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Chapter 124 The Burning Fleet 6

As the Harushio and Tama ships sank one after another on the left and right sides of the battleship Haruna, its air defense capability continued to decline.

The destroyer Yukikaze increased its speed to the maximum and was now approaching the battlecruiser Haruna.

The people on the Yukikaze saw several fighter planes roaring towards them not far away.

"Set up a smoke screen, set up a smoke screen immediately!" Captain Lieutenant Commander Ryokichi Sugama immediately issued the combat order.

A thick black smoke rose from the Yukikaze, and soon covered the Yukikaze and the battlecruiser Haruna beside it.

Of course, it was impossible to completely cover all figures in a short period of time. The Yukikaze was only over a thousand tons and its small size quickly disappeared in the smoke.

The Haruna was huge in size, and the fire at the bow had not been extinguished. The dark red ball of light in the thick smoke naturally provided guidance to the Chinese pilots whose vision was severely disturbed.

The smoke screen not only interfered with the vision of the air combat pilots, but also seriously interfered with the vision of the Japanese warships.

By this time, the bombers and torpedo planes dispatched this time had basically completed their attack missions.

After all, it was their first time to carry out a bombing on a high-speed moving fleet, so more than 8% of the attacks failed.

The high quality of the Japanese Navy also had something to do with it, especially the Haruna, if it weren't for a pilot flying a fighter plane and crashing into it directly.

It may not be possible to keep this huge ship with a displacement of up to 3.5 tons.

Wu Jianwei was flying a dive bomber and began to adjust the direction, heading straight for the cloud of smoke.

Since the beginning of the war, he has been flying in the air to command the battle. After most of the fighter planes have completed dropping bombs, his plane still has a one-ton aerial bomb hanging on the belly.

Now it was his time to perform. He controlled the bomber steadily, with one or two anti-aircraft shells exploding around him from time to time.

However, the few remaining Japanese warships are now basically all damaged to some extent, so that their anti-aircraft firepower is much weaker than before.

When Wu Jianwei dived to a height of 500 meters from the thick fog, he finally saw a dark red light ball in the thick fog.

Wu Jianwei knew that it was the burning bow of the battleship Haruna. He immediately adjusted the attitude of his fighter plane and began to dive straight towards the fire.

The piercing whistling sound of "Woo woo woo" made everyone on the two warships shrouded in smoke below stare with their eyes wide open. They tried hard to search for the guy who made the whistling sound.

The anti-aircraft artillery positions could only fire shells randomly "boom boom boom" according to the direction from which the sound came, as if this could drive away the fear.

Wu Jianwei saw that most of the shells were still far away from his fighter plane, and only occasionally one or two shells exploded near the fighter plane.

Without the interference of anti-aircraft shells flying everywhere, Wu Jianwei stared intently at the dark red ball of light.

When the fighter plane flew to an altitude of fifty meters above the battleship, the vigorous airflow brought by the fighter plane during the dive finally dispersed some of the thick smoke above the battleship Haruna.

Part of the battleship's silhouette appeared clearly in Wu Jianwei's eyes. As the bomb separated from the belly of the aircraft, the bomber became noticeably lighter.

Wu Jianwei quickly controlled the fighter plane to pull up and disengage, but his head kept turning around, as he wanted to see whether the bomb hit the target.

A huge fireball appeared in his eyes, followed by a loud noise and strong airflow. The huge airflow generated by the explosion almost overturned the bomber in the air.

The airflow generated by the violent explosion dispersed all the thick fog. Just as everyone was shocked or sighing, the Haruna exploded violently again.

Because the bomb weighing more than one ton that Wu Jianwei had just dropped penetrated the deck near the island and went directly into a heavy oil tank under the deck near the ammunition tank.

The first big explosion directly tore apart the partition between the heavy oil tank and the ammunition tank. The burning heavy oil flowed everywhere, then passed through the broken partition and once again detonated the propellant and nearly a hundred 356mm shells supplying the two front deck main guns.

The detonation of a large amount of propellant and 356mm shells was the fatal blow that killed the Kongo-class battlecruiser with a full load displacement of 3.5 tons.

At the end of this huge explosion, the Haruna battleship made a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound, and the entire battleship actually broke into two halves and began to sink rapidly in front of the horrified eyes of all the remaining Japanese soldiers on the battleship.

Fleet Commander Sakamoto was immediately sent to the transport ship by the guards. However, the captain of the battleship Haruna, Colonel Nobue Morishita, the actual commander of the fleet, decided to sink with his battleship.

As Wu Jianwei completed the final blow, all the bombs and torpedoes carried by the entire attack formation were used up.

The only thing left on the sea was the undamaged destroyer Yukikaze and the cruiser Oi, which was shrouded in thick smoke and fire.

The Yukikaze was the only ship in the entire fleet that was intact, but in fact it was not intact at all, as there was a huge dent in the armor belt below the waterline on the left side of the ship.

That was the mark left by a 450mm torpedo hitting the hull. At that time, the soldiers on the entire battleship were ready to die.

Unexpectedly, the torpedo did not explode after impact, which allowed the Yukikaze to escape disaster. This was not the first time that the Yukikaze had encountered such a thing.

Now even the sailors of the Yukikaze began to believe that their warship was truly a "lucky omen".

However, this auspicious sign was a terrible curse for the warships with them. No one who participated in the operation with them had a good ending.

Now the fighter planes in the sky have disappeared, but no one can guarantee whether there will be another wave of air strikes.

The damaged Ooi left first, and the Yukikaze had to risk staying to rescue the naval officers and soldiers who fell into the water.

Just when the Oi cruiser had sailed less than 50 nautical miles, it was once again attacked from the air. This time, the severely damaged Oi cruiser was sent to the bottom of the sea by two 450mm torpedoes.

The Yukikaze, which was responsible for rescuing people, perfectly avoided the two waves of reconnaissance because there were too many people who needed rescue and the time was delayed for too long.

One day later, out of the fleet that originally consisted of a battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers and two supply ships, only the destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Qing D Port unscathed.

The name of the Yukikaze became known throughout the entire Japanese naval community, and every naval soldier believed that if they were to serve on a battleship, it would be best to go on the Yukikaze.

The commander of the fleet that received the Yukikaze began to tremble in fear. Which commander would not have a headache if such a great "auspicious sign" of the death of all friendly ships went away?

In this way, the Yukikaze became an existence that was both liked and hated by Japanese officers and soldiers.

The 78th Army and the Red Party leaders in Jiaodong learned that they had won a great victory in just one air raid, but had lost seven fighter planes and sacrificed two pilots, which cast a slight shadow over this victory.

Of course everyone knew that this was the first time that the Chinese Navy had truly carried out an air raid on the entire Japanese fleet.

Being able to achieve such a great victory at such a small cost was an unprecedented victory. The 78th Army Aviation Brigade and the Red Party’s Jiaodong Military Region became famous throughout the country and even the world.

The Japanese army's attempt to attack Jiaodong by land and sea was forced to stop temporarily. After crushing the Japanese navy's action, the aviation brigade immediately began to bomb the Japanese army's various airports in North China. For a time, the entire North China was set on fire by war.

After a few months of rest, the 78 Group once again started the chariot wheel. This time it was not only an active attack, but also a battle of revenge.

Because when the Japanese army evacuated Datong (Tong), they actually killed tens of thousands of miners working in the mines. As more and more corpses and mass graves were exposed by the 78th Army.

The anger of the people across the country was ignited once again, and the counterattack of the 78th Army commanded by Wang Chun was once again at the center of the storm, while the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops assembled in North China had already sharpened their knives to cause trouble.