Age of Rebirth

At 200:[-] a.m. on July [-]th, the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy raided the US Navy's Pacific Fleet's first wave of mixed fighter and bomber fleets. More than [-] aircraft had arrived at a distance of less than [-] nautical miles from the US Navy's Pacific Fleet. Even with the naked eye, Major Hashimoto, the captain of the fighter squadron of the vanguard force, can see the huge formation of the US Pacific Fleet on the calm sea.

At 23:[-], Major Hashimoto reported to the formation commander, "Your Excellency Commander, the avant-garde brigade has arrived at the scheduled attack position and has not been discovered by the US fleet. The main force of the formation can continue to covertly engage the enemy!"

At 25:56, Admiral Yamamoto [-], commander of the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy, was listening to the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Admiral Matsuda, read a telegram at the command tower, "The mixed formation of fighter jets and bombers has entered the optimal attack range. So far, It has not been discovered by the US Pacific Fleet yet!"

General Yamamoto raised his brows and asked in disbelief: "Oh, didn't the Americans send out reconnaissance planes? This raid was surprisingly smooth. More than 200 fighter planes have already arrived at the attack position. Isn't it a bit strange that you didn't notice it?"

Chief of Staff Matsuda explained: "In the airspace about [-] nautical miles away from the US Pacific Fleet, the vanguard of the fleet once shot down an American reconnaissance plane. The formation commander judged that the US reconnaissance plane did not have time to send the intelligence Back!" [

General Yamamoto sighed and said: "What kind of opponent is this? It is so unbearable. It seems that today's battle is much more rewarding than I imagined. Matsuda-kun, let's start!"

At 32:[-], the "Kasaki" submarine of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet submarine team surfaced quietly, and four torpedoes were fired at the bow of the boat.It was aimed at the heavy cruiser "Conswizen" of the Pacific Fleet, and the first shot to attack the US Pacific Fleet was given to the submarine "Kasaki".

The captain of the "Kazaki" submarine, Commander Toga Zoe, ordered: "The bow torpedo is ready for launch in one minute. The target. The heavy cruiser in front, at a distance of fifteen chains, launch!" On the calm sea, four torpedoes were launched.Dragging the white waves, they rushed towards the heavy cruiser "Conswithin", completely unaware of the fatal danger. The approaching heavy cruiser "Conswithin" was still sailing according to its normal course and speed.

"Boom boom boom!" There were three loud bangs.Of the four torpedoes, three hit their targets. The heavy cruiser "Conswitz" burst into flames and thick smoke. Below the waterline of the warship, three large black holes opened hideously. , the sea water poured in violently, and then. The heavy cruiser "Konsweissing" suffered a chain explosion and was broken into two pieces.

Immediately, the warships of the Pacific Fleet sounded their sirens loudly.Lieutenant General Fullwood picked up the ringing phone, "What? Attacked by a Japanese submarine, a warship was severely damaged and is sinking. Command, all submarine hunters and submarine hunter aircraft. Dispatch immediately , Clear out the Japanese submarines! Move quickly, all carrier-based aircraft, immediately prepare to take off to alert, all warships, prepare for first-level combat, air defense firepower nets, and enter the combat state!"

Putting down the phone, Lieutenant General Fulwood hadn't digested the depressing news in his mind, a staff officer beside him suddenly shouted loudly and terrified: "Commander, the plane, the Japanese plane, just Over our fleet!"

Lieutenant General Fulwood, following the direction pointed by the staff officer, picked up the binoculars and looked at it. At that time, his face was pale, and the sweat on his face was protruding. My God, the overwhelming Japanese planes were swooping down. And in the southwest corner of the fleet's defense circle, there were continuous explosions, one after another, and from time to time warships burst into the sky with fire and thick smoke!

It was attacked by the Japanese navy fleet, but how did the Japanese plane get there?A reconnaissance plane has been dispatched, why is there no news at all, and when was the fleet tracked by Japanese submarines?What is the strength of the Japanese navy's fleet that attacked your own fleet?All the questions, like a mess, were entangled in his mind.

The attack came so suddenly that the fleet was not prepared at all. The carrier-based aircraft had just boarded the take-off deck. Lieutenant General Fulwood, realizing the seriousness of the problem, picked up the phone and ordered loudly: "Second aircraft carrier formation, escort Troop carrier formation, immediately leave the fleet and approach the direction of Hawaii Island, quickly, all ships form cross-air defense firepower, mobile defense, cover the troop carrier formation to leave!"

"Communications officer, immediately send an emergency telegram to the land-based air force. Our fleet is [-] nautical miles east of Hawaii Island. It was suddenly attacked by an unknown Japanese naval fleet. The situation is very dangerous. Request immediate support!"

