Anti-Japanese heroic righteousness

Although full of doubts, countermeasures still had to be taken. Ozawa Jisaburo immediately ordered all fighter jets on the aircraft carrier to take off to meet the enemy, and all ships were ready for air defense.

All the fighters, bombers, and bombers released northward were urgently recalled. In order to prevent the enemy planes from harassing the normal landing of the fighters, Ozawa ordered all the enemy fighters to suppress the air combat battlefield to the sky beyond the fleet at all costs.

For the rest of the time, they can only pray that what comes is just the bomber fleet. With the high speed and flexibility of fighter jets, they can keep all incoming enemy planes at a distance of tens of nautical miles, and the released planes can land calmly and complete the mission. Refueling and reloading continue all the actions of taking off and fighting, otherwise, what awaits them is disaster.

The illusion was soon shattered, and the radar station sent news again. The speed of the attacking fleet reached 300 kilometers per hour, and it was by no means a bomber with more than 6 kilometers per hour. Judging from the flight speed, it could only be the enemy's f[-]f Hellcat ship Moreover, the radar screen is dotted with dots, and the entire west side is almost full of screens. There are countless fighters, at least [-] away.

When this data came out, everyone in the headquarters was dumbfounded, and Jisaburo Ozawa and Takijiro Onishi were even more pale and sweaty.

More than three hundred fighter jets, what kind of concept is this?

Although there is no standard for the number of aircraft carried by an aircraft carrier, it is generally between 120 and [-]. Large main aircraft carriers can reach [-]. The Enterprise of the United States, the Shinano of the island country (the maximum number of aircraft carried can reach [-]), China Both Zhongshan and Jiezhong can reach [-], but other small aircraft carriers, especially those converted from battleships, are all between [-] and [-].

Moreover, the carrier-based aircraft are allocated in a 2-1-1 ratio, of which two units are fighters, the others are one unit of dive bombers, one unit of torpedo attack aircraft, and half a unit of water surface Aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft, rescue aircraft, etc.

In other words, even for a battle group like Jiang Haoran's seven aircraft carriers, the number of fighter jets is only more than a hundred, and 150 fighters were killed. More than [-] fighter jets, at least more than two aircraft carrier battle groups.

Where did these carriers come from?

At the beginning of preparations for this battle, the Locust Army made detailed investigations and careful deployments. The positions of the surrounding aircraft carriers will never be wrong, including the positions of the Mi Army and the British Aircraft Carriers. They tried to prove it, but the facts in front of them made them puzzled.

In fact, there is no time for them to think about it.

Less than 10 minutes after the fighter jets took off, news came from the front that a large-scale air battle broke out, and the incoming enemies were all f6f Hellcat fighter jets, which were unstoppable.

Fortunately, Ozawa reacted quickly. In the future, the offending aircraft group was blocked fifty miles above the fleet, which also gave him some preparation time.

The fleet quickly changed its course and retreated eastward, trying to increase the distance of the air battle.

Ozawa is self-aware that the total number of fighter jets in the Southern Fleet is less than that of the incoming enemy planes, and nearly half of them are still on their way back to the north. There is almost no possibility. The only advantage is that they can have an advantage in terms of range. If they can block the first round of attacks from the invading enemy, they can also create opportunities to fight back.

Because they still have the support of the Philippine Army Aviation, at this moment nearly a hundred fighter planes are about to take off and rush to the battlefield. Within half an hour of the voyage of more than two hundred nautical miles, they will appear behind the enemy planes, flanking them back and forth, and suppressing the enemy's sneak attack. It became a battle of encirclement and suppression.

It is a pity that this dream was soon shattered. News came from the Army Aviation that a large number of Mustang fighter jets suddenly appeared over the northern Philippines. The fighter jets at several airports were forced to meet the enemy.

Now Ozawa was in a complete panic, and Takijiro Onishi also realized that this was probably a trap deliberately set by Jiang Haoran for the locust army.

First use Wenzhou Airport to surprise the locust army's Okinawa, Ishigaki Island and other bases, and first break one wing of the locust army.

Then, the army aircraft at Mindoro Airport was used to attack the northern Philippines, so that the two army airlines of the locust army could not reach the battlefield.

The Army Aviation planes that took off from the Hong Kong and Macau airports were simply diverting the tiger away from the mountain. The purpose was to separate the main force of the Southern Fleet, and then the army from the west would kill them. Using the advantage of the radar aircraft, they successfully avoided the locust army's reconnaissance planes and directly attacked the Southern Fleet. nest.

The only thing that cannot be explained is where these fighter jets came from, which is also the crux of the dilemma faced by the Locust Army.

The facts were before his eyes, and Ozawa couldn't believe it. He was already in extreme fear, and the terrifying scene of Midway Island appeared before his eyes again.

At this moment, news came that made people even more desperate. The air force in the west seemed to have no trouble with the flight range at all. The four-way attack smashed the formation of the locust army to pieces, and then they were encircled on all sides and broke through one by one. In the air battle that lasted less than 15 minutes, the locust army suffered heavy casualties, and more than half of the fighter planes were damaged, and they would soon be unable to hold back.

There was wailing in the headquarters, and Jisaburo Ozawa sat slumped on the chair, his face was pale and his eyes were dull and dripping with cold sweat. Jiro Onishi Taki didn't even respond to shaking and calling him a few times.

Annoyed, Onishi Takijiro immediately announced that the commander was ill, and ordered the guards to take the commander down to rest and arrange for a doctor, who would temporarily act as the commander and take over the command.

After all, Takijiro Onishi deserves the title of "Sura heretics". He remained calm at critical moments and ordered all the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier to take off to meet the enemy.

He is a well-known air combat expert in the island country and an advocate of the victory of aviation. He knows that once the air combat fails, the entire fleet will immediately face indiscriminate bombing by bombers. on the way.

Therefore, whether it is a bomber or a torpedo aircraft, it is always an aircraft, and with the determination to fight to the death, it can always fight with enemy fighter jets.

Less than 5 minutes after he gave the order, the planes released to the north had already returned, and they all requested to land.

This is actually good news. As long as these fighter jets land safely, they can go into battle immediately after refueling and reloading.

Onishi Takijiro had to retract the previous order, and the aircraft carrier began to receive the returning aircraft, and the torpedo planes and bombers that had just been pulled out of the hangar were forced to be placed on the deck.

Unknowingly, he was repeating the same mistakes that Ozawa Jisaburo made at Midway Island. Unfortunately, he didn't realize it at all. He stood on the bridge and watched the fighter planes roaring down with great relief.

"Fleet...bomber fleet...the man's bomber fleet."

A staff officer screamed hoarsely, and everyone looked up at the sky in a panic, only to see a black "giant bird" overwhelming the sky in the northwest direction.