In fact, Naoi Toshio was right when he said it was a "fighter plane."
Because the anti-ship missile is modified from the original high-fire, this thing is actually a small plane, but there is no propeller in the front and it is driven by the engine in the tail.
One of the shortcomings of this anti-ship missile is its slow speed, which is only more than 300 kilometers per hour and less than half the speed of the BF109.
But then again, if the speed of this anti-ship missile is fast, it may not be a good thing.
The reason is that it is guided by a television and is controlled by a "La 5" pilot in the air. If it is too fast, reaching a speed of 700 per hour like the BF109, the pilot will not have time to react and the missile will have already hit the sea.
The reason why it is controlled by the "La 5" pilot is because the Japanese warships are far away from the Eighth Route Army. For example, the two light cruisers "Nagara" and "Kuma" at this time have a maximum range of 20 kilometers.
This also means that the Eighth Route Army's offensive line is about 20 kilometers.
Even if the Eighth Route Army moved the control system to the front line, it would still be 20 kilometers away from the missile.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army's radio technology could only control a dozen kilometers, and 20 kilometers was beyond its control range.
In addition, the radio has to cross the Japanese defense zone and is likely to be interfered, so it is obviously not possible to control anti-ship missiles in this way.
There is only one feasible solution, and that is to let the pilot control the missile to fly to the target from the air.
It is not easy to achieve this, because the pilot has to fly the fighter plane while staring at the TV screen full of snowflakes, and at the same time control the missile, which can be said to be doing three things at once.
Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army Air Force has developed a group of skilled pilots at this time. Their eyes do not need to look at the scenery outside the window for reference. They just rely on their body feelings to know the attitude of the fighter planes and react like conditioned reflexes.
to respond and adjust.
So they might have extra time and energy to control the missiles.
So, this is actually a battle between pilots and Japanese warships.
The Japanese warship responded immediately, with a "bombing" burst of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns firing bullets and artillery shells into the air. Suddenly, the sky was filled with black smoke from anti-aircraft guns and large-caliber machine guns.
The bullet lines are filled with heat, like a flower spreading out.
With a "boom", an anti-ship missile was hit by the enemy's anti-aircraft gun. Because it was a disposable projectile and the structure was not tight, it broke into several pieces in the air and scattered to the sea with just one shot.
Then there was another sound, and another anti-ship missile also lost control and plunged straight to the sea... This should have been hit by a Japanese machine gun. There were gyroscopes and automatic control systems everywhere inside the anti-ship missile. As long as it was hit by the enemy
If the bullet penetrates and hits, it will be unable to maintain its flying attitude and continue flying.
Not long after, two more missiles were shot down. This scene made Yu Ping, who was conducting the mission in the air, extremely anxious.
This is all because the missile flies too slowly. A speed of 300 kilometers per hour means that it takes one minute to fly 5 kilometers.
The Japanese warship was ten kilometers away from the coastline, which also meant that it took at least two minutes for the missile to enter the Japanese field of vision and hit the target. The Japanese seized this time to prepare and launch a counterattack.
On the other side, Toshio Naoi, who was on the warship, felt relieved when he saw this scene.
He said to the staff with a disdainful smile: "I thought it was some kind of secret weapon! Such a small plane is so slow, and it doesn't seem to have a bomb. How can it want to blow up our warship?"
No wonder Naoi Toshio thought this way. He had never seen the Eighth Route Army's missiles and didn't know how powerful they were, so he took it for granted that they were the Eighth Route Army's "local aircraft."
If it was an airplane, it would have to take turns to dive bomb. However, five of the twenty "small airplanes" in front of us were knocked out before they even reached the warship. How many more rounds can they last?
But the reality was not what Naoi Toshio thought. Just when he was still thinking that these "small planes" would climb and escape, he suddenly found that the "small planes" further lowered their altitude and dived towards the warship...
Naoi Toshio's expression changed, and he immediately understood in the next second: "No, these small planes themselves are bombs!"
After reacting, he quickly picked up the phone in front of him and shouted an order: "shoot them all down, don't let any one go! They are bombs..."
But in the end it was too late. The missiles entering the dive phase were much faster, and each one hit the warship as if it had eyes. Some of the missiles missed their target and actually turned a corner in the air.
, and then rammed into the warship again in the eyes of Toshio Naoi with horror and helplessness.
Just hearing a loud "boom" sound, the two Japanese warships burst into flames one after another.
Naoi Toshio, who was in the command room, was shaken around and almost fell to the ground. He finally stood firm and got up. Another missile exploded next to the command room. The sound of "boom" shook all the glass into small pieces.
The block flew inwards, and even Naoi Toshio's face was stabbed several times and was bleeding.
Naoi Toshio ran out of the command room injured and looked outside. His warship had been blown up and was filled with flames and black smoke. It was uncontrollable. There were wounded soldiers lying on the ground and many soldiers who had been shaken into the sea.
He stretched out his hands desperately and called for help.
Looking at the "Kuma" not far away, the situation is similar to that of the "Nagara", with thick smoke billowing and flames.
At this time, Naoi Toshio felt numb.
What he was thinking about was not his dying subordinates, nor the loss of the Nagara, nor his own injuries.
What he was thinking was:
The Eighth Route Army actually has such equipment? Equipment that can directly attack warships and is so powerful?
If the Eighth Route Army has such equipment, can the Imperial Navy still get close to China?
They can launch an effective attack on the Imperial Navy within dozens of kilometers, but the Imperial Navy is powerless!
So, what is the future of the navy?!
Naoi Toshio was right.
Although the word "powerless" is a bit overstated, the Navy can still use anti-aircraft firepower to intercept some anti-ship missiles.
but……
If there are enough anti-ship missiles, does interception make sense?
Ten will be intercepted, so use twenty, thirty...
Anti-ship missiles are much cheaper than the Japanese warships. If they can be blown up with thirty missiles, they don’t even need to be blown up. They just need to blow them up so that they lose their combat capabilities. Then the Japanese warships will not be able to play a role on the battlefield!
Because Naoi Toshio thought about this problem, he didn't even have the heart to rescue his injured warship.
The staff officer shouted anxiously from the side: "Your Majesty, Colonel, the fire is spreading and is about to reach the ammunition depot..."
But Naoi Toshio seemed not to have heard anything and just stared at the messy warships in a daze.