blood feud

When formulating the combat plan, Admirals Nimitz and Admiral MacArthur believed that they had an advantage in bombers and slightly better in fighters after careful analysis.

In particular, the shore-based bomber b-25 has basically not been exposed to the outside world, that is, it bombed Tokyo once, and the Japanese monkeys have not yet found a way to deal with it. Bai Shujie should not have such mental preparations.

Without air supremacy, there is no naval formation.In the previous three sea battles, the Japanese monkeys have learned a profound lesson.

Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff had reminded that Bai Shujie had many technical patents, and he might have a trump card, that's why he was arrogant.

However, front-line commanders such as Nimitz and MacArthur think that the top leaders of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are a little nervous. After all, when it comes to the level of science and technology, no country has surpassed the United States.

Based on the above understanding, Admiral Nimitz dared to order Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance's 16th Task Force to swagger deep into the hinterland.

The art of war of the Chinese ancestors has already said: Know yourself and know the enemy, and you will be victorious in every battle.

In the eyes of the American devils, since Bai Shujie has worked so hard to occupy a territory, he must hold it in his hands all day long like a sweetheart.

Westerners' understanding of Asians is based on their understanding of Japanese devils.The American devils already know themselves, and they don't understand Bai Shujie's opponent at all, which has already planted the root of disaster.

But how did they know that Bai Shujie never cared about the gains and losses of a city or a place.

Just like now, Bai Shujie's meaning is very clear: "Before the overall situation is determined, is there any point in defending a piece of land? You want the Philippines, right? Okay, I will trade with you now. I will give the Philippines and the East Indies You guys, Australia belongs to Lao Tzu!"

The biggest advantage of Bai Shujie is that he has the "supernatural power" of "foresight", and he knows the advantages and disadvantages of Nimitz and MacArthur.Conversely, Americans only hear about Bai Shujie because they don't know their opponents.

Because of this, Major General Raymond Spruance dismissed "Zhang Xiang's final warning" at all, and regarded it as a helpless clamor or threat of "threat inside".

The current formation is that Major General Raymond Spruance is divided into two aircraft carrier groups, and the first attack group is organized as follows:

The destroyers USS Bowch, USS Coningham, and USS Benham were the vanguard of the raid, mainly to prevent enemy torpedo attacks.

The aircraft carrier USS Hornet is in the center, escorted by the heavy cruiser USS New Orleans and the heavy cruiser USS Minneapolis on the left and right wings, and the destroyers USS Elliott and USS Maury in the rear.

The following large force dragged back 15 nautical miles, and all the remaining heavy cruisers and destroyers deployed on the left, right, and rear, enclosing the USS Enterprise in the middle, and undertaking anti-submarine and air defense.

During the two-day voyage, Major General Raymond Spruance did not find the enemy.There were neither planes to harass nor warships to stop them.It gives the impression that there is no one in the entire Banda Sea.

Had it been placed on someone else, this anomaly would have caused great alarm.

However, when Colonel Mark Mitchell, the captain of the forward aircraft carrier Hornet, asked how to deal with it, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance had the opposite view: "We have dispatched 17 warships, put any Place is a massive force."

"The South China United Front is nothing but a civil organization, at most it is a guerrilla. Even if they buy a few warships from the United States of America, it is absolutely unfair. Order fighter jets to take off and search for the enemy's fleet!"

1942年5月31日中午11:30分，27架f4f野猫战斗机，分成三个编队开始对斯兰岛、布鲁岛、潘江岛一线进行战术侦察。

Regardless of whether the fighter jets were flying at high altitudes or conducting low-altitude reconnaissance, there was not even a single hair in the vicinity.Not only is there no army, there is not even a single local Tu nationality!

In other words, the entire southeast, east, northeast, and north sides of the Banda Sea, within an arc of up to 750 kilometers, are basically empty.

Receiving enemy reconnaissance reports from ahead, Major General Raymond Spruance finally began to feel uneasy.

According to the book, the Banda Sea, strictly speaking, should belong to the "inner sea around the volcano".If those ring volcanoes are connected, the Banda Sea should be called "Banda Lake".

The north-south diameter of the Banda Sea is only 500 kilometers, and the east-west diameter is only 650 kilometers.

After crossing the arc-shaped volcanic island in the east, it enters the Seran Sea, and it is only 150 kilometers away from Jarona, the protrusion of Papua Island, which is 80 nautical miles.

According to the maximum speed of 34 knots of the Hornet aircraft carrier, the entire fleet can land on Papua Island in only two and a half hours.

Where does the fleet go now? Colonel Mark Mitchell, the captain of the USS Hornet, did not dare to make the decision, so the report was in the hands of Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance.

"I've mobilized the crowd, and I'm still ostentatious, just hoping to attract the attention of the enemy. Now that I haven't seen half a hair, it means that the first step of this campaign has failed."

"Tens of thousands of gallons of fuel were wasted in vain, and nearly ten thousand people worked hard for two days and two nights. In the end, they just went out for a trip."

Major General Raymond Spruance is having a hard time right now, really hard.

Just like a martial arts master, in order to deal with another powerful opponent, he has brought his full potential to the peak, ready to give the opponent a fatal blow at any time.

However, now that he doesn't know where his opponent is, where should this fatal blow be directed?

Holding your breath in your heart is uncomfortable for anyone, and Major General Raymond Spruance is no exception.

Major General Raymond Spruance was born in 1886 and is 57 years old this year.He is an introvert with a gloomy personality.

Previously, he shined in the First Battle of Midway Island, and led his team to sink the "Flying Dragon" and "Akagi" aircraft carriers successively, and won wide acclaim.

This time chasing Yamamoto 56, I hope to wipe out the combined fleet of Japanese monkeys.Unexpectedly, the first thing to do was to fight an opponent without any reputation.

Feeling very depressed, but have no place to vent.If I feel uncomfortable, my thinking activities will be more or less affected, and my reaction will be a little bit sluggish.

This hesitation time is far less than half an hour, but the problem is serious!

Just when Major General Raymond Spruance made up his mind to prepare the whole team to turn, head east into the Seran Sea, and then once and for all, a very inappropriate roar came to mind in the sky!

Major General Raymond Spruance was wondering. The captain of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, Colonel Murray's panicked voice sounded: "Enemy plane! Our radar has no response, but the enemy plane has already reached overhead Already! The fighter planes on the deck take off immediately, and everyone is in position, ready to fight!"

It turned out that Bai Shujie knew the radar technology of the United Kingdom and the United States, much better than the little devil.How to paralyze the American radar, Bai Shujie has long been prepared, electromagnetic jamming machine has been secretly experimenting.

In the previous battle with the little devil, because the opponent's radar technology is too bad, the detection range is too small, and it is impossible to defend against the J-[-] jet fighter, so Bai Shujie has not been put into use.

The trump card must appear at the most critical moment, so as to catch the enemy by surprise.Without this guarantee, Bai Shujie would not have dared to announce the time of sinking the enemy warship first, and then start to act.

On the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, 24 F6F "Hellcat" fighter jets have been parked. Because no radar warning was received, the pilot was not on the plane at all.

Now Colonel Murray ordered the plane to fly away quickly, so as not to cause a fire after being bombed.This order is correct, but for the jet fighter, it is already one step too late.

Who came: It was the J-24 Fighter Squadron at Sulawesi Airport, the squadron leader Sun Dezhi.They were escorting [-] Nulong bombers and had no dive bombing mission.

Now seeing the enemy planes starting to take off, they waited in the air, while the enemy planes climbed to a certain height, and then attacked from the side, three enemy planes were smashed to pieces in the blink of an eye.

Colonel Murray saw that the situation was wrong, and quickly changed the order: "There is no need to take off, just push the plane directly into the sea!"

At this time, the surrounding heavy cruisers finally reacted, and all the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns fired desperately into the air, forming a dense firepower network.

However, when the J-[-] fighter plane was pulled up, the astonishing speed of the U.S. military officers and soldiers was shown, and all the shells were emptied.

In such a short time, the follow-up 24 Nulong bombers have rushed to the sky.Nulong heavy long-range bomber, with an empty weight of 46 tons, a regular take-off weight of 98 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 175 tons, a normal bomb load of 30 tons, and a limit bomb load of 58 tons (less than 3000 tons of fuel within 30 kilometers)!

Today Bai Shujie must fulfill his promise: if he says he will sink, he will sink!

But considering that the Americans still need soldiers to fight against the devils, napalm bombs were not used today, let alone cloud bombs.Today's Nulong bomber carries eight 8-ton high-explosive bombs!

Let's not talk about how powerful the bomb is. Just a 6-ton iron mound falling from a height of 4500 meters has enough kinetic energy to sink an aircraft carrier.

Today, 24 Nulong bombers flew through the sky, and the first batch of 96 6-ton high-explosive bombs had already fallen.A combination of air pressure sensing fuze and magnetic sensing fuze is used to detonate, either at an altitude of 8-15 meters above sea level, or directly on the deck to detonate.

Although the most advanced horizontal bombing sight of this era is used, the hit rate of high-altitude level-flight bombing is lower than that of dive bombing.

Therefore, Bai Shujie used a large amount of charge, and the weight reached a terrifying 6 tons, just considering that even if it cannot be thrown directly on the deck, it must use the power of near-missing bombs to sink the enemy ship.

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The dense anti-aircraft machine guns detonated more than a dozen bombs in the air, but to no avail in the end, 3 of them hit the flight deck directly!

With an earth-shattering bang, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise had no room for relaxation at all, it was directly blown into three pieces, and it sank separately in the blink of an eye!

After all, what happens next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.