The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 881

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As early as when the Bismarck-class battleships were built, the German army had equipped them with anti-aircraft missiles, an extremely special anti-aircraft weapon!

Later, when the two Midway-class aircraft carriers were in service, they were also equipped with the same weapon-the Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missile!

However, in the previous battles, these weapons were not used, and the enemy had not posed a threat to the German army.

So the foot basin people became the first to eat crabs, and they were the first to taste the power of ship-to-air missiles!

The performance of the Sea Sparrow is not particularly outstanding. This missile is a short-range air defense missile and belongs to a point air defense weapon.

However, in this era, the Sea Sparrow ship-to-air missile is an epoch-making existence. Its maximum range is up to 20 kilometers, and its maximum flight speed can reach 2.5 Hz. It can attack aircraft within 5,000 meters!

These parameters are simply a nightmare for these aircraft in the foot basin!

Therefore, when the German surface warships began to open fire and launch Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles, the Japanese air fleet suffered a serious blow in an instant!

“Emergency evasion, don’t gather together!”

Sakai Saburo had never seen this kind of weapon before. This weapon was incredibly powerful. Once hit, there was basically no chance of survival. He saw with his own eyes dozens of fighter planes disintegrate in the air after being hit, and exploded into pieces!

In this case, the pilots in the planes had no time to parachute, and they must have died in the explosion!

Although Sakai Saburo issued orders to evacuate and evade, the Japanese pilots also followed his orders obediently, but even so, the effect was still not obvious!

The enemy’s attack was still shocking. Suffocating, the Japanese fighter planes were still being shot down.

Moreover, Saburo Sakai saw with his own eyes that a Japanese fighter plane had clearly made an evasive move in the air and avoided the opponent’s collision, but the unknown bomb turned on its own after being thrown off and quickly caught up!

As a result, the plane that made an excellent evasive move still couldn’t escape the fate of being destroyed!

And this scene completely extinguished Saburo Sakai’s hope!

At the same time, a feeling of despair rose in his heart: the enemy’s weapons actually tracked automatically!

How can they run?

……

“”Retreat, retreat quickly!”

Since evasion is useless, the only way now is to get away from these German surface warships as soon as possible!

Fortunately, this weapon was fired from the surface warships. The speed of surface warships is relatively slow. They fly in the air, and their speed is much faster than that of surface warships sailing on the sea. So once they run away at full speed, the other side can’t catch up with them! Sure enough

, when the Japanese army ran at full speed, the German warships on the sea were indeed thrown away by them.

And after being thrown away, these German warships no longer fired the weapons they had feared before!

“Fortunately, this weapon was not launched from an aerial platform. If it was launched from under the wings of the enemy fighter plane, then we would be in great danger!”

Thinking of this, Saburo Sakai secretly felt fortunate. Although the enemy’s new weapon brought them huge losses, fortunately, these losses were not fatal, and they were not yet annihilated.

But if the enemy ambushed them this time was in the air, then with the speed of the enemy fighter plane, they would not be able to run even if they wanted to, and would be chased and beaten by the enemy all the way until they were all shot down!

However, when he thought that the surface warships, which they regarded as prey, had such powerful weapons on them, Saburo Sakai felt quite tricky.

He had just witnessed the lethality of this weapon to fighter planes. This is definitely the nemesis of fighter planes! I am afraid that no fighter plane can escape its clutches, so in the future, when they encounter this thing, everyone will go around it, and the result of going around is that they cannot threaten the German surface warships carrying this weapon!

Boom boom boom!

Just when Saburo Sakai just breathed a sigh of relief, he heard another burst of intensive explosions in his ears!

Saburo Sakai turned his head and found that several Japanese fighter planes in front of him had exploded violently, sparks came out and then fell from the sky with long black smoke!

Saburo Sakai was so familiar with this scene that he had seen such a situation countless times just now, so he immediately reacted. They were attacked by the enemy’s unidentified objects again!

What’s going on?

Haven’t they escaped from the enemy’s attack range?

Why did they encounter this kind of weapon again?

Saburo Sakai looked down and found that at some point, a German fleet appeared under their feet. This fleet had only about two or three warships. At this time, white smoke was coming out of the warships, and mysterious weapons with white smoke columns were rushing towards them rapidly!

“Quick, bypass them and retreat at full speed!”

Sakai Saburo and the remaining Japanese pilots were already scared to death. Seeing the two or three warships on the sea, they did not have the courage to resist at all and decided to go around them!

However, when they finally got rid of the attack of the second fleet, they found themselves plunged into the third German squadron!

Then they were attacked by a large number of ship-to-air missiles launched by the third squadron, and more than a dozen Japanese fighter planes were shot down in the attack!

And when they finally got rid of the attack of the third squadron, they encountered the fourth German squadron.……

“Oh no, it’s those German warships that were scattered in twos and threes before!”

This abnormal situation made Saburo Sakai realize that they seemed to be trapped in a chain formation!

Before they flew all the way here, they had seen those German warships on the sea. At that time, he felt that the other party’s strange formation of twos and threes was a bit wrong.

But at that time, he didn’t realize what was going on. It wasn’t until they were hit hard by the enemy and fled slowly that Saburo Sakai realized that these German warships had deliberately blocked their retreat from the beginning and were ready to intercept them halfway!

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have plunged into the opponent’s ambush again and again!

Thinking of this, Saburo Sakai took a look at the dozens of fighter planes left around him. There were less than fifty fighter planes left from the 180 fighter planes before, and if nothing unexpected happened, there should be a German fleet waiting for them in front, so they couldn’t continue to sail along this route!

The route must be changed!

“Everyone, sail due west!”

Sakai Saburo immediately made a decision to completely bypass the German fleet!