In the eyes of the staff, Toshio Naoi had not yet recovered from the bomb just now. Even the staff suspected that Toshio Naoi had suffered a concussion from the bomb.
But only Naoi Toshio himself knew that he was awake.
The reason why he did not react or direct the rescue of the Nagara in time was because he lost confidence.
It’s not that we lost confidence in the Nagara, but that we lost confidence in the entire Imperial Navy.
This is the scariest thing.
Because we have lost confidence in the entire navy, that is to say, we believe that the Imperial Navy has no meaning in existence, so is there any point in rescuing the "Nagara"?
After a while, Naoi Toshio gave an order. He calmly said to the staff: "Abandon the ship! Everyone abandon the ship!"
"Your Majesty Colonel..." The staff officer wanted to say something else, but when Naoi Toshio stared at him with a vicious look, a chill went up to him. He had no doubt that if he asked another question, Naoi Toshio would pull out his pistol on the spot.
Shoot him to death.
"His Excellency Colonel has gone crazy!" the staff officer thought so.
However, the staff still carried out Naoi Toshio's order and directed everyone to abandon the ship.
However, it was still too late to abandon the ship. Just as the staff of the staff organization lowered the lifeboats, the lookouts on the bow of the ship shouted: "They are here again, another batch!"
Lookout soldiers are a unique branch of the Japanese navy. The Japanese know the importance of the navy discovering enemy warships and fighter planes in advance. Simply put, they are reconnaissance and intelligence.
However, the Japanese did not work on radar but trained a group of lookout soldiers: they selected a group of soldiers with the best eyesight, and then gave them adequate nutrition. They usually did nothing but practice their eyesight, holding telescopes on the sea all day long.
Look for ships in the sky and planes in the clouds.
At this time, it was these lookout soldiers who first discovered the danger.
The staff officer looked in the direction pointed by the lookout soldier, and sure enough he saw another batch of small black spots in the sky, which were obviously another batch of aircraft bombs.
"Abandon ship, abandon ship immediately!" the staff officer yelled. Only then did he realize that Naoi Toshio's order was correct and that no matter how hard they tried to save the ship, it would be in vain.
How did the staff officer know that his commander didn't ask them to abandon ship because of this?
The staff officer hurriedly ran to Naoi Toshio. At this time, Naoi Toshio was observing the missiles hitting them in the sky with a telescope, and said to himself: "It's incredible, the Eighth Route Army really succeeded..."
"Your Majesty Colonel!" the staff officer interrupted Naoi Toshio in a hurry: "Abandon the ship, it will be too late if you don't leave!"
Naoi Toshio refused without thinking: "Let's go, Shiina-kun! I want to see its power again!"
"What?" The staff officer couldn't believe what he heard. The colonel did not stay to live and die with the warships, but just wanted to see the power of aircraft bombs like the Eighth Route Army's?
"It's very beautiful!" Naoi Toshio exclaimed: "It's unbelievable, this is something that even Takajia doesn't have! Maybe we are really wrong..."
Before he finished speaking, missiles hit the warship one after another.
"Your Majesty Colonel!" the staff officer finally shouted.
But seeing that Naoi Toshio had no intention of leaving, he had no choice but to jog a few steps, turn over, and jump into the sea.
Naoi Toshio held the barrier with one hand and the window eaves with the other. He tried to stand up straight and looked back at the clouds of flames that exploded when the "aircraft bomb" hit the Nagara. He felt the waves of vibrations from the explosion, and soon only
Hearing a loud "boom", the ammunition depot was detonated, and a ball of flame rushed over like a huge wave and quickly engulfed Toshio Naoi... Until the last moment, Toshio Naoi didn't know that what defeated him was not an "aircraft bomb"
But "anti-ship missiles".
But this is not important. What is important is that he knows that the Eighth Route Army has this kind of equipment, and that this kind of equipment can defeat the Imperial Navy.
The reason why the first batch of missiles were able to penetrate the air defense net of the Japanese warships was also due to Yuping's command.
The original plan was that the pilot should control the missile to approach the target about two kilometers before starting the dive.
This is a calculated result after several tests. The reason is that once the missile enters the dive stage, its speed will quickly increase to 400 to 500 kilometers per hour.
Diving too early means that the pilot may have hit the sea surface before even seeing the target missile on TV.
Entering two kilometers, starting to dive at this distance can give the pilot more time to search for the target, and at the same time, he can find the target more clearly on the blurry black and white TV screen.
However, the situation at that time was that the Japanese anti-aircraft guns laid dense mist of shells in the airspace...the anti-aircraft gun shells exploded in the air, and shrapnel would fly everywhere in the air.
Anti-ship missiles cannot withstand the impact of these shrapnel. They are very fragile and have a very dense internal control system. A single shrapnel can penetrate and cut off a few wires to cause the missile to go out of control.
In addition, the Japanese warships also have anti-aircraft machine guns, which are equally deadly to anti-ship missiles.
Yu Ping thought that if this continued, it would probably not be able to cause enough damage to the Japanese warships, but for the time being, there was no other way.
At the critical moment, he had an idea: Didn't the Japanese anti-aircraft guns not have proximity fuses? In other words, they fired according to the set delay fuses! In this case, what if the anti-aircraft missiles suddenly lowered their altitude?
So Yu Ping immediately grabbed the microphone and ordered: "Everyone, dive towards the target, repeat, dive towards the target!"
Although the pilots did not understand why Yu Ping gave such an order, they all carried it out resolutely.
The battle situation turned out exactly as Yu Ping imagined. The missiles suddenly lowered their altitude, rendering the Japanese anti-aircraft guns useless.
To be precise, it is temporarily ineffective and they need some time to adjust the delay fuze.
But this time was enough for the missile to break through its air defense network. In addition, the angle suddenly changed and the speed accelerated during the dive, which prevented the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons from reacting for a while.
Part of the reason for this is that the Japanese regarded these missiles as "airplanes" and took it for granted that they would climb up again after dropping their bombs, so they were ready for another follow-up "hunt".
Who would have thought that these "planes" did not climb at all, but directly crashed into the "Nagara" one by one, knocking the Japanese into confusion on the spot.
The Eighth Route Army pilots cheered.
This batch of attacks was quite successful. Seven of the twenty missiles were destroyed, and four missed the target and hit the sea. In the end, nine missiles hit the Japanese warships, five of which hit the "Nagara".
Four hit the "Kuma".
But it makes no difference. As long as they are injured and lose some of their combat effectiveness, the next batch of missiles will be easier to deal with.
Within a few minutes, when the second batch of missiles appeared in the sky, the two Japanese warships were doomed.