I fought guerrilla warfare in the Yimeng Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War

Chen Feng took the telegram, but Qingdao hadn't made any move yet. The telegram was sent by Shen Honglie. A large number of ships appeared in the open sea in the morning. The air force took the lead in launching an attack at 8 o'clock. Their targets were two warships and two airports. However, there were more than 200 anti-aircraft guns at three key locations. The Japanese planes could not dive down at all. After dozens of them were blown up, they chose to drop bombs from high altitude, causing almost no damage to the ground.

In Jiaozhou Bay, two warships were circling to avoid the bombs falling from the sky. Fortunately, the battle had been going on for more than half an hour and the warships had not been hit by any bombs.

The Japanese planes were going crazy. Are these cruisers and destroyers? The super battleship "Yamato" that they were developing didn't have as much firepower as them!

The two battleships have no less than eight machine guns and densely packed anti-aircraft machine guns. Almost every dive will be hit by dozens of fire networks. Ordinary anti-aircraft machine guns are okay, but if they are hit by machine guns or large-caliber heavy machine guns, one large-caliber bullet can destroy an airplane.

Faced with an attack that could wipe out the entire army with just one bomb, all the navy officers did not panic, but instead fired their guns and cannons with excitement. The warship was still out of range, so they could only shoot down the planes. The captain's large-caliber machine gun was more useful, mainly because it had a fast firing rate! It was more than ten times faster than a machine gun, and the bullets were sandwiched with tracer bullets, so the muzzle could be turned at any time according to the shooting field of view.

Two airport targets, when dozens of planes dived to a distance of about 1,500 meters, all the anti-aircraft fire revealed the white camouflage.

MG42 anti-aircraft machine guns, M2HB large-caliber heavy machine guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns captured from the Japanese. When dozens of fire lines intertwined into a network to face the Japanese diving formation, the pilot's eyes were full of panic. It was too late to pull up the control wrench. The bullets were too dense. No matter how fast the plane was, it could not dodge. The machine gunners below became more and more excited. The feeling of exploding in the air was too comfortable.

The commander of the attack on Qingdao was Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander of the "China Fleet", who also served as commander of the Third Fleet.

His battle plan was simple. He would dispatch planes from the Shokaku and Zuikaku aircraft carriers. In the first round of air strikes, he would shoot down the planes captured by the Chinese, destroy the Cangkou and Liuting airports, and blow up the two ships captured by the Chinese.

In the second round of attack, heavy bombs were used to blow up the artillery batteries in Qingdao. Although it was a bit difficult, the landing troops could not get close to the artillery batteries. The worst that could happen was to launch a few more rounds of bombing, as long as most of the artillery firepower was destroyed.

After two rounds of attacks, the third round of aircraft took off to cover the landing of soldiers on the troop transport ship. At the same time, the naval guns would open fire to clear all obstacles for the soldiers.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi had a beautiful idea, but the result was completely beyond his expectations. The Chinese did not take off to engage in battle, the airport could not be penetrated, and the ship defenses were impenetrable. Before one round of attack was over, more than one-third of the more than 150 aircraft on the two aircraft carriers were lost. The returning pilots reported that they had never seen such a dense concentration of machine gun and artillery positions. Can you believe that seventy or eighty anti-aircraft guns are needed just to defend a small or medium-sized airport?

Hasegawa felt a little uncomfortable. The cold shoulder was too harsh. He thought he had left Qingdao and temporarily gave up the navy and air force, but he didn't expect that he still attached so much importance to them in his heart.

At 9:30 in the morning, the first wave of planes returned. A total of 156 fighters and bombers were dispatched from the two aircraft carriers, but only 94 returned. Even these 94 were not complete, as more than a dozen were hit and could no longer fly.

Looking at the ground crew on the deck hanging bombs in the strong wind, Hasegawa Tsuyoshi felt unhappy. The first round of attack did not achieve his expected goal at all. Was there any need to continue with the second round?

At 10:50 in the morning, the second round of attack echelons completed their organization and rushed towards Qingdao. Hasegawa Tsuyoshi ordered various series of ships to move forward and prepare to bombard the artillery positions in coordination with the rhythm of the aircraft attack.

The planes were still circling looking for opportunities when more than a dozen ships came into range.

The coastal defense artillery batteries have been looking forward to this for a long time. The last time a warship attacked, they were a little nervous in their first actual combat and only damaged two ships, and they didn't know whether they were the ones who did it. Recently, a lot of artillery shells have been transported, and the commander has given the go-ahead. Fire as hard as you can, and fire as much as you want. If the artillery shells are gone, they can be replenished immediately.

boom! Boom boom boom!

The coastal defense artillery fired almost simultaneously, and dozens of seconds later, a huge column of water rose from the middle of the Japanese warships.

The Japanese naval guns were still being adjusted when the coastal defense guns opened fire for the second round.

boom! Boom boom boom!

More than twenty water columns rose up, but this time there were two more black smoke. The artillerymen were overjoyed. They hit two ships, and they quickly continued.

The coastal defense artillery fired the third round of bombardment, and the naval guns on this side began to fire. Each coastal defense battery had an obvious reference object. The shells whizzed towards several coastal defense batteries, and black smoke rose up with violent explosions, but none of them hit the target.

The bombardment was very intense. The Japanese naval guns did not target the two ships of the Jiaolong Regiment. The two ships were always circling around and were difficult to lock on in a short period of time. The main reason was that they did not dare to move forward. The shooting range was not enough and the coastal defense artillery was too terrifying. After ten minutes of shooting, the fifteen ships here had been hit twelve times, and two of them had already been out of range.

The bombardment lasted for nearly an hour. The whole city of Qingdao was vibrating. The reconnaissance planes kept reporting on the attack. This time, the planes still made no progress. After circling for more than half an hour, they launched an attack, but they still failed.

Among more than eighty planes, fifty bombers only blew a few big holes on the runway, and more than thirty fighter planes could not even break through the dense defense network.

The planes came back. There were eighty-four planes in the formation, but only thirty-seven returned intact. More than ten returned with black smoke. Although they successfully made an emergency landing and the fire was put out by firefighters, the planes could definitely not fly.

Nine of the fifteen ships had already retreated, two were seriously damaged and about to sink, the soldiers had already boarded the boats, and four were still on fire and smoking. Hasegawa Gang didn't dare to fight anymore, the loss was too great! Did they really have endless shells?

The remaining Japanese ships withdrew from the range and surrounded the edge of the aircraft carrier, waiting to put out the fire on the damaged warship. Hasegawa looked at the fleet with a gloomy face. If he had known this would happen, he would have let the bombers bomb those factories.

Several large holes were blown out on the runway of Liuting Airport, and planes could not take off, but the runway of Cangkou Airport was still intact. The ten ace pilots could not sit still and wanted to take off and deal a fatal blow to the Japanese aircraft carrier. The eight pilots who came to aid China were also eager to move, and they all felt that this was a good opportunity, but Chen Rongwei refused to let them take off.