The appearance of planes in the sky immediately disrupted Matsui Toshio's calculations. At this time, he no longer cared about detaining the freighters, and quickly ordered two destroyers to move closer to him to form an air defense formation. However, things in the world sometimes do not depend on human beings.
With his willpower diverted, just as the Japanese ships were hurriedly trying to form an air defense formation, two more fighter planes pounced down from the sky, one on the left and one on the tail, attacking from two directions at the same time.
Down, amidst bursts of dull machine gunfire, countless metal bullets rained down on the deck of the "Songdao", causing the Japanese soldiers on the deck of the "Songdao" to moan incessantly.
It stands to reason that as a light cruiser, the "Matsushima" has good anti-aircraft firepower. It has more than 20 anti-aircraft guns ranging from 20 mm caliber, 40 mm caliber to 70 mm caliber. However, due to the sudden incident,
The Japanese troops on board were not prepared for battle and were quickly caught off guard.
Amid the flashes of fire, two aerial high-explosive bombs each weighing 100 kilograms fell one after another. One of them landed more than ten meters away from the "Songdao" and splashed for more than ten meters.
A huge wave sprayed high, and another one hit the deck of the main gun on the bow of the ship. There was a violent explosion, and a triple-mounted 140mm main gun was damaged by the violent shock wave.
It was twisted and completely lost its combat capability. Fortunately, the Japanese army was not prepared to fire these main guns, so they did not transport ammunition to the turret. Otherwise, if the shells in the turret exploded, the "Matsushima" would not be dead.
To peel off the skin.
Even so, the violent explosion still produced a strong shock wave on the "Matsushima", which collided with Matsui Toshio, Lieutenant Colonel Benzaburo Morimoto and others who were commanding in the cab and rolled into a ball like a gourd on the ground.
After finally standing up with the help of the people around him, Matsui Toshio immediately shouted, "Order, Qingyue, Qingfeng move closer to me immediately. Hit the air and fire, and never let the Chinese drop bombs again!"
The "Matsushima" is a Tianlong-class light cruiser with a standard displacement of 3,230 tons. Even at full load, the displacement is only 4,350 tons. Now it has been hit by a bomb and is already half dead. If
If it is hit by two more bombs, it will probably sink directly into the sea. The "Matsushima" is like this, not to mention the two smaller destroyers next to it. It is estimated that it will be hit by two more than 200 kilograms of bombs.
The bomb will have to say goodbye to this world directly, so the most urgent goal at the moment is to form an anti-aircraft formation. Don't worry about the British freighters next to it, save yourself first.
Under the order of Matsui Toshio, the two destroyers broke away from the contact with the cargo ships as quickly as possible and came to both sides of the "Matsushima". Without Matsui Toshio's orders, anti-aircraft gun shells fired streaks in the sky one after another.
The barrage stopped the fighter planes in the sky at an altitude of more than three thousand meters.
Albina is not a fool. When the fighter planes appeared in the sky, she knew that her group was saved. She immediately ordered the fleet to break away from the Japanese warships and began to retreat to the north until the shadows of the Japanese warships could no longer be seen.
Then he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Looking at the Japanese warships that had disappeared on the horizon, Albina secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She said to Hans beside her: "Okay, we are out of danger."
"yes!"
Hans also took a deep breath, and a feeling of surviving a disaster welled up in his heart. Although the Germans valued glory very much, no one wanted to die in an unknown manner. Especially on a ship with no trace of death.
It was such an unjust death to be bombed to death by someone else's warship on an armed freighter.
Thinking of this, Hans couldn't help but said bitterly: "If I encounter these little Japanese dwarfs on the battlefield next time, I will have to make them look good!"
"Come on, the Japanese are our allies. It's impossible for us to meet on the battlefield." At this time, the first mate said angrily, and his tone was also very dissatisfied. After all, who had experienced what just happened?
Nor can one have a good impression of someone who points a cannon at him.
"Maybe they will ask us for help." A communications officer on the side also interjected.
"Okay, stop complaining." Albina clapped her hands, "This time we just need to transport the goods to Guangzhou safely, and the rest of the things will be much easier to handle. Now everyone can go and take your place, don't let it go
The Japanese are catching up again."
Although everyone knew that the chance of the Japanese catching up again was low, they still cheered up and started working seriously. After a while, the communications officer reported: "Sir Albina, someone on Channel 13 requested access.
Are you connected?"
"Channel 13? Isn't that the channel agreed upon by the Chinese and us?" Albina nodded: "Okay, take it."
