At the same time, the naval guns in the Jiangfang fleet began to bombard the air in mid-air, and one after another smoke bombs were fired out, and exploded in the mid-air around the fleet, and soon formed a cloud of black smoke, enveloping Deputy Commander Li and his ships, and almost at the same time as firing smoke bombs, Deputy Commander Li had ordered the ships to change direction and slow down, and turn to the south to avoid the bombing of the bombers The bombers who flew over did not expect that Deputy Commander Li would release a large number of smoke bombs, and for a time a large area of black smoke rose below, all of which enveloped the ships, and they could not see clearly where those ships were Surrounded by the smoke of smoke bombs below, Deputy Commander Li of course knew that his ship would not be able to support much time by relying on these smoke bombs alone, and this was just a way to passively evade the bombing of enemy planes, and if he wanted to run out and return to the Jiangyin Fort smoothly, he had to ask the military headquarters for help and reinforcements, otherwise he and his brothers would have to be sunk by the big bombs of the Kuomintang bombers and go to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish Deputy Commander Li immediately radioed to Zhou Wu for help, saying that he had encountered a Kuomintang bomber on the sea less than 40 nautical miles from Jiangyin, and that the current situation was critical, and he asked for reinforcements At this moment, Zhou Wuzheng and his team were on the way to Shanghai, when they received a distress telegram from Deputy Commander Li, and he immediately sent a telegram to Commander Liao who stayed at the Jiangyin Fort, asking him to bring the gunboats in the fort to reinforce Deputy Commander Li, and at the same time ordered Huang Shuisheng and their naval division, which was heading south along the sea route, to immediately turn to the sea area inside Deputy Commander Li, and to be sure to repel the Kuomintang planes and rescue the Jiangfang fleet When Deputy Commander Li learned that Lao Liao and Huang Shuisheng would come to the rescue with a fleet, his confidence was greatly increased, and he knew that although most of Huang Shuisheng's naval divisions were gunboats and armed fishing boats, some of them were equipped with a large number of machine guns for air defense, and although most of those machine guns could not hit the Kuomintang planes in mid-air, as long as there were a large number of them, they could still pose a threat to the enemy's planes, and what we had to do now was not whether or not we could shoot down the planes of the Kuomintang army, but as long as we could scare those planes away As the smoke slowly dissipated, the outline of the river defense ships on the sea slowly appeared, and the commander of the bombers who were still hovering in mid-air saw that the opportunity had come, so he ordered the aircraft group to quickly disperse and dive and drop bombs at those river defense ships that had "defected to the enemy."
The large-caliber machine guns had already hit, and the shells smashed on the deck of the river defense ships, jumping up and sparking blood-red sparks, and the various air defense cannons and machine guns on the river defense ships below were already firing at the bombers in the air, and the shells exploded in mid-air.
As soon as the bombers saw the anti-aircraft shells coming from below, they quickly pulled up the planes and did maneuvering dodging movements in mid-air, and most of the artillery fire fired by Deputy Commander Li was empty, and the bombers quickly changed their formation in the high air, and once again found the gap in the artillery fire, screaming and swooping down towards the river defense ships below As soon as the Jiang defense ships below saw the Kuomintang bombers swooping down, they desperately used all kinds of weapons to shoot at the air, and even the rifles used by the sailors on board for self-defense, and whether they could hit them or not, they opened fire on the bombers that were diving down; for a time the sea was filled with gunsmoke, the sound of guns and cannons was everywhere, the heavy wheezing sound of the bomber engines and the sharp whistling sound of the dive-down were intertwined with the sound of machine-gun and anti-aircraft artillery fire from the ships below, forming an unusually fierce picture of a sea and air battle.
Two American-made torpedo bombers with two large torpedoes swooped down less than three meters from the sea surface and clinged to the waves and swooped viciously towards Deputy Commander Li's flagship.
Lao Li saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered his brothers to concentrate artillery fire to intercept the two enemy torpedo bombers that were rushing up along the water, although the tonnage of the Jiang defense ship was small, the largest was less than 1,000 tons, and it was not even comparable to the destroyer, but the advantage was that it was flexible and flexible, there were many small guns on the ship, and the rate of fire was fast, seeing the Kuomintang bombers rushing towards their ships, even if they didn't need Lao Li to shout, those brothers on the deck had already flattened those anti-aircraft guns that were shooting at the air, and gritted their teeth and desperately fired at the enemy planes, "Knock knock."
