Age of Rebirth

The land-based fleet of the independent division navy, which had fought a lot, returned. The remaining Japanese carrier-based aircraft landed after the war. Before the smoke cleared over the Solomon Islands, Lieutenant Admiral Narumi Inoue, commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Navy United Fleet, received a The loss statistics table handed over by the chief of staff, Major General Anxi.

After reading it, Lieutenant Admiral Inoue wanted to cry but had no tears. The loss of the warships of the Fourth Fleet was not great. Only a few ships were hit by bullets. The loss is huge!

The Fourth Fleet has more than 89 carrier-based aircraft. After an hour of air combat, only [-] of them were able to return to the aircraft carrier. Most of them still suffered from battle injuries. Without a few days of repairs, they could not take off for combat at all. .

In other words, the main combat force of the Fourth Fleet, the carrier-based aircraft force, suffered heavy losses, almost to the point of annihilation. As the fourth fleet with four aircraft carriers as its core combat force, the loss of carrier-based aircraft was so heavy It is equivalent to breaking the sharp fangs.

The current naval battle is no longer the traditional era of giant ships and cannons. As the main combat force of a fleet, carrier-based aircraft have suffered such heavy losses that Admiral Inoue is aware of the danger. If at this moment, the returning ship The Chinese fighter group attacked again before the escort fleet arrived in northern Australia. What can I use to resist and fight?

Only with less than ninety carrier-based aircraft with more than half of the battle damage?Lieutenant Admiral Inoue's forehead was covered with cold sweat, his eyes were dull for a while, and he ordered the fleet chief of staff, Rear Admiral Anzai: "Chief of staff, order the fleet to drive to the destination at full speed, and at the same time. The commander asks for help, requesting to send a formation including no less than three aircraft carriers. Meet us on the way!"

"Commander, you are worried. After the return flight, the China Independent Division fleet will attack again?" Chief of Staff Anxi asked.

"Alas!" Lieutenant General Inoue sighed, and said, "It will definitely. It will take two days at the fastest for the fleet to arrive at the port of Mount Molloy. Do you think that the Chinese who took advantage of it will stop here? ? Once it faces another attack, the Fourth Fleet will be unable to resist!"

Chief of Staff Anzai understood right away.Commander Inoue's worries are not unfounded. Similar things will definitely happen again. If it were me, facing the fangless Fourth Fleet, I would beat the dog in the water. Is it a fool to not take advantage of it?

However, Chief of Staff Anzai did not think he would ask Commander Nagumo Chuichi for help.It is the safest way, so I reminded: "Commander, it is inevitable to ask Commander Nagumo Chuichi for help. However, the main force of the combined fleet is in Darwin and Normanton, even in the central waters of the Solomon Islands. .It will take more than four days at the fastest for any round. It's too late!"

"The Ministry of Staff believes that the safest way is to ask for help from the Air Force Command of the Australian Front Army. They have a field airfield in Laura near Mount Molloy, and they have an air force stationed there, which can dispatch nearly [-] fighter jets. In a few hours, they will be able to come to meet them!"

"Currently, our fleet is in a very bad situation. The returning China fleet may launch an attack again at any time. I hope the commander will not stick to the old grievances of the army and navy, and boldly ask the commander of the Australian Air Force, Lieutenant General Okazaki, for help. !"

Lieutenant General Inoue was completely speechless, looked at his chief of staff, and said, "Anxi-kun, first of all, for the safety of the Fourth Fleet and more than [-] Imperial Army soldiers, I will not Instead of asking for help, in the face of the safety of the soldiers of the empire, what is my face, Narumi Inoue, worth?"

"But have you ever thought about it, based on the combat radius of those land-based fighter jets, can the voyage cover the current location of the Fourth Fleet? Without an aircraft carrier as a take-off and landing platform, I am afraid that those land-based fighter jets will fall into the sea halfway !"

"Uh...!" Chief of Staff Anxi blushed. In his desperation, he forgot this common-sense question. The land-based fighters equipped by the Australian Front Army had short legs, even the latest Italian fighters would not work!

"Commander, I'll send a telegram right away!" He wasn't thinking about other ideas or efforts.

"Report to the commander and chief of staff, enemy attack! The shipboard radar reported that in the northeast direction of our fleet, an unidentified large aircraft group was found, approaching the location of our fleet at high speed!" At this moment, a staff officer who had just put down the phone , and shouted back.

"Enemy, enemy attack?" Lieutenant General Inoue and Chief of Staff Anxi froze for a moment. How could it be possible that the damned China fighter jets had just returned, and they came back halfway. Isn't it unbelievable? Furthermore, the direction of their return flight was northwest. How come it turns back from the northeast direction, wouldn't it be more direct to turn back directly from the return route?

What's more, there is a vast sea in the northeast direction, "Baga! Nonsense, check if the shipboard radar department sent an error report?" Lieutenant General Inoue was the first to not believe it, and asked loudly, if it is the shipboard radar department False reporting, if you do such a ridiculous thing, you will kill yourself, such a mistake is unforgivable!

The staff officer who reported the situation looked at His Excellency the Commander, who was furious like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and was about to make a phone call with trembling hands, when the phone rang again quickly. After hearing a few words, the staff officer's face turned pale When I got up, I even forgot to put down the phone, and turned my head and shouted: "Your Excellency, the situation reported by the radar department is true. Unidentified fleets have already approached the sky above the fleet and started to accelerate in an offensive formation!"

Lieutenant General Inoue was shocked, he had no time to explore, where did this unidentified fleet come from, anyway, it is not a friendly force, "Chief of Staff Anxi, ordered the fleet to deploy in an air defense formation immediately, and all ships that can fly Fighter, take off immediately to intercept!"

The shrill air defense sirens echoed over the Fourth Fleet. The Japanese warships, which had just experienced a fierce battle, were in formation. After receiving the order from the fleet headquarters, they immediately began to enter the fighting state. The scene was very chaotic for a while.

Tang Yunfei commanded all the carrier-based fighter jets and bombers of the Independent Division Fleet to form two echelon formations, which had already approached the sky above the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Army. His plane was flying in the forefront, as fast as a bolt of lightning, and his eyes scanned the sea. Seeing the Japanese warships running into battle positions in chaos, a sneer could not help but appear on the corner of their mouths.

Tang Yunfei immediately changed his offensive tactics and issued an order: "Fighter regiments [-] and [-], follow me to break through the Japanese air defense firepower net, keep the Japanese carrier-based aircraft on the take-off deck, and the bomber formation starts to attack the Japanese army from the outside." Warship, gradually attack concentrically, all crews pay attention, start attacking!"

Then, he pushed the joystick violently, taking advantage of the time before the Japanese ship's anti-aircraft firepower started shooting, the fighter plane broke into the core airspace of the Fourth Fleet. Behind Tang Yunfei's fighter plane, there were more than 130 fighter jets, Then enter, the target is the four Japanese aircraft carriers.

Tang Yunfei's tactics had a clear rhythm, and they fought a sudden offensive. First, he used superior fighter jets to rush into the core area of ​​the Fourth Fleet, and pressed all the Japanese carrier-based aircraft that were too late to take off on the deck to destroy them. Then, the bomber formation began. Attack the Japanese warships from the periphery, adopt the tactics of peeling off the bamboo shoots layer by layer, and fight steadily. As long as the Japanese carrier-based fighter jets are killed, the bombs and torpedoes against the Japanese surface ships are almost like hitting live targets!

Just after giving the order to prepare for battle, Lieutenant General Inoue grabbed the binoculars and ran to the porthole of the command cabin. He happened to see more than 100 unidentified fighter jets. The fighter jet, under the wing, has an eye-catching logo, which has already explained the identity of the enemy. It has penetrated into the core airspace of the fleet, and it is rapidly enlarged in front of his eyes.

Lieutenant General Inoue was covered in cold sweat, and suddenly broke out. He knew too well what it meant for the fourth fleet's core airspace to drill into China's carrier-based fighter jets. It meant that the four aircraft carriers would be violently attacked. Of course, only With the weapons of fighter jets, it cannot pose any threat to the behemoth-like aircraft carrier, but they have all been pushed onto the deck runway and are ready to take off. What about the small number of their own carrier-based aircraft that have already taken off?

Of the [-] or so remaining Japanese carrier-based aircraft, less than [-] were able to take off, and only [-] were already climbing. It just so happened that the carrier-based fighter group commanded by Tang Yunfei rushed forward like a dark cloud. More than [-] Japanese carrier-based fighter jets were sent to the previous targets!

"Da da da!" With Tang Yunfei's thumb, he lightly pressed the launch button, and several flames slammed into the fuselage of any Japanese fighter jet. Over the aircraft carrier, a cloud of smoke mixed with flames exploded, and the broken aircraft wreckage fell back to the take-off deck of the "Longjo" aircraft carrier with flames.

Tang Yunfei opened the scoring for the first time, and also opened the prelude to the entire attack. The four aircraft carriers of the Fourth Fleet of the Japanese Navy and the carrier-based aircraft on the take-off deck became the targets of the attack. The nose strafed back and forth, pouring bullets like raindrops onto the Japanese carrier-based aircraft, causing fireworks to explode on the aircraft carrier deck. The Japanese carrier-based aircraft caught fire and exploded one after another.

More than 20 minutes later, four Japanese aircraft carriers took off on the deck, and there was a raging fire. There was no longer a complete Japanese carrier-based fighter. More than [-] carrier-based fighters in the independent division fleet fired , Almost swept the decks of the four Japanese aircraft carriers several times with an iron broom.

"Nice job!" Tang Yunfei couldn't help clenching his fists secretly, "Attack aircraft group pay attention, don't leave the existing combat airspace, climb higher, and start attacking Japanese warships from the inside out!"

The anti-aircraft firepower on the periphery of the Japanese Fourth Fleet was almost at full strength, and the anti-aircraft shells blasted the sky into a cloud of smoke. At this moment, when they left the battle airspace, they were hitting themselves upwards. Tang Yunfei would not make such a low-level mistake.

(to be continued) (to be continued...)