In the distant sea, the surviving "Flying Dragon" was finished. After sending the last wave of attack aircraft, its plane was completely lost. At this time, only a few Zero fighter planes were left in the sky, but they did not have any effect at all. There were too many enemy planes.

The two enemy squadrons of dive bombers and twelve torpedoes launched attacks around the Flying Dragon. The anti-aircraft guns on the Flying Dragon were firing desperately, but the effect was limited. Captain Colonel Kalai commanded the warship to desperately dodge the sea and avoided the first few bombs dropped. However, more enemy planes then dived, and the Flying Dragon was hit by six 350 kilograms of aviation bombs, causing fire and explosions immediately. The huge black smoke column soared into the air, and the Flying Dragon's speed quickly decreased.

Now, the Austrian-Chinese fighter jets have begun to turn their attention to the warning ship.

At 8:49, the escorted "Harmond" battleship was attacked by four bombers, and at 9:7, it was attacked by two dive bombers. However, none of the bombs hit, and "Harmond" was intact.

The Ligan heavy cruiser was attacked by four dive bombers at 9:20, and at 9:28, it was attacked by seven dive bombers, and two bombs were hit.

At 10:23, the "Flying Dragon" had completely lost its speed, and the hull began to tilt continuously. Due to the inlet of water, it tilted to 15 degrees. No rescue efforts were effective. Admiral Yamaguchi reported to Lieutenant General Nakamoto through the "Fengyun" destroyer, and he had ordered the "Flying Dragon" crew to abandon the ship.

Captain Kobayashi led the only 30 carrier-based aircraft left by the Japanese to follow behind the group of Austrians who were immersed in victory and returned proudly. The pilots who had just won a naval battle and were not paying attention to the dangers lurking behind them, and all regarded these Japanese military aircraft as their teammates. The pilots were chatting in the wireless telephone and boasting about their achievements, but no one thought of asking what happened to the group of aircraft behind them.

The radar soldiers of the Austro-China Combined Fleet noticed this batch of aircraft and did not send out automatic radio recognition signals. However, the radar detection accuracy is still very poor. The radar soldiers mistakenly believed that this batch of fighter jets were together with the returning aircraft group. In fact, this batch of aircraft is located about 2 nautical miles behind the Chinese fleet. Moreover, the flight altitude is about 500 meters higher than the returning aircraft group. In this way, their light and shadow are displayed on the radar screen that overlap with the returning aircraft group.

No one issued any warning until the two patrol fighters patrolling the outer layer of the fleet wanted to come up to greet them. Only then did they discover the Japanese military emblem sprayed on the other side's fuselage.

Now the whole thing is in chaos, and the air defense alarm suddenly sounds. All aircraft carriers are recovering the fighter jets, without any preparation. The fighter jets that have not landed have been lifted again. They want to turn the plane head to fight the enemy, but everything is no hurry. The Japanese rushed towards the chaotic aircraft carrier battle group on the sea with full of hatred.

Most of these aircraft carriers are hovering over their own fighter jets, and the fleet's anti-aircraft artillery dare not fire easily.

What a disaster!

Among the eighteen Japanese dive bombers, 15 broke through the interception of more than 40 fighter jets that had escorted, and roared at the aircraft carrier battle group running around the sea, and then dropped bombs to intercept the torpedo planes better, but seven torpedo planes successfully dropped torpedoes.

The unlucky "Guangxi" was hit by a bomb again. The bomb fell into the dense shutdown area at the stern of the ship. The flight deck was instantly blown open with a large hole about ten meters in diameter. Several fighter jets were blown into the air, and then turned into pieces and splashed into the surrounding sea water. There were some bombed planes burning on the deck.

Not until this was over, two enemy torpedo planes rushed from a low altitude toward the Chinese aircraft carrier, which was rapidly turning on the sea, and dropped two black torpedoes one by one and one behind less than a thousand meters. The two torpedoes entered the water and splashed more than ten meters high, and then rushed towards the aircraft carrier with nearly fifty knots under the water.

At 10:28:30, a torpedo hit the front of the starboard side of the Guangxi. Another torpedo hit the end of the warship. The violent explosion caused a tongue of flames with sea water to spew out there, and the hull of the Guangxi shiver violently.

The battlefield is now in a mess. Three of the ten aircraft carriers of the Austro-China fleet were bombed. It was a shame that they were successfully attacked by a small enemy force without any preparation. Three aircraft carriers were injured.

Admiral Velmotsyankel was so angry that he jumped straight on the bridge of the flagship and ordered the fighter troops to wipe out the invading Japanese fighter jets. Needless to say, the fighter jets that returned had turned around at this time, chasing the Japanese bombers that had already completed the bomb drop. One after another, Japanese bombers fell from mid-air with flames falling into the sea under the siege of several fighter jets. But they had completed their mission and finally saved some face to the almost completely wiped out Japanese mobile fleet.

In the end, only three Zero fighters escaped the pursuit and returned smoothly. Of course, they had no place to land, and they could only land on the sea in the end. Two of the five aircraft carriers of the Japanese mobile fleet had already sunk, and the other three were just struggling on the sea and surviving.

The furious Admiral Yankel sent a third wave of attacking fighter jets to the direction of the Japanese fleet, but the attack aircraft group sent by the Marshall fleet encountered the Second Japanese Navy Fleet led by Lieutenant General Kondo Nobutake and found the wrong target, which allowed the Nagamo Fleet to escape.

The German attack aircraft flocked to the retreating Kondo fleet and bombarded the battleship of the "Kingang" in the end. The "Hairui" was only slightly injured, the "Atgo" and "Toshima" heavy cruisers were severely damaged, and the "Migo" and "Haki" heavy cruisers were severely damaged, and the "Migo" heavy cruisers were sunk. Lieutenant General Takagi Takeo, commander of the Japanese Navy's Fifth Cruiser Team, was killed, which was also the only lieutenant general who died in the Japanese Navy in this naval battle. In addition, the "Asakusa", "Xiayun", "Murayu", "Yuri" destroyers and four transport ships were sunk.

Major General Sa Shijun wore a steel helmet and life jacket, got off the bridge, stood on the deck of his flagship, and was commanding the fire extinguishing and rescue work of the warships. Now that the battle has long been over, the officers and soldiers on the aircraft carrier have been busy remediating and repairing the losses caused to the "Guangxi" by the Japanese.

The Japanese Type 93 acid torpedo was very powerful and hit the underwater lightning protection shell on the bow and part of the starboard ship. The lightning protection shell is a non-pressure-resistant shell built below the waterline of the warship. It is located outside the main hull and is a waterproof mine and a watertight compartment attached to the outside of the main hull, forming the real buoyancy of the warship. These compartments are usually filled with lightweight non-flammable filler, and sometimes they are also filled with fresh water. Its function is to provide a protective wall for warships, so that the explosion point is farther from the real hull when torpedoes or mines are touched in the warship, and absorb part of the explosion energy.

In the design, the German ship attaches great importance to underwater protection, especially the fine watertight compartment design, which is of great benefit to improving the sink resistance of warships. In addition, the fuel tank, aviation gasoline tank and freshwater compartment are arranged in the compartment around the hull, which is another lightning protection device. These very deep vertical oil and water compartment are parallel to the warship and next to the armored protective layer. In this way, most of the underwater energy will be absorbed by these liquids, thus greatly improving the protection capability of the hull armor layer.

The "Graf Zeppelin-class" aircraft carrier is designed with nearly 800 watertight compartments. Although this increases the weight of the hull, it is very beneficial for underwater protection and for balancing the weight of the superstructure.

Even so, the two torpedoes still penetrated the armored protective layer of the hull, causing the entire aircraft carrier to pour into about 800 tons of sea water, and the entire warship had tilted about 5 degrees to the right.

After more than an hour of rescue and the help of two escort destroyers, the fire on the warship has been controlled. In general, the Guangxi "State" has not caused much damage in its structure.

Fortunately, the Guangxi can still be maintained in the fleet's fleet at a speed of 25 knots, and there is no risk of sinking. (To be continued.) xh118r1052
Chapter completed!