The pilots of the two enemy planes were very adept, maneuvering the huge bombers to dodge left and right to dodge the shells and bullets that were coming at the planes, and on the ground four or five hundred meters away from the ships, they could only hear a "clang" sound, and two large torpedoes of 24-inch caliber were immediately launched into the water, and like two big black fish, they "swished" towards the flagship of Deputy Commander Li and them In addition, before the Kuomintang bomber could drop the torpedo, it was directly hit by the shells fired by Lao Li's brothers on the opposite side, and suddenly a ball of flames rose up, black smoke billowed out, and the plane fell into the sea below with a wail, splashing up a wall of water as high as the sky, and the enemy bomber that had already laid down the torpedo saw that its companion was shot down by artillery fire, hurriedly pulled up the nose of the plane, rolled and turned in mid-air, and was about to flee to the rear The brothers on the boat saw two big torpedoes rushing towards their ship, and hurriedly sounded the thunder alarm, the "woo" alarm sounded on the sea, the hull quickly tilted to the left, and swayed from side to side, turned around, and serpentine maneuvering, these actions were quickly completed in just a few seconds, Deputy Commander Li had already pounced on the cockpit in the flagship at this moment, personally took the helm, and kept ordering the other sailor brothers: "Reverse at full speed and turn left 60 degrees" The other sailor brothers in the cockpit immediately followed the order of Deputy Commander Li, and the first torpedo grazed the back buttocks of the flagship, and after continuing to rush in the water for several hundred meters, it exploded with a "boom", and the air wave of the explosion lifted up a wall of water, almost covering the entire flagship, and the power was incredible, but fortunately it was not next to each other, otherwise the flagship would immediately explode in two, and the brothers would have to go to the sea to feed the fish Before the brothers on the ship could congratulate themselves on their escape, and the torpedo was about to touch the bow of the flagship, Deputy Commander Li hurriedly hit a right full rudder and shouted to the pilots: "Brake and stop the ship" The pilots immediately pushed the brakes, and started the windlass, only to hear a chaotic sound of "Kerala", the huge iron anchor suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea, deep into the soil of the seabed, Lao Li's flagship was like a galloping horse that was suddenly pulled the reins, the bow of the ship was raised high, and suddenly stopped moving The big torpedo grazed against the bow of the ship, and then exploded itself a few hundred meters away, a wall of water rose into the sky, although the brothers on the ship were tossed by the wave of emergency evasion just now, but when they saw their ship avoid the two deadly torpedoes, they broke out into bursts of cheers, glad that they and the ship finally escaped the catastrophe, were not hit by the torpedo, and ended up in the tragic end of being buried in the belly of the fish The rest of the Kuomintang planes in the air had already begun to fire the other ships of the river defense fleet to drop bombs, and the ships below were like jugglers in the circus Li, constantly evading the bombs dropped in the air from the left and right, but no matter how hard they tried, the evasion speed of the ships could not match the speed of the Kuomintang planes after all, and only two loud "booms" were heard, two blood-red flames flashed, and thick black smoke rose up, and the two river defense ships were hit by aerial bombs dropped by Kuomintang bombers.
At that time, he lost power and lay on the surface of the water unable to move, and the raging fire and billowing black smoke spread everywhere, and soon enveloped the surrounding boats.
At the same time, those antiaircraft guns and machine guns desperately strafed the Kuomintang planes in the sky, and the rain of bullets shuttled around the enemy bombers, and those enemy planes circled around the river defense ships again and again, trying to find an opportunity to drop those big bombs and blow up and sink these river defense ships that had "defected to the enemy" as punishment Deputy Commander Li, who was tired of dealing with the bombing and attacks of enemy planes in the air, was a little desperate, so many enemy planes circled his fleet like a pack of hungry wolves, and his fleet was busy with air defense interceptions, and he was tired of coping, and some brothers reported that the antiaircraft artillery ammunition was about to run out, and these ammunition was left over from the time of the uprising, and there was not much in the first place, and now after defecting to the Communist Party, the same ammunition could not be supplied for a while, and the ammunition was exhausted before the fighting began.
Several river defense ships were hit by bombs, exploded and caught fire, and the sailors on board were killed and wounded, and just when Deputy Commander Li was about to abandon the three transport ships carrying gold and withdraw from the battlefield, a fleet appeared on the sea in the northwest direction, and was desperately rushing towards this sea area.
Lao Li's communications soldiers immediately reported the situation to him: "There is an unknown fleet in the northwest, all armed fishing boats and small gunboats, it is estimated that it is our fleet. ” When Deputy Commander Li heard this, he immediately shouted excitedly to his subordinates: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived."
As soon as the brothers on the river defense ships who were desperately resisting the bombing of the enemy planes heard that reinforcements had arrived, their confidence suddenly increased a lot, and their fighting spirit recovered a lot, and a burst of anti-aircraft machine guns swept away, forcing back several enemy planes that were trying to dive down and prepare to drop bombs t1706231537: