Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

But what made Ozawa Jisaburo unacceptable was that in less than an hour, only 120 of the 56 zero battles returned, and the torpedo planes and bombers were also caught up by the Hellcats of the Mi Army, losing one-third One, the most exasperating thing is that there are less than [-] Hellcats shot down by the Locust Army. This is an unprecedented defeat for the Locust Army Navy.

Soon after the end of the battle, Matsushita No, the captain of the air battle, appeared in front of Ozawa Jisaburo in disgrace, summarizing the root cause of the failure of the battle.

He believes that there is no problem with the planning and deployment of the campaign. The key is that the F6F Hellcat fighter jets in the United States are indeed very powerful. No matter in terms of performance, armor or speed, the Zero Battle of the Locust Army has a big gap with them. Especially in terms of armor, he personally led a wingman to encircle a Hellcat. He bit the Hellcat to death through his excellent flying skills, but he fired all the ammunition, but still could only watch helplessly. The Hellcat of the Mi Army laid down its wingmen and walked away.Therefore, it takes more than double the power and ammunition of the locust army to take down a Hellcat, but the rice army takes down a locust army in a zero battle. mm machine gun rounds are enough.

Moreover, the number of fighter jets invested by the Mi Army this time is out of 150, and the 120 Zero fighter jets of the Locust Army are obviously at a disadvantage. Although the failure was unexpected, it is also reasonable.

At the same time, Matsushita also reported an important piece of information. In this battle, they did not find any bombers and torpedo planes of the Mi Army. Moreover, based on the size of the Hellcat, an aircraft carrier can carry up to fifty or sixty aircraft. However, during the battle, the number of aircraft of the Mi Army almost reached 160. When retreating, Matsushita also found a helicopter on the sea. Helicopters are almost all the loads of the three aircraft carriers. It can be inferred that the three aircraft carriers of the Mi Army are most likely not equipped with torpedo planes and bombers.

Jisaburo Ozawa did not blame Matsushita for the failure. The failure of the battle was caused by the outdated weapons, and the pilot could not be blamed. However, the information reported by Matsushita immediately aroused the vigilance of Jisaburo Ozawa.

If the aircraft carrier of the Mi Army is really not equipped with torpedo planes and bombers, it means that they do not have the ability to attack the Locust Navy fleet at a long distance. At the same time, this is also in line with the spirit of the Mi Army's operation. They didn't expect the locust army to attack them at all.

At this moment, the latest news came from the submarine in front that the Mi Army aircraft carrier was retreating rapidly.This further confirms that Ozawa Jisaburo's speculation is correct. The Mi army dare not confront the locust army head-on. In sea combat, the ship's strong guns are far less powerful than air strikes. An aircraft carrier group without bombers and torpedo planes is equivalent to a toothless Tigers, their fighter jets are powerful, so the Locust Army tries to avoid air battles with them, and uses the advantages of aircraft carriers and ships to press up with all their strength and engage in aircraft carrier duels with them.

Jisaburo Ozawa quickly reported his discovery to General Yamamoto 56 in the rear, and attached his own tactical concept.

Soon, Yamamoto 56 called back, agreeing to his tactical action, and ordered the first assault fleet to pursue the third fleet of the Mi army. Make up for the disadvantage of the first assault fleet's insufficient air firepower.

At this point in the battle, the purpose of the island army's surprise attack could no longer be achieved. Yamamoto 56 immediately changed his tactics and decided to attack with all his strength and force a breakthrough.

Jisaburo Ozawa was overjoyed immediately, and ordered the First Assault Fleet to advance at full speed to pursue the Third Fleet of the Mi Army.

USS Iowa battleship, war room.

After the first battle was won, the war room was full of jubilation, and the generals celebrated with each other. Nimitz even opened a bottle of champagne himself.

With the loss of [-] fighter jets, nearly a hundred Japanese zero fighter jets, torpedo planes, and bombers were shot down. This is a remarkable miracle in the history of aviation, and they are the creators of this miracle. How can these Americans not be excited about it? , Crazy about it.

Moreover, this battle fully proved the excellent performance of the F6F Hellcat fighter, and declared that the situation where the Mi Army was completely abused by the Island Army Zero Type has been completely reversed. This is a moment of trans-epochal significance.

You must know that this is only the first battle for a pilot to fly a Hellcat, and the proficiency of the pilot is far from reaching the level of man-machine integration, which means that there is still room for the Hellcat to develop on the future battlefield.

According to post-war statistics, 80.00% of the fighter jets damaged this time actually reached [-]%. More than a dozen of them were even scarred and covered with bullet holes, but they still landed safely on the aircraft carrier. Their boundless self-confidence allowed them to fight the island army pilots more bravely.

"What's the matter, Jiang, you seem to be preoccupied, aren't you happy for our victory?" Nimitz raised his glass to Jiang Haoran with a smile on his face.

Compared with the excitement of the generals of the Mi Army, Jiang Haoran's performance was indeed a little dull, but this was his usual style, and he always kept a calm head after the war.

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, raised the wine glass in his hand to touch Nimitz's, and then drank it down, saying: "I'm happy, of course I'm happy, but the storm is coming soon."

Nimitz glanced out of the window subconsciously. The sky was cloudless, the sea was calm, and there was no sign of rain at all. Nimitz quickly realized that Jiang Haoran had something else to say, and said strangely: "Jiang, there is Is something wrong?"

Jiang Haoran said: "No, there is nothing wrong. On the contrary, the Japanese army is entering our ambush circle step by step according to our plan, but their backup troops may show up in advance, which means that the Third Fleet may have to face the enemy Far more than the four aircraft carrier battle groups in front of us."

"Ah?????? What's the basis?" Nimitz became nervous. The Third Fleet found it difficult to deal with the four aircraft carrier battle groups in front of them. Adding even one more would be a very severe test for them. .

Jiang Haoran walked towards the combat sand table, and Nimitz and a group of general staff quickly surrounded him.

Jiang Haoran waved his command stick, pointed to the four aircraft carriers with the sun flag on the sand table and said: "We know that our opponents are the four ships 'Akagi', 'Kaga', 'Taiho', and 'Cangryu'. The battle group composed of aircraft carriers are all the strongest attack aircraft carriers of the Japanese army, and their main attack consciousness is quite obvious. But just after the first battle, we almost destroyed most of their air power, but the Japanese army is still chasing us with all their strength. General Nimitz, you Don't you think this is a little weird?"