The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 883

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Isoroku couldn’t understand why Saburo Sakai hadn’t replied to his telegram yet. He didn’t think the Germans could destroy Saburo Sakai’s troops. After all, they had more than 100 and nearly 200 fighter planes!

However, before he could figure it out, the shrill air defense alarm suddenly sounded!

“Enemy attack, enemy attack!”

After discovering the enemy’s attack, the outer fleet immediately sounded the air defense alarm!

Along with the sound of the air defense alarm, there was the roar of a large number of enemy planes in the sky!

“This is……”

When Isoroku Yamamoto looked up and saw the dense swarms of enemy planes in the sky, he was immediately dumbfounded!

“”General, we have fallen into the enemy’s trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain!” Yamaguchi Tamon, who was standing next to him, was pale and said in a trembling voice.

He didn’t need him to say it, Yamamoto Isoroku also reacted!

Combined with the information sent back by Sakai Saburo before, Yamamoto Isoroku had roughly outlined the enemy’s entire plan for this battle in his mind!

The opponent must have deliberately exposed the position of his fleet to let his reconnaissance aircraft discover it, and then lure him to send out the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier to attack the opponent.

However, the opponent transferred the aircraft carrier away in advance, and used the remaining warships in the fleet to set up an ambush circle, preparing to ambush the carrier-based aircraft they sent out!

On the other side, the enemy’s aircraft carrier may have already left its fleet, set off alone, and ran to a place that the Japanese army could not notice. Then, after their carrier-based aircraft set off, they took advantage of the gap when they lacked fighter protection to launch an attack on the Combined Fleet!

At this time, there were not many planes left on the three aircraft carriers of the Combined Fleet, and the battle The number of aircraft was also very limited, and the enemy seemed to have bypassed their periphery alert ships and was discovered only when they approached their core fleet, which meant that the time left for them to react was greatly reduced!

So when the air defense alarm sounded, they didn’t have much time left!

After thinking about this, Yamamoto Isoroku’s face suddenly changed, and he realized what kind of enemy he was facing!

The depth of the German commander’s planning, the precision of his decision, and the cleverness of his grasp of timing were all amazing!

There were many key decisions that Yamamoto Isoroku couldn’t figure out. For example, how did the German attacking aircraft bypass their periphery interception fleet and how did they avoid being discovered?

How did they hide the aircraft carrier and even the entire aircraft carrier, so that they failed to discover the other party in the first two times?

While Yamamoto Isoroku was still thinking, Wen next to him had already reacted!

“Quickly, let the soldiers in and concentrate all the anti-aircraft firepower to stop the enemy!”

After a moment of shock, Yamamoto Isoroku immediately reacted. This is not the time to think about it. They still have a lot of things to do, and they have no hope at all!

As long as they can delay the enemy’s air formation, buy time for the remaining carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier, let them take off as many fighters as possible, and then use these fighters to intercept the enemy and prevent them from successfully launching an attack on the fleet, then they may be able to turn danger into safety and escape this disaster!

After all, since the German fleet can repel their assault aircraft, they can certainly do it too!

Even when Saburo Sakai’s air fleet returns, they can attack from both inside and outside to kill all the visiting enemy forces. In that case, they can regain the initiative on the battlefield!

Ideals are very full , the reality is very bleak!

Yamamoto Isoroku’s idea is good, but it is a bit unrealistic!

His combined fleet does not have the advanced ship-borne anti-aircraft missiles of the German army. Without this thing, it is imaginable how difficult it is to intercept the aircraft that raid in the air!

Boom boom boom!

The first to launch the attack were the dive bombers that dived straight down from high altitude. When dive bombing, this kind of aircraft will emit a piercing and sharp whistling sound. The closer to the sea surface, the louder the sound. At the same time, when they approach the sea surface quickly, the greater the pressure on the enemy soldiers!

After all, watching a small black dot in the sky gradually enlarge in your field of vision, accompanied by an increasingly piercing whistling sound, is a torment for everyone!

Along with the dive bombers came the bombs dropped from under their bellies.!

The German pilots were experienced, most of them had been on the battlefield and had rich experience in dropping bombs, so they were very accurate in controlling the distance and timing of the attack.

When dive-bombing, they kept an eye on the flight altitude and speed, while paying attention to choosing the right angle of entry. They also had to guard against interception by enemy anti-aircraft fire to avoid being shot down by the enemy on the way to the attack!

Each of these things was crucial. In a battlefield full of gunfire and rain of bullets, it was definitely a technical job to accurately drop bombs on the deck of the enemy’s warships. It was also a very dangerous technical job. It was almost like dancing on the edge of a knife!

Decades later, there was a movie called”Midway” in which the protagonist flew a dive bomber to attack Japan.

The camera of the Japanese aircraft carrier, the camera’s view of the countless anti-aircraft guns attacking from the perspective of the aircraft, looks very visually impactful, and it also makes people’s adrenaline soar, and they sweat for the protagonist!

The combat environment on the real battlefield is basically the same as that presented in the movie.

For dive bombers, they are a great threat to the enemy, and the enemy is equally threatening to them.

When they attack, the warships they choose will concentrate all their firepower to fight to the death!

In this dangerous game, most of the German pilots did their job well and dropped bombs on the Japanese warships!

Only a few unlucky pilots were shot down by enemy fire on the way to the attack, either falling into the sea or crashing into the enemy ship.

This situation is also difficult to avoid. There may be dozens or even hundreds of anti-aircraft guns on a main battleship. Such fierce firepower is used to deal with a fighter plane, and the probability of hitting is naturally very high.

Therefore, in order to reduce the threat of the enemy and to increase the hit rate, the German army usually cooperated with several fighters during combat, cutting into the battlefield from different directions at different speeds and angles, trying to disperse the enemy’s firepower as much as possible and not let them focus on one of them.

In this way, as long as they cooperate properly, they can severely damage a battleship at one time and effectively reduce their own casualties!

The first one to be hit was the Fuso battleship next to the Soryu aircraft carrier!