Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 974 Burn it, Pearl Harbor (2)
Taking advantage of this short attack interval, the undamaged ships in the harbor raised fire and anchored urgently. The sailors carried ammunition and rushed to the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine gun positions. water column.The damaged new dreadnought began to leak a large amount of heavy oil, and the officers and soldiers who fell into the water struggled desperately in the viscous oil slick. Fortunately, the oil layer had not yet caught fire. The sailors were sucked into the death vortex, and more sailors were trapped alive in the sunken and overturned ship.

Looking at the smoky harbor, Halsey ordered viciously: "The enemy is coming from the north. Order the cruiser troops of Rear Admiral De Lacey and Commodore Duke to immediately turn to the north of Oahu to search! Get out of port quickly and prepare to launch a counterattack against the enemy!"

The four armored cruisers of Rear Admiral De Lacey are currently patrolling 300 nautical miles southwest of Oahu Island, and the four protected cruisers of Commodore Duke are 4 nautical miles west of Oahu Island. It will take a lot of time, and what Admiral Halsey can rely on most is actually the cruisers in the port.

At 8:55, the second attack wave of the Dragon Army arrived over Pearl Harbor.

In the second attack wave, "Huangshan" and "Hengshan" each sent 21 attack planes, 6 fighter jets and 4 reconnaissance planes, and "Huashan" and "Lushan" each sent 12 attack planes, 6 fighter jets and 4 reconnaissance planes. A total of 64 reconnaissance planes, 24 attack planes, 16 fighter planes and 104 reconnaissance planes, among which, except for 4 naval attack planes in 24 squadrons carrying torpedoes for supplementary attacks, the rest of the planes are all carrying bombs and are scheduled to be deployed in the "Fenglei" While the fighter jets used machine guns and small bombs to suppress the opponent's anti-aircraft fire, the bomb-carrying "Lan Xiang" and "Lan Yun" conducted horizontal bombing on enemy ships that could not be attacked with torpedoes.

As the two red flares on the command plane leaped high, the attacking planes were divided into several groups, and each selected a target to enter the attack route.

"Pearl Harbor! Here we come!" Facing the smoky harbor, Lieutenant Gao Xinxin shouted excitedly, pulled down the goggles, and lowered the nose of the aircraft. The main berth is to the north, and the biggest target is the "Pennsylvania" class !

Suddenly there was a loud noise in the ear, and the fuselage shook violently for a while. Gao Xinxin felt that his internal organs were about to be shaken out.Flak!

Then she saw clearly that on the small platform behind the chimney, gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the red light flickered rapidly.She pressed the lever and stepped on the gas pedal, besides the sound of the wind, there was the whistling sound of bullets in her ears, and the enemy's machine guns were firing in this direction.

The two eight-year-type heavy machine guns on the nose sprayed dense bullets from between the propellers, and the bombing handle was pulled down forcefully, and the fuselage suddenly floated.

When the picture of the warship and the harbor was completely replaced by the blue sky and broken clouds, Gao Xinxin looked back, and two weak columns of smoke that were out of proportion to the huge ship slowly rose.

At this moment, a red light flashed, and at the same time as the plane vibrated violently, Gao Xinxin only felt a sharp pain in his shoulder.

"Oh!" After all, it was a girl, Gao Xinxin couldn't help crying out. What's worse, the engine stopped after a few thumps.

Pier [-] of Pearl Harbor, close to the stern of the armored cruiser "San Diego", beside an inconspicuous cargo ship, a group of sailors are unloading a ship full of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns from the ship!

A burly sergeant stood on a stack of wooden boxes beside the boat, yelling and pumping his fists. "Hurry up, hurry up! The yellow-skinned monkeys are shitting on our heads. If you don't want to eat shit, hurry up and set up this thing! We need shells! You, you, and you, go get the shells!"

The cargo ship "Duckton" arrived at Pearl Harbor only yesterday afternoon. It was loaded with 32 three-inch anti-aircraft guns, 30 anti-aircraft machine guns, several anti-aircraft mooring balloons, [-] shells and [-] bullets. It is used to strengthen the air defense force of the fleet and the base, all thanks to Lieutenant General Schroeder, the commander of the battleship third division, if he had not reported to Admiral Halsey many times, and even directly sent power to the Admiralty, the ship's air defense weapon said It may still be just a pile of steel ingots in the factory.

Since it coincides with Christmas, the dock workers are going home for the holidays, and the fleet and base headquarters believe that part of the enemy's fleet has returned to Truk, and the troops remaining in Marshall are limited. The possibility of being attacked by the enemy in the near future is extremely small. The possibility of a large-scale air strike is even slimmer. Even if it is really attacked by dozens of seaplanes, the dozens of kilograms of small bombs carried on the plane will not be able to cause substantial damage to the heavily armored capital ship, so there is no requirement to unload it immediately. Prepare to wait until after the holiday on December 12th.

After the air raid started, Admiral Halsey remembered the anti-aircraft weapons on the "Duckton", and immediately called the base command, asking them to send people to the dock and organize an anti-aircraft fire position on the spot, lest the base move too much. Slowly, Halsey ordered the four armored cruisers docked at the dock to dispatch personnel and rush to unload the cargo nearby.

The Sergeant Major Lipton standing on the wooden box and shouting slogans was the first sailor to rush to the cargo ship. He came from the "San Diego" dozens of meters away, but no one cares about this now. Inch anti-aircraft guns have been assembled on the pier, and the sailors used iron rods to savagely pry open the new ammunition box and move out the shells that were thickly coated with butter.

"Bitch! So much butter!"

Complaints are nothing but complaints, and immediately someone took off the sailor cap and sailor suit, and frantically wiped the butter on the shells.

"The barrel is full of butter too!"

The sailors cursed those damned arsenal workers angrily. How could they not be lazy and forget to apply anti-rust butter to these sons of bitches?While the U.S. sailors were fighting butter, the six "Fenglei" of the Dragon Army Attack Squadron swept past the top of the Duckton's mast one after another, and fired at the "Utah" that had pulled anchor and was about to sail to the entrance of the harbor. Called the attack.

First, second, third.

The ripples of the torpedo entering the water spread rapidly, and the huge water waves on the sea shook, stirring up a series of small plume-shaped water jets on the side of the battleship and the pier. Then, with the sound of landslides and ground cracks, one after another gigantic giants with a height of tens of meters rose suddenly. water column.

Second Lieutenant Liu Yun's plane is in the rear position of the entire squadron, whether it is taken care of or valued, Liu Yun never thinks that he will lose to his comrades in the same team.Without saying a word, she steadied the lever, and the shadow of the ship that she knew so well in front of her quickly magnified. Instantaneous judgment, subconsciously press the projection button!

As soon as the 450-kilogram torpedo left the fuselage, the plane suddenly floated up. Liu Yun restrained his excitement, stepped on the rudder and pulled the lever steadily, turned the nose of the plane to the north, and prepared to return.

"It's hit! Liu Yun, we've hit it! Good job! That guy is dead!" the observer in the back seat shouted ecstatically into the microphone.

Liu Yun let out a long breath, and was about to respond, when he saw a familiar plane dragging black smoke crookedly and falling towards the east of the harbor in front of the right, with a five-clawed golden dragon pattern painted on the tail, that's right, it was Gao Xinxin landline!

Without even thinking about it, Liu Yun approached the microphone and shouted: "Signal, we have to leave the queue!"

"Get out of the queue? Why?" the observer asked blankly.

"Don't worry about it so much, listen to my order and fight!"

A green signal flare went up, Liu Yun kicked the rudder, and chased after the falling Gao Xinxin landline.

Over Pearl Harbor, Colonel Wang Qiang, the commander of the second attack wave, leaned out from the observer position in the rear seat of the plane, supported the fuselage with one hand, and carefully observed the situation below with a telescope in the other.The command plane circled over Pearl Harbor one after another, and from all angles one could see fleets of planes criss-crossing, towering water columns, dazzling flashes of light, huge puffs of smoke, and burning and overturned enemy ships.

Suddenly, a low-flying attack plane dragged out black smoke, struggled a little, and then plunged into the sea, white waves, messy ripples, did the pilot die?God bless them to survive, even if they are temporarily captured, after the main force captures here, they will definitely be rescued.Wang Qiang prayed silently, adjusted the binoculars, and glanced at the pier casually, what is that?
For the sake of the air raid, there are still a lot of people gathered at the pier to unload cargo?What could allow them to rush for luck at the risk of being blown into pieces of meat?gold?jewelry?Impossible, how could such a valuable thing be known to so many people casually, not to mention who would hoard so much treasure in the military port?Besides, is it.

Wang Qiang's eyes flashed, and he retracted into the cockpit: "Fly to the dock and have a look."

The plane turned its head slightly and approached the pier from the side. Wang Qiang finally saw clearly that it was an anti-aircraft gun!

Two anti-aircraft guns have been erected on the pier, surrounded by densely packed figures and countless boxes piled up, the big crane on the pier is pulling out a net full of goods from the belly of the ordinary cargo ship , yes, this is a cargo ship loaded with anti-aircraft guns!Wang Qiang couldn't help taking a deep breath. If the anti-aircraft guns of this ship were deployed one day earlier, even the lack of well-trained gunners would be enough to cause serious losses to today's attacking troops. Hit rate, must not evade anti-aircraft fire when attacking.

Wang Qiangxun glanced around. Fortunately, there was still an attack squadron carrying bombs in the northwest of the harbor that had not entered the bombing route and was turning. Then he fired three red signal flares in a row, ordering the aircraft that had not yet launched an attack to move closer to the command aircraft.

"Xiao Li, lean over and fly side by side with the squadron leader over there." Xiao Li's technique is really good, and he dragged the plane to its position in two or three strokes.The Swordfish torpedo planes of the second attack wave had already dropped mines at this time, and all of them headed back north. Most of the horizontal bombers had just entered the bombing route one by one, preparing to attack the warships parked inside the queue and several armored ships docked by the pier. The cruiser launched an attack, and the attack squadron summoned by the command plane was originally scheduled to bomb the pier.

(End of this chapter)