An unprecedentedly fierce naval battle kicked off. From the beginning of the battle, it developed in a direction beneficial to the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy. Admiral Yamamoto's strategy fully worked, and the raid achieved the best concealment effect. Japan When the navy's carrier-based aircraft arrived over the U.S. Pacific Fleet, most of the U.S. warships did not even respond.

The tactics formulated by Admiral Yamamoto were vicious and effective. All the submarines were concentrated, and a hole was torn in a corner of the fleet defense circle. With a loud explosion, the destroyers, cruisers, and battleships of the US Pacific Fleet burst out from time to time. Smoke and fire, even if it was not sunk immediately, it basically lost its combat effectiveness. Moreover, the sailing speed of the severely damaged warship immediately dropped.

This became the target of the Japanese submarine attack. At the same time, more than 200 Japanese fighter jets and bombers slammed into the inner circle of the Pacific Fleet's air defense firepower network along the hole torn by the submarine. The main target of the attack was that The two aircraft carriers that remained.

Before the U.S. carrier-based aircraft could taxi on the deck of the aircraft carrier, the Japanese fighter jets and bombers had rushed in front of them. One after another, heavy air bombs were accurately dropped on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Splash, the U.S. carrier-based aircraft exposed on the deck of the aircraft carrier was blown into pieces, and the burning fireball, wrapped in aviation fuel with blue flames, crawled into all the gaps!

Immediately on the second floor of the aircraft carrier, catastrophic consequences were caused. The carrier-based aircraft in the hangar became the accomplice of the secondary explosion and combustion. The huge impact lifted the upper deck of the aircraft carrier, and the damaged US sailors The limbs, mixed with the steel and building fragments on the aircraft carrier, flew up in the air, and then fell heavily back to the sea.

Less than 10 minutes after the Japanese attack started, the two aircraft carriers of the US Pacific Fleet, under the siege of more than 200 Japanese fighter jets and bombers, became living targets with thick smoke and flames.

However, for the huge aircraft carrier, this is not fatal. The Japanese torpedo bomber that launched the attack later became a deadly killer. Dozens of torpedoes slammed fiercely at the two burning aircraft carriers. Following a violent explosion, the aircraft carrier was completely engulfed by thick smoke and fire, and the two behemoths on the sea gradually sank to the bottom of the sea.

Sadly, none of the more than 100 carrier-based aircraft on the two US Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers had the opportunity to sink together. The carrier-based aircraft formation of the first attack wave of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet resolutely executed Commander Yamamoto According to the order of the official, at any cost, the American aircraft carrier must be sunk first.

The crazy Japanese carrier-based aircraft pilots really did this. Regardless of the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the US warships, they besieged the two aircraft carriers crazily. The core force of the fleet, the aircraft carrier, a fleet without an aircraft carrier is a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out, and can only be slaughtered! [

The second aircraft carrier formation, which has been separated from the Pacific Fleet formation, has only one aircraft carrier and a dozen warships. The strange thing is that they have not been attacked. In this case, the carrier-based aircraft on that aircraft carrier, regardless of its strength , all took off to face the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, more than 200 US carrier-based aircraft, and more than [-] Japanese carrier-based aircraft, immediately smashed into a group.

Below the air combat battlefield are two sinking American aircraft carriers and a U.S. Navy warship emitting thick smoke and flames. At the beginning, the battlefield was chaotic. This chaos came from the U.S. warships that were suddenly attacked. It has been fired for tens of minutes, and some US warships have not yet found the Japanese aircraft, specifically in that direction.

It can be seen from this that the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which once fought fiercely with German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean, was hit by a Japanese carrier-based aircraft and was beaten semi-consciously. Crazy, it will rain down anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns into the air.

This is the beginning of another disaster. Many of the Japanese carrier-based aircraft and the American carrier-based aircraft that were fighting hard were not shot down by Japanese fighter jets, but were shot down by their own anti-aircraft firepower. Chaos, the battlefield is completely chaotic However, it is confusing, only the US Pacific Fleet, the Japanese carrier-based aircraft's attack target is very clear and effective.

Lieutenant General Fulwood looked at the two aircraft carriers of his fleet, which sank on the bottom of the sea. More than a dozen warships were either sunk or severely damaged. His eyes were blood red, and the blood vessels on his temples were throbbing. His heart felt like it was on fire. , an ominous thought suddenly came up, "Could it be that today is the fate of the Pacific Fleet that cannot escape?"

Lieutenant General Fulwood understood very well that this was just the beginning. The Japanese fleet would definitely not launch just one attack, and a more violent attack was still behind, while his own fleet lost two aircraft carriers and all ships. Carrier aircraft, what to use to fight the Japanese fleet?

(To be continued)