Soon, a deep voice rang through the small speaker in the cab, "Hello, commander of the Turulu, I am Major Liu Yi from the Third Flying Regiment of the First Air Division of the Seventh Army of China. Our army has
The Japanese ships have been driven away. Now that you are safe, do you have any other requirements?"
Albina raised her eyebrows and asked in blunt Chinese: "Oh, didn't you sink those guys?"
As if surprised by the crisp female voice that appeared in the headset, the other party's voice clearly contained a smile, "I'm sorry, dear lady, we are flying fighter jets. The kind of work you are talking about should be dive bombers or dive bombers."
It was the torpedo machine that did it, we don’t have that function.”
Hearing the ridicule in the other party's words, Albina's pink face showed a trace of blush, but it soon turned white. Albina said coldly: "Major Liu Yi, I am a
A soldier of the German Empire, and my military rank is lieutenant colonel. If you still have any respect for me, please call me by my military rank!"
"Uh...Okay, Miss Lieutenant Colonel, if nothing happens, we have to leave first." Perhaps because he saw that he could not take advantage of his words, the other party quickly said goodbye to Albina.
"Mr. Major, wait!"
Seeing that the other party was about to leave, Albina asked calmly: "What if the Japanese show up again? You know that this is your place, can't even the safety of the guests' lives be guaranteed? At the very least, it should be
Send a few warships to protect us?"
After Albina finished speaking, there was silence in the communicator. In the cab, there were only a handful of people who could understand Chinese, and Hans was one of them. However, Hans's expression was not very good at the moment. He heard it,
Albina was mocking the other party.
Anyone who knows a little bit about Chinese history knows that since the Beiyang Navy was destroyed, China has no navy that can always sail far away. Even after overthrowing the rule of the Manchu Dynasty for so many years, the Nationalist Government only has
We just talked about a few destroyers that can only sail in coastal waters and cannot provide ocean escort missions at all. Now that Albina brings this up, she is mocking China for not having a navy.
Hearing this, Hans couldn't help but secretly groan in his heart. He really didn't understand why Albina, a smart person, would make sarcastic remarks to the benefactor who had just saved him. Didn't she know that what she did would lead to disaster?
Predictable consequences?
After a period of silence, the other party's baritone voice sounded again, "Lieutenant Colonel Albina, as you wish, our warships will arrive in a few minutes, and they will escort you!"
When Albina heard this, her little mouth couldn't help but open up. She, who had always been calm, couldn't help but lose her composure. "What? This is impossible. Does China also have a navy?"
After finishing speaking, Albina realized that she had said the wrong thing. Wasn't it a clear mockery of the other party's defenselessness?
As expected, the other party's voice soon turned cold: "Lieutenant Colonel Albina, I'll give you a free piece of advice. Our country's naval strength is still very weak, but not everyone can come in, otherwise the Japanese will
The aircraft carrier Zuifeng will not be sunk in this sea area."
Listening to the other party's cold words, Albina felt that she was in the wrong and wanted to apologize, but she couldn't open her mouth, so the two sides fell silent.
After a while, the people in the cab heard a low roar, and six Vixen fighter jets flew over from behind at a low altitude. Their altitude was very low, almost flying close to the masts of the freighters. Then.
As several planes flew by, a gust of wind also passed over the fleet, causing a chorus of curses.
Listening to the curses coming from the side, Hans couldn't help but smile bitterly. If he was right, some unlucky guy on the watchtower outside had his hat blown off. But he didn't mean to curse. Just now Albi
He stopped listening to the conversation between Na and the other party. He thought that if it were him, he would definitely be angry. Flying the plane quickly over his own mast was already a very gentle way of venting his anger.
Looking at the plane flying away in front of him, Hans said to Albina: "Sir, it is estimated that the Chinese warships will arrive soon. Do we need to take the initiative to contact them via radio?"
Albina snorted softly: "No need, if those Chinese people still remember the purpose of our visit, they should take the initiative to contact us. Don't forget that we have brought them their continued machines and equipment. This
The only thing they should do is ask us."
Hans smiled bitterly and spread his hands, "Well, I hope so. After all, there is a huge difference between having a warship escort and not having a warship escort. I don't want to experience the scene just now again."
As soon as Hans finished speaking, cheers from the watchers came from outside. Amidst the cheers, several small black dots slowly appeared in the distance and were slowly driving towards them.
Hans and the people in the cab all heard it. It was the lookouts shouting "Chinese warship, that is Chinese warship..."