out on the deck.

At the same time, the shock wave generated by the explosion directly blew all the surrounding Japanese soldiers away and fell into the Yangtze River.

"Haha, I hit it!"

The pilot of the Kuomintang bomber that was flying away took the opportunity to look back.

He was very happy when he saw that a bomb he had dropped hit the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

"Ow!"

On the shore, Xiao Wusheng and other national army soldiers were even more excited after seeing this scene.

"Not bad!"

Ye Qingshan nodded.

Let’s not talk about how much damage these eight bombers of the National Army could cause to the Japanese battleship Kirishima after this bombing.

Just the scene of them showing up and bombing the Japanese battleships.

It can boost the morale of the defending soldiers on our side.

"Come again! Make sure you hit it!"

Xiao Wusheng and others were praying as they watched the Kuomintang bombers diving urgently behind them.

Soon, the second group of two diving Kuomintang bombers following closely behind instantly penetrated the Japanese barrage of bullets.

This time, none of them were shot down.

After their bombers descended to a certain altitude, they also dropped two aerial bombs.

Then, in the rain of bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers, they quickly pulled up and climbed high again, away from the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

boom!

As the two bombers climbed high and flew away, they heard explosions behind them.

They dropped four aerial bombs, one of which hit the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

This time, one hit the left front deck of the Kirishima and one hit the rear deck.

The explosion also caused great damage to the hull of the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

This caused a fire and billowing black smoke.

The effect is even better than the effect when Ye Qingshan and his team used 82mm mortar bombardment yesterday.

After all, these Kuomintang bombers dropped hundreds of kilograms of high-explosive bombs.

The power is naturally not comparable to that of 82mm mortar shells.

Afterwards, the two groups of Kuomintang bombers behind also dived and dropped bombs from other directions.

Another bomber was hit by the Japanese and flew away shakily, but it did not fall directly like the first one.

Of the aerial bombs dropped by the four bombers at the back, only three hit the Japanese battleship Kirishima.

One of them even hit the center of the Kirishima's hull directly, which was also the weakest point of the battleship.

The huge explosion destroyed most of the hull structure of the Japanese battleship Kirishima and caused a serious fire.

After the bombing, the Kirishima was filled with black smoke, and the scene looked very spectacular.

"Ow!"

Many national army soldiers on both sides of the Yangtze River witnessed the bombing.

When they saw the Japanese battleship Kirishima being bombed and emitting billowing black smoke, they all shouted excitedly.

Many people felt that the Japanese battleship Kirishima was doomed this time.

But Ye Qingshan knew.

The bombing by the National Army's machine guns definitely had some effect.

However, if you want to sink a large battleship with a displacement of over 30,000 tons, this bombing is just an appetizer.

If you want to rely on bombing to sink such a battleship, you will need at least five or six waves of bombing of this magnitude.

But obviously, the Nationalist Air Force does not have the capability to launch five or six more bombings of this magnitude.

Otherwise, they should have sent all the bombers at once.